Re: IBM TSM server
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz wrote: claudiu vasadi wrote: On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: ad6: detached Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[READ(offset=86540058624, length=16384)]error = 6 Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1e[READ(offset=63203147776, length=16384)]error = 6 Jun 7 21:10:47 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[READ(offset=86539010048, length=16384)]error = 6 isn;t it trying to read past the end of disk? Hmm.. I guess you are correct. The question is why is it doing this ? It can be caused by wrong disk label (partitioning). Some partition made bigger then real media [disk]. You can see the label by command disklabel ad6s1 and then compare size offset values with `diskinfo -v ad6` Here is the ad2: [...@da1.ro /home/da1]# disklabel ad2s1 # /dev/ad2s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 104857604.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 4125328 1048576 swap c: 419295870unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 4159488 51739044.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 1048576 9924.2BSD 2048 16384 8 f: 31547619 103819684.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 [...@da1.ro /home/da1]# diskinfo -v ad2 ad2 512 # sectorsize 80060424192 # mediasize in bytes (75G) 156368016 # mediasize in sectors 155127 # Cylinders according to firmware. 16 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. ad:S00JJ30X533937 # Disk ident. And the ad6: [...@da1.ro /home/da1]# disklabel ad6s1 # /dev/ad6s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 4902234120unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 25165824004.2BSD0 0 0 e: 167772160 2516582404.2BSD0 0 0 f: 70793012 4194304004.2BSD0 0 0 [...@da1.ro /home/da1]# diskinfo -v ad6 ad6 512 # sectorsize 251000193024# mediasize in bytes (234G) 490234752 # mediasize in sectors 486344 # Cylinders according to firmware. 16 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. ad:WD-WCANY2281832 # Disk ident. [...@da1.ro /home/da1]# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
RW wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is a larger number of dependencies. This is incorrect: I think that's misleading, AFAIK it's more a case that it can optionally support OpenGL for Linux binaries, in which case it acquires some Linux dependencies. [snip] To install the nvidia-driver port a kernel module named nvidia.ko is compiled. This module requires linux.ko to be loaded first. The reason is the nvidia-driver itself is a linux binary blob, and consequently must utilize the linuxolator to run. Very simple concept. The OpenGL support is part of the install. It is not related to any so called 'optional support for Linux binaries'. Ask yourself this: when you run glxgears is glxgears a linux binary or was it compiled as a FreeBSD binary? For example, you will see much improved performance in KDE with the nvidia- driver installed. When you compiled and installed KDE it built FreeBSD binaries, not Linux ones. Enabling the use of the 3D hardware acceleration engineered into modern graphics cards works for things other than just linux binaries and/or OpenGL. But since the nvidia-driver is itself a Linux binary blob pre-compiled by Nvidia, you must have linuxolator support to use it. That does not mean that only Linux (e.g. - non FreeBSD) binaries will be able to take advantage. -Mike ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. I upgraded to get the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box for backups. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What's wrong with this picture?
On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote: If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a small procmail script I wrote years ago. http://www.it.ca/~paul/s/procmail-filter-msgid It caches the message-id of the troll's posts and filters the message (redirect or bitbucket). It then caches the message-id of any message that includes a cached message-id in its headers (i.e. In-Reply-To, Refererences) and filters that too. The effect is to hide not just the troll's mail, but all the conversations he starts. I haven't actively used this thing since 2003, but procmail hasn't changed much in that time either. Hope it helps. Thanks, I'll give it a try. One thought however. If I'd already filtered this thread, I would have missed helpful tips like yours. I guess that's the price that has to be paid. Unless you're absolutely certain someone is never going to talk sense, I reckon the backscatter is quite useful, to keep an eye on what the killfiled person is talking about and how people are reacting. Killfiling whole threads automatically because a particular person has joined in is a drastic step. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IBM TSM server
isn;t it trying to read past the end of disk? Hmm.. I guess you are correct. The question is why is it doing this ? because partition/slice table is wrong? ___ freebsd-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: usb device not recognised
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled and, later: ... GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a259f5253bef8ae removed. uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed already here is a problem, not with device but usb controller/hub support. ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you have 2 processors (cores) and much more cache and faster memory... SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box why? it's a backup system not main system. ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. I upgraded to get the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box for backups. Hello community, Thanks everybody for their thoughts. After reading your posts and some articles over the weekend I will take the gmirror(8) + gjournal(8) road. The backups will be done offsite because the company which I'm doing this for is a friend of my boss and we do have a lot of spare space or our servers. thanks once again, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. I upgraded to get the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box for backups. The system will have 2x1TB HDD in mirroring and 500 GB HDD for another use requested by the client. v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-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: phidgets for FreeBSD?
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Brooks Davis wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, some time ago, but there doesn't seem to be any further info (http://www.phidgets.com/phorum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=507). Any ideas? No, but colour me interested too. Thanks for the pointer. Copying this to Brooks, who started that thread in 2005 with a patch for phidgets 2.0, which left me wondering if anything has become of that in the 2.1 linux sources, which I'm just grabbing. I've not really found time to do much since then. I think I've still got an ancient port around somewhere. All my patch did was refactor the error handling which caused basic stuff to work for me. Hi, 'scuse delay, been bogged down trying to (learn how to) resuccitate several old debian linux servers for a community radio station (eek!) The thread mentioned above points to your patch, is that all of it? I tried poking around your p4 area but didn't spot anything else related. I'm generally interested in whether linux applications using libusb are more likely than not to work on FreeBSD, operational differences between libusb on FreeBSD and linux, and whether our new USB stack has changed anything in that equation at all? As a rule, libusb stuff will work. Historically the function to allow a kernel driver (usually hid) to be detached hasn't been supported, but otherwise it's functional. Thanks, but please humour my ignorance - would one install linux libusb in /compat/linux for linux apps, as well as the freebsd port for native? Looks like I need to hang out in freebsd-emulation@ and read lots. Any other pointers (anyone)? I'm really hoping to use a FreeBSD box to talk and listen at 400kHz(+) iicbus with a small gadget we're designing, and everything I've seen, eg the Aardvark, is (apart from 'doze of course) linux-only using libusb, including phidgets. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-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: IBM TSM server
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: the type fdisk /dev/da1 and then compare the sectors values with what dmesg says fdisk /dev/ad2 : *** Working on device /dev/ad2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155127 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155127 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 41929587 (20473 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 41929650, size 114430995 (55874 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 dmesg doesn't say anything usefull. only: ad2: 76351MB SAMSUNG SP0802N TK200-04 at ata1-master UDMA100 I'm not pretty good at this but it seams ok. the disk has been 99% full before and no problems. The slices were created a long time ago and ran some random test that all came out ok. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: [snip] The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is a larger number of dependencies. But when it comes time to change from nv to nvidia it is just a line or two in the xorg.conf. Thanks for you assistance. BTW, what lines should I modify if I do decide to install the nVidia driver at some point? I will install the NV driver and get the desktop working. -- Carmel ___ freebsd-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: ISP questions
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:46:29 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:50:35PM -0400, itsemu wrote: if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides windows.. probably dont really know what a static ip is or have any idea what hardware each different county they are supporting has in there headend because its all different, reverse dns will probably be a waste of ip space because of the way its assigned in classes and i seriously doubt they will do it via a ticket if its not that way. named registration if im catching that right godaddys probably going to be cheaper maybe im wrong who knows.. Use a better registrar than GoDaddy. Price isn't everything, and GoDaddy will as soon screw you over as look at you. When searching for registrars to use, the first thing I do is look for registrars that have donated domain registration and/or hosting services to open source projects, because that always says something nice about their level of customer service and knowledgeability. The second thing I look for is their conflict resolution policy, because I never want to be in the position of having my service halted on someone else's say-so for something that isn't my fault without anyone letting me know there's a problem in time to fix it before service is cut off -- and I *definitely* don't want to pay a severeal-hundred-dollar ransom to get my domain name back (a favorite dirty trick of GoDaddy's). Price is somewhere down around concern five or six when I'm choosing a domain name registrar. I have used GoDaddy for 7 years now without a single problem. Maybe I am just lucky. I have only contacted them twice; however, I received a quick and courteous response to my inquiry. I know nothing about their philanthropic practices, nor does it concern me, unless I happen to be the beneficiary of such acts. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com O'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen: Cleanliness is next to impossible signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
On Monday 08 June 2009, Michael Powell wrote: As to which of the ports you need - the regular nvidia-driver and not either of the 'legacy' versions should probably be used I found that I had to use the legacy nvidia-driver-96 port to get my GeForce 6150 to function, as described in my post a couple of days ago in the Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-June/200251.html. I don't know if the problem will apply to other 6150 based systems or if it's just unique to my particular setup. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-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: Samba3 domain controller howto?
hi, yes, you are mis-understanding samba itself is a NT4-type domain. not quite right. It depends on the samba version your using. - samba3 only provides NT4-type domains - samba4 provides active directory domain types including GPO (I have such a setup running in 7.SOMETHING with around 10 users. It works quite good, beside the fact that samba segfaults from time to time (which I covered by running samba4 in foreground within an endless bash.-loop)). there is even a new build-option that creates the 'samba franky' release which uses samba3 samba4 at the same time to make nearly all samba3 feature in combination with AD environments available, but it didn't have the time to look into that. But it sounds quite promising, since samba4 lacks some features samba3 already has. Regards, --- Mr. Olli samba can use authentication backends that include passwd files, LDAP and kerberos. Active directory is a requirement to use LDAP, whereas samba is offering it as a auth backend only. fine line, I know. IOW, whereas Active Directory - as a technology: Uses kerberos for authorization Uses LDAP for a storage backend for Kerberos Uses u...@domain logins (thanks to Kerberos), Uses other techs not related to this thread NT4-style domains - as a technology: Not using Kerberos Not using LDAP storage Samba allows it's authorization backend to offer more possibilities than NT4's own methods. Such as passwd files, LDAP, Kerberos, etc. It's technology vs technology, not product vs product. On 6/7/09, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Samba is still only a NT4-type DC, no Active Directory type of function (Group Policies, u...@domain logins, kerberos, ldap, etc) I am not sure if I understand you well, but my samba is authenticating users agaiinst LDAP. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SAN FreeBSD Server
Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Best regards, FL. ___ freebsd-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: SAN FreeBSD Server
solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? /usr/ports/net/iscsi-target ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:26:34 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: To install the nvidia-driver port a kernel module named nvidia.ko is compiled. This module requires linux.ko to be loaded first. The reason is the nvidia-driver itself is a linux binary blob, and consequently must utilize the linuxolator to run. Very simple concept. Simple, but wrong. The driver is not a Linux driver, if you go to the nVidia site you will see that there are separate Linux and FreeBSD drivers. You don't need to load linux.ko at all if you built nvidia.ko without Linux support. The OpenGL support is part of the install. It is not related to any so called 'optional support for Linux binaries'. Ask yourself this: when you run glxgears is glxgears a linux binary or was it compiled as a FreeBSD binary? Clearly you don't need Linux support to run the native glxgears, but you would if you wanted to run a Linux glxgears binary. ___ freebsd-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: SAN FreeBSD Server
On 8/6/09 12:10, Friedrich Locke wrote: Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? Indeed it is, although as yet I've never needed to. (12:46:14 /usr/ports) [jh...@crab] 0 $ make search key=iscsi Port: iscsi-target-20080207_2 Path: /usr/ports/net/iscsi-target Info: Implementation of userland ISCSI target (from NetBSD) Maint: m...@foster.cc B-deps: R-deps: WWW:http://www.netbsd.org/ Port: istgt-20090428 Path: /usr/ports/net/istgt Info: An iSCSI target for FreeBSD 7.x with ZFS Maint: aoy...@peach.ne.jp B-deps: R-deps: WWW:http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/ Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Best regards, FL. ___ freebsd-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: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2
Message: 22 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:10:50 -0300 From: Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com Subject: SAN FreeBSD Server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: e678d5750906080410k62cc551el8ff8c89e9555...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? indeed it is as others have said. However, if all you need is a bunch of disk space accessible over the network, then FreeNAS would be a lot simpler to setup and maintain. Based on FreeBSD, iSCSI service built in, WEbGUI interface (but you can ssh in if you want to). one caveat, don't use it with USB external drives as it will lose connections as soon as you mount the 2nd USB drive. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-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: SAN FreeBSD Server
Hi, Maybe FreeNAS is something ? From http://www.freenas.org/ : FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. And also : http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3447/using-freenas-netware-iscsi-target-aka-cheap-mass-storage Beni. - Original Message Follows - From: Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SAN FreeBSD Server Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:10:50 -0300 Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Best regards, FL. ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2: Message: 13 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box why? it's a backup system not main system. From his original it seemd he would be using a single drive for the system and a mirror pair for data. Seems I got it wrong and the single drive will be for 'some other purpose'. Fine, but all the more reason to back it up. A backup server is not the place to avoid data security. From personal experience I can tell you that life is hell when your backup drives are needed but don't work. My backup server has a mirror pair for the data, and that gets copied to an external drive which lives off site. And I'm not sure I've got enough backups yet (-: -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-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: Samba3 domain controller howto?
Hi, I used the following procedure to install samba4 on a freebsd box: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO in my current setup (which is about 4 months old) the following this do not work: - active directory groups did somehow not work as expected, but I didn't had the time to look deeper into it - updating DNS records within named, as the version freebsd comes with does not support the GSSAPI. if someone finds a way to replace builtin named with a newer version please drop me an email. - stability (didn't had the time to examine the segfaults further.) I already had contact about this issue with andrew bartlett from the developer team and they are willing to fix this issues when they have enough informations. look here (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Franky) for informations about the 'franky' release and how to compile it. seems to be simple if you're a little bit familiar with samba. I didn't had the time to look and test, and surely won't have any until mid-august. so it would be great to hear your experiences :-) Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 07:40 -0400, Dave wrote: Hi, Do you have a procedure for getting samba4 going? If it can do active directory i'd like to try it. And get it all going, with samba3 as well. Thanks. Dave. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mister Olli Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:18 AM To: Tim Judd Cc: Olivier Nicole; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; redt...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: Samba3 domain controller howto? hi, yes, you are mis-understanding samba itself is a NT4-type domain. not quite right. It depends on the samba version your using. - samba3 only provides NT4-type domains - samba4 provides active directory domain types including GPO (I have such a setup running in 7.SOMETHING with around 10 users. It works quite good, beside the fact that samba segfaults from time to time (which I covered by running samba4 in foreground within an endless bash.-loop)). there is even a new build-option that creates the 'samba franky' release which uses samba3 samba4 at the same time to make nearly all samba3 feature in combination with AD environments available, but it didn't have the time to look into that. But it sounds quite promising, since samba4 lacks some features samba3 already has. Regards, --- Mr. Olli samba can use authentication backends that include passwd files, LDAP and kerberos. Active directory is a requirement to use LDAP, whereas samba is offering it as a auth backend only. fine line, I know. IOW, whereas Active Directory - as a technology: Uses kerberos for authorization Uses LDAP for a storage backend for Kerberos Uses u...@domain logins (thanks to Kerberos), Uses other techs not related to this thread NT4-style domains - as a technology: Not using Kerberos Not using LDAP storage Samba allows it's authorization backend to offer more possibilities than NT4's own methods. Such as passwd files, LDAP, Kerberos, etc. It's technology vs technology, not product vs product. On 6/7/09, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Samba is still only a NT4-type DC, no Active Directory type of function (Group Policies, u...@domain logins, kerberos, ldap, etc) I am not sure if I understand you well, but my samba is authenticating users agaiinst LDAP. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: Samba3 domain controller howto?
hi, Where did you get samba4? How did you download? How did you compile on FreeBSD? You can share your ./configure args? have a look into the mail I just posted on freebsd-questions, it includes links to the samba wiki where installation is explained in detail. And your smb.conf and loop script? the loop script is a bash with the following command running: 'while (true); do samba -i -M single; done' this restarts samba4 whenever it crashes immediately. my smb.conf is very simplistic as there aren't that may options you can choose in samba4 (due to being in heavy development). maybe one thing that you should be aware of is, that UFS does not support extend file attributes as linux does. so you need to save this informations into a file. the correct procedure is described in the samba4 howto article within the samba wiki (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO). sorry for not providing my smb.conf, but the server is out of my reach at the moment. If you have any questions about the setup drop me an email, maybee I can help you. Regards, --- Mr. Olli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Cronjob
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-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: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter
Hi, thanks for the hint, this brought me to a (IMHO) good way to accomplish this. When using FreeBSD as domU and configuring the kernel in the domU config file (rather than using pygrub) it's possible to append kernel parameters, by defining them in the variable 'extras' within the domU config file. With 'kenv' I can read them from within the bootet domU, so this should be just a simple shell script to setup all parameters. Currently I'm not sure where this script should hook into freebsd's internas. The greatest thing would be having a 'rc.conf' parameter to enable configuration from the kernel parameters. Setting this to 'true' would simply fire up the shell script to do all the stuff. Any suggestions or hints on this??? Regards, --- Mr. Olli On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:52 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, On 6 May 2009, at 16:20, Mister Olli wrote: is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems via kernel command line parameters? [etc] When running diskless, the loader sets kernel variables like: boot.netif.gateway=192.168.198.1 boot.netif.hwaddr=00:15:17:47:14:fc boot.netif.ip=192.168.198.8 boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0 to values obtained from BOOTP or DHCP, and the right things happen. I guess you could just set these in loader.conf or at the loader prompt. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? If it really needs to be done on the last day of each month (eg, the 28th of Feb . . . the 31st of Oct . . . etc.), I suppose you could set up 12 different jobs. Be aware of the dreaded leap year, though! Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. I've done this before. My script was in Perl. Essentially, the script ran once every day. At the top of the script, it did a DateTime check to see if tomorrow was the 1st of the month. If it was, the script proceeded, else it exited. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Cronjob
put 12 lines, for each month and with the last day. On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-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: Opinion request about a file server
If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I installed my server and finally I had to leave the root filesystem without gjournal as a workaround. Gabriel 2009/6/8 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. I upgraded to get the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box for backups. Hello community, Thanks everybody for their thoughts. After reading your posts and some articles over the weekend I will take the gmirror(8) + gjournal(8) road. The backups will be done offsite because the company which I'm doing this for is a friend of my boss and we do have a lot of spare space or our servers. thanks once again, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.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: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails
Here's a good workaround. This works for me from Linux to Win32. In your rsync script, before the rsync, do either find ./ -name '*:*' | xargs tar -czvf colon_files.tgz or (if you're doing the whole box as an rsync backup, like I am) do updatedb locate : | xargs tar -czvf colon_files.tgz Make sure that colon_files.tgz is in the path that's getting backed up by rsync. Then you can do the --exclude '*:*' in your rsync job to skip the files you just tarred. I tested this with the locate version above and it works. Also, updatedb locate should go much faster than find if you want to do the whole box. I'm not sure if there's a way to use locate to just search a subdirectory, though. Best, Dave Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I cannot trasfer a file with a colon via rsync to a Win box. I've rsync-3.0.4 on the FBSD (sending side) and rsync-2.6.9 under cygwin on Win (receiving side). I'm not sure what the error message means: % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico me...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: rsync: rename /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mexas/My Documents/work/.http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico.8dBX2K - http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3.0.4] Note the extra dot before the file name, and extra suffix at the end. Is this the expected behaviour? However, to another FBSD box transfer is fine: % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico me...@zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz: % Is this something to do with Windows, or old rsync version on cygwin? Even more bizzare, I get the same error even if I --exclude all such files from transfer. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rsync-colon-in-filename-to-MSWin-fails-tp19571614p23925088.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cronjob
Hi Jos, On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. The only solutions I see are the three-cronjob approach: 0 1 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * /path/to/script 0 1 28 2 * /path/to/script 0 1 30 4,6,9,11* /path/to/script Alternately, you could do this with a single cronjob by putting a little scripting intelligence into the crontab itself: 0 1 28-31 * * test `date -v+1d '+%d'` -eq 1 /path/to/script That may be your easiest option. The script only gets run on the correct dates, but the cron job still gets run more frequently. p -- Paul Chvostek p...@it.ca it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-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: Which nVidea driver to install
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:15:16 +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 08 June 2009, Michael Powell wrote: As to which of the ports you need - the regular nvidia-driver and not either of the 'legacy' versions should probably be used I found that I had to use the legacy nvidia-driver-96 port to get my GeForce 6150 to function, as described in my post a couple of days ago in the Driver for nVidia Geforce 6150LE thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-June/200251.html. I don't know if the problem will apply to other 6150 based systems or if it's just unique to my particular setup. One last question; if I install the AMD 64 bit version of FBSD, will the NV driver work? I know that the regular one won't since it doesn't support 64 bit systems. -- Carmel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mkntfs
Hi all.
I'm trying to format an USB key with mkntfs (I tried with 1.13.1_5 and
2.0.0).
Whatever I do, it never works.
Some of results I got:
(with 2.0.0)
~# mkntfs -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1
/dev/da0s1 is not a block device.
mkntfs forced anyway.
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 99%Failed to complete writing to /dev/da0s1
after three retries.
This should not happen.
~#mkntfs -f -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1/dev/da0s1 is not a block
device.
mkntfs forced anyway.
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
^C
~#
the only difference I noticed between 1.13.1_5 and 2.0.0 is that cluster
size is automaticaly set to 2048 instead of 4096.
when I tried fast format (-f), mkntfs print 'Creating NTFS volume', then I
wait for 40 minutes, before killing the process (1 minute is already too
long, for a 2G USB stick...).
during a fast format (with both versions), a truss -p `ps ax | awk
'/[m]kntfs /{print $1}'` gives me
preadv(0x3,0x28229800,0x1,0x76a4,0x0,0x2808a600) = 26112 (0x6600)
preadv(0x3,0x28229800,0x1,0x76a4,0x0,0x2808a600) = 26112 (0x6600)
preadv(0x3,0x28229800,0x1,0x76a4,0x0,0x2808a600) = 26112 (0x6600)
preadv(0x3,0x28229800,0x1,0x76a4,0x0,0x2808a600) = 26112 (0x6600)
preadv(0x3,0x28229800,0x1,0x76a4,0x0,0x2808a600) = 26112 (0x6600)
.
So... Is there a way to format a disk into NTFS ?!
Thanks all !
Samuel Martín Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek3
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Re: Cronjob
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. jerry 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos ___ freebsd-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: Which nVidea driver to install
On Monday 08 June 2009, Carmel wrote: One last question; if I install the AMD 64 bit version of FBSD, will the NV driver work? I know that the regular one won't since it doesn't support 64 bit systems. I'm using i386 so have no direct experience of this but package versions of the xf86-video-nv port are available for both i386 and amd64 so you should have no problem. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
I am not exactly sure which driver I am using between these two, however I have found that setting up the driver and display are great with these packages installed. I guess I would be using the most recent :) nvidia-driver-173.14.12 nvidia-driver-71.86.06 nvidia-settings-173.14.09 nvidia-xconfig-1.0_2 After you use the nvidia driver in your Xorg.conf file, I would suggest running, nvidia-xconfig, and then nvidia-settings while in X to configure the card. -Jason On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:05:42PM +0100, Mike Clarke thus spake: On Monday 08 June 2009, Carmel wrote: One last question; if I install the AMD 64 bit version of FBSD, will the NV driver work? I know that the regular one won't since it doesn't support 64 bit systems. I'm using i386 so have no direct experience of this but package versions of the xf86-video-nv port are available for both i386 and amd64 so you should have no problem. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-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
NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of NO_PROFILE listed in the examples make.conf file. Has it been depreciated? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Serving coffee on an aircraft causes turbulence. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Was a new feature in 7.0, IIRC On 6/8/09, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of NO_PROFILE listed in the examples make.conf file. Has it been depreciated? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Serving coffee on an aircraft causes turbulence. ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. 0 0 1 * * -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: growing a graid3 array and growfs not growing ....
Sorry to revive an old thread.. I am working with raid3 vs raid5 at home to understand the difference better. And this might help the OP. RAID3 has a dedicated parity drive, and the number of consumers must be (2^n)+1 (2^1)+1 = 3 (2^2)+1 = 5 (2^3)+1 = 9 RAID5 is a distributed parity, and what seems an unlimited number of consumers. And about the fdisk error. See under providers the line: sectorsize: 2048 - means that /boot/mbr (512 bytes) does not match the sectorsize of the provider, 2048 bytes. You'll have to append out the MBR file with zeros to fit the provider's sectorsize before fdisk will even consider placing it into the provider. Now -- A RAID array will only be as big as it's smallest member/consumer. 5x drives are probably rebuilding as the original size because of the other 4 consumers being the smaller size. Hope this helps paint a bigger picture for the OP. On 5/29/09, Vikash Badal vikash.ba...@is.co.za wrote: Can someone please advise why growfs would return: growfs: we are not growing (8388607-4194303) ? I have a FreeBSD 7.2 server in a VM. I initially had 5 x 4G disks Created a raid graid3 label datavol da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 I upgraded them to 5 x 8g disks swopped out the virtual disks one at a time graid3 remove -n 0 datavol graid3 insert -n 0 datavol da2 [wait] .. graid3 remove -n 4 datavol graid3 insert -n 4 datavol da6 [wait] graid3 stop datavol growfs /dev/raid3/datavol error message: growfs: we are not growing (8388607-4194303) ? vix-sw-raid# graid3 list Geom name: datavol State: COMPLETE Components: 5 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2704170828 Zone64kFailed: 0 Zone64kRequested: 0 Zone16kFailed: 0 Zone16kRequested: 0 Zone4kFailed: 0 Zone4kRequested: 524 Providers: 1. Name: raid3/datavol Mediasize: 34359736320 (32G) Sectorsize: 2048 Mode: r0w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: da2 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 Number: 0 Type: DATA 2. Name: da3 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 Number: 1 Type: DATA 3. Name: da4 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 Number: 2 Type: DATA 4. Name: da5 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 Number: 3 Type: DATA 5. Name: da6 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 Number: 4 Type: PARITY fdisk /dev/raid3/datavol *** Working on device /dev/raid3/datavol *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1044 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1044 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size what am I missing ? Please note: This email and its content are subject to the disclaimer as displayed at the following link http://www.is.co.za/legal/E-mail+Confidentiality+Notice+and+Disclaimer.htm. Should you not have Web access, send a mail to disclaim...@is.co.za and a copy will be emailed to you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Please don't top post. It makes following a thread a lot harder than necessary. I all ready know about 'src.conf'; it was the NO_PROFILE option that I was inquiring about. I just did some Googling and found this: WITHOUT_PROFILE=true I am wondering if that is a replacement for NO_PROFILE? Interestingly enough, there does not seem to be a '/usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf' file either. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Your wig steers the gig. Lord Buckley signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
RW wrote: [snip] Simple, but wrong. The driver is not a Linux driver, if you go to the nVidia site you will see that there are separate Linux and FreeBSD drivers. You don't need to load linux.ko at all if you built nvidia.ko without Linux support. [snip] Aha! You're right! Something has changed. I was describing how things used to be, not how they are now. Shows how long it's been since I was paying attention. Since I never even bothered to look at the Makefile in a long time I never noticed the WITHOUT_LINUX=yes, which is new and since the default is to build the Linux support it just passed by me. But I stand corrected. Hadn't noticed how it had changed. Thanks for waking me up :-) -Mike ___ freebsd-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: General and specific make questions
Lars Eighner wrote:
What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose
make is
being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why
make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with
implicit C
rules, while -- it seems to me -- make could be much more useful for a
variety of things, and I could sure use more of the general and arbitrary
examples.
Second, it appears to me that the pmake document in the books section of
the
documentation is not longer in sync with make as actually installed in
FreeBSD 7.x. In particular, the pmake doc refers to switches which make no
longer recognizes and which do not have clear replacements in man make.
Now for my particular question.
I have some sources which may or may not exist. My target should be
rebuilt
if a source exists that is younger than the target. But sources that do
not exist should be ignored and make should not be perplexed over how to
create them. How do I express that kind of relationship?
OK, first, about those docs in /usr/share/doc/{psd|smm|usd|others}, they all
come from the original papers written by the CSRG folks well before FreeBSD was
created. They are somewhat useful, so for that (and sheer historical interest)
they're kept around, but they aren't updated. If you wanted to see updated
stuff, try the man page, which is both constantly updated and complete in it's
coverage.
OK, for your particular question, it's honestly not real clear what you're
asking ... are you asking how to tell make NOT to make something? I'll make a
guess here, and lay the guess out for you to comment on, maybe asking you to
reconsider your question might have the side effect of making the answer be
obvious? Anyhow, maybe you have a target that has a dependency listed for it,
but make(1) doesn't have rules on how to remake that dependency, and either
make(1) can't find it, or does find it, but finds that the time stamps of that
dependency shows it has to be remade. One easy way to fix that would be to do a
touch (read the man page on touch for info) that dependency, which should
cause make(1) to lose interest in rebuilding it. I couldn't get more exact
without having a better idea of what's happening.
Oh, BTW, about applications of make for other than C progs. Using make(1) to
compile other things, like maybe python progs, or whatever, is fairly obvious
that it can be handled just like the C progs. Yes, you CAN use make(1) for
non-compilation tasks, but I've never seen any documentation for that beyond the
make(1) man page. In fact, the only example of doing that which I've even seen
was helping NIS to maintain itself. Two things about make(1): first, it's very
widely terrified programmers, but (secondly) it's really not all that complex,
so it's actually frightening everyone based upon it's reputation. Well, that,
and the one truly poor makefile I've ever seen, that one defaulted to by all of
the autoconf tools (the gcc Makefile is an example of this, it's too bad to be
described without using foul language). It doesn't have to be that way, but it
does a fine job of scaring everyone away from make(1).
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Re: Which nVidea driver to install
Carmel wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: [snip] The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is a larger number of dependencies. But when it comes time to change from nv to nvidia it is just a line or two in the xorg.conf. Thanks for you assistance. BTW, what lines should I modify if I do decide to install the nVidia driver at some point? I will install the NV driver and get the desktop working. Section Device #Driver nv Driver nvidia Just change nv to nvidia, and perhaps in Section Module Load glx if you need to. Also notice what RW said; I am behind the times wrt to how things have changed. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had good luck with them? It seems hard to get them to tell you what controllers and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported hardware list. What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic: rack mountable RAID-5 controller 4-6 or more disks (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) dual power supplies (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) CDROM 2 ethernet ports some RAM a video card an Intel or AMD CPU - single, two CPU, or multicore doesn't really matter. and the all-important onsite service. These things need to be pretty reliable, both of the data centers they're going into are a couple of hours from my house, so I don't want a dead power supply to take out the server. We've used SuperMicro's in the past, and they've been wildly variable. Some of them have run ok for years, some died within weeks, and kept dying no matter what parts we put in. (yes, I checked the power, it was clean. My guess is just a bad run of motherboards). I've got 3 servers that have never been able to stay up for more than a couple of days, we don't even use them. Regardless, any one have suggestions on what current models of servers are out there that run? Thanks! - ericr ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:55:56 +0200, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net said: J I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my J crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know J which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script J to be executed is no option. I have two scripts for this; one handles the last day of the month, and the other handles the last work/business day of the month. http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/lastday/ -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. --G. B. Shaw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
ericr wrote: I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support FreeBSD, Dell hardware is tier-1 for FreeBSD. I think their hardware is quite OK. The machines are built well. Haven't had too much to deal with their onsite service (which is a good sign), but the times that I did I think they handled it quite well, the parts were in house within 4 hours and in a case where a motherboard had to be replaced, a Dell technician was sent in as well and did his job fine. Dell's RAID controllers (Perc/5i and Perc/6i) work fine in BSD, and some tools are available although with Linux emulation which kind of sucks. Here's a sample dmesg of a 1950: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Apr 3 10:28:13 CEST 2009 r...@hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5148 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 usable memory = 4276400128 (4078 MB) avail memory = 4114935808 (3924 MB) ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE_SC3 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: DELL PE_SC3 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci4 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci6 pci7: PCI bus on pcib4 bce0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) mem 0xf400-0xf5ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci7 miibus0: MII bus on bce0 brgphy0: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bce0: Ethernet address: 00:22:19:82:e8:45 bce0: [ITHREAD] bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W (0x04000305); Flags( MFW MSI ) pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci5 pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 pcib6: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci4 pci9: PCI bus on pcib6 pcib7: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 3.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib7 mfi0: Dell PERC 6 port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc48-0xfc4b,0xfc44-0xfc47 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 mfi0: 2031 (292323270s/0x0020/info) - Shutdown command received from host mfi0: 2032 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 0060/1000/1f0c/1028) mfi0: 2033 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 1.11.82-0473 mfi0: 2034 (boot + 3s/0x0008/info) - Battery Present mfi0: 2035 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Package version 6.0.3-0002 mfi0: 2036 (boot + 21s/0x0004/info) - Enclosure (SES) discovered on PD 20(c None/p0) mfi0: 2037 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: Encl PD 20 mfi0: 2038 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 20(c None/p0) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=d, portMap=09, sasAddr=5001e090e8810900, mfi0: 2039 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 00(e0x20/s0) mfi0: 2040 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 00(e0x20/s0) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=00, sasAddr=5000c5000d253121, mfi0: 2041 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 01(e0x20/s1) mfi0: 2042 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 01(e0x20/s1) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=01, sasAddr=5000c5000d25eb55, mfi0: 2043 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x20/s2) mfi0: 2044 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x20/s2) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=02, sasAddr=5000c5000d2420ed, mfi0: 2045
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
Michael Powell wrote: Section Device #Driver nv Driver nvidia Just change nv to nvidia, and perhaps in Section Module Load glx if you need to. Also notice what RW said; I am behind the times wrt to how things have changed. -Mike What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work immediately, you can install it from ports w/o a problem (or do the configuration by hand). It's a little involved, but it gets the job done. nVidia's README for FreeBSD drivers: http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/README/index.html -Joseph ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which nVidea driver to install
LoH wrote: [snip] What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work immediately, you can install it from ports w/o a problem (or do the configuration by hand). It's a little involved, but it gets the job done. nVidia's README for FreeBSD drivers: http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/185.18.14/README/index.html Yes - I agree that these utilities should be considered the more proper approach. Editing the xorg.conf by hand should be where one ends up after everything else hasn't worked. Generally speaking, most of these get it either right or so very close to right that only a minor tweak or two is needed. My config is somewhat non standard in that I use two monitors, one LCD flatscreen and the other an old 17 CRT. There are two methods for dual monitors, either multiple X screens or utilize the TwinView feature of the nvidia driver. Since the TwinView approach allows to drag windows from one monitor to the other with a mouse (what I wanted) I went that way. Ultimately in the end it took manual hackery to get it to work. But yes - use the utilities first, that's what they're made for. Only resort to hackery as a last resort. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
And I say you get what you pay for. My organization uses Dell exclusively and it's been a thorn in my side from day one. The AC power requirements (it seems) for Dells are about 3x as much as Gateways (I know, Gateway doesn't provide servers). The power draw for the Dells don't seem to be any better for them, in fact, they seem to run hotter. iXsystems, the PC-BSD guys, build components and provide hardware warranty like the big companies. I would pick IBM or iXsystems. IBM's warranty policy is written out, the IBMs have had more overall success than any other big company brand, and we're talking the pioneers of the PCs.. IBM or IBM compatible. IBMs are the highest priced units, but I've had zero problems with them. I dream big, only because I can. Good luck. On 6/8/09, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: ericr wrote: I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support FreeBSD, Dell hardware is tier-1 for FreeBSD. I think their hardware is quite OK. The machines are built well. Haven't had too much to deal with their onsite service (which is a good sign), but the times that I did I think they handled it quite well, the parts were in house within 4 hours and in a case where a motherboard had to be replaced, a Dell technician was sent in as well and did his job fine. Dell's RAID controllers (Perc/5i and Perc/6i) work fine in BSD, and some tools are available although with Linux emulation which kind of sucks. Here's a sample dmesg of a 1950: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Apr 3 10:28:13 CEST 2009 r...@hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5148 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 usable memory = 4276400128 (4078 MB) avail memory = 4114935808 (3924 MB) ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE_SC3 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: DELL PE_SC3 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci4 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci6 pci7: PCI bus on pcib4 bce0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) mem 0xf400-0xf5ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci7 miibus0: MII bus on bce0 brgphy0: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bce0: Ethernet address: 00:22:19:82:e8:45 bce0: [ITHREAD] bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W (0x04000305); Flags( MFW MSI ) pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci5 pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 pcib6: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci4 pci9: PCI bus on pcib6 pcib7: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 3.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib7 mfi0: Dell PERC 6 port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc48-0xfc4b,0xfc44-0xfc47 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 mfi0: 2031 (292323270s/0x0020/info) - Shutdown command received from host mfi0: 2032 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 0060/1000/1f0c/1028) mfi0: 2033 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 1.11.82-0473 mfi0: 2034 (boot + 3s/0x0008/info) - Battery Present mfi0: 2035 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Package version 6.0.3-0002 mfi0: 2036 (boot + 21s/0x0004/info) - Enclosure (SES) discovered on PD 20(c None/p0) mfi0: 2037 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) -
Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Please don't top post. It makes following a thread a lot harder than necessary. I all ready know about 'src.conf'; it was the NO_PROFILE option that I was inquiring about. I just did some Googling and found this: WITHOUT_PROFILE=true I am wondering if that is a replacement for NO_PROFILE? Yes. Just WITHOUT_PROFILE in /etc/src.conf is all you need. Interestingly enough, there does not seem to be a '/usr/share/examples/etc/src.conf' file either. The list can be found in man src.conf -Mike ___ freebsd-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: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:43:23PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of NO_PROFILE listed in the examples make.conf file. Has it been depreciated? It has been moved to src.conf as WITHOUT_PROFILE. See src.conf(5). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpdtyMRzBVXB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fwd: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails
Dagnabbit! Meant to also send this to the list. Kurt On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:28, Giorgos Keramidaskeram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:37:50 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I cannot trasfer a file with a colon via rsync to a Win box. I've rsync-3.0.4 on the FBSD (sending side) and rsync-2.6.9 under cygwin on Win (receiving side). I'm not sure what the error message means: % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico me...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: rsync: rename /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/mexas/My Documents/work/.http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico.8dBX2K - http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3.0.4] Note the extra dot before the file name, and extra suffix at the end. Is this the expected behaviour? Yes, this is the expected broken behavior of Windows. The ':' character cannot be used in a normal filename in Windows. The bug goes way back, when DOS developers chose to use ':' to denote 'drive names'. However, to another FBSD box transfer is fine: % rsync ./http:__en.wikipedia.org_favicon.ico me...@zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz: % UNIX only reserves '/' as the path separator (and in some cases the '\0' character for the end-of-fiename string marker). So the ':' character is valid for file names or directory names. Is this something to do with Windows, or old rsync version on cygwin? Yes, it has to do with Windows. It does indeed have to do with Windows - see this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx However, there's another thing to know about the use of colons in file names, and it's not simply to do with driver letters - NTFS has a facility called Alternate Data Streams, which was implemented to support Macintoshes, originally. See this article for a start: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364404(VS.85).aspx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
7.2-STABLE and iSCSI
Hello, I am currently using a 7.2-STABLE with iSCSI enabled in the kernel. I have tried to enable a file system which is 2.4TB in size (this is on an amd64 architecture). I have followed different documentations I found and can export an iSCSI target fine and initiate the iSCSI drive either on a Linux or FreeBSD client. I am using the /usr/ports/net/iscsi-target-20080207_2 The problem is concerning the size, as the maximum of the file system I see is 800G out of 2.4TB. I have double checked the target (server) and the initiator (client) and the cylinders is what does not match. On the server I have a slice with 15000 cylinders whereas the client sees only 4000 of them. All the other figures match. So, did I hit a limitation or am I just doing something wrong? Thanks for your help, Steph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
port for separation audio from video in mp4 file
hi, title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would like to separate audio from that file. i try to find some port in /usr/ports/audio but nothing reasonable occudred. i tried find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep mp4 but these were only some offtopic programs :) thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:05:20 +0200, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would like to separate audio from that file. Maybe mplayer can do that for you. It has options -dumpvideo and -dumpaudio. As you know, mplayer / mencoder can do everything that you can imagine. :-) -- 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: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:56:35AM -0600, ericr wrote: Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. Our group has a lot of Dells from Poweredge 650-s to 2950-s and some other groups in our department also run 46xx and some other things. They have been successful and reliable. We have also run a few HP servers with FreeBSD with no major problems, though one came with a DOA motherboard. But they came out and replaced it right away. jerry Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had good luck with them? It seems hard to get them to tell you what controllers and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported hardware list. What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic: rack mountable RAID-5 controller 4-6 or more disks (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) dual power supplies (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) CDROM 2 ethernet ports some RAM a video card an Intel or AMD CPU - single, two CPU, or multicore doesn't really matter. and the all-important onsite service. These things need to be pretty reliable, both of the data centers they're going into are a couple of hours from my house, so I don't want a dead power supply to take out the server. We've used SuperMicro's in the past, and they've been wildly variable. Some of them have run ok for years, some died within weeks, and kept dying no matter what parts we put in. (yes, I checked the power, it was clean. My guess is just a bad run of motherboards). I've got 3 servers that have never been able to stay up for more than a couple of days, we don't even use them. Regardless, any one have suggestions on what current models of servers are out there that run? Thanks! - ericr ___ freebsd-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: mkntfs
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to format an USB key with mkntfs (I tried with 1.13.1_5 and 2.0.0). Whatever I do, it never works. Some of results I got: (with 2.0.0) ~# mkntfs -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 is not a block device. Are you using the version from the sysutils/ntfsprogs port? That is patched to deal with the fact that FreeBSD doesn't have block devices anymore and to align read/write operations to the media block size, which is required on FreeBSD. Also if you want to mount the drive, use the fusefs-ntfs driver. It's more recent. So... Is there a way to format a disk into NTFS ?! If the port doesn't work, try using a windoze box. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpmJtDwfxcqF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file
Maybe mplayer can do that for you. It has options -dumpvideo and -dumpaudio. As you know, mplayer / mencoder can do everything that you can imagine. :-) -dumpaudio -vc dummy will dump audio and skip video decoding at all ___ freebsd-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: General and specific make questions
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is
being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why
make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C
rules, while -- it seems to me -- make could be much more useful for a
variety of things, and I could sure use more of the general and arbitrary
examples.
I use make to e.g. build complex LaTeX documents with included gnuplot
graphs. Works like a charm. But that it is not conceptually different
from compiling a C program.
I have some sources which may or may not exist. My target should be rebuilt
if a source exists that is younger than the target. But sources that do
not exist should be ignored and make should not be perplexed over how to
create them. How do I express that kind of relationship?
I use the following to create PDFs from gnuplot files without
enumerating them beforehand. Maybe that is what you're looking for?
- Makefile fragment -
# See SPECIAL TARGETS in make(1)
.PHONY: all clean
.SUFFIXES: .eps .pdf .gp .d
# See VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS in make(1)
GP!=ls *.gp|sed -e 's/\.gp/\.pdf/g'
all: ${GP}
# Suffix-transformation rule. See chapter 3 in the PMake tutorial
# (/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz)
.gp.pdf:
gnuplot $*.gp 2-
epstopdf $*.eps
rm -f $*.eps *.log
clean:
rm -f *.log *.pdf *.eps
- Makefile fragment -
Roland
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Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. I have two Intel servers that I like a lot. I don't have on-site support, but it might be available from one of Intel's official distributors. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ISP questions
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:45:43AM -0400, Jerry wrote: I have used GoDaddy for 7 years now without a single problem. Maybe I am just lucky. I have only contacted them twice; however, I received a quick and courteous response to my inquiry. I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from your own mistakes, though, go ahead and ignore the instances where GoDaddy has screwed over other customers, and just keep using it in willful ignorance until the day when your luck changes. I guess that's your prerogative. I know nothing about their philanthropic practices, nor does it concern me, unless I happen to be the beneficiary of such acts. I think you missed the import of what I said about supporting open source projects, and how that seems a strongly correlated indicator of other good business practices. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Paul Graham: Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. pgp5SadjwUTiM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0
Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com writes: [* ] [8.6b1] comm comm.test!Connect to remote failed: couldn't open socket: connection timed out Taking a look in the comm.test file, it looks to me like you already had something on port 12345, so an attempt to open such a port failed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: General and specific make questions
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C rules, while -- it seems to me -- make could be much more useful for a variety of things, and I could sure use more of the general and arbitrary examples. I use make to e.g. build complex LaTeX documents with included gnuplot graphs. Works like a charm. But that it is not conceptually different from compiling a C program. Correct. I do the same here. Additionally, I use make and Makefile to process HTML to emulate SSI before uploading, which I do with - you already guessed it - with make install (uses ftp -u then), and make deinstall deletes stuff from the webserver. :-) -- 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: ISP questions
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from your own mistakes, though, go ahead and ignore the instances where GoDaddy has screwed over other customers, and just keep using it in willful ignorance until the day when your luck changes. I guess that's your prerogative. I believe you are over generalizing it. I have had two occasions where FBSD crashed and I lost a considerable amount of data. According to your statement, I should just say screw FBSD and move on to another OS. Seriously though, if they have X number of clients and only .1% of them have experienced a problem, is there really a problem? I don't know since I don't have statistics on GoDaddy. Obviously you do. Would you be kind enough to post them so I could inspect them myself. Thanks! -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com They're unfriendly, which is fortunate, really. They'd be difficult to like. Avon signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Thanks, Daniel First thing that comes to mind is abusing BibTeX/LaTeX. Keep a BibTeX file (under version control for safety) or other LaTeX-based citation solution as a file on your desktop. If you're using articles from journals, you should be able to get the BibTeX versions of the citation information from general research portals like IEEEXplore or ACM's library (and many other places). For each one, add another field and add your local path (of the file referencing the article) to it. If you need to find something after that, grep the keyword or author's name with the option to display a couple lines up or down. A useful side effect is that if you know LaTeX (and it's a good skill to have), you have the citation information handy for easy inclusion in your own papers. With some work, that approach could probably be expanded to an GUI app. Like most things, it's a bit of up-front work and requires maintenance (mostly remembering to grab the cite info from documents as you add them to your collection). If you're going to be using any of them for citations, however, it's work you're already having to do. --Joseph Lenox ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? One of your options - one of the most basic ones - is to use a CSV file where you define the different fields you want to be able to search. This is an imaginable approach: # inventory.csv # = # $1: $2: $3: $4: $5 # Author(s) : Title : Year : Keywords : File # --:---:---:---:- Foobar, J : Foo and Bar : 2000 : Foo Bar Baz Bleep : xyz12345.pdf Klopps, M : My Bratklops : 1975 : Eat Food Meat Loaf: qwertzui.pdf ... You can then use grep, cut, awk, sed, perl or any other scripting language for postprocessing, like making a list of your collection of a subset of it. The File field could even contain the full path of the file, or you use locate go get its location. This is handy for automating tasks, like print all the articles by Foobar J. One general advantage of this approach is that your favourite editor, along with grep, sed, awk 'n stuff are your tools of choice. You don't need to install lots of stuff. Even your bare base system can handle it. Because it's pure text, it's human readable and can be easily transfered between systems. It is very versatile and not limited by the functionalities of one certain program that you use. I'm very sure there is already a tool or a whole GUI subsystem that does indexing and taking care of arbitrary file collections, but of course I don't know its name because I never used it. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
PDF inventory software
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? 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: PDF inventory software
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Thanks, Daniel Try using sysutils/tracker-client (http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/). It should do what you and much more. Yuri ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Just to add one more to the already list of good ideas. What about just using an RDBMS? These days, everyone seems to think you have to put some fancy web front-end on a RDBMS to make it useful, but SQL is pretty user-friendly. PostgreSQL, in particular, has some excellent full-text searching capabilities in the latest version. If you use a script to export the text from the PDF and insert into postgres, you then have a searchable database using word-stemming and all the other features of a full-blown search engine on steroids. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:45:38 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! I'd like to add that if you define your data fields well, you can use it to generate BibTeX and other LaTeX entries from your records. You can even easily turn it into HTML. But as I said: Keep in mind that it's very basic - but that makes is so versatile and strong. You could add a script that does some work (add, delete, modify, search or duplicate entries) for you, if you don't want to spend much time in the editor, and don't want to keep the pretty printing of the file intact (it doesn't matter anyway). The MOST important thing to pay attention to is NOT to use the desired delimiter inside a data field. If you already know that : will be in one of the fields, just use a less common symbol as delimiter, such as | or even ~. Of course, more comfortable solutions will surely keep off this manual work from you, but in most cases, they involve installing LOTS of dependencies. Finally, the advice of using some version control for the upcoming changes of the file is a good idea. You can even have more than one file, e. g. for separating topics or projects. -- 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: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Hello, Might be overkill for one person but this is the software our scientists use in our place, quite a good application : http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/features.html Cheers, Steph ___ freebsd-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: Cronjob
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote: Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Isn't that a linuxism? Looking at the man pages for the date command for FreeBSD, it looks as if 'date -v+1d' will return tomorrow's date (and it does, I checked). The -d option is to do with daylight saving time. ___ freebsd-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/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.
On Saturday 06 June 2009 20:44:38 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: I do not think /etc/hosts does round robin, I always assumed first match wins...DNS/bind I would understand... It's the same library call: gethostbyname(3) and friends. Why does ping always return the 172.20.6.1 address, and ftp,nc,ssh,telnet,fetch _always_ uses the 116 address? Again: client implementation is allowed to pick whichever it wants. why are you so hung up on dual IPs for a single host? would dnsmasq provide a solution to dual A records for one resource? Gotta agree with Tim here. I don't see the point for having two nets on one interface. They'll be hard to keep secure with firewall rules if you run the same services on them. I'll help, when I can. but forcing this on /etc/hosts is a dead end. Problem is that nfs and DNS don't work well at all. For nfs best use IP or /etc/hosts. One drawback of using DNS with nfs is that if the hostname cannot be resolved (network down, typo), one can also not get a console when it goes to single user mode [1] and has to reboot via power button. /etc/fstab is supposed to be static to begin with. It's supposed to provide the mountpoints the system can count on, so using IP's for nfs is preferred. For the more dynamic nfs mounts, one can use hostnames and use noauto in the options column. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128448 -- Mel ___ freebsd-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: phidgets for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 07 June 2009 23:49:48 Ian Smith wrote: Thanks, but please humour my ignorance - would one install linux libusb in /compat/linux for linux apps, as well as the freebsd port for native? If there's source, one would use native libusb. I'd go test with -current though. The libusb in the base there is the exact same as the devel/libusb port, with extras. If the source don't work out of the box, usb developers would definitely want to hear about it. Unfortunately, I lack the time (and interest for the moment) to try it out myself, even though I'd love to get my Sonix USB webcam working. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
getting aux display on laptop to be the only display
I have following hardware on my laptop: dmesg|grep vga vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x6110-0x6117 mem 0x9000-0x903f,0x8000-0x8fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM45 SVGA controller on vgapci0 vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0x9450-0x945f at device 2.1 on pci0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 drm0: Mobile Intel\M-B\M-. GM45 Express Chipset on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster and I have an extrtnal 21 widescreen (vga) that when I hook it up the default x11.config has it at 1024x768 on *BOTH* monitors How do I make it so X only considers the external (if attached) monitor? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
flaw found....
not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past ? and ? ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes and ?. so if you have a stray ? with a matching close case, the binary hangs on a read. so, again, can anybody suggest a better example, in C, to get past two delimiters? one thought is how gcc parses the /* and */ comment delimiters. any compiler gurus out there who know where this code is? gary ? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.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: flaw found....
Gary, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past ? and ? ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes and ?. so if you have a stray ? with a matching close case, the binary hangs on a read. so, again, can anybody suggest a better example, in C, to get past two delimiters? one thought is how gcc parses the /* and */ comment delimiters. any compiler gurus out there who know where this code is? gary ? What about having it check a char array, similar to how programs like ls(1) does checking for command line arguments? http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/bin/ls/ls.c - line 181 and on. -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber ___ freebsd-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: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 85542 www1 510 102M 85360K CPU6 6 16:34 100.00% lighttpd 1) Should this be possible? What is going on here? Change the write-backend. Look in google for lighttpd and sendfile to see why. -- Mel ___ freebsd-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: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.
On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:14:14 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Hi all, I've recently installed 7.2-RELEASE few weeks ago and noticed that it panics after few minutes of loading snd_ds1 (driver for Yamaha PCI sound card), and playing music on it. I've not added snd_ds1 to my loader.conf so as soon as I explicitly kldload it and start playing music (or try to access sound card like using gnome-sound-recorder) it panics after few minutes. Following are the backtraces of the panics. , | (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0 | | Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: | | | Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode | cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 | instruction pointer = 0x8:0x807c5f22 | stack pointer = 0x10:0xfffebf031a00 | frame pointer = 0x10:0x80420048 | code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b | = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 | processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 | current process = 72310 (sshd) | trap number = 9 | panic: general protection fault | cpuid = 0 | Uptime: 6h25m1s | Physical memory: 2025 MB | Dumping 386 MB: 371 355 339 323 307 291 275 259 243 227 211 195 179 163 | 147 131 115 99 83 67 51 35 19 3 | | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/geom_journal.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/geom_journal.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/geom_journal.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/linprocfs.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/linprocfs.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/linux.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/linux.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/linux.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/pf.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/pf.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/pf.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/blank_saver.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/blank_saver.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/blank_saver.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_socket.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_socket.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_socket.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/netgraph.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/netgraph.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/netgraph.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_mppc.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_mppc.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_mppc.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/rc4.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/rc4.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/rc4.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_iface.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_iface.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_iface.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_ppp.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_ppp.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_ppp.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_tee.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_tee.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_tee.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_ether.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_ether.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_ether.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_pppoe.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/ng_pppoe.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_pppoe.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/i915.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/i915.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/i915.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/drm.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/drm.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/drm.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/snd_ds1.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/snd_ds1.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/snd_ds1.ko | Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/sound.ko...Reading symbols from | /boot/GENERIC/sound.ko.symbols...done. done. | Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/sound.ko | #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 | 195 pcpu.h: No such file or directory. | in pcpu.h | (kgdb) bt | #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 | #1 0x0004 in ?? () | #2 0x8050df19 in boot (howto=260) at | /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #3 0x8050e322 in panic | (fmt=0x104 Address 0x104 out of bounds) at | /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:574 #4 0x807d2193 in | trap_fatal (frame=0xff00038bb370, eva=Variable eva is not | available. ) at /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c:757 | #5 0x807d2ce5 in trap (frame=0xfffebf031950) at | /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c:558 #6 0x807b700e in calltrap () | at
Re: PDF inventory software
Hi, I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Certainly overkill, but dspace(.org) can keep up a digital library for you, with full indexation. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 85542 www 1 51 0 102M 85360K CPU6 6 16:34 100.00% lighttpd 1) Should this be possible? What is going on here? Change the write-backend. Look in google for lighttpd and sendfile to see why. I was under the impression that that bug was fixed[1]. In any case, I've switched from freebsd-sendfile to writev. I'll send another ping if that doesn't fix it (and probably fiddle around with the event-handler too -- I've read error reports suggesting that freebsd-kqueue handling is broken in Lighttpd). Thanks for the suggestion :) -- [1] http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/1913 ___ freebsd-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: flaw found....
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:20:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: Gary, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past ? and ? ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes and ?. so if you have a stray ? with a matching close case, the binary hangs on a read. so, again, can anybody suggest a better example, in C, to get past two delimiters? one thought is how gcc parses the /* and */ comment delimiters. any compiler gurus out there who know where this code is? gary ? What about having it check a char array, similar to how programs like ls(1) does checking for command line arguments? http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/bin/ls/ls.c - line 181 and on. yes, this is one thing i was thinking about at around 04:30! having a pointer to both the beginning and ending of the delimiter pair. if no ending was found, issue a warning and error exit. FWIW, Google just pointed me at a snippet that showed how to get past things like // comments thankee! -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.91a 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
Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? Is UFS2 no longer considered the best general-use filesystem? Reason I ask: I'm going to create many small (~1K) files on a 100G disk and thus need at least 100M inodes. newfs -i maxes out at ~52M inodes (862 groups * 60864 inodes =~ 52M inodes): # newfs -N -i 1 /dev/da1;: same results as -i 2048 /dev/da1: 102400.0MB (209715200 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 862 cylinder groups of 118.88MB, 7608 blks, 60864 inodes. I realize I can use f 512 -b 4096 to get 200M+ inodes, but I'm willing to experiment w/ a new filesystem, provided it behaves mostly like UFS. Thoughts? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-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: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2
On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tim Judd wrote: If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports What is the appropriate location for KERNCONF, which I still have in / etc/make.conf ? -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display
Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA is enabled are mirrored. Via VGA driver functions, you can make them independent. My guess for what you need is xrandr, to which I'm not very well versed. It seems to be the answer when it comes to video output layout, size, orientation... swiss army knife. I'm welcome to corrections and learning myself, but I would shoot for VGA driver and/or xrandr tweaking first. On 6/8/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have following hardware on my laptop: dmesg|grep vga vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x6110-0x6117 mem 0x9000-0x903f,0x8000-0x8fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM45 SVGA controller on vgapci0 vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0x9450-0x945f at device 2.1 on pci0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 drm0: Mobile Intel\M-B\M-. GM45 Express Chipset on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster and I have an extrtnal 21 widescreen (vga) that when I hook it up the default x11.config has it at 1024x768 on *BOTH* monitors How do I make it so X only considers the external (if attached) monitor? ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com said: D In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I D find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I D only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a D keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) D that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes D to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they contain text? If the latter, you could use something like xapian or hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Top oxymorons #22: Childproof ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600, ericr erobi...@gmail.com said: E Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had E good luck with them? I've always had good luck with Dell, especially the GX-260s. I've used them for file-servers handling over 100 Samba connections at a time, and (considering they're just workstations) they work fine. E We've used SuperMicro's in the past, and they've been wildly variable. E Some of them have run ok for years, some died within weeks, and kept dying E no matter what parts we put in. We have three SuperMicro blade servers. One's worked like a champ, and the other two died. The vendor we used tanked, so no warranty support. I got two IBM X3400 boxes to replace the SuperMicros; the drives were OK, so I got empty enclosures plus some rails, stuffed the drives in, and installed FreeBSD-7.1. My only problem so far has been a BIOS issue, but IBM site-support has been great. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Golfer: Do you think I can get there with a 5-iron? Caddy: Eventually. ___ freebsd-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: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display
Tim Judd wrote: Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA is enabled are mirrored. Via VGA driver functions, you can make them independent. My guess for what you need is xrandr, to which I'm not very well versed. It seems to be the answer when it comes to video output layout, size, orientation... swiss army knife. That did the trick for anyone else with the same setup put this in any of your personal rc's like .xsession: xrander --output LCVDS --off --output VGA --auto I'm welcome to corrections and learning myself, but I would shoot for VGA driver and/or xrandr tweaking first. On 6/8/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have following hardware on my laptop: dmesg|grep vga vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x6110-0x6117 mem 0x9000-0x903f,0x8000-0x8fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM45 SVGA controller on vgapci0 vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0x9450-0x945f at device 2.1 on pci0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 drm0: Mobile Intel\M-B\M-. GM45 Express Chipset on vgapci0 vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster and I have an extrtnal 21 widescreen (vga) that when I hook it up the default x11.config has it at 1024x768 on *BOTH* monitors How do I make it so X only considers the external (if attached) monitor? ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?
On Friday 05 June 2009 09:12:08 Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 6/5/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote:
How can I see processes in a hierarchical way?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-May/006912.html
or pstree from ports.
And if in a jail, you can use the patch below to add jail support via -j
switch.
--
Mel
--- pstree.c.orig 2007-10-26 11:39:50.0 -0800
+++ pstree.c2008-09-20 00:30:53.0 -0800
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
{ qq, qw, `,q,t,x,m,\016,
\017, \033(B\033)0 } /*Vt100*/
}, *C;
-int MyPid, NProc, Columns, RootPid;
+int MyPid, NProc, Columns, RootPid, jFlag;
short showall = TRUE, soption = FALSE, Uoption = FALSE;
char *name = , *str = NULL, *Progname;
long ipid = -1;
@@ -464,6 +464,27 @@
exit(1);
}
+ /* If this is a FreeBSD jail(8), create a fake root process 'jailinit',
which
+ * serves as starting point for the tree. */
+ if( jFlag )
+ {
+P = realloc(P, (i+1) * sizeof(struct Proc));
+if (P == NULL) {
+ fprintf(stderr, Problems with realloc.\n);
+ exit(1);
+}
+memset(P[i], 0, sizeof(*P));
+P[i].uid = 0;
+(void)strncpy(P[i].name, root, sizeof(P[i].name));
+P[i].pid = 1;
+P[i].ppid = 0;
+P[i].pgid = 1;
+P[i].thcount = 1;
+(void)strncpy(P[i].cmd, /sbin/jailinit, sizeof(P[i].cmd));
+P[i].parent = P[i].child = P[i].sister = -1;
+P[i].print = FALSE;
+i++;
+ }
while (NULL != fgets(line, MAXLINE, tn)) {
int len, num;
len = strlen(line);
@@ -728,6 +749,7 @@
-f file read input from file (- is stdin) instead of
running\n
\%s\\n
-g n use graphics chars for tree. n=1: IBM-850, n=2: VT100\n
+-jAssume running in a FreeBSD jail (no root process)\n
-l n print tree to n level deep\n
-u user show only branches containing processes of user\n
-Udon't show branches containing only root processes\n
@@ -756,7 +778,7 @@
Progname = strrchr(argv[0],'/');
Progname = (NULL == Progname) ? argv[0] : Progname + 1;
- while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, df:g:hl:p:s:u:Uw?)) != EOF)
+ while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, df:g:hjl:p:s:u:Uw?)) != EOF)
switch(ch) {
/*case 'a':
align = TRUE;
@@ -778,6 +800,9 @@
}
C = TreeChars[graph];
break;
+case 'j' :
+ jFlag = 1;
+ break;
case 'l': /* LOPTION */
maxLdepth = atoi(optarg); /* LOPTION */
if(maxLdepth 1) maxLdepth = 1;/* LOPTION */
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Re: PDF inventory software
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command
OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing. So let's take a for instance. Suppose I run something like the Linux command fdupes on a directory with many large files. This operation will take considerable time to complete. When it completes, a lot of output is send to stdout (displayed on the terminal). Further suppose that after running the command, I decide I want to save the output to a text file, so I can analyze the results outside of the terminal. What can I do? Well, I can do a traditional copy-and-paste, or I could re-enter the previous command and send it to a text file (which I ought to have done in the first place). But is there another option? Is there some variable (such as, hypothetically, $output[n], where n=some integer index) that I could use to store the results in a text file? Such an option might look like the following: $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles (.lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!) $ output[1] ~/textfile.txt Hopefully this has made (some) sense. ___ freebsd-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: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing. So let's take a for instance. Suppose I run something like the Linux command fdupes on a directory with many large files. This operation will take considerable time to complete. When it completes, a lot of output is send to stdout (displayed on the terminal). Further suppose that after running the command, I decide I want to save the output to a text file, so I can analyze the results outside of the terminal. What can I do? Well, I can do a traditional copy-and-paste, or I could re-enter the previous command and send it to a text file (which I ought to have done in the first place). But is there another option? Is there some variable (such as, hypothetically, $output[n], where n=some integer index) that I could use to store the results in a text file? Such an option might look like the following: $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles (.lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!) $ output[1] ~/textfile.txt Hopefully this has made (some) sense. freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Check the manpage for tee. That should give you a solution you're looking for. --Joseph Lenox -- Nothing unreal exists. - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics. ___ freebsd-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: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. -- Nothing unreal exists. - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics. ___ freebsd-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: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command
On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Lord Of Hyphens wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles (.lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!) $ output[1] ~/textfile.txt Hopefully this has made (some) sense. freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Check the manpage for tee. That should give you a solution you're looking for. I think the intention of the original question was for the case where you have forgotten to set up a pipe/redirection properly before starting the long- running command. Tee would work fine if you have the foresight to use it... Steven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
