It does FreeBSD a disservice when its supporters slam other platforms and
implicitly (and explicitly on occasion) denigrate users of such.
I agree only insofar as nobody is ever benefited by
insulting/denigrating other users. But that's not what Polytropon was
doing, I don't think. Seems to me
Sorry, haven't gotten around to this yet. Will try to this afternoon.
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Elias,
I got to a certain point, then temporarily put it aside. See, I was
installing from a custom install disc, and so I'm not really surprised
ditto. But now I'm pretty happy with that new firefox-3.5 which seems pretty
faster than previous version and still light enough for my old 1.6G
celeron-powered laptop.
Nice. I haven't tried 3.5 yet.
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Elias,
I got to a certain point, then temporarily put it aside. See, I was
installing from a custom install disc, and so I'm not really surprised
that the Handbook instructions for installing matlab on freebsd didn't
completely help me.
However, I now have a standard install disc. I
I'd really love to see chromium ported over.
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Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for
a lifetime. :-)
Amen.
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I wish there was a FreeBSD package of the newest version of Eclipse
CDT (or at least ganymede version). I do my research in Eclipse-CDT
Galileo on multiple Linux systems, and it would be nice to be able to
mess with things occasionally on my FreeBSD box. Although I can't
recall specifics, I know
I've had great success with my my T43. I strongly recommend it.
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I've had great success with my my T43. I strongly recommend it.
Everything on my T43 works with without any extra configuration. The
only drivers you have to mess with are the wireless drivers. But the
iwi drivers work perfectly, and you can configure them easily a few
extra lines in
Midori seems to have problems displaying Gmail.
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Can anyone suggest a fast graphical web browser? I use Firefox
(because every page displays well and I can sync bookmarks), and I
also use elinks (when graphics don't matter). I'm looking for some
middle ground, a browser that can display most sites well but is
faster (or more lightweight) than
Furthermore, there's lots of stuff now
bundled with the Opera web browser that I (personally) found
no use for, such as a mail client, IRC client, torrent client,
and some other stuff that could easily be called bloatware.
Yeah, I share your take on Opera.
Give Midori a try. Of course it's
I would use Opera as an alternative to Firefox. If I can find a way
to sync bookmarks across Opera browsers, I'll give it a try.
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I would use Opera as an alternative to Firefox. If I can find a way
to sync bookmarks across Opera browsers, I'll give it a try.
I didn't realize Opera has built-in synchronization. That's pretty nice.
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Did you add the -fopenmp flag to both the compiler and the linker?
Both need it.
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Valgrind is rather hopeless on fbsd for multithreaded programs
Interesting. Thanks for the note.
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I *can* connect to the server on my Ubuntu machine, but not on my
FreeBSD machine.
When trying to connect to my nx server (on a RHEL5 machine), I am able
to authenticate successfully but at the negotiating link parameters
step, an error dialog box opens asking if I want to terminate the
I'm programming a multithreaded scientific program using pthreads and
c++. Currently The model is SMP, but may investigate MMP using MPI in
the future. Can anyone suggest a good debugger and possibly an
associated GUI? (E.g., gdb and ddd.)
Along the same lines, are there any free solutions
Thanks for the reply. I should have said that I'm also interested in
profilers. I have limited experience (in Linux) using gprof and
valgrind.
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To make it more complicated, what about wearing some specific USB device
on your clothes, attached to a chain, and when you leave the computer,
it will pop out of the USB socket and therefore cause xlock to be
called? :-)
Haha... Polytropon's witty responses are enough reason in themselves
to
Coming from Linux, I'm accustomed to using gpg. I installed the gnupg
port (which I assume is virtually the same as Linux gpg).
Doing
$ man gnupg
returns nothing. Doing
$ which gnupg
reveals that the port (or at least the binary) is in fact installed.
But where are the gnupg man pages? If truly
gnupg's binary is gpg2, and man gpg2 exists. :)
I see. Thanks, that works.
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Trying to install MATLAB (R2008b) according to the directions here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-matlab.html
Here's what happens when I try to install:
devil # /compat/linux/bin/sh /home/daniel/matlab-install/install
expr: illegal option -- r
usage: expr
Upon further investigation, I've learned that I can disregard the sse2 error.
I changed:
expr `cat /proc/cpuinfo` : '.* sse2 .*$'
to:
#expr `cat /proc/cpuinfo` : '.* sse2 .*$'
echo 1
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During installation of Matlab, just after accepting the licnse
agreement, I get this error:
/home/daniel/matlab-install/update/bin/glnx86/xsetup: error while
loading shared libraries: /lib/libXp.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid
I even tried # brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/lib/libXp.so.6 but I
$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
$ ls /var/db/pkg|grep linux_base
linux_base-fc-4_14
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FYI:
I believe initially libXp.so.6 was not located in /compat/linux/lib/,
so I copied it there from /usr/local/lib/. I believe I also tried to
brand the file, but before branding the file and after branding the
file I get this same error message.
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Now that Matlab is installed, when I attempt to run matlab I receive
the following error:
Error: Your computer processor is missing the SSE2 instructions that
are required for MATLAB to run correctly.
For system requirements consult http://www.mathworks.com ...
Any ideas?
When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I
then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other
words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen
*not* to install a boot manager, but I did.
Is there anyway now to remove the boot
Will binaries running on the linux binaries wrapper run slower due to
having to be run on the linux layer?
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See 5.4.2 Configuring X11
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
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Hi folks:
(1) I'm only used Wireshark and Ethereal to inspect network traffic,
and I've only used these on several occasion. Would someone suggest
FreeBSD alternatives (console or xserver based?
(2) I'm testing my connection to a remote server. The connection is
supposed to be encrypted.
Thanks for the help.
I couldn't find any flags/fields in TCP packets indicated whether
encrypted (as in the case of SSH packets). There isn't any, right?
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Good morning, folks! (At least, it's morning on the east coast of USA)
QUESTION 1: Would someone please explain the /var/run/dmesg.boot excerpt below?
Note: I have glanced at both of the following links, but at the
moment, I do not have time to dig into the documentation and learn all
about
Thanks, very helpful!
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Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access
to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the
MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way).
Is there a way to hide this terminal window completely? If I close
it, MATLAB closes. I
Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD
has a single structured line of development?
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Why? More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run
Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher?
I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or
via Run Program, it will display the splash screen, but then
terminate. This also happens on all
Some searching suggests matlab -desktop may be what is needed.
Yep, that did it! Thanks!
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Thanks, this is great!
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I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
Why?
Good question. Because of the perspective many FreeBSD fans (people
who like and use FreeBSD) have toward *NIX OS's. You said it well:
Modern Linux distributions don't appeal very much to
QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you
prefer? and why?
I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux
distributions from FreeBSD fans.
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of all the Linux distros I have tried, the least confusing is Gentoo
Gentoo portage is kinda like FreeBSD ports
Yes, I'd like to give Gentoo a try.
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I'm getting a new desktop through my university which will come
installed with Windows Vista. Obviously, my first action item will be
removing Vista and installing a reasonable OS. Due to the need to be
up-and-running immediately with an OS that I'm comfortable with, I'll
be installing Linux
Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems?
I've been here, but my knowledge of hardware terminology is too
limited to confidently draw conclusions:
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/
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amd64
Ah-hah. Thanks!
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I wanted to ask, but neglected to until now, did you install from the DVD or
the network? Also, did you install for FreeBSD (pre-compiled binaries), or
I initially tried the network installation, but there are so many
packages/files to retrieve that I quit and went for the DVD install.
I
Has anyone been able to use the Novell Groupwise email/calendaring
system on FreeBSD? If so, please explain how you accomplished this.
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Is there an effort to build a port of chromium for FreeBSD? I recently
began using chromium on my Linux machine, and the HTML rendering speed
is quite impressive.
When it has the ability to synchronize bookmarks, I'll use it exclusively.
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As I believe has already been answered in this thread, the better connected
a server is to the Internet, the higher its value to several varieties of
miscreants. Given a choice between a server connected via a close to
saturated T1 somewhere in the back waters of the Internet and a server
I recently went through the ropes of installing latex on my FreeBSD
machine. You may the discussion I had helpful.
See # 256 and below, from here:
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Hopefully Polytropon will chime in on this, but I had to install
TeXLive for everything to work.
Suggestion: try teTeX. If you encounter problems, then install TeXLive.
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There is... but not an official one. Romain Tartière made a special
form of ports tree, to be integrated with the 'official' tree for
TeXLive.
I didn't know that. I've had no problems with the generic version though.
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Suppose I'm running a multi-threaded program that's utilizing both
cores of my CPU. I'm not interested in it's speed, however, and would
like to free up another core for general purpose. Is there a way
(without altering/recompiling the program, obviously) to restricting a
process and its children
That's great, thanks!
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Polytropon, here is the problem I was having:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2351398+0+archive/2009/freebsd-questions/20090607.freebsd-questions
Granted, that's not much to go on :)
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That's a very good suggestion. But let's take into mind that we
do need the most advanced and modern MICROS~1 technology, so
FreeBSD should include a pirated copy of Windows 7 in order
to run the latest and most expensive pirated copy of Office,
programmed in Java, running through Flash. With
Looked for mkisofs in the online FreeBSD man pages, but couldn't find
it. What is modern equivalent?
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Ahh, so searching the manpages at FreeBSD.org
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi) will provide only those entries
pertaining to the base OS?
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Got it. Thanks!
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Point remains: Adding port knocking does not solve any security problem, it
only adds
complexity, cost, points of failure, inconvenience etc while making your
problem appear
differently and leaving you with the illusion of being more secure.
I think that's grossly overstated, if not just
why does the speed of a connection make it a higher risk?
Super-fast connections are ideal targets for people to install private
fileservers (among other things).
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I do not believe that tricks like running ssh on a
non standard port or using port-knocking provide
much extra security.
I can understand that varying the port is not a very strong defensive
measure, but I don't understand your point about port-knocking.
If you configure a complex and
Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions:
-rw-r--r--
Which I understand to be equivalent to 644.
I read here http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ that
~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700.
Which is preferable, and why?
Thanks. Might as well set to 700 then.
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A port-knocking sequence is really nothing different than a shared password.
Technically and conceptually, that's true. But practically, I'm not
sure you're right. If in addition to attempting to enumerate the
space of possible passwords, an attacker also enumerates the space of
possible
Whenever I
$ ssh -X u...@server
from my FreeBSD machine, I get the following message (and am
successfully logged in):
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
When I log in to the
On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP),
I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I
use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't
set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always, however, use the same
laptop to connect to
Aside:
My Bonnie looked into a gas tank,
The height of its contents to see!
She lit a small match to assist her,
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.
Hah... I like that. Dark, but witty.
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$ find ./ -name *.pem -exec cp {} /usr/home/tmp/something \;
I'm a novice with shell scripting myself, but what's the difference
between that code and some variant thereof using a pipe and xargs?
Are they simply two different ways of achieving the same result? Or
is there some more important
Thanks for these great answers! I already use a customized .vimrc
file. So I can just add the mappings to this file, instead of to
.exrc, right?
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I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not
surprisingly, having to exit insert mode and save changes frequently
(when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of
the changes in a separate terminal). This requires pressing 4 keys:
esc, :, w, and
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
pdftotext. I tried the following command:
$ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext
Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf
Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf
'
Why is this not working?
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
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Hmm.. The command
find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
works in directories in which no PDF file returns the Document has
not the mandatory ending %EOF error. When a directory contains one
of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
ignore or skip over this %EOF problem
I retrieved a fresh copy of the error-causing PDF, and now all is
well. Thanks for all the excellent help!
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I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
downloaded onto my local drive.
In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas!
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Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I
simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from
within PDFs?
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OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing.
So let's take a for instance.
Suppose I run something like the Linux command fdupes on a directory
with many large files. This operation will take considerable time to
complete. When it completes, a lot of output is send to
How can I change the Terminal title (the title shown on open instances
of Terminal on the panel in xfce) to display *only* the present
working directory. Currently they all show Terminal - dan...@bsdbox:
~, for example.
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Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
mount_cd9660: /dev: Block device required
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$
Please help me figure this out.
Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks!
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I added the winefish package (LaTeX editor) and installed the
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I
assumed the package was named
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
despite repeated attempts and a lot of talk, no one has introduced
this into FreeBSD Ports yet -- that's a shame... (La)TeX is a
must-have tool for me. I usually do most of my LaTeX'ing in Linux,
but I'd love to be able to use FreeBSD
If you don't find an answer here, I suggest asking this question in
the freebsd-hpc mailing list, because pthreads is a library for c/c++
multithreaded programming, and a mutex is a kind of lock on a
resource used in parallel programming.
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) I can reclaim the ~300GB drive for external storage/backups.
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After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my
linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk
Awesome. This is exactly the advice I need. Thanks!
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Thanks guys, this is perfect.
According to the newfs manpages, you can specify a filesystem type
(-O) and a disktype (-T) for backward compatibility. It further
appears that -O can only designate either UFS1 or UFS2. I don't quite
know what the -T option designates; i.e., back compatible with
After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my
linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD. Frankly, I
just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to
working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the
disk.
The command
$
Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup
bsdbox (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning
dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's
not a problem because my WAN connectivity is fine, but I still want
to resolve this.
In
Really? No IP? I mean like
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local bsdbox
127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local.
Right, I realize I was unclear. I just meant that two lines contained
localhost localhost.my.domain, not that they
*Correction*
In previous email, /etc/ttys -- /etc/hosts.
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I added the line
127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain
and now it works perfectly, thanks!
Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does
that line do?
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There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com
services here:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html
E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck
Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using DynDNS is to allow
remote SSH logins to a machine behind a router at my house (using a
I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of
installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I
prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An
obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security
vulnerabilities; of course not
I'm looking to purchase a = 1TB external harddrive, because I'm
running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience
with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands
compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check CNet
and other online
Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to
xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press
enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can
Ctrl+Alt+F# to another virtual terminal.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Daniel
I don't have an xorg.conf file. When I installed 7.1-RELEASE on this
laptop (exact same machine) I didn't need to configure an xorg.conf
file. But I'll certainly try your advice.
Thanks!
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