Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpZiMXnDk18D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:33 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images Actually it does have limited support. I do printing myself, and I refuse to use M$ crap. To be able to do the job I use Gimp for some editing (making sure to use the CMYK ICC) and it will save in a RGB format. I then use scribus with the same ICC to save in CMYK and final layout. It works very well in fact. Consider Gimp like Photoshop and Scribus like Illustrator. For help and tips try meet the gimp, he offers an podcast in tips and tricks in Gimp (and sometimes compares them to Photoshop methods). Good luck :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images Nobody has ever said that the gimp was suitable for all purposes. But it seems that most users of gimp (and photoshop) don't need it. Most of the gimp users seem to use it for editing photos or making web graphics, where RGB is fine. Adding and testing CMYK capabilities is both time-consuming and costly because you need access to pre-press equipment to do meaningfull testing, see: http://rants.scribus.net/2006/06/03/why-no-cmyk-in-gimp-is-a-good-thing-now/ However, there is a gimp plug-in for exporting CMYK images: http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp4DOjx9jkmu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (no subject)
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list these comments are sacrilege, but the broader picture is what your needs truly are. I take that back - I just examined the latest Kubuntu. It is the simplest to install of just about anything I've seen, but once installed is just so excruciatingly annoying! Ease of install doesn't make up for the short sightedness of Canonical. I'd suggest PC-BSD instead, and not only because it's a FreeBSD spin-off. It also provides PBI for software management, which will surely provide a gentler transition for people used to the Microsoft way of installing software, and doesn't make a lot of the design mistakes I see in Ubuntu and its spin-offs. DesktopBSD is a pretty good choice along those lines, too. Still better than Ubuntu, in my opinion. Furthermore . . . they both use KDE by default, and you don't have to use a red-headed stepchild or second-hand citizen like Kubuntu to get it. Yes, I like this suggestion better - I've just never used either one but rather just built KDE out from ports. I just took some brief looks at Kubuntu 8.10 in a VirtualBox VM and it still annoys me no end. I had used it some time in the past and needed reminding why I quit. Fedora 9 looks a trifle better, and the openSUSE 11.1 Beta is a train wreck. So my desktop will probably stay openSUSE 10.3 as this allows me to get work done. If none of the newer, improved and advanced Linuxes get their act together soon I will probably be returning to KDE on FreeBSD in the not very distant future. I just can't spend all my time screwing around with b***cr**. Now running a real live Web presence out of your house is probably not really a good idea if it has anything to do with business. A personal blog can go down for indefinite periods and no harm done, but a business site is a different story. First, the reason for having your servers located in a data center is they are sitting directly on the fat pipes of the Internet. Second, these data centers are multi homed in their peerage to other backbones. If one connection path develops a problem your site is still going to be accessible via one of the other paths. You simply will never have the kind of connectivity found in a real data center at home. Make sure the colocation facility of your choice is multi-homed before simply assuming it is. Some aren't. I wouldn't want one with less than 3 peerages, and I'm in favor of full mesh arrangements. But at this stage of the game I think the OP is better served by learning how it all works before he starts co-locating or leasing dedicated boxen. Baby steps first, so to speak. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. CTRLEND works like a charm also. It is amazing what people will bitch at. The same people who will spend days attempting to get a video card fully functional will find placing the cursor at the end of an email message too daunting of a task. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sex discriminates against the shy and ugly. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The OpenOffice.org dictionaries page says: IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard is not longer available -- Dictionaries are now available via the extensions repository. [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries] So, the OpenOffice.org-3 users are supposed to download .oxt files and run them. However, I experienced the 'bad transfer url' problem with all extension files; this was reported on FreeBSD mailing lists in the past with no available solution. Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. I had the same experience. Note that to install the dictionaries for all users, I needed write access to /usr/local/openoffice.org-3.0.0/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/dict/ooo and to some of the files inside of it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
On Friday 07 November 2008 21:19, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:36:51 +0100, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A batch solution is simple:
#!/bin/sh
for f in *eps; do
convert ${f} `basename ${f} .eps`.jpg
done
You can also save yourself repeated calls to basename by using
for f in *eps; do
convert ${f%.eps}.jpg
done
Look under parameter expansion in the manpage for sh(1) (or bash(1) if you
have bash installed). As far as I can tell csh/tcsh doesn't support this
useful feature.
Essentially, a Bourne-type shell with parameter expansion expands
${variable#prefix} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or
suffix, respectively, removed.
Jonathan
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Compile : Always missing headers
Hi, We have just install our FreeBSD and we try naturally to update our system. $ uname -a FreeBSD pinky.e-cac.fr 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 But each time we compile softs, ports or world, we have errors with the headers not found or wrong headers like that : /usr/include/sys/param.h:63:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:50:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory chkproc.c:61:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/sys/types.h:169: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers /usr/src/sys/sys/types.h:169: warning: useless type name in empty declaration We think : Hmmm ... il seems that includes are wrong ... try to add some includes folders So we precise the CFLAGS : CFLAGS='-I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/include -I/sys' Unfortunately, we have always some errors in the compilation... Example : # make buildworld [...] /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:336: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'sread' In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/apprentice.c:37: /usr/include/unistd.h:510: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'vm_offset_t' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:550: error: expected ')' before '...' token In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/funcs.c:27: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:50:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/funcs.c:27: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:336: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'sread' In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/magic.c:28: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:50:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/magic.c:28: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:336: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'sread' In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/magic.c:33: /usr/include/unistd.h:510: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'vm_offset_t' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:550: error: expected ')' before '...' token In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/print.c:32: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:50:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/print.c:32: /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:336: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'sread' In file included from /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/print.c:39: /usr/include/unistd.h:510: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'vm_offset_t' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fd_set' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:546: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'u_long' /usr/include/unistd.h:550: error: expected ')' before '...' token *** Error code 1 We don't understand why it lacks some headers files like /usr/include/sys/types.h ? And google, our best friend, doesn't want to explain us... If you need more information, tell us, we'll be glad to answer. -- Three poor french guys, very happy to discover FreeBSD but little disturb... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
automatic creation of home directories
Hello all, I have users logging in via Kerberos (authn) and LDAP (authz) on FreeBSD to Active Directory. I don't like having to manually create their home directory. Is there some way to have the login process automatically create the home directory on login? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:26 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images Nobody has ever said that the gimp was suitable for all purposes. But it seems that most users of gimp (and photoshop) don't need it. Most of the gimp users seem to use it for editing photos or making web graphics, where RGB is fine. Adding and testing CMYK capabilities is both time-consuming and costly because you need access to pre-press equipment to do meaningfull testing, see: http://rants.scribus.net/2006/06/03/why-no-cmyk-in-gimp-is-a-good-thing-now/ However, there is a gimp plug-in for exporting CMYK images: http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html Actually I've checked that out and it isn't much chop unless you specifically want to create colour sep plates. Gimp can handle CMYK palettes because they're a subset of the RGB palette. Just use the right ICC, import into scribus, and save as a pdf (or whatever). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. CTRLEND works like a charm also. It is amazing what people will bitch at. The same people who will spend days attempting to get a video card fully functional will find placing the cursor at the end of an email message too daunting of a task. The best response to the issue of Outlook and top-posting I've seen recently was on the London Perlmongers mailing list - although I should warn that some may find this offensive. space to protect the sensitive ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... potentially offensive response The last I checked, cursor keys worked in Outlook just fine without any third-party hacks, so there is no reason for top-posting just because the cursor happens to be there. It's a bit like crapping in your pants because that's where your arse happens to be. -- Peter Corlett, london.pm Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No pam_module.so found
Hi all I have built FreeBSD 7.0 with openpam (ver. 20071221) on (i386). Now I cannot login through the console, it gives following error message: login: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_self.so found login: pam_start(): system error But I can login remotely using ssh. In both cases I tried only root account. After ssh into the system, when I try to login as another user, it gives following error on the console: su -l test su: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_rootok.so found su: pam_start: system error All my pam modules reside in /usr/lib/ and the version number of pam modules match the version number of the libpam (/usr/lib/libpam.so.2). Eg. pam_self.so.2 and pam_rootok.so.2 are available in /usr/lib/. My first question is, is suffix 2 in this case, the Module Version number? Second question, what do you guys think, why pam cannot find pam modules? Kind regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Apache environment variables - logical AND
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your
indulgence.
Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat
off
the most rapacious robots and such, using mostly BrowserMatch[NoCase]
and SetEnvIf to moderate access to several virtual hosts. No problem.
OR conditions are of course straighforward:
SetEnvIf condition1 somevar
SetEnvIf condition2 somevar
SetEnvIf exception1 !somevar
What I can't figure out is how to set a variable3 if and only if both
variable1 AND variable2 are set. Eg:
SetEnvIf Referer ^$ no_referer
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^$ no_browser
I want the equivalent for this (invalid and totally fanciful) match:
SetEnvIf (no_browser AND no_referer) go_away
Sounds like a job for mod_rewrite. The SetEnvIf stuff is such a hack.
That's true. Thanks for your considered and helpful tutorial. I do use
ipfw+dummynet for bandwidth limiting, and ipfw table 80 to house bogons.
But I finally figured out how to make such a hack work .. it just kept
on bugging me until I woke up remembering some very basic logic; quite
embarrassing really ..
# 9/11/8: preset env vars to be tested by value
SetEnvIf Referer .* no_ref=0 no_bro=0 both=1
SetEnvIf Referer^$ no_ref=1
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^$ no_bro=1
# duh, logic 101: a AND b = NOT ( (NOT a) OR (NOT b) )
SetEnvIf no_ref 0 both=0
SetEnvIf no_bro 0 both=0
SetEnvIf both 1 go_away
It's a bit round about and awkward but seems to work fine, and this was
just one example of several combination conditions I'd like to test.
cheers, Ian
It may be a hack, but I've found it an extremely useful one so far.
This is what we use on our production servers (snipped to keep it
short):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^: [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://forums.somethingawful.com/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://forums.fark.com/[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Alexibot[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^asterias[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BackDoorBot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Black.Hole [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon.WebSpider
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
You need to keep something in mind however: blocking by user agent is
basically worthless these days. Most leeching tools now let you
spoof the user agent to show up as Internet Explorer, essentially
defeating the checks.
While that's true, I've found most of the more troublesome robots are
too proud of their 'brand' to spoof user agent, and those that do are a)
often consistent enough in their Remote_Addr to exclude by subnet and/or
b) often make obvious errors in spoofed User_Agent strings .. especially
those pretending to be some variant of MSIE :)
I haven't found this to be true at all, and I've been doing web hosting
since 1993. In the past 2-3 years, the amount of leeching tools which
spoof their User-Agent has increased dramatically.
But step back for a moment and look at it from a usability perspective,
because this is what really happens.
A user tries to leech a site you host, using FruitBatLeecher, which your
Apache server blocks based on User-Agent. The user has no idea why the
leech program doesn't work. Does the user simply give up his quest?
Absolutely not -- the user then goes and finds BobsBandwidthZilla which
pretends to be Internet Explorer, Firefox, or lynx, and downloads the
site.
Now, if you're trying to block robots/scrapers which aren't honouring
robots.txt, oh yes, that almost always works, because those rarely spoof
their User-Agent (I think to date I've only seen one site which did
that, and it was some Russian search engine).
If you feel I'm just doing burn-outs arguing, a la BSD style, let me
give you some insight to how often I deal with this problem: daily.
We host a very specific/niche site that contains over 20 years of
technical information on the Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System.
The site has hundreds of megabytes of information, and a very active
forum. Some jackass comes along and decides Wow, this has all the info
I want! and fires off a leeching program against the entire
domain/vhost. Let's say the program he's using is blocked by our
User-Agent blocks; there is a 6-7 minute delay as the user goes off to
find another program to leech with, installs it, and
Re: automatic creation of home directories
Il giorno sab, 08/11/2008 alle 11.15 -0500, Ansar Mohammed ha scritto: Hello all, I have users logging in via Kerberos (authn) and LDAP (authz) on FreeBSD to Active Directory. I don't like having to manually create their home directory. Is there some way to have the login process automatically create the home directory on login? Have you already checked pam_mkhomedir? I have a simpler setup (pam_ldap only), but it solved my issue. Regards, Francesco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:25:12 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: The best response to the issue of Outlook and top-posting I've seen recently was on the London Perlmongers mailing list ... The last I checked, cursor keys worked in Outlook just fine without any third-party hacks, so there is no reason for top-posting just because the cursor happens to be there. Some people argue that the cursor should start-off at the top because you should start by removing superfluous quoted text before bottom posting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compile : Always missing headers
On Saturday 08 November 2008 14:11:59 d bena wrote: Hi, We have just install our FreeBSD and we try naturally to update our system. $ uname -a FreeBSD pinky.e-cac.fr 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 But each time we compile softs, ports or world, we have errors with the headers not found or wrong headers like that : /usr/include/sys/param.h:63:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/lib/libmagic/../../contrib/file/file.h:50:23: error: snip more examples of sys/types.h missing We don't understand why it lacks some headers files like /usr/include/sys/types.h ? Only you can tell that. Is the file present or not? Maybe an fsck couldn't restore it? Or something went wrong during install? Do you have a /usr/src populated with the OS and kernel sources? -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question on creating a video server
Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way out of my budget (I just can't see spending $500 for a TV set, sorry) I can pick up really high quality, large, old-style video monitors from a computer surplus place near here for next to nothing. I'd like to setup a PC and put a HDTV tuner card in it for over-the-air HDTV broadcasts, and use that as a TV. We also have a ton of DVD's and I'd like to rip these to video files and put them on the PC. Then when anyone wants to watch a movie they just watch it off the PC. I've already started doing this under Windows and it works great - it's even better since I can remove all those movie previews that the studio wants to force you to watch. Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? PREFERABLY cheap - since ultimately we likely will get a big screen TV set once the prices fall. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Glob error?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:08:10PM -0600, Paul A. Procacci wrote: Steve Watt wrote: ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) I did the following: % cd /tmp % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ % System is: FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34 PDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES i386 Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time. Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). My cygwin installation seems to get it right. Known issue? A quick glance for glob in gnats didn't show anything promising. I too can't reproduce this on any of my machines: Well, it went away with my update to 6.4-PRE. Must've been a bad time to grab a -stable snapshot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on creating a video server
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:40:26 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? we found it awkward to do it on freebsd so used kubuntu. we tried lifeview flyvideo 2000 tv card which worked fine with mythtv and kdetv, but couldn't pick up the cable station we think due to our location in canada. for ripping we used perl's dvd::rip. our harddrive can't hold too many shows so we just use the dvd player on the computer now to play them. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on creating a video server
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on creating a video server
On 11/08/08 11:14, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get o and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too. Although MythTV is available in ports, there are significant disadvantages to running MythTV on FreeBSD. First, most TV tuner cards don't have corresponding FreeBSD kernel modules. Second, MythTV uses the Video4Linux API, which of course doesn't exist on FreeBSD -- instead, you hack the kernel to emulate V4L. Third, there is terribly limited LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) support, and most people will want to use their remotes with their MythTV installations. I love FreeBSD, but running a PVR solution that is so closely tied to Linux (V4L, LIRC) is a bit of a hack. Don't get me wrong -- I tried it and discovered that the community has made significant progress towards getting it to work. But at the end of the day, I wanted a fully-functional PVR, not months of writing drivers and hacking V4L into the FreeBSD kernel. That's why I eventually made the decision to run MythTV on Linux, even though I'd *much* rather administer a machine running FreeBSD. -- Benjamin Lee signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
scripting text replacement
Sorry for this cross posting, but I can not find a good bash mailing list… I am certain FreeBSD gurus will provide me with a fast and reliable answer to this little question. Here is the deal: - I have a file containing a list of items like that: line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 line2item1 line2item2 line2item3 …400 times I need to insert this into another text file using printf() items should be converted into variable looping… like that: printf Bla bla bla $1 bla bla $2 bla bla $3 bla bla $2 The main thing is that I can not get $1 $2 $3 to correspond to line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 Any good idea or example will be welcome. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?
Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape or xaralx. They're all in ports. i have a friend that do offset printing. he have to use windoze and photoshop for only one reason - gimp doesn't support editing CMYK images If all else fails, one could try running the Windows versions of Photoshop and Illustrator under wine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on creating a video server
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes PREFERABLY cheap - since ultimately we likely will get a big screen TV set once the prices fall. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How long does it take to compile KDE4
Hi I'm trying to install in KDE 4 and it's been stuck on Generating k3iconviewsearchline.moc for about 4 hours now. My box is a an amd64 (running amd64 kernel) 1.8ghz w/1gb RAM. I know that this request is quite relative based on hard hardware and such, but from those who have installed KDE4 from ports, can you give me the times it took you to compile? There are two reasons I haven't stopped the process yet. First, it's not acting like it's stuck, e.g. top shows that the system is 0.0% idle and the process, automoc4, isn't steady on a specific number it keeps going from ~92% - ~98% WCPU usage. This would seem to indicate that it's not stuck in a loop doing the same thing over and over but is really doing some work. Second, I've been around long enough to know that sometimes you just have to wait . . . a long time. Any ideas on time to compile would be good. Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scripting text replacement
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for this cross posting, but I can not find a good bash mailing
list…
I am certain FreeBSD gurus will provide me with a fast and reliable
answer to this little question.
Here is the deal:
-
I have a file containing a list of items like that:
line1item1 line1item2 line1item3
line2item1 line2item2 line2item3
…400 times
I need to insert this into another text file using printf() items should
be converted into variable looping… like that:
printf Bla bla bla $1 bla bla $2 bla bla $3 bla bla $2
The main thing is that I can not get $1 $2 $3 to correspond to
line1item1 line1item2 line1item3
A little more detail about the Bla bla part may be important in our
effort to help you effectively. What you seem to describe above may be
trivial to do with awk(1):
,---
| $ cat /tmp/inputfile
| line1item1 line1item2 line1item3
| line2item1 line2item2 line2item3
| $ awk '{
| printf Bla bla bla %s bla bla %s bla bla %s bla bla %s\n,
| $1, $2, $3, $2;
| }' /tmp/inputfile
| Bla bla bla line1item1 bla bla line1item2 bla bla line1item3 bla bla
line1item2
| Bla bla bla line2item1 bla bla line2item2 bla bla line2item3 bla bla
line2item2
| $
`---
or with a short script in sed(1) or Perl:
,---
| $ perl \
| -pe 's/(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/Bla bla bla $1 bla bla $2 bla bla $3 bla bla
$2/' \
| /tmp/inputfile
| Bla bla bla line1item1 bla bla line1item2 bla bla line1item3 bla bla
line1item2
| Bla bla bla line2item1 bla bla line2item2 bla bla line2item3 bla bla
line2item2
| $
`---
More complex substitutions can be scripted in almost any scripting
language you prefer.
HTH,
Giorgos
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Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:40:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Some people argue that the cursor should start-off at the top because you should start by removing superfluous quoted text before bottom posting. If only that were true. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know that for the price of a 280-Z you can buy two Z-80's? P. J. Plauger signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Question on creating a video server
On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way out of my budget (I just can't see spending $500 for a TV set, sorry) Why not just get a digital converter and keep using your nice TV? https://www.dtv2009.gov/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: host -6 failure
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: host -6 failure
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:25 PM
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, mdh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy folks,
I'm having a little trouble understanding a
problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent)
is having. This is by and large my first time working with
IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time.
First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a
record for x1.mydomain and named isn't complaining.
However, when I run `host -6 x1.mydomain`, host returns the
following output:
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [/etc/namedb]: host -6 x1.mydomain
/usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179:
internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument
/usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179:
internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument
/usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179:
internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument
/usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179:
internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
The '-6' on the command line for host(1) forces an
IPv6 only
connection to your nameserver, not necessarily a
query for the
hostname in question. In this case, your nameservers
listed in the
warnings are IPv4 nameservers that host(1) is attempting to
connect to
using an ipv4 mapped ipv6 address (which by default is
disabled in the
kernel) In other words, don't use host -6 for this
scenario.
Yet as I pointed out, the second nameserver in my resolv.conf is ::1 - so
shouldn't it work with that? It's clearly trying to contact the first and
third nameservers listed. If the behavior I'm experiencing is the proper
behavior, then let me pose this question: when would anyone conceivably want
to use the -6 option, and why does it exist? My intent was to force a query
to hit the nameserver on ::1 rather than 127.0.0.1.
Most recent versions of the host(1) command will do both
A (IPv4
host record), and (IPv6 host record)
lookups for you
automatically. For example:
host www.kame.net
www.kame.net has address 203.178.141.194
www.kame.net has IPv6 address
2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085
IP.IP.IP.8 is my ISP's DNS server, and is a third
option just in case the localhost DNS server crashes or goes
batty while I'm out drinking or somesuch. Here's my
resolv.conf, which shows ::1 listed as the second nameserver
entry - however, it seems host -6 never even tries it.
domain mydomain
search mydomain
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver ::1
nameserver IP.IP.IP.8
The DNS server running on localhost is authoritative
for mydomain. I can ping it via localhost using both v4 and
v6, and I can also ping the external v4 and v6 addresses
just fine remotely.
As I said, I'm new to IPv6, but this behavior
seems to be counterintuitive. Am I just doing it wrong?
For diagnosing your own nameservers, you are better off
using the
dig(1) utility.
Example:
dig ipv6.google.com @::1
This causes a dns query for an IPv6 address (aka
query) for the
hostname of ipv6.google.com using the
nameserver on the IPv6
localhost loopback address (::1), and will give a very nice
verbose
output. man dig for more details.
That is more useful, but still doesn't stifle my desire to stomp a potential
bug in the base system.
Right after sending, I realized that I did not tell you all of the answer
host(1) will successfully query ::1 when named is setup to listen on
::1 in named.conf, and ::1 is listed in /etc/resolv.conf (I just ran a
test on my box to be sure that it works this way with the -6 switch)
Example line from /etc/namedb/named.conf:
listen-on-v6{ ::1; any; };
And of course you need to restart named after the config change(
/etc/rc.d/named restart)
To make sure that it is listening on the IPv6 loopback address:
netstat -anW -f inet6
I do not remember the minimum version of bind (aka named) required for
IPv6 off the top of my head, but I am running 9.4.2-P2 on my IPv6
machine.
-_Dave
Good Luck.
BTW, if you have not already setup an IPv6 tunnel to the
internet, I
highly recommend SixXS's (www.sixxs.net) free tunnels
(and the
sixxs-aiccu port), or you can look at Hurricane Electric
(www.he.net),
and some other tunnel brokers as well.
Actually this system is located at HE. :)
Thanks,
- mdh
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Re: host -6 failure
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy folks, I'm having a little trouble understanding a problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent) is having. This is by and large my first time working with IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time. First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a record for x1.mydomain and named isn't complaining. However, when I run `host -6 x1.mydomain`, host returns the following output: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [/etc/namedb]: host -6 x1.mydomain /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached The '-6' on the command line for host(1) forces an IPv6 only connection to your nameserver, not necessarily a query for the hostname in question. In this case, your nameservers listed in the warnings are IPv4 nameservers that host(1) is attempting to connect to using an ipv4 mapped ipv6 address (which by default is disabled in the kernel) In other words, don't use host -6 for this scenario. Most recent versions of the host(1) command will do both A (IPv4 host record), and (IPv6 host record) lookups for you automatically. For example: host www.kame.net www.kame.net has address 203.178.141.194 www.kame.net has IPv6 address 2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085 IP.IP.IP.8 is my ISP's DNS server, and is a third option just in case the localhost DNS server crashes or goes batty while I'm out drinking or somesuch. Here's my resolv.conf, which shows ::1 listed as the second nameserver entry - however, it seems host -6 never even tries it. domain mydomain search mydomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ::1 nameserver IP.IP.IP.8 The DNS server running on localhost is authoritative for mydomain. I can ping it via localhost using both v4 and v6, and I can also ping the external v4 and v6 addresses just fine remotely. As I said, I'm new to IPv6, but this behavior seems to be counterintuitive. Am I just doing it wrong? For diagnosing your own nameservers, you are better off using the dig(1) utility. Example: dig ipv6.google.com @::1 This causes a dns query for an IPv6 address (aka query) for the hostname of ipv6.google.com using the nameserver on the IPv6 localhost loopback address (::1), and will give a very nice verbose output. man dig for more details. Good Luck. BTW, if you have not already setup an IPv6 tunnel to the internet, I highly recommend SixXS's (www.sixxs.net) free tunnels (and the sixxs-aiccu port), or you can look at Hurricane Electric (www.he.net), and some other tunnel brokers as well. -_Dave Thanks, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: host -6 failure
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: host -6 failure To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:25 PM On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy folks, I'm having a little trouble understanding a problem that the `host` command in RELENG_7_0 (very recent) is having. This is by and large my first time working with IPv6, which I've been meaning to learn for some time. First off, I've got my zone file configured to return a record for x1.mydomain and named isn't complaining. However, when I run `host -6 x1.mydomain`, host returns the following output: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [/etc/namedb]: host -6 x1.mydomain /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::127.0.0.1#53: Invalid argument /usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:1179: internal_send: :::IP.IP.IP.8#53: Invalid argument ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached The '-6' on the command line for host(1) forces an IPv6 only connection to your nameserver, not necessarily a query for the hostname in question. In this case, your nameservers listed in the warnings are IPv4 nameservers that host(1) is attempting to connect to using an ipv4 mapped ipv6 address (which by default is disabled in the kernel) In other words, don't use host -6 for this scenario. Yet as I pointed out, the second nameserver in my resolv.conf is ::1 - so shouldn't it work with that? It's clearly trying to contact the first and third nameservers listed. If the behavior I'm experiencing is the proper behavior, then let me pose this question: when would anyone conceivably want to use the -6 option, and why does it exist? My intent was to force a query to hit the nameserver on ::1 rather than 127.0.0.1. Most recent versions of the host(1) command will do both A (IPv4 host record), and (IPv6 host record) lookups for you automatically. For example: host www.kame.net www.kame.net has address 203.178.141.194 www.kame.net has IPv6 address 2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085 IP.IP.IP.8 is my ISP's DNS server, and is a third option just in case the localhost DNS server crashes or goes batty while I'm out drinking or somesuch. Here's my resolv.conf, which shows ::1 listed as the second nameserver entry - however, it seems host -6 never even tries it. domain mydomain search mydomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ::1 nameserver IP.IP.IP.8 The DNS server running on localhost is authoritative for mydomain. I can ping it via localhost using both v4 and v6, and I can also ping the external v4 and v6 addresses just fine remotely. As I said, I'm new to IPv6, but this behavior seems to be counterintuitive. Am I just doing it wrong? For diagnosing your own nameservers, you are better off using the dig(1) utility. Example: dig ipv6.google.com @::1 This causes a dns query for an IPv6 address (aka query) for the hostname of ipv6.google.com using the nameserver on the IPv6 localhost loopback address (::1), and will give a very nice verbose output. man dig for more details. That is more useful, but still doesn't stifle my desire to stomp a potential bug in the base system. Good Luck. BTW, if you have not already setup an IPv6 tunnel to the internet, I highly recommend SixXS's (www.sixxs.net) free tunnels (and the sixxs-aiccu port), or you can look at Hurricane Electric (www.he.net), and some other tunnel brokers as well. Actually this system is located at HE. :) Thanks, - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UFS2 limits
Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me what it is? What about ZFS? At some point I'll have to re-arrange things so that I have a deeper directory structure, just wondering when I'll hit the limit so I can plan in advance :-) Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on creating a video server
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:40 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Hi All, OK, I'm just asking for opinions here on some application software. Like most people we have a nice big 21 TV set that will be obsolete in Feb. I have been thinking about replacing this with a big screen TV set but the prices on them are still way, way way out of my budget (I just can't see spending $500 for a TV set, sorry) I can pick up really high quality, large, old-style video monitors from a computer surplus place near here for next to nothing. I'd like to setup a PC and put a HDTV tuner card in it for over-the-air HDTV broadcasts, and use that as a TV. We also have a ton of DVD's and I'd like to rip these to video files and put them on the PC. Then when anyone wants to watch a movie they just watch it off the PC. I've already started doing this under Windows and it works great - it's even better since I can remove all those movie previews that the studio wants to force you to watch. Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? PREFERABLY cheap - since ultimately we likely will get a big screen TV set once the prices fall. Try the multimedia list, but for the most part (from my experience) the modern tv tuners aren't really supported by FreeBSD (correct me if I'm wrong) natively. Some are experimental and they're the hauppage tuners, and then only a limited selection of them with limited features. Another option maybe to try and get some of the linux drivers working using linux compat_kmod- if you're really savvy that is... Its been a real pain for me too, you're only other option is to use a linux box (with greater driver support) which is what I'm using myself right now until I can get the time to help in writing drivers for the newer chipsets required for dvb. Check linuxtv.org for more info on cards and chipsets and linux compatibility. Good luck- there are some really cool options available to you once you go down this path: like piping the transmission around your network using multicasting so you can watch on just about every computer in the house, setting up a personal, customised, tivo like system, and much much more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 limits
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me what it is? As far as I know, there is no such limit on the number of files/dirs inside of a directory. I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as time goes on. If this is something you've written or have control over or can work with engineers in regards to, I recommend you change your directory naming scheme to have separate subdirectories with the first 2 or 3 letters of the directory you wish to create. E.g.: /some/place/00/00ilikezeros/* /some/place/01/01binaryheaven/* /some/place/aa/aardvarks/* /some/place/ab/abuse/* /some/place/ac/actuary/* ... /some/place/xy/xylophones/* You get the point. Traversing this structure is much more efficient, and requires very little code change on your part. Those who run nameservers that host many zones, for example, use this structure to ensure the daemon doesn't take 32498231 years to start up. What about ZFS? At some point I'll have to re-arrange things so that I have a deeper directory structure, just wondering when I'll hit the limit so I can plan in advance :-) What baffles me is why you're looking at this problem from a how can the filesystem solve this engineering mistake I made for me standpoint, rather than how can I solve this engineering mistake I made so that it doesn't impact the filesystem. Very strange. Sometimes looking at things in a different light makes all the difference. Hope this helps. P.S. -- I hope this mail makes it to you, because your From line is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'll be surprised if your account name really is that!). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:12:46 +0200, Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can also save yourself repeated calls to basename by using
for f in *eps; do
convert ${f%.eps}.jpg
done
Look under parameter expansion in the manpage for sh(1) (or bash(1) if you
have bash installed).
Yes, that's a very good hint, I will use this in the future.
Note that $f as first parameter is missing (source for convert).
As far as I can tell csh/tcsh doesn't support this
useful feature.
Well, I prefer the C Shell (instead of BASH) as primary dialog shell,
but for scripting, I always stay with the good old Bourne Shell,
simply because it's the standard scripting shell for UNIX, and it's
compatible to most Linusi, too (where /bin/sh@ - /bin/bash,
but NB ! -f /bin/bash in FreeBSD).
Essentially, a Bourne-type shell with parameter expansion expands
${variable#prefix} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or
suffix, respectively, removed.
So this would be more efficient:
#!/bin/sh
for f in *eps; do
[ ! -f ${f%.eps}.jpg ] convert $f ${f%.eps}.jpg
done
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Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:25:49AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:12:46 +0200, Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Essentially, a Bourne-type shell with parameter expansion expands
${variable#prefix} or ${variable%suffix} to $variable with the prefix or
suffix, respectively, removed.
So this would be more efficient:
#!/bin/sh
for f in *eps; do
[ ! -f ${f%.eps}.jpg ] convert $f ${f%.eps}.jpg
done
Significantly.
Also, what guarantee do you have that all the filenames that match that
wildcard lack spaces in them? Your [ and convert commands will botch
badly in that case. See below.
style-rant
What people often forget while writing sh scripts is that spawning
external utilities slows down the script greatly, and destroys system
resources. You might think My machine has 923484390GB of RAM, and has
6500 processors; why do I care? -- step back for a moment and think
about older/smaller boxes, or even more importantly, embedded machines
(very little memory, very little CPU).
Also think about situations where fork() will fail due to resource
limits or existing system resource exhaustion; what then? I see this
regularly in perl scripts; people relying on `xxx` for no good reason.
I ask them, Why are you doing this? Can you not use native-perl-code
instead, and avoid wasting resources and excessive risk?, and they
often have no idea what I'm talking about. And whenever I see `ssh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] command` in perl scripts, I cry.
That in mind, don't let your scripting mimic that of perl bastards who
*intentionally* write obfuscated code just to show off (often citing
its faster as the reason, choosing to intentionally ignore that perl
is a compiled language). For complex pieces of sh that are hard to
visually parse: try to keep it simple, and take the time to write
decent/legible comments above the hairy part of the script.
Also remember that double-quoting filenames or variables that are used
as filenames is a VERY good idea. Filenames with spaces are quite
common these days. It's best to assume the worst, but not be *too*
over-zealous.
And don't forget about set noglob when appropriate!
/style-rant
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