make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs
Hi Chaps, I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of default compiled languages. How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language state (with Perl installed etc)? Crossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... Kind regards, Rob ___ 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: make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs
lang/ contains all languages and so on ruby, lua, python, perl.. Of course you removed perl since you typed make deinstall in that parent port tree. You can type make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 to install it again. You don't need to reinstall FreeBSD, you're not on Windows here, you can repair everything :) Note: there is no perl installed by default, it's in the ports for few years now. Regards, 2013/3/19 Rob Navarro robnav...@gmail.com Hi Chaps, I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of default compiled languages. How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language state (with Perl installed etc)? Crossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... Kind regards, Rob ___ 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 -- Demelier David ___ 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: make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs
On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote: Hi Chaps, I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of default compiled languages. How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language state (with Perl installed etc)? Ummm the default state is with just the base system installed: no extra languages like perl or python and no other additional software packages. Crossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... Nope. You absolutely do not need to do that -- all you did will have affected the ports, which on FreeBSD is a distinct entity from the base system. To recover, you simply need to re-install the appropriate ports. If you know what you want installed, then it's easy: you can just feed a list of those ports into portmaster(8) or portupgrade(8). If you don't know what you need installed in order to support various end user programs, then there are various ways of checking that the dependencies of the required ports are installed. For instance, if you're using pkgng, you could run 'pkg check -da' At worst, and requiring the least amount of extra software, just try re-installing the packages in question. This should work, but you might end up doing a lot of strictly unnecessary recompiling. Matthew ___ 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: make deinstall within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs
Dear Chaps, Thank you very much for responding so quickly. Curiously the freeBSD 9.0 was installed with the standard answers to a sysinstall session and did contain a version of perl. I now seem to be in the state of discovering which languages I need and then re-installing. Is there a list/database for freeBSD 9.0 standard sysinstalls languages that I can view and use to re-install (via pkg_add -v -r perl etc) ? [there must a config file for sysinstall to use itself] Kind regards, Rob lang/ contains all languages and so on ruby, lua, python, perl.. Of course you removed perl since you typed make deinstall in that parent port tree. You can type make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 to install it again. You don't need to reinstall FreeBSD, you're not on Windows here, you can repair everything :) Note: there is no perl installed by default, it's in the ports for few years now. Regards, On 19/03/2013 01:19, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote: Hi Chaps, I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of default compiled languages. How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language state (with Perl installed etc)? Ummm the default state is with just the base system installed: no extra languages like perl or python and no other additional software packages. Crossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... Nope. You absolutely do not need to do that -- all you did will have affected the ports, which on FreeBSD is a distinct entity from the base system. To recover, you simply need to re-install the appropriate ports. If you know what you want installed, then it's easy: you can just feed a list of those ports into portmaster(8) or portupgrade(8). If you don't know what you need installed in order to support various end user programs, then there are various ways of checking that the dependencies of the required ports are installed. For instance, if you're using pkgng, you could run 'pkg check -da' At worst, and requiring the least amount of extra software, just try re-installing the packages in question. This should work, but you might end up doing a lot of strictly unnecessary recompiling. Matthew ___ 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
EU Regulation and gvfs
Hi, there's an issue with gvfs. Regarding to an EU Regulation external drives must spin down after a while, but gvfs make external drives spin up and down again and again so they don't stay asleep. I own a new WD Elements and within one week it aged by years. I marked a thread about this issue as solved, but it isn't, it's just a workaround. For some drives it's possible to disable it, but for drives where you can't open the case it can be impossible to do it. One way to safe lifetime then is to touch the drive in short intervals, to avoid a spin down and the other way is to remove gvfs and to mount block devices, not only USB devices, by a workaround. Other USB gear, but block devices, don't need gvfs, such as WiFi adapters. Since I'm short in time at the moment, I only tested Arch Linux and Ubuntu Linux intensively [1]. I'm cross-posting this information, hopefully you understand why I'm doing this. Regards, Ralf [1] From: Ralf Mardorf To: linux-audio-user Subject: [solved] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:43:57 +0100 On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The issue that the drive will spin up and down again and again can be avoided. I removed - thunar-volman - tumbler - gvfs on Arch Linux. No packages depend on those packages for my Arch Linux. The drive keeps asleep, even with still one partition mounted. Later I'll add one package after the other, to find out what does cause the access and I also will take a look at Ubuntu. Arch Linux: Only gvfs needs to be removed, no need to remove thunar-volman and tumbler. However, thunar-volman without gvfs seems to be useless. Tumbler doesn't cause issues, but I don't know what it's good for. To see thumbnails with Thunar it isn't needed. I keep thunar-volman and tumbler on Arch and only removed gvfs. For my Arch nothing depends on gvfs, so it was the only package I had to remove. Ubuntu Quantal: root@q:~# apt-get purge gvfs The following packages will be REMOVED: brasero* gvfs* gvfs-backends* gvfs-fuse* nautilus* nautilus-sendto* nautilus-share* Who cares about the packages that depend on it? I anyway use Thunar instead of Nautilus and K3b instead of Brasero. Résumé: So who is to blame? By EU Regulation external drives must spin down. I even didn't completely read the German blah blah blah, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ab-2010-Maximal-2-Watt-im-Standby-Betrieb-von-Haushaltsgeraeten-PCs-und-Unterhaltungselektronik-Update-193947.html and I won't search for links in English. Xfce doesn't depend on gvfs, neither the Arch, nor the Ubuntu packages. Until now it seems to be, that without gvfs, partitions can't be mounted with a file browser, they have to be mounted by CLI. It's not only an issue for the USB drive, but also for USB sticks. It takes 30 minutes, then the WD Elements spins down and stays asleep. If you don't like this,than blame the EU. If you like it, then blame gvfs. Does VirtualBox still see my iPad 2 connected by USB when gvfs is removed? No problem, even an USB stick and even the external USB hard disk are available by VirtualBox. Is my KORG nanoKONTROL still accessible after removing gvfs? It still does show up in QjackCtl's ALSA tab. ___ 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
IPC Shared memory segment
Hi all! Tell me please, how may I remove shared memory segment like this: T:m shmid:65537 shmkey:0 mode:--rw-rw-rw- owner:root group:wheel creator:root cgroup:wheel NATTCH:2 SEGSZ:1048576000 CPID:2982 LPID:54375 ATIME:10:29:12 DTIME:15:56:14 CTIME:10:51:00 Pid 2982 and pid 54375 is killed. -- Respectfully, Stanislav Putrya System administrator FotoStrana.Ru Ltd. ICQ IM: 328585847 Jabber-GoogleTalk: root.vagner mob.phone SPB: +79215788755 mob.phone RND: +79525600664 email: vag...@bsdway.ru email: put...@playform.ru email: root.vag...@gmail.com site: bsdway.ru site: fotostrana.ru ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X - against HTML, vCards and / \ - proprietary attachments in e-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: IPC Shared memory segment
On 03/19/2013 13:06, Vagner wrote: Hi all! Tell me please, how may I remove shared memory segment like this: T:m shmid:65537 shmkey:0 mode:--rw-rw-rw- owner:root group:wheel creator:root cgroup:wheel NATTCH:2 SEGSZ:1048576000 CPID:2982 LPID:54375 ATIME:10:29:12 DTIME:15:56:14 CTIME:10:51:00 Pid 2982 and pid 54375 is killed. man ipcrm -- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ___ 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: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique
useful doc，greate job！ find a mybe copy/past mistake in 16.7.1： *exec.stop* This is the normal script used to *start *the jail. should be： *exec.stop* This is the normal script used to *stop *the jail. regards, 2013/3/19 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To all interested parties; I have completed the final draft of the total rewrite of FreeBSD's handbook Chapter 16 on Jails. Before submitting my work for submission to the documentation group for insertion in the handbook I am looking for critique of the work to find errors in concept, wrong use of words, or anything to make it better. All feedback welcomed. Use this URL to access it http://www.jails.a1poweruser.**com/http://www.jails.a1poweruser.com/ Thank You. __**_ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**currenthttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscribe@** freebsd.org freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Jov blog: http:amutu.com/blog http://amutu.com/blog ___ 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
adding a TrueType font
Hello, I have a need for a very special font (which is used for the chars how they are teached to my son in school in first grade). I have found the TTF file and installed it as: $ file /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/DruckschriftBayern.ttf /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/DruckschriftBayern.ttf: TrueType font data and did the additional steps as described in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-fonts.html The new font shows up fine in some KDE apps, in firefox etc.; as well I can see it with fc-list(1) as: $ fc-list | fgrep BY Druckschrift BY WOK:style=Medium but I can't use is, for example with xterm, it says: $ xterm -fn 'Druckschrift BY WOK' xterm: cannot load font Druckschrift BY WOK and even more magic: I can set it in 'kedit' via preferences, but when I launch it from cmd line it says: $ kedit --fn 'Druckschrift BY WOK' QFont::setRawName(): Invalid XLFD: Druckschrift BY WOK Any idea why is this? I'd like to have it in xterm or in uRxvt, even better. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards ___ 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
w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: root@:/root # w 4:56PM up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root@:/root # And the output of who: root@:/root # who root@:/root # Why is this and how can I fix it? Thanks, Istvan ps: I tried google search but w and who are not good search terms. ___ 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: adding a TrueType font
2013/3/19 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de: I have a need for a very special font (which is used for the chars how they are teached to my son in school in first grade). For such unusual fonts, or fonts that are not in package of some kind I pu them into ~/.fonts and have the following in my .xinitrc (don't know how that applies to gnome or kde): xset +fp $HOME/.fonts xset fp rehash You might have to run mkfontdir if your ~/.fonts is not 'a font dir' yet. ___ 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: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: root@:/root # w 4:56PM up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root@:/root # And the output of who: root@:/root # who root@:/root # Why is this and how can I fix it? This can happen if your kernel and world are out of sync. Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 16:59 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: I tried google search but w and who are not good search terms. Indeed, it for sure isn't easy, but did you try with quotes and other options? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=freebsd+%22who+command%22 I don't know if there is a solution, but you're at least not the first who experienced this issue. ___ 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
fresh binary packages for 9.1 / 9 stable
Hey hey :-) Are there any news on fresh binary packages for 9.1-RELEASE / 9-STABLE? :-) Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.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: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
On 19/3/2013 6:03 μμ, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: root@:/root # w 4:56PM up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root@:/root # And the output of who: root@:/root # who root@:/root # Why is this and how can I fix it? This can happen if your kernel and world are out of sync. It can also happen if /var/run/utx.active is corrupt. Could you try deleting it? It will be re-created after a successful login. Nikos ___ 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: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the list, while my broken MUA didn't use the address, I used to subscribe to this list. So a smarter MUA should provide different reply settings for replying to different lists. I should take a look at the mailman settings, since at the moment I receive 2 mails in case of Cc'ing, IIRC this can be disabled. Mailing list settings may not help, since it's really up to the sender. But it's easy to filter out duplicates with maildrop or procmail. ___ 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: Current Way To Update Sources Rebuild World/Kernel? -- SOLVED
On 3/17/2013 3:16 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:07:35 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've been away for a while. In the past, the proper way to update a system was to grab current sources via cvsup and then rebuild world and kernel. But now I see cvsup is no longer supported. Correct. The new way to obtain sources is via Subversion. The OS will hopefully soon get a csup equivalent (svnup) so you don't need to install a port with heavy dependencies. The handbook talks about freebsd-update. I do not want binary upgrades but is this the tool to replace cvsup to update sources? Basically freebsd-update updates the system binarily, as you said. But it can also be used to only update sources. In order to do this, edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf to contain the line Components src (means: you remove all the other components such as world and kernel). Then you proceed to reinstall from source as known. How do I use it to replace the old way that went something like this: cvsup sources make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel mergemaster make installworld (I'm not sure I have that in the exact proper order but it was something like that). The exact proper order can be found in the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile. You should stick to that order to avoid problems. Also see the corresponding handbook section. So is freebsd-update what I need? As explained above - or make yourself familiar with SVN, which is the CVSup / csup replacement. Is there a page that describes the steps to accomplish this? See man freebsd-update and the comments in /etc/freebsd-update.conf for details. Also see the Handbook's section about updating. Thanks for the replies. Using freebsd-update seemed the simplest method since it was already included. Worked just fine for getting the sources. And following the steps listed in comments in /usr/src/Makefile worked for building and installing the sources. Cheers, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.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
How To Get App To Start At Boot?
I installed Splunk which is not part of the ports tree. It's a proprietary app that I downloaded and installed on it's own. I start it with '/usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk start'. It should also be stopped with '/usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk stop'. In an attempt to automate it, I created this symlink in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel28 Mar 3 12:32 splunk - /usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk However it's still not automatic. I can run '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/splunk start' at the command line and that works. What do I need to do to get this automated? Thanks, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.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: How To Get App To Start At Boot?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote:
I installed Splunk which is not part of the ports tree. It's a proprietary
app that I downloaded and installed on it's own. I start it with
'/usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk start'. It should also be stopped with
'/usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk stop'. In an attempt to automate it, I
created this symlink in /usr/local/etc/rc.d:
Not the way to do it at all. ;-)
(assuming /opt/splunk*/bin is in your path)
# splunk enable boot-start
This installs the script below as /etc/rc.d/splunk. You then merely
need to put splunk_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf
Questions like this are better answered by searching the splunk FAQs,
etc. Lots of good info there.
#!/bin/sh
# PROVIDE: splunkd
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown
# /etc/rc.d/splunk
# init script for Splunk.
# generated by 'splunk enable boot-start'.
. /etc/rc.subr
name=splunk
extra_commands=status
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
eval ${rcvar}=\${${rcvar}:-'NO'}
splunk_start()
{
${splunk_home:-/opt/splunkforwarder}/bin/splunk start
--no-prompt --answer-yes $@
}
start_cmd=splunk_start
splunk_stop()
{
${splunk_home:-/opt/splunkforwarder}/bin/splunk stop $@
}
stop_cmd=splunk_stop
splunk_restart()
{
${splunk_home:-/opt/splunkforwarder}/bin/splunk restart $@
}
restart_cmd=splunk_restart
splunk_status()
{
${splunk_home:-/opt/splunkforwarder}/bin/splunk status $@
}
status_cmd=splunk_status
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command $@
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Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address
On 2/20/2013 5:55 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From feenb...@nber.org Wed Feb 20 13:39:28 2013 From: Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd To: me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:31:22 +0100 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current, with ip address assigned via DHCP. The laptop has neither a static ip address, nor a domain. I can ping the laptop fine, but cannot I doubt that you can ping 172.21.220.12 from 137.222.187.241 as 172.21.220.12 is private IP address space and is not routed across the Internet. ssh into it. The sshd is running, /etc/ssh/ssd_config seems fine, /etc/hosts.allow is fine. However, /etc/hosts is just the default: While on the problem machine, can you ssh to localhost? ssh to the IP address? yes to both I would suspect the problem is in /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny, The first non-comment line in /etc/hosts.allow is ALL : ALL : allow and I don't have /etc/hosts.deny: root@zzz:~ # ls /etc/hosts* /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.equiv /etc/hosts.allow/etc/hosts.lpd root@zzz:~ # or perhaps the subnet mask is incorrect. Well.. what should it be? I have on the problem box (ssh server): wlan0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1 500 ether 00:21:5c:50:68:c3 inet 172.21.220.12 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid eduroam channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:3a:98:62:cd:a0 country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 14 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL I'm trying to ssh from 137.222.187.241. I wonder, perhaps it somehow built into the Eduroam wireless, provided by the University, that the devices connected to it cannot be accessible. They can only initiate outgoing connections, but all incoming connections are somehow blocked? Given that the majority of the devices will be unsecured MS boxes, maybe the university thought that this is wise idea for safety. Perhaps I can investigate this with my IT guys. Or I might be talking complete nonsense here, not my area at all. It is kind of built in as you say. The Eduroam wireless network appears to be a private network sitting behind a NAT gateway. Thus what happens when you access the Internet is that your laptop sends that request to the NAT gateway on the Eduroam network. The NAT gateway strips off your private IP address and replaces it with a public IP address , marks the connection in its table, and sends it on it's way. Then when the answer comes back from the Internet, the NAT gateway strips off the public IP address and replaces with your private IP address, and sends it to your laptop. While on the Eduroam network, go to http://whatismyip.com. You will see that your IP is not 172.21.220.12. It will be a public IP address that Eduroam uses. Bottom line is that the only way you could ssh to your laptop from the Internet is if you got the university to give you a public IP address and port and then they set up NAT and port forwarding on their network to point that public IP address to your laptop private IP address ssh port. Since I doubt you will have much luck with that, I suspect the short answer is you can't ssh to your laptop from the Internet when it's connected to your university network. I'm sure this isn't the answer you wanted but hopefully this will save you some frustration. Cheers, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.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
Intel microcode update
Hi, I was wondering how to update microcode of an Intel CPU and came across cpucontrol and sysutils/devcpu-data . But last mentioned port is not up-to-date anymore. I searched Intel's webpages for microcode updates and found archives for Linux containing one single microcode.dat file. Could someone tell me if that file is compatible with FreeBSD? As devcpu-data installs .fw files it might be proper to convert/compile microcode.dat in some way. How? Regards, kaltheat ___ 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: configure recursively and build question
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: As there are no compiled FreeBSD 9.1 packages for pkg_tools I decided to build them. Last I started to build kde3. First I issued make configure-recursive in /usr/ports/x11/kde3, then make install clean, and left the computer for overnight to work. I expected a successful build by the morning but instead I found a screen requiring some config options (for apache). I selected the options and the build went on. But later other config windows came up, so far for mysqlclient, sane-backends, tk, tcl, libxine and sdl. So my question are: What is configure-recursive good for then? I thought it is for preventing interactions during the build process. Ho can I really configure everything in one step and leave the computer alone? Second, after I've done a configure-recursive, how can I start it over from scratch in case I want to change some config option? If I reissue make configure-recursive, I get only no configuration needed messages. Thanks, Istvan make config-recursive seems to be buggy. It seems not to be recursive as this would mean that with every change of an option of the root port or it's dependencies dependencies of the root port might change. This could mean that make config needs to be invoked for a port that wasn't in the inital dependecy list of root port. The root of all evil seems to be in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk line 6187 ff. You might want to use ports-mgmt/portmaster. It creates options-files of a port and it's dependencies in a better way before starting to compile ports. Regards, kaltheat ___ 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
Dumb down a Netgear Smart Switch
Aloha, Anybody on our list who can tell me how to set a Netgear GS108T 8 Port Smart Switch (Gigabit) to pass thru to a modem under FreeBSD. I have 2 other (non Smart) ones working with FreeBSD just fine in my rack and need to have the new one connect with a DSL modem on a static address. The instructions they sent me along with the switch that was a replacement for a non smart one at no charge is the type for using a DHCP service on Microsoft. (I cant complain about the up grade but its over kill for my purpose. Any help would be appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ 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
