Re: Software RAID options
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote: Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk). It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather than an entire disk http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ so you could create matching slices on the disks and still have the spare space of the larger disk available for use as non-mirrored space. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Shared object libcrypt.so.4 not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)
On 29 January 2010 20:53, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, mikel king wrote: [ ... ] I would have thought that perl was rebuilt when I make the world and upgraded from 7.x to 8.0. Anyone have a quick and easy fix out of this mess? perl isn't part of FreeBSD 7.x; hence, it was not rebuilt when you upgraded to 8.0. There isn't a quick and easy fix to dealing with ports after upgrading to a different major OS version, short of rebuilding all of the installed ports. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org well you could do pkg_delete -f perl* pkg_add -rv perl you might need to redo your modules as well or you could install the compatibility libs cd /usr/ports/misc/compat7x make make installl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD
Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin puck level but not ridiculously expensive either... Thanks for any input, -- 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: gjournal on compact flash
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In short, having to do a blind_yes_to_all full fsck is not an option for me. OTOH a journaling solution like gjournal or softupdates journaling, makes sure that the filesystem will be surely consistent after an ungraceful power cycle. I am not in a hurry and waiting for SUJ to hit the 8 branch seems sensible. Nikos ___ freebsd-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 : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD
You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ I don't use their products (I don't know about the quality products), I just use their NTP package software for Windows. --- En date de : Sam 30.1.10, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se a écrit : De: Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se Objet: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Samedi 30 Janvier 2010, 9h51 Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin puck level but not ridiculously expensive either... Thanks for any input, -- 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ral vap
Hi , Just configured my new linksys wmp54G in Freebsd-8 worked like charm, but when tried to create yet another wireless interface (wlan1), am getting error ral0: only 1 vap supported, checked man for ral and found Only one hostap Just before selling the wifi card in ebay (as I wanted, it just for multiple wireless interfaces), I thought let me post a question in list to check if there is any possibilities of getting multiple virtual wlan interfaces configured with ral0, both working in ap mode? Thanks, Gaurang. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Replacing base NTP with ports NTP
Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in the mists of time, I noticed that I wasn't running the port version of NTP (/usr/local/sbin/ntpd), but the version installed with the base system (/usr/sbin/ntpd). For the immediate term, I've renamed the base versions of the files in /usr/sbin, and then symlinked to the port version (in /usr/local) - ntpd is now the ports version, as are most of the tools. This does, however, seem like a rather silly way of getting the most current NTPd running. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the Ports version of NTP to overwrite the base system's NTP. Yet I'm sure (since there *is* a port of NTP) there must be a better way to do this. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation? Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Mob: +61 412 135 513 Email: d...@pdconsec.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
Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in the mists of time, I noticed that I wasn't running the port version of NTP (/usr/local/sbin/ntpd), but the version installed with the base system (/usr/sbin/ntpd). For the immediate term, I've renamed the base versions of the files in /usr/sbin, and then symlinked to the port version (in /usr/local) - ntpd is now the ports version, as are most of the tools. This does, however, seem like a rather silly way of getting the most current NTPd running. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the Ports version of NTP to overwrite the base system's NTP. Yet I'm sure (since there *is* a port of NTP) there must be a better way to do this. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation? David- I'm not going to claim that this is the best way either, but if you're doing source installs you could just set WITHOUT_NTP=true in /etc/src.conf to disable the installation of the system one. You can use man src.conf to find out more about this. I stop installations of a bunch of standard services this way -- lpr, bind, nis, sendmail, etc. make delete-old from your source build will clean up those files that are no longer used. Hope this helps, Ben ___ freebsd-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: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP
On Saturday 30 January 2010, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: Greetings all and sundry Hello David, About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in the mists of time, I noticed that I wasn't running the port version of NTP (/usr/local/sbin/ntpd), but the version installed with the base system (/usr/sbin/ntpd). OK, rc.conf(5) does the trick. Look here for an overview of rc.conf: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html And try the next command to gather information about rc.conf(5): man 5 rc.conf Possibly you are looking for the /ntpd_program/ variable (from the manual page): -8--8--8- ntpd_program (str) Path to ntpd(8) (default /usr/sbin/ntpd). -8--8--8- For the immediate term, I've renamed the base versions of the files in /usr/sbin, and then symlinked to the port version (in /usr/local) - ntpd is now the ports version, as are most of the tools. This does, however, seem like a rather silly way of getting the most current NTPd running. Bad practice... ;) I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the Ports version of NTP to overwrite the base system's NTP. Yet I'm sure (since there *is* a port of NTP) there must be a better way to do this. No problem, just try the configuration above. Also, you do not need to restart the complete system, just proceed as follows: 1. As root stop ntpd: # /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop 2. Edit the /etc/rc.conf file... 3. Start ntpd: # /etc/rc.d/ntpd start Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation? Dave. Best regards, -- | Daniel Molina dmw [at] coder [dot] cl | | IT Consulting Software Development| | Phone: +56 2 9790277 | http://coder.cl/ | signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:06:53 +1100 David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net articulated: Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in the mists of time, I noticed that I wasn't running the port version of NTP (/usr/local/sbin/ntpd), but the version installed with the base system (/usr/sbin/ntpd). For the immediate term, I've renamed the base versions of the files in /usr/sbin, and then symlinked to the port version (in /usr/local) - ntpd is now the ports version, as are most of the tools. This does, however, seem like a rather silly way of getting the most current NTPd running. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the Ports version of NTP to overwrite the base system's NTP. Yet I'm sure (since there *is* a port of NTP) there must be a better way to do this. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation? Dave. From the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file: ntpdate_enable=NO # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). ntpdate_program=/usr/sbin/ntpdate # path to ntpdate, if you want a different one. ntpdate_flags=-b # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled). ntpdate_config=/etc/ntp.conf # ntpdate(8) configuration file ntpdate_hosts=# Whitespace-separated list of ntpdate(8) servers. ntpd_enable=NO# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO). ntpd_program=/usr/sbin/ntpd # path to ntpd, if you want a different one. ntpd_config=/etc/ntp.conf # ntpd(8) configuration file ntpd_sync_on_start=NO # Sync time on ntpd startup, even if offset is high ntpd_flags=-p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drift # Flags to ntpd (if enabled). Enter the appropriate line(s) into your /etc/rc.conf file. DO NOT modify the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | You will soon meet a person who will play an important role in your life. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
fstab syntax
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Pain finding packages
Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed do this: pkg_add -r samba3 This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your website to understand what version I need to install? Isn't there a way to specify Install the latest version of some package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD? Thanks, Joe ___ freebsd-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: fstab syntax
On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org /dev/msdosfs/MY\ FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 or /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 should work, but i guess you tried these? The alternative way would be to use the UUID of the drive, as that wont have spaces in, and is more versatile than /dev/das1a type syntax ___ freebsd-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: Pain finding packages
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed do this: pkg_add -r samba3 This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your website to understand what version I need to install? Isn't there a way to specify Install the latest version of some package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD? Thanks, Joe Since the ports tree (for which packages are made from) can house multiple versions of a software package (samba 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3 IIRC), specifying samba alone sometimes work for the default, and sometimes it's samba32 or similar. It's up to the port maintainer to name it and what the resulting package name will be. Like most distributions, a search online can yield the version you want. Go to http://ports.freebsd.org and query any part of a substring to search for. --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
Re: Pain finding packages
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:48:23 -0800 (PST) Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com articulated: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed do this: pkg_add -r samba3 This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your website to understand what version I need to install? Isn't there a way to specify Install the latest version of some package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD? You didn't specify exactly what you wanted installed. Just specifying 'samba' is useless. There are several versions of samba, as well as ports that begin with samba. For example: Port: ja-samba-3.0.35,1 Path: /usr/ports/japanese/samba3 Info: Japanese Samba Port: gnosamba-0.3.3_5 Path: /usr/ports/net/gnosamba Info: Samba configuration tool for X Window System Port: gsambad-0.1.9_3 Path: /usr/ports/net/gsambad Info: Gtk2 Frontend for samba daemon Port: p5-Samba-LDAP-0.05_1 Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-Samba-LDAP Info: Manage a Samba PDC with an LDAP Backend Port: py26-samba-3.0.37 Path: /usr/ports/net/py-samba Info: Python bindings for Samba Port: samba-libsmbclient-3.0.37 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba-libsmbclient Info: Shared libs from the samba package Port: samba-nmblookup-3.0.37 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba-nmblookup Info: NetBIOS Name lookup tool Port: samba-pdbsql-0.3.1_1 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba-pdbsql Info: Multiplexor, MySQL and PostgeSQL passdb backends for Samba3 Port: samba-smbclient-3.0.37 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba-smbclient Info: Samba ftp-like client Port: samba-3.0.37,1 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba3 Info: A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX Port: samba-3.2.15 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba32 Info: A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX Port: samba-3.3.9 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba33 Info: A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX Port: samba4-devel-4.0.0.a8_2 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba4-devel Info: A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX Port: samba4wins-1.0.7_1 Path: /usr/ports/net/samba4wins Info: A full featured replicating WINS server for UNIX Port: sambasentinel-0.1_5 Path: /usr/ports/net/sambasentinel Info: SambaSentinel is a gtk-frontend to smbstatus with additional features Port: cups-samba-6.0_2 Path: /usr/ports/print/cups-samba Info: The Common UNIX Printing System: MS Windows client drivers Port: samba-vscan-0.3.6c_2 Path: /usr/ports/security/samba-vscan Info: On-access virus scanning with Samba Port: japanese/samba20 Moved: japanese/samba Date: 2003-04-13 Reason: security vulnerability Port: net/samba-tng Moved: Date: 2003-08-07 Reason: port was marked broken for 3 months with no fix submitted Port: net/samba-devel Moved: net/samba3 Date: 2004-06-07 Reason: considered stable Port: net/samba Moved: net/samba3 Date: 2006-09-02 Reason: Security vulnerabilities Port: japanese/samba Moved: japanese/samba3 Date: 2008-07-21 Reason: Superseded by japanese/samba3 Port: net/samba32-devel Moved: net/samba32 Date: 2009-02-16 Reason: Samba 3.2 became stable enough to be used in production. Did you read man pkg_add(1) thoroughly before using the utility? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. R. S. Barton ___ freebsd-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: fstab syntax
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:05:43 +0300 Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com articulated: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 As far as I know, that cannot be done. I saw something about that here awhile ago. Perhaps, a patch has been submitted that will modify its behavior by now. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. Zaphod Beeblebrox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Problems with make clean
Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither make clean nor a rm -rf work/ do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/common: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT: Invalid argument rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out: Directory not empty rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902: Directory not empty rm: work/: Directory not empty A cd to the named directories and a ls -la show no files there. Has anybody an explanation for this? Greetings Frank -- GU d- s:+ a+ C+$ UBS$ P L- !E--- W N+@ !o K--? !w--- O !M- !V- PS+ PE Y? !PGP- t+ 5 X !R tv- b++ DI !D G e h+ r- y? When pack meets pack in the jungle and no one will move from the trail wait till the leaders have spoken it may be fair words shall prevail (Rudyard Kipling) ___ freebsd-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: Pain finding packages
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0800, Joe Springer wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed do this: pkg_add -r samba3 This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your website to understand what version I need to install? Isn't there a way to specify Install the latest version of some package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD? Unfortunately, there isn't -- sometimes. Some ports (and their associated packages) will have the name you expect. Some will not. The names of binary packages should have the same names as their respective ports, at least most of the time, as far as I'm aware. Thus, if you have the ports tree on your system, you can at least check locally to see what various software installs will be called. If not, you may have to search online. I don't use binary packages much, personally, so I'm not exactly an expert in that regard. Something I said may turn out to be mistaken. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpDnQDYwu3mc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fstab syntax
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| /dev/msdosfs/MY\ FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 or /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 should work, but i guess you tried these? The alternative way would be to use the UUID of the drive, as that wont have spaces in, and is more versatile than /dev/das1a type syntax Yep, neither is working. After all I used glabel to generate a new label and avoid reformatiing my volume. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Jails and Hardware security
Is it possible to limit what hardware a jail has access to? I am wanting to limit access to the tape drive/autoloader in one jail, but allow another to have access to it. Is this as simple as deleting the appropriate entries in /dev? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-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: fstab syntax
On Saturday 30 of January 2010 21:05:43 Jeff Laine wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? Unfortunatelly, spaces are not allowed in fstab syntax. I also have tried it before and figured out that there is no way to insert spaces in a folder or device name. Elias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
apache22 and new hostname???
Guys,
As some of you might know, i am trying to host a friend's website on my
DNS and web server. Can anybody suggest what i have to add to my
/usr/local/etc/apache22/* files and directories to get
http://www.anacondabuilders.us to display since I do not own this
domain . My builder friend, Steven Ross just bought the website. I am
trying to get his .us site be served on my DNS server; in my
/etc/namedb/* files.
Steven's needs as a builder, home-repair, home-improvement, etc, are
much simpler than my own web sites: basically one page with a few lines
of text and photos of his work. Since I am the {throat-clearing here}
designer, the KISS philosophy servers well. But I do need the basics
of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer.
gary
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Re: apache22 and new hostname???
Gary, But I do need the basics of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer. What you are looking for are called virtual hosts. See the examples in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The Apache documentation (mentioned in the above file) is also helpful. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-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: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD
On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin puck level but not ridiculously expensive either... Why would you want something more than the Garmin puck? I have a couple of instrumentation grade GPS's at work but their primary justification is to generate IRIG time to sync a multitude of instruments which expect a time signal in IRIG format. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-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: Pain finding packages
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed do this: pkg_add -r samba3 This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your website to understand what version I need to install? Isn't there a way to specify Install the latest version of some package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD? Thanks, Joe Not really. However, you should have installed a copy of the ports tree during the creation of your machine. Here are your tools: csup (or portsnap, either of which will keep your ports tree current), portupgrade (or portmaster or one of a couple of others, to upgrade your current ports) and make. csup is native, and portupgrade seems to be more commonly used than the others of its kind. For make, do the following, after csup (or an alternative): cd /usr/ports make search name=samba | less or cd /usr/ports make search key=samba | less Then browse that list to see what most particularly applies to your needs. HTH, 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: Problems with make clean
Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither make clean nor a rm -rf work/ do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox: Directory not empty No explanation, sorry. Have you tried $chflags -R nosch work $rm -rf work ? HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Generating normally distributed random numbers.
Hi all, I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the desired distribution, so a standard normal distribution will not do. Is there anyone out there who knows how to accomplish this? I have no idea whatsoever, and for all I know there may already be a function that does this in the math library. I'm quite accomplished when it comes to math, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. Any help will greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Nehelem 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x9ce3bdSSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT AMD Features=0x28100800SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF TSC: P-state invariant I am now in the process of configuring the kernel config file. A few questions; 1. Is the kernel config file I want to modify /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC ? (Copy that file as /root/PORKY, and set up a symlink from /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf to /root/PORKY.) 2. What should I set this line to: cpu HAMMER Right now it's HAMMER, I have no idea what Hammer is. What would be the best thing to set it to? I want to be as specific as possible for my CPU type. 3. The instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html mention a line like this: machinei386 (which would probably by amd64 in my case), but the machine line is missing entirely from GENERIC conf file. Should I add it? 4. In /etc/make.conf, I'm used to having, for example: CPUTYPE?=core2 What would be my CPU in this case (Xeon L5506)? I know this line is not necessary, but I'd like to set it to the most specific kind of CPU possible for my case to gain any optimizations, so long as it does not make my system unstable. ___ freebsd-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: Generating normally distributed random numbers.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the desired distribution, so a standard normal distribution will not do. Is there anyone out there who knows how to accomplish this? I have no idea whatsoever, and for all I know there may already be a function that does this in the math library. I'm quite accomplished when it comes to math, but strangely I've never programmed computers for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator#Generation_from_a_probability_distribution refers to two methods. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x
Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support, but I'm in the clear now. Given the age of the installation, I'm wondering what the recommended upgrade path would be. ie: This machine has a lot going on .. wiki's (ie: apache et al), mysql databases, mailing lists, and a dozen hand rolled applications. (Hey, someone has to write custom emulators of ancient systems to keep BBSes alive, right?) Naturally, /etc is modified all to hell, and I'm terrified of any automated upgrades for fear random things would just not work later. Especially with the age... Things work great, but I worry about security naturally, and keeping up with patches or installing anything new is a nightmare due to dependancies. o I should be able to identify most important changes and data; /etc, /home, the kernel build path so I've got the old kernel conf files I used for this machine (yay!), /usr/local was used instead of polluting /usr-proper, etc. o I'd love if I coudl do an upgrade, and things would still work; I mean, from samba configuration etc and so on, eveyrthign is great. I realize this is unlikely though .. upgrading services likely means conf changes all over the random place, etc. o Some of the executables on this box are without source but I still need them to run; short of moving them to a VM and doing some voodoo, what are the chances a binary built for fbsd 5.x works fine in 8.x? (earlier fbsd's had the break between gcc versions, but I'm rather hoping thats not a problem here.) gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 The obvious options are.. 1 - upgrade step by step; go from fbsd 5.4 to 6.4 (say) to 7.2 (say) to 8.0 2 - one big-ass upgrade from 5.4 to 8 (*fear*) 3 - yank the drive, slap a giant new fat drive in there, do a full fbsd 8.0 install, and then migration from old drive as needed Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a PITA, but then again .. the others are probably all PITAs as well given the age of the box. Something will break, so maybe its best to just start fresh with a nice new install and go from there. *ugh* but that'll teach me to stay on top of it more :) Aside -- whats the recommended way to stay on top of upgrades anyway? It used to be a tortuous process back 5 years ago, but hopefully things are much more streamlined now .. nightly 'make upgrade' ftw :) jeff -- If everyone would put barbecue sauce on their food, there would be no war. ___ freebsd-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: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell skee...@skeleton.org wrote: Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support, but I'm in the clear now. Given the age of the installation, I'm wondering what the recommended upgrade path would be. The obvious options are.. 1 - upgrade step by step; go from fbsd 5.4 to 6.4 (say) to 7.2 (say) to 8.0 2 - one big-ass upgrade from 5.4 to 8 (*fear*) 3 - yank the drive, slap a giant new fat drive in there, do a full fbsd 8.0 install, and then migration from old drive as needed I would suggest going in for 3 too, but then you would get better suggestions on this list. Aside -- whats the recommended way to stay on top of upgrades anyway? It used to be a tortuous process back 5 years ago, but hopefully things are much more streamlined now .. nightly 'make upgrade' ftw :) jeff Take a look at freebsd-update ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html). Amitabh Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
