Re: unable to install gnome
Hi, it seems that there is no Internet connection for the machine. Gnome should be on the installation CD. Mount the CD and install it from there. Check the handbook for information of how to configure the network. Erich On 08 July 2009 pm 14:46:42 malathi selvaraj wrote: > i am not able to install gnome on freeBSD7.2 > > i try > pkg_add -r gnome-desktop > and > cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome-desktop/ > make install clean > and i also change the /etc/rc.conf gnome_enable="YES". > > ERROR MESSAGE: > ftp: unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freeBsd/ports/i386/packages7.2-releas >e/Latest/gnome-desktop.tbz:noaddress record > pkg_add:unable to fetch > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freeBsd/ports/i386/packages7.2-releas >e/Latest/gnome-desktop.tbzby URL > > how to solve this problem > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > S.MALATHI > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD HA file cluster possibilities
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:54:23PM -0500, Adam Vande More typed: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:17 AM, RIck van der Zwet wrote: > > > d) drbd: http://www.drbd.org/ - Does anyone has a working (alternative) > > setup on FreeBSD? > > > > > > Any other solution/setup I am missing? Using external hardware/software is > > all-right as long I am able to connect to FreeBSD with it and it leaves no > > single point of failure. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > /Rick > > > > > Is there a problem with the DRBD and Heartbeat config? Ehm... It doesn't exist in FreeBSD? regards, Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
SATA DVD issues
I recently built a new system, and it has a SATA DVD drive in it. Everything appeared to be working at first, but I have run into some issues reading/playing encrypted DVDs as well as burncd. Here's some dmseg output: kldload atapicam: (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:ata5:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) kldload acd: cd0 at ata5 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [4162191 x 2048 byte records] GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider cd0 is iso9660/BOURNE_SUPREMACY. Burning via burncd: acd0: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51 error=4 acd0: FAILURE - unknown CMD (0x4a) timed out acd0: FAILURE - READ_TRACK_INFO ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 Reading an encrypted DVD: acd0: DVDR at ata5-master SATA150 acd0: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=51 error=4 acd0: FAILURE - REPORT_KEY timed out I can read a non-encrypted DVD just fine as well as burn via cdrecord. Anyone have any clues? Not sure if this is a drive incompatibility or a lack of features in the driver... uname: FreeBSD magus 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #8 Thanks, -- Richard Kolkovich sarum...@sigil.org pgpdrYxenim8H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD HA file cluster possibilities
Hi Rick, On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:17:46PM +0200, RIck van der Zwet typed: > I been (re)searching and reading what the options are with regards to > H(igh) A(vailablility) file storage using FreeBSD, but cannot yet find a > proper working solution. Any advice welcome! I've sought for proper working solutions as well, and unfortunately found much the same obstacles as you have. a DRBD port to FreeBSD would be great, but I think it would be a lot of work. The way it can recover from a broken mirror makes it a killer app IMO. This is what I ended up doing: - Use application level mirroring where possible - Use rsync where (small) data loss is acceptable - buy dedicated hardware where HA storage is mandatory regards, Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD HA file cluster possibilities
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:54:23PM -0500, Adam Vande More typed: > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:17 AM, RIck van der Zwet >wrote: > > > > > d) drbd: http://www.drbd.org/ - Does anyone has a working > (alternative) > > > setup on FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > > Any other solution/setup I am missing? Using external hardware/software > is > > > all-right as long I am able to connect to FreeBSD with it and it leaves > no > > > single point of failure. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > /Rick > > > > > > > > > Is there a problem with the DRBD and Heartbeat config? > > Ehm... It doesn't exist in FreeBSD? > > regards, > Ruben > > Sry, my bad. the ggated setup looks promising though, and you could tie it into carp. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: VLC server
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:peterp...@aboutsupport.com] Sent: 08 July 2009 05:25 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLC server Graeme Dargie wrote: > Hello List. > Hi, try upgrading the ports tree. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I did that before I started the install. Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies
b. f. wrote: >> But I have seen portupgrade something and then a subsequent run >>shows this port as being 'newer' than the version it's supposed to be. >>I've [snip] >>also noticed a few times it seemed like it was upgrading the same >>version(s) over again. I just chalked this up to the ports system being in >>a state of >> > > I've never seen this without an f,r, or R flag. Out of curiosity, do > you remember the ports involved? > Since everything built, installed, and ran correctly I never really payed it much attention. Some time ago, maybe a month or two back, it seemed like Apache 2 and PHP5 were getting rebuilt more often than I was used to seeing in the past. I just figured the ports were getting fine tuned on an almost daily basis and just chalked it up to that. But there was a time or two that Apache "updated" to the same version a few days in a row. After a few iterations it stopped. One example just occurred on my dev web server at home yesterday. I did not see pdflib-7.0.3 listed as needing updating when I ran portversion. Yet when I did portupgrade -a for the couple of others which did need updating I also got pdflib-7.0.3 upgraded to pdflib-7.0.4, even though I did not see it listed by portversion. So now if I run portsdb -uF && pkgdb -u && portversion it will indicate an ">" next to pdflib. Since it has caused no problem of any kind I don't worry about it. Usually when an oddity like this surfaces and I repeat my csup/portsdb/pkgdb and portversion run a day, or two, or three, later it just takes care of itself. Just an oddity which doesn't seem to be harmful. I just figure it's the ports system existing in a fluid state and until or unless something breaks I'm not concerned. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: VLC server
Graeme Dargie wrote: > I did that before I started the install. > > Regards > > Graeme > > As a workaround, try to compile ffmpeg first. Make "make config" for ffmpeg and make sure libamr is NOT enabled. It is a workaround but should do the job. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall
* Brad Mettee [2009-07-08]: > What happens if you put the drive on a secondary controller? (Maybe use the > CD-ROM drive cable) OK, I tried it. > With the drive on a separate cable, you should be able to avoid any > problems that cable select or jumpers may be causing. It's the same problem. The old hard drive is detected as the secondary slave by the BIOS, but I still get "invalid partition" when booting. It's very frustrating. How can adding another drive make FreeBSD detect none of the drives? Before I tried putting the old drive on CD-ROM drive cable, I also entered fixit mode from the LiveFS CD and ran "fdisk -B /dev/ad1" (when only the old slave/drive was connected). It didn't make any difference. What I really wanted to try was to remove the MBR completely from the old slave/drive ... Is there anything I can check/alter on the disks so I can use them at the same time ... Seperately the looked OK - the output from fdisk and disklabel looked sane. Regards, Hans > At 05:51 PM 7/7/2009, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > >* Hans F. Nordhaug [2009-07-07]: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I have been running FreeBSD happily for several years on the same old > >> hardware. 2 weeks ago when I was on vacation one of the disks started > >> to have problems, and 5 days ago the disk just stopped working - far > >> too many read failures to get anything mounted. I got a new disk > >> yesterday (finally home from vacation). The problems started when I > >> tried to install FreeBSD 7.2 - I got "no disks found" from sysinstall > >> all the time. The BIOS reported happily the new master and the old > >> slave/hard drive. OK, I just disconnected the old slave and was able to > >> install FreeBSD on the master. I was thinking/hoping that with the OS > >> in place I should be able to read the old slave (which was one single > >> UFS partition). Anyway, if I connect the old slave/hard drive I get > >> "invalid partition" when booting - argh! > >> > >> What should/can I do? If I run the Live CD (livefs), I of course get > >> "no disks found" ... > >[cut] > > > >I did some more tests and: > > > >1) Using only the old slave/hard drive works - it's detected by > > sysinstall. (The new drive is disconected.) > >2) I replaced the FreeBSD boot manager with the standard boot manager, > > but still the FreeBSD boot manager kicked in unless I disconnected > > the old slave. This seems to indicate that the old slave also has > > a FreeBSD boot manager installed... > > > >The next obvious step (to me) is to remove the FreeBSD boot manager > >from the old slave. I guess I can do it with sysinstall, but how? > >The data on the disk can not be lost... Is there other things I should > >try? > > > >Regards, > >Hans Nordhaug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
portupgrade question
Hello, yesterday, having to install kdeadmin, I issued the following command portupgrade -vnyNb -l file kdeadmin-3.5.10 Noting that "n" is negated by "y" (my mistake), the result of this command was + print/cups-base + print/xdvik + print/cm-super + print/teTeX + sysutils/kdeadmin3 but I expected portupgrade to also upgrade some packages on which kdeadmin depends on (required packages ?). Am I wrong somewhere ? Is the order on which the arguments are given relevant ? To get the result I needed, I then issued the following command portupgrade -bRv -l file2 kdeadmin-3.5.10 and the result, as expected, was + converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.13) + audio/libogg (libogg-1.1.3,4) + audio/celt (celt-0.5.2) + audio/libvorbis (libvorbis-1.2.0_3,3) + audio/flac (flac-1.2.1) + devel/glib20 (glib-2.20.3) + audio/libsndfile (libsndfile-1.0.20) + audio/arts (arts-1.5.10_1,1) Thanks, d ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Grid computing under FreeBSD using jails ... ?
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:42:45 -0500
"Sam Fourman Jr." wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:27:10 -0500
> > "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote:
> >
> >> I am also interested in using FreeBSD as the host in some grid/cloud
> >> solution I am open to any Ideas anyone has.
> >
> > Hey Sam,
> > do you have any particular grid/cloud/clustering solution in mind? I think
> > that Sun's grid engine works in FBSD (it is present in ports)...
> >
> > /usr/ports
> > $ make search info=grid\ engine
> >
> > There was a similar,but short discussion in this list around August 11th
> > 2008, Subject 'cluster filesystem', mentioning things like hadoop + gluster
> > on BSD.
>
> I know this thread has been dormant for quite some time, but I want to see if
> anyone has any ideas how how we could do cloud hosting using FreeBSD
> as the host system.
> A better way to put it is a FreeBSD Based Amazon EC2.
>
> basically a bunch of FreeBSD servers, that are in a cluster, and could
> host a bunch of
> Xen Domu's . I am aware that FreeBSD does not yet have Xen dom0 support.
>
> but are there any other competing projects to xen that I am unaware of.
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
Hi Sam,
i wish i had a definite answer for you.. my day job has pushed me straight into
linux land again...
anyway, some thoughts :
- eucalyptus , a project that implements, AFAIK, cloud services (on linux),
using XEN and/or KVM, API complaint with EC2. would it work w/fbsd?
- KVM , there are some mentions of it being implemented as a freebsd kernel
module. but not sure how to use it or if it works well.
i'd love to hear what solution you come up with
good luck,
B
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Re: portupgrade question
Hi, The missing switch is the -R parameter of portupdate. I.e. portupgrade -vnyNbR Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD dan Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 08.07.2009 14:05 Please respond to mesli...@yahoo.fr To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject portupgrade question Hello, yesterday, having to install kdeadmin, I issued the following command portupgrade -vnyNb -l file kdeadmin-3.5.10 Noting that "n" is negated by "y" (my mistake), the result of this command was + print/cups-base + print/xdvik + print/cm-super + print/teTeX + sysutils/kdeadmin3 but I expected portupgrade to also upgrade some packages on which kdeadmin depends on (required packages ?). Am I wrong somewhere ? Is the order on which the arguments are given relevant ? To get the result I needed, I then issued the following command portupgrade -bRv -l file2 kdeadmin-3.5.10 and the result, as expected, was + converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.13) + audio/libogg (libogg-1.1.3,4) + audio/celt (celt-0.5.2) + audio/libvorbis (libvorbis-1.2.0_3,3) + audio/flac (flac-1.2.1) + devel/glib20 (glib-2.20.3) + audio/libsndfile (libsndfile-1.0.20) + audio/arts (arts-1.5.10_1,1) Thanks, d ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Hacker problem...Takes down apache?
ch...@darkadsl.ca wrote: > > I run a virtual hosting server and one of my clients got hacked (weak > password in CMS). > > I was able to capture the php script that the hacker uploaded, as well as > some c and perl daemons (one looks to be basically like telnet -- should be > fairly harmless due to the restrictive hardware firewall, plus the one I > saw relies on a bash shell which I don't have). Also another one looks like > a generic network bouncer -- something like netcat. However what I can't > figure out is how it is causing interference with Apache (and possibly > networking in general). > > The processes I've seen from this are running as www so I don't see > anything to suggest I've been rooted, but how else can it listen something > on port 80? It seems to be doing *something* to break Apache in an attempt > to hijack it. It is possible that the intruder replaced your httpd daemon with a custom program. Check the timestamps of your normal Apache binary to ensure that it hasn't been tampered with. A common technique I've come across in the past is for an intruder to use obscure and hard-to-spot directory names such as: ... .../ etc, particularly in the /tmp and /var/tmp locations. Also, you should verify the status of ALL binaries that are loaded at startup, to ensure they are all sane. It's quite possible that your web server is simply a patched binary, that may not even be a web server at all. If the timestamp of httpd is different, it may be as simple as restoring the binary from a backup. Also, check your "last" command for logins, check privileged users .history files and check users home directories for any files/directories that appear out of place. /usr/ports/security/tripwire may help you in the future. Good luck! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Xorg and Dual Head Video?
Hi All: I was wondering if anyone could point me toward any docs, or even better, how-tos on setting up Xorg using dual head video? Thanks, IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Xorg and Dual Head Video?
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Gene wrote: > Hi All: > > I was wondering if anyone could point me toward any docs, or even better, > how-tos on setting up Xorg using dual head video? I use xrandr(1). Below is my xorg.conf. HTH. 1 Section "ServerLayout" 2 Identifier "X.org Configured" 3 Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 4 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" 5 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" 6 EndSection 7 8 Section "Files" 9 ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" 10 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" 11 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" 12 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" 13 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" 14 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" 15 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" 16 EndSection 17 18 Section "Module" 19 Load "GLcore" 20 Load "dbe" 21 Load "dri" 22 Load "extmod" 23 Load "glx" 24 Load "record" 25 Load "xtrap" 26 Load "freetype" 27 Load "type1" 28 EndSection 29 30 Section "InputDevice" 31 Identifier "Keyboard0" 32 Driver "kbd" 33 EndSection 34 35 Section "InputDevice" 36 Identifier "Mouse0" 37 Driver "mouse" 38 Option "Protocol" "wsmouse" 39 Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse" 40 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" 41 EndSection 42 43 Section "Monitor" 44 Identifier "Monitor0" 45 VendorName "Lenovo" 46 ModelName"T400" 47 EndSection 48 49 Section "Monitor" 50 Identifier "Monitor1" 51 VendorName "LG" 52 ModelName"Flatron" 53 Option "DPMS" 54 EndSection 55 56 Section "Device" 57 ### Available Driver options are:- 58 ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", 59 ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" 60 ### [arg]: arg optional 61 #Option "NoAccel" # [] 62 #Option "SWcursor" # [] 63 #Option "ColorKey" # 64 #Option "CacheLines"# 65 #Option "Dac6Bit" # [] 66 #Option "DRI" # [] 67 #Option "NoDDC" # [] 68 #Option "ShowCache" # [] 69 #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # 70 #Option "PageFlip" # [] 71 Identifier "Card0" 72 Driver "intel" 73 VendorName "Intel" 74 BoardName "GM45 Video" 75 BusID "PCI:0:2:0" 76 Option "monitor-T400" "Monitor0" 77 Option "monitor-LG" "Monitor1" 78 EndSection 79 80 Section "Screen" 81 Identifier "Screen0" 82 Device "Card0" 83 #Monitor"Monitor0" 84 SubSection "Display" 85 Viewport 0 0 86 Depth 1 87 EndSubSection 88 SubSection "Display" 89 Viewport 0 0 90 Depth 4 91 EndSubSection 92 SubSection "Display" 93 Viewport 0 0 94 Depth 8 95 EndSubSection 96 SubSection "Display" 97 Viewport 0 0 98 Depth 15 99 EndSubSection 100 SubSection "Display" 101 Viewport 0 0 102 Depth 16 103 EndSubSection 104 SubSection "Display" 105 Virtual 2880 900 106 Viewport 0 0 107 Depth 24 108 EndSubSection 109 EndSection > > Thanks, > > IHN, > Gene > > -- > To everything there is a season, > And a time to every purpose under heaven. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: portupgrade question
THat's the point ! isnt that -R implied by -N ? From the portupgrade man page [...] -N --new Install a new port/package when a specified package is not installed. Prior to the installation a new port/package, all the required packages are upgraded. If this option is specified, you can specify a portorigin glob as well as a pkgname glob to specify which port to install. See portsdb(1) for the details of the 'portorigin glob'. [...] :-) d On Wednesday 08 July 2009 13:33:49 Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: > Hi, > > The missing switch is the -R parameter of portupdate. > I.e. portupgrade -vnyNbR > > Regards, > > Ivailo Tanusheff > Deputy Head of IT Department > ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD > > > > > > dan > Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > 08.07.2009 14:05 > Please respond to > mesli...@yahoo.fr > > > To > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > cc > > Subject > portupgrade question > > > > > > > Hello, > > yesterday, having to install kdeadmin, I issued the following command > > portupgrade -vnyNb -l file kdeadmin-3.5.10 > > Noting that "n" is negated by "y" (my mistake), the result of this command > was > > + print/cups-base > + print/xdvik > + print/cm-super > + print/teTeX > + sysutils/kdeadmin3 > > but I expected portupgrade to also upgrade some packages on which kdeadmin > > depends on (required packages ?). Am I wrong somewhere ? Is the order on > which the arguments are given relevant ? > > To get the result I needed, I then issued the following command > > portupgrade -bRv -l file2 kdeadmin-3.5.10 > > and the result, as expected, was > > + converters/libiconv (libiconv-1.13) > + audio/libogg (libogg-1.1.3,4) > + audio/celt (celt-0.5.2) > + audio/libvorbis (libvorbis-1.2.0_3,3) > + audio/flac (flac-1.2.1) > + devel/glib20 (glib-2.20.3) > + audio/libsndfile (libsndfile-1.0.20) > + audio/arts (arts-1.5.10_1,1) > > Thanks, > > d > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Hi folks: (1) I'm only used Wireshark and Ethereal to inspect network traffic, and I've only used these on several occasion. Would someone suggest FreeBSD alternatives (console or xserver based? (2) I'm testing my connection to a remote server. The connection is supposed to be encrypted. What's the easiest way to verify that the data is in fact being encrypted? I don't care to validate the encryption itself; I trust that it is working properly, if it's working at all. I just want to know what, if anything, I can look for in the traffic that will indicate encryption (e.g., is the initiation of key-exchanges easy to locate?). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
is it safe to reboot while gmirror is rebuilding?
On FBSD 8.0-current ia64 I've gmirror on 63GB partition, which takes quite a long time to rebuild, perhaps 30 min. Is it safe to reboot, or write to this filesystem, while it is being rebuilt (gmirror status DEGRADED) ? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is it safe to reboot while gmirror is rebuilding?
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On FBSD 8.0-current ia64 I've gmirror on 63GB partition, which takes quite a long time to rebuild, perhaps 30 min. Is it safe to reboot, or write to this filesystem, while it is being rebuilt (gmirror status DEGRADED) ? Doesn't matter which version it is; gmirror checkpoints the rebuild process so you can safely reboot/write/etc. -- Kamigishi Rei KREI-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is it safe to reboot while gmirror is rebuilding?
In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > On FBSD 8.0-current ia64 I've gmirror on 63GB partition, which > takes quite a long time to rebuild, perhaps 30 min. Is it > safe to reboot, or write to this filesystem, while it is > being rebuilt (gmirror status DEGRADED) ? Yes. Doing so will cause the overall time required to rebuild to take longer, but gmirror will continue to rebuild during normal system activities (such as disk writes and reboots). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Daniel Underwood wrote: > Hi folks: > > (1) I'm only used Wireshark and Ethereal to inspect network traffic, > and I've only used these on several occasion. Would someone suggest > FreeBSD alternatives (console or xserver based? tcpdump(1). It can save to a pcap file for later review within Wireshark if required. > (2) I'm testing my connection to a remote server. The connection is > supposed to be encrypted. What's the easiest way to verify that the > data is in fact being encrypted? I don't care to validate the > encryption itself; I trust that it is working properly, if it's > working at all. I just want to know what, if anything, I can look for > in the traffic that will indicate encryption (e.g., is the initiation > of key-exchanges easy to locate?). It depends on the traffic type, and the protocol. When in doubt, you could always capture the entire packet, dump them into a file, and then review the data to ensure it isn't in plaintext: # tcpdump -n -i em5 -s 0 -w /var/log/cap.pcap host x.x.x.x and port Then you can read it back in with tcpdump later, or scp the file to a GUI based workstation and view it in Wireshark (which is my preference). Wireshark displaying SSH traffic will for instance tell you straight-up in the Info field that the packet is "Encrypted response packet len=xxx". It does the same for IPSec etc. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Hacker problem...Takes down apache?
"ch...@darkadsl.ca" writes: > I run a virtual hosting server and one of my clients got hacked (weak > password in CMS). Since you know the machine was hacked, you can't trust *anything* on the machine. If possible, you should rebuild it. If a jail was hacked, replacing that jail may be enough. You might be able to clean up the hack by reverse-engineering it, but you'll never be able to be sure you got everything. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Daniel Underwood wrote: Hi folks: (1) I'm only used Wireshark and Ethereal to inspect network traffic, and I've only used these on several occasion. Would someone suggest FreeBSD alternatives (console or xserver based? wireshark, formerly known as ethereal works just fine on FreeBSD. If you want a console based variant, there's tshark, which is just wireshark without X11 support. All in the ports: net/wireshark, net/tshark As mentioned elsewhere, you can use tcpdump (bundled with the system) to capture traffic that you can later feed into wireshark for analysis. Handy hint: be aware that tcpdump generally only captures the packet headers and not the full packet content. To capture everything add '-s 0' to the tcpdump command line. (2) I'm testing my connection to a remote server. The connection is supposed to be encrypted. What's the easiest way to verify that the data is in fact being encrypted? I don't care to validate the encryption itself; I trust that it is working properly, if it's working at all. I just want to know what, if anything, I can look for in the traffic that will indicate encryption (e.g., is the initiation of key-exchanges easy to locate?). There are two possibilities: (a) capture session traffic over the wire and from that demonstrate the traffic is encrypted. Unless the plaintext is obviously ascii or otherwise readily identifiable, this might be a bit tricky. Probably the only 100% certain answer is to be able to decrypt the session traffic. (b) connect to the remote network port using eg. netcat (see nc(1)), telnet or 'openssl s_client' -- in the first two cases the idea would be to check that the server would not permit an unencrypted session; for the last case the idea is to check that the connection does handle presenting keys and certs correctly. Obviously this will depend on knowledge of how your particular communications protocol works. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Thanks for the help. I couldn't find any flags/fields in TCP packets indicated whether encrypted (as in the case of SSH packets). There isn't any, right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?
What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Daniel Underwood wrote: > Thanks for the help. > > I couldn't find any flags/fields in TCP packets indicated whether > encrypted (as in the case of SSH packets). There isn't any, right? No. TCP (Transport Layer) knows nothing about encryption/encoding, and hence there is no room (or need) within the headers to signify those details. TCP provides reliable data transit, and really nothing more. Encryption happens higher up in the stack, and it is the responsibility of the application (or some function) to do this work. TCP provides the connection, in which you can throw any type of data you please. It does not care what type of data you put into it; it has no way of inherently finding that out. To find out the flags/configuration/techniques used by the application before it stuffs it's data into a packet, you have to read the data after it's been extracted from the packet all the way up near the application layer. Wireshark can 'dissect' each packet for numerous applications and protocols, hence it has the ability to inform you about encryption as in my previous SSH example. That is why I captured the entire packet with tcpdump (via the -s0 flag). If you don't, tcpdump will not capture enough information to decode the packet. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
How to symlink devfs devices?
Hi Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 2. A network device re0 -> lan0 Kind regards Sagara ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Xorg and Dual Head Video?
--On Wednesday, July 08, 2009 07:16:02 -0500 Gene wrote: Hi All: I was wondering if anyone could point me toward any docs, or even better, how-tos on setting up Xorg using dual head video? First make sure Xorg is up to date. Second make sure that hald and dbus are installed and running. This is a working xorg.conf file for a dual head setup on current Xorg (7.4). Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "No" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "No" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" EndSection # Make flash work correctly Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Off" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Dell Computer" ModelName"DELL 2208WFP" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "left" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "right" Option "RightOf" "left" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeonhd" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "RV610" Option "Monitor-DVI-I_1/digital" "left" Option "Monitor-DVI-I_2/digital" "right" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Virtual 3360 1050 EndSubSection EndSection -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** Check the headers before clicking on Reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to symlink devfs devices?
> > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place > of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? > > 1. A disk >/dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 devfs.conf(5) > > 2. A network device >re0 -> lan0 same as above, but there is way to completly hide re0: # ifconfig re0 name lan0 -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption
Daniel Underwood wrote: Thanks for the help. I couldn't find any flags/fields in TCP packets indicated whether encrypted (as in the case of SSH packets). There isn't any, right? Correct: there isn't anything like that in the TCP headers. Encryption on TCP streams is an application level thing that only affects packet payloads. There are transport layer encryption protocols -- eg. IPSec, OpenVPN, etc. -- but those allow tunnelling TCP streams through them and aren't necessarily TCP themselves. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
client control of sendmail
I have several users who are requesting new mail user accounts and changes to email accounts all the time. I wonder if there is a package that allows a given virtual domain owner to change their email accounts - add, delete and change passwords etc - I am presently using sendmail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to symlink devfs devices?
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:49:24PM +, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > > > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place > > of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? > > > > 1. A disk > >/dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 > devfs.conf(5) Geneally, yes. But not in this case, I think. You don't want any old usb device to be linked to /dev/camera! USB devices are enumerated in the sequence thay are plugged in. So there is no hard guarantee that the camera will always be available as da0s1. It might be da1s1 if another USB drive was plugged in earlier. And not all cameras represent themselves as disk devices (USB mass storage). Lots of modern ones use PTP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol]. So in this case it might be better to use HAL (via hald(8)) [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal]. 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) pgpWgQ1vvTcwH.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD/iSCSI intiator into EMC Clarion target
uname -a FreeBSD xxx 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0 kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 15 0xc040 97f830 kernel 21 0xc0d8 ff18 iscsi_initiator.ko 31 0xc0d9 6a2c4acpi.ko iscontrol doesn't have -V version and strings doesn't find anything that looks like a version. iscontrol -d -v -t 192.168.78.5 port = 3260 tags = 0 maxluns = 0 iqn = iqn.2005-01.il.ac.huji.cs: maxConnections = 1 maxRecvDataSegmentLength = 65536 maxXmitDataSegmentLength = 65536 maxBurstLength = 131072 firstBurstLength = 65536 defaultTime2Wait = 0 defaultTime2Retain = 0 maxOutstandingR2T = 1 errorRecoveryLevel = 0 targetPortalGroupTag = 0 headerDigest = None,CRC32C dataDigest = None,CRC32C initialR2T = 1 immediateData = 1 dataPDUInOrder = 1 dataSequenceInOrder = 1 sessionType = Normal targetAddress = (null) targetAlias = (null) targetName = (null) initiatorName = (null) initiatorAlias = (null) authMethod = None chapSecret = (null) chapIName = (null) tgtChapName = (null) tgtChapSecret = (null) tgttgtChallengeLen = 0 I-: cmd=0x3 len=301 SessionType=Discovery InitiatorName=iqn.2005-01.il.ac.huji.cs::mr1..net MaxBurstLength=131072 HeaderDigest=None,CRC32C DataDigest=None,CRC32C MaxRecvDataSegmentLength=65536 ErrorRecoveryLevel=0 DefaultTime2Wait=0 DefaultTime2Retain=0 DataPDUInOrder=Yes DataSequenceInOrder=Yes MaxOutstandingR2T=1 T-: cmd=0x23 len=281 TargetPortalGroupTag=0 TargetAlias=1576.b3 HeaderDigest=None DataDigest=None MaxRecvDataSegmentLength=65536 MaxBurstLength=Irrelevant DefaultTime2Wait=0 DefaultTime2Retain=0 MaxOutstandingR2T=Irrelevant DataPDUInOrder=Irrelevant DataSequenceInOrder=Irrelevant ErrorRecoveryLevel=0 I-: cmd=0x4 len=16 SendTargets=All recvpdu: Socket is not connected recvpdu failed I-: cmd=0x6 len=0 recvpdu: Socket is not connected recvpdu failed == iniatator does work into a FreeBSD/iscsi-target: # iscontrol -c /etc/iscsi.conf -n target0 iscontrol[817]: running iscontrol[817]: (pass3:iscsi0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 0 iscontrol[817]: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 2:0:1 iscontrol[817]: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 2:0:2 iscontrol[817]: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 2:0:3 iscontrol: supervise starting main loop #ll /dev/is* crw--- 1 root wheel0, 27 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/iscsi crw--- 1 root wheel0, 103 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/iscsi0 #ll /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 90 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 91 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da0s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 92 Jul 8 08:30 /dev/da0s1a crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Jul 8 13:30 /dev/da0s1b crw-r- 1 root operator0, 94 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da0s1c crw-r- 1 root operator0, 95 Jul 8 08:29 /dev/da0s1d crw-r- 1 root operator0, 96 Jul 8 08:29 /dev/da0s1e crw-r- 1 root operator0, 105 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 106 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da1s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 107 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da1s1c crw-r- 1 root operator0, 108 Jul 8 13:29 /dev/da1s1d #mount /dev/da1s1 /iscsitest/ #df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 10154158 141662 9200164 2%/ devfs 1 10 100%/dev /dev/da0s1d 20308398 1393604 17290124 7%/usr /dev/da0s1e 40622090 292054 37080270 1%/var /dev/da1s19907690 2990276 612480033%/iscsitest = Red Hat Enterprise iscsi initiator connects to EMC SAN target reliably. If we can't get the FreeBSD iniatator working, we'll have to convert several machines from FreeBSD to Linux. Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: portupgrade question
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: > THat's the point ! > > isnt that -R implied by -N ? > > From the portupgrade man page > > > [...] > -N > --new > Install a new port/package when a specified package is not installed. > Prior > to the installation a new port/package, all the required packages are > upgraded. No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up to date. -- Jonathan Chen -- "A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." - Bob Edwards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: VLC server
-Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:peterp...@aboutsupport.com] Sent: 08 July 2009 09:07 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLC server Graeme Dargie wrote: > I did that before I started the install. > > Regards > > Graeme > > As a workaround, try to compile ffmpeg first. Make "make config" for ffmpeg and make sure libamr is NOT enabled. It is a workaround but should do the job. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" libamr I assume is the AMR wide and narrowband options, those are both not selected, and it still wont complete. Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: portupgrade question
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: > > THat's the point ! > > > > isnt that -R implied by -N ? > > > > From the portupgrade man page > > > > > > [...] > > -N > > --new > > Install a new port/package when a specified package is not > > installed. Prior to the installation a new port/package, all the > > required packages are upgraded. > > No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up > to date. I don't understand what you're are saying here. My reading of the manpage is the same as Dan's: when you install kdeadmin with portupgrade -N, everything that kdeadmin requires will be upgraded i.e. "brought up to date". ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to symlink devfs devices?
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:33:42 -0500, "Sagara Wijetunga" wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place > of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? > > 1. A disk >/dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 > > 2. A network device >re0 -> lan0 That's no problem: Use the "link" statement: "link ", such as linkda0s1 camera linkre0 lan0 in you /etc/devfs.conf file. See the manual page for this file for more information, or see the example entries in this file. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo
b. f. wrote:
On 7/6/09, manish jain wrote:
2009/7/6 b. f.
After running pkgdb -F, I find that there hundreds of ports depending on
python2.5.
Most of these are probably indirectly dependent, and may not be
seriously affected. Many, for example, may have been dragged in by
xorg's silly dependency on python via libxcb.
Looks to me it will be easier to backup my dstfiles and reinstall
the whole system afresh a 3rd time rather than trying to fix the existing
ports. This time I will install no packages from the installation media, and
build directly from ports instead. The first 2 ports I will build this time
will be lang/python26 followed by lang/python.
Sounds good.
I suppose this should set the
systemwide default python version to 2.6.
As the others have mentioned, you don't need to do this unless you
wish to use a version of python other than 2.6, which is now the
default.
1) How do I find or set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION ?
2) What workaround would be needed in make.conf to get 2.5-hardwired ports
to use 2.6 instead ?
1) See above.
2) I didn't mean, as Seaman seemed to think, and you may have, that
you can use ports built against 2.5 with 2.6. That would only rarely
work, and most likely lead to all sorts of problems. Instead you
should proceed with your plan, and rebuild all dependent ports via:
pkgdb -L
pkgdb -F
portupgrade -fvrx lang/python26 lang/python26
rm -r /usr/local/lib/python2.5
or rebuild just that subset of ports that are most likely to be broken
by the change, via the upgrade-site-packages target in lang/python, as
Seaman suggested.
What I meant by my original comment was, that if you should happen to
want to build a port against 2.6, but find that it is hardwired in the
port Makefile via USE_PYTHON to another version or versions, and you
don't want to go to the trouble of patching the port Makefile, and
then preserving this local modification when you merge in updates to
the port tree, you can add a workaround in /etc/make.conf. Say, for
example, you see that mail/py-spambayes has:
USE_PYTHON= -2.5
in the port Makefile, and you want to install spambayes, but you don't
want to have to reinstall python 2.5 or an earlier version of python.
If you add:
.if${.CURDIR:M*/mail/py-spambayes*}
PYTHON_VERSION=python2.6
NO_IGNORE=yes
.endif
to /etc/make.conf, you can override the spambayes port Makefile
without patching it. Now, you are _not_ supposed to do this, and you
will probably have to deal with any consequences of such a local
change on your own. Many ports have these restrictions for a good
reason, but such an override can be occasionally useful.
b.
Hi,
After a marathon session spread over 2 days, I have managed to set up a
new FreeBSD-7.2 installation with all ports (762) up to date. From the
gleanings of this conversation and some reading I did myself, I have
compiled a small document for what-to-do-after-installation. I would
dearly appreciate your comments on the document, and would be extremely
glad if my document could be of any help to somebody else too.
Please note that portupgrade works much better on my system than
portmaster. So the following document assumes/recommends using portupgrade.
Here it is.
==
Part-1)Immediately after a fresh FreeBSD-7.2#RELEASE install :
I assume you will at some stage or the other install a linux port, eg
acroread8 or acroread9, linux-ymessenger, etc. Incidentally, unless you
have specific needs, prefer acroread8 over acroread9.
All following steps are to be executed as root.
a)Make sure /etc/rc.conf has at least the following 5 lines.
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
b)Make sure /boot/loader.conf has at least the following 3 lines.
kern.maxdsiz="734003200"
linprocfs_load="YES"
linsysfs_load="YES"
c)Make sure /etc/fstab has at least the following 3 lines.
proc/proc procfs
rw00
linproc /usr/compat/linux/proclinprocfsrw00
linsys /usr/compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw0
0
d)Upgrage from python25 to python26 along with all dependent ports
as follows :
rm -rf /usr/ports 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p /usr/ports/distfiles
portsnap fetch extract
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
make deinstall 2>/dev/null
make install clean
portupgrade -C -r -o lang/python26 lang/python25
portupgrade -rfx python26 python26
pkgdb -F
Before doing anything further, reboot. Immediately after reboot, execute
Part-2.
Part-2) Steps to be followed whenever a significant number new
ports/patches are available and you need to ensure your ports as well as
your ports directory are up to date :
thisdate=`date "+%Y-%m-%n"`
rm /root/portupgrade-${thisdate}.log 2>/dev/null
portsnap fetch update
portupgrade -ace -uRl /root/portupgra
Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer
thanks a bunch for all the great info. alex Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-03: > On 7/3/09, Alexander Best wrote: > > wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's > > own volume > > setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve the > > volume > > setting for each application and rather not have it reset. because > > i think > > this feature takes the pid of the app and preserves the volume for > > the pid. > Negative. Same application can open and close (different) channel(s) > multiple > times causing volume to be changed. You can get some patches on > freebsd forums > for mplayer and others ... > > mplayer and mpd however seem to fork a new instance after a song > > change or > > pausing etc. so so the volume get's reset while the app is still > > running. > Nope, there is no *forking*. > > i might be wrong, but i think there's a typo in this description of > > the > > feature i'm looking for: > > hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default=1, enabled) > > 0=disable, 1=enable > > Notes: By default, channel volume will be reset to 0db > >relative after the channel is closed which means > >that any > >changes will be lost and not preserved. Setting > >this to > > '1' > >will preserve the volume at the cost of possible > > confusion > >for other applications trying to re-open the > >same > >device (see hw.snd.vpc_reset for possible > >'panic' switch > > to > >fix the volumes). > > shouldn't it be: > > hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default=1, enabled) > > 0=disable, 1=enable > > Notes: By default, channel volume will be reset to 0db > >relative after the channel is closed which means > >that any > >changes will be lost and not preserved. Setting > >this to > > '0' > >will preserve the volume at the cost of possible > > confusion > >for other applications trying to re-open the > >same > >device (see hw.snd.vpc_reset for possible > >'panic' switch > > to > >fix the volumes). > > > > so after settings hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0 each application uses it's > > own > > volume > > setting AND preserves it. just what i wanted. even better because i > > didn't > > know this cool new feature existed. :) > Doesn't work as expected because if you use multiple applications at > same time > silenced channel may and may not become extremly noise at any time - > this is > OSS and not FreeBSD fault and it is implemented as is in many if not > all > multimedia applications; so you may look again in freebsd forums and > use > ariff@ patch for mplayer. I don't remmember there was patch for mpd, > but you > can always ask politely. > > thanks again for the hint. > > cheers. > > alex > > Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-03: > >> On 7/3/09, Alexander Best wrote: > >> > hi there, > >> > i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps > >> > like > >> > mplayer > >> > or > >> > mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. > >> > the > >> > app's > >> > volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an > >> > example: > >> CURRENT have VPC. > >> You can completly disable such feature with this sysctl: > >> hint.pcm.X.vpc (default=undefined, enabled) > >> 0=disable, 1=enable > >> Notes: The only place to enable/disable vpc. > >>Enabling/Disabling requires driver reload. > >> here is explanation with more details: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: portupgrade question
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:20:41PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: > > > THat's the point ! > > > > > > isnt that -R implied by -N ? > > > > > > From the portupgrade man page > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > -N > > > --new > > > Install a new port/package when a specified package is not > > > installed. Prior to the installation a new port/package, all the > > > required packages are upgraded. > > > > No. Since the dependant package *is* installed. It's just not up > > to date. > > I don't understand what you're are saying here. My reading of the > manpage is the same as Dan's: when you install kdeadmin with > portupgrade -N, everything that kdeadmin requires will be upgraded i.e. > "brought up to date". My mistake. It may be a regression with portupgrade; or just that the feature in the second sentence has never been implemented due to the overlap with -R -- Jonathan Chen -- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to symlink devfs devices?
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:45:48 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:49:24PM +, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > > > > > > Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the > > > symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially > > > in version 7.2? > > > > > > 1. A disk > > >/dev/camera -> /dev/da0s1 > > > devfs.conf(5) > > Geneally, yes. But not in this case, I think. You don't want any old > usb device to be linked to /dev/camera! USB devices are enumerated in > the sequence thay are plugged in. So there is no hard guarantee that > the camera will always be available as da0s1. It might be da1s1 if > another USB drive was plugged in earlier. > > And not all cameras represent themselves as disk devices (USB mass > storage). Lots of modern ones use PTP > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol]. > > So in this case it might be better to use HAL (via hald(8)) > [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal] although if it is a standard usb mass storage device, you can mount it via it's msdos volume label, or a generic label written to the device by glabel. Both methods are described in the glabel(8). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: client control of sendmail
On 7/8/2009 8:15 PM, David Banning wrote: I have several users who are requesting new mail user accounts and changes to email accounts all the time. I wonder if there is a package that allows a given virtual domain owner to change their email accounts - add, delete and change passwords etc - I am presently using sendmail. Postfix with postfixadmin works really well, but you'll have to rebuild the setup. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao wrote: >What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe > files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? > > It's not a terribly big port. Compile it and check. Generally if there are problems with port on a specific platform, it will not build. Use regular wine/avoid emulators within emulators if at all possible. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
