Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?
I am looking at one file which is actually a unix socket: /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6. lsof | grep dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 shows that it's open by a particular process many times: ibus-daem 48407 yuri4uunix 0xc966019c0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri5uunix 0xc95690000t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri6uunix 0xc955e9a80t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri7uunix 0xc8d250000t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri8uunix 0xc9596ce00t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri9uunix 0xc8f9b19c0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 10uunix 0xc916619c0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 11uunix 0xc95473380t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 12uunix 0xc95896700t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 But when I run fstat /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 it doesn't return anything, like this file isn't open at all. Why there is such discrepancy? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled
Can you explain what you did in detail and it have something to do with ndis(4)? Did you ever used ndisgen(8)? Last June I used ndisgen and my computer has been running fine since then. When I saw the NTOS warning I emailed this list. When I got your reply I removed if_bwi_ndis_load from /boot/loader.conf and the warning went away. When I readded to /boot/loader.conf the warning was *still* gone. Because this was the only change I made I assume that it was an intermittent problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Cleaning up after attack?
Hi. I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 7.2 box that has been compromised. Someone aparently got in to an account with certain admin priveleges and has been sending spam. I disabled the account, shut off my MTA and used pf to block all traffic to port 25 out for good measure. How do i analyse what might have happened and what has been installed? Andis there anything to do other than rebuild the entire system to ensure that its clean? Thanks. Jen ___ freebsd-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: Cleaning up after attack?
On 15/02/10 11:13, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 7.2 box that has been compromised. Someone aparently got in to an account with certain admin priveleges and has been sending spam. I disabled the account, shut off my MTA and used pf to block all traffic to port 25 out for good measure. How do i analyse what might have happened and what has been installed? Andis there anything to do other than rebuild the entire system to ensure that its clean? If the attacker had privileged access then he may have got a copy of master.password, you should assume all accounts compromised, if user data are shared with other servers, then all should be considered compromised. Blocking certain access say port 25 is insufficient. You should get it off the net until you are sure the system is clean as the attacker may have installed some daemon that communicates on a non-standard port. If you had things like tripwire installed you could get an idea of files modified. Otherwise you can use find to create a list of files modified since the attack, but this is only useful insofar as the attacker did not bother to reset access or modification times. It may be faster to rebuild everything rather than trying to figure out what may have been modified, if your main concern is to get the system back up rather than investigate the incident. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.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: Question about Freebsd 7.2 and Zend framework
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:29:04 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org articulated: Samuel Martín Moro wrote: It's not officialy supported, but it still works. You have to link some libraries to give them their freebsd 6.2 names. I had to do it for the servers we sell at work. It works perfectly. I'm glad it works, and it is not surprising. It would be easier for a company to support FreeBSD with its stable ABI across minor releases (and a great deal of userland stability even across major ones) than support the myriad of Linuxes out there. Hacking the system to make it work is potentially dangerous. While it may work for awhile, there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so. I believe that finding or developing an alternative solution would be a better course of action. As far as supporting FreeBSD as opposed to the myriad of Linuxes, I believe what Willie Sutton stated is apropos: Go where the money is .. and go there often. After all, they are in business to make money, which allows them to pay their employees, which means they can support their families, which in turn means I do not have to pay taxes to support them. Personally, I find that acceptable. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | While it may be true that a watched pot never boils, the one you don't keep an eye on can make an awful mess of your stove. Edward Stevenson ___ freebsd-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: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
On 15.02.2010 09:21, Nerius Landys wrote: But in the case where you're assigning the output of ls directly to a variable like this: FOO=`ls` vs FOO=`ls` the text assigned to FOO is the same, right? Apparently, it is: sh-4.0$ touch x * sh-4.0$ FOO=`ls`;echo $FOO|od 000 020170 005052 004 sh-4.0$ BAR=`ls`; echo $BAR|od 000 020170 005052 004 There might be some corner cases tho. Test before puting into production (newlines/control chars in file names, different versions of shell, different set/shopt options, changes in IFS etc). -- Eray ___ freebsd-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: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe you should be asking them this question. ___ freebsd-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 Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?
I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45. I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 I'm pretty sure this will work for you. --- Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 15.2.10, Yuri y...@rawbw..com a écrit : De: Yuri y...@rawbw.com Objet: Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies? À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Lundi 15 Février 2010, 2h58 In order to enable Flash I installed linux-firefox-devel-3.5.7 and linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45. They together pulled whole lot of other ports, see list below. But flash still doesn't work: youtube.com shows black windows instead. I tried windows firefox under wine, but it has a lot of side-effects, since wine is perpetually buggy. Anybody is able to play flash movies? Thanks, Yuri List of all linux ports installed: linux-dri-7.4_1 Mesa-based DRI libraries, drivers and binaries (Linux Ubunt linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture libraries (Linux Fedo 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-dbus-glib-0.76 GLib bindings for D-Bus (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-dbus-libs-1.2.4 Libraries for accessing D-BUS (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library (Linux linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin linux-f10-fontconfig-2..6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows (Linux Fe linux-f10-gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 Image loading library for GTK+ (Linux Fedora 10) 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-libsigc++20-2.2.2 Callback Framework for C++ (Linux Fedora 10) linux-f10-libssh2-0.18 The library implementing the SSH2 protocol (Linux Fedora 10 linux-f10-libxml2-2.7.3_2 Library providing XML and HTML support (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-devel-3.5.7 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla linux-nvu-1.0_1 A complete Web Authoring System linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode for i386/amd64 (L ___ freebsd-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: Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?
On Monday 15 February 2010 13:53:27 Alexandre L. wrote: I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45. I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 There are also good instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop- browsers.html -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?
I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a way to protect this link from being deleted? Thanks: 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: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: #!/bin/sh DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this: DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` That is perfectly fine. Word-splitting and filename expansion are not performed for variable assignments. Also immune is the expression after case, so this is always fine: case $FOO in ... -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de ___ freebsd-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 lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?
In the last episode (Feb 15), Yuri said: I am looking at one file which is actually a unix socket: /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6. lsof | grep dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 shows that it's open by a particular process many times: ibus-daem 48407 yuri4uunix 0xc966019c 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri5uunix 0xc9569000 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri6uunix 0xc955e9a8 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri7uunix 0xc8d25000 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri8uunix 0xc9596ce0 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri9uunix 0xc8f9b19c 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 10uunix 0xc916619c 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 11uunix 0xc9547338 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri 12uunix 0xc9589670 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 But when I run fstat /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 it doesn't return anything, like this file isn't open at all. Why there is such discrepancy? It looks like fstat doesn't work on unix sockets at all; I tried on /tmp/mysql.sock and some X11 sockets. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:46:09AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a way to protect this link from being deleted? Do you have log rotation set up? In order to do a clean copy when the file may still be held open by the www system, the rotator may delete and recreate the file. The rotator probably does not pay any attention to it being a link. This is just a big guess, but something to check on. I have many directories moved and linked to use other space and have no problem with it. It should work, but you may have to make the log rotator smarter - or change how the directory tree is set up.Something like: don't move and link the actual file/directory the logger writes to, but create a directory above it in the bigger space and then set up configuration to write to log files within it so there never has to be a link on the actual files on which the log rotator is working. jerry Thanks: 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 ___ freebsd-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 does soft link in /var/log disappear?
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com writes: I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www This works great, but something is deleting the soft link. Is there anything in the freebsd base that 'cleans up' the /var/log directory? Any hints on how I can discover what is doing this clean up, or a way to protect this link from being deleted? When does it happen? Without knowing that, we're pretty much into wild-guess territory. That said, my wild guess is that it happens at installworld time and there's something strange in your mtree file for var. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Without even clicking his link, I've had past experience with a legit website being marked unsafe by various engines out there. 1) Another site sister to them (by means of the same IP subnet block) is truly unwanted, and it improperly marks a legit site bad. This includes the SOA's DNS servers (I had this case) 2) The legit site is using an ad agency that is known to do bad stuff with their banner ads. 3) A site with a vulnerable app (think wordpress or the notorious php apps that are put out) that hasn't been patched. And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. --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: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?
Yuri wrote: But when I run fstat /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 it doesn't return anything, like this file isn't open at all. I'm not sure that this will answer your question but bear with me. Usually I use lsof to list any listening TCP or UDP ports, with following command: lsof -P -i -n The result will clearly show you what application listening to what port. Now this is I'm not really sure if I'm correct: by default Dbus doesn't have any listening port. Hope that would help you. Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager - Technical, Network and Support Division PT. Jawa Pos National Network Graha Pena Jawa Pos Group Building, 5th floor Jln. Raya Kebayoran Lama 12, Jakarta Selatan 12210 Indonesia.- Phone 02132185562 Phone 081574217035 Fax 02153651465 Web http://www.jpnn.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT partitioning. AFAIK, with the more recent -CURRENT and -STABLE it is also possible to boot off a root filesystem located on raidz/raidz2 pools. But what about booting off pools consisting of multiple striped mirror or raidz vdevs? Like this: Assume each disk looks like a half of a traditional ZFS mirror root configuration using GPT 1: freebsd-boot 2: freebsd-swap 3: freebsd-zfs |disk1+disk2| + |disk3+disk4| + |disk5+disk6| My logic tells me that while booting off any of the 6 disks, boot0 and boot1 stage should obviously work fine, but what about the boot2 stage? Can it properly handle booting off a root filesystem thats striped across 3 mirror vdevs or is booting off a single mirror vdev the best that one can do right now? I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. Matt ___ freebsd-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: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:07 -0800, Matt Reimer wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT partitioning. AFAIK, with the more recent -CURRENT and -STABLE it is also possible to boot off a root filesystem located on raidz/raidz2 pools. But what about booting off pools consisting of multiple striped mirror or raidz vdevs? Like this: Assume each disk looks like a half of a traditional ZFS mirror root configuration using GPT 1: freebsd-boot 2: freebsd-swap 3: freebsd-zfs |disk1+disk2| + |disk3+disk4| + |disk5+disk6| My logic tells me that while booting off any of the 6 disks, boot0 and boot1 stage should obviously work fine, but what about the boot2 stage? Can it properly handle booting off a root filesystem thats striped across 3 mirror vdevs or is booting off a single mirror vdev the best that one can do right now? I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. It *should* work... I made changes a while back that allow for multiple vdevs to attach to the root. In this case you should have 3 mirror vdevs attached to the root, so as long as the BIOS can enumerate all of the drives, we should find all of the vdevs and build the tree correctly. It should be simple enough to test in qemu, except that the BIOS in qemu is a little broken and might not id all of the drives. robert. Matt ___ freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org FreeBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE
I am trying to build the GIMP on 8.0-STABLE but had a problem. For what it's worth, I have these ports installed: gtk-1.2.10_21 gtk-2.18.6_1 It is not clear to me why GIMP (or webkit-gtk2) depends on having Gnome2 (gnome-config) installed (I use open-motif): checking for GSTREAMER... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found configure: error: Package requirements (gstreamer-0.10 = 0.10 gstreamer-base-0.10 gstreamer-pbutils-0.10 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 gstreamer-video-0.10) were not met: No package 'gstreamer-pbutils-0.10' found No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found No package 'gstreamer-video-0.10' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GSTREAMER_CFLAGS and GSTREAMER_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please run the gnomelogalyzer, available from http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh;, which will diagnose the problem and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot solve the problem, report the build failure to the FreeBSD GNOME team at gn...@freebsd.org, and attach (a) /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2/work/webkit-1.1.15.4/config.log, (b) the output of the failed make command, and (c) the gnomelogalyzer output. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (i.e. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). Put your attachment up on any website, copy-and-paste into http://freebsd-gnome.pastebin.com, or use send-pr(1) with the attachment. Try to avoid sending any attachments to the mailing list (gn...@freebsd.org), because attachments sent to FreeBSD mailing lists are usually discarded by the mailing list software. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template -| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
amd64 gives panic message when booting CD
Hello- I have a server box with an Intel s5000vcl motherboard and 2 dual-core Xeon procs. I was hoping to run FreeBSD 8 on it, but when I try to boot the amd64 media I get panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: I've Googled about and found chatter relating to the message, but no work-around. I'm not a guru, so I'm a bit stuck. Any guidance would be much appreciated :D Thanks, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Preparing to Install MFSBSD Loader on Disk
When one is logged in to a FreeBSD system, an attempt to write to the mounted file systems on /dev/ad0, for example, fails with Operation not permitted. This is a wonderful feature 99% of the time because this is disastrous to any future access after that point. The only exception to this is if one wants to remotely rebuild the system at which point one needs to do something like dd if=mfsboot.img of=/dev/ad0 This is, of course, the end of all access to that drive as we presently know it so a reboot is the only other option and one must hope and pray that the mfsboot install worked. My experience so far is that mfsbsd works well but I would like to be able to do the whole operation without mailing out labeled CDR's or USB sticks. Each of our remote sites has 2 FreeBSD boxes and I can just see a hurried individual accidentally switching the media so we not only loose contact with the system we are rebuilding, but the boot CD will bring up mfsbsd on the very IP address of the backup system, crashing everything. One could use a temporary third address on the network that isn't either system A or System B, but I think I can use the parametric values in mfsbsd to configure the new server so it would be best to use the same addresses as normal for each device because of multiple firewalls that one may discover too late are not set right to allow the upgrade. I have been messing with automation for about 35 years and one of the few things I learned was that Murphy is naive and overly optimistic. In this case, Plan B is to have 1 CDROM on hand at the remote site in case we loose the box. That CD could have mfsbsd set to a third address and then also contain the boot images of both systems. My question today is whether there is any way to remotely get the mfsbsd.img data written to the boot drive and execute the reboot command. A document I read on this topic tells you to scp the image to the target system and then, as root, use dd to write it to disk. I was root when I discovered I couldn't do that. Thanks for any answers and, Kids, be really careful here. The dd operation totally destroys all existing partitions. What you get is partitions 1-3 are unused and partition 4 contains the mfsbsd image that will create the virtual disk with a baby OS when the reboot happens. Since you start with no actual drives mounted, you can reformat the hard drive to however you need it, but you can't reboot again until there is a working system back on the hard drive or you just get a warm, humming paperweight. That's when you need the rescue CD. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd
i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? ___ freebsd-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 CDN connection issue
Hi We are having a strange problem with FreeBSD 8.0 ( problem is not seen on 7.X or 6.X ) and its behavior towards what appears to be a problem with the footprint cdn which hosts sites such as: http://www.formula1.com http://www.vw.com http://www.rca.com The issue can be seen below: PF enabled with scrubing: /etc/pf.conf: # scrub in all pass in on lo0 all pass out on lo0 all pass in on em0 all pass out on em0 all # telnet to cdn on port 80. tcpdump below: 18:09:41.625409 IP freebsd.8.51776 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [S], seq 4208441727, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,TS val 161897 ecr 0], length 0 18:09:41.900230 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 3063615393, ack 4208441728, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 81367 ecr 161897,nop,wscale 7], length 0 18:09:41.900236 IP freebsd.8.51776 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [.], ack 1, win 8326, options [nop,nop,TS val 161924 ecr 81367], length 0 18:09:41.900242 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 3332367005, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900248 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 4174817132, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900254 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 440460550, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900467 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 477325580, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900473 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 769752490, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900479 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 629432722, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900485 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 4152361545, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900491 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 1928751848, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900497 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 3230160684, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900503 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 1491106974, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900509 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 2033022417, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900515 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 1187979504, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900521 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 797713074, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900527 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 3546267649, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900533 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 245712922, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.900539 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 1525656528, ack 4208441728, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:09:41.901017 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 2249622145, ack 4208441728, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 246213904 ecr 161897,nop,wscale 7], length 0 18:09:46.241996 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.51776: Flags [S.], seq 2249622145, ack 4208441728, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 246214338 ecr 161897,nop,wscale 7], length 0 pf disabled: telnet 209.84.7.126 80 Trying 209.84.7.126... telnet: connect to address 209.84.7.126: Connection reset by peer telnet: Unable to connect to remote host tcpdump: 18:11:29.122444 IP freebsd.8.41986 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [S], seq 2294539745, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,TS val 172648 ecr 0], length 0 18:11:29.395219 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.41986: Flags [S.], seq 2724299112, ack 2294539746, win 5792, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 813551987 ecr 172648,nop,wscale 7], length 0 18:11:29.395225 IP freebsd.8.41986 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [.], ack 1, win 8326, options [nop,nop,TS val 172676 ecr 813551987], length 0 18:11:29.395231 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.41986: Flags [S.], seq 3789304658, ack 2294539746, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:11:29.395237 IP freebsd.8.41986 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [.], ack 3229961751, win 8326, options [nop,nop,TS val 172676 ecr 813551987], length 0 18:11:29.395243 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.41986: Flags [S.], seq 3256912235, ack 2294539746, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:11:29.395249 IP freebsd.8.41986 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [.], ack 3762354174, win 8326, options [nop,nop,TS val 172676 ecr 813551987], length 0 18:11:29.395255 IP 209.84.7.126.80 freebsd.8.41986: Flags [S.], seq 737801599, ack 2294539746, win 5840, options [mss 1460], length 0 18:11:29.395261 IP freebsd.8.41986 209.84.7.126.80: Flags [R.], seq 1, ack 1986497514, win 8326, options [nop,nop,TS val 172676 ecr
Re: freebsd
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:12 AM, tristan wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Install and configure an X11 environment like KDE or GNOME. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:12 PM, tristan tristan@hotmail.com wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Not quite that easy to answer unfortunately,... depends on how you did the install. Considering you're new to FreeBSD why not give something like DesktopBSD a try? FreeBSD under the hood but a bit more graphical to ease the entry into the BSD way of thinking.. -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ freebsd-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
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, tristan spaketh thusly: -}i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Freebsd does not install a window manager by default. You have to pick one. There are many for all ranges of needs. If you do not wish to deal with installing one but want the power/stability of freebsd, look for distros that come complete with a window manager, such as pc-bsd. -- Randy(schu...@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 * Love with your heart, think with your head; not the other way around. ___ freebsd-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
Hello! tristan schrieb: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The documentation at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html should help you about 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: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?
Dan Nelson wrote: It looks like fstat doesn't work on unix sockets at all; I tried on /tmp/mysql.sock and some X11 sockets. I filed a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143962 Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0500, tristan wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? FreeBSD does not twist your arm to use a GUI interface. For much server work, that stuff just gets in the way. So, by default you have a plain 'vanilla' command line interface. But, it is all readily available and some variation is helpful for desktop use. You need to run X-Windows plus a windows manager. The Xorg system is the Xwin stuff. There are many windows managers, some very simple (which I prefer - I tend to use Afterstep) and some full blown and even rather bloated. Each has its rabid advocates. There are also combination window manager/ desktop systems such as KDE and Gnome. Once you have Xorg and your favorite windowmanager or desktop combo installed, you need to configure them and set them up to start on command or when you log in, which ever you prefer. By the way, you can install more than one window manager and/or desktop and switch between then to suit yourself or to experiment. So, back to the Handbook and learn about these things. Once you learn them, it will be easy, but it will take a bit of fuss to get them just how you want it in the beginning. jerry ps. I never did get that 'plain vanilla' thing. Vanilla is a flavoring ingredient as much as chocolate or cherry. /jrm ___ freebsd-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
Undocumented Userland Change ?
/usr/bin/window is missing as is the man page for window on FreeBSD 8.0R. I do not see this change documented anywhere, was the file dropped by accident ? Thanks. 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
free bsd license
is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? i mean the free bsd operating system, not the software i plan to modify then redistribute it, under a new name. it will remain under the same license, with the same copyright docs, but the help or other docs will be gone, my own put in. (just trying to give as much details as possible, I'm new to 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: free bsd license
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:38 AM, tristan wrote: is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? Mostly; there's a compilation copyright associated with the FreeBSD ISO images, but some of the components of FreeBSD are under the GPL (notably the GCC compiler toolchain), and possibly CDDL for stuff from Sun like ZFS. i mean the free bsd operating system, not the software i plan to modify then redistribute it, under a new name. it will remain under the same license, with the same copyright docs, but the help or other docs will be gone, my own put in. (just trying to give as much details as possible, I'm new to this) There's nothing wrong with what you propose, although there is or should be a preference towards making improvements with the existing documentation rather than simply forking it and rolling something new. Regards, -- -Chuck PS: IANAL, TINLA. Cave canem. ___ freebsd-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: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
#!/bin/sh
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this:
DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\`
cd $DIRNAME
SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`
That is perfectly fine. Word-splitting and filename expansion are
not performed for variable assignments. Also immune is the expression
after case, so this is always fine:
case $FOO in ...
Since you guys have been so helpful I thought I'd ask one more question.
Let's say I have a script named te st (yes, with a space in the filename).
The contents of this script are:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
echo 12 One argument expected. Example usage:
echo 12 `basename \${0}\` 64.156.192.169 cheaters
exit 1
fi
When executed with no arguments, this script would print something like so:
nlan...@daffyzsh# ./te\ st
One argument expected. Example usage:
te st 64.156.192.169 cheaters
nlan...@daffyzsh#
Is there a function, or command line utility, to escape a string,
making it suitable to be input on the command line? For example, this
escape utility would take a input of te st and create an output of
te\ st. Other things such as quotes and single quotes would be
handled as well.
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Re: Undocumented Userland Change ?
On Monday 15 February 2010 18:08:01 perr...@copesd.org wrote: /usr/bin/window is missing as is the man page for window on FreeBSD 8.0R. I do not see this change documented anywhere, was the file dropped by accident ? It was documented in /usr/src/UPDATING: 20090602: window(1) has been removed from the base system. It can now be installed from ports. The port is called misc/window. -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Fn key events in Devd
Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? I have loaded the acpi_asus module, but the default devd rules in /etc/devd/asus.conf don't seem to match for my Fn keys. How can I find out what Fn key produces which event in devd? Cheers, Anselm Strauss___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
iso license
the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz is under some compilation copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename it, and sell it? can i get a copy of the license for the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz? i want to do what Apple did with FreeBSD - edit, rename, and sell, can i do that with the iso? ___ freebsd-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: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, William Bulley wrote: I am trying to build the GIMP on 8.0-STABLE but had a problem. For what it's worth, I have these ports installed: gtk-1.2.10_21 gtk-2.18.6_1 It is not clear to me why GIMP (or webkit-gtk2) depends on having Gnome2 (gnome-config) installed (I use open-motif): checking for GSTREAMER... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found configure: error: Package requirements (gstreamer-0.10 = 0.10 gstreamer-base-0.10 gstreamer-pbutils-0.10 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 gstreamer-video-0.10) were not met: webkit-gtk2 wants gnome-config to build gstreamer to support video. You can disable the VIDEO option in the webkit-gtk2 config settings, or just disable HELPBROWSER in the graphics/gimp-app port. Last I looked, the help was very outdated anyway. Don't know why the webkit-gtk2 build dies, though. -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
[Solved] Re: SpamAssassin 3.3.0/sa-update problem
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, Since the update of SpamAssassin to 3.3.0, spamd doesn't start anymore and exits with an error: child process [x] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 25 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 2544. It seems that after the upgrade, sa-update has to be run first. But in my case this results in an error also: sa-update -D Feb 13 15:32:07.852 [31554] dbg: dns: query failed: 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org = NOERROR Feb 13 15:32:07.855 [31554] dbg: dns: query failed: mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org = NOERROR channel: no 'mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org' record found, channel failed Feb 13 15:32:07.855 [31554] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 4 I've tried to reinstall SpamAssassin by portupgrade -Rrf p5-Mail-SpamAssassin, but this doesn't make any difference. Hope that anyone has an idea how to solve this. I've upgraded the firmware of my DSL modem and the problem has disappeared. Regards, Marco -- You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ___ freebsd-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: iso license
tristan == tristan tristan@hotmail.com writes: tristan the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz is under some compilation tristan copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename tristan it, and sell it? You're asking *us* instead of a lawyer? :) But what did you not understand about the previous answer you just got? Most of FreeBSD is under a BSD license, which means do nearly anything you want with it. Some *parts* of a standard FreeBSD distro are under more restrictive licenses, and you need to either comply with those licenses, or remove those parts from your derivative distribution. Now, if that's opaque to you, hire a lawyer. Now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion ___ freebsd-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: NOW what?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:34:45AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:38:54AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: [... long line snip ...] I just tried again and now Konq did send me to the hyperlink... Was i hallucinating? dunno Hi Gary, how about GNOME's epiphany? Recently i settled down at epiphany for web work. That looks good to me. I like epiphany more and more; the thing it lacks, and the Only reason I use Konq is that it lets me use the festival text-to-speech apps. If *anybody* knows of any other browser that can be set to have festival stuff work, please, Pulsseeze let me know:) Gary, what is festival text-to-speech apps? Can you please tell me what that is? in detail... If i have good idea, i can give you some information -- maybe there is some apps you want for in GNOME packages. If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival ports. 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel512 Jan 25 20:13 festival 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Jan 27 03:07 festival-freebsoft-utils 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Apr 8 2009 festlex-cmu are some of them. When you use the Konqueror browser and have festival correctly installed, you can mouse-swipe a bunch of text and click on the Tools drop-down and have the text read aloud to you. It is fairly difficult to get a computer produce human speech. I found out just some of the problems recently when I began looking at some of the code. Much of festival is written in C++; that I understand somewhat. Other parts are written in some kind of LISP; I do not understand LISP very well. Anyway, the point here is that when I find a long, long essay on some philosopher and have to read it, having is spoken to me is *MUCH* easier than making my eyes struggle thru the essay. So far, there are plug-ins to firefox-3 that attempt to read text to you, but nothing I can get to work. Gnome probably does have speech apps by now, but they probably rely on festival as a back-end. Ah and I'm not sure my word is correct english. My friend, your English is just fine. I am, sadly, still mono-lingual. I am still trying to learn *French* that I took in high school. (*sigh*) If i speak wrong english, you have to communicate mind to mind without appeared word. Ha! Yes, that would be nice, even if it required something you had to wear on your head, :-)Well, maybe in a few hundred years. Plus Gary you study Korean. Korean is easy to study ^^; Sure it's easy; so is climbing a sheer cliff face! I think anybody who can understand English as well as their native language[s], is absolutely outstanding. Congrats. later on, gary Sincerely, -- ? (Hwang, Byung-Hee), KOREA Get in the car. If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead now. Trust me. -- Virgil Sollozzo, Chapter 2, page 77 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a 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: Fn key events in Devd
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? cat /var/run/devd.pipe should work for what you need too see from devd. See the documentation for more details: man 8 devd I have loaded the acpi_asus module, but the default devd rules in /etc/devd/asus.conf don't seem to match for my Fn keys. How can I find out what Fn key produces which event in devd? Good Luck. --_Dave ___ freebsd-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: NOW what?
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: [...] If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival ports. 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel512 Jan 25 20:13 festival 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Jan 27 03:07 festival-freebsoft-utils 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Apr 8 2009 festlex-cmu are some of them. When you use the Konqueror browser and have festival correctly installed, you can mouse-swipe a bunch of text and click on the Tools drop-down and have the text read aloud to you. It is fairly difficult to get a computer produce human speech. I found out just some of the problems recently when I began looking at some of the code. Much of festival is written in C++; that I understand somewhat. Other parts are written in some kind of LISP; I do not understand LISP very well. LISP is from Tao. That's why it is not easy to people. Anyway, the point here is that when I find a long, long essay on some philosopher and have to read it, having is spoken to me is *MUCH* easier than making my eyes struggle thru the essay. So far, there are plug-ins to firefox-3 that attempt to read text to you, but nothing I can get to work. Gnome probably does have speech apps by now, but they probably rely on festival as a back-end. Well i cannot produce the problem on my desktop -- FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. And for now, actually i can't launch firefox because my memory is so low (256M). Instead i use epiphany, which play well under low memory system. Then your -RELEASE version and default GUI environment(eg., KDE, GNOME)? Or i'd like to say that you should take to report as bug by send-pr. Sincerely, -- 소여물 황병희(黃炳熙) | .. 출항 15분전.. My voice is out of shape. And honestly, I'm sick of hearing myself sing. -- Johnny Fontane, Chapter 12, page 155 ___ freebsd-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
tristan tristan@hotmail.com writes: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ if you interested in GNOME. Or just type `pkg_add -v -r gnome2-lite' as root on terminal. Sincerely, -- 소여물 황병희(黃炳熙) | .. 출항 15분전.. Is it necessary? -- Vito Corleone, Chapter 1, page 23 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
