Re: usage of /usr/bin
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things outside this structure usually belong to the system itself; I'm excluding mounted filesystem and other things here for a moment. /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications bin/ common utilities, programming tools, and applica- tions But: local/local executables, libraries, etc. Also used as the default destination for the FreeBSD ports framework. Within local/, the general layout sketched out by hier for /usr should be used. Exceptions are the man directory (directly under local/ rather than under local/share/), ports documentation (in share/doc//), and /usr/local/etc (mimics /etc). Because we are on FreeBSD, there's excellent documentation that shows how and why the system tree has a well intended layout. :-) The command % man hier will explain everything in detail. But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. And I am sure postfix is not the only port to do this also. This intermingling of RELEASE binaries and port binaries in /usr/bin is a really big problem when trying to build jails. Any past ports which have been included into the base release should not be in /usr period. Saying system user utilizes are in /user/bin then why is fdisk or sysinstall not there also. That don't make sense. It time to modernize the directory layout keeping all RELEASE binaries out of /usr. I would think moving the /usr RELEASE binaries by the RELEASE development team is a far smaller task then reviewing all 21,500 ports for the bad ones that don't target /usr/local/bin and then correcting their make files. Before jails this problem was not a problem, But with the growing usage of jails this is becoming a major incentive to not use jails at all. ___ 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: usage of /usr/bin
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the "Install into /usr and /etc/postfix" configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend that anyone do it without a *really* good reason. Turn that option back off and you'll be fine. Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from 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: usage of /usr/bin
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things outside this structure usually belong to the system itself; I'm excluding mounted filesystem and other things here for a moment. [snip] But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. I haven't installed postfix, but is this possibly related to the recently (2010-03-22) added option to install postfix into the base? In which case the commit six days later claims to correct a problem with the default (non-base) install. Jonathan I installed the package of postfix and it installed is self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Packages are frozen some time before the RELEASE is distributed to the public. The change you question would have never made it into the RELEASE 8.0 package. ___ 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: usage of /usr/bin
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Unless you or whoever built the package changed $PREFIX: % pkg_info -Lx postfix Information for postfix-2.7.0,1: Files: /usr/local/man/man1/postalias.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postcat.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postconf.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/postdrop.1.gz [ ... ] /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/tlsmgr.8.html /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/generic.5.html /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix ...every file is under /usr/local. Perhaps you set INST_BASE option? [ ] INST_BASE Install into /usr and /etc/postfix Regards, I installed the package of postfix and it installed is self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. This is now I know that. I swapped a empty drive with my live system drive. Installed the sysinstall kern developer option to get full binaries and sources. After the install I set chflags schg /dir/ and /dir/* for these dir. /bin /boot /lib /libexec /sbin /usr/bin /usr/include /usr/lib /usr/libexec /usr/sbin. This should have protected all those RELEASE base directors and all the files in then. With the dir also having schg on, no files should have been able to be added to it. I then did a ls -lo /dir > file to save copy of their content. Then I did pkg_add -r postfix-current. After which i did another ls -lo /dir > file and to my surprise i see all these new files have been added to /usr/bin. What am I to think? How else would you explain this? ___ 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: USB Powered Speakers
Antonio Olivares wrote: On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting the normal operation of my keyboard (basically it seems that power is cut to my keyboard at random). I have a beefy power supply (650W) so I really shouldn't be having any power distribution issues. I've tried the speakers in both the on-board USB ports and the USB expansion card (PCI) with the same results. Any ideas? You really need to explain in detail the problem. Without these new speakers plugged in does wall powered speakers work? ___ 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: How to make "man" pages
For the questions list archives: I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch. You can read it here. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602 Thanks to all the people who replied to my post. Joe ___ 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: installation problem
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A39261)8MB SATA-II Codegen Q3337-A2 ATX 400W CD-ROM TOSHIBA (don't know 3 years old , HHD) problem: In various places errors occur when installing 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz and FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso everywhere timeout in 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz for example: ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out cd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (1 retry left ) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retryin (0 retries left ) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out I would like to begin the study with nix feeBSD very disappointing Help please,bootable flash don't work too. can you help me? thanks Make sure the cdrom drive in cabled on the second motherboard ata port as master with nothing on the slave nipple. Your sata drive should be on the first motherboard port as master and the slave nipple empty. ___ 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"
Host firewall and jails
Just where do jails fall in reference to the host firewall? Do jails see the inbound packets before the host's firewall does? ___ 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"
apache & Perl CGI programs
I have Perl and apache installed on my system. Do I have to do anything additional to get apache to run Perl CGI programs? Is putting the perl script in the cgi-bin directory at /usr/local/www/data all it takes to make things work? ___ 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"
ezjail and dmsg -a command
I have a directory tree type of ezjail up and running. When in jail console I enter dmesg -a and i get the hosts last boot messages not the jails. Why is this dmesg command issued from within the jail have access to the host world? Something wrong here! ___ 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"
How To create msdosfs on HD?
I have an old IDE 3.5 hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it for USB disk space on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable. It will work with 2.5 & 3.5 IDE drives and sata drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5 IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in system/devices/hard drives as there but windows explorer does not assign a drive letter for it. I'm thinking this is because the hard drive has UFS format and maybe it I reformat it to fat format xp will assign a drive letter to it. I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? ___ 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: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? ___ Why can't you format it in XP since you connected it to XP? Because like I say in the first part of post you snipped out that xp does not assign a drive letter to it. ___ 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: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 fdisk -i /dev/da0 newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Thank you very much. Thats the answer I was hoping for. ___ 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: How To create msdosfs on HD?
Fbsd1 wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10 fdisk -i /dev/da0 newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 Thank you very much. Thats the answer I was hoping for. > > For the archives here is a detailed explanation. Create MS/Windows file system on a Hard Drive so it will be recognized on an MS/Windows system. The goal here is to initialize a hard drive that was previous initialized with a non-Microsoft Windows file system, with a single active partition populated with Microsoft Windows 32 bit FAT (LBA) file system. So this hard drive will be recognized as containing a valid MS/Windows file system when used on a Microsoft Windows system. I have an old IDE 3.5” hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it as external USB attached disk on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB adapter cable. It will work with 2.5” & 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5” IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there, but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter for it so I can not reformat it. All PC’s running a MS/Windows system inspect sector 0 of the hard drive for the partition/slice table to determine the sysid of each partition/slice. If the sysid value is 12 then it’s a valid Microsoft Windows file system and gets assigned a drive letter in “windows explorer”. Any other sysid value means non-Microsoft Windows file system and the device is seen in “control panel/system/hardware/devices/hard drives” as there but “windows explorer” does not assign a drive letter to it. There are 2 ways to initialize ((2.5” or 3.5”) (IDE or SATA)) hard drives with a valid MS/Windows file system. Using the Microsoft “fdisk” program or the FreeBSD “fdisk” program. The Microsoft “fdisk” program defaults to sysid =12. The FreeBSD “fdisk” program defaults to sysid = 165, but has alternate way to assign any sysid value you want. Microsoft method. Replace the 2.5” hard drive in your laptop with the 2.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. If 3.5” hard drive then open your desktop PC, remove the data cable ribbon and power connection from the existing hard drive and attach them to the 3.5” hard drive containing the FreeBSD system. Put the Microsoft XP, Vista, or Windows7 install CD in the cdrom drive and boot. Select fdisk option from the install menu to populate the hard drive with official ntfs file system. No need to continue with the install after fdisk complete. FreeBSD method. You need a PC with a running FreeBSD system and USB hardware to attach the 2.5” or 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drives with. A USB external hard drive housing will work fine for 3.5” IDE and SATA drives. For 2.5” IDE or SATA drives you will need a USB adapter cable. The 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable I purchased works with 2.5” & 3.5” IDE drives and SATA drives, cost $10 USA. If you have a 3.5” IDE or SATA hard drive and FreeBSD is running on a desktop PC, you could open it up and add it as a second hard drive on the data ribbon. Attach the hard drive to the USB equipment and plug into USB port on the PC running FreeBSD. Best if you are logged in as “root”. You will see the USB console messages as the USB hard drive is connected. In most cases the USB drive will be assigned da0 as the device name. The following instructions are for initializing the hard drive as a single MS/Windows partition occupying the whole hard drive. Wipe clean the sector 0 slice table # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=2 The following is what you would do if the initialized msdosfs hard drive will only be used on a FreeBSD system. The slice table is populated with the sysid of 165, which means FreeBSD is using this slice, but the slice contains a MSDOS FAT32 file system. The newfs_msdos command is really acting like the msdos format command. The larger your hard drive the longer this command will take to complete. #fdisk -BI /dev/da0 #newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1 This creates the sector 0 slice table and loads the default bios boot code and activates a single slice covering the entire disk. If at this point you un-plugged the USB cable from the FreeBSD system and plugged it into a Microsoft Windows PC. The USB drive would be un-accessible by “windows explorer” because no drive letter gets assigned. That’s because Window’s see this hard drive a
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Steve Bertrand wrote: Marc, et-al, I wasn't originally going to post this to the list, but I thought that it would be useful to do so in order to try to solicit feedback. There's a suggestion that I have for the server-side of bsdstats. I would find it very useful if the server could track the % of the reporting connections that come in over IPv6, and include that on the website front page. Of course, this would require that rpt.bsdstats.org reside on a reliable IPv6 network, and code changes to the server-side software. (if the code is Perl, I'll gladly take a look at it ;) I'm not interested in the actual addresses of the sending hosts, just whether the address contains a '.' or ':'. Cheers, Steve BSDSTATS is dead. Don't waste your time. I am a retired American who is now living in the Philippines. All during RELEASE 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and now 8.0 I have been running the bsdstats port on my single system. Yesterday I checked the http://bsdstats.org website by country and to my great surprise there are no Freebsd systems listed in the Philippines. Also the previous months reports are no longer shown on the website and the port stats don't show at all. This is not the results talked about on this list when the bsdstats project was trying to get Freebsd participation 3 years ago. The bsdstats website has been un-supported, un-updated for over 2 years and nobody noticed until I showed up in a country with out any Freebsd counts, but knowing I was reports regularly. What good is participation if there are no real-time results. I removed bsdstats from my system and the port should be removed from the ports system. I also emailed Marc G. Fournier the author and never received a reply. That is the best sign that bsdstats is dead. ___ 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: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Don't worry about it, found and fixed that bug ... it had to do with trying to masquarade behind haproxy, so it looked like all systems were coming in from Panama if they were running the newest code ... which means alot of ppl out there were running *old* code ... Basically, by setting up haproxy to load balance, all IPs hitting the backend were, as mentioned before, masquaraded ... but, of course, that means that when Geo::IP trying to determine country of origin, it always reports for the country of origin of the haproxy IP (Panama) ... I've fixed this ... still not recording IP, but at least the PHP script determing country basis it on the proper IP, not the haproxy IP ... No changes required on the client side, as things will normalize over the course of the next month as ppl report in ... If anyone on FreeBSD wishes to 'force an update': /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay will push it through ... Just did pkg_add -r bsdstats followed by /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay Still don't see any Freebsd systems listed for the Philippines on the website. What is YOUR definition of REAL-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"
BSDstats website displaying data incorrectly
Why does this page show PCBSD has count of 387 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os= And this page shows PCBSD has count of 1307 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os=PC-BSD Why is this? I would think both should show the same value, or you better add explanation to the web page why the count is different. And that little selection box on the home page should have some explanation of its function. Just sticking it there on the right side of the page above the titles hoping someone will fall into it is not user friendly. What is going on with the "release stats"? What are you showing there? Is that just for Freebsd? If so then the count is incorrect. This should be showing the count for each release under each operating system. IE. what release are in use for freebsd, netbsd, openbsd ect. Website also needs explanation of the time frame being reported. Are the values shows as of the the first day of the current month? In general the website does not explain much of anything about what is being shown. Put a lot more text describing the overall process and the reporting cycle. Also think some kind of operating system monthly growth chart over time is needed. Say going back 3 years to current. The current website is way to passive in the way things are worded. Try to inspire people to show their loyalty, allegiance, and devotion by running the bsdstats client to anonymously report their usage to the benefit of everyone. Developers donate large amounts of their personal free time working on the operating systems, the least the users can do is fulfill their obligation to demonstrate their gratitude to the developers by running bsdstats. Emphasize the reporting is anonymously. Website needs to promote it self more. Get on the home page of all the different BSD systems. Try to become a default part of the BSD systems basic release. Like PCbsd does. Not option to go get it and turn it on, but all ready there with option to turn off if desired. This is only self promotion of the individual operating systems and should be something they should be interested in doing. ___ 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 file from windows or to windows
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Sounds like all your PCs are on a private LAN and this file you want access to will only be accessed from the LAN. I have the same setup and exchange files between Windows PCs and Freebsd using FTP. I enable the builtin FTP server in /etc/inetd.conf. Close FTP's ports to the public internet in the firewall. Then run a free shareware FTP client on the windows PC or just use the windows internet browser to target the Freebsd ftp server. The shareware FTP client method lets me exchange both ways, (move a file from win to fbsd and fbsd to win) The windows internet browser method is one direction only, (from fbsd to win). I set the FTP server up as anonymous so all LAN PCs can download and upload to each other using the FTP server as a post and forward service. ___ 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: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010, Robert Huff wrote: The problem with not including bsdstats in sysinstall or some other means of bringing it to peoples attention is that it gets forgotten and loses its effectiveness. Maybe it could go in the >>> monthly subscription list reminder. I think everyone agrees that bsdstats needs more visibility right from the virgin install. Since its not appropriate to include bsdstats in the sysinstall program. How about getting the RELEASE team to change the content of the default logon message of the day /etc/motd, to advocacy installing the bsdstats package. What do you think about this idea? ___ 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"
port pkg-plist
In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. ___ 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: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable="YES" statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? ___ 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: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable="YES" statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? You shouldn't directly modify rc.conf to enable some service, put instructions on how to enable it in pkg-message instead. Having said that, check @unexec command, which is run on package deinstallation. Yuri Where do I find doc on this @unexec command? ___ 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: port pkg-plist
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:32:26AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. @cwd /var db/dbfile log/logfile HTH, Yuri Thanks that worked. Have another question. During the install of the port it adds a enable="YES" statement to /etc/rc.conf. It there some pre-canned way to auto remove that statement when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command? You shouldn't directly modify rc.conf to enable some service, put instructions on how to enable it in pkg-message instead. Having said that, check @unexec command, which is run on package deinstallation. Yuri Where do I find doc on this @unexec command? All these commands are documented in pkg_create(1). Thanks I read that. It will launch what I want to do at deinstall time. But I still need code to parse through a config file looking for a match to the desired literal and then delete that line from the config file and save it. I dont know how to do that in a .sh script. I need a sample doing that using the @unexec command and then I will be able to tweak it to my needs. Can you help me out? ___ 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"
how to find literal in file and them delete that line
I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. Does anyone have a example they would share with me? Thanks. ___ 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: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. man(1) sed Regards That makes no sense to me. need example ___ 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: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. man(1) sed That makes no sense to me. need example What makes no sense? The sed(1) man page? Which section in particular is confusing? And please, explain the rationale for making your port automatically edit /etc/rc.conf. editing /etc/rc.conf was just given as a example for the post. Yes the whole man sed reads like Greek. For a neophyte programmer I can not even begin to comprehend what its saying. That man page needs examples of use. You have forgotten that those man pages are for reference for people who all ready know how to use it. Its not intended for novices. So yes it's useless to 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: how to find literal in file and them delete that line
b. f. wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: snip It would make sense if you read the sed(1) and re_format(7) manpages. They may be a pain at first, but they are used often and can make your life a lot easier. There are also a lot of tutorial on the web, with many useful examples, e.g.: http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/ He is suggesting that, rather than using sh(1), you should use sed(1), which is typically used for this sort of task, and is also part of the base system, in some fashion like, for example: sed -e '/literal/d' file If you insist on doing this with sh(1), which will probably be less efficient, then you can cobble something together with a 'case' statement, or parameter expansion with substring processing. See the sh(1) manpage. I hope that you are not intending to use this for a FreeBSD Port in the context of your earlier message. As someone else has already told you, ports should _not_ be automatically editing configuration files like rc.conf. Instead they should just indicate what should be added by the user or administrator in a pkg-message. Although you are free to do whatever you want on your own system, if you submit a port that attempts to tamper with such files to FreeBSD Ports, it is likely that that part of your submission will be rejected. Thank you for your kind in-sight. Using sh was again just comments to help explain what I needed help with. A list reader replied offline with examples and now I have what I needed to proceed. Thanks to all who replied. ___ 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"
how to force end-of-line in man page source
I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? ___ 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: how to force end-of-line in man page source
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? You can generally override the hyphenation mode with .hy 0 Thank You very much. That works. But it is only in effect for one section header .Sh command. I added the .hy 0 (0 is zero) command after each .Sh command in the man page and it looks so much better now. ___ 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: pkg_deinstall: "delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z"
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in "delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z" (and obviously their dependancies)? just do pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d " " >/tmp/pkglist edit pkglist and delete lines X, Y and Z do pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` rm /tmp/pkglist ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want. pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat /tmp/pkglist` installed ___ 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: pkg_deinstall: "delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z"
Wojciech Puchar wrote: ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want. pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat /tmp/pkglist` installed for sure you used ' instead of ` Yet that was the error. I did not know there was another type of quote key on the keyboard. The one used in the example is below the Esc key. ___ 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: it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick
Eric Hsieh wrote: hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install FreeBSD on USB stick. Could I operate it on any computer. if not, how to reach this issue ? second, if i install FreesBIE on USB stick, i know i can operate it on any computer. but i don't know how to store my setting and installed software on USB stick directly instead of copy my setting to another store device. thanks, good luck for you. ___ Your statement of "any computer" is too undefined. The answer to your first question as you wrote it is NO. But if we define "any computer" as "any 386 type of computer" then the answer is yes. Note: Not all PC's manufactured have option to boot from USB stick or use the 386 type of CPU. Your second question is wrong. FreesBie has same limitation as Freebsd. "any 386 type of computer" with USB stick boot option then the answer is yes. There are other versions of Freebsd for the other CPU types of Pc's. If you use one of those other versions for CPU type then your USB stick can only run on PC's of the same CPU type. All of Freebsd run time configuration files are in /etc /etc will be on your USB stick Freebsd system and will be the ones you are modifying. ___ 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 7.2 o/s on a flash stick
Al Plant wrote: Aloha Gurus. All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it like the hd inside. I see plenty of how-to's on loading Flash sticks for installing on other boxes and using a 2 slice flash to load FreeBSD onto other duplicate boxes again. All I need is to have a FreeBSD o/s on the stick so I can use it instead of the OS on the existing laptop. I'm sure I saw on this list where somebody did this successfully but I cant find it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ___ 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" Hi Al The way i have done this in 7.0 7.1 and 7.2 is to boot off the cd1 install cd and do a normal install to my 1gb flash stick. A 1gb flash stick is to small for the default slice sizes. You will have to manually allocate the / /usr /var /swap sizes. I also found it usefully to set the boot flag when allocating the whole flash stick. A 2gb or larger flash stick allows you to take the auto-allocate option for / /usr /var /swap sizes. Keep in mind that your /var log files can fill up you flash stick real quick and lock up your system. If your running this flash stick 7/24 then rotate them more often deleting the oldest one. It's as simple as 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: Install from a USB Pen
Mark Wallbank wrote: OK I know this has probably been done to death by know and I keep hitting the same problems with the methods I have tried to find on google and I know I could just sacrifice a laptop and do a build to create the image or do a net (pxe) install from another NIX serverbut it does seem to be a bit over the top. Does any body know of an easy way to create a bootable USB install media for 7.2 using either linux or vista (or using an option from the install dvd). I have tried some of the tricks from openBSD and linux to no avail. Any help appreciated... Cheers Mark ___ 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" If your asking how to put the cd1 install contents onto a usb stick and use the sysinstall program to perform the install on the target box then check the archive. It has a post with a script to convert the cd1 install disk to usb stick. But the show stopper is the sysinstall program does not have option for usb stick as install source. There was a bug report submitted 2 years ago pointing out this oversight, but as of 7.2 it has not been corrected. If you think the sysinstall program should have install source option for usb stick them file your own bug report. The more people who file bug reports the more attention this problem will get from the developers. ___ 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: Install from a USB Pen
... or you could just download an official image instead of going to all of that trouble. Check the FTP site, there's a memstick.img if you're down for using with 8 instead of 7. There are currently three PRs about this, and I recently took ownership of them. Filing duplicate bug reports doesn't "get attention", it's just annoying and it makes trying to improve sysinstall that much more difficult because I'll have to spend more time closing these duplicates and less time fixing problems. There has been an email that stated there is USB install support in sysinstall as of 8.0 BETA1, and USB livefs support as of 8.0 BETA2. The PRs for USB support in sysinstall will be updated and closed soon. Don't open new ones. You're welcome! :D -- randi What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? ___ 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: Install from a USB Pen
Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use dd, a memstick that is of equal to or greater size than the memstick.img, and no, it's different from disc1. It currently lacks packages, but it does include livefs. -- randi The email about 8.0 BETA(s) was not posted to the questions list that is why I did not see it. This is what I tried Plugging in the stick auto generated these messages # /root >umass0: 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub1 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 1905MB (3903487 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/ço¤¿òÚktñ I have to hit enter key to get prompt of=da0 or of=da0s1 resulted in same thing, no img on stick # /usr >dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=da0 bs=10240 conv=sync 57412+0 records in 57412+0 records out 587898880 bytes transferred in 192.035793 secs (3061403 bytes/sec) Can not mount with (mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt) But (mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt) does work but stick still contains the original data. Has not been overwritten by the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img What is the problem here? ___ 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: Install from a USB Pen
Randi Harper wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use dd, a memstick that is of equal to or greater size than the memstick.img, and no, it's different from disc1. It currently lacks packages, but it does include livefs. -- randi The email about 8.0 BETA(s) was not posted to the questions list that is why I did not see it. This is what I tried Plugging in the stick auto generated these messages # /root >umass0: on uhub1 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 1905MB (3903487 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 242C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/ço¤żňÚktń I have to hit enter key to get prompt of=da0 or of=da0s1 resulted in same thing, no img on stick # /usr >dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=da0 bs=10240 conv=sync 57412+0 records in 57412+0 records out 587898880 bytes transferred in 192.035793 secs (3061403 bytes/sec) Can not mount with (mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt) But (mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt) does work but stick still contains the original data. Has not been overwritten by the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img What is the problem here? You're writing to a file called da0 inside /usr instead of /dev/da0. -- randi ___ 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" dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 worked I used my laptop to boot from the usb memstick. The 8.0 sysinstall started right up but it has problems. In this test i am booting off a 2gb usb memstick containing the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img and installing on a second 8gb memstick. While trying to do a [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution sysinstall issues error msg saying package index not on current media them gos on to tell me that docproj, manpages, proflibs, dict, info, sbace, ssys and srce are not on the media. I take this to mean that they are missing from the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img. So I tried to install again this time doing a minimal selection. This when through to completion but the resulting memstick was not bootable. I'll try this test again when BETA2 is released. ___ 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: Install from a USB Pen
Fbsd1 wrote:
dd if=8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 worked
I used my laptop to boot from the usb memstick. The 8.0 sysinstall
started right up but it has problems. In this test i am booting off a
2gb usb memstick containing the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img and
installing on a second 8gb memstick.
While trying to do a [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution sysinstall
issues error msg saying package index not on current media them gos on
to tell me that docproj, manpages, proflibs, dict, info, sbace, ssys and
srce are not on the media.
I take this to mean that they are missing from the
8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img.
So I tried to install again this time doing a minimal selection. This
when through to completion but the resulting memstick was not bootable.
I'll try this test again when BETA2 is released.
OK used the 8.0-BETA2-i386-memstick.img.
Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to
download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another
method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no
compression of the data.
dd the memstick.img to my 2gb memstick ok. It booted ok.
Using a 8gb memstick as the target to install 8.0 on took 2 times longer
than disc1 cd installing to same 8gb memstick.
Selected the [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution, It completed
successfully, but the new 8.0 8gb memstick was not recognized as bootable.
Here is a script i have used in the past to convert the disc1.iso to
bootable memstick. Maybe its better to add this script to the place
where 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso is located in place of the memstick.img.
That way the 3 times larger memstick.img is not needed any more.
#!/bin/sh
#Purpose = Use to transfer the FreeBSD install cd1 to
# a bootable 1GB USB flash drive so it can be used to install
from.
# First fetch the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso to your
# hard drive /usr. Then execute this script from the command line
# fbsd2usb /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.img
# Change system bios to boot from USB-dd and away you go.
# NOTE: This script has to be run from root and your 1GB USB flash drive
# has to be plugged in before running this script.
# On the command line enter fbsd2usb iso-path img-path
# You can set some variables here. Edit them to fit your needs.
# Set serial variable to 0 if you don't want serial console at all,
# 1 if you want comconsole and 2 if you want comconsole and vidconsole
serial=0
set -u
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 source-iso-path output-img-path"
exit 1
fi
isoimage=$1; shift
imgoutfile=$1; shift
# Temp directory to be used later
#export tmpdir=$(mktemp -d -t fbsdmount)
export tmpdir=$(mktemp -d /usr/fbsdmount)
export isodev=$(mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${isoimage})
ISOSIZE=$(du -k ${isoimage} | awk '{print $1}')
SECTS=$((($ISOSIZE + ($ISOSIZE/5))*4))
#SECTS=$((($ISOSIZE + ($ISOSIZE/5))*2))
echo " "
echo "### Initializing image File started ###"
echo "### This will take about 4 minutes ###"
date
dd if=/dev/zero of=${imgoutfile} count=${SECTS}
echo "### Initializing image File completed ###"
date
echo " "
ls -l ${imgoutfile}
export imgdev=$(mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${imgoutfile})
bsdlabel -w -B ${imgdev}
newfs -O1 /dev/${imgdev}a
mkdir -p ${tmpdir}/iso ${tmpdir}/img
mount -t cd9660 /dev/${isodev} ${tmpdir}/iso
mount /dev/${imgdev}a ${tmpdir}/img
echo " "
echo "### Started Copying files to the image now ###"
echo "### This will take about 15 minutes ###"
date
( cd ${tmpdir}/iso && find . -print -depth | cpio -dump ${tmpdir}/img )
echo "### Completed Copying files to the image ###"
date
if [ ${serial} -eq 2 ]; then
echo "-D" > ${tmpdir}/img/boot.config
echo 'console="comconsole, vidconsole"' >>
${tmpdir}/img/boot/loader.conf
elif [ ${serial} -eq 1 ]; then
echo "-h" > ${tmpdir}/img/boot.config
echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${tmpdir}/img/boot/loader.conf
fi
echo " "
echo "### Started writing image to flash drive now ###"
echo "### This will take about 30 minutes ###"
date
dd if=${imgoutfile} of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
echo "### Completed writing image to flash drive at ###"
date
cleanup() {
umount ${tmpdir}/iso
mdconfig -d -u ${isodev}
umount ${tmpdir}/img
mdconfig -d -u ${imgdev}
rm -rf ${tmpdir}
}
cleanup
ls -lh ${imgoutfile}
echo "### Script finished ###"
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USB Flash Memory stick not bootable
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to the new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed partitions manually by mounting then on the 7.2 system. So I know the 8GB stick has been loaded correctly. I am doing this on a 7.2 release. Below are the console messages that get displayed when I plug in each of the USB Flash Memory stick. You can see a great difference between the first set of messages for the 8GB stick versus the 2GB stick that follows. I want to boot off the 8GB stick just like I do with the 2GB stick. What is going on here? They should be handled the same way. Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09 umass0: on uhub1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d. # 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler umass1: on uhub1 da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 da1: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers ___ 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: Install from a USB Pen
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no compression of the data. -rw-r--r--1 110 1002 346845184 Jul 16 02:04 8.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso -rw-r--r--1 110 1002 917391360 Jul 16 02:00 8.0-BETA2-i386-memstick.img Note the filesize. This may be the reason it took 3 times longer. Just a guess. Using a 8gb memstick as the target to install 8.0 on took 2 times longer than disc1 cd installing to same 8gb memstick. Might have something to do with the amount of data being written. Again, just a guess. Are you sure it wasn't 3 times longer? Selected the [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution, It completed successfully, but the new 8.0 8gb memstick was not recognized as bootable. I don't know why that's the case as I am unable to reproduce this problem, but if the memstick.img is <1GB, why are you using an 8GB memstick instead of the 2GB? Here is a script i have used in the past to convert the disc1.iso to bootable memstick. Maybe its better to add this script to the place where 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso is located in place of the memstick.img. That way the 3 times larger memstick.img is not needed any more. No. If you took a look at the contents of the memstick, you'd realize it's not just a copy of disc1. It also includes livefs. This is probably why the memstick.img is so much bigger. :D -- randi ___ 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" Instead of combining disc1 and livefs into a single memstick.img would't it be better to make 2 memstick images. One of disc1 and one of livefs. This matches the standard all ready in place. ___ 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"
Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to a new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed partitions manually by mounting then on the 7.2 system. So I know the 8GB stick has been loaded correctly. I am doing this on a 7.2 release. Below are the console messages that get displayed when I plug in each of the USB Flash Memory stick. You can see a great difference between the first set of messages for the 8GB stick versus the 2GB stick that follows. I want to boot off the 8GB stick just like I do with the 2GB stick. What is going on here? They should be handled the same way. Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09 umass0: on uhub1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d. # 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler umass1: on uhub1 da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 da1: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers ___ 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: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?
Randi Harper wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu: Hello I found here that some bios does have problem with booting from partitions they do not know So first I initialize the USB stick with == dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 fdisk -BI da0 sade == than edit the partitions... ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2 than disklabel -wB da0s1 disklabel -wB da0s2 newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a boot0cfg -vB da0 mount the partitions, copy the files boot from the usb... it will show you the F1 F2 chooser for me, this worked Sergio Just to clarify, are you trying to boot from a USB stick that you've installed FreeBSD onto, or is this a USB stick that you've dd'ed the memstick.img to? You should NOT use disklabel on a usb stick that you're dd'ing the memstick.img to. -- randi ___ 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" Here I will try to re-state the problem. I have two USB Flash Memory sticks. One is a 2GB stick and the other is a 8GB stick. I can install Freebsd 8.0 from disc1 cd onto the 2GB stick or dd the memstick.img to the 2GB stick and in both cases it will boot just fine. When I repeat the same procedure using the 8GB stick it will not boot. AS a test I have fdisk'ed the 8GB stick under MS/XP and loaded files to it ok. The only thing I see different between the 2 memsticks is in the messages 7.2 issues when the sticks get plugged in. Take note of the revision level differences between them. 2.00/1.00 versus rev 2.00/2.00 The only other guess I have is that the usb code in 7.2 has am error in it. Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09 umass0: on uhub1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C) GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d. # 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler umass1: on uhub1 da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 da1: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers ___ 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: Making bootable USB keys
Samuel Martín Moro wrote: Hello I'm having some troubles, trying to create bootable USB keys. I found (freebsd-hackers ML archives) a script, supposed to create the bootable image from my iso file. But, it still don't boot... (I may do it wrong) In details: -We distribute a FreeBSD (4.7, 5.4, 6.2 and 7.2) "custom" server. -We burn our install CD (and, in a few, our USB sticks) on a Ferdora 9 (sorry...) -USB sticks must contain a FAT32 partition (we'ld like to provide doc for windows users) Well, my english isn't so great... so I'll post my code (more understandable) clip I have same problem with getting a usb stick to boot. After much testing with different sticks and PC combinations have come to this conclusion. When usb hardware first can out they were created for usb 1.0 standard and at that same period PC's where using software drivers for usb support and the PC's bio's boot selection did not include option to boot from usb disk. As usb devices became more popular PC manufactures started adding USB firmware to their motherboards for usb 2.0 standard. From my research into usb 2.0 it only supports data recording and does not support booting function. About 2007 usb 2.2 standard came out and it supports an usb memory stick as bootable. In 2008 some manufactures of motherboards added usb 2.2 standard to their motherboards and bio's selection to boot from memory stick. To be bootable the first file on the the stick has to be the boot image. Haveing a ms fat partition first on the stick will never work unless you fill it with an bootable ms/windows or ms/dos system or the same kind of setup found on the cdrom1 release cd. Only usb 2.2 memory sticks are bootable on newer PC's that have usb 2.2 firmware on their motherboards and matching Bio's with selection for booting from usb 2.2 memory sticks. Please note that bio's booting selection for booting from USB disk is different than booting selection for booting from usb memory stick. I have posted many posts on this list about this subject and have not received any posts contrary to the above statement. The pending 8.0 release has a complete rewrite of the USB code and a new stick.img is being generated as part of the release install distribution's. I can dd the 8.0-stick.img file to an 2.0 stick and it never boots, but do the same thing to a 2.2 stick and it boots on all 3 of my PC manufactured since June 2008. Final Conclusion: Booting from a USB memory stick successfully is totally dependent on using new start-of-the-art hardware. ___ 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: Making bootable USB keys
Samuel Martín Moro wrote: In fact, we provide the servers and the keys. So we're sure everything will work. And also, our install CD is already able to create this kind of USB stick. I am just curious. What manufacture / model and GB size of USB stick are you using? When you plug the USB stick into a FreeBSD system what version of the USB standard is used in the firmware on the USB stick (1.0, 2.0 or 2.2)? The firmware USB version standard used by the stick is displayed when the stick is first plugged into a Freebsd release 7.2 ___ 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: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating
G magicman wrote: And incomplete yes i agree that the doc does need to be updated and examples (more) need to be added. --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:07 AM I was just setting up ipfilter and ipmon on a FreeBSD 7 server, and noticed that the ipmon and syslog information under the ipfilter section of the handbook is incorrect. The section reads: -snip- 31.5.7 IPMON Logging Syslogd uses its own special method for segregation of log data. It uses special groupings called "facility" and "level". IPMON in -Ds mode uses security as the "facility" name. All IPMON logged data goes to security The following levels can be used to further segregate the logged data if desired: LOG_INFO - packets logged using the "log" keyword as the action rather than pass or block. LOG_NOTICE - packets logged which are also passed LOG_WARNING - packets logged which are also blocked LOG_ERR - packets which have been logged and which can be considered short To setup IPFILTER to log all data to /var/log/ipfilter.log, you will need to create the file. The following command will do that: # touch /var/log/ipfilter.log The syslog function is controlled by definition statements in the /etc/syslog.conf file. The syslog.conf file offers considerable flexibility in how syslog will deal with system messages issued by software applications like IPF. Add the following statement to /etc/syslog.conf: security.* /var/log/ipfilter.log The security.* means to write all the logged messages to the coded file location. To activate the changes to /etc/syslog.conf you can reboot or bump the syslog task into re-reading /etc/syslog.conf by running /etc/rc.d/syslogd reload Do not forget to change /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the new log you just created above. -snip- In trying to configure this I found that ipmon -Dsa doesn't log to security, but logs to local0 instead. Reading the man page for ipmon does in fact state this. However it also list the -L option as being able to change this default behavior, I tried ipmon -DSa -L security, it excepts this, but doesn't actually change the logging to use security. It still only outputs to the syslog using local0, I also tried using ipmon -DSa -L local7 as well, still outputs to local0. It was easy enough to modify my syslog.conf to output the local0.* as well as security.* to the /var/log/security file. However it would be greatly appreciated if someone that actually understands what's going on here could get this info updated. It would have saved me some time, as well as I am sure some other people in the future. Of course it's always possible I am missing something simple here that is causing this discrepancy, please do inform me if I did. It's probably worth mentioning that I am starting ipmon using the rc.conf file with ipmon_enable="YES" and ipmon_flags="-DSa", just in case the /etc/rc.d/ipmon script actually changes the default behavior of ipmon in some way, though I didn't see anything in it that should. And ps wwaux | grep ipmon does display the process running with the flags exactly as stated on the ipmon_flags line of the /etc/rc.conf file. Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co I wrote that whole firewall handbook section. How is the following for complete replacement of the 31.5.7 IPMON Logging section? 31.5.7 IPMON Logging Syslogd uses its own special method for segregation of log data. It uses special groupings called ‘facility’ and ‘level’. IPMON in –Ds mode uses local0 as the ‘facility’ name. All IPMON logged data goes to local0. You have to manually configure the /etc/syslog.conf file by adding the statements to direct the Local0 'facility' to the log file name recording the log records. FBSD keeps all of its syslog files in /var/log/ directory. First allocate the new named log file for the IPFMON logged data. touch /var/log/ipfilter.log # will allocate the file The syslog function is controlled by definition statements in the /etc/syslog.conf file. You will have to edit the /etc/syslog.conf file. Add the following statement to syslog.conf: local0.* /var/log/ipfilter.log The local0.* means to write all the logged messages to the coded file location. To activate the changes to /etc/syslog.conf you can reboot or bump the syslog task into re-reading /etc/syslog.conf by kill –HUP pid. You get the pid (IE: process number) by listing the tasks with the ps ax command. Find syslog in the display and the pid number is the number in the left column. Don’t forget to change /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the new named IPFILTER log you just created above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe
Re: update packages or reinstall
Glen Barber wrote: Gary Hartl said: I'm considering just wiping the system clean and starting from scratch to say either 6.4-release or 7.0 release. For what it's worth, I've (so far) had 50% luck with 7.1. My home server runs nothing special, mostly development stuff and the occasional X session. I attempted to upgrade to 7.1 from 6.3-STABLE yesterday, and to make a long story short, am now running 6.4-RELEASE. If you do decide to go with 7.1, I'd test drive it first, before committing that machine to that OS. So far, I've had no problems with 6.4-* on any of my machines. Regards, I installed 7.0 from scratch and its rock hard. 7.1 release may be 6 months or longer away from being released and its not completely tested yet or ready for production. Make backups of your data on 6.4 you want to move forward and install 7.0 from scratch. Nothing is better that a brand new system to add your ports to. Use pkg_add -r command to add your ports. ___ 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: Double Posts
Gabe wrote: Its a conspiracy. Is it safe to say that it is in fact gmail related? -Original Message- From: Odhiambo Washington Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:41 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Double Posts On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:38:17 -0500 "Gary Hartl" wrote: Anyone have any clue what I would be getting two of every message posted to the group? It started yesterday and nothing has changed on my end (that I am aware of) I'm using outlook 2008, picking up from gmail. Thanks Gary Consider yourself lucky. I have been reading horror stories on the GMail forum regarding users losing email. In any event, if it just started and you did not change MUAs, it is almost guaranteed to be a Google (GMail) problem. By the way, are you using IMAP or POP? Hmm, this disappearing e-mails issue: I experienced it today. 2 test mails from my gmail account, to a mailing list where I am member, I see the mails sent to a gmail server from the logs of my mailing list server, but the mails failed to show up on my gmail account, Completely!! I canceled my gmail account because its so un-reliable. Goggle should not enter the field of online email. They have a good search engine but their email system is the worse i have ever seen. ___ 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: general question about setting up gateway
Richard Yang wrote: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ 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" The Freebsd Install guide www.a1poweruser.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"
recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition
I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk What tools do you suggest to use? ___ 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: local copy of handbook
Masoom Shaikh wrote: hello list, in my previous FBSD installations i always had a local copy of handbook never bothered how it got there, until now. i lost my installation due to some good ups. reinstalled minimal 7.0 and build installed kernel & world uname -a FreeBSD raptor 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Dec 17 13:27:42 UTC 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARGON18 amd64 now i cannot see local copy of handbook, i had look at FreeBSD Documentation Primer but that seems overkill and geared towards contributing documentation http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/ also I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all doc-all csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!! hints and help ? Masoom Shaikh Minimal install does not include the handbook. Thats why its called a minimal install. Normal install you get handbook. The following link to the handbook's first page tell you where to ftp your copy from. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.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" ___ 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, how to recieve internet mail
Pieter Donche wrote: On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same FreeeBSD machine But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears .. A sendmail is running freebsd7box># ps -jaxw | grep sendmail smmsp 26649 1 26649 266490 Is??0:00.00 sendmail: Queue run...@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) root 26651 1 26651 266510 Ss??0:00.04 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) The machine is listening on port 25 freebsd7box># netstat -na | grep 25 tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.*LISTEN But telnettting the freebsd box with its own ip address at port 25 from the root account of the box freebsd7box># telnet 143.129.75.1 25 Trying 143.129.75.1... telnet: connect to address 143.129.75.1: Connection refused The only thing that works is freebsd7box># telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ... How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the internet ?? ___ 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" Your problem is not with sendmail but with your understanding of how email works. You need your own registered domain name pointing to the ip address assigned by your isp that is used by your freebsd system running your public sendmail program. Or if you use your isp domain name for your email then you need to add the fetchmail program to your freebsd system to get your eamil from your isp and hand it off to sendmail for queing on your system. The 'Freebsd install guide' at www.a1poweruser.com has section explaining this subject in detail. ___ 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 USB Install
Brian McCann wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann wrote:
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it
was when I accidentially unplugged it before running a sync and
umount). I figured it'd just be easier to start over and build it
again from scratch. So...I try to newfs it ("newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick
/dev/da1s1a", and newfs fails with "cg 0: bad magic number" . Now I'm
really getting pissed. So...I run a dd ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1
bs=1m"), and do the whole thing over...here's the console output:
umm# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m
dd: /dev/da1: short write on character device
dd: /dev/da1: end of device
3830+0 records in
3829+1 records out
4016045568 bytes transferred in 4324.380202 secs (928699 bytes/sec)
umm# fdisk -BI /dev/da1
*** Working on device /dev/da1 ***
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: Geom not found: "da1"
umm# bsdlabel -B -w da1s1
umm# newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick /dev/da1s1a
/dev/da1s1a: 3827.9MB (7839640 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 21 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
with soft updates
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624,
3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032, 4516384, 4892736,
5269088, 5645440, 6021792, 6398144, 6774496, 7150848, 7527200
cg 0: bad magic number
So now I'm getting seriously ticked off. Anyone have any ideas what
the heck could be causing this? This thumb drive was working fine
with FreeBSD! I'm trying a dd on a thumb drive w/o specifying a block
size / BS...we'll see what that does...but I'm still open to
suggestions since I'm just about out of ideas.
Thanks!
--Brian
To the list of things tried...add formatting the USB stick with the
HDD Low Level Format Tool
(http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/).
Still no joy...
For those following along at home, I found the cause of my problems.
It apparently all came down to the machine I was making the stick on.
Any machine that had an Intel SCB2 motherboard in it, would screw it
up. I switched to using a different & newer machine, re-did the
directions at
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2
, and all my problems with it went away. YAY!!!
Thanks to all those who provided input. Long live FreeBSD!
--Brian
Your link to the instructions is dead.
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Bios chip update suggestions
I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id string is 01/08/2002-694T-686-P6VXM2TC-00 All the internet bio's chip update url's found by Google search are customized for MS windows. Suggestions on how or where to purchase the correct bio's chip update? ___ 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: Bios chip update suggestions
matt donovan wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Fbsd1 <mailto:fb...@a1poweruser.com>> wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id string is 01/08/2002-694T-686-P6VXM2TC-00 All the internet bio's chip update url's found by Google search are customized for MS windows. Suggestions on how or where to purchase the correct bio's chip update? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto: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 <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" if bios does not allow booting from usb a update won't either The current bios allows booting from usb-hard drive, floppy, cdrom, zip, all which are external drives. This desktop was mfg before usb memory sticks can on the market. So the desktop does not have support for booting from usb memory stick. Freebsd 7.0 can find and use the usb memory stick for writing and reading data. Just need to update bios containing option to boot from usb memory stick. ___ 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 Install -- acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left)
patrick wrote: (Sorry for the repost, but in retrospect, I thought a subject detailing the actual problem would garner more responses.) Hi, I just got a new Dell Inspiron 530s, and am having some trouble getting FreeBSD 7.1 installed on it. When I boot up from the CD, after it detects all of the disks, I start getting messages like: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) and so on. Google results suggested that I disable ACPI from the boot menu. This works insofar as I get to the installation menu; however, when I go to partition the disk, it says that no disks were found. Is there a way I can disable ACPI, but set some boot-time variables to help the system find the disk controller? I'm in the process of creating a LiveCD to see if acpidump might help isolate just what the problem is, but if anyone has some advice in the meantime, I'd greatly appreciate it. ... time passes ... Booting in safe-mode doesn't have the TIMEOUT - READ_BIG messages, but instead I get an interrupt storm detected. The LiveCD didn't work because when I boot with ACPI disabled, no disks are detected which means that I cannot mount the LiveCD. :( Has anyone found a way to work around this sort of issue before? Thanks, Patrick ___ 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" Change your Bios. Virus Warning=, set this option to disable. It’s a firmware check of the hard drive boot sector looking for MS/Windows boot virus. This will stop FBSD booting from the install CDROM or finding the hard drive. plug-n-play=, set this option to disable. FBSD is not sensitive to Microsoft plug-n-play standard and may refuse to install, or cause PCI cards not to be found. Disable or set to auto any BIOS option to assign IRQ numbers to PCI expansion slots. Operating system type=, set to ‘other’ or any Unix type of operating system, don’t set to MS/Windows. Disable all power management options. Open your box and check that the cdrom reader device is not slave on ribbon with no master. Freebsd assumes the motherboard primary ide controller has hard disk on master nipple and cdrom or another hard disk on slave nipple. The motherboard secondary ide controller can not have empty master nipple with an device on the slave nipple. If this is what you have, move the slave device to the master nipple and change the device jumper pin to indecate master. ___ 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"
reread newsyslog.conf without reboot
How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the system? ___ 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: Bios chip update suggestions
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip and the bio's id string is 01/08/2002-694T-686-P6VXM2TC-00 All the internet bio's chip update url's found by Google search are customized for MS windows. Suggestions on how or where to purchase the correct bio's chip update? What do you mean the update url's are customised for windows? The bios doesn't know anything about operating system. Most likely you could download a dos boot disk image - google, there are plenty around - create a bootable floppy and copy your latest bios image and bios update program, eg awdflash.exe onto it. Just boot from the floppy and run the update. Just be sure the bios image is really intended for your motherboard and don't interrupt the update. Chris ___ 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 i mean is all the bio update sites have a utility that runs from the website to fetch your bio id string info. This utility will not work on a non-windows operating system. ___ 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"
Apache/php
I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from
the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to
home page and this again gets counted.
Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will
bypass bumping the counter on accesses coming from pages in the site?
I looked at the php variables but nothing jumped up that looked usable.
Am I wanting to do something that is imposable?
$fh = fopen($counter_file, 'r+'); # use 'r+' so file can be read and
written.
if ($fh)
{
if (flock($fh, LOCK_EX)) # don't do anything unless lock is
successful
{
$count = chop(fread($fh, filesize($counter_file)));
$count++;
rewind($fh);
fwrite($fh, $count);
fflush($fh);
ftruncate($fh, ftell($fh));
flock($fh, LOCK_UN);
} else echo "Could not lock counter file '$counter_file'";
fclose($fh);
} else echo "Could not open counter file '$counter_file'";
ignore_user_abort(false);## put things back to normal
echo "
You are the $count visitor since 2/15/2009";
?>
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bootable 7.1 USB disk versus flash drive versus internal ide hard drive
Is there a differences between a usb external hard drive and a usb flash drive boot loader pgm? When i plug a usb flash drive in FreeBSD handles it just like a internal IDE hard drive. To make a hard drive bootable you have to write the boot loader pgm to the disk. Does the ide hard drive boot loader pgm work on usb external hard drives and a usb flash drive? My pc has bios option to boot from usb disk but will not boot when i plug in a bootable flash drive. What am i missing here? ___ 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: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?
Formula 1 wrote: Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the operating system off of a USB memory stick? In 7.1 I installed from cdrom cd1 to USB memory stick using the sysinstall utility. When you do the fdisk be sure to allocate whole USB memory stick as a single partition and mark it bootable. ___ 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: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 20:51 +, Formula 1 escreveu: Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the operating system off of a USB memory stick? I have it running here... two small scripts save it from the disk into a 2mb usb stick. once in the usb you can boot (from the usb) and install it on any other disk in 5 minutes and using zfs (a 1gb ufs partition, a swap partition and a big zfs partition. if needed I can put the script in the web fo testing or download. I adivse that there is no need to enter sysinstall. Hope it can help ___ 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" Sure would like a copy of your scrips. Thanks ___ 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: can't find an internal flash reader that doesn't crash 7.1
Steve Franks wrote: I've tried several. I have a need of this - anyone have one that works with our USB stack? Thanks, Steve ___ 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" If you really want a meaningful reply them you have to describe your problem in some detail. NO one on this list has ESP to read your mind. ___ 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 package update
When is the the X-Org mega package going to be recreated so it contains all the fixes caused by 7.1 release as detailed in /usr/ports/UPDATEING? ___ 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"
portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?
I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? ___ 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 mouse and massive error log messages problems
Just installed Xorg package from parkages-current hoping to get
environment containing all the fixes. Still have the no mouse curser
movement on xfce desktop.
Adding
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
statement to ServerLayout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
got the mouse curser moving.
But I still get the the mouse error messages in the X11 log.
{EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy.
(EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "PS/2 Mouse"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
Is there some other correct solution?
I am receiving massive flooding of the Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
with the follow messages
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0"
I found a post in the questions archives where the person was saying
these messages are meaningless and can be ignored. It's not a problem
the ignore them, but my log get massive in size and consumes my free
disk space. I know i can configure to rotate the log at a given size.
But that is not the solution. I need to know how to stop these messages
from being issued in the first place.
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Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I am looking for software like portmanager/portmaster but works on the package system instead of the port system. Is there such am application available? ___ 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" portupgrade has an option to install packages if current with the port version ___ 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" I don't do ports if at all possible. I even do the package of the dependents of the ports I am forced to do. So portupgrade is useless to 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"
link to dos2unix
I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it. ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u This command is accepted without error, but when it execute it d2u .txt I get message ==oops you renamed me using unix2dos instead. I also tried ln -s /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u and got same results. ls -l does not show dos2unix as linked all ready. What am I doing wrong here? ___ 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: link to dos2unix
Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:00:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it. ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u This command is accepted without error, but when it execute it d2u .txt I get message ==oops you renamed me using unix2dos instead. I also tried ln -s /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u and got same results. ls -l does not show dos2unix as linked all ready. What am I doing wrong here? Usually, programs like this perform dos2unix or unix2dos translations depending on how they are called. So renaming them won't work. Try adding an alias to your favorite shell. That should work. E.g.put 'alias d2u dos2unix' and 'alias u2d unix2dos' in your .cshrc. Roland Thank you. That worked. ___ 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"
bsdstats not working in 7.1
bsdstats is now in the base system. Have bsdstats_enable="YES" is rc.conf Worked this way in 7.0. What am I missing here??? ___ 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"
purpose of /etc/wall_cmos_clock
What is /etc/wall_cmos_clock used for and how is it created? ___ 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: desktop app/config
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: "Jean-Paul Natola" wrote: Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde (granted its only a 10 gig drive) but that should be enough for a kde desktop no? It may be that you need to clean-out the workspaces with rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work, and start again. BTW I'd go for KDE3 rather than KDE4. The latter still seems to be very fragile to me, and it needs a fairly up-to-date machine, with and a well supported 3-d graphics card if you want the effects. ___ 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" So I followed the instructions above, and after a few days I wount up again with my 6 gig slice filling up before kde3 could install- I must be doing something wrong if I cant install kde 3 on a 6 gig slice? You would be better off to install the package version of kde. ___ 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"
autoconf262 package error
When doing a pkg_add for autoconf262 it does not do auto package add for its dependents like other packages do. Some thing is wrong with the autoconf262 package on 7.1. ___ 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"
php5 changes in release 8.0
Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on the user community. Is the maintainer going to change the config menu before php5 8.0 is released for production? ___ 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: php5 changes in release 8.0
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Fbsd1 : Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on the user community. Is the maintainer going to change the config menu before php5 8.0 is released for production? If you want a different version of Apache, all you have to do is install Apache first, then PHP will use the version you have installed. It's always been that way. It's just that up till now the default was 1.3. It's _LOOONG_ past time when the default should have moved to 2.X. I had Apache 13 installed before installing php5 and it did install php with files for apache22. It did not default to using apache 13 which was all ready installed. ___ 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: issues in XFCE 4.6
Keith Seyffarth wrote: I went through pkg_rmleaves and deleted xfce and then everything it exposed, then re-installed using portinstall -R This installed 32 packages when I had only deleted 31, so something got installed that wasn't previously. Unfortunately, this still didn't fix the problems. The XFCE menu still isn't available, and the screen resolution is really horrible (did the developers assume everyone has a 30" monitor?) Anyway, what I really need is to know how to manually fix the configuration since access to "settings" isn't available through XFCE in 4.6 so I can make this usable until XFCE can be fixed. Unless someone else has another idea... ___ 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" Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in 7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" statement as last line in "ServerLayout" section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf will build you one. By the way i used the package version of xfce4 on 7.1 and it's working just fine after i added the above xorg fixes. ___ 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"
error in php5 make install
Turn off all options accept Apache module ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on executable: pkg-config - found ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on shared library: xml2.5 - found ===> Configuring for php5-5.2.9 cannot create /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.9/aclocal.m4: No such file or directory *** Error code 2 Script didn't even look for m4 dependent. m4 is installed already. ___ 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: issues in XFCE 4.6
Keith Seyffarth wrote: Your problem is not xfce but xorg. It went through massive changes in 7.1 and it's now mandatory to have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You have to add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" statement as last line in "ServerLayout" section. Doing console command Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf will build you one. By the way i used the package version of xfce4 on 7.1 and it's working just fine after i added the above xorg fixes. That line was already in xorg.conf (it was necessary to get a mouse to work after the last xorg update in January). However, I did not have it as the last line in the ServerLayout section. I moved it to the last line, but that didn't make a difference. There's still no XFCE menu, and without the ability to update the settings in XFCE, it's pretty much unusable... Keith As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and the xorg and xfce packages. ___ 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: error in php5 make install
Peter wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: Turn off all options accept Apache module ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.62 - found ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on executable: pkg-config - found ===> php5-5.2.9 depends on shared library: xml2.5 - found ===> Configuring for php5-5.2.9 cannot create /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.9/aclocal.m4: No such file or directory *** Error code 2 Script didn't even look for m4 dependent. m4 is installed already. are you using root account when performing the install ? Type: id, this will give you the current account you are using. Peter ___ 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" Yes i am using root to install. I fixed the problem by doing make clean then make install. Must have been trash left over from first try. It worked ok now. Thanks any way. ___ 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"
7.1 phpmyadmin skip logon screen?
In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen. How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen? ___ 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: 7.1 phpmyadmin skip logon screen?
Matthew Seaman wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen. How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen? That's nothing to do with the FreeBSD version -- phpMyAdmin works the same on any platform. To make phpMyAdmin auto-login to a DB, you need to use 'config' authentication mode. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#authentication_modes It's probably the least secure authentication mode provided, so you should take further steps in your Apache config to stop the world gaining access to your database. Cheers, Matthew Read the user id info on mysql and phpmyadmin. It's so much overkill. Don't need to secure then at all. I have inhouse development box on private lan and mysql has always worked just fine with superuser mysql id of root without password. In the previous version of phpmyadmin no login id was required and I was able to see my DB definitions. Tried to setup config.inc.php by adding statement $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; but no joy. What is needed in config.inc.php to allow the default mysql superuser user id root full access in phpmyadmin? ___ 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: 7.1 phpmyadmin skip logon screen?
Fbsd1 wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: In 7.1 phpmyadmin now drops you into a logon screen. How do I stop this function and always go to main menu screen? That's nothing to do with the FreeBSD version -- phpMyAdmin works the same on any platform. To make phpMyAdmin auto-login to a DB, you need to use 'config' authentication mode. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#authentication_modes It's probably the least secure authentication mode provided, so you should take further steps in your Apache config to stop the world gaining access to your database. Cheers, Matthew Read the user id info on mysql and phpmyadmin. It's so much overkill. Don't need to secure then at all. I have inhouse development box on private lan and mysql has always worked just fine with superuser mysql id of root without password. In the previous version of phpmyadmin no login id was required and I was able to see my DB definitions. Tried to setup config.inc.php by adding statement $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; but no joy. What is needed in config.inc.php to allow the default mysql superuser user id root full access in phpmyadmin? For the archives. Figured it out for myself after much testing. This is the contents of my working config.inc.php file. ___ 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: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:16:38 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk Oh yes, you can! As a side product of my attempt to restore data from an UFS partition with orphaned inodes, I found some good utilities that might be helpful fo you. What tools do you suggest to use? Check 'em out! System: dd fsck_ffs clri fsdb fetch -rR recoverdisk Ports: ddrescue dd_rescue ffs2recov magicrescue testdisk The Sleuth Kit: fls dls ils autopsy scan_ffs recoverjpeg fatback Especially magicrescue can do wonders. If everything fails, The Sleuth Kit is a good tool. Don't forget to try mtools. I have installed these ports autopsy dd_rescue ddrescue fatback formost sleuthkit If my understanding of reading their documentation is correct, they all need a empty disk to copy the bad disk sectors to in sequence. Is this a correct understanding? msdos fat32 file system has a backup fat table as stated in the docs. Do any of the sectors rescue programs read the backup fat table? Not interested in the XP system or programs directors. Just want user data files created by adobe pagemaker. Dont know what the file extension is for sure or if there are any way to ID the file from internal content. Best guess I have on file extension is .cv5 Do not have a file to examen. What are the general steps I need to do to recover data from this msdos FAT32 disk with corrupted fat table and maybe corrupted data? ___ 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: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)
Keith Seyffarth wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * < 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of shutting down successfully if X is running * can't exit X once started (switches monitor to power save mode and hangs) * maximum run time of 8 hours (average around 5 hours) * won't save settings and a couple minor ones: * XFCE menu doesn't work * missing icons, even after theme is changed from rodent to tango None of these were issues under XFCE4 4.4, but I'm guessing there's not a good way to get 4.4 back... What other window managers do people use, or what would you recommend and why? Thanks. ___ In 7.1 I installed the xfce mega package and it is version 4.4.2, It installed every thing xfce has available. It works fine for me. xfce 4.6 is very dirty and needs alot more work before it's usable. I had some of the same problems as you so i deleted it and returned to 4.4.2. also installed the Xorg mega package. First time startx takes about 30sec, after that it comes up in 5-10sec. ___ 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: installing ports xorg
Tim Judd wrote: I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated ports tree today. # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install # So what am i missing? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-install.html tells me to install this port. I even deleted /var/db/pkg/* and /var/db/ports/* to try to hook it to install... Retrying the above install every time. Nothing works. What to do? Thanks ___ 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" it will take many many hours to compile. If you read more in handbook it also says you can install the package version which should only take 30 minutes. pkg_add -r xorg ___ 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"
mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD. ___ 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: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD. Read up http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html, namely entries 9.1 and 9.2. Very detailed and helpful stuff. None of that was helpfull. Found post in questions archives from 1992 that gave me pointer to correct direction. Here is the solution I used. ls /dev/ad* listed all the slices on both HDs. mount /dev/ad1s1f /mntmounted the /usr dir from the second HD just like i wanted. ___ 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: 7.1 System Crashing
APseudoUtopia wrote: My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident. Here's the output from the `last` command: User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 19:02 still logged in User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 18:52 - 19:02 (00:09) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 18:52 User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 18:42 - crash (00:09) User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 16:06 - 18:42 (02:36) User ttyp01.2.3.4Tue Apr 14 11:23 - 12:53 (01:29) reboot ~ Tue Apr 14 07:44 User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 20:01 - 22:58 (02:57) User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 19:56 - 20:01 (00:04) User ttyp01.2.3.4Mon Apr 13 19:31 - 19:56 (00:25) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 15:02 - 16:15 (01:12) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 14:48 - 15:02 (00:14) reboot ~ Sun Apr 12 14:48 shutdown ~ Sun Apr 12 14:45 User ttyp01.2.3.4Sun Apr 12 14:24 - shutdown (00:21) User ttyp01.2.3.4Sat Apr 11 13:03 - 17:00 (03:56) wtmp begins Wed Apr 1 21:21:28 UTC 2009 As you can see, the system reboot several times, and crashed the most recent time. Only one of the shutdown/reboots listed is valid - the furthest one. I have no idea why it is rebooting/crashing. It has been completely stable until about 1-2 days ago. If anyone can direct me to post the output to any commands or any log messages, I'd be more than willing to do so in order to help anyone diagnose my problem. Thank you for your 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" What you are experiencing are the early warning signs of disk drive failure or over heating problems. Before doing any thing else make backup of your user data if you have not done so already. Then open your box and use a small brush and a can of compressed air to blow the dust off the motherboard and the fans. Give special attention to the fan in the power supply. If PC is older than 3 years or has over 1 year of continues use then replace the power supply. IF problem still happens replace hard drive. ___ 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: Splash screen color issues
Eugene L. wrote: Hello everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.1-Release (generic kernel), and I am trying to make splash screen feature work properly, so I followed the procedure described in handbook and the splash screen actually loads, except the black is now white, red is violet, etc. So all the colors of the bitmap are messed up, and I checked, they fit the requirements and I've tried other pics and pcx format. I tried gimp, photoshop. The issue isn't pic related What could possibly be the reason? I use Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro AGP ___ 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" Has to be your video card. If you have an X-desktop installed try displaying the splash screen and see how it looks there. The x-desktop should have auto loaded a driver for your video card. If the colors are ok them unplug your video card and try the motherboard default video. ___ 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: Problem: PPOE and a Static IP.
Paul Halliday wrote: I am following the instructions on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoe.html I had initially thought it was a problem with the modem so I had a technician come in to take a look; when hooked up to his windows laptop: 1) He had to assign the interface the static address 2) no uname/pass were required. What needs to change in my ppp.conf to accommodate a static address? Thanks. ___ 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" set ifaddr s.s.s.s 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 where s.s.s.s is your static ip address ___ 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: Fetchmail problem
Annelise Anderson wrote: I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org does not resolve I can send mail out from the box but can't fetch mail. Annelise ___ 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" post your .fetchmailrc config file ___ 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"
source for sysinstall
How can i just download the source for sysinstall? ___ 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"
7.2 disc1 & bootonly cds not recognized as bootable
Running 7.1 and trying to do clean install of 7.2. Downloaded both disc1 and bootonly iso files because the 7.2 release announcement says this. Note: late in the testing cycle it was discovered some machines do not recognize the i386 disc1 as bootable (they just fall through to booting off the next boot device). All affected machines did see the other discs as bootable. If you have a machine with that problem booting off either bootonly or livefs and then swapping in disc1 once sysinstall starts should work. In my case I have the described booting problem with both disc1 and the bootonly disk. Disc1 and bootonly cd are bootable on different computer so know they are good. Dead in the water, Help ___ 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"
no pkg for apache13 in 7.2
In 7.1 and previous pkg_add -r apache fetched apache13. Now in release 7.2 pkg_add -r apache installs apache22. Looks like someone made apache22 the default pkg and did not point this out in the release notes or bother to create a named package for apace13 in the Latest directory. Is apache13 at end-of-life?? ___ 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: no pkg for apache13 in 7.2
Ltcddata wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:22:34 +0800 Fbsd1 wrote: In 7.1 and previous pkg_add -r apache fetched apache13. Now in release 7.2 pkg_add -r apache installs apache22. Looks like someone made apache22 the default pkg and did not point this out in the release notes or bother to create a named package for apace13 in the Latest directory. Is apache13 at end-of-life?? ___ 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" using apache13 here on 7.2.. just build it from ports Building from port does not address the posted problem. Can also get pkg from 7.1. ___ 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: Win4BSD 1.1 on 7.1
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:53:09 +0200 (CEST), Ronny Mandal wrote: I'm experiencing problems when attempting to install Win4BSD 1.1. I've downloaded the most recent .tbz of W4B, it installs but fails while building kqemu. You downloaded sources manually? Why not use the ports system, or even install from a precompiled package? This would install any needed dependencies (kqemu) as well. The ports collection contains version 1.1. From the port: # cd /usr/ports/emulators/win4bsd # make install clean From the package: pkg_add -r win4bsd It will install run dependencies as well. Here is the error-msg: kqemu-freebsd.c: In function 'kqemu_schedule': kqemu-freebsd.c:211: error: 'sched_lock' undeclared (first use in this function) kqemu-freebsd.c:211: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once I'm not sure, but are you trying to compile Linux sources on a FreeBSD system? All sources are installed. Suggestions are very welcome and will be appreciated! Try the port, if you want to compile it yourself, or try pkg_add. I have to admit that I haven't tried it, so it's a "dry advice". :-) There is no package for win4bsd on the pkg ftp servers for releases 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, or 8.0. Looks like the release build team has been missed this one for some time now. ___ 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: Win4BSD 1.1 on 7.1
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 23:53:09 +0200 (CEST), Ronny Mandal wrote: I'm experiencing problems when attempting to install Win4BSD 1.1. I've downloaded the most recent .tbz of W4B, it installs but fails while building kqemu. You downloaded sources manually? Why not use the ports system, or even install from a precompiled package? This would install any needed dependencies (kqemu) as well. The ports collection contains version 1.1. From the port: # cd /usr/ports/emulators/win4bsd # make install clean From the package: pkg_add -r win4bsd It will install run dependencies as well. Here is the error-msg: kqemu-freebsd.c: In function 'kqemu_schedule': kqemu-freebsd.c:211: error: 'sched_lock' undeclared (first use in this function) kqemu-freebsd.c:211: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once I'm not sure, but are you trying to compile Linux sources on a FreeBSD system? All sources are installed. Suggestions are very welcome and will be appreciated! Try the port, if you want to compile it yourself, or try pkg_add. I have to admit that I haven't tried it, so it's a "dry advice". :-) The port build of win4bsd will not build on 7.2 because you have first to rebuild the freebsd kernel with option SCHED_4BSD. win4bsd-1.1_3 requires the traditional 4bsd scheduler. Good possibility this is also true for 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0 Gave up on testing win4bsd because of performance impact on server from using traditional 4bsd scheduler. OMHO this port needs to be updated to function using the new scheduler. ___ 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"
Software creating karaoke from mp3 files
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like "AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN". Looking for advice on software that will allow me to edit out the singing voice tracks from a mp3 file and write the resulting music as a avi file so I can have the song words show on tv. If any one has done this type of thing, sure would like to hear about how they did it. Thanks ___ 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"
Burncd & 700MB rw/cd
Been using burncd since Freebsd 4.0 with 650MB rw/cd's just fine. My local computer store had a sale on 700MB rw/cd's and I picked up a few. Burncd gives msg (Failure - read_big illegal request) on these 700MB rw/cd's. The Freebsd 7.0 man burncd has no info on large sized rw/cd's? Does burncd need a programming update to handle these newer larger sized rw/cd's? What other (built in with the release) program can be used to burn 700 MB rw/cd's? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ssh
On FreeBSD 7.0 how do I tell ssh to allow login from root and also to listen on port 9922 instead of port 22? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: switching discs during install
All this talk about changing the order of the ports on the install cd's is
just so much hot air because cd's install media belong to the legacy world.
They are fast becoming obsolete just like floppy drives are. Can't even buy
a computer these days with a floppy drive and still FreeBSD distributes
floppy install images. How absurd is that?
FreeBSD needs to come of age in the 21st century and be changed to install
using USB memory flash stick technology. Just a little tweaking of the
sysinstall program to add USB stick as an option for source of install
source would do it.
Here is a little script to populate a USB flash stick with the cd1.iso that
you may find interesting. This way you can combine the cd1 & cd2 install
cd's to a 4GB USB stick and install the system and all the ports you want
without switching any install media. You could even use a USB flash stick as
the target to install FreeBSD on giving you an mobile FreeBSD system you can
plug into any computer and boot from.
#!/bin/sh
#Purpose = Use to transfer the FreeBSD install cd1 to
# a bootable 1GB USB flash drive so it can be used to install from.
# First fetch the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso to your
# hard drive /usr. Then execute this script from the command line
# fbsd2usb /usr/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso /usr/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.img
# Change system bios to boot from USB-dd and away you go.
# NOTE: This script has to be run from root and your 1GB USB flash drive
# has to be plugged in before running this script.
# On the command line enter fbsd2usb iso-path img-path
# You can set some variables here. Edit them to fit your needs.
# Set serial variable to 0 if you don't want serial console at all,
# 1 if you want comconsole and 2 if you want comconsole and vidconsole
serial=0
set -u
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 source-iso-path output-img-path"
exit 1
fi
isoimage=$1; shift
imgoutfile=$1; shift
# Temp directory to be used later
#export tmpdir=$(mktemp -d -t fbsdmount)
export tmpdir=$(mktemp -d /usr/fbsdmount)
export isodev=$(mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${isoimage})
ISOSIZE=$(du -k ${isoimage} | awk '{print $1}')
SECTS=$((($ISOSIZE + ($ISOSIZE/5))*4))
#SECTS=$((($ISOSIZE + ($ISOSIZE/5))*2))
echo " "
echo "### Initializing image File started ###"
echo "### This will take about 4 minutes ###"
date
dd if=/dev/zero of=${imgoutfile} count=${SECTS}
echo "### Initializing image File completed ###"
date
echo " "
ls -l ${imgoutfile}
export imgdev=$(mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${imgoutfile})
bsdlabel -w -B ${imgdev}
newfs -O1 /dev/${imgdev}a
mkdir -p ${tmpdir}/iso ${tmpdir}/img
mount -t cd9660 /dev/${isodev} ${tmpdir}/iso
mount /dev/${imgdev}a ${tmpdir}/img
echo " "
echo "### Started Copying files to the image now ###"
echo "### This will take about 10 minutes ###"
date
( cd ${tmpdir}/iso && find . -print -depth | cpio -dump ${tmpdir}/img )
echo "### Completed Copying files to the image ###"
date
if [ ${serial} -eq 2 ]; then
echo "-D" > ${tmpdir}/img/boot.config
echo 'console="comconsole, vidconsole"' >>
${tmpdir}/img/boot/loader.conf
elif [ ${serial} -eq 1 ]; then
echo "-h" > ${tmpdir}/img/boot.config
echo 'console="comconsole"' >> ${tmpdir}/img/boot/loader.conf
fi
echo " "
echo "### Started writing image to flash drive now ###"
echo "### This will take about 20 minutes ###"
date
dd if=${imgoutfile} of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
echo "### Completed writing image to flash drive at ###"
date
cleanup() {
umount ${tmpdir}/iso
mdconfig -d -u ${isodev}
umount ${tmpdir}/img
mdconfig -d -u ${imgdev}
rm -rf ${tmpdir}
}
cleanup
ls -lh ${imgoutfile}
echo "### Script finished ###"
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