Re: Upgrading packages
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:17:12 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:15:53 -0500 Chris wrote: Probably a long time discussed question: Updating a system is (or can be) done with freebsd-update. What is the suggested way of upgrading packages (not ports)? The port sysutils/bsdadminscripts has a script pkg_upgrade to upgrade packages. Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks with RELEASE (until a point release that is I suppose). Packges are build for STABLE as well: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ I do realize this however, if one stays with RELEASE (and not deal with the possible (I did say possible) headaches of a changing base system) then (as I read it from the Handbook) updating packages is moot. They won't change until the next point release. I'm just trying to determine the way I want to move back to FreeBSD and not repeat the episodes of upgrades due to installing ports. This turned out to be a weekly event that took the majority of my Friday nights. I admit that I have gotten spoiled with Linux updates (all binary - no issues, no breakage, and no dependency-hell like there used to be with Ports). Of course, I'm sure that dealing with Ports has improved in the 2 years I was on my sabbatical, but I did get used to actually using and enjoying my puter (again, my biased view point on when I used to use FreeBSD). And now for the last question - I know there were issues mounting ext2 (128 bit) but have since been corrected. This is important to me in the short term. What version (I know the upcoming 8 will have it) now has the patch I have about that supports ext2/128 bit? If it's 7.2, I assume that updating the src should or would take care of it? Once I have recommitted back to FBSD, I would convert the drives that are currently ext3. I'm not trolling nor trying to start an OS war, just some questions I need to get clarity on before I wipe and install. If all my ducks are in a row, my transition back should be rather pleasant or at worse, not happen at all. Thanks for your time. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments There's no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading packages
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500 Chris wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks with RELEASE (until a point release that is I suppose). Packges are build for STABLE as well: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ I do realize this however, if one stays with RELEASE (and not deal with the possible (I did say possible) headaches of a changing base system) then (as I read it from the Handbook) updating packages is moot. They won't change until the next point release. The thing is that those packages (called FreeBSD-stable-packages) can (and imo) should be used with RELEASE either. The ports tree is always HEAD. And -stable- for packages means only that they were build after -release- packages. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-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: remove newlines from a file
[Agghh. To list this time] On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 Paul Schmehl wrote: I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all those lines into a single line by removing all the newline characters at the end of each line. What's the best/most efficient way of doing that in a shell? I'd use rs(1). inputfile rs -C\ (The \ is escaping a space delimiter.) unless I was worried about maximum length of output lines, in which case inputfile xargs 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: Daily security report oddity...
Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry: zmx1.zetron.com login failures: Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0 What's puzzling is that this account has been completely inactive for well over a year - this fellow is long gone, and I simply didn't clean it up - that's my bad, but that's not the puzzling part. I traced it down, and found out that he had not logged in on Sunday. The auth.log is, as you can see from the listing below, quite old. The entries referenced above are from two years ago. zmx1# ll /var/log/a* -rw--- 1 root wheel 71845 Sep 1 15:42 /var/log/auth.log -rw--- 1 root wheel 6087 Aug 29 2007 /var/log/auth.log.0.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5774 Aug 12 2007 /var/log/auth.log.1.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5795 Jul 24 2007 /var/log/auth.log.2.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 6813 Jul 6 2007 /var/log/auth.log.3.bz2 So, a couple of questions: Why would the daily security run pick up something from *two years ago* and only report it again today? The machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time, if that makes a difference. Is there any way to prevent something like this happening again - or perhaps can I force the entry of the year into the date field for the auth.log entries? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hello, If you look at the syntax of the logfile, you will see no year is listed. Most likely the whole file is parsed on security run. Since the logfile has been rotated the 30th of august 2007, it's very much possible you'll get all your messages all over again. Perhaps it's wise to rotate you logfiles once a year just in case... And it make no difference the machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time... (define very long time ;-) http://uptimes-project.org/hosts/view/150 ) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
portupgrade broken, and apr won't build
Hiya all Something weird going on with portypgrade (and maybe ports in general) here. Somewhere between last months upgrade and this month, portupgrade has started to ignore ports that are reported by portversion as needing upgrading. The result is I have to force each one, one at a time. Big schlep. For example portversion -v | grep samba samba-3.0.35,1needs updating (port has 3.0.36,1) portupgrade -vr samba --- Session started at: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:47 +0200 ** None has been installed or upgraded. --- Session ended at: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:47 +0200 (consumed 00:00:00) The other thing is that devel/apr will not build. The make stops with this ... checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for library containing strerror... none required checking whether system uses EBCDIC... no performing libtool configuration... ./configure: 9753: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/apr. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/apr. I cvsup every Monday morning. I tried the upgrades last week but got these failures and decided to wait a week and see if there are fixes. Apparently not. I also had to manually fix the openssl distfile (missing MD5 and SH256) so that it would actually download the missing patch and confirm it. I have never had so much trouble with the port system, who broke it? -: Any ideas? -- 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: apr won't build
replyign to myself, sor tof, seems this fixes it http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-po...@freebsd.org/msg22758.html remove all old cruft from libtool15 if you have upgraded to libtool22 -- 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
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Re: netbooks and sdhci
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, David Horwitt wrote: So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a media reader that uses the sdhci interface and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless,X,USB). $USD300 (like the AA1-D250) is the desired price point, but up to about $USD400 is OK (as is FBSD 8.0, if the hardware is right). If you have any pointers, please include the sub-model information, because if it's anything like the Asus, the hardware varies all over the place, and 'Aspire One' means less than 'D250' or 'AO150'. Thank you, David Acer Aspire One D150. note 'Acer' ! is what i'd recommend. This is a hard-disk netbook. Here are the complete hardware and installation details http://www.twincling.org/node/451 The website http://www.acer.com/aspireone/about.html In India it costed me about INR 21,500 (or $430) in March 2009. YMMV. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-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: Upgrading packages
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:42:02 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500 Chris wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks with RELEASE (until a point release that is I suppose). Packges are build for STABLE as well: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ I do realize this however, if one stays with RELEASE (and not deal with the possible (I did say possible) headaches of a changing base system) then (as I read it from the Handbook) updating packages is moot. They won't change until the next point release. The thing is that those packages (called FreeBSD-stable-packages) can (and imo) should be used with RELEASE either. The ports tree is always HEAD. And -stable- for packages means only that they were build after -release- packages. I'll paraphrase what you said as I understand you; Upgrading packages to a RELEASE system (by way of setting set PACKAGESITE to reflect: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/) Would indeed keep them updated whereas the default PACKAGESITE setting would do nothing more then install the packages that were created at the time of RELEASE. So in short, Yes, there is a way I can run RELEASE while still getting updated packages using pkg_upgrade as long as I set PACKAGESITE. Now - I just need that last question answered about mounting ext2 and I'm off to install. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments There's no place like 127.0.0.1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading packages
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:12:25 -0500 Chris wrote: I'll paraphrase what you said as I understand you; Upgrading packages to a RELEASE system (by way of setting set PACKAGESITE to reflect: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/) Would indeed keep them updated whereas the default PACKAGESITE setting would do nothing more then install the packages that were created at the time of RELEASE. So in short, Yes, there is a way I can run RELEASE while still getting updated packages using pkg_upgrade as long as I set PACKAGESITE. Correct. Now - I just need that last question answered about mounting ext2 and I'm off to install. Not me, sorry. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
'alias' + sudo
I have set up several 'alias' definitions in my .bashrc file. They are honored when run as either a regular user or as root. However, when I prefix a command with 'sudo', the alias is no longer honored. In other words, the actual command is run;however, any flags that I was passing to it via 'alias' are lost. How can I circumvent this annoyance. Example, I often use 'pico' from within 'xterm'. I set up an alias that causes pico to use the mouse; i.e., pico -m which works fine as long as I do not prefix the command with 'sudo' -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. Bill Hoest ___ freebsd-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: 32 bit ports on an AMD64 system
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: You've given some of your reasons for using amd64 -- but are your reasons for using 32-bit binaries on amd64 strong enough to make all of this worthwhile? Why not just use 64-bit binaries for all but the 32-bit-only ports? Sure, some 32-bit applications will actually run faster (the opposite is also often true) or use fewer resources, but is it worth the hassle? Mostly that's what I want to do. However I'd like to do some Python QT development with PyQT4, and would like to test the performance using py-psycho (i386 bit only). In that situation, I'm not sure if I'll have to install QT4 as 32 bit or not, likewise for X... It's a bit messy, but we'll see what happens. Thanks for all the advice and help, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-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: memory usage displsy
In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage live, this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given the -m flag. Also check ipcs -a to see if there are any sysv shared memory segments hanging arnound. If you don't see anything using the memory, where are you seeing that something is using it? ...and here is top output after I stopped Postfix, slapd and Cyrus-IMAP. Still over 3G Active. snip You did not sort by res and there are only 40 processes showing, which means your output is truncated and may have truncated the problematic process. Please use top -o res to get the output sorted by memory usage, or don't truncate the output (former preferred). Also, please provide the output of ipcs -a -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portupgrade broken, and apr won't build
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:22:37 am DA Forsyth wrote: Hiya all Something weird going on with portypgrade (and maybe ports in general) here. Somewhere between last months upgrade and this month, portupgrade has started to ignore ports that are reported by portversion as needing upgrading. The result is I have to force each one, one at a time. Big schlep. For example portversion -v | grep samba samba-3.0.35,1needs updating (port has 3.0.36,1) portupgrade -vr samba --- Session started at: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:47 +0200 ** None has been installed or upgraded. --- Session ended at: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:47 +0200 (consumed 00:00:00) The other thing is that devel/apr will not build. The make stops with this ... checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for library containing strerror... none required checking whether system uses EBCDIC... no performing libtool configuration... ./configure: 9753: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/apr. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/apr. I cvsup every Monday morning. I tried the upgrades last week but got these failures and decided to wait a week and see if there are fixes. Apparently not. I also had to manually fix the openssl distfile (missing MD5 and SH256) so that it would actually download the missing patch and confirm it. I have never had so much trouble with the port system, who broke it? -: Any ideas? My experience with portupgrade problems like this is that your INDEX-? and INDEX-?.db aren't being created properly after cvsuping. Portversion doesn't depend on them but portupgrade does. The INDEX-? that you download is always out of date. I use p5-FreeBSD-Portindex to keep them incrementally up todate, which is much faster then building the INDEX from scratch. After awhile, you have a mess and things don't build because the dependencies haven't been built. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-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: memory usage displsy
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage live, this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given the -m flag. Also check ipcs -a to see if there are any sysv shared memory segments hanging arnound. If you don't see anything using the memory, where are you seeing that something is using it? ...and here is top output after I stopped Postfix, slapd and Cyrus-IMAP. Still over 3G Active. snip You did not sort by res and there are only 40 processes showing, which means your output is truncated and may have truncated the problematic process. Please use top -o res to get the output sorted by memory usage, or don't truncate the output (former preferred). Also, please provide the output of ipcs -a There was no more processes... ipcs -a Message Queues: T ID KEY MODEOWNERGROUPCREATOR CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPIDLRPID STIMERTIMECTIME Shared Memory: T ID KEY MODEOWNERGROUPCREATOR CGROUP NATTCHSEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIMECTIME Semaphores: T ID KEY MODEOWNERGROUPCREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIMECTIME ___ freebsd-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: memory usage displsy
In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage live, this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given the -m flag. Also check ipcs -a to see if there are any sysv shared memory segments hanging arnound. If you don't see anything using the memory, where are you seeing that something is using it? ...and here is top output after I stopped Postfix, slapd and Cyrus-IMAP. Still over 3G Active. snip You did not sort by res and there are only 40 processes showing, which means your output is truncated and may have truncated the problematic process. Please use top -o res to get the output sorted by memory usage, or don't truncate the output (former preferred). Also, please provide the output of ipcs -a There was no more processes... From your top output: 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping There were 40 processes listed, so there were 5 not shown. ipcs -a OK, this verifies that nothing is tied up in shared memory. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: having problems copying a dvd
Hello Thanks Roland for the parameters in the mplayer/mencoder... To make things easier.. I recomend to create a profile in the directory ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf with the content: = [pal] oac=lavc=yes ovc=lavc=yes lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=6000:vbitrate=4000 Lavcopts=keyint=15:trell=yes:mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cmp=2:dia=-10 lavcopts=predia=-10:cbp=yes:mv0=yes:aspect=16/9 lavcopts=vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:vstrict=0 lavcopts=acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 lavcopts=lumi_mask=0.2:dark_mask=0.15:scplx_mask=0.2:tcplx_mask=0.1 vf=scale=720:576,harddup=yes af=lavcresample=48000 mpegopts=format=dvd:tsaf=yes of=mpeg=yes srate=48000 channels=2 ofps=25 [pal_cinemascope] profile=pal vf=scale=720:432,expand=720:576,harddup=yes == Or using the options from Roland extract the stream (as Roland said...) mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.mpg crop detect... mplayer -vf cropdetect dvd.mpg and then finally encode with mencoder using the profile above and Roland's example... mencoder -profile pal -vf crop=704:416:10:80 dvd.mpg -o film.mpg the result will be a high definition video with 1024x576 PAL (25 fps) 16:9 aspect with audio AC3 192Kbps (plays using HDMI) in any dvd player... or in your computer. if the source (dvd.mpg) is in 2.35/1 ratio use -profile pal_cinemascope and mencoder will adjust the aspect for the video. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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Re: memory usage displsy
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 23:19:23 Michael David Crawford wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as Active. Maybe one gig is accounted for, I'm not that familiar with FreeBSD yet, but the kernel uses memory which might not be charged against any process. For example, to map some virtual memory requires memory to store the mappings in. Open files have kernel structures, as do filesystems. If top or ps were only to show userspace memory allocations, then you're right, a lot of memory would be unaccounted for. It doesn't for the Active to Free states. For individual processes, everything is shown that the process allocates. So for a file descriptor, an int would be allocated, where the kernel holds the real info. This is one cause for filled Active memory: a process polling multiple file descriptors, like a File Alteration Monitor under current desktops. The other, as Dan Nelson described, is file cache. If you want to be sure it's this, then reboot the machine and run: /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid You should see memory usage going up. If this causes a performance problem (i.e. You sometimes are subject to heavily increasing loads on a mailserver, that causes a lot of forks and file cache memory isn't unloaded fast enough), then you should either disable the security check or properly seperate data from binaries using partitions and mount data partitions with nosuid/noexec, so that these are omitted from the daily checks. -- 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: memory usage displsy
Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2009 23:19:23 Michael David Crawford wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as Active. Maybe one gig is accounted for, I'm not that familiar with FreeBSD yet, but the kernel uses memory which might not be charged against any process. For example, to map some virtual memory requires memory to store the mappings in. Open files have kernel structures, as do filesystems. If top or ps were only to show userspace memory allocations, then you're right, a lot of memory would be unaccounted for. It doesn't for the Active to Free states. For individual processes, everything is shown that the process allocates. So for a file descriptor, an int would be allocated, where the kernel holds the real info. This is one cause for filled Active memory: a process polling multiple file descriptors, like a File Alteration Monitor under current desktops. The other, as Dan Nelson described, is file cache. If you want to be sure it's this, then reboot the machine and run: /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid You should see memory usage going up. If this causes a performance problem (i.e. You sometimes are subject to heavily increasing loads on a mailserver, that causes a lot of forks and file cache memory isn't unloaded fast enough), then you should either disable the security check or properly seperate data from binaries using partitions and mount data partitions with nosuid/noexec, so that these are omitted from the daily checks. Thank you all for the informative answers, helped a lot to understand better what is going on. I cannot run 100.chksetuid on a production server but I will definitely do it on the testing one. Cheers, -- per ___ freebsd-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: having problems copying a dvd
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Thanks Roland for the parameters in the mplayer/mencoder... To make things easier.. I recomend to create a profile in the directory ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf with the content: = [pal] oac=lavc=yes ovc=lavc=yes lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=6000:vbitrate=4000 Lavcopts=keyint=15:trell=yes:mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cmp=2:dia=-10 lavcopts=predia=-10:cbp=yes:mv0=yes:aspect=16/9 lavcopts=vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:vstrict=0 lavcopts=acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 lavcopts=lumi_mask=0.2:dark_mask=0.15:scplx_mask=0.2:tcplx_mask=0.1 vf=scale=720:576,harddup=yes af=lavcresample=48000 mpegopts=format=dvd:tsaf=yes of=mpeg=yes srate=48000 channels=2 ofps=25 [pal_cinemascope] profile=pal vf=scale=720:432,expand=720:576,harddup=yes == Or using the options from Roland extract the stream (as Roland said...) mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.mpg crop detect... mplayer -vf cropdetect dvd.mpg and then finally encode with mencoder using the profile above and Roland's example... mencoder -profile pal -vf crop=704:416:10:80 dvd.mpg -o film.mpg the result will be a high definition video with 1024x576 PAL (25 fps) 16:9 aspect with audio AC3 192Kbps (plays using HDMI) in any dvd player... or in your computer. if the source (dvd.mpg) is in 2.35/1 ratio use -profile pal_cinemascope and mencoder will adjust the aspect for the video. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org To both, thanks a bunch for this information. This is awesome! I can't wait to install and try. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: having problems copying a dvd
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:41:24AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make a copy of a dvd that I have, video, using a technique that I gleaned from this list nearly two years ago that has always worked but now I'm having problems. (When I say always, please bear in mind that I don't do this every day or even frequently). You'll also see calls to dd. These were attempts at last ditch effort. I usually just use the copy command (got it from a thread entitled, copying a dvd video, from November of 07). If dd will work but I just forgot to get the block size right, what is that supposed to be. My preferred technique is to use mplayer: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.mpg Be sure to play the DVD with mplayer to check which track is actually the movie. Usually it is track #1, but not always. After copying the stream, I tend to re-encode it for backup purposes with the H.264 video codec with MP3 sound, which makes it a lot smaller. The first step is to watch the mpeg and see if there are black stripes around the picture: mplayer -vf cropdetect dvd.mpg This will give you a continuous list of crop lines, e.g: [CROP] Crop area: X: 1..719 Y: 74..500 (-vf crop=704:416:10:80).0 Next step is to re-encode the mpeg file in two steps for enhanced quality, including the crop information, if any: mencoder title.mpg -ovc x264 \ -x264encopts subq=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:qp=18:threads=auto:pass=1 \ -idx -oac mp3lame -vf crop=704:416:10:80 -o /dev/null; \ mencoder title.mpg -ovc x264 -x264encopts \ subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:\ b_pyramid:weight_b:qp=18:threads=auto:pass=2 -vf crop=704:416:10:80 \ -idx -oac mp3lame -o title.avi; If you want to include a specific language or subtitle, don't forget to include the correct options for that; see the mplayer manual. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ersmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) multimedia/transcode is good option as well. tccat will dump track vob without borders, use tcprobe to find track you wish to dump. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Daily security report oddity...
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday morning, with the following entry: zmx1.zetron.com login failures: Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0 What's puzzling is that this account has been completely inactive for well over a year - this fellow is long gone, and I simply didn't clean it up - that's my bad, but that's not the puzzling part. I traced it down, and found out that he had not logged in on Sunday. The auth.log is, as you can see from the listing below, quite old. The entries referenced above are from two years ago. zmx1# ll /var/log/a* -rw--- 1 root wheel 71845 Sep 1 15:42 /var/log/auth.log -rw--- 1 root wheel 6087 Aug 29 2007 /var/log/auth.log.0.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5774 Aug 12 2007 /var/log/auth.log.1.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5795 Jul 24 2007 /var/log/auth.log.2.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 6813 Jul 6 2007 /var/log/auth.log.3.bz2 So, a couple of questions: Why would the daily security run pick up something from *two years ago* and only report it again today? The machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time, if that makes a difference. Is there any way to prevent something like this happening again - or perhaps can I force the entry of the year into the date field for the auth.log entries? Kurt Hello, If you look at the syntax of the logfile, you will see no year is listed. Most likely the whole file is parsed on security run. Since the logfile has been rotated the 30th of august 2007, it's very much possible you'll get all your messages all over again. Perhaps it's wise to rotate you logfiles once a year just in case... And it make no difference the machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time... (define very long time ;-) http://uptimes-project.org/hosts/view/150 ) Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and usually in less than a year. I suppose there's a way to do auth log rotation automagically - would that be sysutils/logrotate? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Daily security report oddity...
In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: I traced it down, and found out that he had not logged in on Sunday. The auth.log is, as you can see from the listing below, quite old. The entries referenced above are from two years ago. zmx1# ll /var/log/a* -rw--- 1 root wheel 71845 Sep 1 15:42 /var/log/auth.log -rw--- 1 root wheel 6087 Aug 29 2007 /var/log/auth.log.0.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5774 Aug 12 2007 /var/log/auth.log.1.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 5795 Jul 24 2007 /var/log/auth.log.2.bz2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 6813 Jul 6 2007 /var/log/auth.log.3.bz2 So, a couple of questions: Why would the daily security run pick up something from *two years ago* and only report it again today? The machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time, if that makes a difference. Is there any way to prevent something like this happening again - or perhaps can I force the entry of the year into the date field for the auth.log entries? If you look at the syntax of the logfile, you will see no year is listed. Most likely the whole file is parsed on security run. Since the logfile has been rotated the 30th of august 2007, it's very much possible you'll get all your messages all over again. Perhaps it's wise to rotate you logfiles once a year just in case... And it make no difference the machine hasn't been rebooted in a very long time... (define very long time ;-) http://uptimes-project.org/hosts/view/150 ) Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and usually in less than a year. I suppose there's a way to do auth log rotation automagically - would that be sysutils/logrotate? The system already rotates auth.log. Just edit /etc/newsyslog.conf and add a date check to the line for auth.log. The default is to roll it when it hits 100KB, but if you add something like $M1D0 to the when column it'll rotate it monthly as well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Daily security report oddity...
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:03, Dan Nelsondnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: snip Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and usually in less than a year. I suppose there's a way to do auth log rotation automagically - would that be sysutils/logrotate? The system already rotates auth.log. Just edit /etc/newsyslog.conf and add a date check to the line for auth.log. The default is to roll it when it hits 100KB, but if you add something like $M1D0 to the when column it'll rotate it monthly as well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com That's exactly the clue I needed. Thanks, Dan. I'm looking at 'man newsyslog.conf' right now. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 'alias' + sudo
On 9/2/09, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: I have set up several 'alias' definitions in my .bashrc file. They are honored when run as either a regular user or as root. However, when I prefix a command with 'sudo', the alias is no longer honored. In other words, the actual command is run;however, any flags that I was passing to it via 'alias' are lost. How can I circumvent this annoyance. Example, I often use 'pico' from within 'xterm'. I set up an alias that causes pico to use the mouse; i.e., pico -m which works fine as long as I do not prefix the command with 'sudo' Because sudo calls the binary, via SUID on sudo. It doesn't pay attention to user profiles or rc files (like .bashrc). I don't use sudo, so I can't recommend past that. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Error compiling KDE 3
Hi folks, Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... any ideas? === Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 === gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/gnutls already installed === An older version of security/gnutls is already installed (gnutls-2.6.4) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/gnutls without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/gnutls. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-client. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-client. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. ___ freebsd-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: 'alias' + sudo
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:06:28 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Because sudo calls the binary, via SUID on sudo. It doesn't pay attention to user profiles or rc files (like .bashrc). I don't use sudo, so I can't recommend past that. In other words, sudo is not compatible with the bash 'alias' feature. Is that correct? I Googled and found several references to sudo and alias; however, no consensus on how to circumvent the problem. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com In response to President Obama's complaint that FOX News doesn't show enough Black and Hispanic people on their network, FOX has announced that they will now air America's Most Wanted TWICE a week. ___ freebsd-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: Error compiling KDE 3
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... any ideas? === Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 === gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/gnutls already installed === An older version of security/gnutls is already installed (gnutls-2.6.4) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/gnutls without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/gnutls. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-client. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-client. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER clean ___ freebsd-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: Error compiling KDE 3
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... any ideas? === Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 === gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/gnutls already installed === An older version of security/gnutls is already installed (gnutls-2.6.4) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/gnutls without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls make deinstall make reinstall make distclean cd - make install -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten. ___ freebsd-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: 'alias' + sudo
In the last episode (Sep 02), Jerry said: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:06:28 -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: Because sudo calls the binary, via SUID on sudo. It doesn't pay attention to user profiles or rc files (like .bashrc). I don't use sudo, so I can't recommend past that. In other words, sudo is not compatible with the bash 'alias' feature. Is that correct? I Googled and found several references to sudo and alias; however, no consensus on how to circumvent the problem. sudo does not run root's shell at all; it directly runs whatever is given it on the commandline. Workarounds include creating an alias that includes sudo in it (alias rootpicom='sudo pico -m'), or creating a shell script that runs what your alias would have, so you can run sudo picom: /usr/local/bin/picom #! /bin/sh pico -m $@ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Kernel panic
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0af79b5 stack pointer = 0x28:0xc1b55cb8 frame pointer = 0x28:0xc1b55cb8 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0 current process = 11 (idle: cpu0) trap number = 18 panic: integer divide fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 2h56m59s Physical memory: 115 MB Dumping 33 MB: 18 2 Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_socket.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_socket.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_socket.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_mppc.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/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/kernel/rc4.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/rc4.ko Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/ng_iface.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/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/kernel/ng_ppp.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/ng_ppp.ko #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 196 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td)); reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 22:47 kes ttyp110.10.16.18 Wed Sep 2 22:29 - crash (00:17) kes ttyp010.10.16.18 Wed Sep 2 22:29 - crash (00:18) reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 22:27 kes ttyp010.10.16.18 Wed Sep 2 22:19 - crash (00:07) reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 22:19 kes ttyp010.10.16.18 Wed Sep 2 22:17 - crash (00:02) reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 22:09 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:56 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:46 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:39 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:34 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:14 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 21:05 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 20:47 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 20:41 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 20:18 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 18:51 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 17:27 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 14:29 reboot ~ Wed Sep 2 10:58 I have build latest 7.2 vpn# uname -a FreeBSD vpn.in 7.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Aug 31 23:57:36 EEST 2009 k...@vpn.in:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v72 i386 That version is not stable??? -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype 2.1 beta for linux
Em Qui, 2009-09-03 às 00:24 +0200, Martin Wilke escreveu: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:27:40PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: Just noticed this: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/ It doesn't work, this version missing the OSS support, I talked to the guys we get later a oss version! Interesting... in the site it says it uses pulseaudio... if it uses pulseaudio, will work with FreeBSD - - Martin -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-emulat...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org - -- +---+---+ | PGP: 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | | Skype : splash_111 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | +---+---+ | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | +---+---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqe8IcACgkQdLJIhLHm/OmkxACg00eR6eTBtWR6EbFPaEuciVRy AgwAoNUiEBM3ZnDzFkIx52dBPQsqEaPk =BS/5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-po...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-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: difficult-to-phrase question...
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file? nutshell is that every time i reboot (into kde), kde wastes time/cpu spawning unwanted whatever: versions of konqueror, kttsd, ksayit, c. [[i found these files in ~/.kde/share/config/session, about 20, dated may, 09 to oct 08. rm'ing the bunch would get rid of the instantiate problem, but having a script to diddle with a found string S would be useful esp'ly if the filename of pathname were long. i'll mouse swipe the string and fname to prove my point. thanks for any help. gary ps: if scripting this is too grizzly i'll do it in C and do an inline post of src and example use. p4 16:18 tao [5058] rgr www.h-online ~/.kde/share/config/session ./konqueror_101be1a31b9d100012436384840011730067_1243656675_647947:12:ViewT0_URL[$e]= http://www.h-online.com/open/Google-Wave-The-instant-wiki-communicator--/news/113410 Have you tried logging out of kde with those apps closed? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 'alias' + sudo
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:06:48 -0500, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: sudo does not run root's shell at all; it directly runs whatever is given it on the commandline. Another idea would to be to call sudo with the desired shell as argument (in order to inherit the aliases), followed by a command as argument to the shell (in order to execute a particular command), something like % sudo bash -c my_command_alias It may be possible that bash requires an additional argument to tell it to read ~/.bashrc when invoked in a non-interactive manner. Keep in mind that I haven't tried this solution because I don't use bash on a regular basis. -- Polytropon 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
difficult-to-phrase question...
guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file? nutshell is that every time i reboot (into kde), kde wastes time/cpu spawning unwanted whatever: versions of konqueror, kttsd, ksayit, c. [[i found these files in ~/.kde/share/config/session, about 20, dated may, 09 to oct 08. rm'ing the bunch would get rid of the instantiate problem, but having a script to diddle with a found string S would be useful esp'ly if the filename of pathname were long. i'll mouse swipe the string and fname to prove my point. thanks for any help. gary ps: if scripting this is too grizzly i'll do it in C and do an inline post of src and example use. p4 16:18 tao [5058] rgr www.h-online ~/.kde/share/config/session ./konqueror_101be1a31b9d100012436384840011730067_1243656675_647947:12:ViewT0_URL[$e]=http://www.h-online.com/open/Google-Wave-The-instant-wiki-communicator--/news/113410 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php 10% slice of my latest novel: http://www.thought.org/10pc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
got invalid argument error when using dd
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD-7.2-release-amd64. I got an got invalid argument error when using dd dd if=s1.image of=/dev/ad4s1 bs=1m dd: /dev/ad4s1: Invalid argument 12284+1 records in 12284+0 records out 12880707584 bytes transferred in 746.571300 secs (17253151 bytes/sec) echo $? 1 (s1.image is the image file of /dev/ad4s1 generated by dd if=/dev/ad4s1 of=s1.image bs=1m ahead. ) The error occurs at the moment that dd almost finishes. I don't quite understand the error, Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks. Ji ___ freebsd-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: difficult-to-phrase question...
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:43:30 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file? I would suggest one of my favourite tools, the Midnight Commander, available via ports as misc/mc or misc/mc-lite - or from a package. First you run the find dialog, Meta-? (Esc, ?, if you don't have a Meta key). Enter file mask if needed, starting directory (usu- ally .) and S for the search string. Then a list with the items found will come up. In order to view a file from this list, press PF3 on a file. The viewer will automatically skip to where S has been found in the file. If you press ENTER on the file, it will be selected in one of the panels, and you can move or delete it. ps: if scripting this is too grizzly i'll do it in C and do an inline post of src and example use. If you exactly know what to do with the file, scripting might be the easiest solution. The more interaction, the less optimum it is. :-) -- Polytropon 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: difficult-to-phrase question...
Gary Kline wrote: guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file? nutshell is that every time i reboot (into kde), kde wastes time/cpu spawning unwanted whatever: versions of konqueror, kttsd, ksayit, c. [[i found these files in ~/.kde/share/config/session, about 20, dated may, 09 to oct 08. rm'ing the bunch would get rid of the instantiate problem, but having a script to diddle with a found string S would be useful esp'ly if the filename of pathname were long. i'll mouse swipe the string and fname to prove my point. thanks for any help. gary ps: if scripting this is too grizzly i'll do it in C and do an inline post of src and example use. Do you mean something like rm `grep -l S *` or am I completely missing the point of what you're trying to do? -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Error compiling KDE 3
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jerryges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... any ideas? === Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 === gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/gnutls already installed === An older version of security/gnutls is already installed (gnutls-2.6.4) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/gnutls without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls make deinstall make reinstall make distclean cd - make install -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com The package list may have changed between version 2.6.4 and 2.8.3. I would recommend replacing make deinstall, above, with: pkg_delete gnutls-2.6.4 Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then
configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: unexpected operator But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work. On Linux though this line works fine. Why spaces around == would cause failure? What is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2? Where is it taken from? --version, -v, -version don't ever print version I guess due to FreeBSD policy of not versioning individual utilities. ___ freebsd-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: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 04:14:56 + (GMT), jerry M jerrry94...@yahoo.com wrote:
configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes:
unexpected operator
But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work.
Maybe those files are not intended to run on FreeBSD's standard
Bourne shell?
On Linux though this line works fine.
This may be due to the fact that on most Linusi, sh is bash.
On FreeBSD, sh is a different shell than bash; it's the
original Bourne shell.
Why spaces around == would cause failure?
First of al, refer to man test for the string operators. The
form == isn't mentioned there.
s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical.
s1 != s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical.
s1 s2 True if string s1 comes before s2 based on the binary value
of their characters.
s1 s2 True if string s1 comes after s2 based on the binary value
of their characters.
Furthermore, it's wise to enclose the variable names in curly
brackets when used in a compositum. Your statement
if test x$my_var == xyes; then
would correctly read as follows:
if test x${my_var} = xyes; then
You can of course use [ instead of test, so it would be
if [ x${my_var} = xyes ]; then
What
is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2? Where is it taken
from? --version, -v, -version don't ever print version I guess due to
FreeBSD policy of not versioning individual utilities.
FreeBSD's Bourne shell does not have GNU long options such
as --version. According to the shell's manpage, -v is used
for verbosity, and -version isn't even defined. Refer to
man sh for more options.
The parts of the base system (as in opposite to Linux where no
real the OS does exist) usually have the version of the
release, but to be more precise, the individual version can be
obtained from the source code. It can be found in /usr/src/bin/sh.
For example, I have
@(#)main.c 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/28/95
$FreeBSD: src/bin/sh/main.c,v 1.29 2006/10/07 16:51:16 stefanf Exp $
in the source file main.c, and the Makefile indicates
@(#)Makefile8.4 (Berkeley) 5/5/95
$FreeBSD: src/bin/sh/Makefile,v 1.46 2006/04/17 17:55:11 schweikh Exp $
as its particular version number and date.
The manual man sh includes this statement:
The sh utility is the standard command interpreter for the system. The
current version of sh is in the process of being changed to conform with
the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') specification for the shell. This ver-
sion has many features which make it appear similar in some respects to
the Korn shell, but it is not a Korn shell clone like pdksh. Only fea-
tures designated by POSIX, plus a few Berkeley extensions, are being
incorporated into this shell. This man page is not intended to be a
tutorial nor a complete specification of the shell.
as well as
This version of sh was rewritten in 1989 under the BSD license after the
Bourne shell from ATT System V Release 4 UNIX.
It's important, especially for interoperability, to declare
#/bin/sh only and ONLY if the script is for Bourne shell. If
you're using bash specifics, use #!/usr/local/bin/bash instead.
Keep in mind that you'll have to install bash (pkg_add -r bash)
in this case. A tidy way of coding, such as using the curly
brackets, is an important thing, too, as you can see. :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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Re: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then
In the last episode (Sep 03), jerry M said: configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: unexpected operator But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work. On Linux though this line works fine. Why spaces around == would cause failure? What is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2? Where is it taken from? --version, -v, -version don't ever print version I guess due to FreeBSD policy of not versioning individual utilities. == isn't a valid comparison operator for the test command. See the FreeBSD manpage, or the Posix docs: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm. You need to use =. Certain Linux distributions use bash as /bin/sh, which shortcuts the test command internally and allows bash extensions, even in bourne-shell mode. Debian and Ubuntu use dash instead of bash, and this script would fail on them as well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
