Re: mount -u effects
nice and quick point! thanks a lot :) You could have found it out by refering to man mount. :-) yes, it seems to be right! ;) So I'd say you should always take care that write operations are finished properly (and so brought to an end) but, how to become sure my write operations are completely finished?? by obtaining some sort of sleep time before my restart command in my upgrade shell for example? or there are other special ways to do so? Best Regards, t.a.k On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:55:10 +0330, takCoder wrote: via googling, i found out that i can use mount -u on the mentioned device, and then after doing whatsoever needed, when i restart my server the ro permission will be back via applying old fstab.. You could have found it out by refering to man mount. :-) but i have no idea what kind of effects it may have on my server.. i couldn't find anything but suggestions about not to use this so often.. and i really need to know why?? cause my bsd server is not allowed to be missed almost at all.. i think that because this -u option is just increasing my permissions in this case, there won't be a danger for my server. is that true?! There are _few_ side effects that _may_ apply when using the -u option. From the manual: The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above (the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed from read-only to read-write or vice versa. An attempt to change from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the file system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is also specified. The set of options is determined by applying the options specified in the argument to -o and finally applying the -r or -w option. So I'd say you should always take care that write operations are finished properly (and so brought to an end). -- 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: mount -u effects
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:39:24 +0330, takCoder wrote: but, how to become sure my write operations are completely finished?? by obtaining some sort of sleep time before my restart command in my upgrade shell for example? or there are other special ways to do so? Basically, no user action is needed. If you perform an umount (or change back to -o ro), all remaining buffers will be flushed, so writes are eventually performed at this time. If such an operation hasn't been finished yet, mount will complain, and you have some time to wait and try again. :-) In case you're using -f (force), this specific check will not be performed, so it shouldn't be used. Similarly, the sync command will cause all buffers to be flushed. The file system driver will then let the device driver perform the operation, which should be finished in finite time (usually below a second). See man sync for details. You could always use the lsof command to check if there are still files open for writing on the respective file system. At the time you're getting your command prompt back, the write operation is likely to be finished. Add some time typing the mount command, and you should be fine. :-) -- 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: Can't set xfce4 logout dialog buttons
David Demelier skrev 2012-12-10 22:23: Hi, I added a file for handling shutdown / reboot for Xfce4, the content is located in /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/51-sys-mgmt.pkla. [Restart] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Shutdown] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes But clicking on the on the logout button, will open the xfce4 dialog and only shows Logout all others buttons are grey'ed. I have exactly the same setup on my laptop but with a [Suspend] added, and on my laptop the dialog show Logout and all buttons authorized. On my both machine my user is in the operator group, so I don't know where I missed something for this machine.. Do you have a better idea? Cheers, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I don't know if this is any help, but I've seen the same on my systems! On a newly installed 9.1-RC3 I do not have this problem. I wonder if it has to do with some old files in our home folders that mess things up? /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
rescan of sata channels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a way to detach and attach a device on a sata channel in FreeBSD 9 on FreeBSD 8 I used atacontrol detach to detach a sata HD bevor removing it from a hotswap bay and atacontroll attach to rescan the channel after inserting a new Harddrive in die Bay. In camcontroll there is no such command. an rescan or reinit doesn't reveal the new hdd. Is there a way to force the sata channel to rescan an detect the Harddisk without reboot. Regards Estartu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQCVAwUBUMb3KAzx22nOTJQRAQJhygP/c4VUBQTpTko66ZuNuV06tryPf5T9gxIE j0ViE9hzzjcuazo0tBlqwO/RGNIn5z0K8JWYj9SLWLdLBLI5fsk98Q3ApUvdr0bA 4/rq53wxvehJeqTfqywTs6ECIrpnHE0R49PKkf1CqNkHBntEtUDQXvfmBT0gh2vV wRZbky9sa9U= =xxsH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2012 1:52 AM, Anonymous wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project to meet its future release dates. Similarly, I'm a bit concerned that 9.0 loses support at the end of January, but there is no release date for 9.1 (at http://www5.us.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html, the last actual date shown is November 3, 2012, for RC3). I'm confused as to the best course of action: continue to use an unsupported version and hope the new one comes out sooner than later, or downgrade to a supported version (8.3). From security.freebsd.org: Normal Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires. So the real EoL for 9.0 is the date of 9.1 release plus 3 months. -- Nino ___ 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: Mounting a samba share on boot?
On 12/11/2012 10:25 AM, Hanafi Syahroini wrote: This can be done with appropriate entries in /etc/fstab. However, I'd recommend against doing so because, if the SMB server is unreachable when the FreeBSD system boots, the FreeBSD box will hang looking for the SMB connection. A better way is to put a custom script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ that initiates the SMB mounts there. This too could fail, but it doesn't prevent the OS From booting fully. -- --- Tim Daneliuk ___ 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: Mounting a samba share on boot?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:25:56 +0700, Hanafi Syahroini wrote: [nothing] First of all, it's not uncommon to place the question into the message body (which you did not), and using a descriptive subject (which you did). :-) So I assume your question is _how_ to mount a SMB share at boot. This can be easily done by adding the required line to the /etc/fstab file. Because network connection is required to perform the mount, you could use the late option in addition to other options you might need. See man mount for detais, as well as /etc/rc.d/mountlate. The line would be like this: //USERNAME@SERVERNAME/share /smb/share smbfs rw,late 0 0 In this example, SERVERNAME is the server to access, and share the name of the share; /smb/share will be the directory it will be mounted at. Access to multiple drive letters would look like this: //Administrator@WINPC/a$ /smb/a smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/c$ /smb/c smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/d$ /smb/d smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/e$ /smb/e smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/f$ /smb/f smbfs rw,late 0 0 Here WINPC is the name of the server. Using Administrator in this case is not safe, but no problem in settings where people don't care for security anyway. :-) Also see man smbfs and man fstab for details. It might be required to put additional information in /etc/nsmb.conf, for example: [default] workgroup=YOUR_WORKGROUP_NAME [SERVERNAME] addr=192.168.2.2 [SERVERNAME:USERNAME] password=TOPSECRET Substitute SERVERNAME, USERNAME and TOPSECRET for the organisational information and access credentials that apply. See man nsmb.conf for details. Further instructions can easily be found in the online docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/book.html#mount-smb-share http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html Note that if you still encounter network problems, it's better to write a short rc.d style script that performs the mount_smb commands, and use the proper keywords to have it run when the network connection is up and running. See man rc.d for details. -- 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: Can't set xfce4 logout dialog buttons
On 10/12/2012 22:23, David Demelier wrote: I added a file for handling shutdown / reboot for Xfce4, the content is located in /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/51-sys-mgmt.pkla. [Restart] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Shutdown] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes But clicking on the on the logout button, will open the xfce4 dialog and only shows Logout all others buttons are grey'ed. I have exactly the same setup on my laptop but with a [Suspend] added, and on my laptop the dialog show Logout and all buttons authorized. On my both machine my user is in the operator group, so I don't know where I missed something for this machine.. Do you have a better idea? Hi David, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 Release XFCE4. When I had this problem I edited /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, adding the lines: match action=org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown return result=yes/ /match match action=org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot return result=yes/ /match in the section version: config version=0.1 You might serve useful. Greetings! -- -- Dr_ZaITo @: dr.za...@gmail.com FreeBSD RELEASE -- ___ 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
make release and mfsroot
Hi All,
I generate a bootonly ISO and want to add files to the mfsroot.gz
created by the release.8 target. I want sysinstall to load an
install.cfg which makes a call to doconfig.sh. The target destination
for the files is stand/. My question is will the below patch
accomplish this for me provided install.cfg and doconfig.sh exist in
/usr/src/release?
# diff -u Makefile.orig Makefile
--- Makefile.orig 2012-12-11 18:15:29.0 +
+++ Makefile2012-12-11 19:01:46.0 +
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@
rm foo; \
fi
-test -f install.cfg cp install.cfg ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src/release
+ -test -f doconfig.sh cp doconfig.sh ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src/release
echo #!/bin/sh ${_MK}
echo set -ex ${_MK}
echo trap 'umount /dev || true' 0 ${_MK}
@@ -823,7 +824,9 @@
done
.endif
-test -f ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg \
-cp ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg ${RD}/mfsfd
+cp ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg ${RD}/mfsfd/stand
+ -test -f ${.CURDIR}/doconfig.sh \
+cp ${.CURDIR}/doconfig.sh ${RD}/mfsfd/stand
@mkdir -p ${RD}/mfsfd/boot
.if ${TARGET_ARCH} != ia64 ${TARGET_ARCH} != powerpc
@cp ${RD}/trees/base/boot/boot* ${RD}/mfsfd/boot
--
Take care
Rick Miller
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Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:52:04AM -0500, Anonymous wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project to meet its future release dates. OK. Get busy. You have a lot of work to do. Have you ever created or maintained a large project using volunteer help? Get serious and think what you are talking about before making such comments. Release dates are estimates. Would it help your sensitive situation to call them release estimates rather than release dates? jerry Why: Because the FreeBSD project has not met a significant number of its release dates. It's an apalling state of affairs and makes you, the project, look silly. Business and personal users plan elements of their schedules, budgets and capabilities around OS updates. And the continual failure of FreeBSD to deliver causes us to have no alternative but to look at our bosses and just shrug. We've taken to padding it out a week, two weeks, a month, two months... just to cover the random slippage. Since there seems to be no public statements about this ongoing situation, we might as well pad it to a quarter or a half... FreeBSD's already a half behind on status reports. No one is asking for a commercial dictatorship here. But please FreeBSD, coordinate better amongst yourselves!!! Be honest about what is and isn't going to make it. Grow the wiki as your central coordination center [ie 1] and start moving dynamic docs from www to there (the community). Replace GNATS (omg, ugh), SVN, and even MoinMoin so the world can interface with some things that it has some (good / market leading) experience with [2]. Other than that, FreeBSD is great :) [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_help_desk_issue_tracking_software http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software http://www.simplemachines.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Anonymous anonym...@foto.nl1.torservers.net wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD You speak only for yourself. - M PS I'll bet waiters in restaurants spit in your food ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:58:38 -0800 Michael Sierchio articulated: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Anonymous anonym...@foto.nl1.torservers.net wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD You speak only for yourself. Another interesting item referencing FreeBSD. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1726222/freebsd-project-falls-short-of-year-end-funding-target-by-nearly-50 -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. 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
Re: make release and mfsroot
Hi Rick,
If you want, you could follow my approach which is to take the completed
mfsroot.gz and use a Makefile to manage the creation of custom mfsroots
(keeping the original unmodified, making it simpler to test different
iterations).
The advantage is that you don't have to re-perform the release(7) process each
time you want to make a change to your mfsroot.
Check it out:
http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/dep/freebsd/mfsroot/standard/
Basically, you'd grab the Makefile (link below):
http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/dep/freebsd/mfsroot/standard/Makefile?revision=1.1
Then create a dep directory and src directory:
Next, take the virgin mfsroot.gz produced by the release(7) process and dump it
into the dep directory.
Next, put your install.cfg into the src directory (just like you see that I
did).
Optionally populate more files into the src directory (see the first link
above for an example -- example includes boot/modules/nullfs.ko, etc/fstab,
and etc/group, etc.).
When the src directory represents what you'd like to add to the mfsroot,
you're ready to produce a new copy of the stored original (at
dep/mfsroot.gz), complete with your additions.
Execute:
make from_dep
NOTE: sudo is required
What will happen is that dep/mfsroot.gz will be copied to the current working
directory, the mfsroot is ripped open (requires sudo privileges), the src
directory is layered onto the mfsroot, and finally the mfsroot is packaged back
up (leaving you with a custom ./mfsroot.gz for deployment).
--
Cheers,
Devin
On Dec 11, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Rick Miller wrote:
Hi All,
I generate a bootonly ISO and want to add files to the mfsroot.gz
created by the release.8 target. I want sysinstall to load an
install.cfg which makes a call to doconfig.sh. The target destination
for the files is stand/. My question is will the below patch
accomplish this for me provided install.cfg and doconfig.sh exist in
/usr/src/release?
# diff -u Makefile.orig Makefile
--- Makefile.orig 2012-12-11 18:15:29.0 +
+++ Makefile 2012-12-11 19:01:46.0 +
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@
rm foo; \
fi
-test -f install.cfg cp install.cfg ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src/release
+ -test -f doconfig.sh cp doconfig.sh ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src/release
echo #!/bin/sh ${_MK}
echo set -ex ${_MK}
echo trap 'umount /dev || true' 0 ${_MK}
@@ -823,7 +824,9 @@
done
.endif
-test -f ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg \
- cp ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg ${RD}/mfsfd
+ cp ${.CURDIR}/install.cfg ${RD}/mfsfd/stand
+ -test -f ${.CURDIR}/doconfig.sh \
+ cp ${.CURDIR}/doconfig.sh ${RD}/mfsfd/stand
@mkdir -p ${RD}/mfsfd/boot
.if ${TARGET_ARCH} != ia64 ${TARGET_ARCH} != powerpc
@cp ${RD}/trees/base/boot/boot* ${RD}/mfsfd/boot
--
Take care
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Re: make release and mfsroot
Hi Devin, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Hi Rick, If you want, you could follow my approach which is to take the completed mfsroot.gz and use a Makefile to manage the creation of custom mfsroots (keeping the original unmodified, making it simpler to test different iterations). Very interesting approach. I like it and will test it. It looks as though I would need to add code to the Makefile if files copied in later are greater in size than the space available. Would you agree? The advantage is that you don't have to re-perform the release(7) process each time you want to make a change to your mfsroot. This is a very compelling advantage. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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 release and mfsroot
On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Rick Miller wrote: Hi Devin, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Hi Rick, If you want, you could follow my approach which is to take the completed mfsroot.gz and use a Makefile to manage the creation of custom mfsroots (keeping the original unmodified, making it simpler to test different iterations). Very interesting approach. I like it and will test it. It looks as though I would need to add code to the Makefile if files copied in later are greater in size than the space available. Would you agree? Oh… forgot to mention… The Makefile doesn't adjust the mfsroot's size. What I do to solve that problem is patch the release(7) process to make a bigger mfsroot (and thusly has room for more stuff) -- this allows me to keep the customizations of what goes in at a higher level (separate from release(7)) while not having to write a lot of code for resizing the mfsroot. NOTE: I've actually run into major problems with resizing an mfsroot -- trust me, it's safer to stick with bumping the sectors in the release(7) makefile. If you're working in the 8.x line, take a look at this patch for bumping the mfsroot size: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid83/dep/freebsd/patches/world_patches/release%3A%3AMakefile.patch?revision=1.1view=markup Meanwhile, for the 9.x line: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/dep/freebsd/patches/world_patches/release%3A%3AMakefile.sysinstall.patch?revision=1.1view=markup NOTE: For your purposes, you'll only need the first hunk (the second hunk is needed for other reasons -- reasons that are documented in the README one-level-up in the patches directory from the above links). The advantage is that you don't have to re-perform the release(7) process each time you want to make a change to your mfsroot. This is a very compelling advantage. Though, to resize the mfsroot, I still rely on release(7) and the above patches. I've personally never had a need to go beyond 6000 sectors, but I know the guys at Yahoo have gone much further. -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. 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: Mounting a samba share on boot?
From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Hanafi Syahroini han...@zigma-jp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:25:56 +0700, Hanafi Syahroini wrote: [nothing] First of all, it's not uncommon to place the question into the message body (which you did not), and using a descriptive subject (which you did). :-) So I assume your question is _how_ to mount a SMB share at boot. This can be easily done by adding the required line to the /etc/fstab file. Because network connection is required to perform the mount, you could use the late option in addition to other options you might need. See man mount for detais, as well as /etc/rc.d/mountlate. The line would be like this: //USERNAME@SERVERNAME/share /smb/share smbfs rw,late 0 0 In this example, SERVERNAME is the server to access, and share the name of the share; /smb/share will be the directory it will be mounted at. Access to multiple drive letters would look like this: //Administrator@WINPC/a$ /smb/a smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/c$ /smb/c smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/d$ /smb/d smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/e$ /smb/e smbfs rw,late 0 0 //Administrator@WINPC/f$ /smb/f smbfs rw,late 0 0 Here WINPC is the name of the server. Using Administrator in this case is not safe, but no problem in settings where people don't care for security anyway. :-) Also see man smbfs and man fstab for details. It might be required to put additional information in /etc/nsmb.conf, for example: [default] workgroup=YOUR_WORKGROUP_NAME [SERVERNAME] addr=192.168.2.2 [SERVERNAME:USERNAME] password=TOPSECRET Substitute SERVERNAME, USERNAME and TOPSECRET for the organisational information and access credentials that apply. See man nsmb.conf for details. Further instructions can easily be found in the online docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/book.html#mount-smb-share http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html Note that if you still encounter network problems, it's better to write a short rc.d style script that performs the mount_smb commands, and use the proper keywords to have it run when the network connection is up and running. See man rc.d for details. -- 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 That's a great answer but let me insert that most people, not all but most, do not use Samba to access a server from other FreeBSD servers. So I feel the two replies thus far are overkill. Typically, Samba is used so that Windows or other SMB type OS'es can access the server. That said, I would simplify all this with the way I have mine setup. You will of course need the shares configured in your smb.conf, then simply put a command in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/ to launch smdb and nmbd. I don't rely on anything in /etc/fstab to use samba. It's all in my smb.conf file. However, Polytropon has presented a great answer here. ___ 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 release and mfsroot
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Though, to resize the mfsroot, I still rely on release(7) and the above patches. Here's another question, have you applied this approach to boot_crunch.conf? I simply replaced the default boot_crunch.conf with my own in the source tree. This is how I discovered MFSSIZE, because the resulting boot_crunch binary was larger than the available space. -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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 release and mfsroot
On Dec 11, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Rick Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Though, to resize the mfsroot, I still rely on release(7) and the above patches. Here's another question, have you applied this approach to boot_crunch.conf? I simply replaced the default boot_crunch.conf with my own in the source tree. This is how I discovered MFSSIZE, because the resulting boot_crunch binary was larger than the available space. I've separated the various additions to mfsroot into two categories: 1. Additions that end up in the boot_crunch binary 2. All other additions I use the release(7) process to produce a custom mfsroot with finely tuned boot_crunch, then I use the previously-shared Makefile to put more files in (things that are separate from the boot_crunch). You can read more about my procedure here (complete recipe for customizing any part of the mfsroot, while spending as little time in the release(7) process as possible): http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/dep/freebsd/patches/README?revision=1.2view=markup The above is for the 9.x line, for the 8.x line the instructions are *slightly* different: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid83/dep/freebsd/patches/README?revision=1.1view=markup You can my customizations to boot_crunch: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/dep/freebsd/patches/local_patches/release%3A%3Ai386%3A%3Aboot_crunch.conf.patch?revision=1.2view=markup and again, slightly different for 8.x: http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid83/dep/freebsd/patches/local_patches/release%3A%3Ai386%3A%3Aboot_crunch.conf.patch?revision=1.1view=markup -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. 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: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
The FreeBSD Foundation is not the FreeBSD Project. I encourage you to give to the Foundation, because it exists to support the Project. But the majority of work done on the development and maintenance is not funded by the Foundation - by and large, it is self-funded by contributors, or occasionally funded by outside grants for specific functions (e.g. the Trusted BSD framework). http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ ___ 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
Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around. I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm] federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents per page. I tried to download a 29 page document and it downloaded into firefox just fine and then was displayed in a new firefox tab which was apparently using acroread8 to display the document. I know from past experience that acroreadN runs like crap on FreeBSD... often using up enormous amounts of CPU % for no apparently good reason. But this time it really got my goat. I clicked on the little acroread icon for printing the current document, a pop-up dialog box for printing came up, but before I could hit the print button on that, everything relating to firefox... all open tabs and all open windows... froze up solid. Now, having wasted three bucks for no good reason (and STILL not having a hardcopy of the document I wanted), I am motivated to finally get this sorted out. So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Or do I have to fire up my Windows machine, just to print out a lousey PDF ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
12.12.2012 12:16, Ronald F. Guilmette пишет: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Or do I have to fire up my Windows machine, just to print out a lousey PDF ? pdf_download extention for firefox will help you to control links to pdf files (open in tab, download, open with another reader) -- Dima Panov (flu...@freebsd.org) (KDE, Office)@FreeBSD team Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fluffy.khv IRC: fluffy@EFNet, fluffykhv@FreeNode twitter: fluffy_khv | skype: dima.panov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs
anonym...@foto.nl1.torservers.net wrote: We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project Troll Detected ? - List remit requires a question. Poster gave no question, just criticised. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions - There are better addresses than questions@ to contact influence more FreeBSD volunteer workers decision makers. - questions@ iswrong address for disparate people responsible for seperate issues eg release schedules, wikis, etc. Aggregating noise here is Bad. - Anonymous criticism discourages consideration of points which might benefit FreeBSD if raised for consideration [later], to other addresses, Not posted anonymously. postmas...@freebsd.org can be requested to block addresses. For random chat: freebsd-c...@freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat Other lists http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo If waiting for 9.1-RELEASE, src/ available last week compiles runs. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-December/071044.html Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. ___ 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: Can't set xfce4 logout dialog buttons
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, David Demelier wrote: I added a file for handling shutdown / reboot for Xfce4, the content is located in /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/51-sys-mgmt.pkla. [Restart] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Shutdown] Identity=unix-group:operator Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes But clicking on the on the logout button, will open the xfce4 dialog and only shows Logout all others buttons are grey'ed. I have exactly the same setup on my laptop but with a [Suspend] added, and on my laptop the dialog show Logout and all buttons authorized. On my both machine my user is in the operator group, so I don't know where I missed something for this machine.. startxfce4 must be called with the --with-ck-launch option. Then it works. ___ 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: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Remove acroread entirely. Install graphics/xpdf. Click on a PDF link, tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to get audio from youtube?
is there a way I can get the audio off u-toob? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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: Mounting a samba share on boot?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:08:38 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote: Typically, Samba is used so that Windows or other SMB type OS'es can access the server. That said, I would simplify all this with the way I have mine setup. You will of course need the shares configured in your smb.conf, then simply put a command in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/ to launch smdb and nmbd. I don't rely on anything in /etc/fstab to use samba. It's all in my smb.conf file. Yes, that would be the other way round, which I thought would be less probable due to the question presented in the subject. Terms like mount [...] on boot suggests that FreeBSD would act as a SMB client here. Of course, the standard way to do things like this would usually be something like NFS, which is not very well supported in Windows land (and therefor requiring SMB stuff). Delegating the configuration into _one_ file (instead of spreading it across /etc/fstab, /etc/nsmb.conf and maybe some handcrafted /usr/local/etc/rc.d script) sounds like a much better approach. -- 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: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey buggy *^%$#@ acroread ? Remove acroread entirely. Install graphics/xpdf. Click on a PDF link, tell Firefox to use xpdf and do that for all files of this type. The xpdf program seems to _sometimes_ have problems with carelessly created PDF documents. The best idea would be to use a Firefox extension (as suggested) to first _download_ and _save_ the PDF file to disk for further use. Then, testing xpdf and using it to print the file would be much easier. If the file has been paid for, it can be opened several times whatever program should be tested. For example, even gv or zathura could be tried. And in the end, even acroread. Even _I_ have to admit that I'm using it from time to time, even if it REDEFINES THE MOUSE CURSOR to an ugly white arrow! What a stupid move... However, for paid content, first saving, then using, would be the best way to deal with it. So the in-line processing chain consisting of Firefox + somehow embedded acroread (really?) could be split, so the reason for the system freeze could be determined. -- 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: how to get audio from youtube?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:17:05 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way I can get the audio off u-toob? Depends. The FreeBSD solution: 1. Use youtube-dl (it's in ports) to download the file. 2. Use ffmpeg -i infile.flv outfile.mp3 to get the audio converted to MP3. This process can be scripted if you require batch operation. If you are fine with the native audio component, you could just use mplayer -dumpaudio infile.flv mv stream.dump outfile.mp3, but that's not always optimal for further use (and depends on FLV vs. MP4 file format). Alternative: There are web services that allow you to paste a YT URI and then download it in MP3 format. Such a service is http://www.youtube-mp3.org - but there are several others. But please be advised that it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the USA. :-) -- 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: how to get audio from youtube?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:38:23PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Dec 11, 2012 8:19 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way I can get the audio off u-toob? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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 oh its like the new old napster. Youtube downloader works pretty good, needs python. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ then convert using ffmpeg. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA thankee; will check it out! -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to get audio from youtube?
On Dec 11, 2012 8:19 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way I can get the audio off u-toob? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. ___ 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 oh its like the new old napster. Youtube downloader works pretty good, needs python. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ then convert using ffmpeg. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ 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
