record and redirect phone calls?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello. I just started running a small software service company providing 
services for some opensource groupwares. I have several technical 
consultants work for me as second job. They are college network 
administrators, they are mostly free, hanging on line chatting, hacking 
code all day.

I redirect clients' calls from my office's phone to their cell phones 
with the help of local telephone company, and they answer phone calls in 
the college. But I wish to know how clients actually need and feel by 
recording and re-examine the phone calls, so what I want to do is: 
redirect my clients phone calls to my consultants, meanwhile record (the 
voice of) all the phone calls (of course with my consultants 
acknowledged and agreed). Local telephone company does not provide this 
kind of service, and I didn't find the kind of equipment on the market.

Of course I can seek commercial solutions, but I'm small company and I'd 
love to play with scripts, and buying solution is not a hacker's style 
(though I'm not geek:). I thought this can be simple: I need to setup a 
server, buy several modem cards (and book several phone lines 
accordingly) and a sound card and connect them with proper wire. Listen 
to the first modem (modemA), if a call comes in, dial each consultant's 
phone number with the rest of modem cards. Once a consultant answers the 
phone, pick up modemA and start the sound recorder. The modemA's speaker 
line connects to all other modems line-in; The modemA's line-in connects 
to all other modems speaker; and they are all connected to the sound 
card. I only have several consultants so I don't need too many cards. Of 
course when I grow big I'll need to have a professional solution.

Looking into the ports I found comms/scud which can be used to listen to 
phone calls, and the rest should be simple, just sending ATD/ATH 
commands all around. But I never played with modem-related scripts 
before, there can be difficulty lies right in front that I don't 
realize. So what is your suggestion?

My background is 3 years web designer and jsp programmer, one year's 
FreeBSD experience, would this be difficult to people like me? I'd love 
to do it myself.

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Re: BerkeleyDB version?

[Robin Schoonover]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 03:29:42 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I tell which version of BerkeleyDB I have installed on my FreeBSD
> 4.7R?
> 

If you installed it via ports, then 
ls /var/db/pkg | egrep ^db\(3\|4\)
should do it for you.  If it happens to be major version 3, then 'db3_stat
-V' might be able to tell you something also (dunno about 4).

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How do I upgrade to BerkeleyDB 4.1.25?

[Mark]

How do I upgrade to BerkeleyDB 4.1.25? I did a "file" on a db (FreeBSD
4.7R), and it says:

"Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)"

And I need a newer BerkeleyDB. However, I did a:

"pkg_add db41-4.1.25_1.tgz"

But, apart from copying a whole set of files, it does not seem to have done
anything. Can someone please tell me how to do this?

Thanks,

- Mark

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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Steve Wingate]

> > I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is
> > really ready.
>
> -STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not
> the OS on the partition its trying to boot.

Actually STABLE will have no problems as it's been running on this box for
over a year.

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Re: color to files

[Malcolm Kay]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 00:46, SWIT wrote:
> Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ?
> thanks

Firstly; don't use the reply button for a new question. It puts your query in
a thread on another question and might therefore be missed. In this case
it appears in the thread:
  "Beep when tab cannot incomplete".

As others have noted you need the '-G option with ls' or 'an alias' or 'an 
environment variable'. But you also need the capability to display colours.
The standard non-X virtual terminals (cons25) in FreeBSD have this capability.
If you are in X and using xterm then this also has the capability but by 
default other programs such as ls are not informed of this because the 
termcap description for terminal type 'xterm' does not declare it. If you set
the environment variable TERM to xterm-color then it will work. Alternatively
add the line:
   XTerm*termName: xterm-color
to your .Xdefaults file.

Malcolm Kay

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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Doug White]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote:

> > "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :)
> >
> > If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to
> > reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong.  Try zeroing
> > off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put
> > FreeBSD on it.
>
> I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is
> really ready.

-STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not
the OS on the partition its trying to boot.

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HTT cpus in STABLE

[Steve Wingate]

I'm trying to set "machdep.hlt_logical_cpus" to 0 as suggested in
/usr/src/UPDATING. It doesn't appear to be a recognized oid. Is the loader
the only way to set this?


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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Steve Wingate]

> "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :)
>
> If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to
> reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong.  Try zeroing
> off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put
> FreeBSD on it.

I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is
really ready.


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| 7:40PM  up 2 days, 11:47, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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BerkeleyDB version?

[Mark]

Hi,

How can I tell which version of BerkeleyDB I have installed on my FreeBSD
4.7R?

Thanks,

- Mark

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mail question...

[Xpression]

Hi guys, I have read the man pages about mail, but I can't found
something to attacht files to sent mails, and I want to mail me some files
from the server to not have to login to read them...somebody can tell me ???
There is any other solution to get the files, please any help deeply
grateful...

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Re: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?

[Rob]

Does 'cdcontrol eject' work?

- Original Message -
From: "J. Porter Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?


> eject from /usr/ports/sysutils/eject used to work fine.  Now, on a
> 4.9-STABLE system:
>
> % eject -v acd0c
> eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc
> eject: trying device /dev/acd0c
> eject: /dev/ad0s3a mounted on /
> eject: /dev/ad0s3f mounted on /tmp
> eject: /dev/ad0s3g mounted on /usr
> eject: /dev/ad0s3e mounted on /var
> eject: unmounting /var
> eject: /var: Device busy
>
> And on a different system:
>
> % eject -v acd0c
> eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc
> eject: trying device /dev/acd0c
> eject: /dev/da0s1a mounted on /
> eject: /dev/da0s1f mounted on /tmp
> eject: /dev/da0s1g mounted on /usr
> eject: /dev/da0s1e mounted on /var
> eject: /dev/da1s1e mounted on /home
> eject: unmounting /home
> eject: /home: Device busy
>
> In neither case is the CD (or anything else) ejected.
>
> What's going on?
>
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Okay, who broke sysutils/eject?

[J. Porter Clark]

eject from /usr/ports/sysutils/eject used to work fine.  Now, on a
4.9-STABLE system:

% eject -v acd0c
eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc
eject: trying device /dev/acd0c
eject: /dev/ad0s3a mounted on /
eject: /dev/ad0s3f mounted on /tmp
eject: /dev/ad0s3g mounted on /usr
eject: /dev/ad0s3e mounted on /var
eject: unmounting /var
eject: /var: Device busy

And on a different system:

% eject -v acd0c
eject: trying device /dev/acd0cc
eject: trying device /dev/acd0c
eject: /dev/da0s1a mounted on /
eject: /dev/da0s1f mounted on /tmp
eject: /dev/da0s1g mounted on /usr
eject: /dev/da0s1e mounted on /var
eject: /dev/da1s1e mounted on /home
eject: unmounting /home
eject: /home: Device busy

In neither case is the CD (or anything else) ejected.

What's going on?

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CUPS on 5.1-Release, No Parallel port ??

[Jim Durham]

I was just trying to install a parallel printer on my 5.1-RELEASE 
system to use with CUPS.

The Printer is an HP-5L plugged into the parallel port.

lpinfo -v show no parallel port device. ppc0 *does* show up in dmesg 
and there is /dev/lpt0 in the devfs. Also, there is no parallel port 
choice in the cups config screen.

On my 4.9-RELEASE server, with an HP-6L plugged into the parallel 
port, lpinfo -v shows "direct parallel /dev/lpt0" . Cups works 
fine.there.

I also looked on my laptop, running 5.1-RELEASE and the same thing is 
true, lpinfo -v shows no parallel port.

Looking in dmesg on the 4.9 system, the printer is identified by name 
but not on the 5.1 system.

Another curiosityI have /etc/devfs.conf set up to do rules for 
/dev/acd0 and /dev/pass0 to chmod them to 666. I also set this up for 
/dev/lpt0 and it does not work, the port remains 600. Maybe this is a 
clue?

I Googled for this for quite some time and, although I saw others with 
the same problem, there were no answers and I can't find a bug 
report.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Re: IPFW strange events

[Rob]

Not a direct answer, but you should generally put

add allow all from any to any via lo0

near the start of a rules list. Some things may break if you block
loopback conections.

- Original Message -
From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPFW strange events



Hello,

This is occurring on a 4.8-RELEASE server using IPFW2...


I have numerous rules that block bogus networks... one of which is:

ipfw add 0104 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any


And I know it's working because using "ipfw list" I get:

00104 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any


Whenever that rule is active, it's blocking packets - "ipfw show":

00104 21   1148 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any

BUT

Various services stop working... so I look at /var/log/security and see
NUMEROUS entries such as this:

Nov  1 10:30:00 server /kernel: ipfw: 104 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:1051
127.0.0.1:80 out via lo0

Now I don't see anything in the rule about the localhost address, yet
that's what it's blocking. But a little bit ahead of that rule, I do
have this one:

ipfw add 082 divert natd all from any to any via fxp0

Would it help to put all the bogus network deny rules ahead of the
divert rule?

Stumped,
Chris


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Re: MultiLinking ADSL connections

[Rob]

Have you looked at /usr/ports/net/mpd? It's designed for multilinking
and understands ADSL.

(I use it for a single PPPoE link.)

- Original Message -
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Subject: MultiLinking ADSL connections


Just curious if anyone has experimented with multilinking adsl
connections
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Mozilla 1.5 errors?

[paul beard]

What's wrong here? I've updated ports today, if that's useful to 
know.

===>  Building for mozilla-1.5_1,2
/usr/local/bin/gmake -C config export
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config'
gmake[2]: Entering directory 
`/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config/mkdepend'
cppsetup.c
cc -o host_cppsetup.o -c -O -pipe  -DXP_UNIX -O3 
-DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/include\" -DOBJSUFFIX=\".o\" 
-DPREINCDIR=\"include\"   -I../../dist/include/mkdepend 
-I../../dist/include 
-I/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/dist/include/nspr 
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/dist/include/nspr  cppsetup.c
In file included from cppsetup.c:28:
def.h:29: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory
def.h:30: X11/Xfuncproto.h: No such file or directory
gmake[2]: *** [host_cppsetup.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config/mkdepend'
gmake[1]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/opt/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config'
gmake: *** [default] Error 2
*** Error code 2

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Re: Via EPIA 800Mhz

[anubis]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:39 am, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
> I have the same options in the kernel config ... it still does the same
> thing :( ... now I am certain I am doing something wrong ... I think I
> will the GENERIC kernel config and see if that works ...
>
> Thanks for your help
> -Pranav
>
> ***
> Pranav A. Desai
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >  Does anyone know if the Via EPIA 800MHz is supported in any version of
> > >freebsd. I tried it with 4.6.2 and it reboots as soon as kernel loads.
> > >Or do I need to enable any specific options in the kernel config.
> > >
> > >It has the following CPU-
> > >VIA C3 800 E-Series processor, 800 MHz
> > >
> > >I would appreciate any kind of help.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >***
> > > Pranav A. Desai
> >
> > Yes, it does. My ipfilter/NAT machine is running 4.8-REL on a 933MHz EPIA
> > board, and I have an X terminal running 4.8-REL on a 800MHz EPIA board.
> >
> > I use the following kernel configuration (for the X terminal):
> >
> > # Kernel configuration for gearbox (4/25/2003) working copy
> >
> > machine i386
> > cpu I686_CPU
> > ident   gearbox
> > maxusers0
> >
> > options INET#InterNETworking
> > #optionsINET6   #IPv6 Communications Protocols
> > options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> > options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
> > options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
> > options MFS #Memory Filesystem
> > options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
> > options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
> > options CD9660  #ISO 9660 Filesystem
> > options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
> > options PROCFS  #Process filesystem
> > options COMPAT_43   #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
> > options SCSI_DELAY=1000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
> > options UCONSOLE#Allow users to grab the console
> > options USERCONFIG  #boot -c editor
> > options VISUAL_USERCONFIG   #visual boot -c editor
> > options KTRACE  #ktrace(1) support
> > options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
> > options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
> > options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
> > options P1003_1B#Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
> > options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
> > options ICMP_BANDLIM#Rate limit bad replies
> > options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev
> > options QUOTA
> > options SUIDDIR
> > options NO_F00F_HACK
> > options DDB_UNATTENDED
> >
> > device  isa
> > device  eisa
> > device  pci
> >
> > # Floppy drives
> > #device fdc0at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
> > #device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
> > #device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
> >
> > # ATA and ATAPI devices
> > device  ata
> > device  atadisk # ATA disk drives
> > device  atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
> > #device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
> > #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
> > options ATA_STATIC_ID   #Static device numbering
> >
> > # SCSI Controllers
> > #device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
> > #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic device
> >
> > # SCSI peripherals
> > device  scbus   # SCSI bus (required)
> > device  da  # Direct Access (disks)
> > #device sa  # Sequential Access (tape etc)
> > device  cd  # CD
> > device  pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
> >
> > # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
> > device  atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
> > device  atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
> > device  psm0at atkbdc? irq 12
> > device  vga0at isa?
> >
> > # splash screen/screen saver
> > pseudo-device   splash
> >
> > # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
> > device  sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
> >
> > # Floating point support - do not disable.
> > device  npx0at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13
> >
> > # Power management support (see LINT for more options)
> > #device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power 
> > Manage

Re: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes

[anubis]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 02:31 pm, Rick Duvall wrote:
> I have some backup tapes that I have been using each once per week for
> about 8 months.  I am getting errors when running amverify on a couple of
> them. To be sure that my tapes are still good and not just the system
> giving me fits, it would be nice if I could run a program that would write
> bits to the tape in question and try to read them back, telling me which
> blocks on the tape are bad.  Is there such a tool that does this?  I guess
> it would be kind of like a scandisk is to a DOS Floppy as what I am talking
> about is to a Unix Tape.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rick Duvall
> Online Highways
> System Administrator
> (541) 997-8401 x 111
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If I get errors on tapes I bin them immediately.  Tapes wear and they do have 
a life span which varies from tape to tape.  If you are backing up something 
it is obviously important so take no chances in loosing it.
On my windows system I have the o/s backup set to verify to make sure the data 
is ok.  When it crashed and had to be restored from tape I found that 2 of 
the tapes that were verified couldnt be read.  The tapes were about a year 
old.  The amount of money the company lost from having an old tape could have 
paid for a new server, several tape drives and media.  The lesson I learnt 
was tapes are cheap, turn over frequently.

Remember with dds technology they are a helical scan head.  Tapes backed up on 
one dds drive are not necessarily readable by any other dds drive as I found 
out the hard way.  Look at DLT as an alternative.  Whatever you get make sure 
you add in a 3 year warranty.  Get one from hp or ibm.  We had our hp fail at 
4pm.  Had a new one on site 10am next day.  They only fail when you really 
need them.



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Install from hard disk.

[Paul Halliday]

I have two drives in my pc164. What do i need to put on the second drive
in order to use it as the installation media? I have tried dd'ing the
floppy images to the second hard drive but this doesnt work. Any pointers?


Thanks.

Paul Halliday.
http://dp.penix.org
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NAT and gateway

[Doug Poland]

Hello,

I'm running 4.8-STABLE.  I've got a question about NAT and gateway.
Today, I'm running a typical NAT configuration like this...

if0 = public_ip
if1 = private_lan

Everything is working fine, internal clients use if1 and their gateway
and their addresses are translated and sent out on if0.

My question is: can I alias if1 with a public IP and point other
clients (also with public IP) if1 as their gateway?  In this case, I
would want if1 to route to if0 and have their public IPs remain intact.

I'm asking this as a questions because I've just tried it and packets
are not routing from if1 to if0.

Many thanks for your help.

-- 
Regards,
Doug
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font in xfterm4

[Sham Khalil]

i have xfce4 and xfterm4 on my freebsd 4.9-RC
how do i replace font and size for xfterm4?

sham khalil
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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Doug White]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote:

> I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks
> with:
> STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine)
> CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and
> backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk.
>
> I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot.
> Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it
> then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I
> have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and
> nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and
> every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here?

"Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :)

If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to
reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong.  Try zeroing
off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put
FreeBSD on it.


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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Steve Wingate]

>
> Try to install booteasy from STABLE, only from STABLE, to both
> harddisk. don't install booteasy when install CURRENT
> or try to recover boot easy from STABLE on the second hardisk  as
> described in the handbook
> it works for me
>
> sham khalil

I have tried this and it still doesn't boot to CURRENT.

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Re: apache mod_ssl build error

[T Kellers]

On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:40 pm, Matt Edwards wrote:
>  Original Message -
> From: "Dirk Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Matt Edwards"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:20 AM
> Subject: Re: apache mod_ssl build error
>
> > Matt Edwards schrieb:,
> >
> > > Yep.  Me again.  Sorry. :)  Did you ever find a solution to this (see
>
> below my
>
> > >  name) besides moving to 5.1?  I am currently having the same issue,
>
> (though n
>
> > > ot with portupgrade),  with the building of mod_ssl itself.  Trouble
> > > is,
>
> I'm r
>
> > > unning 5.1.
> >
> > I have no problem on FreeBSD 5.1
> >
> > > ap_fnmatch.c:143: `FNM_CASE_BLIND' undeclared (first use in this
>
> function)
>
> > you might habe a "fnmatch.h" ins /usr/local/include/
> > (maybe from the heimdal port)
> > $ pkg_info -W /usr/local/include/fnmatch.h
> >
> > If you deinstall this file, mod_ssl will build without problems.
> >
> > kind regards Dirk
> >
> > - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
> > - [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you Dirk.  That was exactly what I needed to get it to build.  I did
> in fact have heimdal installed.  I appreciate you getting back to me on
> this.  I un-installed heimdal, built and installed mod_ssl and then
> reinstalled heimdal again.  The only question that remains now is will the
> re-install of heimdal cause any problems?  So far kerberos is working fine,
> but I have yet to configure apache for the ssl stuff to see if it is
> working ok (not that I can't, I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
> :).
>
> thanks,
>
> matt

And a big Thanks from me, too.  On just one of my servers, apache stopped 
portupgrading (within the past several weeks); it hadn't really grabbed my 
attention until a power failure in Newark on Wednesday made my operating 
version of apache+mod-ssl unrunnable (or so I thought) and I actually had to 
pkg_delete apache from the machine and then do a pkg_add -r apache+mod_ssl to 
get a working version back.

The upshot of the apache blasting power failure was that it wasn't apache at 
all that was the actual culprit.  When the machine rebooted and came back 
online, for some odd reason, portsentry grabbed port 80 and wouldn't let go.  
While apachectl startssl didn't return a command line error, the /var/log/
httpd-error logfile recorded that the port was already in use.  ps -ax |grep 
http only returned grep http.  I found the problem with netstat or sockstat 
(I forget now, it was a Real late night, that night), killed portsentry, 
restarted apache, and restarted portsentry.  All has been well since.  Now, 
though, I know what to do to properly portupgrade apache next time.

Thanks

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

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Re: How can I get cvs working with a proxy server?

[anubis]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:00 am, Dariush wrote:
> Its been over a few weeks now after installing freebsd
> 5.0 and still can not run cvsupdate and portupgrade on
> one my servers.
>
> We are behind a firewall and proxy server.
>
> All traffic to the internet uses a proxy server for
> connection.
>
> I have been searching for ways to try to get the cvs
> working from behind the firewall and no one seems to
> know how to do it. Or at least I can not find the
> solution.
>
> The box has full internet access, but I simply can not
> have a ping to outside.
> i.e ping www.yahoo.com and or any server on the net
> would not work.
>
> but netscape and browsers can get out.
>
> Can any one suggest a solution?
>
> I cann't think that there are so many people out there
> asking for this and there is simply no way to do it.
>
> BSD51# cvsup -P m /root/ports-supfile
> Unknown host "cvsup6.FreeBSD.org"
>
> Tried on a windows machine
>
> cvs -d
>
> :pserver;proxy=121.15.222.232;proxyport=8080:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/
>
> login
>
> cvs [login aborted]: Proxy server 121.15.222.232 does
> not support HTTP tunnelling
>
> Do I have the defaultrouter in rc.conf?
>
> yes and again I can get to the internet via browsers
> fine.
>
>
>
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looking at the man page for cvsupd says that it uses ports 5999 and 5998.  
This means that you will have to have NAT on the firewall  machine or port 
forwarding.  Proxys typically only proxy some services such as ftp and http 
and wont help with cvsup.

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Re: apache mod_ssl build error

[Matt Edwards]

 Original Message - 
From: "Dirk Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Matt Edwards"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: apache mod_ssl build error


> Matt Edwards schrieb:,
>
> > Yep.  Me again.  Sorry. :)  Did you ever find a solution to this (see
below my
> >  name) besides moving to 5.1?  I am currently having the same issue,
(though n
> > ot with portupgrade),  with the building of mod_ssl itself.  Trouble is,
I'm r
> > unning 5.1.
>
> I have no problem on FreeBSD 5.1
>
> > ap_fnmatch.c:143: `FNM_CASE_BLIND' undeclared (first use in this
function)
>
> you might habe a "fnmatch.h" ins /usr/local/include/
> (maybe from the heimdal port)
> $ pkg_info -W /usr/local/include/fnmatch.h
>
> If you deinstall this file, mod_ssl will build without problems.
>
> kind regards Dirk
>
> - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thank you Dirk.  That was exactly what I needed to get it to build.  I did
in fact have heimdal installed.  I appreciate you getting back to me on
this.  I un-installed heimdal, built and installed mod_ssl and then
reinstalled heimdal again.  The only question that remains now is will the
re-install of heimdal cause any problems?  So far kerberos is working fine,
but I have yet to configure apache for the ssl stuff to see if it is working
ok (not that I can't, I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. :).

thanks,

matt


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Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Sham Khalil]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote:

> I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks
> with:
> STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine)
> CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and
> backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk.
>
> I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot.
> Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it
> then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I
> have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and
> nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and
> every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here?
>
>

Try to install booteasy from STABLE, only from STABLE, to both
harddisk. don't install booteasy when install CURRENT
or try to recover boot easy from STABLE on the second hardisk  as
described in the handbook
it works for me

sham khalil

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Re: wake-on-lan support? (WOL)

[Alexander Mayer]

Hi,

Alexander Kühn wrote:

powered down. You need to enable it in the PC bios and for some NICs
also in the NIC's BIOS as well (e.g. RTL 8139) using a NIC specific 
tool
But most drivers in Linux disable WOL per default (on the NIC). It's a 
common problem: WOL works if I boot into Windows then shutdown. When I 
shutdown from Linux the PC doesn't wake up. Only a few drivers in Linux 
2.4.x (vanilla) provide a kernel option like "enable_wol=1", usually 
you need a kernel patch (if you can find one).

Are there similar problems on FreeBSD?

Thanks,
Alex
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Re: mapping apps to keys in X Windows

[Toni Schmidbauer]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:31:17PM -0500, Dru wrote:
> Does any know if there are any tools or configurable scripts that come
> with X that allow a user to map an application to a shortcut key? Or is one
> supposed to instead use their window manager or an application in the ports
> collection (such as xbindkeys).

this is normaly a feature of your windowmanager. for example
under fvwm2(1):

Key g   A M Exec exec /usr/X11R6/bin/galeon

xbindkeys should work to.

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Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

[SWIT]

thanks all.
it was a curiosity question. some seem to take it personally and that was
not the intention. I was curious as to why .
I was installing java and it kept saying this port was outof date and that
one was and when I googled the alleged out of date ports I found a newer
version.
If anyone was offened that was not what I was attempting to do.
Nor was I trying to compare ms to freebsd in anyway or manner.
I believe each has their strong points and weaknesses.
I do like my freebsd box.
And just like my MS boxes I would like to throw it thru the windows
sometimes (no pun intended).
Thanks for the info.

Mark
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From: "andi payn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1


> Meanwhile, on Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:34, SWIT wrote:
> > I am just curious. But for those that continually sing unix over ms
praise
> > you think that matters like this would be looked after so
> > unixes would be easier for the common man/woman to use.
>
> Do you think Microsoft always gives you new code as soon as they develop
> it? Of course not. So, imagine how much more complicated it is for a
> FreeBSD maintainer to give you new code as soon as some guy he's never
> met working halfway around the world develops it!
>
> Plus, being right at the bleeding edge and being easier to use are often
> contradictory desires. You want your system to work; you want all of the
> ports you install to work together; you want to have proper
> documentation, and a list full of people with experience using the same
> software on FreeBSD who can help you.
>
> All of this is often more important than having version 1.50 instead of
> 1.48b. Especially for the "common man/woman," who enjoys using software
> more than upgrading it.
>
> In essence, this is similar to (part of) the reason Microsoft doesn't
> give you new code right away--they want to have their QA teams go over
> it, and their tech support people trained on it, and their marketing
> people ready to spin the new bugs into features. (Of course they also
> want to find ways to charge you for upgrades, but that's a side issue;
> their service packs and hotfixes, and upgrades to IE and OE, and lots of
> other things, are available at no cost.)
>
> Of course any system can be improved. For example, when Mandrake wrote a
> simple script that scanned Freshmeat every day and emailed package
> maintainers with messages like, "A new version of foo, foo-1.3.21, was
> released today, at http://www.foo.org/foo/foo-newest.tgz";, that
> definitely improved the freshness of their contribs repository. I'm sure
> there are ideas that could help FreeBSD. But I doubt there will ever be
> a day when every port in the tree has the very newest version available.
>
>
>


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Re: mapping apps to keys in X Windows

[Lowell Gilbert]

Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does any know if there are any tools or configurable scripts that come
> with X that allow a user to map an application to a shortcut key? Or is one
> supposed to instead use their window manager or an application in the ports
> collection (such as xbindkeys).

Traditionally, it has been a window manager issue.
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Re: Machine locks in "Probing devices..." (4.9-RELEASE)

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK. Is there a way to capture that, or Pencil and Paper (TM) will do the
> trick?

You have to copy it off by hand, I'm afraid.
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Re: color to files

[Sham Khalil]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, SWIT wrote:

> Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ?
> thanks


Try ls -G
this maybe what you want
then set alias ls = ls -G in your environment


sham khalil

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Re: Machine locks in "Probing devices..." (4.9-RELEASE)

[Carlos A. Carnero Delgado]

Hi,

> > Is there a way for me to see what's locking up the probing?
> 
> Looking at what's printed just before the lockup would help.
> Posting it here might help even more.

OK. Is there a way to capture that, or Pencil and Paper (TM) will do the
trick?

Thanks,
Carlos.

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Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

[andi payn]

Meanwhile, on Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:34, SWIT wrote:
> I am just curious. But for those that continually sing unix over ms praise
> you think that matters like this would be looked after so
> unixes would be easier for the common man/woman to use.

Do you think Microsoft always gives you new code as soon as they develop
it? Of course not. So, imagine how much more complicated it is for a
FreeBSD maintainer to give you new code as soon as some guy he's never
met working halfway around the world develops it!

Plus, being right at the bleeding edge and being easier to use are often
contradictory desires. You want your system to work; you want all of the
ports you install to work together; you want to have proper
documentation, and a list full of people with experience using the same
software on FreeBSD who can help you. 

All of this is often more important than having version 1.50 instead of
1.48b. Especially for the "common man/woman," who enjoys using software
more than upgrading it.

In essence, this is similar to (part of) the reason Microsoft doesn't
give you new code right away--they want to have their QA teams go over
it, and their tech support people trained on it, and their marketing
people ready to spin the new bugs into features. (Of course they also
want to find ways to charge you for upgrades, but that's a side issue;
their service packs and hotfixes, and upgrades to IE and OE, and lots of
other things, are available at no cost.)

Of course any system can be improved. For example, when Mandrake wrote a
simple script that scanned Freshmeat every day and emailed package
maintainers with messages like, "A new version of foo, foo-1.3.21, was
released today, at http://www.foo.org/foo/foo-newest.tgz";, that
definitely improved the freshness of their contribs repository. I'm sure
there are ideas that could help FreeBSD. But I doubt there will ever be
a day when every port in the tree has the very newest version available.


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mapping apps to keys in X Windows

[Dru]

Does any know if there are any tools or configurable scripts that come
with X that allow a user to map an application to a shortcut key? Or is one
supposed to instead use their window manager or an application in the ports
collection (such as xbindkeys).

TIA,

Dru
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Re: color to files

[andi payn]

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:16, SWIT wrote:
> Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ?
> thanks
> mark

Did you try a "man ls"? It should give you two options: use the -G
parameter, or set the CLICOLOR environment variable. If you don't know
how to do this (or how to make it permanent--as a hint, try adding
"export CLICOLOR=" in ~/.bashrc, if bash is your usual shell), come back
and ask for details.

If this doesn't work for you--or if it works on the text console but not
in X, or if it only works in some X terminal emulators but not in
others--make sure you've read the ls manpage's section on CLICOLOR and
dealt with the termcap issue.

If you don't like the colors, read the LSCOLORS section of the manpage.

You can also install the GNU fileutils port/package
(/usr/ports/sysutils/fileutils), and "gls --color=auto" should colorize
things in that vibrant Stallman style that linux people are used to.
Then you can alias ls to "gls --color=auto" in your .bashrc, etc.


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Re: Mounting USB drives and PCI USB and ieee1394 drives

[Toni Schmidbauer]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:50:13PM -0500, Alexander P. Goldhammer wrote:

i am really no scsi, usb, firewire specialist but i think for
some of your questions i can give an answer :-)

> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Read(6)/write(6) not supported, increasing the
> minimum_cmd_size to 10.

this is normal. 4.8 first tried 6 byte scsi commands. as the
messages says, for this device 10 byte scsi commands are required.
the default changed in 4.9 from 6 to 10 bytes for usb devices.

> #umass0: at hub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): lost device
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0): removing device entry
> umass0: detached
> 
> My intuition tells me this is not good.

you should stop the drive before removing it (camcontrol stop
0:0:0). see camcontrol(8).

> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this/fix this?

when you stop the device (camcontrol), then remove it,
reattaching should work.

> b) If/when I plug it a USB/Firewire drive into this card how is the
> "device name" specified?  Or is there a command to figure this out? 

man 8 camcontrol

> c) Is msdos the correct "filesystem" designation?

if you share your data between windows and freebsd msdosfs is the
right fs. but be aware i had problems with huge partitions
and msdosfs see:

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-May/000950.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2003-October/004701.html

hth
toni
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Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

[Steve Wingate]

I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks
with:
STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine)
CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and
backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk.

I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot.
Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it
then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I
have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and
nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and
every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here?



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Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

[Lowell Gilbert]

"SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> :
> > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:06, Mike Maltese wrote:
> > > > > It's in
> > > > > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/
> > > > >
> > > > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version.
> 
> newbie question.
> why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a
> version  or more.
> I mean if everyone is always saying its in the ports should they not be
> better upkeeped ?

It's a volunteer effort.  However, it's generally pretty good at being
up-to-date.  In this case, for example, the ports system has the
latest official release in the "samba" port, and the most recent
development release in the "samba-devel" port.  The samba-devel port
has often taken a couple of weeks to bring in the latest version, but
that doesn't seem unreasonable.

> Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when
> 5.8 is out ?

For the most obvious reason:  some people still need it.
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USB2 external hard drive too slow ....

[ivan georgiev]

Hi,

I just bought 80GB WD USB2 hard drive. Everything works. I have 
formated it with ext2 file system, so that I can share file with 
linux. But the problem is that it is very slow compared to linux. 
When I transfered some files under linux the speed of the transfer is 
somewhere around 10MB/s but under freebsd (5-1p10) it is not more 
than 1MB/s :(

Is it running in USB1 mode? Can I make it run faster?

Thanks for your help.

Ivan

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Re: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:34:30PM -0500, SWIT wrote:

> newbie question.
> why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a
> version  or more.
> I mean if everyone is always saying its in the ports should they not be
> better upkeeped ?

1) FreeBSD is a volunteer project, sometimes the volunteer maintainers
don't have time to immediately drop their day job or whatever else
they're doing and rush out a port update 5 minutes after the new
version is released

2) Sometimes the maintainer is unaware of the update until someone
tells him.

3) Some ports are unmaintained, which means they don't get updated
unless someone submits one.

4) Sometimes the maintainer chooses not to update the port
immediately, e.g. because it is a major update and they want to test
its stability, or because it's known to have bugs, etc.

Putting this together, if you find outdated software in the ports
collection, send mail to the maintainer.  Even better, develop a patch
to update the port yourself (see the Porter's Hanbdook) and send that
to the maintainer to make their job easier.  For unmaintained ports
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) you should submit the update using
send-pr(1).

> Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when
> 5.8 is out ?

Because 5.8 is not backwards-compatible with 5.00503, and updating the
base system version would break a lot of scripts used on installed
FreeBSD machines.  You can trivially install perl 5.8 from the ports
collection if you want to use it.

Kris


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Re: how do you get a script to run

[Chris]

On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:37 pm, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote:
> > I know I am retarded, how ever I can not get the script I wrote to run
> > on Free BSD 4.7.
>
> 1) Make sure it has execute permissions set (man chmod)
>
> 2) Make sure it's in a directory specified in your PATH variable.
> Usually username/bin/ is a good place to put scripts. Alternatively, cd
> to the directory where the script is and do a
>./myscript.sh
>
> HTH.

Alternatively,  use the explicate path with the name of the script.
for example:

/usr/home/mayname/scripts/scriptname


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Re: how do you get a script to run

[Chris Hill]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote:

> I know I am retarded, how ever I can not get the script I wrote to run
> on Free BSD 4.7.

1) Make sure it has execute permissions set (man chmod)

2) Make sure it's in a directory specified in your PATH variable.
Usually username/bin/ is a good place to put scripts. Alternatively, cd
to the directory where the script is and do a
   ./myscript.sh

HTH.

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why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1

[SWIT]

:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:06, Mike Maltese wrote:
> > > > It's in
> > > > /usr/ports/net/samba-devel/
> > > >
> > > Yes, but the port hasn't been updated to the release version.

newbie question.
why isn't the ports updated ? Seems alot of times the ports is outdated by a
version  or more.
I mean if everyone is always saying its in the ports should they not be
better upkeeped ?

Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when
5.8 is out ?

I am just curious. But for those that continually sing unix over ms praise
you think that matters like this would be looked after so
unixes would be easier for the common man/woman to use.

again I am just curious. Not looking to offend or start some bs. I like my
FreeBSD box. And the more I learn the more I like it.
However at time, too many times windows is just easier to deal with. (newbie
with a life that is).

Thanks and please don't be offened.
MdD


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Installation issue, V4.9 vis a vi constant rebooting

[Wayne Spivak]

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a HP NetServer E45, with AHA 2910 &
AHA 2940 SCSI cards.  The 2940 has two drives connected.

Each time I try the install, after the Visual screen, it finds the
hardware and then states:

Waiting 15 seconds for drives to settle
Rebooting, hit.

Any ideas?




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Re: Syslog and Cisco

[list]

That worked!

On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:06 pm, Joost Bekkers wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0600, list wrote:
> > I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been
> > unsuccessful. I have modified the syslog.conf to list
> > local6.*/var/log/cisco. I have changed rc.conf to start syslog with -a
> > and removed the -s command. I have checked with logger. While using the
> > logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in to the cisco.log file.
> > However from network i am not able to do so. I looked tcpdump see the
> > packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other log files.
>
> You have to specify a 'service' of * on the syslogd commandline (with
> the -a option). By default syslogd only accepts packets coming from
> the sysog port on the remote host.  Cisco uses a dynamicly allocated
> port for sending the logging.
>
> Hope this helps.

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Re: Syslog and Cisco

[list]

Thanks it worked!!

On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:11 pm, list wrote:
> that service * worked!
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:06 pm, Joost Bekkers wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0600, list wrote:
> > > I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been
> > > unsuccessful. I have modified the syslog.conf to list
> > > local6.*  /var/log/cisco. I have changed rc.conf to start syslog with -a
> > > and removed the -s command. I have checked with logger. While using the
> > > logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in to the cisco.log file.
> > > However from network i am not able to do so. I looked tcpdump see the
> > > packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other log files.
> >
> > You have to specify a 'service' of * on the syslogd commandline (with
> > the -a option). By default syslogd only accepts packets coming from
> > the sysog port on the remote host.  Cisco uses a dynamicly allocated
> > port for sending the logging.
> >
> > Hope this helps.

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Re: 4.8 on i386

[support]

Hi,
Still haven't resolved the quandry of 8.4 release installation failures on 
my box. Initially in upgrade there are two firewire extraction failures, 
then old data is moved to /tmp/etc . Then lots of installs go on, ports 
get installed, then a number of Xserver dependant files fail to extract. 
Say no to those and we hum a while longer and the a prompt comes 
up to the effect of "h, couldn't even extract the binary. This 
installation is considered failed. Aborting"

Noe I know there's a big difference in partition size limits between 4.2 
and 4.8 (4.2 caps out at just under 7 MEG/ mount) but not sure what 
else to be crashing it.

 And, last night just for kicks I ran "uname -v" and this showed up

 " FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: thur Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC "

According to this I have 4.8 installed. Can I verify this?

Trying to move forward,
Dan


Date sent:  Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:03:28 -0600
From:   "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copies to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: 4.8 on i386

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >Are there issues with trying to install 4.8 on i386 machines? I've tried 
> >upgrading from 4.2 on ISO cd to using the FTP site directly, even tried 
> >a clean install from the ISO but the istall continues to fall apart while 
> >retrieving anything with the Xserver and the binary itself. I just, this 
> >AM, used the FTP direct upgrade (thinking my ISO burn was faulty), 
> >skipped through the Xserve stuff that failed and allegedly did a 
> >successful upgrade. On reboot I get:
> >
> >booting(kernel)...
> >can't load 'kernel'
> >can't load 'kernel.old'
> >no bootable kernel
> >ok
> >
> >I have a Mylex 760 raid card, is this the impediment? The 4.2 is 
> >successful without a hitch. I have an AMI 3.0 bios, a Super p6dgs/dbs 
> >motherboard. I've downloaded the ISO from different FTP sites and 
> >still get the same result from ISO install attempts. Any words for the 
> >unwise here?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Dan 
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I won't call you unwise, but it's a lng way from 4.2
> to 4.8.  If you've still got a 4.2 world and a 4.2 kernel, I'd
> try to use cvsup/makebuildworld/../../../mergemaster (etc.)
> to get to 4.4, then 4.6, then 4.8 or 4.9..
> 
> Can you explain the phrase "FTP direct upgrade" a little
> more clearly?  Do you mean using /stand/sysinstall?
> 
> You may need to wait until some bigger brains see your
> question  : (
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> DaleCo, S.P.
> 


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XFree86: disabled DRI

[Mihail]

Hello list,

I have a problem enabling direct rendering on
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.
The first messages of my X log seem ok:

drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
drmGetBusid returned 'PCI:1:0:0'
drmOpenDevice: minor is 1

But then, X goes after other
nodes starting with /dev/dri/card1
and finishes miserably like this:
drmOpenDevice: minor is 14
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or directory)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed
(II) R128(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
(EE) R128(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.

I wonder if X somehow ignores /dev/dri/card0
and makes the decision on disabling DRI
according to the last results?

Here I've put further DRI messages:


(II) R128(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1024,8191)
(II) R128(0): Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024,770)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7421
(II) R128(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Scanline Image Writes
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
32 128x128 slots
32 256x256 slots
16 512x512 slots
(II) R128(0): Acceleration enabled /* I'm also puzzled by this entry */
(==) R128(0): Backing store disabled
(==) R128(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) R128(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1540)
(II) R128(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 7419
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) R128(0): DPMS enabled
(WW) R128(0): Option "UseCCEFor2D" is not used
(II) R128(0): Direct rendering disabled


Hope I didn't flud the list too much =)
Thanks in advance,
smiha


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Re: ps segfault

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:48:11PM -0500, Alexander P. Goldhammer wrote:
> Hi I am a newbie to FreeBSD so I am trying to get things going...
> 
> 1) When I perform a "ps" command I get a seg fault (core dumped)
> I then get: "Nov 1 13:48:22 /kernel: pid 618 (ps), uid 1001:exited on
> signal 11 (core dumped)"

If it's a newly installed system, random core dump are an indication
of possible h/w problems, very likely bad memory.
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Mounting USB drives and PCI USB and ieee1394 drives

[Alexander P. Goldhammer]

1) I am also trying to mount a usb hard drive.  I have found a number of
articles on doing this but none of them seem to work completely or the
articles reference older versions of FreeBSD and I cannot seem to find
an analogous thing in a Release 4.8.

My motherboard has two built-in USB1.0 ports.  When I plug in my drive I
get:

Umass0: In system Design USB Storage Adapter, rev 2.00/11.05, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 650KB/s transfers
da0: 28615MB (58605120 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 28615C)

This is great (I think).  I am able mount the drive by doing a:

mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /usb

I then get a msg saying:

(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Read(6)/write(6) not supported, increasing the
minimum_cmd_size to 10.

I do a "df" and I see the drive listed.  I can see the files and
navigate the drive.   In fact I added this mount cmd to my fstab with a
noauto option

I do a "umount /usb" then a "df" and I see that the drive is no longer
listed.

When I physically disconnect the drive from the mother board I get:

#umass0: at hub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0): lost device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0): removing device entry
umass0: detached

My intuition tells me this is not good.

If I then plug the device into the next USB1.0 port I get:
umass0: In system Design USB Storage Adapter, rev 2.00/11.05, addr 2
umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
over and over again then
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry

Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this/fix this?

2) My next question is kind of related but different.

I have a PCI card that has 3 x USB2.0 ports and 2 x ieee1394 ports
(Smartdisk with a NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE1394 Host Controller IRQ3 PCI
Slot 3 PCI bus2, device15, function0).

a) How do I confirm that FreeBSD is aware of the card and that the
driver is operating correctly etc.  How do I do that for my Ethernet
card for that matter?  During my install there were no conflicts.  On
boot-up it seems FreeBSD is able to recognize it.


b) If/when I plug it a USB/Firewire drive into this card how is the
"device name" specified?  Or is there a command to figure this out? 

c) Is msdos the correct "filesystem" designation?

d) How can I mount/unmount the drive? Is the firewire port different.

e) How are the multiple usb/firewire ports designated/handled?



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ps segfault

[Alexander P. Goldhammer]

Hi I am a newbie to FreeBSD so I am trying to get things going...

1) When I perform a "ps" command I get a seg fault (core dumped)
I then get: "Nov 1 13:48:22 /kernel: pid 618 (ps), uid 1001:exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)"

Is there a reason I cannot run a "ps" command? Or why I would get a seg
fault?

Thanks,

-Alex

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Genesys USB Storage Problem

[John Morgan Salomon]

Hi all,

I've installed 4.9-RELEASE without major problems on a Thinkpad X31.

I'm trying to access my old 20GB IBM laptop IDE drive via an external
USB drive case, but keep getting the well-known
Nov  1 19:15:55 asparagus /kernel: umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR
Nov  1 19:15:55 asparagus /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, 
IOERROR
Nov  1 19:15:55 asparagus /kernel: umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall 
failed, IOERROR

every 5 seconds.  The drive has 5 filesystems on it (it was the boot disk
for my last laptop);  I can mount and read the root filesystem as 
/dev/da0s1a.
All others (/dev/da0s1e and onwards) give me the IOERROR.  I can 
occasionally
mount them, and list files, but copying them creates empty files, or times
out.  I am not 100% sure that the drive itself is not physically damaged,
as it will not in the new laptop.

I've tried to add the following to /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c 
(although
to be honest, I am not entirely sure what I'm doing here):

{
{T_DIRECT, SIP_MEDIA_FIXED, "GENESYS", "*", "*"},
DA_Q_NO_SYNC_CACHE
},
Here's all the USB-relevant boot messages:

uhci0:  port 0x1800-0x181f irq 
11 at
device 29.0 on pci0
usb0:  on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1:  port 0x1820-0x183f irq 
11 at
device 29.1 on pci0
usb1:  on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
umass0: Genesys Logic USB Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.13, addr 2
umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
uhci2:  port 0x1840-0x185f irq 
11 at
device 29.2 on pci0
usb2:  on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0:  at 29.7 irq 11

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

-John

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Re: login.conf and accents weirdness

[Joan Picanyol i Puig]

* Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031101 19:09]:
> * Joan Picanyol i Puig:
> > * Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031101 15:53]:
> >
> > > * Joan Picanyol i Puig:
> > > > I have these lines in /etc/login.conf
> > > >
> > > > :setenv=LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15,LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15: \
> > > > :lang=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15:\
> > > > :charset=ISO8859-15:\
> > > LC_CTYPE is wrong.
> > Yep, I  changed it to  both ca_ES.ISO8859-15 and  es_ES.ISO8859-15 and
> > made no difference.
> Try:
>  
>
> LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO8859-15 more mail.test
>  
>
> It works  for me, the  accentuated chars show  up in xterm...
It doesn't for me, nor in console or under X. I'm pasting underneath
what I see from the console (excerpt from the test file):

Eco, eco,eco,  co,  co..co...co...co...o.o.o.o oo.oo.oo.
Hi ha alg a l'altre banda o estic al 'planeta dels simis'? sol amb
el
floquet, i la seva aixella tuberculosa...
Un dia d'aquests de segur que em trobar amb el que qued de la
sagrada
famila; (a la terra prohibida de la Catagnia, vora l'oce;
diuen que
s'hi

I wonder how you see it...

> could you dump the result  of « env »  to check your settings?
attached

> BTW  you can check whether a given locale is available by looking at
> /usr/share/locale.
(19:47:33 <~>) 0 $ ls /usr/share/locale/ca_ES.ISO*
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES.ISO8859-1:
LC_COLLATE  LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC  LC_TIME
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES.ISO8859-15:
LC_COLLATE  LC_MONETARY LC_TIME
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES.ISO_8859-1:
LC_COLLATE  LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC  LC_TIME
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES.ISO_8859-15:
LC_COLLATE  LC_MONETARY LC_TIME

Beware, these are local modifications and might work. However, replacing
ca for es doesn't work either (and es_ES comes with the system)

> Also, when modifying login.conf, don't forget to logout completely
> from X *and* console.
I assume setting variables shoud work (from my reading of login.conf,
all it does in this context is set up the environment...)

tks
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BASH=/usr/local/bin/bash
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="1" [4]="release" 
[5]="i386-portbld-freebsd4.7")
BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'
BLOCKSIZE=K
CLICOLOR=
COLUMNS=80
DIRSTACK=()
EDITOR=vim
EUID=1000
GROUPS=()
HISTFILE=/home/joan/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/home/joan
HOSTNAME=grummit.biaix.org
HOSTTYPE=i386
IFS=$' \t\n'
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/local/info
LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO8859-15
LINES=25
LOGNAME=joan
MACHTYPE=i386-portbld-freebsd4.7
MAIL=/home/joan/Maildir/
MAILCHECK=60
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/var/qmail/man/
MM_CHARSET=ISO8859-15
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
OSTYPE=freebsd4.7
PAGER=less
PATH=/command:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/command:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/joan/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin
PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")
PPID=272
PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
PWD=/home/joan
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
SHLVL=1
TERM=cons25l1
UID=1000
USER=joan
_=LC_CTYPE
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Re: Travan SCSI tape random failures

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Trevor Blackwell wrote:
>
>I'm running 4.7-RELEASE on a dual P4-Xeon machine and trying to back up
>to a Seagate 10/20 GB Travan tape drive:
>
...
>When I write to it, it usually fails after a few hundred MB, but the
>amount of data is not repeatable even when I write identical files. For
>example:

The Travan tape drives are slightly more reliable than the old Colorado
Memory Systems Junko floppy tape drives, but not much.

We used Travan drives for about a year on several systems, but found that
they often had problmes with apparent tape failures, possible drive
misalignment, etc.

We're now doing a lot of our backups using external FireWire 120gb hard
drives.  They're less expensive than reliable high capacity SCSI DLT drives
and the associated media (DLT tapes to back up 120gb cost about the same as
the external FireWire drives).

Bill
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Re: APC Smart-UPS 620VA

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:05:49PM +0100, Bernhard Valenti wrote:

> is the APC Smart-UPS 620VA supported in freebsd?
> i searched the lists, but didnt find anything on that.
> anyways, if you can recommend any other APC UPS for freebsd, i'd like to 
> hear your experiences. if i understand correctly i need a smart UPS to 
> make freebsd shutdown in case battery gets empty? the UPS i need should 
> be around 250euros.

FreeBSD itself doesn't have any specific support for UPSes -- so long
as you feed AC into the power supply, FreeBSD will be happy.

In order to interface with a UPS, check out the sysutils/nut port
(http://www.exploits.org/nut/) -- this will let you monitor UPSes
attached to a serial port or attached by USB: pretty much all APC
hardware should be supported, but you may need to use a specific
cable.

You don't need a 'smart' UPS per-se but less fancy boxes won't let you
monitor the state of the UPS is such detail.  Generally if the UPS can
indicate it's on battery vs. on mains power then NUT can probably work
with it.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Adaptec 2400A update

[Lowell Gilbert]

"George Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I would like to update my driver in my CD-ROM (Adaptec).  How do I do that please?

That depends on what you mean and why you want to.
If you want to update the firmware in the drive itself, 
then you'll need to follow the manufacturer's instructions 
for that.
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Re: new install on dual cpu/scsi drives

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:52:37AM -0500, SWIT wrote:
> I have a dual intel 333 machine laying around with a couple of scsi drives
> in  it.
> I was thinking of throwing latest 4.x on it.
> is it harder or more work involved with the dual and scsi drives ?
> never done freebsd with either hardware before.

No -- installing on SCSI is no harder than installing on ATAPI.  Just
remember that the disk devices are 'da' rather than 'ad' and
everything will be fine.

Note that the GENERIC kernel is a single processor kernel, which will
work fine on a dual Proc system, but (obviously) only use one of the
processors.  You'll need to compile yourself a custom kernel with the
multiprocessor stuff enabled to make use of both processors.  The
config changes you need to make are described in the GENERIC config
file.

Cheers,

Matthew


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Re: Machine locks in "Probing devices..." (4.9-RELEASE)

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm installing 4.9-RELEASE into a (marginally) older Compaq computer
> (Presario 7000 series, Pentium III 1GHz). Well, booting off the CD doesn't
> work (a 4.8-RELEASE disc does); so I had to go with the floppy method.
> 
> Way after the MFS is loaded, this machine seems to lock up in the "Probing
> devices" phase. How much time does that take?

That depends.  On a lot of things.  

> Is there a way for me to see what's locking up the probing?

Looking at what's printed just before the lockup would help.
Posting it here might help even more.
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Re: how do you get a script to run

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Gregory Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can not get the script I wrote to run on Free BSD 4.7.

If it is an sh-type script, then "sh " should work,
regardless of how anything else is configured.  If it is a csh-type
script, "csh " should work.

There are a lot of other things you should know along this line; 
a decent tutorial on shell scripting would be a good place to start.
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Re: color to files

[Lowell Gilbert]

top-post. don't Please

> From: "Greg J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: color to files
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:01 -0500
> > "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a
> > > ls ? thanks
> > > mark
> >
> > ls -G
> >
> > man ls :)

"SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I did this and got nothing.,

Then get a termtype that supports it.  On recent FreeBSD releases, it
should work out of the box on xterm and the text console.

> A webpage - i can't remember which one said I need to load a program from
> the ports which I had installed and still got no colors.

The Gnu ls, probably.  That should do it too.
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how do you get a script to run

[Gregory Stearns]

I know I am retarded, how ever I can not get the script I wrote to run on Free BSD 4.7.
   Very Thankful for all the support,
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Re: login.conf and accents weirdness

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

* Joan Picanyol i Puig:
   
 
> * Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031101 15:53]:
>
> > * Joan Picanyol i Puig:
> >
> > > I have these lines in /etc/login.conf
> > >
> > > :setenv=LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15,LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15: \
> > > :lang=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15:\
> > > :charset=ISO8859-15:\
> >
> > LC_CTYPE is wrong.
>
> Yep, I  changed it to  both ca_ES.ISO8859-15 and  es_ES.ISO8859-15 and
> made no difference.
   
 
Try:
   
 
LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO8859-15 more mail.test
   
 
It works  for me, the  accentuated chars show  up in xterm...  could you
dump the result  of « env »  to check your settings?  BTW  you can check
whether a given locale is available by looking at /usr/share/locale.

Also, when modifying login.conf, don't forget to logout completely from
X *and* console.
   
 
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Re: Help With 'find' Syntax -- SOLVED

[Drew Tomlinson]

Thank you to everyone for all your help!  Something must have 'puked' during
my nightly cvsup of the ports tree.  Every directory under /usr/ports had a
sysctl.core file.  By deleting these files, I recovered my disk space.

Thanks again!

Drew

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Re: Syslog and Cisco

[Joost Bekkers]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0600, list wrote:
> I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been unsuccessful. I 
> have modified the syslog.conf to list local6.*/var/log/cisco. I have changed 
> rc.conf to start syslog with -a and removed the -s command. I have checked 
> with logger. While using the logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in 
> to the cisco.log file. However from network i am not able to do so. I looked 
> tcpdump see the packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other 
> log files.
> 

You have to specify a 'service' of * on the syslogd commandline (with
the -a option). By default syslogd only accepts packets coming from
the sysog port on the remote host.  Cisco uses a dynamicly allocated
port for sending the logging.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Syslog and Cisco

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:33, list wrote:
> I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been unsuccessful. I 
> have modified the syslog.conf to list local6.*/var/log/cisco. I have changed 
> rc.conf to start syslog with -a and removed the -s command. I have checked 
> with logger. While using the logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in 
> to the cisco.log file. However from network i am not able to do so. I looked 
> tcpdump see the packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other 
> log files.

By default, Cisco devices use the local7 facility.  Are you sure you
did:

logging facility local6 (IOS)
set logging server facility local6 (CatOS)

on your device(s)?

Joe

> 
> thanks
> Khursheed Siddiqui
> 
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Syslog and Cisco

[list]

I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been unsuccessful. I 
have modified the syslog.conf to list local6.*  /var/log/cisco. I have changed 
rc.conf to start syslog with -a and removed the -s command. I have checked 
with logger. While using the logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in 
to the cisco.log file. However from network i am not able to do so. I looked 
tcpdump see the packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other 
log files.

thanks
Khursheed Siddiqui

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Re: A-DATA flash drive: some oddities and how to add USB quirks

[Igor B. Bykhalo]

[Cc'ed to -questions. Hopefully someone knowlegeable can
 give guidelines or ask some more specific info]

From: "Tim Vanderhoek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Igor B. Bykhalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: A-DATA flash drive: some oddities and how to add USB quirks


> Were you able to get your A-DATA USB 2.0 SpeedDrive (256 MB flash drive)
> to work on FreeBSD?  What quirks (if any) did you need to use.

In short: no, it isn't functioning still, but read on...

> 
> I've got a Soyo 128MB drive here, but I suspect that the innards may
> be very similar.  I'm hoping that whatever you used to get yours working
> will also work for mine

Is this a "CigarDrive"? If yes, then probably your are in
the same boat...

Actually, i took a "second round" attempt to make the thing work.
A week or two after my postings there were commits to usb and CAM
systems, after which the line in dmesg

> umass0: A-DATA Technology Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3

changed into

> umass0: A-DATA Technology Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3, 8070i 
> (ATAPI) over Bulk-Only

See this "8070i (ATAPI) over Bulk-Only" part? I have a bad feeling
that ATAPI can be a key word for my problems.
(Before someone asks: yes, atapicam was also compiled into
the kernel.)

Anyway, i decided to try some quirks not only for scsi_da.c, but also
for umass.c. To do so for my particular hardware, i had to add HW identifiers
to src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs and then to remake corresponding usbdevs* files
using makefile in this directory. The change was:

Index: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs
===
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs,v
retrieving revision 1.11.2.48
diff -c -r1.11.2.48 usbdevs
*** /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs 2 Sep 2003 14:35:17 - 1.11.2.48
--- /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs 11 Sep 2003 13:50:54 -
***
*** 1002,1007 
--- 1002,1010 
  product PROLIFIC PL2303  0x2303  PL2303 Serial adapter (ATEN/IOGEAR UC232A)
  product PROLIFIC PL2305  0x2305 Parallel printer adapter
  product PROLIFIC ATAPI4  0x2307 ATAPI-4 Bridge Controller
+ product PROLIFIC PL2515  0x2515 PL2515 Embedded hub
+ product PROLIFIC PL2517  0x2517 PL2517 Mass Storage Device
+ 
  
  /* Putercom products */
  product PUTERCOM UPA100  0x047e USB-1284 BRIDGE 

Values initially were taken from the output of usbd -vv

Then i put some dummy quirk into umass.c - it only does
a printf() ("PL2517 quirk was applied"). It worked,
but something strange (to me) happened: message was
printed three times in a row! Well, possibly this
is not strange - i'm not a C person to read devices
probing code...

Then i tried some quirks mentioned here and there,
but to no avail... and here my "research" stopped
(lack of time).

So, until now the bottom line is:

If your device is made with PL-2515 chip - you'll probably
will have the same problems. Actually, i even opened mine,
and it really contains this Prolific chip.

Info on the chip:

http://www.prolific.com.tw/fr_pl2515.htm


Some technical info and Windows stuff is aviliable
via http://tech.prolific.com.tw

Sorry, this is all i have for now...

Device is still availiable, so in a week or two i'll
be able to put my hands on it again. Hints and suggestions
are welcome...

Igor

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Re: color to files

[SWIT]

Hello.
I did this and got nothing.,
A webpage - i can't remember which one said I need to load a program from
the ports which I had installed and still got no colors.

Thanks
Mark
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To: "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: color to files


> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:01 -0500
> "SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a
> > ls ? thanks
> > mark
>
> ls -G
>
> man ls :)


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Re: What Does the Install Put In /var/log/security?

[billg]

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> billg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > ...Before enabling firewall logging, I
> > thought I noticed that /var/log/security was a binary file.

> It should probably be created as an empty file.
> 
> [But remember that there's no clear distinction between a "binary" and
> a "text" file under Unix, except as you decide to interpret it...]

True. In this case, it was "less" interpreting it as a binary file and
asking if I still wanted to look at it.
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IPFW strange events

[Chris]

Hello,

This is occurring on a 4.8-RELEASE server using IPFW2...


I have numerous rules that block bogus networks... one of which is:

ipfw add 0104 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any


And I know it's working because using "ipfw list" I get:

00104 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any


Whenever that rule is active, it's blocking packets - "ipfw show":

00104 21   1148 deny log ip from 96.0.0.0/3 to any

BUT

Various services stop working... so I look at /var/log/security and see NUMEROUS 
entries such as this:

Nov  1 10:30:00 server /kernel: ipfw: 104 Deny TCP 127.0.0.1:1051 127.0.0.1:80 out via 
lo0

Now I don't see anything in the rule about the localhost address, yet that's what it's 
blocking. But a little bit ahead of that rule, I do have this one:

ipfw add 082 divert natd all from any to any via fxp0

Would it help to put all the bogus network deny rules ahead of the divert rule?

Stumped,
Chris


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Re: login.conf and accents weirdness

[Joan Picanyol i Puig]

[I expect mutt to properly set MFT, if it didn't please Cc: me]

* Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031101 15:53]:
> * Joan Picanyol i Puig:
> > I have these lines in /etc/login.conf
> > 
> > :setenv=LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15,LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15: \
> > :lang=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15:\
> > :charset=ISO8859-15:\
> LC_CTYPE is wrong.
Yep, I changed it to both ca_ES.ISO8859-15 and es_ES.ISO8859-15 and made no difference.

> > > Also, please test with more or less,  not mutt, so it will be easier
> > > to find the solution.  Make a  test file with special characters not
> > > in the 7-bit range, and view it.
> > I'm attaching my  test file (an actual message). Both  under xterm and
> > console the results are the sime: cat  works fine but more and less do
> > not.
> Where is the attachment?
Oops, now it's there

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Hi ha algú a l'altre banda o estic al 'planeta dels simis'? sol amb el 
floquet, i la seva aixella tuberculosa...
Un dia d'aquests de segur que em trobaré amb el que quedà de la sagrada 
familía; (a la terra prohibida de la Catagònia, vora l'oceà; diuen que s'hi 
han vist les restes d' un monument mega-elíptic de singular bellesa contruit 
per éssers de civilitzacions passades); deu ser això...despres d'un llarg 
letargi a través de l'espai inter-celest-i-tal he retornat al mateix indret 
de procedencia, convertit en paisatge lunar i desolador si no fos per 
una crónica, una espurna d'esperaça que arribà ahir signada pen PICA, 
(Persona Identificada Com Androide potser) i jo pregunto ¿ com recollons 
s'entra de nou a la virtualitat compartida???, eu canviat el correu o es que 
no s'envien més bits d'informaciò.
Les úniques dades de que disposo són les d'un desalentador 5-3, a_viram si 
ens posem les ales colla de garseso haurem de venir a repartir llenya... 
qui la busca la troba, la brega la verga i el que faci falta.

Ja ha començat la NBA, el master of the univers in the stars? (MBA  'Marc & 
Bernat Administrators' altrement dit en referencia al draft d'aquesta 
pretemporada o ' Millor que a Buenos Aires' pels escèptics...)
Doncs bè, per BsAs tot segueix igual de diferent, uns dies plou i els altres 
fa sol i les bruixes patinen i el colectivo treu verí, el fútbol mou les 
muntanyes i Maradona escombra tota la neu caiguda durant el llarg hivern.
Demà es 'feriado nacional', coincideix amb l'aniversari de l'astre, el mago 
Diego,( no sè qui va ser primer si l'astre o el feriado) la meva teorìa es 
que van convencer a en Diego perque canvies la seva partida de naixement per 
tal de donbar-li un sentit al dia Festiu...
Es pronostica una pujada de temperatures, necesaria per restablir 
l'equilibri global, a uns els toca patir el fred i als altres gaudir del 
calor i els rodamons com jo compartir i jugar amb la bola del mòn, ara cap 
aqui ara cap allì i anar amoldant el clima a les necesitats corporees...
Presisament demà arriben tambè els meus pares, disposats a escombrar-se mig 
continent, el punt d'inici ,com no, Bs As, com si tinguessim telepatia, 
venen al mateix lloc on jo estic, el que no saben és que aixo es immens, i 
que poden trigar dos mesos en trobar-me...

La nova més significativa és que l'1 de novembre em mudo a un piset junt amb 
dos alemanys i dos argentins al bell mig del barri de la BOCA, lluny dels 
turistes i de les influencies europees. Es el primer barri que tinguè la 
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Re: M/B Bios Settings

[Lowell Gilbert]

knomadness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am new to the unix, lunix and freebsd systems. I am
> familiar with bios settings for win98se and xp,
> however, i am not with freebsd or otherwise.
> 
> I have 2 machines that i am building. one has a
> Gigabyte GA-7VRXP(2.0) m/b and the other has an Asus
> A7V333 m/b.
> 
> In my bios settings, how should I set them for freebsd
> 5.1?;

Mostly, it shouldn't matter.
Remember, however, that 5.x isn't really intended for neophytes.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html

> In Features Setup; Interrupt Mode- PIC or APIC?
>
> Are there any other bios settings that freebsd
> requires or accepts?

Don't change any BIOS settings from their defaults except to deal with
observed problems.

> When setting up the video card configuration in
> X-windows, how do you indicate or direct it to use the
> AGP slot not a PCI slot?

Usually, by inserting a video card into an AGP slot instead of a PCI
slot.  If you have both installed, then the answer kind of depends on
why you did that; the PC architecture doesn't deal well with such a
configuration.

> Are there any other idiosyncrasies that i need to be
> aware of?

It's usually best to try the install and deal with problems, rather
than trying to anticipate problems that wouldn't have occurred anyway.
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Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD?

[Nicolai P Guba]

Welcome!

> though.  Every time I installed ALL, the installation froze after about 30
minutes.  I tried this about 8 times
> and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place.  I
eventually came to the conclusion that ALL
> could

Ahem, why bother installing ALL esp for the first-time?  I would get a basic
system running first, then adding packages selectively via sysinstall.  I
very much doubt that you would need all the language dependend packages
etc... etc...

Alternatively, try going for the X-User or so pre-defined sets...

Happy Hacking

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Re: Install X windows in Free BSD 4.8 - Help required.

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Verghese George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can someone help me?
> 
> I was trying to install X windows in my machine 
> The video card is shown as
> agp0 
> So modified the  /boot/loader.conf and inserted a line
> agp_load="YES" 
> and rebooted the system to allow loading of the module
> I aos creted a agp device note 
> #cd /dev
> #sh MAKEDEV agpgart
> 
> I used the  /stand/sysintall command and used a fully graphical
> interface for X server configuration.
> I used  a card mode  i810 815
> ver syn 50-100
> hor syn 31.5 - 57.0
> HF SVGA 1024 X 768 @ 70 Hz
> 
> I modified the /etc/ttys file to change the X windows terminal  ttyp8 to
> on.
> 
> It came up with an error that the X windows confiugration failed.
> When I rebooted the system, the X window screen came up. When  I entered
> the login name and password for root, nothing happened. The screen again
> came up.

Sounds like the X configuration (and xdm setup) is working fine.
Try logging in from a text console to make sure the accounts are set
up properly.  [You can get back to a text console from the xdm login
by typing C-A-Fx, where Fx is a function key between 1 and 8.]
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Re: linprocfs: Operation not supported

[Lowell Gilbert]

Brian Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > 
> > Hmm, yes I suspect the identifier in the 'device' column is arbitrary.
> 
> ya, i think so too.
> 
> > 
> > Some other thoughts (possibly equally useless ;-) :
> >   Do you have the executable /sbin/mount_linprocfs ?
> >   Does the mount point /compat/linux/proc actually exist ?
> 
> yes, and yes.  :-/

Is the linprocfs kernel module loaded?
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Re: What Does the Install Put In /var/log/security?

[Lowell Gilbert]

billg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've been playing with a new install of 4.8-release (now 4.9-stable).
> I've set up a simple ipfw firewall.  Before enabling firewall logging, I
> thought I noticed that /var/log/security was a binary file.
> 
> Is that right?  What is installed there by default? Thanks.

It should probably be created as an empty file.

[But remember that there's no clear distinction between a "binary" and
a "text" file under Unix, except as you decide to interpret it...]
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Re: recover a broken man page

[Florian Villoing]

This is exactly what I needed. It works perfectly.

Thanks a lot.

Florian

Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 01:51, Florian Villoing wrote:

While testing acpi, my system crashed. I had an open xterm viewing the
acpiconf man page. For now, when I want to see the man page again, I get
the following error :
zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/acpiconf.8.gz: unexpected end of file

What is the clean way to recover this man page ?



# rm  /usr/share/man/cat8/acpiconf.8.gz

It will be regenerated from /usr/share/man/man8/acpiconf.8.gz
when you ask for it.
Malcolm Kay

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Re: Howto make one of two sound cards default?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Alexey V. Litvinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  Problem: I have two sound cards one inserted into PCI slot and one
>  integrated into motherboard, all cards detected and working fine.
>  First is pcm0 and second is pcm1.
>  Since first (external) detected on boot first it is default to sound
>  output, but i wish to use second (integrated) card by default since its
>  more new.
>  My researches point me to /dev/dsp and i'm tried to make
>  ln -s /dev/dsp1.0 /dev/dsp
>  but system says: file is exists... (i doesnt see it in /dev ? )
>  How to make it default?
>  
>  (FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE)

To start with, you should definitely update your system to something
more recent.  5.0 was, after all, a very early "technology preview"
release from a branch that, after nearly a year, still isn't ready to
produce a production release.  Unless you have some (at least minimal)
skills at tracking down these kinds of problems, you should probably
move to the latest release, 4.9.

I can't give you very exact advice here, because I'm still running 4.9
myself, but I think you want to advise the devfs system by setting up
rules for these nodes, so that (for example) /dev/dsp will refer to
the device that you want.  The devfs(8) utility seems to be designed
for this, and I suspect there is a system startup script intended to
initialize such rules, if you can just find the right place to
configure it.
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Re: error with sendmail on buildworld and/or mergemaster

[Lowell Gilbert]

Alex Obradovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can't get make buildworld to finish because of the errors I am
> getting with sendmail. I am including logs for both buildworld and
> mergemaster.
> 
> To try to remedy this I did the following:
> 1) refreshed my /usr/src from CVS
> 2) run /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh (from UPDATING)

According to the log you showed, you never did #2.
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Re: cannot boot, at mountroot> prompt

[Lowell Gilbert]

Bob Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a system running 5.0-RELEASE on an AMD 667Mhz processor with
> 256MB ram, Soyo mobo. Install was no trouble, and setup of X, KDE,
> MySQL, Apache went fine. I ran a setup of both xmms and mplayer as
> well. Then I went for an install of Webmin.
> 
> Once webmin was complete, I was running in KDE, I closed the term
> window and the machine rebooted immediately, no shutdown, nothing.
> 
> Question, does this sound like a bad drive, RAM, or perhaps my bad luck.
> Second question, how can I address the mountroot> prompt?
> 
> Per the instructions at the prompt, I put in ufs:/dev/ad0s1a and hit
> the return key. The system then reboots.

To start with, you should definitely update your system to something
more recent.  5.0 was, after all, a very early "technology preview"
release from a branch that, after nearly a year, still isn't ready to
produce a production release.  Unless you have some (at least minimal)
skills at tracking down these kinds of problems, you should probably
move to the latest release, 4.9.

That said, there will probably be some hints in a kernel dump.
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Re: recover a broken man page

[Malcolm Kay]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 01:51, Florian Villoing wrote:
> While testing acpi, my system crashed. I had an open xterm viewing the
> acpiconf man page. For now, when I want to see the man page again, I get
> the following error :
>
> zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/acpiconf.8.gz: unexpected end of file
>
> What is the clean way to recover this man page ?
>

# rm  /usr/share/man/cat8/acpiconf.8.gz

It will be regenerated from /usr/share/man/man8/acpiconf.8.gz
when you ask for it.

Malcolm Kay
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touchscreen displays?

[Kevin Lynn, CISSP]

Has anyone gotten touchscreen displays to work under freebsd?

If so, which display? what drivers did it use? what connection to the computer 
did it use (ps2,usb, etc.)?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin Lynn




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recover a broken man page

[Florian Villoing]

While testing acpi, my system crashed. I had an open xterm viewing the 
acpiconf man page. For now, when I want to see the man page again, I get 
the following error :

zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/acpiconf.8.gz: unexpected end of file

What is the clean way to recover this man page ?

Thanks,

Florian

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Re: Help With 'find' Syntax

[Drew Tomlinson]

> - Original Message -
> From: "Malcolm Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Carter-Hitchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Drew
> Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:44 PM
>
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:34, David Carter-Hitchin wrote:
> > Hi Drew,
> [snip]
> > You may find the following note from man find helpful:
> >
> > # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be
pre-
> > # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-'').  A preceding
plus
> > # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than
n''
> > # and neither means ``exactly n''.
> >
> > So that is why I put a "+" in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024
bytes
> > (c).
> >
> > So in your example below:
> > > find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100
> > > \) -print
> >
> > You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in
> > size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size
>
> At each stage find applies the test argument and passes on files that
> remain to the next argument for manipulation. This in the first 'or'
branch
> everthing that satisfies -mtime 6 is passed on to -ls and thus displayed
> before it is filtered by the -size 100 argument. To do what Drew wanted
the
> -size +100 should be applied *before* the -ls.

Thank you.  Now I understand.

> (It is difficult to see why Drew would want to use both -ls and -print)

Because I don't know what I'm doing.  :)  Thanks for pointing out that this
is redundant.

Cheers,

Drew

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Adaptec 2400A update

[George Rich]

I would like to update my driver in my CD-ROM (Adaptec).  How do I do that please?

George Rich
30 Lawrence Drive
Short Hills, N.J. 07078
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Re: crontab question...

[Jack L. Stone]

At 11:57 AM 11.1.2003 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
>* Xpression:
>
>> Hi guys, I was  wondering if I have three script  files on crontab and
>> all they are executed at the same hour how it's function ???
>
>AFAICT, cron  forks a  new process  for each job  scheduled at  the same
>time.
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Jean-Baptiste Quenot

Indeed, if you run several cron jobs at the same time and then look at "ps
-ax" you'll see several "crons" running. That's in addition to
/usr/sbin/cron which is loaded.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

Sage American
http://www.sage-american.com
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Re: login.conf and accents weirdness

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

* Joan Picanyol i Puig:

> > I  suggest to  set  LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-15 in  your shell's  init
> > file, and don't forget to  export that variable (export with [ba]sh,
> > setenv with [t]csh).
>
> I have these lines in /etc/login.conf
> 
> :setenv=LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15,LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15: \
> :lang=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15:\
> :charset=ISO8859-15:\

LC_CTYPE is wrong.

> > Also, please test with more or less,  not mutt, so it will be easier
> > to find the solution.  Make a  test file with special characters not
> > in the 7-bit range, and view it.
>
> I'm attaching my  test file (an actual message). Both  under xterm and
> console the results are the sime: cat  works fine but more and less do
> not.

Where is the attachment?

Cheers,
-- 
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http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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Re: Help With 'find' Syntax

[Drew Tomlinson]

- Original Message -
From: "David Carter-Hitchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:04 PM


> Hi Drew,
>
> Find is one of those classic commands for confusing people.  One just gets
> used to it over time.  The behaviour of find varies significantly with
> different unixes under different shells.
>
> Which shell are you using?

tcsh

> Under bash this command does what you want:
>
> find / -mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls -o -ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls
>
> the sense here is:
>
> find / (-mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls) -o (-ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls)
>
> meaning "find (i.e. examine all files) from / and either
>
> a) print (-ls) files modified exactly 7 days old and greater than size
> 1024 chars (bytes).
>
> or (-o)
>
> b) print (-ls) files whose inode creation times are exactly 7 days old and
> greater than size 1024 chars.
>
> If neither a) nor b) are true for a file found under / then it is silently
> ignored.
>
> You may find the following note from man find helpful:
>
> # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre-
> # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-'').  A preceding plus
> # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n''
> # and neither means ``exactly n''.
>
> So that is why I put a "+" in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes
> (c).

This is the piece I was missing.  Thanks!

> So in your example below:
>
> > find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100
> > \) -print
>
> You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in
> size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size and I don't
> know why they were found - I can replicate this on my machine here, but I
> don't know why - perhaps it is the file allocation.  This is why I chose
> 1024c instead of block size.
>
> > (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?)
>
> Perhaps because there was a symbolic link pointing to it (as shown by the
> '2' before the permissions).

Ah yes, that's why?  Thanks for your help and time.  Now if I could just
figure out where my disk space went...  I'm still not seeing anything
significant.  I'll go back and look (now that I know how) at Oct. 24 and see
if I can find anything there.

Thanks again!

Drew

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Re: login.conf and accents weirdness

[Joan Picanyol i Puig]

[please honour MFT, not subscribed]

* Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031101 12:12]:
> * In console or in X11?
Both

> * If X11, what terminal emulator do you use?
xterm

> * What shell do you use?
bash

> * What language and especially encoding has your mail?
(15:23:01 <~/tmp>) 0 $ grep ontent mail.test 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed

> I suggest  to set LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-15  in your shell's  init file,
> and don't  forget to  export that variable  (export with  [ba]sh, setenv
> with [t]csh).
I have these lines in /etc/login.conf

:setenv=LC_CTYPE=ISO8859-15,LANG=ca_ES.ISO8859-15: \
:lang=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15:\
:charset=ISO8859-15:\

> Also, please test with  more or less, not mutt, so it  will be easier to
> find the solution.  Make a test  file with special characters not in the
> 7-bit range, and view it.
I'm attaching my test file (an actual message). Both under xterm and
console the results are the sime: cat works fine but more and less do
not.

Where's the culprit?

tks
-- 
pica
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Re: color to files

[Greg J.]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:01 -0500
"SWIT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a
> ls ? thanks
> mark

ls -G

man ls :)
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color to files

[SWIT]

Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a ls ?
thanks
mark

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better way

[SWIT]

I was wondering what happens or the consequences of this.
I made a /temp on the install of FreeBSD 4.8
I untar all the programs to that point I want to install. LIke apache,
mysql. php or postnuke etc.

Then go to /temp/whaterver and do the ./configures/makes etc.
I had to remove all those directories for space. I never had removed them
after doing the installs. There were like 30-40 of them.
I was then wondering about what if I fubar my apache or php or mysql and
need to reinstall. ?
Am I okay in that I can untar and redo the install process ? Or do they need
the original compile I did ?
And what happens if I want to add some options to the compile/make process
after I have removed the directories from the original install or need to
recompile with a new configure option ?

Thanks
Mark




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Re: MultiLinking ADSL connections

[Jean-Baptiste Quenot]

* Leon Verheem:

> Just  curious  if  anyone  has  experimented  with  multilinking  adsl
> connections

What's that, multilinking?

If  you mean  provide Internet  access to  the whole  LAN from  one adsl
connection, it's called NAT, and it's done with ipnat or ppp.

Cheers,
-- 
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APC Smart-UPS 620VA

[Bernhard Valenti]

hi,

is the APC Smart-UPS 620VA supported in freebsd?
i searched the lists, but didnt find anything on that.
anyways, if you can recommend any other APC UPS for freebsd, i'd like to 
hear your experiences. if i understand correctly i need a smart UPS to 
make freebsd shutdown in case battery gets empty? the UPS i need should 
be around 250euros.

ok, thanks for any hints,
bernhard
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new install on dual cpu/scsi drives

[SWIT]

I have a dual intel 333 machine laying around with a couple of scsi drives
in  it.
I was thinking of throwing latest 4.x on it.
is it harder or more work involved with the dual and scsi drives ?
never done freebsd with either hardware before.

thanks
mark


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Re: Weirdness with permissions after mounting USB flash drive

[Paul Murphy]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:06:19 +0100
Jean-Baptiste Quenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * Paul Murphy:
> 
> >  I'm stumped!
> 
> Once fstab  is properly configured,  of course the mount  command
> should be  invoked without  options  and  with only  one  argument,
> the  target directory:
> 
> mount /mns/usbkey
> 
> Did you do that?

 Yes. BTW, just upgraded to 4.9-STABLE from 4.9-RC? and now that
'mount_msdos' accepts '-M' everything works fine.

 Still stumped, but happy!

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Cogeco ergo sum


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xinit: "xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions"

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I have problems with my startx script,see my other email
"when I invoke startx, it seems to 'freeze' for a minute or so,then starts".
Before fixing the startx issue (I think startx has been overwritten
by the fluxconf->XFree86-libraries-4.3.0 installation),
I tested xinit after setting the root setuid bit of the X server 
(which on my machine points to XF86_SVGA).According to the
xinit error,"I should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!".
So,with the setuid bit set,xinit works,but the elegant solution
would be to use Xwrapper.How can I use Xwrapper ?
Does it accept a server name to execute ?

When you say 'runlevel 5' do you mean the kernel securelevels 
(i remember runlevels used as boot levels in linux) ?

Thank you for help
Bruno


- Original Message - 
From: "Scott W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: xinit: "xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with rootpermissions"

You should be starting X via the 'startx' command if you're not using 
runlevel 5/[xgk]dm.  Try that and see if the same problem persists.

Scott

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just installed a port (fluxconf).That port installed Xfree86 Libraries 4.3.0.
>Since then,when I invoke xinit, it exits with the error
>"xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions"
>I include the output of 'uname -a' and 
>the brief output from xinit for the problem
>
>Thank you very much
>Bruno
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (/dev/ttyp0) /usr/home/bruno 2>> uname -a
>FreeBSD ciao.singles.it 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Wed Oct 15 00:12:26 CEST 2003 
>root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURRENT_WINE  i386
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (/dev/ttyp0) /usr/home/bruno 2>>xinit
>
>XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
>Release Date: January 8 2000
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
> than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
> problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
>Operating System: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 [ELF] 
>Configured drivers:
>  SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1):
>  NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
>  RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
>  GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
>  ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
>  ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
>  wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
>  sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
>  sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
>  tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
>  tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
>  tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
>  tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
>  cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
>  clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
>  clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
>  clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
>  clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
>  mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, oti067,
>  oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
>  ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
>  ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_savage,
>  s3_virge, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
>  ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
>  ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
>  ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
>  i810, i810-dc100, i810e, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
>
>Fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
>You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
>We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!
>
>
>When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
>the full server output, not just the last messages
>
>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
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Re: crontab question...

[Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:16:29 -0500 "Xpression" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote:

> Hi guys, I was wondering if I have three script files on crontab and all
> they are executed at the same hour how it's function ??? I mean:
> 
> #
> #minutehourmdaymonthwdaywhocommand
> #
> 00***  root
> /path/one/script1
> 00***  root
> /path/two/script2
> 00***  root
> /path/three/script3
> 
> they are executed at the same time or in order ??? thank

Generally, you shouldn't depend on that. If you want the scripts to be
executed in a particular order, write a wrapper script that says
something like

/path/one/script1
/path/two/script2
/path/three/script3

and add it to the crontab.

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