Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint. Please advice with optimizations or tricks. Thank you very much. Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your organization doesn't allow current. Current is remarkably stable taking into account zfs is fairly new and ported from solaris and running on current. I'm using it on a 8.2 TB nexsan storage and no crashes during testing and a limited time in production. Some years ago I used FreeBSD (5.2) as nfs-server (using ufs2) on approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suexec trouble
Hello, I upgraded from Apache 2.0.53 to 2.2.4 however suexec no longer functions as previously configured. It appears that my new installation did not initially compile suexec, so I did. Now I am faced with the following error when I try to start apached ldc494# ./apache2.sh restart Performing sanity check on apache2 configuration: Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Syntax OK Stopping apache2. Waiting for PIDS: 63180. Starting apache2. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper. I tried reconfiguring suexec to use --with-suexec-bin=PATH, however it does not create a new suexec copy, the timestamp doesn't change on mod_suexec.so. Here are my questions. 1) Where is Apache looking for the wrapper? 2) How do I tell Apache to look somewhere else? 3) How do I recompile just suexec so that it works and fixes the above issue. Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I can use dvdbackup to backup in to a directory structure, but i'd rather not mount, create the directory, and iso, i'd rather make the iso directly from the dvd. Any pointers on this? Thanks. Dave. dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024 That should be bs=2048. AFAIK, data CDs and DVDs have 2k blocks: slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=1024 dd: /dev/cd1: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000146 secs (0 bytes/sec) slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=2048 ^C10270+0 records in 10270+0 records out 21032960 bytes transferred in 5.096854 secs (4126655 bytes/sec) 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) pgpyEAaO8OEKw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dvd configuration error
Dave wrote: I'm trying to blank a dvdrw so i can rewrite to it. I'm using dvd+rw-format /dev/acd1 i've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/acd1 and in both cases i'm getting the error: /dev/acd1: unable to open: inappropriate ioctl for device Try atapicam: # kldload atapicam will create /dev/cd0, /dev/cd1, ..., then use those devices with dvd+rw-* Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kern.hz=100 stops high-pitched whine
I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was, and it was driving me crazy for months. This whine stopped entirely the moment I put kern.hz=100 in /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. Quite relieving! Are there any reasons NOT changing kern.hz from the default 1000 back to 100? With my typical mix of desktop apps (EPIA) and networking / server (Soekris), everything seems to be running just as smoothly with 100 Hz than with 1000 Hz (testing now for two weeks without problems). Even playing videos with mplayer on the EPIA doesn't look different in any way. Is it okay to stay with 100 Hz with this type of low-speed CPU/boards? Or are there some compelling reasons not to? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I can use dvdbackup to backup in to a directory structure, but i'd rather not mount, create the directory, and iso, i'd rather make the iso directly from the dvd. Any pointers on this? Thanks. Dave. dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024 That should be bs=2048. AFAIK, data CDs and DVDs have 2k blocks: slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=1024 dd: /dev/cd1: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000146 secs (0 bytes/sec) slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=2048 ^C10270+0 records in 10270+0 records out 21032960 bytes transferred in 5.096854 secs (4126655 bytes/sec) Roland Roland is right, the blocksize is 2048 bytes. In fact the following page is a very nice read: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm The dd command would do a much more accurate image if you also specify the length. The process is described in the page above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/lib disappeared
Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more ? Please help with whats's in yours... Bruno PS : it must be not that bad because I didn't yet notice anything wrong aside of postgresql PS2 : is there any config change that could have borked my /var/lib ? I'm runnung up-to-date current ( 1W) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making docs
I will, be forgotten that I install port: textproc/jadetex Thank you, Zbyszek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd configuration error
Hi, Thanks, atapicam and /dev/cd* devices did it. It fired right up. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:49 AM Subject: Re: dvd configuration error Dave wrote: I'm trying to blank a dvdrw so i can rewrite to it. I'm using dvd+rw-format /dev/acd1 i've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/acd1 and in both cases i'm getting the error: /dev/acd1: unable to open: inappropriate ioctl for device Try atapicam: # kldload atapicam will create /dev/cd0, /dev/cd1, ..., then use those devices with dvd+rw-* Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.hz=100 stops high-pitched whine
cpghost wrote: Are there any reasons NOT changing kern.hz from the default 1000 back to 100? With my typical mix of desktop apps (EPIA) and networking / server (Soekris), everything seems to be running just as smoothly with 100 Hz than with 1000 Hz (testing now for two weeks without problems). Even playing videos with mplayer on the EPIA doesn't look different in any way. Is it okay to stay with 100 Hz with this type of low-speed CPU/boards? Or are there some compelling reasons not to? Actually, many Unix systems ran with HZ=100 until a few years ago, about when Gb ethernet and CPUs became common. A slower machine like the EPIA boxes do quite well with HZ=100/200/250 or so...HZ=1000 is better if you have a fast box running lots of concurrent processes, and/or are proxying or routing network traffic where the difference between 10 ms and 1ms of latency adds up and/or effects other systems. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making docs
Hello! I want to create documentation in FreeBSD. I read this article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html then I compile and I obtain the following error: === books/pmake (install) /bin/rm -f docbook.css /bin/cat /usr/doc/share/misc/docbook.css docbook.css Index is disabled or no index to generate. /usr/bin/env SP_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1 /usr/local/bin/jade -V html-manifest -ioutput.html -d /usr/doc/share/sgml/default.dsl -ifreebsd.urls.absolute -V %generate-legalnotice-link% -ioutput.html.images -D /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/.. /../../share/images/books/pmake -D /usr/obj/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake -c /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/catalog -c /usr/doc/share/sgml/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/iso8879/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports -t sgml /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/book.sgml /usr/local/bin/tidy -wrap 90 -m -raw -preserve -f /dev/null -asxml $(/usr/bin/xargs HTML.manifest) *** Error code 1 (ignored) install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 $(/usr/bin/xargs HTML.manifest) /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 docbook.css /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake What this error *** Error code 1 (ignored) means? I also would like to ask you how to create PDF document, not only HTML? What command I should use to obtain PDF handbook, for example, because I want to print it? Thank you, Zbyszek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.hz=100 stops high-pitched whine
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:12:28 +0200 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was, and it was driving me crazy for months. This whine stopped entirely the moment I put kern.hz=100 in /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. Quite relieving! Possibly a beat frequency between the 1kHz default slicing and some faster oscillator on board? You could play around with kern.clockrate, sometimes quite small frequency changes make a difference, especially if it's a harmonic. Default HZ jumped from 100 to 1000 probably around the time when more servers were seen running at nearer 3000MHz than 300 :) Are there any reasons NOT changing kern.hz from the default 1000 back to 100? With my typical mix of desktop apps (EPIA) and networking / server (Soekris), everything seems to be running just as smoothly with 100 Hz than with 1000 Hz (testing now for two weeks without problems). Even playing videos with mplayer on the EPIA doesn't look different in any way. No problem then, and a lighter interrupt load; probably enough to notice in top. If you want to run dummynet or something else? wanting quicker ticking you could try HZ=200 - 500. 200Hz on my Celeron 300 works well. Is it okay to stay with 100 Hz with this type of low-speed CPU/boards? Or are there some compelling reasons not to? If it's happy, smooth and keeping up, it's fine. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/lib disappeared
On 01/07/07, Bruno DAMOUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more ? Please help with whats's in yours... Bruno PS : it must be not that bad because I didn't yet notice anything wrong aside of postgresql PS2 : is there any config change that could have borked my /var/lib ? I'm runnung up-to-date current ( 1W) A couple of empty directories here (I do not have postgresql) and /var/lib/xkb/README.compiled which, after reading it, I strongly doubt is needed for anything to run. Default man 7 hier makes no mention of /var/lib so I would hazard that it is not needed by anything in world. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mDNSResponder and avahi conflict when updade
Hello list, I have a problem when I try to update my FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE i386 xorg-7.2 kde-3.5.6 with: pkgdb -F portupgrade -aPP It seems that fr-kde-i18n-3.5.6_1 require net/mDNSResponder. But net/mDNSResponder conflicts with avahi+libdns which is required by firefox-2.0.0.4_1. Thanks a lot for any help or suggestion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
On Sunday 01 July 2007 06:19:41 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I can use dvdbackup to backup in to a directory structure, but i'd rather not mount, create the directory, and iso, i'd rather make the iso directly from the dvd. Any pointers on this? Thanks. Dave. dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024 That should be bs=2048. AFAIK, data CDs and DVDs have 2k blocks: slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=1024 dd: /dev/cd1: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000146 secs (0 bytes/sec) slackbox:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/cd1 of=foo.dvd bs=2048 ^C10270+0 records in 10270+0 records out 21032960 bytes transferred in 5.096854 secs (4126655 bytes/sec) Roland Roland is right, the blocksize is 2048 bytes. In fact the following page is a very nice read: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm The dd command would do a much more accurate image if you also specify the length. The process is described in the page above. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] hehe, shame on me for trying to recall that memory, instead of actually looking it up (which is exactly what i do, each time to run an .iso file off... just to make sure im remembering correctly!) cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: mplayer on 6.2
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:56:57 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... just installed mplayer - pkg_add - and it can not play a simple wmv file yet. so i got the codecs and apparently the codec for wmv has to be here: /usr/local/lib/win32/ what about the other ones - like quicktime, *.acm, *ax?! do they all go in the same directory? thanks Hi Kalin. MPlayer is better installed from ports system. I know it by my own experience. I hope this help you. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories. You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner. pgpipXm7aMi8C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/lib disappeared
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/07, Bruno DAMOUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more ? Please help with whats's in yours... Bruno PS : it must be not that bad because I didn't yet notice anything wrong aside of postgresql PS2 : is there any config change that could have borked my /var/lib ? I'm runnung up-to-date current ( 1W) A couple of empty directories here (I do not have postgresql) and /var/lib/xkb/README.compiled which, after reading it, I strongly doubt is needed for anything to run. Default man 7 hier makes no mention of /var/lib so I would hazard that it is not needed by anything in world. -- try: pkg_info -f \* | grep /var/lib my system does not report but the creation of several directories. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems using STARTTLS and AUTH with sendmail
I tried configuring sendmail for auth to allow remote users to use the server as relay with secure authentication using the instructions in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html The message I used to get with EHLO localhost: 250-STARTTLS stopped (I had it before). Can anyone help by letting me know what I need to set to compile sendmail with TLS again without losing AUTH? sendmail -d0.1 -bv root does not show STARTTLS. Amardeo -- Amardeo Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the exactly as a block/cluster in windows. fragment is the smallest allocation block. block is a group of 8 fragments to make allocation faster and smarter. full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint. Please advice with optimizations or tricks. please DO NOT make single partition like that. try to divide it to 3-4 partitions. it will work on a single one but waiting for fsck will kill you ;) AFAIK fsck time grows nonlinearly with fs size to some extent.. options for newfs will be like that newfs -m A -i B -b 4096 -f 512 -U /dev/partition where A is space left. with mostly small files and huge partition don't worry to set it 1 or even 0. B - size of disk(bytes)/amount of inodes default is probably 2048, you may use 1024 or 4096 for your case - make rough estimate how much files will you have (you told between 4 and 0.5k, but what average?). making too much inodes=wasted space (128 bytes/inode), making too little=big problem :) another question - HOW do you plan to make backups of such data? with dump rsync tar etc. it's clearly mission impossible. feel free to mail me i had such cases not 5E8 but over 1E8 files :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppoe and nat problem
hi all. I'm trying to solve one problem but with no success in 1 week. I'm setting up Gateway server with PPPoE functionality for per LAN users to authenticate and traffic shaping. Incoming Internet connection is Ethernet. This PC have 2 NIC. LAN NIC do not have IP assigned. pppoe listens on LAN side interface and passes connection to user land ppp. (traffic shaping is via IPFW) ppp handles all other tasks like Proxy-Arp and so on. I have only 8 public IP address from ISP. So current test configuration is Proxy-Arp in ppp.conf and PPP's DHCP range is within ISP allocated zone. Every thing is Ok, with this configuration, LAN users can surf the net. This configuration can support at most, ISP allocated IP numer of concurrent connections. If I allocate exceeding IP zone for DHCP in ppp.conf like set ifaddr 100.200.300.1 100.200.300.2-100.200.300.100 then ppp.log says ppp Warning: xx.xx.xx.xx : Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP, maybe it's obvious because of its not in Internet IP zone anymore. But I need to support at least 50 simultaneous connection. If possible, I need NAT in inside PPP. I tried, tried, reed many times. No success. In ppp(8) man it says NAT is done on the external interface only, and is unlikely to make sense if used with the -direct flag. Current pppoed forks /usr/sbin/ppp with the -direct argument. Is it clue on this problem? How to NAT or Route if PPP's DHCP IP zone is different from Gateway IP zone when ppp is working in -direct mode. How to to route traffic within tunX and Gateway NIC? Or is there any other solutions for this? Thanks in advance. Help much appreciated. munkh. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to the question is about the reason it crashed... access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
I have tried using a 4K/0.5K UFS1 filesystem in the past and found the performance was very poor. UFS2 was based on 16K/2K and I would expect it to perform even worse with 4K/0.5K. I would suggest you try 8K/1K. not for small files. you are light with large files but it's not THAT bad as you say. i reagularly use 4K/0.5 UFS but not for everything if i require good fast speed for big files. for really big files i make 32/4 filesystem with very little inodes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I for most if not any DVDs (all DVD-VIDEO i had) use dd if=/dev/cd0 of=file bs=128k bs size is just to make thing faster, it's not crucial may be any multiply of 2k. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024 this is how i make my .iso files of data disks. are you sure about 1024? did you mean 1024k? (or 1m simply) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up dvds
with hardware DVD players, you'll need to use a DVD authoring software (like multimedia/dvdauthor) and a lot of reading before. not much readings if you don't care much of anything else than movie itself :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd configuration error
I've got the device installed, it shows up in dmesg as /dev/acd1. I have an fstab entry for it as: /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 i've tried commenting this line out with the below and it doesn't matter. In loader.conf i have: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 it's default in 6.2 anyway you don't need to set it up. i can mount a dvdrw with either: mount /cdrom1 or mount /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 and in either case it works fine. I can read dvdrw's with no problem. I'm using dvd+rw-tools 7.0 from ports. I'm trying to blank a dvdrw so i can rewrite to it. I'm using dvd+rw-format /dev/acd1 i've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/acd1 and in both cases i'm getting the error: /dev/acd1: unable to open: inappropriate ioctl for device you need atapicam, scbus and cd compiled in kernel and the use cd1 instead of acd1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
Thank you very much. Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your does zfs have RELIABLE and USABLE software allowing to efficiently backup large filesystems to other media? (DVD's, tapes, other hard discs) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
large pages
does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M
pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386
i don't mean any automatics, just enough will be to be able to map a big
chunk of RAM to an app with such pages, or even more (better) to make
FreeBSD use only part of memory for itself, and leaving everything else as
/dev/something that can be mmap'ped (and locked) to program this way.
i need freebsd just for running one program needing about 1280 megs of
data space (+1-2 meg of code stacks etc. can be normally mapped).
everything else is just using less than 1% of power.
with 1536MB AMD64 machine it would be nice for FreeBSD to boot seeing 256
megs for itself and allowing 1280 megs to be mappedlocked to just one
program.
thank you very much
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Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to the question is about the reason it crashed... access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. Reasons not related to the nfs-server itself. FreeBSD itself was rock-solid. It was firmware-related on the storage-side. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dv1394
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Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your does zfs have RELIABLE and USABLE software allowing to efficiently backup large filesystems to other media? (DVD's, tapes, other hard discs) Zfs has send/receive where you can do snapshots and send them to a different host. This could be your backup-host. I'm considering this solution myself where FreeBSD and zfs is my primary host and my nightly backups will be send to my solaris-host. Solaris has the required lto-3-drivers. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. Reasons not related to the nfs-server itself. FreeBSD itself was rock-solid. It was firmware-related on the storage-side. i always use software mirror concat or both in FreeBSD. always works, 10 times cheaper, fully portable and (yes true) comparable in speed. in some cases - faster. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer on 6.2
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flash
and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see any of the videos on youtube what do i need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACPI problem
Hello, when I install R6.2 in a USB drive on my laptop, I am using Boot FreeBSD [default], everything is o.k., when I finished the installation and reboot, if I still using Boot FreeBSD [default], I got following error message during ACPI: ACPI-501: *** Error Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_NO HARDWARE_RESPONSE ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C003.C004.C154] (Node 0x363d880) AE_NO HARDWARE_RESPONSE ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C154] (Node 0xc3642000) AE_NO HARDWARE_RESPONSE ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.C15E._BIF] (Node 0xc3640d40) AE_NO HARDWARE_RESPONSE but if I using Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled, and the system running very well, what is the problem and how to fix it? many thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, kalin mintchev wrote: and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see any of the videos on youtube what do i need? ___ I installed linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin9, from the ports. They compiled flawlessly and work fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:25:14PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see any of the videos on youtube what do i need? www/youtube-dl works fine for getting movies from youtube. You can use mplayer to play them. 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) pgp2oJwEbIO6v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: flash
yeah it seems that you need to use linux-firefox and the linux-flash9 port to do it since I haven't been able to get the linux-plugins to work with the native browser even with the linux compat enabled On 7/1/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:25:14PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see any of the videos on youtube what do i need? www/youtube-dl works fine for getting movies from youtube. You can use mplayer to play them. 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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:59:58 -0400 matt donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah it seems that you need to use linux-firefox and the linux-flash9 port to do it since I haven't been able to get the linux-plugins to work with the native browser even with the linux compat enabled Please don't top post. If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making docs
On 2007-07-01 15:27, Zbigniew Komarnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
I want to create documentation in FreeBSD. I read this article:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
then I compile and I obtain the following error:
You know we regularly re-build the documentation from the CVS repository
and publish the resulting documents online, right? If you are not
really interested in contributing patches to the docs, then it may be a
little easier for you to just download the pre-built versions :)
Having said that, we could always use some more help with the current
documentation, so if you are trying to learn about the build process of
the documentation to help us improve the existing documents, you are
certainly more than welcome to help in any way you want!
=== books/pmake (install)
/bin/rm -f docbook.css
/bin/cat /usr/doc/share/misc/docbook.css docbook.css
Index is disabled or no index to generate.
/usr/bin/env SP_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1 /usr/local/bin/jade -V
html-manifest -ioutput.html -d /usr/doc/share/sgml/default.dsl
-ifreebsd.urls.absolute
-V %generate-legalnotice-link% -ioutput.html.images -D
/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/..
/../../share/images/books/pmake -D
/usr/obj/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake -c
/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/catalog -c /usr/doc/share/sgml/catalog -c
/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -c
/usr/local/share/sgml/iso8879/catalog
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports
-t
sgml /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake/book.sgml
/usr/local/bin/tidy -wrap 90 -m -raw -preserve -f /dev/null -asxml
$(/usr/bin/xargs HTML.manifest)
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 $(/usr/bin/xargs
HTML.manifest) /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake
install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444
docbook.css /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pmake
What this error *** Error code 1 (ignored) means?
tidy(1) typically fails with a non-zero error code for things which we
are not really interested to fix, or are plainly harmless. This is why
the Makefile which calls tidy precedes it with a dash '-' to ignore
errors from tidy's invocation. The make(1) utility catches the non-zero
error status, and notifies you that it ignored it. Most of the time,
it's relatively safe to ignore this error code.
I also would like to ask you how to create PDF document, not only
HTML? What command I should use to obtain PDF handbook, for example,
because I want to print it?
First of all, you have to install the textproc/docproj-jadetex port, to
get the jadetex utility.
Then you can build a PDF version of any article or book with:
$ cd doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media
$ make FORMATS=pdf
the ${FORMATS} option controls which output format will be produced by
the make infrastructure of the documentation. Other available format
options are:
FORMATS=html Single-file HTML output
FORMATS=html-split Multiple-file HTML output
FORMATS=txtSingle-file plain text output
FORMATS=ps Single-file PostScript output
etc.
These options and other useful stuff about the build infrastructure of
the FreeBSD documentation set are described in the FreeBSD
Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/
Have fun building your own docs :-)
Regards,
Giorgos
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Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 at 14:11:19 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Greetings, We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint. Please advice with optimizations or tricks. Thank you very much. -- With best regards,| The Power to Serve Nguyen Tam Chinh | http://www.FreeBSD.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not aware of any ZFS results on such tasks, may be you will be the one who share them ;) However RaiserFS whould be the best choise on such spesific case. It's not available on FreeBSD currently. I don't think UFS can handle a huge amount of small files effectively. Of course gjournal could be an option for fsck problems, but how do you plan to backup or sync this storage? -- == - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. --- == ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running portupgrade -a
On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? I generally run pkg_version -vIL= after any portsnap which gives me a simple list of things to upgrade. Then, based on a lot of broken stuff over the years, you can merrily pick your way through. For something like cairo or gtk* (or gettext), that many other things depend upon I will run # portupgrade -fr cairo Part of this is the whole upgrade once every couple of weeks or oft'ner so you don't get overwhealmed by the number of upgrades at any time. ports-mgmt/portmaster has a nifty feature in -l but does not seem to have any equivalent to portupgrade -fr. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files
On 7/2/07, Nikolay Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 at 14:11:19 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
Greetings,
We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small
files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle
this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This
is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO.
I'd be happy if anyone can suggest what does fragment (block/8) in the
ufs2 mean and how this parameter works. I know It's better to read the
full ufs2 specification, but hope that someone here can give a hint.
Please advice with optimizations or tricks.
Thank you very much.
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I am not aware of any ZFS results on such tasks, may be you will be the
one who share them ;) However RaiserFS whould be the best choise on such
spesific case. It's not available on FreeBSD currently.
I don't think UFS can handle a huge amount of small files effectively.
Of course gjournal could be an option for fsck problems, but how do you
plan to backup or sync this storage?
I'm aware of the fsck/backup problems. In our case there's no need for
backup so i went with ufs2. The current configuration is 4x250Gb disks
with bloc/frag ratio 4k/512b. We're generating files with the average
size of 6k ('cause the compress procedure does not work as well as we
estimated).
After a week I think we could collect some statistics in production.
Anyway, in this case a 8k/1k would be more effective for us. Hope that
I can test this in the next server.
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Re: flash
___ I installed linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin9, from the ports. They compiled flawlessly and work fine. thanks... but i'm running freebsd. already stuffed this machine with a lot of linux 'extra'-ware when installing java. i was looking for flasplugin9 for fbsd firefox/mozilla... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: flash
RW writes: If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. This is flash-9, and not flash-7? 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: dv1394
On 01/07/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... what wold be the the device that is equivalent of /dev/dv1394/0? it's for kino's install... Not having any firewire myself, a quick googodge leads me to believe that you should look at your dmesg for things under fwohci* and firewire* /usr/src/sys/dev/firewire/00README is pretty old: | 6. DV | I have not tested yet. | | 7. Tested HW | | OS | - FreeBSD-4/i386 | - FreeBSD-4/alpha | - FreeBSD-5/i386 Still, you may get lucky. Posting the relevant bits of your dmesg here may help. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW writes: If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. This is flash-9, and not flash-7? Yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash
On Sunday 01 July 2007 19:17:17 RW wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW writes: If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. This is flash-9, and not flash-7? Yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just re-tried the flash9 after having switched back to 7 a long time ago, and for me, its still quite unstable. opera crashed quickly for me. -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [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: flash
Hi. I tried flash9 and flash7, the flash9 just crashes, and flash7 shows a grey square in the place where the flash application should be showed. I tried both, linux-firefox, and nspluginwrapper methods, it shows the same grey square. Any idea of what could it be?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: large pages
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M
pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386
I believe so, yes-- isn't this what the PAE kernel option does?
i need freebsd just for running one program needing about 1280 megs of
data space (+1-2 meg of code stacks etc. can be normally mapped).
everything else is just using less than 1% of power.
with 1536MB AMD64 machine it would be nice for FreeBSD to boot seeing
256 megs for itself and allowing 1280 megs to be mappedlocked to just
one program.
Hmm. Doesn't FreeBSD's default VM behavior do just fine dealing with one
large active process without any unusual tuning?
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Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200
Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home net, 1
NIC for the DSL
- same as above, just have to tell your box how to connect to your ISP
ok, this is interesting. You mean, plug the phone line straight into, say,
fxp1 ? and then using ppp to connect over PPoE to your ISP?
I had originally thought of getting a DSL card , but there doesn't seem to be
any ADSL2/2+ supported.
cheers,
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Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control
On Monday 02 July 2007 03:45:39 Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200 Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home net, 1 NIC for the DSL ^^ - same as above, just have to tell your box how to connect to your ISP ok, this is interesting. You mean, plug the phone line straight into, say, fxp1 ? and then using ppp to connect over PPoE to your ISP? I had originally thought of getting a DSL card , but there doesn't seem to be any ADSL2/2+ supported. Well, as you get your internet connection through a DSL line, the above is meant to be a DSL card. -- PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B pgpclIeguBIZD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: flash
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW writes: If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. This is flash-9, and not flash-7? Yes can you use that flash7 to watch videos on the new cnn site and youtube? ___ 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: running portupgrade -a
On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:19:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with every package that you're going to upgrade. So, is running portupgrade -a a good idea, as you likely haven't checked for issues for your system? I generally run pkg_version -vIL= after any portsnap which gives me a simple list of things to upgrade. Then, based on a lot of broken stuff over the years, you can merrily pick your way through. For something like cairo or gtk* (or gettext), that many other things depend upon I will run # portupgrade -fr cairo Part of this is the whole upgrade once every couple of weeks or oft'ner so you don't get overwhealmed by the number of upgrades at any time. ports-mgmt/portmaster has a nifty feature in -l but does not seem to have any equivalent to portupgrade -fr. i have another good one for sorting out what needs to be updated: pkg_version -v|grep needs this will show only the ports that need to upgraded. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated
I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed the sensible thing to do. As you can see below, Edwin (edwin .at. FreeBSD.org) made the change to close the ticket without much details. State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: edwin State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 27 07:20:48 UTC 2007 State-Changed-Why: Please submit patches Well, I know what patches are, but I don't think patches themselves are able to fix the outdated port.. so I'm lost. What do I do? I thought since the port was extremely outdated, that someone with a commit bit would have to setup the updated port in the CVS tree, I can't commit them myself. I don't even know exactly what patches are needed or where to submit them. So, how do I proceed? I need some tips and a hand-in-hand tutorial on what to update and where to send the update. Thanks for the tips. BTW: I'm subscribed to the questions list on a digest, I ask a CC please on all the replies. --Tim J. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. I can is a way of life. More and Bigger is not always Better. The road to success is always uphill. 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: ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Tim Judd said: I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed the sensible thing to do. As you can see below, Edwin (edwin .at. FreeBSD.org) made the change to close the ticket without much details. State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: edwin State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 27 07:20:48 UTC 2007 State-Changed-Why: Please submit patches Well, I know what patches are, but I don't think patches themselves are able to fix the outdated port.. so I'm lost. What do I do? I thought since the port was extremely outdated, that someone with a commit bit would have to setup the updated port in the CVS tree, I can't commit them myself. I don't even know exactly what patches are needed or where to submit them. So, how do I proceed? I need some tips and a hand-in-hand tutorial on what to update and where to send the update. Thanks for the tips. BTW: I'm subscribed to the questions list on a digest, I ask a CC please on all the replies. --Tim J. The porters handbook is your friend :-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html You should also subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That would be the correct list for port questions. Cheers, Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - [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]
Re: flash
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:54:51 -0300
Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried flash9 and flash7, the flash9 just crashes, and flash7 shows a grey
square in the place where the flash application should be showed. I tried
both, linux-firefox, and nspluginwrapper methods, it shows the same grey
square. Any idea of what could it be??
run firefox from a term and see if you get any error messages from the app /
plugins.
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Re: mDNSResponder and avahi conflict when updade
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:35:44 +0200
Gaye Abdoulaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a problem when I try to update my FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE i386
xorg-7.2 kde-3.5.6 with:
pkgdb -F
portupgrade -aPP
It seems that fr-kde-i18n-3.5.6_1 require net/mDNSResponder.
But net/mDNSResponder conflicts with avahi+libdns which is required by
firefox-2.0.0.4_1.
I bumped into the same conflict, although not because of the same packages. I
just unistalled mdnsreposnder and replaced it with avahi+libdns, replacing also
the dependencies with pkgdb.
Both I and the apps are none the wiser for the change ...but nothing seems to
be complaining as yet.
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Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:16:13 +0200
Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2007 03:45:39 Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200
Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home
net, 1 NIC for the DSL
^^
- same as above, just have to tell your box how to connect to your ISP
ok, this is interesting. You mean, plug the phone line straight into, say,
fxp1 ? and then using ppp to connect over PPoE to your ISP?
I had originally thought of getting a DSL card , but there doesn't seem to
be any ADSL2/2+ supported.
Well, as you get your internet connection through a DSL line, the above is
meant to be a DSL card.
:) i figured...but i asked just in the crazy chance that PPoE meant u could use
any Ethernet capable device (like a NIC) to connect to DSL. Oh well, it'd been
cool if true :D
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Re: Xorg build problem - font-misc-misc
Hi, I have solved this issue. Turned out that font-util wasn't properly installed. Although I followed the steps in UPDATING, it appears that a lot of my ports didn't cleanly/properly upgrade - what I found I had to do was to repeatedly portupgrade -a, identify which ports stopped on 'you should make deinstall/reinstall' type errors and individually do just that for each one until no more errors ensued from portupgrade. Then I had to run portupgrade -N x11/xorg on top of that, as it appears that I didn't previously have the x11/xorg meta-port installed. I find it curious that although I had full X functionality before without it, just about everything I needed now hinged on adding it. Even after all of this, I keep finding that I have to add individual apps as I need them ie base things like xauth still weren't installed until I added them by hand afterwards. joel On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:50:10 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've _almost_ successfully upgraded to 7.2 xorg. For some reason, I'm getting a failure when building font-misc-misc and this stops other crucial ports getting built. At present, if I try to run 'X' I get the dreaded cannot find font fixed' error. I sync'd my ports tree again this morning but the problem remained. Here's the output from the build error I get: /usr/local/bin/bdftopcf -t nil2.bdf | gzip nil2.pcf.gz 4x6.bdf /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util/map-ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 4x6.bdf:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/font-misc-misc/work/font-misc-misc-1.0.0. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/font-misc-misc. Help? That's weird. The failure seems to be actually failing to find the font source in the port directory. Is the port clean before building? Is the file that it fails on present in the port directory at the time of failure? ___ 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]
yet another question borne of ignorance....
Guys, One of the last tricks is to get lpr working from oldtao to newtao--(once I'm done with my paper, I'll try to puzzle out CUPS; for now I need too be able to print OOo files on my printserver). It/printing finallly Does work across the wire, but this is simply lpr /etc/printcap and the information I'm getting is that the queue on tao is waiting for permission. I've put permission on tao in /etc/hosts.lpd. What else do I have to do? Assistance, puleeeze! gary PS: and to think how far i've fallen ... jeez... . -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
