Re: Installing on large disk
On March 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. Yes, just ignore the cylinder warnings.. Interesting thing is that I never got those and I have installed FBSD on multiple 80GB disks :). -Garrett I had this problem a long time ago, when the FreeBSD 3.3 was current. Those instructions refer to those days I think. Do you install 6.2? Where are you asked to type the cylinder info? What kind of an installation do you do? Usually, defaults in sysinstall would be fine. Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ELF binary type unknown
Problem solved, reinstalled linux_base-fc4 from portThanks, Alain Fabry From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:11:45 -0500 Subject: ELF binary type unknown Hello, I'm trying to install citrix_ica from port but I get the following error during the install.I've also have a problem when I configure linux_enable=yes in the rc.conf file. My system crashes during boot at that time. When I remove this linux_enable all boots fine. Running FreeBSD duc-748# uname -aFreeBSD yy 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Sun Mar 25 21:31:00 CEST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DUC-748 i386duc-748# brandelf -l known ELF types are: FreeBSD(9) Linux(3) Solaris(6) SVR4(0)duc-748# cd /usr/ports/net/citrix_ica/duc-748# make install clean=== Installing for citrix_ica-10.0=== citrix_ica-10.0 depends on file: /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 - not found=== Verifying install for /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-openmotif=== Installing for linux-openmotif-2.2.4_2=== linux-openmotif-2.2.4_2 depends on file: /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release - found=== linux-openmotif-2.2.4_2 depends on file: /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 - found=== Generating temporary packing list=== Checking if x11-toolkits/linux-openmotif already installedcd /compat/linux; rpm2cpio /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm/openmotif-2.2.4-0.1.i386.rpm | /usr/bin/cpio -idum -R root:wheel ./usr/X11R6/lib/libMrm.so.3.0.3 ./usr/X11R6/lib/libUil.so.3.0.3 ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3.0.313414 blockschroot /compat/linux /sbin/ldconfigELF binary type 3 not known.ELF binary type 3 not known.chroot: /sbin/ldconfig: Exec format error*** Error code 1Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-openmotif.*** Error code 1Stop in /usr/ports/net/citrix_ica.Alain Fabry _ It’s tax season, make sure to follow these few simple tips http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=WLMartagline___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ It’s tax season, make sure to follow these few simple tips http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=WLMartagline___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
two mounted directories with the same name ?
Hello A strange thing happened to my 6.2-R amd64 machine it has the following disk partitionning configuration Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 5077038 66764 4604112 1%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/aacd0s1g 302097610 4 277929798 0%/user /dev/aacd0s1d 30462636 2085826 25939800 7%/usr /dev/aacd0s1e 10154158 30862 9310964 0%/var /dev/aacd0s1f 203114302 14 186865144 0%/var/mail OK, now I want to NFS mount a Netapp filer volume on the /user partition look below what happened ... mail2# mount_nfs yfiler:/vol/imap /user mail2# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 5077038 66764 4604112 1%/ devfs1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/aacd0s1g302097610 4 277929798 0%/user /dev/aacd0s1d 30462636 2085826 25939800 7%/usr /dev/aacd0s1e 10154158 30864 9310962 0%/var /dev/aacd0s1f20311430214 186865144 0%/var/mail yfiler:/vol/imap 209715200 111015364 9869983653%/user It seems there are two partitions (one local and one NFS mounted) with the *same* name ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jail vs. nice
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:28:51AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: A program (a TclX' self-test script) works fine in a normal environment, but fails to renice itself, when running in jail (as root): nice-1.8 nice tests FAILED Contents of test case: list [nice -1] [nice] Test generated error; Return code was: 1 Return code should have been one of: 0 2 errorInfo: failed to increment priority: permission denied while executing nice -1 invoked from within list [nice -1] [nice] (uplevel body line 2) invoked from within uplevel 1 $script This is new -- just a few months ago the same script was working fine, but it is failing now in both 7.0 and 6.2. And 5.x. Or it could just be a changed behaviour of the 7.0 kernel, which is common to all builds. This e-mail exchange has left me unclear on what has broken on what versions. Mikhail, when you say 7.0 and 6.2, do you mean actual 7.0 and 6.2 boxes, or do you mean the package build environment running on 7.0 on pointyhat as Kris's followup seems to suggest? And what does failing now mean -- a quick glance at the kernel source in RELENG_5 suggests it started failing now a long time ago? Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Have you tried cygwin? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test
Hear, hear. Chris, please remember NOT to do this again. SC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternative package dependencies in portmaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, all. Is any possibility to point an alternative dependency for portmaster, like ALT_PKGDEP in pkgtools.conf for portupgrade? - -- Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) - --- KeyID: 0x2569D30B Fingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGB7BnhLjVFCVp0wsRCnDpAJ9PCb1oKeNKs+QCxyNnHicH/qW76QCgjgd8 MHz7VCIHDoGS1ht7FcliS8w= =sxCR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Hi Laszlo, I use Unison to run automated file copying (synchronization) from Windows servers to FreeBSD. This program might work for you. It is open source and cross-platform. It is also in the ports collection. Perhaps it will work for you. Here is the link: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/unison/ Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:19:53 +0200 Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Have you tried: SyncToy v1.4 available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7displaylang=en I have used it with success on Windows machines connected to FreeBSD. -- Gerard It takes all kinds to fill the freeways. Crazy Charlie signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Test
Simon Chang wrote: Hear, hear. Chris, please remember NOT to do this again. SC Yanno - I was just gonna let this go but it seems a simple sorry isn't good enough for some that simply don't feel as if life is complete without some sorta bitchin' Grow up, get a life, move on. It wont be the first time someone does this - and it certainly won't be the last - much less have the offender (me in this case) apologize for it... Apology ... rescinded -- Best regards, Chris Used with permission. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Postgres Startup Error Message
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 7:36 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Postgres Startup Error Message I occasionally receive this error message when booting up: Mar 25 08:28:24 scorpio postgres[756]: [1-1] FATAL: the database system is starting up Since it is an intermittent error message, I am unable to track down what is causing it or how to fix it. Any suggestions? I had a similar problem before with an older version of PostgreSQL. The problem was that the rc script was waiting for input from the user. It was waiting for a password. Depending on how you set up your PostgreSQL, it might ask for a password on startup. It might help to post the versions of PostgreSQL and FreeBSD you are using. -- ___ oo // \\ || Gerard (_,\/ \_/ \ || [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \_/_\_/|| /_/ \_\ || If today is the first day of the rest of ___|| your life, then what was yesterday? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Regards, Rick Apichairuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgres Startup Error Message
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:02:27 -0500 Rick Apichairuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I occasionally receive this error message when booting up: Mar 25 08:28:24 scorpio postgres[756]: [1-1] FATAL: the database system is starting up Since it is an intermittent error message, I am unable to track down what is causing it or how to fix it. Any suggestions? I had a similar problem before with an older version of PostgreSQL. The problem was that the rc script was waiting for input from the user. It was waiting for a password. Depending on how you set up your PostgreSQL, it might ask for a password on startup. It might help to post the versions of PostgreSQL and FreeBSD you are using. I checked on the postgresql forum and received a reply. It appears that a program is attempting to query postgresql before it is started. I think it was dovecot. In any case, I reconfigured the rc.d file for postgresql to start sooner in the boot process. That eliminated the problem, or at least it appears to have done so. -- Gerard Forgetfulness, n: A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
The dynamics of a mailing list (was Re: Test)
In response to Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Simon Chang wrote: Hear, hear. Chris, please remember NOT to do this again. SC Yanno - I was just gonna let this go but it seems a simple sorry isn't good enough for some that simply don't feel as if life is complete without some sorta bitchin' Grow up, get a life, move on. It wont be the first time someone does this - and it certainly won't be the last - much less have the offender (me in this case) apologize for it... For crying out loud. There are x000 people on this mailing list. When you do something that's considered unacceptable you'll immediately have two scenarios: 1) Some people just _have_ to speak their peace, even if it's already been spoken by someone else. 2) Many people will (literally) post their objection simultaneously, and you'll then feel like the whole world is jumping on you because you get 5 or 6 messages at once. However, responding like you did, Chris, only makes it worse. Keep in mind that it's less than 1% of the list members that are making a fuss right now. Too often, this list traffic ends up clogged with some sort of flame war that _only_ 5 or 6 people are actually participating in. Remember, again, that's less than 1% of the total list participants. Yes, the test@ list exists to keep test messages off the other lists. Yes, you should have posted there. Yes, _someone_ was right to point that out to you so you know for next time. No, it's not a big deal if a few people on the list make a bigger deal out of it than seems necessary. Yes, your best bet is to just ignore the loudmouths -- they only make noise if fed. As usual, the subsequent traffic has far exceeded the original faux pas. I've been an active member of this mailing list since some time around 1998, I think. It's often frustrating to see the same issues come round again and again -- but I look on it as a good thing. It means there's constantly new blood coming in to FreeBSD -- it means the project is very much alive. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: rc.d scripts
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Stone Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: rc.d scripts From: Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rc.d scripts Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:15:29 -0400 Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For instance I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. Any help is much appreciated. -Tom This may have already been answered by others, but I believe just rename the script with a prefix of z for example: zmyscript.sh or zzmyscript to make it very last beyond the first one with a z. It works for me. You might have also noticed that some ports come with number prefixed rc startup scripts. You can prefix your scripts with numbers like: 01_apache.sh 02_mysql.sh 03_pgsql.sh That way you can always adjust the exact order. Best Regards, Rick Apichairuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkg corrupted
dbetts writes: I am running Freebsd 6.2 Thank you for mentioning this, but the ports system is (more-or-less) separate from the base system. Somehow my /var/db/pkg has become corrupted. I ran pkgdb -F and it still didn't fix it. The I did something dumb, I deleted the /var/db/pkg. I thought I had a backup but I can't find one. Is there a way to recreate the pkg to reflect what I have already installed on my system If you have lost the entire contents of /var/db/pkg, then I believ the answer is No.. or will I have to reinstall all the packages I know I had on my system. Yes. Depending on how many ports you had installed, this will be a royal pain. (At least in terms of time spent.) When this happened to me three or four months ago, I ended up looking at the ports distfiles, reverse-mapping them to a port, then building (not upgrading) the port /de novo/. That machine lost the records of 350+ ports; recreating them - even with scripts - took 4 days. Plus another day to rebuild OpenOffice. The good news is the basic functionality of the system is not compromised, and the rebuilding can go on in the background. Remember to log your work, so you can tell if anything didn't build/install and fix it by hand. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot nfs-export msdosfs
I habe a USB disk with fat32 filesystem. it's anbout 100GB. If I mount it via fstab: /dev/da2s1 /Music msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 the directory gets permission d-- If I mount manually with # mount_msdosfs -u user -m 755 /dev/da2s1 /Music permissions are ok. But as soon as I restart mountd: /Music -alldirs -maproot=0 -network 192.168 the permissions of the directory get d--- again. If I don't restart mountd, I cannot nfs mount it Input/output error what can I do? system is 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #4: Fri Mar 23 07:23:44 CET 2007 thanks m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way from serial TTY to get system attention?
Hi, I have a Soekris 4801 I bought about a year + 1/2 ago. It runs FreeBSD (5.5) off a CF card with a USB flash to help it. It ran great for 10 months, but over the last 8 months its been locking up on me. I put that in quotes because I'm not sure if its the OS or the unit. I do see POWER onand the NET light blinking. No ERROR or DISK. When I try to serial tty in, I get nothing. Is there any way anyone knows to find out if the OS has gone south, or the unit is not operating properly. Is there some sort of key sequence to ask FreeBSD if its running or to give SOME sort of life or something? My only access to it is via a serial TTY. Thanks, Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Ivan Voras írta: Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Have you tried cygwin? Thanks, this is the first I'll try. Since I was using pscp, it will be the less pain to use scp from openssh for windows. I hope it will work. Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot nfs-export msdosfs
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Martin Dieringer wrote: But as soon as I restart mountd: the permissions of the directory get d--- again. Ok it seems my mountd was outdated... sorry m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oops... {upgrading, using a script and pkg_version}
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got ~770 ports install--many|most depencencies. Doesn't -a rebuilt *everything*? If not, I've been sadly mis-understanding the man page. -a makes sure that everything is up-to-date, but it doesn't rebuild ports that are already up-to-date. Unless you want it to; in which case you can also provide -f. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: two mounted directories with the same name ?
Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello A strange thing happened to my 6.2-R amd64 machine it has the following disk partitionning configuration Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 5077038 66764 4604112 1%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/aacd0s1g 302097610 4 277929798 0%/user /dev/aacd0s1d 30462636 2085826 25939800 7%/usr /dev/aacd0s1e 10154158 30862 9310964 0%/var /dev/aacd0s1f 203114302 14 186865144 0%/var/mail OK, now I want to NFS mount a Netapp filer volume on the /user partition look below what happened ... mail2# mount_nfs yfiler:/vol/imap /user mail2# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 5077038 66764 4604112 1%/ devfs1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/aacd0s1g302097610 4 277929798 0%/user /dev/aacd0s1d 30462636 2085826 25939800 7%/usr /dev/aacd0s1e 10154158 30864 9310962 0%/var /dev/aacd0s1f20311430214 186865144 0%/var/mail yfiler:/vol/imap 209715200 111015364 9869983653%/user It seems there are two partitions (one local and one NFS mounted) with the *same* name ... Yes, and the local one will be hidden until you unmount the NFS one. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Voras írta: Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Have you tried cygwin? Thanks, this is the first I'll try. Since I was using pscp, it will be the less pain to use scp from openssh for windows. I hope it will work. Cygwin also seems to include rsync; running that over ssh will be a lot easier in the long run. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks, Laszlo You might try WinSCP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD
Hello, After 3 hours, i made my bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies. Actually, i finished my install.cfg but i have a problem because i don't understand the final step : # mkdir /img # cd $CHROOTDIR/R/cdrom/disk1/floppies /* Get mfsroot.gz from mfsroot.flp */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/mfsroot.gz . # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* Unzip mfsroot.gz to get mfsroot */ # gunzip mfsroot.gz /* Put your config file in mfsroot */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp install.cfg /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* (If you 'gzip mfsroot' here, you can use that for bootable mfsroot.flp for floppies) */ /* Put mfsroot in kernel so that it will read it when boot time */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c boot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/kernel.gz . # gunzip kernel.gz # write_mfs_in_kernel -f kernel mfsroot /* write_mfs_in_kernel can be found at /usr/src/release. Compile it if you haven't. */ # gzip kernel # cp kernel.gz /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Can you explain me this part please ? Thank you :) ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: rc.d scripts
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:03:38 -0400 Kevin Brunelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to make a script in /etc/rc.d run last? For instance I want dhclient to be the last script in /etc/rc.d/ to run. Any help is much appreciated. This may have already been answered by others, but I believe just rename the script with a prefix of z for example: zmyscript.sh or zzmyscript to make it very last beyond the first one with a z. It works for me. I have my suspicions regarding this working as you describe. As the order isn't related to the filename but to the REQUIRE tags inside the file. Correct; dictionary order applies only to old-style local scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. For example, adding a requirement for bgfsck (which was also last on my system when I did this) moved bgfsck down the list... and still left dhclient 4th from last. In fact, it took the addition of: # REQUIRE: bgfsck bsnmpd bridge bluetooth to actually make it the last thing run. And that is not a sure thing either... as soon as the system is updated it is likely to change. Most of the time, when people ask how to run something last, it's because they don't really know when it should run, and just want it pretty late. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Installing on large disk
The 1023 cylinder limit is BIOS limit for booting. If your BIOS is more modern it will support booting from translated cylinder addresses 1023. The easiest way to tell is to try updating your BIOS, and trying the install. With older hardware I would have to have boot partitions all located at 1023 cylinders so you'd have the / partition and a windows c: drive both 1023 on a dual boot system. This limit has mostly disappeared with more modern BIOS that will address and boot drives at 1023. -Derek At 03:50 PM 3/25/2007, John C Nolen wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk that was made in 2001 with windows xp installed on a 20 GB partition. BIOS setup says 19158 cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. I want to install freeBSD on the second 20 GB partition. All the instructions seem to refer to small disks, as they appear to require cylinders less than 1023. Sysinstall appears to require cylinders less than 1023. Did I miss something? Is it possible to install BSD as a dual operating system with windows xp on a disk larger than 8 GB ? Am I trying to do something impossible? Should I just ignore warnings and type in 1023 when asked about cylinders? If I uninstall the windows xp can I put freeBSD on one big 40GB partition? I could not find any information on this in handbook or FAQ. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB
I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the USB's. You will need to specify the port in ups.conf typically in /usr/local/etc/nut The line would be: port = /dev/usb0 You can experiment with the port to get the right one. Nut will tell you if is can or cannot talk to the UPS. -Derek At 09:18 PM 3/25/2007, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey, I'm new to using nut-ups, or any UPS monitoring software. Mainly I want some kind of reporting on power failures, and for a clean shutdown in the event of a prolonged outage. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500, with a USB interface. With usbd running, usbdevs shows it connected. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo usbdevs Password: addr 1: OHCI root hub, SiS addr 2: Back-UPS ES 500 FW:824.B1.D USB FW:B1, APC addr 1: OHCI root hub, SiS The syntax of upsd.conf requires a pathname for the port to talk do. What device file would this work out to? Any hints on setting this up? If nut-ups isn't the right software, I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test
Yanno - I was just gonna let this go but it seems a simple sorry isn't good enough for some that simply don't feel as if life is complete without some sorta bitchin' Grow up, get a life, move on. It wont be the first time someone does this - and it certainly won't be the last - much less have the offender (me in this case) apologize for it... Apology ... rescinded As if we had wronged you - YANNO, I was gonna let this one go, but you screwed up!!! You have some serious boundary issues, Silva. Until you change your behavior, don't be surprised if your Apology... rescinded becomes Subscriber... booted. SC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIPS 140-2 for government use
Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports any hardware security module (cryptoprocessor) certified for FIPS 140-2 or know if there are future plans to do this? My company has a product based on FreeBSD that wants to incorporate a FIPS 140-2 certified cryptoprocessor, required for use in the government but all the boards on the market are developed and FIPS-certifed for LInux, Solaris, AIX, etc... just NOT FreeBSD. Surely, we're not the only FreeBSD users with this particular need? Lorraine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FIPS 140-2 for government use
On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Lorraine Chin wrote: Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports any hardware security module (cryptoprocessor) certified for FIPS 140-2 or know if there are future plans to do this? My company has a product based on FreeBSD that wants to incorporate a FIPS 140-2 certified cryptoprocessor, required for use in the government but all the boards on the market are developed and FIPS- certifed for LInux, Solaris, AIX, etc... just NOT FreeBSD. See man cryptodev; FreeBSD also has device drivers for the Hi/FN, VIA AES, SafeNet 1x41, Broadcom/BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x devices. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount
Hello, somebody knows how an ordinary user can mount a floppy or cd ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount
On Monday March 26, 2007 at 02:49:29 (PM) Reginaldo Tavares wrote: somebody knows how an ordinary user can mount a floppy or cd ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -- Gerard A psychiatrist is a man who goes to a strip club and watches the audience. Merv Stockwood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD
Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, After 3 hours, i made my bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies. Actually, i finished my install.cfg but i have a problem because i don't understand the final step : I'm not sure I do either, but I'm willing to attempt to help. Bearing in mind IANAE, I *think* this is what you're seeing: # mkdir /img # cd $CHROOTDIR/R/cdrom/disk1/floppies Should be self-explanatory; $CHROOTDIR should be set in the environment if you are doing make release /* Get mfsroot.gz from mfsroot.flp */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/mfsroot.gz . # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Create a memory disk from the floppy image mfsroot.flp, mount it, copy the mfsroot.gz to the current working dir, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. /* Unzip mfsroot.gz to get mfsroot */ # gunzip mfsroot.gz Obvious, I hope. /* Put your config file in mfsroot */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp install.cfg /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* (If you 'gzip mfsroot' here, you can use that for bootable mfsroot.flp for floppies) */ Mount the unzipped mfsroot file in a memory disk, cp your install.cfg to this memory disk, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. (Note of concern ... I don't see this getting moved back to anywhere were it will do some good before moving to the next step. Where did you get these instructions?) /* Put mfsroot in kernel so that it will read it when boot time */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c boot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/kernel.gz . # gunzip kernel.gz # write_mfs_in_kernel -f kernel mfsroot /* write_mfs_in_kernel can be found at /usr/src/release. Compile it if you haven't. */ # gzip kernel # cp kernel.gz /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Mount the boot.flp image in a memory disk, grab the kernel, unzip it, add the altered mfsroot to the kernel using the write_mfs_in_kernel program/script, zip up the new kernel, copy it to the image and unmount said image. I'm concerned though about this documentation; for one thing vnconfig is deprecated (except for 4.X releases, which are, uh, deprecated?), and write_mfs_in_kernel was nuked from CVS **8 years ago** by the venerable jkh himself, so I have to wonder, Where did this 'how-to' come from? You may need someone more familiar with the modern RELENG system to help with this Kevin Kinsey -- Fortune favors the lucky. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release
Hi all... I'm having some difficulty updating OpenSSL 0.9.8e and Bind 9.3.4... I've tried both the packages and the original source... The problem is this.. My bind install that came on the 6.1 installation runs from /usr/bin, whereas both the package and the source want to run from /usr/local/bin... Not usually a problem, but when I build it or install the package they both complain about wanting a file 'named.conf', which I don't have and can't seem to find an example version. My older version of bind 9.3.2 didn't have this file. OpenSSL wants to run from /usr/local/openssl, whereas my old version was in /usr/bin, the source wants to run from /usr/local/ssl... In either case I just linked the new location back to the old location and it seems to be working ok. My question is, where do I get the 'named.conf' file... I need to get my bind updated for the security issues and why are the packages trying to install into new locations? I would think that you could just install the package and restart the service, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD
Kevin Kinsey a écrit : Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, After 3 hours, i made my bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies. Actually, i finished my install.cfg but i have a problem because i don't understand the final step : I'm not sure I do either, but I'm willing to attempt to help. Bearing in mind IANAE, I *think* this is what you're seeing: # mkdir /img # cd $CHROOTDIR/R/cdrom/disk1/floppies Should be self-explanatory; $CHROOTDIR should be set in the environment if you are doing make release /* Get mfsroot.gz from mfsroot.flp */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/mfsroot.gz . # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Create a memory disk from the floppy image mfsroot.flp, mount it, copy the mfsroot.gz to the current working dir, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. /* Unzip mfsroot.gz to get mfsroot */ # gunzip mfsroot.gz Obvious, I hope. /* Put your config file in mfsroot */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp install.cfg /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* (If you 'gzip mfsroot' here, you can use that for bootable mfsroot.flp for floppies) */ Mount the unzipped mfsroot file in a memory disk, cp your install.cfg to this memory disk, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. (Note of concern ... I don't see this getting moved back to anywhere were it will do some good before moving to the next step. Where did you get these instructions?) /* Put mfsroot in kernel so that it will read it when boot time */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c boot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/kernel.gz . # gunzip kernel.gz # write_mfs_in_kernel -f kernel mfsroot /* write_mfs_in_kernel can be found at /usr/src/release. Compile it if you haven't. */ # gzip kernel # cp kernel.gz /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Mount the boot.flp image in a memory disk, grab the kernel, unzip it, add the altered mfsroot to the kernel using the write_mfs_in_kernel program/script, zip up the new kernel, copy it to the image and unmount said image. I'm concerned though about this documentation; for one thing vnconfig is deprecated (except for 4.X releases, which are, uh, deprecated?), and write_mfs_in_kernel was nuked from CVS **8 years ago** by the venerable jkh himself, so I have to wonder, Where did this 'how-to' come from? You may need someone more familiar with the modern RELENG system to help with this Kevin Kinsey Thank you for your answer. I found these instructions at http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/%7Ewatari/FreeBSD/boot.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating rc.d scripts
oops, sent a reply to the wrong list a bit ago... Anyway, it is still not working. I forgot to mentions, sorry, doing $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sb_server start works just fine. I used /usr/bin/env python because I would like to add this to the port that installs the server this script starts, and I cannot be certain that python will be installed in /usr/local/bin, instead of some other path directory (can I? Is this even a concern porters should take into account?). Changing to /usr/local/bin/python did not fix the issue. Thanks for the information. I'll reboot the machine and see if sendmail is dead when I get home. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD
Kevin Kinsey a écrit : Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, After 3 hours, i made my bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies. Actually, i finished my install.cfg but i have a problem because i don't understand the final step : I'm not sure I do either, but I'm willing to attempt to help. Bearing in mind IANAE, I *think* this is what you're seeing: # mkdir /img # cd $CHROOTDIR/R/cdrom/disk1/floppies Should be self-explanatory; $CHROOTDIR should be set in the environment if you are doing make release /* Get mfsroot.gz from mfsroot.flp */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/mfsroot.gz . # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Create a memory disk from the floppy image mfsroot.flp, mount it, copy the mfsroot.gz to the current working dir, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. /* Unzip mfsroot.gz to get mfsroot */ # gunzip mfsroot.gz Obvious, I hope. /* Put your config file in mfsroot */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp install.cfg /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* (If you 'gzip mfsroot' here, you can use that for bootable mfsroot.flp for floppies) */ Mount the unzipped mfsroot file in a memory disk, cp your install.cfg to this memory disk, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. (Note of concern ... I don't see this getting moved back to anywhere were it will do some good before moving to the next step. Where did you get these instructions?) /* Put mfsroot in kernel so that it will read it when boot time */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c boot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/kernel.gz . # gunzip kernel.gz # write_mfs_in_kernel -f kernel mfsroot /* write_mfs_in_kernel can be found at /usr/src/release. Compile it if you haven't. */ # gzip kernel # cp kernel.gz /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Mount the boot.flp image in a memory disk, grab the kernel, unzip it, add the altered mfsroot to the kernel using the write_mfs_in_kernel program/script, zip up the new kernel, copy it to the image and unmount said image. I'm concerned though about this documentation; for one thing vnconfig is deprecated (except for 4.X releases, which are, uh, deprecated?), and write_mfs_in_kernel was nuked from CVS **8 years ago** by the venerable jkh himself, so I have to wonder, Where did this 'how-to' come from? You may need someone more familiar with the modern RELENG system to help with this Kevin Kinsey Thank you for your answer. I found these instructions at http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/%7Ewatari/FreeBSD/boot.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making Customized Bootable FreeBSD
Kevin Kinsey a écrit : Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, After 3 hours, i made my bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies. Actually, i finished my install.cfg but i have a problem because i don't understand the final step : I'm not sure I do either, but I'm willing to attempt to help. Bearing in mind IANAE, I *think* this is what you're seeing: # mkdir /img # cd $CHROOTDIR/R/cdrom/disk1/floppies Should be self-explanatory; $CHROOTDIR should be set in the environment if you are doing make release /* Get mfsroot.gz from mfsroot.flp */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/mfsroot.gz . # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Create a memory disk from the floppy image mfsroot.flp, mount it, copy the mfsroot.gz to the current working dir, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. /* Unzip mfsroot.gz to get mfsroot */ # gunzip mfsroot.gz Obvious, I hope. /* Put your config file in mfsroot */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c mfsroot # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp install.cfg /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c /* (If you 'gzip mfsroot' here, you can use that for bootable mfsroot.flp for floppies) */ Mount the unzipped mfsroot file in a memory disk, cp your install.cfg to this memory disk, unmount it and destroy the memory disk. (Note of concern ... I don't see this getting moved back to anywhere were it will do some good before moving to the next step. Where did you get these instructions?) /* Put mfsroot in kernel so that it will read it when boot time */ # vnconfig /dev/vn0c boot.flp # mount /dev/vn0c /img # cp /img/kernel.gz . # gunzip kernel.gz # write_mfs_in_kernel -f kernel mfsroot /* write_mfs_in_kernel can be found at /usr/src/release. Compile it if you haven't. */ # gzip kernel # cp kernel.gz /img/. # umount /img # vnconfig -u /dev/vn0c Mount the boot.flp image in a memory disk, grab the kernel, unzip it, add the altered mfsroot to the kernel using the write_mfs_in_kernel program/script, zip up the new kernel, copy it to the image and unmount said image. I'm concerned though about this documentation; for one thing vnconfig is deprecated (except for 4.X releases, which are, uh, deprecated?), and write_mfs_in_kernel was nuked from CVS **8 years ago** by the venerable jkh himself, so I have to wonder, Where did this 'how-to' come from? You may need someone more familiar with the modern RELENG system to help with this Kevin Kinsey Thank you for your answer. I found these instructions at http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/%7Ewatari/FreeBSD/boot.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IRQ storm
After running this: /sbin/atacontrol reinit ata2 the storm was gone. My HDD in on ata4: #atacontrol info ata4 Master: ad8 ST3160812AS/3.AAD Serial ATA II Slave: no device present Why? On 25/03/07, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/03/07, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've changed motherboard recently (now it is Intel DP965LT) and now I have my PC slowed down considerably. vmstat -i shows a huge amount of interrupts on irq17: atapci0: Do you have atapicam enabled or being loaded as a module? No, I do not have atapicam enabled. Here is my kldstat output: Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 14 0xc040 3703a4 kernel 21 0xc0771000 6ea8 linprocfs.ko 32 0xc0778000 1adb8linux.ko 41 0xc0793000 2364 accf_http.ko 51 0xc0796000 aa74 cpufreq.ko 61 0xc07a1000 59a50acpi.ko 71 0xc4a7a000 3000 pflog.ko 81 0xc4a7d000 2d000pf.ko I've checked my kernel configuration file and I do not have it there either. What else should I check? If so, I have the same problem, which is currently being tracked in this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103602 A workaround, if you don't need/want to burn cds/dvds is to remove atapicam or don't load the module at boot time. Thanks, Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:49:29PM +, Reginaldo Tavares wrote: Hello, somebody knows how an ordinary user can mount a floppy or cd ? 1) vfs.usermount must be set to 1 (/etc/sysctl.conf) 2) The user in question must be a member of a group that has read/write access to the device (set device permissions in /etc/devfs.conf or /etc/devfs.rules, modify users with pw(8)) 3) The user must _own_ the mount point. (E.g. in his own $HOME or /mnt/$USER) See also § 18.5.3 of the Handbook. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpLo0xCKTba7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problems with SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608
I've been having problems with my server freezing up, having the #2 CPU 'shut down', kernel panics, and all sorts of nastyness Originally I thought it was exim, or possibly bind, or bad hardware (mb, cpu or memory)... I've swapped out the motherboard CPU's memory from an old server that was running 4.11 ROCK SOLID for years... At first I thought the problem was solved, but now it's popping up again... The 2nd CPU gets 'shut down', or kernel panics, esentially taking the system offline. If I install a single CPU (non-smp) kernel, then the system works fine... (I did this on the old motherboard before I swapped it out, and it worked fine too).. So I'm wondering if there is an SMP bug or problem I'm running into. I'm running 6.1-STABLE-200608, an ISO image I downloaded from the archives when I built the box (NOT 6.1-RELEASE). I'm runining an Intel Serverworks motherboard with 2 1.4 GHz PIII's... The problem only seems to show up under high load. I'm wondering what I should do here... I'm concerned about doing a binary upgrade to 6.2 won't fix the problem, and I've tried using freebsd-update, but it complains about the version not being compatible. If I do a binary upgrade from CD, will it also update the kernel sources so I can build a new one? Will it complain about it not being compatible? Is there a way to 'force' the ID of the system to be 6.1-RELEASE so that freebsd-update will work? Will doing the 6.1-6.2 binary upgrade as posted by Colin also update the kernel sources? Would my best option really be to start over with a fresh install rather than upgrade? (this would be painful) I'm going to try to test out 6.2 on the old MB/CPU combo to see if I can re-create it under 6.2 as well before I do anything. As well as try doing an upgrade on the bench from CD from 6.1-STABLE-200608 to 6.2-RELEASE... Since this is a production server (and for months it was burned in with no apparent issues) I only have 1 shot at this to do it right. Any help/recomendation would be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount
If you are using gnome, maybe this can help. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 On 3/26/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday March 26, 2007 at 02:49:29 (PM) Reginaldo Tavares wrote: somebody knows how an ordinary user can mount a floppy or cd ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -- Gerard A psychiatrist is a man who goes to a strip club and watches the audience. Merv Stockwood ___ 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]
USB HD Problems
Hello. I've attached an USB HD to my 6.2/i386 box and I'm having troubles. At boot I get: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 21 at device 16.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xe400-0xe41f irq 21 at device 16.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller mem 0xe5012000-0xe50120ff irq 21 at device 16.4 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 uhub4: VIA EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered umass0: JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 ... da2 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: SAMSUNG HD160JJ 0-41 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: 40.000MB/s transfers da2: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) I can mount this HD right and use it for a while, but then I'll get: umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, IOERROR umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, IOERROR g_vfs_done():da2s1d[READ(offset=8165818368, length=131072)]error = 5 ... and so on. Here's usbdevs -v: alamar# usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Logitech USB Keyboard(0xc30a), Logitech(0x046d), rev 15.00 port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: low speed, self powered, config 1, Smart-UPS 1500 FW:653.13.I USB FW:7.3(0x0002), American Power Conversion(0x051d), rev 0.06 port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Trackball(0xc404), Logitech(0x046d), rev 2.20 port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb3: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb4: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x), VIA(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 addr 2: high speed, power 2 mA, config 1, product 0x2338(0x2338), vendor 0x152d(0x152d), rev 1.00 port 3 powered port 4 powered port 5 powered port 6 powered port 7 powered port 8 powered camcontrol devlist: SEAGATE ST39205LW 0105 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS 1.12 at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,cd0) IOMEGA ZIP 100 E.08 at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass2,da1) YAMAHA CRW8824S 1.0a at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (pass3,cd1) SAMSUNG HD160JJ 0-41 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,da2) BENQ DVD DC DW1670 101 at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass5,cd2) Where do I start? Any hint? Are USB controllers/external HDs fully supported in 6.2? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound on an amilo pro notebook
Hello list, I'm trying to get the sound working on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 notebook. The datasheet says i have a Conexant AMOM soundcard. I've tried all drivers, but /dev/sndstat doesn't report anything being installed. I'm running 6.2 x86. Any help/hints is appreciated. Thanks. -- Best regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD
Hello Laszlo, Going off on a tangent here, may I suggest that you try rsync (FreeBSD) with cwRsync (Windows) for this? It can use ssh and be fully automated. You will need rsync as client on both machines and to create the appropriate keys on respective machines. Rsync is in ports and cwRsync is at http://itefix.no/cwrsync/ . Good luck! Nagy László Zsolt skrev: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not complicated: copy/move all files from one computer to another. I was using putty and plink/pscp but it is not reliable. I could not start them from a win32 service. I could run them from a scheduled program but sometimes they freeze and then I have to kill and restart the whole thing. I'm looking for a more reliable tool that can do SCP in batch mode. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks, Laszlo ___ 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]
Dual Logic with Qlogic card
I have a Qlogic HBA card (QLA2342) in a machine running FreeBSD 6.2. FreeBSD sees the card and when the HBA is attached to a SAN we are able to see the disk space. The thing we can't seem to get working is a dual path to the same space. Can anyone point me in the correct direction to get this working? Josef -- FreeBSD 6.2 | I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor Josef Grosch| just because some moistened bint had lobbed a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | scimitar at me, they'd put me away! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Logic with Qlogic card
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:06:03PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote.. I have a Qlogic HBA card (QLA2342) in a machine running FreeBSD 6.2. FreeBSD sees the card and when the HBA is attached to a SAN we are able to see the disk space. The thing we can't seem to get working is a dual path to the same space. Can anyone point me in the correct direction to get this working? You might want to check geom_fox(4). Note the disclaimer about light testing ;^) What FC array do you have btw? -- Wilko Bulte [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: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release
My bind install that came on the 6.1 installation runs from /usr/bin, whereas both the package and the source want to run from /usr/local/bin... You should have named.conf in /etc/namedb unless there's something funny with the original install. Not sure if you need to run make-localhost script in that directory as I do it as a matter of principle each new system install anyway. If I update SSL/SSH/BIND I set the REPLACE_BASE/OVERWRITE_BASE knob (check the Makefile at ports dir for relevant knob name!) so the updated version will overwrite the older at /usr tree. -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Logic with Qlogic card
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:01:55PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote.. Wilko Bulte wrote: You might want to check geom_fox(4). Note the disclaimer about light testing ;^) What FC array do you have btw? There is also geom_multipath in -current, in active development. What are the differences between the twos? I was not aware about geom_multipath so I cannot really comment. Wilko Bulte [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: Dual Logic with Qlogic card
On 03/26/07 15:06, Josef Grosch wrote: I have a Qlogic HBA card (QLA2342) in a machine running FreeBSD 6.2. FreeBSD sees the card and when the HBA is attached to a SAN we are able to see the disk space. The thing we can't seem to get working is a dual path to the same space. Can anyone point me in the correct direction to get this working? See geom multipath (gmultipath) in -CURRENT. I think it's going to be MFC'ed at some point.. Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Logic with Qlogic card
Wilko Bulte wrote: You might want to check geom_fox(4). Note the disclaimer about light testing ;^) What FC array do you have btw? There is also geom_multipath in -current, in active development. What are the differences between the twos? -- Alex Dupre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Logic with Qlogic card
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:38:52PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:06:03PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote.. I have a Qlogic HBA card (QLA2342) in a machine running FreeBSD 6.2. FreeBSD sees the card and when the HBA is attached to a SAN we are able to see the disk space. The thing we can't seem to get working is a dual path to the same space. Can anyone point me in the correct direction to get this working? You might want to check geom_fox(4). Note the disclaimer about light testing ;^) What FC array do you have btw? We are going to be testing with a Netapp 3050 running Ontap 7.04. Our plan is to got to new Netapp 6030 / Ontap 7.2.1.1. This hooks up throught a Brocade switch. My first test were with a Hitachi something or another. I'll have a look at geom_fox. Josef -- FreeBSD 6.2 | Supreme executive power derives from a mandate Josef Grosch| from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ceremony. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding paths to @INC in perl
I've found several methods for adding directories to @INC in perl:
www.ncode.ch/papers/Perl-Library-Mechanics.pdf
I was hoping to find a KNOB, or something I could put in pkgtools.conf
so that my custom library path gets included in perl's @INC. I was
hoping -Dusesitecustomize would have not required a patch to the port's
Makefile but this didn't seem to be the case.
I'm using -Dotherlibdirs now:
==
--- Makefile-perl Sat Feb 10 13:11:20 2007
+++ Makefile-perl-rcSat Feb 10 13:10:56 2007
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@
.endif
MAN3PREFIX=${TARGETDIR}/lib/perl5/${PERL_VER}/perl
+.if defined(WITH_LIBDIRS)
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+= -Dotherlibdirs=${WITH_LIBDIRS}
+.endif
+
test:
@(cd ${WRKSRC}; make test)
@@ -145,6 +149,7 @@
@${ECHO} WITHOUT_PERL_64BITINT=yes Disable 64 bit integers
@${ECHO} (affects only 32-bit
platforms).
@${ECHO} WITH_THREADS=yes Build threaded perl.
+ @${ECHO} WITH_LIBDIRS=PATH:.. Set the otherlibdirs
configure arguments.
@${ECHO} ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes Also build set-user-id
suidperl binary.
@${ECHO}
==
Is there a better way to do this? If not, should I submit this patch to the
port maintainer?
--
Ian Tegebo
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redirect /dev/console to a file
I'd like to redirect /dev/console to some file that can be read by the xrootconsole port. Is this ambition feasible? I like the functionality of xconsole; but it's not very pretty. == Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; and he is able to bring low those who walk in pride. Daniel 4:37 Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New to FreeBSD
Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? Thanks, Ivan -- --- Correr, competir, eu levo isso no sangue, é parte da minha vida. - Ayrton Senna ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
Hi, when I tried with Knoppix, the X system worked well, but with debian I had some problems. I'll try installing it on this week so I'll know everything. Thanks for your answer. Ivan On 3/27/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:09:52PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. Better get 6.2. That is the latest production release. 5.5 is a legacy release. I downloaded also all availible docs. The docs are on the release CD and will be installed if you tell the install program to do so. It is a good idea to print out those parts of the FreeBSD Handbook that deal with installation and have them handy. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. What you could do is use an emulator (like VMware or the free Qemu) to do a test install on a virtual machine. Furthermore there is the Freesbie project which is a FreeBSD Live-CD that you can boot from to get a feel for the system and how it deals with your hardware. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? Depends. It's not really dependant on FreeBSD, but more on the X server. You should look at the docs on the X website: www.x.org HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- --- Correr, competir, eu levo isso no sangue, é parte da minha vida. - Ayrton Senna ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? Thanks, Ivan I'd give the 6.2 release a shot. the 5.5 is a legacy release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sample cds
I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:25 PM, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Have fun. You're welcome to download and burn the FreeBSD ISO images yourself: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html You probably want to grab the 6.2 x86 image -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
You can download the ISO images and make all you want. -Derek At 05:25 PM 3/26/2007, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Sure. Just download the ISO image and burn all the CDs you want. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding paths to @INC in perl
Ian A. Tegebo wrote: I've found several methods for adding directories to @INC in perl: The general solution to this is that 'admin's put appropriate lines in ~/. startup files for users that need this or in the /etc/ system-wide startup files as needed. That said, I don't see anything wrong with this cause if you don't use it nothing changes. -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 323.219.4708 Consultant / http://p6m7g8.net/Resume/resume.shtml Senior Software Engineer - TicketMaster - http://ticketmaster.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade suggestion
Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in'' this coming summer, but my shoulder said, ARE YOU AN IDIOT! so not now. Besides, other tasks await. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary Still trying to learn French :-) PS: I hopefully will be upgrading//getting a faster used server to replace TAO. Even if that resolves part of my upgrade problem, I think we can do lots better with maintaining current ports. -- 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: Upgrade suggestion
On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most have updates available much less often than that. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless the program version itself changes. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want to update something being actively used to a specific known version that you need. I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in'' this coming summer, but my shoulder said, ARE YOU AN IDIOT! so not now. Besides, other tasks await. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary Still trying to learn French :-) Donnez-moi tout mais le temps... -- Napoleon -- -Chuck ___ 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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FreeBSD Clustering?
Looking at running a Postfix and some sort of IMAP/POP3 mailserver with webmail. Would like to do this within a FreeBSD cluster if such a thing is possible. Where can I find out info on FreeBSD clustering options? Cheers, Brett. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release
I did... So I linked it to /etc/named.conf Everything works great now... My question is howver, why are the ports setup different than the original install? I would think that the port build would be set with the same options as the original install that came with the OS... I've seen this before, and it's annoying as heck when you go to patch/update something and it doesn't work because it's installing in a different location and looks for config files in different places. -Original Message- From: Reko Turja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:34 PM To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release My bind install that came on the 6.1 installation runs from /usr/bin, whereas both the package and the source want to run from /usr/local/bin... You should have named.conf in /etc/namedb unless there's something funny with the original install. Not sure if you need to run make-localhost script in that directory as I do it as a matter of principle each new system install anyway. If I update SSL/SSH/BIND I set the REPLACE_BASE/OVERWRITE_BASE knob (check the Makefile at ports dir for relevant knob name!) so the updated version will overwrite the older at /usr tree. -Reko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On 26/03/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most have updates available much less often than that. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless the program version itself changes. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want to update something being actively used to a specific known version that you need. Of course, Gentoo's portage system does all of this. Of course, Gentoo's portage system is a complete labyrinth of configuration files scattered over countless myriads (10^4) of subdirectories so that running a mixture of Holy-and-Blessed Versions and testing versions becomes a lovely game of tag combined with memory and $10,000 Pyramid, only fewer bleached-white teeth. I think the addition of portaudit for such a huge (~17K ports!) collection (and a much less strenuous upgrade cycle) is an excellent idea. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSHD Login Prompt
I just updated my openSSH to the latest and now when I login I get this: login as: don [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: How do I ether set it to show the hostname instead of the IP or get rid of the @ip altogether like the original openSSH ran? I'm using the same configuration files as before, so this must be a new option with OpenSSH. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most have updates available much less often than that. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless the program version itself changes. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want to update something being actively used to a specific known version that you need. Of course, Gentoo's portage system does all of this. Of course, Gentoo's portage system is a complete labyrinth of configuration files scattered over countless myriads (10^4) of subdirectories so that running a mixture of Holy-and-Blessed Versions and testing versions becomes a lovely game of tag combined with memory and $10,000 Pyramid, only fewer bleached-white teeth. I think the addition of portaudit for such a huge (~17K ports!) collection (and a much less strenuous upgrade cycle) is an excellent idea. -- -- Gentoo is a pain, but it's the only thing I can really run (stable-y) on my Core 2 Duo box right now (desktop). Not ready to go straight to -CURRENT on a desktop, quite yet.. I'll give it 6.2-RELEASE shot in a week. But anyhow, I do really like ports more, for all of its quirks.. it truly is a better (simpler) system to deal with, and as long as some of the stuff under the hood gets fixed soon, the better. Oh, but you shouldn't really have to worry about upgrading stuff all the time Gary. There's no point in upgrading packages daily -- I used to do that in Gentoo and all it did was waste precious CPU cycles and reduce the life of my hard disk. Upgrades once to twice a week do just fine for many systems (unless you're purposely running LINT for the entire ports collection -- which doesn't exist quite yet :)..). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:25:15AM +0200, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan As others have noted, you can download and burn the ISO's. Another option is a live CD, such as FreeSBIE. See http://www.freesbie.org for all the details. -- Kelly D. Grills [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp5SxgCeRQqy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Binary Upgrade from 6.1-Stable to 6.2-Release
I didn't get any response on my original post, so I figured I'd 'summarize' it better. Bottom line is I'm having SMP problems under 6.1-STABLE-200608 and suspect it's a problem with 6.1 that may have been addressed in 6.2... Here are my questions: I'm concerned about doing a binary upgrade to 6.2 won't fix the problem, and I've tried using freebsd-update, but it complains about the version not being compatible. Is there a way to 'force' the ID of the system to be 6.1-RELEASE so that freebsd-update will work? If I do a binary upgrade from CD, will it also update the kernel sources so I can build a new one? Will it complain about it not being compatible like freebsd-update? Will doing the 6.1-6.2 binary upgrade as posted by Colin (the author of freebsd-update) also update the kernel sources? Any help/recomendation would be appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSHD Login Prompt
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Don O'Neil wrote: I just updated my openSSH to the latest and now when I login I get this: login as: don [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: How do I ether set it to show the hostname instead of the IP or get rid of the @ip altogether like the original openSSH ran? I'm using the same configuration files as before, so this must be a new option with OpenSSH. Thanks! Search for DNS in the sshd_config manpage.. it's in there somewhere. The only drawback is that sometimes ssh connections will be slow / non-responsive =\.. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:55:56PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most have updates available much less often than that. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless the program version itself changes. Mm-k. I'm guessing that gettext was a good example. That was one thing tht urged me on with being such a fanatic about keeping _everything_ current.Over the years of doing mostly OS version upgrades I got lazy. Things are really ok now... There really are some bad jerks out there, but I'm locked down preet tight. (Maybe it's time to relax a wee bit:) I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want to update something being actively used to a specific known version that you need. Good point. gary I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in'' this coming summer, but my shoulder said, ARE YOU AN IDIOT! so not now. Besides, other tasks await. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary Still trying to learn French :-) Donnez-moi tout mais le temps... -- Napoleon -- -Chuck -- 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]
mdconfig device no faster then direct disk ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a machine that is doing 0 swapping: last pid: 47437; load averages: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 35M Active, 285M Inact, 271M Wired, 44K Cache, 111M Buf, 402M Free Swap: 2007M Total, 2007M Free I just did: mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 200m -o reserve newfs /dev/md0 Now, my understanding, this builds a file system 'in core', vs on the disk ... with memory being faster then disk, I would have assumed that read/write performance would have been better, but, using iozone, I'm not finding enough of a difference in performance to understand why I'd want to use a memory file system: aster# pwd /usr aster# iozone 180 | grep the file It then reads the file. It prints the bytes-per-second Reading the file...1.007812 seconds 54658803 bytes/second for writing the file 187280550 bytes/second for reading the file aster# pwd /usr aster# cd /mnt aster# df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/md0 1981264 182272 0%/mnt aster# iozone 180 | grep the file It then reads the file. It prints the bytes-per-second Reading the file...0.984375 seconds 60701485 bytes/second for writing the file 191739611 bytes/second for reading the file Am I missing something here? Or is this expected? - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGCHmb4QvfyHIvDvMRAugAAKDhsRHHeV/0LsQSGLNrLB6cDe2TDgCeMW3i PNL/GimacMHC5W6XWcyIOLo= =a4Tk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 01:40:40 Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus But you don't *have* to rebuild all the time. I'd wager to say that it's foolish to do so. When you have, e.g. a nice open-office, compiled with, say, the KDE option, there's no immediate need to update the beast if it happens to be updated. Maybe if it's a security fix, but otherwise if the thing works well for you, no need to update. Unless you want to of course. I do a massive portupgrade every 1-2 months on my desktop and I don't feel I'm missing out (and if I do I'll do that update earlier). And yes, usually there's a thing or two that I have to fix manually. It will happen also if you csup-through-cron every day. Perhaps more often. I think you're trying to overdo whilst still trying to minimize build time (= stability shall we say) and such. They're two conflicting goals. this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. We have more than one port update tools (and they do somewhat different things), that would complicate things a lot I think (what color is yer bikeshed), and such a thing would probably need to be in the binary update (Colin's) stuff too. I Would've loved to have joined into the Coding ``love-in'' this coming summer, but my shoulder said, ARE YOU AN IDIOT! so not now. Besides, other tasks await. contro IMHO the sooner Google or in general the second IT/OSS boom fizzles out and stops solliciting what in the end equals free labor the better. Just my opinion. I don't trust them. They just want to have their fishing spot in their own backyard just like MS and Sun and Apple and Novell and they want it on the cheap. Once the IP wars go all out they are not going to give one damn about the original author of a work that has become theirs or what (s)he thinks or believes. /versial I think if you want certain things in ports/packages to change or to have (yet another) alternative management tool, the thing to do is to write it and PR it. It will also give you the largest amount of control. And I bet you can do it. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary Still trying to learn French :-) Meh. l'Amour et l'enfer are all you need to know. Oh, yeah, and fries of course. That's s'il vous-plait (needs two ^'s on both i's IIRC). I also found it useful to know where the Rue des Bons-Enfants was in Paris but you probably don't. Very off-topic :) PS: I hopefully will be upgrading//getting a faster used server to replace TAO. Even if that resolves part of my upgrade problem, I think we can do lots better with maintaining current ports. A week or so ago, you were asking about packages and if they might be offered by port submitters. I think if submitters would use tinderbox to build packages it may be much easier to get pkgs that are all from (somewhat or even exactly) the same pristine build environment. That's one idea I thought of (some port maintainers and most committers use it). I wonder if it might be too much to ask of our submitters/maintainers though. Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redirect /dev/console to a file
Neil Short wrote: I'd like to redirect /dev/console to some file that can be read by the xrootconsole port. Is this ambition feasible? I like the functionality of xconsole; but it's not very pretty. According to the default /etc/syslog.conf, you should be able to enable syslogd to log to a file, and then run xrootconsole on that, I should imagine. ?? Details are found there, IIRC. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. -- Katharine Whitehorn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. 6.2-RELEASE would be a better choice. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? More than 90% of them do; I don't know about all of them. You might try a FreeBSD live CD (such as FreeSBIE) and see what kind of performance you get. I think that a new FreeSBIE is out based on FreeBSD 6.2 --- you could check at www.freesbie.org. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redirect /dev/console to a file
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Neil Short wrote: I'd like to redirect /dev/console to some file that can be read by the xrootconsole port. Is this ambition feasible? I like the functionality of xconsole; but it's not very pretty. According to the default /etc/syslog.conf, you should be able to enable syslogd to log to a file, and then run xrootconsole on that, I should imagine. ?? Details are found there, IIRC. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. -- Katharine Whitehorn Yes, you can do that from /etc/syslog.conf. Don't have my PC right in front of me right now, but doing that's trivial. Want to make sure you have permissions for the file though because (if memory served me correctly) syslog's security settings are fairly restrictive by default (mode: 600 owned by root, or something similar). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:09:52PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerovi? wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. It is OK, but I would encourage you to download the latest RELEASE to start with and that currently is FreeBSD 6.2. It is better than 5.5. But, you can get 5.5 to work if that is what you wish. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? Do you mean one that is built in to the motherboard? There is a list of supported hardware in each RELEASE section on the FreeBSD web site. That is the place to look first. Some NICs and other controllers that are int4egrated on the motherboard do not work well, but I don't know which ones. You might have to get more specific with the chip identification and such. jerry Thanks, Ivan -- --- Correr, competir, eu levo isso no sangue, é parte da minha vida. - Ayrton Senna ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sample cds
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:25:15AM +0200, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? You are welcome to make your own. It is legal. Specifically, download the disc2 ISO and burn it to a CD. That one has both the installation system and also a 'fixit' version that contains most of a basic FreeBSD system that you can run from the CD and memory. Just make sure you burn it as a straight image to the CD and don't use any parameters that attempt to convert it in any way. The file you download is already converted to an ISO and ready to burn as is. Note, though that FreeBSD is its own UNIX and not Linux. Its history actually reaches back farther than Linux. jerry Stefan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:58:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most have updates available much less often than that. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless the program version itself changes. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites): have a flag, say 'u' for urgent when *foo* goes from foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical fix. There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want to update something being actively used to a specific known version that you need. Of course, Gentoo's portage system does all of this. Of course, Gentoo's portage system is a complete labyrinth of configuration files scattered over countless myriads (10^4) of subdirectories so that running a mixture of Holy-and-Blessed Versions and testing versions becomes a lovely game of tag combined with memory and $10,000 Pyramid, only fewer bleached-white teeth. I've run several distros of Linux. Ubuntu is (or *was*) my favorite; they're getting carried away. (IMHO). I think the addition of portaudit for such a huge (~17K ports!) collection (and a much less strenuous upgrade cycle) is an excellent idea. -- -- Gentoo is a pain, but it's the only thing I can really run (stable-y) on my Core 2 Duo box right now (desktop). Not ready to go straight to -CURRENT on a desktop, quite yet.. I'll give it 6.2-RELEASE shot in a week. But anyhow, I do really like ports more, for all of its quirks.. it truly is a better (simpler) system to deal with, and as long as some of the stuff under the hood gets fixed soon, the better. For tuning things to your server, compiler, just the way you want it, yes. I'm still building tests for g**-4.2, and will post something when I have anything solid. Oh, but you shouldn't really have to worry about upgrading stuff all the time Gary. There's no point in upgrading packages daily -- I used to do that in Gentoo and all it did was waste precious CPU cycles and reduce the life of my hard disk. Upgrades once to twice a week do just fine for many systems (unless you're purposely running LINT for the entire ports collection -- which doesn't exist quite yet :)..). Lint?!! Good grief, I haven't touched that for years. My trying-to-keep-current started when I had 6.2 firmly on my backup DNS server. I figured it would be trivial to have _everything_ current ... and ran smack into the consequences of complexity theory. I'll chill out and use portaudit! thanks, guys, gary -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release
Don O'Neil wrote: I did... So I linked it to /etc/named.conf Everything works great now... My question is howver, why are the ports setup different than the original install? I would think that the port build would be set with the same options as the original install that came with the OS... I've seen this before, and it's annoying as heck when you go to patch/update something and it doesn't work because it's installing in a different location and looks for config files in different places. Because they are ports?? Kevin Kinsey -Original Message- From: Reko Turja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:34 PM To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release My bind install that came on the 6.1 installation runs from /usr/bin, whereas both the package and the source want to run from /usr/local/bin... You should have named.conf in /etc/namedb unless there's something funny with the original install. Not sure if you need to run make-localhost script in that directory as I do it as a matter of principle each new system install anyway. If I update SSL/SSH/BIND I set the REPLACE_BASE/OVERWRITE_BASE knob (check the Makefile at ports dir for relevant knob name!) so the updated version will overwrite the older at /usr tree. -Reko -- The San Diego Freeway. Official Parking Lot of the 1984 Olympics! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release
If they are 'ports' specificly built for FreeBSD, shouldn't the port maintainer make them install like the originals were? Makes sense to me Or maybe the original install/release needs to be changed to install the same as the port. It's a pain having to debug where everything went, change config files, update startup scripts, make symlinks, etc... When if it were Linux a simple RPM install would update it and I'd be done with it. Just my observations. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kinsey Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:13 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: 'Reko Turja'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release Don O'Neil wrote: I did... So I linked it to /etc/named.conf Everything works great now... My question is howver, why are the ports setup different than the original install? I would think that the port build would be set with the same options as the original install that came with the OS... I've seen this before, and it's annoying as heck when you go to patch/update something and it doesn't work because it's installing in a different location and looks for config files in different places. Because they are ports?? Kevin Kinsey -Original Message- From: Reko Turja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:34 PM To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Bind OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release My bind install that came on the 6.1 installation runs from /usr/bin, whereas both the package and the source want to run from /usr/local/bin... You should have named.conf in /etc/namedb unless there's something funny with the original install. Not sure if you need to run make-localhost script in that directory as I do it as a matter of principle each new system install anyway. If I update SSL/SSH/BIND I set the REPLACE_BASE/OVERWRITE_BASE knob (check the Makefile at ports dir for relevant knob name!) so the updated version will overwrite the older at /usr tree. -Reko -- The San Diego Freeway. Official Parking Lot of the 1984 Olympics! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help on picking an IMAP server
- Original Message - From: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:40:48 -0500 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems doing so, and I didn't like the fact that it changes the format of the folders from the mbox standard. AFAIK imap-uw does support subfolders, to the same extent that UNIX supports subdirectories. The problem is that you can't have a mailbox file and a subdirectory of the same name in a directory. So in foo/bar, bar is a mailbox and foo/ is a directory - so there can't be a top-level mailbox called foo. It's just a matter of organizing your mailboxes to take account of this. I agree, I have had no problems making folders on the server with uw-imap I respectfully submit that anyone who is ignorant of the importance of UNIX special characters like the / in a directory name would almost certainly boff up any IMAP subfolder creation regardless of what IMAP server software he was using. He's probably coming from a Mac. Hopefully he knows about the other UNIX special characters. Unfortunately, immediately taking an attitude that It's not my mistake it must be the software whenever encountering trouble with a computer is not going to get anyone very far. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Westell USB network adapter
First of all, I work for an ISP. I can assure you that anything that ActionTec makes is unmitigated garbage. Only use it if you absolutely must, and have it do as little as possible. If you can put it into bridged mode so that the NAT/routing functionality can be done by something behind it, your years ahead. Also, using USB for network connections is idiotic. Go Ethernet from the FIOS stuff to a wireless router. I sometimes worry since the ISP I work at offers DSL in the FIOS area and Verizon FIOS directly competes with us. Then I read posts like this that say what the Verizon techs are telling customers and I realize I have nothing to worry about. Ted - Original Message - From: White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Users Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:53 AM Subject: Westell USB network adapter Having gotten sick of my cable company, I am considering switching to Verizon FIOS. They want to install a Actiontec Router Model MI424-WR. They recommend the Westell USB network adapter. Does anyone have any experience with that unit and FBSD. I can use any adapter I want as long as it works with their router. I can use a hard wired system; however, if I can get the wireless system working correctly, I would rather do it that way. There are three computers on this network, two WinXP and one FBSD-6.2 system. Thanks! -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd
- Original Message - From: Rick Apichairuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... Thanks I recommend Gentoo or Slackware. I feel that these are most similar to FreeBSD in organization, configuration and third party software management. Personally, I use Gentoo when I can't use FreeBSD. With Gentoo, you can compile everything to be optimized for your specific processor if you want to do so. How exactly do you compile a binary-only product like Zend Platform to be optimiized for your CPU? I realize you mean well but this is commercial software, he needs to call Zend technical support first and ask them which specific linux distro they prefer to use. If he does not do this then at 4pm in the afternoon when there is a problem he may get we didn't test it on that linux distro from Zend tech support. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade suggestion
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:59:54AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007 01:40:40 Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day. E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3. I used to run port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently, upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus But you don't *have* to rebuild all the time. I'd wager to say that it's foolish to do so. When you have, e.g. a nice open-office, compiled with, say, the KDE option, there's no immediate need to update the beast if it happens to be updated. Maybe if it's a security fix, but otherwise if the thing works well for you, no need to update. Unless you want to of course. I do a massive portupgrade every 1-2 months on my desktop and I don't feel I'm missing out (and if I do I'll do that update earlier). And yes, usually there's a thing or two that I have to fix manually. It will happen also if you csup-through-cron every day. Perhaps more often. I think you're trying to overdo whilst still trying to minimize build time (= stability shall we say) and such. They're two conflicting goals. Hi Dan My latest (of N:) thoughts/ideas was to do a custom i686 build on my P2 and P3 boxes. This on my 700-750MHz server, this one. Eventually I would have everything in package form and it would be simple to scp * around. It would take months to get everything built with O3 (and gcc4.x), optimizing for speed by doing [[intelligent]] loop-unrolling. Last year I had my first fatal panic in 11 years. And I hadn't cross backup in days shudder. Some eu-daemon must have been looking out because a fellow I don't know/never met stopped over and did some network magic, and got enough off my drive. That panic was a good lesson because it impelled me to automate backups. Stability is an end goal, but perfect stability is a mirage... . Besides, the kind of stability I'm looking for is in the kernel, and BSD has as stable a kernel as exists. We have more than one port update tools (and they do somewhat different things), that would complicate things a lot I think (what color is yer bikeshed), and such a thing would probably need to be in the binary update (Colin's) stuff too. At least five years ago one listmember was complaining about the ports system and was advised to come up with his own. He said he would and wouldn;'t be back until he was finished. One of the first things is, as I see it, is to define the problems ... and do so on a whiteboard or forum. One tack that I would take would be to have a freeze-frame one every N days or weeks. Once the ports collection worked/built (or 95+% of it), put it out for folks to build or download in generic [i3][4][5][686]. See if this works; then do it for the other architectures. But I'm sure it's not that clean cut. The dependencies' dependencies had their own dependencies :-) So... . contro IMHO the sooner Google or in general the second IT/OSS boom fizzles out and stops solliciting what in the end equals free labor the better. Just my opinion. I don't trust them. They just want to have their fishing spot in their own backyard just like MS and Sun and Apple and Novell and they want it on the cheap. Once the IP wars go all out they are not going to give one damn about the original author of a work that has become theirs or what (s)he thinks or believes. /versial If I shared my *real* thoughts, somebody would shoot me in the back! That said, I'm open to giving this a try. We'll see if Google's ethics hold up. I think if you want certain things in ports/packages to change or to have (yet another) alternative management tool, the thing to do is to write it and PR it. It will also give you the largest amount of control. And I bet you can do it. Flames to /dev/null,guys; rational responses see-vous-play. gary Still trying to learn French :-) Meh. l'Amour et l'enfer are all you need to know. Oh, yeah, and fries of course. That's s'il vous-plait (needs two ^'s on both i's IIRC). I also found it useful to know where the Rue des Bons-Enfants was in Paris but you probably don't. Very off-topic :) PS: I hopefully will be upgrading//getting a faster used server to replace TAO. Even if that resolves part of my upgrade problem, I think we can do lots
