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Is there a way to give a shutdown now; use /bin/sh; exit command
from the command line if I'm logged in remotely? Or do I really need
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Greetings again. I'm running 4.8 on a remote server. I want to know
how much RAM is in the server. 'dmesg -a' doesn't tell me because the
boot information has scrolled off the top of the stack. Short of
rebooting the system, how can I find out how much RAM is built in?
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less /var/run/dmesg.boot
Bingo. Thanks! I knew that they would keep that around somewhere...
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but now I can access the disk fine.
Can I fix the drive without losing the information on it? If so, how?
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Greetings. I have a box with NetBSD 1.6 on it that I want to turn
into a FreeBSD box, while retaining the information in the user
directories. Is this possible with the FreeBSD 4.7 install CD-ROM?
That is, can I say during setup don't reformat or re-partition, but
just use the / and /usr that
the day that I can only mount / and not /usr and need
to edit fstab or rc.conf, and have to use ed.
(Just in case the answer is no, you really can't do that, I have
put a plain-text copy of the ed man page in /bin, but still...)
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I'm kinda surprised this isn't in the FAQ (or at least not in a place
that I could find it). It is really impossible to build a vi with no
external dependencies that can be installed in /bin?
What made you think
statically
automatically. e3 didn't work correctly on my console (it didn't
recognize the Alt key), but e3vi worked fine and felt just like vi.
Thanks! I now feel better about emergencies.
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At 8:16 PM -0500 1/26/03, Francisco Reyes wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
It's a bad idea to exclude fstab.
Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one
and just caused much more headaches.
You should still back it up; you just need to be more
At 4:18 PM -0500 1/27/03, Francisco Reyes wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp.
I have not been sending the files out, but working on that.
First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp
path?
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I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I
want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has:
pccard_enable=YES
pccard_ifconfig=YES
ifconfig_ep0=DHCP
The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to
add something else to rc.conf?
At 8:14 AM -0500 3/30/03, Dan Pelleg wrote:
I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to
use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has:
pccard_enable=YES
pccard_ifconfig=YES
ifconfig_ep0=DHCP
The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add
something
Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7.
xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my
system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection
seem to do a good job on laptops, if any?
--Paul Hoffman
Hi again. Is there a way to get 'make buildkernel' in /usr/src to not
rebuild things that it already compiled? I'm playing around on a
not-very-fast laptop, and the rebuilds take forever.
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At 9:43 AM +0930 3/31/03, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Thus, my quest for a better configuration...
You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator.
Turns out I wasn't. None of the configuration programs got me
anywhere close. They either got the monitor wrong, the card wrong,
the
is the proper way to bring /usr/src up to date so that I can
make kernel mods?
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At 9:56 PM -0500 4/5/03, taxman wrote:
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Greetings again. On a test machine, I upgraded from fairly vanilla
4.7 to 4.8 using CD-ROM and /stand/sysintall. At the beginning of the
upgrade, it told me that it would not upgrade /usr/src. After
characters. I would much prefer an
IP address. What do I need to change to get this?
--Paul Hoffman
Run sshd with the -u 15 option. You can do so by adding this line to
/etc/rc.conf:
sshd_flags=-u 15
Perfect, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks
subnet number/mask combination.
subnet a.b.c.158 netmask 255.255.255.224
^
Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
This is a valid subnet, and it works just fine for everything else.
What is dhcpd wanting?
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a.b.c.158 is the last usable address, not the network address. try
a.b.c.128 instead, which is the network address for you /27.
Er, right. I figured that out by playing with the subnet calculator
at http://jodies.de/ipcalc.
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Greetings again. I'm about to set up a box that is dedicated as a
bridging NAT and firewall. I was going to use an old P133 box I had
laying around. Will this be fast enough for typical Internet access
at 384Kbps if the box isn't doing anything else, or do I need a
faster machine?
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Does anyone have experience with compiling OpenSCEP under 4.7? It
compiles under NetBSD, but hangs under FreeBSD. I'd rather run it on
a FreeBSD box.
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Hi again. On a test machine, I have changed the line in inetd.conf to
something like:
telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/libexec/telnetd
telnetd -a none -p /path/to/my-auth-program
and I have hup'd inetd. However, when I try to telnet to this
machine, I still go through the
a related question is how can I tell what device umass0
thinks it is plugged into?
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At 9:00 PM -0500 1/7/05, John Wilson wrote:
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da0: ST312002 6A 3.04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
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For what it's worth, I too am using ehci with a USB2 HD based MP3 player
*- 144*)
g: 75684008 23276324.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl. 144*- 4855*)
What do I need to do to make the partitions of this new drive mountable?
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ioconf.c:48: (near initialization for `ata2_resources[1].u.longval')
*** Error code 1
So, what am I supposed to add to the kernel to add this third controller?
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in the Dell's BIOS (I
set it to automatic and on reboot the BIOS recognized its size
correctly).
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PCI bus.
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Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid?
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At 8:02 PM + 10/31/04, David Jenkins wrote:
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Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going
to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I
don't see anything about
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but is there a
FreeBSD-on-a-CD project similar to Knoppix for Linux?
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Hi again. I want to set up an FTP server that does *not* pay
attention to the FreeBSD login user database. That is, I want the
server to look in some database (probably text file) that I create
that has usernames and passwords. I'm not worried about file
permissions, assuming that the FTP
-build? Something in one of the config files that I haven't figured
out? Something that is fixed in 5.3? Or... ?
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At 12:03 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router under 4.10. I
have two PCcards that it recognizes, but when starting up, after
connecting to the first card, I get
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Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router
Greetings. I want to have both python 2.x and 3.0 on a FreeBSD 7.0 box. 2. I
already installed 2.5.1 from ports; 'which python' reports
/usr/local/bin/python, and one would hope.
I would like to install python 3 as /usr/local/bin/python3 or somesuch; is that
possible from ports? If not, I can
Greetings again. Under 5.x, is there a way to quickly reboot FreeBSD
if I'm not sitting at the console? I want the equivalent of, if I
were sitting at the console, 'shutdown now' followed by specifying
'/bin/sh' followed by 'exit'.
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Sounds like you're looking for 'shutdown -r now'
Nope. 'shutdown -r now' does a full reboot of the PC, which means
re-loading the kernel and all the devices. That's quite a bit slower
than 'shutdown now' and exiting the single-user shell.
Greetings again. If I do a 'netstat -I em0 -b', I get:
NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes
Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll
em01500 Link#1 00:0e:0c:67:c8:04 93555198 0 2179562966
114493253 0 723565977 0
em01500 fe80:1::20e:c
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In the last episode (Sep 17), Paul Hoffman said:
Greetings again. If I do a 'netstat -I em0 -b', I get:
NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs
Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll
em01500 Link#1 00:0e:0c:67:c8:04
However, when I try to create files on /mnt, I get:
-su: boot.config: Read-only file system
How do I make it so that I can write into /mnt so that I can then
later save those back to the ISO image?
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Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution
with a boot.config file that contains /boot/loader -h. I have the ISO
image as a file on my hard drive
missing here?
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At 5:38 PM -0500 7/17/07, Shaun Meyer wrote:
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Any help would be appreciated here. I'm on a clean 6.1-RELEASE sysem.
I created /home/pxe. I cd'd to /usr/src. I gave 'make installworld
DESTDIR=/home/pxe'. It ends with:
. . .
Worked fine
At 4:12 PM +1200 7/18/07, Jonathan Chen wrote:
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At 5:38 PM -0500 7/17/07, Shaun Meyer wrote:
On Tue, July 17, 2007 4:14 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Any help would be appreciated here. I'm on a clean 6.1-RELEASE sysem.
I created
Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want
to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024
/sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img
Can I do something similar on FreeBSD?
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Hi again. On a dual-core system, how do I tell how much of each of
the CPU cores are in use? Is the CPU usage in 'top' for the two CPUs
at once? Is there something in ports (that works without X...) that
will give good info?
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How can I eliminate the Limiting icmp unreach response messages
from getting to /var/log/messages or to the console? I have a spate
of them that is causing log rollovers. I think I know the source of
the problem, but need to get rid of the messages first.
/nologin
. . .
The man page for master.passwd and passwd say what an * in the
second field means in passwd, but not in master.passwd. Any clues
would be appreciated (and I will put in a documentation pr when I
have an answer).
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It means an account that can not be logged in to.
The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so
no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out
the account from login.
Arrrgh. Whomever
% of the ports.
Am I missing something obvious here?
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see what happens when I go to 8.
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Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. At
some time during the process, I could no longer log in remotely because bash
could not start due to /libexec/ld-elf.so not finding the right libraries. I
added a bunch of lines to /etc/libmap.conf so that I could
At 11:05 AM +0100 12/8/09, Ruben de Groot wrote:
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Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'.
At some time during the process, I could no longer log ...
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... t remove the lines from /etc
Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to
/etc/rc.conf:
newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/
I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being
written into /var/log. No errors appear in /var/log/messages or in dmesg.
Any clues?
--Paul
like a broken model: intial boot and later restarts uses arguments
from /etc/rc.conf, but the periodic call does not. I don't think we want people
modifying /etc/crontab, do we? Shouldn't /etc/crontab be calling
'/etc/rc.d/newsyslog restart' instead?
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what you would do next time
(dry run), but what did you do last time is OK too.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Of them, this was the one that helped me with
my issue:
On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
You can add:
rc_debug=YES
to /etc/rc.conf and that might give you what you need. According to the man
page it will produces copious
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