Re: Setting up a VPN
--- On Sun, 6/8/08, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please _do_ send them to this list or throw a pointer at where they are at ! I'm sure more people than you can think of will find them usefull. I, for once, could really use them :) Hi Gonzalo, all I knew I should have done that in the first place, sorry :-) They were embarrassingly messy so I resisted I just fixed them up a bit I hope they can be of help See OpenVPN from http://www.isgsp.net/freebsd/index.html Take care Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE booting 7.0-R
I've tried also specifing the IP for root-path, but as it seems, the hosts
defaults to server-name or next-server (these are the same for me), so it's not
neccessery to specify the IP in root-path.
Also the fileserver and the dhcp server are the same. You should have seen this
in the included config I gave.
Furthermore, meanwhile we've noticed that loader fails to get the pxe variables
when the onboard raid is enabled, and it notices the PXE environment when the
disks are not included in any RAID setups. Quite strange.
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
mohammad khatibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi again
you said you use freebsd 7.0 so I told you to do these in freebsd ( that you
install dhcp on it!!! to the end I call it pxeserver) not on your Linux
Server(and to the end I call your server that you want to boot from and mount
its / FileServer)!!! your dhcpd.conf is :
host blade1 {
hardware ethernet 00:30:48:8d:00:36;
fixed-address 10.0.0.32;
server-name 10.0.0.1;
I dont use it and nothing happend
filename /bsd/pxeboot;
you should place pxeboot where you specify as root-path and write here
pxeboot
next-server 10.0.0.1;
option root-path /wwwbladebsd/;
you should specify your root-path as follow : [FileServer IP]:/
I use / because I couldn`t use any path and admonish you not to try
anywhere else because it doesn`t work!!!
}
after these you should edit inetd in your pxeserver (freebsd)
and you should make your pxeboot again if you want to use tftp that briefly
explain in that article please do above steps exactly and I hope you make
it !!! these are my 3 months of working on freebsd for pxeboot
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From: CZUCZY Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mohammad khatibi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: CZUCZY Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 8:56:47 AM
Subject: Re: PXE booting 7.0-R
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
mohammad khatibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
try using this lines in your /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf instead of
yours : subnet [your subnet IP] netmask [your netmask] {
range [start range] [finish range];
next-server [your PXE server IP];
filename pxeboot;
option root-path [your Root server IP (if you mount your server
root its obvious that your server IP)]:/; }
Yes, I was exactly using these options.
and you should make change in your /etc/inetd.conf and comment out
this line : tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd
tftpd -l -s /tftpboot/ place your pxeboot and loader in /tftpboot/
and reboot your system it should solve your problem
Sorry, but you've failed here.
1) I stated the NFS(also tftp) server is Linux, and I'm not using it
from inetd.
2) I wasn't asking how are _you_ doing it, the question was, what's
wrong with my setup. (After I know what's wrong I can fix it myself,
thanks)
3) I've read articles, manuals, etc. I have a problem with it, it's not
working as it's supposed to.
Anyways, thanks for your efforts.
but if you want to use tftp instead of nfs you should make your
pxeboot and loader using tftp enable to do this you can read this
article : http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=72 but there is
a mistake in this article : after you make new files are place here :
pxeboot : /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/
loader : /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/
and you should export / and all its directory for successful
loading . for more information you can read this article too.
http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=144 I hope you make it
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Subject: PXE booting 7.0-R
Hello,
I'm trying to PXE boot 7.0-RELEASE, but it stops at a time.
At boot I see the following on the screen:
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9188:0106
BIOS 517kB/3406144kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
([EMAIL PROTECTED], date)
pxe_open: server addr: 10.0.0.1
pxe_open: serve path: /wwwbladebsd/
pxe_open: gateway ip: 10.0.0.1
Consoles: internal video/keybaord
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is diskl
BIOS 517kB/3406144kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
([EMAIL PROTECTED], date)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes, defaulting to
disk0
can't loader 'kernel'
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK lsdev
cd devices:
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive C:
disk1: BIOS drive D:
pxe devices:
on the server I see t serving pxeboot via tftp, and mounting the root
via NFS: Jun 6 11:38:22 nfs dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
00:30:48:8d:00:36 via eth1 Jun 6 11:38:22 nfs dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on
10.0.0.32 to 00:30:48:8d:00:36 via
Re: Setting up a VPN
I've recently implemented OpenVPN under FreeBSD For our team, it's been rock solid I found the OpenVPN docs were excellent for Windohs/Linux but were lacking a little for BSD while i don't know openvpn i use mpd (for windows interoperability) and vtun (for unix only) both works excellent. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2) ZFS RAID-z turns your X drives to single drive performance both on read and write. every normal RAID-5 implementation will give you random read speed of X-1 times single drive speed, while slow random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is advertised as a feature Is this because of checksum verification (the need to read all components) or nothing to checksum. sit down for a while and think. you have say 100 MB file linearly placed on position A on disk. and your program requests 100kB writes to possitions like 200kB*(between 0 and 499) randomly. ZFS will cache all it then blow all this as 50MB linear write at position B on disk. then after some time (data not in cache) you like to read file linearly. what you get: read 100kB from position B, seek to position A to read 100kB, then to position B reading 100kB, then to position A etc. etc. LOTS of seeking. while reads are more common than writes on most cases ZFS make things worse. of course i told about good case where ZFS could find large continous space. if your drive is well filled it's unlikely. with UFS disk is divided for cylinder groups. so too - it's unlikely you will find large continuous space BUT there are very likely you will find large chunk of fragments withing same cylinder group which requires much shorter head movement. while really big blocks are forcibly splitted to different cylinder group, as having long seek every few megabytes isn't a problem. that's what UFS does for 20 years. the major improvement then was soft updates, now it is really fast even with small files. i just skipped talking about memory and CPU usage, because there is nothing to talk much. it's just make ZFS crap and nothing else. Today most people's problem are TOO FAST CPU and TOO MUCH MEMORY.Sun found the solution, just like windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a CompactFlash
What im trying to figure out is the best way to install the OS on a compact flash, put it as read only, then install a 2nd HDD to store the mysql data,etc. What is the best way to do this? you have to use tmpfs for /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run and probably /var/log. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is advertised as a feature Is this because of checksum verification (the need to read all components) or something else? Any documentation/references? RAID-Z stores a single checksum over the whole stripe, instead of checksumming each disks's section separately, so it has to read from all disks to validate the stripe. Only random reads are penalized, though. random reads are most common read on unix, unless you process linearly huge files, but that's fast on UFS too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
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Re: stunnel not running? (check /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid)
noahwallach wrote:
Okay I am not understanding something with stunnel. it appears that
stunnel cant start because it cant create a pid file. It happens every
time I upgrade it.
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel restart
stunnel not running? (check /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid).
Starting stunnel.
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel restart
stunnel not running? (check /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid).
Starting stunnel.
#
Anybody help me understand things here. so here is the relevent output
which I can provide some clues.
# ls -ld /var/run/stunnel/
drwxrwxr-x 2 stunnel stunnel 512 Jun 5 14:28 /var/run/stunnel/
# cat /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
# Sample stunnel configuration file
# Copyright by Michal Trojnara 2002
# Comment it out on Win32
cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem
chroot = /var/run/stunnel
#chroot = /var/run
# PID is created inside chroot jail
pid = /stunnel.pid
setuid = stunnel
setgid = stunnel
# grep stunnel /etc/rc.conf
stunnel_enable=YES
# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/security/stunnel/files/stunnel.in,v 1.9 2008/01/26
14:18:12 roam Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: stunnel
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING SERVERS
# BEFORE: DAEMON
# KEYWORD: shutdown
#
# Add some of the following variables to /etc/rc.conf to configure
stunnel:
# stunnel_enable (bool):Set to NO by default.
# Set it to YES to enable stunnel.
# stunnel_config (str): Default
/usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
# Set it to the full path to the config file
# that stunnel will use during the automated
# start-up.
# stunnel_pidfile (str):Default
/usr/local/var/stunnel/stunnel.pid
# Set it to the value of 'pid' in
# the stunnel.conf file.
#
. /etc/rc.subr
name=stunnel
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
load_rc_config $name
: ${stunnel_enable=NO}
: ${stunnel_config=/usr/local/etc/stunnel/${name}.conf}
: ${stunnel_pidfile=/var/run/stunnel/${name}.pid}
command=/usr/local/bin/stunnel
command_args=${stunnel_config}
pidfile=${stunnel_pidfile}
required_files=${stunnel_config}
run_rc_command $1
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any ideas?
Cheers,
Noah
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ps auxw |grep stunnel
sockstat -4 |grep stunnel
clear anything stunnel before restart.
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Re: Setting up a VPN
try sslexplorer, http://n3ncy.com/UNIX/FreeBSD/SSLExplorer.htm Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I'm looking for information on how to setup a Virtual Private Network on a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system. The only VPNs that I've worked with previously is Hamachi on windows and linux, so I have no experience in OpenVPN or IPSec. The purpose of this VPN is to restrict certain things to only administrators. For example, phpmyadmin and vsFTPd. I'd prefer not to have these things listen on the public interface. I read the Handbook entry on IPSec/VPNs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html However, that entry only has examples for how to connect one network to another network via FreeBSD gateways. I don't want a setup like this; I just want the freebsd system, my windows XP system, and a few other windows XP systems to be on a VPN together. Can anyone link me to how-tos or any references on how to do this? Also, any suggestions on which software to use (OpenVPN, IPSec, etc) would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Setting-up-a-VPN-tp17631631p17728870.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stunnel: warning: can't get client address: Bad file descriptor
hi, stunnel 4.25 does not kill all stunnel instances after issuing stop;
you have to kill all old stunnel jobs before restarting it.
noahwallach wrote:
Just upgraded stunnel and getting the following error message in the
/var/log/messages file. It appears that when I restart stunnel it
complains Error binding pop3s to 0.0.0.0:995 and bind: Address already
in use (48). therefore the 995 port never becomes available during the
restart. Why is that happening? She the stunel logs below.
any clues?
snip ---
Jun 8 13:17:04 stunnel: warning: can't get client address: Bad file
descriptor
Jun 8 13:17:34 last message repeated 530400 times
Jun 8 13:18:00 last message repeated 488687 times
snip ---
here is the stunnel.log -
n# tail -n 50 -f /var/log/stunnel.log
Jun 8 00:00:00 typhoon newsyslog[72831]: logfile turned over
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Snagged 64 random bytes from
/root/.rnd
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes
to /root/.rnd
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: RAND_status claims sufficient
entropy for the PRNG
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: PRNG seeded successfully
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Certificate:
/usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Certificate loaded
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Key file:
/usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: Private key loaded
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: SSL context initialized for
service pop3s
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG5[21238:134664192]: stunnel 4.25 on
i386-unknown-freebsd6.2 with OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG5[21238:134664192]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE
Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG6[21238:134664192]: file ulimit = 11095 (can be
changed with 'ulimit -n')
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG6[21238:134664192]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE
limit for file descriptors
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG5[21238:134664192]: 5417 clients allowed
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: FD 5 in non-blocking mode
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: FD 6 in non-blocking mode
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: FD 7 in non-blocking mode
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG7[21238:134664192]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on
accept socket
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG3[21238:134664192]: Error binding pop3s to
0.0.0.0:995
2008.06.08 04:05:41 LOG3[21238:134664192]: bind: Address already in use
(48)
--- configuration ---
# cat /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
# Sample stunnel configuration file
# Copyright by Michal Trojnara 2002
# Comment it out on Win32
cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/mail.pem
chroot = /var/run/stunnel
#chroot = /var/run
# PID is created inside chroot jail
pid = /stunnel.pid
setuid = stunnel
setgid = stunnel
# grep stunnel /etc/rc.conf
stunnel_enable=YES
# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/security/stunnel/files/stunnel.in,v 1.9 2008/01/26
14:18:12 roam Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: stunnel
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING SERVERS
# BEFORE: DAEMON
# KEYWORD: shutdown
#
# Add some of the following variables to /etc/rc.conf to configure
stunnel:
# stunnel_enable (bool):Set to NO by default.
# Set it to YES to enable stunnel.
# stunnel_config (str): Default
/usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
# Set it to the full path to the config file
# that stunnel will use during the automated
# start-up.
# stunnel_pidfile (str):Default
/usr/local/var/stunnel/stunnel.pid
# Set it to the value of 'pid' in
# the stunnel.conf file.
#
. /etc/rc.subr
name=stunnel
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
load_rc_config $name
: ${stunnel_enable=NO}
: ${stunnel_config=/usr/local/etc/stunnel/${name}.conf}
: ${stunnel_pidfile=/var/run/stunnel/${name}.pid}
command=/usr/local/bin/stunnel
command_args=${stunnel_config}
pidfile=${stunnel_pidfile}
required_files=${stunnel_config}
run_rc_command $1
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FreeBSD and NFSv4
Hello everyone, are there any experiences with FreeBSD being an NFSv4 client out there? And furthermore, is there any further development of NFSv4 functionality within FreeBSD to come closer to RFC 3530? Thanks for any reply and best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [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: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
Just did some tests and found out the same - csup freezes when the Free memory ends (the virtual machine has 512 MB RAM). Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround? Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
Hello all, I have the following configuration - FreeBSD 6.2 (minimal install) Running in VMware 6.x Windows VISTA BUSINESS 64-bit guest (core duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM) supfile-stable is edited just with the domain (cvs.at) and the version (6_3 or 7_0). csup with this supfile runs for some time, then the virtual machine freezes and the host shows 100% CPU use. After restarting the 6.2 host 2-3 times and csup again, eventually csup completes. Could somebody advice me what might be going wrong? Thank you, Iv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
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Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
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Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? If you are reading the mailing lists via the FreeBSD website (http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html) you can use the Raw E-Mail link of a posting to fetch a copy and incorporate it into your mail client. Two common mail formats are pine mail (one file per folder), and MH mail (one file per message). I use Sylpheed which uses MH mail format so its quite easy. I created a folder called Mail/web-list and fetch the mail directly to it. The trick is to use the next numerical message number, in this example 114: cd ~/Mail/web-list fetch -R -o 114 'http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=422834+0+current/freebsd-questions+raw' It is then possible to just use Sylpheed normally and click on Reply to All. The mail will be properly threaded for the mailing lists. I've not used the one file per folder type of mail client in a very long time but I would think that just appending the new mail to the end would suffice. You will need to investigate how your particular mail client operates and what format it uses, but what you want to do is possible. I would recommend backing up your mail before experimenting and using the test mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). HTH, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? Besides what Randy wrote, several mailing lists are mirrored to newsgroups. I subscribe to muc.lists.freebsd.questions, even though I am subscribed to the list. (I prefer not to receive all that stuff as e-mail.) When answering a post, I have to edit the addresses, but my answer is then threaded properly. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)
Hello, I am also (very) interested in running FreeBSD under HyperV since HyperV will liberate itself from Windows Server soon after the final release (it will not depend on an preliminary Windows Server installation but will be standalone and practically free of charge, which makes it (for me) a very interesting solution). Im trying to set up a FreeBSD VM under Hyper-V but i the instalation do not start. i try x86 and x64 boot disk only (for a net install). The error i got is cant load kernel. Im a novice on FreeBSD but i have set up a few small server with it. Any idea? You didn't say which version of FreeBSD you are trying. Please try a snapshot of 8-CURRENT (from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) to see if anything changes. There have been improvements to the boot loader recently. I've heard that it works (at least boots) with 8-CURRENT. Are there plans to include support for FreeBSD 7.x branch too? That would be really cool. Yes, I know, patches are welcome. Thanks, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Networking issues
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:04 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No problem I thought, his modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts file, but this turned to not be the case. Well, after some digging, I did a traceroute to his IP address. The packets went all over the place, from San Jose, to Colorado, back to San Jose, to Colorado then to Ohio, then to Denver, then to San Jose, then to Ohio, etc. (you get the idea). This is not necessarily wrong, I used to have a dialup account where connections within the UK would go often go to London, then go round a tour of Western Europe, and then come back through London. Although there probably is a fault in your case since you can't connect. First, my DSL modems IP is 71.221.172.38, however, the default route appears to be 67.41.38.201. I think Point-to-Point links just work like that, with arbitrary addresses on either end of the link. My address and gateway have only the first byte in common. [/usr/home/andy] - traceroute -n 67.41.38.201 traceroute to 67.41.38.201 (67.41.38.201), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 * * * 2 67.41.38.201 40.303 ms * 39.421 ms Why on earth would there be delays on the first hop when not using name resolution? I don't see what name resolution has to do with the delay, the 39ms is the round-trip time to the gateway at the ISP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)
Ok heres the best solution, Im not even a big linux fan but install Ubuntu Server KVM, then install windows and FreeBSD 6, 7 or 8 Linux KVM just works, ive had 0 issues with FreeBSD under KVM with bridged networking. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am also (very) interested in running FreeBSD under HyperV since HyperV will liberate itself from Windows Server soon after the final release (it will not depend on an preliminary Windows Server installation but will be standalone and practically free of charge, which makes it (for me) a very interesting solution). Im trying to set up a FreeBSD VM under Hyper-V but i the instalation do not start. i try x86 and x64 boot disk only (for a net install). The error i got is cant load kernel. Im a novice on FreeBSD but i have set up a few small server with it. Any idea? You didn't say which version of FreeBSD you are trying. Please try a snapshot of 8-CURRENT (from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) to see if anything changes. There have been improvements to the boot loader recently. I've heard that it works (at least boots) with 8-CURRENT. Are there plans to include support for FreeBSD 7.x branch too? That would be really cool. Yes, I know, patches are welcome. Thanks, Nejc ___ 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: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Behalf Of Jason Morgan On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:40:17PM -0600, James wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? I can't imagine this is a software issue. Sounds strange. Have you tried to see if it isn't a fan issue? We have some Dell GX280s with a bad batch of motherboards at my university---under specific conditions (e.g., using certain video cards) the system fan will spin up 'til the system sounds like it's about to take off. One of the device probes during startup could be sending what appears to be a full speed command to the fan controller. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless help
ifconfig This looks ok. Mind you, I'm not all that up on wireless, so I don't know if that could be part of your issue. arp ? (192.168.1.3) at (incomplete) on ath0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.254) at (incomplete) on ath0 [ethernet] This is generally telling you that you have recently attempted to communicate to the IP's, and address resolution is in progress (and in your case, most likely will timeout). The rest of your message is irrelevant at this point, since you can't even resolve the layer 2 addresses on the local link. I'd have to say at this point that either there is a problem with the wireless config on the FreeBSD machine, or there is a firewall on the machine blocking your traffic. Does the linksys show you as connected? If you enable DHCP on the linksys, does it register a client lease for the box? If you cable yourself directly to the Linksys (as opposed to wireless) with the same IP configuration, does it work then? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: g95.out: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x280c5000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280db000) ^-- this one doesn't link to a dynamic fortran library, so it is presumably statically linked, explaining the size. Look into how the file was constructed (e.g. the command used to link the binary). Kris, many thanks. I have confirmed this with Andy Vaught (g95 main developer). -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: forcing thunderbird to download old gmail
In the Gmail web interface: Settings -= Forwarding and POP/IMAP -= Enable POP for all mail This isn't a Thunderbird issue. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just switched machines and want to force thunderbird to download everything in my All Mail folder on gmail I tried unreading and/or moving it to my inbox and tb still only dl'ed stuff that was newer then the last time I downloaded last... any ideas? ___ 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]
is it possible to install FreeBSD 6.2
Hello everybody, I am trying to build a VMware twin of an existing production server running FreeBSD 6.2. I have a 6.2 boot only ISO. The installation from FTP works well, but I have some strange issues - (i. e. csup when pulling the 6.3 sources freezes the OS and completes after two restarts, make buildworld crashes, etc.). I normally I move with the RELEASE versions and I have never had such problems the last 2-4 years. Could it be that I am doing something wrong, or simply versions outside of RELEASE are to be treated differently? Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)
Same here. -- Robi Outback Dingo wrote: Ok heres the best solution, Im not even a big linux fan but install Ubuntu Server KVM, then install windows and FreeBSD 6, 7 or 8 Linux KVM just works, ive had 0 issues with FreeBSD under KVM with bridged networking. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am also (very) interested in running FreeBSD under HyperV since HyperV will liberate itself from Windows Server soon after the final release (it will not depend on an preliminary Windows Server installation but will be standalone and practically free of charge, which makes it (for me) a very interesting solution). Im trying to set up a FreeBSD VM under Hyper-V but i the instalation do not start. i try x86 and x64 boot disk only (for a net install). The error i got is cant load kernel. Im a novice on FreeBSD but i have set up a few small server with it. Any idea? You didn't say which version of FreeBSD you are trying. Please try a snapshot of 8-CURRENT (from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) to see if anything changes. There have been improvements to the boot loader recently. I've heard that it works (at least boots) with 8-CURRENT. Are there plans to include support for FreeBSD 7.x branch too? That would be really cool. Yes, I know, patches are welcome. Thanks, Nejc ___ 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: Playing back motion jpeg saved by firefox
video.cgi is not the video you were watching it is a partial code segment from the web server you were browsing. there is no such video encapsulation type as a .cgi file, they are common gateway interface scripts/executables. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered that firefox can save motion video in addition to displaying it. But I don't know how to play back the saved video.cgi file. Mplayer complains about missing configuration data. Does anyone know how to play back the file saved by firefox? Is there some other mailing list to which I should post this question? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ 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: Setting up a VPN
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:39:06PM -0700, Steve Quinn wrote: --- On Sun, 6/8/08, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please _do_ send them to this list or throw a pointer at where they are at ! I'm sure more people than you can think of will find them usefull. I, for once, could really use them :) Hi Gonzalo, all I knew I should have done that in the first place, sorry :-) They were embarrassingly messy so I resisted I just fixed them up a bit I hope they can be of help See OpenVPN from http://www.isgsp.net/freebsd/index.html Take care Steve Excellent, Steve. Thanks a lot. Cheers, ~Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree
Hi FreeBSD users Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? cheers Simon -- XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree
Simon Jolle wrote: What is the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? If 1.6.12 was already installed, I would use portdowngrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree
In response to Simon Jolle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi FreeBSD users Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? Looks through the CVS logs (you can use the web interface or Dan's freshports: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/syslog-ng/) Find the date of the version you want, then configure your supfile to grab the ports tree from that date. Something like: date=2004.08.28.10.00.00 should get what you want. When cvsup is done running, you'll be able to run make install from the syslog-ng directory to install that version ... assuming that distfile is still readily available. If it's not, you'll have to do some web searches until you find it manually. Some projects are really good about keeping old distfiles around, other are not. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep Guru
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search
There's no more need for find | xargs
Try:
find . -type -f -exec grep grepoptions text to search {} \+
-exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo
-exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file
The issue here is that grep execs grep for each file found while
xargs batches the files.
The \+ trick behaves like xargs, so this shouldn't be an issue :)
This is of particular importance if one wants to see the file
names in the output.
You can ensure the same even if xargs picks up a single file to grep
with
xargs -0 grep pattern /dev/null
This will cost an open() / read() pair for each batch of files, but it
ensures that grep will always see at least two file names, and it should
print the filename of any matching files.
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Not possible to install KDE 3.5.8 and Apache 2.2 together?
Hello, when I want to install www/apache22 then following error appears: beastie# make install clean === Installing for apache-2.2.8 === apache-2.2.8 conflicts with installed package(s): apr-db42-1.2.8_2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache22. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache22. beastie# pkg_delete apr-db42-1.2.8_2 pkg_delete: package 'apr-db42-1.2.8_2' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: kde-3.5.8 kdesdk-3.5.8 kdevelop-3.5.0 kdewebdev-3.5.8,2 subversion-1.4.4_1 beastie# The question: Is it possible to keep them both running, or have I to delete really KDE? With regards Stevan Tiefert __ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail. Dem pfiffigeren Posteingang. http://de.overview.mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep Guru
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:23:19 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them. Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks, I expect you need something like: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern Or install the GNU grep (from the man) -R, -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equivalent to the -d recurse option. /usr/bin/grep *is* GNU grep in FreeBSD: % [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ grep --version % grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD % % Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. % This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO % warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. % % [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ AFAIK, Gabor Kovesdan is working on replacing grep(1) with a BSD-licensed implementation, but he also tries to keep UI compatibility as much as possible. So I guess the -r/-R option should work in that version too once it hits the tree. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
prevent overwriting custom make options in ports
I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my custom setting, add an environment variable? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Memory Limits
Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and really attracted to it because of the performance and stability it provides. So I am looking to develop a high performance system that may need to process over 100K UDP messages per second and be able to store information quickly. I couldn't find much documentation on the memory limits in FreeBSD, especially per-process limits in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Could you please point me to where I can find such information along with other performance tuning tips and characteristics of the OS to keep in mind? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openvpn on FreeBSD 7
Hi, I recently upgraded a machine from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0. Everything is working fine except for the OpenVPN server. I had it set up with a bridge configuration, but now even with a basic tunnel I can't get successful ping across the VPN. I can make a connection from both Linux and OS X but neither can actually use the tunnel. Are there any changes in 7 which might affect this? Anyone else using OpenVPN on 7.0? Thanks, --Andrew
Re: How to do regression on libc?
Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to do regression on libc to verify the correctness? There are conformance test suites out there. The decent ones all seem to cost money, but you might want to look at the Open POSIX project. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 05:09:08PM -0700, Tobias Hoellrich wrote: [Disclaimer: I work for Adobe Systems. I have nothing to do with the Flash Player. I'm a grunt who works on other stuff. This is my personal opinion as a long-time FreeBSD user and I'm not making any statements for Adobe.] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jona Joachim Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:58 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flashplugin Flash is a big pain IMO. The Flash question has been asked *a lot* of times on this list. The answer usually boils down to use www/nspluginwrapper or use linux-firefox. Both solutions are far from optimal. My solution is to simply ignore Flash content. It makes your online experience much more enjoyable. This is my personal choice of course. ... That's simply wrong. The Flash format byte-code is *not* proprietary. If you want to, you can go ahead and create your own Flash Player. The specifications for the format are freely available at: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/developers/ This is encouraging. Is that info really enough to create a player such as Flash 9? I hope some folks will take a good shot at it. It is really beyond me. And Gnash (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/), which was started before the spec was available, will certainly benefit from this. And to address a previous message: if your bank requires you to use the Flash Player to make a transaction, then you will need to get in touch with your bank and not blame it on the non-existence of the Flash Player on your platform. A disabled person with a text-only browser or a screen-reader will certainly have the same issues. Companies who insist on their front pages and their functional things such as sales using flash or some other gimmick are inflicted with persons who are more interested in supplanting their egos than making the online product work for the company. But, if the web page has all its business in normal html and only uses flash and other such stuff as extra attraction and advertising then, no problem. A little eye candy on the side is not the issue. It is when the essentials are all blocked and made non-functional by the eye candy that the company and/or web designer is way off base. My offer stands: if anybody can provide the numbers above, I'm going to forward them to the right people and work things from my end. The numbers come out each month (BSD Stats), but unfortunately they really represent only a fraction of the actual number of BSD systems in use. They also do not distinguish between server and desktop use -- which is sometimes impossible anyway since many systems, such as the one I am typing on right now, are used for both. jerry Don't beat me up, I'm for the support - even if I'm not using FreeBSD as a desktop OS. Thanks and happy weekend - Tobias ___ 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: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware timekeeping
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest to gain time even faster. Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all. Here is something similar. Running 6.2 stable... but the clock lose around 6 hours each day JB The only good way of keeping time pretty set is to set up an NTP sync on the image to go off at decently constant rate (once every 3 hours or so). the vmware-tools will not synchronize the system clock. The tools do attempt to improve timekeeping if you put tools.syncTime = TRUE in the guest's .vmx file. However, the tools will only move the time forward. It is attempting to compensate for lost ticks. Without using syncTime the guest's clock can run slow, depending on the host's overall load. With syncTime on, my Linux guest machines stay synchronized perfectly. Well, they're within one second anyway, which is fine for my application. The recipe for this success was to turn on syncTime, and use the following linux boot options: clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic However, I have not been able to achieve the same success with FreeBSD. The clock doesn't lose time, but it gains time, very slowly. It's probably load dependent, but it's around 10 seconds a day. What's the FreeBSD equivalent of clock=pit ? Meaning to use the PIT and not the APIC. In general, but also in this application in particular, one does not one time to move backwards. The Dovcot IMAP server immediately exits if it detects that time went backwards. In order to use NTP, you'd probably have to turn off syncTime, which probably does a better job anyway except for the gaining time problem. I haven't tried actually running ntpd instead of a periodic sync, as this is not recommended by VMware's timekeeping white paper: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf. My last-ditch strategy will be to start monkeying with the knobs for syncTime, like these: timeTracker.catchupPercentage timeTracker.catchupIfBehindByUsec timeTracker.giveupIfBehindByUsec But I'd rather fix it the same way I have with Linux. I heard of someone trying to change the clock in BSD to only use the hardware clock as VMWare can reset that but never heard anything beyond that. -Sean___ 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: vmware timekeeping
Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD = 6.2. hmm. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest to gain time even faster. 100 is ok, I'm using this value on all virtual machines. Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Is it possible to upgrade your ESX from 3.0.2 to 3.5x? If not, there is another setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod from 400 to 100 (this is default on ESX 3.5x). Unfortunately IBM has not certified my hardware (xSeries 226) with ESX 3.5, and the installation just hangs, so I'm stuck on 3.0.2 for now. Thanks, I will try that suggestion. Uwe ___ 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]
Installing freeBSD
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gmirror and resizing partitions..
Hello all, I have a FreeBSD 7 machine that I am running gmirror on (ad4 and ad6). there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) what do I need to do to fix this. I am assuming break the mirror, fdisk the /exports and /home then remake them, and then rebuild the mirror.. right? What do I need to do with as little impact on the running server as possible.. as many services are already configured on this box and it's running :P (of course.. ) Thanks in advance, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep Guru
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search
There's no more need for find | xargs
Try:
find . -type -f -exec grep grepoptions text to search {} \+
-exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo
-exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file
Thanks for this kick; I'd missed or misunderstood using {} \+
The issue here is that grep execs grep for each file found while
xargs batches the files.
If find(1) is to be believed, so does -exec utility [argument ...] {} +
This is of particular importance if one wants to see the file
names in the output. In relation to this, if one wants to be
sure that grep always generates the file name, insure that it
always gets at least two files as arguments:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep pattern /dev/null
Another good clue. Many ways to do anything; I've often used such as:
% find /sys/ -name *.[chm] -exec egrep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \;
which has grep print the filenames, rather than using -print with find,
but I've just now run the above find, then using \+ instead, twice each,
and am pleased to learn that the latter method runs ~4 times faster in
real time and is even lighter on the system:
% time find /sys/ -name *.[chm] -exec grep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \;
/sys/kern/kern_cpu.c:static int cpufreq_settings_sysctl(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS);
[.. etc ..]
20.524u 46.205s 4:03.91 27.3% 79+201k 5698+0io 0pf+0w
% time find /sys/ -name *.[chm] -exec grep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \+
1.756u 3.058s 1:07.51 7.1% 81+290k 7148+0io 13pf+0w
% time find /sys/ -name *.[chm] -exec grep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \;
21.742u 44.382s 3:57.99 27.7% 79+200k 7144+0io 0pf+0w
% time find /sys/ -name *.[chm] -exec grep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \+
1.651u 3.134s 0:58.39 8.1% 75+267k 7149+0io 10pf+0w
(Ignore sloth; poor 300MHz Celeron already busy dumping /usr over nfs :)
FWIW, I have learned about gnu-grep's -r option reading this
thread, which I had not noticed previously. I guess that just
goes to show that old habits die hard :-).
When you're on a good thing :) but always plenty new tricks to learn.
cheers, Ian
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Re: Installing freeBSD
Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web.Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. Thank you for your help huu Did you burn the ISO on the CD/DVD as a file, or did you instruct the burning program to use it as a disk image? Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I use ports/lang/gcc42.
I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile.
However, with each tree update this option is
overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile
each time I update the port.
What is the best way to preserve my custom setting,
add an environment variable?
Add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc*}
WITHOUT_JAVA=yes
.endif
What this means is: if the current build directory (.CURDIR) matches
(M) the pattern */lang/gcc*, set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes. See the VARIABLE
ASSIGNMENTS section in the make(1) manual page for details.
Roland
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Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web.Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. Also check the boot sequence in the BIOS setup. It should try to boot from CD first. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpUHNHuec4mN.pgp Description: PGP signature
does this work with FreeBSD
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Re: gmirror and resizing partitions..
Written by B. Cook on 06/09/08 10:23 Hello all, I have a FreeBSD 7 machine that I am running gmirror on (ad4 and ad6). there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) what do I need to do to fix this. I am assuming break the mirror, fdisk the /exports and /home then remake them, and then rebuild the mirror.. right? What do I need to do with as little impact on the running server as possible.. as many services are already configured on this box and it's running :P (of course.. ) Thanks in advance, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I would do is break the mirror, then resize the partitions and newfs them on one disk. Then dump|restore the data from the other disk to your new partitions, and recreate the mirror with the newly resized disk and insert the other disk into that mirror. That disk should then rebuild with the new partitioning. Of course, you can only do this while the mirror is unused. So you're going to have to have some degree of downtime on those filesystems. You can minimize the downtime by killing the mirror and remounting the filesystems direct from one disk while you work on repartitioning the other. You may want to mount read-only, however, as the dump|restore may take a significant amount of time and you wouldn't want to lose any data that may be written to the other disk while you're busy copying from it. When you've built the new mirror with the repartitioned disk and dump|restored to it (don't forget the -L option on dump), remount the partitions from the new mirror and then insert the second disk. That's what I'd do, anyhow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror and resizing partitions..
there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) more exact info please. gmirror status mount or cat /etc/fstab ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD , it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web. Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. I am having a little trouble picturing what you got. It doesn't sound like something I have seen when booting from a CD. First, is there something in your floppy drive? If so, take it out. Second, your BIOS boot sequence should be: Floppy, CD, hard disk If it doesn't happen to have the CD in the BIOS sequence, then put it there. When you start to boot from the CD, then just let it continue. It might put up a boot menu, but you should be able to just wait and take the default. Past that, there should be no other prompt or menu after that besides install selection stuff. jerry Thank you for your help huu ___ 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: does this work with FreeBSD
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://www.sataport.com/ i mean port multipliers http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-current/2008/4/11/1402054 So the answer is there is support in -CURRENT but is still in its early stages. Vince ___ 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: gmirror and resizing partitions..
On Jun 9, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) more exact info please. gmirror status mount or cat /etc/fstab NameStatus Components mirror/gm0 COMPLETE ad4 ad6 # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/mirror/gm0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mirror/gm0s1h /exportsufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1e /usr/local ufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s1f /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 #/dev/da0s1 /mnt/root ufs ro 0 0 #/dev/da0s1bnoneswapsw 0 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD , it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web. Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. I got the same problem,very likely you have burned the iso file on a window machine.I gave up. If you have a floppy drive make the boot floppy as explained on the handbook ,and then install via ftp. sincerely Filippo I am having a little trouble picturing what you got. It doesn't sound like something I have seen when booting from a CD. First, is there something in your floppy drive? If so, take it out. Second, your BIOS boot sequence should be: Floppy, CD, hard disk If it doesn't happen to have the CD in the BIOS sequence, then put it there. When you start to boot from the CD, then just let it continue. It might put up a boot menu, but you should be able to just wait and take the default. Past that, there should be no other prompt or menu after that besides install selection stuff. jerry Thank you for your help huu ___ 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: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 at 18:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD , it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web. Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. I got the same problem,very likely you have burned the iso file on a window machine. Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up correctly to burn the contents of the ISO just by double-clicking on the ISO image. I gave up. If you have a floppy drive make the boot floppy as explained on the handbook ,and then install via ftp. sincerely Filippo I am having a little trouble picturing what you got. It doesn't sound like something I have seen when booting from a CD. First, is there something in your floppy drive? If so, take it out. Second, your BIOS boot sequence should be: Floppy, CD, hard disk If it doesn't happen to have the CD in the BIOS sequence, then put it there. When you start to boot from the CD, then just let it continue. It might put up a boot menu, but you should be able to just wait and take the default. Past that, there should be no other prompt or menu after that besides install selection stuff. jerry Thank you for your help huu ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up correctly to burn the contents of the ISO just by double-clicking on the ISO image. As will free Windows utilities like ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/ Regards, Shelby Cain signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Networking issues
Hello, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No problem I thought, his modem has a different IP than the one I have in my /etc/hosts file, but this turned to not be the case. This may be off-topic, but... I am using cable internet Time Warner/Road Runner/Earthlink in New York. However, I have a wireless router behind the cable modem and the router is registered with dyndns.org. When I registered with them, I chose a dns name from them for the router and every time my IP changes the router sends a request and their database is updated with the new IP - this is roughly how they work. So I can access machines in my home network usind a DNS name instead of an IP address. You and your dad may find this setup useful. Regards Rambius Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Filippo Moretti wrote: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD , it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web. Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. I got the same problem,very likely you have burned the iso file on a window machine.I gave up. If you have a floppy drive make the boot floppy as explained on the handbook ,and then install via ftp. sincerely Filippo If the problem is burning on an MS machine, then you have to make sure that the system is not trying to make an ISO out of the file before it burns it.The file is already an ISO and needs to be burned just as it is without any type of conversion. You'll have to check the options for the utility that you are using to burn the CD. jerry I am having a little trouble picturing what you got. It doesn't sound like something I have seen when booting from a CD. First, is there something in your floppy drive? If so, take it out. Second, your BIOS boot sequence should be: Floppy, CD, hard disk If it doesn't happen to have the CD in the BIOS sequence, then put it there. When you start to boot from the CD, then just let it continue. It might put up a boot menu, but you should be able to just wait and take the default. Past that, there should be no other prompt or menu after that besides install selection stuff. jerry Thank you for your help huu ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libcdio upgrade problems
Hi, Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i think i do. When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in the end with a libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make deinstall etc. message. But i did go to /usr/ports/sysytils/libcdio and make deinstall and make reinstall, and this was successful. I sync'd the ports collection again, but no luck. Nothing in UPDATING about this. Thanks! Jen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon 2008-06-09 12:10:01 UTC-0500, Shelby Cain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up correctly to burn the contents of the ISO just by double-clicking on the ISO image. As will free Windows utilities like ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/ Another free alternative which I've used in the past is BurnAtOnce. http://www.burnatonce.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Thank you all for discussing this with me. I really like to here your opinions. I wont answer to all of your posts, because half of them is off-topic, but still interesting to read. I haven't heard/read about any huge CPU consumptions from ZFS, not yet at least. If you have links to benchmarks and comparisons with other fses (UFS2 in particular) it would be grate! For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for ZFS, which I think is very bad. 2008/6/8 Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The choice is probably between Debian 4.0r3, FreeBSD 7.0 and OpenSolaris 2008.05. All of them have their pros and cons. could you tell any pros for opensolaris? OpenSolaris 2008.05 didn't boot on my hardware, so it's out of this project anyway. The live-cd hangs on device detect. One of the pros for OpenSolaris I've noticed is the support for a virtual host and at the same time able to use ZFS, but that doesn't matter anymore because I can not boot it and ZFS will probably eat my memory if I can set an upper limit. I think Debian / Linux, almost falls off because it lacks support for native ZFS and I have not found any alternative filesystem that offer checksums on the fly. agree I have now found a filesystem for linux that do checksum on the fly, btrfs. But it is still very experimental, so I wont try it for this project. http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ // Anders ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grep Guru
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search
There's no more need for find | xargs
Try:
find . -type -f -exec grep grepoptions text to search {} \+
-exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo
-exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file
Thanks for this kick; I'd missed or misunderstood using {} \+
The issue here is that grep execs grep for each file found while
xargs batches the files.
If find(1) is to be believed, so does -exec utility [argument ...] {} +
Yes, sure. I think Bill was just being extra-conservative[1] and he
explicitly chose to quote `+' with a backslash to avoid spurious
interpreration by the shell. I also type `\+' out of habbit most
of the time.
[1] BSD users tend to be this way, but that's a good thing, right? :)
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Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200 Anders Häggström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for ZFS, which I think is very bad. This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web.Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then Just start up Nero Express; then you will get a window in which you can choose 'Disc Image or Saved Project'. When you click on that option, you can choose the location of the .iso file. Did you ftp the .iso file? Then first try thru _http_ and process the above. That you burn your iso on a Windows machine has nothing to do with the problem. -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Bob McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. Bob McConnell I think I'm going to just have to try another motherboard unfortunately. The one I'm having problems with is an Asus M2A-VM, which I thought would be good quality. I wonder Gigabyte's all-solid capacitors would make a difference? http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/NewTech/2006_motherboard_newtech/article_08_ultra_durable2.htm The thing that really bugs me is that it's only there if I don't have certain USB devices plugged in. If I plug in an Apple keyboard and mouse for example (which has usb ports on the keyboard), the noise goes away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7
Hey, I recently upgraded a machine from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0. Everything is working fine except for the OpenVPN server. I had it set up with a bridge configuration, but now even with a basic tunnel I can't get successful ping across the VPN. I can make a connection from both Linux and OS X but neither can actually use the tunnel. Are there any changes in 7 which might affect this? Anyone else using OpenVPN on 7.0? I do. I don't use bridging, though. Do you have a good reason to use it? Have you tried to tcpdump the interfaces? How did you configure the bridge? We would certainly need more information to try to help you out. Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Simon Jolle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? Looks through the CVS logs (you can use the web interface or Dan's freshports: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/syslog-ng/) Find the date of the version you want, then configure your supfile to grab the ports tree from that date. Something like: date=2004.08.28.10.00.00 should get what you want. When cvsup is done running, you'll be able to run make install from the syslog-ng directory to install that version That's pretty much what /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portdowngrade does, with a little bit of user interface on it. ... assuming that distfile is still readily available. If it's not, you'll have to do some web searches until you find it manually. Some projects are really good about keeping old distfiles around, other are not. And there could be dependency and version issues. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
2008/6/9 Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200 Anders Häggström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for ZFS, which I think is very bad. This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. That's good to know, thanks! Do you have any reference/link that describes how to manage that? It's good to know for the future. I always run my server on amd64-software, as far as I can, because I see better performance and I do not have the trouble with 4GB memory limit. Thanks for the info! -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ 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]
portmaster argument question
Hi, just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow skipping ports already up to date. so it becomes portmaster -uBdRr gettext\* -x avifile, but i noticed that portmaster still recompile/reinstall gettext and everything that needs it. how can I get this done right?? thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web.Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then Just start up Nero Express; then you will get a window in which you can choose 'Disc Image or Saved Project'. When you click on that option, you can choose the location of the .iso file. Did you ftp the .iso file? Then first try thru _http_ and process the above. That you burn your iso on a Windows machine has nothing to do with the problem. Other than that some of the Win burners default to, or seem to encourage selecting, the wrong options. But, you're right, the CD easily be burned on a Win machine with many different pieces of software. jerry -- Jos ___ 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]
what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?
People, This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some people are taking a break for the summer, c. I've had PHPBB up a few times, and lost it as many times for different reasons. It takes about an hour to set up one of these ``forum'' applications; I don't know about the others. Does anyone have a best-win/solution as to which port/package to use? Or would it be just as good to go with a canned (javascript or other) app? Again: the nutshell is to allow my fellow writers to comment-on, edit, suggest, critique, flame, whatever, my jotting meditation. [for now, the URL would not be published.] tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
I haven't heard/read about any huge CPU consumptions from ZFS, not yet as i already said. most people today have problems as they have too fast CPU and too much RAM ;) they don't see high CPU load on quad core machine with 16GB RAM having not big load :) For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram UFS use what's unused. works on 16MB and 16GB. project anyway. The live-cd hangs on device detect. One of the pros for OpenSolaris I've noticed is the support for a virtual host man jail while maybe not with resource control like on solaris, but i use it with success. it's really excellent. but use nullfs with it to be able to share binaries. I have now found a filesystem for linux that do checksum on the fly, btrfs. but why you need it?! all PATA/SATA drives do checksumming on every read. in hardware, no CPU load. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. That's good to know, thanks! Do you have any reference/link that describes how to manage that? It's good to know for the future. when i tested it i was able to run it on 256MB machine stable after reading about tuning. but sorry i don't remember what options it were exactly. I always run my server on amd64-software, as far as I can, because I me too, while not having 4GB anywhere. it just runs faster ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
I've recently noticed slow performance on a machine that runs amanda and stores backups for our network on a RAID-5. It was running 6.2. I upgraded to 6.3 just today, so it is completely up to date on the 6 branch. Here's hopefully most of the relevant info: 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 9 12:57:40 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: AMCC 9550SX-12 DISK 3.04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 2145735MB (4394465280 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 273542C) hw.twa0.driver_version: 3.60.04.003 Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC -- u0RAID-5OK - 64K 2095.44 OFFOFF OFF Port Status Unit SizeBlocksSerial --- p0 OK u0 698.63 GB 14651491683QD0TAVV p1 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p2 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p3 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p4 OK u0 698.63 GB 14651491683QD0SYE3 p5 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p6 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p7 NOT-PRESENT - - - - p8 OK u0 698.63 GB 14651491683QD0SE36 p9 OK u0 698.63 GB 14651491683QD0THRB p10NOT-PRESENT - - - - p11NOT-PRESENT - - - - Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a4058062 96518 3636900 3%/ devfs1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/da0s2d 1914817666 1647878588 11375366694%/backup /dev/da0s1d4058062 3344 3730074 0%/tmp /dev/da0s1f 1716265387978766 149917650 5%/usr /dev/da0s1e 25385516 124322 23230354 1%/var I'm getting performance like this (no other processes were running at this time): dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 165760+0 records in 165759+0 records out 84868608 bytes transferred in 25.028232 secs (3390915 bytes/sec) I think I ought to be able to get more than 3.2MB/sec out of this card, right? The machine is about a year old and I am pretty sure it wasn't anywhere near this slow at the beginning, though I don't have any numbers from that time to back up that opinion. What else can I try to get more info or resolve the issue? I've looked online for others complaining of slowness and most of the chatter about twa on freebsd seems to be about the driver having been missing from certain install discs back in the day. No one else seems to be having speed issues. Thanks!! -adam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Adam Bayless wrote: [ ... ] Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC -- u0RAID-5OK - 64K 2095.44 OFF OFF OFF Caching is off; that will kill performance especially for small transactions. If you've got battery backup for this system, consider enabling the onboard cache...? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFS use what's unused. works on 16MB and 16GB. It's difficult to tell about consumed memory in ZFS vs UFS since UFS can be quite agressive at caching as well. -(although this caching is often hidden by system tools and reported as unused memory)- project anyway. The live-cd hangs on device detect. One of the pros for OpenSolaris I've noticed is the support for a virtual host man jail Jails are just slightly comparable to solaris zones. It's much more then resource control! They're really like independent machines with almost no memory footprint. It's quite common to run different zones for a mailserver, webserver and i.e. users. Sparse zones use little space, because lots of code is shared. It's all very tunable. Running 40 sparse zones is hardly noticable. Try that with 40 jails;-) I have now found a filesystem for linux that do checksum on the fly, btrfs. but why you need it?! all PATA/SATA drives do checksumming on every read. in hardware, no CPU load. Because the ZFS checksumming makes the FS selfhealing. Chance for errors are almost nill. No fsck. Yes, it consumes memory, but memory is cheap, very cheap! CPU load is hardly noticable. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
Caching is off; that will kill performance especially for small transactions. If you've got battery backup for this system, consider enabling the onboard cache...? Chuck, that made an immediate and huge difference: # tw_cli set cache c0 u0 on # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 5649235+0 records in 5649234+0 records out 2892407808 bytes transferred in 40.800142 secs (70892102 bytes/sec) I had no idea having the cache on would be such a night and day difference. I'm off to order the battery backup card. Thanks!!! -adam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
On Jun 9, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Adam Bayless wrote: Caching is off; that will kill performance especially for small transactions. If you've got battery backup for this system, consider enabling the onboard cache...? Chuck, that made an immediate and huge difference: # tw_cli set cache c0 u0 on # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 5649235+0 records in 5649234+0 records out 2892407808 bytes transferred in 40.800142 secs (70892102 bytes/sec) I had no idea having the cache on would be such a night and day difference. I'm off to order the battery backup card. Thanks!!! Excellent! I'm glad that resolved your performance issue, and you're most welcome -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 165760+0 records in 165759+0 records out 84868608 bytes transferred in 25.028232 secs (3390915 bytes/sec) I think I ought to be able to get more than 3.2MB/sec out of this card, with default 512 bytes blocks - not much more ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portmaster argument question
Hi, just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow skipping ports already up to date. so it becomes portmaster -uBdRr gettext\* -x avifile, but i noticed that portmaster still recompile/reinstall gettext and everything that needs it. how can I get this done right?? thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I would like to know this as well to make sure I m doing it correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Running 40 sparse zones is hardly noticable. Try that with 40 jails;-) you probably don't have your jails configured right. my 1GB pentium 4 machine runs 20 jails, and it is hardly noticable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports
On Monday 09 June 2008 16:33:01 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my custom setting, add an environment variable? I use port-mgmt/portconf for that. It allows to set port options in /usr/local/etc/ports.conf like: lang/gcc42: WITHOUT_JAVA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin a USB drive in with EHCI controller enabled (usb keyboard and mouse being already plugged in). Is this a hardware problem, or could it possibly be software related??? Hard to tell. I've had whining EPIA-boards when run at 1000 Hz, and after switching kern.hz to 100 Hz in /boot/loader.conf, the high-pitched whine stopped entirely. It also stopped when I slightly deviated from the 1000 Hz (to, say, 900 Hz or 1100 Hz), so there was obviously some hardware component on the boards oscillating like mad at this very frequency. I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. It was 15,750 for original NTSC (black and white RS170), and changed to 15,734 when color (RS170A) came in in the 1950s. The vertical scan (field) rate also changed from 60 Hz to 59.94. These numbers were chosen because they are relatively easily derived from the newfangled color subcarrier of 3.579545 MHz, yet close enough to the old values that old pre-color TV sets could still lock to the new color signals. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. The joke used to go, Why did they pick that frequency? Well, the crusty old engineers just cranked it up until they couldn't hear the flyback anymore. I can still hear it, but then I'm still [just] on the candy-coated side of 50. I guess this is getting a little OT here... but by way of a half-assed response to the OP's question, I think Bob is on the right track - seems like an electromechanical resonance of some sort. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems
[Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google so far. I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on their IPs. So basically their connection kinda hangs while the system waits to timeout on looking up their IP's reverse. From what I can tell, I should be able to just set options timeout:n and options attempts:n in resolv.conf.. BUT it seems FBSD's install doesn't allow you to do this. Does anyone know a workaround to this? I thought maybe of changing it directly in resolv.h but then I'd have to rebuild world I think..? Is there perhaps a sysctl solution? Thank you so much for your time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems
At 08:57 PM 6/9/2008, Jake Evans wrote: [Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google so far. I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on their IPs. So basically their connection kinda hangs while the system waits to timeout on looking up their IP's reverse. From what I can tell, I should be able to just set options timeout:n and options attempts:n in resolv.conf.. BUT it seems FBSD's install doesn't allow you to do this. Does anyone know a workaround to this? I thought maybe of changing it directly in resolv.h but then I'd have to rebuild world I think..? Is there perhaps a sysctl solution? Thank you so much for your time. set UseDNS to no in /etc/sshd_config -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: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:27 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. No legends here. The horizontal sweep frequency for televisions in the US is 17,500 Hz. Many people could hear that whistle from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. Indeed. About 20 years ago our company produced a data logger for a local gas utility. At one point our bright, young design engineer replaced a linear voltage regulator with a switch-mode design - quite novel at the time. Only thing was, the hand-wound inductor coils inevitably emitted a hissing noise, not entirely unlike the sound of escaping gas! Wayne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7
On 9-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Nejc koberne wrote: I do. I don't use bridging, though. Do you have a good reason to use it? I was using it because I could then assign my laptop the same IP easily through my router (a separate device with DHCP) and also have hostnames pushed through DHCP. But I imagine in my case I could do the same thing with a tunnel. Have you tried to tcpdump the interfaces? Yes, I did: 'tcpdump -i tun0'. Nothing shows up on the server, but on the client (OS X) I can see the pings being sent. How did you configure the bridge? Here is my current config: It's no longer doing bridging though. openvpn.conf: port 1194 proto tcp dev tun ca ca.crt cert server.crt dh dh1024.pem server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt keepalive 10 120 comp-lzo persist-key persist-tun status openvpn-status.log verb 3 And on my client: tls-client dev tun ca ca.crt cert client1.crt key client1.key remote my-remote-host proto tcp-client port 1194 comp-lzo ping 15 ping-restart 45 ping-timer-rem persist-tun persist-key verb 3 I then ifconfig'ed the tun0 interface to be 10.8.0.2 = 10.8.0.1. Thanks! --Andrew
Re: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?
On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some people are taking a break for the summer, c. It sounds like you might want a Wiki of some kind. Mediawiki and MoinMoin are both good, and if you're dealing with source code take a look at Trac. phpBB is pretty decent, but I haven't used it in a while. Most CMS's also include forums of some kind. I'm partial to Drupal, but there's a good selection of choices at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ , and many of the popular ones will be in the ports tree. --Andrew
Source directory of libm.so?
Hi all Where is the source directory of /lib/libm.so.x in /usr/src/? grep -lr LIB=m /usr/src/ does not show any result. Kind regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? How do you receive them if you are not subscribed to the list? Some magic? What stops you from subscribing?:-) -- George Burns - You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. Nothing stops me from subscribing to any list, just that I don't like to get too many emails in my mailbox. In fact, I am subscribed to two of the lists (x11 and current), but I chose not to get the emails. And I use my web browser to read the messages, e.g. http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems
[mailed and posted] On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Jake Evans wrote: I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on their IPs. You should configure your servers to not do the reverse lookup. Not resolving is certainly the default for Apache. For sshd, set UseDNS to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. As for telnet and ftp, I don't know where that might be configured. Of course I don't know your needs and situation, but some people might consider it a reasonable policy to disallow ssh and telnet (and certainly mail) from hosts that don't have proper PTR records. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I post an answer to the person asking the question and CC it to the list, it doesn't regroup with other posts on the same topic. Is there any way around this? If you are reading the mailing lists via the FreeBSD website (http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html) you can use the Raw E-Mail link of a posting to fetch a copy and incorporate it into your mail client. Two common mail formats are pine mail (one file per folder), and MH mail (one file per message). I use Sylpheed which uses MH mail format so its quite easy. I created a folder called Mail/web-list and fetch the mail directly to it. The trick is to use the next numerical message number, in this example 114: cd ~/Mail/web-list fetch -R -o 114 ' http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=422834+0+current/freebsd-questions+raw ' It is then possible to just use Sylpheed normally and click on Reply to All. The mail will be properly threaded for the mailing lists. I've not used the one file per folder type of mail client in a very long time but I would think that just appending the new mail to the end would suffice. You will need to investigate how your particular mail client operates and what format it uses, but what you want to do is possible. I would recommend backing up your mail before experimenting and using the test mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). HTH, Randy -- The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel more comfortable that way! So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? Is there any way to use the Raw E-Mail output to send an email from within GMail to the OP and the list so that it's threaded properly as well? I will remember your instructions whenever I started using a mail client. Maybe I should do it anyway --- how is Claw Mail? Thanks a lot :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source directory of libm.so?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:02:52 -0700 (PDT), Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Where is the source directory of /lib/libm.so.x in /usr/src/? grep -lr LIB=m /usr/src/ does not show any result. Try using a few spaces or TABs around '=' :) The directory you want is `/usr/src/lib/msun'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPv6 jails for FreeBSD (6.* preferably)
well it applied almost clean to FreeBSD 6.3! almost means i have to skip 2 patches to sctp_* files, as sctp doesn't exist in FreeBSD 6.*, everything else patched we will see after compiling. Did it work? Did it work? Did it work? (Or is the absence of a giant WOOOHOOO! the indicator that it didn't work at all?) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis |Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some people are taking a break for the summer, c. It sounds like you might want a Wiki of some kind. Mediawiki and MoinMoin are both good, and if you're dealing with source code take a look at Trac. phpBB is pretty decent, but I haven't used it in a while. Most CMS's also include forums of some kind. I'm partial to Drupal, but there's a good selection of choices at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ , and many of the popular ones will be in the ports tree. --Andrew hey, a kwik thankyew, andrew more tomorrow, ii dont know WHY i've been this tired in recent weeks, but i am. gary ps: What a wealth of software; it boggles my mind. have just checked with my group. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source directory of libm.so?
--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Source directory of libm.so? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:19 PM On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:02:52 -0700 (PDT), Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Where is the source directory of /lib/libm.so.x in /usr/src/? grep -lr LIB=m /usr/src/ does not show any result. Try using a few spaces or TABs around '=' :) The directory you want is `/usr/src/lib/msun'. OK :) thanks for the reply. Btw, is it a mistake a tab before the m in the Makefile or is it intentional? /usr/src/lib/msun/Makefile LIB=m Regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
