Re: How to make man pages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See groff(1) for documentation on the command used to format man pages from source, and groff_mdoc(7) for details on the groff macro syntax. groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all like HTML. If you're after how to install man pages for a port, then look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-manpages.html Note that the MANX and other ports Macros only affect the pkg-list and compressing the man pages /after/ installation. You'll still have to put in some code to copy your self-written man page into place. 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuy+P8ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxcggCeLR3OcpdwZ/OZGZv623DawCC9 E+4AoJNMvoINM9xkL2CdYBwz/ozPnAgK =qVD0 -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: How to make man pages
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See groff(1) for documentation on the command used to format man pages from source, and groff_mdoc(7) for details on the groff macro syntax. groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all like HTML. If you're after how to install man pages for a port, then look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-manpages.html Note that the MANX and other ports Macros only affect the pkg-list and compressing the man pages /after/ installation. You'll still have to put in some code to copy your self-written man page into place. Cheers, Matthew OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? ___ 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 make man pages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? % cp /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz . % gunzip jail.2.gz % mv jail.2 myname.2 % ee myname.2 And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? To compress the groff source: % gzip myname.2 To render the groff source as ascii text (what the man(1) command does): % groff -mdoc -Tascii myname.2 | less or % gzcat myname.2.gz | groff -mdoc -Tascii | less In general though, you should keep the man page source uncompressed while you're working on it and within the port; install it uncompressed and leave it to the ports machinery to compress it after installation. 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuzE+0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx6VgCfV9R1LOrqcjzlnwSEMNHAT/Ys iOEAniohL9mC7ehGZXKub+9RHKmI87px =fhC7 -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: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare slice and then use csup to upgrade the copy to STABLE. Normally I'd go through the steps of bsdlabel, newfs and then dump|restore to create the copy but I'm wondering if I can take advantage of my recently created gmirror to cut down the work. I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored as /dev/mirror/gm0. The second slices (ad4s2 and ad8s2) are currently unused. My thoughts are to temporarily add ad4s2 into gm0 with gmirror insert gm0 ad4s2 and wait for the mirror to synchronise. I should then be able to remove the temporary addition with gmirror remove gm0 /dev/ad4s2 at which point ad4s2 should be a duplicate of the original system and I can then go ahead and create a new mirror with gmirror label -b load gm1 ad4s2 and gmirror insert gm1 ad8s2. After editing /etc/fstab in the new mirror to use gm1 instead of gm0 I should then be able to boot into the system on slice 2 and upgrade it to STABLE while still keeping my original system to fall back to if required. Is this approach of moving disks from one mirror to another workable, or have I missed something that would lead me into deep trouble? I don't mind unduly if I make a mess of the second slice and have to start again but I don't want to lose the contents of my original system on slice 1. I decided to give it a try and the process went through very smoothly. It was much less tedious than bsdlabel - newfs - dump|restore, and quicker too. The mirror synchronised at a bit over 100 MB/sec but dump| restore only gave me about 10 MB/sec. The system has now been running for a bit over a week without any problems with either the original or cloned slices so I'm quite confident that things are OK. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com articulated: On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See groff(1) for documentation on the command used to format man pages from source, and groff_mdoc(7) for details on the groff macro syntax. groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all like HTML. If you're after how to install man pages for a port, then look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-manpages.html Note that the MANX and other ports Macros only affect the pkg-list and compressing the man pages /after/ installation. You'll still have to put in some code to copy your self-written man page into place. Cheers, Matthew OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? If you visit this URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/writingscripts.html you will see links to various scripts. One of them is for creating 'man' pages: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#MANED You might want to investigate its usefulness for your project. -- Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ FORTUNE REMEMBERS THE GREAT MOTHERS: #5 And, and, and, and, but, but, but, but! Mrs. Janice Markowsky, April 8, 1965 ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
Thanks, Peter and all others. Indeed, in contrary to the expected, I went into my office this morning, swapped the HD against the SSD, and was able to boot both FreeBSD, Windows without a hitch or any other tweaking. The dd over USB 2.0 to the SSD from the WD hard disk took 21261 s (nearly 6 hours) I would possibly have had better results if I had both disks connected to a SATA controller and did the dd there, but so what, I'm there happily. Thanks for sharing. -- Christoph Will post bonnie results later. Peter Steele schrieb: Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then swapping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed. I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that matter with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your disk, although you might be able to expand the last partition of whatever OS uses it to include this lost space -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Kukulies Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). -- Christoph ___ 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
Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.
Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. Isn't that wrong somehow ? === wi (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko.symbols /boot/kernel === wlan (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 wlan.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555 wlan.ko.symbols /boot/kernel /: write failed, filesystem is full install: /boot/kernel/wlan.ko.symbols: No space left on device *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/wlan. *** Error code 1 regards, Leon pgp1J9IYK1Sgu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. -- Adam Vande More we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. ___ 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
mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes?
Hi All, Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably have had the more than one pair of eyes looking at a thing is better than my eyes alone. This is why I'm writing now, as I'm starting the discovery. Let me background this a little bit. I only started looking into this because mkuzip and it's counterpart, geom_uzip are throwing errors on FreeBSD8 i386 scenario (/etc/src.conf in effect, removing *LOTS* of stuff with knobs): make DESTDIR=/home/small8 installworld installkernel distribution mv /home/small8/boot /home/small8-boot/ makefs -t ffs /home/small8/usr.img /home/small8/usr/ mkuzip -o /home/small8/usr.uzip /home/small8/usr.img [*] chflags -R noschg /home/small8/usr/* rm -rf /home/small8/usr/* /home/small8/usr.img ee /home/small8/etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal [**] makefs -t ffs /home/small8-boot/mfsroot /home/small8/ gzip --best /home/small8-boot/mfsroot ee /home/small8-boot/boot/loader.conf [***] rm /home/small8-boot/boot/kernel/*.symbols gzip --best /home/small8-boot/boot/kernel/kernel mkisofs -U -J -r -V FreeBSD8 -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -iso-level 4 -o /home/small8.iso /home/small8-boot/ [*]: mkuzip inserts a script header that is broken. module name it's searching for may have been renamed? [**]: Edited mountcritlocal to mount the usr.uzip file as by using the above script header, throws errors [***]: added zlib and geom_uzip modules to load to the boot image, to satisfy the script header's requirements. OK, the above scenario creates about a 33MB usr.uzip, and a 68MB iso. Small enough to apparently fit into the undocumented 50 or 100MB size limit of mfs_root module The problem: mkuzip generates a few lines as a script in the head of the resulting *.uzip file. Two problems... 1) the module it queries for is geom_uzip (kldstat -m $m), but FreeBSD8 names the geom_uzip module (i guess, internally) as g_uzip. mkuzip's generated image will never find the module if they're not named the same. 2) even with geom_uzip module and it's dependency zlib loaded, i don't get a mdconfig node '/dev/md?.uzip' to appear. It's been forever since I touched uzip, so I have to ask. Looking at the cvsweb, (as a bonus question, what's the svn website address to look at source files?) mkuzip program last modified 3 years (2 months for the Makefile), geom_uzip module Makefile last modified 4 years ago. 3-4 years yield a median FreeBSD version 6.2. Have we broken something in 7 or 8? The request: Is it a PEBKAC? ID 10T error? Duplicatable? I'm gonna research what I can, when I can. I would expect to see something pop up clearly if it is a regression. Can I ask you all to use your eyes or past knowledge if something is broken? src.conf Description: Binary data ___ 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: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?
On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: I'm currently running 8.0-RELEASE and am considering experimenting with 8.0-STABLE. I'd like to preserve my existing system in case things go pear-shaped so I'll copy the entire system onto a spare slice and then use csup to upgrade the copy to STABLE. Normally I'd go through the steps of bsdlabel, newfs and then dump|restore to create the copy but I'm wondering if I can take advantage of my recently created gmirror to cut down the work. I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored as /dev/mirror/gm0. The second slices (ad4s2 and ad8s2) are currently unused. My thoughts are to temporarily add ad4s2 into gm0 with gmirror insert gm0 ad4s2 and wait for the mirror to synchronise. I should then be able to remove the temporary addition with gmirror remove gm0 /dev/ad4s2 at which point ad4s2 should be a duplicate of the original system and I can then go ahead and create a new mirror with gmirror label -b load gm1 ad4s2 and gmirror insert gm1 ad8s2. After editing /etc/fstab in the new mirror to use gm1 instead of gm0 I should then be able to boot into the system on slice 2 and upgrade it to STABLE while still keeping my original system to fall back to if required. Is this approach of moving disks from one mirror to another workable, or have I missed something that would lead me into deep trouble? I don't mind unduly if I make a mess of the second slice and have to start again but I don't want to lose the contents of my original system on slice 1. I decided to give it a try and the process went through very smoothly. It was much less tedious than bsdlabel - newfs - dump|restore, and quicker too. The mirror synchronised at a bit over 100 MB/sec but dump| restore only gave me about 10 MB/sec. The system has now been running for a bit over a week without any problems with either the original or cloned slices so I'm quite confident that things are OK. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ive cloned many systems in this way before, and it does work. Not just gmirror two, it should work with any mirroring, hardware or software. One thing to remember though is that it works at the block level. Therefore if the drive if very big with a small % of data on it might be quicker to copy it manually. There is always an exception though. If you are using zfs, then only the data on the drive is copied. This is because zfs works at block, and file system levels, and therefore is aware of what is allocated on the disks. One thing about your dump/restore speed. Did you play around with larger block sizes? Increasing it should give you better throughput. ___ 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: /boot.config
On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. The USB stick is plugged in before booting. During boot I select option 6 from Freebsd menu to go direct to the loader prompt. I have ok on command line. I enter vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a and get not found after hitting enter key. At the ok prompt I enter ? for list of available boot devices and only have ad0 listed. It seems the da0 device USB stick is not recognized yet. ___ 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 try legacy usb in the bios, it may 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: Setting firewall symbolic constants
Bob Hall wrote:
I use
onet=`ifconfig rl0 | grep inet | awk '{print $6}'`
where rl0 is the outward facing NIC on this gateway.
Thanks. But I think I like a method which allows me to get the
device names also, to allow a 'hands-off' configuring of the fw.
I'll keep your code for future reference, tho.
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Re: /boot.config
krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive to start the boot process and have a /boot.config file to redirect to booting from the USB stick. I am assuming the '0' zero will mean the first USB device. Is there any command i can use to verify the single USB stick is the 0 device? If you boot DOS from a floppy, can you see the USB stick as B: or C: ? If not, then the BIOS probably has no USB support at all, and you'll need to put a small boot partition somewhere on your hard drive to pull the kernel from. 128MB is large enough for a /boot directory, and you can set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a in loader.conf to make it mount its root filesystem from the USB stick (since at that point the kernel has loaded its own USB drivers). If you do see the USB drive from a DOS boot floppy, try entering 1:da(0,a)? at the boot block prompt and see if it lists the files in your USB filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. The USB stick is plugged in before booting. During boot I select option 6 from Freebsd menu to go direct to the loader prompt. I have ok on command line. I enter vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a and get not found after hitting enter key. At the ok prompt I enter ? for list of available boot devices and only have ad0 listed. It seems the da0 device USB stick is not recognized yet. ___ 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 try legacy usb in the bios, it may help My bios have no reference to USB at all. ___ 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: u3g network problem
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: (8-STABLE/i386) Hi, I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can see with wireshark... What are you using to dial to your 3g network? (I use wvdial, and love it) I've seen this happen on my 3g network as well. It seems that the ISP randomly updates the DNS to a broken one. So write down the DNSs when it's actually working (cat /etc/resolv.conf) and make yourself a little script that updates them back to the working DNSs here is mine for example (adjust to your working DNSs): # cat ./dnsdigitel #!/bin/sh echo nameserver 204.59.152.208 /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 57.73.127.195 /etc/resolv.conf So when it stops resolving I just ./dnsdigitel and that's it. Of course, this could be easily automated, etc. but it's a quick fix to your problem. Now, the interesting this is that your ISP does exactly the same as my ISP, it changes the DNS randomly to non-working ones, curious. Best, Alejandro Imass Then if I use an IP, it works. So it looks like it is a problem with DNS. I've tried with an other dns server with the same result. I've also tried with a local dns server to cache the requests. It looks to help a bit. Anyway I also use a ssh tunnel to connect to my server and (on the server) I can see a lot of CLOSED sockets with netstat, and a lot of sshd processes stuck, even after days. So there is something wrong with the connection. Any idea or suggestion? Thanks, regards. ___ 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
RELENG_8 and clang
What is the current status of getting FreeBSD and clang to play nice with eachother? Does world and kernel build? How far along is the project to replace GCC in the base system? //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/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.
Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. Isn't that wrong somehow ? === wi (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko.symbols /boot/kernel === wlan (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 wlan.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555 wlan.ko.symbols /boot/kernel /: write failed, filesystem is full install: /boot/kernel/wlan.ko.symbols: No space left on device [snip] There has been some discussion lately about possibly changing the defaults. If you become faced with having to reinstall jot down your current partition sizes and adjust manually making / larger. Since it is full, if you intend to try and recover it will entail deleting something. This could get tricky, especially if the new 'kernel' space is what filled up. This would presuppose that the kernel.old area was already written out successfully. If the machine will not boot successfully with the new kernel it is imperative that kernel.old still be healthy in order to recover. However, if the new kernel does actually boot, with the result being that some modules are missing you may be able to delete the kernel.old in order to buy space. Messing around with this can potentially be problematic, for obvious reasons. A strong 'YMMV' is indicated here. If you can get past that, you may be able to mitigate the / being too small. Place STRIP= -s into /etc/make.conf and WITHOUT_PROFILE= true into /etc/src.conf. The con of this is that you lose some debugging ability. The pro is new kernels will now fit. I have two servers set up this way at home, and one uses 91MB while the other uses 93MB of space. The 91MB one only has a / of 200MB total, and is nearly half empty. Allows for rebuilding and installing a new kernel without running out of space. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: RELENG_8 and clang
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:34:11PM +0200, Svein Skogen wrote: What is the current status of getting FreeBSD and clang to play nice with eachother? Does world and kernel build? How far along is the project to replace GCC in the base system? Take a look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang I haven't tried it for a couple of months, at which point I ran into a build problem I didn't have time to investigate. Will have another go over the long weekend, I think! Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpvGpn3ioF8M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to make man pages
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all Matthew like HTML. No, it's not. It's actually turing-complete. I did towers of hanoi in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :) -- 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: FreeBSD Instalation question
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:48:54PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:41:53 -0300 (CLST), pvida...@uc.cl wrote:
Hello. I am interested in installing FreeBSD OS on my Notebook, which has at
this time Windows 7 with a hard disk partitioned into 2 primary partition
(C:
and D:).
I read the installation instructions, but I was clear:
How can I install FreeBSD OS on partition D: without deleting the contents
of
C: (Windows 7 and other files) so you can choose when starting the OS with
my
Notebook which to work (Windows 7 or FreeBSD)?
Thank you!
During the installation (usually involving the sysinstall
installation program), you are entering the slice editor.
This is where primary partitions are mentioned. Delete
the partition corresponding to the drive letter D:, I
would assume it's the second one on the disk. Then create
a new slice for the (now) free space and make it a FreeBSD
slice. After that, you can install the FreeBSD boot manager.
I'm not familiar with Windows, so I would assume that
it won't harm the Windows installation on the disk if
you add this boot manager. After that, you continue in
the normal way partitioning your FreeBSD slice, selecting
things to install, and so on.
I think all you have to do is select that slice and let sysinstall
(via fdisk) set it to a FreeBSD type file system and then go ahead
and install on it. That will wipe out everything previously in the
slice and install FreeBSD there. During install, tell it to install
the FreeBSD MBR.
There is some new problem with Win-7 boot manager that I haven't learned
about yet. MS puts some extra boot manager stuff in. I think how
to get around it is documented. You will have to look that up.
jerry
The FreeBSD boot manager will then allow you to select
to boot FreeBSD or Windows at system startup.
Before:
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ Windows partition D: ] }
First step in slice editor (delete second Windows partition):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] -free- }
Second step in slice editor (create FreeBSD slice):
{ [ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Third step, after slice editor (install boot manager):
{M[ Windows partition C: ] [ FreeBSD] }
Keep an eye on which partition you mark active inside the slice
editor. As I said, I'm not familiar with how Windows handles
things, and I'm not a multi-booter, so excuse me for being quite
generic in my answer. :-)
Don't miss the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD handbook,
esp. ch. 2.6, to be found here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x
Is there a proper way to reset firewall rules in FreeBSD8.0 ? I just discovered that if one is remotely logged in and makes a change in the firewall rules, it is a disastor to do something like sh /etc/[firewall_rules_script] One could do that in FreeBSD6.x. When the rules flushed, you lost your connection, but the script continued to execute and the new rules were in effect immediately. Trying this same reload in FreeBSD8.0, I knew something was horribly wrong when everything just locked up. I logged on to a local console and ran ipfw list It had stopped right after the flush. Doing the same command from a local or even a serial console works fine and the new rules are installed. Thanks and maybe I have been using the wrong technique for reloading firewall rules all along. 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
Re: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x
I have just answered part of my own question. If you background the process as in sh /etc/rules.fw it works. You still get knocked off the remote connection but the backgrounded process continues to run without a controlling terminal and completes. The only remaining part of the question is: If one modifies the firewall rules and wants to make sure they are good, is there a more correct way to safely reload them from the script? ___ 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: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x
Mark writes: You could use nohup That's is a very good idea. Thanks. Martin McCormick ___ 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: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x
Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu writes: Is there a proper way to reset firewall rules in FreeBSD8.0 ? I just discovered that if one is remotely logged in and makes a change in the firewall rules, it is a disastor to do something like sh /etc/[firewall_rules_script] One could do that in FreeBSD6.x. When the rules flushed, you lost your connection, but the script continued to execute and the new rules were in effect immediately. Trying this same reload in FreeBSD8.0, I knew something was horribly wrong when everything just locked up. I logged on to a local console and ran ipfw list It had stopped right after the flush. Doing the same command from a local or even a serial console works fine and the new rules are installed. Thanks and maybe I have been using the wrong technique for reloading firewall rules all along. This situation has always existed. See the note for -q in the ipfw(8) manual and note the firewall_quiet variable in the default rc.firewall script. The most widely recommended approach is to run the script in a screen(1) (or similar) session. Even just redirecting the output is enough to let the script run through while still keeping any potential error information -- 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: FreeBSD8.0 Firewall Script behaves much differently than 6.x
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:43:53AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I have just answered part of my own question. If you background the process as in sh /etc/rules.fw it works. You still get knocked off the remote connection but the backgrounded process continues to run without a controlling terminal and completes. The only remaining part of the question is: If one modifies the firewall rules and wants to make sure they are good, is there a more correct way to safely reload them from the script? One possible approach might be to make a copy of your rules, edit that and then do something like this in one session: # sleep 300 sh /etc/rules.fw And load the new rules from the new file in another: # sh /etc/rules.fw.new Now, if you lock yourself out, you wait 5 minutes before the last, presumably good, ruleset, gets reloaded and normality is restored. If you don't get locked out, simply kill the sleep process (which is why it's important to use instead of ; between your commands), and move the new ruleset to the original file name. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ___ 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: u3g network problem
Le Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:26 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org a écrit : On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can see with wireshark... What are you using to dial to your 3g network? (I use wvdial, and love it) I use ppp (wvdial does not seem ported to FreeBSD, is it a Linux only program?) I've seen this happen on my 3g network as well. It seems that the ISP randomly updates the DNS to a broken one. So write down the DNSs when it's actually working (cat /etc/resolv.conf) and make yourself a little script that updates them back to the working DNSs here is mine for example (adjust to your working DNSs): I don't think that is the problem, I've already tried this (use opendns). Thanks for the idea however. Regards. ___ 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
libiconv-1.11_1
Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, when I installed samba from ports, libiconv-1.11_1 was added to my system. Now, I have both libiconv-1.9.2_2 and libiconv-1.11_1 on my system. This prevents me from using ssh remotely to connect to the server. I am connecting from a Mac, OS X 10.5, but other FreeBSD systems are able to connect just fine. If I uninstall SAMBA and remove libiconv-1.11_1, I am able to use ssh again. libiconv-1.9.2_2 has several dependencies listed. What is the best way to proceed? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to make man pages
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? The manpage sources are plain text files with text that uses formatting macros from the groff_mdoc(7) macro collection. You can find sample files for the style commonly used by the FreeBSD manpages in your '/usr/share/examples/mdoc' directory. keram...@kobe:/usr/share/examples/mdoc$ ls -ld *[0-9] -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 3550 18 Μαρ 01:55 example.1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7582 18 Μαρ 01:55 example.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 3302 18 Μαρ 01:55 example.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 7700 18 Μαρ 01:55 example.9 keram...@kobe:/usr/share/examples/mdoc$ Installed manpages can be found under '/usr/share/man/man?'. They are usually compressed with gzip(1) to save some space, but you can extract any manpage to a plain text file with gzip or zcat: zcat /usr/share/man2/jail.2.gz | more The source of a manpage commonly uses _many_ formatting macros from the groff_mdoc(7) collection. You should probably print a copy of the 'groff_mdoc' manpage and keep it around for reference. Reading through this printed copy of the manpage at least once will be useful too, as it will help you understand how macro options work and you will have a good idea of what features are available. Then you will be able to quickly look in the printed reference copy for the features you need, because you will know they are there. ___ 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: u3g network problem
Hi, If your DNS are changed, I think that your network card is configured in DHCP mode. To dissallow DNS changes (in /etc/resolv.conf) by DHCP updates, you can add this line to /etc/dhclient.conf : prepend domain-name-servers DNS_IP_adress_1,DNS_IP_adresse_2,DNS_IP_adresse_3; After you must restart your network card and voilà. Alexandre. --- En date de : Mer 31.3.10, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org a écrit : De: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Objet: Re: u3g network problem À: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mercredi 31 mars 2010, 12h18 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: (8-STABLE/i386) Hi, I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which things I should check to debug this: I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can see with wireshark... What are you using to dial to your 3g network? (I use wvdial, and love it) I've seen this happen on my 3g network as well. It seems that the ISP randomly updates the DNS to a broken one. So write down the DNSs when it's actually working (cat /etc/resolv.conf) and make yourself a little script that updates them back to the working DNSs here is mine for example (adjust to your working DNSs): # cat ./dnsdigitel #!/bin/sh echo nameserver 204.59.152.208 /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 57.73.127.195 /etc/resolv.conf So when it stops resolving I just ./dnsdigitel and that's it. Of course, this could be easily automated, etc. but it's a quick fix to your problem. Now, the interesting this is that your ISP does exactly the same as my ISP, it changes the DNS randomly to non-working ones, curious. Best, Alejandro Imass Then if I use an IP, it works. So it looks like it is a problem with DNS. I've tried with an other dns server with the same result. I've also tried with a local dns server to cache the requests. It looks to help a bit. Anyway I also use a ssh tunnel to connect to my server and (on the server) I can see a lot of CLOSED sockets with netstat, and a lot of sshd processes stuck, even after days. So there is something wrong with the connection. Any idea or suggestion? Thanks, regards. ___ 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-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: random FreeBSD panics
On 3/31/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages? ___ 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 umm, how do I do that ? Add this to /boot/loader.conf vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 I keep getting RW errors while writing into an USB drive, wondering if its the same problem is related to your reply ? USB mass storage driver seems to be broken. Works for me. da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1940MB (3973120 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 247C) info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode info: [drm] Num pipes: 2 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648923648, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648956416, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=648989184, length=32768)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649021952, length=65536)]error = 5 g_vfs_done():da0s1[WRITE(offset=649087488, length=32768)]error = 5 Are you sure that your device is not dead (weared out)? That seem to have been the case. :P Ran a scan disk on windows and fixed it. :) But this doesn't solve the FreeBSD 8.0 frequent crashes. Weared-out disc can not be fixed (at least not from windows). ___ 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: dd cloning slightly different disks
This are the bonnie results: # bonnie -s 4000 File './Bonnie.1283', size: 4194304000 Writing with putc()...done Rewriting...done Writing intelligently...done Reading with getc()...done Reading intelligently...done Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 4000 118158 79.4 119134 19.0 44154 10.4 61967 53.0 104888 10.5 5344.4 12.4 -- Christoph Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Thanks, Peter and all others. Indeed, in contrary to the expected, I went into my office this morning, swapped the HD against the SSD, and was able to boot both FreeBSD, Windows without a hitch or any other tweaking. The dd over USB 2.0 to the SSD from the WD hard disk took 21261 s (nearly 6 hours) I would possibly have had better results if I had both disks connected to a SATA controller and did the dd there, but so what, I'm there happily. Thanks for sharing. -- Christoph Will post bonnie results later. Peter Steele schrieb: Theoretically, doing a straight dd copy of one disk to another and then swapping in that disk should work. I've done it, with no other tweaking needed. I've never done it with mixed OS instances on the same disk, or for that matter with a solid state drive. You'll lose the trailing 12GB of your disk, although you might be able to expand the last partition of whatever OS uses it to include this lost space -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Kukulies Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU. The WD disk shows as having 976773168 sectors (500108 MB), the SSD has 1000215216 sectors (512110 MB). At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or what. Due to the different disk geometry I'm expecting that the partition table entries will be wrong. Any clues how I should proceed when the copy will be done in 7 hours or so? (20MB/s is the transfer rate I got from a short test that I did before starting the big copy). -- Christoph ___ 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: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 10:22, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored as /dev/mirror/gm0. The second slices (ad4s2 and ad8s2) are currently unused. My thoughts are to temporarily add ad4s2 into gm0 with gmirror insert gm0 ad4s2 and wait for the mirror to synchronise. I should then be able to remove the temporary addition with gmirror remove gm0 /dev/ad4s2 at which point ad4s2 should be a duplicate of the original system and I can then go ahead and create a new mirror with gmirror label -b load gm1 ad4s2 and gmirror insert gm1 ad8s2. After editing /etc/fstab in the new mirror to use gm1 instead of gm0 I should then be able to boot into the system on slice 2 and upgrade it to STABLE while still keeping my original system to fall back to if required. Is this approach of moving disks from one mirror to another workable, or have I missed something that would lead me into deep trouble? I don't mind unduly if I make a mess of the second slice and have to start again but I don't want to lose the contents of my original system on slice 1. I decided to give it a try and the process went through very smoothly. It was much less tedious than bsdlabel - newfs - dump|restore, and quicker too. The mirror synchronised at a bit over 100 MB/sec but dump| restore only gave me about 10 MB/sec. [snip] One thing about your dump/restore speed. Did you play around with larger block sizes? Increasing it should give you better throughput. I used 32 MB for the cache size but I expect the reduced speed comes about from the need to find and open a large number of files whereas synchronising the mirror just does a sequential disk to disk copy at block level. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libiconv-1.11_1
On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Mikle wrote: Hello, In my ports tree there is only one version of libiconv, and compiling samba doesn't ask about any other versions (/usr/ports/converters/libiconv, version 1.13). Maybe you should update your ports? Also, i do not see why should libiconv affect ssh[d]. What does your macos's ssh tell you when you're trying to connect to fbsd-machine? Here is what is logged on the Mac when trying to connect. jh...@jefmhallja-~/.ssh$ ssh -vv hal...@10.129.10.2 OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 10.129.10.2 [10.129.10.2] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /Users/jhall/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/jhall/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/jhall/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.2p1 FreeBSD-20090522 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.2p1 FreeBSD-20090522 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2 debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie- hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman- group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256- ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128- cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256- ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128- cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac...@openssh.com,hmac- ripemd160,hmac-ripemd...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac...@openssh.com,hmac- ripemd160,hmac-ripemd...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,z...@openssh.com,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,z...@openssh.com,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie- hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman- group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256- ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128- cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256- ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128- cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac...@openssh.com,hmac- ripemd160,hmac-ripemd...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac...@openssh.com,hmac- ripemd160,hmac-ripemd...@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,z...@openssh.com debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: server-client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: client-server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(102410248192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug2: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 141/256 debug2: bits set: 513/1024 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host '10.129.10.2' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /Users/jhall/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug2: bits set: 514/1024 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug2: kex_derive_keys debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug2: key: /Users/jhall/.ssh/identity (0x0) debug2: key: /Users/jhall/.ssh/id_rsa (0x0) debug2: key: /Users/jhall/.ssh/id_dsa (0x0) Connection closed by 10.129.10.2 Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libiconv-1.11_1
Hello, In my ports tree there is only one version of libiconv, and compiling samba doesn't ask about any other versions (/usr/ports/converters/libiconv, version 1.13). Maybe you should update your ports? Also, i do not see why should libiconv affect ssh[d]. What does your macos's ssh tell you when you're trying to connect to fbsd-machine? On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:10:14PM -0500, Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, when I installed samba from ports, libiconv-1.11_1 was added to my system. Now, I have both libiconv-1.9.2_2 and libiconv-1.11_1 on my system. This prevents me from using ssh remotely to connect to the server. I am connecting from a Mac, OS X 10.5, but other FreeBSD systems are able to connect just fine. If I uninstall SAMBA and remove libiconv-1.11_1, I am able to use ssh again. libiconv-1.9.2_2 has several dependencies listed. What is the best way to proceed? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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
flash gotcha?
hi I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386. linux_base-f10-10_2 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-install plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins muji2# %nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so ... already installed system-wide, skipping Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins % about:plugins in firefox3 shows flash is not installed. muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -r Auto-remove plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Remove plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-remove plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins %nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so into /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Now about:plugins shows flash is installed and stays installed for the non-root user even if root subsequently runs nspluginwrapper again. Chris ___ 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: Using webcam Windows driver
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on A more recent project exists in the ports tree. If you're running 8.0-RELEASE or later, you might have a look at: ports/multimedia/video4bsd-kmod ports/multimedia/webcamd Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. Regards, Hi, I kept this thread open while I tried some cameras myself and I can say that all three cheapo web cams that I tried work. I've now got FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 GENERIC i386 (note sources were csupped a couple of weeks before) video4bsd-kmod-0.1.3 libv4l-0.6.4 v4l_compat-1.0.20100113 webcamd-0.1.4 pwcview-1.4.1_2 loader.conf has video4bsd_load=YES rc.conf webcamd_enable=YES The webcam user needs write permissions on /dev/video0 - I still need to set this up in devfs.rules. Webcams I have are an ancient Logitech, some sort of Microsoft cam and an ASDA Smart Value cam for £6 :) I have a problem using any of the cameras with Skype which I will post separately. cheers Chris ___ 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'd like you to join me on Swom...
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skype webcam no device found
Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully received. thanks Chris ___ 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: u3g network problem
If your DNS are changed, I think that your network card is configured in DHCP mode. To dissallow DNS changes (in /etc/resolv.conf) by DHCP updates, you can add this line to /etc/dhclient.conf : prepend domain-name-servers DNS_IP_adress_1,DNS_IP_adresse_2,DNS_IP_adresse_3; After you must restart your network card and voilà. Better if you write supersede domain-name-servers IP instead. Regards Alberto Mijares ___ 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
