Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. ___ 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: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?
I'm gonna retry installing 7.1 today on a different hardware machine ( an older one ) let's see what happen then. Frank Bonnet wrote: Jos Chrispijn wrote: [Lowell Gilbert] Uit een eerder bericht van 10-1-2009 15:51 :: Could be hardware trouble, I suppose. I know FreeBSD can detect hardware probs better than other OS'es; but why didn't 6.x detect this malfunction then? I believe Murphy and his law, but for mee it seems a little bit too accidentally L-) regards, Jos Chrispijn Well I have re-install the machine at 6.4 and it runs WITHOUT any trouble with exactly same softwares ( OS + Postfix + Postgrey ) At 7.1 the machine hanged after running few hours ( ~2 ) At 6.4 it runs since 3 days without problem. ___ 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 -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ESIEE Paris ___ 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 pointer to VPN / IPSEC info
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, Joe Kraft wrote: I have a personal network behind a FreeBSD firewall running IPFW. It's been working fine for years, but as I'm getting more mobile in my work I'd like to be able to access my network while traveling. At work the problem is solved with an IPSEC VPN client that I run to connect to the appropriate server. As I looked through my normal traveling gear my laptop (Windows XP Pro) and handheld (iPaq 211) both seem to have IPSEC clients built in. Can someone point me to a VPN for dummies documentation so I can set up my firewall to also provide me an access point for me to connect to my home network while I'm travelling? We usually use OpenVPN rather than IPSec as it's generally easier to set up, works from roaming systems behind NAT firewalls, and there are easy-to-use clients for Windows, OS X, Linux, and various other flavors of Unix. OpenVPN uses user-space SSL, and does not require any kernel support. Bill Thanks for the pointer, OpenVPN looks great. I don't see support for Windows Mobile clients though, I did find a project to build a client but it didn't seem to be complete though. Joe. ___ 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
mountd, DNS
Installed FreeBSD-amd64 and asked to set up NFS server and client during sysinstall. In the boot process, at 'mountd' it takes some time, then: Jan 12 14:36:10 macos mountd[686]: can't get address info for host hmacs.cmi.ua .ac.be Jan 12 14:36:10 macos mountd[686]: bad host hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be, skipping Jan 12 14:36:10 macos mountd[686]: bad exports lists line /home hmacs.cmi.ua.a c.be When adding a line 143.129.75.10 hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be in /etc/hosts (via vi) this messages disappears. I can use NFS. But why is this needed? I can use DNS names for any other host (ssh-ing to them works..) so why not for this at boot time ? of is this normal? ___ 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
Using device.hints to determine network device unit number
Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, make the device on pci0:16 appear always as mtnic0 and pci0:9 appear always as mtnic1. # pciconf -l | grep mtnic mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at=pci0:16 hint.mtnic.1.at=pci0:19 but it doesn't work. They keep switching upon reboot. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony ___ 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
2 networkcards in 1 system
I installed FreeBSD-amd64 on a system which has 2 networkcards and configured 1 networkcard with its IP parameters. Now I want to add the second networkcard, and did: # sysinstall do Post-Install Configuratio Configure additional Netwerk Services Configure additional network interface and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) (After rebooting, em1 appears in the boot messages with the correct Mac- and IP address.. ) But I get many messages: Jan 13 11:05:25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 00:1b:21:UU:VV:WW on em1 Jan 13 11:54.25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 03:ba:14:UU:VV:WW on em1 ( 143.129.XX.YY is our gateway or other system, the MAC address is the mac-addres of our gateway or that other system ) Why is this? How to remedy? Or do I need to 'deconfigure' em1? How can I do that? ___ 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 networkcards in 1 system
Hi, and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) First I doubt that this will work. You can assign several names to a single IP address in DNS, but you cannot assign several IP to the same name. (After rebooting, em1 appears in the boot messages with the correct Mac- and IP address.. ) But I get many messages: Jan 13 11:05:25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 00:1b:21:UU:VV:WW on em1 Jan 13 11:54.25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 03:ba:14:UU:VV:WW on em1 Let me guess, both NIC are connected to the same network? If so you cannot predict what interface will reply first, so you can send a packet through one interface and get a reply from the other interface. In standard operation, you don't want to have your two NICs connected to the same LAN with and IP in the same subnet. Or do I need to 'deconfigure' em1? How can I do that? Edit /etc/rc.conf and remove all the lines that start with: ifconfig_em1 Olivier ___ 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 networkcards in 1 system
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.bewrote: I installed FreeBSD-amd64 on a system which has 2 networkcards and configured 1 networkcard with its IP parameters. Now I want to add the second networkcard, and did: # sysinstall do Post-Install Configuratio Configure additional Netwerk Services Configure additional network interface and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) (After rebooting, em1 appears in the boot messages with the correct Mac- and IP address.. ) But I get many messages: Jan 13 11:05:25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 00:1b:21:UU:VV:WW on em1 Jan 13 11:54.25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 03:ba:14:UU:VV:WW on em1 ( 143.129.XX.YY is our gateway or other system, the MAC address is the mac-addres of our gateway or that other system ) Why is this? How to remedy? You can add the following two lines to /etc/sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ...and reboot or type, as root, sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 Or do I need to 'deconfigure' em1? How can I do that? Edit /etc/rc.conf manually, either using ee or vi and comment out the lines you don't want active. You have connected the two network cards to the same switch, yes? don't do that. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. --Henry Ford ___ 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 networkcards in 1 system
I suppose you use both NICs on a same network - you use common network segment or use common switch/hub. This is an old issue - try to change the segment or use vlans on the switch :) Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 13.01.2009 13:04 Please respond to Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be To mail.list freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject 2 networkcards in 1 system I installed FreeBSD-amd64 on a system which has 2 networkcards and configured 1 networkcard with its IP parameters. Now I want to add the second networkcard, and did: # sysinstall do Post-Install Configuratio Configure additional Netwerk Services Configure additional network interface and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) (After rebooting, em1 appears in the boot messages with the correct Mac- and IP address.. ) But I get many messages: Jan 13 11:05:25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 00:1b:21:UU:VV:WW on em1 Jan 13 11:54.25 macos kernel: arp: 143.129.XX.YY is on em0 but got reply from 03:ba:14:UU:VV:WW on em1 ( 143.129.XX.YY is our gateway or other system, the MAC address is the mac-addres of our gateway or that other system ) Why is this? How to remedy? Or do I need to 'deconfigure' em1? How can I do that? ___ 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
Using device.hints to determine network device unit number
Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, make the device on pci0:16 appear always as mtnic0 and pci0:9 appear always as mtnic1. # pciconf -l | grep mtnic mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at=pci0:16 hint.mtnic.1.at=pci0:19 but it doesn't work. They keep switching upon reboot. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony ___ 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
Disk Label Editor problem
I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a none 512MB* ad4s1b swap 2015MB SWAP ad4s1d none 2031MB* ad4s1e none 512MB* ad4s1f none 33084MB* Is there any way to correct the problem without reinstalling the OS? ___ 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: local copy of handbook
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: You might consider using Docsnap. This allows you to maintain all the FreeBSD documentation with a minimum of effort. Docsnap is an rsync repository for easy updating of installed FreeBSD documentation (/usr/share/doc). The first run may take longer but subsequent updates take very little time. Only the differences in the documents are transferred. That is the main advantage but you also do not need to install ports with hefty overhead to build documents. Rsync is only utility required (/usr/ports/net/rsync). Typical usage: # rsync -rltvz docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/ For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. I reported last week that this was not working. It still fails with the following error message: ~ # rsync -rltvz docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org::docsnap /usr/share/doc/ rsync: failed to connect to docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org: Connection refused (61) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(124) [receiver=3.0.5] I was under the impression that someone was looking into it. Is there any estimated time for the link to be fixed? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error
Hi people, Hi people, I am Tom and I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 7.0 from a dvd. I put the dvd in the drive and boot, the boot screen appears with the options default, acpi disabled, safe mode, etc, I then select default. The hardware probing/detecting scrolls by and then comes to a halt with the following line: GEOM_LABLE: Lable for provider acd0 is is09660/FreeBSD 7. I have also on other boot attempts tried acpi disabled, safe mode with the same outcome. Have selected single user on another attempt and sysinstall program boots, after going through setting up the hard drive and paritions durring the install of the os the following error occurs numerous times: Write failure on transfer! (write 0 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100% Just wondering if this has occured to any one else and how they got around it. Look forward to replys, thanks Tom Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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: Disk Label Editor problem
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:02:59 -0200 luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. I presume that should be 665MB and 469MB ad4s1a none 512MB* ad4s1b swap 2015MB SWAP ad4s1d none 2031MB* ad4s1e none 512MB* ad4s1f none 33084MB* Is there any way to correct the problem without reinstalling the OS? You haven't really said what the problem is. What's the output of df -h, and where were you trying to save the file to? Offhand, I would guess you trying to save it to either /tmp or /root which doesn't have enough space. ___ 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: PHP setup question
stan wrote: If you want to see what I have, It's reachable at http://beachcave/net/ampache/ I can't reach it :) Reply with the proper URL and I'll have a look. 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
FreeBSD Transition Questions.
Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the transition: 1. Does there exist a port or package, a messenger program, that is compatible with Windoze Live Messenger? i.e. can I log in similar to live messenger and see my contacts and collaborate with them? 2. Can I use any type of pictures for the desktop wallpaper? Where might I find some good wallpaper depicting the FreeBSD Daemon and Logo? 3. How does one add a device to the desktop as an icon? i.e. an external USB drive? TIA, -Grant ___ 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: Disk Label Editor problem
luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a none 512MB* ad4s1b swap 2015MB SWAP ad4s1d none 2031MB* ad4s1e none 512MB* ad4s1f none 33084MB* Is there any way to correct the problem without reinstalling the OS? ___ 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 The values you point don't add up (40GB HDD but you mention a download of 665GB). Consider maybe adding a new HDD. ___ 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
wireless nic - access point
I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or just let the FreeBSD gateway to manage that. So far, I can connect from a wireless client to the FreeBSD Access Point (I can ping any machines on the wired network) but I cannot go beyond that and I would be very pleased if someone would explain what to do in terms of ipfilter NAT or routing to access the Internet from a wireless client. I have 3 network cards: ath0 (wireless - 10.0.2.0/24), bge0 (wired- 10.0.0.0/24), bce0 (Internet - DHCP). The wired network is behind an ipfilter firewall (10.0.0.1) and wired computers are NATed. Thanks for any hints! - Regis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wireless-nic---access-point-tp21437407p21437407.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: Replace SCSI Drive
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems silly. I propose: Do a typical install of FreeBSD 6.4/7.1 on this disk. Let it be as full as to boot an operating system (but maybe skip out on the networking blah blah setups). Bring this (verified) bootable disk to the NOC, install it as da0 Move the old, 73GB failing disk to da1 Boot the Dell, maybe running in single-user mode You've got a pristine format (or pristine enough) to restore the filesystems on top of it. Rebooting with da0 again to see if your network settings, startup, apps, etc etc etc all start as appropriate. Only if this method fails, do you use the Fixit CD and fix it This is good, especially if he wants to upgrade to the next version of FreeBSD at the same time. But IIRC the problem is not that the OS currently on the disk does not work, but that there are some problems with the disk itself - but that it is still readable. It is more about replacing the disk with another presumed more reliable than the current one. So, in that case, it is much easier to take the few minutes to build the disk slice partitions and then just do the dump/restores than to build everything new and then hand pick the things he wants to save from the old disk. But, if an upgrade is done at the same time - probably a good idea actually - then that hand picking will be done anyway, so might as well do it as you say. I took it straight from his original question rather than from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way. jerry Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward way to perform this migration? If Grant has already done the job, more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one would label a drive, format it, and possibly spend more time with the slower CD-ROM based Fixit than running off a nice, new 10k/15k RPM drive to drive everything. If my method above is failing a point, I'd be more than happy to hear your statements and correct my procedures for it. My method above has only one tricky part, is to restore the 'a' partition from olddrive to newdrive. -- and that is probably a piece of cake. Grant, good luck (if you haven't done it yet). --Tim ___ 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: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:06:25AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. I think he was talking about a full filesystem restore in which case 'restore -rf' would be correct. The man page actually is a tiny bit misleading on the -r. You can use it to restore the whole filesystem in any dedicated space including any directory. But with -r you just cannot specify which part of the filesystem you want to restore, such as a particular directory or file. For that you will need -xf which will work for a full filesystem too in most cases. jerry ___ 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: Replace SCSI Drive
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems silly. I propose: Do a typical install of FreeBSD 6.4/7.1 on this disk. Let it be as full as to boot an operating system (but maybe skip out on the networking blah blah setups). Bring this (verified) bootable disk to the NOC, install it as da0 Move the old, 73GB failing disk to da1 Boot the Dell, maybe running in single-user mode You've got a pristine format (or pristine enough) to restore the filesystems on top of it. Rebooting with da0 again to see if your network settings, startup, apps, etc etc etc all start as appropriate. Only if this method fails, do you use the Fixit CD and fix it This is good, especially if he wants to upgrade to the next version of FreeBSD at the same time. But IIRC the problem is not that the OS currently on the disk does not work, but that there are some problems with the disk itself - but that it is still readable. It is more about replacing the disk with another presumed more reliable than the current one. So, in that case, it is much easier to take the few minutes to build the disk slice partitions and then just do the dump/restores than to build everything new and then hand pick the things he wants to save from the old disk. But, if an upgrade is done at the same time - probably a good idea actually - then that hand picking will be done anyway, so might as well do it as you say. I took it straight from his original question rather than from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way. jerry Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward way to perform this migration? If Grant has already done the job, more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one would label a drive, format it, and possibly spend more time with the slower CD-ROM based Fixit than running off a nice, new 10k/15k RPM drive to drive everything. If my method above is failing a point, I'd be more than happy to hear your statements and correct my procedures for it. My method above has only one tricky part, is to restore the 'a' partition from olddrive to newdrive. -- and that is probably a piece of cake. Grant, good luck (if you haven't done it yet). --Tim ___ 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 Hi Jerry, Since you original reply to my email is still my prefered method, could you please resent it (if you have a copy in your sent items mailbox). I am wrestling with Thunderbird (on freebsd) to import all my email folders from OE, with no success). I do understand all the various methods though and thanks to all for the replies! -Grant ___ 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 Transition Questions.
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the transition: 1. Does there exist a port or package, a messenger program, that is compatible with Windoze Live Messenger? i.e. can I log in similar to live messenger and see my contacts and collaborate with them? Pidgin is a nice GTK program that works well with Windows Live Message network. 2. Can I use any type of pictures for the desktop wallpaper? Where might I find some good wallpaper depicting the FreeBSD Daemon and Logo? Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/art.html 3. How does one add a device to the desktop as an icon? i.e. an external USB drive? Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html. I'm sure it will answer (or point you to) your Gnome related questions. TIA, -Grant ___ 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
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Re: Disk Label Editor problem
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:02:59AM -0200, luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a none 512MB* ad4s1b swap 2015MB SWAP ad4s1d none 2031MB* ad4s1e none 512MB* ad4s1f none 33084MB* Is there any way to correct the problem without reinstalling the OS? Well, if you are really wanting to download a 665-GB image you will need to get some more disk. The largest partition you have there is ad4s1f and that is only 33-GB.I am guessing there is a typo somewhere in your post that will have to be solved first. jerry ___ 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: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming
In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows programs? what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data over the i2c bus from userland. The iic driver seems to provide ioctls for userland manipulation; as long as you know what to send (and assuming the kernel driver finds the i2c chip), it should work. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.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 Transition Questions.
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the transition: 1. Does there exist a port or package, a messenger program, that is compatible with Windoze Live Messenger? i.e. can I log in similar to live messenger and see my contacts and collaborate with them? Pidgin is a nice GTK program that works well with Windows Live Message network. 2. Can I use any type of pictures for the desktop wallpaper? Where might I find some good wallpaper depicting the FreeBSD Daemon and Logo? Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/art.html 3. How does one add a device to the desktop as an icon? i.e. an external USB drive? Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html. I'm sure it will answer (or point you to) your Gnome related questions. TIA, -Grant ___ 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 Thanks Richard, A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? Is there an iTunes client that can connect to the iTunes store? 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? -Grant ___ 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: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows programs? what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data over the i2c bus from userland. The iic driver seems to provide ioctls for userland manipulation; as long as you know what to send (and assuming the kernel driver finds the i2c chip), it should work. I noticed the same things, but I wasn't sure if any of the real ground work had been done. I've been replacing the cells in my batteries for a while now because I get 40-60% more gain from home built compared to new batteries from the manufacturer. I'm just tired of the licensing from the software I was using because it limits how many eeproms you can re flash. ___ 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 Transition Questions.
On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? Mplayer and xine should understand and be able to play unprotected AAC files. A more complete list is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Other_software_media_players Is there an iTunes client that can connect to the iTunes store? Not aside from iTunes itself, no. If you are interested in seeing a Linux or BSD version of iTunes, consider filing an enhancement request against https://bugreport.apple.com 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? Aside from doing the import on Windows? Unix versions of T'bird have no knowledge of Microsoft's PST files, but I suppose you could upload your Outlook email to an IMAP server and then download those messages normally from there. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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 Transition Questions.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? There are lots of players capabable of playing mp3 in /usr/ports/multimedia/, e.g. audacious, amarok, xmms2, xmms (old). Only iTunes can play restricted (DRM encumbered) aac files. Is there an iTunes client that can connect to the iTunes store? Not natively. You could try running the windows version of iTunes under the wine emulator (/usr/ports/emulators/wine). 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? The /usr/ports/mail/libpst port contains a tool called readpst which can convert them to e.g. mailbox (mbox) format. Thunderbird should be able to import mbox files. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpXs7Im0iJPZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NFS or an alternative?
On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform user/group authentication since users may not always log in from the same PC. Essentially, each user has a home directory which only they, and possibly their secretary, needs to have access to. And, we have directories which groups of people need access to. Given the above requirements, Samba/CIFS is probably a better match for what you are doing that NFS would be. From the reading I have done this evening, my understanding is NFSv4 will meet all of these needs. Is this correct? And, is there a better way to accomplish this? Note that Apple only ships NFSv3-aware software, and I'm not sure whether FreeBSD supports NFSv4 yet either. There appears to be external work here: http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ ...which you might look into. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: NFS or an alternative?
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform user/group authentication since users may not always log in from the same PC. Essentially, each user has a home directory which only they, and possibly their secretary, needs to have access to. And, we have directories which groups of people need access to. Given the above requirements, Samba/CIFS is probably a better match for what you are doing that NFS would be. you could try webdav. apple's iDisk. i have used this on our corporate network for a while now, and allows mounting from any workstation. From the reading I have done this evening, my understanding is NFSv4 will meet all of these needs. Is this correct? And, is there a better way to accomplish this? Note that Apple only ships NFSv3-aware software, and I'm not sure whether FreeBSD supports NFSv4 yet either. There appears to be external work here: http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ ...which you might look into. 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: FreeBSD Transition Questions.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? Aside from doing the import on Windows? Unix versions of T'bird have no knowledge of Microsoft's PST files, but I suppose you could upload your Outlook email to an IMAP server and then download those messages normally from there. Outlook != Outlook Express. OE, last I looked, stores its mail in a .mbx file, which isn't compatible with .pst files. Beyond that, I can't say. Kurt ___ 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 Transition Questions.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? The /usr/ports/mail/libpst port contains a tool called readpst which can convert them to e.g. mailbox (mbox) format. Thunderbird should be able to import mbox files. Outlook != Outlook Express. libpst might be able to read OE's .mbx files, but I doubt it. Kurt ___ 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 Transition Questions.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? The /usr/ports/mail/libpst port contains a tool called readpst which can convert them to e.g. mailbox (mbox) format. Thunderbird should be able to import mbox files. Never used Outlook Express, but its file format, IIRC, is different than that used by Outlook (.pst). Either way, the best option would be to install Thunderbird on the Windows machine and use Thunderbird there to import the OE mail. The resulting mbox file(s) can then be simply copied over to his FreeBSD box. A randomly-selected HowTo link: http://doc.vic.computerbank.org.au/support/Getting%20mail%20from%20Outlook%20to%20Thunderbird/ Also, given that he's already using Thunderbird, I'd suggest the following be done first: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/dictionaries.html :-) -- George ___ 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
Problems with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as Xen domU
hi... I've managed to compile and setup a paravirtualized domU with FreeBSD 8 (SVN snapshot from 'head'). Currently I'm running into two mayor problems: - The system time is not behaving as expected. Example: I fired the domain up at 01:43 in the morning and watch the clock. Time passes normally within the maschine, and the suddenly jumps back to 01:30:VARIES. From there on time passes normally up to 15 minutes (the latest time I've seen is 01:44:52). Right now the domain is running for more than 18 hours, and the clock still says: Tue Jan 13 01:32:52 CET 2009 Running 'ntpd' inside the domU doesn't help to solve the problem. If found a lot of hints for linux domU's, which say that you need to set the sysctl 'xen.independent_wallclock' to '1' and run 'ntpd' in the domU to keep time correct. Does 'sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock=1' the same in FreeBSD? (If so, this doesn' work.) - 2-way SMP doesn't work. When I put the line vcpus=2 into my config file, I get the following output during boot, and the domU is destroyed after the reboot by the kernel: # xm create 00_template_8-CURRENT.XENconfig -c Using config file ./00_template_8-CURRENT.XENconfig. Started domain template_8-CURRENT WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3: Thu Jan 8 04:34:03 CET 2009 r...@template-8_current.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/freebsd8_XEN WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Xen reported: 1600.056 MHz processor. Timecounter ixen frequency 10 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1600.06-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc0480800SYSCALL,MP,MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow! real memory = 671088640 (640 MB) avail memory = 649625600 (619 MB) gdtpfn=3edd9 pdptpfn=3 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu=0 irq=0 vector=0 cpu=0 irq=0 vector=1 cpu=1 irq=0 vector=0 cpu=1 irq=0 vector=1 kbd0 at kbdmux0 xenbus0: Xen Devices on motherboard xc0: Xen Console on motherboard Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec xbd0: 8192MB Virtual Block Device at device/vbd/768 on xenbus0 xbd0: attaching as ad0 GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (15h,63s != 255h,63s). xn0: Virtual Network Interface at device/vif/0 on xenbus0 xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:06:c3:80 [XEN] netfront_backend_changed: newstate=2 Spanic: blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) XCONS LOCK @ /usr/src/sys/dev/xen/console/console.c:290 cpuid = 1 Uptime: 1s Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort -- Press a key on the console to reboot, -- or switch off the system now. Rebooting... I've attached my kernelconfig file to this mail, if someone sees a failure in it. Any hints on how to solve these 2 problems would be really great. Using FreeBSD in it's current state as domU really rocks. :-))) greetz olli # # XEN -- Kernel configuration for i386 XEN DomU # # $FreeBSD$ cpu I686_CPU ident XEN makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE= options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption #optionsSCHED_4BSD options INET# InterNETworking #optionsINET6 # IPv6 communications protocols #optionsSCTP# Stream Control Transmission Protocol options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories #optionsUFS_GJOURNAL# Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling #optionsNFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client #optionsNFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server #optionsNFSLOCKD# Network Lock Manager #optionsNFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT #optionsMSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660
Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? Aside from doing the import on Windows? Unix versions of T'bird have no knowledge of Microsoft's PST files, but I suppose you could upload your Outlook email to an IMAP server and then download those messages normally from there. Outlook != Outlook Express. OE, last I looked, stores its mail in a .mbx file, which isn't compatible with .pst files. Beyond that, I can't say. Kurt ___ 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 Hi Guys, Looking at the folders on Outlook Express, they are in *.dbx format. Does this help? -Grant ___ 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 Transition Questions.
George Davidovich wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? The /usr/ports/mail/libpst port contains a tool called readpst which can convert them to e.g. mailbox (mbox) format. Thunderbird should be able to import mbox files. Never used Outlook Express, but its file format, IIRC, is different than that used by Outlook (.pst). shoulf be easy to import outlook express into outlook Either way, the best option would be to install Thunderbird on the Windows machine and use Thunderbird there to import the OE mail. The resulting mbox file(s) can then be simply copied over to his FreeBSD box. ___ 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 Transition Questions.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way? Aside from doing the import on Windows? Unix versions of T'bird have no knowledge of Microsoft's PST files, but I suppose you could upload your Outlook email to an IMAP server and then download those messages normally from there. Outlook != Outlook Express. OE, last I looked, stores its mail in a .mbx file, which isn't compatible with .pst files. Beyond that, I can't say. Kurt ___ 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 Hi Guys, Looking at the folders on Outlook Express, they are in *.dbx format. Does this help? -Grant Sorry, my memory led me astray - they are .dbx files. And, unfortunately, that doesn't help. I think the procedure described by George Davidovich is your best bet. Kurt ___ 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 7.0 Installation error
This is a listing of my hardware, I probably should have listed it in my earlier post. Hardware: Motherboard: A7N8X-E Deluxe socket A (462) Chipset: Northbridge: NVIDIA nforce2 spp ultra400 Southbrdige nvidia nforce2 MCP-T memory ddr 184pin (maximum of 3x184) I have kingston kvr400x64c3ak 512mb pc3200 (two pieces) ram installed.. on board audio: mcp-t southbridge + realtec alc50 6channel audio codec networking: Marvell 88e8001 gigibit, mcp-t southbridge controller mac + realtec 8201BL phy 1394: mcp-t southbridge ieee 1394a controller + realtec 8801BL phy internal connectors: usb2 connectors, games/midi, 2 ide, 20pin atx power, 2 sata, 2 1394, 5 pci, 1 asus propriety wi-fi slot and a couple others. Hard drive is a Western Digital WD2000jb ide caviar 200GB optical drive: asus drw-1604p (jumper cap is on cable select at the moment. However there are five rows of pins, three are cable select, master and secondary, no idea what the other two are) Graphics card is an asus A9600 series AGP ati From what I remember seeing fly by on the screen last night the majority of the motherboard parts were detected including the rear panel connectors which I did not list (if you want me to list those, let me know). Hope this helps. Thanks Tom --- On Tue, 13/1/09, T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From: T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 11:04 PM Hi people, Hi people, I am Tom and I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 7.0 from a dvd. I put the dvd in the drive and boot, the boot screen appears with the options default, acpi disabled, safe mode, etc, I then select default. The hardware probing/detecting scrolls by and then comes to a halt with the following line: GEOM_LABLE: Lable for provider acd0 is is09660/FreeBSD 7. I have also on other boot attempts tried acpi disabled, safe mode with the same outcome. Have selected single user on another attempt and sysinstall program boots, after going through setting up the hard drive and paritions durring the install of the os the following error occurs numerous times: Write failure on transfer! (write 0 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100% Just wondering if this has occured to any one else and how they got around it. Look forward to replys, thanks Tom Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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 Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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 7.0 Installation error
Hopefully I am posting to the correct list...Or should I be posting to freebsd-stable? --- On Wed, 14/1/09, T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From: T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 6:58 AM This is a listing of my hardware, I probably should have listed it in my earlier post. Hardware: Motherboard: A7N8X-E Deluxe socket A (462) Chipset: Northbridge: NVIDIA nforce2 spp ultra400 Southbrdige nvidia nforce2 MCP-T memory ddr 184pin (maximum of 3x184) I have kingston kvr400x64c3ak 512mb pc3200 (two pieces) ram installed... on board audio: mcp-t southbridge + realtec alc50 6channel audio codec networking: Marvell 88e8001 gigibit, mcp-t southbridge controller mac + realtec 8201BL phy 1394: mcp-t southbridge ieee 1394a controller + realtec 8801BL phy internal connectors: usb2 connectors, games/midi, 2 ide, 20pin atx power, 2 sata, 2 1394, 5 pci, 1 asus propriety wi-fi slot and a couple others. Hard drive is a Western Digital WD2000jb ide caviar 200GB optical drive: asus drw-1604p (jumper cap is on cable select at the moment. However there are five rows of pins, three are cable select, master and secondary, no idea what the other two are) Graphics card is an asus A9600 series AGP ati From what I remember seeing fly by on the screen last night the majority of the motherboard parts were detected including the rear panel connectors which I did not list (if you want me to list those, let me know). Hope this helps. Thanks Tom --- On Tue, 13/1/09, T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From: T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 11:04 PM Hi people, Hi people, I am Tom and I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 7.0 from a dvd. I put the dvd in the drive and boot, the boot screen appears with the options default, acpi disabled, safe mode, etc, I then select default. The hardware probing/detecting scrolls by and then comes to a halt with the following line: GEOM_LABLE: Lable for provider acd0 is is09660/FreeBSD 7. I have also on other boot attempts tried acpi disabled, safe mode with the same outcome. Have selected single user on another attempt and sysinstall program boots, after going through setting up the hard drive and paritions durring the install of the os the following error occurs numerous times: Write failure on transfer! (write 0 bytes of 1425408 bytes) 100% Just wondering if this has occured to any one else and how they got around it. Look forward to replys, thanks Tom Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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 Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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 Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox ___ 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: wireless nic - access point
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 06:00:08 regis505 wrote: I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or just let the FreeBSD gateway to manage that. So far, I can connect from a wireless client to the FreeBSD Access Point (I can ping any machines on the wired network) but I cannot go beyond that and I would be very pleased if someone would explain what to do in terms of ipfilter NAT or routing to access the Internet from a wireless client. I have 3 network cards: ath0 (wireless - 10.0.2.0/24), bge0 (wired- 10.0.0.0/24), bce0 (Internet - DHCP). The wired network is behind an ipfilter firewall (10.0.0.1) and wired computers are NATed. If what you're saying is I cannot reach the internet, then you're missing a NAT rule for 10.0.2.0/24 to any. If you're unable to ping hosts on the wireless network other then the AP, then apbridge is likely turned off. Otherwise, in pf syntax: pass in on $int_if from $int_if:network to $wire_if:network \ tag WLAN_LAN keep state label wlan_lan pass in on $wire_if from $wire_if:network to $int_if:network\ tag LAN_WLAN keep state label lan_wlan should be enough to allow traffic from wireless to wire if you're default blocking. I don't know of a real advantage to bridge these, as traffic will go through AP physically regardless. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest
Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but 'atk-1.20.0' is installed Now I did # pkg_add -r atk pkg_add: package 'atk-1.22.0_1' or its older version already installed so with pkg_add -r I get newer packages than I got with freebsd-update. Why? ___ 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: 3945ABG wireless problems
On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:55:48 Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached That's not the right button or it's mapped wrong. It's an USB related switch and the wpi card doesn't do anything with USB. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable
Hi all, Hopefully someone can shed some light on my problem. Over the weekend, we upgraded our mailserver that was running like a champ w/ FBSD 7.0 and a PAE kernel (8gb RAM). I didn't use the freebsd-update program, because I read that if you're not using a GENERIC kernel, it wont work. I had changed the standard-supfile like that had RELENG_7_0 to RELENG_7_1 and ran cvsup. I followed the handbook for cleaning out the /usr/src/obj directory, rebuilt the world and kernel via: # cd /usr/src# make buildworld# make buildkernel KERNCONF=PAE# make installkernel KERNCONF=PAE then I rebooted into single user mode and performed the: # mount -a -t ufs# mergemaster -p# cd /usr/src# make installworld# mergemaster When I did the mergemaster, I kept my master.password, hosts, passwd, rc.conf, and make.conf. But for the most part, I 'i' installed the new files. Since then, we have had severe server instability after a few hours. The server completely locks up requiring a hard boot, then the fsck_ufs runs for a while. This is our production mail server, and we've been down off and on for 2 days. I'm in the process of building a replacement and getting back online with 7.0 and a GENERIC kernel, but what on Earth could have gone on? Did I do something wrong with using a PAE kernel on 7.1? I'm in single-user mode again running 'fsck -y' and there are TONS of errors on the /usr volume. The /var/log/messages just shows that the server was restarted, and I'm just wondering where to start. _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009___ 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
Problems with ixgbe driver
Hello, I have problems with ixgbe driver: 1. build fails In file included from /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c:39: /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.h:87:21: error: tcp_lro.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DL380-G5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130476) new is, that I try to fix it with this (i dont know, if it is correct, but it works): on line 87 in ixgbe.h #include netinet/tcp_lro.h 2. more worse problem - vlans arent working. I can create vlan, I can set it up, but ping is tagged only for upload, download tells me, that ip is on vlan but got reply from ix1. I try to catch it with tcpdump, packtet is deliver to other machine, but back is delivered as not tagged. We still talk about 7.1 release. Yesterday I have 7.0 release, there were vlans working but routing was very slow, so I tried to reinstall to 7.1 :-(. Thank you Radek ___ 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: 3945ABG wireless problems
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again - Turning ON - Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0x, val=0x4040, result=0x4040 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here?? These might be of interest to you: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=965 http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.mobile/browse_thread/thread/1f9bed1561f5d676?pli=1 ___ 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
receiving mail
Newly installed FreeBSD-7.0. Sending mail to other hosts works. Receiving mail does not: Between host1 (non-freebsd) and host2 (freebsd 7), sending a mail from host1 to host2 (both in domain .domain.topdom) results in message 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - u...@host2.domain.topdom - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 u...@host2.domain.topdom... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost.domain.topdom: host not found) - host1 and host2 are both behind a firewall, but they are in the same zone (so firewall rules do not apply), both are even connected to same switch and their IPs are in the same subnet. Both have fixed IP address (not DHCP) mailhost.domain.topdom does not exist in DNS, but host1 can send mail to other mailservers all over the world. host2(FreeBSD): /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns /etc/resolv.conf domain domain.topdom nameserver UUU.VVV.WWW.ZZZ (correct ip address of a DNS nameserver) DNS is fully working on host2 (and on host1) According to the FreeBSD handbook I should be able to receive mail ? What can be missing here, how to remedy? ___ 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: updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, brad davison demonichandextensi...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, Hopefully someone can shed some light on my problem. Over the weekend, we upgraded our mailserver that was running like a champ w/ FBSD 7.0 and a PAE kernel (8gb RAM). I didn't use the freebsd-update program, because I read that if you're not using a GENERIC kernel, it wont work. I had changed the standard-supfile like that had RELENG_7_0 to RELENG_7_1 and ran cvsup. I followed the handbook for cleaning out the /usr/src/obj directory, rebuilt the world and kernel via: # cd /usr/src# make buildworld# make buildkernel KERNCONF=PAE# make installkernel KERNCONF=PAE then I rebooted into single user mode and performed the: # mount -a -t ufs# mergemaster -p# cd /usr/src# make installworld# mergemaster When I did the mergemaster, I kept my master.password, hosts, passwd, rc.conf, and make.conf. But for the most part, I 'i' installed the new files. Since then, we have had severe server instability after a few hours. The server completely locks up requiring a hard boot, then the fsck_ufs runs for a while. This is our production mail server, and we've been down off and on for 2 days. I'm in the process of building a replacement and getting back online with 7.0 and a GENERIC kernel, but what on Earth could have gone on? Did I do something wrong with using a PAE kernel on 7.1? I'm in single-user mode again running 'fsck -y' and there are TONS of errors on the /usr volume. The /var/log/messages just shows that the server was restarted, and I'm just wondering where to start. _ Windows Live™ Hotmail(R): Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.orghttp://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=txt_taglm_wl_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009___freebsd-questi...@freebsd.orgmailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org could be due to PAE. since PAE is known not to be very stable. ___ 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-update doesn't seem to update to Latest
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sebastian Setzer sebastianset...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but 'atk-1.20.0' is installed Now I did # pkg_add -r atk pkg_add: package 'atk-1.22.0_1' or its older version already installed so with pkg_add -r I get newer packages than I got with freebsd-update. Why? ___ 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=update does not install any packages. you had atk installed before you upgraded you need to update your ports to the correct versions needed. ___ 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: Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7
On Saturday 10 January 2009 16:37:50 Andrew Falanga wrote: I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to p7. What would have changed that would not prevent this? When using x11/nvidia-driver, recompile it for this new kernel. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable
matt donovan schreef: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, brad davison demonichandextensi...@hotmail.com wrote: Since then, we have had severe server instability after a few hours. The server completely locks up requiring a hard boot, then the fsck_ufs runs for a while. This is our production mail server, and we've been down off and on for 2 days. could be due to PAE. since PAE is known not to be very stable. First thing I'd try too. Compile a GENERIC kernel and see if that brings any improvement. If it does, perhaps consider running AMD64 in stead of PAE. Alot more stable. -- FR ___ 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: receiving mail
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 13:20:33 Pieter Donche wrote: 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - u...@host2.domain.topdom - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 u...@host2.domain.topdom... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost.domain.topdom: host not found) - host1 and host2 are both behind a firewall, but they are in the same zone (so firewall rules do not apply), both are even connected to same switch and their IPs are in the same subnet. Both have fixed IP address (not DHCP) mailhost.domain.topdom does not exist in DNS, but host1 can send mail to other mailservers all over the world. MX record for host2.domain.topdom resolves to an unknown mailhost.domain.topdom. See: host -t MX host2.domain.topdom on host1.domain.topdom. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD-SA-09:03.ntpd
I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj make depend make make install # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj make depend make make install # /etc/rc.d/named restart ...and I got: make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../libparse/libparse.a. Stop Thanks. ___ 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: receiving mail
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: Between host1 (non-freebsd) and host2 (freebsd 7), sending a mail from host1 to host2 (both in domain .domain.topdom) results in message 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - u...@host2.domain.topdom - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 u...@host2.domain.topdom... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost.domain.topdom: host not found) - The MX for host2.domain.topdom is mailhost.domain.topdom; the latter is unreachable by host1, hence the permanent failure. mailhost.domain.topdom does not exist in DNS, but host1 can send mail to other mailservers all over the world. The fact that host1 can send mail anywhere else is irrelevant; fix the MX entry or make mailhost.domain.topdom real/reachable from host1. Or remove or adjust the MX entry for host2.domain.topdom so host1 sends mail to host2.domain.topdom instead of its mailhost.domain.topdom. -- Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net ___ 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-SA-09:03.ntpd
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 21:30:59 Mitja wrote: I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj make depend make make install # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj make depend make make install # /etc/rc.d/named restart ...and I got: make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../libparse/libparse.a. Stop Hi, you can try updating the complete system by using csup(1), take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html I think that this is the better way to upgrade any issue with security advisories. Thanks. ___ [SNIP] Best regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | FreeBSD Linux ..O | dmw [at] coder [dot] cl | Open Standards OOO | http://coder.cl/| FOSS Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: unsub
--On January 13, 2009 9:38:31 AM -0600 Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org wrote: unsub Another Criminal Minds fan? Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying ___ 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
mythtv ported over to freebsd?
Has anyone installed mythtv on a fbsd box? I checked the port makefile, and it stated that the port was broken? Is this true? If so, what are the major issues? On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Mitja wrote: I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj make depend make make install # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj make depend make make install # /etc/rc.d/named restart ...and I got: make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../libparse/libparse.a. Stop Thanks. ___ 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 -- -- Best, David Karapetyan http://davidkarapetyan.homeunix.com University of Notre Dame Department of Mathematics 255 Hurley Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618 Phone: 574-631-5706 Cell: 202-460-5173 Fax: 574-631-6579 ___ 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: unsub
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On January 13, 2009 9:38:31 AM -0600 Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org wrote: unsub Another Criminal Minds fan? ROFL! -- Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net ___ 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: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:44:12PM +0100, cpghost wrote: Any idea? Could this be implemented as a plugin to Subversion (since it must access previous revisions of files and previously computed digests)? Given read-only access to the repository, a set of simple Python scripts or C/C++ programs could easily implement the basic functionality and cache the results for fast retrieval by other scripts. But how well will all this scale? Sorry to revive this thread by replying to self, but nothing has materialized out of it (yet). Considering all that has been said up until now, it boils down to this: Issue #1 was signing the list: With or without SSL/TLS certificates, the (compressed) list could be signed by a web-trusted GnuPG Project Key, so let's assume it will be, and deal with the issue of transmission over SSL and how to get a certificate for the server(s) later (if at all). Issue #2 was how to generate the list out of the repository. A script that has (read-only) access to the Subversion repo would first in batch mode compute md5/sha256 checksums for *all* revisions available. It may take some time, but so what? It's only a one-time job, so let it run overnight to checksum the few GBs. The results could be stored in an arbitrary database. Then, another script will have to be hooked into Subversion, so that each commit will have that script compute the md5/sha256 checksums of the additional revisions, and store them in the database as well. This doesn't seem too much of a burden on the server, because even if the commits come in bursts, the number of bytes to commit are very fast checksummed... and saved in the database (I think / hope). It doesn't look like an overly expensive operation. Issue #3 was how to generate the list on-demand. That's a simple database query script, that would select a subset of files, revisions and checksums from the database, compress the result, sign it with the GnuPG Project Key, and return it to the user. This scales well to many concurrent client queries, because the database is independent from the Subversion server and can run on separate hardware -- and even be replicated if need be. Issue #4 was how to get the checksums on the client side. A simple app could connect to the checksum server (the app defined in Issue #3) -- or one of its mirrors if need be -- and select a signed list for a specific subrange (say, now up to 24h in the past). It would verify the signature using the public Project Key (obtained through a secure channel -- but let's care about that later when the infrastructure is in place). This app could factor out the tasks of querying the server and checking the signature into a library, that could also be used by an expanded version of csup. The idea is that csup, called with a special flag would verify the checksums of all files downloaded in the current run; while the main app could still check the integrity of a tree fetched 2 months ago, provided it is called with the right time stamp. Issue #5 was how to identify the revisions of files stored locally. That's a tough one, AFAICS. How to solve that one? Ideas? On old trees, its kinda hopeless (but read below); new invocations of a modified csup could save metadata, including revisions numbers somewhere (/var/db/sup perhaps), and use those metadata. For old(er) trees, checksums could be computed locally and sent to the checksum server for identification purposes. The server could match the path and checksums obtained through the client, and return a revision number (if any) out of the database. That in turn could be stored post-facto in /var/db/sup, and everything could proceed as above. Soo... implementation should now be easy as pie and require just a few lines of Python or a few more lines of C and a couple of little programs... and of course read-only access to the repository for deployment once it's ready. Or is it not yet? Thanks, -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
NFS fstab style
Hi, I've posted this question on a few boards but couldn't get a solid confirmation: Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0 Basically: -b vs bg and -i vs intr Thank you .Anthony.. ___ 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: NFS fstab style
Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0 I've never seen the style of line 1 before, no idea whether it would work or not. ___ 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
updating to 7.1 with a small root slice
Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install the new one. Then I pray, hope for the best and reboot. However, I read that if I want to update to 7.1 I will need to boot a generic kernel at some point. What option do I have? Even if I install a copy of GENERIC kernel into /boot, it most likely won't fit in the available file space. The problem is the machine's remote so I cannot take it down, replace drives, etc. as I am bound by a hosting contract and frankly I really do not want to do that unless I have no other option. Thoughts? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl ___ 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: receiving mail
on host1: $ host -t MX macos.cmi.ua.ac.be returns no answer This is the same as with another host on the same subnet, also in the same zone and on the same switch... and which does receive a sent mail --- But, when I try from host1 $ telnet host2.domain.topdom 25 Trying 143.129.75.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Op host2.domain.topdom I see sendmail is running: host2: $ ps -jaxw | grep sendm smmsp 816 1 816 8160 Is??0:00.02 sendmail: Queue run...@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) root812 1 812 8120 Ss??0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2009 13:20:33 Pieter Donche wrote: 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - u...@host2.domain.topdom - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 u...@host2.domain.topdom... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost.domain.topdom: host not found) - host1 and host2 are both behind a firewall, but they are in the same zone (so firewall rules do not apply), both are even connected to same switch and their IPs are in the same subnet. Both have fixed IP address (not DHCP) mailhost.domain.topdom does not exist in DNS, but host1 can send mail to other mailservers all over the world. MX record for host2.domain.topdom resolves to an unknown mailhost.domain.topdom. See: host -t MX host2.domain.topdom on host1.domain.topdom. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
