FreeBSD, quota
to be able to impose file and disk quotas on individual users the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options are supported? ___ 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: World doesn't build correctly
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:25 +0100, Frank Wißmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: Well, I used your settings of default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7, but the answer is still this: FreeBSD grissom.einundvierzig.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Feb 18 21:36:57 CET 2009 r...@grissom.einundvierzig.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRISSOM amd64 Any ideas, folks? Or should I post something more? may I ask how exactly you did the update? As it has mentioned before, the handbook (even the german version) gives a good routeplan for this. In general: # cd /usr/src # make update # make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=GRISSOM # make installkernel KERNCONF=GRISSOM # reboot boot -s fsck and mount -a # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot (Hope that's correct from my mind, check handbook anyway.) Note that the configuration files mentioned above usually employ the make update command from within /usr/src. Kernel and world have to be the same version. Oh yes, and check your /boot/loader.conf if eventually a previous kernel is loaded, maybe you stored a spare kernel in /boot and the loader loads this, instead of /boot/kernel/kernel? Just to be sure... I mention this because I had a spare 6.0-GENERIC kernel saved in /boot, a setting in /boot/loader.conf for some testing, then updated the system (which affected /boot/kernel/kernel, but not /boot/kernel/kernel.GENERIC which was instead loaded). :-) -- 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
mail question
Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v ___ 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: mail question
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v Hello again, I guess i have found what i want. Postfix MILTER http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html. So basically i create a filter in C, perl or something, I use it via STMP or non-STMP. That filter makes the necessary changes and afterwards i reinject the mail into postfix. If anybody has the time/chance to verify if I am right please let me know. thanks, v ___ 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, quota
Have you looked at the official documentation? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/book.html#QUOTAS Pieter Donche wrote: to be able to impose file and disk quotas on individual users the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options are supported? ___ 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
SOLVED: Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:44:31 -0900, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: Can you show mount -p before trying to unmount /usr? On the off-chance /export or /export/home is really a symlink to /usr/home (mount -p shows realpath(3) for mounts). Hm, I keep /home out of /usr, so there's only a symlink (for the obvious compatibility reasons) /home@ - export/home. BUT, and now the big surprise, maybe a possibility: % mount -p /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 devfs /devdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1d /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /export/homeufs rw 2 2 devfs /var/named/dev devfs rw 0 0 linprocfs /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 Haha!!! It seems that the linprocfs prevents umounting of /usr because its mountpoint /usr/compat/linux/proc is de facto INSIDE /usr. I've checked this while in SUM: When umounting linprocfs prior to /usr, no problems occur. I'll speak to Mr. Tritter so he can stop his investigations. Seems that we found the reason. Thanks for your help. Seems that I'm too stupid to own a computer. :-) -- 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: SOLVED: Re: Determining process preventing umount of busy partition
that we found the reason. Thanks for your help. Seems that I'm too stupid to own a computer. :-) i wish more people will be as stupid as you ;) ___ 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, quota
the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options are supported? options QUOTA man 7 ffs for 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
Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]
From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au [snip] Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting, including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. This list is getting very hard to follow as a digest anymore, when half of it or more is re-re-repeated overtailquoting of irrelevant trivia. Please come back from the dark side .. 1) MS Outlook is not the only MUA that defaults to 'TOP POSTING'. 2) It is configurable in the newer versions 3) The lack of effort by many posters to trim a message prior to sending is equally annoying. 4) The insertion of legally unenforceable disclaimers, etc. is another big waste of space. 5) The use of HTML mail in a mail forum is absurd; however, it is commonly done (GMail). 6) One of my 'Pet Peeves: Morons who change a thread's subject rather than start a new one. -- 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
NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Hello list, I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron 500+ Mhz machine with 32 Megs of ram, and a 10G hard drive. I am(was) initially thinking about taking out the 10G, and using the flobby disk drive to boot off of. I was familiar with PicoBSD years ago and know I could use that, but it seems that project has been discontinued. After looking through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying one? Thanks, ~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: mail question
Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v Hello again, I guess i have found what i want. Postfix MILTER http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html. So basically i create a filter in C, perl or something, I use it via STMP or non-STMP. That filter makes the necessary changes and afterwards i reinject the mail into postfix. If anybody has the time/chance to verify if I am right please let me know. Depending upon your wishes can MimeDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/) do a lot for you (without you having to code anything). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron 500+ Mhz machine with quite powerfull machine, it will run smoothly full FreeBSD installed on hard drive. i think it's much better solution. ___ 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: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]
5) The use of HTML mail in a mail forum is absurd; however, it is commonly done (GMail). this is a problem - as GMail and similar things itself. 6) One of my 'Pet Peeves: Morons who change a thread's subject rather than start a new one. was me sometimes by accident, but i do care now not doing this. ___ 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
desktop app/config
Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui thanx ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Thursday 19 February 2009 15:07:50 Paul Procacci napisał(a): After looking through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying one? I think that it will be quite hard to make it running from floppy. If you don't want to install it on this HD (f.ex. because of noise) then you can replace HDD with Disk-On-Module or CF card with CF-IDE adapter. With booting from usb on such rather old computers I had so many problems that I went for other options like these mentioned above. Maciek ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron 500+ Mhz machine with quite powerfull machine, it will run smoothly full FreeBSD installed on hard drive. i think it's much better solution. Yeah, I realize it's more powerful than necessary to handle the task...though my current firewall/router is a 860+ Mhz PIII w/ 128 Megs of ram. So, this would be a downgrade for my current firewall/router which allows me to repurpose the existing machine for something more computationally expensive. Still though, I like information requested on nanoBSD (can it fit on a floppy), and how if booting off a usb stick is doable. I imagine this has to do with later bios's...or not? 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: desktop app/config
In response to Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui Both KDE and Gnome should feel pretty familiar to an XP user. The handbook has some useful docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html See the section about the kde display manager for example. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Yeah, I realize it's more powerful than necessary to handle the task...though my current firewall/router is a 860+ Mhz PIII w/ 128 Megs of ram. So, this would be a downgrade for my current firewall/router which allows me to repurpose the existing machine for something more computationally expensive. so - downgrade. FreeBSD easily runs (full, not stripped) on 32MB RAM ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Maciej Milewski wrote: Thursday 19 February 2009 15:07:50 Paul Procacci napisał(a): After looking through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying one? I think that it will be quite hard to make it running from floppy. If you don't want to install it on this HD (f.ex. because of noise) then you can replace HDD with Disk-On-Module or CF card with CF-IDE adapter. With booting from usb on such rather old computers I had so many problems that I went for other options like these mentioned above. Maciek ___ 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 This information was precisely what I was looking for. Thank you. ~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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
even so, im not so sure alot of people with to run a full install on a firewall, for various reasons. If I was doing it, Id go with a CF card, or USB, though age of system might make that unreliable. even pfsense can run straight off cdrom, makes a decent option also. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Yeah, I realize it's more powerful than necessary to handle the task...though my current firewall/router is a 860+ Mhz PIII w/ 128 Megs of ram. So, this would be a downgrade for my current firewall/router which allows me to repurpose the existing machine for something more computationally expensive. so - downgrade. FreeBSD easily runs (full, not stripped) on 32MB RAM ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Outback Dingo wrote: even so, im not so sure alot of people with to run a full install on a firewall, for various reasons. If I was doing it, Id go with a CF card, or USB, though age of system might make that unreliable. even pfsense can run straight off cdrom, makes a decent option also. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Yeah, I realize it's more powerful than necessary to handle the task...though my current firewall/router is a 860+ Mhz PIII w/ 128 Megs of ram. So, this would be a downgrade for my current firewall/router which allows me to repurpose the existing machine for something more computationally expensive. so - downgrade. FreeBSD easily runs (full, not stripped) on 32MB RAM ___ 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 I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) The disk-on-module is spot on and that's what I'll probably use: $14 bucks for 128 Megs w/ NanoBSD I believe is goingn to suffice nicely. Thanks Guys! ~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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
Anybody knows if NanoBSD can be installed on a hard disk and use it to store data, logs, etc? for example, for a tiny mail server? Paul Procacci wrote: Hello list, I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron 500+ Mhz machine with 32 Megs of ram, and a 10G hard drive. I am(was) initially thinking about taking out the 10G, and using the flobby disk drive to boot off of. I was familiar with PicoBSD years ago and know I could use that, but it seems that project has been discontinued. After looking through archives to determine what to do, I can across nanoBSD as that seems to be included in the FreeBSD system by default, henceforth this question. I couldn't find any information regarding the smallest image size possible using NanoBSD. So the question is: can nanoBSD fw/ the proper configurations fit onto a floppy disk...and if not, is such an old computer bootable off of a usb stick? How can I tell without buying one? Thanks, ~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 ___ 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: desktop app/config
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening.It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ 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: desktop app/config
I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening.It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ 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: World doesn't build correctly
Am Donnerstag 19 Februar 2009 10:53:43 schrieb Polytropon:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:25 +0100, Frank Wißmann
frank.wissman...@web.de wrote:
Well, I used your settings of default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7,
but the answer is still this:
FreeBSD grissom.einundvierzig.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
#0: Wed Feb 18 21:36:57 CET 2009
r...@grissom.einundvierzig.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRISSOM amd64
Any ideas, folks? Or should I post something more?
may I ask how exactly you did the update? As it has mentioned
before, the handbook (even the german version) gives a good
routeplan for this.
In general:
# cd /usr/src
# make update
# make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=GRISSOM
# make installkernel KERNCONF=GRISSOM
# reboot
boot -s
fsck and mount -a
# cd /usr/src
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# reboot
(Hope that's correct from my mind, check handbook anyway.)FreeBSD
grissom.einundvierzig.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Feb
18 21:36:57 CET 2009
r...@grissom.einundvierzig.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRISSOM amd64
Note that the configuration files mentioned above usually employ
the make update command from within /usr/src. Kernel and world
have to be the same version.
Oh yes, and check your /boot/loader.conf if eventually a previous
kernel is loaded, maybe you stored a spare kernel in /boot and
the loader loads this, instead of /boot/kernel/kernel? Just to be
sure... I mention this because I had a spare 6.0-GENERIC kernel
saved in /boot, a setting in /boot/loader.conf for some testing,
then updated the system (which affected /boot/kernel/kernel,
but not /boot/kernel/kernel.GENERIC which was instead loaded). :-)
I did it now the way you told me but it still shows 7.0-Release at
uname -a. I attach my make.conf and cvs-supfile' maybe there is
something wrong?
Greetings Frank
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*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr/src
*default prefix=/usr/src
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
src-all
ports-all
doc-all
www
cvsroot-all
CPUTYPE?= opteron
NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true
NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS= true
CFLAGS= -O -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS= true
CXXFLAGS+= -fconserve-space
MAKE_SHELL?=sh
BDECFLAGS= -W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wbad-function-cast \
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RE: desktop app/config
That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
RE: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening.It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ 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: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are
RE: desktop app/config
What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:36 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more
off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and ending date/times and the originating IP address. Is there any other information I need to send? Is there someone else I should notify? Most of the attacks I receive are from other continents, so I just block the network range found via 'whois'. In this case, the IP address is fairly local, so I'm hesitant to block the entire range. Thanks, 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: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and ending date/times and the originating IP address. Is there any other information I need to send? i don't think so. anyway - if all password are well made still there is no problem. Is there someone else I should notify? i don't think so. Most of the attacks I receive are from other continents, so I just block the network range found via 'whois'. it's good solution, mostly because those in ab...@* often simply ignore such mails. ___ 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-7.1-p3 Realtek RTL8111/8168B driver regression?
Hi all, Yesterday I updated to 7.1-p3 on AMD64 arch. Since then, the NIC is not detected anymore. ifconfig doesn't show it and I can't connect to the Internet. There were well-known issues with this NIC model (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2008-11/msg00299.html) before, but the weird thing is that it seemed to be fine with 7.1-RELEASE and newer till this -p3. Anybody with this problem? Thanks in advance. ___ 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: sendmail not listening on port 465
On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Seur Bors wrote: I'm having problems with Sendmail. Everything is working fine, except that the sendmail daemon is not listening on port 465. [...] DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl You are aware that using port 465 was never fully a standard is, at best, deprecated. Your daemon options say to use port smtps, check to see whether that is defined in /etc/services and see what happens if you replace Port=smtps with Port=465 But do reconsider whether you need to be listening on 465 in the first place. You can (and should) simply use TLS on the submission port, 587. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. So source of these is almost always some other compromised Unix-like system. I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and ending date/times and the originating IP address. When reporting the times, be sure to make the time zone clear. Is there any other information I need to send? Is there someone else I should notify? There's no general answer to that. It really depends the specifics of the case. For example, a small business might have a small netblock and an abuse address, but aren't competent to deal with your notification. Think of a small business that has a bunch of Window's clients and one ancient RedHat system that hasn't been maintained for years and was set up by someone who doesn't work there anymore. In that case, it might be useful to inform their provider as well. Back when I used to report these things, I had a template message for doing so. Most of the attacks I receive are from other continents, so I just block the network range found via 'whois'. If you block, and your firewall will log the failed attempts, then you may also look at participating in DShield http://www.dshield.org/howto.html Cheers, -j ___ 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: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]
On Thursday 19 February 2009 05:06:15 GESBBB wrote: 4) The insertion of legally unenforceable disclaimers, etc. is another big waste of space. And not always under the control of sender, through the creative use of outgoing mailfilters. -- 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: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:39:53 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure TO connect to a Windows Active Directory, you need to use LDAP for authentication. HOW to do that is beyond me and thus google.com is your friend. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:36 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help
Well, almost back to normal....
Guys, Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the following error output: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. I had a system crash and had to reboot via using /boot/kernel.prev, then was able to do a complete upgrade to the latest 7.1; then did a wholesale upgrade. After 4 days it finished. I Did an X -configure to get a new xorg . conf and thought everything was Fixed. Still, whenever I initiate a new Konsole; whenever I ssh in from elsewhere, I get the Xlib missing on display 0.0 errs.What' is still not right? [back to thesis. hope some of you knows what's going on with this! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a 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: World doesn't build correctly
On Thursday 19 February 2009 08:14:01 Frank Wißmann wrote: I did it now the way you told me but it still shows 7.0-Release at uname -a. I attach my make.conf and cvs-supfile' maybe there is something wrong? Yep. You're using the cvs-supfile, which does not update the source tree, but makes a cvs repository copy. You will now have: /usr/src/src /usr/src/CVSROOT-* /usr/src/doc /usr/src/ports /usr/src/www /usr/src/sup You should delete those, using rm -rf. Next: 1) cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /etc/ 2) sed -i.bak -e 's/CHANGE_THIS/cvsup.de/' /etc/stable-supfile 3) csup -L2 /etc/stable-supfile 4) cd /usr/src Now rebuild world and kernel as you've done before. You will want to run mergemaster as mergemaster -iU. -- 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: Well, almost back to normal....
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the following error output: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. I had a system crash and had to reboot via using /boot/kernel.prev, then was able to do a complete upgrade to the latest 7.1; then did a wholesale upgrade. After 4 days it finished. I Did an X -configure to get a new xorg . conf and thought everything was Fixed. Still, whenever I initiate a new Konsole; whenever I ssh in from elsewhere, I get the Xlib missing on display 0.0 errs.What' is still not right? [back to thesis. hope some of you knows what's going on with this! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a 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 nothing the xserver does not support that extension yet so that is a normal thing as of right now for Xorg ___ 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
Install 7.1 DVD iso UNetbootin Eee Box
Has anyone had any luck with UNetbootin and the 7.1 DVD iso? I'm trying to prep USB media on windows vista64. Unlike the CDROM based isos, the DVD install is compressed .gz. I assume the iso needs to be extracted prior to loading it with UNetbootin and wonder if somehow gzip.exe on Windows is messing with the sanctity (for lack of better technical term) of the iso files. When I boot from a 8gb usb device I've prepped with 7.1 DVD using UNetbootin, I get a missing or corrupted kernel image. No problems with using the latest BackTrack iso. I'm putting together a resource for running FreeBSD on the Asus Eee box at http://groups.google.com/group/freebsd-eee-box?hl=en and would really appreciate assistance with creating a USB boot media (preferably on Windows but a FBSD 7.0 box is available as well) based on the DVD as the DVD is a lot more convenient than a CDROM install. Is it possible to edit the syslinux file installed by UNetbootin to point to a generic kernel in the kernels directory? 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
My race is just nothing: Some thoughts on the political psychology of women
My race is just nothing: Some thoughts on the political psychology of women By Kevin MacDonald February 19, 2009 It seems that the signs of white dispossession are everywhere these days. Edmund Connelly describes how non-Jewish whites are being pushed out of elite institutions like Harvard. An article titled The end of white America catalogues the lack of cultural confidence of whites these days. It quotes a student who says To be white is to be culturally broke. Writing in vdare.com, David A. Yeagley quotes one of his female students saying Look ... I dont see anything about my culture to be proud of. Its all nothing. My race is just nothing. Yeagley notes the Cheyenne saying, A nation is never defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground. And he places this in the context of the recent election in which 46% of white women voted for Obama compared to 41% of white men. These percentages are somewhat inflated because they include Jews and immigrants, such as South Asians, who are classified as white but do not identify with the European-American majority. Nevertheless, they do point to a significant gender gap. While it is certainly true that voting for McCain-Palin is not a sign of white consciousness even implicitly, it is also the case that voting for Obama is a good sign of a lack of racial consciousness for European Americans. The good news, of course, is that a majority of white women did not vote for Obama. And, as Steve Sailer has shown for the 2004 election, if one separated out women who are married and have children, the results would show an even greater tendency to vote against Obama. Nevertheless, there is a real problem. Those of us with some acquaintance with European-Americans who do have an explicit ethnic identity and a sense of their ethnic interests are quite aware that there is a very large sex ratio imbalance at gatherings of like-minded people. The attendees are almost all male an exception being the redoubtable Virginia Abernethy. And there are stories of men who have stopped attending meetings or who provide support only in the most furtive manner, mainly because their wives are afraid that the attitudes of their husbands could become public and ruin their social life. Making such things public is just the sort of thing that organizations like the SPLC and the ADL love to do. Judith Warner of the New York Times describes the result of an informal email inquiry on women's reactions to Obama. Some imagined having sex with Obama and replacing Michelle Obama as First Lady. Others imagined themselves at social engagements with Obama. All wanted deeply to have some of the Obama aura rub off on them. Warner's email contacts doubtless reflect her liberal readership, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are quite general, especially among white women who voted for Obama. What does an evolutionary psychologist say about all this? Parenthetically, I realize that the great majority of Americans do not believe in evolution. Nevertheless, evolutionary theory is a very powerful and scientifically credible way of looking at human behavior. It is no accident that one of the main strands of Jewish intellectual activism over the last century has been to oppose evolutionary theory as an explanatory tool in the social sciences. Darwin did indeed have a dangerous idea dangerous to Jews because it provides a rational grounding for the ethnic identity and interests of European-derived people. The evolutionary theory of sex is one of the bedrocks of evolutionary psychology probably accounting for half of all the research in the field. The basic idea is simple: Females invest a relatively large amount of time and energy in reproduction. In the world we evolved in, the only way for women to reproduce was to endure a 38-week pregnancy and then nurse the child for an even longer period. Even after nursing, child care was mainly a female responsibility. Because women are committed to this very large investment, they become very valuable in the mating game. And because they are valuable, they become discriminating maters: Just as a worker who puts in more time and energy is in a better bargaining position than one who puts in little time and energy, women become the choosers in the mating game. And what do women want? Women are expected to want men who have high social status. From an evolutionary perspective, such men are attractive because they may be willing to provide valuable resources that would help in supporting the mother and raising the children. (When men do contribute resources, they also become choosy, but that's another story.) And even if a wealthy man does not provide resources, he is likely to have good genes genes that predispose his children to be successful. In any case, women do indeed prefer wealthy, high-status men. For example, a recent study found that wealthy men give women
Re: Well, almost back to normal....
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the following error output: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. This is apparently harmless. It's happened because development of Xlib has got a bit ahead of development of the X server -- so Xlib incorporates features not yet released in X server. The story is this will be fixed when xorg-server-1.6 hits the tree. That could be at any moment. In the mean time, just ignore the excess verbiage. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: desktop app/config
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure AD==Active Directory? BSD doesn't do that by default. AFAIK, you'll need to install and configure SAMBA (which is in ports). As for the original question, I saw a config by a guy named Horen (I think, from NW Europe someplace) for FVWM which looked almost exactly like Windows XP, down to the icons. There's also FWVM95, which is supposed to look like Win95. And, I've not seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important if you're talking about recycled hardware. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and ending date/times and the originating IP address. Is there any other information I need to send? Is there someone else I should notify? Most of the attacks I receive are from other continents, so I just block the network range found via 'whois'. In this case, the IP address is fairly local, so I'm hesitant to block the entire range. There are some applications that you might want to install that can help. Personally, I have found reporting the abuse virtually useless. I use to just include the entire log with the data that pertained to the user in question; however, that just proved a waste of time. If you are using 'passwords' to access your account, you might want to consider using certificates instead. That is far safer than using a password that eventually can be cracked. -- 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
globally limit fetch download?
I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very slow DSL lines. Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when it fetches ports? ___ 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
QLogic 2460 driver ?
Is there one? thanks Len ___ 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: globally limit fetch download?
I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very slow DSL lines. Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when it fetches ports? you may do this and 1000 times more things using IPFirewall man ipfw ___ 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: World doesn't build correctly
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:14:01 +0100, Frank Wißmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: I did it now the way you told me but it still shows 7.0-Release at uname -a. I attach my make.conf and cvs-supfile' maybe there is something wrong? I've found something strange in the CVSup files: Your file My file - *default base=/usr/src *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr/src*default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 You see these differences: base and prefix are set incorrectly and release / tag is incomplete. You should follow Mel's advice and take the file /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile as a starting point. Of course, you can cut the many comments, but be sure that the settings are valid (as shown above). -- 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: globally limit fetch download?
Hi! Workaround, but work :) http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2006-05/msg01071.html Trober - - - - - - Mensagem Original - De: B. Cook bc...@poughkeepsieschools.org Para: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Data: Quinta, 19 De Fevereiro De 2009 17:01 Assunto: globally limit fetch download? I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very slow DSL lines. Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when it fetches ports? ___ 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: desktop app/config
Wish I would have seen that before I started this KDE install 2 hours ago Thx will look into it too -Original Message- From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:k...@daleco.biz] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:12 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Sean Cavanaugh; jerr...@msu.edu; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config Jean-Paul Natola wrote: What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure AD==Active Directory? BSD doesn't do that by default. AFAIK, you'll need to install and configure SAMBA (which is in ports). As for the original question, I saw a config by a guy named Horen (I think, from NW Europe someplace) for FVWM which looked almost exactly like Windows XP, down to the icons. There's also FWVM95, which is supposed to look like Win95. And, I've not seen XFWM mentioned yet, which is pretty user friendly and a tad more lightweight than KDE or Gnome ... which could be important if you're talking about recycled hardware. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ 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: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, GESBBB ges...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and ending date/times and the originating IP address. Is there any other information I need to send? Is there someone else I should notify? Most of the attacks I receive are from other continents, so I just block the network range found via 'whois'. In this case, the IP address is fairly local, so I'm hesitant to block the entire range. There are some applications that you might want to install that can help. Personally, I have found reporting the abuse virtually useless. I use to just include the entire log with the data that pertained to the user in question; however, that just proved a waste of time. If you are using 'passwords' to access your account, you might want to consider using certificates instead. That is far safer than using a password that eventually can be cracked. -- Jerry Yes, it's probably time to move to certificates. Thanks for the suggestion. 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: globally limit fetch download?
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:12:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very slow DSL lines. Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when it fetches ports? you may do this and 1000 times more things using IPFirewall It's not a very efficient way to do it when the firewall is downstream of the bottleneck - it's also difficult to make it specific to port downloads. I'd go with wget. It's also good at handling unreliable lines, I used to use it when I was on dial-up ___ 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
Fwd: Aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v'
Forgot to CC list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v' To: Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote: A bit of an off-topic question, but is there a neat way of aliassing 'svn log' to 'svn log -v' in zsh ? I chould just write a one line shell script that does 'svn log -v' and alias something like svnlog to the script but that is a bit of a hack. Alias it in $HOME/.zshrc -- Glen Barber ___ 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: Install 7.1 DVD iso UNetbootin Eee Box
loony wrote: Has anyone had any luck with UNetbootin and the 7.1 DVD iso? I'm trying to prep USB media on windows vista64. Unlike the CDROM based isos, the DVD install is compressed .gz. I assume the iso needs to be extracted prior to loading it with UNetbootin and wonder if somehow gzip.exe on Windows is messing with the sanctity (for lack of better technical term) of the iso files. When I boot from a 8gb usb device I've prepped with 7.1 DVD using UNetbootin, I get a missing or corrupted kernel image. No problems with using the latest BackTrack iso. I'm putting together a resource for running FreeBSD on the Asus Eee box at http://groups.google.com/group/freebsd-eee-box?hl=en and would really appreciate assistance with creating a USB boot media (preferably on Windows but a FBSD 7.0 box is available as well) based on the DVD as the DVD is a lot more convenient than a CDROM install. Is it possible to edit the syslinux file installed by UNetbootin to point to a generic kernel in the kernels directory? It looks like UNetbootIn is broken for FreeBSD ISO images (it doesn't do the right thing when presented a FreeBSD ISO). See http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-02-07.installing-freebsd-on-acer-aspire-one-netbook.html for a workaround. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: memory limitations per process
af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm running into a per process memory limit at work (on Windoze though), but I'm wondering what's the limit per process in FreeBSD for 32 bit systems, ie i386? Is it 4gb or 2? From stuff I found on the Net, I'm guessing 4gb, but wanted to ask anyway. It seems to be an implementation deal limiting the windows world to 2gb per process rather than hardware limitations. Your question is vague. A 32-bit process can only access 4 GB of memory, but all processes also have a bit of memory reserved for the kernel. On FreeBSD the accessible memory for processes is closer to 3 GB than 2 or 4. See this discussion for details: http://wiki.freebsd.org/KVA_PAGES Also, FreeBSD processes have administrative limits to their size set by defaults. See for example this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-11/msg01363.html . If you want to use the whole 3 GB for a process, you'll have to increase maxdsiz. Note that you may need to experiment with this size since your BIOS will probably not let you use 4 GB of physical memory for the OS except if you enable PAE, and it's possible to create an unbootable system by messing with kernel memory limits. You should probably experiment on the loader command line first, not in the loader.conf file. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Your Amazon.com Order
I think you may have replies to the wrong email;) Becki Trujillo wrote: I just placed an order, and I am wondering where exactly my order is being shipped. I want it shipped to Rebecca or Becki Trujillo POBox 178 Ojo Caliente, NM, and NOT to Franklin, TN/ My email is becki.truji...@k12espanola.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 ___ 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: Re: memory limitations per process
On Feb 19, 2009 4:21pm, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Your question is vague. Sorry, it was not intentional. I wasn't too sure how to ask the question. A 32-bit process can only access 4 GB of memory, but all processes also have a bit of memory reserved for the kernel. On FreeBSD the accessible memory for processes is closer to 3 GB than 2 or 4. See this discussion for details: http://wiki.freebsd.org/KVA_PAGES Also, FreeBSD processes have administrative limits to their size set by defaults. See for example this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-11/msg01363.html . If you want to use the whole 3 GB for a process, you'll have to increase maxdsiz. Note that you may need to experiment with this size since your BIOS will probably not let you use 4 GB of physical memory for the OS except if you enable PAE, and it's possible to create an unbootable system by messing with kernel memory limits. You should probably experiment on the loader command line first, not in the loader.conf file. Thank you. This is exactly what I was hoping to learn. Thanks also for the links for further reading. Andy ___ 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 FBSD 7.1 to the latest ZFS
I've scoured the web but haven't found the proper way to upgrade from using ZFS v6 to the latest ZFS supported on FreeBSD (v13?). My zpool is shot and I'd like to create a fresh one starting with the latest and greatest. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to properly perform this upgrade ? Thanks, Bryant ___ 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: NanoBSD :: smallest image size
I did consider running it off a straight cd, but I alter my routes enough through various tunnels I have established that this would be a pain. (i.e. updating vtund configs) ... System on CD, reading config from floppy? ___ 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
