Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: I would _strongly_ advise you to make a list of all your current ports, e.g. with 'portmaster -L ports.list', deleting all ports and re-installing the ports labeled as 'leaf ports' and 'root ports' in ports.list. oops! already started! ;) While portmaster/-manager do their best, they just cannot cover all the corner cases, especially since some ports require extra action (e.g. perl!) There is a good chance you'll end up with a big mess like binaries linked to both 7.x and 8.x libraries or ports failing to build for mysterious reasons. Both have happened to me in the past and are a major PITA to fix. As it happens, I noticed installed perl was 5.8 whilst latest is 5.10, so that was built before buildworld. I know what you mean, though. portmanager -u -f -l forces everything to be rebuilt and logs what it did. I then check the output when it's finished and manually rebuild what it can't fix. Not failed me yet, although before doing this I rebuilt portmanager. -- 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: Prompt containing SSH login information
2009/11/24 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: Hi, again, a strange question: I'd like to know if there is a builtin means to let the csh's (or bash's) prompt show an information if the current dialog session has been opened via SSH from another system. The obvious is: �...@sys1:~% ssh m...@sys2 �...@sys2:~% _ I'd like the second prompt that I've been logged into sys2 by sys1, such as �...@sys1sys2:~% _ How about this: - On all servers add the following to sshd_config: AcceptEnv MYPROMPT - and the following to ssh_config: Host * SendEnv MYPROMPT - fix shell rc files on servers and workstation: MYPROMPT=$MYPROMPT$u...@$(hostname -s) export MYPROMPT and you will get more than two hosts: m...@sys1m...@sys2m...@sys3:~% We use this for root account to give every admin his own: /root/.zshrc.admin /root/.zlogin.admin /root/.zhistory.admin /root/.vimrc.admin /root/.viminfo.admin ... -- Artis Caune Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ___ freebsd-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: pf nuttyness
2009/11/24 Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged interfaces. The only traffic on the bridged interfaces is STP and IP multicast traffic from my EIGRP routers. When I run pfctl -s rules -v, the EIGRP multicast traffic never hits any rules...yet it's allowed. I'm on FreeBSD 7.1. Has anyone else come across this before? I'm ready to throw out FreeBSD 7.1 and try OpenBSD for pf use...which would be a shame since I use FreeBSD for all my other servers, and having 2 OpenBSD boxes would just be... weird... --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. -- Bill Murray, Ghostbusters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org pf works at layer3 (ip) bridging works at layer 2 (ethernet/datalink) therefore the traffic probably never get to the upper layer of the ip stack where pf works. You can do l2 filtering with ipfw if you enable the sysctl variable net.link.bridge.ipfw=1. However im not sure if you can do it with pf on freebsd. I had a quick scout through the man pages and cant see anything. However im fairly sure you can to l2 stuff with pf in openbsd. As your traffic is multicast you could always configure you bsd box as a multicast router rather than bridging the traffic. pf should see the traffic then as your working at l3 and above ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Tag for FreeBSD 6.2
Hi! I have a server running 6.2. Now i want to install a jdk on it from packages. The manual install did not work, because diablo wants older version than i found. Now i want to use sysinstall, but the re is still 6.2-RELEASE in the options. This could not longer be found on the mirrors. I also tried 6-STABLE, but this is also not the right one. How must i name the tag to get it working? Thx Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why in f10 scim doesn't work from skype?
Yuri y...@rawbw.com writes: When I switched from fc6 to f10 scim stopped working in skype. It shows the prompt but only English language is available. In fc6 scim worked fine from skype. Aha, this time you gave some additional info which may be helpful. I believe scim picks up environment variables: LANG, XMODIFIERS, QT_IM_MODULE, XIM, XIM_PROGRAM and displays languages based on them. So I think linux infrastructure modifies some of those variables. How can I know the current environment variables of the running process? Anyone has a solution for this problem? Not a solution but a wild guess... You get linux scim with -f10- ports semi-working. That may be due to the difference of directory/file structures for -f6- and -f10- cases. In general linuxulator first search a file/directory at /compat/linux prefix. If not found the search is made at / directory. But IFF needed file/directory is found at prefix /compat/linux the search stops. Usually we remove those directories (from a linux distro before installing) when native FreeBSD should be used. Example: /var, /tmp directories are removed form linux_base ports and are not installed to /compat/linux. So native /var, /tmp are used at run time. The same should be for scim configuration file as well as some other directories/files searched at run time. They should be removed so apropriate FreeBSD destination is used. I guess that there may be some directory/file structure difference between -f6- and -f10- cases which causes you a trouble. To be more precise, I suspect that some directory/file get created/installed at -10- case which prevent scim to work as expected. Besides, there may be a case if some needed linux files/libraries are not installed when using -f10- while they are installed when using -f6- ports. Please, give those assuptions a try and report back your results. -- WBR, bsam ___ freebsd-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-update upgrade' hosed system - rescuable?
I just updated to 8.0-RELEASE with freebsd-update. I ran: # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade merge config files # freebsd-update install I was told to reboot and run freebsd-update install again to complete the process. I rebooted into single user mode, mounted /usr and /var and somehow forgot to mount / as read-write. Of course, freebsd-update didn't check to see if it could actually write to all the directories it needed to write to first and catastrophically wrote half an upgrade (which it now appears to have deleted the source files for) and has broken my system (most of the stuff in /usr/bin now depends on libraries in /lib that were never written). What's the quickest and cleanest way out of this mess? I'll submit a PR if my system ever comes back up. Please CC, i'm not subscribed. ___ freebsd-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: Tag for FreeBSD 6.2
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:03:50 +0100, Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net wrote: Hi! I have a server running 6.2. Now i want to install a jdk on it from packages. You could let the environmental variable PACKAGESITE point at the correct FreeBSD version number, e. g. ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/ so the pkg_add -r command would this location instead of the Latest location. -- 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: 'freebsd-update upgrade' hosed system - rescuable?
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:44 +, cali clarke xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the quickest and cleanest way out of this mess? You can install the base system from the FreeBSD 8.0-RC CD-ROM. This should give you a working system again. Keep an eye on NOT formatting anything. Using a live system CD-ROM, it would possibly be a good idea to make a copy of important system configuration files in /etc. With such a live system CD-ROM, you can even install just parts, such as the content of various /usr subtrees that are affected. -- 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: pf nuttyness
krad wrote: 2009/11/24 Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged interfaces. The only traffic on the bridged interfaces is STP and IP multicast traffic from my EIGRP routers. When I run pfctl -s rules -v, the EIGRP multicast traffic never hits any rules...yet it's allowed. I'm on FreeBSD 7.1. Has anyone else come across this before? I'm ready to throw out FreeBSD 7.1 and try OpenBSD for pf use...which would be a shame since I use FreeBSD for all my other servers, and having 2 OpenBSD boxes would just be... weird... --Brian Have you read the if_bridge(4) manpage? I'd reccommend starting at the heading PACKET FILTERING and checking you have the correct sysctl settings. pf certainly can filter bridge interfaces according to the manpage. That said I've never tried it. Vince -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. -- Bill Murray, Ghostbusters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org pf works at layer3 (ip) bridging works at layer 2 (ethernet/datalink) therefore the traffic probably never get to the upper layer of the ip stack where pf works. You can do l2 filtering with ipfw if you enable the sysctl variable net.link.bridge.ipfw=1. However im not sure if you can do it with pf on freebsd. I had a quick scout through the man pages and cant see anything. However im fairly sure you can to l2 stuff with pf in openbsd. As your traffic is multicast you could always configure you bsd box as a multicast router rather than bridging the traffic. pf should see the traffic then as your working at l3 and above ___ freebsd-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: Specific interface to default route
Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Dear all, I have two (ethernet) network interface with IP address within the same subnet, call it msk0 and nfe0. Interface msk0 have IP address 192.168.0.2 and nfe0 192.168.0.3 and default router IP address is 192.168.0.1. route(8) takes a 'dev' argument, but the community wouldn't endorse what you're doing. Unless you're looking to ensure job security :} ~BAS ___ freebsd-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: Apache 2.2 mod_ldap refusing to work over SSL/TLS
As far as I can tell, it doesn't even get to the certificate verification phase even though the STARTTLS command is successful. Is there any level of debugging that can be increased on the Apache side ? Possibly a build/compile-time option for the module? Debugging apache code can always be tricky because of the threaded/child process nature. We use mod_authz_ldap and it works okay, but OpenLDAP an can be a real beyotch when it comes to SSL/TLS. E.g., we feel your pain. The only way out, is through. ~BAS Anyone have a clue on what could be causing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Apache 2.2 mod_ldap refusing to work over SSL/TLS
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) sekle...@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us wrote: As far as I can tell, it doesn't even get to the certificate verification phase even though the STARTTLS command is successful. Is there any level of debugging that can be increased on the Apache side ? Possibly a build/compile-time option for the module? Debugging apache code can always be tricky because of the threaded/child process nature. We use mod_authz_ldap and it works okay, but OpenLDAP an can be a real beyotch when it comes to SSL/TLS. E.g., we feel your pain. The only way out, is through. ~BAS I figured it out eventually (see [1]). It's been working without any problems for a few days now. - Max [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-November/208195.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
ZFS pools gone?
I just did a clean install of 8.0-RELEASE. I am _CERTAIN_ that the drives with ZFS on them were not touched by the installer. Having booted the system (with zfs enabled in rc.conf): # zpool list no pools available # zfs list no datasets available Any assistance would be helpful. ___ freebsd-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-update upgrade' hosed system - rescuable?
The installer eventually worked on the sixth attempt (I had to use the CD to load the kernel and then yank the CD out amongst streams of READ_TIMED_OUT errors). May have made things worse, however. ___ freebsd-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: ZFS pools gone?
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:14, cali clarke wrote: I just did a clean install of 8.0-RELEASE. I am _CERTAIN_ that the drives with ZFS on them were not touched by the installer. Having booted the system (with zfs enabled in rc.conf): did you try zpool import ? -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: hp 10-in mini?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:23:18PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Target has the asus at 199 Cant find? URL please?? -Original Message- From: Gary Kline [mailto:kl...@thought.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:38 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: Matt Szubrycht; Doug Poland; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Im still trying to locate the 200 HP Although bestbuy has the a gateway for 229 today $229 isn't that bad; Bestbuy may be just about breaking even. Still, I'm waiting for some store to soak up the loss and sell an ASUS at under-cost... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS pools gone?
Ed Jobs wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:14, cali clarke wrote: I just did a clean install of 8.0-RELEASE. I am _CERTAIN_ that the drives with ZFS on them were not touched by the installer. Having booted the system (with zfs enabled in rc.conf): did you try zpool import ? This is true, a 'zpool import' will likely be necessary. I believe 'zpool import' by itself will just list any pools which ZFS finds by searching disks in /dev. You will need to 'zpool import poolname' afterwards to actually import the storage pool. As you've said that it's a clean install, it may warn you that the pool is associated with another system (I saw this when migrating from 9-Current back to 8.0). You can simply pass -f to zpool import to safely force the operation. ___ freebsd-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: ZFS pools gone?
Thanks for the replies, all. An import and upgrade was all that was needed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portsnap: metadata is corrupt
Last one from me today, I hope. # rm -r /var/db/portsnap /usr/ports mkdir /var/db/portsnap /usr/ports # portsnap fetch extract 59mb download Could not open sha256 string: no such file or directory metadata is corrupt I've tried all of the portsnap mirrors and have downloaded the same thing about ten times now. 8.0-RELEASE amd64. I've seen various reports of this problem around the web but no solutions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Quicktime player / Ff?
Hi, Is it possible to have the Quicktime player with Firefox 3 or 3.5? If yes, a hint how to accomplish this would be welcome! Is /usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin viable? Running 7-STABLE, NVidia graphics. Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mysql60-server??
kwik one: in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the instruction say? tia... y'all. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: pf nuttyness
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian McCann Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:03 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: pf nuttyness I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged interfaces. The only traffic on the bridged interfaces is STP and IP multicast traffic from my EIGRP routers. When I run pfctl -s rules -v, the EIGRP multicast traffic never hits any rules...yet it's allowed. I'm on FreeBSD 7.1. Has anyone else come across this before? I'm ready to throw out FreeBSD 7.1 and try OpenBSD for pf use...which would be a shame since I use FreeBSD for all my other servers, and having 2 OpenBSD boxes would just be... weird... --Brian For troubleshooting, try this: Block in all log (remove all other log statements) tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0 That's provided you set up a pflog0 interface. If not, add this to rc.conf pflog_enable=YES pflog_logfile=/var/log/pflog and 'ifconfig pflog0 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: mysql60-server??
Gary Kline wrote: kwik one: in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the instruction say? tia... y'all. There are 4 versions of MySQL currently available. In reverse order of age: mysql60 -- this is early beta quality (read: it may eat your data) and was the vehicle for MySQL to introduce various new table engines in an attempt to ensure their independence from Oracle. However, Sun bought MySQL and Oracle is in the process of buying Sun. Oracle also previously bought Innobase (makers of InnoDB) and Sleepycat (writers of Berkeley DB) so suddenly all of the current engine types are suddenly back in the picture: hence mysql54 -- an incremental upgrade on mysql51. Late beta quality, good for experimenters and developers, but not yet something that should be considered for mission critical applications Prior to that we have: mysql51 -- MySQL's current GA (generally available) release offering. It's got a number of new features like stored procedures but depending on your workloads it may or may not be faster than... mysql50 -- The previous GA version, and still the most widely deployed version at the moment. It is still being actively maintained even if it is pretty much down-played on MySQL's website. This is a version that has been in all sorts of production use for years and pretty thoroughly debugged, hence a very safe choice. In summary: choose either of mysql50 or mysql51 according to preference or your particular requirements. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
X11's tcp port
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open, but netstat shows me no such port. I usually, to defeat the nolisten options usually set on, edit my startx file to remove any such line. You just search for nolisten tcp or some subset of that (tcp might get set separately) but as I expected, I'd edited that line out ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11 screen. However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke netstat to show my ip port 6000. I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried kde3, I even tried twm, I just can't get IP port 6000. You know that without that port, you can't run remote X applications. This used to work. Any idea why it's stopped working for me? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksNhR8ACgkQz62J6PPcoOnTVgCdHjXhyvJLuKEGFklhn/m/Z4/O gJgAoIcjTqkXQynZlrWeJ1Jkae/jH9hw =Wgtn -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mysql60-server??
Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: kwik one: in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the instruction say? [snip] Prior to that we have: mysql51 -- MySQL's current GA (generally available) release offering. It's got a number of new features like stored procedures but depending on your workloads it may or may not be faster than... mysql50 -- The previous GA version, and still the most widely deployed version at the moment. It is still being actively maintained even if it is pretty much down-played on MySQL's website. This is a version that has been in all sorts of production use for years and pretty thoroughly debugged, hence a very safe choice. In summary: choose either of mysql50 or mysql51 according to preference or your particular requirements. A lot of people are still using 50 and many consider it faster than 51. I think the main difference performance wise is 51 might have a tad heavier thread handling performance for the latest and greatest high end quad socket quad core boxen. 50 may offer better performance on older more down level commodity boxen. I've been running 51 for a quite a while now and haven't had any trouble with it, but I'm not hammering it either. If the hardware isn't quite up to snuff 50 may actually be a better choice, especially in the scenario where web and database are running on the same, albeit slower machine. Another factor in the decision might be to consider when EOL may be scheduled. -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: X11's tcp port: FIXED
Chuck Robey wrote: I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open, but netstat shows me no such port. I usually, to defeat the nolisten options usually set on, edit my startx file to remove any such line. You just search for nolisten tcp or some subset of that (tcp might get set separately) but as I expected, I'd edited that line out ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11 screen. However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke netstat to show my ip port 6000. I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried kde3, I even tried twm, I just can't get IP port 6000. You know that without that port, you can't run remote X applications. This used to work. Any idea why it's stopped working for me? Can't really say why, but it just began to work, entirely mysteriously. I would rather know about these things, but I'll take working over non-working, I guess. ___ freebsd-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: mysql60-server??
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:16:41PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: There are 4 versions of MySQL currently available. In reverse order of age: mysql60 -- this is early beta quality (read: it may eat your data) and was the vehicle for MySQL to introduce various new table engines in an attempt to ensure their independence from Oracle. However, Sun bought MySQL and Oracle is in the process of buying Sun. Oracle also previously bought Innobase (makers of InnoDB) and Sleepycat (writers of Berkeley DB) so suddenly all of the current engine types are suddenly back in the picture: hence Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any free and open databases, but what db stuff I have is invested heavily with mysql. So v 60 is out. Do you know, off-chance, which versions are actively being hacked on? Nothing mission critical--yet--but I think v51 is the best bet for now. gary PS: to the powers-that-be: shouldn't these datapoints be make public front/center somewhere in ports or elsewhere that everyone can see? Save bandwidth... . This is going in my ~/.Notes file... . mysql54 -- an incremental upgrade on mysql51. Late beta quality, good for experimenters and developers, but not yet something that should be considered for mission critical applications Prior to that we have: mysql51 -- MySQL's current GA (generally available) release offering. It's got a number of new features like stored procedures but depending on your workloads it may or may not be faster than... mysql50 -- The previous GA version, and still the most widely deployed version at the moment. It is still being actively maintained even if it is pretty much down-played on MySQL's website. This is a version that has been in all sorts of production use for years and pretty thoroughly debugged, hence a very safe choice. In summary: choose either of mysql50 or mysql51 according to preference or your particular requirements. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: need a newline between paragraphs....
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:19:42PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
precisely. in this case, every paragraph that is not on a
newline wraps. so anything that has an EOL is a new
paragraph.
If I understand you correctly, the following should work for your
purposes (as a naive implementation of the concept):
my $contents;
{
undef $/;
open(my $fh, '', $in_filename) or die $!;
$contents = $fh;
}
$contents =~ s/\n+/\n\n/g;
{
open(my $fh, '', $out_filename) or die $!;
print($fh $contents);
}
That assumes that you want to turn any and all instances of one or more
consecutive newlines into exacty two newlines. More finagling might be
required if there may be other adjacent whitespace, which would need to
account for not only possible adjacent whitespace but also possible
whitespace at the beginning of a line with other text on it. Maybe
something like this:
$contents =~ s/\s*\n+/\n\n/g;
. . . though I haven't thought it through in too much depth with regards
to the implications in edge case circumstances (thus the naive
implementation comment above).
there are a few places that require different formatting;
these are easily re-done thanks to OOo!
I'm the kind of guy who would look for a way to automate things so that
re-formatting in OOo wouldn't be necessary, but as long as you're happy,
I guess we win. Good luck!
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Re: Quicktime player / Ff?
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have the Quicktime player with Firefox 3 or 3.5? If yes, a hint how to accomplish this would be welcome! Is /usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin viable? To answer my own question,: yes. ___ freebsd-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: mysql60-server??
Gary Kline wrote: Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any free and open databases, but what db stuff I have is invested heavily with mysql. So v 60 is out. Do you know, off-chance, which versions are actively being hacked on? Nothing mission critical--yet--but I think v51 is the best bet for now. Well, what will eventually happen to MySQL is as yet unclear. It's too popular and too widespread for Oracle to just kill it, so my best guess is that they'll keep it on as an open source type project, but they'll treat it as a means of getting in the door to try and sell Oracle support in a lot of places. Which implies that any technology transfer will be mostly from MySQL to Oracle and precious little in the other direction, so that the commercial version of Oracle will maintain a technological edge. In the mean time, a bunch of die-hard MySQL people have forked a new instantiation of that project which isn't under the same commercial constraints: see http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB Active development is mostly occurring on MySQL 5.1 and 5.4 -- not sure where 6.0 is going although they did have plenty of development goals other than 'not get borged by Oracle'. But of course, there is the technically better, almost certainly faster at real world tasks, but less optimised for noddy benchmarks option: PostgreSQL. It's BSD licenced, and while there are commercially supported variants, the core development team and the intellectual property are not structured in a way to put them at any risk of being gobbled up by some mega-corporation. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: mysql60-server??
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:33:11PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: kwik one: in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the instruction say? [snip] Prior to that we have: mysql51 -- MySQL's current GA (generally available) release offering. It's got a number of new features like stored procedures but depending on your workloads it may or may not be faster than... mysql50 -- The previous GA version, and still the most widely deployed version at the moment. It is still being actively maintained even if it is pretty much down-played on MySQL's website. This is a version that has been in all sorts of production use for years and pretty thoroughly debugged, hence a very safe choice. In summary: choose either of mysql50 or mysql51 according to preference or your particular requirements. A lot of people are still using 50 and many consider it faster than 51. I think the main difference performance wise is 51 might have a tad heavier thread handling performance for the latest and greatest high end quad socket quad core boxen. 50 may offer better performance on older more down level commodity boxen. I've been running 51 for a quite a while now and haven't had any trouble with it, but I'm not hammering it either. If the hardware isn't quite up to snuff 50 may actually be a better choice, especially in the scenario where web and database are running on the same, albeit slower machine. Another factor in the decision might be to consider when EOL may be scheduled. -Mike good to know. thanks for the input! gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Misfortune doesn't improve anyone. That is a fable to reassure the afflicted. A life of hardship humiliates man and forces him to expend all his energy on resisting its deadly pressure. If a man comes out of it improved, it only means that he has spent an enormous amount of energy on improving in spite of everything. Just think what he might have done without that pressure. --Jiri Mucha, *Living and Partly Living* ___ freebsd-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: mysql60-server??
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:21:37PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any free and open databases, but what db stuff I have is invested heavily with mysql. So v 60 is out. Do you know, off-chance, which versions are actively being hacked on? Nothing mission critical--yet--but I think v51 is the best bet for now. Well, what will eventually happen to MySQL is as yet unclear. It's too popular and too widespread for Oracle to just kill it, so my best guess is that they'll keep it on as an open source type project, but they'll treat it as a means of getting in the door to try and sell Oracle support in a lot of places. Which implies that any technology transfer will be mostly from MySQL to Oracle and precious little in the other direction, so that the commercial version of Oracle will maintain a technological edge. In the mean time, a bunch of die-hard MySQL people have forked a new instantiation of that project which isn't under the same commercial constraints: see http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB Good to know. THere was one IBM suite that a whole university here took over and produced a clone. I used the clone and it was sold, open-source work. Eventually, ol 'BM make their stuff open and free. Fine. Active development is mostly occurring on MySQL 5.1 and 5.4 -- not sure where 6.0 is going although they did have plenty of development goals other than 'not get borged by Oracle'. But of course, there is the technically better, almost certainly faster at real world tasks, but less optimised for noddy benchmarks option: PostgreSQL. It's BSD licenced, and while there are commercially supported variants, the core development team and the intellectual property are not structured in a way to put them at any risk of being gobbled up by some mega-corporation. I took a class in the Ingres db suite from one of the guys who wrote it. Think that Postgress is a follow-on. It strikes me as almost a *certainty* that any commerical project could be done better by the open-source community. ---If it's got your *NAME* on it, you're going to be certain it's superior, whereas if you're coding just for a paycheck, sure, you'll do a good job. But not as outstanding as an open-source suite. gary Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Misfortune doesn't improve anyone. That is a fable to reassure the afflicted. A life of hardship humiliates man and forces him to expend all his energy on resisting its deadly pressure. If a man comes out of it improved, it only means that he has spent an enormous amount of energy on improving in spite of everything. Just think what he might have done without that pressure. --Jiri Mucha, *Living and Partly Living* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
DHCP on bridge0 fails on boot
I need some help configure DHCP on my bridge. I'm pretty much out of ideas, so I'd be grateful for any help. On boot, I want my FreeBSD install to create a bridge, add a couple of interfaces to it (re0 and tap0), and they receive an IP address via DHCP. Here are the relevant lines in rc.conf: cloned_interfaces=bridge0 autobridge_interfaces=bridge0 autobridge_bridge0=tap* re0 ifconfig_re0=up ifconfig_bridge0=up ifconfig_bridge0=DHCP Whilst my system is booting I see this: Waiting 30s for the default route interface When that message is being display I can also see output similar to ifconfig's. I can see that both bridge0 and re0 are up. I can also see that re0 has a status or no carrier. I'm not sure if that is significant or not. If I look at dmesg, re0: link state changed to UP is right at the bottom and ifconfig displays something similar to this: re0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=3898VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC ether 00:1c:c0:de:9d:39 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 76:15:56:05:de:63 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: re0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 2 member: tap0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 200 tap0: flags=8942BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:bd:a0:b1:00:00 Opened by PID 1027 -- Paul Grave email: mailto:p...@stomer.net ___ freebsd-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 help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....
Can anybody clue me in why cacti isn't building? I obv'ly see the stderr's, but want to know What now This is after the 3D screen stuff. checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for vasprintf... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for XCB... configure: error: Package requirements (xcb = 1.4) were not met: Requested 'xcb = 1.4' but version of XCB is 1.2 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XCB_CFLAGS and XCB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to ntar...@cs.uoi.gr [maintainer] and attach the /usr/ports/x11/xcb-util/work/xcb-util-0.3.6/config.log including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xcb-util. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/cairo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/cairo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/rrdtool. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/rrdtool. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/cacti. r...@ethic:/usr/ports/net-mgmt/cacti# -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Misfortune doesn't improve anyone. That is a fable to reassure the afflicted. A life of hardship humiliates man and forces him to expend all his energy on resisting its deadly pressure. If a man comes out of it improved, it only means that he has spent an enormous amount of energy on improving in spite of everything. Just think what he might have done without that pressure. --Jiri Mucha, *Living and Partly Living* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS and jailed environments -- best practice?
I've been playing with mixing up ZFS and jailed environments under
8.0RC, and I've hit a point where I'm just kind of wondering how
everyone else is doing it. I wanted to do this to take advantage of
delegated administration -- I want users inside a jail to be able to
control snapshot/rollback in their own homedir.
I'll break this up into what I did to get it working (I can't seem to
find a good step by step out there yet), and where I think I'm running
into what could be potential trouble.
First off, sysctl variables.
security.jail.enforce_statfs=0
security.jail.mount_allowed=1
vfs.usermount=1
I've always run jails with with enforce_statfs=1 or enforce_statfs=2. I
honestly don't see why that wouldn't work for ZFS stuff too, but in the
interests of following instructions (the zfs man page), I set it to 0.
Next, the 'zfs' dev node needs to be accessible from inside the jail.
So I created an /etc/devfs.rules file with the following:
host# cat /etc/devfs.rules
[zfsenable=10]
add path 'zfs' unhide
...and added the ruleset to the jail config in rc.conf:
jail_zfstest_devfs_ruleset=zfsenable
So far so good, the jail gets a /dev/zfs, and I can issue zfs commands.
I get 'no datasets available' from within the jail, which is exactly
what I'd expect.
So, tank/jails/jail1 is a ZFS volume, and I want tank/jails/jail1/home
to be under the control of the jail, and mounted at /home inside of it.
I stop the jail and unmount the home volume.
host# zfs umount tank/jails/jail1/home
Then enabled 'jailed mode' on the volume, and start the jail back up.
host# zfs set jailed=on tank/jails/jail1/home
In the host, lets just say the JID is 8.
host# /sbin/zfs jail 8 tank/jails/jail1/home
From that point, it appears that the host thinks that volume is not
under its own control. (good!)
host# zfs mount tank/jails/jail1/home
cannot mount 'tank/jails/jail1/home': dataset is exported to a local zone
Whew, okay. Back into the jail.
jail# zfs set mountpoint=/home tank/jails/jail1/home
jail# zfs mount -a
jail# zfs allow -s @homedir
create,clone,mount,rollback,snapshot,send,receive,compression,checksum,quota,readonly,destroy
tank/jails/jail1/home
jail# zfs allow -u user1 @homedir tank/jails/jail1/home/user1
... and by god, it works. Yay!
Here are the weird parts, or parts that make me feel like I'm not doing
something correctly.
1) From the host now -- I've got two /home partitions mounted when
displaying a 'df'. They -appear- to do the right thing... /home on the
host is correct when getting a listing, and /home in the jail is also
correct. But I can't help but feel like this is asking for trouble, or
will eat the delicious data at some point.
2) What the heck is the procedure for automating this on boot? Roll
your own? The JID shuffles, of course. I could easily whip up some
zfs jail `jls | awk '/jail1/ { print $2 }' ... junk, but where would
I put something like that? jail_afterstart0= seems to load things
in the context of the jail, not the host. And then I'd have to set
canmount=noauto on that home volume, and mount it manually from within
the jail via some startup script? Seems... like a pain in the ass for
what is otherwise a pretty blissful setup.
Really, I'm not sure what's right, what's stable, and what won't make me
totally regret doing this later. :)
Advice, discussion, or pointers elsewhere are all appreciated!
-Mahlon
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Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org
I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I quote: Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE/strong per campaign for $499? Your contact details were on 'http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/article.html#STAFF-COMMITTERS' and we thought you should know that, during November, you can RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE per campaign... Jeezze Louise! In the first place, I didn't even know that my name or e-mail address were listed on that page, and I was really rather surprised to find that they were. Why the bleep am _I_ on there? Yea, I've hacked free software from time to time in my career... more than just a little... but I really can't recall having ever ``contributed'' to FreeBSD in any significant or meaningful way. I mean I'm honored to be listed in with such illustrious company, but in all modesty, I don't deserve to be. But anyway, regardless of that, I have to ask: (1) Why the bleep are so many e-mail addresses listed on that page in plain text, and without any sort of spammer harvesting protection whatsoever? And (2) who should I gripe to about this sorry state of affairs? webmaster(at)freebsd.org? I don't expect the email addresses to be protected by captchas or anything that convoluted, but the webmaster certainly could have at least replaced `@' with `(at)' or some such thing. So did anybody else get that same spam? ___ freebsd-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: Native Firefox 3.5 and Flash10
Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com writes: I am running a Fresh install of amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 RC3 when running firefox It locks up for a moment then is fine then when I load a new page it locks up again. here is the error I get in the console when running native firefox 3.5 what do I have to rebuild inorder to fix this? the same here on my 8.0 amd64. but the lockup is bearable, at least for me. the duration of such lockups only last less than one second. however, if I use gnash to render flash in firefox3.5, the situation may be better, but there are still such lockups. Sam Fourman Jr. [sfour...@sam ~]$ firefox3 Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_New() wait for reply: Message timeout Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module: libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sam# uname -a FreeBSD Sam.PuffyBSD.Com 8.0-RC3 FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 #0: Wed Nov 18 22:22:44 UTC 2009 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WORKSTATION amd64 Sam# pkg_info -xI linux linux-f10-atk-1.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-curl-7.19.6 The command line tool for transferring files with URL synta linux-f10-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22 RFC SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) (L linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library (Linux linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows (Linux Fe linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7 GTK+ library, version 2.X (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop project linux-f10-jpeg-6b RPM of the JPEG lib (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-libssh2-0.18 The library implementing the SSH2 protocol (Linux Fedora 10 linux-f10-nspr-4.7.6 Netscape Portable Runtime (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-nss-3.12.2.0 Network Security Services (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol libraries (Linux Fedo linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g The OpenSSL toolkit (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-pango-1.22.3 The pango library (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-png-1.2.37 RPM of the PNG lib (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-sqlite3-3.5.9_1 The library that implements an embeddable SQL database engi linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 The TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10) linux-firefox-3.0.15,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode for i386/amd64 (L ___ freebsd-gn...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-gnome-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- tamgya |aT| GmAiL |DoT| 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
Tunning 8.0 for multiple VMs (VBox)
Hi to all; I have a system where I will be running 5 VBox VMs (3 W2K3, 1 XP 1 Linux) for a lab simulation (work obligations). I have already ran the 5 VMs with a regular load on each and everything went fine. I think VBox is truly a great VM Manager, and it runs better (smoother and faster) in FBSD than in any other OS I tried it (Ubuntu, Winblows and OpenSolaris (!) ). Along the years, I've been running FBSD, picking up info from any Tuning FreeBSD guide I could find, starting with the handbook of course, going through articles and mailing list archives, trying to find a balance that would fit my desktop, among the several roles FreeBSD is used for. I would like to expose the hardware/settings I have now to the list, to see if what I've done is appropriate, over or under rated (or simply stupid), to squeeze every drop of performance FreeBSD can give with what I have. It is pretty fast as it is but it never hurts attempting to make it even better. Please bear 2 things in mind: 1) I am trying to learn here; 2) This is a Desktop machine (not a server!), sitting on my home LAN, behind a properly configured (again, to the best of my modest ability) firewall. It is used for everyday tasks, plus developing and music production. I am posting what I believe to be most relevant. Thank you all before hand for any advice. Here it goes: [Machine] FreeBSD 8.0-PRERELEASE #0 r198930M: Sat Nov 21 14:24:10 BRT 2009 CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3193.08-MHz K8-class CPU) Cool`n'Quiet 2.0 on cpu0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu2: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu3: ACPI CPU on acpi0 MB: AOD790GX/128M RAM: real mem = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail mem = 7994658816 (7624 MB) VIDEO:ATI Radeon 3300 Graphics on vgapci0 NET: RealTek PCIe Gigabit Ethernet (yeah, i know...) HD1: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500320AS MX15 at ata2-master SATA300 HD2: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500320AS MX15 at ata3-master SATA300 [loader.conf] verbose_loading=YES amdtemp_load=YES drm_load=YES radeon_load=YES linux_load=YES vboxdrv_load=YES # vboxnetflt and #vboxnetadp loaded later snd_cmi_load=YES atapicam_load=YES cpufreq_load=YES [rc.conf] background_fsck=NO check_quotas=NO clear_tmp_enable=YES compat4x_enable=YES compat5x_enable=YES compat6x_enable=YES compat7x_enable=YES kern_securelevel_enable=NO tcp_extensions=YES defaultrouter=10.10.10.1 hostname=me gateway_enable=NO ifconfig_re0=inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 linux_enable=YES inetd_enable=NO sendmail_enable=NONE sshd_enable=YES smbd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES cupsd_enable=YES fusefs_enable=YES fusefs_safe=YES hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES powerd_enable=YES # powerd_flags=-i 92 -r 65 -p 200 powerd_flags=-p 200 font8x8=cp850-8x8 font8x14=cp850-8x14 font8x16=cp850-8x16 keymap=br275.iso.acc.kbd [sysctl.conf] debug.cpufreq.lowest=1250 vfs.read_max=32 kern.maxvnodes=40 kern.maxfiles=65536 kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288 kern.module_path=/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/usr/local/modules compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 kern.ipc.shmmax=1036870912 kern.ipc.shmall=261072 Thanks, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
8.0 release serial mouse not working
Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2. Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements dont work any longer. # serial port radioshack 2 button mouse moused_port=/dev/cuad0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES Nothing has changed on the box hardware. Mouse worked in 7.2 but not in 8.0 I even tried sysinstall/configure/mouse to test other options and none worked. Has serial mouse support been dropped in release 8.0 and not removed from sysinstall? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SAME: Re: need help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:08:07PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Can anybody clue me in why cacti isn't building? I obv'ly see the stderr's, but want to know What now This is after the 3D screen stuff. checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for vasprintf... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for XCB... configure: error: Package requirements (xcb = 1.4) were not met: Requested 'xcb = 1.4' but version of XCB is 1.2 Well, I just fixed this, but rebuilding cacti still fails Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XCB_CFLAGS and XCB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. tHIS I doesn't understand. Maybe it's time for a portupgrade on my brand new system.. This stuff is the biggest turnoff with FBSD. In fat, it's the only one, since server are supposed to be workhorses. (*) === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to ntar...@cs.uoi.gr [maintainer] and attach the /usr/ports/x11/xcb-util/work/xcb-util-0.3.6/config.log including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xcb-util. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/cairo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/cairo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/rrdtool. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/rrdtool. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/cacti. r...@ethic:/usr/ports/net-mgmt/cacti# -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Misfortune doesn't improve anyone. That is a fable to reassure the afflicted. A life of hardship humiliates man and forces him to expend all his energy on resisting its deadly pressure. If a man comes out of it improved, it only means that he has spent an enormous amount of energy on improving in spite of everything. Just think what he might have done without that pressure. --Jiri Mucha, *Living and Partly Living* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Misfortune doesn't improve anyone. That is a fable to reassure the afflicted. A life of hardship humiliates man and forces him to expend all his energy on resisting its deadly pressure. If a man comes out of it improved, it only means that he has spent an enormous amount of energy on improving in spite of everything. Just think what he might have done without that pressure. --Jiri Mucha, *Living and Partly Living* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: need a newline between paragraphs....
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:19:42PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
precisely. in this case, every paragraph that is not on a
newline wraps. so anything that has an EOL is a new
paragraph.
If I understand you correctly, the following should work for your
purposes (as a naive implementation of the concept):
my $contents;
{
undef $/;
open(my $fh, '', $in_filename) or die $!;
$contents = $fh;
}
$contents =~ s/\n+/\n\n/g;
{
open(my $fh, '', $out_filename) or die $!;
print($fh $contents);
}
That assumes that you want to turn any and all instances of one or more
consecutive newlines into exacty two newlines. More finagling might be
required if there may be other adjacent whitespace, which would need to
account for not only possible adjacent whitespace but also possible
whitespace at the beginning of a line with other text on it. Maybe
something like this:
$contents =~ s/\s*\n+/\n\n/g;
. . . though I haven't thought it through in too much depth with regards
to the implications in edge case circumstances (thus the naive
implementation comment above).
Turns out that the problem was resolved by the
print $fh $_$/; or close to that. Since I scrubbed 100% of
newlines -- and axing all whitespace before and after lines --
before handing off the large file to OpenOffice, there wasn't
any concern about extra whitespace messing stuff up.
there are a few places that require different formatting;
these are easily re-done thanks to OOo!
I'm the kind of guy who would look for a way to automate things so that
re-formatting in OOo wouldn't be necessary, but as long as you're happy,
I guess we win. Good luck!
Hm. Y'know, if *somebody* would just make having vim as an
option along with OOo, along with wrapping all the lines, life
would be (abs)Perfect. I would nevr complain about anything;
not ever.
My fingers know vi; I've used vi since BillJoy invented it and
handed me the first docs. It only took a couple weeks to
learn, and I still don't know all the tricks. But enough to
do what I *NEED* to, and with fewer fumbles _(or hurting my
arm/shoulder that using the word-processor with mouse + keybd).
having scripts to switch between file and file.txt|.odt gets
pretty close :-)
thanks much,
gary
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MUA questions
I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a new box and am having trouble getting either fetchmail or getmail to talk to the ISP. Is this a question that can can be answered here, or is there another more appropriate forum. I thought it best to ask that question first before going any further. Thanks... Rem ___ freebsd-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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:43:17 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2. Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements dont work any longer. # serial port radioshack 2 button mouse moused_port=/dev/cuad0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES Nothing has changed on the box hardware. Mouse worked in 7.2 but not in 8.0 I even tried sysinstall/configure/mouse to test other options and none worked. Has serial mouse support been dropped in release 8.0 and not removed from sysinstall? I'm not sure about the moused_port, it's some time ago that I've used a serial mouse, but I had moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/cuaa0 moused_type=mousesystems moused_flags=-r 300 -a 2.0 in /etc/rc.conf - cuaa0 instead of cuad0. For some checking, why not use moused -f -i all -p /dev/cuad0 and moused -f -d -t auto -p /dev/cuad0 for some checking? -- 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: need help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....
Upgrade x11/libxcb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to print using cups on FreeBSD?
Hi I'm trying to print using cups 1.3.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 on a Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer. It prints garbage! That is, it print some series of characters. My first question is, does cups work on FreeBSD to print? Here is my side information: pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.10_4 Common UNIX Printing System: Server cups-client-1.3.10_4 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups cups-image-1.3.10_4 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_4 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_4 GutenPrint Printer Driver pkg_info | grep foomatic foomatic-db-20090530 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-4.0.1,2 Foomatic database engine gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver I have followed this for cups configuration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html ls -l /dev/unlpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 155 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/unlpt0 ls -l /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 154 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/ulpt0 I don't have /dev/lpt* . I'm a member of cups group. I'm using KDE 3.5.10. I have used KDE printer manager to print a test page after setting up the printer. So what other configurations do I need to do on FreeBSD to get the printing working? Best regards Unga ___ freebsd-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 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
Just tried installing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on an Eee PC, and it works pretty well -- except for the wireless interface, which is dead, dead, dead. It's an Atheros AzureWave chipset, and it did work with the included Linux distro before I wiped the disk and installed FreeBSD. Any ideas as to how I can get it working with FreeBSD 8.0? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
MUA questions
Rem Roberti writes: I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a new box and am having trouble getting either fetchmail or getmail to talk to the ISP. Is this a question that can can be answered here, or is there another more appropriate forum. I thought it best to ask that question first before going any further. I use fetchmail, though I'm not an expert. What's the problem? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-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 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Brett Glass wrote: Just tried installing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on an Eee PC, and it works pretty well -- except for the wireless interface, which is dead, dead, dead. It's an Atheros AzureWave chipset, and it did work with the included Linux distro before I wiped the disk and installed FreeBSD. Any ideas as to how I can get it working with FreeBSD 8.0? Dead as in doesn't show in dmesg/pciconf, or dead as in I didn't hear about having to use wlan0 now? -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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:43:17 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Been using the same serial mouse since release 7.0 through 7.1 and 7.2. Just installed release 8.0 and the rc.conf statements dont work any longer. # serial port radioshack 2 button mouse moused_port=/dev/cuad0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES Nothing has changed on the box hardware. Mouse worked in 7.2 but not in 8.0 I even tried sysinstall/configure/mouse to test other options and none worked. Has serial mouse support been dropped in release 8.0 and not removed from sysinstall? I'm not sure about the moused_port, it's some time ago that I've used a serial mouse, but I had moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/cuaa0 moused_type=mousesystems moused_flags=-r 300 -a 2.0 in /etc/rc.conf - cuaa0 instead of cuad0. For some checking, why not use moused -f -i all -p /dev/cuad0 and moused -f -d -t auto -p /dev/cuad0 for some checking? I checked /dev and there are no cuaa* or cuad* In 7.2 used the sysinstall/configur/mouse menu and it was the one that crated the moused_port=/dev/cuad0 rc.conf statment as showen in first post. /dev does have cuau0 cuau1 for uucp dialer. could this be the names of the serial ports in 8.0? ___ freebsd-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: SAME: Re: need help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHIS I doesn't understand. Maybe it's time for a portupgrade on my brand new system.. This stuff is the biggest turnoff with FBSD. In fat, it's the only one, since server are supposed to be workhorses. If you were installing cacti for the first time, i.e. with portinstall, then according to the manual, the dependencies should have been automatically upgraded. Either your ports tree itself was out of date or there is something wrong with portupgrade. If you suspect the latter, consider giving portmaster a try. ___ freebsd-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: MUA questions
Rem Roberti wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a new box and am having trouble getting either fetchmail or getmail to talk to the ISP. Is this a question that can can be answered here, or is there another more appropriate forum. I thought it best to ask that question first before going any further. Thanks... Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I have fetchmail working on 7.2. describe your problem in detail and post you control statements. ___ freebsd-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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:06:56 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I checked /dev and there are no cuaa* or cuad* Confirmed, 8.0-RC1 with GENERIC kernel (my toyaround machine). In 7.2 used the sysinstall/configur/mouse menu and it was the one that crated the moused_port=/dev/cuad0 rc.conf statment as showen in first post. That should have been the correct setting. On version 7, I have /dev/cuad0, /dev/cuad0.init and /dev/cuad0.lock. On version 8, there's /dev/cuau0, /dev/cuau0.init and /dev/cuau0.lock instead. Maybe loading a kernel module is required to have the serial ports available again? /dev does have cuau0 cuau1 for uucp dialer. could this be the names of the serial ports in 8.0? It seems that they don't work for the mouse because they're something different. I think there's another problem rising: Assume you want to have a serial dialin line (e. g. for a serial terminal), then you would have something like ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 vt320 on secure in /etc/ttys. The question would be: If /dev/ttyd0 does not exist anymore, how to make this work again? -- 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: MUA questions
I just installed FreeBSD 7.2 on a new box and am having trouble getting either fetchmail or getmail to talk to the ISP. Is this a question that can can be answered here, or is there another more appropriate forum. I thought it best to ask that question first before going any further. I use fetchmail, though I'm not an expert. What's the problem? Robert Huff Basically, I am using Mutt as my MUA, and I have either getmail or fetchmail configured to receive my POP3 mail from Comcast, which is via mail.comcast.net. I am using msmtp as my smtp client, and have no trouble sending mail from Mutt...just can't receive. Both the .fetchmailrc and getmailrc configurations have worked in the past. Is this possibly a sendmail issue? The fetchmail.log repeatedly indicates Trying to connect to 76.96.54.12/110...connection failed: Operation temed out. Rem ___ freebsd-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 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
Dead as in doesn't show in dmesg/pciconf Yep, that's correct. The only hint of it is the following message: pci3: network at device 0.0 (no driver attached) --Brett ___ freebsd-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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:06:56 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I checked /dev and there are no cuaa* or cuad* Confirmed, 8.0-RC1 with GENERIC kernel (my toyaround machine). In 7.2 used the sysinstall/configur/mouse menu and it was the one that crated the moused_port=/dev/cuad0 rc.conf statment as showen in first post. That should have been the correct setting. On version 7, I have /dev/cuad0, /dev/cuad0.init and /dev/cuad0.lock. On version 8, there's /dev/cuau0, /dev/cuau0.init and /dev/cuau0.lock instead. Maybe loading a kernel module is required to have the serial ports available again? /dev does have cuau0 cuau1 for uucp dialer. could this be the names of the serial ports in 8.0? It seems that they don't work for the mouse because they're something different. I think there's another problem rising: Assume you want to have a serial dialin line (e. g. for a serial terminal), then you would have something like ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 vt320 on secure in /etc/ttys. The question would be: If /dev/ttyd0 does not exist anymore, how to make this work again? From the 8.0 release notes is the following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN. tested these rc.conf statements moused_port=/dev/cuau0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES serial mouse works again This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the new dev names. ___ freebsd-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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: From the 8.0 release notes is the following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN. tested these rc.conf statements moused_port=/dev/cuau0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES serial mouse works again Can confirm. This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the new dev names. That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would need an update, too. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html -- 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: MUA questions
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:28:05PM -0800, Rem Roberti wrote: Basically, I am using Mutt as my MUA, and I have either getmail or fetchmail configured to receive my POP3 mail from Comcast, which is via mail.comcast.net. I am using msmtp as my smtp client, and have no trouble sending mail from Mutt...just can't receive. Both the .fetchmailrc and getmailrc configurations have worked in the past. Is this possibly a sendmail issue? The fetchmail.log repeatedly indicates Trying to connect to 76.96.54.12/110...connection failed: Operation temed out. Are you sure Mutt is trying to use fetchmail or getmail, and not still trying to use Sendmail instead? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpKR90FtlREu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MUA questions
On 2009.11.26 00:27:15 +, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:28:05PM -0800, Rem Roberti wrote: Basically, I am using Mutt as my MUA, and I have either getmail or fetchmail configured to receive my POP3 mail from Comcast, which is via mail.comcast.net. I am using msmtp as my smtp client, and have no trouble sending mail from Mutt...just can't receive. Both the .fetchmailrc and getmailrc configurations have worked in the past. Is this possibly a sendmail issue? The fetchmail.log repeatedly indicates Trying to connect to 76.96.54.12/110...connection failed: Operation temed out. Are you sure Mutt is trying to use fetchmail or getmail, and not still trying to use Sendmail instead? Well...I'm embarrassed to admit this, but the problem was with the operator...that would be me. Everything was doing its job correctly, including procmail. I'd forgotten how to call up the list of mailboxes where procmail puts everything, and when I hit the return key I kept getting the no mail message, so I just assumed that the mail was not being received. But no, everything was being put exactly where it was supposed to be, and once I remembered how to access the individual mailboxes guess what I found. This is what happens when you spend a year operating a windoze box. I'm sure glad to be back with FreeBSD. Thanks to all who responded. Cheers... Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
