Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy
On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as intended. Unfortunately, last I checked, while apache supports this, most web browsers do not. Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and nothing else (maybe Safari does...). IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple static IPs at home for my webservers.___ 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: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?
I can't understand why should I use this adm tool instead of standard method, described in /usr/src/Makefile. And it's not an answer to this question: 6.2 to 7.3 is which one of the folowing: - 6.2-6.4-7.0-7.3 or - 6.2-7.3 directly? 2010/10/4 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, c0re nr1c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I'm interested in 2 updates: - from 6.2 to 7.3 and - from 6.2 to 8.1 Can I update directly from 6.2 to 7.3? like set RELENG_7_3 in supfile and make csup. Or I should update to 6.4, then to 7.0, and then to 7.3? And same question about upgrading from 6.2 to 8.1 - can i csup directly to 8.1? If not - why is it so? http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/ -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!. -- Lucky Dube ___ 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: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as intended. Unfortunately, last I checked, while apache supports this, most web browsers do not. Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and nothing else (maybe Safari does...). IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple static IPs at home for my webservers.___ IE 7+ does however support RFC 3546(SNI), which is the defacto standard for accomplishing SSL name based vhosts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication -- 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: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?
I can't understand why should I use this adm tool instead of standard method, described in /usr/src/Makefile. List subscribers generally ask that those sending messages to the list place their replies below quoted material, rather than above it. If you read /usr/src/UPDATING, you will see: To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. --- # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. This same statement is valid with regard to releases, and the -STABLE branches. Engelschall's adm toolkit and associated scripts attempt to do more than is listed here, as Engelschall described clearly at the link that Washington gave you, http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/ 'for upgrading from X-STABLE to (X+1)-STABLE ... the usual build and install everything from source does not work or at least requires additional preparations.' I would qualify that does not work with a sometimes. Of course you don't have to use this stuff, but you may want to at least look through his scripts, to see if some of the steps are applicable to your machines. In any event, before you attempt a major upgrade, you should back up your data, so that it will not be lost if something goes wrong. Also, you may want to consider simply wiping your disks and starting afresh with new binary installation, rather than attempting to upgrade directly. Sometimes that is easier. You can always customize it later. And it's not an answer to this question: 6.2 to 7.3 is which one of the folowing: - 6.2-6.4-7.0-7.3 or - 6.2-7.3 directly? See below. 2010/10/4 Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, c0re nr1c0re at gmail.com wrote: ... I'm interested in 2 updates: - from 6.2 to 7.3 and - from 6.2 to 8.1 Can I update directly from 6.2 to 7.3? like set RELENG_7_3 in supfile and make csup. Or I should update to 6.4, then to 7.0, and then to 7.3? And same question about upgrading from 6.2 to 8.1 - can i csup directly to 8.1? If not - why is it so? You might as well do both updates in just one step. You probably won't gain much by breaking it up into smaller steps, and that will take longer. It may be quicker and safer just to start with a new src collection, obtained via csup, svn, release media, or tarballs, rather than attempting to bring a very old src collection up to date. b. ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released
Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit : Hello, This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword, gnumeric, firefox35, gimp, inkscape, evince and so on. The base system is 8.1-RELEASE. A few other small window managers are included like windowmaker and fluxbox. Note this release does not include editors/zim and x11-wm/icewm due to build problems. Which print system is used by the packages, cups or lpr? Regards. ___ 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: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as intended. Unfortunately, last I checked, while apache supports this, most web browsers do not. Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and nothing else (maybe Safari does...). IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple static IPs at home for my webservers.___ IE 7+ does however support RFC 3546(SNI), which is the defacto standard for accomplishing SSL name based vhosts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication Only in Vista and later versions of Windows; Not XP. ___ 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
XFCE 4.6.2 : Thunar 1.0.2 always reloads files under /usr/home/user
Hi, On my laptop under 8.1-RELEASE, I have installed XFCE 4.6.2 meta port last week, and I have noticed anything strange. When I open Thunar, my home directory is opened. But Thunar seems to reload and access to a few text files and hidden files and directories (.gvfs, .cshrc...) in my home. I can see that because the access time is increasing every second. And the mouse pointer change continually from arrow to hourglass. At the begining, I thought that there was my text files at the root of my home that were problematic, but I have moved them to another directory under my home, and the problem I always here. At this moment, I noticed that Thunar access to hidden files and directories. I don't think that it is a rights problem because I have given full access (777) to a text file that is concerned by this, and this has not resolved the problem. If I screen another directory, even under my home directory (/home/dir1 for example), the problem disappears. But when I screen my root's home (/home/Alexandre) the problem reappears. I previously installed Gnome 2.30 and I haven't noticed that problem under Nautilus. I uninstalled Gnome but keep some Gnome tools like Brasero, Nautilus or Power Management Tools. I haven't mounted any USB device, or NFS directory. Here my configuration options for Thunar : DBUS=on (default) Enable D-BUS support JPEG=on (default) Enable JPEG support FAM=on (default) Enable FAM support HAL=on (default) Enable HAL support GCONF=off (default) Enable GCONF support STARTUP=on (default) Enable startup notification support PLUG_APR=on (default) Thunar Advanced Properties plugin PLUG_APR_EXIF=off (default) Exif support for the APR plugin PLUG_SBR=on (default) Thunar Simple Builtin Renamers plugin PLUG_SBR_PCRE=off (default) Regular expression support for the SBR plugin PLUG_TPA=on (default) Thunar Trash Panel Applet plugin PLUG_UCA=on (default) Thunar User Customizable Actions plugin PLUG_WALL=on (default) Thunar Wallpaper plugin Best Regards, Alexandre ___ 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
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Raid 5 questions
Hi! I have a raid problem ... one of the subdisk is missing and i can't mount my partition. FreeBSD testhost 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # gvinum printconfig # Vinum configuration of aladar.mzperx.hu, saved at Tue Oct 5 13:06:57 2010 drive disk1 device /dev/ad4s2 drive disk2 device /dev/ad6s2 drive disk3 device /dev/ad8s2 volume user plex name user.p0 org raid5 512s vol user sd name user.p0.s1 drive disk2 len 1869638656s driveoffset 265s plex user.p0 plexoffset 512s sd name user.p0.s2 drive disk3 len 1869638656s driveoffset 265s plex user.p0 plexoffset 1024s # gvinum l 3 drives: D disk1 State: up/dev/ad4s2A: 912909/912909 MB (100%) D disk2 State: up/dev/ad6s2A: 0/912909 MB (0%) D disk3 State: up/dev/ad8s2A: 0/912909 MB (0%) 1 volume: V user State: upPlexes: 1Size:891 GB 1 plex: P user.p0R5 State: upSubdisks: 2Size:891 GB 2 subdisks: S user.p0.s1State: upD: disk2Size:891 GB S user.p0.s2State: upD: disk3Size:891 GB How can I re-add my disk ? Thanks! Aron ___ 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
Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon
Hello, I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi mode. So far, I've the following script : #!/bin/sh # # PROVIDE: phpfastcgi # REQUIRE: DAEMON # KEYWORD: shutdown # # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable phpfastcgi : # # phpfastcgi_enable (bool): Set it to YES to enable phpfastcgi # Default is NO. # phpfastcgi_flags (str): Set the uwsgi command line arguments # Default is -M -L. . /etc/rc.subr name=phpfastcgi rcvar=`set_rcvar` [ -z $phpfastcgi_enable ] phpfastcgi_enable=NO [ -z $phpfastcgi_flags ] phpfastcgi_flags= load_rc_config $name sig_stop=TERM pidfile=/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid command=/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} /usr/local/bin/php-cgi run_rc_command $1 When invoked with start argument, it barfs at me but launches php-cgi as expected : e...@srvbsdfenssv:~ sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/phpfastcgi start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/phpfastcgi: WARNING: no shebang line in /usr/sbin/daemon [: /usr/sbin/daemon: unexpected operator Starting phpfastcgi. When invoked with stop argument, it errors and doesn't stop the process as expected : e...@srvbsdfenssv:~ sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/phpfastcgi stop /usr/local/etc/rc.d/phpfastcgi: WARNING: no shebang line in /usr/sbin/daemon phpfastcgi not running? (check /var/run/phpfastcgi/phpfastcgi.pid). From a quick peek at /etc/rc.subr, it seems that messages regarding lack of shebang line in /usr/sbin/daemon indicate something is wrong in my script but atm, I can't figure it. Any idea, anyone ? Kind Regards Éric Masson -- RJ j'ai eu des cookies sur mon HD et j'ai un peu peur des représailles Il faut reformater ton disque dur et le jetter depuis le 3e étage de la tour Eiffel pour le détruire irrémédiablement sans laisser de traces. -+- LP in http://www.le-gnu.net : Par ici ou parano c'est pareil -+- ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:44:17 +0200 Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com articulated: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Leandro F Silva fsilvalean...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. Thank you ! Linux Mandriva 2010 on my notebook (Dell 1318) and Mandriva 2010.1 on my netbook (Compaq mini CQ10-120LA) ... I need ACPI to work as expected and no BSD can give me that, and the same goes for wireless cards support .. forget bout bluetotth ... besides, dumping a Linux .iso image in a USB stick to give it a go on my notebook/netbook to try it out before installing was incredibly more easy than doing so with BSD images as most major Linux distributions provide Win/Linux GUI tools to do so (The Mandriva tool will ask you to select an .iso image and a USB ... point, click, you are done ... Fedoras tool will even allow you to create a a separate partition on the same USB device to store your files should you choose not to install the OS). Linux (as much as I don´t like it) is years ahead of BSD´s in that regards ... And, oh yeah .. native UTF-8 tty´s and KVM make a huge difference. FreeBSD has been relegated to my desktop (which I have come to use only ocassionally, and servers). Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either. I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping into an abyss. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ 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 /boot updated by make installkernel or by make installworld ?
Background I'm running a ZFS FreeBSD-STABLE system on Western Digital 2TB EARS models green drives. These are the so called Advanced Format Drives that use a 4KiB block size internally but lie about this to the operating system and claim to use 512 byte blocks. This causes all sorts of performance issues so after some experimentation I ended up creating my ZFS pool directly on gnop 4KiB block size devices on top of the raw disks themselves. To avoid having to run a separate boot disk, I've used a work around of a 1GB USB stick which contains just /boot with the /boot/kernel directory containing only kernel, opensolaris.ko, zfs.ko aio.ko (for samba 3.4 using async I/O). This requires only 14MB on the USB stick and boots nicely with the USB /boot/loader.conf telling the kernel to mount root from the ZFS pool. P.S. Don't forget to use DOS wdidle3 to increase the 8 second head parking timeout up to 5 minutes with these drives. Now how to update the system ? My update world script follows the recommended procedure in the source Makefiles for updating the system and does an install kernel before rebooting into single user mode to install the new world (via an /etc/rc.d/ script). So my question relates to when I should update my USB stick's /boot directory. I'm assuming that the /boot directory should be owned by the kernel and could be updated by a make installkernel (which is what I do after building the world but before my reboot into single user to install the world). Is my assumption correct ? i.e. does a make installkernel replace the contents of /boot ? or is /boot updated by a make installworld ? Matt. ___ 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 can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?
In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Just curious if I can do this. netstat -s gives you system-wide stats. -- 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: Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0200 Eric Masson e...@free.fr wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi mode. So far, I've the following script : ... sig_stop=TERM pidfile=/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid command=/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} /usr/local/bin/php-cgi I don't think you can do it like that. IIRC when you try to stop a daemon it doesn't just kill the process by pid, it also sanity checks the command in case the daemon has died and the pid was reused. Since daemon wont show-up in the ps output it can't be in the command variable. I think you need to write a start function, something like this: start_cmd=phpfastcgi_start command=/usr/local/bin/php-cgi phpfastcgi_start(){ echo starting phpfastcgi. /usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} ${command} } ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On 10/5/10 7:31 AM, Carmel wrote: I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now that it has significant mindshare, have simply decided that there's no economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form that works for FreeBSD developers? I really fail to see why you think the fact that the manufacturer itself has released binary drivers for Windows, and possibly Linux, and/or released hardware specs under NDA (non-disclosure agreement) to certain business partners, has any bearing on whether sufficient information to write a driver is available to any FreeBSD programmer with permission to use it to write an open source driver. -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com
Re: OT: fdisk
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should I remove formatting before I dd the 500GB drive to it? Not needed, as you're going to use it under the control of FreeBSD. After formatting and mounting it, let's say as /mnt, use dd (or ddrescue) to first get an 1:1 copy of the source disk. It is being performed even as we speak. Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec) ~ 14 hours later here is what I have. [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /1tb total 488625218 drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Jan 19 2010 .snap -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 500107862016 Oct 5 01:07 disk500.img [r...@asus64] ~# mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 12 -f /1tb/disk500.img [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /dev/md* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 129 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 130 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 133 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12s1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 66 Oct 1 14:43 /dev/mdctl [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/md12s1: Invalid argument [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12 /mnt [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 70044 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $BadClus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4194304 Dec 31 1600 $Bitmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Oct 1 09:09 $Boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Extend -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 67108864 Oct 1 09:09 $LogFile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Oct 1 09:09 $MFTMirr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1600 $Secure -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel131072 Oct 1 09:09 $UpCase -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Volume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45124 Aug 18 2001 NTDETECT.COM drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 17:29 System Volume Information -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193 Oct 1 09:12 boot.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel222368 Aug 18 2001 ntldr [r...@asus64] ~# umount /mnt [r...@asus64] ~# mount /dev/md12s1 /mnt [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 0 [r...@asus64] ~# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs989M523M387M57%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/label/home 9.7G2.0G6.9G22%/home /dev/label/slice2 56G 53G -1.4G 103%/slice2 /dev/label/slice3 56G4.0K 52G 0%/slice3 /dev/label/slice4 56G 39G 13G76%/slice4 /dev/label/spare 20G6.0K 18G 0%/spare /dev/label/tmp 484M 22M423M 5%/tmp /dev/label/usr20G7.5G 11G40%/usr /dev/label/var 989M158M752M17%/var /dev/label/500ext451G153G262G37%/500ext /dev/label/1tb 902G466G364G56%/1tb /dev/ad12s1d 226G 59G149G28%/250extra /dev/md12s1 451G 32G383G 8%/mnt ^^^ Everything is exactly the same as when I tried only 60GB. I am now going to zero the 1TB drive and dd the 500GB drive to it. dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m I will then try windows chkdsk on the 1TB drive. Thanks to everyone who has added input. If I can get this working I will summarize what it took to solve this puzzle. Henry wrote: And still the wife doesn't suspect? Of course she knows that the computer died and that I am in the process of recovering all of her data. I re-installed XP Pro on another computer and moved what data I did save onto it. She is happy that she can check email, balance her check book and play on Facebook. :-) We will be drinking wine tonight. To be continued. Robert ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
Jon Radel wrote: I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now that it has significant mindshare, have simply decided that there's no economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form that works for FreeBSD developers? I really fail to see why you think the fact that the manufacturer itself has released binary drivers for Windows, and possibly Linux, and/or released hardware specs under NDA (non-disclosure agreement) to certain business partners, has any bearing on whether sufficient information to write a driver is available to any FreeBSD programmer with permission to use it to write an open source driver. There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental. ___ 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: OT: fdisk
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec) ~ 14 hours later here is what I have. [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /1tb total 488625218 drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Jan 19 2010 .snap -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 500107862016 Oct 5 01:07 disk500.img You got a copy of the entire disk. This is GOOD as you're not missing something important. [r...@asus64] ~# mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 12 -f /1tb/disk500.img [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /dev/md* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 129 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 130 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 133 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12s1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 66 Oct 1 14:43 /dev/mdctl Erm... erm erm erm!!! After using a md file that is connected to an image file, and you purge the image file, destroy the md file. Use mdconfig -d -u 10 for unit 10, for example. See details in man mdconfig. [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/md12s1: Invalid argument This is the 1st primary partition with NTFS content, this one can't be mounted. [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12 /mnt [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 70044 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $BadClus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4194304 Dec 31 1600 $Bitmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Oct 1 09:09 $Boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Extend -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 67108864 Oct 1 09:09 $LogFile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Oct 1 09:09 $MFTMirr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1600 $Secure -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel131072 Oct 1 09:09 $UpCase -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Volume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45124 Aug 18 2001 NTDETECT.COM drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 17:29 System Volume Information -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193 Oct 1 09:12 boot.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel222368 Aug 18 2001 ntldr [r...@asus64] ~# umount /mnt This is the second NTFS volume, can be mounted. [r...@asus64] ~# mount /dev/md12s1 /mnt Why can the first one NOW be mounted??? [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 0 [r...@asus64] ~# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs989M523M387M57%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/label/home 9.7G2.0G6.9G22%/home /dev/label/slice2 56G 53G -1.4G 103%/slice2 /dev/label/slice3 56G4.0K 52G 0%/slice3 /dev/label/slice4 56G 39G 13G76%/slice4 /dev/label/spare 20G6.0K 18G 0%/spare /dev/label/tmp 484M 22M423M 5%/tmp /dev/label/usr20G7.5G 11G40%/usr /dev/label/var 989M158M752M17%/var /dev/label/500ext451G153G262G37%/500ext /dev/label/1tb 902G466G364G56%/1tb /dev/ad12s1d 226G 59G149G28%/250extra /dev/md12s1 451G 32G383G 8%/mnt ^^^ This looks like missing data. In terms of UFS file system, one would say that there a inodes not referenced, but still occupied as they are not marked as being free. Sadly, I have *zero* knowledge about NTFS to make an interpretation about what we see here... Everything is exactly the same as when I tried only 60GB. I am now going to zero the 1TB drive and dd the 500GB drive to it. dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m I will then try windows chkdsk on the 1TB drive. Maybe you need - after this transfer - to write the 512 byte blocks at the beginning separately (dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 count=1)? Because of MBR and such? Thanks to everyone who has added input. If I can get this working I will summarize what it took to solve this puzzle. Good luck! -- Polytropon 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either. I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping into an abyss. So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Jonathan ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD on my laptops/netbooks but these problems always made me fall back to Linux... I still use FreeBSD as the only OS on my desktop computers though... On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me from seriously thinking about installing FreeBSD on a new laptop. The one PC that I have FreeBSD installed on is connected via Ethernet cable to my LAN. Once that PC is replaced by year's end with a more powerful, and wireless enabled unit, I am afraid my experiment with FreeBSD will come to a close. At present it certainly will not support the wireless card installed, and I am not even sure if it will support all of the other hardware either. I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. The bottom line is that FreeBSD, if it is to continue to be considered a viable alternative operating system, must stay current in today's market. Many posts that I have viewed on other forums seem to feel that FreeBSD is sadly, whether do to bad choices such as those related to GPL licenses, or failure to properly gage today's market trends, is slipping into an abyss. So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Jonathan ___ 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: OT: fdisk
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:34:41 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec) ~ 14 hours later here is what I have. [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /1tb total 488625218 drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Jan 19 2010 .snap -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 500107862016 Oct 5 01:07 disk500.img You got a copy of the entire disk. This is GOOD as you're not missing something important. [r...@asus64] ~# mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 12 -f /1tb/disk500.img [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /dev/md* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 129 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 130 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 133 Oct 5 05:55 /dev/md12s1 crw--- 1 root wheel 0, 66 Oct 1 14:43 /dev/mdctl Erm... erm erm erm!!! After using a md file that is connected to an image file, and you purge the image file, destroy the md file. Use mdconfig -d -u 10 for unit 10, for example. See details in man mdconfig. [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/md12s1: Invalid argument This is the 1st primary partition with NTFS content, this one can't be mounted. As ntfs. [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12 /mnt [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 70044 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $BadClus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4194304 Dec 31 1600 $Bitmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Oct 1 09:09 $Boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Extend -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 67108864 Oct 1 09:09 $LogFile -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Oct 1 09:09 $MFTMirr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1600 $Secure -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel131072 Oct 1 09:09 $UpCase -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Volume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45124 Aug 18 2001 NTDETECT.COM drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 17:29 System Volume Information -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193 Oct 1 09:12 boot.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel222368 Aug 18 2001 ntldr [r...@asus64] ~# umount /mnt This is the second NTFS volume, can be mounted. Without any of the data. [r...@asus64] ~# mount /dev/md12s1 /mnt Why can the first one NOW be mounted??? As ufs [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt total 0 [r...@asus64] ~# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs989M523M387M57%/ devfs1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/label/home 9.7G2.0G6.9G22%/home /dev/label/slice2 56G 53G -1.4G 103%/slice2 /dev/label/slice3 56G4.0K 52G 0%/slice3 /dev/label/slice4 56G 39G 13G76%/slice4 /dev/label/spare 20G6.0K 18G 0%/spare /dev/label/tmp 484M 22M423M 5%/tmp /dev/label/usr20G7.5G 11G40%/usr /dev/label/var 989M158M752M17%/var /dev/label/500ext451G153G262G37%/500ext /dev/label/1tb 902G466G364G56%/1tb /dev/ad12s1d 226G 59G149G28%/250extra /dev/md12s1 451G 32G383G 8%/mnt ^^^ This looks like missing data. In terms of UFS file system, one would say that there a inodes not referenced, but still occupied as they are not marked as being free. Sadly, I have *zero* knowledge about NTFS to make an interpretation about what we see here... Good luck! Thanks for that :-) ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. [snip] I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? And in terms of keeping my killfile reasonably effective, is there any easy way to filter out /all/ the sockpuppets at once? Or do I just need to keep adding them one at a time? Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD on my laptops/netbooks but these problems always made me fall back to Linux... I still use FreeBSD as the only OS on my desktop computers though... I'm not disputing that there are things not supported on/by FreeBSD that it would be nice to see working. I'm just getting bored with hearing very similar whinges, posted from multiple email addresses but apparently all from the same person: look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209946.html and then http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209966.html Both messages are sent from carmel_ny at hotmail.com. They have the identical ascii-art flag in the sigblock. One is signed Carmel (carmel at hotmail.com), the other Jerry (gesbbb at yahoo.com). ___ 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: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:32:11AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as intended. Unfortunately, last I checked, while apache supports this, most web browsers do not. Throwing just my two bits in: Apache supports it, as does Firefox, and nothing else (maybe Safari does...). IE definitely does not. I looked into this before opting to go multiple static IPs at home for my webservers. IE 7+ does however support RFC 3546(SNI), which is the defacto standard for accomplishing SSL name based vhosts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication Thanks all for the confirmation and information on apache, vhosts, HTTPS, and reverse proxying. In my situation, the clients are custom written applications on embedded systems. I don't know much about their ability to conform with the latest RFC's but my guess is they will not. ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:31:48 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated: So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD is a pile of rubbish? We all work in the same salt mine. ___ 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: LibreOffice?
--On Monday, October 04, 2010 21:50:27 -0700 Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com wrote: When can we expect it in the ports? Sure. Just submit the port as usual. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get acceptable performance. Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out your needs. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI support is enough? What do you need your software to do? There is no OS that does everything better than any other OS. This applies to Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my requirements for software capabilities take precedent. As such, out of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpJlLlJ0RLyU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Which OS for notebook
Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get acceptable performance. Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out your needs. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI support is enough? What do you need your software to do? There is no OS that does everything better than any other OS. This applies to Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my requirements for software capabilities take precedent. As such, out of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -- Best regards, Mr.Hien E-mail: phanquoch...@gmail.com Website: www.mrhien.info ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
just dont choose an acer 5745 or any laptop runnning Insyde BIOS ...from my personal experience (BIOS gets stuck at splash screen after BSD install) regards, Mubeesh On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30 Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. there is no general answe You must select an individual model first and see then if the hardware is supported. I use normally FreeBSD 7 or 8 but I installed Fedora on a single machine as there is no driver for the LAN available in FreeBSD. If I remember right, wireless was not a problem there. So, choose a model and ask then again. Ok, I have FreeBSD 7 running on an older Fujitsu Lifebook. 8.0 gave me problems with USB. Erich ___ 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 -- Best Regards, Mubeesh Ali.V.M ___ 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: concerning flash under freebsd
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD. Never did, and probably never will. They don't even care about 64-bit Linux users... If you absolutely need Flash on FreeBSD, I'd suggest you install VirtualBox, and inside VirtualBox a Flash-supported OS, like OpenSolaris (that's what I do when I absolutely need Flash support). It's not the cleanest solution, but at least, I don't have to clutter my FreeBSD system with A LOT of Linux dependencies just to get a barely working Flash. -cpghost. I followed your advice when I discovered your message. No problem to install the opensolaris guest and the flash player. Video seems okay, but there is no sound and I cannot find out why. Needless to say that audio works fine on the host which is still on 8.0-RELEASE-p4 for the time being. I can't imagine that this could be the reason. Thank you in advance for any help. Harald Weis ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
Hi, I use lenovo thinkpad T400s with freebsd 8.1 amd64 and openbsd 4.8 i386 (snapshot) as dual boot. I'm extremely satisfied with both hardware and the OS's. The laptop is light, doesn't heat up as much as the others I've tried and is very performant. Wireless works very well with both OS's. suspend/resume works most of the time with freebsd, and always with openbsd. built in camera works with openbsd. Most of the special keys (light, suspend, etc) seems to work fine with freebsd. Erik On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Leandro F Silva fsilvalean...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. Thank you ! ___ 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 -- -- mvh. Erik Ulven ___ 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: Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: Hello, I don't think you can do it like that. IIRC when you try to stop a daemon it doesn't just kill the process by pid, it also sanity checks the command in case the daemon has died and the pid was reused. Since daemon wont show-up in the ps output it can't be in the command variable. Ok, makes sense. I think you need to write a start function, something like this: start_cmd=phpfastcgi_start command=/usr/local/bin/php-cgi phpfastcgi_start(){ echo starting phpfastcgi. /usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile} ${command} } Fine, it works much better now. Thanks a lot Kind Regards Éric Masson -- je n'ai jamais repondu aux AAD car je pensais qu'on pouvais pas en tant que personne qui propose un newgroup... -+- A in GNU : C'est quoi un groupe de discussion d'ailleurs ? -+- ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. MacOS X 10.6.4. Its solid, supported, and Unix. In general the Unix things that need to be treated differently between MacOS and FreeBSD are exactly the sort of things you need to be prepared for for jumping between any Unix (or Unix clone). Apple hardware is exceptionally good. Generally run 5 to 8 years before upgrading. Got my original MacBook Pro in January 2006 and its still Going strong on the original battery. Its biggest limitation today is its 2GB max memory, but the Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz CPU is plenty good. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released
On 05/10/2010 10:20 π.μ., Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit : Hello, This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword, gnumeric, firefox35, gimp, inkscape, evince and so on. The base system is 8.1-RELEASE. A few other small window managers are included like windowmaker and fluxbox. Note this release does not include editors/zim and x11-wm/icewm due to build problems. Which print system is used by the packages, cups or lpr? Regards. It is compiled with cups support. ___ 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
Confused about keeping system up to date
Hi folks, I'm running Production Release 8.1 on a production server. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to keep my system up to date via building it from source code. 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any released patches, right? 2.) I want the entry in my supfile to read: tag=RELENG_8_1_0 - or tag=RELENG_8.1_0 ? 3.) As a general rule, the only time you really NEED to update, rebuild your system, etc., is after there's been a security patch release, right? 4.) Is RELENG_8_1 the same thing as 8.1-RELEASE ??? 5.) If I'm just trying to keep my system up to date as far as applying security patches, should I just follow the directions in the security patch notes to apply it, or should I update via cvsup (or csup, etc.) and rebuild the system? I guess what I'm asking is: when, if ever (?) should you just apply patches or should you always update, rebuild, etc.??? Thank you, Ed ___ 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: Confused about keeping system up to date
Le Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:55:50 -0700, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any released patches, right? Yes 2.) I want the entry in my supfile to read: tag=RELENG_8_1_0 - or tag=RELENG_8.1_0 ? You must use RELENG_8_1 see http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ RELENG_8_1 is the errata branch for FreeBSD 8.1 RELENG_8_1_0 is the tag for the released FreeBSD 8.1, so without any patch applied since the release. 5.) If I'm just trying to keep my system up to date as far as applying security patches, should I just follow the directions in the security patch notes to apply it, or should I update via cvsup (or csup, etc.) and rebuild the system? I guess what I'm asking is: when, if ever (?) should you just apply patches or should you always update, rebuild, etc.??? You can follow the directions, csup + rebuild + and reinstall all the system (or just the kernel if the problem is a kernel one), or use freebsd-update(8) for binary update. Regards. ___ 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: Confused about keeping system up to date
Thanks Patrick! :-) 1.) How do you know if a patch applies just to the kernel? For example, I'm looking at the security advisory 2010-09-20 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 ( http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ), but it isn't clear to me if it applies to just the kernel or...??? 2.) If the problem IS just related to the kernel, I just do: csup + make buildkernel + make installkernel, right? Ed ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. MacOS X 10.6.4. Its solid, supported, and Unix. In general the Unix things that need to be treated differently between MacOS and FreeBSD are exactly the sort of things you need to be prepared for for jumping between any Unix (or Unix clone). Apple hardware is exceptionally good. Generally run 5 to 8 years before upgrading. Got my original MacBook Pro in January 2006 and its still Going strong on the original battery. Its biggest limitation today is its 2GB max memory, but the Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz CPU is plenty good. Here i am using a Sony laptop under Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx). Everything works perfectly OK, i could not be happier. I have a partition with FreeBSD 8.1 on this laptop, wireless works but ACPI doesn't at all. On desktops i use FreeBSD because it generally works and i like it better. As for Apple hardware, the experience in our lab is that is is by far the worst quality of almost all the machines we have. No other brand (Dell, etc.) has such massive hardware problems (screen failing, cdroms failing, mobo failing etc.). Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. I am quite sure you will find vocal people to claim otherwise. -- Michel TALON ___ 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: Confused about keeping system up to date
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm running Production Release 8.1 on a production server. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to keep my system up to date via building it from source code. 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any released patches, right? 2.) I want the entry in my supfile to read: tag=RELENG_8_1_0 - or tag=RELENG_8.1_0 ? tag=RELENG_8_1 is known as the 'security branch' of 8.1-RELEASE. It is RELEASE plus security patches. RELEASE itself will never change. 3.) As a general rule, the only time you really NEED to update, rebuild your system, etc., is after there's been a security patch release, right? True for RELEASE, not true for tracking -STABLE or -CURRENT as they are shifting targets. On production servers I only use RELEASE and only update for security updates. IMHO the only reason for considering a move from RELEASE to STABLE is if there is a specific fix for a very specific issue which had been fixed in - CURRENT and MFC'd back to STABLE. Don't have the exact issue in the bug report - stick with RELEASE. 4.) Is RELENG_8_1 the same thing as 8.1-RELEASE ??? RELEASE itself is static. RELENG_8_1 is RELEASE plus security patches. 5.) If I'm just trying to keep my system up to date as far as applying security patches, should I just follow the directions in the security patch notes to apply it, or should I update via cvsup (or csup, etc.) and rebuild the system? I guess what I'm asking is: when, if ever (?) should you just apply patches or should you always update, rebuild, etc.??? I read and follow the instructions in the announcement. If the issue is located in a userland utility, e.g. non-kernel related, you can apply the patch, rebuild/reinstall just that piece of code, and not reboot the system. A production system can remain in production. The thing that will be lacking is uname will not show the update status such as: 8.1-RELEASE-p1 - the p(x) number will not increment. This number will increment when doing a make buildworld. buildkernel, installkernel, and installworld rebuild by csup of source. This approach is necessitated when the issue is in the kernel code. The instructions in the announcement will tell you this so you can choose. But anytime the rebuild from source of kernel code is required so is a reboot. -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
altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?
Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would like to raise this limit, and am currently using FreeBSD 6.2. When I researched this, I first found references to tuning maxdsiz in loader.conf, then some pointed out what I found myself this variable is no longer documented and perhaps no longer present in FreeBSD 6.2. I also found that it appears you can report on it and change it with the limits command: limits -d 1g That appears to work in the sense that the command is allowed and no error is returned, but then if I run a follow up limits report again, I see that no change is reported to have happened. So, how I can actually increase this limit? (Both immediately and persisting through a reboot). Thanks! Mark ___ 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: altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?
On 10/5/10, Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com wrote: Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would like to raise this limit, and am currently using FreeBSD 6.2. When I researched this, I first found references to tuning maxdsiz in loader.conf, then some pointed out what I found myself this variable is no longer documented and perhaps no longer present in FreeBSD 6.2. I also found that it appears you can report on it and change it with the limits command: limits -d 1g That appears to work in the sense that the command is allowed and no error is returned, but then if I run a follow up limits report again, I see that no change is reported to have happened. So, how I can actually increase this limit? (Both immediately and persisting through a reboot). kern.maxdsiz In /boot/loader.conf You cant increase it immediately. ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +, Michel Talon wrote: Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. How is it light years ahead of FreeBSD for the ease of maintaining the software on the machine? I'm curious about what you mean. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpxTcjb7PqVu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?
I didnt check it, but changing /etc/login.conf should do that On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:23:43 -0400 Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com wrote: Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would like to raise this limit, and am currently using FreeBSD 6.2. When I researched this, I first found references to tuning maxdsiz in loader.conf, then some pointed out what I found myself this variable is no longer documented and perhaps no longer present in FreeBSD 6.2. I also found that it appears you can report on it and change it with the limits command: limits -d 1g That appears to work in the sense that the command is allowed and no error is returned, but then if I run a follow up limits report again, I see that no change is reported to have happened. So, how I can actually increase this limit? (Both immediately and persisting through a reboot). Thanks! Mark ___ 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 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 fbsd_platform vs amd64 fbsd_platform, on intel_64_architecture cpu
[ note that there is a new question, about half_way down ] first, i thank you, most sincerely, for the time that you took to type detailed responses. this is most helpful. second, let me posit that there exists no perfect notation, so, i err on the sides of readability and clarity, at the expense of economy [ or, rather, my perceptions of these ]. to this end, i do several things. i connect the components of a multi_word noun_phrase with under_score characters, to aid the differentiation of adjectives from nouns. similarly, i separate the components of combination words. i use doubled under_scores, if a component is under_score__connected. i use the neutral_double_quote character to repeat, verbatim, the words of another, to indicate odd word_usage and to emphasize differences. i use commas liberally, to set_off subordinate_clauses and to indicate pauses, --but--, i do not put a comma before or after a conjunction [ except as part of a comma_pair, used with a subordinate_clause ]. i italicize or under_score word as --word--. outside of prose, i put white_space between tokens [ don't you wish everybody did ? ]. there are other rules [ hmmm ... , i ought to publish these ]. note that i am, in_frequently, in_consistent in my rule_application. third, i will address your points in_line. note that my text is delimited by one blank_line above and three blank_lines below. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 05), spellberg_robert said: well, i looked at questions back to the beginning of august. on aug_09 i found a thread that suggests the following questions. i have, since, examined subject_lines back to the beginning of june. i have researched other places, also. You might want to just use i386 and amd64 instead of making up your own terminology (i_386, intel_64, amd_64, etc). not mine. intel_64 and intel 64 and intel64 are synonyms for a concept found here: http://developer.intel.com/technology/intel64/index.htm i_386 and i386 are synonyms for a concept found, as one example, here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1 amd_64 and amd64 are synonyms for a concept found, as one example, here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1 note that the words on the subject_line are spelled i386 and amd64, for the benefit of those who use freebsd.org's mailing_list__archive search_engine. note that i have revised the subject_line, in an effort to be clearer, regarding jargon. Note that Intel has chips that support two competing 64-bit instruction sets: ia64, which is used by their Itanium line, actually, i am aware of this; however, just because i did not discuss it does not mean that you can assume that i was not thinking about it. mea culpa. being explicit is a_good_thing. [ i don't need to explain the acronym assume, do i ? good. ] and amd64, which originated on AMD chips but Intel adopted for their 64-bit-capable x86 chips (Xeon, Core etc). I'll assume that any time you say intel_64 or amd_64 you really mean amd64, no. intel_64 and amd64 are as defined, above. one is a manufacturer's proprietary architecture; the other is a freebsd_release_platform that runs on several substantially_similar proprietary architectures, which belong to different manufacturers. since nobody uses Itaniums :) if they used itania in redmond, ... . for a given release of freebsd, q:is it that the version labeled i386 contains only 32_bit headers and source, which creates the 32_bit version of freebsd, as well as 32_bit versions of what i write, which will run as 32_bit code on either i_386, intel_64 or amd_64 ? Yes, assuming you have COMPAT_FREEBSD32 in your kernel config (which GENERIC has, so most people have it). i will look into COMPAT_FREEBSD32; i have not built a kernel since 4.early. i would take out stuff that i did not have installed and, then, it would get bigger. now, i change hardware so frequently, it is better to include probes for everything. q:is it that the version labeled amd64 contains only 64_bit headers and source, which creates the 64_bit version of freebsd, as well as 64_bit versions of what i write, which will run as 64_bit code on the intel_64 and the amd_64, but, not the i_386 ? Yes. i think we understand one_another here; i could have been clearer. i was trying to make a distinction between products manufactured by intel_corp, amd_corp and others, all_of_which were derived from intel's original 80386 [ released, circa 1985 ], whose architecture intel named ia-32 [ synonyms of ia32 and ia_32 ], which, mostly, but, not_exactly, used the same machine_code, to produce the same instruction_results [ an analogy would be firefox versus the high_priced spread, regarding html ]. my cpu distinction was between intel's ia_32 and intel's intel_64, that is,
Re: Which OS for notebook
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: just dont choose an acer 5745 or any laptop runnning Insyde BIOS ...from my personal experience (BIOS gets stuck at splash screen after BSD install) It works fine if you don't blow away the BIOS partition. At least it has for me on an Aspire One netbook. Maybe a notebook also, can't recall. ___ 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 can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?
tcpdump, then analyze with wireshark. If it's longer term monitoring you require in the past iv'e used ruby-pcap and written a quick and dirty script to log retransmissions. Essentially you just need to watch for duplicate packet id's I'm not sure there are any stats normally recorded for this level of detail. I may be wrong! Regards Steven Williamson. On 5 October 2010 06:15, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Just curious if I can do this. Yuri ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
El 05/10/2010 06:51 p.m., Chad Perrin escribió: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +, Michel Talon wrote: Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. How is it light years ahead of FreeBSD for the ease of maintaining the software on the machine? I'm curious about what you mean. I share Michel Talon´s mind in regards to the ease of maintaining the software on the machine but I find myself inclined to rpm ... that´s why I use Mandriva on my notebooks/netbooks. RPM has come a really long way since it´s inception and has proven to be an incredible flexible tool to do the task it´s meant to do (I can write a single .spec file and create as many rpms out of a single tarball as I see it fits my needs, package granularity they call it... just take a look at the mandriva repos to see what I mean). In my personal experience I have found that creating, maintaining and handling rpm packages is a lot easier than creating ports or keeping the software up to date using packages. Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further: HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1 install http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17683 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrinper...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get acceptable performance. Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out your needs. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI support is enough? What do you need your software to do? There is no OS that does everything better than any other OS. This applies to Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my requirements for software capabilities take precedent. As such, out of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.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
Questions about udp socket(AF_UNSPEC)
Hi, When disconnect a UDP socket, Linux kernel set local port to zero if the port number comes from a implicit bind, but on FreeBSD, it doesn't set local port to zero. Here's my test program: #include errno.h #include string.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h #include netinet/in.h #include net/if.h #include netdb.h #include arpa/inet.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #define SERV_PORT 12345 void print_local_addr(int s); int main(int argc, char** argv) { int sockfd; struct sockaddr_in servaddr, cliaddr; if (argc != 2) { printf(Usage: disconnect_udp ipaddress); exit(0); } // creat a UDP socket which binds to a local address sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); bzero(cliaddr, sizeof(cliaddr)); cliaddr.sin_family = AF_INET; if (inet_pton(AF_INET, argv[1], cliaddr.sin_addr) != 1) { perror(inet_pton failed); } bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)cliaddr, sizeof(cliaddr)); // connect this UDP socket bzero(servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)); servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET; servaddr.sin_port = htons(SERV_PORT); if (inet_pton(AF_INET, argv[1], servaddr.sin_addr) != 1) { perror(inet_pton failed); } if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)) != 0) { perror(connect failed); } print_local_addr(sockfd); // disconnect it servaddr.sin_family = AF_UNSPEC; if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)) != 0) { perror(connect failed); } print_local_addr(sockfd); close(sockfd); } void print_local_addr(int s) { struct sockaddr_in localaddr; socklen_t len = 0; char temp[INET_ADDRSTRLEN]; len = sizeof(localaddr); if (getsockname(s, (struct sockaddr *)localaddr, len) != 0) { perror(getsockname failed); } inet_ntop(AF_INET, localaddr.sin_addr, temp, INET_ADDRSTRLEN); printf(Local binding: address=%s, port=%d\n, temp, ntohs(localaddr.sin_port)); } In Linux: Local binding: address=192.168.1.30, port=42610 Local binding: address=192.168.1.30, port=0 In FreeBSD: Local binding: address=192.168.1.30, port=35133 connect failed: Address family not supported by protocol family Local binding: address=0.0.0.0, port=0 Any idea? Thank you. Regards, Dave. ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
El 05/10/2010 02:39 p.m., Erik Ulven escribió: Hi, ... Wireless works very well with both OS's. suspend/resume works most of the time with freebsd, and always with openbsd. built in camera works with openbsd. Most of the special keys (light, suspend, etc) seems to work fine with freebsd. Erik The OpenBSD guys did a really hardwork to get suspend/resume work out of the box on their latest releases (specially for 4.7 and 4.8, but it all started a few releases back)... they gave it some sort of priority status ... maybe they realized that nowadays most of the work gets donde on notebooks ... that effort seems to have paid off. Too bad OpenBSD is not my cup of tea ... Best regards Gonzalo Nemmi ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
Hello everyone, Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? Thanks. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further: HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1 install http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17683 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrinper...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS of choice is that, unlike MS Windows 7, I do not need to get the latest and greatest hardware to get acceptable performance. Of course, there are downsides to my choice, such as the lack of proper hardware acceleration with an AMD/ATI graphics adapter, but since I have stopped playing World of Warcraft (any computer game bores me after a little while), there is little need for that kind of thing. When deciding what to use, the first thing you need to do is figure out your needs. What kind of hardware do you need to support? How much ACPI support is enough? What do you need your software to do? There is no OS that does everything better than any other OS. This applies to Ubuntu, MS Windows, and FreeBSD (and pretty much everything else, too). Because my requirements for hardware are reasonably simple, my requirements for software capabilities take precedent. As such, out of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.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 -- Best regards, Mr.Hien E-mail: phanquoch...@gmail.com Website: www.mrhien.info ___ 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: Which OS for notebook
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:41:13PM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: In my personal experience I have found that creating, maintaining and handling rpm packages is a lot easier than creating ports or keeping the software up to date using packages. I find working with the ports system easier, as an end user, than DEB- and RPM-based systems that I've used. I have never built DEB- or RPM-based packages, and the one time I tried creating a port I failed (though frankly I didn't try that hard -- it was just an experiment when I was bored one evening), so I guess I'll have to take your word for it when it comes to creating ports. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpVkyr6iqXcJ.pgp Description: PGP signature