Re: from very early this morning...
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:23 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [...big snip...] if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this far. gary It might be simplest to replace my firewall and my server with low-energy-usage i386 computers; is there a better way? What are your requirements for your network ie. are you requiring any fancy trickery, or is this simply trying to NAT a couple of machines behind an ADSL connection? No trickery; just trying to run a few desktops and a firewall plus my server. Of course, at the lowest power use, meaning that I'm trying to combine servers, and so on. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: from very early this morning...
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:10 -0400, Carl Chave wrote: Hi Gary, Just a couple of thoughts, as your setup sounds similar to mine (and a lot of others' I'm sure) - I too recently decided to make a concerted effort to reduce power consumption. I just re-did my file server with FreeNAS and even though I've got tons of hardware laying around I decided to buy the Intel 945GCLF mini-itx board based on the Atom processor, like you find in most netbooks. I put a gigabit NIC in it though as the onboard is 10/100 (but I knew that and already had the NIC). It's running great so far. I'd like to replace my pfSense router/firewall, which is currently powered by an AMD Duron with another mini-itx board that I've had forever, it's one of the Via C3 500 Mhz based boards. It's only got one PCI slot though, which gets me back to the topic at hand. I just changed my network topology when I stood up the new file server. It's now: |-- Wired LAN ADSL Modem -- pfSense | |-- WAP -- WLAN | |-- DMZ (web server) Forgive my artwork. I have my ADSL modem set to bridged ethernet mode which disables all the router/firewall/dhcp features of the modem and just turns it into a media/protocol converter between the phone line and the ethernet cable going to the pfSense box. I use the onboard 10/100 NIC for that PPPoE connection. I've got three more NICs installed to make up the remaining connections. The wired LAN and the WLAN interfaces are bridged. I initially had these as separate networks but most of my media players are wireless and the file server is on the wired side so bridging it was the easiest way (for me!) to get the broadcasts through. The web server is connected directly to the third NIC at the moment and is it's own network. It's still behind the firewall but I can open ports now to it while still protecting the rest of the LAN from the web server if it get's compromised. At least, that's the theory. So that's my setup, don't know if that's the kind of feedback you're looking for but I'd like to hear comments and see what others have going. As far as I know, my 1.5 M/768K feed is DSL not ADSL; I don't think it makes that much difference. Anyway, it sounds like I'd like to do something like you have. Troubles are that my physical disability prevents me from doing much beyond the keyboard. Then there is the question of which make of Intel I want for my new FBSD or Ubuntu. I'm thinking of something that willl last several years--possibly a quad with lots of disk and memory. (But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. gary Carl On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [...big snip...] if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this far. gary It might be simplest to replace my firewall and my server with low-energy-usage i386 computers; is there a better way? What are your requirements for your network ie. are you requiring any fancy trickery, or is this simply trying to NAT a couple of machines behind an ADSL connection? 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-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Corrupt libraries
Hi List.. Is there any way how to determine a corrupt libraries in Freebsd 7.0? or is there any command how to check libraries? -- Ruel Luchavez FreeBSD user since 6.0 Happy BSD use... Country:Philippines Zip Code:8000 ___ 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
Tennislessons online from Sweden
-- http://www.tennistips365.com The movies and educations are for: -Players on all levels -Tennis parents -Tennis teaching professionals -Club coaches -Program directors -Club managers -College coaches -People who love sports Get started now It takes less than a minute! http://www.tennistips365.com As a member you get instant access to: Tennisinstruction movies -Streamed movies on your screen – 24/7/365 -More than 280 unique tips -Divided in phases -Technique Biomechanics -3 different angels -Left- Right-handed -Normal speed slowmotion Education -Grips -Swings -Corrections -Footstances http://www.tennistips365.com Contact: i...@tennistips365.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: from very early this morning...
(But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word for it. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cpu-power-consumption,1750-11.html also in general if you want lower power consumption look for cpu's w/ smaller fab eg in term of power consumption and size 90 65 45 gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What flash players should be used from ports?
On 4/15/09, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Currently running i386. I'm using firefox 3.0.4 (need to upgrade, wow didn't realize that). Hy, There are several ways to use flash player in FreeBSD X environment. One is, as someone previously pointed out, gnash. Another is by using nspluginwrapper and linux-flashplugin. Yet another is by using swfdec. I wouldn't use swfdec. It makes my firefox 3.x crash (FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12). In addition, I can't see any videos in my laptop (AMD64 1600) despite the CPU is with 100% use. It works _mostly_ fine in my other computer (Dual Core machine with the same FreeBSD version) but too often it doesn't play sound with youtube videos . My two cents. Cheers A god start would be http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html and http://www.google.ro/search?hl=roq=freebsd+firefox+flash+playerbtnG=C%C4%83utare+Googlemeta=aq=foq= and of course http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ but aspecially http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html . Hope that triggered your appetite. Have fun :) ___ 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
Which one of these two is the correct version?
Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 -- 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not seeing much to do with this particular upgrade. Now, there are two pages, and both of them seem upto date, but they have conflicting information: 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 - says that *NOTE: Do notrun portupgrade(1) to upgrade to GNOME 2.26!** *and goes on to say one should use the gnome-upgrade.sh script, which seems to NOT exist in the links. 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 - says you should use the following steps: (a) pkgdb -Ff (Remove gnome-volume-manager.) (b) portupgrade -aOW (c) portupgrade -f gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center So I am just wondering which one is the correct version, since both are talking about the upgrade to 2.26. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain ___ 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: Corrupt libraries
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:22:12 +0300, Ruel Luchavez ruel.free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List.. Is there any way how to determine a corrupt libraries in Freebsd 7.0? or is there any command how to check libraries? Hello, I'm not sure of this but ldd should point out if a lib is corupted. ___ 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: make run-depends-list-recursive?
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:02:08 Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: make all-depends-list Two things: 1) It surpresses config target and if a port has OPTIONS set, then you may get surprised once you've configured the port and ticked/unticked an option I'm not sure what you're saying here, but if you want to avoid a surprise you can run make config to choose options, then re-run make all-depends-list: the dependency list changes according to the config options. This is occasionally useful - for example it's how I found out that security/krb5 can be prevented from bringing in the whole of teTeX and its dependencies: just unselect the documentation (which is selected by default). (On a separate note, does it strike anyone else as a bit excessive to install teTeX - which is well over 100MB of download not counting its own dependencies - behind the scenes as part of installing documentation?) Jonathan ___ 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: Can't log-in anymore
On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box the serverver always complain /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object lib.so.7 not found, required by sh Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN fro /bin/sh: I press enter but nothing happens it always came back with that prompt. I'm not sure if there is something wrong with the library but few hours before that happens I can still log-in on my box. Any idea guys? I can't log-in anymore.. /bin/sh is dynamically linked - if you've blown away the library you have a problem. You should be able to get in using /rescue/sh, which is statically linked, but to get the system back I think you're going to need more hands-on help than you can get here; either that or you're going to have to provide more detail about exactly what you were doing. Jonathan ___ 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
Problem: FreeBSD 7.x ssh v2 nss_ldap
I see a problem on two systems running FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.1 which are configured as OpenLDAP clients using the nss_ldap module. When someone logs on using ssh protocol version 2 the session will not be initialized correctly. The user will only get his primary group affiliation but no affiliation to other groups (memberUid attribute in LDAP group entries). On 7.1 the ssh login process hangs forever with open ldap queries, on 7.0 the group list is incomplete. On several 6.x systems, all works correctly. I have used the configuration for years now. There are some workarounds I found: a) use ssh protocol version 1 b) set UseLogin to yes in sshd_config c) avoid ssl encryption in communication to ldap server (ldap://... uri instead of ldaps://... in ldap.conf) Does anybody see similar problems? Does anybody have an idea what may couse the problem? Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheu...@gwdg.de ___ 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: Can't log-in anymore
Hey.. Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) ...FreeBSD roCKS.. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.zawrote: On Wednesday 15 April 2009 03:58:08 Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I know someoene here can help fix my biggest problem so far. I can't log-in any more in my FreebSD box the serverver always complain /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:shared object lib.so.7 not found, required by sh Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN fro /bin/sh: I press enter but nothing happens it always came back with that prompt. I'm not sure if there is something wrong with the library but few hours before that happens I can still log-in on my box. Any idea guys? I can't log-in anymore.. /bin/sh is dynamically linked - if you've blown away the library you have a problem. You should be able to get in using /rescue/sh, which is statically linked, but to get the system back I think you're going to need more hands-on help than you can get here; either that or you're going to have to provide more detail about exactly what you were doing. Jonathan ___ 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: How can I use BD-RE with UFS on geli?
In message: 20090412.134212.26081.to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp SAITOU Toshihide to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp writes: I tried BD-RE with UFS on geli but didn't success. What was wrong the below? P.S. BD-RE with UFS is the same result (not usable). 1. format the disk dvd+rw-format is failed but after this step the disk is newfs-able. # diskinfo -v /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0 2048# sectorsize 8796093020160 # mediasize in bytes (8.0T) 4294967295 # mediasize in sectors # kldload atapicam # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # kldunload atapicam # diskinfo -v /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0 2048# sectorsize 24220008448 # mediasize in bytes (23G) 11826176# mediasize in sectors 2. newfs # newfs /dev/acd0 the following message was detected: kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 3. glabel and mount but the disk access frequently failed with these messages (offset and length is not always the same): kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 kernel: g_vfs_done():label/DailyBackup[READ(offset=2697789440, length=16384)]error = 5 SAITOU Toshihide ___ 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
Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server
Hello, Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider :) but I am just looking for something to make life easier in this respect. I have seen syscp, but this has the disadvantage that it creates directories that are already containing public_html folders (no way to place files outside public access). Many thanks in advance for all suggestions! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ 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
Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain ___ 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
hard drive performance
hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB SAMSUNG SP2504C VT100-50 at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80 V34OA63A at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances using the following commands: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 and dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 the results are: ad0 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 4.325645 secs (72722751 bytes/sec) ad1 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 5.166126 secs (60891430 bytes/sec) the results for ad0 are a bit disappointing though. is this normal or is bs=1m wrong? cheers. alex ___ 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: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server
just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Or - provide services for 1$/year like there are lots of today. crappy and all the same - but cheap. Maybe you will earn 100$ a month - if you will be lucky. Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider :) but I am just looking for something to make life easier in this respect. I have seen syscp, but this has the disadvantage that it creates directories that are already containing public_html folders (no way to place files outside public access). Many thanks in advance for all suggestions! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ 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: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server
ISPCP, sysCP, DTC GNUPanelhttp://gnupanel.org/ OpenPanel http://www.openpanel.com/ ispCP Omega http://isp-control.net/ RavenCore http://www.ravencore.com/ 2009/4/15 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com Hello, Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider :) but I am just looking for something to make life easier in this respect. I have seen syscp, but this has the disadvantage that it creates directories that are already containing public_html folders (no way to place files outside public access). Many thanks in advance for all suggestions! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ 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: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server
Hi, Dnia 15-04-2009 o 13:58:04 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl napisał(a): just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. Hmm... who says I want to get everyting for free (without trying and learning)? Have you read my post? I did make a note about trying out syscp. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Yeah... will you send me the same answer if I want to buy a car? Am I supposed to know everything about all things and be able to do them? Or - provide services for 1$/year like there are lots of today. crappy and all the same - but cheap. Maybe you will earn 100$ a month - if you will be lucky. Have you read my post? I wrote that I am NOT going to be a provider but just looking for something to make life easier my side of things. I have a server I am responsible for and from time to time I add domains and would like to automate it a bit if possible. Take care, Zbigniew Szalbot ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
El día Wednesday, April 15, 2009 a las 02:50:03PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington escribió: Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? Hello, Before doubting and blaming, read all man pages; for example just do $ man -k auto | fgrep mount amd(8) - automatically mount file systems amq(8) - automounter query tool pawd(1) - print automounter working directory If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Ofc FreeBSD base system can do it for you if you configure it to do so; read my attached paper for more help; matthias Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain I agree and would add: Reading makes the man wise :-) CU matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e matthias.ap...@oclc.org - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD. $Id: automount.txt,v 1.4 2006/09/18 14:59:29 guru Exp $ for automounting CDROM, USB (and other devices) you configure /etc/amd.conf: [ global ] normalize_hostnames =no print_pid = no restart_mounts = yes auto_dir = /a log_file = /var/log/amd log_options =all #debug_options = all plock = no cache_duration =6 dismount_interval = 20 selectors_on_default = yes # config.guess picks up sunos5 and I don't want to edit my maps yet # os = sos5 # if you print_version after setting up os, it will show it. print_version = no map_type = file search_path =/etc/amdmaps:/usr/lib/amd:/usr/local/AMD/lib browsable_dirs = yes [ /a ] map_name = amd.cdrom [ /u ] map_name = amd.usb /etc/amdmaps/amd.cdrom: cdrom type:=cdfs;fs:=/cdrom;dev:=/dev/acd0;opts:=ro /etc/amdmaps/amd.usb: usb type:=pcfs;fs:=/mnt/usb;dev:=/dev/da0s1;opts:=rw /etc/rc.conf: # # automount daemon rpcbind_enable=YES nfs_client_enable=YES amd_enable=YES amd_flags= then you just pick-up the directory /a/cdrom with Konqueror and drag and drop the (video) file there to the Xine window, for example. ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Of course. Find someone and pay him to do it, just like OS X and Linux did :) (or look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?devd.conf and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?amd ) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
2009/4/15 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com: Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. No! It has Darwin under the hood, but uses the FreeBSD userland. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. This is a HAL feature, and you can do it; certainly I have it in Xfce for CDs. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? No-one has yet made it perfect. Nothing gets committed to the base system unless it works out of the box and works properly. Automounting is a fiddly thing, and is not necessary for the majority of applications; remember FreeBSD is primarily a server OS. If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Linux doesn't just do it. It just happens to be so that Ubuntu (for example) have set this up in their distribution. There are a million things that it would be nice to put in the base system, but all it would do would be to bloat it, and make world rebuilding that little bit longer. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ 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: hard drive performance
Alexander Best wrote: hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB SAMSUNG SP2504C VT100-50 at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80 V34OA63A at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances using the following commands: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 and dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 the results are: ad0 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 4.325645 secs (72722751 bytes/sec) ad1 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 5.166126 secs (60891430 bytes/sec) the results for ad0 are a bit disappointing though. is this normal or is bs=1m wrong? 70+ MB/s is a perfectly fine speed for a modern drive. The 300 in SATA300 doesn't mean what you probably think it means. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to portinstall -P packages that alter ther names via PKGNAMESUFFIX?
2009/4/15 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@noc.ntua.gr: RW wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0300 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@noc.ntua.gr wrote: The setup works quite well and has saved us a lot of time and effort. Currently we are looking for ways to automate as much as possible the whole process. One of the problems we face is the initial installation of packages that alter their names, like sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap+db46 and openldap-sasl-server. Seems like there is no obvious way to portinstall -P such packages. This is sometimes handled through slave ports e.g. net/cvsup-without-gui. If there aren't too many variations you might create some local slave ports. Wouldn't that require to create the ports INDEX file locally? -- Panagiotis J. Christias Network Management Center p.christ...@noc.ntua.gr National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE ___ freebsd-po...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org AFAIK, portupgrade doesn't like funny port names. The correct solution is to make config the port and order the proper options, or stick them in your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf; for example instead of cvsup-without-gui you should change the config and use the port for cvsup. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ 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: Corrupt libraries
Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi List.. Is there any way how to determine a corrupt libraries in Freebsd 7.0? or is there any command how to check libraries? It depends on what do you need it for. Out of the box, there is no way to check if the libraries have been changed / corrupted from the time of the install because there are many valid modes of installation for new libraries. You can use the built-in md5 or mtree commands to make a record of some state of files and later compare the record with the new state, or you can install one of many ports that do something like that more-or-less automatically (e.g. security/tripwire). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: hard drive performance
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB SAMSUNG SP2504C VT100-50 at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80 V34OA63A at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances using the following commands: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 and dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 the results are: ad0 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 4.325645 secs (72722751 bytes/sec) ad1 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 5.166126 secs (60891430 bytes/sec) the results for ad0 are a bit disappointing though. is this normal or is bs=1m wrong? 70MB/s is a very good transfer rate for a hard drive. The 300MB/s rate refers to the maximum the physical interface can support, but drives never get close to that because they can't read from disk at that speed. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB flash drive without unmounting. To automount (assuming you are using something like GNOME or XFCE), you can use the facilities provided by hal and policykit. See this: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later) ___ 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 System Crashing
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: APseudoUtopia wrote: My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident. Here's the output from the `last` command: User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Tue Apr 14 19:02 still logged in User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Tue Apr 14 18:52 - 19:02 (00:09) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 18:52 User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Tue Apr 14 18:42 - crash (00:09) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Tue Apr 14 16:06 - 18:42 (02:36) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Tue Apr 14 11:23 - 12:53 (01:29) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 07:44 User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Mon Apr 13 20:01 - 22:58 (02:57) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Mon Apr 13 19:56 - 20:01 (00:04) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Mon Apr 13 19:31 - 19:56 (00:25) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Sun Apr 12 15:02 - 16:15 (01:12) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Sun Apr 12 14:48 - 15:02 (00:14) reboot ~ Sun Apr 12 14:48 shutdown ~ Sun Apr 12 14:45 User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Sun Apr 12 14:24 - shutdown (00:21) User ttyp0 1.2.3.4 Sat Apr 11 13:03 - 17:00 (03:56) wtmp begins Wed Apr 1 21:21:28 UTC 2009 As you can see, the system reboot several times, and crashed the most recent time. Only one of the shutdown/reboots listed is valid - the furthest one. I have no idea why it is rebooting/crashing. It has been completely stable until about 1-2 days ago. If anyone can direct me to post the output to any commands or any log messages, I'd be more than willing to do so in order to help anyone diagnose my problem. Thank you for your time. What you are experiencing are the early warning signs of disk drive failure or over heating problems. Before doing any thing else make backup of your user data if you have not done so already. Then open your box and use a small brush and a can of compressed air to blow the dust off the motherboard and the fans. Give special attention to the fan in the power supply. If PC is older than 3 years or has over 1 year of continues use then replace the power supply. IF problem still happens replace hard drive. The system is in a colocation center which I don't have access to. The HDD crashed several months ago and was replaced by a brand new drive (or so I was told). So I'm leaning towards a heat or PSU problem. I installed Healthd on the system to monitor such things, however it didn't detect the hardware properly. Apparently the voltage in my CPU core was 0.00, as was the temperature. Is there any other way to monitor these things? Everyone: Thanks for all the help. I'll open up a ticket with my host to get them to look at it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Splash screen color issues
Fbsd1 пишет: Eugene L. wrote: Hello everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.1-Release (generic kernel), and I am trying to make splash screen feature work properly, so I followed the procedure described in handbook and the splash screen actually loads, except the black is now white, red is violet, etc. So all the colors of the bitmap are messed up, and I checked, they fit the requirements and I've tried other pics and pcx format. I tried gimp, photoshop. The issue isn't pic related What could possibly be the reason? I use Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro AGP ___ 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 Has to be your video card. If you have an X-desktop installed try displaying the splash screen and see how it looks there. The x-desktop should have auto loaded a driver for your video card. If the colors are ok them unplug your video card and try the motherboard default video. Well there are no colour issues on xorg (radeon driver), and I don't have internal video on motherboard, so I decided to mess with different modes, without vesa it flatout refused to work, with this messages im dmesg splash_bmp: No appropriate video mode found module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (splash_bmp, 0xc0d80b70, 0) error 19 ___ 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: ipfw: bandwidth limiting
Hello Wojciech
Sorry for the delay but in the past I was very busy. I use now the folowing:
$ipfwcmd pipe 1 config bw 80kByte/s
$ipfwcmd add pipe 1 ip from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1
$ipfwcmd queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 1 mask dst-ip 0x
$ipfwcmd add queue 1 all from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1
I expect that all hosts are targed with the ip address 192.168.10.0/24,
from .100 to .254. Is that correct? As far as I can see it works like
expected but I'm not 100% sure. I'm right?
Kind regards,
Wojciech Puchar schrieb:
[snip]
$ipfwcmd pipe 1 config bw 80KByte/s
$ipfwcmd add pipe 1 ip from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1
[snip]
I'm not sure it works. When I do a large download which takes long and
anybody else want download too, this download will only get a reduce
bandwidth. I expect that the second download get same rate as the
first one
(and reduce the bandwidth from the first one). Is that correct?
your example limits it all to 80kB/s but does no traffic management. so
it may get the same rate (half by half) or may not.
do
$ipfwcmd pipe 1 config bw 80kByte/s
$ipfwcmd queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 1 mask dst-ip 0x
$ipfwcmd add queue 1 ip from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1
this will limit them to 80kB/s and perform fair-sharing based of hosts.
for example if one user on one computer will start 100 downloads, and
other on other computer will start 1 download, this will ensure that
first user will not takeover most bandwidth.
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Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Or - provide services for 1$/year like there are lots of today. crappy and all the same - but cheap. Maybe you will earn 100$ a month - if you will be lucky. @Wojciech Puchar, What is it that you smoke? Or is this the after-effects of the smoking? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain ___ 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
IPFW: table approvement
Hi. Is it right place to post ideas? If it is lets suggest next approvement IPFW has 'table' command each table entry has some 'tablearg' There are situations when you need each entry has multiple values. For example: #NAT table 1 add 10.0.1.0/24 1 table 1 add 10.0.2.0/24 2 #PIPE table 2 add 10.0.1.0/24 3 table 2 add 10.0.2.0/24 4 #tag table 3 add 10.0.1.0/24 7 table 4 add 10.0.2.0/24 9 ipfw add XXX tag tablearg all from table(1) to any ipfw add XXX nat tablearg all from table(2) to any ipfw add XXX pipe tablearg all from table(3) to any I will be best if it can be optimized as next: table 1 add 10.0.1.0/24 1 3 7 table 1 add 10.0.2.0/24 2 4 9 #user can name columns as: table 1 columns nat pipe tag #1. compatibility: first column can be used as usual ipfw add XXX tag tablearg all from table(1) to any #2. you may use value from second column of table entry as: ipfw add XXX nat tablearg(2) all from table(1) to any #3. you may use value by name ipfw add XXX pipe tablearg(pipe) all from table(1) to any #4. finally it will be good to apply multiple commands to one rule: ipfw add XXX pipe tablearg(pipe) nat tablearg(2) tag tablearg all from table(1) to any What do you think? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello List, For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on FreeBSD. I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to have the automount feature within the base system? If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB flash drive without unmounting. This works better in 7-STABLE. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mkisofs and directories
Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 23:22 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, this is a question that's always been bugging me: when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it always ads the contents of that directory to the iso. how can i tell mkisofs that i want the actual directory (including all it's contents) to be added to the iso? cheers. alex unix naming convention normally dictates the following: cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/ # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/ # will copy contents of dir into /mnt That was what I thought it should do - but it doesn't! Greetings, Uli. Try excluding the slash (which is the only difference). ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.comwrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later) Such a write-up really will be very useful , because part in the FreeBSD Handbook contains errors . For example : mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644 -M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/username Error -- Invalid switch M Also examples for pw contain invalid switches . The paages from man such as man pw are very difficult to use because they contain many switches and to understand use of those requires many trials due to combinatorial possible combinations and lack of ample examples . People accustomed to Windows device management finds Unix device management really very difficult such as me . To understand and use of USB sticks in FreeBSD required much time . Among FreeBSD , Linux , and Windows , hardest to use is FreeBSD with respect device usage by the user . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:50:38 +0300 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB flash drive without unmounting. Looks like this will no longer be a problem on FreeBSD 7.2+. It works fine already on 7.2-Prerelease/RC1. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpWunKAve4fT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com mailto:sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later) Such a write-up really will be very useful , because part in the FreeBSD Handbook contains errors . For example : mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644 -M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/username Error -- Invalid switch M You've forgotten the comma between the -o options: mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644,-M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/username The example in the handbook is correct (I remember fixing it myself :) ) Also examples for pw contain invalid switches . If you do find problems in the documentation, please tell us exact locations or submit doc-bug reports. The paages from man such as man pw are very difficult to use because they contain many switches and to understand use of those requires many trials due to combinatorial possible combinations and lack of ample examples . Well, yes you need to study it carefully. It's easier than it looks at first glance. People accustomed to Windows device management finds Unix device management really very difficult such as me . To understand and use of USB sticks in FreeBSD required much time . Among FreeBSD , Linux , and Windows , hardest to use is FreeBSD with respect device usage by the user . It is not hard, you just have to learn how it works. Windows does a lot of handholding, and so do many of the popular linux distros. FreeBSD does not. You can only accomplish tasks that you understand, but there is lot of stuff to read and is very well organized. OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an average user's desktop. ___ 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] putting variables in a variable
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 16:33:33 Ray wrote: Sorry, I replied to OP, not list and then forwarded it to the wrong list to. Sorry for the spam. :( Ray ___ 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: Can't log-in anymore
2009/4/15 Ruel Luchavez ruel.free...@gmail.com: Hey.. Thanks for your reply..lucky for me I have solve my problem...:-) How did you solve it? It's always best to say what you did, in case someone stumbles on this thread using Google; even a link to somewhere explaining is better than nothing. ...FreeBSD roCKS.. I quite agree. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ 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: hard drive performance
2009/4/15 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB SAMSUNG SP2504C VT100-50 at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80 V34OA63A at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances using the following commands: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 and dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=300 the results are: ad0 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 4.325645 secs (72722751 bytes/sec) ad1 = 314572800 bytes transferred in 5.166126 secs (60891430 bytes/sec) the results for ad0 are a bit disappointing though. is this normal or is bs=1m wrong? 70MB/s is a very good transfer rate for a hard drive. The 300MB/s rate refers to the maximum the physical interface can support, but drives never get close to that because they can't read from disk at that speed. -- Bruce Cran Hehe, I think everyone makes that mistake when they're enthusiastic and sometimes even somewhat experienced. It's always such a disappointment when they realise, I remember when I did too. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ 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
How to check which FIB has a given process
Hi, Freebsd-questions. I can set process to have some FIB setfib X /some/programm How to check which FIB has some process? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which one of these two is the correct version?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara barbara.xxx1...@libero.it wrote: Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 -- 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not seeing much to do with this particular upgrade. Now, there are two pages, and both of them seem upto date, but they have conflicting information: 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 - says that *NOTE: Do notrun portupgrade(1) to upgrade to GNOME 2.26!** *and goes on to say one should use the gnome-upgrade.sh script, which seems to NOT exist in the links. 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 - says you should use the following steps: (a) pkgdb -Ff (Remove gnome-volume-manager.) (b) portupgrade -aOW (c) portupgrade -f gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center So I am just wondering which one is the correct version, since both are talking about the upgrade to 2.26. 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 Can you see the number between faq and .html? ;) Barbara, Does that number, whether I see it or not, matter at all? Both cases are talking about *upgrade to 2.26*, unless I also got blind to the issue that mattered to me. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain ___ 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:Which one of these two is the correct version?
Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 -- 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not seeing much to do with this particular upgrade. Now, there are two pages, and both of them seem upto date, but they have conflicting information: 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 - says that *NOTE: Do notrun portupgrade(1) to upgrade to GNOME 2.26!** *and goes on to say one should use the gnome-upgrade.sh script, which seems to NOT exist in the links. 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 - says you should use the following steps: (a) pkgdb -Ff (Remove gnome-volume-manager.) (b) portupgrade -aOW (c) portupgrade -f gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center So I am just wondering which one is the correct version, since both are talking about the upgrade to 2.26. 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 Can you see the number between faq and .html? ;) Cheers Barbara ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:40 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Automounting is a fiddly thing, and is not necessary for the majority of applications; remember FreeBSD is primarily a server OS. Well, I'm using it exclusively as a desktop since 4.0, what am I doing wrong? :-) No, honestly: There are additional security considerations. Do you want anyone to plug in an USB stick and steal your data while you're not at your computer? Or put crap onto your machine? In some settings, especially the desktop-class installations at home, automounting of USB sticks and other media is a very good thing. It makes life easier. Desktops in a corporate environment may require this functionality explicitely to be disabled - theft of data can be made more complicated by such a means. In most cases, there are guidelines by the corporation that determine which features are allowed and which aren't. In development settings, it may be interrupting. Sometimes, I just want to put in a blank CD to use it later on - not now, so I don't want any interaction now. Or a USB stick that I want to newfs, I don't want to get it mounted with its crappy MSDOS file system on it before (which would require more interaction to unmount it). In server settings, automounting is mostly completely useless because there is nothing to mount. What would be the next request in this line? I want to put in a USB stick and then FreeBSD should automatically execute what's on this stick, and it should do this by default without any questions. :-) And yes, I'm paranoid and old-fashioned. =^_^= -- 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an average user's desktop. If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like Windows, feels like Windows, still is FreeBSD. :-) (Honestly, it's not *that* bad and offers a lot of handholding, automation and preconfiguration.) -- 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an average user's desktop. If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like Windows, feels like Windows, still is FreeBSD. :-) (Honestly, it's not *that* bad and offers a lot of handholding, automation and preconfiguration.) Totally OT now, but I aggree they have done an excellent work on their latest 7.1 release. Now I can definitely give this to friends who wish to have a usable system right away. And they can still move to FreeBSD internals if they wish to. ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, you may not want to spend so much time if you just need to have an average user's desktop. If this case, go with PC-BSD. Looks like Windows, feels like Windows, still is FreeBSD. :-) (Honestly, it's not *that* bad and offers a lot of handholding, automation and preconfiguration.) Problem is not to select an operating system to use but it is easiness of usability of FreeBSD especially for the new beginners . A few days ago I tried to install my FreeBSD 2.0.5 double CD version but it could not be possible because it was requiring sound card attached old model CD-ROM drive . Over time . daily requirements is driving the selection of operating systems and personally I do not have any prejudice against to any one of the operating systems . As a person living as a computing specialist since 1975 I appreciate the difficulty of development of an operating system and really thank to all of the persons contributing to the open source operating systems ( I use nearly solely Fortran an Pascal ) . I like FreeBSD very much and I want to see it much more better than its actually very very good state . One point for improvement is the easiness of usability for the new comers . Second is its installation easiness which at present I find it very difficult ( for example , during installation , it is not possible to go back to correct an entry . Due to this , sometimes it is becoming necessary to power off the computer and re-start from the beginning ) . Third is use of Live FS CD . There is no any documentation about installation step ( Fix It ) or I do not know any . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ 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: Which one of these two is the correct version?
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara barbara.xxx1...@libero.it wrote: Hello FreeBSD Gnome users, I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24 -- 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This is after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not seeing much to do with this particular upgrade. Now, there are two pages, and both of them seem upto date, but they have conflicting information: 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 - says that *NOTE: Do notrun portupgrade(1) to upgrade to GNOME 2.26!** *and goes on to say one should use the gnome-upgrade.sh script, which seems to NOT exist in the links. 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 - says you should use the following steps: (a) pkgdb -Ff (Remove gnome-volume-manager.) (b) portupgrade -aOW (c) portupgrade -f gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon gnome-control-center So I am just wondering which one is the correct version, since both are talking about the upgrade to 2.26. 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 Can you see the number between faq and .html? ;) Barbara, Does that number, whether I see it or not, matter at all? Both cases are talking about *upgrade to 2.26*, unless I also got blind to the issue that mattered to me. Ok, sorry, you're right! I should have take a look at the pages, shame on me. I don't know why in the first one is reported 2.26 as in fact it seems the procedure to upgrade to 2.12. Maybe some parts are dynamically (but wrongly) generated. Anyway the correct procedure is described in the 2nd link. Sorry again and good luck for the upgrade! Cheers Barbara P.S. Where did you find the 1st link? ___ 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
IPFW, KERNEL, sysctl: has no effect changing DUMMYNET.io_fast
Hi, Freebsd-questions. This change sysctl net.inet.ip.dummynet.io_fast=1 has no effect for packet flow, bug man says: Fast mode allows certain packets to bypass dummynet scheduler if packet flow does not exceed pipe's bandwidth flow does not exceed pipe limit, but packet flow latency is affected ipfw pipe 1 config bw 64kbit/s ipfw add 1 pipe 1 all from any to any No any trafic except ping: ping some.lan.machine with rules above ping is about 8ms, without them 1ms Does I understand corrent Fast mode when I ping I do flow less than 64Kbit/s so packet must bypass scheduler and must have latency 1ms? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mkisofs and directories
At 4:48 PM +0200 4/15/09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: unix naming convention normally dictates the following: cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/ # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/ # will copy contents of dir into /mnt That was what I thought it should do - but it doesn't! I'm pretty certain cp doesn't care about the trailing slash and hasn't. OTOH, you could use rsync which does change its behavior depending on the trailing slash. -- Walter M. Pawley w...@wump.org Wump Research Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97471 541-672-8975 ___ 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: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:33:46 -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is not to select an operating system to use but it is easiness of usability of FreeBSD especially for the new beginners . The thing with easieness of usability is... well... it depends on what you are used to. Those who are (I hope it doesn't sound impolite)... spoiled by strange Windows concepts about how to do things (e. g. copying and moving files through the edit buffer... ugh...) may find things complicated where others say, wow, so easy! (e. g. cp source dest - compare this to the easieness of JCL!). What may be the best and most comfortable solution to me may sound like a nightmare to others. The topic, regarding USB automount, is such a case. The question that could arise is: In how much is the operating system responsible for this automounting? Should it be done by the OS, and if, by default, and if by default, with which parameters? Or should it be left to an additional service? A few days ago I tried to install my FreeBSD 2.0.5 double CD version but it could not be possible because it was requiring sound card attached old model CD-ROM drive . Well, that's nothing special. In the same way I could try to install the most recent PC-BSD on a 386 PC - without success. :-) Each period of time has its typical hardware habits, and the OSes of this time honour these requirements. Can you remember when you wanted a firewall in FreeBSD, you needed to recompile the kernel? Today, it's much easier to load a module. That's development. The question is: In which direction should FreeBSD's development go? Personally, I like the approach of making only those inventions become part of the OS that turned out to be stable AND secure. This protects the system from growing into bloat and crap. FreeBSD is one of the few operating systems today that are free of this garbage. Over time . daily requirements is driving the selection of operating systems and personally I do not have any prejudice against to any one of the operating systems . Yes, an understandable opinion that I do share. I like FreeBSD very much and I want to see it much more better than its actually very very good state . One point for improvement is the easiness of usability for the new comers . Newcomers to FreeBSD will learn very early that it's absolute neccessary to read first, learn, and then do. There's no other way. As it has been mentioned already, and I'd like to emphasize this: You can do only what you understand. When I came to FreeBSD, I had mainly Linux experiences on the PC (Slackware), and UNIX experiences from the mainframe (PSU, MUTOS). So I could find my way around. A complete newcomer would first need to learn about the principles of a UNIX OS: If you want it, make it. It doesn't do things on its own, and that's completely intended. This is the strength of FreeBSD (as opposite to many other OSes): It does what it's told to do, nothing more, nothing less. So if you want automount, you're completely free to *add* it. I think it's easier to add things (and you may count some things as a security risk) than to stuff security holes one by one (disabling functionalities). Second is its installation easiness which at present I find it very difficult ( for example , during installation , it is not possible to go back to correct an entry . Due to this , sometimes it is becoming necessary to power off the computer and re-start from the beginning ) . This teaches the user how to work on UNIX: First think, then do. Personally, I like the installer for first doing all the interaction (which can be scripted in order to get *no* interaction) and then let it work. Of course, it's neccessary that all the settings are correct because *you* are the one who needs to know what to do. The installer cannot know this, or read your mind. So if you give a certain command, the system assumes that you really intend to do so (compare this to VMS's CL). Sometimes, you even need to learn the hard way. I know it - did rm -r of a tree where I did forget to first copy the things I wanted, but then, oops, everything went away. There are alternative installers in development that feature the next, next, next, next, reboot style of installers. I think PC-BSD has such an installer. But personally, I would prefer the text mode installer of FreeBSD to stay default. It's so powerful and fast if you know how to use it. Third is use of Live FS CD . There is no any documentation about installation step ( Fix It ) or I do not know any . You can create your own FreeBSD live file system or use, for example, FreeSBIE (which I do often use for diagnostics and maintenance, as well as for data recovery preparations). It automounts all media that is detected (-o ro, of course), has a nice GUI and is quite fast. I hope this isn't too off-topic; if it is, then sorry; :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since
Re: Problem: FreeBSD 7.x ssh v2 nss_ldap
On 04/15/2009 01:33 AM, Konrad Heuer wrote: I see a problem on two systems running FreeBSD 7.0 or 7.1 which are configured as OpenLDAP clients using the nss_ldap module. When someone logs on using ssh protocol version 2 the session will not be initialized correctly. The user will only get his primary group affiliation but no affiliation to other groups (memberUid attribute in LDAP group entries). On 7.1 the ssh login process hangs forever with open ldap queries, on 7.0 the group list is incomplete. On several 6.x systems, all works correctly. I have used the configuration for years now. There are some workarounds I found: a) use ssh protocol version 1 b) set UseLogin to yes in sshd_config c) avoid ssl encryption in communication to ldap server (ldap://... uri instead of ldaps://... in ldap.conf) Does anybody see similar problems? Does anybody have an idea what may couse the problem? I recently submitted ports/133501 regarding this issue, but I have not yet received a response. My workaround was to disable pthread_atfork support, so the problem might be related to the change from libkse to libthr in RELENG_7. -- Benjamin Lee http://www.b1c1l1.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: What flash players should be used from ports?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, John Gage grepk...@gmail.com wrote: You have three viable choices, I'd recommend the third: 1. ports/graphics/gnash or gnash-devel (high CPU utilization on FreeBSD) 2. ports/www/swfdec-plugin [ ports/graphics/swfdec itself is a standalone flash player, the plugin port installs a plugin for firefox usage. 0.8.4 is the latest version for the standalone player(which, according to the official swfdec site, can play youtube video just fine). However, the plugin port of swfdec is still at version 0.8.2 and does not work with youtube videos at the moment.] 3. ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4 + ports/www/linux-flashplugin9 + ports/www/nspluginwrapper (this method is the most complex, but usually yields the fastest-responding flash and best results, at the moment.) On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Currently running i386. I'm using firefox 3.0.4 (need to upgrade, wow didn't realize that). Hy, There are several ways to use flash player in FreeBSD X environment. One is, as someone previously pointed out, gnash. Another is by using nspluginwrapper and linux-flashplugin. Yet another is by using swfdec. A god start would be http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html and This link from Vasadi should be very helpful to you, I have found that the most stable fedora core base for myself has been 4. I had a great deal of trouble with npviewer.bin core dumping and locking up firefox really nicely with fedora base 8, so I'd stick with 4. http://www.google.ro/search?hl=roq=freebsd+firefox+flash+playerbtnG=C%C4%83utare+Googlemeta=aq=foq= and of course http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/but aspecially http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html . Hope that triggered your appetite. Thanks everyone. I'll be getting into this as time permits over the next few days I hope. Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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, VMware and pertition alignment
Hi All, Trying to fine tunning an installation of FreeBSD 7 (amd64) on an ESXi server. Anyone here has experience with partition alignment as described here: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/608 My conclusion is that in the RAID/VMFS side, my system is aligned, but I'm not sure about FreeBSD/VMFS side. I'm not using SAN/NAS in this system, the disks are local in RAID-5. How can I check that? My hardware is: Dell PowerEdge 2950III, PERC6i with 3 disks in RAID-5. - Marcelo Souza ___ 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
where to grab source tarball?
I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. I found a list of mirrors here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- ftp.html But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it is on the mirror. Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: cd /usr/src make buildworld And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since Im 2 hours away from the machine. Thanks: John ___ 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
MailScanner sendmail
I asked this question in freebsd-ports (in a different way as I thought maybe I could clarify the situation some by rewording it) the other day and didn't receive any reply so I thought I try here this time. I have a 7.2-prelease system that I am trying to get sendmail and MailScanner running on and for some reason sendmail isn't listening on *.smtp, though it is listening on localhost.smtp. If I remove MailScanner from the mix and run sendmail in the conventional way (with sendmail_enable=YES specified in /etc/rc.conf) then things work as expected (except no MailScanner, of course). I currently have a running 6.4-stable system that this new 7.2 system is scheduled to replace that is using the same MailScanner and sendmail configuration files and it is working ok (and has been for a long time). I suspect that I'm simply missing some configuration option here that I've overlooked or that may have changed between 6.4 and 7.2, but don't really know where to look. Any help or tips on things to do/check would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox The trouble with doing something right the first b...@immure.com time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Austin, TX -- unknown ___ 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 Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding
I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically? ___ 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: where to grab source tarball?
On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. Never mind. I figured out how to do this using csup, which will help with later upgrades. -- John ___ 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
IPFW missing feature
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. The tablearg feature provides the ability to use a value, looked up in the table, as the argument for a rule action, action parameter or rule option. This can significantly reduce number of rules in some configura- tions. If two tables are used in a rule, the result of the second (des- tination) is used. The tablearg argument can be used with the following actions: nat, pipe, queue, divert, tee, netgraph, ngtee, fwd, skipto action parameters: tag, untag, rule options: limit, tagged. Why tablearg cannot be used with setfib? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where to grab source tarball?
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0400, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD from source, but my /usr/src directory is empty. Absolute FreeBSD glibly says to grab the source tarball from a FreeBSD mirror. [...] But it isn't clear to me which tarball I need to 'grab', or where it is on the mirror. Choose a local mirror. Then, for example, go into the directory ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/ and see the source files. Download all of them and install them through install.sh. This will populate /usr/src with these sources. Basically, I want to get to the point where I can type: cd /usr/src make buildworld And build FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Once you have the sources installed properly (even without updating them to the lastest 7.1-RELEASE-p or 7.1-STABLE) this should be possible. I'd like to download the source to the server, rather than inserting a CD in the machine, since Im 2 hours away from the machine. Then the way mentioned above will be no problem. You can use the CLI ftp to automate it. -- 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: from very early this morning...
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:47:11AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: (But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word for it. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cpu-power-consumption,1750-11.html also in general if you want lower power consumption look for cpu's w/ smaller fab eg in term of power consumption and size 90 65 45 OUTSTANDING. thanks very much... i have been wondering whether it was worth upgrading my very old hardware (until there are really new low-power cpu's) -- or Not. :-) gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Need to change screen resolution...
Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. Any one knowing please email me the answer. Regs QTaylor --- Quin Taylor Operations Manager The NetSys Company CONATEL Reg. #RA0002 Email: q...@netsys.hn WWWeb site: http://www.netsys.hn Office: 504-566-1055 Cellular: 504-391-5955 USA-VoIP: 954-234-2098 ___ 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: Need to change screen resolution...
Hi Quin. On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:10:01 -0600, Q. Taylor q...@netsys.hn wrote: Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). [...] if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. Any one knowing please email me the answer. The common way to do this - was? - a setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 Option Accel DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Visual TrueColor Modes 1152x864 EndSubSection EndSection It is the Modes setting which in this example is 1152x864. Since FreeBSD 7.0 I have problems with this mechanism (it selects stupid screen sizes or even locks the machine - 1152x864 is the highest value I can get), so for me, this dirty workaround in my ~/.xinitrc works: xrandr --size 1400x1050 xrandr --fb 1400x1050 The use of xrandr should always work. PS. Did you intendedly exclude the list from receiving answer? If not, you may forward my reply to the list. -- 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: Need to change screen resolution...
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Q. Taylor q...@netsys.hn wrote: Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. Any one knowing please email me the answer. Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Regs QTaylor --- Quin Taylor Operations Manager The NetSys Company CONATEL Reg. #RA0002 Email: q...@netsys.hn WWWeb site: http://www.netsys.hn Office: 504-566-1055 Cellular: 504-391-5955 USA-VoIP: 954-234-2098 ___ 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 -- www.nealhogan.net www.lambdaserver.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: Need to change screen resolution...
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:33:45 -0500, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Yes, of course. Why not? :-) Reason: All this magical autodetect, autoset and autoguess doesn't work on my ancient GPU (ATI Radeon 9200). And I haven't done the big update of X yet, because I prefer to keep things working for a while. If anybody needs something for ripp off, feel free to use the attached file. (I hope it works, never tried this before.) You can always create your own one using X -configure, but I think it won't be so tidy. :-) Of course, you can make one file from two (as I did). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... # /etc/X11/xorg.conf # == Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard Option SingleCardtrue EndSection #Section ServerFlags # Option DontVTSwitch false # Option DontZap false # Option DontZoom false # Option Xinerama false # Option AIGLX true #EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/local/share/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/ FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts/amspsfont/type1/ FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts/cmpsfont/type1/ EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loaddri Loadextmod Loadglx Loadrecord Loadxtrap Loadfreetype Loadtype1 EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option AutoRepeat250 30 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device/dev/sysmouse Option Emulate3Buttons true Option EmulateWheel true Option EmulateWheelButton2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName EIZO ModelName FlexScan F980 HorizSync 30.0 - 137.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 # DisplaySize 400 300 Option DPMS false # ModeLine1400x1050 155.80 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 +hsync +vsync # Modeline1152x864 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # Modeline1024x768 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync # Modeline800x60056.30 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync # Modeline640x48036.00 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync Option PreferredMode 1152x864 # freezes system if set to 1400x1050 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver ati # Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 0 # VideoRam131072 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card1 Driver ati # Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) BusID PCI:1:0:1 # VideoRam131072 Screen 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 Option Accel DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display # Virtual 1400 1050 # ViewPort0 0 Depth 24 Visual TrueColor Modes 1152x864 # Modes 1400x1050 # doesn't work # Modes
Re: Need to change screen resolution...
Q. Taylor q...@netsys.hn wrote: Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. Any one knowing please email me the answer. How are things, Quin? Typically, if your screen supports multiple resolutions, modern versions of xorg will make them all available. You can cycle through them using CTRL ALT + and CTRL ALT - If those key combos don't change anything, then you're going to have to tweak your xorg.conf or use xrandr as suggested by others. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mkisofs and directories
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 23:22 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: this is a question that's always been bugging me: when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it always ads the contents of that directory to the iso. how can i tell mkisofs that i want the actual directory (including all it's contents) to be added to the iso? unix naming convention normally dictates the following: cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/ # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/ # will copy contents of dir into /mnt That was what I thought it should do - but it doesn't! Look at the -graft-points option to mkisofs. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49:43AM +0400, Eugene L. wrote: I am planning to update to CURRENT, been reading freebsd-current for some time, apparently some ports require rebuilding as they are kernel specific, like hal, so I wonder how to rebuild those ports automatically? If you switch to another major version of FreeBSD, the best course is to remove and reinstall all ports. 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) pgpcCvDZN4jwk.pgp Description: PGP signature
