exporting http proxy
how do i export http proxy using links browser tried export http_proxy=http://company.proxy it doesnt work ; command not found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
LDAP pam
Hi, I have a LDAP server, a file server running NFS server and a web server running NFS client. I want the web server to be able to know the users' account stored on LDAP, but not provide authentication; so I can have URL's of the form http://my.web/~john/index.html for the user john, where john's home directory if NFS mounted from the file server, but I don't want john to be able to log onto the web server. Of course certain users will be allowed to log onto the web server. How can this be done with LDAP and PAM. TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server
Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: exporting http proxy
in links you have proxy in options. for other things export http_proxy=http://proxy; in sh/bash, in csh setenv http_proxy http://proxy; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for plugins handled by nspluginwrapper). The best solution is just to rm the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html for more details). Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like: Shockwave Flash File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152 etc. should appear. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote: The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 snip I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. True. The closest would be debian IMO but still a learning curve will be there. But, having spent time with FreeBSD, you should find it easier to learn than coming afresh :) -- Ernest asks Frank how long he has been working for the company. Ever since they threatened t... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Where is my STRFILE?
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:03:24PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: If I try installing the fortunes, the port-makefile complains that there is no strfile available. Do you see following files on your system: /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/Makefile /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.8 /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.c /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/strfile.h Is your system 7.1-RELEASE ? I have had same issue with ealier releases, but at that time all the files in the games section were missing. If you have the above mentioned files available, a quick fix could be to: cd /usr/src/games make install If the files mentioned not are available, you need to download the source, see the Handbook. .. worked for me, but there might be other problems, maybe some of the hardcore hackers here can answer ;-) -- Mvh/Brgds Harry FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE Compiled at Sun Feb 8 09:18:07 CET 2009 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems upgrading SpamAssassin
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:58:37 -0800 Tankko tan...@gmail.com wrote: I am having problems up grading SpamAssassin. The get the following errors when I do portupgrade. I hand corrected the first error by following the instructions listed below, then this error showed. Before I go though and hand correct these one by one, I thought I'd ask if I was doing something wrong. P.S. I ran perl-after-upgrade after upgrading perl. Did you run perl-after-upgrade -f ? Without '-f' it just tells you what it would do... Manfred -- Manfred Usselmann usselman...@icg-online.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: make config options find / used same as binary package
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:20:54AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya Recently someone asked about the showing of the config options from the ports. My questions is, how do we see or find what were the options used when installed from binary (pkg_add -r binaryPackage). If you install packages from the FreeBSD package servers, they will have been built with the default set of options. In each case, you can check the Makefile and/or config dialog in the package's port to discover exactly what that means for any given package. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpgKng96abUt.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
Hi, I have on my server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.3, apache-2.2.8 and heartbeat-1.2.5_3; random after some day machine becomes semi-dead, the ping respond but any stack (ssh,http) don't work and heartbeat don't switch the resources I can't loggon and I must reboot. In the syslog there isn't any message for trobleshotting the problem. Any idea ? Sorry for my english Best Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
did you lowered kern.maxbcache if not - probably your disk subsystem locked. can you be there near local console? On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have on my server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.3, apache-2.2.8 and heartbeat-1.2.5_3; random after some day machine becomes semi-dead, the ping respond but any stack (ssh,http) don't work and heartbeat don't switch the resources I can't loggon and I must reboot. In the syslog there isn't any message for trobleshotting the problem. Any idea ? Sorry for my english Best Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel that IIRC is older not being updated. I remember that someone had problems with that previously. ed On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1 on Intel server board S3200SHV
Hello Abdullah One more question: Does the internal graphic card (ATI...) works under X without any problems? Regards, Am Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:57:35AM -0800 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri schrieb: - Original Message From: Martin Schweizer lists_free...@bluewin.ch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:37:42 PM Subject: FreeBSD 7.1 on Intel server board S3200SHV Hello Does FreeBSD 7.1 run on Intel S3200SHV mainboards with S3200 chipset? I did not find any hints in HARDWARE.TXT (also not on support.intel.com and not in Google). Regards, -- Martin Schweizer CPU: Intel ® Core ??? 2 CPU e8...@3.16ghz (3165.08-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x1067a Stepping = 10 Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x1067a Stepping = 10 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLU Features = 0xbfebfbff FPU, VME, DE, PSE, TSC, MSR, PAE, MCE, CX8, APIC, SEP, MTRR, PGE, MCA, CMOV, PAT, PSE36, CLFLU SH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE SH, DTS, ACPI, MMX, FXSR, SSE, SSE2, SS, HTT, TM, PBE Features2=0x309SSE3,MON,TM2,SSSE3 Features2 = 0x309 SSE3,MON,TM2,SSSE3 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features = 0x2010 NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF AMD Features2 = 0x1 LAHF Cores per package: 2 Cores per package: 2 real memory = 1071620096 (1021 MB) real memory = 1071620096 (1021 MB) avail memory = 1038602240 (990 MB) avail memory = 1038602240 (990 MB) ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S3200SHV ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S3200SHV FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD / SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 This is with FreeBSD 7.0 Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Martin Schweizer off...@pc-service.ch PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest anythingelse ? thanks ... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: did you lowered kern.maxbcache if not - probably your disk subsystem locked. can you be there near local console? On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have on my server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.3, apache-2.2.8 and heartbeat-1.2.5_3; random after some day machine becomes semi-dead, the ping respond but any stack (ssh,http) don't work and heartbeat don't switch the resources I can't loggon and I must reboot. In the syslog there isn't any message for trobleshotting the problem. Any idea ? Sorry for my english Best Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Passing ppp/vpn with ip-filter
Hi: I have the following setup: XP -- FBSD -- Ineternet --- Work I need to setup a VPN connection from my work station to work but the connection failes, presumably blocked by my firewall. The FBSD gateway use ip filter to filter traffic with a default block. Listening on the pflog inteface I got this: 1. 051533 rule 97/0(match): block in on vr1: 172.16.0.127 217.126.X.X: GREv1, call 62316, seq 9, proto PPP (0x880b), length 37: [|ppp] How do I create a rule to pass this connection? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v What are the services you are currently using on FreeBSD ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LDAP pam
Monday 23 February 2009 10:37:19 Olivier Nicole napisał(a): I want the web server to be able to know the users' account stored on LDAP, but not provide authentication; so I can have URL's of the form http://my.web/~john/index.html for the user john, where john's home directory if NFS mounted from the file server, but I don't want john to be able to log onto the web server. Of course certain users will be allowed to log onto the web server. How can this be done with LDAP and PAM. TIA, Olivier If you don't want to let users logon to server through SSH you can use DenyUsers/AllowUsers directive in sshd_config As for LDAP and PAM/system there should be some howtos on the net. Shortly: you will need to install nss_ldap and pam_ldap and setup it correctly to get users from ldap showing in your system. Maciek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: Depenguinate the host? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
-- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a strange question about OSs On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... it is locked. on first console you should see kernel messages How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest if you didn't change it - it's fine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
Hi, I have no message on first console :( ..I have no messages in any log ...:( ... I do not know what to do... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... it is locked. on first console you should see kernel messages How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest if you didn't change it - it's fine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I'd describe it, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Enjoy. I was thinking of stool in the medical sense shudder I wondered for a minute whether the link was work-safe ;) Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Saifi Khan saifik...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v What are the services you are currently using on FreeBSD ? -- thanks Saifi. A web server basically: MySQL, Apache, php plus some pdf manipulation with ghostscript and imagemagick. The new server will be on 64 bits if this is a concern regarding the OSs i have to choose from. thanks, v if you have to use Linux, i'd suggest you look at Gentoo Linux 2008.0r2 . It's a very configurable and fast distribution and works very well on AMD64X2. The emerge/portage system is akin to ports/makefile combo in FreeBSD. The fact that i've to deal with Python for most of the emerge tools is an annoyance. Almost all the packages are installed from the source code. I've myself been a FreeBSD user for quite sometime and Gentoo Linux is what i've found quite impressive among the Linux distributions. It may come as a surprise, but i've found the PHP runtime to start faster on Gentoo Linux than on FreeBSD on the same hardware. I also had to do a bit of reordering of the extensions to avoid crashes. I still donot know why that problem does not occur on my Gentoo Linux installation. If you have to go to Linux and choose to use Gentoo Linux, i'll be happy to offer assistance as a friend with setup and troubleshooting. You are also welcome to look up the settings for Gentoo Linux at http://www.twincling.org/node/237 -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: -- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a strange question about OSs On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v This confuses me a little. Wouldn't FreeBSD be the more economical route? I can't imagine saving money moving from FreeBSD to one of those listed. FreeBSD is free and seems to take less administration hours than those others. Certainly you do not gain anything in quality or reliability. Oh, I see in re-reading that it is not your company, but your potential new service provider that wants to force you to switch OS. Well, there is more than one way to gain economy. Switching to something inferior - of poorer service level is not a gain in economy. So, maybe you should try suggesting FreeBSD to that provider. All they need to do is insert the install CD in to the machine anyway.You can do the rest. jerry I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
Hi, the memory is ok, i have justr run a memtest ...the problem there'is when start nagios ...in fact on the same node when nagios is down no hang ... bye... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Christopher J. Umina ch...@easymac.orgwrote: Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have no message on first console :( ..I have no messages in any log ...:( ... I do not know what to do... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... it is locked. on first console you should see kernel messages How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest if you didn't change it - it's fine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org run a memtest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
-- From: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:24 PM I think that one of FBSD's guiding principles is *correctness* ... or, at least, that's one of the higher values of the community. By way of evidence, I present the following terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: What I find ironic, is that the talent drifts either to fully commercial projects, or those which are licensed under BSD - and in many cases even both. If I want an unixlike OS that does what I need with minimal fuss and where things are added due their merit in improving usability/speed/stability rather results in artificial tests the OS will be one of the BSD's. The quality of the BSD licensed software added with the quality of documentation (Cyrus might be the exception as the documentation goes...) just far exceeds anything else available for free or free. FreeBSD might not support every gadget out there, but for the most part, the supported selection has always been good enough for the use I have. For that thanks go to the core team and other coders and documentation writers as well as people testing releases and betas without just shutting up when they hit trouble, but reporting the said problems so they will hopefully get fixed for every user. -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun ammo to do that :-) alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the Ports tree. If someone wants to blow their foot off, however, then it's fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point the cvs update gun backwards in time :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. With Gentoo Linux, i've configured the Linux kernel to use the native bcm43xx driver and using the bcm43xx-fwcutter, i've been able to install the firmware and get the wireless card to work. Here is the lspci -v -nn details as collected from the Linux side. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1364 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 8800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: Data: Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 4us, L1 64us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting ? Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel ? Kernel driver in use: bcm43xx Kernel modules: bcm43xx i don't intend to buy another wireless add-on card or another old laptop. Would be thankful, if anybody can suggest how i can get the Wireless card work to with FreeBSD 7.1 or FreeBSD 8.0 snapshot. Additional tips for getting the ethernet card to work will also be appreciated. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not something is wrong. for sure RTL 8139 is perfectly supported. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios
I have no message on first console :( ..I have no messages in any log ...:( ... I do not know what to do... completely no idea - in case of disk problems there are lots of kernel message on first console. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... it is locked. on first console you should see kernel messages How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest if you didn't change it - it's fine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. This sounds as if it would make a good Handbook section. Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am not sure I would like that a lot. Serious security problems may exist in stale, unmaintained ports. It would be a bit bad to make it sound like the entire FreeBSD project approves and even recommends this sort of thing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-user
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:52 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use FBSD 6.4-stable alpha. When starting a browser (firefox2 or kazehakase) no window is open, instead: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session) and wrong date on /var/tmp/orbit-mexas (my username) % ls -al /var/tmp/ total 28 drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 512 18 Feb 15:48 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 512 18 Feb 14:43 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 mexas wheel0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-KXVAJaE3A4 srwxrwxrwx 1 mexas wheel0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-l8TP5ypEB0 srwxrwxrwx 1 mexas wheel0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-nUZBGPeroY drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 18 Sep 12:50 gconfd-root drwx-- 2 mexas wheel 512 1 Jan 1970 orbit-mexas ^^^ drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 18 Sep 12:50 orbit-root drwxrwxrwt 5 mexas wheel 512 5 Feb 21:23 texfonts drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 18 Feb 15:48 vi.recover % I've in /etc/rc.conf dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES and I've many dbus-launch and dbus-daemon processes: # ps ax|grep dbus 594 ?? Is 0:00.05 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system 50289 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi 52477 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi 52947 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi 50273 p1 I 0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 50285 p1 I 0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 52943 p1 I 0:00.06 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 52946 p1 I 0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 53487 p2 R+ 0:00.00 grep dbus # each time I try to launch a browser another couple of dbus processes are started, but never exit. Make sure you're starting your X session with dbus-launch. For example: dbus-launch --exit-with-session fvwm Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote: my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet? which is supposed to work, but it hangs the entire system and nothing is being written about it in /var/log/Xorg.0.log the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/wacom script writes the device into /etc/X11/xorg.conf as /dev/ttyd0, but we don't know if this means that the os picks up the tablet or not. is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. 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) pgpyHv0fuGEJt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. A little history for what's going on; the server was not responding at all so I took it home to diagnose (it was at a friends house, where it's hosted). I turned it on and it booted up ok for me, which was a little odd because he told me that it wasn't doing anything. So, I began looking the system over. Within 10 minutes the system became slow and was rather unresponsive to things. For example, saves while running vim took 20 seconds or so. Within a few minutes the kernel panicked and I had to reboot. Before the panic I noticed that there were some background file system checks going. So, since it was rebooting anyway I went into single user mode and performed fsck on all of the partitions (except the root, that was marked as clean). There were many problems fixed especially on the /usr partition. I'm betting that this missing file, gtype-desc.h, happens to have been one of the many problems fixed. Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. If your source tree really is corrupt, use csup(1) to update it. 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) pgpjdds54zYI9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure DHCP and a lot of other things from a browser. There is also a module available for running pfctl: http://www.askey.org/pfctl/ 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) pgppl9i3OHJ3E.pgp Description: PGP signature
root's crontab and mysqldump
I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script is ran in the log but it doesn't do anything. I'm able to run other cron jobs as root without any problem. This script is only suppose to create a file containing the dumped database. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos broadcom' only returns a couple of wired ethernet drivers, a crypto accellerator and a bleutooth device. DragonFly BSD has a bwi(4) driver that supports the BCM430x/4318, but no mention of the 4311. snip Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. Both the RealTek 8139 and the RealTek 8139C+ should work, but they use different drivers. See re(4) and rl(4). 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) pgp0vAnnfy4lW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: root's crontab and mysqldump
Joseph Simmons wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script is ran in the log but it doesn't do anything. I'm able to run other cron jobs as root without any problem. This script is only suppose to create a file containing the dumped database. Include the full path of mysqldump in your crontab (either entry or script). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: root's crontab and mysqldump
I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/root The file I'd like to execuate has the following permissions rwxr-x--- it's own by root, the contents of the file are below #!/usr/local/bin/bash date_time=$(/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S) /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -u backup_user -pPassWord DataBase /backup/db/DataBase-$date_time On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Christopher Umina ch...@easymac.orgwrote: be sure to use the absolute path to the command you're using. (/usr/local/bin/mysqldump if i remember correctly) crontab runs with a lesser path than your shell On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script is ran in the log but it doesn't do anything. I'm able to run other cron jobs as root without any problem. This script is only suppose to create a file containing the dumped database. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: root's crontab and mysqldump
Joseph Simmons wrote:
I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it
running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything.
I have the following variables set in the root's crontab
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/root
The file I'd like to execuate has the following permissions
rwxr-x---
it's own by root, the contents of the file are below
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
date_time=$(/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)
/usr/local/bin/mysqldump -u backup_user -pPassWord DataBase
/backup/db/DataBase-$date_time
I run the same script, however without the credentials. Those are in
~/.my.cnf
[client]
user = backupuser
password = thepassword
host = the.host.name
my backup script:
***
ra% cat bkupdb
#!/bin/sh
DATUM=`date +%Y%m%d`
nice -19 /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -A --single-transaction
/home/peter/backup/mysql-${DATUM}.sql
gzip /home/peter/backup/mysql-${DATUM}.sql
**
nb: DATUM = Dutch for date
Peter
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Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for plugins handled by nspluginwrapper). The best solution is just to rm the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html for more details). Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like: Shockwave Flash File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152 etc. should appear. -- Marc well, thanks to all. as of yesterday around 16:20 doing the nspluginwrapper thing installed both a shared helix lib and a flashplayer library in ~/.mozilla/plugins . so now, youtube can waste my time (ha-ha-hmph). next i'll see if i can do other A/V streams. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:27:06PM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. Touch should never complain about missing files, because one of its purposes is to create files that don't exist. So it is probably the 'touch' binary itself is missing. Try 'which touch'. It should report '/usr/bin/touch'. If it doesn't, touch is MIA. It might be saved in the lost+found directory of the partition that holds /usr/bin. The easiest way to get it back is to just build touch. Or copy it from the install/live-cd. I'm a little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? I think the correct way is to do the following: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/touch make obj make depend make make install This should build the binary in a directory under /usr/obj. When it's done you can remove /usr/obj/* Not to put too fine a point on it, but it might be a good idea to start thinking about making backups... 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) pgpIE04m2b4Ni.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet? presumably it is the same driver that works perfectly on linux. is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there in the /dev directory. dmesq puts out the following for sio: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio0: [FILTER] sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled now we don't understand how the sio stuff relates to the /dev/ttyd0 and /dev/cuad0 The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. thank you. we just tried a wacdump on /dev/ttyd0 from x and console - both times the entire system froze. what this suggests, i think, is that the kernel thinks there is nothing there at ttyd0 - in other words, the tablet's existence has not been picked up by the kernel. we are presently looking at netbsd where the tablet is supposed to work. may be we can find out something about how the kernel is done differently there. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
af300...@gmail.com writes: I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Assuming 1) you have the source tree installed, and 2) it and the kernel are of compatible versions (shouldn't be a problem here): cd /usr/src/usr.bin/touch make clean make make install make clean Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:15:35AM -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel that IIRC is older not being updated. I remember that someone had problems with that previously. ed thanks ed. now i have just two firefox installations. [[[ ... maybe we have too many options..? ]]] -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
af300...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory The file gtype-desc.h doesn't exist on my 7.1 system. I think that this means that the 'touch' binary is missing. See below. I had over looked that possibility but I agree now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. Note that it should probably be using the newly-built touch(1) at that point, so one possibility is that make(1) is confused, possibly by an incorrect clock. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: root's crontab and mysqldump
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin Add /usr/local/bin to PATH because that is where the mysqldump binary is. Also, you don't need /etc in your path, pretty much ever because that directory should never have executable programs in it. -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
difficulty using SSH Kerberos PAM Authentication with 7.1 Release
I recently did a freebsd-update to a machine running 6.3 to 7.1. I am now having difficulty getting pam_krb5 to work as it used to for sshd authentication. After upgrading to 7.1 I noticed the openpam_dispatch() and pam_sm_authenticate() errors on my console when trying to login via ssh. I fixed these by removing the pam_nologin module from the auth list in my sshd pam config file. My current pam sshd configuation file is as follows: # auth authrequiredpam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass #authrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass nullok # account account requiredpam_nologin.so #accountrequiredpam_krb5.so account requiredpam_login_access.so account requiredpam_unix.so # session #sessionoptionalpam_ssh.so session requiredpam_permit.so # password #password sufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass passwordrequiredpam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass If I attempt to login with the correct kerberos credentials I get the following error: pam_setcred() failed to retreive user credentials If I reenable the auth required pam_unix.so line and change the line before it to auth sufficient pam_krb5.so I can logon with either my kerberos or the local system password, but no other password as expected. Unfortunately, I cannot allow local user passwords to logon to the system. What am I doing wrong a similar setup worked with FreeBSD 6.3, but the last authenticaion module was pam_nologin. Thanks, --Troy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote: snip is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there in the /dev directory. dmesq puts out the following for sio: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled I get more or less the same on my system so far. sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding But mine differs here: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A Looks like the serial hardware is not being recognized. It would supprise me that a relatively modern system would have a 8250 chip, which dates back to the IBM XT! One would expect a 16550A. Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. now we don't understand how the sio stuff relates to the /dev/ttyd0 and /dev/cuad0 See the sio manual page, under FILES; 'man 4 sio'. The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. thank you. we just tried a wacdump on /dev/ttyd0 from x and console - both times the entire system froze. what this suggests, i think, is that the kernel thinks there is nothing there at ttyd0 - in other words, the tablet's existence has not been picked up by the kernel. Or the serial chip is fried. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. 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) pgpB5thP7vbiG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hi
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:01:54PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: What I find ironic, is that the talent drifts either to fully commercial projects, or those which are licensed under BSD - and in many cases even both. What's so ironic about that? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Marvin Minsky: . . . anyone could learn Lisp in 1 day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take 3 days. pgpyQI0QxzJ9r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?
I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am not sure I would like that a lot. Serious security problems may exist in stale, unmaintained ports. It would be a bit bad to make it sound like the entire FreeBSD project approves and even recommends this sort of thing. I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place outside the FreeBSD handbook for the same, more-than-professional quality of documentation, but covering things we wouldn't be comfortable putting in the FreeBSD Handbook itself. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Doug Linder: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. pgpCFX5OhhppR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hi
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the Ports tree. If someone wants to blow their foot off, however, then it's fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point the cvs update gun backwards in time :) Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'. pgpXdCHx47VAt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I think it might for a great official stool for FreeBSD as soon as the designer's site is usable without Flash. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Paul Graham: Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. pgpOsJ4nQaYWo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server
On 23/2/09 17:54, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure DHCP and a lot of other things from a browser. There is also a module available for running pfctl: http://www.askey.org/pfctl/ Roland If no one else has suggested it yet, have a look at pfsense http://www.pfsense.com/ Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless you regularly run out of address space on i386, there is no _need_ to install amd64. Be aware that some ports (especially binary drivers and ditto plugins) only run on i386. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, Reinstalling is probably the wisest course. Also be aware that you need to remove and rebuild all your ports if you want them to be 64-bit. or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? You can cross-build, but you'll need to install the new kernel and world to a separate partition and boot from that partition. 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) pgp15ylNLncRC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
On Monday 23 February 2009 2:51:05 pm Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. With Gentoo Linux, i've configured the Linux kernel to use the native bcm43xx driver and using the bcm43xx-fwcutter, i've been able to install the firmware and get the wireless card to work. Here is the lspci -v -nn details as collected from the Linux side. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1364 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 8800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: Data: Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 4us, L1 64us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting ? Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel ? Kernel driver in use: bcm43xx Kernel modules: bcm43xx i don't intend to buy another wireless add-on card or another old laptop. Would be thankful, if anybody can suggest how i can get the Wireless card work to with FreeBSD 7.1 or FreeBSD 8.0 snapshot. Additional tips for getting the ethernet card to work will also be appreciated. You should take a look in here if your trying to get the BCM4311 up and running: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170highlight=BCM RTL 8139 seems to be fully supported on 7.1 .. just take a look at: /sys/dev/re/if_re.c Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. That's because /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and /usr/local/browser_plugins aren't in your home directory. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'. pgpDg8FRVHHHX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:49 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. Or the serial chip is fried. the tablet works fine with ubuntu. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. ok thx! i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. Bartosz is working on following the recent Xorg changes, but a lot of things have happened there, so it will take some time for the driver to catch up with that stuff. so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?
Thank you. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I increase the kernel memory. I don't need the ports to be 64-bit, but they SHOULD run just fine without recompiling, yes? --Andy On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless you regularly run out of address space on i386, there is no _need_ to install amd64. Be aware that some ports (especially binary drivers and ditto plugins) only run on i386. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, Reinstalling is probably the wisest course. Also be aware that you need to remove and rebuild all your ports if you want them to be 64-bit. or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? You can cross-build, but you'll need to install the new kernel and world to a separate partition and boot from that partition. 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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: [snip] I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place outside the FreeBSD handbook for the same, more-than-professional quality of documentation, but covering things we wouldn't be comfortable putting in the FreeBSD Handbook itself. Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? Would the documentation be cross indexed so a user could find more details on a particular subject? Personally, while perfectly plausible, it sounds like more work than it is worth. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Memory fault - where am I? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Logcheck dependency hell
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Chris Cowart wrote:
n j wrote:
could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which
logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X
libraries?
The Makefile says:
| BUILD_DEPENDS= docbook-to-man:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook-to-man
| RUN_DEPENDS=lockfile:${PORTSDIR}/mail/procmail \
| bash:${PORTSDIR}/shells/bash
So I'll bet some money that it's docbook.
Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf:
| NO_GUI=YES
| WITHOUT_GUI=YES
| WITHOUT_X11=YES
| WITHOUT_XPM=YES
Hi n j,
I'm the maintainer of security/logcheck, and I apologize for not
catching up with my inbox sooner. I just saw your message, and the same
issue was reported by someone else a couple of weeks ago.
I have it on my list to update the port to avoid using docbook-to-man.
In the mean, please apply the attached patch to your Makefile, and it
will prevent all of those deps from getting included in the build.
Also, please cc the port maintainer when reporting a port-related bug to
freebsd-questions@, since not all of them follow the list. The easy way
to obtain the maintainer's email address is:
make -V MAINTAINER
Cheers,
Greg
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Greg Larkin
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http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
MAINTAINER=glar...@freebsd.org
COMMENT= Auditing tool for system logs on Unix boxes
-BUILD_DEPENDS= docbook-to-man:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook-to-man
+# BUILD_DEPENDS= docbook-to-man:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/docbook-to-man
RUN_DEPENDS= lockfile:${PORTSDIR}/mail/procmail \
bash:${PORTSDIR}/shells/bash
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
do-build:
${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's!/var/log/syslog!/var/log/messages!' \
${WRKSRC}/etc/logcheck.logfiles
- ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's!/etc/logcheck!${ETCDIR}!' \
- -e
's!/usr/share/doc/logcheck-database/README.logcheck-database.gz!${DOCSDIR}/README.logcheck-database!'
\
- ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.sgml
- docbook-to-man ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.sgml ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.8
+# ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's!/etc/logcheck!${ETCDIR}!' \
+# -e
's!/usr/share/doc/logcheck-database/README.logcheck-database.gz!${DOCSDIR}/README.logcheck-database!'
\
+# ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.sgml
+# docbook-to-man ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.sgml ${WRKSRC}/docs/logcheck.8
do-install:
${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/src/logcheck ${PREFIX}/sbin
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Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?
In the last episode (Feb 23), Andrew Moran said: I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I increase the kernel memory. I don't need the ports to be 64-bit, but they SHOULD run just fine without recompiling, yes? As long as you never recompile anything again, yes :) But as soon as you upgrade (say) libX11 to 64-bit, all dependant libraries and program will need to be brought up to 64-bit as well. You might as well do them all. I just did this 32-64 upgrade a few weeks ago, and since I had a ZFS root, I was able to do this: Snapshot+clone a new copy of my root filesystem (called root.amd64) Do a cross-build+installworld into that partition Install a 64-bit kernel into my /boot partition (installed as /boot/kernel.amd64 temporarily) Edit /boot/loader.conf and add vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:local_pool/root.amd64 kernel=kernel.amd64 Edit /etc/fstab on root.amd64 to mount / from local_pool/root.amd64 Cross fingers, and reboot into amd64-land Portupgrade -fa (this step wan't flawless since I was also upgrading through the perl58 and gnome-2.24 updates, but still took less than 24 hours) All the while having my i386 kernel and root available to reboot back into if I screwed something up horribly :) If you use any programs that keep machine-dependant file formats (rrdtool data files, for example), export them to a portable format before the switch, and reimport them afterwards. When I was satisfied I had a stable system, I moved my 64-bit kernel into /boot/kernel, removed the kernel= line from boot.conf, promoted the cloned root.amd64 filesystem and destroyed the i386 root and the snapshot. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail
Paul, Thanks for your help - it's much appreciated. It looks like devfs rules are indeed what I need to play with. As i'm using ezjail, it seems things are a little different. Instead of editing the host's /etc/rc.conf file , and specifying the ruleset there, I had to edit the /usr/local/etc/ezjail/pearl_domain_org file. In that file, there is an entry that looks like this... export jail_pearl_domain_org_devfs_ruleset=devfsrules_jail I changed that line to the following... export jail_pearl_domain_org_devfs_ruleset=devfsrules_jail_pearl I then created (again, on the host) /etc/devfs.rules, and added the following to it... [devfsrules_jail_pearl=5] add include $devfsrules_hide_all add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic add include $devfsrules_unhide_login add path 'lpt*' unhide These changes successfully made the lpt0 (and lpt0.ctl) device nodes visible in the jail. Unfortunately, i'm now having permission problems... [r...@pearl ~]# ls -al /dev/lpt* crw--- 1 root wheel0, 53 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel0, 54 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0.ctl I need the device nodes to have 0660 permissions and root:cups ownership. I can easily make these changes using the chown and chmod tools, but the changes do not survive a system reboot. Following some further research, I understand I can make these changes occur automatically by adding some entries in the jail's /etc/devfs.conf file... own'lpt*' root:cups perm 'lpt*' 0660 Unfortunately, this didn't have any effect. I also tried creating a device ruleset in the jail (i.e. creating a /etc/devfs.rules file in the jail)... [localrules=5] add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups ...and then applying that ruleset by adding the following to the jail's /etc/rc.conf devfs_system_ruleset=localrules However, yet again the changes had no effect. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks, Jazz - Original Message - From: Paul Procacci pproca...@datapipe.com To: Jasvinder S. Bahra bbdl21...@blueyonder.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:23 AM Subject: Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup CUPS (in a jail) using an old parallel port printer on my server machine. I used ezjail to create a jail and then installed CUPS. I've got it up and running, and I can access the administration website. However, as far as I can tell, the admin website doesn't seem to offer any options regarding the parallel port. Following some research, I believe I somehow needs to create a /dev/lpt0 entry, *in* the jail. Now, that entry exists on the jail's host system, but theres a limited list of entries in the jail's /dev directory. If I do a ls -al /dev (less quotes) in the jail, I get the following... [r...@pearl cups]# ls -al /dev total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 22 19:04 fd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel14 Feb 22 19:04 log - ../var/run/log crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 16 Feb 22 19:22 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 122 Feb 22 19:28 ptyp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 8 Feb 22 19:04 random lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stderr - fd/2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdin - fd/0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdout - fd/1 crw--w 1 jazz tty 0, 123 Feb 22 19:28 ttyp0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Feb 22 19:04 urandom - random crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 17 Feb 22 19:04 zero Does anyone know how I go about providing the jail with a link to lpt0? Thanks, Jazz I've never used ezjail, as I usually setup jails myself. With that said, access to dev entries within jail are/can be controlled by devfs rules. The configuration for your rules is administrator dependant. More specifically, you should find a line in your rc.conf that looks similar to the following: jail_devfs_ruleset=devfsrules_jail This defines the ruleset used for your jails. Knowing this, you can now edit your rules file (/etc/devfs.rules) and add appropriate entries for your printer and associated devices. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What is correct way to enable watchdog?
We have our systems configured with the watchdog enabled, with
/etc/rc.d/watchdogd defined as
. /etc/rc.subr
name=watchdogd
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command=/usr/sbin/${name}
command_args=-s 10 -t 300
pidfile=/var/run/${name}.pid
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command $1
We assumed this would give us a watchdog timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes),
meaning a system would not reboot unless it is non-responsive for five minutes.
However, in a recent stress test we had unexplained spontaneous reboots on two
systems, with no logs of any kind to indicate why the systems rebooted.
Do we have something wrong with how the watchdog should be configured?
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Alternative to sysinstall?
We want to develop a system imaging process where all we have to do is insert a USB thumb drive into a system and reboot it, and some time later the system would be loaded up with whatever FreeBSD software the particular thumb drive being used is configured. We'd have different thumb drives for different flavors of systems. Our current approach uses a PXE boot server and sysinstall, but this is not an easily portable solution (we can't bring the boot server with us to a customer location. Plus, sysinstall scripts are not particularly to be particularly flexible. My inclination is simply to have our custum thumb drive configured with FreeBSD and when a system is booted with one of these USB drives, a script runs to automate a FreeBSD install onto the hard drives of the sysrem where the thumb drive was booted. I could probably do the whole thing with bash scripts, but is there some other tool that might help in doing this kind of thing. Note that we have a custom kernel that needs to be installed onto the target systems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Alternative to sysinstall?
A possibility would be to develop the different target systems first on a builder system, maybe using jails. This system is completely installed as it is intended to be on the target system later on. Then the partitions are dumped (using dump, of course) as data files onto the USB thumb. Furthermore, the thumb holds a bootable system with a hand-craftet installer that first slices, partitions and formats the hard drive and then just resores (using restore) the content from the dump files onto the (empty) hard disk. After another reboot the system should boot up fine as it has been preconfigured on the builder machine. Other members of this mailing list will soon tell you some much better ways to achieve your goal. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
understanding freebsd development logic
i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a snapshot cd. (i seem to recall something similar with debian too). why would people work on 7.x (and 6.x as well i guess) if 8 is already available? is the idea to make each version 'as good as possible' because it would still be useful for older machines? or is it that later versions can utilize code from the earlier versions? or is it something else? -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:59:21PM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: Thank you. You're welcome! Please don't top post; it destroys the flow of the conversation. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I increase the kernel memory. Ah, OK. ZFS seems to work better on (and was written for) 64-bit systems anyway. I don't need the ports to be 64-bit, but they SHOULD run just fine without recompiling, yes? As long as you don't ever recompile anything. Otherwise the shit will hit the fan. The base system by default keeps two sets of system libraries on amd64, 64-bit and 32-bit. (you can compile the system without the 32-bit libs and kernel stuff if you don't need them; see src.conf(5) and the COMPAT_IA32 option in the amd64 GENERIC kernel). So the base system can run both kinds of binaries, as long as they only depend on the base system libraries. But if you recompile any library from ports, it will become 64-bit and unusable to 32-bit binaries. Every program depending on that library will stop working. Just recompile your ports and save yourself a world of grief in the long run. 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) pgpE4GqhiIdq5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: root's crontab and mysqldump
Adding /usr/local/bin gives the same result. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Steven Kreuzer skreu...@exit2shell.comwrote: On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin Add /usr/local/bin to PATH because that is where the mysqldump binary is. Also, you don't need /etc in your path, pretty much ever because that directory should never have executable programs in it. -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote: i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. I always compile Xorg without hal support. Works fine for me. Bartosz is working on following the recent Xorg changes, but a lot of things have happened there, so it will take some time for the driver to catch up with that stuff. That's good to know. I was contemplating getting a tablet myself. I guess I'll have to wait for the driver to get up to speed with the Xorg changes. so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. 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) pgpk4EsPMCCHc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: understanding freebsd development logic
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a snapshot cd. (i seem to recall something similar with debian too). why would people work on 7.x (and 6.x as well i guess) if 8 is already available? The thesis of Niklas Saers is a bit dated now, but it is a wonderful document and it answers this question (including a few others too). I think it will be an interesting read for you: http://niklas.saers.com/thesis/thesis.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: understanding freebsd development logic
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: is the idea to make each version 'as good as possible' because it would still be useful for older machines? or is it that later versions can utilize code from the earlier versions? or is it something else? I hope it doesn't sound impolite, but FreeBSD's development process isn't tied to hardware evolution (such as it is with nearly any Linux and of course with Windows). You can use 7.1 on the same hardware that ran 4.6 before, and you get a gain of speed! When development in 8-CURRENT is considered to be important to the 7.x-branch, it will surely be backportet. Another reason is that there are FreeBSD installations where the maintainer isn't interested in updating to the bleeding edge point of development, or simply can't afford this because of security considerations. So it's important to clean bugs from systems that are still in use, these are 6.x and 7.x at the moment, while releases prior to these numbers have already been EOLed, as far as I know. Of course, nothing stops you from *not* updating an existing 5.x installation, especially when it runs sufficiently to your needs. With the ++ of the major release number, often new concepts are introduced which are held back during the ++ of the minor version number of the respective predecessor release, such as, for example, the use of devfs for /dev, or the inclusion of ZFS in the base system. I'm not a developer so I'm not competent enough to go into detail regarding your question. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: understanding freebsd development logic
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:25:59PM -0800, prad wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a snapshot cd. (i seem to recall something similar with debian too). why would people work on 7.x (and 6.x as well i guess) if 8 is already available? The CURRENT branch (which will become 8.x) is for the hackers to play in and to give them the opportunity to introduce big, rapid changes without messing up machines that need to be usable. Some changes might not even compile at first or lead to crashes. So the 7.x releases and the 7-STABLE branch is focused more on reliability and bugfixes. One older branch 6.x is maintained as a legacy branch for people who cannot switch to 7.x. For a more in-depth explanation, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.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) pgp8HKeNg6jaJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: understanding freebsd development logic
prad wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a snapshot cd. (i seem to recall something similar with debian too). why would people work on 7.x (and 6.x as well i guess) if 8 is already available? Going between branches eg 7.x and 8.x, you may see major kernel changes. Drivers which work in 7 may not work in 8 and vice versa. If you've got something running stable in 7, you're not going upgrade to 8 just for the sake of running 8. Changes in versions can introduce problems, some unforeseen. If you have a known set of functionality that requires tested stability, you should use the most recent RELEASE that covers that functionality. 8.x is not available as a release. Security concerns adds a whole new set of variables to your questions. is the idea to make each version 'as good as possible' because it would still be useful for older machines? or is it that later versions can utilize code from the earlier versions? or is it something else. I think generally things are developed for CURRENT then back ported as demand and dev time allows. There are always exceptions. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:06 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. but we can't even do a wacdump from the console. doesn't that suggest that fbsd7 doesn't pickup the serial connection to the tablet? -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Top returning 0.0% cpu usage
last pid: 11406; load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 up 2+20:54:15 15:36:35 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle That is what it is displaying, the load adverage isnt it, its just the CPU stats. It always displays 0.0% all the way across the board with the machine idle or doing any kind of work. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:07:54PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: What would cause top to report back 0.0% cpu usage across the top row? It shows the minmal adverage and max correctly and seems to show the correct amount for the processes. How about showing us the lines of top that seem to be a problem? I think you are reading the load averages which have a different meaning than current cpu usage. They are the load averages over 1, 5 15 mins respectively. ie: the average number of processes *running* (processes spend most of their time idle. RUN in the State column of top shows when a process is actually using the cpu). If your machine is virtually idle then the 1 minute load average will be 0 or close to 0 and is normal. If you've just turned on your machine or it's been sitting idle for 15 mins then the other load averages will also be 0. E.g: On this machine doing not a lot: last pid: 96158; load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05up 1+23:50:42 17:41:46 (7.1 RELEASE) Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (996.77-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 [snip] Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: understanding freebsd development logic
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:39:39 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: The thesis of Niklas Saers is a bit dated now, but it is a wonderful document and it answers this question (including a few others too). I think it will be an interesting read for you: most certainly!! i've been going through it quickly and it is really fascinating to see the historical structure and the development models. specifically, this would seem to answer much: The project provides multiple versions of FreeBSD intended for audiences with different priorities between the newest features and rock solid stability and security. This means that the newest minor release or updates along a security branch are already old in terms of being well tested when they are released. and coordinates well with things some of the other posters to this thread have written. i rather like this approach because it doesn't let the old stuff just die (in fact, we just installed 4.4 on some of our machines) and the idea of backporting is really quite a remarkable concept. i will look at niklas' thesis in greater detail over the next few days, so thank you very much for drawing my attention to it. -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
xorg configuration
Hi All, Have worked on this for a week or more with no success. Running xorgconfig as root gives a kde gui that works but once I click anything the screen just goes to fuzzy vertical lines. The only other config that really works makes the screen and icons really HUGE. Could you point me in the right direction ? Stan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:09:51PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: [snip] I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place outside the FreeBSD handbook for the same, more-than-professional quality of documentation, but covering things we wouldn't be comfortable putting in the FreeBSD Handbook itself. Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? Would the documentation be cross indexed so a user could find more details on a particular subject? Personally, while perfectly plausible, it sounds like more work than it is worth. Did you miss the part where Giorgos Keramidas objected to adding a context specific hack to the FreeBSD Handbook because that would give it the appearance of official sanction? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic form. pgpTe20QeWl4x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hi
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am not sure I would like that a lot. Serious security problems may exist in stale, unmaintained ports. It would be a bit bad to make it sound like the entire FreeBSD project approves and even recommends this sort of thing. I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place outside the FreeBSD handbook for the same, more-than-professional quality of documentation, but covering things we wouldn't be comfortable putting in the FreeBSD Handbook itself. I think this is already done with doc = wiki stuff. I am not very good at writing wiki documentation, but I have installed a Wiki as the starting page of my laptop's lighttpd instance, in an effort to learn more about wiki writing by pushing myself to use it for personal notes. Maybe we can wikify some of the stuff that is not really Handbook-material? I can definitely try doing that :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? That's one way of looking at it. The obsessive compulsive perfectionist perspective is that a Handbook is *never* complete, because by the time you have finished writing about something in a professional, clean and amusing to read manner, it has been superseded by recent advances :-) Would the documentation be cross indexed so a user could find more details on a particular subject? Personally, while perfectly plausible, it sounds like more work than it is worth. The cross-indexing bits are what made me think about our Wiki while pondering how to write this sort of stuff. I will experiment by writing in plain text first, wikifying bits and pieces later, and see where this leads me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the Ports tree. If someone wants to blow their foot off, however, then it's fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point the cvs update gun backwards in time :) Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ? I'm sorry Chad. I lost you there. What 'core' are we talking about? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: so, you did what you are supposed to do to get the latest source. So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest way to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world applications? If you want to make sure that nothing damaged is in your way, delete everything under /usr/src except of your configuration file. You also could use this to upgrade to 7.1. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg configuration
hmm, I'm guessing here, but here goes 1.I see you have the default vga driver, try using the one for your specific video card (dnt ask me, I dnt know wich one it is for intel video cards) 1.1 Still, that should not be the problem 2. Does this happen at all video resolutions/Hz refresh rates ? 3. How did you install the Xorg and the Window Manager (ports or pkg_) and btw what kind of WM do you have? xfce? kde? gnome? something else? 4. Last but not least; when you did xorgconfig, did you not find in the driver list a driver for intel video cards ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD multiboot question.
I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 Thanks, Sam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 The standard bootloader cannot be configured after install. Other options to do this would be to install GRUB or LILO. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 As far as I understood, the names displayed are generic ones. In order to change them or even made to fit them to a particular OS version on a different slice / disk, modifying the bootloader's source is neccessary (followed by recompilation and reinstall). Other bootloaders may have an easier option to change the displayed names. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 Not with the default boot0 loader. The strings you see are hardcoded in the limited space of the master boot record[1], and the assembler source for the 512 bytes of the MBR even uses 'overlapping strings' to cover other BSD-related (but not necessarily FreeBSD-specific) partition types using as little space as possible. You can read the source of the `boot0' MBR in x86 assembler through the web interface of Subversion[2]. Look near line 623 for the code that reads: /* * Offsets that match the known types above, used to point to the * actual partition name. The last entry must point to os_misc, * which is used for non-matching names. */ .byte os_linux-.# 131, Linux .byte os_freebsd-. # 165, FreeBSD .byte os_bsd-. # 166, OpenBSD .byte os_bsd-. # 169, NetBSD If you want longer names, or even a graphical boot menu, you can always install some other boot loader. AFAIK, two of the most popular options are `sysutils/grub' or `sysutils/syslinux'. Note that the version of GRUB we have in the Ports is a bit old. It is a version of GRUB 0.9X, and development of GRUB has moved to GRUB 2.X now[3]. It seems that the `sysutils/syslinux' port tracks the vendor releases more aggressively. Notes: -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record [2] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S?annotate=HEAD [3] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg-fbserver / xorg-server fails upgrade
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:27:15PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, While upgrading a machine during upgrade of /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver/work/xorg-server-1.5.3 the build process fails with the errors given below. Same problem here. glxdriswrast.c:39:39: error: GL/internal/dri_interface.h: No such file or directory In file included from glxdriswrast.c:49: glxdricommon.h:32: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__' before'*' token (...) glxdriswrast.c:530: error: '__GLXDRIscreen' has no member named 'driver' glxdriswrast.c:531: error: '__GLXDRIscreen' has no member named 'driver' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.5.3/glx. *** Error code 1 A painful Xorg upgrade indeed... :-( Any ideas what can be wrong here and how to overcome this problem? No idea. I'm stuck here. Any hint? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: FreeBSD 7.1, AMD64 platform, kernel/system up2date as per Feb 5. Same here on FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 22 22:26:25 CET, GENERIC, amd64 with current ports tree. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: a strange question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: - Show quoted text - On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: -- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a strange question about OSs On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the economical crisis to save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS but the one they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above mentioned. I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in production. I like it and learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the new OS which I'm not afraid of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some similarities with FBSD. thank you, v This confuses me a little. Wouldn't FreeBSD be the more economical route? I can't imagine saving money moving from FreeBSD to one of those listed. FreeBSD is free and seems to take less administration hours than those others. Certainly you do not gain anything in quality or reliability. Oh, I see in re-reading that it is not your company, but your potential new service provider that wants to force you to switch OS. Well, there is more than one way to gain economy. Switching to something inferior - of poorer service level is not a gain in economy. So, maybe you should try suggesting FreeBSD to that provider. All they need to do is insert the install CD in to the machine anyway.You can do the rest. That's what i thought. I will try to speak with them about this option. thank you, v jerry - Show quoted text - I doubt you'll find anything suitable after getting accustomed to FreeBSD. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:25:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I think this is already done with doc = wiki stuff. I am not very good at writing wiki documentation, but I have installed a Wiki as the starting page of my laptop's lighttpd instance, in an effort to learn more about wiki writing by pushing myself to use it for personal notes. Maybe we can wikify some of the stuff that is not really Handbook-material? I can definitely try doing that :) I'd definitely support such an effort. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anonymous C Professor: To work on a program with the compiler in debug mode and then to sell it compiling it without the debug option is like learning to swim with floaters and then taking them off to swim across the Atlantic. pgp2ZGdWxXIUC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hi
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:28:51AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ? I'm sorry Chad. I lost you there. What 'core' are we talking about? I'm talking about the base system, as opposed to the ports system. Sorry about the confusion, I've been reading a lot about core-vs.-library choices for a couple of different programming languages, and accidentally swapped terminology when referring to FreeBSD. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth C. Hoare: Two ways of constructing software: (1) make it so simple that there are obviously no bugs, (2) make it so complicated that there are no obvious bugs. Making it simple is far more difficult. pgp4veuL00A5R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache an display order/prefrence of directories to files
On Thursday 19 February 2009 21:55:19 Warren Liddell wrote: I have a lot of various files in a dir i share to a few relatives an friends and i want Directories shown first in Alphabetical order, then files .. is there a way to specify this in apache ? Im running Apache 1.3.41 on FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE KDE4.2 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexorderdefault http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexoptions In short: Directory /foo/bar/baz Options +Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst IndexOrderDefault Ascending Name /Directory -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail
On Monday 23 February 2009 12:32:39 Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote:
[r...@pearl ~]# ls -al /dev/lpt*
crw--- 1 root wheel0, 53 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0
crw--- 1 root wheel0, 54 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0.ctl
I need the device nodes to have 0660 permissions and root:cups ownership.
I can easily make these changes using the chown and chmod tools, but the
changes do not survive a system reboot. Following some further research, I
understand I can make these changes occur automatically by adding some
entries in the jail's /etc/devfs.conf file...
You should repeat this to yourself, about 10-20 times, daily, so you don't
forget ;)
devfs.conf is for devices available at boot time, but devfs.rules rule after
Ergo, making changes to devfs.conf does nothing till the next boot.
I also tried creating a device ruleset in the jail (i.e. creating a
/etc/devfs.rules file in the jail)...
[localrules=5]
add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups
...and then applying that ruleset by adding the following to the jail's
/etc/rc.conf
Prisoners don't get to decide which doors are opened. Thus, devfs_* is
completely ignored inside prison walls. The host sets up the
${JAIL_ROOT}/dev.
In the hosts /etc/devfs.rules, you can set:
[devfsrules_jail_pearl=5]
add include $devfsrules_hide_all
add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
add include $devfsrules_unhide_login
add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups unhide
Then add to /etc/rc.conf:
jail_pearl_devfs_ruleset=devfsrules_jail_pearl
Inform with ezjail author how to make this ez ;)
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: What is correct way to enable watchdog?
On Monday 23 February 2009 12:11:38 Peter Steele wrote: We assumed this would give us a watchdog timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes), meaning a system would not reboot unless it is non-responsive for five minutes. No, meaning, if a system is unresponsive for 300 seconds, action will be taken. watchdogd will not prevent proper reboots, panics or power failures. However, in a recent stress test we had unexplained spontaneous reboots on two systems, with no logs of any kind to indicate why the systems rebooted. Panic, or overheating. Check the dumpdev/dumpdir variables in rc.conf(5). -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
