Flash drive device name difficulties.
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE.
I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive
which the system recognises when plugged in;
and I can mount and use it -- all working well.
But now I'd like to make it available to a user
or group of users through mtools. To do this I need
to change the permissions on /dev/da0s1 where the
flash drive msdos partition appears. This I can make happen
automatically using /etc/usbd.conf by adding the lines:
device RunDisk
vendor 0x0ef5
product 0x2366
attach sleep 1; /bin/chmod g+rw /dev/da[0-9]*
giving members of the operator group access.
But this changes permissions on all da[0-9] devices.
I know the man pages suggest ${DEVICENAME} to obtain the
particular device but this doesn't work here because usbd
sees the device as umass0 which doesn't appear in /dev/*.
For the moment this is the only device I have appearing
in the da* group so the problem is not immediate/urgent.
But is there some way I can extract the specific da* device
name to use in the attach statement or is there some way I can
make the flash drive always pop up at a specific da name.
I've also taken a look at devd.conf but the documentation here
seems somewhat sparse.
You consideration is appreciated,
Malcolm Kay
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Re: Help Understanding While Loop
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly...
Thus I set the following variables:
remote_pictures_dir=/multimedia/Pictures
local_pictures_dir=/tv/pictures
find_args=-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif'
Then I called the 'find' command as follows:
for original in $(/usr/bin/find $remote_pictures_dir $find_args -print)
But when I run my script, I get /usr/bin/find: invalid predicate
`-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif''.
I don't get the invalid predicate; i get nothing printed at all
(bash3 sh).
However if I don't try and
use $find_args and type the arguments in specifically, the script
runs fine.
Are you really sure about the runs fine part? Here, when the
-iname options were not surrounded by '\(' '\)', find searched
only for the last option, in this case -iname '*.gif', ignoring
all the '*.jpg' files.
I tried various combinations of quoting and escaping
those quotes but can't come up with a combination that works.
Add eval before find so that find recognizes $find_args as
separate options not one long string, and group $find_args to make
it work what you actually wanted ...
for f in $( eval find $dir \( $find_args \) -print )
do
echo $f
done
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Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host
Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net I have not noticed these before. Thanks for any help. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host]
To clarify - on my home network the server machine is named www so that is probably where the www comes from in the device names below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net G/ Original Message Subject:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:21:11 -0700 From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: questions freebsd freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net I have not noticed these before. Thanks for any help. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of my reading in books and online does suggest straying from the default when configuring mail and web servers (for example). I do understand the importance of following standards, and that's why I'm asking for feedback from this list. Teo Special partitioning is only really needed on production servers, where you need all performance you can get. Your box sounds like not a very critical one. I bet you'll spend more time configuring it to the max than it'll ever save you because of that. Now, if you really think 20G is a proper size for web, mail, spools and logs - just set your var to 20G. No need to mess with any other stuff. That's my $.02. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)
On 10/16/05, Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Honestly guys, what is this thread about?
Hum, understanding something?
You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or
smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from the
command-line.
See above.
I don't mean to bother anyone if you're
having fun, but it just seems that portupgrade's manpage
covers it all.
Ha, I knew a manpage guy would come around sooner or later. Don't
you think I read it already? I have questions it does not cover.
If you're not sure - just try it. If something's
strange - see if it's a bug, and if you're sure it is - send-pr.
I can use all the switches if I want. The entire alphabet soup.
But that won't help me understand what is happening. I am not
satisfied with not seeing something strange.
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Yeah, right. Maybe we could get together some time
and understand what's happening over a cup of tea.
Anyway. I don't know ruby at all. In fact, I don't know
any programming language very well at all.
% more `which portupgrade`
search for -a, -r and -R
opts.def_option(-a, --all,
Do with all the installed packages) {
|$all|
$recursive = false
$upward_recursive = false
}
opts.def_option(-r, --recursive,
Do with all those depending on the given
packages NEXTLINE
as well) {
$recursive = true unless $all
}
opts.def_option(-R, --upward-recursive,
Do with all those required by the given packages
NEXTLINE
as well / Fetch recursively if -F is specified) {
$upward_recursive = true unless $all
$fetch_recursive = true
}
Fortunately, my somewhat basic English allows me
to understand it. Now what part of that is not covered
by the manpage?
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Re: kldload snd_driver locks up 5.4-STABLE
On 10/16/05, Annelise Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5.4-STABLE on a Dell Optiplex GX620, there's an Integrated AC97 Audio. dmesg says: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 30.2 (no driver attached) If I try to load sound drivers with kldload, the machine locks up entirely and a reset is required. Perhaps the solution is just to not do that, but if anyone knows anything about this, I'd be interested. Annelise ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you try to compile it in your kernel? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing the region code of DVD-Drive
Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:21:00 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Wrote these words of wisdom: On 10/16/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packages, and install the full xorg port. After all that, I got more dependency errors: 'Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 -- imake-4.3.0_1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.' 'pkgdb -O' returned an invalid option error, and 'pkgdb -o aalib-1.4.r5_1' returned 'graphics/aalib'. I then ran 'pkgdb -F' to try and fix this (and many, many other) stale dependencies, but the error I got when trying to run portupgrade afterward simply changed the stale dependency error to ' aalib-1.4.r5_1 -- XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6'. How does one get around these dependency errors without destroying a system? Any good resources on dealing with this? I keep reading that I should just run 'pkgdb -F' but that only gets one so far. Thanks, ~John If you don't have a whole free week, consider deinstalling every port on your system (with pkg_deinstall preferably), installing cvsup, updating your ports tree, installing portupgrade, and portinstalling all the ports you really need. That should only take a couple of days :-) * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: I certainly hope that this is not a production machine. Taking the system out of service for a few days would certainly suck. Personally, I have run into this dependency problem before, and have just learned to ignore it. Eventually, it just seems to go away. Since I started using portmanager instead of portupgrade, I have been able to just ignore these problems. IMHO, this entire dependency problem is something that needs serious work. It would seem that there has to be a better way to keep these dependencies synchronized without user intervention. Just my 2¢. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root mail is pointing to one user account..?(sendmail)
Hi people. Freebsd 5.4-p8 tag RELENG_5_4 I need some help, the problem is that for some reason that i still dont know, my root mail account is pointing to another user, is to wear, that i really dont know how this happend, i check the /etc/mail/ files and dosnt see any thing wrong, i have 2 user working, root and another call klabaza(wheel group), to access the system i use klabaza and them su to get root account. Today i made the buildworld process, after everything was complete without any problems, i see one message on my /var/log/maillog saying that my aliases.db was out of day the i run the newaliases program but give some errors because i was having the mount point / ro(read only) them i change / to rw, and again execute the program newaliases, and everything was good, before this, root could send mail, after i run newaliases, change some files propierties because this machine is one firewall, i execute the command mail and appear this message: samantha#mail /var/mail/klabaza Is the inbox of the other user, them i check my .cshrc file: alias h history 25 alias j jobs -l alias lals -a alias lfls -FA alias llls -lA alias loll -o alias cls clear alias apagarshutdown -r now # A righteous umask umask 22 set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin) setenv EDITOR ee setenv PAGER less setenv BLOCKSIZE K setenv CLICOLOR if ($?prompt) then # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up set prompt = `/bin/hostname -s`# set filec set history = 100 set savehist = 100 set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) if ( $?tcsh ) then bindkey ^W backward-delete-word bindkey -k up history-search-backward bindkey -k down history-search-forward endif endif *** Them i check my vars with set command and found this: samantha# set addsuffix argv() cwd /root dirstack/root echo_style bsd edit filec gid 0 group klabaza history 100 home/root killring30 mail/var/mail/klabaza owd /home/klabaza path(/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /root/bin) prompt samantha# prompt2 %R? prompt3 CORRECT%R (y|n|e|a)? savehist100 shell /bin/csh shlvl 2 status 0 tcsh6.13.00 termxterm tty ttyp0 uid 0 userklabaza version tcsh 6.13.00 (Astron) 2004-05-19 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) options 8b,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,dspm,filec There i found that mail is pointing to the other user...why..?, Ok, if i echo $USER with the root shell appear this: samantha#echo $USER klabaza I think this is normal because i am using su to get root access, i amd right...? ok, them i decide to change my .cshrc file and change manually mail and MAIL var, ok this fix the set problem, but not my problem, because even if now i exec the mail command, and send some mail with root account, look this header: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 16 03:24:39 2005 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from samantha.MBX.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by samantha.MBX.local (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9GAOd6J001138 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by samantha.MBX.local (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j9GAOYAH001137 for klabaza; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klabaza) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:24:34 -0700 (PDT) From: User Klabaza moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test root. body: must be root acount. ** The first line say is the user klabaza and the mail was with the root account, i receive this mail on the root and klabaza account, i am receiving the cron mails to the root account, and this appear on some maillog lines: to=localuser, ctladdr=root (26/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=40422, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown The localuser dosnt exits, i only change the /etc/mail/aliases line: # Pretty much everything else in this file points to root, so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here. root: localuser, [EMAIL PROTECTED]-Only this line # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster postmaster: root *** I still dont know how to fix this problem, any advised i will apreciated, thanks all for your time.
Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
Hi,
I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4.
I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to
be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux
box.
How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm.
What is the alternative on FreeBSD
I dont want the server, I just wnat to monito my
FreeBSD 5.4 host.
Thanx for any help..
Cheers,
Deepak Naidu.
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Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max
Thanx very much Andrew... Cheers, Deepak Naidu. --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx Andrew, Could u provide some details, where can I obtain 6.0, stable or what ever the updated release is there for 6.0. The exact ISO download location. Bcos, I am always confused which one of 6.0 is perfect or good. If at all I am upgrading, how should I do. Thanx again for the feedback. Can I use Raisefs/XFS in Read and Write mode in 6.0 I know I am asking for more. I see that you live in India. Unfortunately, there are no good mirrors there that I know about. You can try to download 6.0-RC1 image from our central ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.0/6.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso But if the box is directly connected to the Internet (even via slow/lossy link), you'd better cvsup to the latest source tree and rebuild world/kernel. The update from 5.4 to 6.0 is painless. 6.0 has read-only support for ReiserFS partitions, there's an effort to provide XFS support also, but it's far from complete yet. For most applications, UFS2 is as good (fast, reliable, feature-rich) as it gets. You can learn how to upgrade your system to 6.0 by reading this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html post to this list in case of trouble, but choose a new subj line. Good luck, Andrew P. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disabling Hyperthreading...
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on Dell PowerEdge 1750, which has Xeon processors. I have recompiled the kernel with SMP support(should I add any option in Kernelconf file to disable it) When using top command I c 0123, processor it seems hyper threading is enabled. How do I disable it, or is it diabled Thanx for any advise. Cheers, Deepak Naidu. ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote Console
Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. 1 NIC on each connected to SWITCH - VLAN 1 -WAN (Many different IP's). 1 NIC on each connected to SWITH - VLAN 2 -LAN (192.168.0/24) Each Server has 2 Serial ports, unused. Each Server has 2 USB ports, unused. All servers running FreebSD 2 Running 4.10 1 Running 5.2.1 1 Running 5.4 1 Running 4.4 (Slave3 Nameserver only). I am ~ 120 miles from the server cage these are located in. So traveling to there is a real pain. I have been reading everything I can find on consoles, ttys, blackboxes, Lantronix serial cables etc, etc ,etc ,etc ... What I am looking to do, is to connect all the servers to a device, or, daisychain them together so that even if I reboot a broken machine, I can still get to a boot ? prompt, not to mention single user mode and normal ssh shell prompt. (of course I already have the latter through IP when the machine boots correctly. So my question is, can a machine be made to still be remotely accessable (any method), when file systems are not mounted, or, kernel not loaded? If so, using what setup? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
localepurge for FreeBSD?
Hi, Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run into many megabytes. Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? Thanks, Deepak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. 1 NIC on each connected to SWITCH - VLAN 1 -WAN (Many different IP's). 1 NIC on each connected to SWITH - VLAN 2 -LAN (192.168.0/24) Each Server has 2 Serial ports, unused. Each Server has 2 USB ports, unused. All servers running FreebSD 2 Running 4.10 1 Running 5.2.1 1 Running 5.4 1 Running 4.4 (Slave3 Nameserver only). I am ~ 120 miles from the server cage these are located in. So traveling to there is a real pain. I have been reading everything I can find on consoles, ttys, blackboxes, Lantronix serial cables etc, etc ,etc ,etc ... What I am looking to do, is to connect all the servers to a device, or, daisychain them together so that even if I reboot a broken machine, I can still get to a boot ? prompt, not to mention single user mode and normal ssh shell prompt. (of course I already have the latter through IP when the machine boots correctly. So my question is, can a machine be made to still be remotely accessable (any method), when file systems are not mounted, or, kernel not loaded? If so, using what setup? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, you should check with your servers' specs. Many vendors include basic LOM (Lights-out- management) support in their boxes. If they do, you should turn it on in the BIOS - and it will redirect all text-based screen output and keyboard input to a COM port. If all goes right, you'll be able to even edit your BIOS settings remotely. Secondly, you can place console comsonsole line in /boot/loader.conf. That should allow you to access that boot ? prompt. Thirdly (preferred method for servers without good LOM) - you can buy a 3d-party LOM, available in a dozen of forms, from PCI and what not cards to KVM-over-IP solutions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
su command PPP
Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? 2.When i run gdm,i can't use su command.When i use this command,i recieve following text : su : sorrry! Please guide me... Yours,Mohsen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN Same, using seperate nics on Servers and Switch) ISP's router | My Switch | || | | Serv1Serv2Serv3 Serv4 Serv5 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1Serial2 Serial1--Serial2 Can more than 1 console access type be specified in loader.conf ? i.e. console='serialconsole' console='videoconsole' When using 'serial console, does anything have to be specified to use serial 2? What is the default local console, how is it specified? i.e. the one you use when you plug a keyboard and monitor directly into the machine? Would I need to install any other software other than the client (CU)? -GRant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:32 AM Subject: Re: Remote Console On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. 1 NIC on each connected to SWITCH - VLAN 1 -WAN (Many different IP's). 1 NIC on each connected to SWITH - VLAN 2 -LAN (192.168.0/24) Each Server has 2 Serial ports, unused. Each Server has 2 USB ports, unused. All servers running FreebSD 2 Running 4.10 1 Running 5.2.1 1 Running 5.4 1 Running 4.4 (Slave3 Nameserver only). I am ~ 120 miles from the server cage these are located in. So traveling to there is a real pain. I have been reading everything I can find on consoles, ttys, blackboxes, Lantronix serial cables etc, etc ,etc ,etc ... What I am looking to do, is to connect all the servers to a device, or, daisychain them together so that even if I reboot a broken machine, I can still get to a boot ? prompt, not to mention single user mode and normal ssh shell prompt. (of course I already have the latter through IP when the machine boots correctly. So my question is, can a machine be made to still be remotely accessable (any method), when file systems are not mounted, or, kernel not loaded? If so, using what setup? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, you should check with your servers' specs. Many vendors include basic LOM (Lights-out- management) support in their boxes. If they do, you should turn it on in the BIOS - and it will redirect all text-based screen output and keyboard input to a COM port. If all goes right, you'll be able to even edit your BIOS settings remotely. Secondly, you can place console comsonsole line in /boot/loader.conf. That should allow you to access that boot ? prompt. Thirdly (preferred method for servers without good LOM) - you can buy a 3d-party LOM, available in a dozen of forms, from PCI and what not cards to KVM-over-IP solutions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su command PPP
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:28 am, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? 2.When i run gdm,i can't use su command.When i use this command,i recieve following text : su : sorrry! This is the normal response to a user who does not have access to the wheel group. To su to root you need to belong to this group. Add your user login name to the wheel:*:0: line in /etc/group. Malcolm Kay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN Same, using seperate nics on Servers and Switch) ISP's router | My Switch | || | | Serv1Serv2Serv3 Serv4 Serv5 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1Serial2 Serial1--Serial2 Can more than 1 console access type be specified in loader.conf ? i.e. console='serialconsole' console='videoconsole' When using 'serial console, does anything have to be specified to use serial 2? What is the default local console, how is it specified? i.e. the one you use when you plug a keyboard and monitor directly into the machine? Would I need to install any other software other than the client (CU)? -GRant I haven't configured comconsoles myself, I just happen to work at a place where they are used heavily (Sun ALOM mostly, but built-in LOMs and FreeBSD software comsonsoles also). Please consult the Handbook and google, I'm sure there's nothing difficult to it. I would not support your chaining idea, though. It's the only one that requires $0.00 budget, but COM hubs are cheap today. If you rent rackspace, I'm sure your colocation provider can offer you some kind of non-expensive remote management. If rackspace is free, consider buying some hardware (like a COM hub). The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su command PPP
On 11/5/05, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? Make sure device tun in your kernel, use /usr/sbin/ppp, not /usr/sbin/pppd. /etc/ppp/ppp.conf - is ppp's config file man ppp describes ppp and ppp.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: Part Size / 10G - for both the / and /usr files (swap) 2G /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /home 50G - for all user files /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome. Teo Keep / small, around 200MB, and split user from this. You'll understand why as soon as something nasty happens while you're writing to /usr and the machine falls over. You can still boot because / is mainly static. put 10-20 gigs in usr. When you build ports, they use space in /usr (by default. You can change this) which is why I say 20 gigs. 256M in /tmp is fine /var you want to be quite big if you're running a production server or a mysql box, because db files and logs and mail etc. go to /var by default. I find it easier to make /var big than create symlinks or modify where things go. Splitting /var and /var/mail is a good idea because if /var fills up with logs then you'll still receive mail. For the same reason its a good idea to make /var/db/mysql separate as well. The problem you run into there is say you've put 10 gigs for each and you have 3 gigs of logs, 5 gigs of mail and need 12 gigs for your database, then you loose the flexibility. I put my web pages in /usr/local/www/virtual/ so that comes under /usr. You may want to put 90 gigs straight into /home and then setup quota's so your users don't use up your disk space. My 2 cents. -John -- John Oxley Systems Administrator Yo!Africa E-Mail: john at yoafrica.com Tel: +263 4 858404 echo '9k[l:l;ss=0lx]s[1+ldd*l=d*-l;+dsrl=2**l:+ds=d*rd*+4-d15] s[q]s-[d77/3*2-s;47lx-P1+d78`]s`0[d23/.5-3*s:0l`xr10P1+d24$]ds$x'|dc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
Thanks again Andrew, I will do a search on COM Hubs and see whats out there. I assume, the HUB would connect to one controll terminal, then to each COM port on the servers. I have been reading (pouring over and over) the man and handbook pages to see if more than one console can be specified at a time. If all goes well, it looks like we should be able to do anything from the serial port, short of physicaly pushing the power button! -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:44 AM Subject: Re: Remote Console On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN Same, using seperate nics on Servers and Switch) ISP's router | My Switch | || | | Serv1Serv2Serv3 Serv4 Serv5 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1Serial2 Serial1--Serial2 Can more than 1 console access type be specified in loader.conf ? i.e. console='serialconsole' console='videoconsole' When using 'serial console, does anything have to be specified to use serial 2? What is the default local console, how is it specified? i.e. the one you use when you plug a keyboard and monitor directly into the machine? Would I need to install any other software other than the client (CU)? -GRant I haven't configured comconsoles myself, I just happen to work at a place where they are used heavily (Sun ALOM mostly, but built-in LOMs and FreeBSD software comsonsoles also). Please consult the Handbook and google, I'm sure there's nothing difficult to it. I would not support your chaining idea, though. It's the only one that requires $0.00 budget, but COM hubs are cheap today. If you rent rackspace, I'm sure your colocation provider can offer you some kind of non-expensive remote management. If rackspace is free, consider buying some hardware (like a COM hub). The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:44 AM Subject: Re: Remote Console On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN Same, using seperate nics on Servers and Switch) ISP's router | My Switch | || | | Serv1Serv2Serv3 Serv4 Serv5 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1Serial2 Serial1--Serial2 Can more than 1 console access type be specified in loader.conf ? i.e. console='serialconsole' console='videoconsole' When using 'serial console, does anything have to be specified to use serial 2? What is the default local console, how is it specified? i.e. the one you use when you plug a keyboard and monitor directly into the machine? Would I need to install any other software other than the client (CU)? -GRant I haven't configured comconsoles myself, I just happen to work at a place where they are used heavily (Sun ALOM mostly, but built-in LOMs and FreeBSD software comsonsoles also). Please consult the Handbook and google, I'm sure there's nothing difficult to it. I would not support your chaining idea, though. It's the only one that requires $0.00 budget, but COM hubs are cheap today. If you rent rackspace, I'm sure your colocation provider can offer you some kind of non-expensive remote management. If rackspace is free, consider buying some hardware (like a COM hub). The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] X+mga frustration
Sorry for the littering but I am so frustrated trying to make a Matrox G550 work with DVI output. The G550 has dual head capability and both the VGA and the DVI output works from the console, but only VGA from X. Tried 4.11, 6.0-RC1 with both Xfree86-4 and xorg. If there is anyone out there who successfully configured this card to use DVI only output under X please, please, how did you do it? Thanks, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.wma music files
im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma -- John Oxley Systems Administrator Yo!Africa E-Mail: john at yoafrica.com Tel: +263 4 858404 echo '9k[l:l;ss=0lx]s[1+ldd*l=d*-l;+dsrl=2**l:+ds=d*rd*+4-d15] s[q]s-[d77/3*2-s;47lx-P1+d78`]s`0[d23/.5-3*s:0l`xr10P1+d24$]ds$x'|dc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:16 am, John Oxley wrote: /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma thanks. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
Based on recommendations here is how I'm going to partition the two FreeBSD servers that I'm installing in my lab. mail, print, web, and file server Part Size / 200M /usr 15G - Ports live in usr /tmp 256M (swap) 2G - paging file /var 10G - print spool, db files, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /www 5G - Web server - I'm going to have a lot of content /home 50G - for all user files *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition Firewall/Router Part Size / 200M /tmp 256M /usr 7G swap 512M /var 2G On 10/16/05, John Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: Part Size / 10G - for both the / and /usr files (swap) 2G /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /home 50G - for all user files /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome. Teo Keep / small, around 200MB, and split user from this. You'll understand why as soon as something nasty happens while you're writing to /usr and the machine falls over. You can still boot because / is mainly static. put 10-20 gigs in usr. When you build ports, they use space in /usr (by default. You can change this) which is why I say 20 gigs. 256M in /tmp is fine /var you want to be quite big if you're running a production server or a mysql box, because db files and logs and mail etc. go to /var by default. I find it easier to make /var big than create symlinks or modify where things go. Splitting /var and /var/mail is a good idea because if /var fills up with logs then you'll still receive mail. For the same reason its a good idea to make /var/db/mysql separate as well. The problem you run into there is say you've put 10 gigs for each and you have 3 gigs of logs, 5 gigs of mail and need 12 gigs for your database, then you loose the flexibility. I put my web pages in /usr/local/www/virtual/ so that comes under /usr. You may want to put 90 gigs straight into /home and then setup quota's so your users don't use up your disk space. My 2 cents. -John -- John Oxley Systems Administrator Yo!Africa E-Mail: john at yoafrica.com http://yoafrica.com Tel: +263 4 858404 echo '9k[l:l;ss=0lx]s[1+ldd*l=d*-l;+dsrl=2**l:+ds=d*rd*+4-d15] s[q]s-[d77/3*2-s;47lx-P1+d78`]s`0[d23/.5-3*s:0l`xr10P1+d24$]ds$x'|dc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)
Andrew P. wrote:
On 10/16/05, Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Honestly guys, what is this thread about?
Hum, understanding something?
You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or
smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from the
command-line.
See above.
I don't mean to bother anyone if you're
having fun, but it just seems that portupgrade's manpage
covers it all.
Ha, I knew a manpage guy would come around sooner or later. Don't
you think I read it already? I have questions it does not cover.
If you're not sure - just try it. If something's
strange - see if it's a bug, and if you're sure it is - send-pr.
I can use all the switches if I want. The entire alphabet soup.
But that won't help me understand what is happening. I am not
satisfied with not seeing something strange.
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Yeah, right. Maybe we could get together some time
and understand what's happening over a cup of tea.
Anyway. I don't know ruby at all. In fact, I don't know
any programming language very well at all.
% more `which portupgrade`
search for -a, -r and -R
opts.def_option(-a, --all,
Do with all the installed packages) {
|$all|
$recursive = false
$upward_recursive = false
}
opts.def_option(-r, --recursive,
Do with all those depending on the given
packages NEXTLINE
as well) {
$recursive = true unless $all
}
opts.def_option(-R, --upward-recursive,
Do with all those required by the given packages
NEXTLINE
as well / Fetch recursively if -F is specified) {
$upward_recursive = true unless $all
$fetch_recursive = true
}
Fortunately, my somewhat basic English allows me
to understand it. Now what part of that is not covered
by the manpage?
Look at it again. Unless I'm completely off, -a and -r are mutually
exclusive. All sets $all and sets $recurse to false. -r only sets
$recurse if $all is not set. So if -a is specified you'll never get a
recurse. So the original question still stands - why use -r when you've
used -a?
Later,
Micah
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Re: [OT] X+mga frustration
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:39:03 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is anyone out there who successfully configured this card to use DVI only output under X please, please, how did you do it? Port: mga_hal-4.1 Path: /usr/ports/x11-servers/mga_hal Info: Module for additional features with X.Org/XFree86 Matrox driver You need this for DVI, DualHead and such things installed and loaded. Works fine with my G450-DVI and Xorg. Joerg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like John Oxley composed: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended partitioning
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Teo De Las Heras composed: Based on recommendations here is how I'm going to partition the two FreeBSD servers that I'm installing in my lab. mail, print, web, and file server Part Size / 200M /usr 15G - Ports live in usr /tmp 256M (swap) 2G - paging file /var 10G - print spool, db files, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /www 5G - Web server - I'm going to have a lot of content /home 50G - for all user files *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition Firewall/Router Part Size / 200M /tmp 256M /usr 7G swap 512M /var 2G humbly_snipped I found this to be an interesting read on all FreeBSD boxes man hier -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord vs. burncd
Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat some of my media space since it wasn't able to record a 62 minutes CD with a 80 minutes media. I've been trying to use cdrecord too, but since I can't discover how to use de correct bus (look at the output of '#cdrecord -scanbus' right below), I couldn't test it yet!!! Do I have to include a special module to kernel in order to use cdrecord?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J\urg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Open of /dev/xpt0 failed. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord vs. burncd
El día Sunday, October 16, 2005 a las 03:03:56PM -0200, Frederico Franzosi escribió: Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat some of my media space since it wasn't able to record a 62 minutes CD with a 80 minutes media. I've been trying to use cdrecord too, but since I can't discover how to use de correct bus (look at the output of '#cdrecord -scanbus' right below), I couldn't test it yet!!! Do I have to include a special module to kernel in order to use cdrecord?? When I went from SuSE Linux to FreeBSD I got this page as a hint (and it worked for me): http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g / D-82041 Oberhaching Fon: ++49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile ++49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Preferred softphone for Asterisk ...
I was just wondering which (free) soft-phones were available on FreeBSD I can use to play around with my asterisk setup. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] X+mga frustration
You need this for DVI, DualHead and such things installed and loaded. Works fine with my G450-DVI and Xorg. fixed it. Thanks a lot! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade: what must I fix in this pkgtools.conf entry?
I've been aware of pkgtools.conf but hadn't buckled down to suss out the syntax
prior to recently. Thanks to Dru Lavigne's excellent article at onlamp.com, I'm
working on my first attempt at setting make variables in pkgtools.conf.
First, is there something I've specified incorrectly in my pkgtools.conf
(below)?
More generally, I haven't found anything in the portupgrade man page that would
describe a switch that would cause portupgrade to output an indication of what
configuration information it might have parsed from pkgtools.conf, that would
help me figure out (sooner in the build process) whether portupgrade is parsing
my pkgtools.conf successfully. Is there some way to make portupgrade be verbose
about what actions it is taking based on pkgtools.conf directives?
Here is the MAKE_ARGS section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
MAKE_ARGS = {
'graphics/ImageMagick-*' = 'WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_TTF=1
WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PDF=1 WITHOUT_X11=1 WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL=1',
}
According to my reading of the Makefile, eliminating TTF and PDF support ought
to
be sufficient to eliminate the need for ghostscript, but still, portupgrade -N
ImageMagick wants to build ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 as a dependency.
ns : 22:41:38 /root# ls -l /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 13872 Oct 15 21:42 /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
ns : 22:41:45 /root# grep -1 Magick /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
MAKE_ARGS = {
'graphics/ImageMagick-*' = 'WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_TTF=1
WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PDF=1 WITHOUT_X11=1 WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL=1',
}
Everything else in pkgtools.conf is stock:
ns : 22:47:01 /root# diff /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
310a311
'graphics/ImageMagick-*' = 'WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_TTF=1
WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PDF=1 WITHOUT_X11=1 WITHOUT_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL=1',
After completing a CVS update of my ports tree at 23:08 PDT 10/15/05,
portupgrade shows all the rest of my ports are up to date.
All of this is on 5.4-STABLE circa 10/1/05.
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Re: Help Understanding While Loop
On 10/15/2005 11:33 PM Parv wrote:
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly...
Thus I set the following variables:
remote_pictures_dir=/multimedia/Pictures
local_pictures_dir=/tv/pictures
find_args=-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif'
Then I called the 'find' command as follows:
for original in $(/usr/bin/find $remote_pictures_dir $find_args -print)
But when I run my script, I get /usr/bin/find: invalid predicate
`-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif''.
I don't get the invalid predicate; i get nothing printed at all
(bash3 sh).
However if I don't try and
use $find_args and type the arguments in specifically, the script
runs fine.
Are you really sure about the runs fine part? Here, when the
-iname options were not surrounded by '\(' '\)', find searched
only for the last option, in this case -iname '*.gif', ignoring
all the '*.jpg' files.
I thought I was but then after continuing to play around with it I
noticed the phenomena you describe above. That's when I added the '\('
as you mention. Good catch!
I tried various combinations of quoting and escaping
those quotes but can't come up with a combination that works.
Add eval before find so that find recognizes $find_args as
separate options not one long string, and group $find_args to make
it work what you actually wanted ...
for f in $( eval find $dir \( $find_args \) -print )
do
echo $f
done
Thank you very much!!! This works great.
Drew
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Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
Hi,
Deepak Naidu wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4.
I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to
be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux
box.
How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm.
What is the alternative on FreeBSD
I dont want the server, I just wnat to monito my
FreeBSD 5.4 host.
Thanx for any help..
Cheers,
Deepak Naidu.
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Im not sure but I did a cd /usr/ports make search key=nagios and
found a bunch of information.
My best bet is to check out nagios-statd in ports. The full path is
/usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd.
Best Regards Mattias Björk
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Re: .wma music files
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Understanding While Loop
On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/14/2005 3:24 PM David Kirchner wrote: On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I want to keep track of how many times the loop executes. Thus I included this line between the 'while read' and 'done' statements: count = $(( count + 1 )) I've tested this by adding an 'echo $count' statement in the loop and it increments by one each time the loop runs. However when I attempt to call $count in an 'echo' statement after the 'done', the variable is null. Thus I assume that $count is only local to the loop and I have to export it to make it available outside the loop? What must I do? Oh yeah, that's another side effect of using the while read method. Because it's | while read it's starting a subshell, so any variables are only going to exist there. You'd need to have some sort of 'echo' within the while read, and then | wc -l at the end of the while loop, or something along those lines. The IFS method someone else mentioned, in regards to 'for' loops, would probably be better all around. So you'd want: OLDIFS=$IFS # Note this is a single quote, return, single quote, no spaces IFS=' ' for i in `find etc` do done IFS=$OLDIFS OK, I've tried this and it does fix the count problem. However it messes up another part of the script and I'm trying understand why. I tried to make this script dynamic in that all I would need to do is edit variables set at the top and then not have to worry about all occurrences in the script. Thus I set the following variables: remote_pictures_dir=/multimedia/Pictures local_pictures_dir=/tv/pictures find_args=-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif' Then I called the 'find' command as follows: for original in $(/usr/bin/find $remote_pictures_dir $find_args - print) But when I run my script, I get /usr/bin/find: invalid predicate `- iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif''. However if I don't try and use $find_args and type the arguments in specifically, the script runs fine. I tried various combinations of quoting and escaping those quotes but can't come up with a combination that works. What is going on? And is there some way to set verbosity so I can see how the shell is expanding the variables? Thanks much, Drew IIRC, you can do that be appending a '-x' after #!/bin/sh. Your first line would look like this: #!/bin/sh -x This will result in the script echoing all of the commands as they're executed. As far as the count problem, try declaring the variable before the while loop. For example: doit = 0 count = 0 while [ $doit -lt 4 ] do count=$[$count+1] doit=$[$doit+1] done echo $count HTH ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord vs. burncd
On 10/16/05, Frederico Franzosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat some of my media space since it wasn't able to record a 62 minutes CD with a 80 minutes media. I've been trying to use cdrecord too, but since I can't discover how to use de correct bus (look at the output of '#cdrecord -scanbus' right below), I couldn't test it yet!!! Do I have to include a special module to kernel in order to use cdrecord?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J\urg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Open of /dev/xpt0 failed. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also use cdrdao, and I like it much. It works via ATA (acd) as well as atapicam (cd). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
On 10/16/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat64% grep ARCH /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma/Makefile ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4
Thanx Mattias I will give it a try and see.
Cheers,
Deepak Naidu
Mattias Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Deepak Naidu wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4.
I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to
be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux
box.
How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm.
What is the alternative on FreeBSD
I dont want the server, I just wnat to monito my
FreeBSD 5.4 host.
Thanx for any help..
Cheers,
Deepak Naidu.
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Im not sure but I did a cd /usr/ports make search key=nagios and
found a bunch of information.
My best bet is to check out nagios-statd in ports. The full path is
/usr/ports/sysutils/nagios-statd.
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Re: 6.0 release date and stability
On 16 Oct Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Sunday, 16. October 2005 18:34, Ronald Klop wrote: There are a couple of options: 1. Do not remove old (5.4) libraries. All 5.4 libs wil still be found. 2. Remove old libraries and install ports/misc/compat5x. All 5.4 lib wil still be found. 1. and 2. are not an option if you plan on eventually compiling new ports after the upgrade - you will most certainly get mixed linkage, which will result in runtime errors. Compat5x should only be used for leaf-ports (i.e, applications and libraries which aren't linked to anything else) - for example software that is distributed as dynamically linked binaries only. Option 4 is certainly the safest thing to do (and you could just upgrade from binary packages instead of recompiling). OK, you're right. Portupgrade -afPP should do the trick. One question after reading the answers: how do I get rid of the *old* 5.4-libraries? Since they are kind of a threat to the new 6.0 system. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote N Deepak thusly... Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. I assume the user in this context is root? The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run into many megabytes. I (may) like it. One question: in a remote chance if one wants to convert/translate text from one locale to another, will that conversion work (via iconv its ilk) devoid of the locale definitions? - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card.
Dear Folks, I had a Mandrake + WinXP dual boot system but somehow was not satisfied with Mandrake distro, though it was really cool, still I was not happy. So when I saw the FreeBSD 6.0 RC1, I thought I will go for it. Right from the installation, I started anticipating the difficulties which were going to come. First the FDISK thing I could not comprehend much, it was easier with Mandrake to partition the hard disk. I feel the F1 keys doesn't give a very comprehensible help and the sysintall interface is cumbersome. Anyways reading some excellent documents on FreeBSD available on the net and my intuition, I could manage the installation. I was not much comfirtable ticking all the programs using ALL package choice, I feel there should be one check box for INSTALL EVERYTHING. Also repeated changing of installation CDs was a cumbersome process (I had to alternate between 2 CD's 10 times) and it gave one error for Scren Saver installaton. But it was worth it and now I have FreeBSD and WinXP with FreeBSD bootloader installed at MBR :). After booting, to enable my sound card, I had to go to /boot/defaults/loader.conf and replace NO with YES at the snd_drv_ich using VI and card worked like magic. The comment in loader.conf file were pretty cool and thus I could figure it myself. Now my problem is that I am not able to install my Wireless Card ( WN825G Motorola ). I tried windows driver with ndisgen tool, but it didn't work. Neither ndiswrapper is getting installed. I also have some problem with java installation, but hopefully I will be able to solve it myself with the help of internet. Kindly help me regarding the wireless card thing, Regards, Animesh __The Answer Lies in Genome__ Dr. Animesh Sharma Computational Biologist http://fuzzylife.org/aboutme.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pptpclient problem
No. I _wasted_ so much time trying to figure this out... I have given up for the time being. (I use my iBook). On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Mike Vidal wrote: Did you ever get pptp working? I'm having the same issue I think. Gunter Wambaugh wrote: I am having trouble connecting to my work VPN from my freebsd box. I seem to be authenticating okay, but I can't ping/ssh any of the boxes at work using hostnames or ips. I have been able to connect from by ibook (Running OSX Tiger), so I am confident that its not a router/ firewall or credentials issue. Could someone please, please throw me a bone? My Gentoo friends are starting to laugh at me because they got it working with no problems. The VPN server is using MPPE and MPPC. My ppp.conf with some changes to protect the lame: WORK: set authname gwambau set authkey SNIPPED set timeout 0 set ifaddr 0 0 add 192.168.2.0/24 HISADDR alias enable yes disable ipv6cp pptp WORK.COM WORK ifconfig: tun1: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.230 -- 192.168.2.6 netmask 0x leLast login: Thu Sep 8 20:45:21 on ttyp2 Welcome to Darwin! s$ ssh isengard.six-two.net less pptp.txt Enter passphrase for key '/Users/gunter/.ssh/id_dsa': [ppp.conf] lifeway: set authname gwambau set authkey SNIPPED set timeout 0 set ifaddr 0 0 add 192.168.2.0/24 HISADDR alias enable yes disable ipv6cp [pptp] pptp WORK.COM WORK [ifconfig] tun1: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.230 -- 192.168.2.6 netmask 0x [daemon.log] Sep 10 11:50:18 isengard pptp[929]: anon log[main:pptp.c:243]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated Sep 10 11:50:18 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c: 243]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection- Request' Sep 10 11:50:18 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c: 721]: Received Start Control Connection Reply Sep 10 11:50:18 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c: 755]: Client connection established. Sep 10 11:50:19 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c: 243]: Sent control packet type is 7 'Outgoing-Call-Request' Sep 10 11:50:19 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c: 841]: Received Outgoing Call Reply. Sep 10 11:50:19 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c: 880]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 19). Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: Using interface: tun1 Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Warning: The alias command is deprecated Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: PPP Started (direct mode). Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: bundle: Establish Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: closed - opening Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: Connected! Sep 10 11:50:20 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: opening - carrier Sep 10 11:50:21 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: carrier - lcp Sep 10 11:50:22 isengard pptp[933]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c: 395]: discarding duplicate or old packet 1 (expecting 3) Sep 10 11:50:25 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: bundle: Authenticate Sep 10 11:50:25 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: his = CHAP 0x81, mine = none Sep 10 11:50:25 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: Chap Input: CHALLENGE (16 bytes from watchguard) Sep 10 11:50:25 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: Chap Output: RESPONSE (gwambau) Sep 10 11:50:26 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: Chap Input: SUCCESS (S=C8136D3178689C6C3AA34D5FCE2EA8344262A4EF) Sep 10 11:50:26 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: lcp - open Sep 10 11:50:26 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: bundle: Network Sep 10 11:50:27 isengard pptp[933]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c: 404]: buffering packet 9 (expecting 8, lost or reordered) Sep 10 11:50:27 isengard ppp[929]: Warning: ff02:5::/32: Change route failed: errno: Network is unreachable Sep 10 11:50:27 isengard ppp[929]: Warning: ff02:5::/32: Change route failed: errno: Network is unreachable Sep 10 11:51:19 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c: 243]: Sent control packet type is 5 'Echo-Request' Sep 10 11:51:19 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[logecho:pptp_ctrl.c: 659]: Echo Reply received. Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: Caught signal 2, abort connection(s) Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: open - lcp Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard pptp[932]: anon log [callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:249]: Closing connection Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard pptp[932]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c: 243]: Sent control packet type is 12 'Call-Clear-Request' Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Warning: ff02:5::/32: Change route failed: errno: Network is unreachable Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: bundle: Terminate Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: Disconnected! Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: Connect time: 78 secs: 440 octets in, 479 octets out Sep 10 11:51:38 isengard ppp[929]: Phase: deflink: 11 packets in, 13 packets out Sep 10
How to get listed as a publisher
How can I get listed as a BSD publisher? My information is: TheLinuxStore.ca Shanty Bay, ON Canada Email: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| WWW: http://www.thelinuxstore.ca/index.php?main_page=indexcPath=41_101 Ryan -- Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliatesid=136833t=81Get Thunderbird! http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliatesid=136833t=179 Ryan Cloke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thelinuxstore.ca MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 251920249 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gdm starting without keyboard
I know this is already a known issue, but it seems my problem is kinda different. The trouble is: when I enable gdm at /etc/rc.conf it starts at boot time with keyboard totaly locked. But, when I start it by hand after my machine boots at text mode, the keyboard works just perfectly. I already tried the /etc/ttys settings (you can see it's main lines bellow) but it didn't worked out!!! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/ttys |grep dm # include none, when no getty is needed, and xdm, to start the ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon xterm off secure #ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ? This of course is not the first port that has this limitation. I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box. I have it triple booted with FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3 but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith! -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ 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 a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?
Worked like a charm!! Thanks for your expert help!! I'm glad to know that the next release of FreeBSD will have this all built in. Jared On 10/15/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. I shall try your patch and see if I can get it to work. Jared On 10/14/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/14/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than I expected: When attempting to change screen resolution for a console in FreeBSD running under VMWare, I ran across this error message: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: cannot set videomode inappropriate ioctl for device It seemed to me that VMWare was unable to init VESA correctly in console but strangely enough Xorg is capable of changing to a higher resolution without any problems. After some googling: VESA driver in current source tree checks the NONVGA flag of VESA information block when loading. If this flag is set it will refuse to initialize. Most VESA adapters do not set this flag, but the virtual display adapter in VMWare does. in src/sys/i386/isa/vesa.c, there is a check for the flag V_NONVGA in line 655. If you comment it out, flag check will be bypassed. After all, if Xorg can use higher resolution, there shouldn't be a problem using VESA on the console! Re-compiling my kernel to include the below as suggested by several more web searches: options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VGA_WIDTH90 rebooting then: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 vidcontrol: operation not supported by device Any more tips for me? You computer (VMware) doesn't have a proper VESA BIOS and that is why 800x600 raster text mode won't work etc. FreeBSD 6 has this all worked just put 'allscreens_flags=MODE_279' in rc.conf for 1024x768... you can get a list of other modes supported by typing in vidcontrol -i MODE (I think, can never remember :-)). if you want this for FreeBSD 5.x then your going to have to manually patch your system, but I have a simple script that will do it for you. somewhere around here.. check for patch errors after you run the script. -- cd /tmp rm current-vesa_patch.tar.gz fetch http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/current-vesa_patch.tar.gz rm -r current-vesa_patch tar -zxf current-vesa_patch.tar.gz cd /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons patch /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-syscons.diff cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.1 ./vidcontrol.1 cp /tmp/current-vesa_patch/current-vidcontrol.c ./vidcontrol.c make make install make clean - You still need to put in your kernel (both FreeBSD 5 and 6): options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE and when you cvsup your src in FreeBSD 5 you will need to reapply the patch, cvsup will overwrite the files becouse the cvs revision tags don't match up. Anyways -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com -- http://jarednevans.typepad.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ? This of course is not the first port that has this limitation. I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box. I have it triple booted with FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3 but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith! -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All server software that was popular enough was ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. The situation is not much better with Linux, and even worse with Windows. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange problem at boot time
Hi list. I've just moved to 6.0RC1, and I added the ATAPI/CAM module to the kernel. Now, the system boots *extremely* slowly when detects my CDRW - about a minute. The device is working almost properly. I can mount CDs, but not CD-RWs. # camcontrol devlist TEAC CD-W552E 1.09 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass0) === First of all, general info about my system: # uname -a FreeBSD lilly.evo.bg 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Fri Oct 14 22:48:19 EEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LILLY i386 === dmesg output shows this: --- # dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Fri Oct 14 22:48:19 EEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LILLY Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (2404.11-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4400CNTX-ID,b14 real memory = 268369920 (255 MB) avail memory = 253149184 (241 MB) ACPI APIC Table: AMIINT SiS645XX MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: AMIINT SiS645XX on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) pci_link0: ACPI PCI Link LNKA irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link1: ACPI PCI Link LNKB irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link2: ACPI PCI Link LNKC irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link3: ACPI PCI Link LNKD irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link4: ACPI PCI Link LNKE irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link5: ACPI PCI Link LNKF irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link6: ACPI PCI Link LNKG irq 3 on acpi0 pci_link7: ACPI PCI Link LNKH irq 5 on acpi0 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: SiS 645 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: SiS 962/963 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 pcm0: SiS 7012 port 0xdc00-0xdcff,0xd800-0xd87f irq 18 at device 2.7 on pci0pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: C-Media Electronics CMI9739 AC97 Codec ohci0: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfffc000-0xdfffcfff irq 20 at device 3.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci1: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 21 at device 3.1 on pci0 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting usb1: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci2: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xdfffe000-0xdfffefff irq 22 at device 3.2 on pci0 ohci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb2: SMM does not respond, resetting usb2: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 3.3 (no driver attached) sis0: SiS 900 10/100BaseTX port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xdfffb000-0xdfffbfff irq 19 at device 4.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on sis0 rlphy0: RTL8201L 10/100 media interface on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto sis0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:18:d8:ef:a7 fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f2-0x3f3,0x3f4-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ums0:
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: humbly_snipped It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All server software that was popular enough was ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. Yes, the flash plugin had me sigh also... From being used to using Unix based OS's for a while, I've come to not expect flash to work on anything, sad as it may seem. I guess it's like the unix-fonts in our browsers, you kinda get numb to the whole thing. Thanks for the replies. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ? This of course is not the first port that has this limitation. I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box. I have it triple booted with FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3 but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith! -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All server software that was popular enough was ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. The situation is not much better with Linux, and even worse with Windows. I run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on my main workstation and there is really only one thing that I would like to run that I can't. As much as I dislike flash, lots of websites I visit (including one of my own) are in flash so I do wish I could view them. Actually, I guess one more thing would be OpenOffice since the current version of AbiWord in ports has some known bad crashing issues with the amd64 version of FreeBSD. -Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ...
What do I need to know? For instance, if memory serves, we don't support iSCSI SANs right now? Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive
On Oct 16, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)
Hello, I just purchased a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop this morning and I'm regretting I did. Here's my dmesg: ukbd0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0 uhid0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 As you can see, I connected the wireless receiver to an usb port. The keyboard works correctly but the mouse is never discovered... The computer I've got right now has only USB ports. Tomorrow I'll be able to test it when connected via PS/2, and I'll write back. Do you have any suggestions on what I might try to make the wireless mouse work? Thank you very much Alejandro -- Los ñoños conducen la electricidad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)
On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: humbly_snipped It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All server software that was popular enough was ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly. Yes, the flash plugin had me sigh also... From being used to using Unix based OS's for a while, I've come to not expect flash to work on anything, sad as it may seem. I guess it's like the unix-fonts in our browsers, you kinda get numb to the whole thing. Thanks for the replies. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only through everyday work with FreeBSD did I understand the whole scam with claims that technologies like Java and Flash are cross- platform. While a thing remains proprietary, it won't be open and free, however hard one tries to advertise it. Try to convince me to develop in ActionScrip or Java now, I'll just tell you Thanks, but no, thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)
On 10/16/05, Alejandro Valenzuela Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any suggestions on what I might try to make the wireless mouse work? Unfortunately I have no solution but I can tell you that on my Dell system that came with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the keyboard works, and the mouse doesn't. I had to resort to using an old usb mouse that I had laying around. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvi for serious hacking
Hello, FreeBSD people. First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second, remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember. But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism. So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate: * What programming features it support? (Does it have something like etags? Does it have interface to gdb? And such other things..) * Is it possible to use it comfortable with Dvorak layout? (I noticed some bindings that relies on keys arrangement) * How to setup it to standard FreeBSD C code indentation? And don't use tabs as well. It's hard choice for me to switch old good Emacs to something new, so please give me your opinions. I'm not subscribed to list, so please CC me. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone may be able to help. -Mark Thanks Mark, Here is all that happened: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]- make install === xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. # Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it won't work, sorry :( -Mark Sorry for intrusion but it DOES work (with some of WMAs, at least). What I've done was comment out ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line and then make CC='cc -fpic -DPIC' was all. BTW, mplayer and ffplayer (from ffmpeg - or perhaps ffmpeg-devel - port) also can play WMAs. Regards, Vladimir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant Just stumbled upon this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WRITE_DMA UDMA CRC error on Nimble v5
Dear colleagues, I would really appreciate some help here. I've tried every option I was able to think of, to no avail. My server is built on Nimble v5 (http://www.nimblev5.com/product/specification.htm). This is a wonderful little box built on VIA C3 Eden 733MHz, quiet and consuming very little electricity (meaning longer UPS runtimes). I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on it, and everything was fine until I tried to upgrade. Originally, the box sports 2.5 Fujitsu MHT2030AT hard drive. FreeBSD reports it as UDMA-100, and it works like a charm. I'm trying to replace in with Toshiba MK6025GAS 60Gb 2.5 laptop hard drive, and try to install FreeBSD 5.4 on it. However, no matter how hard I try, I always run into the same problem: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84CRC,ABORTED LBA=63 This error repeats many times. Here's the steps that I've tried to make: 1) Googled that UltraDMA (80-pin) cable should be used to avoid these errors. This doesn't help -- to my knowledge, there's no 80-pin ribbon cables for 2.5 hard drives, at least nobody sells any. And after all, the original 20Gb drive has no problems with the existing cable, though it's UDMA100 as well. 2) This box is pretty limited in choice of external storage devices I can use -- basicly, all I can connect to it is USB stuff. I googled a suggestion that that error might show up on VIA chipsets when installing from USB CD-ROM. Tried installing from USB floppy and over the network -- same thing. 3) Upgraded BIOS to the latest one. No effect. 4) Tried different Nimble box (I've got 2). Same thing. 5) Thought it might be the Toshiba drive. Tried with 2.5 100Gb Seagate. Same thing. 6) Tried 6.0RC1. Same thing. Tried 5.3 (the one that works OK on the original 20Gb drive), same thing. 7) Put the 60Gb drive into a USB enclosure and installed onto it. Worked fine, but when I get the drive out of the enclosure and into the box, the error happens again. Here's the table of what I tried: --- Freebsd Installation TargetTargetResult version medium drive interface 5.3 USB-FDD Fujitsu 20GB IDE OK 5.3 USB-CD --- --- Install disk boot stalls -- image corrupt 5.4 USB-FDD Toshiba 60GB IDE ICRC error 5.4 USB-CD Toshiba 60GB IDE ICRC error 5.4 USB-CD Seagate 100GB IDE ICRC error 6.0RC1 USB-FDD Toshiba 60GB IDE ICRC error 5.4 USB-FDD Toshiba 60GB USB OK 5.4 USB-CD Toshiba 60GB USB OK 5.4 any Toshiba 60GB USB-IDE OK, then ICRC error on boot --- Any sugggestions? -- Best regards, Wesha mailto:[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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host
In the last episode (Oct 16), Graham North said: Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net You have amd enabled. -- 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]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host
Thank you for the enlightenment! Cheers, G/ Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 16), Graham North said: Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net You have amd enabled. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/137 - Release Date: 10/16/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:44 AM Subject: Re: Remote Console On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN Same, using seperate nics on Servers and Switch) ISP's router | My Switch | || | | Serv1Serv2Serv3 Serv4 Serv5 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1-Serial2 Serial1Serial2 Serial1--Serial2 Can more than 1 console access type be specified in loader.conf ? i.e. console='serialconsole' console='videoconsole' When using 'serial console, does anything have to be specified to use serial 2? What is the default local console, how is it specified? i.e. the one you use when you plug a keyboard and monitor directly into the machine? Would I need to install any other software other than the client (CU)? -GRant I haven't configured comconsoles myself, I just happen to work at a place where they are used heavily (Sun ALOM mostly, but built-in LOMs and FreeBSD software comsonsoles also). Please consult the Handbook and google, I'm sure there's nothing difficult to it. I would not support your chaining idea, though. It's the only one that requires $0.00 budget, but COM hubs are cheap today. If you rent rackspace, I'm sure your colocation provider can offer you some kind of non-expensive remote management. If rackspace is free, consider buying some hardware (like a COM hub). The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. Hello, If you're in the US, you can get a 30 port serial hub for $100.00 USD on eBay.com. Just search on portmaster and look for a model 2e. (Don't get a model 3 or 4; those are different things entirely.) I have been using them for more than 10 years to do exactly what you are trying to do. You can telnet into them or, if your rack has a phone line, you can connect a modem and dial in. Once connected, you simply attach to the appropriate port and you have a console. (Of course, you still have to set up your systems to have a com console, etc.) stheg __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvi for serious hacking
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote: Hello, FreeBSD people. First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second, remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember. But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism. So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate: * What programming features it support? (Does it have something like etags? Does it have interface to gdb? And such other things..) * Is it possible to use it comfortable with Dvorak layout? (I noticed some bindings that relies on keys arrangement) * How to setup it to standard FreeBSD C code indentation? And don't use tabs as well. It's hard choice for me to switch old good Emacs to something new, so please give me your opinions. I'm not subscribed to list, so please CC me. vi was the first screen/cursor-based editor in computer history. Written by Bill Joy when he was in his early 20's. I've been using vi almost since Bill released his first draft; my fingers know it by default. And even after almost 30years there are still things I don't know. Nutshell, I've hacked hundreds of thousands of line using vi; millions of words of prose. I've used *tags, debuggers, and other tools with it. Have tried *emacs; just can't get the hang of it. With tools like [n]vi and ctags, plus a debugger you've got your own IDE. Since you've learned emacs, you'll learn vi in a flash. gary kline -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 16:44 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I would not support your chaining idea, though.[...] The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. Well, chaining is such a strong word. How about connecting the serial ports in a ring? The thing is that he only jumps from one box to the other, not through more/all of them. I actually prefer this solution over a portmaster, unless it supports SSH. I would hate to telnet with a clear-text password across the Internet. SSH'ing into a live system, and them calling upon the other system via serial port seems like a good solution to me. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)
--On October 16, 2005 5:06:37 PM -0500 Alejandro Valenzuela Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just purchased a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop this morning and I'm regretting I did. Here's my dmesg: ukbd0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0 uhid0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 As you can see, I connected the wireless receiver to an usb port. The keyboard works correctly but the mouse is never discovered... The computer I've got right now has only USB ports. Tomorrow I'll be able to test it when connected via PS/2, and I'll write back. Do you have any suggestions on what I might try to make the wireless mouse work? I'm using a USB Natural Keyboard and a Wireless Optical Mouse, and it's working fine. Here's the mouse section of my xorg.conf file: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Emulate3Buttons false Option Buttons 8 Option XAxisMapping 6 7 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Resolution 800 Option Vendor Logitech EndSection You can use usbdevs (8) to see what devices are connected to your system. usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: USB Receiver, Logitech addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: product 0xa700, Standard Microsystems addr 3: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite, Microsoft addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel The USB Receiver, Logitech, is my mouse. You should also be able to see the mouse being detected by opening a terminal window, disconnecting the mouse and then reconnecting it. It should show up in the terminal window. This is the part of dmesg that shows my mouse and keyboard: ums0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/29.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir. uhub4: Standard Microsystems product 0xa700, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 uhub4: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ukbd0: Microsoft Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite, rev 2.00/2.07, addr 3, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0 Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer 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: If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Not sure if is along the lines of what you need, but but a few years back I found a company that allowed multiple machines to connec to a box and all the machines would just see it as a SCSI device. You would allocate how much space each attached machine could see. What are you looking for? Share space amongst many machines? Likely a box that supports NFS. Have a single device where to store all the data, but not necessarily share data amongst machines? What I describe above may be a good choice. Also wouldn't a big raid connected to a FreeBSD machine do the trick? Would safe you lots of money. Anything that has the letters SAN, NAS has a premiun. Also are you looking for SAN or NAS My understanding of those... SAN - multiple machines attached to a device. The device just appears as a disk. No info sharing. NAS - multiple machines see a device and can share information. The device supports different communication methods such as NFS, SMB, etc.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended TV Tuner Capture Card
I'm looking for a very basic TV tuner for my machine. I don't have a tv right now and I want something I can hook my VCR into. I'm looking to spend the least amount of money so old hardware gotten off e-bay is the idea. Any recomendations? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
John Oxley wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma I recently installed this and it does not seem to work for me. I have copied some files from a WinXP machine (using mount_smb)... when I try to listen to them... I just get about a half second of noise. Not really static... and definitely not music. Just a strange noise. Different noise for each song I try and the same song always ganerates the same noise. Any ideas? -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Parv wrote: Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. I assume the user in this context is root? Yes. The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run into many megabytes. One question: in a remote chance if one wants to convert/translate text from one locale to another, will that conversion work (via iconv its ilk) devoid of the locale definitions? Likely not, but that's why it first shows a menu, where the user can keep locales he is interested in. OTOH, I just don't need most of those locales -- chinese, korean, japanese, ... I can use the same disk space for something better. Regards, Deepak ___ 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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Hi, I am having a problem with FreeBSD 5.3 seeing the harddrive on my new workstation. all the previous versions of FreeBSD = 5.1 work great. I believe that the problem exists with the Biostar Motherboard and its BIOS and have checked the boards for solutions. I have seen none. I have attempted to CVSup the as well as CD load of the system. It has died badly both times. Thank you for any help you can render. Clyde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .wma music files
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Vladimir Kushnir composed: Sorry for intrusion but it DOES work (with some of WMAs, at least). What I've done was comment out ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line and then make CC='cc -fpic -DPIC' was all. BTW, mplayer and ffplayer (from ffmpeg - or perhaps ffmpeg-devel - port) also can play WMAs. Regards, Vladimir That was a very nice bit of information my friend, just saw the whole program compile as a result of your help. I thank you. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ You do best what you like most. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD routing
Bob Hepple wrote: I won't expect that this will work at all, even not with Linux, because the IP 192.168.254.245 and 192.168.2.214 are of different subnets. Either you use 192.168.254.0/24 or 192.168.2.0/24 in the 10baseT net, but not both. I don't know if Linux makes it possible to do this; I haven't tried it yet. At least I can reproduce your error message with a similar setup. Just assign the IP 192.168.2.245 to rl0 for example; then it should work without problems. Regards Björn The reason I'm doing it this way is that I have machines at work on the 192.168.2.0/24 network that I access from home over openvpn. So I can't grab 192.168.2 at home. But I always bring home one of many different machines - they're already configured to 192.168.2.214. It's so convenient to be able to access all of 192.168.2 over openvpn _except_ for the one machine 192.168.2.214. It's just a bit of a fag to re-configure each machine for home use - particularly as it could be freebsd, linux (x 4 distros), Solaris, AIX, SCO OS5, SCO UW7, HPUX etc etc and they all configure in different ways. Bob I'm having a hard time imagining how the packets are finding their way back during your linux testing. How does 2.214 know what to do with the reply when it recieves the echo request from 254.245? Was openvpn up during you linux testing and down during your freebsd testing? Can we see your linux routing tables during the various stages? Is it possible to preconfigure the servers to your home subnet instead of 192.168.2.214? or additionally? it shouldn't cause any dramas if your home subnet dosen't appear at work. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash drive device name difficulties.
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:23 +0930
Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE.
I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive
which the system recognises when plugged in;
and I can mount and use it -- all working well.
But now I'd like to make it available to a user
or group of users through mtools. To do this I need
to change the permissions on /dev/da0s1 where the
flash drive msdos partition appears. This I can make happen
automatically using /etc/usbd.conf by adding the lines:
device RunDisk
vendor 0x0ef5
product 0x2366
attach sleep 1; /bin/chmod g+rw /dev/da[0-9]*
giving members of the operator group access.
But this changes permissions on all da[0-9] devices.
I know the man pages suggest ${DEVICENAME} to obtain the
particular device but this doesn't work here because usbd
sees the device as umass0 which doesn't appear in /dev/*.
For the moment this is the only device I have appearing
in the da* group so the problem is not immediate/urgent.
But is there some way I can extract the specific da* device
name to use in the attach statement or is there some way I can
make the flash drive always pop up at a specific da name.
I've also taken a look at devd.conf but the documentation here
seems somewhat sparse.
You consideration is appreciated,
Malcolm Kay
Hello Malcolm
I don't know anything about mtools but you can check this link
regarding user mounting of 'da*' devices. Also have a look at 'man
devfs.rules' and 'man devfs.conf'
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064237.html
Good luck
Robert
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Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not beingdetected)
Thank you for your replies. Mike: have you tried connecting the mouse through PS/2 (if possible)? I'll try it tomorrow (the computer I'm using right now has only USB ports). Paul: the difference between your setup and mine is the fact that there's only one receiver for both the wireless keyboard and the mouse. The keyboard does get detected, but then I only see this Human Interface Device which basically seems to do nothing (what can an HID do, btw?). Here's the usbdevs output: addr 1: OHCI root hub, NEC addr 4: PSC 750, Hewlett-Packard addr 3: USB Optical Mouse, A4Tech addr 2: Synaptics WheelPad, Synaptics Inc. addr 1: OHCI root hub, NEC addr 2: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, Microsft addr 1: EHCI root hub, NEC The USB Optical Mouse from A4Tech is the replacement (wired) mouse (ums1) I'm using instead of the wireless included with the MS Optical Desktop Junkish Edition. Currently I'm using my laptop, so there's the Synaptics Wheelpad in ums0. Here's a bit more of the dmesg: ums0: A4Tech USB Optical Mouse, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir. ums1: Synaptics Inc. Synaptics WheelPad, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums1: 3 buttons and Z dir. Timecounter TSC frequency 1993540700 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 76319MB TOSHIBA MK8025GAS/KA023A [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDRW DW-224E/7.0B at ata0-slave PIO4 ums0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected ums0: detached uhub0: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2 ums1: at uhub0 port 3 (addr 3) disconnected ums1: detached ums0: Synaptics Inc. Synaptics WheelPad, rev 1.10/0.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. cd0 at ata0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: TEAC DW-224E 7.0B Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a ukbd0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0 uhid0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums1: A4Tech USB Optical Mouse, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums1: 7 buttons and Z dir. The uhub0: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 2 line appeared now that I've been trying to use the MS Wireless Optical Desktop Junkish Edition (as if there was another one). It doesn't seem to affect much, just reconnecting the MS stuff makes the keyboard work. There's that uhid0 device as well, does anyone know what can be done with it? Thanks again for your replies PS:I tried using the Wireless Optical Desktop in Ubuntu Warty, but surprisingly nothing works at all, not even the keyboard which works here in FreeBSD. -- Los ñoños conducen la electricidad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to update doc/www/source via a http proxy?
Hello all, I connect to the Internet via a http proxy(no ftp service available). I managed to update my port tree by using portsnap port rather than cvsup which does not use http protocol. But now I want to update my doc/www/source tree either. What should I do? Is there any port to do this like portsnap or any tips there? Thanks for any advice! MichaelLi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote Console
If you've got money then Cyclades or Perle console servers are the way to go... --- Martin On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. 1 NIC on each connected to SWITCH - VLAN 1 -WAN (Many different IP's). 1 NIC on each connected to SWITH - VLAN 2 -LAN (192.168.0/24) Each Server has 2 Serial ports, unused. Each Server has 2 USB ports, unused. All servers running FreebSD 2 Running 4.10 1 Running 5.2.1 1 Running 5.4 1 Running 4.4 (Slave3 Nameserver only). I am ~ 120 miles from the server cage these are located in. So traveling to there is a real pain. I have been reading everything I can find on consoles, ttys, blackboxes, Lantronix serial cables etc, etc ,etc ,etc ... What I am looking to do, is to connect all the servers to a device, or, daisychain them together so that even if I reboot a broken machine, I can still get to a boot ? prompt, not to mention single user mode and normal ssh shell prompt. (of course I already have the latter through IP when the machine boots correctly. So my question is, can a machine be made to still be remotely accessable (any method), when file systems are not mounted, or, kernel not loaded? If so, using what setup? -Grant ___ 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]
