Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Please have a look at the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html esp. section 2.13.1 The ISO you downloaded cannot be used for offline (CD-ROM based) installation. It is intended to pull install files from the Internet. Download at least the first full cd. Download all the CDs if you plan to install packages from the disks. Bear in mind 6.2-RELEASE is now a years old, and the packages in the CD are quite aged. There are other methods of getting updated programs once the base system is installed. However as a newbie getting a first feel of the system this is not terribly important. Please make sure you read the excellent handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE installworld fails [SOLVED]
--- Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be an overkill but should do the job: # rm -r /usr/src /usr/obj restore sources # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make kernel # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster -i This procedure solved the problem. Thank you very much. Best Regards Unga Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frank Shute wrote: So if it's not branched but tagged, what's the difference between the ports tree I get if I use RELENG_4_8 compared to RELENG_7_0 as tags in my ports supfile? Probably not a very great deal -- you'll get equally disappointing results for both of those. RELENG_X and RELENG_X_Y tags / branches apply to the src collection *only*. If you try and use them on the ports you'll end up with a whole lot of nothing. None of the ports tree is intentionally tagged with anything matching 'RELENG' In general, you always want the HEAD of the ports tree. There's very little point in using anything else. However it is possible to use RELEASE_X_Y_0 to match the state of the ports tree used to generate the packages distributed with X.Y RELEASE, or if you still haven't upgraded all your 4.x machines yet, you can use RELEASE_4_EOL to match the last state of the tree before the 4.x compatability code was stripped out. Note that cvsup'ing an old version of the ports tree is not guaranteed to provide a workable ports collection: the dist files the ports rely upon are not in the control of the FreeBSD project and there is no assurance that old versions of software are still available for download. Plus you will be struggling with unfixed security bugs if you've installed portaudit -- or installing vulnerable software if you haven't. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgerP8Mjk52CukIwRCFAlAKCNmQAfP3JDHdBde/s4VWwcs3BGsACeNG/d kbfd4wXcBsG1U6tYvwIXmD0= =3Rc0 -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]
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Hi gang, first a public, up-front *thanks* to Bill Swingle and everyone else here at magnesium.net. If not for this site AND my networking (at least) working, I would be severely SOL and sans oar. At least this acct lets me tell a few people that i'm still hrer; havent given up So: again: i'm exceptionally grateful. . [volumes left unsaid.] On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:49:54AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: Anybody know how I messed up? ---This is no excuse, but because of the recent build problems I did wholesale ``portupgrades -af'' (**sigh**) Why cannot creat the queue files?? At a guess, either the queue directories for either or both the MSP and MTA sendmail instances have the wrong permissions or one or other of MSP, MTA sendmail instances is running with the wrong user credentials. You shouldn't get that by doing portupgrade -- certainly I've done a few 'portupgrade -af' jobs as part of 6.x - 7.0 upgrading and not seen anything similar. Anyhow, you can check that files and directories have the correct ownership etc. by: # mtree -p / -ef /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist # mtree -p /var -ef /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist You can fix any problems by: # mtree -p / -U /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist # mtree -p /var -U /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist I found out on my own that my clientqueue was 755. my doing. it was set (not by me to something bizarre like 740. i thought i had opened it up to 777 as a test. i fixed that by hand. no diff. long-story-short, i ran into worse problems of Connection refused for tao==10.0.0.250, then after a bollixed mergemaster, Connection refused with tao only be recognized as 127.0.0.1. I knew that / I had blown away my working /etc/hosts file. I check, yup, all my 10.* hosts were gone. After I added back my private network, sendmail went back to the better failure, seeing Tao as 10.250, oldtao|tao2 at 100.247, etc. Then I checked my /etc/namedb/s/db.thought.org to see id anything there could conceivably be hanging port 25. Zip. (I still updated the date and re-exed. I checked with ps and grep to find something new: ~ 624 ?? Ss 0:01.16 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/r p0 0:27 sage [5005] In theory I know pretty much what bind9does, c; but why this change? (Part of my gnome (2.20) is missing so I cannot max enlarge the konsole; ps -alx does not wrap so I cant see the entire string.) I can pimg ns1.thought.org--obviously. But if you see anything here, Matthew, would you please let me know? The other thing to check is that you are running sendmail using the correct users and groups. You should see something like this: # ps -o ruser,rgroup,svuid,svgid,command -p `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` -p `head -1 /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid` RUSER RGROUP SVUID SVGID COMMAND root wheel 025 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) smmsp smmsp 2525 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientm Yep; this works. And that you have the following lines somewhere in /etc/master.passwd: smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin mailnull:*:26:26::0:0:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin and the following in /etc/group: smmsp:*:25: mailnull:*:26: PING: i'm missing mailnull. how long has sendmail had this and if it is more than 6, 8 months, how ever was 6.2 sendmaiil working I just pasted in to master.passwd. EERp; it is in /etc/group. I never touch these files. I did use vipw on tao last week but not on ns1 (aka sage). Got to check my backups of /etc for sage and see. Proof: staff:*:20:root sshd:*:22:root smmsp:*:25:root,kline mailnull:*:26: id anybody can come up with a SWAG, I'Ll buy you a beer next time you're in seattle. ...this is worse than who killed jack-the-ripper. could-- well... [[?? (bar)]] and that the actual sendmail binary (assuming you're using the base system sendmail and not one from ports) has the following ownership and permissions: # ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/ total 688 - -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 686268 Dec 30 13:50 sendmail* Ouch; things are getting stranger and stranger; on tuesdayi did a make buildworld (plus a make kernel); then rebooted and after four hours of getty problems was finally able to get in an installworld. Does this make any sense? is this perhaps the 5.5 or 5,4 sendmail...? total 592 -r-xr-sr-x
Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Try to burn a new cd/dvd and burn it at a lower speed. It might be that the cd/dvd isn't 100%. cheers On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:17 -0800, Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /Peo -- - PGP signed/encrypted emails is prefered - -- [novice about this? ~ visit: www.gnupg.org] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: Then I checked my /etc/namedb/s/db.thought.org to see id anything there could conceivably be hanging port 25. Zip. (I still updated the date and re-exed. I checked with ps and grep to find something new: The best way to check for any processes listening on port 25 is: % sockstat | grep :25 root sendmail 1193 3 tcp4 81.187.76.162:25 *:* root sendmail 1193 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:* root sendmail 1193 6 tcp6 ::1:25*:* root sendmail 1193 7 tcp6 2001:8b0:151:1:240:5ff:fea5:8db7:25*:* ~ 624 ?? Ss 0:01.16 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/r p0 0:27 sage [5005] In theory I know pretty much what bind9does, c; but why this change? (Part of my gnome (2.20) is missing so I cannot max enlarge the konsole; ps -alx does not wrap so I cant see the entire string.) I can pimg ns1.thought.org--obviously. But if you see anything here, Matthew, would you please let me know? To get ps output without truncation, simply add 'ww' to the flags -- one 'w' gives you a 132 column output (shades of those old fan-fold line printer TTYs there) and two (or more) 'w's gives you unlimited width: # ps -alx | grep /usr/sbin/s 0 689 1 0 44 0 3188 1240 select Ss??0:07.28 /usr/sbin/s 0 1188 1 0 44 0 5640 3356 select Is??0:00.02 /usr/sbin/s # ps -alxww | grep /usr/sbin/s 0 689 1 0 44 0 3188 1240 - Rs??0:07.29 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -a 81.187.76.161/32:4096 -l /var/named/var/run/log 0 1188 1 0 44 0 5640 3356 select Is??0:00.02 /usr/sbin/sshd 1001 16014 1376 0 44 0 380 260 - R+p00:00.00 grep /usr/sbin/s As for the presence of '-l /var/named/var/run/log' -- that's added to the syslogd flags automatically by the /etc/rc.d/syslogd startup script[*] if you're running named chrooted (which is the default). This means that syslogd can log the items outside the chroot that are generated by named within it. You should see output from named in /var/log/all.log - -- precisely what you see depends entirely on the logging configuration in named.conf. Cheers, Matthew [*] The reason I have it twice is that a long time ago I'd also added it to syslogd_flags manually, something I shall correct imminently. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgglp8Mjk52CukIwRCMTeAJ9U/iicerUyzugUEucgZ1fFvavB7ACeNLkM /Go2XMJctLl+Ci9w3RrjxeM= =LbnH -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: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:03:12AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: So if it's not branched but tagged, what's the difference between the ports tree I get if I use RELENG_4_8 compared to RELENG_7_0 as tags in my ports supfile? Probably not a very great deal -- you'll get equally disappointing results for both of those. RELENG_X and RELENG_X_Y tags / branches apply to the src collection *only*. If you try and use them on the ports you'll end up with a whole lot of nothing. None of the ports tree is intentionally tagged with anything matching 'RELENG' This is where the original poster went wrong, he first off used tag=. which got him current ports, decided he wanted 6.2 ports and used RELENG_6_2 as a tag in his ports supfile and got nothing. In general, you always want the HEAD of the ports tree. There's very little point in using anything else. I was trying to make the point you should use tag=. in ports supfile. However it is possible to use RELEASE_X_Y_0 to match the state of the ports tree used to generate the packages distributed with X.Y RELEASE, or if you still haven't upgraded all your 4.x machines yet, you can use RELEASE_4_EOL to match the last state of the tree before the 4.x compatability code was stripped out. This I didn't know. It used to be AFAIR that because of disk constraints only head was available. But I see from the CVS tags page that you can get the tree in it's old state with tags such as: RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html A.7.2 Note that cvsup'ing an old version of the ports tree is not guaranteed to provide a workable ports collection: the dist files the ports rely upon are not in the control of the FreeBSD project and there is no assurance that old versions of software are still available for download. Plus you will be struggling with unfixed security bugs if you've installed portaudit -- or installing vulnerable software if you haven't. I can't see the point in holding old versions of the ports tree except for nostalgic reasons and masochists. Although, I suppose portdowngrade works with it (never used it). Even the oldest machine you can usually upgrade to something new. E.g Tags for my webserver (300MHz Celeron 128MB) is tag=. for ports and RELEASE_6_3 for src. Works fine. Used to have problems building ruby due to the low memory so just built a package on my workstation and copied it over. Cheers, Matthew Thanks for explaining how things currently stand, Matthew. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly
Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly SNIP wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly. last message repeated 30 times wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb wpi0: [ITHREAD] wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54 /SNIP Therefore I'm unable to make wpi0 work at all. Could you please tell me what should I do? Ciao, Vittorio The bus_dmamem_alloc message is harmless in your case. Due to limitations in the freebsd allocator, sometimes requesting a 16k aligned block of dma memory fails. As a temporary work around the wpi driver reattempts the allocation. If it truely does fail you'll not get a wpi0 device showing up, which clearly you did :). These warning messages will go away when I sync the next lot of updates to the driver which aren't quite ready yet. Can you describe a little more what you mean by wpi doesn't work? Cheers, Benjamin wpi driver maintainer Ben, here you are a longer explanation Context: Router ZyXEL ADSL+2 with dhcp up and running Laptop HP Pavillion Entertainment DV6000 intel centrino duo 2GB of memory hpbsd# uname -a FreeBSD hpbsd.vic 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Thu Dec 27 22:18:53 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP03 i386 hpbsd# all wpi's necessary devices are compiled in the kernel device wpi device pci device wlan device wlan_amrr device firmware /var/log/messages kernel: wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 kernel: wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb kernel: wpi0: [ITHREAD] kernel: wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps the line legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 is in /boot/loader.conf BUT 1) it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in a shell. Shouldn't this variable be set by either sysctl or by loader.conf (that is is a system variable) OR is it supposed to be set via kenv only? 2) dhclient is unable to get an IP address (BTW trying to set wpi0 up with a fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP) Here it is a session log SNIP hpbsd# sysctl -a|grep legal hpbsd# hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack 1 hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 ssid my_wireless weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x1f7b0a5a0d hpbsd# dhclient wpi0 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 wpi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps) status: associated ssid my_wireless channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:02:cf:61:81:fd authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS /SNIP Even giving an ip fixed address to wpi0 doesn't seem to work, - that is - I cannot ping anything and for netstat -rn wpi0 doesn't seem to exist. Please help Ciao from Rome ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange messages when booting freebsd 7.0-beta4
I recently upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0-beta4 Now, in /var/log/messages I invariably find the following messages: - Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Thu Dec 27 22:18:53 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP03 module_register: module pci/ichss_pci already exists! Module pci/ichss_pci failed to register: 17 module_register: module cpu/ichss already exists! Module cpu/ichss failed to register: 17 module_register: module cpu/est already exists! Module cpu/est failed to register: 17 module_register: module cpu/p4tcc already exists! Module cpu/p4tcc failed to register: 17 module_register: module cpu/powernow already exists! Module cpu/powernow failed to register: 17 module_register: module cpu/smist already exists! What should I modify to avoid them? Ciao Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba: changing UNIX passwords from Windows
Hello We have a FreeBSD server (7.0 BETA3) running as PDC (Samba 3.0.28) passwords stored in tdbsam. Theres are no problems for users and machines to log on to the network as long as they use the passwords I have made by smbpasswd -a username. But I cannot make a working configuration which allows users to change their own passwords on the server. They are told something like You do not have permission to change your password. I guess the problem is the communication between Samba and the server, the passwd chat, but I'm not sure. I have the following lines in smb.conf passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix password sync = Yes passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*passwordn* %n\n I'm not sure the chat is correct and would like to hear about what migth be more correct for this version of FreeBSD. I have tried to set passwd chat debug = Yes, but that did not provide any useful (to me, at least) information on the nature of the problem. I haven't been able to find much information on this issue between FreeBSD and Samba, bur I'm sure there must be a solution. I don't know if the solution is to use another password database (e.g. LDAP), but this seems to be a rather complicated issue too. Regards, Jon Theil Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly
vittorio wrote: Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly SNIP wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly. last message repeated 30 times wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb wpi0: [ITHREAD] wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54 /SNIP Therefore I'm unable to make wpi0 work at all. Could you please tell me what should I do? Ciao, Vittorio The bus_dmamem_alloc message is harmless in your case. Due to limitations in the freebsd allocator, sometimes requesting a 16k aligned block of dma memory fails. As a temporary work around the wpi driver reattempts the allocation. If it truely does fail you'll not get a wpi0 device showing up, which clearly you did :). These warning messages will go away when I sync the next lot of updates to the driver which aren't quite ready yet. Can you describe a little more what you mean by wpi doesn't work? Cheers, Benjamin wpi driver maintainer Ben, here you are a longer explanation Context: Router ZyXEL ADSL+2 with dhcp up and running Laptop HP Pavillion Entertainment DV6000 intel centrino duo 2GB of memory hpbsd# uname -a FreeBSD hpbsd.vic 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Thu Dec 27 22:18:53 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP03 i386 hpbsd# all wpi's necessary devices are compiled in the kernel device wpi device pci device wlan device wlan_amrr device firmware /var/log/messages kernel: wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 kernel: wpi0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb kernel: wpi0: [ITHREAD] kernel: wpi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps kernel: wpi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps the line legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 is in /boot/loader.conf BUT 1) it seems that sysctl is unable to find it and I have to set it via kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in a shell. Shouldn't this variable be set by either sysctl or by loader.conf (that is is a system variable) OR is it supposed to be set via kenv only? 2) dhclient is unable to get an IP address (BTW trying to set wpi0 up with a fixed IP makes wpi0 not associated to any AP) Here it is a session log SNIP hpbsd# sysctl -a|grep legal hpbsd# hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 hpbsd# kenv legal.intel_wpi.license_ack 1 hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 ssid my_wireless weptxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x1f7b0a5a0d hpbsd# dhclient wpi0 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wpi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. hpbsd# ifconfig wpi0 wpi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:19:d2:99:e3:cb inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps) status: associated ssid my_wireless channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:02:cf:61:81:fd authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS /SNIP Even giving an ip fixed address to wpi0 doesn't seem to work, - that is - I cannot ping anything and for netstat -rn wpi0 doesn't seem to exist. Please help Ciao from Rome ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vittorio, Do you have a line just like the below in your /etc/rc.conf? I've found DHCP a little tricky to set up on wireless laptops, and after a Lot of testing, I got mine to work. (This is getting a dhcp address from a Linksys router) ifconfig_wpi0=ssid [your network name] nwkey [your network key] DHCP Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. I've only read about 5 sites telling you how to make shell scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't work. How did I get to be so special? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VoIP and SSH
Andrew Falanga wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd configured for sshd to listen on. After changing out his linksys router and his Cable MODEM (the company said it was a very old modem), the problem was still present. Oddly enough, if he unplugs his VoIP box from his network, all this problem goes away and connection requests over ssh and port 22 are forwarded fine. With the VoIP box present, it doesn't work. Neither the FreeBSD machine or the VoIP box share IPs, but it doesn't work with the VoIP in the network. Any ideas? The VoIP box is usually an MTA, many include a router/firewall also. It should have an admin interface usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 The cable company technical support should be able to walk you through getting access (or check any documentation that came with the MTA) They may or may not have port options (open or forward) that may allow ssh to work for you. Good Luck, Jon Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'll see what I can find. Something one of you mentioned has me curious. That being whether or not there is a DHCP server running. My father's linksys router doles out IPs from 192.168.1.100 - something (I forget now). Once, while trying to get this working, he logged into his system (from his system) using ssh. What was odd was that he was able to log into his system by using the IP address of 192.168.100.101, but using ifconfig he'd always tell me that the IP was 192.168.1.100. I'm betting that his VoIP box must be doling out IPs as well as his Linksys router, or something like that. Jon, what do you mean when you say, The 'VoIP box' is usually an MTA? I'm used to MTA meaning Message Transfer Agent. Is it the same in this case too? Sorry for the late response. MTA = multimedia terminal adapter It's a Cable industry term most recently replaced by eMTA (embedded) where the MTA is embedded in the cablemodem. Most commonly used by Comcast, Time Warner and others for Packet Cable telephone service. Some service providers use the standard VoIP solutions (MTAs) or there are 3rd party solutions such as Vonage (also considered MTA). Most MTAs connect as follows: Cablemodem MTA (phone line plugs into MTA) (ethernet port for the Internet) The MTA acts as a router similar to a regular D-Link or Linksys (Cisco) home router. They usually have a web interface for configuration, they have DHCP serving the 192.168.x.x IPs. So it sounds like the MTA has DHCP'ed a 192.168.x.x address to the Linksys and the Linksys is doing it's own thing for his network. You need to get into the Linksys status page to see what IP the MTA has issued to it. Then try to access the MTA and see if you can open the ports of choice to the Linksys, then open the ports on the Linksys to his network or work-station. Best, Jon 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]
RE: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks Sent: 07 January 2008 15:53 I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. I've only read about 5 sites telling you how to make shell scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't work. How did I get to be so special? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, How are you running the commands? The problem is probably to do with your path. Your home directory isn't typically and shouldn't be in your PATH (try echo $PATH). You need to specify the full path to your scripts or place a ./ in front of the script name if in the same directory. e.g. ./myscript.sh or /home/username/myscript.sh - Barry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
Steve Franks writes: I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. I've only read about 5 sites telling you how to make shell scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't work. How did I get to be so special? command not found makes my first guess a PATH problem. What happens when you use: full path/script_name or ./script_name 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: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Steve Franks wrote: I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. I've only read about 5 sites telling you how to make shell scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't work. How did I get to be so special? Steve Steve, This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that file with the ./ telling the system THIS ONE. The reason for this is to prevent someone, a shady fellow, from putting a shell script in, say, a shared directory called ls, and making it executable, and have some similarly shady code such as: #!/bin/sh take_over_world(now); exit 0; Or something like that. ;) HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that file with the ./ telling the system THIS ONE. Ah! You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have mentioned that little detail ;) Thanks, all Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. That typically indicates the path you've specified in the sh-bang does not exist. Another common problem there is if the shell script was written out in DOS format. If you're certain the first line looks proper, and that the path exists (/bin/sh most certainly should), try: perl -p -i -e 's/\r\n/\n/' foo.sh Then see if it works. scripts executable, they all say the same thing, and they all don't work. How did I get to be so special? It's possible the partition /home is mounted on is mounted with noexec, but in that case, I'd expect you'd get a permission denied message, rather than command not found. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
How are you running the commands? The problem is probably to do with your path. Your home directory isn't typically and shouldn't be in your PATH (try echo $PATH). You need to specify the full path to your scripts or place a ./ in front of the script name if in the same directory. e.g. ./myscript.sh or /home/username/myscript.sh Ahh I misunderstood his email. Yes, most likely he is running it with foo.sh rather than ./foo.sh or /full/path/to/foo.sh Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VoIP and SSH
On Jan 7, 2008 8:45 AM, Jon Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd configured for sshd to listen on. After changing out his linksys router and his Cable MODEM (the company said it was a very old modem), the problem was still present. Oddly enough, if he unplugs his VoIP box from his network, all this problem goes away and connection requests over ssh and port 22 are forwarded fine. With the VoIP box present, it doesn't work. Neither the FreeBSD machine or the VoIP box share IPs, but it doesn't work with the VoIP in the network. Any ideas? The VoIP box is usually an MTA, many include a router/firewall also. It should have an admin interface usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 The cable company technical support should be able to walk you through getting access (or check any documentation that came with the MTA) They may or may not have port options (open or forward) that may allow ssh to work for you. Good Luck, Jon Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing listhttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'll see what I can find. Something one of you mentioned has me curious. That being whether or not there is a DHCP server running. My father's linksys router doles out IPs from 192.168.1.100 - something (I forget now). Once, while trying to get this working, he logged into his system (from his system) using ssh. What was odd was that he was able to log into his system by using the IP address of 192.168.100.101, but using ifconfig he'd always tell me that the IP was 192.168.1.100. I'm betting that his VoIP box must be doling out IPs as well as his Linksys router, or something like that. Jon, what do you mean when you say, The 'VoIP box' is usually an MTA? I'm used to MTA meaning Message Transfer Agent. Is it the same in this case too? Sorry for the late response. MTA = multimedia terminal adapter It's a Cable industry term most recently replaced by eMTA (embedded) where the MTA is embedded in the cablemodem. Most commonly used by Comcast, Time Warner and others for Packet Cable telephone service. Regardless of the response being late, thank you very much for the response. In fact, my father's cable modem service comes from Time Warner's Road Runner service in upstate NY. I'll bet this must be the problem. Thanks again. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
Hey Steve, Steve Franks wrote: Ah! You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have mentioned that little detail ;) Tutorials do have a tendency to look over important details. That's why I would always recommend a good book, something like UNIX Power Tools in your case, which, if not explains, then at least mentions most of the little things. JimBow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that file with the ./ telling the system THIS ONE. Ah! You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have mentioned that little detail ;) Thanks, all Steve You should search your tutorials for the PATH environment variable. In an over-simplified nutshell, when you type a command in your shell, it checks a number of different locations for the place to find the command you're trying to execute. Some of those locations are every directory specified in your PATH variable. My PATH is: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin This means that when I type 'ls', the shell looks for an executable named 'ls' in each of those directories (actually, it probably stops right after /bin/ls, since that's the correct one.) If the shell does not find a valid executable in the path, it will say that there is no such file or directory. In this case, you would try specifying the full path by typing /bin/ls, or /home/user/scriptname. '.' and '..' have special meanings--current directory and next-directory-up, specifically--so if your current working directory is /home/user, typing ./scriptname will be largely equivalent to typing /home/user/scriptname. ../scriptname would be largely equivalent to /home/scriptname. This is why some people suggested trying ./scriptname in other e-mails in this thread. The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM
Hi, I'm investigating a problem concerning the minimum valid block size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing on a DVD-RAM. (Please don't mix DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM up here.) My motivation for this is the handbook chapter 18.7.9 that describes how to format a DVD-RAM. All listed commands works on a blocksize of 512 byte. This does not work for me on an 'Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A/1.02' device since it refuse every operation with a blocksize unequal to a multiple of 2048 bytes. The actual inherent (physical) block-/sector size on a DVD-RAM is, like on nearly all other DVDs and CDs, realy 2048 byte so the behaviour of my device makes sense to me. (How should it write a quarter sector?) Now Marc Fonvieille let me know that the instructions in the handbook has been submitted by a DVD-RAM user. This means that these instruction works at least at one system. I'd now like to know whether most of the available DVD-writers are capable of writing blocks smaller than 2k. If not it would be worth investigating an alternativ instruction set. (But this is not as simple as it seems because newfs seems to have a bug with the -S option and also bsdlabel works as default on 512 byte blocks) Since I don't have access to different DVD-writers I can't test their behaviour regarding the minimum accepted block size. Therefore I'd like to ask you for a little test with your DVD-RAM enabled DVD-writer. 1. Insert a DVD-RAM (not DVD-R or DVD-RW!) 2. run 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) 3. run 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed and also if command 3 succeed and command 2 fails. The first case would mean that your dvd-write is capable of reading blocks smaller that 2048 bytes which would be very surprising for me If you have an empty DVD-RAM (or an DVD-RAM with un- important data) I'd pleased if you could also try a writing test. 1. Insert a DVD-RAM (Remark: *it will be deleted*) 2. run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=512 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) 3. run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed ans also if command 3 succeed and command 2 fails. The first would mean that your dvd-write is capable of writing blocks with 512 bytes. That would mean that the instruction set of the handbook works for you. My output of the reading an writing test is the following: Reading: # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000196 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 1.886969 secs (1085 bytes/sec) Writing: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000205 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 0.001600 secs (1280169 bytes/sec) You see that my device accept read and writes with a blocksize (or a multiple of a blocksize) of 2048 bytes only. Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:50 -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that file with the ./ telling the system THIS ONE. Ah! You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have mentioned that little detail ;) Thanks, all Steve You should search your tutorials for the PATH environment variable. In an over-simplified nutshell, when you type a command in your shell, it checks a number of different locations for the place to find the command you're trying to execute. Some of those locations are every directory specified in your PATH variable. My PATH is: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin This means that when I type 'ls', the shell looks for an executable named 'ls' in each of those directories (actually, it probably stops right after /bin/ls, since that's the correct one.) It stops at the first instance of an ls binary it finds. This is actually something that's really useful to know in all kinds of circumstances. Your path is search from left to right, and it stops searching at the first instance of the executable that it finds. This has practical applications even when installing ports. One example that comes to mind is the CUPS port. It installs its own version of the lpr binary in /usr/local/bin. However, there's also an instance of lpr, the BSD version, in /usr/bin. So how do you make sure you're using the CUPS version of the binary? The recommended way is a simple path edit, so that /usr/local/bin appears before /usr/bin in the path. This way, your OS will use the /usr/local/bin/lpr binary, leaving the system one untouched and, if you ever want to revert to the system one you can simply switch the path again. You can also accomplish a similar thing with symlinks, but this is one useful idea for using the path. If the shell does not find a valid executable in the path, it will say that there is no such file or directory. In this case, you would try specifying the full path by typing /bin/ls, or /home/user/scriptname. '.' and '..' have special meanings--current directory and next-directory-up, specifically--so if your current working directory is /home/user, typing ./scriptname will be largely equivalent to typing /home/user/scriptname. ../scriptname would be largely equivalent to /home/scriptname. This is why some people suggested trying ./scriptname in other e-mails in this thread. The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. erik ___ 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: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. OTOH, having ~/bin in the path has no security implications at all - assuming your scripts are OK, of course. -- Shenanigans! Shenanigans!Best of 3! -- Flash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. OTOH, having ~/bin in the path has no security implications at all - assuming your scripts are OK, of course. I don't see anything especially bad about putting . as the last item in the PATH on a personal desktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
James Harrison writes: One example that comes to mind is the CUPS port. It installs its own version of the lpr binary in /usr/local/bin. However, there's also an instance of lpr, the BSD version, in /usr/bin. So how do you make sure you're using the CUPS version of the binary? The recommended way is a simple path edit, so that /usr/local/bin appears before /usr/bin in the path. This way, your OS will use the /usr/local/bin/lpr binary, leaving the system one untouched and, if you ever want to revert to the system one you can simply switch the path again. You can also accomplish a similar thing with symlinks, but this is one useful idea for using the path. There's another way, though one with implications - add: CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes to /etc/make.conf. 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: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
In response to Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security implciations, so if you think that it's something you really want to do, you'll have to find out from someone else how to do it. OTOH, having ~/bin in the path has no security implications at all - assuming your scripts are OK, of course. I don't see anything especially bad about putting . as the last item in the PATH on a personal desktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this. Personally, I recommend creating a ~/bin directory and adding that to your search path. You're much less likely to accidentally download a trojan script into ~/bin than you are to ~, and it serves to keep your stuff more organized. -- 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]
32-bit FreeBSD binary on amd64
Hello! I'm struggling with a 32-bit FreeBSD executable, which is identified as: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Unfortunately, the executable would not run: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.4: unsupported file layout I don't understand, why it is trying to use the 64-bit /lib/libm.so.4 instead of the readily available /usr/lib32/libm.so.4 ? Other 32-bit binaries have no problems on this same machine... Was it not linked correctly? Is there a way to correct it? brandelf-ing did not help, for example... Thanks! -mi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
photo editor
Hi! What photo editor do you use on your system, expecting Gimp? Do you any application which can connect to the google's picasa gallery and upload/download photos? Laci Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM
On 07/01/2008, Martin Laabs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm investigating a problem concerning the minimum valid block size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing on a DVD-RAM. (Please don't mix DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM up here.) My motivation for this is the handbook chapter 18.7.9 that describes how to format a DVD-RAM. All listed commands works on a blocksize of 512 byte. This does not work for me on an 'Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A/1.02' device since it refuse every operation with a blocksize unequal to a multiple of 2048 bytes. The actual inherent (physical) block-/sector size on a DVD-RAM is, like on nearly all other DVDs and CDs, realy 2048 byte so the behaviour of my device makes sense to me. (How should it write a quarter sector?) Now Marc Fonvieille let me know that the instructions in the handbook has been submitted by a DVD-RAM user. This means that these instruction works at least at one system. I'd now like to know whether most of the available DVD-writers are capable of writing blocks smaller than 2k. If not it would be worth investigating an alternativ instruction set. (But this is not as simple as it seems because newfs seems to have a bug with the -S option and also bsdlabel works as default on 512 byte blocks) Since I don't have access to different DVD-writers I can't test their behaviour regarding the minimum accepted block size. Therefore I'd like to ask you for a little test with your DVD-RAM enabled DVD-writer. 1. Insert a DVD-RAM (not DVD-R or DVD-RW!) 2. run 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) 3. run 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed and also if command 3 succeed and command 2 fails. The first case would mean that your dvd-write is capable of reading blocks smaller that 2048 bytes which would be very surprising for me If you have an empty DVD-RAM (or an DVD-RAM with un- important data) I'd pleased if you could also try a writing test. 1. Insert a DVD-RAM (Remark: *it will be deleted*) 2. run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=512 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) 3. run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=1' (please adjust - if necessary - the device name) Please report me whether command 3 and command 2 succeed ans also if command 3 succeed and command 2 fails. The first would mean that your dvd-write is capable of writing blocks with 512 bytes. That would mean that the instruction set of the handbook works for you. My output of the reading an writing test is the following: Reading: # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000196 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 1.886969 secs (1085 bytes/sec) Writing: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=512 count=1 dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000205 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 0.001600 secs (1280169 bytes/sec) You see that my device accept read and writes with a blocksize (or a multiple of a blocksize) of 2048 bytes only. I can not test now, but everything I had seen previously when looking to use DVD-RAM for a live system instead of using hard drive, plus cheaper easier to backup/replace, points to having a block size of 2048 bytes, even Vista it is the only option and is the default. it works for me perfectly for over a year on a firewall file server, only thing I changed was the default block/frag size for UFS2 to 8096/1024. Only time I hear them spin-up is when periodic runs daily/weekly/monthly. Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kimi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: photo editor
* Danielisz Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-07 11:50:56]: Hi! What photo editor do you use on your system, expecting Gimp? Do you any application which can connect to the google's picasa gallery and upload/download photos? Although I have not really used it very much, I believe F-Spot will export to Picasa Web, Flick, and SmugMug. Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com pgpZgGIMXVflU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:21:46PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: James Harrison writes: One example that comes to mind is the CUPS port. It installs its own version of the lpr binary in /usr/local/bin. However, there's also an instance of lpr, the BSD version, in /usr/bin. So how do you make sure you're using the CUPS version of the binary? The recommended way is a simple path edit, so that /usr/local/bin appears before /usr/bin in the path. This way, your OS will use the /usr/local/bin/lpr binary, leaving the system one untouched and, if you ever want to revert to the system one you can simply switch the path again. You can also accomplish a similar thing with symlinks, but this is one useful idea for using the path. There's another way, though one with implications - add: CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes to /etc/make.conf. Another alternative would be to remove the system binaries (and add NO_LPR= to /etc/make.conf to prevent its reinstallation during a build/installworld). Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by - Douglas Adams ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disabling boot output
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Omer Faruk Sen [ Jan 4, 2008 (15:20 )]: How can I disable boot messages so user can't see any boot message. I think there is 4 part for that and each of them requires a different configuration file to be edited. 1) boot 2) loader 3) kernel message 4) init scripts Can anyone send me an URL that depicts those changes? Or at least where to look for them. I think 2,3,4 can be done with configuration files but 1 step requires some code change right? You can send the output to a serial port by putting console=comconsole into /boot/loader.conf. f you don't have a serial console, there's another way to do it, one I stepped into accidentally, and it took me a long while to recover from. There's a different line you could have put into the /boot/loader.conf file, one that says boot_mute=YES. That's going to silence all of the probing messages completely. The way it bit me (and you probably ought to be aware of it) is that it works exactly the same, if you had entered boot_mute=NO or even boot_mute=Cincinnati, in all cases, the boot messages are a goner, it's only reading that the word boot_mute is being set, and what it's being set to really doesn't get into the act. Took me a really long time to learn that one. I won't soon forget it. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html for details. çok selamlar arved ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgpXlz62J6PPcoOkRAmLGAJ0UhN3WqY5Zo/2bGX7SkHhPw/a2nQCfcOGG mMKSLlBqsdLU0mAMAler/EM= =bCwD -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]
Are 8K sector sizes sane for geli devices?
In creating a geli encrypted drive, I tried using a sector size of 8K, but experienced random panics. I've now switched to 4K and am using bonnie to stability test the partition. Is anyone aware of stability issues with geli partitions with blocks larger than 4K? The docs indicate that larger block sizes result in better performance, but make no mention of upper limits. The handbook specifically mentions 4K, which is why I backed down to that size: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html I suppose this could also be a UFS2 issue? -- 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]
tcp wrappers
tcp wrappers does not seem to be compiled with the 'blacklist patch' which Wietse Venema provided some years back. I am curious if/why the implementor(s) within FreeBSD chose to ignore that useful patch? Would someone please point out to me how/where I could re-compile tcpd to include this patch? I am struggling trying to find the tcpd source on my system. Thanks Jim Pazarena ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tcp wrappers
Jim Pazarena wrote: tcp wrappers does not seem to be compiled with the 'blacklist patch' which Wietse Venema provided some years back. I am curious if/why the implementor(s) within FreeBSD chose to ignore that useful patch? Would someone please point out to me how/where I could re-compile tcpd to include this patch? I am struggling trying to find the tcpd source on my system. Umm I think we use /usr/src/contrib/tcp_wrappers, not idea about the lack of 'blacklist patch' though. Should be a case of patching the source there then cd /usr/src/libexec/tcpd make make install clean Although presumably you need to recompile anything that uses libwrap not just tcpd. Vince Thanks Jim Pazarena ___ 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: minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM
Hi, [...] it works for me perfectly for over a year on a firewall file server, only thing I changed was the default block/frag size for UFS2 to 8096/1024. Only time I hear them spin-up is when periodic runs daily/weekly/monthly. Are you sure you have the frag size set to 1024? This should not work if the drive only supports blocks with a multiple of 2k in size. How did you create the UFS image for the DVD-RAM? With an image via the md device? This seems actually the only way to gener- ate an ufs filesystem on a dvd-ram for me now. Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Users login configuration
In response to ivan dimitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i have a freebsd server connected in local network behind a router. is there a way to configure the sshd to allow to login some (group of) users with their passwords only from the local network and to allow login other (and part of these) users only with key pairs from the internet (on that side of the router)? Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so. To restrict which users can log in, create a unix group and add only those users to that group, then in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, use the AllowGroups directive to control which groups can log in. To control whether a user can use a password to log in, set PasswordAuthentication to no. You'll probably need to turn off ChallengeResponseAuthentication as well for this to work, as pam has a way of doing things that you didn't expect. In order to have different policies on different internet interfaces, I believe you're going to need to run two sshd processes on two different IP addresses with two different config files. You can then use the ListenAddress directive to cause each sshd to listen only to a specific IP and use either routing or packet filtering to control who can get to which one. -- 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: unpack win32 exe file
Lars Kristiansen wrote: Chris Whitehouse skrev: Rob wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: I have a Windows executable file (.exe) which in a Windows environment would be run to extract some files which it contains. Is there any way I can extract the files on my FreeBSD system? I've tried unzip, gunzip and archivers/upx with various extensions, zip, exe, gz etc but they all There are many types of self-extracting archive files under windows. If it's one that's based on PKZip, then there's a good chance you could get it with 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ Otherwise, you need a windoze system or emulator I suspect. -Rob Someone else suggested 7-zip as well but still no joy. I don't think it's worth installing Wine just for this so it's time to find a windows box Was the result with 7zip negative? http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ Unfortunately yes: %p7zip -d iata78_enu.exe /usr/local/bin/p7zip: iata78_enu.exe: unknown suffix %mv iata78_enu.exe iata78_enu.7z %p7zip -d iata78_enu.7z 7-Zip (A) 4.57 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov 2007-12-06 p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=en_GB.ISO8859-15,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Processing archive: iata78_enu.7z Error: Can not open file as archive % Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OSX NFS-Server FreeBSD NFS Client
On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server hardware). We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the XSAN software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the StorNext environment. We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which by itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x. You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batch rename
On Jan 5, 2008 6:34 AM, Jeff Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? If you want to forsake the command line, krename is great for this kind of thing. From the website: What is KRename ? Rename is a powerful batch renamer for KDE. It allows you to easily rename hundreds or even more files in one go. The filenames can be created by parts of the original filename, numbering the files or accessing hundreds of informations about the file, like creation date or Exif informations of an image. http://www.krename.net/ -- Colin Brace Amsterdam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SPETTACOLI - ALBO GRATUITO - Artisti, Locali, Eventi, Musica, Teatro, Feste, Mostre, Turismo, Altro
Benvenuti ! http://www.novartist.com e l'arte live, vi ringraziano per l'attenzione. SI POSSONO CERCARE SPETTACOLI, ARTISTI E LOCALI Musica - Teatro - Altro POTETE PROMUOVERE GRATIS LA VOSTRA ATTIVITA' in: http://www.novartist.com Agenda internazionale libera e gratuita con gli eventi (spettacoli/mostre/conferenze/ecc.) in programma. E' gratuito e non-profit: promuovete il vostro calendario eventi, la vostra attività, e i vostri siti web già esistenti. Se inserite i vostri eventi indicando la località e il genere, l'inserzione è visibile sia nella vostra regione che all'estero. Non avete il tempo per inserire gratuitamente l'annuncio della vostra attività in www.novartist.com ? La pubblicazione delle vostre attività in programma puo' essere curata da un nostro operatore, a tariffa vantaggiosa. Sono disponibili: - scheda luogo: il vostro locale per spettacoli/mostre. - scheda artista: la vostra attivita' come artista/gruppo. - scheda evento, che si puo' collegare alla scheda del luogo o dell'artista. - rassegne, o gruppi di eventi. - promozione via e-mail direttamente dal sito. P.F. Indicate la località e il vostro genere: le categorie spaziano dalla musica alla pittura, e dall'artigianato alla salute, se ne mancano scriveteci ! Iscrivetevi subito, basta TV e divano, vasodilatiamo l'arte live! Grazie per l'attenzione, cordiali saluti, Cesare ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
zpool cache failed
I recently source upgraded to 7-RC1. When I boot, just after loading the kernel, it reports zpool cachefailed. Any ideas? -- Steven Friedrich Louisville, KY 40216 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batch rename
Jeff Laine wrote: My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? I found myself at this point once too, and then I discovered /usr/ports/sysutils/rename. Sure, its not as crazy as krename (it wont read any metadata), but it runs in a terminal, is written in C and supports extended regular expressions. JimBow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get sendmail working again
On Sunday 06 January 2008 02:34:34 Josh Tolbert wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:22:52AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: There's your problem. You've got two conflicting sets of daemon options -- effectively you're telling sendmail to bind to the same interfaces twice for port 25. Just delete the DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl line and try again. Cheers, Matthew Or just comment out both the IPv4 and IPv6 DAEMON_OPTIONS lines, leaving the smtp/smtps lines alone. I didn't notice that in the config he posted; good catch. I sent Andy my box's .mc and it has both commented out. Thanks, Josh Yes, thanks for explaining this. I figured it had to be something like that. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changing the postion of a partion in fdisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely insists that the ntfs partition be partition 1... how do I swap them and/or delete the ntfs one and renumber it so freebsd is in partion slot 2 (with nothing in 1 and then I can use fdisk to make a new slot 1) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgu7wjRvRjGmHRgQRArSwAKCVAwIOK+D++dk22OTht+flBjhEtQCcC6oS lRchYlAYgb/6zn34iw2FoHQ= =DEp0 -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]
webcalendar and php and classes
webcalendar 1.16 installed since 1.05 was not working for me and getting the following fatal error and warning: # /a/www/webcalendar/tools/send_reminders.php Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so' - Cannot open /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so in Unknown on line 0 Warning: require_once(../includes/classes/WebCalendar.class): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /a/www/webcalendar/tools/send_reminders.php on line 59 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '../includes/classes/WebCalendar.class' (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear:../includes:') in /a/www/webcalendar/tools/send_reminders.php on line 59 How do I fix these errors? Any help is appreciated please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
Hi All, Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together scripts to burn ISO files last night. Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that was gzipped. tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes exactly that. I'd like to add a line that yells at me, then gunzips and does an MD5; then writes. (In C, no prob; C lets me fly, but not /bin/sh. But anyway, if any guru can clue me in, thanks. I think my brain is in Maui for a few days. tiam gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
Is this what you mean? - #!/bin/sh STRING=mystring.gz if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi --- ~Paul On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hi All, Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together scripts to burn ISO files last night. Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that was gzipped. tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes exactly that. I'd like to add a line that yells at me, then gunzips and does an MD5; then writes. (In C, no prob; C lets me fly, but not /bin/sh. But anyway, if any guru can clue me in, thanks. I think my brain is in Maui for a few days. tiam gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ 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: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Paul Procacci wrote:
Is this what you mean?
-
#!/bin/sh
STRING=mystring.gz
if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then
echo test;
fi
Another way might be
#!/bin/sh
# basename $filename .gz returns $filename unless it has a .gz
# suffix.
[ `basename $filename .gz` = $filename ] || {
echo $filename has a .gz suffix
}
Bill
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Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
/Gulp Guess I'm too `new` skool! ;-P Cheers! On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:47:53AM -0500, John Levine wrote: - #!/bin/sh if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi E. I think that we can now safely take advantage of features added to the shell in the late 1970s. --- #!/bin/sh case $1 in *.gz) echo that is a gzipped file ;; *) echo that is not a gzipped file ;; esac --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
} On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: } Paul Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Jan 07, 2008 [11:34:08 PM]: } Hi All, } } Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in } *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together } scripts to burn ISO files last night. Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that } was gzipped. tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes } exactly that. I'd like to add a line that yells at me, then gunzips and does } an MD5; then writes. (In C, no prob; C lets me fly, but not /bin/sh. } But anyway, if any guru can clue me in, thanks. I think my brain is in Maui } for a few days. } } Is this what you mean? } } - } #!/bin/sh } } STRING=mystring.gz } } if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then } echo test; } fi } } --- Works (I assume) but perhaps easier to read and more native might be: case $STRING in *\.gz) echo Found .gz suffix ;; *) echo Not a .gz suffix ;; esac Sh is a pretty versatile creature; I'm sure there are a thousand more ways all of which work, and some of which will cause religious arguments for decades :) -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
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Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:01:18AM -0600, Jon Hamilton wrote: } On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: } Paul Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Jan 07, 2008 [11:34:08 PM]: } Hi All, } } Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in } *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together } scripts to burn ISO files last night. Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that } was gzipped. tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes } exactly that. I'd like to add a line that yells at me, then gunzips and does } an MD5; then writes. (In C, no prob; C lets me fly, but not /bin/sh. } But anyway, if any guru can clue me in, thanks. I think my brain is in Maui } for a few days. } } Is this what you mean? } } - } #!/bin/sh } } STRING=mystring.gz } } if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then } echo test; } fi } } --- Works (I assume) but perhaps easier to read and more native might be: case $STRING in *\.gz) echo Found .gz suffix ;; *) echo Not a .gz suffix ;; esac Sh is a pretty versatile creature; I'm sure there are a thousand more ways all of which work, and some of which will cause religious arguments for decades :) You may be right since lots of us toss bats or brickbats over seriously inconsequential things! I'm an agnostic--or possibly a gnostic--when it comes to the [*koff*] ``religious args'' and so forth. I like your first method since I'm reading a great book called AWK AND SED. Irecommend it to anybody who's into the fine points of sed. I keep forgetting about the \1 in sed, but still I'm not that far alongto have come up with your expression, :-) Impressive,thanks! The case/esac block would have occured to me eventully, but not tonight. Anywy, the if/predicate case is what I want. So I can gunzip, then hand off to my cdrecord line and re-gzip. Plus, yell at me ... or whatever. enjoy! gary -- Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ 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: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:08PM -0600, Paul Procacci wrote: Is this what you mean? - #!/bin/sh STRING=mystring.gz if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi --- ~Paul Sorry. You get the credit for the predicate expression; Jon had the simpler (and more readable:) one.But yours is warm+fuzzy in it's cleverness :-) gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
