i686 CPU Compatibility
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
Hello Abd, Yes it is. If you are a newcomer to FreeBSD i suggest you go for the latest RELEASE which is 7.0. All the platforms supported by FreeBSD as well as places where FBSD can be downloaded can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html. And of course don't forget to check: The Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ The Man: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi. a great day, v 2008/12/16 Abd Hamid Shamsi storage...@gmail.com HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:00 +0800, Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Should do - i386 is just for arch type. I believe 7.0 is the latest current release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar
But say that I yanked the photos and used just plain text: 8-bit chars perhaps, and created my own CDROM version. --I *wouldn't* waste my time duplicating this collection, but say that I did. Could this be done in plain HTML and not require an ISO disc? you may use tar as it was said, but you may too use ANY filesystem on CD. unix don't differentiate between CD, DVD and harddisk. DVD is just readonly disk for unix. you may create say UFS filesystem on DVD-sized image or partition and then record it. just make sure your fragments are 2k or more ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead of / to be able to keep / read-only ? Thanks a lot, Best regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:08:10PM +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote: Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead of / to be able to keep / read-only ? It is used to safely seed the random number generator, I believe. A quick search through /etc/rc.d/* and /etc/defaults/rc.conf reveals that you can set $entropy_file in /etc/rc.conf to anything you like, although a comment suggests # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through reboots. # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is not avail. So yes, it seems you could move it off / if you want. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpzUNzpkVMxg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! it doesn't have chance - must work :) I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important when you have lot of diskless stations ! exactly. i'm using just NetBSD 1.5 (uses LITTLE memory) + Xserver, so there are almost no updates, but anyway - it's stored once. you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc In fact, it makes me think that we miss a concept in mount, or at least i don't know it currently : imagine a -tl (TransparentLayer) option for mount, allowing to mount multiple source to the same directory, for instance /etc : there is already such think - mount_unionfs but i don't use it. if you mount over some directory - it's original contents (like my /etc/rc doing exec /systemrc) gets hidden. mount -r yournfsserver:/basic/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/StationY/etc /etc mount_unionfs but i don't know how stable it is. When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) try mount_unionfs and mount_nullfs -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc. Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? Thanks! Jen Someone once posted a shell script that obtained a list of installed ports from the package database system and fed the results to pkg_create, which would create binary packages. Unfortunately, I can't locate the script. Check out 'man pkg_create'. Hopefully someone will post a more complete answer. Good luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. it's here to make random generator more random - not starting clean at boot. Thanks a lot ! 1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man page, so that a search in doc gives the right result ? 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? Thanks a lot, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ambigious 'top' results
Здравствуйте, Questions. My system is overloaded, I run top to figure out which precess take time. In both cases CPU/WCPU I do not see which process take all the time. Which process take all processor time?? last pid: 24535; load averages: 3.86, 3.07, 3.07up 1+13:34:28 17:25:19 193 processes: 5 running, 187 sleeping, 1 stopped CPU: 95.1% user, 0.0% nice, 4.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 172M Active, 171M Inact, 97M Wired, 23M Cache, 60M Buf, 25M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 115M Used, 1933M Free, 5% Inuse PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 2942 mysql42 40 52412K 22132K sbwait 0:00 22.80% mysqld 88534 root 1 -580 3288K 616K bpf 1:22 0.00% ipguard 89345 root 1 -580 3288K 632K bpf 1:20 0.00% ipguard 213 root 1 440 3180K 472K select 0:55 0.00% syslogd 709 bind 4 440 58480K 23996K select 0:42 0.00% named 4719 pgsql 1 440 42508K 1620K select 0:18 0.00% postgres last pid: 2982; load averages: 2.59, 3.37, 3.35up 1+13:23:39 17:14:30 196 processes: 5 running, 190 sleeping, 1 stopped CPU: 94.8% user, 0.0% nice, 3.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 1.9% idle Mem: 129M Active, 168M Inact, 112M Wired, 11M Cache, 60M Buf, 68M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 119M Used, 1929M Free, 5% Inuse, 8K In PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIMECPU COMMAND 2942 mysql41 40 50748K 21240K sbwait 0:00 13.23% mysqld 2451 root 1 440 3532K 1924K RUN 0:01 0.10% top 2254 root 1 960 11380K 6988K RUN 3:12 0.00% bzip2 66162 root 1 440 9192K 2396K RUN 1:26 0.00% verlihub 88534 root 1 -580 3288K 616K bpf 1:21 0.00% ipguard 89345 root 1 -580 3288K 632K bpf 1:19 0.00% ipguard 213 root 1 440 3180K 472K select 0:54 0.00% syslogd 709 bind 4 440 58480K 23036K select 0:42 0.00% named 4719 pgsql 1 440 42508K 1620K select 0:18 0.00% postgres #systat -v 4 usersLoad 2.71 2.75 3.02 16 дек 17:21 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act 136916 11584 79968431004 29768 count All 190728 13620 297186863628 pages Proc:Interrupts r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt 1656 cow2003 total 1 5 186 11k 7340 75k4 35k 7189 4198 zfodatkbd0 1 232 ozfod sio1 irq3 54.6%Sys 0.0%Intr 45.4%User 0.0%Nice 0.0%Idle 5%ozfod sio0 irq4 ||||||||||| daefr 4 ata0 irq14 === 4405 prcfr 1999 cpu0: time 34 dtbuf 6486 totfr Namei Name-cache Dir-cache 35373 desvn react Callshits %hits % 18913 numvn pdwak 96679420 97 47 0 8279 frevn pdpgs intrn Disks ad0 ad1 102212 wire KB/t 0.00 15.67 136888 act tps 0 5 230508 inact MB/s 0.00 0.07 24388 cache %busy 0 05384 free -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ambigious 'top' results
are you using 7-branch? in my 7.1 system there is same problem. top shows often nonsense in CPU usage of a process, but totals are OK. you even gave an example - bzip2 can't use 0% CPU running - more close to 100% :) as long as everything goes fine 100% CPU load is OK. if it's mostly mysql then optimize your database, if you can't change hardware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python with many threads
Michel Talon wrote: Nothing limits the number of concurrent threads. Personnally i have checked i can run Grub Next Generation Python Client with 600 threads without any problem. niobe% uname -a FreeBSD niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 22 10:31:01 CEST 2008 niobe% python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 5 2008, 13:44:44) Still, something locks up in the system, when I increase the number Python threads with http://grub.org/?q=en/node/204 With more than 50 threads I start to get random messages like: Exception in thread 40: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.py, line 486, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() The frequency of these messages increases with 70 threads. And with 200 threads the system locks up totally -- almost no access from web. [I can still access the system and kill the process :) ] Clearly, there is some limit in the system. It is not memory, cpu or bandwidth. If the number of threads is also not limited, it must be something else. What might it be? Network traffic is moderate: IP traffic Recall that python threads are just native threads, but these threads are protected from trashing the python state by a single lock, the GIL, which is released when you do IO. This allows to effectively thread IO, but not python computation. The FreeBSD thread library has no particular limitations, you can run hundreds or thousands of threads without much problem, for example under Java. Regards, O.K. [sorry for HTML message in the list] -- Testi oma Interneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed: http://speedtest.zzz.ee/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
boot. Thanks a lot ! 1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man page, so that a search in doc gives the right result ? use sent-pr 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/ thanks for correction. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
Wojciech Puchar wrote: mount_unionfs but i don't know how stable it is. Thanks to fill my dreams :-) The dream is close, but still a dream :-( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_unionfssektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK)AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. Sad not to be a coder... Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
PHP5 as apache module using packages
Hi all; Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Now I pkg_add'ed php5 from sparc64/all tree on ftp.freebsd.org, I think I missed passing a variable throu to php. My question is how do I know what variables I can pass throu to a package to adjust its installation. Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GPL version 4
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:38:35AM -0500, Richard M Stallman wrote: I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be freely available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom. You have it right. Copyleft licenses defend freedom for all users by stopping middlemen from stripping it away. We have no plans for a version 4 of the GNU GPL. It might happen some day, but we are not working on it. As of now, we do not need to change GPL version 3. Thank you for clarifying this. AFAICS, FreeBSD tries to stick to GPLv2 GNU tools in the base system (ports has more recent versions of course) and tries to avoid GPLv3 for now. Yet another license right now would only complicate matters even more. ;-) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? It has to be on the root partition as it's used in the early stage of the boot before any other partitions are mounted, but like like I said there are other entropy files that are applied a little later as a boot, and on most machines enough entropy will be generated from the disk interrupts to suffice anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:59:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;), then strip first 512 bytes of it with dd if=winiso.iso bs=512 skip=1 of=tmp;mv tmp winiso.iso THEN tar Your files as you said, but put winiso.iso first :) this way - unix user using tar will extract what's needed (just have to delete winiso.iso after), windoze user will see what you wanted in winiso.iso Good evening Wojciech, I didn't know you could be such a mean guy! :-) This is one of the most excellent ideas I read from this list so far. I think I'll play with this a bit and surely find some Windows users to annoy. What, you cannot read the files? Let me check... tar... bla bla... no, works as intended. Please check your installation and ask your local dealer for the latest 'Windows' update, something's wrong on your side, maybe you have a virus? Another impolite idea: DialogBox hInstance bla In order to play this DVD, you need to install an operating systen on your computer. Please delete 'Windows' and replace it with an OS. Thank you. Your system will be shut down now. Ah... autorun.inf and exit_windows_ex() are such modern tools that make the life easier. :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: PHP5 as apache module using packages
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Hartl Sent: 16 December 2008 14:36 To: FreeBSD Questions Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Now I pkg_add'ed php5 from sparc64/all tree on ftp.freebsd.org, I think I missed passing a variable throu to php. My question is how do I know what variables I can pass throu to a package to adjust its installation. Gary: If you want to configure things differntly to the compiled default of a package, then you probably should be using ports instead of packages. This chapter in the handbook explains some differences. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html - Barry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: PHP5 as apache module using packages
Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Now I pkg_add'ed php5 from sparc64/all tree on ftp.freebsd.org, I think I missed passing a variable throu to php. My question is how do I know what variables I can pass throu to a package to adjust its installation. Gary: If you want to configure things differntly to the compiled default of a package, then you probably should be using ports instead of packages. This chapter in the handbook explains some differences. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html - Barry Thanks Barry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Python with many threads
Otto wrote: Exception in thread 30: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.py, line 486, in __bootstrap_in= ner self.run() The number of errors increases rapidly with even bigger number of threads. Is there any way I can increase the maximum number of Python threads? Nothing limits the number of concurrent threads. Personnally i have checked i can run Grub Next Generation Python Client with 600 threads without any problem. niobe% uname -a FreeBSD niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 22 10:31:01 CEST 2008 niobe% python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 5 2008, 13:44:44) Recall that python threads are just native threads, but these threads are protected from trashing the python state by a single lock, the GIL, which is released when you do IO. This allows to effectively thread IO, but not python computation. The FreeBSD thread library has no particular limitations, you can run hundreds or thousands of threads without much problem, for example under Java. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified stable. i would recommend 7.1-BETA install as some bugs are fixed there ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Limewire 4.18 problem
On December 16, 2008, Andreas Rudisch wrote: A Vuze developer told me, that transfers via UDP and TCP are using different sets of native java APIs. TCP is non-blocking IO, so there could be a problem in the FreeBSD Java code. This is a stab in the dark (I am not a Vuze) user but I have had similar problems with other Java apps (e.g., Netbeans, Tomcat). The VM's TCP stack, for some reason, wants to use IPv6. To force it to use IPv4, invoke Java with -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true. You can do this either on the command line or by setting the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. Cheers, -- Norbert Papke. Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine. When he awoke he exclaimed: I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine, or a machine dreaming that I am Turing! (The Tao Of Programming) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc. Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? Thanks! Jen Hi Jen, I am assuming that you are using VMware, but if that's not the case, please respond to the thread. VMware Converter (http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/) is typically used to convert a physical machine to a VM, but I'm not sure that it will work with FreeBSD. If it doesn't, then I think you need to use a tool like Norton Ghost, Acronis TrueImage or Partimage (http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page) to create a disk image of your production machine. Once you do that, create your VM, boot with the rescue image of the tool that you chose and use it to restore the production machine disk image into your VM. Reboot and you should have a VM that only requires some minimal reconfiguration. Hope that helps, Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ http://www.sourcehosting.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklH2jMACgkQ0sRouByUApAbUwCfZaX7Pm9jJjxKmOHZhE5DQcpB 6S8AoLSuy35SuUu3XfxFsUd7OJIYWiYi =2kfG -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:50:30 Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). The x86 flavour is intended for old 386, 486 and 585 (starting from Pentium Pro and upward version) to latest Pentium 4 Dual Core. The x86 can handle multi processor architechture with SMP kernel which is available by default. The x86_64 flavour intended for AMD64 architechture that current Intel Core 2 Duo and since AMD Sempron and upward employed. However, this is not for IA64 which is totally different version of FreeBSD (I think) have created for it. If you aim for tested stable version of FreeBSD, you can use FreeBSD-6.x-RELEASE lines. However if your hardware is up to current (say no less than 2 years tops) and you want the bleeding-edge version of applications, you can try FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE line (7.1 version is still in Release Candidate stage and not recommended except for testers). Hopes that what you're looking for. 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar
Thank you. Your system will be shut down now. Ah... autorun.inf and exit_windows_ex() are such modern tools autorun.inf is a few windows thing that is simple and even works. just remember to strip this first 512 bytes from iso file, as 512 bytes will be takes by tar header before iso file. ISO-9660 has such nice things as first 16 sectors are ignored, so it doesn't matter if it's zeros or tar header. personally - i use it not to annoy winusers, but to make DVDs with hidden contents. like - first part visible to everyone, everything else - to the ones who know things. other way to do this is to use bsdlabels, windows will ignore this, while in FreeBSD you can have /dev/cd0a with ISO data, and /dev/cd0b with hidden data. this hidden data can be ISO format too, or tar, or UFS, and it can be encrypted with geli. if you do this - please DO USE ggatel to simulate 2kB sectored device before doing bsdlabel!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? simply copy everything ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Centralized DB of system users
LDAP is the way to go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). The x86 flavour is intended for old 386, 486 and 585 (starting from Pentium Pro and upward version) to latest Pentium 4 Dual Core. The x86 can handle multi processor architechture with SMP kernel which is available by default. The x86_64 flavour intended for AMD64 architechture that current Intel Core 2 Duo and since AMD Sempron and upward employed. However, this is not for IA64 which is totally different version of FreeBSD (I think) have created for it. If you aim for tested stable version of FreeBSD, you can use FreeBSD-6.x-RELEASE lines. However if your hardware is up to current (say no less than 2 years tops) and you want the bleeding-edge version of applications, you can try FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE line (7.1 version is still in Release Candidate stage and not recommended except for testers). Hopes that what you're looking for. -- Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager - Technical, Network and Support Division PT. Jawa Pos National Network Graha Pena Jawa Pos Group Building, 5th floor Jln. Raya Kebayoran Lama 12, Jakarta Selatan 12210 Indonesia.- Phone 02132185562 Phone 081574217035 Fax 02153651465 Web http://www.jpnn.com___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Copying system/ports configuration?
I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc. Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? Thanks! Jen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying system/ports configuration? To: bg271...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 8:41 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc. Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? Thanks! Jen Hi Jen, I am assuming that you are using VMware, but if that's not the case, please respond to the thread. No, im using VirtualBox. I had tried VMware but foundit much harder to use. I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch Jen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)
Thank you for all replies. I learned new CMS's. I decided to switch Mambo to other FreeBSD 7.0 server for temporarily. And planning to upgrade older FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.0. Short time frame not allows me to switch contents to new CMS. Anyway, it's sad that current ports tree still have old Mambo version, new release already in their site /belives they fixed security hole in old version: http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/news/?action=NewsThreadViewid=103 Mambo 4.6.5, codename Jupiter, has been released. This is a maintenance and security release which fixes some potentially serious security vulnerabilities affecting all earlier versions of 4.6./. Best regards Munkh On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nguyen Tam Chinh uni...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM, munkhbayar batkhuu bmr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all FreeBSD list members. One of my old FreeBSD-5.4 server is installed with Mambo (4.6.2 Bug Stomp Pre-Release 2, not installed from ports) and I'm going to upgrade this Content Management System (CMS) to FreeBSD-7 and tried to install Mambo via ports. New portaudit installed system says Mambo have security issue and can't be installed. And I'm not going to use Mambo. (I know Mambo have long standing history of security issues). It seems that Joomla will be installed fine (,however). My question is, Can you suggest me on more secure open source CMS?, which CMS are you using on FreeBSD?. How about WordPress? Its code is very nice :) -- With best regards, Chinh Nguyen *** FreeBSD - The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Limewire 4.18 problem
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:09:14 -0800 Norbert Papke fbsd...@scrapper.ca wrote: This is a stab in the dark (I am not a Vuze) user but I have had similar problems with other Java apps (e.g., Netbeans, Tomcat). The VM's TCP stack, for some reason, wants to use IPv6. To force it to use IPv4, invoke Java with -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true. You can do this either on the command line or by setting the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. Thank you, but that does not help either. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpyKdUjYFVKF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Dolphin Sigserv whilst trying to cut//paste
Freebsd 7.1-PreRelease KDE 3.5.10 AMD64 .. below is sigserv msg. Application: Dolphin (dolphin), signal SIGSEGV [New Thread 0x805f02180 (LWP 100285)] [Switching to Thread 0x805f02180 (LWP 100285)] [KCrash handler] #6 0x000801cc3560 in QByteArray::operator= () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #7 0x000803a03b8c in QClipboardWatcher::formats_sys () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #8 0x0008039b4c56 in QInternalMimeData::formats () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #9 0x000803a0395e in QClipboardWatcher::retrieveData_sys () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #10 0x0008039b481a in QInternalMimeData::retrieveData () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #11 0x000801d9385f in QMimeDataPrivate::retrieveTypedData () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #12 0x000801d93f92 in QMimeData::data () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #13 0x00080084ea5e in KonqMimeData::decodeIsCutSelection () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkonq.so.7 #14 0x0008006e415b in IconManager::applyCutItemEffect () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #15 0x0008006e4897 in IconManager::updateCutItems () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #16 0x0008006e4aca in IconManager::qt_metacall () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #17 0x000801d9886b in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #18 0x0008039b08d6 in QClipboard::emitChanged () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #19 0x000803a0429d in QClipboard::setMimeData () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #20 0x0008006d9a3b in DolphinView::pasteToUrl () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #21 0x0008006d9e86 in DolphinView::pasteIntoFolder () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #22 0x0042e2b0 in DolphinMainWindow::qt_metacall () #23 0x000801d9886b in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #24 0x00080399d487 in QAction::triggered () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #25 0x00080399e380 in QAction::activate () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #26 0x000803ce293c in QMenuPrivate::activateAction () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #27 0x00080106a5f9 in KMenu::mouseReleaseEvent () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkdeui.so.7 #28 0x0008039e89e8 in QWidget::event () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #29 0x000803ce1b11 in QMenu::event () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #30 0x0008039a312f in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #31 0x0008039a9d3e in QApplication::notify () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #32 0x000800f935ff in KApplication::notify () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkdeui.so.7 #33 0x000801d88fb4 in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #34 0x0008039a97c3 in QApplicationPrivate::sendMouseEvent () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #35 0x0008039fdc74 in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #36 0x0008039fcbdb in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #37 0x000803a1f633 in x11EventSourceDispatch () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #38 0x000805489a24 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #39 0x00080548cd05 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #40 0x00080548d1eb in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #41 0x000801dad5de in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #42 0x000803a1f30f in QGuiEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #43 0x000801d882bd in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #44 0x000801d88427 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #45 0x000803ce00d7 in QMenu::exec () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #46 0x00433195 in DolphinContextMenu::openItemContextMenu () #47 0x00434318 in DolphinContextMenu::open () #48 0x0042f06b in DolphinViewContainer::openContextMenu () #49 0x00430b27 in DolphinViewContainer::qt_metacall () #50 0x000801d9886b in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #51 0x0008006d887a in DolphinView::requestContextMenu () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #52 0x0008006d9355 in DolphinView::openContextMenu () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #53 0x0008006dd131 in DolphinView::qt_metacall () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #54 0x000801d9886b in QMetaObject::activate () from /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #55 0x0008006c7485 in DolphinController::requestContextMenu () from /usr/local/kde4/lib/libdolphinprivate.so.5 #56 0x0008039e87f9 in QWidget::event () from
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch The handbook mentions a common method to transfer installed systems partition-wise using dump and restore. Maybe this is useful to you in order to avoid an installation from scratch. And finaly, there's always dd. :-) -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current solution, the minimum root directories i had to keep for managing to boot are : bin libexec sbin boot etc lib i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: mount / readonly, put everything here. in /etc put /etc/rc consisting only #!/bin/sh exec /systemrc in /systemrc put something like that: #!/bin/sh echo -n Mounting workstation config directory... #get your IP or MAC address using ifconfig,grep,cut,awk,how you like #put to to say MYIP /sbin/mount_nfs yournfsserver:/clients/etc/MYIP /etc echo done exec /etc/rc please then add: /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run, possibly /var/log as tmpfs in fstab OR mount it with per-station directory the same way as /etc I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ every version is Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ambigious 'top' results
On 12/16/08, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Здравствуйте, Questions. My system is overloaded, I run top to figure out which precess take time. In both cases CPU/WCPU I do not see which process take all the time. Which process take all processor time?? last pid: 24535; load averages: 3.86, 3.07, 3.07up 1+13:34:28 If last pid grow very fast, than some process are spawing like mad. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Optimising pxeboot disk size
Hi, I'm working on a project to have many diskless clients PXEbooting on 1 nfs server. This works now, but i would like to have a more efficient use of disk space on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current solution, the minimum root directories i had to keep for managing to boot are : bin libexec sbin boot etc lib But it appears that only /etc is really specific to each diskless clientX, having basically fstab and rc.conf inside. All other directories could be shared, and specifically /boot which is more that 100MO : i would prefer not to duplicate it, as 10 servers would mean 1GO for nothing. Please would anybody help find a way to share all what we can during boot process ? Another way to ask the question is : how can we mount / and then /etc at the begining of boot process instead of mounting only / with etc inside ? I have tried to do links, but no way to make the boot process follow them... Thanks a lot, Best regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Limewire 4.18 problem
Hello Guys, I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on limewire port and upnp is enable) but limewire wont connect. I have made a search on the net and found a thread that fixed it by modifying the file /etc/libmap.conf as follows: [/usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/] libpthread.so libc_r.so libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6 I have diablo-jdk-1.6.0 so I replaced the lines, I didnt have the file libmap.conf so I created it and added the lines but still it doesnt work. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Alvaro ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar
To get such content from a DVD, you would just % tar xf /dev/dvd But I think this is only possible with UNIX (BSD, Linux, Solaris). Windows cannot handle this, of course. you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;), then strip first 512 bytes of it with dd if=winiso.iso bs=512 skip=1 of=tmp;mv tmp winiso.iso THEN tar Your files as you said, but put winiso.iso first :) this way - unix user using tar will extract what's needed (just have to delete winiso.iso after), windoze user will see what you wanted in winiso.iso ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Extracting changed files list from snapshot
Hi, I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? Thanks a lot, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! it doesn't have chance - must work :) I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important when you have lot of diskless stations ! exactly. i'm using just NetBSD 1.5 (uses LITTLE memory) + Xserver, so there are almost no updates, but anyway - it's stored once. you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc In fact, it makes me think that we miss a concept in mount, or at least i don't know it currently : imagine a -tl (TransparentLayer) option for mount, allowing to mount multiple source to the same directory, for instance /etc : there is already such think - mount_unionfs but i don't use it. if you mount over some directory - it's original contents (like my /etc/rc doing exec /systemrc) gets hidden. mount -r yournfsserver:/basic/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/StationY/etc /etc mount_unionfs but i don't know how stable it is. When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) try mount_unionfs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Limewire 4.18 problem
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:44:14 + (GMT) alvaro rosales ara...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on limewire port and upnp is enable) but limewire wont connect. Sounds like the same problem Vuze/Azureus has when running on FreeBSD 7. I have made a search on the net and found a thread that fixed it by modifying the file /etc/libmap.conf as follows: [/usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/] libpthread.so libc_r.so libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6 That work-around only works on FreeBSD 6 (probably because of the change to libthr in FreeBSD 7). When I was testing Vuze again on FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 a few days ago, I noticed that data transfer was happening when using UDP. But normal TCP connections to other peers would time out, hanging during/after the handshake. The connections seemed to be established though. A Vuze developer told me, that transfers via UDP and TCP are using different sets of native java APIs. TCP is non-blocking IO, so there could be a problem in the FreeBSD Java code. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpeuSMOBFips.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:08:10 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. It contains random numbers that are written-out at shutdown and used to seed /dev/random on the next boot. Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i put it in /var instead of / to be able to keep / read-only ? It has to be on the root-partition, if it's going to be used. You can set entropy_file=NO if you don't want it. There are additional entropy files under /var, and the system generates it's own entropy during the boot stage, which is good enough for normal cases. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. it's here to make random generator more random - not starting clean at boot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
loader.conf fbsd 7-release
Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. I need to add accf_http_load=YES to correct a problem with apache22 giving me the prompt/error (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important when you have lot of diskless stations ! you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc In fact, it makes me think that we miss a concept in mount, or at least i don't know it currently : imagine a -tl (TransparentLayer) option for mount, allowing to mount multiple source to the same directory, for instance /etc : mount -r yournfsserver:/basic/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/StationY/etc /etc A file is first look for in yournfsserver:/StationY/etc, then in yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc and finally in yournfsserver:/basic/etc. This means that StationX will see in its /etc firts its specific files, then the files dedicated to TypeX station (webserver, dns server, workstation,...) and then all basic files unchanged from standard distribution. When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) Thanks a lot, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re[2]: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 rl0 watchdog timeout with custom kernel
Any mistake? The rl driver supports some really terrible hardware, so I'm far from convinced that your custom kernel is causing the problems. Perhaps you could check by switching back to a GENERIC kernel for a while. It works well with GENERIC when I'm simply serfing the net or fetching ports. How can I test my network adapter under heavy load? connect to other computer and transfer files, one direction or both ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Python with many threads
Hello list, Trying to run Grub Next Generation Python Client (http://grub.org/?q=en/node/204) on my FreeDSD 7.1 box with as many threads as possible. Python version is 2.5.2. The question is, what limits the number of concurrent threads I can run? I have free memory and cpu, but starting from around 50 threads, Python starts to give random errors like this: Exception in thread 30: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.py, line 486, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() The number of errors increases rapidly with even bigger number of threads. Is there any way I can increase the maximum number of Python threads? With best regards, O.K. -- Mõõda oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed http://speedtest.zzz.ee/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Limewire 4.18 problem
Hello Guys, I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on limewire port and upnp is enable) but limewire wont connect. I have made a search on the net and found a thread that fixed it by modifying the file /etc/libmap.conf as follows: [/usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/] libpthread.so libc_r.so libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6 I have diablo-jdk-1.6.0 so I replaced the lines, I didnt have the file libmap.conf so I created it and added the lines but still it doesnt work. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Alvaro Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=otherp2=aup3=tagline ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Centralized DB of system users
LDAP is the way to go. the right tool for the task is the way to go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
I have a new system put together (see below). In booting it up for the first time, it hangs. I'm booting from a FreeBSD 7.0 distribution on a USB drive. Here are the messages, in part... . . . sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec hptrr: no controller detected. The GEOM class LABEL is already loaded. *** HANG *** Where should I look to troubleshoot? My hardware is... nbsp;nbsp;Motherboard: MSI K9N2G Neo-FD nbsp;nbsp;Processor: AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ Quad-Core nbsp;nbsp;Memory: Rendition by Crucial 1GB (x4) DDR2 SDRAM (PC2 6400) nbsp;nbsp;Disk Drives: 2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200 RPM SATA nbsp;nbsp;I have the disks in a RAID 1 configuration via the motherboard. nbsp;nbsp;There is no other hardware in the case, and I'm booting from USB. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21039625.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts
Greg Larkin skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Olofsson wrote: Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled FreeBSD7.1. One nic is LAN and the other dynamical IP from ISP. Question: What is the canonical way for catching the IP address from a DHCP assigned nic (from ISP that doesn't set hostname) and put the IP into /etc/hosts with a hostname? Reason for asking Firewall rules needs refreshing after new IP Possible answers: Create dhcp-exit-hooks (undocumented?) in /etc like so: #!/bin/sh if [ ! -z $new_ip_address ]; then IP=`ifconfig WAN | grep 'inet' | grep -v 'inet6' | cut -f 2 -d ' '` if [ ! -z $IP ]; then echo $IPwan.local.domain wan /etc/hosts refresh firewall rules here fi fi Hello. I think pf can handle with dhcp updates on interfaces pretty well. If only I get your question right. Hi Jeff and thank you for your reply, Yes, I know that pf will handle interfaces just fine, the question was not specific to pf though but more around dhclient, dhclient-script and the part of dhclient-script that calls the undocumented dhclient-exit-hooks. It might be handy to have the external IP assigned to a hostname - not only for pf. /R Hi Roger, I wrote a blog post about automatically configuring /etc/hosts with a DHCP dynamic IP address earlier this year: http://blog.sourcehosting.net/tag/dhcp/. You can download a ZIP file with the dhclient-exit-hook script in it near the bottom of the page. In my case, I also wrote some commands to update the Apache httpd.conf file with the correct ServerName directive. You can easily remove that from the script if you don't need it. If you need any assistance, let me know. Regards, Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklG1FEACgkQ0sRouByUApB1SACgmfJ4EtiyKdhyPgILZyc77Fxc gHMAnRGGBWIya0Fg314LyrJZq9tTZvbj =jHL5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.18/1849 - Release Date: 2008-12-15 09:01 Hello Greg, Thank you very much. I guess this is the canonical way of doing it. /R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:19:54 -0500, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. No, you're completely correct. /boot/loader.conf is to be created if neccessary to override /boot/defaults/loader.conf with the default settings. I need to add accf_http_load=YES to correct a problem with apache22 giving me the prompt/error (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter Just create the file and add the setting. It will then load /boot/kernel/accf_http.ko on system startup. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:44 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: I have a new system put together (see below). In booting it up for the first time, it hangs. I'm booting from a FreeBSD 7.0 distribution on a USB drive. Here are the messages, in part... [...] . hptrr: no controller detected. It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting hptrr_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf? Further information can be obtained by: % man hptrr Check if your particular controller is supported. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
LPRng x pdf files
Does anyone know how to print a pdf file using LPRng? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? An easier way would be to generate an mtree(1) description for each snapshot, and using that to compare against other snapshots. You have to mount the snapshot for that, though... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir Thanks, detail is available in /etc/default/rc.conf : entropy_file=/entropy # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through reboots. # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is not avail. It means that i can put it in /var when L is read-only. There should be no problem as the file is choosen in rc.conf, so after /var is mounted. As this is for diskless station, it would be fun to change the entropy file through the nfs server RANDOM, even better thant at each boot :-) Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LPRng x pdf files
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:14 -0200, luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to print a pdf file using LPRng? In principle, % lpr filename.pdf Or you can use gv's or xpdf's print option which should place the PDF file's content into the printer job queue. If your printer is PostScript capable, you could eventually use pdf2ps and then feed the PS directly into the printer. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LPRng x pdf files
Or you can use gv's or xpdf's print option which should place the PDF file's content into the printer job queue. If your printer is PostScript capable, you could eventually use pdf2ps and then feed the PS directly into the printer. if not - ghostscript processes both ps and pdf example filter for my laserjet 4 (minimally modified default) #!/bin/sh # # ifhp - Print Ghostscript-simulated PostScript on a DesJet 500 # Installed in /usr/local/libexec/hpif # # Treat LF as CR+LF: # printf \033k2G || exit 2 # # Read first two characters of the file # read first_line first_two_chars=`expr $first_line : '\(..\)'` if [ $first_two_chars = %! ]; then # # It is PostScript; use Ghostscript to scan-convert and print it # /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - \ exit 0 else # # Plain text or HP/PCL, so just print it directly; print a form # at the end to eject the last page. # echo $first_line cat printf \f exit 0 fi exit 2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) try mount_unionfs and mount_nullfs Thanks Paul, FreeBSD has always hidden treasures :-) MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to specific private configuration. unionfs looks very close to my dream, but it is currently not available for production :-( Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Copying system/ports configuration?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271828 at yahoo.com wrote: I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch I just found last week ports-mngnt/portmaster that can help you to do that, and i have suggested portmaster author to add an -export option readable to built new ports on another computer. May be an -export-packages option would be nice also ? Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
Thank you RW, i am new on the list, i didn't answer you because i didn't received your answer while i received others, don't know why yet. I would be very interested to find a large but right view in the man documentation of what is happening exactly to this poor lost file :-) The etc/default/rc.conf detailled file is not searchable in the man page, nor the default /entropy file. Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to specific you can't - nullfs doesn't do this. use symlinks /etc containing tons of links to /sharedetc and few files instead of symlink - for those that are different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Invitation from Mike McConnell to join mySBX
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Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? An easier way would be to generate an mtree(1) description for each snapshot, and using that to compare against other snapshots. You have to mount the snapshot for that, though... -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? An easier way would be to generate an mtree(1) description for each snapshot, and using that to compare against other snapshots. You have to mount the snapshot for that, though... Thanks for your answer, sorry not to be clear on the goal : find the changed files without having to read the whole LARGE disk. By definition, snapshot files have internally the list of block changed. So i would like to have a description of the internal structure of a snapshot file and a way to find the file by which any changed block is owned. Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:02 +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important when you have lot of diskless stations ! you may like to make /etc-common directory and put most of files there, and symlinks in each station's /etc In fact, it makes me think that we miss a concept in mount, or at least i don't know it currently : imagine a -tl (TransparentLayer) option for mount, allowing to mount multiple source to the same directory, for instance /etc : mount -r yournfsserver:/basic/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc /etc mount -tl -r yournfsserver:/StationY/etc /etc A file is first look for in yournfsserver:/StationY/etc, then in yournfsserver:/TypeX/etc and finally in yournfsserver:/basic/etc. This means that StationX will see in its /etc firts its specific files, then the files dedicated to TypeX station (webserver, dns server, workstation,...) and then all basic files unchanged from standard distribution. When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) Apparently that sort of thing is available on plan9 OS. Everything is a file so you can mount remote and local devices- plus merge them in a single directory. Check it out on wikipedia... Dreams can come true! :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
On 12/16/08, Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object languages... Dreams are allowed :-) try mount_unionfs and mount_nullfs Thanks Paul, FreeBSD has always hidden treasures :-) MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to specific private configuration. unionfs looks very close to my dream, but it is currently not available for production :-( Well, I tested unionfs on CURRENT and it did not crashed on me. Feel free to test it on 7 STABLE and report results to developers. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir Thanks, detail is available in /etc/default/rc.conf : entropy_file=/entropy # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through reboots. # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is not avail. It means that i can put it in /var when L is read-only. There should be no problem as the file is choosen in rc.conf, so after /var is mounted. Whatever it says in /etc/default/rc.conf, /entropy is read before /var is mounted. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
Paul B. Mahol wrote: Well, I tested unionfs on CURRENT and it did not crashed on me. Feel free to test it on 7 STABLE and report results to developers. Thanks for the feed-back, i will no more be afraid to test :-) I will tell you later, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:19 -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. I need to add accf_http_load=YES to correct a problem with apache22 giving me the prompt/error (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter Thanks Gary If /boot/loader.conf does not exist, you can create it and add that line. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
looking for a secondary.
i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been years. i thought i'd check here first because i'm not how to pose this as a good search. thanks, guys, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: looking for a secondary.
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been years. Not free, but nearly so: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/secdns/ $17.50/year = $1.46/month... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
lang/php5 port
is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? From what I can tell (and how I normally do it) is simply put your familiar command line compile args in the Makefile within the ports tree. If you follow the flow of the existing Makefile, it should become clear as to how to add your custom args. Simply: # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 # ee (or if you please 'vi') Makefile # make install [clean] ...any problems, report back. Ironically, I just did this type of PHP install today. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you need are mentioned there. I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for options. Cheers, Brett. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you need are mentioned there. I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for options. One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the OP's demands could be met with your method. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. Amitabh On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Steve Bertrand wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these options are handled in freebsd ports. is it a matter of identifying lots of individual ports, one for each of the configuration command options i'd normally use? Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you need are mentioned there. I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for options. One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the OP's demands could be met with your method. Steve php-extensions supports jpg in the make config options - I use that too. It's a really elegant way of configuring almost every php option we need. Brett. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Brett Davidson wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you need are mentioned there. I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for options. One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the OP's demands could be met with your method. php-extensions supports jpg in the make config options - I use that too. It's a really elegant way of configuring almost every php option we need. Thanks Brett, Even though I wasn't the original poster, I certainly learnt something here. This is a perfect example of how external application support can be provided willingly and thoughtfully through our mailing list, via members who do actually care. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:44 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently wrote: hptrr: no controller detected. It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting hptrr_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf? Further information can be obtained by: % man hptrr Check if your particular controller is supported. Thanks for responding. Forgive me for being new to FreeBSD. My career has been System V OS'es, like Solaris HP-UX. My new biz partner has strong-armed me...er...convinced me to go FreeBSD. I am booting from the boot only cd (burned from the amd64 iso) for the first time. How do I put hptrr_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf? Also on my other FreeBSD system, 'man hptrr' resulted in 'no manual page'. I've been troubleshooting a little with my biz partner. He told me there might've been something wrong with the i386 version of FreeBSD on my USB drive. So, I put an IDE DVD-ROM drive in the system and got the latest AMD64 ISO on CD. Now I'm getting... acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_bootonly. acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 *** HANG *** I also tried resetting the BIOS to Failsafe Settings...no luck. I'm curious, though, what the BIOS settings should be. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21045861.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
...some more interesting errors from bootup...My biz partner seemed interested in these (don't know why)... hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18) acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of free0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, c7f0 (3) failed -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21045931.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: looking for a secondary.
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been years. Not free, but nearly so: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/secdns/ $17.50/year = $1.46/month... Other options include: http://www.backupdns.com/index.html $0.80/month/zone for a small number of zones. Or http://www.zoneedit.com They will host DNS (primary and/or secondary) for 5 zones, free of charge (subject to bandwidth). -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
ThinkDifferently wrote: ...some more interesting errors from bootup...My biz partner seemed interested in these (don't know why)... hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18) acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of free0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, c7f0 (3) failed AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID array something that you can afford to risk losing through troubleshooting? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID array something that you can afford to risk losing through troubleshooting? I haven't tried an install disk yet, just the boot-only. I will try that right away. This system is so spankin' new, there's nothing loaded on it. This RAID array is just something I setup in the BIOS. It's not even been initialized yet...because I can't even load the OS to install anything. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21046366.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: looking for a secondary.
Matt Emmerton wrote: On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been years. Not free, but nearly so: http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/secdns/ $17.50/year = $1.46/month... Other options include: http://www.backupdns.com/index.html $0.80/month/zone for a small number of zones. Or http://www.zoneedit.com They will host DNS (primary and/or secondary) for 5 zones, free of charge (subject to bandwidth). -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Gary, We use Zone Edit for many years. Good and responsive to any issues. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
ThinkDifferently wrote: Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID array something that you can afford to risk losing through troubleshooting? I haven't tried an install disk yet, just the boot-only. I will try that right away. This system is so spankin' new, there's nothing loaded on it. This RAID array is just something I setup in the BIOS. It's not even been initialized yet...because I can't even load the OS to install anything. Well, still no joy. :-( I have tried booting from Boot-only, Disc1, LiveFS. Additionally, I've tried the default boot, with ACPI disabled, Safe Mode, single user mode, and verbose logging. Every CD and every boot type gives me the exact same errors... at the beginning: ... acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, c7f0 (3) failed and at the end: ... hptrr: no controller detected. acd0: DVDROM SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F/F104 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_xxx (where xxx is the disc I'm using). acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 *** HANG *** BTW, the *** HANG *** requires a hard reset. Also, I read some hearsay in other forums that the READ_BIG error could be caused by the write speed when the ISO is burned to CD. So, I tried downgrading the burn speed from 52x to 16x. No joy. It didn't change a thing. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21046636.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You should *never* need to edit a Makefile in a port. (Well, extremely rarely.) Usually the options are provided. Optionally you can add them on the commandline like this: make -dwith_enable-foo -dwith_disable-bar. These are the questions that I never would ask, as for years, I always installed from source, never ports. If you don't find something you're expecting in a port, and you can't get an answer on this list, email the port maintainer, whose email address will always be in the port's Makefile. I'm glad there are people who still answer 3rd party software questions here. Normally, I'd just hack about until it worked. It's great to know there is such wide-spread support here. Hopefully, new questions will always be asked, and there will always be those dedicated people who are always lying low, reading, ready to provide a response in their field... (seriously) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
ThinkDifferently wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID array something that you can afford to risk losing through troubleshooting? I haven't tried an install disk yet, just the boot-only. I will try that right away. This system is so spankin' new, there's nothing loaded on it. This RAID array is just something I setup in the BIOS. It's not even been initialized yet...because I can't even load the OS to install anything. Well, still no joy. :-( I have tried booting from Boot-only, Disc1, LiveFS. Additionally, I've tried the default boot, with ACPI disabled, Safe Mode, single user mode, and verbose logging. Every CD and every boot type gives me the exact same errors... at the beginning: ... acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, c7f0 (3) failed and at the end: ... hptrr: no controller detected. acd0: DVDROM SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F/F104 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_xxx (where xxx is the disc I'm using). acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 *** HANG *** BTW, the *** HANG *** requires a hard reset. Also, I read some hearsay in other forums that the READ_BIG error could be caused by the write speed when the ISO is burned to CD. So, I tried downgrading the burn speed from 52x to 16x. No joy. It didn't change a thing. disable dma specifically by escaping to the loader prompt and type hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 you can also try loading the device as a scsi device with atapicam. you could make this static on your iso by editing the loader.conf on the iso. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
--On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You should *never* need to edit a Makefile in a port. (Well, extremely rarely.) Usually the options are provided. Optionally you can add them on the commandline like this: make -dwith_enable-foo -dwith_disable-bar. In the case of major ports such as lang/php5, the options are almost always available somehow. Jpeg support, for example, is in php5-extensions. If you don't find something you're expecting in a port, and you can't get an answer on this list, email the port maintainer, whose email address will always be in the port's Makefile. Paul Schmehl (pa...@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
ThinkDifferently wrote: This system is so spankin' new, there's nothing loaded on it. This RAID array is just something I setup in the BIOS. It's not even been initialized yet...because I can't even load the OS to install anything. Well, still no joy. :-( I have tried booting from Boot-only, Disc1, LiveFS. Additionally, I've tried the default boot, with ACPI disabled, Safe Mode, single user mode, and verbose logging. Every CD and every boot type gives me the exact same errors... at the beginning: ... acpi0: reservation of fee0, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, c7f0 (3) failed and at the end: ... hptrr: no controller detected. acd0: DVDROM SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F/F104 at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_xxx (where xxx is the disc I'm using). acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 *** HANG *** BTW, the *** HANG *** requires a hard reset. Also, I read some hearsay in other forums that the READ_BIG error could be caused by the write speed when the ISO is burned to CD. So, I tried downgrading the burn speed from 52x to 16x. No joy. It didn't change a thing. Out of pure sheer curiosity, does the machine boot ok with the boot-only if you pull the RAID card out of its slot? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
On 12/16/08 8:10 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. thanks for the pointer. i think i found everything i needed in there. i'm not sure how i feel about having 55 more ports installed than i would have if i'd installed from php tarball, especially with regard to updates, but i'll cross that bridge when i come to it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lang/php5 port
On 12/16/08 8:33 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the OP's demands could be met with your method. options such as jpeg, png, freetype were not offered by make config in lang/php-extensions when i tried it today in 7.0-RELEASE-p6. however, these extensions that i do need were included with the gd option. so, for now, i don't think i need to edit the Makefile. thanks again for the helpful replys. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: looking for a secondary.
On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been years. i thought i'd check here first because i'm not how to pose this as a good search. thanks, guys, gary Gary, Check out http://www.afraid.org not only do they offer a free service they run on FreeBSD. They also have a pay service available for more advanced configurations. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.org skype: mikel.king +--+ Yes it is true I am running for US Senate (NY). +--+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: Out of pure sheer curiosity, does the machine boot ok with the boot-only if you pull the RAID card out of its slot? There is no RAID card. Everything is on the motherboard. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21047130.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled Loading SCSI driver that says Loading ahci driver... The funny thing is, I've tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS. On my mobo, this entails setting it to IDE mode, instead of RAID or AHCI. That doesn't appear to do anything. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-7-load-hangs-on-boot-tp21039625p21047275.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
