The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-04-22 - 2007-05-12

[Dan Langille]

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Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

[Andrew Falanga]

On 5/11/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Don't do that.

I'm wondering if this is due to the prefix change. Look at the output
of:

   pkg_info -px "^gtk-"

If you don't see

CWD to /usr/local

for your GTK ports, you'll need the rebuild some stuff:

  pkgdb -Ff
  portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*



What is the pkg-config* package anyway?  When you said here that I'd
have to rebuild some stuff, I didn't think you meant every single port
in the system.

I finally got the pkgdb -Ff to work, but I had to remove a couple of
packages that kept kicking it out because two packages placed files in
the same place.  I don't recall the packages now, but it the pkgdb did
finally work.  Then I did the portupgrade -rf pkg-config\*.  That was
last night (Friday) @ ~10.  It's probably taken longer than it should
have because I went to bed at 12 and got up through the night to
answer the prompts.  However, here it is 8:34 on Saturday night (MST)
and it's still building KDE.

I think that there was some things that hadn't upgraded before even
though I thought that they had.  I have a very serious question now.
How am I supposed to know to check that stuff you said to with
"pkg_info -px "^gtk-" and look for "CWD /usr/local" instead of what I
had for everything "CWD /usr/X11"?  How did you know that?  Would that
all have been in that /usr/ports/UPDATING?

Thanks for the help.

Andy
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Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

[NetOpsCenter]

jekillen wrote:


Hello again;
Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups
system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references
in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently
I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped
out on me last night. It had been doing ok and was a replacement for one
made by Tripp Lite, which also failed permanently. I am running one desk
top FreeBSD system, headless but with high speed SCSI drives in addition
to the boot drive. I am away during the week for at least 8 - 9 hours 
during

the week and cant be there if the power goes down to shut the system
down before the ups exhausts its battery.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Jeff K.

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Aloha Jekillen,


I had a similar problem here in  Hawaii with our 2  noc servers.  I 
replaced the small UPS battery with a 100 amp stationery battery out 
side the box. It now will run for about 10 hours if we have a power 
outage for that long.




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Re: STABLE + KEXI 1.1.2 (koffice 1.6.2) + KDE 3.5.6 = no sql?

[Jarosław Staniek]

On 12 Maj, 02:41, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > yields an empty result. Does anyone have any pointers on what it might
> > > take to get this working again? I have about 30 saved queries, none of
> > > them work any more.
>
> > What kind of database? Native (SQLite), MySQL, Postgres?
>
> > Kind regards,
>
> I think you should install the qt database(s) support you want via ports:
>
> qt-ibase-plugin
> qt-mysql-plugin
> qt-odbc-plugin
> qt-pgsql-plugin
> qt-sqlite-plugin
> qt4-ibase-plugin
> qt4-mysql-plugin
> qt4-odbc-plugin
> qt4-pgsql-plugin
> qt4-sql
> qt4-sqlite-plugin
> qt4-sqlite3-plugin

Hello,
Kexi does not use qt sql plugins you mentioned above.
Drew, could you send me an SQLite  database file with the problem reproduced?

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Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

[jekillen]

Hello again;
Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups
system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references
in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently
I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped
out on me last night. It had been doing ok and was a replacement for one
made by Tripp Lite, which also failed permanently. I am running one desk
top FreeBSD system, headless but with high speed SCSI drives in addition
to the boot drive. I am away during the week for at least 8 - 9 hours 
during

the week and cant be there if the power goes down to shut the system
down before the ups exhausts its battery.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Jeff K.

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Re: Why is portupgrade not logging?

[mal content]

On 13/05/07, mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am running the command like this:

DATE_YEAR=`date +%Y`
DATE_MONTH=`date +%m`
DATE_DAY=`date +%d`
LOG_BASE="$HOME/var/log/portupgrade"
LOG="${LOG_BASE}/${DATE_YEAR}/${DATE_MONTH}/${DATE_DAY}_%s:%s.log"

portupgrade \
  -aRrv \
  --batch \
  -L "${LOG}"

No files are ever created in ~/var/log/portupgrade/2007/05.

Am I misunderstanding something about the -L switch?

MC



Cosmic ray.

It's just started logging.

Never mind...
MC
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Why is portupgrade not logging?

[mal content]

I am running the command like this:

DATE_YEAR=`date +%Y`
DATE_MONTH=`date +%m`
DATE_DAY=`date +%d`
LOG_BASE="$HOME/var/log/portupgrade"
LOG="${LOG_BASE}/${DATE_YEAR}/${DATE_MONTH}/${DATE_DAY}_%s:%s.log"

portupgrade \
 -aRrv \
 --batch \
 -L "${LOG}"

No files are ever created in ~/var/log/portupgrade/2007/05.

Am I misunderstanding something about the -L switch?

MC
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Re: Sendmail mail.local Failure

[Derek Ragona]

At 11:48 AM 5/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to
remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally.

/var/log/maillog says:

sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31955]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
sm-msp-queue[31959]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: smtpquit: mailer local exited with exit value 1
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
delay=00:50:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=241792,
relay=local, dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by local

In my mc file, I have (Among other settings):

FEATURE(local_lmtp)
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)

Why's the mail getting deferred?


It is deferred becuase sendmail isn't running.  Check your sendmail 
settings in /etc/rc.conf.


-Derek

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Re: Mail Sending delay to HOTMAIL and Yahoo on FreeBSD 6.2

[L33T Networks]

DeadMan:

This is an issue with Yahoo and Hotmail, on how they process e-mails coming
into their system. I too, am running a FreeBSD 6.2 machine, running QMAIL as
my MTA - the same issue exists.

You may need to ensure that you have the proper SPF records for your
domains, as they have started checking SPF.

~C


On 5/12/07 12:43 PM, "DeadMan Xia " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi everybody 
> 
> well i have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my Dell Power Edge 2850. I have
> installed QMAIL as mailing agent with POP3 and IMAP.
> 
> now when i send email to hotmail or yahoo, the mail delivered with big delay
> time. Howevr when i send it to gmail or any other domain its works quickly.
> 
> i am in big trouble. i also contact yahoo and hotmail support but in vain.
> This issue was solved with some extent changing of permission of triggers
> file in /var/qmail/queue/lock. now everything is going fyne but email to
> yahoo and hotmail delivers with too much delay .
> 
> Can anybody help me out.
> 
> Regards,


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Re: freebsd-update and locally modfied files

[Lowell Gilbert]

Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert pisze:
>
>>> Now, I do not recall ever playing with jail. Anyway, how do I update the
>>> system (and keep changes to /etc/rc.d/jail (if any))?
>>
>> I suggest looking at the differences, and hand-updating to the latest
>> version of the file if it will server for you.  Then you should be
>> able to take updates in the future...
>
>
> Forgive me for asking but where do I take jail file to compare it to
> the existing one?

That depends on where it came from.  
I don't have such a file, and no port with a pkg-plist installs such a
file, so I can't tell where it came from.
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Mail Sending delay to HOTMAIL and Yahoo on FreeBSD 6.2

[DeadMan Xia ....]

Hi everybody 

well i have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my Dell Power Edge 2850. I have
installed QMAIL as mailing agent with POP3 and IMAP.

now when i send email to hotmail or yahoo, the mail delivered with big delay
time. Howevr when i send it to gmail or any other domain its works quickly.

i am in big trouble. i also contact yahoo and hotmail support but in vain.
This issue was solved with some extent changing of permission of triggers
file in /var/qmail/queue/lock. now everything is going fyne but email to
yahoo and hotmail delivers with too much delay .

Can anybody help me out.

Regards,
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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:21:23AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote:
> Philippe Laquet wrote:
> >
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I 
> >also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with 
> >mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried 
> >with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not support "-o mand" ... 
> >Any idea?...
> >
> >
> >My config : FBSD 6-STABLE
> >GENERIC Kernel
> >HAVP 0.85 (tuned makefile to compile the with STREAM function)
> >
> >Tried with :
> >mdconfig -a -t malloc -s32m
> >mount_ext2fs -o mand /dev/md0 /tmp/havp (the "mand" option is not 
> >recognized)
> >
> 
> I don't think that FreeBSD has mandatory file locks, I believe that all 
> locks are advisory.  I may be wrong but this is what the section on 
> file/descriptor locking in "The Design And Implementation of the FreeBSD 
>  Operating System" seemed to suggest, this may have changed since 5.2 tho.

That's correct.

Kris
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Wierd Network problem

[Craig Russell]

I have a dell poweredge 6650 installed with freebsd
6.1 and on the local router, everything works great
(ie, a computer on a different subnet off the same
router can access it fine) but coming from outside of
the network access is incredibly slow.  My first
thought was that it must be a routing issue, but I
have two other freebsd 6.1 servers on that same subnet
and I can access them fine from outside.  I dug a
little further and compared the servers that are
working with those that are not and these are the
differences that I have found.

On the servers that are working (dell poweredge
2450's) the interface is an fxp0 and here is the
output of ifconfig:
fxp0:
flags=8843 mtu
1500
options=8
inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee1:f66a%fxp0 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x1
inet 64.25.218.2 netmask 0xff80 broadcast
64.25.218.127
ether 00:b0:d0:e1:f6:6a
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
status: active

on the server that is not working:

bge0:
flags=8843 mtu
1500
options=1b
inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fedc:9aa2%bge0 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x1
inet 64.25.218.10 netmask 0xff80 broadcast
64.25.218.127
ether 00:11:43:dc:9a:a2
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
status: active

The first thing that i noticed is that on the option
line there is quite a bit of difference between the
two.  So using the command line ifconfig tool I
removed RXCSUM, TXCSUM from the bge0 interface. 
Voila!  Speed increased and the server was actually
accessible from off net.  Unfortunately, as soon as I
tried to access any other port, the interface crashes.
 Eventually the watchdog picks up on that and restarts
the interface.  But the problem is completely
repeatable.

The server that I am having problems with is running
cpanel 10.9; the two that are working are running the
dns-only version of cpanel.  I am not picking up any
errors in the logs.  This could be related to cpanel,
or not, I'm not really sure, although it shouldn't be.

The other unique thing about the setup, that very well
may be affecting is that the router in question has
two subnets configured on the internal port.  There is
a nat'd subnet for our local users and there is the
public subnet that these servers sit on.  The final
resting place for all three is in a datacenter that
isn't built yet, so rather than reconfigure everything
once that was done I simply routed the final subnet to
our office and set it up their.  The router is a
mikrotik RB112 board which only has one ethernet port
so I couldn't dedicate a port for the new subnet.  As
I said, my first thought was that the problem was in
the router, but the other two servers are running
fine.

Any suggestions?

Thank you, 
Craig Russell
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Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?

[Josh Tolbert]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:02:00PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500
> Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily
> > periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video
> > location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more
> > little issue. It leaves a lot of empty directories. I could just
> > write a cron entry to take care of empty directories, but I'm hoping
> > there's something I'm missing and there's a way to remove empty
> > directories from the locations specified in daily_clean_tmps_dirs
> 
> They should be deleted automatically, but it's based on when they are
> last modified, not just when the last file is removed, so it should take
> 14 days in your case.

Now that I look at it, you're right. Thanks. Sorry for wasting everyone's
time.

Thanks,

Josh
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usb wireless keyboard not working at boot menu

[Evren Yurtesen]

Hi,

I have a usb wireless keyboard/mouse combo which doesnt work at beastie. 
It works before and after the boot menu perfectly fine. But not in 
beastie so I am not able to enter to single user/safe mode etc. unless

I plug in a ps2 keyboard.

Do you know a workaround for this?

Thanks,
Evren
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Sendmail mail.local Failure

[KingFoobar]

For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to
remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally.

/var/log/maillog says:

sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31955]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
sm-msp-queue[31959]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: smtpquit: mailer local exited with exit value 1
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
delay=00:50:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=241792,
relay=local, dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by local

In my mc file, I have (Among other settings):

FEATURE(local_lmtp)
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)

Why's the mail getting deferred?

I'm not on the mailing list, so please include me in any replies. Thanks!
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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Philippe Laquet]

Michel Talon a écrit :

Philippe Laquet wrote:

  
OK - Thanks Tom, I will take a look on it, I think that HAVP was first 
developped on and for GNU/Linux, that may explain the need of a 
Mandatory (derived from SysV?) locks... I am currently looking on the 
source code of HAVP and check is a FreeBSD Patch could be done.



I have looked at HAVP CVS, apparently they have added an option to
compile without mandatory locks (NOMAND).


  

Salut Michel ;)

That's what I was looking for (Mandatory option in order to perform 
STREAM). Without Mandatory HAVP works fine but for client "performance" 
or latency while displaying web pages - I was begging if anyone has 
found a solution for activating Mandatory locking (+STREAM) for AVP.


I am not sure that Mandatory itself is required, HAVP only creates a 
temporary file but check if the dedicated mount point IS mounted with 
MAND...


(I am afraid I am not really clear... lol)

A++ ;)
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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Michel Talon]

Philippe Laquet wrote:

> OK - Thanks Tom, I will take a look on it, I think that HAVP was first 
> developped on and for GNU/Linux, that may explain the need of a 
> Mandatory (derived from SysV?) locks... I am currently looking on the 
> source code of HAVP and check is a FreeBSD Patch could be done.

I have looked at HAVP CVS, apparently they have added an option to
compile without mandatory locks (NOMAND).


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Re: Is there any already-existing method for removing empty dirs through periodic?

[RW]

On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:05:58 -0500
Josh Tolbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ...
> This setup eats disk space fast. I've been using the clean-tmps daily
> periodic to remove all files older than seven days from the video
> location, which takes care of the space issue, but there's one more
> little issue. It leaves a lot of empty directories. I could just
> write a cron entry to take care of empty directories, but I'm hoping
> there's something I'm missing and there's a way to remove empty
> directories from the locations specified in daily_clean_tmps_dirs

They should be deleted automatically, but it's based on when they are
last modified, not just when the last file is removed, so it should take
14 days in your case.
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Re: Missing perl module is messing everything up

[David LeCount]

--- Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Maybe it's in the wrong place.  There's a port for
> XML::Parser:
> 
> /usr/ports/textproc/p5-XML-Parser
> 
> Install that and see if it solves the problem.
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

I looked for such a port and couldn't find one. Maybe
I searched for parser with a lowercase p. It was
already installed, but I forced a reinstall and I
think it's working now. I'm not sure why "portupgrade
-fRra" didn't reinstall it. Thanks.


 

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rebuilding the ipmi driver

[Dhananjaya hiremath]

Hello sir,
Here we did the following command to build the ipmi.

# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/smbus && make && make install
# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ipmi && make && make install
# kldload smbus
# kldload ipmi

Then how we come to know that the driver is installed.And how to 
ensure that driver runs successfully.


   
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php5-interbase dependancy on firebird2-client

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hi people,

I have installed (by luck) firebird-{server|client} on FreeBSD 
6.2-STABLE.
Now I want to install php5-interbase, but it seems dependent on
firebird2-client, but I have installed firebird1-client!

How can I make it depend on firebird-client instead of firebird2-client?

My webdev insists on using firebird 1.5.x instead of firebird2.

Besides, installing firebird2-* is such a pain in the you know where :-)

I am using the ports tree to do all this.


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Re: Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

[Matthew Seaman]

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David Landgren wrote:

> I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip
> the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says:
> 
> options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv
> default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)
> 
> ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not
> the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little
> guidance would be most appreciated.

fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0

You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press
F1'  business.  Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots
straight up.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Philippe Laquet]

Tom Judge a écrit :

Philippe Laquet wrote:


Dear All,

I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I 
also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with 
mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also 
tried with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not support "-o 
mand" ... Any idea?...



My config : FBSD 6-STABLE
GENERIC Kernel
HAVP 0.85 (tuned makefile to compile the with STREAM function)

Tried with :
mdconfig -a -t malloc -s32m
mount_ext2fs -o mand /dev/md0 /tmp/havp (the "mand" option is not 
recognized)




I don't think that FreeBSD has mandatory file locks, I believe that 
all locks are advisory.  I may be wrong but this is what the section 
on file/descriptor locking in "The Design And Implementation of the 
FreeBSD  Operating System" seemed to suggest, this may have changed 
since 5.2 tho.


Tom

OK - Thanks Tom, I will take a look on it, I think that HAVP was first 
developped on and for GNU/Linux, that may explain the need of a 
Mandatory (derived from SysV?) locks... I am currently looking on the 
source code of HAVP and check is a FreeBSD Patch could be done.


Kind Regards,
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Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

[Erik Norgaard]

Simon Castillo wrote:

Hi all:

   I installed Freebsd ver 6.2 couple months ago in a Pentium III computer.  I configured samba, gnome and couple other applications. 


Couple days ago I decided to update the ports.  For this I use portmanager -u 
-l (after updating the port list).
Up to know, I was unable to kill this error and, in consequence, my samba 
server is not working.

Does anybody could help me to fix this problem? I don't know what else to do.

Thanks in advance


Read /usr/ports/UPDATING there is a significant change that may affect 
you and which in any case indicates it is a good time to update all ports:


20070318:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU)
  AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, the shared library
  version of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all
  ports that depend on gettext (ie: most of them, sorry)

Partially upgrading can give some errors like the one you mention. Note: 
I don't say that your problem is caused by this upgrade, but you will 
resolve the problem and avoid future dependency problems if you update 
all ports.


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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Tom Judge]

Philippe Laquet wrote:


Dear All,

I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I 
also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with 
mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried 
with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not support "-o mand" ... 
Any idea?...



My config : FBSD 6-STABLE
GENERIC Kernel
HAVP 0.85 (tuned makefile to compile the with STREAM function)

Tried with :
mdconfig -a -t malloc -s32m
mount_ext2fs -o mand /dev/md0 /tmp/havp (the "mand" option is not 
recognized)




I don't think that FreeBSD has mandatory file locks, I believe that all 
locks are advisory.  I may be wrong but this is what the section on 
file/descriptor locking in "The Design And Implementation of the FreeBSD 
 Operating System" seemed to suggest, this may have changed since 5.2 tho.


Tom

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Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

[David Landgren]

List,

I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip 
the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says:


options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)

... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not 
the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little 
guidance would be most appreciated.


Thanks,
David
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Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

[Philippe Laquet]

   Kris Kennaway a écrit :

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:10:09AM +0200, Philippe Laquet wrote:
  

Dear All,

I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I 
also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with 
mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried 
with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not support "-o mand" ... 
Any idea?...


Why does it need mandatory locks?

Kris
  

   I don't even know - it uses a STREAMING for downlodaded objects to be
   scanned onto a dedicated mount point - it could be an internal feature
   of HAVP that needs mandatory locks. I am not sure. I just would like
   to know if any is available under FreeBSD - Instead, I am afraid I
   will have to ask the HAVP developpers directly (and the "why does it
   needs MAND" could have an answer ;))
   Thanks
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Re: temp

[Manolis Kiagias]

Jack Barnett wrote:
> Is there any program that'll monitor the temperate of my motherboard?
>
> There are some windows program that'll give me status on my fans, CPU
> temps, motherboard temps, etc - is there anything like that in the
> ports collection?
>
> (basically I think my CPUs are overheating in one server)
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There is sysutils/mbmon. I am using it successfully here. Pkg-descr reads:

This is a X/tty motherboard monitor which supports LM78/79, WINBond
83781D/83782D/83783S, ASUS 991227F, and VIA VT82C686A/B PC-health
chips via 3 methods: ISA-I/O, SMBus, VIA-direct.

If you also want a graphical representation in X, you can use gkrellm or
gkrellm2
(gtk based), reads the values from mbmon
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