RE: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address
On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:29 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Ernest Sales wrote: [ ... ] Honestly, I don't understand what each of this four daemons is supposed to do. I just want the minimal working sendmail config in a NATed host, the /etc/defaults/rc.conf reads as your sample, and init says sendmail_outbound_enable is set to NO, which seems odd but dunno the consequences. There are only two daemons, actually: the MTA, and the client mqueue runner. The separation was made because sendmail used to run as a single, setuid-root executable, and has had a rather infamous security history as a consequence. If you want sendmail to be running and listening on port 25 as a MTA, you need to set the sendmail_enable/ sendmail_outbound_enable to YES. [ ... ] Is there any standard, anything like the CIDR blocks reserved for private networks? The zeroconf/rendezvous stuff likes to use .local as the domain unless other info is available. Cool. Tried .local and works too. Looks like sendmail is happy with finding 'dot anything' after the hostname. So far, my problem is fixed. But the init behavior for unqualified hostnames is less than optimal: having to wait one minute until sendmail agrees --and it finally agrees-- is annoying; and this happens for every sendmail daemon launch. As more end-users using PCs without FQDN jump to FreeBSD this could be more heard of. Wonder if filing a PR; comments welcome. The standard period for a DNS timeout is anywhere up to about two minutes, depending on how many resolvers are configured in /etc/ resolv.conf. It's possible to tell sendmail not to use DNS, and avoid this timeout, but normally people run mailservers only on machines with working DNS and a sensible hostname. This isn't a bug, it's just an assumption that sendmail makes which is typically appropriate, but not for the case of a random client machine without working DNS A broader point of view. OK, I forget about PR. Thanks. Ernest -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: .login_conf ignored [solved]
On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:20 AM, Christopher Illies wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:39:05PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher
Illies wrote:
The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored:
[...]
Try compiling just your ~/login_conf, make sure a
~/login_conf.db file appears.
Ernest
Thanks, that has worked!
Before I always used cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf plus all the user's
$HOME/.login_conf, but just using it on my ~/.login_conf did the
trick. A ~/.login_conf.db file has appeared.
I feel a bit silly for not having come up with it myself.
I guess what
confused me was that on another user's account the
cap_mkdb compiling
wasn't neccessary, but I don't need to understand that now that it
works for me.
Thanks again.
Christopher
But you are still curious, aren't you?
Yes
AFAIK, there are two possible
explanations:
1) There _is_ a .login_conf.db file in the other user's homedir.
No
2) The other account pertains to a different login class than yours,
which already sets the desired locale and so masquerades the user's
settings being ignored. Dunno if a user can see his own
login class. If
you have permissions, can use vipw to find out (if
unfamiliar, take a
look to vipw(8) and passwd(5) manpages, notice the 'class' field).
Ernest
Not that I can see. I 'chris' is my login, and 'bill' in another
account that does not have this problem:
; sudo cat /etc/master.passwd | egrep 'chris|bill' | awk
-F: '{ print $1,:, $5,:}'
chris : :
bill : :
; whoami
chris
; ls /home/bill/.login*
/home/bill/.login /home/bill/.login_conf
; cat /home/bill/.login_conf
# $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3 2001/06/10 17:08:53
# ache Exp $
#
# see login.conf(5)
#
me:\
:charset=iso-8859-1:\
:lang=se_SE.ISO8859-1:
; sudo sed -i.bak -e 's/se_SE/de_DE/' /home/bill/.login_conf
; su -l bill
Password:
$ whoami
bill
$ env | egrep -i 'lang|charset'
MM_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1
But to change settings on the 'chris' account I have to use cap_mkdb
/home/chris/.login_conf. Strange...
Christopher
And your test also discards some login script directly setting the variables
(assuming bill locale is usually se_SE). Wish some day we get enlightened.
Ernest
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Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:16:34 -0500 WizLayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 08:27:48 pm you wrote: On May 13, 2007, at 7:13 PM, WizLayer wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:17:14 pm Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Would it recharge the battery fully after discharge? I dont think so. So you got to recharge the external battery EXTERNALLY after power failure. Indeed. UPSes are designed to start recharging their (usually 12V sealed lead-acid) batteries at around the 5-hour rate, which might be say 2.4A for a 12Ah battery, for a say 300VA UPS, tapering that off as voltage rises. Using (just) the UPS to recharge a say 100Ah vehicle battery at that rate would take maybe 2 days, assuming the UPS didn't overheat and perhaps blow up trying. However a simple (regulated) charger on the external battery is fine, though possibly thoroughly confusing the UPS' brains about how long recharge should take, available capacity and such. For adding external batteries, simple 'dumb' UPSes are usually better than 'smarter' ones. [..] This is another approach that seems like it would be practical: Use deep cycle car batteries, trickle charge with solar panels. Sure, you can do that, assuming it's sunny during/after a power outage. Here at least, outages mostly tend to correlate with stormy weather. If a desktop computer can run on square wave generated by dc/ac converter, use that as a power backup system, It would have to have some kind of switching system to detect main power drop and switch to the backup system. That's pretty much what a UPS is doing, though they usually provide a 'modified square wave' that somewhat more closely approximates a sine wave output. Note however that a UPS has to switch cleanly from mains to battery power supplying the last stage inverter within just a few milliseconds, ie a small fraction of a single mains 50 or 60Hz cycle. Perhaps someone would be willing to, with engineering expertise put together servers that would work on laptop batteries, like a laptop. I do have one machine that has Yellow Dog linux (Mac Powerbook 3400c) that runs 24/7 as my backup DNS server. JK Laptops as servers is sure the way to go on solar-powered houses; hard to find or make a better UPS than a laptop p/s. For desktop boxes, there are available computer power supplies that run straight off 12V. I hunted for a mob called DC-PC, but they may be defunct. eg check: http://www.powerstream.com/mini-itx.htm http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/.f Why settle for a square wave? It's not hard to clean that up, and besides... Very much easier said than done :) and besides .. Wouldn't that bring mayhem and havoc on a scanner (ie, I'm pretty sure that you your screen would do very unhappy things)? LCD screen? don't know. (or a system's power supply over long term? hmmm) Devices that aren't happy with non-sinewave power include such as laser printers, but those you mention here use switching supplies themselves, and are usually happy enough running on square-wave inverters, as long as the inverter can handle the peak startup currents often demanded. Computer power supplies aren't fazed by square wave (or for that matter, high voltage DC) input, as they're chopping the input waveform anyway. Also, you probably don't want printers and such running off the UPS. As far as the type of batteries, deep cycle marine batteries, whatever. It doesn't really matter except to say that some types can be fully discharged and some would be ruined on a full discharge. The health and monitoring portion of the UPS would have to be designed with those limits in mind (and, hey... That could be part of the embedded mprocessors job, too... more options). Well that's just what any decent UPS does. While I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from learning embedded design and programming, it's terrific fun, but you can expect to spend hundreds of hours and not a little cash doing so by trial and error, to save on a what, $200 UPS? Switching power from one source to another is something that I've not had a lot of luck with, esp with sensitive stuff like a computer's power supply (touchy). On the other hand clean, dc power in a parallel circuit is as simple as it gets. Edison had a good idea after all. Look at the battery as your constant source, and work away from that. Your secondary source merely compliments the battery. So long as you use regulators for your other sources, it will stay Clean by default. :) As far as switching power sources from regular charger to something like solar panels, same concept... Don't switch from-to anything. Keep it constantly hooked up in parallel with the battery. For best efficiency, most UPSes use the mains as long as it's available, even in a degraded state such as under- or over-voltage, using 'boost' and 'buck' windings/circuits
Re: In regard to SATA controllers.
SATA controller and continue using geom_raid3? This particular card uses a Marvell controller, so I would guess that it would be detected by FreeBSD without issue. If someone could confirm this, it would be much appreciated. See the stable many-port SATA controller thread. So far it's looking good for me, but it has not been that long yet. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Best remote backup method?
Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool - just run mksnap_ffs and backup a mounted snapshot. I do this with rdiff-backup for example. Now, if you are worried about backing up the whole filesystem...well, just tell dump not to dump it :) man chflags (in particular, the nodump flag) man dump (in particular, -h ) The problem with this is for me two-fold: (1) It's a global property. I can't take different backups that include/exclude different things. (2) I can't easily express backup /usr/var/db/my-important-database without seting nodump on a bunch of stuff except that. In other words, I want exclude by default, while dump and the chflags system provides include by default. That said I do like dump's integration with snapshots and overall coherent feeling. If backup diskspace and bandwidth was not a concern I'd use it. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ports updates
[CC'ing freebsd-questions@ again] Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Paul V. Belyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? Because of the ongoing tests for the xorg 7.2 integration. Any idea whether this will make the r300 driver available through the ports tree? I'm not involved in the xorg integration and don't know which drivers will eventually be ported, however r300 doesn't show up in: grep r300 /usr/ports/x11-drivers/*/pkg-plist so my assumption is that it wont be available right away. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Duane Hill wrote: I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of changing the release tag within the cvsup file from RELENG_5_5 to RELENG_6_2, removing the contents of /usr/src/*, removing the contents of /usr/obj/*, and doing a clean cvsup? Pretty much. You don't actually need to delete /usr/src/*, and not doing so will save you some bandwidth. You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to recompile all of your ports because of potential shlib version clashes. Ports from 5.5 will still work on 6.2, but later trying to update them piecemeal can lead to misery. I'm using portupgrade. So I will use the switches force a reinstall and to act on everything that depends on the reinstalled port (-fr). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 32bit apps on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, everybody I own a Canon iP1600 printer and its driver was made for linux i386. What should I do in order to run this driver on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64? I've heard of upgrading to 6.2 in order to retrieve linux_base-fc4. Just this? Thanks Do yourself a favor: Install the drive on Linux or Windows, find the .ppd files and manually install them under CUPS on FreeBSD. Screw all that Linux/32/64-bit crap -- it'll only give you grey hairs. -- 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: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] the drive, and likely to remain that way until the disk dies of mechanical failure. I just don't need that prompt, especially the annoying beep it makes. The beep was removed since May 2006 (6.2-RELEASE, 6-STABLE, HEAD). A simple #boot0cfg -B /dev/adX should get rid of it. I thought I remembered that! Wasn't it removed to reclaim a couple extra bytes? :-) Quote from the commit log: Restore the pre-5.x behavior of only beeping if the user makes a bad selection and not always beeping on startup. The two bytes for the extra 'jmp' instruction were obtained by removing recognition of BSD/OS partitions. Cheers, Pieter de Goeje Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lexmark E120 (with CUPS or apsfilter)
Hi Roland, I'll take a look there. Thank you. On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: |On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:40:04PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi All, | | Has Anyone successfully installed this printer on a FBSD machine? | | I tried it using CUPS, it works but some times it sends some garbage to | printer (basically when printing from a Windows machine). | Using apsfilter, no driver seems to work. When printing, even from FBSD | host machine, the printer does not pull the paper. | |According to the openprinting database it should work perfectly; |http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-E120 | |One of the things that CUPS can do is transform different kinds of of |files to something that the printer can digest. | |What I think you should do is create a raw printer that doesn't use |any of those filters. Print to that printer from your windows box. | |Or you could use a generic postscript printer driver on your windows |box, and CUPS will convert it to the correct format. | |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) | - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see in /usr/share/examples/cvsup several supfiles named various things. I see from the handbook that standard-supfile applies to, what seems like, the bleeding-edge and the stable-supfile is what I'm looking for .. yes? How do I ensure I update the sources to the most current, STABLE, branch? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:04:06 am Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see in /usr/share/examples/cvsup several supfiles named various things. I see from the handbook that standard-supfile applies to, what seems like, the bleeding-edge and the stable-supfile is what I'm looking for .. yes? How do I ensure I update the sources to the most current, STABLE, branch? The main difference between the examples files is the cvs tag used. The . tag will get you 7.0-CURRENT. Very much bleeding edge, almost certainly not what you want. The RELENG_6 tag will get you 6-STABLE. This is the branch that will eventually become 6.3-RELEASE. Everything in this branch is reasonably conservative and well-tested, but there is still some new code and features. This might be what you want. The RELENG_6_2 tag will get you 6.2-RELEASE-pX, where X is the current patch revision level. This is 6.2-RELEASE with security and critical patches only, no new features. This is probably what you want, unless there's a feature in -STABLE that you can't live without. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, This question probably hasn't much to do with CVS directly but using cvsup. I want/need to update a 6.0-RELEASE system. However, this system has some critical data on it and I'd rather not move to code that is perhaps experimental or bleeding-edge technology. I see in /usr/share/examples/cvsup several supfiles named various things. I see from the handbook that standard-supfile applies to, what seems like, the bleeding-edge and the stable-supfile is what I'm looking for .. yes? How do I ensure I update the sources to the most current, STABLE, branch? You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html. Later bits in that section also describe the update procedure *even if you are updating to a RELEASE./RELENG rather then CURRENT or STABLE*. A brief description of the strings in tags is a follows: CURRENT == bleeding edge STABLE == merely leading edge RELENG == what you are calling stable; a release plus security patches only RELEASE == sort of you are calling stable, exactly what was released (not recommended since it lacks any security patches) The latest release is 6.2, so the tag you want in your supfile is RELENG_6_2. That string won't be in any supfile on your system. It's impossible for it to be, since that would require predicting what will be the latest release at the point in the future when you chose to upgrade :-) In technical terms, CURRENT is the top of the main development trunk, and is often referred to with a leading number (e.g. 7-CURRENT), but the number does no more than denote the numeric tag that will be applied when the next branch is made. Once 7.0 starts being created, CURRENT will be 8-CURRENT. STABLE is the latest branch. Code here will become the next Release. Moving code from CURRENT to STABLE, involves a CVS merge operation and is often referred to as MFC - merge from CURRENT. RELENG is a branch created when a specific release is made. It denotes the latest code on that branch, but the only changes made will be critical security fixes. RELEASE is just the point on the RELENG branch which is the actual code which was released on the Release CDs. --Alex PS Be really nice if all this info was clearly in the FAQ, and the FAQ was searchable apart from the whole website. As things stand, a search for stable returns precisely nothing, which can't be right. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
looking for ethernet errors, collisions
Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? I'm finding my network connection very bursty of late, sudden lags for no apparent reason, etc. 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 pgpajkPuVfkJL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? netstat -i sounds like what you want. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smb_maperror
The logs on our FreeBSD system are repeatedly filling up with the following message: smb_maperror: Unmapped error 1:158 It seems as though this error or something related to it is causing our server to occasionally lock up. We are using FreeBSD 6 and Samba 3. After much searching on Google, I found that several people (mostly FreeBSD users) have reported this problem, but no solution has ever been offered. Any suggestions? Thanks. Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: looking for ethernet errors, collisions
Hi: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Zbyslaw Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:09 AM To: Michael P. Soulier Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? netstat -i sounds like what you want. --Alex systat -ifstat gives some good data as well about throughput. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks, no beep whatsoever. Regards, Pieter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line
Hi everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot. So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file: ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 at next boot the interface was not configured at all, so I tried it manually: ifconfig xl0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 and got ifconfig:ether:bad value It works perfectly when I set only inet and only ether addresses. How to make It work in rc.conf? The only info in the net that I could find was non-authoritative and suggested this is a bug? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On 5/17/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks, no beep whatsoever. Using the default KDE shutdown command (which just halts the system without turning off the power, curiously enough), I also get these two beeps. Using 6.2-RELEASE. -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks, no beep whatsoever. I just realised that 'shutdown -p now' will sent out shutdown messages and beep at the same time. 'halt -p' won't, so just use that :) HTH, Pieter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line
Angelin Lalev wrote: Hi everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot. So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file: ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 at next boot the interface was not configured at all, so I tried it manually: ifconfig xl0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 'ether' is rather another address family for ifconfig. Try: ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00 ifconfig_xl0_alias0=ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best remote backup method?
--On Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:30:00 +0200 Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool - just run mksnap_ffs and backup a mounted snapshot. I do this with rdiff-backup for example. Now, if you are worried about backing up the whole filesystem...well, just tell dump not to dump it :) man chflags (in particular, the nodump flag) man dump (in particular, -h ) The problem with this is for me two-fold: (1) It's a global property. I can't take different backups that include/exclude different things. (2) I can't easily express backup /usr/var/db/my-important-database without seting nodump on a bunch of stuff except that. In other words, I want exclude by default, while dump and the chflags system provides include by default. That said I do like dump's integration with snapshots and overall coherent feeling. If backup diskspace and bandwidth was not a concern I'd use it. I want to thank everyone who contributed to this thread. You've given me a great deal to think about. I'll be reading over the responses again, carefully, and decide what I think the best answer is. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file: hostname=www.mydomain.com but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when i run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file: hostname=www.mydomain.com but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when i run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Is there a second hostname entry further down in rc.conf with the original value? JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails
smartmontools isn't the appropriate program you need to use a program called idacontrol get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar More on PR i386/70482 Use smartmontools on ATA disks. Your 360 uses SCSI disks on a proprietary controller which doesen't support the interface needed to run it. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Jagger Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:14 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails I installed smartmontools from ports on FreeBSD 6.0 on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with smart array 5i controller. I compiled it with ciss support. When running ¡smartctl -i -d cciss,0 /dev/ida0¢ I am getting: smartctl version 5.37 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.0] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ CCISS ioctl error: Inappropriate ioctl for device CCISS ioctl error: Inappropriate ioctl for device Short INQUIRY response, skip product id A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. However, adding -T permissive options doesn't make a difference. Searching the archives and the web didn't bring a solution. I hope someone out there has one. Nick __ __Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php ___ 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: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1
Yes, here is the magic needed for this: 1) make sure you have select UNIX-LINUX 2.x as the OS type in the BIOS (use the HP smartcd to access this) 2) Do not strip out unused CPU's like I486_CPU, I586_CPU from your kernel config file. 3) Make sure to either build a GENERIC or SMP kernel with ALL of the devices that are in GENERIC. Do NOT strip out any unused devices. I realize this makes the kernel bigger - but what appears to be going on, is that the command to wake up the second CPU is being sent too soon after the initial probes for the acpi controller have taken place. At least, that is my theory. Another theory I have is that one of the device probes for an unused device is tickling some piece of hardware on the motherboard that if not otherwise tickled, the second CPU won't wake up. I haven't done further effort to isolate this, but I've seen the problem on the DL320 as well. If you have the time to play with multiple kernel configurations I'm sure you can stumble across what the issue is. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Lord Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:24 AM To: 'James Price'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Price Sent: 16 mai 2007 02:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1 Has anyone else seen issues while trying to boot an SMP kernel on a Compaq DL360 G1 with the latest P21 bios (11/2002). I can't seem to get it to recognize both processors... Thanks, James ~~~ I installed a 6.2 release (default install) On two dl360 G1 Today without any problem... Both processors were detected fine. I have a dual P3 550 and a dual P3 866 It went fine without any tweaking or special kernel config ___ 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: DNS Cache - Bind
if your not running with -4 you will get this, unless you have IPv6 configured of course... Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Barnett Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:46 PM To: freeBSD Subject: DNS Cache - Bind I'm running Bind 9.3.4 on FreeBSD 6.2 for my local network. It doesn't have any zones, it's just a local DNS that has a bunch of forwarders. The first request is slow (between 150 and 300 ms) - but after that (the next query on same domain) is fast (less then 10 ms usually). This is nice and working the way I like it. :) What I'm wondering though is: a) How do I flush the cache if I need to (ie. need to get a new update from the forwards) - just restart named? b) Are there any settings I can tweak that determine how long the cache is kept? (ie. Say I want to keep all queries for 7 days before they are queried from the upstream DNS servers). [This will probably screw up dynamic DNS sites, but want to see what settings are available] c) Is there a easy way to 'blacklist' sites? Say I want 'SpammerNetwork.com' to resolve to 127.0.0.1. Basically I want to take this host file: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and then pump it into my DNS server, that way all the LAN clients are protected from these sites. Is there a way to do that? -J ___ 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: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
No, there's not. This is the entire rc.conf file:
hostname=www.mydomain.com
sshd_enable=NO
vsapd_enable=YES
enable_quotas=YES
clamav_clamd_enable=YES
spamd_enable=YES
spamd_pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
spamd_flags=-c -d -r ${spamd_pidfile} --socketpath=/var/run/spamd.sock
mysql_enable=YES
mysql_args=--old-passwords --skip-character-set-client-handshake
Anything else I might check?
Thanks,
Mike
On 5/17/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote:
Hello,
I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured
with
the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be
www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:
hostname=www.mydomain.com
but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when
i
run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Is there a second hostname entry further down in rc.conf with the original
value?
JN
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Re: Startup errors....su:/bin/csh Perm denied..
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Agus wrote: 2007/5/16, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/5/16, Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:24:27PM -0300, Agus wrote: ... Here is part of the boot.. Updating motd Starting mysql. su: /bin/csh: Permission denied Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime. Starting sshd. can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges... Starting cron. Local package initializations... Starting inetd. Interesting. Do you see the same when you start/stop it manually? # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server restart -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. yesthats how i realized that the problem was with mysqlfirst i checked netstat and didnt see the port so i started up manually and get that error Thanks.. Still the same error.any hint where to look?? There are at least two things going on and one at least has nothing to do with mysql. /var/spool/clientmqueue is used by sendmail which you have running. If you have not, or did not mean to configure sendmail add 'sendmail_enable=NO' to rc.conf and see what happens. AFAIK nothing in the startup scripts uses csh. So there is also something 'funny' there. grep for csh in /etc and /usr/local/etc and see what you get. You could also do a 'verbose' boot and see if the additional messages point to anything ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html. Later bits in that section also describe the update procedure *even if you are updating to a RELEASE./RELENG rather then CURRENT or STABLE*. A brief description of the strings in tags is a follows: CURRENT == bleeding edge STABLE == merely leading edge RELENG == what you are calling stable; a release plus security patches only RELEASE == sort of you are calling stable, exactly what was released (not recommended since it lacks any security patches) The latest release is 6.2, so the tag you want in your supfile is RELENG_6_2. That string won't be in any supfile on your system. It's impossible for it to be, since that would require predicting what will be the latest release at the point in the future when you chose to upgrade :-) In technical terms, CURRENT is the top of the main development trunk, and is often referred to with a leading number (e.g. 7-CURRENT), but the number does no more than denote the numeric tag that will be applied when the next branch is made. Once 7.0 starts being created, CURRENT will be 8-CURRENT. STABLE is the latest branch. Code here will become the next Release. Moving code from CURRENT to STABLE, involves a CVS merge operation and is often referred to as MFC - merge from CURRENT. RELENG is a branch created when a specific release is made. It denotes the latest code on that branch, but the only changes made will be critical security fixes. RELEASE is just the point on the RELENG branch which is the actual code which was released on the Release CDs. --Alex PS Be really nice if all this info was clearly in the FAQ, and the FAQ was searchable apart from the whole website. As things stand, a search for stable returns precisely nothing, which can't be right. Thank you for the detailed description. Just one last question for you and the list, what sort of heart ache can I expect to encounter if I use the label RELEASE_6_2 in my supfile on a system that is 6.0? I need to upgrade a 6.0-RELEASE (no patches) system. Will I encounter compiler problems (that is, I'm using a compiler that's older than I should for 6.2), or similar? Or, should the upgrade be just as smooth as the run through I just completed on a non-critical notebook running 6.2-RELEASE (or rather, it was running 6.2-RELEASE, now it's 6.2-RELEASE-p4)? Thanks again, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable. html. Later bits in that section also describe the update procedure *even if you are updating to a RELEASE./RELENG rather then CURRENT or STABLE*. A brief description of the strings in tags is a follows: CURRENT == bleeding edge STABLE == merely leading edge RELENG == what you are calling stable; a release plus security patches only RELEASE == sort of you are calling stable, exactly what was released (not recommended since it lacks any security patches) The latest release is 6.2, so the tag you want in your supfile is RELENG_6_2. That string won't be in any supfile on your system. It's impossible for it to be, since that would require predicting what will be the latest release at the point in the future when you chose to upgrade :-) In technical terms, CURRENT is the top of the main development trunk, and is often referred to with a leading number (e.g. 7-CURRENT), but the number does no more than denote the numeric tag that will be applied when the next branch is made. Once 7.0 starts being created, CURRENT will be 8-CURRENT. STABLE is the latest branch. Code here will become the next Release. Moving code from CURRENT to STABLE, involves a CVS merge operation and is often referred to as MFC - merge from CURRENT. RELENG is a branch created when a specific release is made. It denotes the latest code on that branch, but the only changes made will be critical security fixes. RELEASE is just the point on the RELENG branch which is the actual code which was released on the Release CDs. --Alex PS Be really nice if all this info was clearly in the FAQ, and the FAQ was searchable apart from the whole website. As things stand, a search for stable returns precisely nothing, which can't be right. Thank you for the detailed description. Just one last question for you and the list, what sort of heart ache can I expect to encounter if I use the label RELEASE_6_2 in my supfile on a system that is 6.0? I need to upgrade a 6.0-RELEASE (no patches) system. Will I encounter compiler problems (that is, I'm using a compiler that's older than I should for 6.2), or similar? Or, should the upgrade be just as smooth as the run through I just completed on a non-critical notebook running 6.2-RELEASE (or rather, it was running 6.2-RELEASE, now it's 6.2-RELEASE-p4)? In my experiences upgrades that don't cross major version boundaries are relatively painless. I haven't done a 6.0-6.2 upgrade, but I've done multiple 6.0-6.1 and 6.1-6.2 upgrades, and both were quite minor so I don't think doing it in one go would introduce any problems. Compiler changes in particular will typically only happen across major versions. Nothing like that going on with 6.x. Should be smooth, just with a longer mergemaster step. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A little bit of help understanding CVS and cvsup
On 5/17/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:31:59 pm Andrew Falanga wrote: On 5/17/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: You can find a description of release tags in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html and also a description of -STABLE and -CURRENT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable. html. Later bits in that section also describe the update procedure *even if you are updating to a RELEASE./RELENG rather then CURRENT or STABLE*. A brief description of the strings in tags is a follows: CURRENT == bleeding edge STABLE == merely leading edge RELENG == what you are calling stable; a release plus security patches only RELEASE == sort of you are calling stable, exactly what was released (not recommended since it lacks any security patches) The latest release is 6.2, so the tag you want in your supfile is RELENG_6_2. That string won't be in any supfile on your system. It's impossible for it to be, since that would require predicting what will be the latest release at the point in the future when you chose to upgrade :-) In technical terms, CURRENT is the top of the main development trunk, and is often referred to with a leading number (e.g. 7-CURRENT), but the number does no more than denote the numeric tag that will be applied when the next branch is made. Once 7.0 starts being created, CURRENT will be 8-CURRENT. STABLE is the latest branch. Code here will become the next Release. Moving code from CURRENT to STABLE, involves a CVS merge operation and is often referred to as MFC - merge from CURRENT. RELENG is a branch created when a specific release is made. It denotes the latest code on that branch, but the only changes made will be critical security fixes. RELEASE is just the point on the RELENG branch which is the actual code which was released on the Release CDs. --Alex PS Be really nice if all this info was clearly in the FAQ, and the FAQ was searchable apart from the whole website. As things stand, a search for stable returns precisely nothing, which can't be right. Thank you for the detailed description. Just one last question for you and the list, what sort of heart ache can I expect to encounter if I use the label RELEASE_6_2 in my supfile on a system that is 6.0? I need to upgrade a 6.0-RELEASE (no patches) system. Will I encounter compiler problems (that is, I'm using a compiler that's older than I should for 6.2), or similar? Or, should the upgrade be just as smooth as the run through I just completed on a non-critical notebook running 6.2-RELEASE (or rather, it was running 6.2-RELEASE, now it's 6.2-RELEASE-p4)? In my experiences upgrades that don't cross major version boundaries are relatively painless. I haven't done a 6.0-6.2 upgrade, but I've done multiple 6.0-6.1 and 6.1-6.2 upgrades, and both were quite minor so I don't think doing it in one go would introduce any problems. Compiler changes in particular will typically only happen across major versions. Nothing like that going on with 6.x. Should be smooth, just with a longer mergemaster step. JN I figured as much, but didn't want to shoot myself in the foot, as it were. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: looking for ethernet errors, collisions
Note that error counters are often bogus because so many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before the OS driver gets them. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael P. Soulier Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:26 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: looking for ethernet errors, collisions Hi, I'm used to this showing on the interface in the ifconfig output on Linux, but on FreeBSD it doesn't seem to show errors, collisions, etc. What's the standard way to show that on FreeBSD? I'm finding my network connection very bursty of late, sudden lags for no apparent reason, etc. 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]
Kernel build question (options and so forth)
Hi, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2. I managed to find a past posting to this list saying that from 6.2 on, SMP is detected and used by default; will this happen for me? Should I edit /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/MYKERNEL with something like options SMP or whatever it is? (I'm only guessing here, and I want to make sure I get an SMP kernel.) Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In an attempt better co-ordinate both the use of jails, as well as to help improve the focus on the various patches available for it that are going around, but not committed yet, I put in a quick request to have a jail specific mailing list created ... which was approved and done. For those using jail(s) in FreeBSD, and/or those that have been working on various patches for them, you will want to subscribe to the new list: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail - 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) iD8DBQFGTKn74QvfyHIvDvMRAj5RAKCegSGZ4jM9u2IttV5023T2nHiNQgCg4V1S rpPxd3x+LYDVdxDAdRnklrY= =QaKn -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: NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/17/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those using jail(s) in FreeBSD, and/or those that have been working on various patches for them, you will want to subscribe to the new list Done, thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEW MAILING LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc G. Fournier escribió: In an attempt better co-ordinate both the use of jails, as well as to help improve the focus on the various patches available for it that are going around, but not committed yet, I put in a quick request to have a jail specific mailing list created ... which was approved and done. For those using jail(s) in FreeBSD, and/or those that have been working on various patches for them, you will want to subscribe to the new list: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail Nice! Could you please also add entries about the new mailing list to the proper parts of the website? Regards, Gabor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
Thanks for the suggestions. That's right, I'm not using DHCP. I searched through /etc and /usr/local/etc for calls to hostname and for the string www.mydomain.com and all I found was a call to the command hostname in /etc/rc.network and my setting of the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf. After perusing /etc, apparently rc.network is called by /etc/rc after sourcing rc.conf and this is how the hostname in /etc/rc.conf becomes the hostname of the machine. So that appears to be fine. Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change? Thanks, Mike On 5/17/07, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand DHCP setting the hostname, which you are not using. I understand DNS or /etc/hosts reporting the old name on the network, but it should not effect hostname. I would look for the old name: # grep -r mydomain.com /etc --Mark Tinguely ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
Mike Barborak writes: Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change? Start with man rc.d. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
Thanks. For posterity then, anyone who unwisely wishes to give up the hunt and use this hack, one solution is to add this line to /etc/rc.conf: local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.after_everything.d Then create the directory /usr/local/etc/rc.after_everything.d (same permissions as /usr/local/etc/rc.d) and put a file named hostname.sh in that directory with this content: #!/bin/sh /bin/hostname your_hostname_here Make the file executable. -Mike On 5/17/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Barborak writes: Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change? Start with man rc.d. Robert Huff ___ 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]
Netgear WG111 / WG111T USB NICs
Hello, Running 6.2-STABLE on i386... Anyone know if there is support for USB Wireless NICs? I have a Netgear WG111 that is recognized as /dev/ugen0, but that's it. Netgear also makes their T model (WG111T) that has their Super G technolgy that often uses Atheros chipsets. Since Atheros is well supported, anyone know if that one works? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTL/6PvU+8ApmWXIRAmhnAKC/jmL78x1zz6d/WLn/tTCmAQRACACgqVXJ H2b4Ftvh3s1eJeSh5kEmrWQ= =eMoN -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]
pppoe (userland PPP) and nat 'loopback'
Can this be configured? What I need is a way to go from one LAN machine to the WAN and loopback to the other LAN machine. LAN-WAN-LAN simple pf.conf: binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.170 to any - 67.x.x.1 binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.171 to any - 67.x.x.2 binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.172 to any - 67.x.x.3 binat on $bge1 from 192.168.82.173 to any - 67.x.x.4 and so on. I need to use 192.168.82.172 to go and connect to public 67.x.x.2 then loop back to 67.x.x.1 Why do I need this? - I run 2 external DNS servers (with views) and as such NS2 needs to talk to NS1 but using the WAN NAT loopbacks. thanks in advance for any tips. -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks, no beep whatsoever. shutdown -p now ... so that would mean it's shutdown that does that? The annoyance factor has never been enough to make me investigate more closely. But hey, if halt -p is safe and clean, and silent, that's good enough for me. Thanks, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! - -- Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTMRSs0gLFnnAwn8RAgFZAKDUvCzvIuZKpLXwEYvmUuI10lSrNgCgkQL3 eiUTouaydZ/4Ymu0mFr7nRM= =RSJX -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: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! I don't want to declare victory too early, but I think I figured it out. You're probably right, but who the f- still has floppies lying around? I certainly couldn't use pristine ones as I was warned to. However, part of the problem with the cd is that at the mountroot prompt I kept typing ufs:acd0 and it barfed. While googling on mountroot, I found cd9660:acd0 (it'd be nice if a list of possible filesystems was provided along with the list of things you can boot from) it then booted off the cd (YAY!) it made like it was booting into freeBSD. Then at the amnesiatic login, I put root then sysinstall and it SEEMS to be going ok. I stopped to write this reply while it was fresh in my head. So it seems that potential crisis was averted. I can read from the cd, just not boot. I'll attempt a cd install and if that doesn't work, at least I can get far enough to do an ftp one. Thanks for your help, - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTMWsPvU+8ApmWXIRAjrjAKDGSzqG4A9CptRSUfJfO+ooEU997ACg1KXc x2Mikt1AbU9Pm/HF655D6SM= =+awy -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: Kernel build question (options and so forth)
try the generic kernel and see if it works. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Falanga Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:11 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Kernel build question (options and so forth) Hi, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2. I managed to find a past posting to this list saying that from 6.2 on, SMP is detected and used by default; will this happen for me? Should I edit /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/MYKERNEL with something like options SMP or whatever it is? (I'm only guessing here, and I want to make sure I get an SMP kernel.) Thanks, Andy ___ 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]
How to change Font FreeBSD 6.1
I haven't been able to change the font appearing on my monitor. Where should I look for that format? -- Regards Oscar Chavarria Mobile: +506 814-0247 *** The more I know people the more I love my FreeBSD *** --- In a world without boundaries, we don't need Windows or Gates --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql start error...
Hi! Please id ls -la /bin/csh ls -la /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server Dmitry 2007/5/17, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am getting an error while trying to run mysql-server... Wired thing is that it was running ok for a month.suddenly i got this error.. su: /bin/csh: Permission denied thanks for any hints you could give see ya ___ 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: How to change Font FreeBSD 6.1
Hello... El Jue, 17 de Mayo de 2007, 17:26, Oscar Chavarria escribió: I haven't been able to change the font appearing on my monitor. Where should I look for that format? Please review de handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html And this article: http://www.freebsddiary.org/console-fonts.php Also, try reading the rc.conf(5) manual page. -- Regards Oscar Chavarria Mobile: +506 814-0247 [SNIP] Regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict OOO | BSD Linux User| Standards Rocks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! That didn't quite work correctly. It apparently caused the CD to become the filesystem which meant I couldn't install. I couldn't figure out a way around it. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTNNEPvU+8ApmWXIRAn85AJ0WyXG9NnI9k/3jiX4aw/XlT9gqtwCfWnG/ S9LgQzsRnukFyPYb45uU54s= =gR0R -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: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails
- Original Message smartmontools isn't the appropriate program you need to use a program called idacontrol get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar More on PR i386/70482 Use smartmontools on ATA disks. Your 360 uses SCSI disks on a proprietary controller which doesen't support the interface needed to run it. --- Thank you Ted, idacontrol works fine and returns some usefull information about the attached disk drives. I also found this suggestion interesting: #define IDA_QCB_MAX = 128 instead of 256 in sys/dev/ida/idavar.h because one of my DL360's resets itself about once a month with a very similar error as mentioned in thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2005-September/002034.html ida0: soft error ida_command: out of QCBsida0: ida_timeout() qactive 256 ida0: IDA_INTERRUPTS ida0: R_CMD_FIFO: R_DONE_FIFO: R_INT_MASK: R_STATUS: R_INT_PENDING: Nick Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel build question (options and so forth)
El Jue, 17 de Mayo de 2007, 15:11, Andrew Falanga escribió: Hi, Hello, In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4, I have a question about the kernel and SMP. This system has two processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2. I managed to find a past posting to this list saying that from 6.2 on, SMP is detected and used by default; will this happen for me? Should I edit /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/MYKERNEL with something like options SMP or whatever it is? (I'm only guessing here, and I want to make sure I get an SMP kernel.) Review the GENERIC and NOTES kernel configs. The options for SMP kernels in i386 arch are commented. Thanks, Andy [SNIP] Regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict OOO | BSD Linux User| Standards Rocks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2
Hello all I would like to thank david.robillard and j65nko for their efforts in trying to help with this problem. I finally got a working solution. The problem is not scponly nor rssh but the CHROOT jail implementation in FreeBSD 6.2, since the ONLY solution to both problems are solved by a series of commands to enable a proper /dev subdirectory inside the jail.. RSSH works ver good for a SCP, SFTP, RSYNC only environment.. Solution at: http://www.artofindo.com/~teaone/rssh.html best regards, David Robillard wrote: I can´t seem to make scponly work with a chrooted jail. I´ve read many articles on how FREEBSD´s scripts on making jails really don´t work and a manual mknod of $jail/dev/null must be done, but it still does´t work... I´d appreciate any help You might want to check out the port shells/rssh instead of shells/scponly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/shells/rssh/pkg-descr I'm not sure it does exactly what you're looking for, but it has similar features as scponly. HTH, David -- MSc. Marcelo Maraboli Rosselott Jefe Area de Redes y Comunicaciones (Network UNIX Systems Engineer) Ingeniero Civil Electronico, CISSP (MSc., Electronic Engineer, CISSP) Direccion Central de Servicios Computacionales (DCSC) Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria phone: +56 32 2654071 Chile.http://www.usm.cl http://elqui.dcsc.utfsm.cl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
configuring network connection via proxy
Hello, I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. What I would like to be able to do is to change the connection settings regarding a proxy in one place and have it affect all my applications. Something like one can do in MS Windows via Internet Options (configuring proxy access). I checked our otherwise great Handbook but failed to find something covering this scenario. And I'm surprised as I expect this to be a rather common need. Have I missed something ? Could someone point me to any article covering my need please ? TIA, Martin PS: Yes, I tried to google for this but I wasn't successful or perhaps I just asked wrong questions. :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Chris Slothouber said, it's probably an issue with the floppies. My resolution was to remove the hard drive, place it into a machine I knew was capable of installing freeBSD and installing it. Am now in the process of putting it back into its original case to make sure it all worked ok. I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTQYqPvU+8ApmWXIRAoZ+AJsEGBZaw+qtN/2ig4+0yugKeG18kACg5mC3 fbBuwCgDSaV1VEM7n33s18U= =ltyd -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]
cvsup ports
i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? thx. regards, David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup ports
David Coder wrote: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? The ports are being frozen due to Xorg integration[1]. Just hang on for a few days. Regards, Mikhail. [1] - http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?464983F2.2060100 -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.webanoide.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup ports
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Coder said: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? The ports tree is in a freeze state right now pending the merge of xorg-7.2. You can monitor the freebsd-ports@ list for details. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
The subject line contains the dmesg that indicates...something; the symptom is that CDs aren't seen by the drive: acd0: CDRW PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A/1.04 at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a FreeBSD chthonic.chthonixia.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed May 16 00:16:21 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHTHONIC i386 Old kernel and associated modules: May 11, 21:35 EDT. Looking via Google for the error turns up this thread on -stable: Andrei V. Lavreniyuk bamston at reactor-xg.kiev.ua Mon Apr 23 09:08:54 UTC 2007 Hi! I believe the culprit is somewhere in a recent MFC to atapi-cam.c (rev 1.42.2.3) reverting to rev 1.42.2.2 fixes both the k3b system hangs and INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST errors here. I utillized the version of atapi-cam.c (rev. 1.42.2.1) and all works normally. === I have this version of the file: #include sys/cdefs.h __FBSDID($FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,v 1.42.2.5 2007/05/15 16:19:42 thomas Exp $); So AFAICT, either this was not the relevant file; or a fix for the bug was never committed; or perhaps a fix was committed, but doesn't quite work; or perhaps the bug crept back in...but I don't know. In any event, I need a clue: is this file, atapi-cam.c, the one to assume contains the source of this error? If so, I suppose I need to submit a bug report. Thanks, and best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring network connection via proxy
I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. I think doc@ was not relevant, so I removed it... Some 'sort of proxy' is not very descriptive. Can you describe exactly the procedure you need to go through to access the 'Internet' while connecting to one of these networks? Is it as simple as using 'FoxyProxy' plugin with Firefox for instance? Perhaps you mean that you need to tunnel out of a network into another and run your Internet applications through that. More description would be good, especially if you can give exact examples of what you insert into Internet Options in IE. What I would like to be able to do is to change the connection settings regarding a proxy in one place and have it affect all my applications. Something like one can do in MS Windows via Internet Options (configuring proxy access). I checked our otherwise great Handbook but failed to find something covering this scenario. And I'm surprised as I expect this to be a rather common need. Have I missed something ? Could someone point me to any article covering my need please ? The 'Great Handbook', as great as it is, doesn't cover exactly this. Provide the settings you use in IE, what Internet browser you use whilst running under FreeBSD, and what other Internet applications you want to proxy as per your statement all my applications. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer
I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. You can move the HD as you did ;) Technically, if you really wanted, you could be the impossible FreeBSD team member who reaches into the corner you've needed catered to. That said, I'm sure it's widely known that Google usually solves all problems that are in the corner you've need catered to, but sometimes not the corner you are in. It's great you resolved it, and now it's archived. We've all been there. disclaimer I couldn't help but laugh at true realization/frustration when I read this post. /disclaimer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup ports
David Coder wrote: i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? Beyond what others have said about the 'freeze', it may be advisable that you use fastest_cvsup (pkg_add -r fastest_cvsup) to see what the fastest/best available cvs server is if you usually only use one or two. eg: # fastest_cvsup -c ca,us ..gives me the most responsive in Canada and U.S. respectively. I quickly then dump the server into the supfile I'm using and let it run. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot
On 17/05/07, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown your system? When I type 'halt -p' it just powers off after synching the disks, no beep whatsoever. shutdown -p now ... so that would mean it's shutdown that does that? The annoyance factor has never been enough to make me investigate more closely. But hey, if halt -p is safe and clean, and silent, that's good enough for me. You can set nobeep in tcsh or bell-style in bash. Unsure about ksh or zsh. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
