Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: 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. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their real name, post a email saying something like CLIK ON DIS LINK PLZ /and/ Websense kicks in, my paranoia takes over :) -- 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
freebsd-update - Automatic merge
Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through fine but then it gets to a point and its says The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... It goes through hundreds of files, and it wants me to do the editing all myself, is there not automatic way to do this or just a simple yes no like mergemaster would ask? This would take forever on our production servers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update server
Hello, I have a need to ship updates to a customized freebsd install, and thought that freebsd-update could serve me. However http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ is rather old and misses amd64 builds. There must be newer code around since freebsd-update can be used to update to latest 8.0-RELEASE on amd64. Where can I find it? Best regards Andreas Nilsson ___ freebsd-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
I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. Matt Please share the results when you're done, I am really curious :) 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. If booting of a stripe of 3 mirrors should work assuming no BIOS bugs, can you explain why is booting off simple stripes (of any number of disks) currently unsupported? I haven't tested that myself, but everywhere I look seems to indicate that booting off a simple stripe doesn't work or is that everywhere also out of date after your changes? :) - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update - Automatic merge
Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through fine but then it gets to a point and its says The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... It goes through hundreds of files, and it wants me to do the editing all myself, is there not automatic way to do this or just a simple yes no like mergemaster would ask? This would take forever on our production servers ___ freebsd-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 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: 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. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their real name, post a email saying something like CLIK ON DIS LINK PLZ /and/ Websense kicks in, my paranoia takes over :) Yea like Christer Solskogen is your real name. Are you that naive that you believe a name used on a email address has any truth in who really is using it. If you have nothing to say about the article you should have kept your paranoia to your self instead of questioning the integrity of the writer. There was no reason to make your first reply. And even after being told your websence software is in error you still continue mouthing nonsense. Once again YOU SHOULD BE ASKING YOUR WEBSENSE SOFTWARE VENDOR WHAT ARE THE EXACT REASONS THEY FLAGGED THIS SITE. OTHER POSTERS HAVE ALL READY TOLD YOU THAT FALSE POSITIVES ARE COMMON FROM VENDORS OF SUCH SCAM SERVICES AS WEBSENSE. NOBODY HAS A GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO CLICK ON A LINK. THAT IS YOUR CHOOSE OR NOT AND NOBODY HERE ON THE LIST HAS THE LEAST INTEREST IN WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO CLICK ON SO KEPT IT TO YOUR SELF. Any reply from this point on just marks you as a flamer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FTP troubles with Roundcube vacation plugin
Hello I'm in trouble with vacation plugin which perform an FTP session at localhost , for an obscure PAM/FreeBSD reason the FTP session is not always working ... The machine runs FreeBSD 7.2-R with Dovecot 1.2.10 imap server Any clarification welcome ! Thank you. Sometimes it works well connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) Feb 16 13:21:10 mail ftpd[46479]: FTP LOGIN FROM localhost as bonj Feb 16 13:21:10 mail ftpd[46480]: FTP LOGIN FROM localhost as bonj Feb 16 13:21:29 mail ftpd[46541]: connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) Feb 16 13:21:29 mail ftpd[46541]: FTP LOGIN FROM localhost as bonj Feb 16 13:21:29 mail ftpd[46542]: connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) then suddenly it stops working Feb 16 13:23:19 mail ftpd[46782]: connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) Feb 16 13:23:19 mail ftpd[46782]: pam_acct_mgmt: new authentication token required Feb 16 13:23:19 mail ftpd[46782]: FTP LOGIN FAILED FROM localhost Feb 16 13:35:55 mail ftpd[48202]: connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) Feb 16 13:35:55 mail ftpd[48202]: pam_acct_mgmt: new authentication token required Feb 16 13:35:55 mail ftpd[48202]: FTP LOGIN FAILED FROM localhost Feb 16 13:35:55 mail ftpd[48203]: connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) Feb 16 13:35:55 mail ftpd[48203]: pam_acct_mgmt: new authentication token required ___ freebsd-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 Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: 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. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their real name, post a email saying something like CLIK ON DIS LINK PLZ /and/ Websense kicks in, my paranoia takes over :) Yea like Christer Solskogen is your real name. It is. Are you that naive that you believe a name used on a email address has any truth in who really is using it. What the hell makes you belive that? If you have nothing to say about the article you should have kept your paranoia to your self instead of questioning the integrity of the writer. There was no reason to make your first reply. And even after being told your websence software is in error you still continue mouthing nonsense. So you don't see the problem here, do you? You post anonymously on the mailing list, post a link where the hostname pretty much looks like some place where you get your computer full of virus, and websense kicks in. If you don't see that as reason to be a bit more aware of what you have to offer you are retarded. Once again YOU SHOULD BE ASKING YOUR WEBSENSE SOFTWARE VENDOR WHAT ARE THE EXACT REASONS THEY FLAGGED THIS SITE. OTHER POSTERS HAVE ALL READY TOLD YOU THAT FALSE POSITIVES ARE COMMON FROM VENDORS OF SUCH SCAM SERVICES AS WEBSENSE. NOBODY HAS A GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO CLICK ON A LINK. THAT IS YOUR CHOOSE OR NOT AND NOBODY HERE ON THE LIST HAS THE LEAST INTEREST IN WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO CLICK ON SO KEPT IT TO YOUR SELF. And when you tell me that Websense is a scam it must be because your site is full of evil stuff. Go away! Any reply from this point on just marks you as a flamer. And your post don't make you one? You're not even able to keep calm when people asks you a simple question. Still wonder why I think your intentions are not legit? -- 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
Re: iso license
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM, tristan tristan@hotmail.com wrote: 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? To be honest considering that you can't understand the extraordinarily simple BSD license I doubt you'll get anywhere far. Secondly Apple didn't take FreeBSD and rebrand it, OS X is a far more complex beast than that. Their kernel is a Mach based microkernel and the BSD layer is merely one of the thread stacks that plug into it. What are you actually trying to accomplish? As I suspect that you are very likely to be asking for assistance on a non-stop basis. -- 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: NOW what?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:32:29AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: 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. My environment is primarily KDE, with some Gnome apps. I'm running 7.1 right now but will soon upgrade to 7.3. It is not a bug that Konqueror is the only browser to offer the festival speech uyilities; but it would be nice if other browsers had the same option. gary Sincerely, -- ? ?(?) | .. ?? 15??.. 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 -- 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: freebsd-update server
I have not built on 8.0, however the update code should work just fine on a custom kernel. The article I wrote is for amd64. I am doing that myself, and I have written an article on it. It is also pending a commit to the FreeBSD Documentation Project. http://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/OS/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Build-Your-Own-FreeBSD-Update-Server.html Hope this is helpful, Jason On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Andreas Nilsson thus spake: Hello, I have a need to ship updates to a customized freebsd install, and thought that freebsd-update could serve me. However http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ is rather old and misses amd64 builds. There must be newer code around since freebsd-update can be used to update to latest 8.0-RELEASE on amd64. Where can I find it? Best regards Andreas Nilsson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update - Automatic merge
Search the list archives for emails pertaining to mergemaster.rc - it worked wonders for me! Steve On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Peter Kirk pete...@korbitec.com wrote: Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE Everything goes through fine but then it gets to a point and its says The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... It goes through hundreds of files, and it wants me to do the editing all myself, is there not automatic way to do this or just a simple yes no like mergemaster would ask? This would take forever on our production servers ___ freebsd-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: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: 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. You can use something like this: sed 's/[^A-Za-z_0-9]/\\/' Perl has a quotemeta() function and \Q escape sequence for this purpose, e.g.: $ perl -e '$_=te st; print \Q$_\E\n' te\ st -- 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: Fn key events in Devd
Thank you, that did it. Anselm On Feb 16, 2010, at 03:18 , David Horn wrote: 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
'gmirror clear' error
After using gmirror on a 7.2-STABLE server for 6 months, a hardware failure followed by a corrupted file system (wouldn't boot cleanly) required that I bring up a new server and copy over some of the file systems to the new server. I use only one slice, but with the following BSD partitions: / (incl /usr) clean install 7.2-RELEASE /usr/local copied from one of the old mirror disks /var clean install with some files and dirs copied over /tmp clean /home (customer data) copied from old disk Once getting this up and running (production server) on /dev/ad0, I then followed the excellent instructions on the wiki here: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php...,_How_to_setup in single user mode to set up mirroring on /dev/ad0 and /dev/ad2. One of the old disks is still on /dev/ad3 in case we need any old files we might have missed. The only glitch that I ran into following the instructions was when I tried to clear out the old gmirror meta data doing a gmirror clear as prescribed. I was in a hurry to get the server back up, so I unfortunately don't have the exact error, but it basically was telling me the argument was not valid, even though the dev names were correct and worked for every other step. The server is up and running fine with it's mirror and the third, old disk as you would expect: Code: /dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/mirror/gm0s1g on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/mirror/gm0s1e on /usr/local (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/mirror/gm0s1f on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad3s1a on /mnt/OLD (ufs, local) /dev/ad3s1d on /mnt/OLD/tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad3s1e on /mnt/OLD/usr/local (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad3s1f on /mnt/OLD/var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad3s1g on /mnt/OLD/home (ufs, local, soft-updates) devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) However, I am concerned about old meta data causing problems. The wiki states: Make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that you don't have any pre-existing GEOM module labels written to either of your drives - because if you do (for instance from having futzed about with this before finding this article, or trying the article once and then trying it again) it will prevent other things from working. So, clean off any preexisting metadata from each drive: Code: # gmirror clear /dev/ad0 # gmirror clear /dev/ad2 As I noted, the above produced an error (that I can't recall, unfortunately) with both devices. On boot, I got the following: Code: +ad0: 476940MB WDC WD5000AAKS-00D2B0 12.01C02 at ata0-master SATA150 +GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/1). +acd0: DVDR HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22LS30/1.02 at ata0-slave SATA150 +ad2: 476940MB WDC WD5000AAKS-00D2B0 12.01C02 at ata1-master SATA150 +ad3: 476940MB WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B2 01.03B01 at ata1-slave SATA150 +SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1a is ufsid/4b70da022dd1047b. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1d is ufsid/4b70da0d55f96d5b. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1e is ufsid/4b70da0e19c93161. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1f is ufsid/4b70da0e20e9242f. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1g is ufsid/4b70da02f80cbfe5. +GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 already configured. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1a is ufsid/4a3ae4de0a56c8cb. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1d is ufsid/4a3ae4eb9b4cf2fe. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1e is ufsid/4a3ae4ec717e3bed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1f is ufsid/4a3ae4ec312ebf3b. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1g is ufsid/4a3ae4dfa451f7f0. +Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4b70da022dd1047b removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1a is ufsid/4b70da022dd1047b. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4b70da02f80cbfe5 removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a3ae4de0a56c8cb removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1g is ufsid/4b70da02f80cbfe5. +GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 already configured. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1a is ufsid/4a3ae4de0a56c8cb. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4b70da0d55f96d5b removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1d is ufsid/4b70da0d55f96d5b. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a3ae4eb9b4cf2fe removed. +GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 already configured. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1d is ufsid/4a3ae4eb9b4cf2fe. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4b70da0e19c93161 removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1e is ufsid/4b70da0e19c93161. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a3ae4ec717e3bed removed. +GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 already configured. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad3s1e is ufsid/4a3ae4ec717e3bed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4b70da0e20e9242f removed. +GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mirror/gm0s1f is ufsid/4b70da0e20e9242f. +GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a3ae4ec312ebf3b removed. +GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 already configured. +GEOM_LABEL: Label
Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com on Mon, 02/15/10 at 16:39: 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. Thanks. That suggestion allowed me to build the GIMP successfully. Although I still don't know why the GIMP depends on gnome-keyring... :-( 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
/usr/src/UPDATING
I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does but i'm not sure i'm following it correctly. Or, does it just have information about 'issues' that may affect the update/upgrade process. The last update on freebsd 8.0-RELEASE i've got currently is 8.0-RELEASE-p2. Not sure if there has been another since that. -- Jamie http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~jpg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?
I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server
receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one
to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in
size, but the response UDP packets can be up to 9216 bytes in size.
I am using netcat like so:
echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/bin/nc -w 1 -u $PLAYERDB_HOST $PLAYERDB_PORT
The response always gets truncated to 1024 bytes using netcat.
I wrote my own silly version of netcat specifically suited to my needs
over UDP, in Java. I then call it like so:
echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/local/bin/java SendUDP $PLAYERDB_HOST
$PLAYERDB_PORT
(Source code at the end of this message.)
With my Java program, I'm able to get up to 9216 bytes in my UDP
response packet; the response won't be truncated to 1024 bytes like in
netcat.
Now I've read the netcat manpage and it says nothing about any buffer
size or ways to increase it. I don't really want to use my Java
program because starting up a JVM for each server query is very
expensive. Any ideas of any other tools like netcat that will enable
me to receive UDP packets up to 9216 bytes in size?
Here's the source code for my SendUDP.java code in case you want to see it:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SendUDP {
private final static int BUFF_SIZE = 9216;
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
if (args.length != 2) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException
(\nUsage:\n +
java SendUDP send-host send-port\n +
Sends standard input.);
}
if (!(System.in.available() 0)) {
throw new IllegalStateException(expected system input to send);
}
final InetAddress sendHost = InetAddress.getByName(args[0]);
final int sendPort = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
final byte[] buff = new byte[BUFF_SIZE];
int read;
int len = 0;
while ((read = System.in.read()) = 0) {
if (len = buff.length)
throw new IllegalStateException(too much input, won't fit);
buff[len++] = (byte) read;
}
DatagramPacket pack = new DatagramPacket(buff, len);
pack.setLength(len);
final DatagramSocket sock = new DatagramSocket();
sock.connect(sendHost, sendPort);
sock.send(pack);
pack = new DatagramPacket(buff, buff.length);
sock.receive(pack);
System.out.write(buff, 0, pack.getLength());
}
}
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Re: netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm communicating with a server that uses UDP packets. The server receives a UDP packet, and responds with a UDP packet by sending one to the initial sender. The request packets are always very small in size, but the response UDP packets can be up to 9216 bytes in size. I am using netcat like so: echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/bin/nc -w 1 -u $PLAYERDB_HOST $PLAYERDB_PORT The response always gets truncated to 1024 bytes using netcat. I wrote my own silly version of netcat specifically suited to my needs over UDP, in Java. I then call it like so: echo $REQUEST_BODY | /usr/local/bin/java SendUDP $PLAYERDB_HOST $PLAYERDB_PORT (Source code at the end of this message.) With my Java program, I'm able to get up to 9216 bytes in my UDP response packet; the response won't be truncated to 1024 bytes like in netcat. Now I've read the netcat manpage and it says nothing about any buffer size or ways to increase it. I don't really want to use my Java program because starting up a JVM for each server query is very expensive. Any ideas of any other tools like netcat that will enable me to receive UDP packets up to 9216 bytes in size? You can try raising OS's UDP buff size: sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608 or write an equivalent app in python... -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RTL8192SE WLAN
Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD EeePC wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download from Asus and dmesg it's reported as 8192. The driver seems to work at least in some way since I'm able to scan for networks and get a list. But I cannot connect to a WPA2 network. Association with the network always fails in wpa_supplicant(8). Anyone has some experience? 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
Re: /usr/src/UPDATING
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:27 + Jamie Griffin j...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does but i'm not sure i'm following it correctly. Or, does it just have information about 'issues' that may affect the update/upgrade process. It describes updates to the branch and gives any special instructions. Since you are using a security branch all the the updates are security related or severe bugs. So look at the most recent update, currently p2 and compare it with the end of your version string. You don't have to download the source BTW, you can get the UPDATING file from here: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/UPDATING ___ freebsd-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: RTL8192SE WLAN
On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD EeePC wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download from Asus and dmesg it's reported as 8192. The driver seems to work at least in some way since I'm able to scan for networks and get a list. But I cannot connect to a WPA2 network. Association with the network always fails in wpa_supplicant(8). Maybe there is some kind of timeout, I could send you small patch to test it. Just post full verbose debug output from wpa_supplicant(8) Anyway, feel free to test http://www.gitorious.org/NDISulator Anyone has some experience? You are using wpa_supplicant with -D ndis flag, right? ___ freebsd-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: /usr/src/UPDATING
It describes updates to the branch and gives any special instructions. Since you are using a security branch all the the updates are security related or severe bugs. So look at the most recent update, currently p2 and compare it with the end of your version string. You don't have to download the source BTW, you can get the UPDATING file from here: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/UPDATING That's a great help, thanks for the information. Jamie ___ freebsd-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 7.3 RC1 - gmirror - changed devices name
Hello everyone, I just upgraded my system to 7.3 RC1, from 7.1, to test it. I had a lot of trouble with my gmirror setup as none of my providers were recognized. It happened that the HARDCODED flag was set on both my providers and my hard disk drives device nodes changed name from 7.1 to 7.3RC1. Removing the HARDCODED flag from a FixIt live CD and rebooting solved the problem. How comes device nodes can change name from a release to another? Both my hard disk drives went from ad8 and ad10 to ad4 and ad6... Thank you, Gabriel ___ freebsd-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: /usr/src/UPDATING
2010-02-16 19:35, Jamie Griffin skrev: I have a really simple question about updating my system. Does /usr/src/UPDATING say when I need to update the kernel and world (obviously after updating the sources using csup/cvsup). I've been assuming it does but i'm not sure i'm following it correctly. Or, does it just have information about 'issues' that may affect the update/upgrade process. The last update on freebsd 8.0-RELEASE i've got currently is 8.0-RELEASE-p2. Not sure if there has been another since that. I've put this into /etc/crontab @daily rootfreebsd-update cron If any updates are availible I get a mail and all I have to do is run freebsd-update install and then reboot. Very conveinient for me :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
