Where is mkisofs
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mkisofsstype=allsektion=all This just shows gui frontends for mkisofs. Need to create iso. How to do it? ___ 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
Berkeley DB upgrade
Hi: I want to upgrade my BerkeleyDB, I have some 500MB in BDB 43. - What is the latest stable version? - Is there any way of determining if datafiles are compatible across versions? - Is there any tool for migrating between versions? Thanks, 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: Where is mkisofs
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mkisofsstype=allsektion=all This just shows gui frontends for mkisofs. Need to create iso. How to do it? Installing the port /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools/ installs mkisofs 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
Re: Berkeley DB upgrade
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I want to upgrade my BerkeleyDB, I have some 500MB in BDB 43. - What is the latest stable version? - Is there any way of determining if datafiles are compatible across versions? - Is there any tool for migrating between versions? The upgrade process is explained here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/programmer_reference/am_upgrade.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/programmer_reference/upgrade_process.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_reference/C/db_upgrade.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_reference/C/dbupgrade.html Of course, don't forget to backup your old data before upgrading! ;-) Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: Where is mkisofs
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:20:40 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mkisofsstype=allsektion=all This just shows gui frontends for mkisofs. Need to create iso. How to do it? The mkisofs program is part of the cdrtools port / package. After installing it, you would do something like this: % mkisofs -r -o myisofile.iso myfiles/ Keep in mind that it may be needed to specify additional options if you need Joliet extension - see man mkisofs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD
On 3/12/10, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi, Elmar-- On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support and a suspend to disk facility. mount_ext2fs or fusefs ought to work with ext3 filesystems. zzz or acpiconf -s 4 ought to address the suspend to disk facility, but it depends greatly upon the quality of the BIOS to actually conform with the ACPI spec. I believe that OP is talking about OS support and not about BIOS support. Linux _have_ OS support for suspend to disk, freebsd does not. If there would be any interest I also ported my checkroot facility (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/). How is this different from what's already available: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html ...or via something like tripwire? If you're only doing MD5 and not something like SHA1 or SHA256 (or multiple checksums, better yet), I don't see the point However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are out of the scope what I can do because I am not a packager. I'm not sure what you mean by UTF-8 support. FreeBSD itself does reasonably well, and the quality of third-party ports varies. I would be glad if the responsible packagers or anyone else was willing to engage in this. At least I will have to think about my engagement in terms of community support for precious issues like this one. It's unclear what you mean by this. At the basic level, things happen by people writing changes and submitting patches. There is no shortage of opinions which are sadly lacking code. :-) 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 ___ 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] Installing KDE4 from sources: building xmlto fault
Good day! I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 amd64. Trying to install KDE4 from port, compiling the sources, I get xmlto-0.0.23 building fault: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4/ # make install clean ... === Building for xmlto-0.0.23 make all-am for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do FORMAT_DIR=./format /usr/local/bin/bash ./xmlto -o man/man1 man ./doc/$xml ; done || ( RC=$?; exit $RC ) xmlto: /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlif.xml does not validate (status 3) xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlif.xml:4: warning: failed to load external entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd warning: failed to load external entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; validity error : Could not load the external subset http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; Document /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlif.xml does not validate xmlto: /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlto.xml does not validate (status 3) xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlto.xml:3: warning: failed to load external entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; ^ I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd warning: failed to load external entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; validity error : Could not load the external subset http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd; Document /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23/./doc/xmlto.xml does not validate *** Error code 13 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto/work/xmlto-0.0.23. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/system-config-printer. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/kdeutils4-printer-applet. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/kdeutils4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/misc/kdeutils4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde4. But I can manually download this file: # fetch http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd docbookx.dtd 100% of 5705 B 36 kBps # wget http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd --2010-03-13 17:06:02-- http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd Resolving www.oasis-open.org... 66.151.234.59 Connecting to www.oasis-open.org|66.151.234.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5705 (5.6K) [text/plain] Saving to: `docbookx.dtd' 100%[===] 5,705 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2010-03-13 17:06:02 (38.8 KB/s) - `docbookx.dtd' saved [5705/5705] What do I have to do to continue port installation? ___ 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: sysinstall: download via pure http
You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [FreeBSD 8.0] Installing KDE4 from sources: building xmlto fault
On Saturday 13 March 2010 14:08:46 Антон Клесс wrote: Good day! I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 amd64. Trying to install KDE4 from port, compiling the sources, I get xmlto-0.0.23 building fault: What do I have to do to continue port installation? It took me a while to figure out. I guess you've deselected some DocBook formats that you may think you'd never want to use, in textproc/docbook - go back and reinstate (reconfigure) the default selections, because otherwise things break. Don't just reinstate the 4.2 format because things depend on the XML formats too :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: ntpdate problem
2010/3/13 Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com But really, why are you using ntpdate and not just ntpd? -- 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 I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit. But on the other hand, if it exists, it could work properly, and I am interested in just to understand, how it should be set up. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [FreeBSD 8.0] Installing KDE4 from sources: building xmlto fault
Hmmm. /usr/ports/textproc/docbook was not installed. I install it by hands (make install clean) withdefault options, then bask to my KDE building - it continued without fault. So, thank you a lot, and so on - we have the deal with incorrect port? It was nothing broken by myself. 2010/3/13 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk On Saturday 13 March 2010 14:08:46 Антон Клесс wrote: Good day! I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE-201002 amd64. Trying to install KDE4 from port, compiling the sources, I get xmlto-0.0.23 building fault: What do I have to do to continue port installation? It took me a while to figure out. I guess you've deselected some DocBook formats that you may think you'd never want to use, in textproc/docbook - go back and reinstate (reconfigure) the default selections, because otherwise things break. Don't just reinstate the 4.2 format because things depend on the XML formats too :) -- Bruce Cran -- С уважением, Антон Клесс, http://kless.spb.ru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Still unable to update kdelibs3
I have tried everything in the UPDATING file; however, I am still unable to get 'kdelibs3' updated. It always ends with this error message: Making all in dnssd gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10/dnssd' ../kdecore/kconfig_compiler/kconfig_compiler ./kcm_kdnssd.kcfg ./settings.kcfgc; ret=$?; \ if test $ret != 0; then rm -f settings.h ; exit $ret ; fi /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libjpeg.so.10 not found, required by libkdefx.so.6 gmake[2]: *** [settings.h] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10/dnssd' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Other than deleting everything and starting over, I have no idea how to proceed. -- Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. Chinese proverb ___ 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: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely with my hardware. Devices are: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80 at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0) connected via: mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xfe4fc000-0xfe4f,0xfe4e-0xfe4e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 mpt0: [ITHREAD] mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0 os and number in question is: FreeBSD storage.stillbilde.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 9 07:01:59 UTC 2010 sv...@storage.stillbilde.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Tapes are regular LTO-3 (HP C7973A). amtapetype simply hangs (after writing 3-4 tps for 5 seconds, then simple silence both on sa0 and console) Has anybody run into this problem with FreeBSD8+mpt+autoloader? //Svein I'm finally starting to make sense of what I'm seeing (hence the crossposting) Seems I've stumbled onto some strange incompatibility between my SAS controller (LSI 3801E), Tape-library, and FreeBSD+Solaris. The behavior I'm seeing is consistent with this solaris bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894775 but luckily (?) for me, my disks are on an MFI controller. I'm seeing the exact same behavior in both FreeBSD and OpenSolaris 133 and 134. Linux and Windows installs on the box (this box is currently being set up, so I'm rather liberated from reinstall-concerns) seems unaffected, atleast the HP Software doesn't fail the way tar/dump/dd/amanda/bacula/whatnot does at random intervals. The errors only occur when the device I'm reading/writing from is 100% laoded (reading or writing 56mb/sec + compression), which when fed from a raid capable of more than 6 times that is quite likely to happen during backups. The Solaris bug seems to be around MSI handling, but there are several reports over there about this error occuring even with MSI disabled. Right now I'm dumbstruck about this, and might install Linux just to get backups up and running this year, because I'm too tired of this entire process, but I'd REALLY rather run FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. This is based on a personal preference and nothing else, but if anybody has some blinding insights on how to get this working, I'm open for suggestions. //Svein - -- - +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE - +---+--- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mob...@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkubtf8ACgkQODUnwSLUlKTfGgCgndwhQdAjFjlUp2jCh5POr0jp 0rYAoKUsR2AjzlBCM/eqMfUjGfKtWXof =2lnD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sysinstall: download via pure http
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:22:58, Eitan Adler wrote: You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious 'install via HTTP' option. Trying to install via HTTP proxy and saying ftp.freebsd.org:80 when prompted seems like it should work to me, but I haven't verified that. Otherwise, your options are to download the disk1 or DVD .iso images, and install from those -- they have everything you need to install the base system -- or else to download the install sets out-of-band to a local filesystem and install that way. One handy hint when installing is *don't feel you have to do everything from within sysinstall*. Your priority should be to get the OS up and running: everything else you can do from within the OS, which is a far more flexible and powerful platform than sysinstall. That power comes at the cost of maybe not being particularly obvious exactly how to do what you want, but that is why the Handbook exists. If you're trying to install packages via HTTP rather than FTP, then try setting PACKAGEROOT in your environment. Like this: PACKAGEROOT=http://ftp.freebsd.org ; export PACKAGEROOT (Borne-shell) or setenv PACKAGEROOT http://ftp.freebsd.org (Csh-alikes) then use 'pkg_add -r pkgname' in the usual way. See login.conf(5) and cap_mkdb(1) for one way of setting such variables in the environment automatically when you login. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkubzNwACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyG6QCcDQxl5QdnQp1Ne206sCNTHZwZ y+YAn3dU9g1XUBKRwhXaeva8/FP7E7zn =H9jT -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: sysinstall: download via pure http
For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious 'install via HTTP' option. Trying to install via HTTP proxy and saying ftp.freebsd.org:80 when prompted seems like it should work to me, but I haven't verified that. Next time I install I'll try this - I was just wondering if this was an option One handy hint when installing is *don't feel you have to do everything from within sysinstall*. Your priority should be to get the OS up and running: everything else you can do from within the OS, which is a far more flexible and powerful platform than sysinstall. Exactly the same as my own sentiments If you're trying to install packages via HTTP rather than FTP, then try setting PACKAGEROOT in your environment. Like this: I don't use binary packages - only ports. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ntpdate problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote: I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit. It's a bad habit you should try and cure yourself of. Stepping the clock with ntpdate(8) can cause nasty effects like time apparently going backwards -- and that will seriously upset a lot of software. Also, it doesn't account for the natural clock drift of your system, so it's going to give you pretty terrible accuracy -- probably good to no more than a few seconds. ntpdate(8) is really only intended to get the clock into the right ballpark at system boot so that ntpd(8) has a fighting chance of getting into synch. The NTP project has deprecated ntpdate(8) for some time now, and instead prefers adding an option to ntpd(8) to say set the clock on initial startup no matter how far out it is. But on the other hand, if it exists, it could work properly, and I am interested in just to understand, how it should be set up. I'm assuming you're on some sort of always-on network, like ADSL? Most people are nowadays. In which case, there's really no reason not to run ntpd(8) the way it is intended to be used. Just add the following to /etc/rc.conf: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES and run: /etc/rc.d/ntpd start Wait for about 15-30 minutes, then type 'ntpq -p', and you should see a report showing 3 servers, one of which should be marked with a '*' indicating you're synched correctly. That's all you need to do. You can edit /etc/ntp.conf if you prefer to use different servers to the automatically selected ones, or if you want to tweak any other NTP options. Note the 'offset' field in the report. That measures how far out your clock is from the time sources in /milliseconds/. Sub 10ms accuracy is fairly easy to achieve: which is much better than you can do via ntpdate. Also, the NTP algorithms adapt your clock over time to run more accurately and consequently can gradually decrease the frequency with which the upstream time sources are polled. Give it a day or so, and it should max out at polling each source only once every 1024 seconds. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkub034ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyKFgCdGBN65guZxj8Sw3O1MSIRpPnr fwUAnRxmOOu9SDTFGofxK36b3yQu9TkF =9WWS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely with my hardware. Devices are: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80 at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0) connected via: mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xfe4fc000-0xfe4f,0xfe4e-0xfe4e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 mpt0: [ITHREAD] mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0 os and number in question is: FreeBSD storage.stillbilde.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 9 07:01:59 UTC 2010 sv...@storage.stillbilde.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Tapes are regular LTO-3 (HP C7973A). amtapetype simply hangs (after writing 3-4 tps for 5 seconds, then simple silence both on sa0 and console) Has anybody run into this problem with FreeBSD8+mpt+autoloader? //Svein I'm finally starting to make sense of what I'm seeing (hence the crossposting) Seems I've stumbled onto some strange incompatibility between my SAS controller (LSI 3801E), Tape-library, and FreeBSD+Solaris. The behavior I'm seeing is consistent with this solaris bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894775 but luckily (?) for me, my disks are on an MFI controller. I'm seeing the exact same behavior in both FreeBSD and OpenSolaris 133 and 134. Linux and Windows installs on the box (this box is currently being set up, so I'm rather liberated from reinstall-concerns) seems unaffected, atleast the HP Software doesn't fail the way tar/dump/dd/amanda/bacula/whatnot does at random intervals. The errors only occur when the device I'm reading/writing from is 100% laoded (reading or writing 56mb/sec + compression), which when fed from a raid capable of more than 6 times that is quite likely to happen during backups. The Solaris bug seems to be around MSI handling, but there are several reports over there about this error occuring even with MSI disabled. Right now I'm dumbstruck about this, and might install Linux just to get backups up and running this year, because I'm too tired of this entire process, but I'd REALLY rather run FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. This is based on a personal preference and nothing else, but if anybody has some blinding insights on how to get this working, I'm open for suggestions. if there is a hardware/driver bug isnt possible to get another cheap sas controller for your tape, maybe a second hand? -- mmm, interesante. ___ 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: ntpdate problem
While not having been part of this discussion I just want to say thanks for the tips. I've used them to cease using ntpdate as well and am already synced with a time server I know to be constantly reliable. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ntpdate problem
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:42 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote: I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit. It's a bad habit you should try and cure yourself of. Stepping the clock with ntpdate(8) can cause nasty effects like time apparently going backwards -- and that will seriously upset a lot of software. Also, it doesn't account for the natural clock drift of your system, so it's going to give you pretty terrible accuracy -- probably good to no more than a few seconds. ntpdate(8) is really only intended to get the clock into the right ballpark at system boot so that ntpd(8) has a fighting chance of getting into synch. The NTP project has deprecated ntpdate(8) for some time now, and instead prefers adding an option to ntpd(8) to say set the clock on initial startup no matter how far out it is. But on the other hand, if it exists, it could work properly, and I am interested in just to understand, how it should be set up. I'm assuming you're on some sort of always-on network, like ADSL? Most people are nowadays. In which case, there's really no reason not to run ntpd(8) the way it is intended to be used. Just add the following to /etc/rc.conf: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES is not a complete substitute for running ntpdate at startup. It allows ntpd to make a large correction, but it doesn't block the boot sequence so you could still get a large step-change later-on when your daemons are starting-up. ntpd has an option to emulate ntpdate, but it holds-up the boot-sequence much longer - presumably this is why ntpdate has been deprecated for a long time but hasn't yet gone away. you can run ntpdate at boot with ntpdate_enable=YES the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf ___ 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: ntpdate problem
On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote: snip ntpd_sync_on_start=YES snip you can run ntpdate at boot with ntpdate_enable=YES the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be as accurate as possible when I start up the system. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ntpdate problem
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 01:19:54PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote:
snip
ntpd_sync_on_start=YES
snip
you can run ntpdate at boot with
ntpdate_enable=YES
the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf
Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should
it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be as accurate as
possible when I start up the system.
Yes. I have both enabled on my multi-boot laptop to account to huge
jumps in time when coming back from Windows.
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Re: ntpdate problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 19:08:38, RW wrote: ntpd_sync_on_start=YES is not a complete substitute for running ntpdate at startup. It allows ntpd to make a large correction, but it doesn't block the boot sequence so you could still get a large step-change later-on when your daemons are starting-up. Been there, done that and spent many hours cursing dovecot, which just dies on its arse if the clock does anything it doesn't approve of -- the biggest flaw in an otherwise excellent program IMHO. ntpd has an option to emulate ntpdate, but it holds-up the boot-sequence much longer - presumably this is why ntpdate has been deprecated for a long time but hasn't yet gone away. There's a trick that can be used to get round this, which is to use the iburst option within ntp.conf. Some NTP servers don't like having it used against them, and will refuse to serve you, but you only need it on one or two of the server lines in your config file. Eg: server time.example.com iburst maxpoll 10 restrict time.example.com nomodify nopeer noquery notrap (The restrict line is an example of good practice, but strictly irrelevant to this argument.) iburst speeds up the initial synchronisation by sending a sequence of 8 query packets at 2 second intervals, rather than the standard 64s between packets you get otherwise. With this in place I've never had a problem with the clock being stepped after the rest of the system is up and causing mayhem for other programs, nor have I needed to run ntpdate(8) -- it even seems to work for virtual machines that can end up missing many hours when the lappy goes to sleep. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkub9BUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzOfQCbBJfVvtj7gnwwGztSwYZW5HYs khAAn2Y20P6zl54+7WK+KdM3jlrzIbA4 =QYrF -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
limit bandwidth on sftp
Hi, I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me how to do it? thank you! TFC ___ 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 NFS mount option recommendations
Forgot to add, I also need to do some NFS mounts from my VM host which is hosted on CentOS. I know that this isn't a Linux based list, but if you could kindly keep the information about wsize and rsize numbers general enough so that I can apply this knowledge to my Linux box, that would be great :) A lot of online resources I've come across suggest using various numbers, but I don't really understand how these number are derived or if they are even necessary at all... Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I'm presenting NFS shares to some FreeBSD VM guests with the following mount options (from my /etc/fstab): nfsserverip:mymount /mountdir nfs rw,tcp,intr,noatime,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768 0 0 This seems to work well, except I have to manually load MySQL, Apache, and Postfix at boot time, as my /usr/local directory is hosted on my NFS share on this test server (these start up normally when /usr/local resides on a local hard drive). Is it generally a bad idea to host a share like this on NFS? I'm thinking that it probably is and am happy to serve this locally if this would be better. However, if this is not a red flag and there is a way to get these services to start up on their own at boot, could you please let me know? How about the wsize and rsize numbers? I was unable to find any resources for determining what these numbers best be set as for FreeBSD as a VM guest. Any pointers? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org mailto:j...@netmusician.org -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org mailto:j...@netmusician.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
fstab NFS mount option recommendations
Hello, I'm presenting NFS shares to some FreeBSD VM guests with the following mount options (from my /etc/fstab): nfsserverip:mymount /mountdir nfs rw,tcp,intr,noatime,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768 0 0 This seems to work well, except I have to manually load MySQL, Apache, and Postfix at boot time, as my /usr/local directory is hosted on my NFS share on this test server (these start up normally when /usr/local resides on a local hard drive). Is it generally a bad idea to host a share like this on NFS? I'm thinking that it probably is and am happy to serve this locally if this would be better. However, if this is not a red flag and there is a way to get these services to start up on their own at boot, could you please let me know? How about the wsize and rsize numbers? I was unable to find any resources for determining what these numbers best be set as for FreeBSD as a VM guest. Any pointers? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org mailto:j...@netmusician.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
FreeBSD on Panasonic TV
I was interested to see that my Panasonic television displays a FreeBSD copyright notice. Does anybody know how much of FreeBSD it uses? (It apparently uses a UFS filesystem on disks attached for video recording.) -- Richard -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ 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: multimon.cgi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:05:00AM -0800, Dnielisz Lszl wrote: Great, you done that before! It helps but I still don't know where can I found the *.cgi files so I can copy them to the proper apache directory, do you know? $ pkg_info -L apcupsd-3.14.5_1 | grep cgi /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/cgi/multimon.cgi /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/cgi/upsfstats.cgi /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/cgi/upsimage.cgi /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/cgi/upsstats.cgi Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Compose key and xterm vs. UTF-8
Short: -- Why do compose key sequences fail to work in a UTF-8 xterm? Long: - I have configured a compose key (aka Multi_key) here: $ setxkbmap -layout us -option compose:ralt When I start an xterm with an ISO8859-1 locale $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 xterm I can use the compose key to enter the expected set of characters with diacritics. (a e i o u with acute accent, grave accent, etc.) So far, so good. When I start an xterm with an ISO8859-2 locale $ LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.ISO8859-2 xterm xterm will accept compose sequences for 8859-2 characters such as r with acute, l with stoke, etc., but display a different character as if 8859-2 codes are mistaken for 8859-1. Hmm. Buuut... I see in the man page that I need to tell xterm to use the locale settings: $ LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.ISO8859-2 xterm -lc This works as expected, I can enter 8859-2 characters with compose sequences. (And I can set the XTerm*locale resource to make this the default behavior.) Now, when I start an xterm with a UTF-8 locale $ LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -lc xterm fails to accept compose sequences for common characters from 8859-1/2. At first I thought none would work at all, but some experimenting revealed a very few, such as --- for some sort of dash and L- for a pound sign. No common letters with diacritics, though. The language part of the locale setting doesn't matter; en_US, de_DE, pl_PL, no difference. This is disappointing. You would expect a superset of the common 8859-x characters to be available with UTF-8. Can anybody shed some light on what's going on there? -- 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
FreeBSD on Panasonic TV
Richard Tobin writes: I was interested to see that my Panasonic television displays a FreeBSD copyright notice. Does anybody know how much of FreeBSD it uses? (It apparently uses a UFS filesystem on disks attached for video recording.) My Toshiba manual includes a NetBSD copyright notice; I believe it is for the USB stack. Surprised me, too. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to use cdrecord
Been using burn for blanking and burning iso files to cd. Now i have need to use mkisofs so though I would try cdrecord to blank cd and write iso to cd. dmesg -a |grep acd gives this acd0: CDRW Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9500/1.0e at ata1-master UMDA33 tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS. What device am i to use? ___ 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: how to use cdrecord
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote: [snip] tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS. What device am i to use? cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use cdrecord dev=1,0,0 ... The numbers after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using cdrecord -scanbus HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ 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: how to use cdrecord
On 03/13/10 21:35, Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote: [snip] tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS. What device am i to use? cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use cdrecord dev=1,0,0 ... The numbers after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using cdrecord -scanbus HTH. I started following as I'll be burning cd's here soon myself, following your suggestion: [r...@heaven]cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd8.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�g Schilling cdrecord: Invalid argument. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. So I did this: [r...@heaven]dmesg -a | grep acd acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR HP DVD Writer 1040r/MH21 at ata1-master UDMA33 Thoughts? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: how to use cdrecord
Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote: [snip] tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast gives this error Open by devname not supported on this OS. What device am i to use? cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use cdrecord dev=1,0,0 ... The numbers after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using cdrecord -scanbus HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org cdrecord -scanbus gives a error. Invalid argument. Camiocommand ioctl failed, can not open scsi driver ___ 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
building from source after freebsd-update
Hello, I have been using freebsd-update to update several 7.1 systems. The default freebsd-update.conf contains: Components src world kernel Recently while trying to build sendmail to enable SASL I ran into errors: host# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail host# make depend make: don't know how to make alias.c. Stop How can I build the source updated by freebsd-update? Thank You! johnea p.s. I have replaced sendmail with ssmtp and have the necessary SASL authentication working. However I have always maintained these servers via freebsd-update and I would like to learn the process of building the system from source. Thanks for any help! ___ 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: building from source after freebsd-update
On Mar 13, 2010, at 7:37 PM, johnea wrote: I have been using freebsd-update to update several 7.1 systems. [ ... ] How can I build the source updated by freebsd-update? freebsd-update provides a binary update mechanism. It doesn't do anything to update the source files; if you choose to rebuild from source, use cvsup/csup/svn; you will normally get a -STABLE system from the build cycle, and not a -RELEASE system, but that depends upon which branch you are tracking. 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: problems w/ touching all files?
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. maybe try a portnsnap fetch extract, touch -m should help on /usr/ports/distfiles/ Wouldn't the portsnap fetch extract reset the modified dates without a touch? No, not for the files in /usr/ports/distfiles/ Those timestamps would be set when the tarball for the port is fetched. It is not modified other than that I believe except for perhaps access times. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: building from source after freebsd-update
On 2010-03-13 19:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: freebsd-update provides a binary update mechanism. It doesn't do anything to update the source files; if you choose to rebuild from source, use cvsup/csup/svn; you will normally get a -STABLE system from the build cycle, and not a -RELEASE system, but that depends upon which branch you are tracking. I guess I was lead to believe that it updated the source from this entry in the handbook: The default is to update the source code, the entire base system, and the kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html I've also seem other references indicate that the source downloaded by freebsd-update could be patched and installed. Am I completely off? Thanks for helping clear this up... johnea ___ 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: building from source after freebsd-update
On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:10 PM, johnea wrote: guess I was lead to believe that it updated the source from this entry in the handbook: The default is to update the source code, the entire base system, and the kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html I've also seem other references indicate that the source downloaded by freebsd-update could be patched and installed. If you list src component, evidently freebsd-update claims to update /usr/src. I suspect that if you've updated src via one of the other methods, it won't figure out how to update everything correctly. -- -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
