Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop
The procedure to install xorg suggested in Sec 5 of the Handbook does not work for my Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running 7.0 amd64 GENERIC. I get no screen available with the vesa driver and a very low resolution X with the vga driver. Any suggestions for a xorg.conf file that will work. It uses the Intel 4 express chip. Any help appreciated. John Beukema ___ freebsd-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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
On Wednesday 22 of April 2009 21:27:39 Fritz wrote: Hi, ... When are you going to build a modern installer for FreeBSD? If I can add my 2 cents to this entire discusion, it will be nice if will be the TUI which is similar to TUI done in Debian Lenny installer. You can do simply next and back option, you can easily choose betwen e.g ext3 or reiserfs. It will be nice if we can also do it in FreeBSD e.g UFS or ZFS or something else in future. Add repositories (Linux) add csup sites (FreeBSD) and so one. What do you think about that? Regards, Zbigniew ___ freebsd-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 server/webmail
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is that you can use it for more than just one POP account. The Outlook Express deal is not for me, that's for another person who needs access to this email account and they happen to be very computer illiterate and being as they're used to OE, i'm not going to bother trying to teach them something new. As for me, I plan on just using webmail to access this email account. Then I'd suggest to install Mozilla Thunderbird and give it the Outlook Express icon. They won't notice any difference. But recipients of mails will - no double HTML garbage. :-) Webmail is not that bad (because important stuff is done in the background - the backend), but I prefer a real mail program. That's easy when you're at home or at work where you can access these resources, but webmail is very handy when you're at another place and still want to to your email stuff. Your idea of combining both (read: IMAP) is quite good. IMAP, gotcha. And yea, the idea is to run this stuff on a FreeBSD server i've got running just for little tasks like this, then the windows workstation [...] Computer with Windows == PC; Computer with UNIX == Workstation. :-) [...] can access it with a not-a-real email client and I can access it from wherever from my laptop too. And you can even integrate a standard mail client (e. g. Thunderbird) in this setting to have your mail done more comfortable, without interfering with what's already done. -- 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: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHat said: how can I experiement with translating my html into slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM page website that will get me going.? For a real slideshow in terms of projected presentation, maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex) and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from the ports), you can do: % xpdf -fullscreen presentation If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to create a script that reads the big HTML source and splits it into small slides with less text, according to a template. But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get things like document structure right. -- 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
acroread install problems
I want to install acroread.
I have FreeBSD7/amd64.
Linux binary compatibility is installed:.
linux_base-fc-4_13 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
/etc/rc.conf contains
linux_enable=YES
# cd /usr/ports/print/acroread9
# make install clean
fetches and installs several 'linux' packages
then:
pango-1.10.2-1.gst.1.4.i386.rpm
=== Checking if x11-toolkits/linux-pango already installed
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-pango/work /usr/bin/find * -type d -exec /bi
n/mkdir -p /compat/linux/{} \;
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-pango/work /usr/bin/find * ! -type d | /usr/
bin/cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
1437 blocks
/compat/linux/usr/bin/pango-querymodules-32: error while loading shared librarie
s: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director
y
*** Error code 127
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-pango.
Did make install clean again
continues to install packages, but
libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.i386.rpm
=== Checking if x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2 already installed
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2/work /usr/bin/find * -type d -exec /bin
/mkdir -p /compat/linux/{} \;
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2/work /usr/bin/find * ! -type d | /usr/b
in/cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
28726 blocks
/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0-32: error while loading shared libraries: libgm
odule-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Error code 127
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2.
Did make install clean again
continues to install packages, but
scim-libs-1.4.4-1.fc4.i386.rpm
=== Checking if textproc/linux-scim-gtk already installed
cd /usr/ports/textproc/linux-scim-gtk/work /usr/bin/find * -type d -exec /bin
/mkdir -p /compat/linux/{} \;
cd /usr/ports/textproc/linux-scim-gtk/work /usr/bin/find * ! -type d | /usr/b
in/cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
281 blocks
/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0-32: error while loading shared libraries: libgm
odule-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Error code 127
Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/linux-scim-gtk.
Did make install clean again
continues to install ..
..
=== Registering installation for acroread9-9.1.0_2
...
=== Cleaning for acroreadwrapper-0.0.20090328
=== Cleaning for linux-atk-1.9.1_2
=== Cleaning for linux-cairo-1.0.2_1
=== Cleaning for linux-expat-1.95.8_1
=== Cleaning for linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_8
=== Cleaning for linux-gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0.18.fc4.2_1
=== Cleaning for linux-gtk2-2.6.10_2
=== Cleaning for linux-jpeg-6b.34_1
=== Cleaning for linux-libxml2-2.6.19_1
=== Cleaning for linux-pango-1.10.2_2
=== Cleaning for linux-png-1.2.8_3
=== Cleaning for linux-scim-gtk-fc4-1.4.4_1
=== Cleaning for linux-scim-libs-fc4-1.4.4_2
=== Cleaning for linux-tiff-3.7.1_1
=== Cleaning for linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_6
=== Cleaning for linux-nvu-1.0_1
=== Cleaning for linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5_2
=== Cleaning for acroread9-9.1.0_2
I now have /usr/local/bin/acroread, but:
$ acroread
/usr/local/Adobe/Reader9/ENU/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread:
error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
what went wrong during the installation
and how to remedy?
Previously on another FreeBSD7 system, I could install acroread7 without
problem.
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OpenLDAP/SSH : sshd[1414]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000
Since several months after a upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.4.11 to the most recent one I have trouble login in on machines which authenticate users via OpenLDAP. The OpenLDAP server is at the momen a FreeBSD 7.2 box running most recent OpenLDAP from ports. The follwoing is also true for each OpenLDAP 2.4.16 I've running on most recent FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT boxes. I can't login via ssh anymore! For first circumvention of the problem I installed local users, so I can login via them. Here what I can and what not: I can enumerate each user in the OpenLDAP DIT via id I wish I can use the OpenLDAP server to login on a samba share I can 'su' to users having their account stuff in the OpenLDAP DIT Whenever I (or any other user) try to login to a host which does PAMyfied authentication to LDAP servers (whihc worked weeks ago perfectly), I (or he) gets this: sshd[1414]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000 Loggin the console messages on the server shows this: sshd[482]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable sshd[482]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000 I tried to reconfigure /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the host side, restored it with a version that worked long before and then tried to reconfigure it by scratch, beginning from default. No success. Due to the fact other services can autheticate without problems via LDAP, this must have to do with SSH and/or the way it is implemented in FreeBSD. Please help. Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
OpenLDAP 2.4.11 sshd[3997]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 2000
We run a bunch of FreeBSD boxes, some FreeBSD 7.2, others (most) FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (most amd64). These boxes manage their users via OpenLDAP 2.4.XX. Before we did an upgrade to OpenLDAP 2.4.15/16, everything was all right. Now, after nearly all of our OpenLDAP servers has been upgraded to 2.4.16, users can not log in via ssh onto their hosts for work. Because this is at this very moment a very small scientific test facility I circumvent problems by having local accounts the traditional way. When users try to login on a workstation via ssh the connection gets closed after they provided their password, sending this error: sshd[3997]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 2000 (or whatever UID is provided) Sshd on server side is configured to use PAM and both pam_ldap and nss_ldap are installed, up to date, recompiled to match OpenLDAP 2.4.16. Besides, OpenLDAP 2.4.11/13/14/15.16 uses DB4.7 on our installation. The funny thing is that this problem occured immediately and synchronously on all clients and OpenLDAP servers when moved from 2.4.11 to 2.4.16/db47. On the other hand, and also very funny and confusing, I can enumerate very UID in the home directory, I can su to every user managed by LDAP, I can 'su' to users, users are able to authenticate themselves when using SAMBA (also OpenLDAP backed) and autheticate web-users when accessing restricted pages on our site secured by OpenLDAP backed authetication (lighttpd). But no one is capable of log in via ssh! The situation is very frustrating. I do not see anything suspicious when tracking OpenLDAP's logs (ACL/stats), nor do I see anythng weird when looking at sshd's logs. I need help to track down this problem. When I search the net for the above mentioned specific error message I got a lot of trouble-reports concerning nss_ldap and sshd, but those were related to 2003/2005. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-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: 7.0-STABLE qemu not terminating
El día Thursday, April 23, 2009 a las 10:22:52PM +0200, Juergen Lock escribió: a new effect is that the qemu proc ends on termination of guest OS; the flag -no-shutdown does not help; Oh, yeah, same here. I've just reported this on the qemu list, and btw kvm seems to be affected too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/362550/+viewstatus another issue is, when I'm using: -kernel-kqemu Enable KQEMU full virtualization (default is user mode only). the guest system (XP SP3) crashes short after coming up; without -kernel-kqemu I'm not sure if Qemu does make use of the kqemu.ko, it is so slow, esp. on disk i/o; I have loaded kqemu.ko on boot and if Qemu is up I can't kldunload it; but I really don't know if it makes use of it; matthais -- 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. ___ freebsd-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: Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop
Friday 24 April 2009 09:26:40 John Beukema napisał(a): The procedure to install xorg suggested in Sec 5 of the Handbook does not work for my Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running 7.0 amd64 GENERIC. I get no screen available with the vesa driver and a very low resolution X with the vga driver. Any suggestions for a xorg.conf file that will work. It uses I don't know what you mean saying the Intel 4 express chip. But if it is Intel graphics then try installing xf86-video-intel driver from ports. If it will not help post more info what is your video card in this laptop. Regards, Maciej Milewski ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
X-Org problem
Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1 I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with message: Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kdm-bin[1020]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Also, there is a strange behavior with dual-head mode -- when moving cursor from one screen to another, the little white arrow remains on the other screen. Please help! What might it be? Recompiled probably everything related to Xorg. Using Nvidia driver version nvidia-driver-96.43.11 With best regards, Ott Köstner ___ freebsd-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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
As a computer user who happens to be blind and who has done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a serial port and direct the process that way. If the simple stuff works, there are less chances for the law of unintended consequences to rule. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-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: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.
Matthew Seaman writes: tcsh(1) includes timestamps in it's .history. bash(1) doesn't. Not sure about other shells, but the historical (ahem!) behaviour of csh(1) was not to use timestamps, and I think most shells subsequently developed have carried on the same history format, with tcsh(1) being the exception. Thanks to you and N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in for your help. That has got to be what I did. On the times I have seen this, I was in a hurry and may have somehow invoked tcsh as I never use it normally. The prompt defaults to a symbol. If one runs the command tcsh history, tcsh gives an error as there is no such file called history but if you launch tcsh at the command prompt and then execute history, that is the very output I was talking about. I am still not sure how I didn't notice the different prompt and the fact that I was in some other kind of shell, but I guess some of us are crazier than we like to admit. At least I now know what generates that output and why I couldn't find anything in the bash documentation. The closest I get to tcsh is csh in root. Again, many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-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: X-Org problem
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1 I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with message: Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kdm-bin[1020]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Also, there is a strange behavior with dual-head mode -- when moving cursor from one screen to another, the little white arrow remains on the other screen. Please help! What might it be? Recompiled probably everything related to Xorg. Using Nvidia driver version nvidia-driver-96.43.11 I'm no expert, but to help those that are, I suggest that you post the contents of your /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log (perhaps a dmesg, too). With best regards, Ott Köstner ___ freebsd-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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a serial port and direct the process that way. as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just points out that GUI installer is nonsense. ___ freebsd-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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
a modern installer for FreeBSD? If I can add my 2 cents to this entire discusion, it will be nice if will be the TUI which is similar to TUI done in Debian Lenny installer. You can do simply next and back option, you can easily choose betwen e.g ext3 or reiserfs. It will be nice if we can also do it in FreeBSD e.g UFS or ZFS or something else in future. Add repositories (Linux) add csup sites (FreeBSD) and so one. that's good ideas - something about FUNCTIONALITY instead of look. ___ freebsd-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: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.
At 2009-04-24T08:35:22-05:00, Martin McCormick wrote: Thanks to you and N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in for your help. That has got to be what I did. You are welcome :-) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-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: OpenLDAP/SSH : sshd[1414]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Ivan Voras typed: O. Hartmann wrote: Since several months after a upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.4.11 to the most recent one I have trouble login in on machines which authenticate users via OpenLDAP. I've just installed a fresh machine with FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 and OpenLDAP 2.4.latest and it works. The only difference might be that I'm using nscd. Have you modified /etc/pam.d files? I had a problem with nss_ldap and openldap over ssl. This patch fixed it: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133501cat=ports Ruben ___ freebsd-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 vs. pc-bsd
Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how can I get freebsd to recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory? Will freebsd be able to recognize the latest technologies, like intel core 2 duo and the new Nvidia GTX260m, and hard drives at any speed like 7200 rpm? I don't know any kind of code so is there any books or any kind of resources that you recommend I look at? Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Thank you, Michael Haid ___ freebsd-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: PAM-SSH-LDAP problem
i had some trouble because of corrupted indices with ldap. running slapindex fixed, it. can you try that? alwin ___ freebsd-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 vs. pc-bsd
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Jr. mjrh...@windstream.net wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how can I get freebsd to recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory? Will freebsd be able to recognize the latest technologies, like intel core 2 duo and the new Nvidia GTX260m, and hard drives at any speed like 7200 rpm? I don't know any kind of code so is there any books or any kind of resources that you recommend I look at? Have you looked at . . . I mean read . . the PC-BSD and/or freeBSD sites? pcbsd.org freebsd.org Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Thank you, Michael Haid ___ freebsd-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: FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these? iwi_bss.ko iwi_ibss.ko iwi_monitor.ko if_iwi.ko No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne? I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous mail, including device firmware, iwi, wlan, etc. Cheers On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: [SOLVED] Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now. I wasn't that lucky :) I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12 This is my loader.conf configuration: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES And in my kernel config I have: device pci device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning device iwi # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg device firmware # firmware assist module This is the output of ifconfig: iwi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0 After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the interface up: $ ifconfig iwi0 up iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 enter FW state 1 firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss iwi0: could not load firmware exit FW state 1 iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: Thanks Patrick. After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the firmware. However, when I enter ifconfig iwi0 up scan, I receive the following in the xconsole: iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting Any idea what that means, or what state4 is? (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.) Thanks, Daniel 2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière patf...@davenulle.org: Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says: This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You need to obtain iwicontrol(8) from the IWI web page listed below to accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8) will work. I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do you think so? No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware. There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for FreeBSD 7 You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not using the right manual page for 7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwimanpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASEformat=html Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
/etc/crontab won't run my script
Hi, I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it won't work. I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my script uses no paths at all. This is my /etc/crontab line: */5 * * * * munin /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log I used munin user because i already have it (can i run it under 'nobody'?). This is what /var/log/cron says: Apr 24 18:00:01 triton /usr/sbin/cron[4361]: (munin) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log) However the script doesn't seem to run at all. Obviously it works if i run it stand-alone, as any user. I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386. What am i doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-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 and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly not an expert in this area.) On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these? iwi_bss.ko iwi_ibss.ko iwi_monitor.ko if_iwi.ko No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne? I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous mail, including device firmware, iwi, wlan, etc. Cheers On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: [SOLVED] Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now. I wasn't that lucky :) I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12 This is my loader.conf configuration: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES And in my kernel config I have: device pci device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning device iwi # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg device firmware # firmware assist module This is the output of ifconfig: iwi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0 After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the interface up: $ ifconfig iwi0 up iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 enter FW state 1 firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss iwi0: could not load firmware exit FW state 1 iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: Thanks Patrick. After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the firmware. However, when I enter ifconfig iwi0 up scan, I receive the following in the xconsole: iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting Any idea what that means, or what state4 is? (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.) Thanks, Daniel 2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière patf...@davenulle.org: Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says: This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You need to obtain iwicontrol(8) from the IWI web page listed below to accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8) will work. I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do you think so? No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware. There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for FreeBSD 7 You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not using the right manual page for 7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwimanpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASEformat=html Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it won't work. I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my script uses no paths at all. This is my /etc/crontab line: */5 * * * * munin /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log I used munin user because i already have it (can i run it under 'nobody'?). This is what /var/log/cron says: Apr 24 18:00:01 triton /usr/sbin/cron[4361]: (munin) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log) However the script doesn't seem to run at all. Obviously it works if i run it stand-alone, as any user. I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386. What am i doing wrong? Thanks. Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. Who owns the file? -- 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
Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?
Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to this software: http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? Thx 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. ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:17:13 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. Who owns the file? root:wheel -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-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: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
Wojciech Puchar writes: as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just points out that GUI installer is nonsense. The real problem happens when the GUI is considered to be all anybody needs. A certain wide-spread OS has gone that way and many times, one discovers that this or that application has no keyboard substitute for a given mouse action. One can be running one of the several rather expensive commercial solutions that allow those who are blind to use the OS, but in the case of applications, each one is its own world. If the developer failed to build in a keyboard equivalent for a given mouse action, it is game over. There is no Plan B. Three guesses as to the name of that OS and the first 2 don't count. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-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 and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly not an expert in this area.) I can't load the modules because they don't exist as modules. However, the wireless card is detected, so the driver should be in-kernel (in opposition to loading the GENERIC kernel which lacks the iwi driver and my NIC is not shown by ifconfig). The debug.iwi=1 doesn't help much. It just says it can't load the firmware, but it doesn't give any clues about the reason. Any ideas? PS: jut out of curiosity, where is the firmware in the filesystem? Is it also compiled in-kernel? Thanks in advance. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these? iwi_bss.ko iwi_ibss.ko iwi_monitor.ko if_iwi.ko No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne? I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous mail, including device firmware, iwi, wlan, etc. Cheers On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: [SOLVED] Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now. I wasn't that lucky :) I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12 This is my loader.conf configuration: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES And in my kernel config I have: device pci device wlan # 802.11 support device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning device iwi # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg device firmware # firmware assist module This is the output of ifconfig: iwi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0 After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the interface up: $ ifconfig iwi0 up iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 enter FW state 1 firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss iwi0: could not load firmware exit FW state 1 iwi_newstate: INIT - INIT flags 0x0 Any ideas? Thanks in advance. 2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: Thanks Patrick. After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains: legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the firmware. However, when I enter ifconfig iwi0 up scan, I receive the following in the xconsole: iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting Any idea what that means, or what state4 is? (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.) Thanks, Daniel 2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière patf...@davenulle.org: Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says: This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You need to obtain iwicontrol(8) from the IWI web page listed below to accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8) will work. I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do you think so? No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware. There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for FreeBSD 7 You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not using the right manual page for 7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwimanpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASEformat=html Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
Usually, when cron tries to run something unsuccessfully, an error message goes to root. You might look at root's mail to see if there are any complaints regarding this script. They could be anything from path-related troubles to permissions, etc. The mail may also be going to the user defined in the /etc/crontab table who field so you might find something there. There should be some tracks unless you have piped the output to /dev/null 21 which will send both standard output and standard error to the great bit bucket in the sky. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:14:26PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it won't work. I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my script uses no paths at all. This is my /etc/crontab line: */5 * * * * munin /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log I used munin user because i already have it (can i run it under 'nobody'?). This is what /var/log/cron says: Apr 24 18:00:01 triton /usr/sbin/cron[4361]: (munin) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log) However the script doesn't seem to run at all. Obviously it works if i run it stand-alone, as any user. I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386. What am i doing wrong? Thanks. Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. Isn't /etc/crontab the root cron and should not be used by users? To set up a crontab for a user, do: crontab -e while logged in as that user. You can also do it from root by using the -u user_name option in the command, eg. if the user is joe crontab -u joe -e You should never edit the tab files directly. You may also have to set up /var/cron/allow and /var/cron/deny files. In addition, the ownership and permissions on the files/scripts you are trying to run from cron must be correct. jerry jerry -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-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: /etc/crontab won't run my script
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:39:21 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:14:26PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it won't work. I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my script uses no paths at all. This is my /etc/crontab line: */5 * * * * munin /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log I used munin user because i already have it (can i run it under 'nobody'?). This is what /var/log/cron says: Apr 24 18:00:01 triton /usr/sbin/cron[4361]: (munin) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py /var/log/myscript.log) However the script doesn't seem to run at all. Obviously it works if i run it stand-alone, as any user. I'm running 7.1-RELEASE-p4, i386. What am i doing wrong? Thanks. Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works. Why won't it work as any other user? Permissions for myscript.py are 555. Isn't /etc/crontab the root cron and should not be used by users? To set up a crontab for a user, do: crontab -e while logged in as that user. You can also do it from root by using the -u user_name option in the command, eg. if the user is joe crontab -u joe -e You should never edit the tab files directly. You may also have to set up /var/cron/allow and /var/cron/deny files. In addition, the ownership and permissions on the files/scripts you are trying to run from cron must be correct. jerry Alright, i added the cron for 'nobody' as above, and it seems to work. Thanks everyone. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-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: X-Org problem
Neal Hogan wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1 I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with message: Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kdm-bin[1020]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Also, there is a strange behavior with dual-head mode -- when moving cursor from one screen to another, the little white arrow remains on the other screen. Please help! What might it be? Recompiled probably everything related to Xorg. Using Nvidia driver version nvidia-driver-96.43.11 I'm no expert, but to help those that are, I suggest that you post the contents of your /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log (perhaps a dmesg, too). After the crash Xorg is instantly restarted. Probably there is no reason to copy the whole log here. Everything looks normal for some time and then it restarts just at a random moment. No reason to blame hardware. It was stable before pre-previous Xorg server update (over 100 days uptime). Ill-effects started after I upgraded to xorg-server-1.5.3. Mouse buttons started to freeze randomly. That is why I chose to upgrade to xorg-server-1.6.0. Xorg.0.log.old ends like this: ... (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.4.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 (**) PS/2 Mouse: Device: /dev/sysmouse (==) PS/2 Mouse: Protocol: Auto (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option Device /dev/sysmouse (==) PS/2 Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) PS/2 Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) PS/2 Mouse: Buttons: 9 (**) PS/2 Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device PS/2 Mouse (type: MOUSE) (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00 (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0 (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is 0 (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. (II) UnloadModule: kbd (II) UnloadModule: mouse (II) Screen 0 shares mem io resources (II) Screen 1 shares mem io resources -- # dmesg | tail -n 15 pid 6766 (PBReg), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 pid 6787 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 6796 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 6478 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 pid 7710 (PBReg), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 pid 7727 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 7730 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 pid 8095 (PBReg), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 pid 8112 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 8115 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 7797 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 pid 47182 (PBReg), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 pid 47199 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 pid 47200 (NetworkTray), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 With best regards, Ott Köstner ___ freebsd-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: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to this software: http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? Thx 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. 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: freebsd vs. pc-bsd
Michael Jr. wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how can I get freebsd to recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory? Will freebsd be able to recognize the latest technologies, like intel core 2 duo and the new Nvidia GTX260m, and hard drives at any speed like 7200 rpm? I don't know any kind of code so is there any books or any kind of resources that you recommend I look at? Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Thank you, Michael Haid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org There's tons of documentation at FreeBSD's site, namely http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still very applicable and provides introduction to Unix like systems). Regarding your hardware questions FreeBSD support more that 4GB in both i386 and amd64 (for i386 PAE kernel needs to be used to access 3GB). Nvidia drivers exist for i386. FreeBSD supports multi cores and multi cpus. And regarding hard drives, my 3 1TB 7200 RPM SATA drives aren't complaining ;) Hardware support for FreeBSD 7.1 can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html Also, FreeBSD has a friendly forum at http://forums.freebsd.org/index.php. Regards, Ricardo Jesus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
NFS slow
Hello all, I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance. This is the scenario: 2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works) GB Lan interface between them. When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a peak to 14MB/s. When I transfer multiple files at the same time speed is about 10MB/s per thread. Disk speed 100MB/s Network speed using samba 60MB/s (limited by clients disk speed) Tried enabling NFSlockd, NFSstatd but that changes nothing. Any help or hunch would be greatly appreciated. Jan ___ freebsd-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: Firefox3 and dependencies on firefox2,libxul,xulrunner
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:01 +0300, l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote: Hi, I uninstalled firefox 2, installed firefox 3 and use it. Later, portupgrade of librsvg2 began to build firefox 2 (I aborted it with ^C). Then I specified graphics/librsvg2 = WITH_GECKO=xulrunner, in MAKE_ARGS in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf . Now I'm trying to portupgrade mplayer-plugin, it also tried to build firefox 2. I tried www/mplayer-plugin = WITH_GECKO=xulrunner, but that gave an error message (xulrunner isn't an option). So, I tried www/mplayer-plugin = WITH_GECKO=libxul, then: === libxul-1.9.0.7_3 conflicts with installed package(s): xulrunner-1.8.0.4_15 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). What to do - to allow firefox2 to be installed along with firefox3? Will they conflict? You can set the following in /etc/make.conf: WITH_GECKO=libxul Most ports have been taught to use libxul for Gecko. However, firefox2 and firefox3 do not conflict. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: NFS slow
Jan Catrysse wrote: Hello all, I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance. This is the scenario: 2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works) GB Lan interface between them. When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a peak to 14MB/s. When I transfer multiple files at the same time speed is about 10MB/s per thread. Disk speed 100MB/s Network speed using samba 60MB/s (limited by clients disk speed) Tried enabling NFSlockd, NFSstatd but that changes nothing. Any help or hunch would be greatly appreciated. Here are some ideas for testing: * Any firewall in between them? Do you have network errors? * Any other network problems, like DNS lookup failures? (not that it should matter for sustained tranfers but still...) * Are you using TCP or UDP for NFS? TCP should be better in all cases. * Have you monitored the system with top? Try hitting S and H in top while transfering files, see if anything looks suspicious. * Run iostat 1, check tps and KB/t. * What file system are you using? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems with four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored slice across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a simple bad connection in its drive bay. While it was offline, the system was continued to be used for a while and new data was added to the mirrored file system. We eventually took the box down to deal with ad4, and tried simply pulling and reinserting the drive. On reboot we saw that the BIOS detected the drive, so that was good. However, when FreeBSD got to the point of starting up the GEOM driver, instead of reinserting ad4 into the more current mirror consisting of ad6/ad8/ad10 and resyncing it with that data, the GEOM driver assumed ad4 was the good mirror and ended up resyncing ad6/ad8/ad10 with the data from ad4, causing the new files we had added to those drives to be lost. This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. So, clearly ad4, the first disk, is treated specially. The question is this a bug or a feature? Is there anyway to prevent this behavior? This would be a disastrous thing to happen in the field on one of our customer systems. ___ freebsd-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 server/webmail
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is that you can use it for more than just one POP account. In this case that's not really needed, yet. But room for expansion in the future is always nice too. The Outlook Express deal is not for me, that's for another person who needs access to this email account and they happen to be very computer illiterate and being as they're used to OE, i'm not going to bother trying to teach them something new. As for me, I plan on just using webmail to access this email account. Then I'd suggest to install Mozilla Thunderbird and give it the Outlook Express icon. They won't notice any difference. But recipients of mails will - no double HTML garbage. :-) Webmail is not that bad (because important stuff is done in the background - the backend), but I prefer a real mail program. That's easy when you're at home or at work where you can access these resources, but webmail is very handy when you're at another place and still want to to your email stuff. Your idea of combining both (read: IMAP) is quite good. Well, i'm not exactly taken with the idea of changing out the mail client just for the sake of it. We don't display or send emails in html anyways since that's not such a good idea with OE. As for webmail... I never even thought about just using an email client on my laptop to access the server but that strikes me as a better idea too. No matter what I use i'd be tunneling it over SSH anyways so a mail client would probably have more functionality or at least i'd be more familiar with the functionality as opposed to webmail. ___ freebsd-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 vs. pc-bsd
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Jr. wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how can I get freebsd to recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory? Will freebsd be able to recognize the latest technologies, like intel core 2 duo and the new Nvidia GTX260m, and hard drives at any speed like 7200 rpm? I don't know any kind of code so is there any books or any kind of resources that you recommend I look at? Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Thank you, Michael Haid If you want a desktop with KDE, flash, JRE and printing with HP printers, PC-BSD is a great choice. Many of my preferred applications are non-KDE apps, so it's less of a great choice for me. Both PC-BSD and FreeBSD work well on my Dell Inspiron 8100 (circa 2000); so you know they don't hog a lot of resources. I don't know about sager laptops. I don't think any 32bit operating systems recognize 4GB of RAM. For 4GB of RAM, you would be better with the 64bit version of FreeBSD. (I could be wrong.) Try a live CD in your laptop to determine whether the hardware is properly recognized. I hope this helps, 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
su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things): export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput sgr0)\[\e[0...@\h \w]\$ The point is to make the username (root) display in BOLD and RED text. After su'ing, the text is not bold nor red. If I then enter source ~/.bash_profile, however, the prompt displays correctly, showing root in bold and red text. How come su'ing doesn't seem to effect everything in the /root/.bash_profile file? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
Daniel Underwood wrote: When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things): export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput sgr0)\[\e[0...@\h \w]\$ The point is to make the username (root) display in BOLD and RED text. After su'ing, the text is not bold nor red. If I then enter source ~/.bash_profile, however, the prompt displays correctly, showing root in bold and red text. How come su'ing doesn't seem to effect everything in the /root/.bash_profile file? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I think you may need to set that in ~/.bashrc -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
You're right. Works now. Many thanks! On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Underwood wrote: When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things): export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput sgr0)\[\e[0...@\h \w]\$ The point is to make the username (root) display in BOLD and RED text. After su'ing, the text is not bold nor red. If I then enter source ~/.bash_profile, however, the prompt displays correctly, showing root in bold and red text. How come su'ing doesn't seem to effect everything in the /root/.bash_profile file? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I think you may need to set that in ~/.bashrc -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
Daniel Underwood wrote: When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things): export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput sgr0)\[\e[0...@\h \w]\$ The point is to make the username (root) display in BOLD and RED text. After su'ing, the text is not bold nor red. If I then enter source ~/.bash_profile, however, the prompt displays correctly, showing root in bold and red text. How come su'ing doesn't seem to effect everything in the /root/.bash_profile file? Thanks, Daniel Read the man page on the distinction between su and su - the latter probably being what you want to use. -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
Peter Steele wrote: We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems with four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored slice across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a simple bad connection in its drive bay. While it was offline, the system was continued to be used for a while and new data was added to the mirrored file system. We eventually took the box down to deal with ad4, and tried simply pulling and reinserting the drive. On reboot we saw that the BIOS detected the drive, so that was good. However, when FreeBSD got to the point of starting up the GEOM driver, instead of reinserting ad4 into the more current mirror consisting of ad6/ad8/ad10 and resyncing it with that data, the GEOM driver assumed ad4 was the good mirror and ended up resyncing ad6/ad8/ad10 with the data from ad4, causing the new files we had added to those drives to be lost. This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. So, clearly ad4, the first disk, is treated specially. The question is this a bug or a feature? Is there anyway to prevent this behavior? This would be a disastrous thing to happen in the field on one of our customer systems. This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@ list. Provide output of gmirror list. From what you said it looks like you did the procedure safely - you turned off the server, then pulled the drive and reinserted it, then turned it on again, right? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
Ivan Voras wrote: Peter Steele wrote: We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems with four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored slice across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a simple bad connection in its drive bay. While it was offline, the system was continued to be used for a while and new data was added to the mirrored file system. We eventually took the box down to deal with ad4, and tried simply pulling and reinserting the drive. On reboot we saw that the BIOS detected the drive, so that was good. However, when FreeBSD got to the point of starting up the GEOM driver, instead of reinserting ad4 into the more current mirror consisting of ad6/ad8/ad10 and resyncing it with that data, the GEOM driver assumed ad4 was the good mirror and ended up resyncing ad6/ad8/ad10 with the data from ad4, causing the new files we had added to those drives to be lost. This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. So, clearly ad4, the first disk, is treated specially. The question is this a bug or a feature? Is there anyway to prevent this behavior? This would be a disastrous thing to happen in the field on one of our customer systems. This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@ list. Provide output of gmirror list. From what you said it looks like you did the procedure safely - you turned off the server, then pulled the drive and reinserted it, then turned it on again, right? Sorry, that was a useless response - what I said should be a no-op. So, your steps were: 1. ad4, ad6, ad8 and ad10 in a 4-way mirror 2. ad4 fails. At this point did you do a gmirror list? I.e. did gmirror detect it failing? If I read it correctly, the GenID field should have been increased in this case. 3. The system continues to be used 4. You power it down, take out and reinsert ad4 5. On boot, ad4 is detected, inserted in the mirror but as a known good copy, not a stale one. Correct? What version of FreeBSD are you using? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM page website that will get me going.? For a real slideshow in terms of projected presentation, maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex) and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from the ports), you can do: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. % xpdf -fullscreen presentation If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to create a script that reads the big HTML source and splits it into small slides with less text, according to a template. But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get things like document structure right. You're right, and thanks to you, Uli, and Andrew noted. Looks like the slideshow/ppt/impress method won't be the way to go. I've checked out the PresentationZen site and have a better idea how this kind of presentation works. I need some other means of reaching folks. gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a 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: su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
Hi, When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile Because .bash_profile is only seen on login, not on 'su'. Put it in .bashrc which is read when the shell is invoked. su - maybe? If you can live with ending up in ~root/, of course ;-) Rgds., Peter. -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. looks like very strange bug. many times i got drives disconnected and always gmirror resynced ___ freebsd-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: su'ing not sourcing .bash_profile
Because .bash_profile is only seen on login, not on 'su'. Put it in .bashrc which is read when the shell is invoked. See 'man bash' Patrick Daniel Underwood presented these words - circa 4/24/09 12:43 PM- When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things): export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput sgr0)\[\e[0...@\h \w]\$ The point is to make the username (root) display in BOLD and RED text. After su'ing, the text is not bold nor red. If I then enter source ~/.bash_profile, however, the prompt displays correctly, showing root in bold and red text. How come su'ing doesn't seem to effect everything in the /root/.bash_profile file? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-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: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. audio/festival in the ports is decent and has a few voices to choose from. JN ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@ list. Provide output of gmirror list. I'll try that list... So, your steps were: 1. ad4, ad6, ad8 and ad10 in a 4-way mirror 2. ad4 fails. At this point did you do a gmirror list? I.e. did gmirror detect it failing? If I read it correctly, the GenID field should have been increased in this case. 3. The system continues to be used 4. You power it down, take out and reinsert ad4 5. On boot, ad4 is detected, inserted in the mirror but as a known good copy, not a stale one. Correct? Yes, that's basically the sequence that occurred. I can easily recreate the condition though. I shut my box down, took out ad4 and then rebooted. The system complained about ad4 being missing and proceeded with a mirror using 3/4 of the drives. I then created a file on the system, shutdown again, and then reinserted ad4. On reboot as the system was starting up the gmirror driver, it detected ad4 but instead of reinserting in in the most recent mirror made up of the other drives, it became the active drive and kicked out its old partners, When the old drives were reinserted manually into that mirror they were of course synced with the data from ad4, destroying their more recent data. This does not happen if I do the same thing with a drive other than ad4. What version of FreeBSD are you using? 7.0-p10 or so. ___ freebsd-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: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?
In article d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c...@mail.gmail.com you write: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to this software: http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? Thx 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.) Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if all you want is emulate something like xp? I don't know... (Maybe the win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet? At least they certainly seem to have added features...) Cheers, Juergen ___ freebsd-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: 7.0-STABLE qemu not terminating
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:17:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, April 23, 2009 a las 10:22:52PM +0200, Juergen Lock escribió: a new effect is that the qemu proc ends on termination of guest OS; the flag -no-shutdown does not help; Oh, yeah, same here. I've just reported this on the qemu list, and btw kvm seems to be affected too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/362550/+viewstatus another issue is, when I'm using: -kernel-kqemu Enable KQEMU full virtualization (default is user mode only). the guest system (XP SP3) crashes short after coming up; without -kernel-kqemu I'm not sure if Qemu does make use of the kqemu.ko, it is so slow, esp. on disk i/o; I have loaded kqemu.ko on boot and if Qemu is up I can't kldunload it; but I really don't know if it makes use of it; Actually it does, just not for guest kernel code, only userland. (If you want to turn off kqemu completely use -no-kqemu, then it'll run even slower. :) Anyway I've got one report that reinstalling an xp guest (it was originally installed using an older qemu version) fixed -kernel-kqemu instabilites at least for one guy (it worked for him with the old qemu) - it is still true however that kqemu, especially with -kernel-kqemu, is far from perfect, i.e. it doesn't really work for all types of guests, and the fact that the linux folks have pretty much deprecated kqemu in favour of kvm doesn't really help its cause either... (And yes we really could use a finished kvm port for the people that do have a recent cpu with the necessary features, at least on linux kvm is also much faster than -kernel-kqemu, and it works for more guests.) HTH, Juergen ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. looks like very strange bug. many times i got drives disconnected and always gmirror resynced If I just pull ad4 and then reinsert it without doing a reboot, everything works fine. The problem occurs when ad4 is pulled and then reinserted after the system is shutdown. When the system comes up, it doesn't get added back to the existing mirror but rather becomes the principal member of the mirror, using its old data. Not good. ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
i think it's a bug but only happens with such massive mirror. very few people do more than 2-way mirrors that's probably it wasn't catched. please do report the bug - it's critical. On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Peter Steele wrote: This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. looks like very strange bug. many times i got drives disconnected and always gmirror resynced If I just pull ad4 and then reinsert it without doing a reboot, everything works fine. The problem occurs when ad4 is pulled and then reinserted after the system is shutdown. When the system comes up, it doesn't get added back to the existing mirror but rather becomes the principal member of the mirror, using its old data. Not good. ___ freebsd-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: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Juergen Lock n...@jelal.kn-bremen.dewrote: In article d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c...@mail.gmail.com you write: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to this software: http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? Thx 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.) Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if all you want is emulate something like xp? I don't know... (Maybe the win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet? At least they certainly seem to have added features...) Cheers, Juergen I used an early version of win4bsd. It was a no-brainer to install! The win4bsd folks did very well in this regard. 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: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM page website that will get me going.? For a real slideshow in terms of projected presentation, maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex) and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from the ports), you can do: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. % xpdf -fullscreen presentation If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to create a script that reads the big HTML source and splits it into small slides with less text, according to a template. But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get things like document structure right. You're right, and thanks to you, Uli, and Andrew noted. Looks like the slideshow/ppt/impress method won't be the way to go. I've checked out the PresentationZen site and have a better idea how this kind of presentation works. I need some other means of reaching folks. gary -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc). You would need an application that could import images and sound, and let you sync the two by assigning the order and duration of each slide. It would then have to spit out a movie file, of course. Any video editing (on FreeBSD) knowledge out there? Another option is a python script that uses vnc to create a shockwave flash file from your actions on your desktop: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ The script is able to import a sound file that you record while you create the demo. Good luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pam_groupdn/pam_member_attribute does not with OpenLDAP/PAM and FreeBSD. Why?
On our FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 driven infrastructure we use OpenLDAP: openldap-sasl-client-2.4.16 Open source LDAP client implementation with SASL2 support openldap-sasl-server-2.4.16 Open source LDAP server implementation pam_ldap-1.8.4_1A pam module for authenticating with LDAP From O'Reilly's OpenLDAP book and other sources I got the information, that tha tags pam_groupdn pam_member_attribute can be used in conjunction with 'uid' to restrict access to a specific host to those which are member of the group specified by pam_groupdn, as long as the group object supports multi-value-attributes like memberUid. Well, this is not working with FreeBSD any way! Suppose I define in /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf pam_groupdn cn=myGroup,ou=groups,dc=foo,dc=bar (objectClass: posixGroup) pam_member_attribute memberUid And within this group there is my memberUid: memberUid: ohartmann Now I try to login to the specific box and get the warning: You must be a memberUid of cn=myGroup,ou=groups,dc=foo,dc=bar to login. ... and I can login, no tmatter whether I'm in the group or not. What ist happening here? Why is the documentaion telling me this should work and why isn't FreeBSD/PAM doing so? I'm confused! Any help appreciated. Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
CVS history access?
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs servers but get this: cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: No such file or directory I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for more of a direct approach if possible. Thanks, JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
strange routing behaviour with openvpn
Hi, I'm using openvpn to connect my vpn-gateway at home to an external server, both are FreeBSD-boxes (6.2-STABLE). The external server has an fixed IP, the client at home connects to a router, which gets a new IP every 24 hours. The client is configured as router (gateway_enable=YES) which works... at least sometimes. After my router gets a new IP, the openvpn client reconnects to the server and the tunnel is usable from free...@home to free...@external. But: I have one Vista and one OSX at home, both have static routes to the FreeBSD-box. They are able to use the tunnel, when the openvpn-client is freshly startet. After getting a new IP from my ISP, the tunnel is up (and - as I wrote - the FreeBSD is able to use it), but the two other boxes don't get routed through the tunnel, but the default gateway. When I restart the openvpn-client, everythink works again like it should. Sample output of traceroute when openvpn is restarted: 11 ms1 ms1 ms wintermute [192.168.2.2] 229 ms30 ms32 ms GOTHNET [10.10.0.1] (works) After router gets net external IP: 11 ms1 ms1 ms wintermute [192.168.2.2] 21 ms1 ms1 ms 192.168.2.1 319 ms19 ms19 ms 217.0.119.195 4 217.0.89.70 meldet: Zielhost nicht erreichbar. Any advice? :( Regards, Neo [GC] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection
Hi, I've ancountered a very strange behaviour. I'm running a server with FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, which is connected to a 100mbit-line at some hosting company. When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about 5000kb/s, which is the limit of my downstream at home. Is there some kind of traffic shaping or QOS somewhere? Before moving to the hosting company, I had the server at home and transfered several MB per second with a single FTP-transfer (ethernet). Regards, Neo [GC] ___ freebsd-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: CVS history access?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs servers but get this: cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: No such file or directory I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for more of a direct approach if possible. cvs log filename works, but I don't think that history has even been available on any system I've ever had access to. There's pretty good info available from the cvs log command ... here's a few lines from cvs log Makefile from usr/src/Makefile: - revision 1.114 date: 2005/12/02 01:17:20; author: deraadt; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 do not enter lkm - revision 1.113 date: 2005/09/16 12:28:34; author: jmc; state: Exp; lines: +3 -2 use shell-neutral language (in a comment); from ray lai; ok krw@ - revision 1.112 date: 2005/01/09 20:36:20; author: espie; state: Exp; lines: +12 -282 move cross-stuff into its own file. okay mickey@, niklas@ Thanks, JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyMz0ACgkQz62J6PPcoOlbBACeLN3fD31obO7yEVTDnql8qQ+v VnAAnAjt2yRDr1y+LHfErKgdUX/UcwtW =Nzdn -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CVS history access?
John Nielsen wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs servers but get this: cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: No such file or directory I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for more of a direct approach if possible. Thanks, JN It seems history is optional in CVS, and it does not exist (at least anymore) in the FreeBSD CVS. ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
2009/4/24 Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com: This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@ list. Provide output of gmirror list. I'll try that list... So, your steps were: 1. ad4, ad6, ad8 and ad10 in a 4-way mirror 2. ad4 fails. At this point did you do a gmirror list? I.e. did gmirror detect it failing? If I read it correctly, the GenID field should have been increased in this case. 3. The system continues to be used 4. You power it down, take out and reinsert ad4 5. On boot, ad4 is detected, inserted in the mirror but as a known good copy, not a stale one. Correct? Yes, that's basically the sequence that occurred. I can easily recreate the condition though. I shut my box down, took out ad4 and then rebooted. The system complained about ad4 being missing and proceeded with a mirror using 3/4 of the drives. I then created a file on the system, shutdown again, and then reinserted ad4. On reboot as the system was starting up the gmirror driver, it detected ad4 but instead of reinserting in in the most recent mirror made up of the other drives, it became the active drive and kicked out its old partners, By kicked out you mean overwritten? You should definitely look at gmirror list before and after. ___ freebsd-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: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?
By kicked out you mean overwritten? You should definitely look at gmirror list before and after. Sorry for the confusion. By kicked out, what I meant was as gmirror started up it took ad4 as the principal member, saw that it was previously part of a mirror with three other drives and tried to add those drives. These drives could not be added for some reason so the system eventually completed the process leaving a degraded mirror with only 1/4 members active. When the system completed booted, a gmirror list showed that the mirror consisted of only a single member of the expected four members. We have software that runs automatically when a system has booted to make sure all drives are partipating in the mirror. In this case it discovered 3 of the 4 drives were missing and proceeded to add them back in. This is where their old data gets destroyed of course. If I go through this exact same process with any of the other drives everything works as it should--that drive gets reinserted and none of the other drives lose any data. The problem only occurs when the drive that's pulled is the first drive, which in our case is ad4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection
Hi, I've ancountered a very strange behaviour. I'm running a server with FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, which is connected to a 100mbit-line at some hosting company. When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about 5000kb/s, which is the limit of my downstream at home. Is there some kind of traffic shaping or QOS somewhere? Before moving to the hosting company, I had the server at home and transfered several MB per second with a single FTP-transfer (ethernet). Regards, Neo [GC] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
strange routing behaviour with openvpn
Hi, I'm using openvpn to connect my vpn-gateway at home to an external server, both are FreeBSD-boxes (6.2-STABLE). The external server has an fixed IP, the client at home connects to a router, which gets a new IP every 24 hours. The client is configured as router (gateway_enable=YES) which works... at least sometimes. After my router gets a new IP, the openvpn client reconnects to the server and the tunnel is usable from free...@home to free...@external. But: I have one Vista and one OSX at home, both have static routes to the FreeBSD-box. They are able to use the tunnel, when the openvpn-client is freshly startet. After getting a new IP from my ISP, the tunnel is up (and - as I wrote - the FreeBSD is able to use it), but the two other boxes don't get routed through the tunnel, but the default gateway. When I restart the openvpn-client, everythink works again like it should. Sample output of traceroute when openvpn is restarted: 11 ms1 ms1 ms wintermute [192.168.2.2] 229 ms30 ms32 ms GOTHNET [10.10.0.1] (works) After router gets net external IP: 11 ms1 ms1 ms wintermute [192.168.2.2] 21 ms1 ms1 ms 192.168.2.1 319 ms19 ms19 ms 217.0.119.195 4 217.0.89.70 meldet: Zielhost nicht erreichbar. Any advice? :( Regards, Neo [GC] ___ freebsd-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: strange routing behaviour with openvpn
Hi, Neo-- On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Neo [GC] wrote: After my router gets a new IP, the openvpn client reconnects to the server and the tunnel is usable from free...@home to free...@external. But: I have one Vista and one OSX at home, both have static routes to the FreeBSD-box. They are able to use the tunnel, when the openvpn-client is freshly startet. After getting a new IP from my ISP, the tunnel is up (and - as I wrote - the FreeBSD is able to use it), but the two other boxes don't get routed through the tunnel, but the default gateway. When I restart the openvpn-client, everythink works again like it should. Not enough info to tell, but, consider the output of netstat -nr before and after the IP reassignment, and you'll probably notice a routing table change which is causing your other LAN clients to send traffic the wrong way Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:38:06AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. audio/festival in the ports is decent and has a few voices to choose from. JN yes, the voices are pretty good; i use them to read boring stuff to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut it given the kind of quasi-poetic stuff i have. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a 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
Gaming news link
Dear Sir / Madam, We are interested in posting our gaming news and information site on your links section. Our site is GamerBeef.com and can be found at http://www.gamerbeef.com Our site includes daily updated gaming news from all genres and consoles, with focus on PC gaming. We also have a new discussion forum, cheats and screenshots section. We would of course offer a link back to your site in return. Let me know your thoughts. Best Regards, Ryan -- Ryan Barclay Managing Director RBFTP Networks Limited. DDI: +44 (0)870 490 1870 WWW: http://www.rbftpnetworks.com RBFTP Networks Limited Registered in England No 05718807 Registered Office: 68 Aldersbrook Road, London, E12 5DL. ___ freebsd-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:Burncd-Kernel Panic
I'm using an Intel DG33BU board with a SATA HD and SATA optical drives. Using FreeBSD 7.1 AMD64 I get a kernel panic and subsequent file system corruption when attempting to burn a cd using the burncd utility. I can avoid this easily enough by using cdrecord and growisofs which work as they should. I wanted to alert others using the same or similar boards. If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to know why this happens. Is there a planned update to the burncd software or how it addresses the system that might remedy this in future releases? --David I'm assuming the reason for the panic is that SATAII is substantially incompatible with the old ATAPI standard that burncd was designed for. In light of the fact that soon, most hardware (even older hardware) will feature SATA drives, it would be nice if there were a compatible base system burn utility. Burncd could linger on for the sake of much older machines, but could be prominently labeled as legacy software. --David yet again ___ freebsd-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: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [[[ ... ]]] I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc). You would need an application that could import images and sound, and let you sync the two by assigning the order and duration of each slide. It would then have to spit out a movie file, of course. Any video editing (on FreeBSD) knowledge out there? Another option is a python script that uses vnc to create a shockwave flash file from your actions on your desktop: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ The script is able to import a sound file that you record while you create the demo. as i get back from a fifteen minute run out the back, screaming loudly if anybody would care to volunteer to help me with this, it would transcend mere Outstanding. facts are that i'm still polishing the last 7 or 8 of my mumblings/jottings. been at this since the 1980's, maybe a bit before. so way too long to throw in the towel now. a year, two ago a volunteer in my library group gathered up the mess of 70+ jottings and created 15 [?] subsections. meanwhile, i've found and gotten permission to use one or two photographs. anybody brave enough to browse my existentialist mumblings to see what kind of photo might fit with what?? gary Good luck, Andrew -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a 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: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection
When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about 5000kb/s, which is the limit of my downstream at home. Is there some kind of traffic shaping or QOS somewhere? or ethernet autonegotiation problems - one side gets full duplex other half duplex. Before moving to the hosting company, I had the server at home and transfered several MB per second with a single FTP-transfer (ethernet). Regards, Neo [GC] ___ freebsd-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: Logcheck dependency hell
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Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 09:51:10 n j wrote:
(sorry for the previous mail)
The Makefile says:
...
So I'll bet some money that it's docbook.
Correct.
Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf:
...
No, the result is exactly the same.
# finddep.php security/logcheck x11/xorg-libraries
/usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries
= /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
Mel, thanks for the script. What bothers me, however, is that I've
checked the Makefile and didn't find any reference to xorg/x11
libraries - the only dependencies listed in textproc/docbook-to-man
are:
RUN_DEPENDS=nsgmls:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/jade
(no xorg-libraries dependency there)
RUN_DEPENDS+=
${LOCALBASE}/share/sgml/docbook:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook
Even worse,
egrep -ri (xorg|x11) *
in /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man returns zero matches.
It's hiding:
# make -C textproc/docbook-to-man -V BUILD_DEPENDS
imake:/usr/ports/devel/imake
/usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries:/usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
Hint: always check make's interpretation of a var with -V. This is instigated
by:
USE_IMAKE= yes
As per Mk/bsd.port.mk:
.if defined(USE_IMAKE)
BUILD_DEPENDS+= imake:${X_IMAKE_PORT}
.endif
And here comes xorg-libs:
.if defined(USE_IMAKE) !defined(USE_X_PREFIX) !defined(USE_XORG)
USE_X_PREFIX= yes
.endif
USE_X_PREFIX now defined:
.if defined(USE_X_PREFIX)
USE_XLIB= yes
.endif
USE_XLIB now defined:
.if defined(USE_XLIB)
. if defined(USE_LINUX)
RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LINUXBASE}/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1:
${PORTSDIR}/x11/linux-xorg-libs
. else
BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${X11BASE}/libdata/xorg/libraries:${X_LIBRARIES_PORT}
RUN_DEPENDS+= ${X11BASE}/libdata/xorg/libraries:${X_LIBRARIES_PORT}
. endif
.endif
Hi everyone,
It took me a little while to get it done, but I added docbook2X to the
FreeBSD ports tree yesterday:
http://www.freshports.org/textproc/docbook2X/
I then changed the dependency in security/logcheck from
textproc/docbook-to-man to textproc/docbook2X. This reduces the number
of recursive dependencies by almost 100, so it should be a lot quicker
to install the tool now.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=880901+0+current/cvs-ports
Feedback welcome,
Greg
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tnftpd, lukemftpd and conversions
I am trying to get tnftpd or lukemftpd to do the authomatic conversions documented in the man page. I am running 7.1 Release #0. My /var/ftp/etc/ftpd.conf file is only two lines: motd all motd conversion all .Z f . /bin/compress %s and from the motd message I can see that the server is using this configuration file. The compress program has been copied to /var/ftp/bin/compress so it should be available too. However, while I can ftp to localhost and login as anonymous and get the file test, when I ask for test.Z I get only the following messages: get test.Z local test.Z remote test.Z 229 entering Passive mode 550 test.Z: no such file or directory The man page for ftpd.conf says: If a file to retrieve ends in suffix and a real file (sans suffix) exists then the output of command is returned instead of the contents of the file. I also tried the default ftpd, with the same result (although it isn't clear if ftpd supports conversion, there isn't any documentation for the configuration file for ftpd - the included man page is clearly for lukemftpd and the tnftpd page is essentially the same). So I am left with the conclusion that there is something wrong with my ftpd.conf entry, but have found no examples anywhere on the net to guide me. There is supposed to be an example in /usr/share/examples/ but it isn't there (PR 133468). I'd sure like to see it, if anyone has it or another. Daniel Feenberg NBER 617-588-0343 feenb...@nber.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: freebsd vs. pc-bsd
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:06:03 am Michael Jr. wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Hi there Michael =) In regards to the differences I think it depends on where are you standing .. It could safely be argued that PC-BSD is a preconfigured FreeBSD system with and extra software distribution and management method (pbi) and a relevant set of tools created in order to ease the administration of a FreeBSD system for the desktop user ... YMMV .. but I tend to see it that way ... Now, regarding the which one is easier to setup as a desktop .. well .. by all means the easier one is PC-BSD .. Turning FreeBSD into a desktop system is something that _you'll_have_to_do whereas PC-BSD is a FreeBSD system that has already been turned into a desktop system so you don't have to go trough all that process ... and that's one of the reasons why it exists ;) Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not regularly, how can I get freebsd to recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory? I really don't know the answer to the sager question .. and, personally, I think that's something that they as the manufacturers, should be able to answer (if not already legally binded to ...). Regarding you 4gigs of ram the answers is: yes .. but you'll have to do some reading on PAE and maybe kernel recompiling ... Will freebsd be able to recognize the latest technologies, like intel core 2 duo and the new Nvidia GTX260m, and hard drives at any speed like 7200 rpm? Tray taking a look at the README file on the Nvidia FreeBSD driver located at the nvidia web page in order to find out whether the Nvidia FreeBSD driver does or does not support the GTX260m .. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_180.51.html I probably should mention that the nvidia drivers are only available for the x86 platform at the moment. If you need 64bit support, write them an e-mail asking for it ... Hard drives and core2 are no problem at all .. I'm actually writing this mail on a core2 .. Here .. take a look: [gonz...@inferna ~]% sysctl hw.model hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz [gonz...@inferna ~]% sysctl -a | grep temperature dev.cpu.0.temperature: 34 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 32 [gonz...@inferna ~]% I don't know any kind of code so is there any books or any kind of resources that you recommend I look at? Sure thing ... you'll find everything there is to know in here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ If you can afford yourself to spend a few bucks (and .. to be honest .. after reviewing your harware specs, you seem to be able to) on a _really_ good book about FreeBSD; Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition by Michael W. Lucas is _the_ book to buy. Sorry I have so many questions but I just ordered a new sager laptop and I do not really want to have to use windows vista if I don't have to, and I think it would be fun to learn how to use freebsd. Then, by all means, buy Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition because you _will_ want to have that book at hand. And, should you be able to afford it, try and buy the official cds/dvds from freebsdmall.com ;) Thank you, Michael Haid Anytime !! Good luck and hope to see you posting from your FreeBSD/PC-BSD system soon :) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-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 you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
On Monday 20 April 2009 11:58:39 am Keith Seyffarth wrote: I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption that printing from the machine is possible. I'm trying to get to that starting point. I have installed: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration hplip-2.8.2_4 Drivers and utilities for HP Printers and All-in-One device The printer I'm working with is a HP Officejet 4110. Hello Keith ! Ok .. first and to answer the topic: Yes, I can, and it has been that way since day 1 with FreeBSD in here. Your printed seems to be supported by hplip ... http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_4100_series.html There seem to be several issues with printing. First, since this is a USB printer, And so it's mine (an Hp LaserJet 1015) the pinter is always owned by root:operator with read permissions for user, group, and world. Adding these lines to /etc/devfs.conf link ulpt0 printer own ulpt0 cups:cups perm ulpt0 0666 Maybe you should have taken a look at the hplip post install message ... Here, take a look at this: [gonz...@inferna ~]% pkg_info -xD hplip Information for hplip-2.8.2_3: Install notice: ** UPGRADE FROM 1.X NOTICE * NOTE: If you are upgrading from 1.x you will need to change your devfs ruleset as hpiod is now gone, so remove it from you rc.conf. The printer communication now runs through cupsd. You will need to make the devfs ruleset changes to allow cups to access the usb bus and ugen devices so that it can enumerate the printers. You will also need to update your hplip.conf. See the instructions below. UPGRADE FROM 1.X NOTICE * Add the following to your rc.conf: hpssd_enable=YES So all you have to do if you have a custom ruleset setup is add the following to that ruleset in devfs.rules: add path 'usb*' group cups add path 'usb*' mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' group cups add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 If you have never setup devfs.rules please read the manpage and see: http://am-productions.biz/docs/devfs.rules.php The printer MUST attach as a ugen(4) device. This means that you must NOT have device ulpt in your kernel and ulpt must NOT be loaded as a kernel module. If you are seeing device connection errors restart the printing chain with the following command. NOTE: It MUST be restarted in the stated order. %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/hpssd restart \ %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart If upgrading from a version 2.7.9 copy the new hplip.conf.sample config. cp %%PREFIX%%/etc/hp/hplip.conf.sample \ %%PREFIX%%/etc/hp/hplip.conf If you are still having problems check: http://am-productions.biz/docs/hplip.php If you are still having problems send the relevant part of your /var/log/messages, console output from the hp-* utility that you are trying to run, and your rc.conf + devfs.rules files and the output of ls -l /dev to the maintainer. ** [gonz...@inferna ~]% So .. basically .. get rid of ulpt ... recompile your kernel if you have to, but get rid of it .. the printer MUST attach as a ugen(4) device ... Plug your printer in, turn it on and .. add this lines to devfs.rules (change the [system=10] to suit your needs if you have to) [system=10] add path 'usb*' group cups add path 'usb*' mode 0660 add path 'ugen*' group cups add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 after that, issue the following commands: cp /usr/local/etc/hp/hplip.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/hp/hplip.conf /etc/rc.d/devfs restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hpssd start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd start log in to the cups config page and follow the steps to configure your printer ... when prompted for a printer URI, make use of hp-makeuri to determine what URI you should use .. I use it like this: hp-makeuri printer_serial_number and it will return something along this way: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_1015?serial=MYSERIALGOESINHERE feed that to the URI field and then move on to choose the ppd file which you'll be able to find under /usr/local/share/ppd/HP ... And that's about it .. will set the ownership to cups:cups and the permissions to read and write for user, group, and world on startup if the printer is already turned on and plugged in. However, if the printer is not turned on at startup, or if it is disconnected or turned off after system startup, ownership and permissions revert. Trying chown or chmod to the device at /dev/ulpt0 gives an invalid path error, and
