Re: Questions about setting bridge

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More

 I want to setup a bridge in a ring topology since a break at any point
 along the ring would
 still leave all stations connected. My machine has two nics. In
 /etc/rc.conf, I have:

 ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.1.0  netmask 255.255.255.0
 cloned_interfaces=bridge0
 ifconfig_em0=up
 ifconfig_em1=up
 ifconfig_bridge0=addm em0 addm em1 up
 ifconfig_bridge0_alias0=192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

 I tried to boot my clients using tftpd, but it seems doesn't work if I
 unpluged
 em0. If I run ifconfig em1 inet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 then
 my clients can boot via tftpd. But it's not a bridge, right?
 I mean should I configure the same ip for em0, em1, and bridge0?


192.168.1.0/24 is not a valid address.  Your addressable hosts are
192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254.

I think you want to lagg:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html

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Dual booting with OSX without bootcamp

2010-09-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
 Hi all,
Work has kindly supplied a shiny new macbook pro (6,2) so
I've re-partitioned it (OSX's grow/shrink partitions/filesystems online
is handy) and now have an EFI partition (hidden,) OSX partition, FreeBSD
/ partition, ZFS partition for the rest  and a swap partition. I've
stuck with GPT to avoid reinstalling and the fiddly process that is
installing anything but windows via bootcamp without trashing the
system. FreeBSD was installed by using the DVD with the livefs,
Partitioning of free space done with gpart, and install done with the
shell scripts (in /dist/8.1-RELEASE/{kernel,base,whatever}  adapted from
the instructions here
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/3/20/installing-freebsd-onto-a-usb-stick
)

The problem is booting it, my initial hope was that rEFIt would just
work, but no joy. Next I looked for an EFI loader for freebsd and found
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rpaulo/2008/09/03/so-you-want-to-test-the-freebsdi386-efi-boot-loader/
but it still wont quite boot a kernel so no joy. Next came grub2 as this
will boot freebsd and also has EFI support, however the EFI support
doesnt support FreeBSD, so I cant find a way to boot . So currently I
can only boot FreeBSD by booting a grub2 CDROM, tellit it to look at the
config file on my mac partition, then booting freebsd using that, If
anyone has a better suggestion I'd welcome it.
   
Other than that it seems to be working ok, no wireless support as
its a broadcom 43224 which doesn't seem to be supported, however I see
that broadcom have just opensourced their linux drivers (including for
the 43224) so maybe that will open the way to more support in the BSDs
too.  In the mean time I'll try ndiswrapper or just use a usb device, I
may try take it up to 9-CURRENT so i get atp(4) and see if anything else
relevant has been improved.

If anyone else has a simpler way of booting (without needing to use
bootcamp/the fakembr etc as I'm happy to never have to use
fdisk/bsdlabel again ;) then I'd be interested to hear it, I did see if
i could use grub2efi to boot grub2 (non efi), or use rEFIt to boot grub2
(non efi) from a file to avoid the cdrom but no joy.

Vince



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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
 On 09/09/2010 22:02, Jules Gilbert wrote:
 About Java.  Using java with freebsd/mozilla or another browser.

 Some questions:

 Is GNU java sufficient?  I need to be able to run a browser with Java.
  No alternative -- and no I don't want to run windoz.

 I'm trying to do an 8.1 install.

Looks like you might be in luck
the thread here
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-September/001099.html
shows that there are 2 ports of  icedtea including a plugin for firefox
3.6 in progress. It looks like the one at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2010-September/008806.html
is in a better state at the moment.

Vince
 Does this problem exist with Sun's x86 OS?

 Does anyone have a website or even a set of notes as to the right way
 to do this.

 Now an opinion.  If Oracle isn't going to help us, we should look
 around for an alternative, even inventing something else, something
 that isn't Sun/Oracle/Java.

 Because this problem has been getting progressively worse for the past
 three or four years or so (longer?,) and, look around, it's hurting
 the FreeBSD community.
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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Jules Gilbert
Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
browser.

I didn't even know that Google and Oracle weren't getting along, I
really am out of date.  (All I do is code.)

But here's the thing: almost no one can make a java enabled browser,
and lot's of us need exactly that, java running on our browsers.  So
obviously this means that something is seriously wrong -- and worse,
when I asked how, no one came back and said Oh, you obviously
didn't install such-and-such a patch, do that and everything will
work.  No, and worse, the responses are all about possible solutions
in the distant not-known-when-and-only-maybe future.

I do think we should all get behind this Beat fellow, he's
b...@freebsd.org, his work seems closest to bringing up a java-enabled
browser, with zero or at least few problems.

--jg


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mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
 Jules == Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com writes:

 Jules Now an opinion.  If Oracle isn't going to help us, we should look
 Jules around for an alternative, even inventing something else, something
 Jules that isn't Sun/Oracle/Java.

 You mean something that looks like Java but isn't Java?

 That's precisely what the Oracle v. Google suit is about.  Dangerous
 road to go down at this point.

 Or do you mean something that isn't even Java, but has a lot of
 Java-like features?

 I think you're describing everything else already available in
 production.  Plenty of choices.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:43:36 -0500
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com articulated:

 On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jules Gilbert
 jules.sto...@gmail.comwrote:
 
  About Java.  Using java with freebsd/mozilla or another browser.
 
  Some questions:
 
  Is GNU java sufficient?  I need to be able to run a browser with
  Java. No alternative -- and no I don't want to run windoz.
 
  I'm trying to do an 8.1 install.
 
 
 Works fine for me as long as you stick with firefox35
 
  Does anyone have a website or even a set of notes as to the right
  way to do this.
 
  Now an opinion.  If Oracle isn't going to help us, we should look
  around for an alternative, even inventing something else, something
  that isn't Sun/Oracle/Java.
 
  Because this problem has been getting progressively worse for the
  past three or four years or so (longer?,) and, look around, it's
  hurting the FreeBSD community.
 
 I believe the FreeBSD Foundation is still accepting donations.

Excepting donations != producing results. I will be happy to donate
$100 US dollars to their fund once they distribute a fully up-to-date
version of JAVA, not some reworked, deprecated version, that is fully
compatible with Firefox on FreeBSD. I believe the current version of
Java is Version 6 Update 21. It simply goes counter to my basic
business model to contribute any monetary assistance to any open ended
project.

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CNID DB vs afp

2010-09-10 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, 

I having the following problem on my afpd share: something wrong witht he 
volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNIDB DB insted. Check server messages for 
details. Switching to read-only mode.
I am using FreeBSD 8.0 for the afpd and OS-X 10.6.4, do you have any idea what 
to check?

thx!
László



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lots of time_wait

2010-09-10 Thread jason
hello,i have a problem:
tcp4 0 0 192.168.0.26.9939 192.168.0.195.11211 TIME_WAIT
netstat -an | awk '{if($5 ~/11200/  $6 ~/TIME_WAIT/) print $0}' | wc -l
64203

sysctl net.inet.tcp.msl
net.inet.tcp.msl: 2500


msl will not recycle TIME_WAIT states when have lots of TIME_WAIT,like64203
so server local port will Exhaust#65292; if i open a connection it will report:
telnet 192.168.0.195 11211
Trying 192.168.0.195...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.195: Can't assign requested address
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

what can i do? only reboot server?

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Re: lots of time_wait

2010-09-10 Thread Alberto Mijares
2010/9/10 jason jason_z...@126.com:
 hello,i have a problem:
 tcp4 0 0 192.168.0.26.9939 192.168.0.195.11211 TIME_WAIT
 netstat -an | awk '{if($5 ~/11200/  $6 ~/TIME_WAIT/) print $0}' | wc -l
 64203

 sysctl net.inet.tcp.msl
 net.inet.tcp.msl: 2500



You should check the application's idle connections time out.

Regards


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Re: CNID DB vs afp

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Boosten
On 10-9-2010 10:11, Dánielisz László wrote:
 Hi, 
 
 I having the following problem on my afpd share: something wrong witht he 
 volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNIDB DB insted. Check server messages for 
 details. Switching to read-only mode.
 I am using FreeBSD 8.0 for the afpd and OS-X 10.6.4, do you have any idea 
 what 
 to check?
 

try

dbd -r /path/to/your/volume

This will rebuild the DB.

Also: check if cnid_metad is running. You might need

cnid_metad_enable=yes

in your rc.conf

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Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
 A packet generated locally 1) should be forwarded by a 'fwd'
 rule and 2) should create a dynamic 'allow' rule  for returning
 traffic. Could you please suggest a ruleset for this.
 
 The fw has the 10.0.0.1 IP address.
 The 10.0.0.100 IP address belongs to another computer running a TCP
 service at .
 
 The IPFW rules:
 fw# ipfw list
 00100 fwd 10.0.0.100 tcp from any to 10.90.10.3 dst-port  keep-state
 00200 deny ip from any to any
 65535 allow ip from any to any

It seems that the 'fwd ... keep-state' statement does create a useful
dynamic rule. It contradicts the ipfw(8) man page but works. Thank you
for enlightment.

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Re: CNID DB vs afp

2010-09-10 Thread Dánielisz László
Thank you!

Actually it was a the cnid failure, it wasn't running, now its ok :-)




From: Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 1:25:28 PM
Subject: Re: CNID DB vs afp

On 10-9-2010 10:11, Dánielisz László wrote:
 Hi, 
 
 I having the following problem on my afpd share: something wrong witht he 
 volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNIDB DB insted. Check server messages for 
 details. Switching to read-only mode.
 I am using FreeBSD 8.0 for the afpd and OS-X 10.6.4, do you have any idea 
 what 

 to check?
 

try

dbd -r /path/to/your/volume

This will rebuild the DB.

Also: check if cnid_metad is running. You might need

cnid_metad_enable=yes

in your rc.conf

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Re: Any way to force AHCI mode on ICH8?

2010-09-10 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2010-09-09 15:51, Morgan Wesström wrote:
 On 2010-09-09 13:04, Ivan Voras wrote:
 On 09/09/10 02:10, Morgan Wesström wrote:
 I run FreeBSD 8.1 on an old Asus P5B-VM motherboard with ICH8. Its AMI
 BIOS lacks an option to enable AHCI mode. Intel's datasheet for the ICH8
 family specifies that this feature exists on the ICH8, and the option is
 available in the BIOS for the identical (apart from form factor) P5B
 motherboard.

 http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/313056.pdf

 I've contacted Asus support for an updated BIOS but I don't have much
 hope I will ever see one. Would it be possible to patch the FreeBSD
 kernel to enable AHCI mode somehow during boot?

 You mean except adding:

 ahci_load=YES

 to /boot/loader.conf ?
 
 Yes, I meant if there was a way to programmatically switch the ICH8 into
 AHCI mode before loading ahci(4). The BIOS on this motherboard only
 provides a legacy and an enhanced option for the SATA controller.
 Neither option turns on AHCI mode so ata(4) attaches to the controller.
 There's also a JMicron controller, providing an eSATA connector, on this
 motherboard. It is AHCI compatible and ahci(4) attaches correctly to it.
 It would've been nice to be able to use NCQ and hotplug on the other
 SATA connectors too since the ICH8 has those features.
 

Cross-posting this to freebsd-hackers in case that is a more appropriate
list.

On page 486, in the Intel I/O Controller Hub 8 (ICH8) Datasheet, there's
a description of the address map register that controls the SATA mode
selection (SMS).

http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/datasheet/313056.pdf

I quote note 7:

Software shall not manipulate SMS during runtime operation (i.e., the
OS will not do this). The BIOS may choose to switch from one mode to
another during POST.

That note is probably there for a reason but what would life be without
experimentation? :-) This is of course far beyond my level of expertise,
but would it be possible to flip the necessary register bit very early
on in the boot process to turn the SATA controller into AHCI mode? Has
anyone done anything like this and what part of the kernel or boot
loader would be most appropriate to patch? I have no problem applying a
patch and recompiling what's needed if anyone could provide the
necessary code.

Regards
Morgan


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IBM server SAS controller support?

2010-09-10 Thread Christian Thørn Bakken
I understand that you, Ivan, managed to install FreeBSD on an IBM Series x 3650 
M3 server with the LSI M1015 SAS/SATA RAID controller.

 
Ivan, did you tweak something to install, or did it work out of the box for 
you?
Which FreeBSD version did you install?

My main objective is to install the appliance distro SpanTitan 5.04 from 
www.spamtitan.com. It's based on FreeBSD 7.3  and the manufacturer confirms 
that the mfi(4) driver is compiled into the kernel.

I've also tried with another (vanilla) version of FreeBSD (8.1), but with no 
luck. It just says there's no disk drives found.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
 Jules == Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com writes:

Jules Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
Jules developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
Jules say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
Jules browser.

And that's why I challenged you as to why.  We needed Java to run in
the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets.  But with
HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, why Java?

Java had its day.  Time to move on.

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Re: IBM server SAS controller support?

2010-09-10 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
two solutions:
- compiling the kernel with the driver (device pci and device mfi in the
configuration file)
- mfi_load=YES in your loader.conf


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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Christian Thørn Bakken
cbak...@roros.netwrote:

 I understand that you, Ivan, managed to install FreeBSD on an IBM Series x
 3650 M3 server with the LSI M1015 SAS/SATA RAID controller.


 Ivan, did you tweak something to install, or did it work out of the box
 for you?
 Which FreeBSD version did you install?

 My main objective is to install the appliance distro SpanTitan 5.04 from
 www.spamtitan.com. It's based on FreeBSD 7.3  and the manufacturer
 confirms that the mfi(4) driver is compiled into the kernel.

 I've also tried with another (vanilla) version of FreeBSD (8.1), but with
 no luck. It just says there's no disk drives found.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Mark Sommer
On 9/10/10 7:46 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:

 Jules == Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com writes:
 
 Jules Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
 Jules developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
 Jules say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
 Jules browser.
 
 And that's why I challenged you as to why.  We needed Java to run in
 the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets.  But with
 HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, why Java?
 
 Java had its day.  Time to move on.

That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.  I have
yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across browsers, i.e.
adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.  Java is still a very viable
platform, even on the browser.

~Mark


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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
 Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes:

Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.
Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across
Mark browsers, i.e.  adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.
Mark Java is still a very viable platform, even on the browser.

Whenever I see Java firing up on my browser, I cringe.  (Flash too.)

There are darn few things either of these do that a good modern
cross-platform library, like jQueryUI, can't do instead.

Except for video playback, which HTML5 fixes as well.  And yes, until
then, we're stuck with Flash.

We needed Java before we had good JavaScript.  Now we have good
JavaScript.

I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Randal L. Schwartz on Friday, 10 September 2010:
  Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes:
 
 Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.
 Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across
 Mark browsers, i.e.  adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.
 Mark Java is still a very viable platform, even on the browser.
 
 Whenever I see Java firing up on my browser, I cringe.  (Flash too.)
 
 There are darn few things either of these do that a good modern
 cross-platform library, like jQueryUI, can't do instead.
 
 Except for video playback, which HTML5 fixes as well.  And yes, until
 then, we're stuck with Flash.
 
 We needed Java before we had good JavaScript.  Now we have good
 JavaScript.
 
 I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.
 

Perhaps someone could provide specific use cases for which Java is the
only good solution?

I don't have Flash installed on my browser, and what I lack from that is
evident.  I have yet to miss Java in any way.  What problems would it
solve for people that can't be solved using a different approach?

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Eirik Øverby
On 10. sep. 2010, at 16:29, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:

 Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes:
 
 Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.
 Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across
 Mark browsers, i.e.  adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.
 Mark Java is still a very viable platform, even on the browser.
 
 Whenever I see Java firing up on my browser, I cringe.  (Flash too.)
 
 There are darn few things either of these do that a good modern
 cross-platform library, like jQueryUI, can't do instead.
 
 Except for video playback, which HTML5 fixes as well.  And yes, until
 then, we're stuck with Flash.
 
 We needed Java before we had good JavaScript.  Now we have good
 JavaScript.
 
 I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.

You are forgetting - or conveniently ignoring - that many still NEED Java 
support in their browsers - and not of their own choice. Banks, insurances, 
digital signature services etc. Still frequently use Java as carrier for their 
services. Often this cannot be changed easily as such organizations have long 
turn-around times and make investments in the long term. 

Java is still very much alive, and until html5 can validate and run signed code 
it'll stay that way even on the client. And that is just one of the 
reasons/scenarios. 

I'm not using FreeBSD on the desktop for just this kind o reasons. I'm sure it 
would be a great choice in an ideal world but we are unfortunately living in a 
real one. So either one takes the time to implement what people _need_ in 
addition to what you would prefer them to need, or the desktop can as well be 
ditched and focus moved to improving FreeBSD for servers, where it already 
excels. 

/Eirik


 
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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote:

 Excepting donations != producing results. I will be happy to donate
 $100 US dollars to their fund once they distribute a fully up-to-date
 version of JAVA, not some reworked, deprecated version, that is fully
 compatible with Firefox on FreeBSD. I believe the current version of
 Java is Version 6 Update 21. It simply goes counter to my basic
 business model to contribute any monetary assistance to any open ended
 project.


Did you contribute back when it was up to date?  Or do you contribute now
based on all the other features you find useful in FreeBSD?

So you won't write code, you won't donate money, but constantly complain
about it.  I guess I fail to see the logic in your basic business model.

I've donated fairly regularly, and things I've requested like HA and XEN
support are at least partially here now.  If you're in the US your donations
are tax deductible, at least monetary donations are, so there is even less
argument against donations.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Craig Butler


On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:16 -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
 Quoth Randal L. Schwartz on Friday, 10 September 2010:
   Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes:
  
  Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.
  Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across
  Mark browsers, i.e.  adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.
  Mark Java is still a very viable platform, even on the browser.
  
  Whenever I see Java firing up on my browser, I cringe.  (Flash too.)
  
  There are darn few things either of these do that a good modern
  cross-platform library, like jQueryUI, can't do instead.
  
  Except for video playback, which HTML5 fixes as well.  And yes, until
  then, we're stuck with Flash.
  
  We needed Java before we had good JavaScript.  Now we have good
  JavaScript.
  
  I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.
  
 
 Perhaps someone could provide specific use cases for which Java is the
 only good solution?
 
 I don't have Flash installed on my browser, and what I lack from that is
 evident.  I have yet to miss Java in any way.  What problems would it
 solve for people that can't be solved using a different approach?
 

One that springs to mind for me is alom/ilo/drac console redirection...
It requires java unfortunately.  

I suspect there are a lot of legacy applications that use javaws... It
will take time for them to catch up once html5 is proper mainstream if
at all.

Cheers

Craig B

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread four . harrisons
-
From:   Eirik Øverby ltn...@anduin.net
Subject:Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...
Date:   10th September 2010 16:20

On 10. sep. 2010, at 16:29, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:

 Mark == Mark Sommer msom...@somware.com writes:
 
 Mark That's a pretty idealistic view of the upcoming release of HTML5.
 Mark I have yet to see a release of HTML that is compatible across
 Mark browsers, i.e.  adapted universally by all browsers uniformly.
 Mark Java is still a very viable platform, even on the browser.
 
 Whenever I see Java firing up on my browser, I cringe.  (Flash too.)
 
 There are darn few things either of these do that a good modern
 cross-platform library, like jQueryUI, can't do instead.
 
 Except for video playback, which HTML5 fixes as well.  And yes, until
 then, we're stuck with Flash.
 
 We needed Java before we had good JavaScript.  Now we have good
 JavaScript.
 
 I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.

You are forgetting - or conveniently ignoring - that many still NEED Java 
support in their browsers - and not of their own choice. Banks, insurances, 
digital signature services etc. Still frequently use Java as carrier for their 
services. Often this cannot be changed easily as such organizations have long 
turn-around times and make investments in the long term. 

Java is still very much alive, and until html5 can validate and run signed code 
it'll stay that way even on the client. And that is just one of the 
reasons/scenarios. 

I'm not using FreeBSD on the desktop for just this kind o reasons. I'm sure it 
would be a great choice in an ideal world but we are unfortunately living in a 
real one. So either one takes the time to implement what people _need_ in 
addition to what you would prefer them to need, or the desktop can as well be 
ditched and focus moved to improving FreeBSD for servers, where it already 
excels. 

/Eirik


I've been running FreeBSD as my sole desktop since 5.2.1. I bank and shop 
online. I do not have either Java or Flash installed. I have yet to find any 
functionality missing because of the lack of Java. Some sites make accessing 
them difficult without Flash, but I consider that their problem and move on.

FreeBSD isn't just good for servers.


Peter Harrison
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Re: IBM server SAS controller support?

2010-09-10 Thread Christian Thørn Bakken
Sorry about the blank post...

As I wrote in my former post, SpamTitan claims that the driver is already 
compiled into the kernel.
Even if that is correct, it wouldn't hurt to try the loader.conf approach, 
would it? Can I just edit the loader.conf file in a loop  mounted .iso, and 
then just burn the .iso to a bootable CD?

Regards
Christian T Bakken

Den 10. sep. 2010 kl. 15:51 skrev Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com:

 two solutions:
 - compiling the kernel with the driver (device pci and device mfi in the
 configuration file)
 - mfi_load=YES in your loader.conf
 
 
 Samuel Martín Moro
 {EPITECH.} tek4
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 Nobody wants to say how this works.
  Maybe nobody knows ...
  Xorg.conf(5)
 
 
 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Christian Thørn Bakken
 cbak...@roros.netwrote:
 
 I understand that you, Ivan, managed to install FreeBSD on an IBM Series x
 3650 M3 server with the LSI M1015 SAS/SATA RAID controller.
 
 
 Ivan, did you tweak something to install, or did it work out of the box
 for you?
 Which FreeBSD version did you install?
 
 My main objective is to install the appliance distro SpanTitan 5.04 from
 www.spamtitan.com. It's based on FreeBSD 7.3  and the manufacturer
 confirms that the mfi(4) driver is compiled into the kernel.
 
 I've also tried with another (vanilla) version of FreeBSD (8.1), but with
 no luck. It just says there's no disk drives found.
 
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Re: IBM server SAS controller support?

2010-09-10 Thread Christian Thørn Bakken


Mvh
Christian Thørn Bakken
Infonett Røros as
Mob. 40 40 83 38
Tel. 72 41 48 17

www.rev.no | www.roros.net

Den 10. sep. 2010 kl. 15:51 skrev Samuel Martín Moro faus...@gmail.com:

 two solutions:
 - compiling the kernel with the driver (device pci and device mfi in the
 configuration file)
 - mfi_load=YES in your loader.conf
 
 
 Samuel Martín Moro
 {EPITECH.} tek4
 CamTrace S.A.S
  (+033) 1 41 38 37 60
  1 Allée de la Venelle
  92150 Suresnes
  FRANCE
 
 Nobody wants to say how this works.
  Maybe nobody knows ...
  Xorg.conf(5)
 
 
 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Christian Thørn Bakken
 cbak...@roros.netwrote:
 
 I understand that you, Ivan, managed to install FreeBSD on an IBM Series x
 3650 M3 server with the LSI M1015 SAS/SATA RAID controller.
 
 
 Ivan, did you tweak something to install, or did it work out of the box
 for you?
 Which FreeBSD version did you install?
 
 My main objective is to install the appliance distro SpanTitan 5.04 from
 www.spamtitan.com. It's based on FreeBSD 7.3  and the manufacturer
 confirms that the mfi(4) driver is compiled into the kernel.
 
 I've also tried with another (vanilla) version of FreeBSD (8.1), but with
 no luck. It just says there's no disk drives found.
 
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question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Joanne McClintock
I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res 
utility, he gets the following:

-bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
-bash: res: command not found

In giving the uname -a command he gets:

-bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 
25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink  
i386

We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any 
other information? Thanks.

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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king

Joanne,

	I did a quick which and search of the ports that yielded nothing  
concrete regarding this command. I believe that this a proprietary  
Juniper utility. I found similar reference to this at this url:


http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,124019,124019

	As much as I hate passing the buck, I'd have to punt this back to  
someone familiar with the changes to FreeBSD made in JunOS.


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On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Joanne McClintock wrote:

I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use  
the res utility, he gets the following:


-bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
-bash: res: command not found

In giving the uname -a command he gets:

-bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2  
#0: Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/ 
src/sys/compile/bigpink  i386


We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas?  
Need any other information? Thanks.


Joanne
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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that
the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying
FreeBSD OS.

Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the
press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing.

What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is
NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely
idiotic emails to this list.
Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press
the ON button on a kettle?




Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.netwrote:

 I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the
 res utility, he gets the following:

 -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
 -bash: res: command not found

 In giving the uname -a command he gets:

 -bash-2.05b$ uname -a
 FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0:
 Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 
 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink
  i386

 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any
 other information? Thanks.

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:46, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
 Jules == Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@gmail.com writes:

 Jules Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
 Jules developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
 Jules say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
 Jules browser.

 And that's why I challenged you as to why.  We needed Java to run in
 the browser back before we had cross-platform DHTML widgets.  But with
 HTML5 around the corner, I've got to again ask, why Java?

 Java had its day.  Time to move on.

Why Java? I've worked with several SSL VPNs (SonicWall, Juniper,
Aventail) for $WORK, and they all require a java-enabled browser - so
unless you're suggesting that DHTML and HTML5 can replace that, I need
a java-enabled browser.

Aside from that, there are some really nice apps written in Java -
including Data Crow, which is a pretty decent cataloging utility for
my books and movies and such, and I haven't seen anything nearly as
good as that written in a cross-platform language, so that I can move
it between my FreeBSD machine and my family's Windows machines.

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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been
asked by someone from that domain.




Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alessandro Dellavedova 
alessandro.dellaved...@ifom-ieo-campus.it wrote:


 On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote:

  As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that
  the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the
 underlying
  FreeBSD OS.
 
  Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the
  press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing.
 
  What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this
 is
  NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely
  idiotic emails to this list.
 Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press
  the ON button on a kettle?

 Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a
 bit of help here.
 Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru.

 It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not
 hurt.

 Just my opinion, peace

 Alessandro

 
 
  On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.net
 wrote:
 
  I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the
  res utility, he gets the following:
 
  -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
  -bash: res: command not found
 
  In giving the uname -a command he gets:
 
  -bash-2.05b$ uname -a
  FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0:
  Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:
 /usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink
  i386
 
  We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need
 any
  other information? Thanks.
 
  Joanne
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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Alessandro Dellavedova

On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote:

 As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that
 the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying
 FreeBSD OS.
 
 Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the
 press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing.
 
 What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this is
 NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely
 idiotic emails to this list.
Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press
 the ON button on a kettle?

Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a bit 
of help here.
Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru.

It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not hurt.

Just my opinion, peace

Alessandro

 
 
 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.netwrote:
 
 I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the
 res utility, he gets the following:
 
 -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
 -bash: res: command not found
 
 In giving the uname -a command he gets:
 
 -bash-2.05b$ uname -a
 FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0:
 Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 
 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink
 i386
 
 We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need any
 other information? Thanks.
 
 Joanne
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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote:

 It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has
 been
 asked by someone from that domain.


True but juniper has given a great of IP to BSD.  Gracefully handling some
runoff seems appropriate.

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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:

 It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been
 asked by someone from that domain.
 

And not the first time some idiot rude reply caused much
more harm than good.

jerry


 
 Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
 overalls and looks like work.
 Thomas Alva Edison
 Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
 The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.
 
 
 
 On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alessandro Dellavedova 
 alessandro.dellaved...@ifom-ieo-campus.it wrote:
 
 
  On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote:
 
   As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that
   the res command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the
  underlying
   FreeBSD OS.
  
   Most especially since you're helping what sounds like a member of the
   press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are doing.
  
   What respect I had for Juniper's products has been ruined of last as this
  is
   NOT the first time that a Juniper employee has posted such completely
   idiotic emails to this list.
  Please do tell what are the employment requirements? Know how to press
   the ON button on a kettle?
 
  Please don't be so rude, maybe she's a Press Office employee, looking for a
  bit of help here.
  Working at Juniper does not mean being a JunOS developer or a tech guru.
 
  It's just one e-mail on hundreds that you get per day, and it does not
  hurt.
 
  Just my opinion, peace
 
  Alessandro
 
  
  
   On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joanne McClintock joan...@juniper.net
  wrote:
  
   I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the
   res utility, he gets the following:
  
   -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5
   -bash: res: command not found
  
   In giving the uname -a command he gets:
  
   -bash-2.05b$ uname -a
   FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0:
   Mon Oct 25 16:23:23 PDT 2004 r...@bigpink.juniper.net:
  /usr/src/sys/compile/bigpink
   i386
  
   We are wondering if perhaps this is an access problem. Any ideas? Need
  any
   other information? Thanks.
  
   Joanne
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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king

I'm glad that I am not the only one who felt that was a bit extreme.

This is a BSD, not Linux, list after all.

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On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron  
ross.came...@unix.net wrote:


It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question  
has

been
asked by someone from that domain.



True but juniper has given a great of IP to BSD.  Gracefully  
handling some

runoff seems appropriate.

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Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
2seconds spent Googling the phrase pulls up my much more polite answer to
exactly the same question from a month ago.
Absolutely no effort was made, that much is OBVIOUS.

In my defense when I realised the the OP thought that this was a Juniper
support list I did offer to try help.




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overalls and looks like work.
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Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:44 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote:

 I'm glad that I am not the only one who felt that was a bit extreme.

 This is a BSD, not Linux, list after all.


 Regards,
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 On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:

  On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net
 wrote:

  It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has
 been
 asked by someone from that domain.


 True but juniper has given a great of IP to BSD.  Gracefully handling some
 runoff seems appropriate.

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sysutils/eiciel - can't portupgrade but dependencies to gnome2-power-tools

2010-09-10 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi,

Upon upgrading my ports I ran into a problem: When portupgrade comes
to upgrading sysutils/eiciel it stops with the following message:

===  eiciel-0.9.8 is marked as broken: does not compile.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/eiciel.

#
However eiciel is needed by gnome2-power-tools.

# pkg_info -Rx eiciel | more
Information for eiciel-0.9.6.1_6:

Required by:
gnome2-power-tools-2.30.2_1
#

So how can I do a portupgrade for gnome2-power-tools when a port that
it depends on can't be upgraded?

Thanks much in advance for any hint!

-ewald

PS: System im question is freebsd 7.3, AMD64
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How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-10 Thread Martin McCormick
After successfully installing bind97 from a package on
to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest
patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been
replaced with bind9.6.1, I looked in /usr/src and there is a
contrib/bind9 directory. What is the safest way to disable that
build without adversly effecting the rest of the update?

The reason for doing these things in this order is that
I would like to get bind running as quickly as possible since it
takes a couple of hours or more to get the world built when we
could be doing DNS.

Since I am not using that version of bind, not getting
it built is no problem. I don't even care if it gets built so
long as it does not end up in /usr/sbin to clobber the new
bind9.7.

This is not really a complaint. I just want to prevent
the installation of the old bind over the new one as simply as
possible.

Thanks.

Martin McCormick
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Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Tancsa

At 04:58 PM 9/10/2010, Martin McCormick wrote:

contrib/bind9 directory. What is the safest way to disable that
build without adversly effecting the rest of the update?


Hi,
Take a look at the man page for src.conf (and make.conf for 
completeness). You can control parts of what gets built and installed.


---Mike





The reason for doing these things in this order is that
I would like to get bind running as quickly as possible since it
takes a couple of hours or more to get the world built when we
could be doing DNS.

Since I am not using that version of bind, not getting
it built is no problem. I don't even care if it gets built so
long as it does not end up in /usr/sbin to clobber the new
bind9.7.

This is not really a complaint. I just want to prevent
the installation of the old bind over the new one as simply as
possible.

Thanks.

Martin McCormick
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fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-10 Thread cronfy
Hello.

I ran fsck on my filesystems while system was running (partitons were
mounted rw with moderate FS usage). fsck reported there were errors
(INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT and others). I decided to reboot to single mode
and check all filesystems. But in single mode fsck did not find any
errors.

 1. Can I be sure my filesystem is consistent?
 2. If fsck reports nonexistent errors (and probably will try to fix
them if asked), isn't it even danger to run fsck on running system?
 3. How can I check (not fix) filesystems while partitions are mouted
rw and are under usage?

FreeBSD 7.3/kernel, 7.2/world.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:27 PM, cronfy wrote:
 1. Can I be sure my filesystem is consistent?

Reasonably.

 2. If fsck reports nonexistent errors (and probably will try to fix
 them if asked), isn't it even danger to run fsck on running system?

Running fsck in foreground mode on a mounted filesystem is not recommended.  

 3. How can I check (not fix) filesystems while partitions are mouted
 rw and are under usage?

fsck -B...?  See man fsck_ffs.

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Unable to create plasma widget per tutorial

2010-09-10 Thread Steven Friedrich
There is a tutorial at: 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/GettingStarted

My tutorial1 widget doesn't appear in the add widgets box.

Any ideas?

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:16:51AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
 
 Perhaps someone could provide specific use cases for which Java is the
 only good solution?

I guess the only answer to that is running applications someone wrote in
Java -- but I know that's *not* what you meant.


 
 I don't have Flash installed on my browser, and what I lack from that is
 evident.  I have yet to miss Java in any way.  What problems would it
 solve for people that can't be solved using a different approach?

I have intentionally avoided installing Java for a long time.  This has
caused some issues with getting OpenOffice.org running, but the single
use I've had for it in the last year (give or take) dried up a couple
months or so ago, so that reason to care went away.  I sure as heck have
never actually *needed* Java in my browser, for any reason.

Who still uses Java in the browser without some alternative for those who
don't have it, these days?  These days, it seems like the only places
people *really* think they still need Java are smartphones and
enterprise systems running on overpriced servers -- neither of which
makes a difference for Firefox on the desktop.

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kernel replacement in installation media

2010-09-10 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Hi,


I bought a QNAP ts-509.
I'ld like to set up a gate, with a RAID ; I'm still waiting for the disks,
5*2T - Samsung, ecogreen, 5400rpm - to be delivered.
I've seen managing a RAID may be quite difficult. That's my first one. I
don't want to loose everything 'cause of a mistake.

I've read zfs, and RAID-Z, may be helpfull, since there's no risk to loose
data on read, and since zfs handle variable blob (is that the correct word?)
size
The thing is, it only have a 128M flash disk (seen as /dev/da0)
GENERIC needs almost 250M.
I though about using mfsBSD. But I'm not sure my drivers would be there
(since at least the RAID one is quite new in FB-8).
I tried to build nanoBSD in a 128M disk, without configuring that much
(hoping it would be nano out-of-the-box), and it failed saying no more
space on device
Moreover, every small BSD with zfs I found was a custom FreeBSD. So I
decided to make mine.

First, from a USB stick, I installed FreeBSD on an other USB stick.
Then, I looked at what I would have to get in the kernel (mainly: da, usb,
ehci, kbd, vga, bge, ...)
So I build a custom kernel, deleting some lines from the GENERIC
configuration file.
As my USB stick doesn't seem to handle write access that well, I had to
compile the kernel on a VM, and the to send/extract the tarball on the NAS.
But once installed, I still have a lot of .ko in boot/kernel. I'm not sure I
actually removed something, except symbols.

Whatever, it worked I haven't that much time. Once I'll get some, I'll also
try to reduce the /usr size.


Then, I replaced the kernel from the installation stick with mine, updated
the .mtree and checksums files, ...
But, I didn't understood, what's the generic.inf file? How can I update it?
In doubt, I deleted it. And maybe I shouldn't have. (or is it because my
kernel is not called GENERIC any more, but QNAP?!)
The thing is, the install failed, I finished it with the Fixit shell, untar
my kernel, ... it's now working



So, first question, how can I be sure I removed modules from my kernel? is
there something to add to the config file? how can I have so much if_*.ko,
while I deleted almost all device lines?
Second one, how to generate .inf files for distribs? (I may have to do it at
least for base too)
And even if it's a dirty way to do it, is it ok to update a .img file (or
the created stick)? or should I rebuild everything? (on my VM...)




Regards,


Samuel Martín Moro
{EPITECH.} tek4
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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Jason C. Wells

On 09/10/10 07:29, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:


I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.

   

Java is not just for browsers.

Regards,
Jason C. Wells

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Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
 Jason == Jason C Wells j...@speakeasy.net writes:

Jason On 09/10/10 07:29, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
 
 I repeat... Java had its day.  Time to move on.
 
 
Jason Java is not just for browsers.

Indeed.  And I still stand by my statement.

Java makes everyone equally incompetent, which is why managers like it.
It helps the beginner, hurts the advanced.  Managers can swap
programmers in and out strictly on head count, not on experience.

Friends don't let friends make greenstarts with Java.

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Re: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-09-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/2/10, Nikola Lečić nikola.le...@anthesphoria.net wrote:
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 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:54:43 +
 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry to ask, but you mention that the new TeXLive 2010 will be
 released this summer.  Do you know *when exactly* it will be released?

 TeX Live and FreeBSD share the same principle: a release will be out
 when it is ready. No deadlines:

   http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-July/026779.html

 TL2010 pretest is currently at the stage of final testings.

 I am also hoping that if use either the pretest one, or the official
 release, that *it*(The install procedure) also setup the paths,
 otherwise one has to do this manually :(
 [...]

 Ok, so you would like an installation procedure without need to change
 PATH and other env vars and without installing binaries manually? The
 following comes to mind (unfortunately, you must deinstall all traces
 of teTeX from FreeBSD ports first, but I think you can easily maintain a
 teTeX-free installation):

 (1) download TL2010 pretest tree:
 rsync -a --delete --exclude=mactex*
 rsync://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/tlpretest .
 (don't forget the final dot)

 (2) run
 ./install-tl -gui
 (you'll need x11-toolkits/p5-Tk for GUI)

 (3) find the last option, Create symlinks in system
 directories (which is no by default) and click Change; in the
 small window, check create symlinks in standard directories.

 (4) Click Install TeX Live.

 That's all. You'll have FreeBSD binaries; no need to change PATH since
 all TL binaries, manpages, etc. will be linked from /usr/local/bin/ etc.

 Hope this helps,
 - --

@Nikola, Roland,  others that offered advice and suggestions

TeXLive 2010 has officially been released:

http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/texlive2010.iso.xz

Did not know, I hope to download it as soon as I can and try to
install it, I might just set the symlinks manually since the required
packages might not be there.  Hope that there are no problems.

BTW,
do you know if this release has the editor (TeXWorks)?
Why?
The package found on the updates depends on TeTeX, while Kile and
TeXMaker also do.  This way I may avoid using them?, otherwise compile
them from source(not through ports*tetex is a dep*)

Regards,

Antonio
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Re: kernel replacement in installation media

2010-09-10 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 09/10/2010 07:57 PM, Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
 Hi,
 ...
 The thing is, it only have a 128M flash disk (seen as /dev/da0)
 GENERIC needs almost 250M.

I have run into something similar, while building a ZFS install to run
on an Intel SS4200EHW NAS device. Utilizing a series of scripts I have
developed[1], I was able to compact an entire functional FreeBSD system
into 4.6MB /boot and 84MB root with mkisofs and mkuzip, without
permanently tying up a bunch of the machine's limited RAM with an MFS,
and with acceptable performance despite the IDE channel's speed limit of
1.6MB/sec. Plus, boot and root are read-only, so the CompactFlash card
won't wear out prematurely.

You can make use of src.conf(5) while building world and kernel to
eliminate a lot of unnecessary userland components, and MODULES_OVERRIDE
and WITHOUT_MODULES to control what modules get built, as the kernel
build process will build all modules regardless of what might be in your
kernel config. Be prepared to perform lots of testing, though, as a
missed critical dependency can appear to succeed, but leave something
else broken.

[1] http://git.cyberleo.net/Mosi.git

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Re: Questions about setting bridge

2010-09-10 Thread dave jones
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Adam Vande More  wrote:
 I want to setup a bridge in a ring topology since a break at any point
 along the ring would
 still leave all stations connected. My machine has two nics. In
 /etc/rc.conf, I have:

 ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.1.0  netmask 255.255.255.0
 cloned_interfaces=bridge0
 ifconfig_em0=up
 ifconfig_em1=up
 ifconfig_bridge0=addm em0 addm em1 up
 ifconfig_bridge0_alias0=192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

 I tried to boot my clients using tftpd, but it seems doesn't work if I
 unpluged
 em0. If I run ifconfig em1 inet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 then
 my clients can boot via tftpd. But it's not a bridge, right?
 I mean should I configure the same ip for em0, em1, and bridge0?

 192.168.1.0/24 is not a valid address.  Your addressable hosts are
 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.254.

Oops, typo. Should be 192.168.1.1

 I think you want to lagg:

 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html

In Winodws, I setup a bridge with no problems. But in FreeBSD, it
seems doesn't work :(

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Re: kernel replacement in installation media

2010-09-10 Thread Jason C. Wells

On 09/10/10 20:01, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:

On 09/10/2010 07:57 PM, Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
   

Hi,
...
The thing is, it only have a 128M flash disk (seen as /dev/da0)
GENERIC needs almost 250M.
 

I have run into something similar, while building a ZFS install to run
on an Intel SS4200EHW NAS device. Utilizing a series of scripts I have
developed[1], I was able to compact an entire functional FreeBSD system
into 4.6MB /boot and 84MB root with mkisofs and mkuzip, without
permanently tying up a bunch of the machine's limited RAM with an MFS,
and with acceptable performance despite the IDE channel's speed limit of
1.6MB/sec. Plus, boot and root are read-only, so the CompactFlash card
won't wear out prematurely.

You can make use of src.conf(5) while building world and kernel to
eliminate a lot of unnecessary userland components, and MODULES_OVERRIDE
and WITHOUT_MODULES to control what modules get built, as the kernel
build process will build all modules regardless of what might be in your
kernel config. Be prepared to perform lots of testing, though, as a
missed critical dependency can appear to succeed, but leave something
else broken.
   
I do believe you can omit the *.symbols files.  I plan to try it 
myself.  Would someone please confirm this?


And you might look at resurrecting the picobsd method of crunching 
binaries into one single statically linked binary with hard links of 
differing file names if you want to get really small.  I used to do this 
when compactflash was only 128MiB.


Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
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Re: Questions about setting bridge

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:29 PM, dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com wrote:

 
  I think you want to lagg:
 
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-aggregation.html

 In Winodws, I setup a bridge with no problems. But in FreeBSD, it
 seems doesn't work :(


It does work quite well,  Many, many people do it.

Windows generally refers to this as network teaming, Linux nic bonding, and
FreeBSD does lagg.  If you bother to read the handbook link I sent, you'll
see a way to accomplish your goal.


Your bridge setup also has another error: ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.1.0
 netmask 255.255.255.0

You should not set an ip address on a member interface.  The bridge
interface should get the real ip, no alias.

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Re: kernel replacement in installation media

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote

 I do believe you can omit the *.symbols files.  I plan to try it myself.
  Would someone please confirm this?


Yes you can remove them safely.


 And you might look at resurrecting the picobsd method of crunching binaries
 into one single statically linked binary with hard links of differing file
 names if you want to get really small.  I used to do this when compactflash
 was only 128MiB.


/usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/
/usr/src/tools/tools/tinybsd/

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