TLS config help
Following the directions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/openssl.html Trying to configure TLS and sendmail using the following steps # openssl dsaparam -rand -genkey -out myRSA.key 1024 # openssl gendsa -des3 -out myca.key myRSA.key # openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key myca.key -out new.crt ]# ls -l /etc/certs/ total 10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 963 Aug 29 05:39 cert.pem -rw--- 1 root wheel 804 Aug 29 05:50 myRSA.key -rw--- 1 root wheel 1264 Aug 29 05:51 myca.key -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1773 Aug 29 05:53 new.crt -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 603 Aug 29 05:39 req.pem After restarting sendmail I get the following in /var/log/mailog Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8574]: NOQUEUE: stopping daemon, reason=signal Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: starting daemon (8.14.5): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/certs/myca.key) failed Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: STARTTLS=server: 8618:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c:648:Expecting: X509 CRL Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: STARTTLS=server: 8618:error:0906406D:PEM routines:PEM_def_callback:problems getting password:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c:105: Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: STARTTLS=server: 8618:error:0906A068:PEM routines:PEM_do_header:bad password read:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c:406: Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: STARTTLS=server: 8618:error:140B0009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:PEM lib:/usr/src/secure/lib/libssl/../../../crypto/openssl/ssl/ssl_rsa.c:669: Aug 29 05:39:55 mail sm-mta[8618]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m Any help is appreciated. ___ 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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Re: text editor
On getting vim text editor (vi improved) for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation, including the handbook and ports system. I've heard of Cygwin but never run it because I don't have MS-Windows installed. From what I read, it creates a Unix-like environment under MS-Windows. I hear that MS is getting rid of 16-bit DOS compatibility, so you might not be able to run DOS software under Win 7. But you can go to http://www.dosbox.com/ DOSBox can run under current Unix-like OSes and also MS-Windows. You may be able to download a win32 installer, I just found it there, would that run on 64-bit Windows? I have run (Borland) Quattro Pro 5 for DOS under Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD with DOSBox. Tom ___ 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
sendmail local-host-names questions
Sorry if this is a bit off topic; couldn't find an answer on the net anywhere and sendmail.org seems to be non-functional unless you're a commercial customer; or at least that's the way it looks to me, as it's redirected to sendmail.com and their Ask the Experts page has no way to ask anybody anything :-) Anyhoo... I was setting up a virtual domain and mistakenly set my local-host-names file to have trailing dots after the domain and host names. This caused mail sent to the domain(s) to be bounced with the message: 554 5.0.0 MX list for dreamchaser.org. points back to nightmare.dreamchase r.org 554 5.3.5 Local configuration error Which caused me to tear my hair out (what little I have left) trying to fix a non-existent DNS configuration error. The maillog shows a similar message: Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: to=a...@dreamchaser.org, delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=62332, relay=dreamchaser.org., dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: q7T59w8N050394: return to sender: Local configuration error Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8N050394: to=a...@dreamchaser.org, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=33356, relay=dreamchaser.org., dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: Losing ./qfq7T59w8M050394: savemail panic Aug 28 23:10:05 nightmare sm-mta[50394]: q7T59w8M050394: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere Can anyone explain what's going on or point me to a better place to ask? It's now fixed but I'd like to understand why sendmail doesn't like a domain specified with a trailing dot, since I thought that was how one specified a fully qualified domain name. Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse properly. I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if so, what the proper syntax is. Thanks for any hints, Gary ___ 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: Partitioning with gpart
from Lynn Steven Killingsworth blue.seahorse.syndic...@gmail.com: I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk with zfs and move everything from the ufs disk and then format the ufs disk with zfs. I have not tried the command line before so I just tried to create over the disk with: gpart create -s gpt ada2 The message is that ada2 already exists as a file system. Show indicates that it is not gpt but mbr. Then in order to start over I tried to delete and destroy by starting with: gpart delete -i 1 ada2s1 The message is that ada2s1 is an invalid argument. I cannot experiment on my backup as it has only one disk. Comment please? Either gpt (included in FreeBSD prior to the switch to gpart) or gdisk (now at v0.8.5 and in FreeBSD ports) can migrate an MBR-partitioned disk to GPT without loss of data in many cases, though backing up is still advised. You can find information about gdisk at http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ gdisk is much more versatile than gpart, can be used to make partitions for Windows, Linux, NetBSD, etc. I don't think you can get gpt for FreeBSD, but if you're curious, you can go to http://www.netbsd.org/ and look for the documentation/man pages. It was gpt in NetBSD that I used to migrate an NTFS partition (MBR) spanning an entire 3 TB Western Digital My Book USB 3.0 hard drive to GPT, no data was lost. I subsequently booted Linux from the System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org/) and copied the software/data to a USB stick so I could free the USB 3.0 hard drive for better things. Maybe I could have done the repartitioning with gdisk, which is included on the System Rescue CD, this would be Linux. Tom ___ 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: TLS config help
Am 29.08.12 12:38, schrieb AN: Trying to configure TLS and sendmail using the following steps I use: cd /etc/mail/certs Create a CA: - Edit /etc/ssl/openssl.cfn - default_days= 1825 - Generate CAcertificate - /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -newca cp demoCA/cacert.pem . Create a key: /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -newreq Remove passphrase from key: openssl rsa -in newkey.pem -out key.pem Sign key: /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -sign Set permissions: chmod 0600 * Sendmail: define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/etc/mail/certs') define(`confCACERT',`/etc/mail/certs/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/etc/mail/certs/newcert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/etc/mail/certs/key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`/etc/mail/certs/newreq.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`/etc/mail/certs/key.pem') DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl Bye, Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ___ 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: text editor
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:41:52 + Robin, Michael ro...@chapman.edu wrote: What is VIM? Where could it be downloaded? What is CLI? I am looking for GUI/command prompt text editor for Windows 7/8. The notepad plus program lacks start/end block setting option even though it have a lot of hot keys. You might want to check out SciTE as well (GUI editor). It's available from ports in editors/scite and the Windows version can be downloaded from: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html My top priority is setting start/end block option which was available for old DOS-based text editor, but I have not seen any window-based text editor for this option. 16-bit DOS text editor program will not run on 64-bit operating system. Please advise. Thank you. None of the current 64bit versions of Windows include NTVDM (the DOS emulator). Michael Programmer Analyst -Original Message- From: Devin Teske [mailto:devin.te...@fisglobal.com] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:25 PM To: Robin, Michael; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: text editor -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robin, Michael Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:10 PM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: text editor Which text editor program will run 64-bit operating system On FreeBSD? In the GUI? or on the CLI? with following features: * Support 100 percent of hot keys How many is that? If a program has programmable hot keys, would that suffice? * Hot keys available for setting start/end block to be copied, moved or deleted without requiring any mouse lock. It is not possible to use mouse lock or to hold shift key combined with navigating key at the same time without accidently dese4lcing. A challenge, no-doubt. * Support special ASCII characters Less of a challenge. Most editors are good about special ASCII characters (the ones that don't are in the minority, imho). ... I'd honestly recommend vim (CLI) or gvim (GUI). NOTE: Assuming FreeBSD here. ___ 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: sendmail local-host-names questions
[ Gary Aitken wrote on Wed 29.Aug'12 at 1:45:19 -0600 ] Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse properly. I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if so, what the proper syntax is. Thanks for any hints, Gary Hi Gary, you don't put dots at the end of the domain names in that file. In mine, i've just got: kontrol.kode5.net # the hostname of the machine; and kode5.net # my domain I haven't put those comments in it either, just the host and domain information. The Sendmail site does have quite a bit of information actually about configuration. I was setting up Sendmail on my machine just a week ago in fact and got most of the info from that site. Also the FreeBSD handbook. I also run a local DNS server (BIND/named) which I recommend you look into with a view to setting it up. It does make a difference, especially if you have several machines on your LAN. It's not as hard as it first appears. In fact the default installation is already configured for a local caching nameserver. I have added my own zone files as well which is all explained on the Handbook. Jamie ___ 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: TLS config help
[ Matthias Fechner wrote on Wed 29.Aug'12 at 11:20:37 +0200 ] Am 29.08.12 12:38, schrieb AN: Trying to configure TLS and sendmail using the following steps I use: cd /etc/mail/certs Create a CA: - Edit /etc/ssl/openssl.cfn - default_days= 1825 - Generate CAcertificate - /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -newca cp demoCA/cacert.pem . Create a key: /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -newreq Remove passphrase from key: openssl rsa -in newkey.pem -out key.pem Sign key: /usr/src/crypto/openssl/apps/CA.pl -sign Set permissions: chmod 0600 * Sendmail: define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/etc/mail/certs') define(`confCACERT',`/etc/mail/certs/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/etc/mail/certs/newcert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/etc/mail/certs/key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`/etc/mail/certs/newreq.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`/etc/mail/certs/key.pem') DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl Bye, Matthias That's very handy info, I am planning on setting up TLS for sendmail myself. So thanks to the OP for asking that question, although i'm sure there's loads of info on the net as well. I've only used Postfix before now, but since installing FBSD on this machine I thought i'd stick to using base MTA. Jamie ___ 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: Partitioning with gpart
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:33:16 -0400, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk with zfs and move everything from the ufs disk and then format the ufs disk with zfs. I have not tried the command line before so I just tried to create over the disk with: gpart create -s gpt ada2 The message is that ada2 already exists as a file system. The exact message would help; gpart is not a filesystem tool. Show indicates that it is not gpt but mbr. Then in order to start over I tried to delete and destroy by starting with: gpart delete -i 1 ada2s1 The message is that ada2s1 is an invalid argument. I cannot experiment on my backup as it has only one disk. gpart takes a -F option to destroy which makes it unnecessary to delete all the partitions first. Back up data first, and make certain that you and the computer agree on which drive is which. Great. My storage disks are formatted with zfs and my files are moved. Thanks. -- Steve Blue Seahorse Syndicate http://www.blueleafsyndicate.org Maine New Hampshire Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ 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 perl
Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) This is a production server. Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I need to do to clean this up?? But, can't get past this fatal error: mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12: You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the ports functionality will be more work than it's worth. If the machine can't be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off leaving it alone. Good luck. ___ 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: Inbox driver
Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com writes: If a driver module misses the deadline to make it inbox , I think that it's gonna be part of the next Freebsd release. The sources show up in the svn repository, probably this is one confirmation that it's gonna be part of the next release..Is my understanding correct? Please clarify. I don't know what you mean about inbox, but basically you're right. It's a bit more complicated, though, because the svn repository has several branches -- and a feature introduced to 10.x, for example, may or not show up in 9.x. If a feature is introduced into HEAD, you can be pretty sure it will make it into some release eventually. Does that help? I tried to keep it brief... ___ 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
reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x
Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like nice +19 make (tcsh syntax)? Here's a typical scenario for a large build (actually building gcc-4.7 and firefox in parallel): last pid: 54736; load averages: 5.27, 5.38, 5.11up 9+15:37:09 14:49:11 89 processes: 7 running, 79 sleeping, 2 zombie, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.9% user, 46.3% nice, 33.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle CPU 1: 15.4% user, 39.7% nice, 44.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 1141M Active, 3853M Inact, 1097M Wired, 128K Cache, 823M Buf, 1914M Free Swap: 13G Total, 16K Used, 13G Free PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 54720 0 1 89 10 111M 102M RUN 1 0:04 24.07% cc1plus 11 0 16 -76- 0K 512K WAIT0 26:55 11.33% intr 54732 0 1 85 10 87976K 77872K RUN 0 0:01 11.28% cc1plus 3289 1001 10 200 515M 387M uwait 0 163:26 3.47% firefox-bin 54721 1001 1 200 13656K 11744K CPU00 0:00 0.10% top 54731 0 1 49 10 14440K 12064K wait0 0:00 0.10% g++ 54736 0 1 520 11240K 9856K biowr 0 0:00 0.00% as 54734 0 1 420 12176K 10992K wait0 0:00 0.00% c++ 54735 0 1 720 17696K 11336K CPU11 0:00 0.00% cc1plus At such loads the system is noticeably slower. I'm not sure if nice has the same effect on all child processes, or only on the parent process? I'd like to set the make process and all its child processes to run only when there is some idle CPU. Is it feasible? Thanks Anton ___ 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: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x
Hi, On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:56:07 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like nice +19 make (tcsh syntax)? Here's a typical scenario for a large build (actually building gcc-4.7 and firefox in parallel): last pid: 54736; load averages: 5.27, 5.38, 5.11up 9+15:37:09 14:49:11 89 processes: 7 running, 79 sleeping, 2 zombie, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.9% user, 46.3% nice, 33.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle CPU 1: 15.4% user, 39.7% nice, 44.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 1141M Active, 3853M Inact, 1097M Wired, 128K Cache, 823M Buf, 1914M Free Swap: 13G Total, 16K Used, 13G Free PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 54720 0 1 89 10 111M 102M RUN 1 0:04 24.07% cc1plus 11 0 16 -76- 0K 512K WAIT0 26:55 11.33% intr 54732 0 1 85 10 87976K 77872K RUN 0 0:01 11.28% cc1plus 3289 1001 10 200 515M 387M uwait 0 163:26 3.47% firefox-bin 54721 1001 1 200 13656K 11744K CPU00 0:00 0.10% top 54731 0 1 49 10 14440K 12064K wait0 0:00 0.10% g++ 54736 0 1 520 11240K 9856K biowr 0 0:00 0.00% as 54734 0 1 420 12176K 10992K wait0 0:00 0.00% c++ 54735 0 1 720 17696K 11336K CPU11 0:00 0.00% cc1plus At such loads the system is noticeably slower. I'm not sure if nice has the same effect on all child processes, or only on the parent process? I'd like to set the make process and all its child processes to run only when there is some idle CPU. Is it feasible? why should the command 'nice ...' not work. It worked for me when I have had a single CPU machine without problems. The only difference was that I packed it into a script. 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
Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x
On 29/08/2012 15:56, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like nice +19 make (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. You may even want to make a shell alias in your cshrc, i.e. alias make nice +19 make (or something like it) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Upgrading perl
On 8/29/2012 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) This is a production server. Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I need to do to clean this up?? But, can't get past this fatal error: mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12: You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the ports functionality will be more work than it's worth. If the machine can't be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off leaving it alone. Good luck. Thanks for the reply. Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. -- -- All the best, Jack ___ 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
Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System
I am using Oracle's VirtualBox package for the Mac. It is free and I am not sure that Dollars would get past the issue I have, here. VirtualBox uses Microsoft's remote desktop as the one and only output channel to allow remote access to the virtual system one is creating and this is really bad design for computer users who are blind and use screen readers. Pictures of text just don't work. If you had some very complex system with OCR, it might sort of work, but such systems don't exist as a drop-in for a good old ASCII terminal so that's not an option. So far, I downloaded the bootonly ISO image of FreeBSD9.0, mounted it and added the following loader.conf: boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole,vidconsole vesa_load=YES Next, I used VirtualBoxmanage to define the disk and create the machine with a virtual IDE controller that is pointed to the ISO image for FreeBSD9.0 with the serial console. Has anybody been able to use VirtualBox and a fake serial console to get around the remote desktop non solution? I will probably have to add a virtual serial port in the machine definition one puts in the original machine build, but I am not sure this doesn't just go to that remote desktop channel where it gets scrubbed of any usefulness except for eyeballs on screens. This whole thing looks very promising but there's got to be a way around that shoe which doesn't fit in the form of that GUI remote desk top. In my case, the machine build goes without error but I can't tell yet if it is even booting. Mac's, by the way, have a relatively good screen reader built in but VirtualBox doesn't work with it, something that is a problem with a number of third-party programs especially when they were originally developed for Windows. This, of course, does not pertain to the main topic of this list, but I say it here so that you know I am aware you are supposed to be able to use the GUI on the Mac to manage your new virtual system. Essentially, the local GUI and the remote desktop don't work for me for the same reasons. My hope is to get FreeBSD running as a guest system on a powerful Mac and retire an old Dell server with noisy fans and several BTU of heat output which is in the realm of 15 years old and will probably retire itself at some random date in the future. Thank you for any good suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ 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
Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page). The handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS) says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't find XP drivers on the lenovo page... - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows machine right now). TIA, Chris ___ 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: Building a Headless FreeBSD Virtual System
When you define the virtual serial port in VirtualBox for the guest VM one of the options available for connection of the port to the host system is a named pipe (I believe it's called Host Pipe in the configuration). You can then specify whatever named pipe on the host system you wish to attach the VM's serial port to then use a utility such as `socat` to present the I/O from the named pipe as a PTY device. From there it's simply a matter of using a utility such as `cu` or `screen` to connect to the PTY. Ryan On 08/29/2012 10:16 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I am using Oracle's VirtualBox package for the Mac. It is free and I am not sure that Dollars would get past the issue I have, here. VirtualBox uses Microsoft's remote desktop as the one and only output channel to allow remote access to the virtual system one is creating and this is really bad design for computer users who are blind and use screen readers. Pictures of text just don't work. If you had some very complex system with OCR, it might sort of work, but such systems don't exist as a drop-in for a good old ASCII terminal so that's not an option. So far, I downloaded the bootonly ISO image of FreeBSD9.0, mounted it and added the following loader.conf: boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole,vidconsole vesa_load=YES Next, I used VirtualBoxmanage to define the disk and create the machine with a virtual IDE controller that is pointed to the ISO image for FreeBSD9.0 with the serial console. Has anybody been able to use VirtualBox and a fake serial console to get around the remote desktop non solution? I will probably have to add a virtual serial port in the machine definition one puts in the original machine build, but I am not sure this doesn't just go to that remote desktop channel where it gets scrubbed of any usefulness except for eyeballs on screens. This whole thing looks very promising but there's got to be a way around that shoe which doesn't fit in the form of that GUI remote desk top. In my case, the machine build goes without error but I can't tell yet if it is even booting. Mac's, by the way, have a relatively good screen reader built in but VirtualBox doesn't work with it, something that is a problem with a number of third-party programs especially when they were originally developed for Windows. This, of course, does not pertain to the main topic of this list, but I say it here so that you know I am aware you are supposed to be able to use the GUI on the Mac to manage your new virtual system. Essentially, the local GUI and the remote desktop don't work for me for the same reasons. My hope is to get FreeBSD running as a guest system on a powerful Mac and retire an old Dell server with noisy fans and several BTU of heat output which is in the realm of 15 years old and will probably retire itself at some random date in the future. Thank you for any good suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ 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: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 29 16:52:53 2012 Is it possible to reduce priority of port building processes with something like nice +19 make (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. ok, thanks. I'll try it next time. Anton ___ 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
9.0 support for RealTek NIC - re0 driver
This card is on a Dell Inspiron. It works perfectly on 8.x. Dmesg on 8.2 reports it as: re0: RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL/8103E PCIe 10/100baseTX pciconf: re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x04341028 chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'Realtek 10/100/1000 PCI-E NIC Family all in one NDIS Driver v5.728.0604.2009 06/04/2009 (Rtl8023)' class = network subclass = ethernet On 9.0 I got it to work once or twice out of a couple of dozen tries. 9.0 dmesg reports: re0: RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ... The release docs imply the card is supported. I did not see a PR. Anyone else with similiar issues? _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com d...@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277 ___ 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: GTK and black window content
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:43:45AM +0200, Stephan Schindel wrote: I have sometimes a problem with GTK applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird and some others too: The whole application window gets almost black and the only fix is to reboot the system. I am using KDE (disabled composite) as my Desktop and I have got a Nvidia card (propr. driver). Does this happen to you as well? Sometimes pidgin stops drawing for me. The program still runs. I noticed that even tho' I can't see it, I can send IM's to my contacts. They get the text but the window stays blank (just the widget background color). Sometimes I've had to restart X. I've never had to reboot the computer to get this fixed. I'm using naked openbox (no desktop environment). ___ 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: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On Aug 29, 2012 8:44 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page). The handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS) says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't find XP drivers on the lenovo page... - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows machine right now). TIA, Chris ___ 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 hi, you can usually find replacement wifi cards for your model on ebay, this can give you an idea of the chipset. also, you could always pull off the panel and look at the card. ndis can be tricky because it needs an older 32 bit driver, and you need to run a 32 bit version of FreeBSD. a good solution is to find a ralink or atheros card on ebay and swap it out, usually will cost less than 10 bucks USD. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ 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 perl
On 8/29/12 8:08 AM, Jack Stone wrote: On 8/29/2012 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) This is a production server. Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I need to do to clean this up?? But, can't get past this fatal error: mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12: You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the ports functionality will be more work than it's worth. If the machine can't be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off leaving it alone. Good luck. Thanks for the reply. Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean If you're using portmaster, you should be able to do something like the following from /usr/ports: portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.10 portmaster p5- and perl automagically will upgrade. This is from /usr/ports/UPDATING. You can also find instructions for portupgrade there. Don't know about dependencies with 7.0, though. dn What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. ___ 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 perl
On 8/29/12 10:59 AM, David Newman wrote: On 8/29/12 8:08 AM, Jack Stone wrote: On 8/29/2012 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: uname -a FreeBSD mail.sagedata.net 7.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p9 #2: Sun Jan 18 19:59:27 CST 2009 Running perl5.10 (yeah, old!) This is a production server. Been playing catchup on ports including perl as UPDATING recommends: portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* That has worked on other servers, but not this one. Anyone know what I need to do to clean this up?? But, can't get past this fatal error: mail# portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk, line 231: Error in archive specification: WITHOUT_ make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue ** Makefile possibly broken: lang/perl5.12: You're almost four years past the end-of-life on the release you're running, so it's been left behind in terms of support. In this case it looks (based on a *very* quick look) that you may be running into changes in how make(1) actually works, in which case backporting the ports functionality will be more work than it's worth. If the machine can't be updated, and assuming it's secure (which hard to be sure about with old software on the Internet), you may be best off leaving it alone. Good luck. Thanks for the reply. Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean If you're using portmaster, you should be able to do something like the following from /usr/ports: portmaster -o lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.10 portmaster p5- and perl automagically will upgrade. Sorry, I'd missed that you'd tried this and it isn't working. make has changed since the 7.0 days. I agree with Jack that you're better off leaving well enough alone. If you really need perl5.16+ capabilities you're much better off moving your program to a more recent version of FreeBSD. dn This is from /usr/ports/UPDATING. You can also find instructions for portupgrade there. Don't know about dependencies with 7.0, though. dn What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. ___ 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: Upgrading perl
Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before suggesting them to you. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean I would be surprised if the perl-5.12 port will build for you; I think you'll get the same error. If not, then yes, it should work. What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. Well, it's also possible that there's a local problem on that machine. You indicated that you used portupgrade for similar updates on similarly-aged machines, but I'll guess that they were only roughly similar. I'll guess that you built your own INDEX file; if not, you probably should (and the associated database for portupgrade). Compare the infrastructure in ports/Mk (and maybe /usr/share/mk) with the similar machines that succeeded, and look at the Makefile in perl5.12 to make sure it sets options properly. Good luck. ___ 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 perl
On 8/29/2012 1:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before suggesting them to you. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean I would be surprised if the perl-5.12 port will build for you; I think you'll get the same error. If not, then yes, it should work. What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. Well, it's also possible that there's a local problem on that machine. You indicated that you used portupgrade for similar updates on similarly-aged machines, but I'll guess that they were only roughly similar. I'll guess that you built your own INDEX file; if not, you probably should (and the associated database for portupgrade). Compare the infrastructure in ports/Mk (and maybe /usr/share/mk) with the similar machines that succeeded, and look at the Makefile in perl5.12 to make sure it sets options properly. Good luck. Hi Lowell and thanks for the good wishes! Yes, on the other servers which upgraded without issue are running the same freebsd-7.x, and the make files are identical for the perl-5.12. I just now ran a test on a test server of same vintage and it did build directly in the port just using make to see if it would work. It did. The trick is to DISABLE_CONFLICTS=YES in the /etc/make.conf. This still doesn't mean the important production server will cooperatebut will have to take a risk and try it. That server has a bootable clone that is run every day so I can rescue the server. I will just to make a fresh clone right before I try the perl upgradeso to minimize any loss of data. -- All the best, Jack ___ 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: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
Chris devnullaccount at yahoo.se writes: ... I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install) ... http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/product-and-parts/detail.page?DocID=PD024684 Communications Network ThinkPad 1x1 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card ThinkPad 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card 1x1 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter Intel Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter Bluetooth 4.0 wireless There is a product ref file: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/ http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/edgebook.pdf search for E530 3259. These entries will be probably useless, but here they are: $ dmesg -a | less $ dmesg | grep -i wireless Example: $ pciconf -lv |grep -i wireless ... wpi0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x10118086 chip=0x42278086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection' class = network ... Note: that wpi in top line is a driver name. $ lshal |grep -i wireless I searched Google but no luck. Get a recent Live CD or DVD from any Linux distro (Knoppix, Fedora, etc). jb ___ 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: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On 2012-08-29 11:42, Chris wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? There's a couple of different Wifi options for that machine, so which one you have may make a difference. There looks to be some information on identifying which card you have here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters (Though they don't have your model listed yet, I think it's a new model...) I'm guessing you probably have a 'Thinkpad' card, which recently has been Realtek, but you'd have to check that. Note that replacing it with a generic mini-PCI wireless card may not work: Lenovo has been known to have their BIOS only recognize 'official' replacement parts. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ 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: sendmail local-host-names questions
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:45:19 -0600 From: Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org Subject: sendmail local-host-names questions Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse properly. I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if so, what the proper syntax is. I don't know, off-hand, where it's documented, but '#' is what you want to use. ___ 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
Empty logfiles
Stupic question: I have a directory with 120 logfiles (extension *.log). Can someone tell me how I can empty these logfiles in one command? I thought 'echo *.log' would work, but no way K-) thanks Jos Chrispijn ___ 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: Empty logfiles
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 29 15:02:37 2012 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:59:17 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn po...@webrz.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Empty logfiles Stupic question: I have a directory with 120 logfiles (extension *.log). Can someone tell me how I can empty these logfiles in one command? I thought 'echo *.log' would work, but no way K-) Assuming 'sh', or something 'syntactically equivalent': for file in *.log ; do ; echo $file ; done ___ 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: sendmail local-host-names questions
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone explain what's going on or point me to a better place to ask? It's now fixed but I'd like to understand why sendmail doesn't like a domain specified with a trailing dot, since I thought that was how one specified a fully qualified domain name. The definitive source is /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README Also... I can't find anything about how to put a comment in the local-host-names file. I took a guess and used # as in the .mc file, and it doesn't seem to cause errors; but neither does ';' or '%' so I'm guessing the lines are just being skipped because they don't parse properly. I'd like to know whether comments are allowed or not; and if so, what the proper syntax is. I am not sure which table you are commenting but I think some of the tables like virtusertable do not allow comments at the end of the line. Lines starting with a '#' are fine in any table. Again the README is you source ___ 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 perl
On 8/29/2012 1:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jack Stone ja...@sage-american.com writes: Actually, on other servers with the same upgrading needs, perl-5.12 installed without any issue. My intention is to upgrade perl in increments to get well past EOL. You're somewhat on your own, then; I can't test any of my ideas before suggesting them to you. Wonder if I just deinstalled the old perl5-5.10 and then installed the perl5-12 would work. I can do that right from the port: make perl5-12 first to see if that works, then: # make deinstall (perl-5.10) then: make install clean I would be surprised if the perl-5.12 port will build for you; I think you'll get the same error. If not, then yes, it should work. What do you think? I've got to move up because an important perl program requires a minimum 5.12. Well, it's also possible that there's a local problem on that machine. You indicated that you used portupgrade for similar updates on similarly-aged machines, but I'll guess that they were only roughly similar. I'll guess that you built your own INDEX file; if not, you probably should (and the associated database for portupgrade). Compare the infrastructure in ports/Mk (and maybe /usr/share/mk) with the similar machines that succeeded, and look at the Makefile in perl5.12 to make sure it sets options properly. Good luck. AHAH! This just came out in ports UPDATING and maybe helps: 20120820: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org Due to a bug introduced in 20120601, portupgrade is unable to upgrade itself on FreeBSD 7.x. This has been fixed in 20120820. ports-mgmt/portupgrade is not affected. To upgrade, execute the following: # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel make deinstall install clean -- -- All the best, Jack ___ 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: Empty logfiles
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:59:17 +0200
Jos Chrispijn po...@webrz.net wrote:
Stupic question: I have a directory with 120 logfiles (extension *.log).
Can someone tell me how I can empty these logfiles in one command?
I thought 'echo *.log' would work, but no way K-)
find . -name \*.log -exec truncate {} \;
man find and man truncate for the gory details.
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Re: text editor
[ dte...@freebsd.org wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 16:42:06 -0700 ] -Original Message- From: Robin, Michael [mailto:ro...@chapman.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:42 PM To: 'dte...@freebsd.org'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: text editor What is VIM? A _much_ improved version of vi (vi is the ubiquitous UNIX text editor written by Bill Joy in 1976), vim itself being born in 1991 by a man named Bram Moolenaar. Where could it be downloaded? As Polytropon mentioned, FreeBSD has a built-in software acquisition system. Executing: pkg_add -r vim will install the VIM text editor (immediately after-which you can type rehash -- if using [t]csh -- and then vim FILE to start editing files). However, I recognize the need to sometimes know where your food comes from, so below are some links. NOTE: You need to know what version of FreeBSD you're using... For recent versions of FreeBSD: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ For older versions of FreeBSD: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ Then under there, you'll have to select i386 for 32-bit builds, or amd64 for 64-bit builds (etc.). Then under there, you'll have to select your appropriate version (e.g., 8.1-RELEASE). Then under there, you'll navigate to packages then either All or a specific sub-category. In there, you'll find vim-VERSION (ending in either .tgz, .tbz, or .txz, depending on your version of FreeBSD; mind you the suffix matters not to your ability to install the software). You'll also find gvim-VERSION there too. Please keep in-mind that this is _NOT_ the recommended way of electively installing software on FreeBSD. I'm merely explaining this so that you know where software for FreeBSD comes from (loosely; I'm leaving out a lot and choosing to focus on the consumer-side of things for the benefit of clarity). What is CLI? Before Windows and Apple, computers were told what to do without a mouse. This interface was called the command line. It has a very rich history and is still common-place in server environments. I am looking for GUI/command prompt text editor for Windows 7/8. I'd recommend getting to know something called Cygwin. It will allow you to run software such as VIM on Windows. The main website for Cygwin is: http://cygwin.com/ You can even run gVIM (the graphical version of VIM designed to run in the GUI) on Windows. Surely, you can run special versions of VIM on Windows _without_ Cygwin (link below), but I recommend Cygwin if you're going to program on UNIX at all (conflating your Windows environment with a UNIX-compatible environment is a convenience that many find helpful in making work more efficient). [g]VIM for MS-DOS and/or MS-Windows: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc NOTE: There are downloads for self-installing executables for added convenience. The notepad plus program lacks start/end block setting option even though it have a lot of hot keys. My top priority is setting start/end block option which was available for old DOS-based text editor, but I have not seen any window-based text editor for this option. 16-bit DOS text editor program will not run on 64-bit operating system. Have you tried compatibility mode? Win7 has a compatibility mode that it can run executables in. I think it has a compat mode that will run 16-bit DOS programs, but I must admit that I've not tried. -- Devin Please advise. Thank you. Michael Programmer Analyst -Original Message- From: Devin Teske [mailto:devin.te...@fisglobal.com] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:25 PM To: Robin, Michael; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: text editor -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robin, Michael Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:10 PM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: text editor Which text editor program will run 64-bit operating system On FreeBSD? In the GUI? or on the CLI? with following features: * Support 100 percent of hot keys How many is that? If a program has programmable hot keys, would that suffice? * Hot keys available for setting start/end block to be copied, moved or deleted without requiring any mouse lock. It is not possible to use mouse lock or to hold shift key combined with navigating key at the same time without accidently dese4lcing. A challenge, no-doubt. * Support special ASCII characters Less of a challenge. Most editors are good about special ASCII characters (the ones that don't are in the minority, imho). ... I'd honestly recommend vim (CLI) or gvim (GUI). NOTE: Assuming FreeBSD here. -- Devin
RE: CMI8788 audio card/chip support
kldload snd_driver only detected my USB Headset and loaded theusb audio driver. It did not detect my CMI8788 (ASUS Xonar DX PCIe)and snd_cmi does not support it. cat /dev/sndstat generated this: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)Installed devices:pcm0: USB audio (play/rec) default Which is my Logitech USB headset, not my PCIe sound card. The boot generated a message stating Unsupported Sound Carddetected. Please contact li...@support.freebsd.org with soundcard make and model. Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:24:30 +0100 From: ja...@kode5.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support [ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at 4:10:57 +0200 ] On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote: Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards? Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes or won't boot properly. Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See man snd_cmi: HARDWARE The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards: · CMedia CMI8338A · CMedia CMI8338B · CMedia CMI8738 · CMedia CMI8738B It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it provide sufficient compatibility? Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is picked up: # kldload snd_driver then try # cat /dev/sndstat which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the handbook. ___ 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: CMI8788 audio card/chip support
This also was generated at startup: none3@pci0:5:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x82751043 chip=0x878813f6 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00vendor = 'C-Media Electronics Inc'device = 'CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]'class = multimediasubclass = audio From: james4...@hotmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:50:22 + Subject: RE: CMI8788 audio card/chip support kldload snd_driver only detected my USB Headset and loaded theusb audio driver. It did not detect my CMI8788 (ASUS Xonar DX PCIe)and snd_cmi does not support it. cat /dev/sndstat generated this: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)Installed devices:pcm0: USB audio (play/rec) default Which is my Logitech USB headset, not my PCIe sound card. The boot generated a message stating Unsupported Sound Carddetected. Please contact li...@support.freebsd.org with soundcard make and model. Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:24:30 +0100 From: ja...@kode5.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMI8788 audio card/chip support [ Polytropon wrote on Mon 27.Aug'12 at 4:10:57 +0200 ] On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:01:34 +, James Powell wrote: Are any plans being made to start support for these audio cards? Currently I'm using one in a system I would like to use with FreeBSD but it has no support through the kernel and driver support from OSSv4 lands me with a system that either freezes or won't boot properly. Interesting. I've been using a CMI-based sound card with FreeBSD 4, 5 and 7 already. See man snd_cmi: HARDWARE The snd_cmi driver supports the following sound cards: · CMedia CMI8338A · CMedia CMI8338B · CMedia CMI8738 · CMedia CMI8738B It lists older CMI8788 as supported devices. Doesn't it provide sufficient compatibility? Have you tried loading the generic driver to see if your audio card is picked up: # kldload snd_driver then try # cat /dev/sndstat which will show more info about it? That's what's recommended in the handbook. ___ 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
