using openssl in kernel module that are loaded at runtime

2011-01-24 Thread alireza imani
I've got a quick question about using openssl within custom kernel modules that are loaded at runtime. Is openssl designed to be used within kernel modules? Specifically I want to use some the des and aes encryption routines. I have a kernel module (for an embedded system) that includes

Re: TV test image generator using mencoder

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/24/11 17:45, Polytropon wrote: For an amateur TV (ham) project, I'm searching for a convenient way to create a test image DVD or CD using FreeBSD's port mencoder. But I can't get this working. Maybe somebody on list has an idea of how to accomplish this. Input: a still image (jpg, gif,

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread krad
On 23 January 2011 22:41, Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.net wrote: Hello list, I've just started messing around with my new Proliant. I've installed ESXi 4.1 and have a VM up and running with 8.2-RC2 using the (Windows only) vSphere client. I don't want to be stuck using Windows to

Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard Intel SATA controller on Intel DH55HC motherboard. I have tried FreeBSD version 7.3 and 8.1 on this motherboard, it recognizes the SATA controller but recognizes the hard disk as IDE devices. How can this happen? $ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: ATI Radeon 4350 Problem

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I compiled them after doing a portsnap fetch extract again today but the problem still persists. The problem exists also in the 7.3-release both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Do you think I shall test CURRENT (devel) version and report the bug if it is still there?

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread RW
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:47:23 -0800 kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I have tmpfs/tmp tmpfs rw,size=428000 I

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: tmpfs is nominally experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't work well with ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com articulated: I have tmpfs/tmp tmpfs rw,size=428000 I would suggest you don't use tmpmfs=YES in rc.conf unless you are being very conservative with a production server. tmpfs is nominally experimental, but it

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:38:10 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: tmpfs is nominally experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't

Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Arthur Chance
I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting another VM that already existed showed the same problem - /dev/ad0 exists but

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:09:05 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: I had not heard about that. What problems does its use exhibit when used in conjunction with ZFS? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060867.html -- Bruce Cran

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd and recognized as SCSI devices. I expected this

Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-24 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm trying to install a new server ( HP Proliant 380 G7 ) which has a 2.5 TB RAID Array. It seems impossible to use the Freebsd sysinstall to partition this raid array disks. I get an error message when running the partitionner Error mounting /mnt/dev/da1s1e on /mnt/.user : input/output

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 00:01, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd

Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:25:05 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:09:05 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: I had not heard about that. What problems does its use exhibit when used in conjunction with ZFS?

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d Well, if it does not work it can be driver bug. In iwn case try to

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether 01:17:a4:8f:04:5d

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:42:55 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: FreeBSD, at least from what I can ascertain, really does not have good support for ZFS anyway. I question whether releasing a product of dubious functionality is an intelligent thing to do. The old axiom of only

Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/24/11 14:19, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread John R. Levine
Is this a known problem?  As far as I know, it's supposed to work. Well, if it does not work it can be driver bug. Well, yes, that's what I'm asking. Is it a known driver bug? In iwn case try to set MAC address of iwn before creating wlan or you will need to set same MAC on wlanX and iwn.

RE: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Bahman Kahinpour [mailto:bahman.li...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 January 2011 11:40 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1) Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard

need help with bind; either the originial, or the new

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
release. Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. Guys, I need some feedback from those DNS wizards onlist. The trouble I've been having has to do with bind/named.

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Harrison
Kevin, Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward. I hadn't thought of running a Windows vm. Do you think that would work as a vm on the server with a connection via RDP? Disappointing that the tools are so Windows-centric. Happy to consider Xen - is that harder to deploy though?

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Oh man, I really liked your answer, thanks so much. I disabled all legacy options in the BIOS (SATA controller is in AHCI mode which I do not know what it is) and added this little ahci_load=YES thing to /boot/loader.conf and now my hard drives are recognized as: (and changed fstab and of course

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Harrison
Krad, Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward. Thanks - although I don't intend to admin this over the internet, just within my home network. Are there any pre-built appliances specifically to admin the host? Thanks again, Peter. -original message- Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from

Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Tom Worster
I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd (listening on different ports, of course). What's a good way to do it? Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2 and editing that doesn't feel very attractive. tnx tom

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Outback Dingo
loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter / openxencenter will run on FreeBSD, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Peter Harrison peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote: Kevin, Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward. I hadn't thought of running a Windows vm. Do you

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Fred
Da Rock wrote: On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether

Apache22 Roadblock

2011-01-24 Thread Edgar Valdes
Hello everyone. Having a good head scratchier this morning. This morning I powercycled the server only to find that apache would no longer start. mind you this server was put together last week and was running without issue over the weekend. the only thing that had changed was the ip. so I did

questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious errors, but several remain. Here is the log file where bind9 fails on em0, my NIC in

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Fred wrote: Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer buys a block of addresses from the IEEE. Yes, although folks can

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Jon Radel
On 1/24/11 2:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious errors, but several remain. Here is the log

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious errors, but several

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 1/24/11 12:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious errors, but several remain. Here is the log

Re: Apache22 Roadblock

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:32:56AM -0800, Edgar Valdes wrote: Hello everyone. Having a good head scratchier this morning. This morning I powercycled the server only to find that apache would no longer start. mind you this server was put together last week and was running without issue over

Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Graeme Dargie
Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the mail to talk to him directly, or get the address so I can filter it. Yes it is not the end of the world,

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the mail to talk to him directly, or get the address so

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com: On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the

Re: which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?)

2011-01-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:52 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Ive used syslog-ng for central logging in the past. It support tcp, encryption and logging to a db. To be honest though the most useful feature was that you can expand log files paths to include the date and hostname. This makes

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:39:46PM -0700, Jarrod Slick wrote: On 1/24/11 12:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious

Re: devel/libsoup-2.32.2 Compile error _md5 problem

2011-01-24 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/21/11 1:59 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi Chris, Please post some compiler output with the error message here, and that might help someone troubleshoot the problem. I

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 1/24/11 1:48 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:39:46PM -0700, Jarrod Slick wrote: On 1/24/11 12:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:45:41PM -0500, Jon Radel wrote: On 1/24/11 2:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote: oKay, since my prev question caught no wixards, how about looking at the errors from bind-9.3.6? [I rebuilt this from the src tarball; it finally installed; I fixed some obvious

Re: Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:16:29 -0500, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd (listening on different ports, of course). What's a good way to do it? Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2

Re: putting /tmp to memory

2011-01-24 Thread David Naylor
On Monday 24 January 2011 14:52:05 Jerry wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com articulated: I have tmpfs/tmp tmpfs rw,size=428000 I would suggest you don't use tmpmfs=YES in rc.conf unless you are being very conservative with a

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:48:46PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: You already have another instance of Bind running, so you cannot have TWO !!! Yes indeed. So, since things are working again, as before I did a

Mounting from (...) failed with error 19

2011-01-24 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Freebsd-questions. I try to make up my own LiveCD mkisofs -V FreeBSD -RJ -iso-level 3 -no-emul-boot -o bootcd.iso relesase I copy bootcd.iso to flash and install grub to flash. then boot from flash in GRUB: map (hd0,0)/iso/bootcd.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) boot press key lsdev

Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
24.01.2011 15:22, Arthur Chance wrote: I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting another VM that already existed showed the

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 24 January 2011 13:42, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter /  openxencenter will run on FreeBSD, I wish I could recommend XCP and/or Xen to the average user but trying to install FreeBSD 8.1-amd64 in Xen, even running

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.comwrote: On 24 January 2011 13:42, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter / openxencenter will run on FreeBSD, I wish I could recommend XCP and/or Xen to

RE: Apache22 Roadblock

2011-01-24 Thread Michael J. Kearney
From: Michael J. Kearney Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 5:33 PM To: Edgar Valdes Subject: RE: Apache22 Roadblock could be the binary with the distribution apache installs in /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl lol I had the same problem ... Michael

Re: Apache22 Roadblock

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 04:32, Edgar Valdes wrote: Hello everyone. Having a good head scratchier this morning. This morning I powercycled the server only to find that apache would no longer start. mind you this server was put together last week and was running without issue over the weekend. the only thing

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:23:28 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 04:44, Fred wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 01/25/11 01:14, Paul B Mahol wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: Is this a known problem? As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With ether command? # ifconfig em0 ether

Re: questions on bind9-3.6-P1

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 07:26, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:48:46PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: You already have another instance of Bind running, so you cannot have TWO !!! Yes indeed. So,

more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly does that work? Note: It's not entirely surprising that this particular process is consuming a lot of resources. It's just surprising to me that it's consuming

computer panics when wifi settings are touched.

2011-01-24 Thread Eitan Adler
Recently I tried to connect to the same AP described in the following thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg238799.html It worked relatively well until now. Whenever I try to use ifconfig, wpa_supplicant, dhclient, or any related tool on the wlan0 interface it

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly does that work? Note: It's not entirely surprising that this particular process is consuming a lot of

Re: Partitions greater than 1TB ?

2011-01-24 Thread Devin Teske
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:08 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm trying to install a new server ( HP Proliant 380 G7 ) which has a 2.5 TB RAID Array. It seems impossible to use the Freebsd sysinstall to partition this raid array disks. Correct. Currently sysinstall can only perform

How to label a GELI device

2011-01-24 Thread J. Porter Clark
I have an encrypted partition, /dev/da0s1d. I can use geli attach da0s1d and obtain a device /dev/da0s1d.eli, which is a UFS filesystem. All that works just fine. I'd like to label /dev/da0s1d so that I don't have to refer to the exact drive number, etc., which might change if I reboot with a

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:02:46AM +, Craig Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly does that work? Note: It's not

Tracing packets - asterisk issues

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
I have been trying to get some pointers on my asterisk issues and I've only been hearing crickets chirping (Asterisk list and here). I need a pointer or two so I can fix this issue, so I'll try another angle. How do I trace IP packets across the network (pf firewall included)? And would it be