Re: fastest raw device copy?
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:04:47AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Would there be anything wrong in cat /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 ? small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat Not to mention, doesn't cat operate on a character level and not a block level? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fastest raw device copy?
Would there be anything wrong in cat /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 ? small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: about vi editor and turkish char
El día Saturday, November 01, 2008 a las 09:37:01PM +0200, Yavuz Maslak escribió: Hello, Where do I have to specify LANG ... expression to support any language in VI ? Ok. I have no problem in many editors about that but I wish to learn for vi . in sh or bash: $ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 export LANG $ vim yourFileHere HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windows ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems
-- Original Message -- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:37:29 -0500 From: matt donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 2008-10-31 08:11:49 UTC+1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: localhost# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/6.3-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found Ah, this is not a DNS problem. You are trying to run freebsd-update from 6.3-STABLE. This isn't supported. From the freebsd-update(8) manpage: The FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yeah I should have noticed the 6.3-STABLE but I did not Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from discs. Thanks for your patience!! Regards, Alasdair ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems
Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from discs. Don't know if there is a tool for this, but the usual way is to make a RELENG-7 supfile, csup the 7-STABLE sources and build them. More on this subject in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Thanks for your patience!! Regards, Alasdair -- (-K JohnNy alias Partial Derivative ∂ [home] http://johnny64.fixinko.sk/ [icq] 338328204 [abandoned] [jabber] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [skype] JohnNy64-konik [abandoned] pgpoBoltbRRLO.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eitan Adler Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: XFCE4 Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system seem to indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete working environment. Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports they used to build their XFCE4 desktop. I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. BR Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raid tool
Hiya New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google suggests were moderately old, so my question is, whats the tool for raid? TIA Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:01:21 +0800 Alex Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpFi55vDLfTe.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. BR Alex The latest stable version is a release like 7.0 or 6.3 Both are at the final stages of being replaced by 7.1 and 6.4 You subscribe to the mailing list by going to the following URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Select the list and on that page you'll see Subscribing to freebsd-(listname) Fill in your e-mailadres and follow the instructions Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1763 - Release Date: 2-11-2008 19:08 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ 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: raid tool
On Monday 03 November 2008 09:19:45 am Brent Clark wrote: New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. You have a few options, but strictly speaking the best-supported way to do RAID5 in FreeBSD is to use gvinum (vinum's GEOM-ified successor). It is part of the base system and not in ports. There is also an unofficial geom_raid5 module, but last I was aware it still had some issues (and you'd have to grab the source and built it manually). Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google suggests were moderately old, so my question is, whats the tool for raid? If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in ports). That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good features of raid5 and none of the bad. I use it and it works well but you will need to do some reading and some manual tuning of your system. You'll also want a system with plenty of RAM and preferrably running FreeBSD-amd64 (vs FreeBSD-i386). If you want to look in to RAID1 or RAID1+0 see geom_mirror and geom_stripe, also in the base system. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry, this was not intended to go to you Jonathan, nor to the list. I messed something up here. Sorry. Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid tool
John Nielsen wrote: If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in ports). That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good features of raid5 and none of the bad. I use it and it works well but you will need to do some reading and some manual tuning of your system. You'll also want a system with plenty of RAM and preferrably running FreeBSD-amd64 (vs FreeBSD-i386). If you want to look in to RAID1 or RAID1+0 see geom_mirror and geom_stripe, also in the base system. JN Hiya Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. Thanks again. Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid tool
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: John Nielsen wrote: If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in ports). That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good features of raid5 and none of the bad. I use it and it works well but you will need to do some reading and some manual tuning of your system. You'll also want a system with plenty of RAM and preferrably running FreeBSD-amd64 (vs FreeBSD-i386). If you want to look in to RAID1 or RAID1+0 see geom_mirror and geom_stripe, also in the base system. JN Hiya Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. You can use ZFS on i386 and with 1GB RAM. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid tool
Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. I can tell you I'm using ZFS on an i386 desktop with 1 GB RAM and it is working flawlessly after some tuning, more specifically: # For ZFS vm.kmem_size=521M vm.kmem_size_max=512M vfs.zfs.arc_min=16M vfs.zfs.arc_max=64M vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size=5M vfs.zfs.debug=1 vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 in /boot/loader.conf.local Today it finished the compilation openoffice.org-alllangs-3.0.0 successfully (after 1 day and 14:42:21). Before tuning the options I have, there were some problems and the machine used to hang after some 3 or 4 hours of compilation but from the moment I added the options on I didn't have a single crash of the machine. So maybe you could still give it a try...? (-; Michal Petrucha Thanks again. Regards Brent Clark -- (-K JohnNy alias Partial Derivative ∂ [home] http://johnny64.fixinko.sk/ [icq] 338328204 [abandoned] [jabber] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [skype] JohnNy64-konik [abandoned] pgpuT92bE44X9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFCE4
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:38:07PM +0800, joeb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FBSD1 wrote: What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop environment? I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. Thanks in advance. I'm going to rake a random guess: x11-wm/xfce4 ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eitan Adler Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: XFCE4 Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system seem to indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete working environment. Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports they used to build their XFCE4 desktop. If there are dependancies, then, if you install/build from ports, it should pull in all the dependancies, build and install them automatically from the xfce4 port build.That is what is so nice with the port system - or one of the big things anyway. Other than that, I don't understand what you could be asking. jerry ___ 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: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
On Behalf Of Bruce Cran And what about OS X? To me it seems it's a combination of the user-friendliness of Windows with the power of *NIX. And lots of people have moved over to using it. Yes, it appears to be very nice. The programmer in the next cube bought his own laptop just so he can use it, with MS-Windows running in a VM. But it can only be run on overpriced hardware available from a single supplier. Until there are multiple sources, I don't consider it worth evaluating. 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: XFCE4
On Monday 03 November 2008 07:38:07 joeb wrote: Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports they used to build their XFCE4 desktop. Xfce is not much more then a window manager. It does not come with a suite of various desktop applications like gnome and KDE. So, x11-wm/xfce4 is the right meta port. Others have suggested some additional applications and gnome/kde applications will work with Xfce seamlessly. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ 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 Eeepc 1000h
On 11/3/08, Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In clear text: at the moment there is no driver available? Is this correct? That's not true anymore. There *IS* a driver, ale(4). See below. I've sent CFT to CURRENT ML and waiting for feedbacks from users. http://marc.info/?t=12253398883r=1w=2 (For unknown reason archiving service of CURRENT ML does'nt seem to work. :-( ) I'm not subscribed to questions@ so please CC to me. Hi Pyun Thanks for the information and your contribution. I will test the driver next weekend. kind regards Sven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL not restarted after portupgrade
On 3-Nov-08, at 1:16 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote:
Apache and Courier IMAP are just not stopped during deinstall stage
(IIRC). You can use AFTERINSTALL in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to
start MySQL after upgrade.
Thanks! There's even an example using mysql-server in the file. My
AFTERINSTALL is now:
AFTERINSTALL = {
# Re-enable the X wrapper
'x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server' = sprintf(
'cd %s/bin if [ -x Xwrapper-4 ]; then ln -sf Xwrapper-4 X; fi',
x11base()),
# Automatically start MySQL server
'databases/mysql51-server' = proc { |origin|
cmd_enable_rc(origin) + ';' + cmd_start_rc(origin)
},
}
--Andrew
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Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 2, 2008 08:01:38 pm FBSD1 wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:40 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Ok now that you have all let off steam about the off topic of desktop verses ms/windows lets return the meaning of the original poster. I spent this weekend playing with kde4 as root and had problems with it not working. Could not change the displayed time to from 20.00.00 to 8:00PM When I changed the resolution from the default to 800x600 and the refresh rate to 60.0 many of the applications did not auto fit to the new setting and the change would not carry over between logons. Some times the desktop just froze up and had to do alt-ctrl-backspace to force return to command line. When I changed the font type and size to use, the change would not carry over between logons. Could not find a way to remove items from the menu. Some icons would not display at all. Koffice was missing. Not all the application use the new window format which has the option to return to menu that launched it. Only has x out to return to desktop screen. Bottom line is imho kde4 is not stable, is not ready for general use. Needs more development and testing. Should only be contained in the development ports category. I submit to the court of pulic opinion that KDE4 *IS* stable on FreeBSD. I would encourage you to check out the following resources http://freebsd.kde.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 Certainly, if my word is not good enough, the nice folks over at PC-BSD, http://www.pcbsd.org, sure have bundled up a nice package based on FreeBSD 7 and KDE4. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPKQ0ACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qDLVQCdFw1phHPuvEn4bCaScIKzQfXs OY0AnAzXFKTql/rM/uPFIcmKVqutv8zE =X40c -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fastest raw device copy?
? small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat Not to mention, doesn't cat operate on a character level and not a block level? it just do 4kB read. that's all ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid tool
New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. there is geom_raid5 available but not integrated with FreeBSD google,download,compile,use Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google suggests were moderately old, so my question is, whats the tool for raid? TIA Regards Brent Clark ___ 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: raid tool
If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and slower with random reads. if he needs it for large files, then it's excellent. and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in ports). That includes raidz, which is designed to have all of the good features of raid5 and none of the bad. it gives performance of raid3 rather than raid5. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of this is well documented on the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org) For informatino on the mailing lists, go to: http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html or http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo and look around. The version setup in FreeBSD can be a little confusing for newcomers because the terms stable and current are used in very specific ways - formally defined rather than in the more loose general conversation way we often use them. Current is the bleeding edge of development work - nothing is guaranteed and stable is the development branch that is actually intended to eventually become the next new version -- rather than current being the official present version out or stable being the most reliable version as one might guess from just the words before studying the documentation.. Check this part of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html If you are a FreeBSD beginning, what you want is a RELEASE version. The latest at the moment are 6.3 and 7.0In the present form of the web page, the latest RELEASEs plus the next two are listed right there on the first page. Other information on upcoming releases can be found on the Release Engineering page: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html By the way, releng stands for Release Engineering here and when you track a version for security updates you track a RELENG version. So, if you installed FreeBSD 7.1, then in your csupfile you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7_1 That would get you the security updates for FreeBSD 7.1 If you wanted to jump up to stable you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7 and that would be the stable version of the FreeBSD 7 branch. But, the funny thing about it is that the STABLE line is not mean that it is actually stable. They try to assure that it compiles and builds. And, usually it is pretty good. But it hasn't gone through all the official builds and been run against all the known problem sets as has a RELEASE when it is 'released'. So, for now, just install a RELEASE - probably 7.1 if you can wait or 7.0 right now and track the security fixes by csup-ing to RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_0 Have fun, jerry jerry BR Alex ___ 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]
copying 'holey' files ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 652M to: image: dtc.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 4.0G Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, instead of fills them in? Thx - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPKWEACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNJIwCeOTgfxMEf/g/7bnFehXlDZAva dCwAoJL8sNsCD+h3PnJAAzebAQFsHhfa =fcAm -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying 'holey' files ...
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 652M to: image: dtc.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 4.0G Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, instead of fills them in? The qemu-img program using the convert command should do what you want it to. I've used it to make copies of qcow-format disks without having them grow to their max-size. Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying 'holey' files ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sweet, never even thought about doing that ... thank you ... - --On Monday, November 03, 2008 11:04:22 -0600 Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 652M to: image: dtc.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 4.0G Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, instead of fills them in? The qemu-img program using the convert command should do what you want it to. I've used it to make copies of qcow-format disks without having them grow to their max-size. Matt - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPMP4ACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvOvRACgyVOSp3nqJgqFQE7Ilm4IXbUZ d+YAnj2lddYnGcLMBzSkXjbk0onRfnZY =+Ft+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:38:30 -0400 Thomas Abthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submit to the court of pulic opinion that KDE4 *IS* stable on FreeBSD. I would encourage you to check out the following resources Stable != Usable -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. Oscar Wilde signature.asc Description: PGP signature
CVSup update nagios-3.0.4_1
Hi, from web ports I have see ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nagios-3stype=allsektion=all) that is relased the version nagios-3.0.4_1 of nagios but I have on my system the version nagios-3.0.3. Now if i try to update nagios from cvsup I run the follow comands: cd /usr/ports/ ; make update ; make fetchindex When the upgrade is finished, i run: portversion -l '' -v | grep nagios but nagios-3.0.4_1 is not present. This is my /etc/make.conf file: #make.conf# CPUTYPE=i686 CFLAGS= -O -pipe INSTALL=install -C SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPHOST=cvsup18.FreeBSD.org SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/tmp WITHOUT_GNOME= true WANT_OPENSSL_MANPAGES= true MAKE_IDEA= YES WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS= yes PERL_ARCH= mach NOPERL= yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo #make.conf# cvsup18.FreeBSD.org has not yet updated ? Have you an idea ? Thanks GianPaolo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
Thomas Abthorpe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 2, 2008 08:01:38 pm FBSD1 wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:40 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Ok now that you have all let off steam about the off topic of desktop verses ms/windows lets return the meaning of the original poster. I spent this weekend playing with kde4 as root and had problems with it not working. Could not change the displayed time to from 20.00.00 to 8:00PM When I changed the resolution from the default to 800x600 and the refresh rate to 60.0 many of the applications did not auto fit to the new setting and the change would not carry over between logons. Some times the desktop just froze up and had to do alt-ctrl-backspace to force return to command line. When I changed the font type and size to use, the change would not carry over between logons. Could not find a way to remove items from the menu. Some icons would not display at all. Koffice was missing. Not all the application use the new window format which has the option to return to menu that launched it. Only has x out to return to desktop screen. Bottom line is imho kde4 is not stable, is not ready for general use. Needs more development and testing. Should only be contained in the development ports category. I submit to the court of pulic opinion that KDE4 *IS* stable on FreeBSD. I would encourage you to check out the following resources http://freebsd.kde.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 Certainly, if my word is not good enough, the nice folks over at PC-BSD, http://www.pcbsd.org, sure have bundled up a nice package based on FreeBSD 7 and KDE4. Thomas I have used KDE-4 While some of the graphics are much better looking, I thought it lacked some functionality. These are minor issues but several of the old (KDE 3.5.X) control panel options were not available (or I couldn't find them) and figuring out where to set certain options was not that intuitive for me. I never found a central location for settings, it seemed that each control (menu, taskbar, etc) had it's own 'right click' sort of settings page. The small thing that truly bugged me is that I normally only display programs for the current desktop in the taskbar, but there was a small control that you could select that would display all windows on all desktops (I forget its official name). I used it alot to make sure I didn't forget something running, etc. I couldn't find this taskbar control in KDE 4. The other problems I had dealt with thrid-party programs. There is no (at least as of a few months ago) K3B for KDE-4 and no FreeBSD port of Ktorrent for KDE-4. I tried the linux port but had lots of problems. Also, to start you need to give an explicit path, something like /usr/local/kde-4/bin/startkde in the .xinitrc file. (at least I could never get anything else to work) I ultimately changed back to the 3.5.9(?) version from packages. I am using an intel quad core running amd64 FreeBSD 7.0 Release Hope this helps. Mark Moellering ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Mark Moellering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Moellering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 12:08 PM The other problems I had dealt with thrid-party programs. There is no (at least as of a few months ago) K3B for KDE-4 and no FreeBSD port of Ktorrent for KDE-4. I tried the linux port but had lots of problems. Also, to start you need to give an explicit path, something like /usr/local/kde-4/bin/startkde in the .xinitrc file. (at least I could never get anything else to work) I ultimately changed back to the 3.5.9(?) version from packages. I am using an intel quad core running amd64 FreeBSD 7.0 Release The standard ports for ktorrent and k3b work just fine. They use the KDE3 libraries, but there's nothing to stop them from running great under a KDE4 desktop. I use them both regularly with KDE4 as my desktop. In order for them to use the KDE4 libraries, the authors of those applications will have to come up with new versions for KDE4. That has nothing to do with FreeBSD. I also use a lot of GTK based applications as well, and these run on a KDE desktop as well. The X UI library used by an application does not matter to the desktop environment/wm application except that you may get a little more integration given certain combinations in terms of them pulling theming data from the same sources, etc. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?
On Monday 03 November 2008 18:08:38 Mark Moellering wrote: The other problems I had dealt with thrid-party programs. There is no (at least as of a few months ago) K3B for KDE-4 and no FreeBSD port of Ktorrent for KDE-4. I tried the linux port but had lots of problems. I ultimately changed back to the 3.5.9(?) version from packages. I am using an intel quad core running amd64 FreeBSD 7.0 Release We had a similar experience and for this reason patched the kernel, using instructions found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-March/000217.html Then have set up a jail with an updated kde-4 installed there. Every once in a while, we copy over the home dirs and run the jailed version, so that configs on the host system are untouched, but we still get a full experience test. Also, to start you need to give an explicit path, something like /usr/local/kde-4/bin/startkde in the .xinitrc file. (at least I could never get anything else to work) This is easily worked around by adding /usr/local/kde4/bin and /usr/local/kde4/sbin to your PATH in .profile, /etc/profile or /etc/login.conf. Lastly another annoyance is having to click the app menu for it to move to the next category, but I'm sure that's configurable somewhere (I hope). -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL not restarted after portupgrade
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:21:53 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:52:53AM -0500, Andrew Berry wrote: For some reason, after running portupgrade databases/mysql51-server, MySQL is brought down, but not restarted. It's not a huge issue, as I just have to remember to run the rc.d script after upgrading, but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this? portupgrade seems to work fine with other daemons such as Apache and Courier IMAP. This is a per-port thing, unless portupgrade provides some form of rc.subr script restarting itself. There is no standard for this. You can setup BEFOREDEINSTALL and/or AFTERINSTALL in pkgtools.conf to run rc.d scripts per port. Portmanager has a similar feature. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java and FreeBSD
Hi, It is now more than eight months that i am not able to use FreeBSD. FreeBSD version 6.1 was the last. Back then trying to work with Eclipse and java on FreeBSD was quite tricky. Can anyone please tell me what the current status is? For example can i use ports to install everything and start working with Eclipse straight away...? Or is Linux a better option? What versions of FreeBSD and Eclipse would you recommend? Please feel free to provide with as much information as you want. Thanks in advance Spiros P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems
(-K JohnNy wrote: Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from discs. Don't know if there is a tool for this, but the usual way is to make a RELENG-7 supfile, csup the 7-STABLE sources and build them. More on this subject in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Thanks for your patience!! Regards, Alasdair This is correct. The tool freebsd-update may be used to update between releases (and release candidates) with binaries, but not between the development trees. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of this is well documented on the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org) For informatino on the mailing lists, go to: http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html or http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo and look around. The version setup in FreeBSD can be a little confusing for newcomers because the terms stable and current are used in very specific ways - formally defined rather than in the more loose general conversation way we often use them. Current is the bleeding edge of development work - nothing is guaranteed and stable is the development branch that is actually intended to eventually become the next new version -- rather than current being the official present version out or stable being the most reliable version as one might guess from just the words before studying the documentation.. Check this part of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html If you are a FreeBSD beginning, what you want is a RELEASE version. The latest at the moment are 6.3 and 7.0In the present form of the web page, the latest RELEASEs plus the next two are listed right there on the first page. Other information on upcoming releases can be found on the Release Engineering page: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html By the way, releng stands for Release Engineering here and when you track a version for security updates you track a RELENG version. So, if you installed FreeBSD 7.1, then in your csupfile you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7_1 That would get you the security updates for FreeBSD 7.1 If you wanted to jump up to stable you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7 and that would be the stable version of the FreeBSD 7 branch. But, the funny thing about it is that the STABLE line is not mean that it is actually stable. They try to assure that it compiles and builds. And, usually it is pretty good. But it hasn't gone through all the official builds and been run against all the known problem sets as has a RELEASE when it is 'released'. So, for now, just install a RELEASE - probably 7.1 if you can wait or 7.0 right now and track the security fixes by csup-ing to RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_0 Have fun, jerry If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more binary the better. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:53:52 -0600, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more binary the better. Of course he can, I mean, that's what freebsd-update is intended for. At least, it's very useful if you want to follow the RELEASE path and only install the various security patches, so you don't have 7-STABLE, but, for example, 7.1-RELEASE-p5. This is a situation you will usually find on servers. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java and FreeBSD
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Java and FreeBSD To: freebsd mailing list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 1:26 PM Hi, It is now more than eight months that i am not able to use FreeBSD. FreeBSD version 6.1 was the last. Back then trying to work with Eclipse and java on FreeBSD was quite tricky. Can anyone please tell me what the current status is? For example can i use ports to install everything and start working with Eclipse straight away...? Or is Linux a better option? What versions of FreeBSD and Eclipse would you recommend? Please feel free to provide with as much information as you want. My advice is to install the following ports in the following order: java/jdk16 java/eclipse-devel eclipse-devel worked much better for me than did java/eclipse. I also had trouble without getting jdk16 installed first. It's been a while now, so I'm not exactly sure what all, but I think if you install those ports in that order, Eclipse will work for you. You may also want to make a symlink from /usr/local/eclipse to /usr/local/eclipse-devel - this allows the Eclipse plugin ports to install properly. Without it, they will not. I've got several (Perl, Ruby, and a couple of others) installed from ports against eclipse-devel and they work fine once that symlink is in place. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k and 32k each. I'm currently hesitating between NginX and lighttpd, which both seems to offer similar benchmarks for this job. The questions : Is someone doing something similar to this with one of the two ? Which one do you suggest and why ? I've read about a memory leak in lighttpd, is anyone is having issues with this under FreeBSD ? Any ideas regarding our situation is appreciated, Thanks ! Francis Dube R D Optik Securite www.optiksecurite.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying 'holey' files ...
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 652M to: image: dtc.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 4.0G Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, instead of fills them in? Quoting dd(1): | conv=value[,value ...] | Where value is one of the symbols from the following list. [...] | sparse If one or more output blocks would consist solely of | NUL bytes, try to seek the output file by the required | space instead of filling them with NULs, resulting in a | sparse file. I haven't actually tested it with qemu images, though. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of this is well documented on the FreeBSD website (www.freebsd.org) For informatino on the mailing lists, go to: http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html or http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo and look around. The version setup in FreeBSD can be a little confusing for newcomers because the terms stable and current are used in very specific ways - formally defined rather than in the more loose general conversation way we often use them. Current is the bleeding edge of development work - nothing is guaranteed and stable is the development branch that is actually intended to eventually become the next new version -- rather than current being the official present version out or stable being the most reliable version as one might guess from just the words before studying the documentation.. Check this part of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html If you are a FreeBSD beginning, what you want is a RELEASE version. The latest at the moment are 6.3 and 7.0In the present form of the web page, the latest RELEASEs plus the next two are listed right there on the first page. Other information on upcoming releases can be found on the Release Engineering page: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html By the way, releng stands for Release Engineering here and when you track a version for security updates you track a RELENG version. So, if you installed FreeBSD 7.1, then in your csupfile you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7_1 That would get you the security updates for FreeBSD 7.1 If you wanted to jump up to stable you would put: *default tag=RELENG_7 and that would be the stable version of the FreeBSD 7 branch. But, the funny thing about it is that the STABLE line is not mean that it is actually stable. They try to assure that it compiles and builds. And, usually it is pretty good. But it hasn't gone through all the official builds and been run against all the known problem sets as has a RELEASE when it is 'released'. So, for now, just install a RELEASE - probably 7.1 if you can wait or 7.0 right now and track the security fixes by csup-ing to RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_0 Have fun, jerry If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more binary the better. As far as I know. But, somehow I feel cleaner doing the whole thing. I haven't found the builds to take all that long. This system is not blindingly fast but, I suppose there are others that are much slower. jerry -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bizarre:: blank screen [on KVM] refuses to come back...
A couple of things may be related to this behavior. When I have left my keyboard for more than a few hours, FreeBSD with X11 running KDE3 remains blanck/blank. No amount of moving my mouse of tapping keys will bring back the display. (I'm writing this ssh'd in my via Ubuntu [KDE?].) I noticed--via top--that the system was loaded at above 2.00 while otherwise idle; I've killed off a bunch of processes but cannot get the load below 1.00. I'm running 7.0, on a Dell-8200, 1G RAM. So: any suggestions how to get my screen back? Has anybody seen this before? Why the heavy load:: any ideas? And, is there any way I can turn off screen blanking *completely*? I almost always turn off the display anyway if I'm gone for 15-20 minutes. thanks for any clues. i hate to keep rebooting. ... gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://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: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
Francis Dubé wrote: As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k and 32k each. I'm currently hesitating between NginX and lighttpd, which both seems to offer similar benchmarks for this job. The questions : Is someone doing something similar to this with one of the two ? I've had very good results with nginx for doing this sort of thing. Which one do you suggest and why ? I originally chose nginx because it did what I wanted and it didn't conflict with Apache (ie. by installinga binary called 'httpd') on the same machine. However I wasn't aware of lighttpd at that point. By the time I did find out about lighttpd, there was no compelling reason to change from nginx. I think you'll find either is adequate to your needs. Unless you're trying to squeeze the absolute last drop of performance out of your hardware, consider other things than raw speed. Do you find the configuration files easy to understand and deal with? Can you strip down the server to the absolute minimum necessary to serve your needs, and if so which of the two is smaller? Which server name do you find easier to type? I've read about a memory leak in lighttpd, is anyone is having issues with this under FreeBSD ? H... That would disqualify it from serious contention straight away. But http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt shows the memleak bug fixed in the latest version 1.4.20, which is in ports. Haven't had any stability problems ever with nginx. Any ideas regarding our situation is appreciated, I think either of these packages will probably serve you well. If you really can't choose between them, then toss a coin. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: copying 'holey' files ...
I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: tar have options for that image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 652M to: image: dtc.img file format: raw virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) disk size: 4.0G Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, instead of fills them in? Thx - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPKWEACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNJIwCeOTgfxMEf/g/7bnFehXlDZAva dCwAoJL8sNsCD+h3PnJAAzebAQFsHhfa =fcAm -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k and 32k each. I'm currently hesitating between NginX and lighttpd, which both seems to offer similar benchmarks for this job. The questions : Is someone doing something similar to this with one of the two ? Which one do you suggest and why ? I've read about a memory leak in lighttpd, is anyone is having issues with this under FreeBSD ? Any ideas regarding our situation is appreciated, Thanks ! Francis Dube R D Optik Securite www.optiksecurite.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul at the risk of being slightly OT is there a recent toutorial that anyone knows of for lighthttpd on FreeBSD 7, I have used Google and I can't turn up anything recent Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks What kind of tutorial are you looking for? Their documentation is quite extensive. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disappearing mouse pointer
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:11:50 -0400 Bryant Eadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:38:39 -0700 Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings FreeBSD When running XFCE4 I will lose the mouse pointer at times. This will only happen when I have the driver set to nv in xorg.conf. The mouse will still work as I can see where it is when I pass over icons and watch them highlight. If I can stop on an icon, I can click and it works. If I drop out of the XFCE4 using ctl-alt-backspace, the mouse pointer appears and all is well. If I restart the XFCE4, there is no pointer. If I change the driver to vesa and restart then I have a pointer again. The only way I have found to regain the pointer using nv is to reboot. All ports are up to date and I am running amd64 RELENG_7 as of last Saturday. uname -a FreeBSD asus64.shasta204.local 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Oct 18 13:31:00 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 If I should have posted to a different list please let me know. I have also attached my xorg.conf. TIA Robert Five days and no responses, so maybe more information. On this computer I have on board GeForce 6100. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x81bf1043 chip=0x024210de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' device = 'GeForce 6100' class = display subclass = VGA I have the same exact release and ports running on a different computer equipped with a GeForce 6800 XT in an AGP slot without a problem. The big difference is that other computer is running i386. It is using nv driver without any problems. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Feel free to tell me where to go. :-) Thanks Robert This seems like a very strange problem. Let's try focusing on XFCE first. Are any processes conflicting with drawing something on the screen, from your description it seems like XFCE is a problem, but do other window managers do the same thing ? If it's not wm specific then I'd try chasing down the developers of xf86-video-nv . Here is a starting point : http://www.t2-project.org/packages/xf86-video-nv.html Does the driver support any sort of 'debug' mode that you could log to file ? Taking a walk through xf86-video-nv, it looks like there are a few bitshift and operators that use pointer and move things to and fro. ( in 64-bit land that maybe these moves should be handled differently ? Or are these magic numbers? ) Take a look into the source, nv_cursor.c Examining these lines : #if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN if ( m 0x8000) *dst = ( b 0x8000) ? pNv-curFg : pNv-curBg; else *dst = TRANSPARENT_PIXEL; This case draws the pixel transparently if it fails the test -- which seems to coincide with what you're seeing. This is just a wild guess, it could be used elsewhere though with the same affect. But then again, since this is working at all, then it may point to 1. the wm 2. Xorg may have a problem reporting it to the wm Hope it helps. Report back if you have any progress. Later, Bryant I waited to answer so that I could do further testing. I first moved .xinitrc out of the way so I would load the default wm, twm. It only took a couple of days and I lost the mouse cursor. I had a spare slice on a separate disk, so I installed the i386 version of 7 Beta 2 from CD. I updated it to stable and installed most of my packages, including XFCE4. I made the mistake of copying over all of my config files from the AMD64 version and the problem recurred. I then cleaned all of my packages with pkg_delete *. I cleaned out my home directory and /usr/local. I then reinstalled all of the necessary packages. It took a few says but it happened again. I moved my .xinitrc out of the way and was using twm since last Friday. About an hour ago I returned to my computer and the mouse cursor was missing. Evidently, the problem is something to do with my hardware that the nv driver does not like. I guess we can close this out as weird hardware problems. For the record, here is what I have: A8N-VM motherboard with 2 Gig of RAM (4x500) CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2009.16-MHz 686-class CPU) On board video is GeForce 6100 Wireless mouse and keyboard through a PS2 KVM (happened before the kvm installed) If anyone needs more information I will be happy to provide it but for me, I will just live with it. Thanks Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
Matthew Seaman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.03 19:59:56 +: Francis Dub? wrote: Which one do you suggest and why ? nginx. Lighttpd has remote security holes once in a while. nginx has better security design and is more modular and faster. It happens to also be feature-rich, which is not easy to do in a fast and secure server. Lighttpd had one recent remote hole as of .18. IIRC nginx had none. -- But oftentimes I'm asked: Why? Why do you care what happens outside of America? Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX
They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul at the risk of being slightly OT is there a recent toutorial that anyone knows of for lighthttpd on FreeBSD 7, I have used Google and I can't turn up anything recent Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
As of November 3rd, 2008, the project has hit a new milestone of 25 000+ hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: PC-BSD 17 454 hosts FreeBSD 5 526 hosts DesktopBSD1 919 hosts NetBSD 86 hosts MirBSD 21 hosts OpenBSD 55 hosts DragonFly26 hosts MidnightBSD 26 hosts GNU/kFreeBSD 2 hosts We currently have hosts being reported in from 135 countries, with the top 10 being: United States 6 082 Russian Federation 1 836 Germany 1 586 Australia 1 341 Ukraine 997 France930 Japan 898 United Kingdom791 Canada767 Brazil729 Project URL: http://www.bsdstats.org Project Objective: The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. PC-BSD, to the best of our knowledge, is the only one that defaults to enabled, while the rest have to be enabled manually. For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. If you aren't participating, we very much encourage you to start ... the report script is a shell script, so you can scan it to figure out what, exactly, is being sent in .. and there is only one level of reporting that is required, and that is Operating System + Version ... Device and Ports reporting are 100% optional ... For those that are participating ... once more, thank you ... and spread the word, we need more ... If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ... -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Behaviour of su(1)
Le Vendredi 31 à 20:27, Fred Condo a écrit : Use this syntax (both equivalent): su - root su -l root You do have to specify the user with -l. Perhaps the man page could clarify that. I read the first line that says The su utility requests appropriate user credentials via PAM and switches to that user ID (the default user is the superuser) as 'su -' and 'su - root' are equivalent. su -l root as the expected behaviour (resetting $LOGNAME to $USER), thanks a lot. On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Frédéric Perrin wrote: As a side question, is it considered bad practice to set root's shell and locales to something else than the default ? -- Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Behaviour of su(1)
On Friday 31 October 2008 19:33:44 Frédéric Perrin wrote: As a side question, is it considered bad practice to set root's shell and locales to something else then the default ? By some (most?) yes. If you decide to change the default shell, to one that's not in the base system (i.e., a ksh/zsh/bash port), then it's highly recommended to make a static version that installs into /bin. This will save you a number of headaches, when a library dependency is (unsuccessfully or partially) upgraded or /usr is not accessable. However, when reporting bugs and you only slightly suspect it to be shell related, you should be able to reproduce it on csh for the purpose of reporting and adjust the bugreport if you can not. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bizarre:: blank screen [on KVM] refuses to come back...
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:47:22AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: A couple of things may be related to this behavior. When I have left my keyboard for more than a few hours, FreeBSD with X11 running KDE3 remains blanck/blank. No amount of moving my mouse of tapping keys will bring back the display. (I'm writing this ssh'd in my via Ubuntu [KDE?].) I noticed--via top--that the system was loaded at above 2.00 while otherwise idle; I've killed off a bunch of processes but cannot get the load below 1.00. I'm running 7.0, on a Dell-8200, 1G RAM. So: any suggestions how to get my screen back? Has anybody seen this before? Why the heavy load:: any ideas? And, is there any way I can turn off screen blanking *completely*? I almost always turn off the display anyway if I'm gone for 15-20 minutes. thanks for any clues. i hate to keep rebooting. ... gary Finally found (possible) solutions on a usenet forums site: xset s off; xset -dpms; Then in /etc/X11.org, comment the DPMS option, e.g.: #Option DPMS See if this works. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:34 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thorsten Glaser; Gonzalo Martinez - Sanjuan Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In As of November 3rd, 2008, the project has hit a new milestone of 25 000+ hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: PC-BSD 17 454 hosts FreeBSD 5 526 hosts DesktopBSD1 919 hosts NetBSD 86 hosts MirBSD 21 hosts OpenBSD 55 hosts DragonFly26 hosts MidnightBSD 26 hosts GNU/kFreeBSD 2 hosts We currently have hosts being reported in from 135 countries, with the top 10 being: United States 6 082 Russian Federation 1 836 Germany 1 586 Australia 1 341 Ukraine 997 France930 Japan 898 United Kingdom791 Canada767 Brazil729 Project URL: http://www.bsdstats.org Project Objective: The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. PC-BSD, to the best of our knowledge, is the only one that defaults to enabled, while the rest have to be enabled manually. For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. If you aren't participating, we very much encourage you to start ... the report script is a shell script, so you can scan it to figure out what, exactly, is being sent in .. and there is only one level of reporting that is required, and that is Operating System + Version ... Device and Ports reporting are 100% optional ... For those that are participating ... once more, thank you ... and spread the word, we need more ... If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ... -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy 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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Don Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? As far as I know, these numbers can only be accurate if the administrator enables (installs?) stats reporting. You can add 1 to FreeBSD, because I don't allow stats reporting. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
[BCCed others] On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Don Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? These numbers represent the number of people that have installed a program to report usage, and are almost completely uncorrelated with actual usage rates. There needs to be a big warning at the top of these very misleading reports. Also, the massive spam to many different lists is not ideal. Any guess at actual usage numbers would be many orders of magnitude larger, and PC-BSD would be a rounding error to other BSDs used in large hosting environments (nothing against the great work being done by PC-BSD, just a fact based on desktop vs server focus). I continue to believe that sending out these numbers which massively undercount all operating systems is very counter-productive, but I've said that before. If you want to get better numbers you could try to survey all web servers on the internet, identify the host operating systems by server responses, tcp/ip timing characteristics, or other heuristics. You could alternatively mine google analytics / webserver log data for large websites if you want client numbers, or countless other data sources that would give you far more data than this self reporting mechanism, and with a much better sample than the very biased mechanism used for these numbers. - Murray ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash9 checklist
On Thursday 30 October 2008 19:53:33 Juergen Lock wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Juergen Lock wrote: Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on -emulation...) If you have additions to this please post a followup to this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...) 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC (the relevant MFC commits are: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=183819 http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=184075 - a recent HEAD should also work of course.) There are linprocfs patches for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter commit can't be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits, so flash9 probably won't work on SMP there. (Although if you have SMP you probably should be running 7 anyway. :) Oh and if you do have SMP you also need to use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not supported with 4BSD. linprocfs patches for 6: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patch http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patch 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html ) 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc . 4. Make sure www/nspluginwrapper, www/linux-flashplugin9 and dependencies are installed and up to date(!). (the default emulators/linux_base-fc4 should work, if you want to use a later one don't forget to set compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in sysctl.conf and OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT to whichever version you use in make.conf. Note however that on 6, only the default compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 really works.) 5. If the plugin doesnt show up in firefox' about:plugins, run nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and restart firefox. 6. And remember there's a security advisory for the current version of flash9, http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/78f456fd-9c87-11dd-a55e-00163e00 0016.html (if you use portaudit you need to `make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES ...' to be able to install the port), and fc4 seems to be eol'd too, so you probably want to install something like the noscript firefox extension, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 and only allow plugins (and scripts, tho thats a different problem) on sites you trust... And finally, if you still get crashes after following the above even on pages that are reported to work now (like youtube) you probably want to run `ktrace -di firefox...' and look at the output using linux_kdump (thats the devel/linux_kdump port, you want to use a package), paying specific attention to the lines above `PSIG SIGSEGV' (or whichever signal you got), maybe there are still shlibs missing that the plugin needs (NAMI ...something.so...), and if this is the case tell us about it so the appropriate dependencies can be added to the relevant ports. If you can't figure it out I guess it doesn't hurt to post the last few 100 lines of the dump up to the relevant PSIG on -emulation... You may also want to check linked shlibs like this: /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin (if you see `not found' in there you know something is wrong) - although that doesn't show libs that may be dlopen()d at runtime. Thanks for this. I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in native Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386. The only additional thing I had to do was copy /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin. Yeah I forgot to note that you want to run nspluginwrapper -i as the user that will run the native browser, not as root, then the wrapper will go into ~/.mozilla/plugins/... After that Youtube, google video, and google maps (incl. street view) work fine, but slow. A friend of mine with a very similar setup was not so lucky and still has problems with flash9 locking up FF. Hmm, lockups I haven't seen yet here. HTH, Juergen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It works almost perfectly for me ! Thanks for this, Juergen !. I had to say almost perfectly because in myspace, for instance, it takes a while for the flashies to start. One thing I noticed is that if I terminate FF, npviewer.bin remains loaded and I have to kill it. Here is what
Problems with FreeBSD
Hi guys, I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to FreeBSD, my connection freeze when the return of some command is a big text. Example: I make a ssh connection in the from the Linux1 to FreeBSD server, then, I execute some commands, like: 'pwd', 'whoami', 'ls /'... this work perfectly. But, if I run some command that return a big text, like as: 'ls /dev/', or top, my connection freeze. In other terminal, the tcpdump continues showing packets in this connection that was freeze. If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? Regards, J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qemu network question
Hi: Please use a fixed font to see the diagram bellow: FBSD HOST(7.1-PRERELEASE) +-+ |10.10.10.1 | LAN -+- re0| | | |+-+ | +---++tap0 | | | +++tap1 | | | ||+-+ | | ||bridge0 | (if_bridge) | || 192.168.100.254 | | |+-+ | | | | QEMU GUEST 1 (linux Fedora core 5) | | +-+ | | | | | +---+ eth0| | | 192.168.100.1 | | | | | +-+ | QEMU GUEST 2 (windows XP) | +-+ | | | +--+--- realtek | | 192.168.100.2 | | | +-+ It's working like a charm ! I turned my FBSD desktop into a router/gateway, put pf to nat everything and set up an independent smb server on the host. Pings travel on any direction!. The guests have access to ALL the host's files and vice versa, BOTH guests have internet access and best of all, I can access the linux guest through an ssh shell and the windows guest through vncviewer, and, of course, the 2 guests see each other ! Imagine how happy I am ! I tried this without turning my desktop into a gateway. The guests had internet access but the host was invisible to them and I got tired of trying to make qemu's -smb option work, so I adapted this a-bit radical approach I saw on a how-to for Sun OS I found on the net. I'm really impressed with qemu performance !. I´ve compiled kernels, built RPMs and the reduction in performance from doing these things in a separate machine is really endurable. My question is: If I don't put re0 into promiscous mode, all of this falls apart ! The network goes totally down for the host-guests, but the host retains its internet conectivity. I discovered that by chance! I was trying to find out what was happening with conectivity so I tried pinging the host from the linux guest. As soon as I started tcpdump on the host, the pings went through so I found out what I needed from there. Is this normal or is there something wrong with my NIC? setup? Thanks, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with FreeBSD
J MPZ wrote: Hi guys, I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to FreeBSD, my connection freeze when the return of some command is a big text. Example: I make a ssh connection in the from the Linux1 to FreeBSD server, then, I execute some commands, like: 'pwd', 'whoami', 'ls /'... this work perfectly. But, if I run some command that return a big text, like as: 'ls /dev/', or top, my connection freeze. In other terminal, the tcpdump continues showing packets in this connection that was freeze. If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? Regards, J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The tcpdump that you say continues showing packets..are the packets leaving the freeBSD machine or arriving at the FreeBSD machine. My guess is you meant leaving the FreeBSD destined for your linux machine. If this is the case, then the problem most likely lies with the ASA. If you monitor the ASA's external interface during your testing, do you see packets arriving? If so, do you see packets leaving the internal interface going back to your Linux1 machine? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with FreeBSD
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:43:52PM -0200, J MPZ wrote: Hi guys, I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to FreeBSD, my connection freeze when the return of some command is a big text. Example: I make a ssh connection in the from the Linux1 to FreeBSD server, then, I execute some commands, like: 'pwd', 'whoami', 'ls /'... this work perfectly. But, if I run some command that return a big text, like as: 'ls /dev/', or top, my connection freeze. In other terminal, the tcpdump continues showing packets in this connection that was freeze. Does the FreeBSD machine run a firewall at all, e.g. pf(4)? If so, you probably have some rules which are broken. (I've seen this problem on FreeBSD 6.x when using rules which are not correctly configured to match initiate state). Also, if a firewall is in use and you're blocking all forms of ICMP, that would impact path MTU discovery. Naughty. You might also try disabling TCP extensions on the FreeBSD box to see if it makes any difference. Note that this can impact performance (large TCP window sizes won't be negotiated), but it's worth disabling for a test case. sysctl net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
source for dict?
Is the source file/database for dict in ports? I *thought* I had it at one time. tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://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 for dict?
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:39:26 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the source file/database for dict in ports? I *thought* I had it at one time. tia, Maybe. There are a few '*dict*' matches, but without more context it is a bit hard to really know which dict program you are looking for. % pwd /usr/ports % ls -d1 */dict* chinese/dictd-database misc/diction net/dictd net/dictd-database textproc/dict textproc/dictem textproc/dictem-xemacs21-mule textproc/dictfmt textproc/dictionary % ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:46 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, My father recently setup a new 7.0-Release system for some web development. I use ssh to login remotely. I've normally not had any trouble configuring authentication through public key encryption using ssh-keygen and such. I have for myself a id_rsa.pub and an id_rsa key pair that I use for this purpose. Normally, I just copy, via scp, the file id_rsa.pub to my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote host and the next time I attempt a login all is well. That is, I don't have to enter my password. However, on my Dad's new machine, this isn't the case. I still have to enter the password. Now, I've looked through his /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and nothing in there looks odd, or different, from other remote hosts I do this on. So, I'm embedding a copy/paste of an ssh login session on my father's host using -v -v to ssh: [/usr/home/andy/MCH] - ssh -v -v malumgat [...] debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel' parameter in sshd_config. HTH Ashish Shukla The permissions on the machine where it works: [www:/home/afalanga] - ls -la .ssh/ total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 afalanga staff 512 Sep 28 03:33 . drwxr-xr-x 3 afalanga staff 512 Oct 29 08:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 afalanga staff 393 Sep 28 03:33 authorized_keys The permissions on the machine where it doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la .ssh/ total 6 drwxrwxr-x 2 andy wheel 512 Oct 10 04:30 . drwxr-xr-x 4 andy wheel 512 Oct 31 06:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 andy wheel 393 Oct 28 10:01 authorized_keys I see a difference in that the directory on the machine where it doesn't work is writable to the group, but on the machine where it does work the directory isn't writable. Other than that, the permissions don't look different, do they? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel' parameter in sshd_config. HTH Ashish Shukla Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem. Changing it to 644 has, apparently, fixed the problem. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel' parameter in sshd_config. HTH Ashish Shukla Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem. Changing it to 644 has, apparently, fixed the problem. Which doesn't make sense for two reasons: 1) Directories must have the execute bit set (644 lacks that), 2) ~/.ssh should be 700 for security reasons. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using csup
I'd like to move to using csup(1) and there's an error in the manpage that's raising some questions for me: OPTIONS base=base The default base directory is /usr/local/etc/csup. FILES /usr/local/etc/cvsupDefault base directory. sup Default collDir subdirectory. base/collDir/collection/checkouts* List files. Assuming that the default 'base' directory is /usr/local/etc/cvsup, would the following three files be sufficient for csup to work? # /usr/local/etc/cvsup/standard-supfile *default tag=RELENG_7_0 *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all # /usr/local/etc/cvsup/doc-supfile doc-all # /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile ports-all tag=. # usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse [contents of global refusefile] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: source for dict?
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:10:52AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:39:26 -0800, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the source file/database for dict in ports? I *thought* I had it at one time. tia, Maybe. There are a few '*dict*' matches, but without more context it is a bit hard to really know which dict program you are looking for. % pwd /usr/ports % ls -d1 */dict* chinese/dictd-database misc/diction net/dictd net/dictd-database textproc/dict textproc/dictem textproc/dictem-xemacs21-mule textproc/dictfmt textproc/dictionary % Super, it's it net/dictd-database. I'm trying to reduce as much bandwidth as I can. thanks much! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://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: garmin forerunner 305
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner 305? When I connect the device I see the kernel messages: Sep 4 11:39:22 jrm root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x091e product 0x0003 bus uhub1 Sep 4 11:39:22 jrm kernel: ugen0: vendor 0x091e product 0x0003, class 255/255, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 on uhub1 The documentation for the port astro/GPSMan seems to indicate it supports this model, but I haven't had any luck. % uname -a FreeBSD xxx.xxx 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12 18:47:50 ADT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 Unfortunately Garmin use their own protocol for communicating between the GPS and the PC. Under Linux it's supported by the garmin_gps driver but there's no equivalent for FreeBSD yet. Sorry, it turns out that's wrong: the gpsbabel developers recommend not using garmin_gps because apparently it often doesn't work. Instead they recommend using gpsbabel's 'garmin' input/output format. It interfaces to the device using libusb - which, fortunately for us runs on FreeBSD! I've just successfully read back GPS data into a GPX file using gpsbabel on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT and the 'usb2' usb stack. I don't know if it'll work with the usb stack that's in shipping version of FreeBSD though, and even with the new stack I had to make a change to libgpsusb.c in gpsbabel to get it working. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
Andrew Falanga writes: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel' parameter in sshd_config. HTH Ashish Shukla Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem. Changing it to 644 has, apparently, fixed the problem. Cool :) . I learnt this from my first SSH public-key authentication configuration ;) Ashish -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- % dig +short cname cdac.in @::1 ms.gov.in pgp4Immu00LG0.pgp Description: PGP signature
virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
Hello, I migrated to freensd-7.0-release and noticed that I can't switch to the virtual consoles by pressing Alt+Fx once I've started X ! I guess the key combination has changed in the nre version of Xorg implemented in FreeBSD 7.0, so I took a look at the online handbook, but I haven't found anything about the new way to switch to the virtual consoles... Could anyone please point me at what do I miss?.. The Ghost [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: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
The Ghost wrote: Hello, I migrated to freensd-7.0-release and noticed that I can't switch to the virtual consoles by pressing Alt+Fx once I've started X ! I guess the key combination has changed in the nre version of Xorg implemented in FreeBSD 7.0, so I took a look at the online handbook, but I haven't found anything about the new way to switch to the virtual consoles... Could anyone please point me at what do I miss?.. The Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Fx? Alt alone has never gone to a virtual console from X for me, on any system. -Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with FreeBSD
I have some problem with my FreeBSD server. I have this: #### # # Linux1 # - ASA - Internet - # FreeBSD # - # Linux2 # #### # If I run a ssh for Linux1 to FreeBSD, my connection freeze when the return of some command is a big text. Example: I make a ssh connection in the from the Linux1 to FreeBSD server, then, I execute some commands, like: 'pwd', 'whoami', 'ls /'... this work perfectly. But, if I run some command that return a big text, like as: 'ls /dev/', or top, my connection freeze. ... If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? One possible cause of this behavior is an MTU problem. If something in the Linux1 == FreeBSD path is dropping packets larger than X (where X is something lower than the endpoints are expecting) you'll see exactly this sort of symptom. While the real solution is to fix whatever is dropping the packets, it may be easier to restrict the MTU. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release
When I am in xorg/xfce and do Ctrl+Alt+Fx it does in fact open the selected virtual console. But I can not find any way to return to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the virtual console I left from. Alt+Fx does take me to the virtual console where x11/xfce is suppose to be, but puts me in command line mode. The command ps ax shows xorg/xfce is still running. How do I get back to the xorg/xfce desktop running in the virtual console I left from? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Susbauer Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual consoles on freebsd-7.0-release The Ghost wrote: Hello, I migrated to freensd-7.0-release and noticed that I can't switch to the virtual consoles by pressing Alt+Fx once I've started X ! I guess the key combination has changed in the nre version of Xorg implemented in FreeBSD 7.0, so I took a look at the online handbook, but I haven't found anything about the new way to switch to the virtual consoles... Could anyone please point me at what do I miss?.. The Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+Fx? Alt alone has never gone to a virtual console from X for me, on any system. -Steve ___ 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: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Its a voluntary reporting ... I know with both PC-BSD, reporting is on by default .. with FreeBSD, its a simple 'make install' in ports ... with NetBSD/OpenBSD, I suspect its purely manual, so a bit more work involved ... Both NetBSD / OpenBSD #s have been increasing though, just not as fast as the others ... - --On Monday, November 03, 2008 15:12:46 -0800 Don Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:34 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thorsten Glaser; Gonzalo Martinez - Sanjuan Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In As of November 3rd, 2008, the project has hit a new milestone of 25 000+ hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: PC-BSD 17 454 hosts FreeBSD 5 526 hosts DesktopBSD1 919 hosts NetBSD 86 hosts MirBSD 21 hosts OpenBSD 55 hosts DragonFly26 hosts MidnightBSD 26 hosts GNU/kFreeBSD 2 hosts We currently have hosts being reported in from 135 countries, with the top 10 being: United States 6 082 Russian Federation 1 836 Germany 1 586 Australia 1 341 Ukraine 997 France930 Japan 898 United Kingdom791 Canada767 Brazil729 Project URL: http://www.bsdstats.org Project Objective: The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. PC-BSD, to the best of our knowledge, is the only one that defaults to enabled, while the rest have to be enabled manually. For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. If you aren't participating, we very much encourage you to start ... the report script is a shell script, so you can scan it to figure out what, exactly, is being sent in .. and there is only one level of reporting that is required, and that is Operating System + Version ... Device and Ports reporting are 100% optional ... For those that are participating ... once more, thank you ... and spread the word, we need more ... If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ... -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPoWYACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNjvACeJvROm9YrnENUroh5EF1BsGKw 0YsAoMIQoRnBnkFwGTcZG2cv/4KlkDmF =blyH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 04, 2008 01:10:02 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier skrev: As of November 3rd, 2008, the project has hit a new milestone of 25 000+ hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: There are errors on your homepage 6,072 is a lot less then 500. Pardon? I don't see either # on the home page .. *puzzled look* - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPo3EACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvP3CwCeOE++67wohEqs0ahwWyMtFPpo UgAAn2vgaNlYDqSba42ztrSg8CtSyc8/ =s18z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Monday, November 03, 2008 16:01:41 -1000 Al Plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha, I have 10 FreeBSD servers and desktops in use here in Hawaii. These are not on the list as I only have 4 servers that are up 24/7 and they are fire walled off with pf. The 6 others are on a lan behind a Linux Freesco Firewall. Only 2 on 24/7 the rest are on an as used boot up basis. How can I get them Listed? Using FreeBSD as a reference point, the port, when it installs, allows you to enable two methods of reporting: monthly (out of periodic) and on reboot ... so that covers the 4 that aren't up 24/7 ... Next, the reporting is not based on your IP ... in fact, to try and address security concerns, we do not store any information such as IP or hostname ... when you run the stats the first time, it generates a distinct key that is used for reporting and is stored on your host for future reporting to identify you ... Finally, for those dealing with firewalls, the script was written to make use of a PROXY server for reporting, so that no holes have to be opened up for an individual host to connect to the rver ... - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkPtZsACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNo4wCeJ3diXiZkazxtM1t9wLTb5tc7 uvgAoIxbMIEG2w3V6uvQBMW+dY7i7nn5 =MUtC -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
