Re: had sound working, updated machine now lost sound
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, Following advice from thread(s) : http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=13976 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5136 root@grullahighschool:~ # sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0 hw.snd.default_unit: 1 - 0 Got the sound working like it was. How do I get it to stick across reboots? Which would be the preferred way? Since you can set it with sysctl then sysctl.conf is the logical place, although loader.conf might also work. I use sysctl.conf so I know that works. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: gvim GUI cannot be used
Jens Jahnke jan0...@gmx.net writes: Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:56:32 +0200 CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote: C Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall C reinstall it, that works for me, and it helps with dialogs in texmode C as well :-) for me this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. Try running 'make show-options' and see what you get. Mine shows that virtually everything is disabled. If I run 'make showconfig' then it shows no configurable options. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: define more partitions in freebsd
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com writes: thanks guys, i understand another solution is GPT partitioning. but i prefer to have more partitions in traditional freebsd (with MBR table i think). using GPT is the last solution for me. i should create more than 8 partitions with gpart command (flag n which identifies entries) but i have errors when using it. is there any special option which should be included in kernel in order to use gpart with flag n? any one test it before? thanks in advance, I just tried it on a FreeBSD 8.3 system without any problems. You will need to explain what kind of errors you had before anybody can help you. I used a zfs volume for testing as follows: gpart create -s MBR /dev/zvol/zpool/v/gtest gpart add -t freebsd /dev/zvol/zpool/v/gtest gpart create -s BSD -n 20 zvol/zpool/v/gtests1 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G zvol/zpool/v/gtests1 gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G zvol/zpool/v/gtests1 # add several more freebsd-ufs # output from 'gpart show zvol/zpool/v/gtests1' = 0 41942943 zvol/zpool/v/gtests1 BSD (20G) 0 2097152 1 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 2097152 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 6291456 2097152 4 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 8388608 2097152 5 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 10485760 2097152 6 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 12582912 2097152 7 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 14680064 2097152 8 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 16777216 2097152 9 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 18874368 209715210 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 20971520 209715211 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 23068672 209715212 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 25165824 209715213 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 27262976 209715214 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 29360128 209715215 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 31457280 209715216 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 33554432 209715217 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 35651584 209715218 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 37748736 209715219 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 39845888 209705520 freebsd-ufs (1G) # output from 'disklabel zvol/zpool/v/gtests1' # /dev/zvol/zpool/v/gtests1: 20 partitions: # size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:2097152 04.2BSD0 0 0 b:41943042097152 swap c: 41942943 0unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d:209715262914564.2BSD0 0 0 e:209715283886084.2BSD0 0 0 f:2097152 104857604.2BSD0 0 0 g:2097152 125829124.2BSD0 0 0 h:2097152 146800644.2BSD0 0 0 i:2097152 167772164.2BSD0 0 0 j:2097152 188743684.2BSD0 0 0 k:2097152 209715204.2BSD0 0 0 l:2097152 230686724.2BSD0 0 0 m:2097152 251658244.2BSD0 0 0 n:2097152 272629764.2BSD0 0 0 o:2097152 293601284.2BSD0 0 0 p:2097152 314572804.2BSD0 0 0 q:2097152 335544324.2BSD0 0 0 r:2097152 356515844.2BSD0 0 0 s:2097152 377487364.2BSD0 0 0 t:2097055 398458884.2BSD0 0 0 I also tried newfs on all the ufs partitions without problems. I just tried this on a FreeBSD 8.2 system and it works there as well. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: define more partitions in freebsd
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com writes: hello all i want to install freebsd8.2 on my system. for some reasons, i need partitions more than 6. my freebsd just allow me to define partitions from a to h, not any more. i checked FreeBSD handbook, but it doesn't say anything about defining more partitions. my question is: how can i define more partitions on my freebsd? (for example, ad3s1a, ..., ad3s1h, ad3s1i, ad3s1j, ...). any comments or hints are appreciated. SAM Others have already commented that GPT labels are better, but I think that you can have more than 8 partitions. I remember a posting a while back that the maximum had been increased. You will have to experiment if you want to do this, but gpart shows an example that uses 20 partitions: '/sbin/gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ada0s1'. I also don't know that bsdlabel will handle these, so you definitely should experiment first. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Recipie for CPU souffle'
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:20 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
No, that does not work. Read the manpage to recognize clearly
_what_ kind of input the /dev/speaker device accepts. It does
not understand WAV files.
However, try this example (cw.sh):
#!/bin/sh
read -p CW === TEXT
echo ${TEXT} | morse | awk '{
if(length($0) == 0)
printf(P4\n);
else {
gsub( dit, P32L32E, $0);
gsub( di, P32L32E, $0);
gsub( dah, P32L8E, $0);
printf(%sP16\n, $0);
}
}' | dd bs=256 of=/dev/speaker /dev/null 21
This script doesn't require any non-OS components. You can use
it as a basis to build a program that will send you system messages
in an audible way in morse code... :-)
Have you looked at the morse man page lately, specifically the -p
option? :-) Just try 'morse -p sos' to test it.
--
Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org
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Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP
Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es writes: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master boot record? It is important that, when I am done, I can still boot to Windows XP, as I must run some applications not available on FreeBSD. If the idea I am proposing is not feasible with version 9.1, will it work with 8.3? Any comments are appreciated. If this question has already been asked many times before, please just let me know where to look to find the answer. Thanks. Newbie502 As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP partition. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can be done from WinXP side, a minimal hd with MBR boot menu to startup the FreeBSD. It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything else, including FreeBSD itself. Am I wrong about this? I use VirtualBox using vdmk for an entire disk, but I have never been able to share with anything else. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything else, including FreeBSD itself. Am I wrong about this? I use VirtualBox using vdmk for an entire disk, but I have never been able to share with anything else. It's very hard to tell what situation is being described here. If the VMDK is a pointer to a whole physical disk, that would probably make the disk only usable by one VM. It should be possible to make the VMDK point to just one partition on the disk. Then other VMs or a physical machine could use those other partitions while the FreeBSD VM was running. I was thinking of the case where I tried to allow direct access by a virtual machine to a slice on the same disk that I was running FreeBSD off of. I just looked further into that and discovered that it is possible, but not allowed by geom by default. It can be done by setting 'sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10'. I am sure that you are aware of the dangers, but for anybody else reading this check out the warning in the geom(4) manpage. They refer to this option as 'allow foot shooting' for a reason. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
freebsd-update problems
I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to edit some configuration files, showed me long lists of files that have been changed, added and removed, and then ended with no status or error indications. The problem is that there appears to be absolutely NO change in my system that I can find. I have checked /etc, /bin, and /lib with 'ls -lct | head', but there are no files that have changed recently. The /var/db/freebsd-update directory has over 500MB of files it downloaded. Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update problems
Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz writes: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to edit some configuration files, showed me long lists of files that have been changed, added and removed, and then ended with no status or error indications. The problem is that there appears to be absolutely NO change in my system that I can find. I have checked /etc, /bin, and /lib with 'ls -lct | head', but there are no files that have changed recently. The /var/db/freebsd-update directory has over 500MB of files it downloaded. Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org I'm not looking at the docs ATM, but IIRC you need to run an install step now. Check the docs ... they should tell you. Thanks, I just saw that a few minutes ago. I wasn't happy about it so I went out for a long walk, but I should have done it before posting. I'll try that right after this. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update problems
Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or # uname -r output says? It still shows 8.1, but another poster just pointed out that I hadn't installed my upgrade. I need to read the man pages more carefully. Thanks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update problems
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz writes: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:51:41AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ran freebsd-update to update my 8.1-RELEASE system to 8.3-RELEASE (freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade). It downloaded a bunch of files, asked me to edit some configuration files, showed me long lists of files that have been changed, added and removed, and then ended with no status or error indications. The problem is that there appears to be absolutely NO change in my system that I can find. I have checked /etc, /bin, and /lib with 'ls -lct | head', but there are no files that have changed recently. The /var/db/freebsd-update directory has over 500MB of files it downloaded. Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org I'm not looking at the docs ATM, but IIRC you need to run an install step now. Check the docs ... they should tell you. Thanks, I just saw that a few minutes ago. I wasn't happy about it so I went out for a long walk, but I should have done it before posting. I'll try that right after this. Everything looks good now: 'uname -r' now show '8.3-RELEASE-p3'. Thanks for the response. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update problems
Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com writes: On 01/02/2013 22:50, Carl Johnson wrote: Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com writes: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:41 -0800 tarihinde Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org yazmış: Does anybody have any suggestions on what might have happened and what can be done? Hello Carl, What does # uname -a or # uname -r output says? It still shows 8.1, but another poster just pointed out that I hadn't installed my upgrade. I need to read the man pages more carefully. Thanks. Better link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html#freebsdupdate-using Thanks, that link is much clearer than the version of the handbook that came with my 8.1 system. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:59 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base system to get the same information. The command 'gpart list ada0' will show the primary partitions, and the command 'gpart list ada0s4' should show the logical partitions inside of the extended partition. You can also use 'file -s' and possibly do read-only mounts to see exactly what they contain. The names will probably map out like linux, but the 'sda*' will be changed to 'ada0s*'. Thanks for the pointers. Here is the relevant part of the output from 'gpart list ada0s4': 4. Name: ada0s8 Mediasize: 4194304 (39G) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 0 Stripeoffset: 162529280 Mode: r0w0e0 rawtype: 131 length: 4194304 offset: 46143188992 type: linux-data index: 1430498 end: 172043415 start: 90121368 So I put into my /etc/fstab: /dev/ada0s8 /u01ext2fs ro,noauto 00 But when I issue 'sudo mount /u01' I get: mount: /dev/ada0s8: Invalid argument What am I doing wrong? I don't see anything wrong there. I use labels when possible, but that doesn't really change anything. Have you tried using 'file -s /dev/ada0s8' to see what the kernel thinks it is? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: So it's my stupid mistake. I could have sworn it was ext2, but it was ext4. Sorry for all the noise! However, I'm glad you have helped, and that I have learned a little bit about Linux partitions as FreeeBSD slices. It was empty, so I just reformatted it as ext2, and hey presto; all is right with the world. Good to know you have it working, but for future reference there is a fuse implementation of an ext4 driver: sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse EXT4 implementation for FUSE EXT4 implementation for FUSE. WWW: https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse/ I haven't tried it so I don't know how well it works. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com writes: 9.1 on x86_64. No doubt this question has been asked before, but how do I mount logical partitions (e2fs) under FreeBSD? I have checked the handbook, and DuckDuckGo'ed, but without finding anything useful. The third slice on my first disk is a physical one, and will mount happily under FreeBSD. From /etc/fstab: /dev/ada0s3 /Mail ext2fs rw00 But I have a couple of logical partitions (also ext2fs) in the fourth slice, which I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to mount. For information, here is the BSD view of the disk: $ sudo fdisk *** Working on device /dev/ada0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 2048, size 24576000 (12000 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 24578064, size 44040150 (21503 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 68618240, size 958464 (468 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 5 (0x05),(Extended DOS) start 69577576, size 243002520 (118653 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 $ Now here's how Linux sees it: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x38d5b517 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda120482457804712288000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 *245780646861821322020075 a5 FreeBSD /dev/sda36861824069576703 479232 83 Linux /dev/sda469577576 312580095 1215012605 Extended /dev/sda594158848 112590847 9216000 83 Linux /dev/sda6 112592896 118736895 3072000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 118738944 1596989432048 83 Linux /dev/sda8 159700992 2416209914096 83 Linux /dev/sda9 241623040 27029913514338048 83 Linux /dev/sda10 270301184 31258009521139456 83 Linux /dev/sda11 695808009415679912288000 83 Linux There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base system to get the same information. The command 'gpart list ada0' will show the primary partitions, and the command 'gpart list ada0s4' should show the logical partitions inside of the extended partition. You can also use 'file -s' and possibly do read-only mounts to see exactly what they contain. The names will probably map out like linux, but the 'sda*' will be changed to 'ada0s*'. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: How to see all labels?
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I recently installed 9.1 on a system and labels don't seem to work as I would expect. I can get them to work in /etc/fstab, but only the ones referenced there show up in /dev/ufs and /dev/gpt. I have seen this in previous versions, and in those cases they sometimes work. In at least one previous case one ufs label (of several) would never work even in fstab. The following shows my current configuration: $ uname -a FreeBSD bonsai.localnet 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ gpart backup ada0 GPT 128 1 freebsd-boot 64 128 2freebsd-ufs 192 35651584 Bonsai 3 freebsd-swap 35651776 4224671 BonsaiSwap $ glabel status Name Status Components gptid/150b03ac-5767-11e2-a154-001485411fc8 N/A ada0p1 ufs/Bonsai N/A ada0p2 gpt/BonsaiSwap N/A ada0p3 $ ls -l /dev/ufs total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 109 2013-01-08 09:42 Bonsai $ ls -l /dev/gpt total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 112 2013-01-08 09:42 BonsaiSwap $ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# #/dev/ada0p2/ ufs rw 1 1 #/dev/ada0p3noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ufs/Bonsai / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/BonsaiSwap noneswapsw 0 0 In this case I have two GPT labels defined, but only the one used in fstab (BonsaiSwap) is shown in /dev/gpt and by glabel. When I used the original fstab without labels, there were no /dev/gpt or /dev/ufs directories, and glabel didn't show any of them. Does anybody have any ideas about how to get the system to recognize all labels? A command after boot would be acceptable since I could just put it in /etc/rc.local. I just discoved the sysctl 'kern.geom.label.debug=2' and did some further testing. It appears that the system removes what it considers redundant labels. For the Bonsai label it has labels for ufs, ufsid, gpt, and gptid; so it removes the ufsid, gpt, and gptid labels after I use the ufs label. The swap partition has gpt and gptid labels, and it removes the gptid label after I use the gpt label. I don't really agree with it, but I feel better about it now that I think I understand what it is doing. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: ext3 file system
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Hi :) is it possible to mount Linux ext3 file systems with fstab by label? Before I run mount -a /mnt/dump had the same permissions, owner and group as /mnt/archlinux has got. Is it possible to keep this? Both are Linux ext3 fs. Mounting without a label does work. root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ad4s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad4s1e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 #proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/ada0s8 /mnt/dump ext2fs rw 0 0 #/dev/label/dump /mnt/dump ext2fs rw 0 0 #/dev/label/archlinux/mnt/archlinux ext2fs rw 0 0 root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse wheel 512 Jan 20 20:51 archlinux drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l / | grep mnt drwxr-xr-x4 root wheel 512 Jan 20 20:51 mnt I still search the Internet, but had bad luck until now. If I run 'gpart show -l' I can't see what /dev archlinux is, it doesn't show Linux labels, so I need to restart and boot Linux to see at what position it is, to figure out what /dev/ada*s* archlinux is. You should be able to see any labels the kernel knows about with 'glabel status', but my experience is that not all labels show up. You can check ext2/3 labels with e2label from the e2fsprogs port/package. My experience is that labels in /etc/fstab work fine, but they may or may not be visible in /dev or with glabel if they are not in fstab. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
How to see all labels?
I recently installed 9.1 on a system and labels don't seem to work as I would expect. I can get them to work in /etc/fstab, but only the ones referenced there show up in /dev/ufs and /dev/gpt. I have seen this in previous versions, and in those cases they sometimes work. In at least one previous case one ufs label (of several) would never work even in fstab. The following shows my current configuration: $ uname -a FreeBSD bonsai.localnet 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ gpart backup ada0 GPT 128 1 freebsd-boot 64 128 2freebsd-ufs 192 35651584 Bonsai 3 freebsd-swap 35651776 4224671 BonsaiSwap $ glabel status Name Status Components gptid/150b03ac-5767-11e2-a154-001485411fc8 N/A ada0p1 ufs/Bonsai N/A ada0p2 gpt/BonsaiSwap N/A ada0p3 $ ls -l /dev/ufs total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 109 2013-01-08 09:42 Bonsai $ ls -l /dev/gpt total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 112 2013-01-08 09:42 BonsaiSwap $ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# #/dev/ada0p2/ ufs rw 1 1 #/dev/ada0p3noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ufs/Bonsai / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/BonsaiSwap noneswapsw 0 0 In this case I have two GPT labels defined, but only the one used in fstab (BonsaiSwap) is shown in /dev/gpt and by glabel. When I used the original fstab without labels, there were no /dev/gpt or /dev/ufs directories, and glabel didn't show any of them. Does anybody have any ideas about how to get the system to recognize all labels? A command after boot would be acceptable since I could just put it in /etc/rc.local. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Reading the handbook from console
dte...@freebsd.org writes: -Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:41 PM To: dte...@freebsd.org Cc: 'Fbsd8'; scotteb...@gmail.com; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:48:33 -0800, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:33 PM To: Fbsd8 Cc: scotteb...@gmail.com; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:57:47 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: Scott Eberl wrote: I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I was able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if there is a preferred method for reading these since they are in html format. I tried w3m and lynx and it looks like they are both not installed. Is there something i'm missing for reading these or do I just need to install a cli browser? Viewing html takes some form of browser. There is no text mode web browser in the base system. Installing one is easy: As the HTML files generated for the Handbook are good quality, they display nicely in lynx, links, and w3m (probably the most prominent three text mode web browsers). I must know... What is Polytropon's favorite of those listed? (and perhaps also elinks ?) Hard to say, now that X is everywhere... :-) In the past, I've started using lynx because it was the default. Somehow I even tend to remember that it was part of the default installation in around FreeBSD 4 or so... but that could be wrong. Later on I tried w3m and also found it usable. Today I'd say I prefer links for interactive text mode browsing. Still lynx -dump is a welcome tool in some of my scripts, and never change a running system. :-) Ok, the reason I ask is actually because I have this insane (?) idea of shoving one of the aforementioned solutions onto the installation media so that (gasp) we can have that functionality back like we had in the days of sysinstall. So naturally, my first question is which one? Thoughts? I just looked at the DVD install disk and it has firefox, links1, links, and w3m. That should take care of most needs, but I don't know about the CD disks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: somewhat OT ... in parts
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:59:45 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
maybe I should just find keith bostic's newvi; see if they have it
for linux; theyve got everything else... {grumble}
I know there's nvi in ports.
Maybe those will be helpful:
http://garage.linux.student.kuleuven.be/~skimo//nvi/
nvi download here:
https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/files
Project page and FAQ:
https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi
The vi in FreeBSD is already nvi. The name nvi is a link to vi in
/usr/bin and the source includes nvi at /usr/src/contrib/nvi/.
--
Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org
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Re: Cannot boot - creating partition and installing FreeBSD is [solved]
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: Installing PC-BSD 8.2 x64 did work without issues. I unchecked the bootloader install. Linux grub legacy until now is unable to boot BSD, because of Error17: Cannot mount selected partition spinymouse@q:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] Linux only recognize the slice, but not what's inside it: spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub. The following is a chainloader rule that I have used, as well as a normal loader boot. I use the loader boot, but I also tested the chainloader boot. You will need a ufs2_stage1_5 file in your grub directory for a loader boot, and linux grub might not have it available. title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) chainloader root(hd1,2) chainloader +1 boot title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) /boot/loader root(hd1,2,a) kernel /boot/loader boot -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: ata controller problem
Gerhard Schmidt schm...@ze.tum.de writes: Labels are good for naming Drives but how does it help me if the root filesystem changing device ids. I don't think the boot loader is able to use the label for the root Filesystem. From my fstab: /dev/ufs/Oak / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/OakSwap none swapsw 0 0 I think any of the other label schemes will also work. If you don't remember which label is which device id, then 'glabel status' will show that, but you shouldn't need to. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu
lei yang yanglei.f...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: lei yang yanglei.f...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: Hi, I want to build a netcat on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it possible? I'm new to free bsd it has no -U flag, can you point me where I get this version Have you checked the other version of netcat already available? A quick check shows these four versions for Ubuntu: netcat: TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transitional package netcat-openbsd: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat-traditional: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat6: TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support how did you get the list? I used the surfraw package which is available on freebsd, debian, and ubuntu. In this case I just used 'debpackages -u netcat' to do access the ubuntu packages search page. There is also 'freebsd -psearch' to search freebsd ports, and debpackages without -u shows debian packages. To be clear, haha, I just want to know how to build a fress bsd netcat on a no-fressbsd platform Others have probably already mentioned this, but you are probably better off trying ports source instead. Most of those are written to be portable and are easily configured for other OSs. Freebsd port search shows the following for netcat: net/cryptcat Standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption net/gnetcat GPL'ed re-write of the well known networking tool netcat net/nc6 Netcat clone with IPv6 support net/netcatSimple utility which reads and writes data across network connections net/sbd A netcat clone with more features and crypto net/scnc SSL Capable Netcat security/sst A simple SSL tunneling tool (uses netcat) -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu
lei yang yanglei.f...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: Hi, I want to build a netcat on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it possible? I'm new to free bsd it has no -U flag, can you point me where I get this version Have you checked the other version of netcat already available? A quick check shows these four versions for Ubuntu: netcat: TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transitional package netcat-openbsd: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat-traditional: TCP/IP swiss army knife netcat6: TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: find date of last boot
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? In addition to the other responses: sysctl kern.boottime -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those applications in FreeBSD. According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the feature needn't be supported, but at the bottom of the page it says word-boundary matching is a bit of a kludge, so presumably it has been. Does anyone know what's going on? I switched from i386 to amd64 last year so it might be something to do with that. I'm currently using 8.2p6. The only way I have found to do it is [[::]] and [[::]]. That is very awkward, so I't love to hear of a shorter way. I found them in the re_format(7) manpage. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: VBox network boot
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to Bridged and use the PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) adapter type. If the host is FreeBSD, the vboxnet kernel module has to be loaded. Please emphasize that the PCnet-PCI II card emulation is necessary. Updated in the PXE article, thanks. Thank you, that makes it perfectly clear. I had initially ignored that suggestion, thinking that it wasn't important! -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: VBox network boot
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox on FBSD host? To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to Bridged and use the PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) adapter type. If the host is FreeBSD, the vboxnet kernel module has to be loaded. Please emphasize that the PCnet-PCI II card emulation is necessary. I was trying the Intel emulation and making no progress. I then noticed your page and tried the PCnet-PCI II card and it started working. I would guess that means their Intel card emulation is incomplete. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: One or Four?
Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com writes: Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even suggest just two choices. yes, three options is ok. [ ] all in one + swap Create one partition containing all subtrees plus one swap partition. [ ] user-defined Make your own partitioning selection manually. (Both number and size of partitions) with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes. The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system. A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not an option for a general user. What will happen in the case of a power failure? I just see an fsck when that happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20 years. I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I went with the single partition. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 18:54, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/25/2012 5:43 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have a Huawei E1820 I will also try RTFM. Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because I booted up with my Huawei dongle plugged in. kldstat | grep u3g shows me nothing though. The command 'kldstat -v' shows that u3g is already compiled in for the 9.0-RELEASE kernel. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC
Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com writes: On Jan 23, 2012, at 12:56 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 01/23/2012 12:30 AM, Devin Teske wrote: On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:41 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:02 PM, Devin Teske wrote: Taking a GENERIC 9.0-RELEASE kernel and running kgzip(8) on it produces an unusable kernel which causes immediate BTX halt in loader(8). ... 4. Say: kgzip kernel Curious, it doesn't even look like that binary is hooked into the build process at all on 9.0-RELEASE. Can you clarify what you mean by the above? On a brand new GENERIC box running 9.0-RELEASE with no special knobs: 8 (4b18d544)[cyberleo@jenga ~]$ which kgzip On my box: push900# uname -a FreeBSD push900.vicor.com 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 push900# which kgzip /usr/sbin/kgzip On my system: $ uname -a FreeBSD birch.localnet 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ whereis kgzip kgzip: /usr/src/usr.sbin/kgzip $ grep kgzip /usr/src/usr.sbin/Makefile* Makefile.amd64:# kgzip: builds, but missing support files Makefile.i386:SUBDIR+= kgzip So it appears to be i386 only. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:05:55 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: (1) Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to read the motherboard name? This name, on an xw4400, starts with HP followed by a eleven digits, and is given in Windows XP as Full Computer Name on the Computer Name tab of the System Properties window. Among other purposes, this name is used by Novell network operating system to distinguish hosts on a subnet. The OS provides the output of dmesg and maybe the output of pciconf -lv, as well as the sysctl value dev.acpi.0.%desc which may contain the required information. However, I'm sure there is a program in the ports collection that can be used to obtain that kind of information. Try: dmesg | grep HP sysctl -a | grep HP pciconf -lv | less and see if there's such a number mentioned. Maybe you can also use acpidump to retrieve that information from the ACPI datasets. The 'kenv' command seems to have the board name available as 'smbios.system.product'. The 'kenv' command without arguments will show all values, so you can make sure that is the proper variable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: Root access policy
Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd writes: On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said customer's servers. snip Assuming that I'll be asked to continue administering said servers, I guess I should at least enable accounting... You could have better success using sudo. Make sure the customer is allowed to sudo command. The sudo program will log _all_ things the customer does, so you can be sure you can review actions. Furthermore you don't need to give him the _real_ root password. He won't be able to su root or to login as root, _real_ root. But he can use the sudo prefix to issue commands with root privileges. sudo su - or sudo sh and the customer gets a native root shell which does *not* log commands ! The sudoers manpage mention the noexec option which is designed to help with the first problem. They also show an example using !SHELLS which can help with the second. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Problems with pkg_upgrade
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes: Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message Protocol error and then Package x cannot be fetched, where x is the name of the pavkage it stops at. I can restart pkg_upgrade, it downloads 10 more packages where it stopped previously, but then gives this same message again. Maybe the connection to the FTP server os being lost and code needs to be added to automatically restart the FTP connection without the whole thing crashing? I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle I can't help directly with your problem, but both portupgrade and portmaster support packages. In both cases you can just supply the -P or -PP options to specify how to handle packages. I think they both require that the ports tree be present for the /usr/ports/INDEX file, but otherwise they can use just packages. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: sudo log messages
Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru writes: Здравствуйте, Polytropon. Вы писали 4 декабря 2011 г., 15:41:45: P On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 05:34:19 +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: Tell me please how to stop sudo to food /var/log/messages? P ADDITION: Of course I meant /usr/local/etc/sutoers, P NOT sudo.conf. P Instead of logging via syslog (to /var/log/messages), P why not use a specific log file for sudo? Add those P lines to the sudoers file: P Defaults logfile=/var/log/sudo.log P Defaults !syslog P Make sure /var/log/sudo.log exists, and maybe use P newsyslog.conf to deal with log rotation and archiving. P However, you can easily purge sudo log information P this way, if required. P The file /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers P contains an example. yes, that is not problem, but I want to control logging in one place not in each config file of service I have ran on machine. I have thought that this !sudo *.* /var/log/sudo.log will take off logging in /var/log/messages but this work as log to /var/log/messages and to /var/log/sudo.log =(( You are not clear about what you really want. If you want it to log to auth.log instead of messages, then you can use the following in your sudoers file: Defaults syslog=authpriv The sample file that was mentioned earlier is one source for information, but the best source is the sudoers(5) man page. Just search it for syslog and you will find several settings. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Invalid fdisk partition table found
Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com writes: @ suggestions: 1 Try bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 echo unplug, reinsert newfs /dev/da1a 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 It looks like I never got round to sending in a send-pr for that, so feel free looks like its been that way at least since 7.1.see http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fdisk/ I thought I had seen a mention of that somewhere, so I grep'ed the man pages. I found hints on geom(4) and boot0cfg(8), but they certainly aren't obvious. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: ntpdate on boot problem
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: On 05/11/2011 22:19, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab: 0 10 * * */2 /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart I have something similar in my crontab which is not exactly what I need. I want to make sure that the clock is set at every boot because I'm using this as a kerberos server. If the clock is not set properly at boot, kerberos will not work properly until the nightly cron jobs are run and the clock is set then. I need everything working at boot. I can't have a window of problems between boot and midnight or whenever cron runs ntpdate. crontabs have this handy '@reboot' syntax... It's all explained in crontab(5). Just be aware that 'Run once, at startup', means when 'cron' starts, not just when the system boots, unless they have changed it recently. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: How to get /dev/smb* ?
Антон Клесс rc5h...@yandex.ru writes: mbmon is very old. I've never gotten it to work on any machine I've every tried it on. Does your boot time output show anything smb-related at all, such as maybe smbios0: System Management BIOS at ...? It's possible that your machine simply has no support for this. # dmesg -a |grep smb - returns nothing. Does it means that it is no way to read temperature sensors on motherboard? Have you tried: $ sysctl -a | grep temperature dev.cpu.0.temperature: 29.2C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29.2C for your system? I have an AMD cpu and the amdtemp kernel module provides that information. I am not familiar with the Intel cpus, but the coretemp module is supposed to provide the same information for them. I use gkrellm for various thing, and it will display that information directly. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?
Unga unga...@yahoo.com writes: Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system type. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. It isn't very difficult and there are at least two ways to do it. Grub1 actually does support ffs and ufs2 file systems, but the linux distributions don't seem to include the drivers. If you can get the source, that should have all of them. I think that I just got the grub package from the FreeBSD file system and copied the additional drivers directly into my linux grub directory, but I am not sure now. The other way is to use the 'chainloader' command. You just specify the disk and partition (slice) with the root command, and then add the commands 'chainloader +1' and 'boot'. The chainloader command just means to boot whatever is at the first sector of the previously specified disk and slice. I think the first sector of a ufs2 file system just jumps to the loader. The menu items from mine are just: title FreeBSD /boot/loader root(hd1,2,a) kernel /boot/loader boot title FreeBSD chainloader root(hd1,2) chainloader +1 boot In my case, those specifies that they use the third slice on the second disk. The first menu item requires that you already have the 'ufs2_stage1_5' file in your grub directory. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: nice man pages?
Thomas Dickey dic...@radix.net writes: fwiw, without also setting the NC capability (something like NC#35), it'll confuse curses/ncurses since that conflicts with the normal color controls. Thanks, I had missed that description in the terminfo(5) manpage. It worked fine without it, but that might have been just because I hadn't been using enough colors. I put it in but there is no change for my applications. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: nice man pages?
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org writes: Hello, I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? I use a colorized termcap with less, but it also works with /usr/bin/more. It depends on what type of terminal you are using it on. I have it for xterm and rxvt (which is what I use). This works for manpages, but you can also colorize your prompt. Obviously I hadn't thought that through since there is no xterm in the base system, but both the xterm and rxvt termcap entries seem to work on the console. Just to be sure I made up a colorized cons25 entry. I left in the underline attribute, even though the console doesn't seem to support underline. I also added the nc capability that Thomas Dickey suggested should be used. The revised version of my ~/.termcap is below if anybody is interested: start ~/.termcap - # these are just changes to the standard FreeBSD termcap - 2010-12-13 cdj # added cons25 and nc capability - 2011-10-26 cdj xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ :md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\ :ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86: rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System):\ :md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\ :pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\ :tc=rxvt-mono: cons25|colorized version of cons25|:\ :md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\ :ac=l\332m\300k\277j\331u\264t\303v\301w\302q\304x\263n\305`^Da\260f\370g\361~\371.^Y-^Xh\261i^U0\333y\363z\362:\ :tc=cons25w: end ~/.termcap - Note that the ac capability in cons25 should be a single (long) line. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: nice man pages?
Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org writes: Hello, I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? I use a colorized termcap with less, but it also works with /usr/bin/more. It depends on what type of terminal you are using it on. I have it for xterm and rxvt (which is what I use). This works for manpages, but you can also colorize your prompt. It is short, so my ~/.termcap is below: -- snip --- # this is just changes to the standard FreeBSD termcaps - 2010-12-13 cdj xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ :md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:\ :ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86: rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System):\ :md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:\ :pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\ :tc=rxvt-mono: -- snip --- All that does is set bold to yellow, standout to cyan, and underline to green. I use white on black, so if you use something else you will probably have to adjust the colors. I haven't tried 9.0, but this works on 8.1-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE. You can decide for yourself if that does what you want. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well... Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY working. The video works great, but for audio all I get is absolute silence. __snip__ I also have a Gigabyte board with HDA audio, and it won't directly play CD sound either. I had already ripped all of my CDs to .ogg files, so I hadn't needed to play the CDs directly. I just tested ripping a small section of a CD using cdparanoia and it does produce a .wav audio file that can be played using sox. I also notice on my computer that mixer doesn't show any controls for CD audio. Unfortunately, I don't remember if CDs worked properly on this computer when I had Linux installed, so I don't know if the problem is FreeBSD or the motherboard. I did find that I have a program called kscd (for KDE) that will play, but I suspect that it uses digital extraction instead of playing from audio. My system uses a Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-US2H, and the sndstat output is: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA ATI RS690/780 HDMI PCM #0 HDMI (play) pcm1: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default pcm2: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #1 Analog (play/rec) pcm3: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #2 Digital (play/rec) Just to follow up, I just rebooted into Linux and the CD audio appears to work properly on it and the CD mixer control seems to work properly. I have FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, so it may have changed since then. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well... Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY working. The video works great, but for audio all I get is absolute silence. The really strange thing is that after I followed all the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sound-setup.html This command: cat /dev/random /dev/dsp *does* produce quite a bit of white noise sound. However when I perform the other officially recommended basic audio functionality test: cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1 with one of my favorite old audo CDs in the drive (AND with that special little wire running from the back of the drive to my motherboard) all that happens is that the CD/DVD drive apparently _does_ start to read some stuff... as evidenced by the blinking access light in the front of the drive... but I still get no sound out, and YouTube videos still aren't giving me any audio even though the video seems to be playing perfectly. So, um, I am grasping for ideas here on how I can debug this problem furher. I really have no idea what to do next to get this debugged. I supposed that if nobody gives me a good suggestion, I'm gonna try swapping out that special little wire for another one and then try swapping the CD/DVD drive for another one if that still doesn't solve it. Sigh. :-( I just checked and yes, the CD/DVD drive _can_ mount a data CD alright. No problems doing that. So how can it be that this works just fine: cat /dev/random /dev/dsp even while this: cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1 causes the disk to spin up and read, but otherwise produces utter silence? I'm flummoxed. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, rfg P.S. My motherboard (w/ onboard audio) is a Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G. Here is what a get when I cat /dev/sndstat: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default pcm1: HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #1 Analog (play/rec) pcm2: HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #2 Digital (play/rec) Additional info: % sysctl hw.snd.default_unit hw.snd.default_unit: 0 I also have a Gigabyte board with HDA audio, and it won't directly play CD sound either. I had already ripped all of my CDs to .ogg files, so I hadn't needed to play the CDs directly. I just tested ripping a small section of a CD using cdparanoia and it does produce a .wav audio file that can be played using sox. I also notice on my computer that mixer doesn't show any controls for CD audio. Unfortunately, I don't remember if CDs worked properly on this computer when I had Linux installed, so I don't know if the problem is FreeBSD or the motherboard. I did find that I have a program called kscd (for KDE) that will play, but I suspect that it uses digital extraction instead of playing from audio. My system uses a Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-US2H, and the sndstat output is: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA ATI RS690/780 HDMI PCM #0 HDMI (play) pcm1: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default pcm2: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #1 Analog (play/rec) pcm3: HDA Realtek ALC885 PCM #2 Digital (play/rec) Let me know if you want further information. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work well for you because both KDE and VirtualBox are built on QT4, a rather large system. KDE isn't really that heavy though relatively speaking. VirtualBox runs great for me and does all you indicated. What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. You will probably want a CPU and chipset that has hardware assist for virtualization, and plenty of RAM for both host and guests. Disk choice should reflect your data capacity, redundancy, and speed needs. A good quality Intel NIC is always nice. If the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it. It is not required when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS. Just another minor detail to consider. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: snd_hda: how to configure line-in passthrough to line-out?
Brandon Kuczenski bran...@301south.net writes: I'm working on the sound on my system running 8.2-RELEASE. Currently I have sound input and output working using snd_hda (i.e. I can record on line in, and play it back on line out). What I would like to do is take the audio coming in on line-in and send it back out the line-out live without recording it. Is this easy to do? I'd appreciate any hints. I do that all the time, so it definitely is not a problem. I find on my card that the output volume is controlled by a combination of 'volume' and 'mix' settings in mixer(8). I also must have the 'igain' set to something above 0, but the volume isn't directly controlled by it. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Timeline for 9.0-RELEASE?
Brett Glass br...@lariat.net writes: Just looked at the project Web site, and the timeline for 9.0-RELEASE is way, way out of date. If all goes well, when is 9.0 expected to be released? What remains to be done? There is another web page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO that has been partially updated. That will at least give you some idea about the schedule. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Help Finding ZFS snapshots
Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net writes: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have said: Using FreeBSD 8.1, amd64 - I wanted to recover files from a snapshot of usr/home. Everything I've found via googling refers to a link such as path/zfs/.snapshot --As for the rest, it is mine. Try path/.zfs. ;) (Which, on my system, then has a 'snapshot' directory, which holds all the snapshots.) Daniel T. Staal No such luck. The following: cd / ls -R | grep -i zfs finds only 'zfs' directories in the source tree and ports. Other ideas? I know the snapshots exist, I can see 'em with zfs list -t snapshot. The .zfs directory is hidden by default so you have to specifically ls or go into them. Do a 'ls' on the base directory of any zfs file system, and then add .zfs to the end and you should see the .snapshots directory. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: cpio command and schg flags
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:32:05 -0400, joeb1 wrote: I am trying to use this code sequence to clone a directory tree. mkdir /usr/test1 cd /var find . | cpio -dmp /usr/test1 The result is /usr/test1 gets populated with the directory tree but all the schg flags get stripped off. How can I keep the schg flags in the cloned directory? As far as I remember, cpio doesn't copy flags. But you can use either dump + restore, or dpdup (from ports). From man cpdup: The cpdup utility makes an exact mirror copy of the source in the destination, creating and deleting files and directories as necessary. UTimes, hardlinks, softlinks, devices, permissions, and flags are mirrored. Flags are explicitely mentioned here. Maybe you can give this program a try? I think that tar will also work (but not gnu tar), and it is part of the base system. The manpage does show an example of how to do this, but calls it moving the file heirarchy. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 ... I looked at bsdlabel a it's partition f, /home. But what is the file name? There's *no* easy way to find out. You'll have to grovel through all the filesystem metadata, and the layers of index blocks for every file until you find the 'rgiht' one. This is what icheck -B was for, but icheck(8) no longer exists and that particular bit of functionality does not seem to be provided in fsck(8). One current userland utility (other than fsck) which does know how to grovel through the metadata and index blocks is dump(8), but you'd have to hack on it to report which inode was using a particular block. It looks like the best bet would be fsdb, assuming that it is a UFS file system. That does have a 'findblk' command to find a file containing a block, but you would need to calculate the block offset in the filesystem first. It doesn't look like it would be easy, as was said earlier. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: A quality operating system
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Olivares Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:06 PM To: Evan Busch Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A quality operating system All of this adds up to a quality operating system in theory that does not translate into quality in reality. You alienate users and place the burden upon them to sort through your mess, then sneer at them. You alienate business, professional and artistic users with your insistence on hobbyism. These people have full lives; 48 hour sessions of trying to configure audio drivers, network cards or drive arrays are not in their interest. Even when you get big parts of the operating system correct, it's the thousand little details that have been forgotten, ignored or snootily written off that add up to many hours of frustration for the end user. This is not necessary frustration, and they get nothing out of it. It seems to exist because of the emotional and social attitudes of the FreeBSD team. Sadly, Ron is right. FreeBSD is not right for us, or any others who care about using an operating system as a means to an end. FreeBSD is a hobby and you have to use it because you like using it for the purpose of using it, and anything else will be incidental. 1) Is someone pointing a gun to you and forcing you to use FreeBSD? 2) A system is as good as its users, and you my friend might not be an adequate user 3) If you don't like it Don't Use it! 4) Many of your opinions are just that opinions and not facts. They remind me of the saying Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one :) 5) The community is excellent and very helpful. Sure some questions might go unanswered, but in any list you have all kinds of folks, folks that are very helpful and folks who tell you to READ and find out for yourself. Also, if you want additional support you may also pay for it. There is no such thing as a Free Lunch. There are several BSD certification courses you may take and be a true power user. 6) Every system out there has its advantages disadvantages. You don't have to come insult the people who run/use FreeBSD just because it does not suit your tastes. 7) For the audio drivers network cards part, Have you asked about it? Have you done some work? Have you run $ su - passwd # kldload snd_driver # cat /dev/sndstat # ifconfig -a and check which interfaces are shown and have tried to prompt network with one of them? Do you expect everything to be done for you like other systems who have spoiled you? You can compare FreeBSD to other systems and it has been shown that it is a Giant among Giants. If you wanted some handholding along they way, you could have tried PC-BSD. 8) I have used many systems, and I have had some difficulties with FreeBSD. Is it FreeBSD's fault? No of course not! I have found help from many caring users and fixed many of them. I shot myself in the foot several times and complained to myself why does FreeBSD seem too hard? It is what you make of it. You have to invest some time, and don't expect things to just happen. 9) If you came across with a different tone or perspective, then you could get more positive feedback. You are attacking a community that does not OWE you anything. You could have made some suggestions but in a friendly way not like you did. 10) Have a nice day and enjoy your OS of choice be it whatever it is. Regards, Antonio Happy FreeBSD user. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I have heard that the OS X OS is based on FreeBSD. Is this true? Carl G Smith c...@carlgsmith.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: new to os
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com writes: On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? Do you mean Word Perfect ? Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE was free, while Corel charged for the MS based version ! If I recall correctly, this was a Linux version which ran with Linux compatibility as it was then. Also it only ran with a GUI - the command line version was available for $$$. I have no idea whether it could be persuaded (easily) to run with recent Linux compatibility. I was checking with google and found http://tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ/downloadwp8.html. Most of the links are dead or changed, but a couple of them do have files to download. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: mountroot
2011/6/29 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot properly. Everytime it halts at the mountroot prompt. If I manually put zfs:zroot at the prompt the system boots to the login screen. I checked the /etc/rc.conf and the /boot/loader.conf for syntax errors but all seems well. What on earth can be the cause of this behaviour? What do I check? Help? Have you specified a bootfs? E.g.: zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot Yes, I did. And just did it again. Please post your /boot/loader.conf. And did it again (zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot) ; rebooted and finally the system boots up. So, problem solved. Posts arfe being fetched. Thanks. If it's a timeout problem, there's kern.cam.boot_delay=1. +1 for kern.cam.boot_delay=1. I had the same problem and that setting fixed it for me. ___ 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
Squeezebox Server 7.6 failed to load: YAML::Syck
I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 and use Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30836, Tue Jun 1 07:00:00 MDT 2010). Squeezebox Server 7.6 has experimental native support for UPnP media renderers (of which I have many) and I wanted to try it out. I downloaded the latest tarball and when I run slimserver.pl I get the following error: The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck *** NOTE: If you're running some unsupported Linux/Unix platform, please use the buildme.sh script located here: http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.6/trunk/vendor/CPAN/ If 7.6 is outdated by the time you read this, Replace 7.6 with the major version You should never need to do this if you're on Windows or Mac OSX. If the installers don't work for you, ask for help and/or report a bug. of Squeezebox Server you are running. *** Exiting.. --- The version of Perl seems to be OK: sodserve# perl -v This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for amd64-freebsd When I install /usr/ports/textproc/p5-YAML-Syck it's supposedly already installed: === Installing for p5-YAML-Syck-1.17 === p5-YAML-Syck-1.17 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1 - found === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if textproc/p5-YAML-Syck already installed === p5-YAML-Syck-1.17 is already installed cpan install gives me: YAML::Syck is up to date (1.17) I'm not really sure what else to check. Can someone point me in the right direction? Carl ___ 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
FTP server at freebsd.isc.org is broken
During an unattended, non-interactive build of many ports this evening I ran into what I think indicates that the FTP server at freebsd.isc.org is broken. Here is what I believe to be evidence, performed from a FreeBSD 8.2 server at one site: site1# fetch -vvp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz scheme: [ftp] user: [] password: [] host: [ftp.freebsd.org] port: [0] document: [/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz] --- ftp.freebsd.org:21 looking up ftp.freebsd.org connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org. USER anonymous 331 Please specify the password. PASS ag...@rose.agile.lan 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/GD-Arrow-0.01.tar.gz: Syntax error, command unrecognized # echo $FTP_PASSIVE_MODE YES site1# ftp freebsd.isc.org Trying 204.152.184.73... Connected to freebsd.isc.org. 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org. Name (freebsd.isc.org:agile): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp ftp: Login failed. ftp bye 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd There's no reason that I know of for anything on my end to be referencing /home/ftp. I get this on a Windoze system from a second site (different LAN, different WAN address, same city, same ISP): C:\ftp freebsd.isc.org Connected to freebsd.isc.org. 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org. User (freebsd.isc.org:(none)): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd Connection closed by remote host. And I found this blog entry dated today in which the author is seeing the same problem: http://salihsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/freebsd-pkgadd-error-syntax-error.html (http://tinyurl.com/42g7dv5) When problems like this arise, shouldn't the FreeBSD port building mechanisms take advantage of the redundant FreeBSD mirrors to roll over to another working server? I use portmaster for port building and it terminates with this sort of output when this scenario arises: = Attempting to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2 fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2: Syntax error, command unrecognized = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gd. What is the recommended way to enable portmaster to be more resilient against such failures? Carl / K0802647 ___ 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 port with very long list of build options
On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . make -f your_own_make_file_name Yes, I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean my make file *replaces* the original, in which case I would need to populate my make file not only with the list of build options I want but also a copy of everything in the original make file. If I'm correct, that doesn't seem to me to be a good idea from a maintenance perspective. I was hoping for something like the -f option that somehow inserted rather than replaced. Carl / K0802647 Assuming you have already selected some options during make config, you could try adding your own to the file /var/db/ports/portname/options ___ A probably more elegant way is to use the ports-mgmt/portconf port. This allows per port settings to be applied, which are honored by make, portupgrade and the other tools. Just install and use /usr/local/etc/ports.conf to add your options: Here is the sample supplied with the portconf: editors/openoffice.org-2: WITH_CCACHE|LOCALIZED_LANG=it print/ghostscript-* print/lpr-wrapper: A4 sysutils/fusefs-kmod*: !KERNCONF | !NOPORTDOCS www/firefox-i18n: WITHOUT_SWITCHER | FIREFOX_I18N=fr it x11/fakeport: CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-modules=aaa bbb ccc ports-mgmt/portconf certainly does look to be a very appealing solution in general, but am I wrong in thinking that it provides me with no way to address my original problem? How do I use it when I've got an exceptionally long list of options for a particular port? As for manually customizing /var/db/ports/portname/options, the port builds in question are done in a clean chroot using a batch process, so make config doesn't happen and /var/db/ports/portname/options never exists. Carl / K0802647 ___ 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 port with very long list of build options
On 2011-04-21 8:52 PM, Polytropon wrote: This has been possible and common in the past. For example, the many options for the mplayer and mencoder ports could be specified in a file, so changing of a port's file was not needed. I'm not fully sure this option is still present, but at least on v7 it worked. Create a file Makefile.local in the port's directory and specify all your options as desired. This file will be sourced when you issue a make command and will override settings of the regular Makefile (e. g. if you want different CFLAGS for _this_ port). The file is to be in the known syntax, NAME=value. Does that solution allow for locating Makefile.local outside the ports tree so as not to contaminate builds for other targets using the same ports tree? On 2011-04-21 9:11 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: If you read the make manual page , you will see the following option : ... *-f* *makefile* Specify a makefile to read instead of the default one. ... which is used as make -f your_own_make_file_name This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . Yes, I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean my make file *replaces* the original, in which case I would need to populate my make file not only with the list of build options I want but also a copy of everything in the original make file. If I'm correct, that doesn't seem to me to be a good idea from a maintenance perspective. I was hoping for something like the -f option that somehow inserted rather than replaced. Carl / K0802647 ___ 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 port with very long list of build options
Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge number of build options (eg. ghostscript). In my case I am cross-compiling on an amd64 host for what will be a NanoBSD i386 target, but I don't think that's important here. The scenario precludes using the familiar configuration menu. The problem is that the desired list of options far exceeds what would be sane to specify on the 'make' command line. In fact, it apparently even exceeds what typical text editors tolerate when trying to enter the line in a shell script. What is the recommended solution? Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply point to a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one per line. It's not apparent to me that that exists. Carl / K0802647 ___ 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: glabel causes GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label messages
Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com writes: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: Hi all, Executing the following commands on any valid storage device seems to cause media size does not match label kernel messages (FreeBSD 8.2 amd64). I understand why they happen - glabel metadata occupies the last sector, so bsdlabel sees a device that is 1 sector smaller than what the kernel sees. The question is whether there is some simple way of suppressing these messages, since they come up every time the system is booted or the partition is mounted/unmounted: # glabel label vol0 ada1 # bsdlabel -w /dev/label/vol0 GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label. # newfs /dev/label/vol0a # mount /dev/label/vol0a /mnt GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label. # umount /mnt GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label. As you can see, I'm not using MBR or GPT partitioning schemes. I try to avoid those unless I plan on sharing the media with another OS. Even if using gpart would get rid of these errors (not sure, since then you'll just have a partition whose size doesn't match), I would still prefer to find some other way to suppress them. - Max I am not an expert, but that looks correct as you have it, so I would expect some other problem. You are using vol0 as the partition for newfs and its size should be correctly sized to allow for the last sector of ada1 being used by glabel. I have heard comments that there problems in what some call 'dangerously dedicated' partitions, so you might want to create a single slice covering the whole disk and partition that. If you just want volume names for a filesystem, you might want to try the -L option for either newfs or tunefs. The last example of the glabel manpage shows using a ufs label to contrast it with glabel. I use ufs labels for all of my filesystems and just use glabel for swap, and I suspect that swapon wouldn't catch the type of problem that you are seeing. Heh... In the process of searching for a solution to this, I decided to see what would happen if I used bsdlabel on ada1 rather than vol0 (in my example above), and created a 1-sector partition at the very end of the disk. So the layout would be something like this: # /dev/ada1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:**4.2BSD c:*0unused h:1*unused The 'c' partition now covers the entire disk, which stops the kernel from complaining about media size not matching the label. At the same time, the 'h' partition will protect the last sector, which contains glabel metadata. The problem now is that the label is technically invalid for the vol0 device, which is what I'll be mounting. Indeed, bsdlabel complains when I run it for /dev/label/vol0: # /dev/label/vol0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 3907029151 164.2BSD0 0 0 c: 39070291680unused0 0 h:1 3907029167unused0 0 partition c: partition extends past end of unit bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities partition h: partition extends past end of unit I don't care about partition 'h'; it is there only to stop the preceding partition from covering the last sector. Are there any real issues with the 'c' partition being 1 sector too big for the vol0 device (but just the right size for ada1)? This is a bit of a hack, but I'll take it if it stops the kernel from complaining and doesn't create any new problems. I don't see where adding an extra partition at the end does anything to protect the earlier partition. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Purchased Binaries
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org writes: I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer, name etc. on Monday. However, thats when he needs to know if I can make it run on FreeBSD. I am not convinced I want to run production software on the Linux compatibility suite. No good reason other than it sounds like its adding a lot more opportunities for breakage. This has to be an always up application. I have virtually no knowledge of CentOS other than it was installed on one server when I got it. Any chance those binaries might work on FreeBSD? I am planning on starting with FreeBSD 8.2 since its just out and working fine on one of my servers, but could use an earlier version if required to make this stuff run. One addition to the points that others have made is that the Linux compatibility layer appears to be 32 bits only, even for 64 bit versions of FreeBSD. At least that is true for Release 8.1. If the software is 64 bit linux, then it won't work. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions
How long are you waiting? What are you booting from? On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Slawomir Wojtczak verma...@gmx.com wrote: Anything interesting happening during your install? I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it. ___ 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: Redux
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: To tell the truth, I'm content to leave things as they are, but unfortunately one of the side effects of all this is that I can't figure out how create and entry in the fstab which will again allow me to mount my other hard drive. The former fstab entry for that was: /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfsrw 1 0 But now with labels active I really don't know how to proceed. You can tell what the current labels are with the command 'glabel status', or 'glabel list' will give a much more detailed listing. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com writes: My question is: WHY need 7 DVDs??? DVDs?? Even M$ does not do such a crazy thing with its bloat-ware!! FreeBSD ships 1 DVD. What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? They contain all packages for that architecture. They are the equivalent of the binary packages for the entire FreeBSD ports tree. You don't need them if you install over the net. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Bridge Interface Members
Yes. You overwrite your first ifconfig_bridge0 setting with the second one. These are shell variable initializations, not executable statements. There are various ways to fix the problem. Try this for example: replace the second ifconfig_bridge0 line with: ipv4_addrs_bridge0=10.0.1.2/24 Doh! Of course, thanks. Rookie mistake. Carl ___ 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
Bridge Interface Members
Trying to configure a bridge interface with two member interfaces, fxp0 and re0. Configuring the interface from scratch manually works fine but when I add config entries to rc.conf the two member interfaces aren't added at boot. Bridge0 is created it just doesn't have any members. From the serial console I can manually add the two member interfaces and everything is fine but obviously I'd like it to work without manual intervention. Any ideas? Here's my rc.conf entries: cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm fxp0 addm re0 ifconfig_fxp0=up ifconfig_re0=up ifconfig_bridge0=inet 10.0.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Any ideas? Troubleshooting is bit of a pain as I'm booting zfs root from a USB stick and there's a 5 minute (yes, 5 minutes!) delay at the BTX loader before the boot loader menu is displayed. I haven't figured out what's causing that but it makes tweaking and rebooting a slow process! ___ 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: troubles rebuilding extensions.ini
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:57:07 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: make rmconfig will remove/reset the config to factory default, then make config to restart fresh. And make rmconfig-recursive will do so for any other port the current port depends on. A very handy solution if the trouble hides in a dependency of a dependency... :-) Just see man ports for a list of all targets. Ye Gods. The ports manpage is almost unreadable. Not to mention full of non-ASCII bytes. I'm beat. Throwing in the towel for now. --Everything works except my own web server. Thanks to the list ... and that's it for now. It should not have any non-ASCII characters, or at least not properly displayable ones. That probably means that you have the wrong locale set for whatever your display is. If you just want to see only ASCII, then try 'LANG=C man ports'. If that doesn't work then try setting LC_ALL=C instead of LANG=C. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted
Swe Gill sweg...@gmail.com writes: Hi Peg Thanks for your help by applying ls -lao. I get following result -rw--- 1 root wheelsappnd 8307655937 Jan 13 10:45 debug.log -rw--- 1 root wheelsappnd 15415 Oct 2 2009 dmesg.today -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel-0 Oct 2 2009 httpd-access.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel- 271 Oct 2 2009 httpd-error.log -rw-rw 1 root wheel- 53969161077 Jan 13 10:45 httpd-modsec2_audit.log -rw-rw 1 root wheel- 3397158201 Jan 13 10:44 httpd-modsec2_debug.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheelsappnd 28056 Oct 2 2009 lastlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheelsappnd 66 Oct 1 2009 lpd-errs I just don't understand why I am unable to remove the files... I don't know if you have resolved this yet, but one problem is the sappnd flag on some of the files. That flag means that those file are append-only and can't be deleted or truncated. You need to remove the sappnd flag with the command 'chflags nosappnd' for those files. I don't think that is default, so somebody had to have manually set the flag on those files. Whoever did that should have noted that, or didn't understand what the operation meant. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories stat -f %SB %N /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /* Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /libexec Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /media Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /mnt Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /proc Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /rescue Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /root Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /sbin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /sys Jan 9 04:48:39 2011 /tmp Jan 9 04:48:45 2011 /usr Jan 9 04:49:39 2011 /var sodserve# stat -f %SB %N / Jan 9 04:39:59 2011 / For me, that gets the Nov 21 2009 date, which is earlier than my install date. So far, /etc/hostid and the /home symlink seem to be the winners. On my system /etc/hostid is several days later than my actual install date, so that isn't always reliable. You might want to create a file with the timestamp you want. The most likely time appears to me to be the 'Created' time in /etc/rc.conf, as someone suggested earlier. The following code will extract that and create a file with that timestamp. I have checked it on my system, but use at your own risk. file=/etc/install_date date=$(grep '^# Created: ' /etc/rc.conf | cut -c 12-80) tdate=$(date -j -f %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y $date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) echo $date $file touch -t $tdate $file chmod -w $file chflags schange $file -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to query the date the machine was built): ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? My machine installed in 2001 has a Dec 2010 date for that file: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 36037 Dec 1 14:13 /etc/defaults/rc.conf Exactly that was my thought. Maybe a file that is NOT subject to one of the system upgrade procedures would be better? Maybe something in /boot? % ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 34300 Aug 24 2008 /etc/defaults/rc.conf % ls -l /boot/defaults/loader.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19426 Aug 24 2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... How about /var/empty: % ls -ldo /var/empty/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/ It can be changed, but doesn't look likely. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Date of a FreeBSD installation
Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011: Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to query the date the machine was built): ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? My machine installed in 2001 has a Dec 2010 date for that file: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 36037 Dec 1 14:13 /etc/defaults/rc.conf Exactly that was my thought. Maybe a file that is NOT subject to one of the system upgrade procedures would be better? Maybe something in /boot? % ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 34300 Aug 24 2008 /etc/defaults/rc.conf % ls -l /boot/defaults/loader.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19426 Aug 24 2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... How about /var/empty: % ls -ldo /var/empty/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/ It can be changed, but doesn't look likely. On my system, it gives a date several months in advance of my install date (Nov 21 2009). Oops, you're right. I just checked and it is a few days before I actually installed mine, so that is probably when the ISO was built. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Date of a FreeBSD installation
I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories stat -f %SB %N /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodserve# stat -f %SB %N /* Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 /dev Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /etc Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /lib Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /libexec Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /media Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /mnt Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /proc Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /rescue Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /root Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /sbin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /sys Jan 9 04:48:39 2011 /tmp Jan 9 04:48:45 2011 /usr Jan 9 04:49:39 2011 /var sodserve# stat -f %SB %N / Jan 9 04:39:59 2011 / ___ 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: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:03 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Amusing, but you're the one full of shit. There's more things to automatic log file creation than are thought of in your imagination. Adam, I think Robert is right at least in regards of SOME programs that use syslogd for logging OR do the logging stuff on their own. I think that newsyslog will create the new log files if specified in the /etc/newsyslog.conf file. That might be the confusion about some log files being created automatically but others not. The newsyslog.conf(5) manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives
snip echo -en \n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and forth but aren't you still stuck if everything blows up on that first reboot? In order to switch back to the known working dataset you've got to get to a fixit prompt to set the correct bootfs property right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives
Posting the below for input. The bulk of this is from a guide that Morgan Wesström posted to this list. Some of it is taken from the root on ZFS wiki entries on freebsd.org. Some from a pjd post here: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ And then there's this that Svein Skogen posted to the list: I usually (today) set up something similar. I sysinstall FreeBSD onto a CF card with the one-big-root method, then create a zpool (on spinning-metal-storage) where I create the usr, tmp, var fs'es, tar|tar the originals over and fix the mountpoint info on the zfs'es. Then I add swap on a zvol (since I don't know how to properly use a kernel dump, I don't need swap to store it). I'm setting up a new home server and I always agonize over partitioning. So the steps below install the base system with zfs root on a usb stick and /tmp /usr /var and swap on mirrored sata drives. I've tested these steps and everything works but before I press on with actually configuring and using the server, does anybody have any input on whether I should or shouldn't do it this way? ZFS best practices suggests that having elements of the root filesystem on different pools is a bad idea. So that might be strike 1. Memory Stick / /bin /boot /dev /etc /lib /libexec /media /mnt /proc /rescue /root /sbin /sys -- /usr/src/sys Hard disk zpool --- /tmp /usr /var swap on zvol Separate zfs datasets - /tmp /usr /usr/home /usr/local /usr/obj /usr/ports /usr/ports/distfiles /usr/ports/packages /usr/src /var /var/log /var/audit /var/tmp Install Procedure (Mostly by Morgan Wesström) - Select your country and keyboard layout. Enter the Fixit environment and use the live filesystem on your DVD. Your usb memory stick will most likely be da0 but you can (and should) check it with camcontrol devlist before you continue. Create a new GPT partitioning scheme: # gpart create -s gpt da0 Create a 64KiB partition for the zfs bootcode starting at LBA 1920: # gpart add -b 1920 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot da0 Create a zfs partition spanning the remainder of the usb memory stick and give it a label we can refer to: # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l FreeBSDonUSB da0 (The starting LBA for the first partition is there to align the partitions to the flash memory's erase block size. This is particularly important for the main zfs partition. The main partition above will start at exactly 1MiB (LBA 2048) which will align it to any erase block size used today. This alignment is also of great importance if you use this guide to install FreeBSD to one of the newer harddrives using 4096 byte sectors.) Install the protective MBR to LBA 0 and the zfs bootcode to the first partition: # gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0 Create /boot/zfs (for zpool.cache) and load the zfs kernel modules: # mkdir /boot/zfs # kldload /dist/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko # kldload /dist/boot/kernel/zfs.ko Create a zfs pool and set its bootfs property: # zpool create zrootusb /dev/gpt/FreeBSDonUSB # zpool set bootfs=zrootusb zrootusb Switch to fletcher4 checksums and turn off access time modifications: # zfs set checksum=fletcher4 zrootusb # zfs set atime=off zrootusb Create zfs mirrored data pool on SATA disks # zpool create zdata mirror /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 # zfs set canmount=off zdata # zfs set mountpoint=/zrootusb zdata # zfs set checksum=fletcher4 zdata # zfs create zdata/tmp # zfs create zdata/usr # zfs create zdata/usr/home # zfs create zdata/usr/local # zfs create zdata/usr/obj # zfs create zdata/usr/ports # zfs create zdata/usr/ports/distfiles # zfs create zdata/usr/ports/packages # zfs create zdata/usr/src # zfs create zdata/var # zfs create zdata/var/log # zfs create zdata/var/audit # zfs create zdata/var/tmp Create swap zvol on zdata pool # zfs create -V 5G zdata/swap # zfs set org.freebsd:swap=on zdata/swap # zfs set checksum=off zdata/swap Extract at a minimum, base and the generic kernel: # cd /dist/8.1-RELEASE/base # DESTDIR=/zrootusb ./install.sh # cd ../kernels # DESTDIR=/zrootusb ./install.sh generic Delete the empty, default kernel directory and move the generic kernel into its place: # rmdir /zrootusb/boot/kernel # mv /zrootusb/boot/GENERIC /zrootusb/boot/kernel Make sure the zfs modules are loaded at boot: # cat /zrootusb/boot/loader.conf zfs_load=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zrootusb kern.cam.boot_delay=1 ^d Create /etc/rc.conf. Adjust and add to your own needs: # cat /zrootusb/etc/rc.conf hostname=sodserve sshd_enable=YES zfs_enable=YES ^d Setup your time zone: # cp /zrootusb/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /zrootusb/etc/localtime Create an empty fstab to avoid startup warnings: # touch /zrootusb/etc/fstab Set the root password in the new environment: # cd / # chroot /zrootusb /bin/sh # passwd root #
Re: cpio misunderstanding?
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:30:59 -0800, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft jvk-l...@thekrafts.org wrote: OK, now I know what's going on. I just don't know why. The immutable flag was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them to the new directory. Does cpio attempt to preserve flags? Since the error is could not create, I'm wondering if it's trying to set the same flags on the copy of the file and failing to do so. I'm not sure about that - man cpio doesn't give a hint about flags. On the other hand, tar's -p option does keep the file mode (permissions), flags and maybe ACLs intact. I've tried info cpio ouch! ouch!, but that's not a continuous manual that allows easy searching for strings. :-( Some search in the /usr/src/bin subtree for the chflags call revealed that it is used by the chflags binary, cp, mv and rm commands, but no hint it is involved directly in cpio. I had done some testing for flag support out of curiosity, and found that only cp -p, bsdtar and dump support them. Cpio, afio, gnutar, gnucp and pax do not support them. I also tested extended attributes (used for ACLs?), and only bsdtar and dump worked for them. Those results were for usf, and generally didn't transfer to zfs at all or probably other file systems. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt
I followed a gpt/zfs on USB stick guide for putting a base 8.1-RELEASE amd64 onto a 4GB sandisk USB memory stick. All went fairly well and the system will boot but fails to mount the root file system and dumps me a the mountroot prompt. Entering zfs:zrootusb at the prompt works and the system finishes booting. In /boot/loader.conf I've got: zfs_load=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zrootusb zrootusb mountpoint is set to legacy and /etc/fstab exists but is empty, per the guide. Any ideas? Thanks, Carl ___ 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: GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Carl Chave c...@chave.us wrote: I followed a gpt/zfs on USB stick guide for putting a base 8.1-RELEASE amd64 onto a 4GB sandisk USB memory stick. All went fairly well and the system will boot but fails to mount the root file system and dumps me a the mountroot prompt. Entering zfs:zrootusb at the prompt works and the system finishes booting. In /boot/loader.conf I've got: zfs_load=YES vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zrootusb zrootusb mountpoint is set to legacy and /etc/fstab exists but is empty, per the guide. Any ideas? Thanks, Carl adding kern.cam.boot_delay=1 to /boot/loader.conf seems to have fixed it. ___ 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
Bridging Gigabit and Fast Ethernet Interfaces
if_bridge(4) says: The if_bridge driver currently supports only Ethernet and Ethernet-like (e.g., 802.11) network devices, with exactly the same interface MTU size as the bridge device. Am I correct to assume then that I can bridge a gigabit interface and a fast ethernet interface and that one of the negatives of doing this is that Jumbo frames couldn't be used on the gigabit side? I've got an Atom based server with an onboard gigabit nic and only one PCI slot. The server sits physically close to my 10/100 switch that hangs off my firewall. I was thinking of putting a 10/100 nic into the single PCI slot and running that to the 10/100 switch for internet access and then running cable across the room from the gigabit interface to a gigabit switch on my workbench. Wired gigabit clients on the bench would then have the benefit of gigabit access to the server for doing backups but also still have internet access via the server's bridge interface right? Is there a reason I wouldn't want to do it this way? Thanks, Carl ___ 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: start kde in 8.1
Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com writes: sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo startkde ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. may I have a suggestion to proceed? Do you have /usr/local/kde4/bin in your path? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: No Sound FBSD 8.1
Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com writes: Hi Frank, You write: Just a guess, but does: # sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1 help? If so, you can set it permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf Yes it does, and *thank* *you*. However, it only works with earphones, not speakers. Any idea what I can do about that? And... do you have the time to explain why the default pcm0 channel *doesn't* work? You can also use 'mixer -f /dev/mixer1' for testing. On my system /dev/mixer1 (default_unit=1) controls the back panel jacks, and /dev/mixer2 controls the front panel headphone jack. You will probably have to just experiment with the different mixer controls to see which controls which on your system. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: extra open ports in rkhunter
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am running rkhunter and it keeps reporting a port inconsistency between sockstat and netstat -a. Netstat shows an extra 5 ports open, but netstat doesn't show what is holding ports open, so I don't know what they are. Does anybody know how to determine what is holding open a port? I have been looking around but none of my ideas show anything. This is a full desktop system with KDE4 and VirtualBox running, so it has a lot of things running. The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like to know how to trace them down myself: tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.921 *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 *.608 *.* udp6 0 0 *.952 *.* udp6 0 0 *.804 *.* I did some further testing after getting some prompting from an off-list email. It turns out that all of those come from rpc.lockd, and that they are not fixed but change after every restart of rpc.lockd. I confirmed this with a fresh install from FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso into VirtualBox with networking disabled. I also verified the checksums of the .iso to be sure that nothing had been tampered with. I had just been trying out nfs but didn't find anything that I couldn't handle with ssh, so I have since disabled NFS and all rpc daemons. Unlisted ports should be useless, so something else must handle those addresses, probably rpcbind or maybe rpc.statd. It does seem odd that rpc.statd has port addresses that show up in sockstat and others, but rpc.lockd does not. I never did find anthing that will show many of those hidden ports. Nmap will show open ports for tcp4 and tcp6, but it is too slow for upd4 and doesn't handle udp6 at all. Nmap also doesn't identify who has opened ports except by standard addresses, so that can't identify daemons that dynamically assign their addresses. Thanks for all of the suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: extra open ports in rkhunter
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Do you have some networking FS enabled (NFS, AFS, Coda, etc)? Perhaps, one of them listens for connections from kernel and is not associated with userland process. But it's just a guess. I have NFS enabled, but its processes are accounted for by both sockstat and netstat. I decided to check out your idea anyways today, and it appears you were right. I disabled and stopped all NFS and rpc processes and those extra ports disappeared from the netstat listing. None of those ports are listed as related to anything, so I don't know what is going on. I had just experimented with NFS for a while, so I will just leave it off. Thanks for your suggestion. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
extra open ports in rkhunter
I am running rkhunter and it keeps reporting a port inconsistency between sockstat and netstat -a. Netstat shows an extra 5 ports open, but netstat doesn't show what is holding ports open, so I don't know what they are. Does anybody know how to determine what is holding open a port? I have been looking around but none of my ideas show anything. This is a full desktop system with KDE4 and VirtualBox running, so it has a lot of things running. The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like to know how to trace them down myself: tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.921 *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 *.608 *.* udp6 0 0 *.952 *.* udp6 0 0 *.804 *.* -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: extra open ports in rkhunter
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Hi-- On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like to know how to trace them down myself: tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.921 *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 *.608 *.* udp6 0 0 *.952 *.* udp6 0 0 *.804 *.* Try: lsof -i tcp:876 ...and so forth for the other ports; this will give you the process ID of whatever is holding that socket. lsof -i doesn't show any of those five ports. It seems to show the same ones as sockstat. I should have mentioned previously that I verified the tcp ports were open with nmap, but that wouldn't tell me what they were. I haven't figured out how to even verify the udp ports are connected or open. I also should have mentioned that I don't have any reason to think that my system is infected, but I just wanted to understand the difference. Thanks for the reply. I had completely forgotten about lsof. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: extra open ports in rkhunter
Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Hi-- On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: The following are the ports if anybody has any ideas, but I would also like to know how to trace them down myself: tcp4 0 0 *.876 *.*LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.921 *.*LISTEN udp4 0 0 *.608 *.* udp6 0 0 *.952 *.* udp6 0 0 *.804 *.* Do you have some networking FS enabled (NFS, AFS, Coda, etc)? Perhaps, one of them listens for connections from kernel and is not associated with userland process. But it's just a guess. I have NFS enabled, but its processes are accounted for by both sockstat and netstat. Speaking of processes, procstat(1) can show them, too. Procstat seems to show the same ports as sockstat and doesn't show any of the extra ports that netstat does. Thanks for the reply. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1
Dan Strick mla_str...@att.net writes: I just installed FreeBSD release 8.1 and rebuilt the fetchmail port. Now I get messages like these when I run fetchmail: --- snip --- I can get rid of the message by removing the ssl option from the user line but then fetchmail would not even try to use ssl. Why would the old fetchmail be better able to verify the server's ssl certificate? Has openssl changed? Where is the openssl certificate directory and why should the information needed to verify the server's certificate be found on my machine? Doesn't the openssl library contain something like a hardwired list of well known certificate authority systems? You already got replies about using the sslcertfile option pointing to /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt. The problem is that only fixes fetchmail and must be duplicated for each application. I finally got around to looking into how to integrate those certificates into the openssl configuration for FreeBSD, and the following is what I came up with. The openssl configuration in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf expects all certificates and hashes to be in /etc/ssl/certs, so the certificate file must be split into individual certificates there, and hashes generated. The following steps will handle that. Some of these steps must be performed as root, so all of them might as well be. cd /etc/ssl/certs # create if necessary split -p '^Certificate:' /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt cert rm certaa # just the file header for file in cert* ; do mv $file $file.pem ; done # rename to certxx.pem perl /usr/src/crypto/openssl/tools/c_rehash . # generate the hashes The above steps are for a FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, so they might not work exactly for other versions. This also assumes that you trust the certificates in the ca_root_nss package, so you will have to decide that for yourself. I have seen several questions and problems about ssl certificates, so hopefully others will find this useful. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: [...] Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the $HOME of both boxen sync-ed with each other, and works great for me. I posted that in another thread and replied later when I discovered the problem. It appears that I had somehow put gnus-agent in offline mode, so it worked once I realized that and put it back online. How do you sync the mailboxes together? That sounds like something that could be useful for my configuration. Actually I am trying to move my old mail from Linux to FreeBSD, but syncing might be an easier way to handle moving it. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: ... I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc. ... Thanks, I'll have to think about that. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: ... Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for my other test and normal systems. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. So, Gnus is not able to read from mail spool, i.e. /var/mail/$USER, right ? Can you post your .gnus ? The problem was that I somehow got into the agent unplugged mode, but everything started working when I figured that out. I previously posted a little more information as a response to my original post, so that should be in the archives. Thanks for your reply. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Does anybody have any suggestions on what is different? I have been using gnus for many years and I don't really want to change to another mail program. Thanks for any ideas. I finally stumbled upon the problem, and it was not with FreeBSD (or emacs). I discovered that gnus won't check any mail when gnus-agent is in the unplugged state, even though I just use a local mailbox. I must have clicked on the menu item without noticing or know what it was. In my defense, the previous version of emacs that I had been using didn't have or didn't use agent mode, so I had never encountered it. Sorry of misleading anybody and thanks for the responses. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On the 8.1 system I enabled IPv6 in rc.conf, but it is not picking up the advertised address. I can add it manually, and have put it in rc.local for now, but it seems it should work automatically as my others do. I noticed that the ifconfig output shows a new line that is not in 8.0: nd6 options=3PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV Is there something that has changed in 8.1 that I have to enable, or is there a problem with 8.1? IPv6 is working to the extent that it did assign a link-local address, and I can use that address as long as I specify the interface. My configuration is the same, and I didn't have to enable anything on the others to get the global address assigned automatically. This is a followup to note that it does work when I run it on native hardware instead of under VirtualBox. My version of VirtualBox is an old one (2.1.4) running under Linux, so maybe it has some bugs. I had installed FreeBSD under VirtualBox, but installed to a primary partition specifically so that I could later boot directly into it. The odd thing is that I have a similar FreeBSD 7.3 installation which does work properly under VirtualBox. Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for my other test and normal systems. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Does anybody have any suggestions on what is different? I have been using gnus for many years and I don't really want to change to another mail program. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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
IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?
I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On the 8.1 system I enabled IPv6 in rc.conf, but it is not picking up the advertised address. I can add it manually, and have put it in rc.local for now, but it seems it should work automatically as my others do. I noticed that the ifconfig output shows a new line that is not in 8.0: nd6 options=3PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV Is there something that has changed in 8.1 that I have to enable, or is there a problem with 8.1? IPv6 is working to the extent that it did assign a link-local address, and I can use that address as long as I specify the interface. My configuration is the same, and I didn't have to enable anything on the others to get the global address assigned automatically. Thanks for any advice. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?
Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk writes: On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On the 8.1 system I enabled IPv6 in rc.conf, but it is not picking up the advertised address. I can add it manually, and have put it in rc.local for now, but it seems it should work automatically as my others do. I noticed that the ifconfig output shows a new line that is not in 8.0: nd6 options=3PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV Is there something that has changed in 8.1 that I have to enable, or is there a problem with 8.1? IPv6 is working to the extent that it did assign a link-local address, and I can use that address as long as I specify the interface. My configuration is the same, and I didn't have to enable anything on the others to get the global address assigned automatically. Thanks for any advice. I dont knw if its expected or not but try running sysctl net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1 (to make it persistent echo net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1 /etc/sysctl.conf ) I had already checked that and it is enabled by default, but thanks for the suggestion anyways. It also turns out that I was wrong about it working with manual configuration. I forgot that the automatic configuration sets up the external routing, and I haven't figured out how to do that manually. So it works for my internal network, but nowhere else. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email
Byung-Hee HWANG b...@izb.knu.ac.kr writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the system. Gnus will start up, but it just reports that there is no mail. It did work one time with a couple of test messages, but I have never gotten it to repeat since then. I tried sending a couple of messages and they show up in my system mailbox. I also tried reading my system mail with the command line mail program and emacs rmail to verify that the system is handling mail properly. I also tried using a blank .gnus file and there was no change. I verified with my 7.3 system that gnus will at least read mail with a blank .gnus file. Does anybody have any suggestions on what is different? I have been using gnus for many years and I don't really want to change to another mail program. Thanks for any ideas. Hi, i'm on 8.1-RELEASE. There is no problem. I am also talking about 8.1-RELEASE, so I don't what is causing my problems then. I am using amd64, but I don't see how 32 bit vs 64 bit could be making a difference. Thanks for your comment. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: Very low sound volume on Lenovo X200
John Levine jo...@iecc.com writes: I can't get the sound to play above a whisper on my newish laptop. It has two sound channels, one for internal speakers, one for the plug, and it's the same problem for both. Every software sound control, of which there are several, is set to the max. The hardware is fine, it works correctly under Windows (sigh.) Here's dmesg's opinion of what it's got. hdac0: Intel 82801I High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xf262-0xf2623fff irq 17 at device 27.0 on pci0 hdac0: HDA Driver Revision: 20090624_0136 hdac0: [ITHREAD] I see that the hda driver has a vast array of options, suggesting that something is defaulting wrong. Any suggestions? Here's what it's got now, from the pindump: hdac0: Dumping AFG cad=0 nid=1 pins: hdac0: nid 22 0x042140f0 as 15 seq 0Headphones Jack jack 1 loc 4 color Green misc 0 hdac0:Caps:OUT HP Sense: 0x7fff hdac0: nid 23 0x61a190f0 as 15 seq 0 Mic None jack 1 loc 33 colorPink misc 0 [DISABLED] hdac0:Caps: IN VREF Sense: 0x7fff hdac0: nid 24 0x04a190f0 as 15 seq 0 Mic Jack jack 1 loc 4 colorPink misc 0 hdac0:Caps: IN VREF Sense: 0x7fff hdac0: nid 25 0x612140f0 as 15 seq 0Headphones None jack 1 loc 33 color Green misc 0 [DISABLED] hdac0:Caps:OUT Sense: 0x7fff hdac0: nid 26 0x901701f0 as 15 seq 0 Speaker Fixed jack 7 loc 16 color Unknown misc 1 hdac0:Caps:OUTEAPD hdac0: nid 27 0x40f001f0 as 15 seq 0 Other None jack 0 loc 0 color Unknown misc 1 [DISABLED] hdac0:Caps:OUTEAPD hdac0: nid 28 0x40f001f0 as 15 seq 0 Other None jack 0 loc 0 color Unknown misc 1 [DISABLED] hdac0:Caps:OUT hdac0: nid 29 0x90a601f0 as 15 seq 0 Mic Fixed jack 6 loc 16 color Unknown misc 1 hdac0:Caps: IN hdac0: NumGPIO=4 NumGPO=0 NumGPI=0 GPIWake=0 GPIUnsol=1 hdac0: GPIO: data=0x enable=0x direction=0x hdac0: wake=0x unsol=0xsticky=0x I am by no means an expert, but I had similar problems previously. Look at /dev and see if you have multiple /dev/mixer* devices. You can use the -f option for mixer to specify the individual devices. I found that I had to set the controls on the devices that I wasn't even using. In my case, it went from almost completely muted to too loud and was distorting, so I had to reduce some of the settings. You can use sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1' to set the default mixer device to 1 or whichever you want to use. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.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: pxe LiveCD setup
Linux systems with netboot can boot off http (using wget) and it's much better. Twice as fast for the Clonezilla load, but System Rescue went from three minutes to only 18 seconds. Etherboot/gPXE is interesting also. It will boot from http. One of my grub4dos menu entries is a gPXE floppy image with the generic UNDI driver though I haven't really used it much. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/start ___ 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: pxe LiveCD setup
With grub4dos title FreeBSD pxe keep chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot it loads pxeboot, but then: netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0 pxe_open: netif_open() failed ... can't load 'kernel' OK So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device. Your goal in the pxeboot/nfs/livefs was to avoid having to transfer the large livefs iso? I won't be much help solving your problem above, just curious where you're going with your setup. ___ 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: pxe LiveCD setup
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Is there a quick way to set up a PXE boot menu for booting into a number of ISO images? There's net/pxe, but it looks like only part of the solution. Ideally, there'd just be a minimal setup with a directory of ISO files and a built-in loader that lets the user choose which ISO to boot. ___ I've had a lot of luck with grub4dos. At work I use it to present a menu to the PXE client. I've had most success booting .iso files by having grub4dos memory map them, so having a fair amount of ram is helpful. I've used it to boot damn small linux, puppy linux, Dell diagnostic cd .iso, dban iso, spinrite .iso etc. See the grub4dos section of this forum for good info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 ___ 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
