Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?
Erik Trulsson writes: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:57:00PM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > John Conover wrote: > > > > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd? > > > > > > No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use. > > > > > > If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on > > > the > > > hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to > > > performance. > > > > > > > Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? > > Not at all, but standard IDE-drives suck when it comes to robustness. > (They tend to lie and tell the OS that data has been written to the > disk, when in reality it has only been written to the disks cache.) > (Thus the advice above to turn off write-caching for maximum > robustness.) > > If you use softupdates (on a disk that doesn't lie) the filesystem on > the disk will always be consistent, but data written during the last 30 > seconds or so might not yet have been written to the disk, and can therefore > be lost if e.g. the power to the computer is turned off. > Erik, does that mean if you use softupdates, (on a SCSI,) that, although file(s) currently being written may be truncated since the cache is not flushed, that the file system can be repaired automatically by fsck to a consistent state? Even without synchronous writes or enabling cache write through? John BTW, the reason for the question is that most SCSIs today have many meg of HW cache, and many, (maybe most,) controllers don't permit write through anymore. So, even if the OS flushes its cache, the HW cache may not be written to the disk-so synchronous writes and OS cache write through may be of little value. -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: The FreeBSD Foundation
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:02 am, Troy Mills wrote: > > As some of you may or may not know the FreeBSD Foundation supports the > FreeBSD developers financially via funds mainly from donations from > the public. Anyway there is a IRS "1/3rd test" for "public support" > and the current foundation ratio that is a little out of whack due to > a few generous people donating large sums of money. I have no idea > what will happen if they cannot remain a public charity but I'm sure > the affects wont be positive as they clearly stated that it is in > there interest to remain a public charity. > > I'm in no position to be shelling out lots of money right now but I'm > going to do my part and I would hope that some of you chip in as well. > from my understanding they need a larger number of people donating a > smaller amount to correct the ratio. QUESTION: Do sales of the FreeBSD CDs support the project? And if so, now? I thought I _was_ supporting the project through my CD subscription... I was not aware of the FreeBSD Foundation (thanks for the enlightenment), but financial support for software developers of any kind seems a bit of a stretch for a "charity". Perhaps I'm just not in tune with the legal definition of a charity. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Where to report successful hardware configurations
I recently got the opportunity to get a Lacie external firewire disk and interface card cheap. I configured firewire into my kernel, rebooted, and was pleased...and surprised when it actually worked. I was surprised because extensive trawling of google and the bsd mailing lists gave no indication of whether it would or wouldd not work. So the question is Where do you report such happy accidents so that this can be documented as functional? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?
Damien Hull writes: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > John Conover wrote: > > > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd? > > > > No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use. > > > > If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on > > the > > hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to > > performance. > > > > Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? If so what options does > one have? > > I've read that softupdates should be turned on. How much of a > performance loss will I see if I turn softupates off? > Oh, no, not at all, Damien-I consider UFS/FFS quite sturdy. I put it in a PC with softupdates on, (and no other options, like cache write through, synchronous writes, etc.,) and for 30 minutes cycled the machine's power switch 15 times, hitting the power as soon as fsck started, etc. to see if I could induce an exception/fault scenario with something it couldn't fix auto'magically. Also, I hit the power switch with a dozen cat /dev/zero > bigfile1, ..., processes, too-after they had filled up about 20G of spinning real estate. UFS/FFS withstood the abuse well. So I have been told, for maximum reliability/durability, cache write through should be enabled, along with synchronous writes-albeit at a substantial speed penalty, (I don't know how much-that's a test for another day.) So far, I've done this on about a half dozen open source OS distributions, and one Sys V Rel. 4 with Veritas journaling FS. FreeBSD and Veritas are the only two that survived. John For the record, the box is an Intel reference MB, and an Adaptec 2940UW, with a Fujitsu 35G SCSI drive. All out of the box default settings. No RAID. -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Xorg & xdm & securelevels
Hello. I realise this may have been covered before and that this may not be the correct list (freebsd-x11 seemed to be more about developement rather than configuration) but anyway: I would like to push my securelevel up to 1 in order to better enforce my security policy (protecting chflags, kernel modules etc) but this of course would break Xorg as it requires access to /dev/io. I've heard that it's possible to run Xorg via xdm whilst the system is booting at securelevel 0 and have the securelevel raised afterwards, effectively allowing X to live in a securelevel > 0 environment. How painful is this to implement? Am I likely to run into any major problems? I've also heard that it's possible to remove the SUID bit from X by using xdm, but that's probably for another thread... Any comments, advice, pointers to articles or screams of distaste are welcomed. Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:57:00PM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > John Conover wrote: > > > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd? > > > > No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use. > > > > If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on > > the > > hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to > > performance. > > > > Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? Not at all, but standard IDE-drives suck when it comes to robustness. (They tend to lie and tell the OS that data has been written to the disk, when in reality it has only been written to the disks cache.) (Thus the advice above to turn off write-caching for maximum robustness.) If you use softupdates (on a disk that doesn't lie) the filesystem on the disk will always be consistent, but data written during the last 30 seconds or so might not yet have been written to the disk, and can therefore be lost if e.g. the power to the computer is turned off. > If so what options does > one have? If UFS2 + softupdates + decent hardware is not sufficiently robust for you there is little else you can do. (Unless you take Chuck Swiger's advice above and mount the filesystem synchronously and turn off the writecache which should give a slight increase in robustness at the cost of a huge drop in write-performance.) > > I've read that softupdates should be turned on. How much of a > performance loss will I see if I turn softupates off? Depends. For read performance you should not see any difference. For write performance it will depend both on your hardware and how much load you put on the disks. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying a directory hierarchy
Another variation: tar cf - -C /source/path directory | tar xf - -C /destination/path On Dec 23, 2004, at 12:16 AM, Joseph wrote: How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden files? cd /path tar cf - . | (cd /other/path; tar -xf -) works like a charm. joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir (owner)802 863 5502 MacTutor: Apple Mac OS X Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UFS2 with Soft Updates Robust?
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:31 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > John Conover wrote: > > Is UFS2 with soft updates the most robust file system in freebsd? > > No, although UFS2 with softupdates is robust enough for production use. > > If you make the filesystem writes syncronous and disable write caching on the > hard drive, you will improve the robustness at significant cost to > performance. > Are you saying that the UFS2 file system sucks? If so what options does one have? I've read that softupdates should be turned on. How much of a performance loss will I see if I turn softupates off? -- Damien Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:05:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > How?, I added it to my kernel "device apm", "device pmtimer", and > "device amp_saver" and rebuilt it and in rc.conf I added > apm_enable="YES", apmd_enable="YES" and I greped though I think you would also have to disable ACPI. This could be done by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. > I want ACPI!, APM is a last ditch hack to me, the name says it all > "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" there is a reason they > switched to it. The 440BX chipset has full support for ACPI and > therefore should work with FreeBSD and is a critical problem, what do > you think might happen if you disable all your fans on your computer???. As I said: I might be wrong, but I think the Armada simply is too old for a correct implementation of ACPI, it was build for APM. So, the problem is not FreeBSD, it's the Armada. > Please note that I'm not trying to diss FreeBSD in anyway for it being > broken as I understand the issues with the DSDT, AML, and ASL stuff, I > just want it to work. Other system would also show this problem, the fan never starts to work under Linux (tested FC3 a few weeks ago). I really don't know if it's possible to get ACPI+FreeBSD 5.x+Armada 1750 to work, I can only say that it worked perfectly with FreeBSD 4.x and APM. And I can say that FreeBSD+ACPI works great on newer notebooks (evo N160, IBM Thinkpad...). cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VIM
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 05:40 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have installed a VIM editor. > > > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. > > > What is wrong. > > > > I have not used VIM - installed it once, but never really used it. > > But, it is basically like vi to use, I think. I have a very basic vi > > HowTo that I wrote up for our sites. It might help you get started. > > > > It is at: http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html > > I personally love vim. You can also try emacs, but you might as well get > used to vi if you're going to run any *nix - vim is basically vi > extended, although it will operate exactly like vi for the purists if > you configure it to do that. It's not intuitive, but once you get used > to it it's very efficient. I use it for all sorts of editing, including > composing email in Mutt. Joshua Lokken posted some good vim tutorials, > and there's another one here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9039 > > Here's another vi tutorial: > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html And, of course, there's always /usr/local/bin/vimtutor which is vim's 'canonical' tutorial. Any vi tutorial will teach you the basics of what you need to know about vim, but vim is *so much more*, once you get the vi basics under your fingers. > > - jt > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Copying a directory hierarchy
> > > How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden > > > files? cd /path tar cf - . | (cd /other/path; tar -xf -) works like a charm. joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:27:18 -0500 RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start > from scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell > comes with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option > might be to clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on > the Dell. Would kind of problems and headaches would I have with > that? > > Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. Well there are a few problems and a few possible problems. If you move the drive another machine and it's place is changed, you will need to edit /etc/fstab. This is easy to do though. The big problem comes in if you compiled any tihng AMD specific into any thing. If you just left it at the default settings or set it to 686 or the like, you should be fine. For copying just look at dd. If moving to a different size of drive, just create the partitions, mount them, and then copy the stuff over. What problem you running into with java? No clue about g4unix since I've never heard of it before. I would just do as I mentioned above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:42PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > I have actually solved the problem. I intend to post a summary for > the archive when I return to the site later in the week, at which > time I'll be able to identify the OS/nameserver combination at > fault. I am told it's running Windows 2000 DNS Server. Presumably that's Microsoft's own DNS implementation built into Windows 2000. > Here's a teaser, though: it's a Microsoft product (I just don't know > which), and it's returing SERVFAIL status for a record query. Sometimes it behaves: > dig tsb.coremedicalsolutions.com. ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> tsb.coremedicalsolutions.com. ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8959 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tsb.coremedicalsolutions.com. IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: coremedicalsolutions.com. 3600 IN SOA archibald2.coremedicalsolutions.com. marc.coremedicalsolutions.com. 1480 900 600 86400 3600 ;; Query time: 281 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.2#53(192.168.10.2) ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 23 15:03:23 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98 But sendmail seems intent on asking for just about every permutation on each domain name invovled, so sometimes it returns the bogus answer: > dig tsb ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> tsb ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 43109 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tsb. IN ;; Query time: 245 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.10.2#53(192.168.10.2) ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 23 15:04:42 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 21 (By 'sometimes' I don't mean it's non-deterministic. Every time sendmail asks for the record of an unqualified hostname, the nameserver responds with SERVFAIL.) The consequence of this is that sendmail repeatedly defers delivery until the mail expires. > Curiously, sendmail's WorkAroundBroken option did not help, and > I don't know why. Daryl Tester suggested using a mailertable entry, > and this worked. I still don't know why WorkAroundBroken isn't working in this case. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ pgpKUQMXk1SEN.pgp Description: PGP signature
acpi problems on boot with new usb device. 5.3-R
I just got a new usb 8-in-1 media reader and when it is plugged into my motherboard, my boot cycle hangs at: npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard Normally, a: acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 would come next, however it's completely hung. I can plug the device into my motherboard after boot (once i've booted without it) and it seems to work fine until I need to reboot and then it hangs again. 'camcontrol devilist' shows 4 lines for it: at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) at scbus1 target 0 lun 1 (da1,pass1) at scbus1 target 0 lun 2 (da2,pass2) at scbus1 target 0 lun 3 (da3,pass3) 'acpidump -t -d' gives me : "acpidump: RSDT entry 2 (sig OEMB) is corrupt" among an otherwise normal looking dump. I have a ASUS p4p800 deluxe motherboard running 5.3-RELEASE-p2 my usb controller dmesg lines look like: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A What other debugging steps do I need to perform for this? -Stephen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Ndisulator - Linksys wireless-g PCI card
Hi everyone, I have a wireless-g PCI Card Linksys WMP54G. Just installed FreeBSD 5.3 from CD. I'm trying to get this to work and talk to my access point which is also Linksys. I followed the instructions to compile the windows .inf and .sys into .h, .ko, .o. Did a 'make' on ndis as per instructions from a website I googled (I think it was http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/ndis.txt). I can see ndis0 in ifconfig, I can specify ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0. Turned off wep on my AP to make things easier. Set the SSID. Now when I type ifconfig ndis0 media autoselect, nothing happens. Everything looks okay, I can locally ping the interface 192.168.0.8. I cannot wicontrol and list the local ap however. When I type ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt adhoc it says ndis0 link up. I try ifconfig ndis0 media autoselect and link is down. What's up with that (no pun intended) ? Many thanks Cheers, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bandwith info command
Ben Washington-Yule skrev: What command can I use to see what is using the bandwith on my 56kbs dialup internet connection? Kind of like bandwithd. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Bandwith info command
What command can I use to see what is using the bandwith on my 56kbs dialup internet connection? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with tar archive
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:07:05PM +0100, freebsd_daemon wrote: > Dear list, > > # tar xvf ./varia.tar > ../varia/ > tar: ../varia/: Member name contains `..' > Is there a way to un-tar that archive despite of that? pax -r -s '#^\.\.\/##' varia.tar -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pcmcia wireless
--- Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:54:15 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > i am using the 5.0 dist, and i cant get it to > read my pcmcia ethernet > > card. it is rather old card with a cat-5 > connector on it for plugging > > into my router. it is called ositech trumpcard > and it is the jack of > > dimonds model the card works because i tried it > on the same computer > > before loading freebsd and i could surf the net > with it. is there a > > driver avaliable for this card or should i go > get a wirless one? (i > > cant find any cabled ones) if i need to get a > wireless one, what brand > > do you recomend? i do have a wirless g router > here. > > I don't know much about wireless technology or > setting it up > on FreeBSD, however, you're likely to be asked "Why > 5.0? > It is no longer supported, and is quite old. Have > you got > specific reasons for not going with 5.3, which is > the production > release?" So I'll just get that out of the way > ;) As was well said above, I also know little about wireless. And I certainly have little clue regarding your ositech card. I'm somewhat of a newbie. That being said, if you intend on purchasing a wireless card... you may wish to go for a certain manufacturer. I have been sucessful with NetGear's WG511v1 which uses the "Intersil" chipset (note 32bit cardbus... "newer" notebook required). "Project Evil" did not work at all with a Linksys WMP54GS (PCI) which was using the Broadcom chipset. If it helps, I experienced this angst in the following thread. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html While Eric's suggestions helped little with the broadcom chipset, it was great once I actually got a supported card. BTW, I would only recommend that you try this with FreeBSD 5.3. Good luck with any other! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0500, RL wrote: > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from > scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes > with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to > clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would > kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? > If you're tracking 5-STABLE, I would bring your current machine up-to-date with STABLE and portupgrade all ports. Then, create packages out of all your ports (man pkg_create, pay attention to -b switch). Create .tar files of your home directory, /etc/mail, /etc/namedb, and anything else you care about that's taken some time to configure. One thing I do on all my boxes is use RCS for all config files. It's a simple and quick step to create a .tar out of all these directories scattered about a box. I back these files up regularly. If I need to rebuild a box, it's a simple OS install, whatever ports are needed, and retrieve my config files from a tar. On your new box, bring it up-to-date with -STABLE, and install packages you created above. Selectively un-tar above files as needed. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD as a DSL modem?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:17:36 -0600, Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Beastie! > > If I hadn't told you lately, I LOVE YOU! > > Here's my question: Is it possible to configure FreeBSD (5.3) to ACT > as a DSL modem? > > I use an Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5360, using PPoE. But I've > had to replace the modem more than once. Currently everything is > working nicely, but I'm anxious about the next failure. > > What I'd like to do is setup a PC to act as router, firewall, AND dsl > intermediary so that I can put my working DSL modem on the shelf for > emergencies. > > Any pointers are appreciated. Are you saying you want FreeBSD to *emulate* a DSL modem, without the actual hardware? I don't think that's currently possible. But I could be wrong. > P.S. I built a website recently for a good paying client. They loved > the website, but requested that I remove the "beastie" daemon (Powered > by FreeBSD) because they thought the image might be offensive to their > christian clients. > > I refused, of course. > > I love christians, but I just can't cotton to fools! Good for you! :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "In Unix veritas" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD as a DSL modem?
Hello Beastie! If I hadn't told you lately, I LOVE YOU! Here's my question: Is it possible to configure FreeBSD (5.3) to ACT as a DSL modem? I use an Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5360, using PPoE. But I've had to replace the modem more than once. Currently everything is working nicely, but I'm anxious about the next failure. What I'd like to do is setup a PC to act as router, firewall, AND dsl intermediary so that I can put my working DSL modem on the shelf for emergencies. Any pointers are appreciated. lane P.S. I built a website recently for a good paying client. They loved the website, but requested that I remove the "beastie" daemon (Powered by FreeBSD) because they thought the image might be offensive to their christian clients. I refused, of course. I love christians, but I just can't cotton to fools! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
ffsdrv seems to be able to mount only the first slice. I couldn't get it mount any other slice after playing with it for some time. # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a496M124M332M27%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e248M110K228M 0%/tmp /dev/ad4s1f 18G 14G2.6G84%/usr /dev/ad4s1d248M 63M165M27%/var /dev/ad4s3 42G 29G 13G69%/mnt/c /dev/ad4s5 172G161G 12G93%/mnt/d Mounts /dev/ad4s1a only. I need /usr/home/ (ad4s1f). Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mirros Via Bittorrent
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:33:09PM -0400, John Theriault wrote: > I was wondering if you have ever thought of distributing FreeBSD > though Bittorrent. If so I may be able to mirror it for you on a > global site. Yes, and the last release was distributed that way. See the release announcement. Kris pgpkmMhOm4jDQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:54:32 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might > > just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into > > problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my > > old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system > > that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again. > > RL, > > Sometimes that's fun to do anyways. Why didn't you do the free > upgrade > to 512mb? > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > There was a free upgrade to 512MB?? I didn't see that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>RL wrote: > >> > >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > >>>420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > >>>hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > >>>and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from > >>>scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes > >>>with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to > >>>clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would > >>>kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? > >>> > >>>Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. > >>>___ > >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> > >>I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! > >>Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in > >>the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have > >>done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a > >>kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A > >>FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. > >> > >>-- > >>Kristian Kielhofner > >> > > > > > > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would > > ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of > > issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a > > P4. > > Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really > think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. > If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some > problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know > that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, > and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing". > > You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you > modify /etc/make.conf, of course). > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
RL wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RL wrote: Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. -- Kristian Kielhofner Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a P4. Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing". You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you modify /etc/make.conf, of course). -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VIM
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have installed a VIM editor. > > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. > > What is wrong. > > I have not used VIM - installed it once, but never really used it. > But, it is basically like vi to use, I think. I have a very basic vi HowTo > that I wrote up for our sites. It might help you get started. > > It is at: http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html I personally love vim. You can also try emacs, but you might as well get used to vi if you're going to run any *nix - vim is basically vi extended, although it will operate exactly like vi for the purists if you configure it to do that. It's not intuitive, but once you get used to it it's very efficient. I use it for all sorts of editing, including composing email in Mutt. Joshua Lokken posted some good vim tutorials, and there's another one here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9039 Here's another vi tutorial: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
5.3R and 3ware 9500s hang
hello there's. i'm building a new machine to run freebsd 5.3 with two 3ware 9500s-12MI cards. i installed the OS before i connected the drives, and since i have connected them, the system hangs on boot. the system also hangs on boot directly from the install cd with the drives connected. i have only a cd drive connected to the onboard ide, no floppy, and the onboard scsi is disabled via jumper. other hardware is: supermicro X6DH8-XG2 motherboard (E7520 chipset), two 3.6GHz xeon, 4GB ram, two 36gb 10k sata drives mirrored, and 12x 300gb sata drives. there's also an IPMI card, but it's likely irrelevant to this question. i've already cvsup'ed and installed 5.3R-p2 and a new kernel (with the carp patches). i can boot in safe mode and operate fine, but with only one cpu. i've disabled ACPI in device.hints (can't boot with ACPI enabled), and i've tried setting the following in loader.conf, which i read is the same as safe mode: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 hw.ata.wc=0 hw.eisa_slots=0 i've tried using the twa.ko from 3ware, both release and development, and using the sources to compile a kernel, which fails at twa compilation. both 3ware cards have the same bios and firmware, which are: Firmware FE9X 2.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.047 during verbose boot, the last part of the messages are: ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=01 ata1-master: stat=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x14 msb=0xeb ata1-slave: stat=0x01 err=0x04 lsb=0x04 msb=0x7f ata1: reset tp2 stat0=00 stat1=01 devices=0x4 ata1: resetting done .. ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): error 5 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): error 5 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted ata1: reiniting channel .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata1: device config done .. ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): CAM Status 0x39 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retrying Command (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): error 5 (probe15:twa0:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): error 5 (probe31:twa1:0:16:0): Retries Exhausted any helpful information is appreciated. thanks! joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VIM
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:35:58 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have installed a VIM editor. > > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. > > What is wrong. /usr/ports/editors/vilearn is what you need. "Vilearn is an interactive vi tutorial. There are five short tutorials, each a text file intended to be edited with vi". -- ~michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Switching FreeBSD machines
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RL wrote: > > Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > > 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > > hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > > and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from > > scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes > > with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to > > clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would > > kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? > > > > Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! > Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in > the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have > done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a > kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A > FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a P4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mirros Via Bittorrent
I was wondering if you have ever thought of distributing FreeBSD though Bittorrent. If so I may be able to mirror it for you on a global site. The purpose of my new site (soon coming) is to have a global index of Distributions and a way of getting them, Thank you for you time, John Theriault ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Switching FreeBSD machines
Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell 420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
backup routes
I have a FBSD box acting as a gateway for the network. I was wondering if there is anyway to set up the routing table so I can setup automatic backup routes? I want the system to try to route packets to A. But if A is down, automatically set the route to B... Is there anyway to set this up? TIA, Tomoki ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Samba installation from ports over NFS
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote: Hello! My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3 it says: satsmb# make install ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: popt.0 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found ===> Configuring for samba-3.0.9,1 autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you are running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not supported *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3. Can I fix this without learning all autoconf caveats? You can do something like make install WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp if /tmp is on a local file system to get around the lock problem. lockd and statd haven't solved the problem in the end. Work dir prefix key helped though, thanks much! Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: buildworld via ssh
On 2004-12-22 19:47, lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am doing a buildworld(Rel5.2) via ssh to a remote location. I detached the > process from my session, but I failed to > pipe the output to a logfile. Long story short, my session was terminated > and I am not sure if the process completed > correctly or not. Is there any way to find out if the build was sucessful? If you don't mind wasting a few cycles, you can restart the build with -DNOCLEAN and wait a bit. If the build was interrupted because of the detach, it will resume building everything and finish a lot faster than a full buildworld. Having said that, one of the last things that get built is src/usr.sbin/zzz. You can check if /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/zzz/zzz exists. If it does, you can probably assume the build finished successfully. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: rpc.lockd and statd fail to start
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:50:55PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I got this: satsmb# rpc.statd rpc.statd: svc_tli_create: could not open connection for udp6 rpc.statd: svc_tp_create: Could not register prog 100024 vers 1 on udp rpc.statd: cannot create udp service satsmb# rpc.lockd rpc.lockd: unable to register (NLM_PROG, NLM_SM, udp) Are you running rpcbind? The udp6 warning is not by itself fatal, but the fact that it can't register anything with rpcbind is. Yep, rpcbind solved the problem. Thanks! Wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
buildworld via ssh
I am doing a buildworld(Rel5.2) via ssh to a remote location. I detached the process from my session, but I failed to pipe the output to a logfile. Long story short, my session was terminated and I am not sure if the process completed correctly or not. Is there any way to find out if the build was sucessful? TIA -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Top loses memory over time? Memory leak?
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This machine sat unattended all day. What could be causing the drastic > drop in Free memory? Is this normal? When I actually use the machine, > it's even worse... Almost all of my RAM goes from Free to other > various states, Mostly Inactive, even after I've closed all the > programs I've had open, rather quickly (maybe an hour or two) See the FAQ, but basically the answer is "Free memory is wasted memory." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VIM
> > Hi, > > I have installed a VIM editor. > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. > What is wrong. I have not used VIM - installed it once, but never really used it. But, it is basically like vi to use, I think. I have a very basic vi HowTo that I wrote up for our sites. It might help you get started. It is at: http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html jerry > > Thanks, > Leon. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Question about FreeBSD 5.3
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:56:11 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5.3-STABLE is a moving target from the RELENG_4 development branch. > It should run stably and it can be used usefully as a desktop system > or whatever, but tracking -STABLE is not recommended for *absolutely has > to be up 24x7* type applications, because new functionality and support > for new hardware will be introduced, which can result in problems > occasionally. (In practice this very rarely happens: which is a great > tribute to the degree of care taken by FreeBSD developers). If one is *tracking* 5.3-STABLE on a non-critical system and is subscribed to the stable mailing list, how does one know when to cvsup and build world? I have not seen anything on the list to indicate I should update my source. I have seen that 5.3-RELEASE is now P2 but nothing about STABLE. Should I be doing it regularly (weekly, daily)? Or did I just miss something? Thank you for this and all of your previous posts. I look forward to seeing your name as a poster for I know it will be another learning experience. Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
TOE Gigabit NICs
All, Does anyone has some experience with TOE NICs ? Think it is developed to work with storage systems. FreeBSD does support this kind of hardware ? The only target site for this kind of board has indicated that the support is only for Windows: http://www.alacritech.com/html/1000x1_accelerator_oem.html I would like to test them for projects related with network optimization and performace using TCP/IP and FreeBSD. Thanks a lot, Giuliano ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Serial ATA?
Peterhin wrote: I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year. I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE and 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with a Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will FreeBSD work.? Yes. The controller is definitely supported. I'm not entirely sure about RAID functions but they are most probably supported too. If you have looked at supported hardware for 5.3 you would find a link to ata(4) manual page, which lists the controller as supported. It has been supported for long time but only recently (for 5.2) it got into manual pages and even more recently it's reflected in the release documentation (for 5.3). Michal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Serial ATA?
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:13:40PM -0500, Peterhin wrote: > I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year. > > I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE > and > 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 > OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with a > Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will > FreeBSD work.? > Thanks. Like I said, I'm not sure about SATA, but I have that same motherboard, and things work pretty well. I haven't been able to get ACPI to work, so I leave it disabled, but this isn't a big deal for me. You will need the sk ethernet device set in the kernel config, as well as some other things. You will have to go with 5.3-RELEASE to support your hardware. If you decide to install it, let me know and I'll send my kernel config file, device.hints and loader.conf. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Identical hard drives, different disklabel sectors/cylinders
Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the delay in replying. orville weyrich said: > (1) make sure that the BIOS settings are the same for > both drives. I don't think this is an issue, as I haven't touched the BIOS for this IDE card, and it should be on full-auto mode. > (2) is there a jumper on the drive itself that affects > sector mapping? No. > (3) do you have all the /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad5 devices > (try MAKEDEV ad) I MAKEDEV'd both ad4 and ad5 at least once. > (4) have you tried the > /stand/sysinstall->configure->label method of editing > the labels? Does it report a discrepancy between BIOS > and memory disk geometry? Yes, I tried /stand/sysinstall several times, and actually I can't remember whether it gave me that error. However, I have gotten that error many times in the past and was under the impression that it was a fairly normal thing and should be ignored. > (5) have you tried using disklable -e to directly edit > the labels to copy the "good" label to the "bad" > drive? Yes, I tried editing both labels, and it wouldn't take for either. Christian Hiris said: > Your disks slice tables holding different values for C/H/S geometry. > You can wipe out the slice tables with the dd(1) command and > re-initialize them with fdisk and bsdlabel or sysinstall. There is an > example written on this in 'man 8 bsdlabel'. I dd'd both drives several times. I never used bsdlabel, as I was under the impression that disklabel is more recent. > IMHO there is only one thing that can go wrong with your configuration: > If you are booting your system from the mirror, I would test if both > of your drives are bootable. Well, these disks are just extra storage under /var, and ad0 and ad1 are the bootable disks in this system. So I guess I don't have anything to worry about. Again, thanks for your help :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Motor problems
Hello guys I am trying to install motor from the ports tree, I am runningn FreeBSD 5.2, But when I run it for the first time I get a Bus error .and a core dump. Any Ideas about this?. Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Top loses memory over time? Memory leak?
Okay, here's the background. I thought top was displaying my memory stats oddly, so I ran a little test. I rebooted the pc, logged into the console as a normal user, and ran top. I did this at around midnight last night / this morning. I let it run until I got home from work, (6:15 today) So that's about... 18 hours. Here are my results. First, when I started last night. 29 processes: 1 running, 28 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 6.0% interrupt, 93.8% idle Mem: 8120K Active, 8372K Inact, 17M Wired, 8576K Buf, 460M Free Swap: 980M Total, 980M Free Now, the one from when I got home: 25 processes: 1 running, 24 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 8.9% interrupt, 90.7% idle Mem: 7400K Active, 249M Inact, 68M Wired, 60M Buf, 170M Free Swap: 980M Total, 980M Free This machine sat unattended all day. What could be causing the drastic drop in Free memory? Is this normal? When I actually use the machine, it's even worse... Almost all of my RAM goes from Free to other various states, Mostly Inactive, even after I've closed all the programs I've had open, rather quickly (maybe an hour or two) For reference, the uname -a: FreeBSD Empathy 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 7 21:38:11 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 (Dual processor, PIII 1.0ghz, 512M Ram) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Serial ATA?
I am running a Dell PowerEdge 750 server with FreeBSD 4.9 and the system has a serial ATA hard drive in it. Clay > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peterhin > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Serial ATA? > > I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year. > > I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE and > 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 > OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with > a > Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will > FreeBSD work.? > Thanks. > > Peter > > "Peace is never more than one thought away" > > GNU/Linux > Freedom > http://libranet.com > http://www.fsf.org > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Copying a directory hierarchy
Have you tried pax -rw . destination_dir ? AJITH SINGH Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: 22 December 2004 03:51 PM To: Mike Jeays Cc: Robert Huff; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying a directory hierarchy Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:08, Robert Huff wrote: > > Mike Jeays writes: > > > > > How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden > > > files? > > > > > > "cp -rp" leaves them out. > > > > cp -rp * > > cp -rp .* > This doesn't copy hidden files in lower-level directories, only in the > top level. Thanks for the suggestion - a good idea that doesn't quite > do it. It works for me... temp> type -a rm rm is /bin/rm temp> mkdir -p a/b/c/d/e temp> touch a/b/c/d/.hidden a/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too temp> cp -r a f temp> find a f a a/b a/b/c a/b/c/d a/b/c/d/e a/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too a/b/c/d/.hidden f f/b f/b/c f/b/c/d f/b/c/d/e f/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too f/b/c/d/.hidden temp> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Re: Running own servers
On 12/22/04 09:44 PM, Colin J. Raven sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I had the same arrangement, but in the Westchester NY area. My local ISP > wangled a deal to resell the Verizon SDSL offering and man but didn't > they ever do one fine job. > > If...IF you're in or close to Westchester NY (New York City, > Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, and > Long Island), as well as part of Connecticut (Greenwich), all of New > Jersey, and eastern Massachusetts) *do* consider giving Cloud9 Internet > a call. They rock(ed) back when I lived there. http://www.cloud9.net > and/or (914) 696 4000. I just checked the site to be sure I gave the > right number, I did...and that was from memory!! :-) > > Regards & Greetings from The Netherlands, > -Colin I just checked them out via email (I'm just a hop west of Boston). I gave them my phone #, address, and told they they could check out my eligibility. I got an almost immediate response, and they ensure me service availability should be no more than a day, with downtime no longer than that required for me to set up PPPoE, which shouldn't be long, considering I already have a working PPPoE config with Verizon. Maybe just a minor reconfig? As far as use, they don't care so long as the government doesn't say it's illegal. Cool. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portmanager fails installing apache
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 02:29 pm, Noah wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:44:18 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote > > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:38 pm, Noah wrote: > > > FreeBSD-4.9 > > > portmanager-0.2.0_3 > > > > > > > > > well I am not able to find a specific mail list for portmanager > > > support. anybody got clues why portmanager is having difficulies > > > here and a nice cure would be helpful? > > > > Usually people with portmanager problems just email me directly, > > my address is listed in the makefile ([EMAIL PROTECTED] but will > > soon be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mentioning problems here > > in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] is OK as I > > follow both of these. > > > > > --- snip --- > > > > > > pkg_create: can't find package 'apache-1.3.33_1' installed! > > > > > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make deinstall > > > ===> Deinstalling for www/apache13 > > > ===> apache not installed, skipping > > > > > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make reinstall > > > ===> Installing for apache-1.3.33_1 > > > > > > ===> apache-1.3.33_1 conflicts with installed package(s): > > > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > Well here is your problem, apache+mod_ssl-1.* > > is listed under CONFLICTS in /usr/ports/www/apache13/Makefile. > > Try pkg_delete -f apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 then rerun > > portmanager -u > > did that and this is what I am ending up with. this also is > happening with lynx-ssl as well. Try: ls /var/db/pkg and see if you have a /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 directory, if you do then you probably ran pkg_delete apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 instead of pkg_delete -f apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 If you don't have that directory, then let me know, it will cause me to install the apache ports on my system in an attempt to duplicate your problem. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
Try http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Also, try Filezilla. Ajith Singh Pietermaritzburg South Africa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Serial ATA?
On Dec 22, Peterhin launched this into the bitstream: I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year. I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE and 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with a Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will FreeBSD work.? I don't mean this in either a bad or saracstic way whatsoever, but more in the spirit of "give it a shot and see what happens"..so. Give it a shot and see what happens. You won't lose anything by taking that approach, if the RAID controller is *not* recognized you won't be able to commence an installation. Write your data to CD/DVD first, then "go for it" Honestly, I can't think of a method more certain to verify whether or not your RAID controller is supported. While you're at it, go for 5.3-RELEASE...why stop at the earlier version? There *is* mention (of course) of the Promise RAID controller at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes-i386.html#PROC and it looks sorta hopeful for you. and I quote; [snip] The ata(4) driver now supports cardbus(4) ATA/SATA controllers. A number of bugs in the ata(4) driver have been fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved. The ata(4) driver now supports the Promise command sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers (PDC203** PDC206**). Note: This also adds preliminary support for the Promise SX4/SX4000 as a ``normal'' Promise ATA controller; ATA RAID's are supported, but only RAID0, RAID1, and RAID0+1 [/snip] Good luck! and do please let us know if you were successful or not. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Dec 22 23:27:00 CET 2004 11:27PM up 6 days, 4:17, 8 users, load averages: 1.40, 1.29, 1.26 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portmanager fails installing apache
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:44:18 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:38 pm, Noah wrote: > > FreeBSD-4.9 > > portmanager-0.2.0_3 > > > > > > well I am not able to find a specific mail list for portmanager > > support. anybody got clues why portmanager is having difficulies here > > and a nice cure would be helpful? > > > Usually people with portmanager problems just email me directly, > my address is listed in the makefile ([EMAIL PROTECTED] but will > soon be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mentioning problems here > in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] is OK as I > follow both of these. > > > > --- snip --- > > > > pkg_create: can't find package 'apache-1.3.33_1' installed! > > > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make deinstall > > ===> Deinstalling for www/apache13 > > ===> apache not installed, skipping > > > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make reinstall > > ===> Installing for apache-1.3.33_1 > > > > ===> apache-1.3.33_1 conflicts with installed package(s): > > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > Well here is your problem, apache+mod_ssl-1.* > is listed under CONFLICTS in /usr/ports/www/apache13/Makefile. > Try pkg_delete -f apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 then rerun > portmanager -u did that and this is what I am ending up with. this also is happening with lynx-ssl as well. cheers, Noah > > -Mike > > > > They install files into the same place. > > Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. > > pmupgrade 0.2.0_3 error: make reinstall returned an error, cannot > > continue # pkg_info | grep apache > > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS > > functionality > > > > --- snip --- > > > > > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Vinum bootable RAID-1 setup help
Hello, I really tried my best to follow the FreeBSD handbook documentation to setup bootable RAID-1 volume, I just can't seem to understand Section 17.9.2, Iam working with 5.3 i386 Release. Attached is the output of what I have done so far. Please tell me how do I apply section 17.9.2 next. Sorry to ask such a lengthy question, but Iam contacting you after trying my utmost to follow the documentation. A quick history.I have setup FreeBSD 5.3 on HP NetServer containing two 4.26GB hotswappble Ultra2 SCSI drives. Thankyou Faisal Ali Network Engineer Kintetsu Global IT Inc. 100 Jericho Quadrangle, Suite 144 Jericho, NY 11753 #df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a253678 35414 19797015%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/da0s1e253678 6 233378 0%/tmp /dev/da0s1f 2274424 376192 171628018%/usr /dev/da0s1d253678466 232918 0%/var #bsdlabel -e /dev/da0s1 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 52428804.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 b: 2045808 524288 swap c: 83216070unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 524288 25700964.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 e: 524288 30943844.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 f: 4702935 36186724.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 #bsdlabel -e /dev/da1s1 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 52428804.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 b: 2045808 524288 swap c: 83216070unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 524288 25700964.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 e: 524288 30943844.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 f: 4702935 36186724.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # more /etc/fstab DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s1e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 #vinum vinum -> mirror -v -n root-a /dev/da0s1a /dev/da1s1a vinum -> mirror -v -n swap-b /dev/da0s1b /dev/da1s1b vinum -> mirror -v -n tmp-e /dev/da0s1e /dev/da1s1e vinum -> mirror -v -n usr-f /dev/da0s1f /dev/da1s1f vinum -> mirror -v -n var-d /dev/da0s1d /dev/da1s1d vinum -> list 10 drives: D vinumdrive0 State: up /dev/da0s1a A: 0/256 MB (0%) D vinumdrive1 State: up /dev/da1s1a A: 0/256 MB (0%) D vinumdrive2 State: up /dev/da0s1b A: 0/998 MB (0%) D vinumdrive3 State: up /dev/da1s1b A: 0/998 MB (0%) D vinumdrive4 State: up /dev/da0s1e A: 0/256 MB (0%) D vinumdrive5 State: up /dev/da1s1e A: 0/256 MB (0%) D vinumdrive6 State: up /dev/da0s1f A: 0/2296 MB (0%) D vinumdrive7 State: up /dev/da1s1f A: 0/2296 MB (0%) D vinumdrive8 State: up /dev/da0s1d A: 0/256 MB (0%) D vinumdrive9 State: up /dev/da1s1d A: 0/256 MB (0%) 5 volumes: V root-aState: up Plexes: 2 Size:255 MB V swap-bState: up Plexes: 2 Size:998 MB V tmp-e State: up Plexes: 2 Size:255 MB V usr-f State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 2296 MB V var-d State: up Plexes: 2 Size:255 MB 10 plexes: P root-a.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB P root-a.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB P swap-b.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:998 MB P swap-b.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:998 MB P tmp-e.p0C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB P tmp-e.p1C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB P usr-f.p0C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 2296 MB P usr-f.p1C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 2296 MB P var-d.p0C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB P var-d.p1C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size:255 MB 10 subdisks: S root-a.p0.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive0 Size:255 MB S root-a.p1.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive1 Size:255 MB S swap-b.p0.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive2 Size:998 MB S swap-b.p1.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive3 Size:998 MB S tmp-e.p0.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive4 Size:255 MB S tmp-e.p1.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive5 Si
Serial ATA?
I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year. I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE and 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with a Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will FreeBSD work.? Thanks. Peter "Peace is never more than one thought away" GNU/Linux Freedom http://libranet.com http://www.fsf.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
help with installing Java
I am still trying to install Java (to FreeBSD 4.8), which is needed for Tomcat. Are the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/x60.html outdated? If you follow the instructions, you cannot find the file j2sdk-1_3_1_10-linux-i386.bin at sun.com. so 1). where can I find this file? or 2). are there other instructions on the web to go a different route? thanks. Zachary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Newbie
Make sure to cc the list with replies, as it helps others who might be having similar problems, and more people can contribute to helping you. On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:09:25PM -0500, Peterhin wrote: > Hello jt > > Thanks for the info. For reference, that was the FreeBSD vs. Linux comparison: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No problem. I tend to feel the same way as the author, and that's about how I explain the differences to others. > I read the whole site as you suggested, very good info. > I do have a further question regarding, first which version I should start > with, I have done some reading and it looks like 4.10 (Please correct me if I > am wrong) Well, you should look at what hardware you need and what's supported, but for the most part I'd recommend 5.3, as it's the newest RELEASE. I've found it to be stable, and hardware support is better than in 4.10. Of course there are other considerations, but for a newbie I'd recommend the newest release based on better hardware support as a primary consideration. > Also I have a Serial ATA hard drive, (Western Digital) which I can't seem to > find in either version 4 or 5. equipment list. Do you know if it is > supported.? I'm not sure about SATA, but this subject has come up on the list many times. Check the archives, or perhaps someone else will know about your specific hardware. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VIM
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:56:18 -0500, Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have installed a VIM editor. When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything. What is wrong. Look at the tutor that comes with Vim. Try (from a shell) vimtutor. If that doesn't work try /usr/local/share/vim/vim63/tutor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:35 pm, Peter E. Antonov wrote: > http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ - FFS File System Driver for Windows > It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions > on Windows 2000/XP/2003. Anyone know whether FFS works on other Windoze flavours? (I'm going to try it on NT, soon.) Sourceforge is also the source for the FFS driver. -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
This has been posted and re-posted: If you want to view any BSD filesystem running on the same box as Windows, you can use the FFS File System Driver for Windows: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net HTH Irvin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portmanager fails installing apache
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:38 pm, Noah wrote: > FreeBSD-4.9 > portmanager-0.2.0_3 > > > well I am not able to find a specific mail list for portmanager > support. anybody got clues why portmanager is having difficulies here > and a nice cure would be helpful? > Usually people with portmanager problems just email me directly, my address is listed in the makefile ([EMAIL PROTECTED] but will soon be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mentioning problems here in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] is OK as I follow both of these. > > --- snip --- > > pkg_create: can't find package 'apache-1.3.33_1' installed! > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make deinstall > ===> Deinstalling for www/apache13 > ===> apache not installed, skipping > > cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make reinstall > ===> Installing for apache-1.3.33_1 > > ===> apache-1.3.33_1 conflicts with installed package(s): > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 Well here is your problem, apache+mod_ssl-1.* is listed under CONFLICTS in /usr/ports/www/apache13/Makefile. Try pkg_delete -f apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 then rerun portmanager -u -Mike > > They install files into the same place. > Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. > pmupgrade 0.2.0_3 error: make reinstall returned an error, cannot > continue # pkg_info | grep apache > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS > functionality > > --- snip --- > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ASterisk
All, Does anyone knows if modem generic - Ambient MD3200 - works with asterisk in freebsd 5.3 ? There is some special thing to do about it ? Thanks a lot, Giuliano ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:47 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Another option...an external hard disk formatted FAT so both could > see it? Fat limit is 2G. VFAT would be better - unless you run WinNT, in which case you are stuck with either multiple 2G FAT partitions on that external disk or NTFS which imposes other limitations. Ain't M$ clever? -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:39 am, Joshua Lokken wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0200, P. B. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I do that? > > explore2fs is for ext2/3 only. > > > > I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?) > > using Windows. > > http://us1.samba.org/samba/ > > # cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 > # make install clean > > Then you can share your FreeBSD files over Samba, and have > access to them from your Winboxen. That's fine for two separate boxes, but has no hope whatsoever is the Windoze and FBSD OSs are in the same box (perhaps even on the same drive). -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Running own servers
On Dec 22, Brian Clapper launched this into the bitstream: On 21 December, 2004, at 23:12 (-0500) RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the most popular option? Is it buying a business DSL or T1 service or is it to colocate it? All of them are pricey. :( Depending on where you are, you may have other options as well. I'm in the Philadelphia, PA, area. I have a somewhat non-standard DSL arrangement that works very well for me. Verizon supplies the wire and the DSL signal (as well as my local phone service), but I use someone else--a so-called Verizon partner ISP--as my ISP. My ISP handles all the billing, and they will give me up to 5 static IP addresses. (I currently use 2.) I provide my own forward DNS, SMTP and HTTP services. My ISP has no problem providing me with DNS PTR records for the assigned IPs; doing a "dig -x" on the address returned for my domain's MX address yields a PTR record that refers back to my domain. If, for some reason, I want to change the PTR record, I simply drop them an email; they usually take care of it within in hour or so. If I want another static IP address, the procedure and turnaround time are comparable. There *is* a small price for this extra functionality: I pay about $10-$15 more per month than if I were to go with a "native" Verizon DSL set up. I pay $44.95/month for 1.5Mbps/384Kbps ADSL. For native Verizon, a month-to-month plan is $34.95/mo, and a plan with a 1-year commitment is $29.95/month. But Verizon will not give me static IPs for that price; the extra monthly cost is worth it to me. I have had this arrangment for almost 5 years; 5 years ago, the monthly cost was higher and the bandwidth was lower. The cost and bandwidth have only improved over time. I had the same arrangement, but in the Westchester NY area. My local ISP wangled a deal to resell the Verizon SDSL offering and man but didn't they ever do one fine job. If...IF you're in or close to Westchester NY (New York City, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, and Long Island), as well as part of Connecticut (Greenwich), all of New Jersey, and eastern Massachusetts) *do* consider giving Cloud9 Internet a call. They rock(ed) back when I lived there. http://www.cloud9.net and/or (914) 696 4000. I just checked the site to be sure I gave the right number, I did...and that was from memory!! :-) Regards & Greetings from The Netherlands, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Dec 22 21:43:00 CET 2004 9:43PM up 6 days, 2:33, 7 users, load averages: 1.16, 1.36, 1.40 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
portmanager fails installing apache
FreeBSD-4.9 portmanager-0.2.0_3 well I am not able to find a specific mail list for portmanager support. anybody got clues why portmanager is having difficulies here and a nice cure would be helpful? --- snip --- pkg_create: can't find package 'apache-1.3.33_1' installed! cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make deinstall ===> Deinstalling for www/apache13 ===> apache not installed, skipping cd /usr/ports/www/apache13; make reinstall ===> Installing for apache-1.3.33_1 ===> apache-1.3.33_1 conflicts with installed package(s): apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache13. pmupgrade 0.2.0_3 error: make reinstall returned an error, cannot continue # pkg_info | grep apache apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS functionality --- snip --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
Hello, P..
You wrote 22 Dec 2004, 19:20:40:
PBS> How can I do that?
PBS> explore2fs is for ext2/3 only.
PBS> I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?) using
PBS> Windows.
http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ - FFS File System Driver for Windows
It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows
2000/XP/2003.
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Re: best newsgroup?
At 09:21 12/22/2004, Pervert Files wrote: >Hello, > >What is the best newsgroup to read freebsd question. >muc.lists.freebsd.questions doesn't seem to be updating with anything on my >news provider. > >-- >Thanks, >Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also try: http://www.Mail-Archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/ Start Here to Find It Fast! -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Some questions about Dynamic disks support in FreeBSD and about NTFS
Hello, freebsd-questions.
Whether support of the dynamic disks created in Windows XP/2000 is planned
in the near future?
And how affairs with support NTFS are?
Some links:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ - project implements
the first full read/write free access to NTFS disk drives in
GNU/Linux.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net - NTFS support in Linux
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ldm.html - some information
about Windows Dynamic Disks
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Re: Samba installation from ports over NFS
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3 > it says: > > satsmb# make install > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 - > found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - found > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: popt.0 - found ===> > samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found ===> > samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found ===> > Configuring for samba-3.0.9,1 > autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps > you are running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not > supported *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3. > > > Can I fix this without learning all autoconf caveats? > > > Best wishes, > Andrew P. You can do something like make install WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp if /tmp is on a local file system to get around the lock problem. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: unsuccessful upgrade from 4.2 to 4.10 through cvsup+make world
Zachary Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the CVSUP must have worked since the directory /usr/home/ncvs has these > files: > 325587 bytes: > > cyber# ls -l > -rw-r--r--1 root user 6355 Apr 30 2004 COPYRIGHT > -rw-r--r--1 root user 8480 Apr 16 2003 Makefile > -rw-r--r--1 root user 24190 May 25 2004 Makefile.inc1 > -rw-r--r--1 root user 9761 Aug 27 1999 Makefile.upgrade > -rw-r--r--1 root user 2699 Apr 26 2002 README > -rw-r--r--1 root user 44963 Dec 1 16:35 UPDATING > drwxr-xr-x 32 root user512 Dec 21 20:32 bin > drwxr-xr-x 46 root user 1024 Dec 21 20:44 contrib > drwxr-xr-x7 root user512 Dec 21 20:48 crypto > drwxr-xr-x 14 root user 2048 Dec 21 20:48 etc > drwxr-xr-x 41 root user 1024 Dec 21 20:49 games > drwxr-xr-x6 root user512 Dec 21 20:51 gnu > drwxr-xr-x6 root user 1536 Dec 21 20:51 include > drwxr-xr-x7 root user512 Dec 21 20:51 kerberos5 > drwxr-xr-x8 root user512 Dec 21 20:51 kerberosIV > drwxr-xr-x 57 root user 1536 Dec 21 20:54 lib > drwxr-xr-x 35 root user 1024 Dec 21 20:54 libexec > drwxr-xr-x 10 root user512 Dec 21 20:55 release > drwxr-xr-x 82 root user 1536 Dec 21 20:55 sbin > drwxr-xr-x6 root user512 Dec 21 20:55 secure > drwxr-xr-x 23 root user512 Dec 21 20:57 share > drwxr-xr-x 49 root user 1024 Dec 21 21:06 sys > drwxr-xr-x8 root user512 Dec 21 21:06 tools > drwxr-xr-x 221 root user 3584 Dec 21 21:08 usr.bin > drwxr-xr-x 157 root user 3072 Dec 21 21:10 usr.sbin > > so why were not the binary files updated? What did you actually do, what results did you expect, and what was the first place where the results you got were different? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Report Management Software
Hi, I'm looking for a program similar to send-pr and diff that can provide customized reports on critical system configuration changes. I then want to have the report emailed to a central location on my network for later review. Does anyone know of any program within the ports tree that can accomplish this task? I would like the reports processed similar to a CVS diff file if at all possible. Thanks Gardner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: rpc.lockd and statd fail to start
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:50:55PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > I got this: > > satsmb# rpc.statd > rpc.statd: svc_tli_create: could not open connection for udp6 > rpc.statd: svc_tp_create: Could not register prog 100024 vers 1 on udp > rpc.statd: cannot create udp service > satsmb# rpc.lockd > rpc.lockd: unable to register (NLM_PROG, NLM_SM, udp) Are you running rpcbind? The udp6 warning is not by itself fatal, but the fact that it can't register anything with rpcbind is. Kris pgpuNAw2TkDjS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.
Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:05AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can control the fan? I might be wrong, but I think on the 1750 you should use APM instead of ACPI. I had a 1750 running with FreeBSD 4.x and APM and it worked very well. cu, Uwe How?, I added it to my kernel "device apm", "device pmtimer", and "device amp_saver" and rebuilt it and in rc.conf I added apm_enable="YES", apmd_enable="YES" and I greped though default/loader.conf for anything but found nothing, after rebooting the only thing I get from dmesg is "WARNING: apm_saver module requires apm enabled" and when I type in apm I get "apm: can't open /dev/apm: No such file or directory", type in zzz and I get "apm: can't open /dev/apm: No such file or directory" I want ACPI!, APM is a last ditch hack to me, the name says it all "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" there is a reason they switched to it. The 440BX chipset has full support for ACPI and therefore should work with FreeBSD and is a critical problem, what do you think might happen if you disable all your fans on your computer???. Please note that I'm not trying to diss FreeBSD in anyway for it being broken as I understand the issues with the DSDT, AML, and ASL stuff, I just want it to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
rpc.lockd and statd fail to start
Hello! I got this: satsmb# rpc.statd rpc.statd: svc_tli_create: could not open connection for udp6 rpc.statd: svc_tp_create: Could not register prog 100024 vers 1 on udp rpc.statd: cannot create udp service satsmb# rpc.lockd rpc.lockd: unable to register (NLM_PROG, NLM_SM, udp) satsmb# uname -a FreeBSD satsmb.local 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Dec 22 01:59:37 MSK 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATSMBK i386 I googled and pipermailed, but there are very few references to these messages, and they are unsolved mostly. Below is my kernel config. INET6 was left out, but is it mandatory for rpc services? Both services work okay for me on FreeBSD-4.10 without INET6 compiled into kernel. machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident SATSMBK options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options INET# InterNETworking options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server options NFS_ROOT# NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition Tables. options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options SCSI_DELAY=15000# Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. device apic# I/O APIC device isa device pci device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device vga # VGA video card driver device sc device npx device miibus # MII bus support device rl # RealTek 8129/8139 device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine II # Pseudo devices. device loop# Network loopback device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device device random # Entropy device device ether # Ethernet support device tun # Packet tunnel. device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling device bpf # Berkeley packet filter # Additional options option IPFIREWALL option IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT option DUMMYNET Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600 "Bagus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The FreeBSD Handbook is a great reference: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > Yes... there's more information there than I saw on first perusal. > Thanks, but I'm not out of the woods yet. since you seem to have missed a few rather important bits of handbook on your first read, let us check one more. are you by any chance using a custom kernel? if so, please confirm that it includes 'device bpf' (which is essential for DHCP). hth, epi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
dmesg
I have a problem abaout dmesg .. whenever I said that dmesg sever give sto me some different log.. such a connetsion atteöp to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:55519 why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:18:58 +, Irvin Piraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? > > >From the manpages: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html > > WRITING > There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident > and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files > are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- > ters. Very nice! I hadn't looked into it for awhile... Thank you, Irvin :) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem with X in a laptop
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the video card is a silicon motion, but the driver doesnt work, > so i used a generic VGA. > Now im using FreeBSD 5.3 with Xorg, but before i was using > debian with XF86 and i had the same problem, but i fixed it > startingthe X server with the "-dpi 100" but this now doesnt > work. You could always try XFree86 again; that certainly worked with the SiliconMotion video chip on my old HP laptop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with tar archive
sp0ng3b0b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > freebsd_daemon wrote: > > Dear list, > > I got a tar archive (varia.tar), when I try to un-tar it I get: > > # tar xvf ./varia.tar > > ../varia/ > > tar: ../varia/: Member name contains `..' > > ../varia/bkup200401.gz > > tar: ../varia/bkup200401.gz: Member name contains `..' > > [...] > > ../varia/bkup200411.gz > > tar: ../varia/bkup200411.gz: Member name contains `..' > > tar: Error exit delay from previous error > > Is there a way to un-tar that archive despite of that? > > TIA > > zheyu > > > I had some strange tar problems with bsd tar, which is included with > 5.3-RELEASE. I would recommend installing gtar and using that > instead. By the way, if you install gtar, you just type "tar" as you > normally would. With Gnu tar *or* BSD tar, you will need a '-P' option to extract directories that contain '..'. [It's very easy to overwrite something unintentionally if this capability were available by default.] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: problem with IPFILTER
--On Wednesday, December 22, 2004 05:41:30 PM +0100 "Dott. Surricani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules and ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.rules It's very boring What I can do to automate this task? In /etc/rc.conf ipfilter_enable="YES" ipnat_enable="YES" Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
> > Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? >From the manpages: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html WRITING There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Samba installation from ports over NFS
In the last episode (Dec 22), Andrew P. said: > My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3 it > says: > > satsmb# make install > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 - found > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - found > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: popt.0 - found > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found > ===> Configuring for samba-3.0.9,1 > autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you are > running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not supported > *** Error code 1 Make sure you are running lockd and statd on client and server. In /etc/rc.conf: rpc_lockd_enable="YES" rpc_statd_enable="YES" -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Samba installation from ports over NFS
Hello! My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3 it says: satsmb# make install ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: popt.0 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found ===> Configuring for samba-3.0.9,1 autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you are running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not supported *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3. Can I fix this without learning all autoconf caveats? Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:42:43 -0500 (EST), Jim Trigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, December 22, 2004 1:30 pm, Joshua Lokken said: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600, Bagus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> > How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? > >> > >> plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one > >> outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate > >> connectivity to bsd box. > >> > >> > Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status > >> > page of the router settings show? > >> > > >> > >> That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that > >> even > >> from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a > >> ISP. > > Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is > http://192.168.0.1. [I wish I could site the exact model number] I just setup two Linksys 4-port 10/100 routers with wireless, and they were both set to 192.168.1.1 out of the box. In fact, that what's Linksys' website says, too: "When the browser window opens, go to the Address bar and type in the router's IP Address and click on the Go button (192.168.1.1 is the default IP address of Linksys Routers)." It's all in TFM ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pcmcia wireless
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:54:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello, > > i am using the 5.0 dist, and i cant get it to read my pcmcia ethernet > card. it is rather old card with a cat-5 connector on it for plugging > into my router. it is called ositech trumpcard and it is the jack of > dimonds model the card works because i tried it on the same computer > before loading freebsd and i could surf the net with it. is there a > driver avaliable for this card or should i go get a wirless one? (i > cant find any cabled ones) if i need to get a wireless one, what brand > do you recomend? i do have a wirless g router here. I don't know much about wireless technology or setting it up on FreeBSD, however, you're likely to be asked "Why 5.0? It is no longer supported, and is quite old. Have you got specific reasons for not going with 5.3, which is the production release?" So I'll just get that out of the way ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:02:42 -0500, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, P. B. S. wrote: I'm talking about 1 (one) computer! The FreeBSD partition is on the same hard disk; the 2 operating systems are not working at the same time. Samba, ftp, scp, etc. are not applicable here. That's why I mentioned explore2fs... I wanted to be clear. What about mounting the Windows partition under FBSD? Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? This I do not know...I thought there was experimental support for NTFS, but I haven't tried this. Another option...an external hard disk formatted FAT so both could see it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: SSH into FBSD after Minimal Install?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:13:07 -0600, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm re-installing FreeBSD on a machine that currently has FreeBSD on it. I'm > doing all this remotely over SSH. > > If I install with "Minimal" distribution set with "sysinstall" will I be able > to > enable SSH and add a user before the system goes down? You can do about any administrative task from sysinstall, including drop into a shell, so yes, I would think you will be able to do that. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: The FreeBSD Foundation
Thanks, Troy, for posting this. With their PayPal link, it made it effortless to donate. FreeBSD is worth a lot more to me than I donated ... but I'll just do it again and again and again ... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: best newsgroup?
Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:58 -0600, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes that worked, cool, now I can search every newsgroup with the word freebsd in it: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?&as_ugroup=*.freebsd.* http://www.google.com/bsd Yes this is a usefull tool as well but it will only let you search web pages here's this thread in google groups: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/a645030a2aba09d2/da511797e7f307ba You can clearly see that they keep it up to date :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:02:42 -0500, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, P. B. S. wrote: > > > I'm talking about 1 (one) computer! The FreeBSD partition is on the > > same hard disk; the 2 operating systems are not working at the same > > time. Samba, ftp, scp, etc. are not applicable here. > > That's why I mentioned explore2fs... I wanted to be clear. > > What about mounting the Windows partition under FBSD? Yeah, is writing to NTFS implemented now? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to get it online
On Wed, December 22, 2004 1:30 pm, Joshua Lokken said: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600, Bagus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? >> >> plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one >> outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate >> connectivity to bsd box. >> >> > Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status >> > page of the router settings show? >> > >> >> That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that >> even >> from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a >> ISP. Not if you haven't reconfigured the router; the default is http://192.168.0.1. Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Hostmaster, Huie Kin family websiteXHELP CURE HTML MAIL Verger, All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: best newsgroup?
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:58 -0600, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes that worked, cool, now I can search every newsgroup with the word > freebsd in it: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?&as_ugroup=*.freebsd.* http://www.google.com/bsd -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to get it online
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600, Bagus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >ping freebsd.org > > > ping: cannot resolve freebsd.org: Host name lookup failure. > > > Hostname lookup failure sounds like a dns problem to me. > > Is there anything in /etc/resolv.conf ? > > No, there is not even a /etc/resolve.conf. What should go in there? > >How is fxp0 assigned an IP? DHCP? > I think so. That's the way it should be. > > > If so, do you have a line like the following in /etc/rc.conf: > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" > > That line was not in there. I added it and rebooted. The boot process now > started the dhcp client, but still no actual ip address is reported in the > ifconfig. > > > > How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? > > plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one > outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate > connectivity to bsd box. > > > Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status > > page of the router settings show? > > > > That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that even > from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a > ISP. You can set fxp0 to use a static IP until you get the router working. # ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 # route add default 192.168.1.1 In /etc/rc.conf, you should have: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" You should be able to login to the Linksys admin page: http://192.168.1.1AFAIK, most of the Linksys home networking devices use a blank username and password 'admin' by default. Make sure that the DHCP server is enabled, and restart. HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: best newsgroup?
Nikolas Britton wrote: This ones easy (tho I hate there "new" style), bookmark this link to your toolbar as "BSD Search": http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?&as_ugroup=mailing.freebsd.* This will let you google all the freebsd mailing lists, in the search box you'll see "group:mailing.freebsd.*", don't delete it, you can type in front of it or after it. and note that you can change as_ugroup= to anything you want, and you know.. I've never tried it like this: *.freebsd.* hmm? Yes that worked, cool, now I can search every newsgroup with the word freebsd in it: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?&as_ugroup=*.freebsd.* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: perl.core files in almost every dir
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:52:15AM -0600, Chris Bearden wrote: > Has anybody ever seen perl.core files in a good number of the directories in > FreeBSD? I'm running 5.3. > > They are all nearly 3 megs in size. And as far as I can tell, perl runs just > fine. I'm executing scripts without any problems. > > And my messages log doesn't show anything about it, except for another > perl.core file existing in the /var/log dir as well! This can happen, when a script uses a broken perl extension module. It's not necessarily perl's fault. Try to identify the script that triggers those coredumps, then look at the extension modules used by that script. You may then want to recompile (an updated version of) the extension module, so that it matches the version of your current perl installation. Good luck. > Chris Bearden Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
