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Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 362, Issue 7
I had to do this same thing over 10 years ago, once at work and once at home. At home, I copies ksh and gave it root privileges so it could do the suid . At work, a root person lent me the use of a binary program (with root privileges) that I used to execute ksh (I believe). My memory of this is hazy, so I don't recall if that was a standard program there or it was a special one that he created. Groupon.com Official Site 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dcb9a93721c33da3e2st04duc ___ 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: make the iso image
On 11/05/2011 18:35, Mage wrote: On 05/11/2011 04:50 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:24:39 -0700, mohammad abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to make the FreeBSD installation with facilities in my state This looks as if you want to create your own installation media. The make release operation is intended for that task. However I (not the original sender) would like to create just a LiveDVD from my install, because I upgraded to zpool version and didn't find any official release or snapshot which can mount that. It would be only a rescue DVD, not installer medium. Is there a shorter way than make release? I don't even need a gui on that DVD just some basic tools and zpool v28. (i don't use zfs so not sure if this is feasible) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-advanced.html I used the instuctions here to build a serial install disk which only required some editing of files before regenerating an install iso ( ie not from a running system), maybe this would help you if you could add in the necessary zfs support Paul. Mage ___ 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 -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA - ___ 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: Skyip? question
On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20:10 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org articulated: What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? Gary, if you want to get your fill of FUD on this issue, I would strongly recommended that you visit the Slashdot site. It has been filled with bull-shit on this subject for days now. Personally, it reminds me of a football coach's reply to a reporter a few years ago. There were three teams left in the playoffs and the coach's team was to play the winner. The reporter asked the coach how he planned to handle the situation. He replied, that he was going home, sit in his recliner with a beer and watch the games on TV. Once the outcome of the games had been decided and his opponent revealed, he would answer the reporter's question. Personally, I believe the buyout is a plus. Microsoft intends, at least from press releases released so far, to incorporate Skype into XBox and Outlook for starters. It will undoubtedly make the use of Skype far easier on Microsoft's operating system. I have yet to see the downside of the deal. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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
Installing .bin file?
On one of my old servers I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 and I'm having some disk problems. The raid card is a Promise TX4310 and I'd like to install Webpam ( http://firstweb.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=136category=utilityos=100go=GO) to swap + rebuild two broken disks and to have an overview via a webgui. So, I download *WebPAM for FreeBSD*http://firstweb.promise.com/upload/Support/Utility/freebsd_Webpam.rar, unrar it and find a .bin file inside. How do I install a .bin file on FreeBSD? I'm used to makefiles etc. Thanks for any help! Best, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing .bin file?
On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:10:55 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: How do I install a .bin file on FreeBSD? I'm used to makefiles etc. First off all, check _what_ kind of file it is. % file filename If it's a Bourne shell script, run % sh filename If it's a binary that runs on FreeBSD, run % chmod +x filename % ./filename The .bin seems to indicate that it is a binary file, so the 3rd method mentioned should apply. If you need root privileges for the installation process, use su or sudo / super / ... according to your preferences. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Skyip? question
What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? /usr/ports/net/asterisk exists. Not used it, but compiling to try some time. It's been around years, eg presentation http://www.berklix.org/bim/talks/asterisk_overview_2007_01_17/ I recall maybe Skype can work on BSD via a linux emulator, but probably better discussed on eg multime...@freebsd.org Opinions on MS Skype better to c...@freebsd.org or offline friends :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ 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: start X in background without it taking over the console?
On 05/11/2011 04:07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work while it boots up for a couple minutes and I'm tired of manually switching back to text mode. It's gets annoying the 200th time. You could script it right after X starts, as such: vidcontrol -s 1 # Equivalent to Alt-F1 I don't think X is currently designed to start without initializing the graphics hardware, though, so the initial vt change is probably unavoidable. Perhaps once KMS trickles down Thank you for answering. I was fearful of that. Just means another project. Related to Kernel Memory Switching I mention of Coreboot on slashdot the other day and I have to say I'm excited by it more than when it was called LinuxBIOS, my understanding now being that it isn't a full Linux kernel buy may eventually become a striped down version of it. I'm hoping that it evolves into a basic real time kernel of it's own and initializing drivers. Hopefully the place where all soft firmware for devices eventually gets loaded rather than in OS drivers; ironically working with the GPL by downloading it's own initializing drivers directly. Be nice to have half second boot times. ___ 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
Hard drive detection
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two of these machines with the exact same configurations, having the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the systems are rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when the systems were full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives are detected in the BIOS of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. (output of dmesg attached) -- ds dmesg.out 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: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Either way thank you all again for your feedback. ___ 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: Skyip? question
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Hey Guys, What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? I am sure MS will find a way to use it to coerce users to buy the rest of their system. What else is new. (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) It has been done a few times. Some phone service companies also do essentially the same thing with a proprietary software. Lastly, a few years ago, somebody on this list said that skype was free like free beer. Pretty sure they had that saying when i was a kind back in the twelfth century, but still have no ides what it means, so would appreciate it from my fellow geeks who get that 'free-beer' swipe. I always thought, used that way, it meant that the sign may say 'Free Beer' but if you take it, you have sold your soul or some other body part unknowingly. They're going to get you some way. But, I never have heard any official definition. jerry thanx, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic Ju ST released: http://transfinite.thought.org/17da.html Where's that bloody .357?! ___ 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: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Guess you will have to do your own. It's not a problem for the rest of us. jerry Either way thank you all again for your feedback. ___ 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: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Have you appreciated the issue with suid on scripts? It's nothing at all to do with whether someone writing a compiled language is a better programmer than someone writing an interpreted language. When the OS launches a binary, the file containing the program is opened once. When the OS launches an interpreted program, the file is opened once to find out which interpreter to run, and then the interpreter is told to re-open the same filename - whose contents might meanwhile have changed. I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents of the file addressed by that name between the first and second open. It's one thing to tell people they need to be careful with suid because it has security implications. Deliberately introducing a well-known security hole into the system would in my view be dangerous and wrong. Jonathan ___ 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: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Have you appreciated the issue with suid on scripts? It's nothing at all to do with whether someone writing a compiled language is a better programmer than someone writing an interpreted language. When the OS launches a binary, the file containing the program is opened once. When the OS launches an interpreted program, the file is opened once to find out which interpreter to run, and then the interpreter is told to re-open the same filename - whose contents might meanwhile have changed. I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents of the file addressed by that name between the first and second open. It's one thing to tell people they need to be careful with suid because it has security implications. Deliberately introducing a well-known security hole into the system would in my view be dangerous and wrong. That race condition bug was fixed in ancient times. Before Freebsd or Linux ever existed I believe. It's a meme that just won't die. People accepted mediocrity in old commercial versions of Unix. I personally am unsatisfied by kludges. ___ 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: Skyip? question
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:18:52AM -0400, Jerry wrote: Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:18:52 -0400 From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: Skyip? question To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20:10 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org articulated: What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? Gary, if you want to get your fill of FUD on this issue, I would strongly recommended that you visit the Slashdot site. It has been filled with bull-shit on this subject for days now. Personally, it reminds me of a football coach's reply to a reporter a few years ago. There were three teams left in the playoffs and the coach's team was to play the winner. The reporter asked the coach how he planned to handle the situation. He replied, that he was going home, sit in his recliner with a beer and watch the games on TV. Once the outcome of the games had been decided and his opponent revealed, he would answer the reporter's question. Personally, I believe the buyout is a plus. Microsoft intends, at least from press releases released so far, to incorporate Skype into XBox and Outlook for starters. It will undoubtedly make the use of Skype far easier on Microsoft's operating system. I have yet to see the downside of the deal. -- Jerry ??? jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. then what i heard on public broadcasting ['marketplace'] is about right; that m$ will expand the skype network to fit its few striong points. just to 2-check, thanks. gary ps: =i= myself rarely use the phone, and now that xbill has bot skype, i'd use anything *but* -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.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: Skyip? question
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based softphone). BTW, it does video too, though I've never tried that since I don't have a webcam and I don't know the status of multimedia/webcamd on FreeBSD. Just give it a try, and you'll probably like it -- as long as you can fiddle around with selecting the right audio channels and setting mixer correctly. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Skyip? question
El dÃa Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based softphone). BTW, it does video too, though I've never tried that since I don't have a webcam and I don't know the status of multimedia/webcamd on FreeBSD. ... multimedia/webcamd works fine in 8-stable and HEAD (I'm using HEAD); a list of supported webcams in FreeBSD and what you need or what should work rises up here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Concerning the discussion about Skype and M$, please move it off-list; thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Hard drive detection
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two of these machines with the exact same configurations, having the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the systems are rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when the systems were full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives are detected in the BIOS of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. (output of dmesg attached) dmesg.out 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: Hard drive detection
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Dillin Smith dilli.ns.m...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dillin Smith dilli.ns.m...@gmail.com Subject: Hard drive detection To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 2:17 PM Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two of these machines with the exact same configurations, having the same problem. A very odd thing is that every time the systems are rebooted, the drives that go undetected vary. Also, when the systems were full of 250GB drives, all were detected. All drives are detected in the BIOS of the controllers, just not by FreeBSD. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. (output of dmesg attached) Look in the output from pciconf -lv | more Are all the controller cards listed?? If not then look to the controller driver man page for hints to get them to play nice together. ___ 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
annoyance; 3c905b-tx-nm silently drops first rx'd packet.
I have a 3c905b-tx-nm, the nm means no power management. I've had occasion to use it in several pc's. I've tried to avoid using it due to this annoyance, but my present pc has a chipset which doesn't operate well with any of my other ethernet cards. The card has a pci-id of (10b7,9055) and uses a 40-0483-00x asic. In ifconfig, the media is set for 10base-t half-duplex, no autodetect. This has happened in every release I've used since 2003, from 4.8 until now. But I couldn't find anyone else making a bug complaint, so I finally decided to ask about it myself. From freebsd- After a cold-boot, or a warm-boot from an OS which didn't actually use the ethernet (ie dos), the first rx'd packet will always be silently dropped without freebsd ever noticing any packets had been sent to it. This appears to apply to any kind of ethernet packet, though in practice the first rx'd packet is usually either a tcp arp broadcast, or an icmp echo (or echo-reply). It's not a case of the interface being down; ifconfig shows it as being up, and it can actually send out an icmp echo without being able to receive the first echo-reply from that echo. It's not a terrible problem, the result of the silently dropped packet usually being some seconds of delay while waiting for a re- transmit. But it is annoying. Disabling Tx Rx checksumming options makes no difference. The only workaround I've found so far is to disable rx multicast- filtering by using promisc in rc.conf's ifconfig line. But that's not a very good solution. If I start the machine with promisc, I can disable the promisc *after* at least one packet has been received, and then everything is ok. But if I disable the promisc before a packet has been received, then it's the same as if I hadn't used promisc at all- the first rx'd packet will still be lost. For comparison, this doesn't happen in any version of windows, or when using the card's dos drivers. Also, in linux, it doesn't happen if the first rx'd packet was an icmp echo-reply, but does happen if it was an icmp echo-request from another machine. Mostly it's a freebsd problem. I have another machine with an original 3c905(a). It has no such problems, most likely because the 3c905 doesn't have a multicast filter and is always in promiscuous mode. I'm hoping this is something that can be fixed by some wise and all-knowing freebsd networking guru providing a driver patch. Thank you. ___ 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: Skyip? question
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 23:24:11 Polytropon wrote: And keep in mind the data in the background: WHO communi- cates? WHERE does he communicate from, with WHOM, WHEN? Tech- nology allows answering questions even about WHAT has been spoken. Relations between individuals and there interests can be concluded from such communication profiles. They are of high value for advertising and industry propaganda mechanisms. And a LOT of governments. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ 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: Skyip? question
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based softphone). BTW, it does video too, though I've never tried that since I don't have a webcam and I don't know the status of multimedia/webcamd on FreeBSD. ... multimedia/webcamd works fine in 8-stable and HEAD (I'm using HEAD); a list of supported webcams in FreeBSD and what you need or what should work rises up here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Ah, great, thank you for the hint! Have you tried a webcam with Ekiga? Concerning the discussion about Skype and M$, please move it off-list; thanks in advance matthias Thanks -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot
Dear folks, I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to 8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports. Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting :( I like the convenience of automounting and I checked hal and dbus and they are both enabled and to be safe I deinstalled and installed them again and still does not automount. ugen5.2: HP at usbus5 umass0: HP c310w, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 da0: HP c310w 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 3819MB (7823296 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 486C) [olivares@grullahighschool ~]$ ls /media/.hal-mtab /media/.hal-mtab [olivares@grullahighschool ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !-- -*- XML -*- -- !DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC -//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd; !-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -- config version=0.1 define_admin_auth group=operator/ match action=org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable return result=yes/ /match match action=org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed return result=yes/ /match match action=org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject return result=yes/ /match /config Thank you for any pointers/advice/suggestions. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How do you install utility built using gnu toolchain?
It's pretty general question, but is it typically standard procedure for a utility building using the GNU tool chain to be able to install itself into /usr/local/bin? E.g. # gmake install ?? Is there anything a newb can check for without having to fully understand the complete build procedure (and not destroy my system in the process)? The mdbtools port is based on the last official release of the project - v0.5 in 2003. I've compiled the current head of the project from github in a personal directory and tests have passed (I'm using a php app with mdb-export to copy data from a Jet4 database to MySQL). Now I'd like to put the executables in /usr/local/bin for shared access (in place of the utilities installed by the mdbtools-0.5 port). The project builds using the GNU tool chain without any customizations (using config and gmake). I'd prefer to do this properly with a port, but until the project has had an official release and I've learned how to create a port, are there any shortcuts? I naively tried copying what I thought were the executables, and then discovered they were shell scripts that only ran from the build directory. Huh? Could it be as simple as # gmake install (and that not be a horribly stupid thing to try)? Thanks, Dale ___ 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
Installing FreeBSD on an encrypted volume
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain what I have done so far. first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the following command installed the boot code: # gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 The second freebsd-ufs is 200M for /boot and the third is for the GELI based encrypted swap and /. I used geli to encrypt ad0p3 and again used gpart to carve it into two BSD slices, one 512m for swap and the other the rest of the disk for /. After everything is newfs'd and ad0p1 and ad0p3.elib are mounted as /mnt/boot and /mnt/root respectively, I did export DESTDIR=/mnt/root and ran the install.sh scripts in /dest/8.2-RELEASE/base and /dest/8.2-RELEASE/kernels. The next thing I did was to modify the /mnt/root/boot/loader.conf file so that it loads the geom_eli module and edit the /mnt/root/boot/device.hints file so that the password on boot works correctly for the encrypted volume. And I moved /mnt/root/boot/GENERIC to /mnt/root/boot/kernel. Then I copied the contents of /mnt/root/boot to /mnt/boot. I created a directory /mnt/boot/etc and made a fstab and put one copy there and another copy in /mnt/root/etc This works great, however, I am left with /boot in two different places and /etc/fstab in two places as well. I would like to know if someone can come up wth a more elegant solution to this. At the moment I am mounting /dev/ad0p2 as /bootdir and whenever I update the system, once the update is done, I just do an archival copy of the contents of /boot into /bootdir/boot and if there is a change to fstab I make the change in both places. I understand that /boot cannot be encrypted (at the moment, until things change). But I would like to have /boot mounted directly from /dev/ad0p2 so there is only one copy of it. Any thoughts? ___ 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: Skyip? question
El día Friday, May 13, 2011 a las 12:19:38AM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: multimedia/webcamd works fine in 8-stable and HEAD (I'm using HEAD); a list of supported webcams in FreeBSD and what you need or what should work rises up here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Ah, great, thank you for the hint! Have you tried a webcam with Ekiga? Yes, in the past the Philips one SPC 900 NC; I think any will work when there is /dev/video0 created by pwc.ko or webcamd. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Encrypted Volume followup
As a followup to my earlier question, are there plans for a geli aware boot0 so /boot does not need to be unencrypted? I know that this functionality can be done with TrueCrypt with FreeBSD running inside a TrueCrypt system, but having it part of FreeBSD would be great! ___ 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 do you install utility built using gnu toolchain?
On 13/05/2011 05:29, Dale Scott wrote: It's pretty general question, but is it typically standard procedure for a utility building using the GNU tool chain to be able to install itself into /usr/local/bin? E.g. # gmake install ?? Is there anything a newb can check for without having to fully understand the complete build procedure (and not destroy my system in the process)? The mdbtools port is based on the last official release of the project - v0.5 in 2003. I've compiled the current head of the project from github in a personal directory and tests have passed (I'm using a php app with mdb-export to copy data from a Jet4 database to MySQL). Now I'd like to put the executables in /usr/local/bin for shared access (in place of the utilities installed by the mdbtools-0.5 port). The project builds using the GNU tool chain without any customizations (using config and gmake). I'd prefer to do this properly with a port, but until the project has had an official release and I've learned how to create a port, are there any shortcuts? I naively tried copying what I thought were the executables, and then discovered they were shell scripts that only ran from the build directory. Huh? Could it be as simple as # gmake install (and that not be a horribly stupid thing to try)? If you're using autotools for the configuration part (which is pretty standard) then essentially, yes: 'gmake install' should put binaries into appropriate locations. Make sure that you specify /usr/local as the prefix when running configure. It should be the default, but there's no guarrantee. Cheers, Matthew PS. You might be able to preview the installation action without installling anything by 'gmake -n install' -- sometimes this gives useful info, others not. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
