Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick
"Chess Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's just that nothing automounts like it's supposed to, and > that includes both USB sticks and CDs. > > Should I post this in freebsd-ports as well? I don't want to double-post if > the port maintainers also monitor this list as well. I may post in the > thunar or xfce mailing lists, but I think this is a FreeBSD issue since the > Thunar automounting works in various Linux distributions. Yeah, I'd try ports but I didn't get much useful feedback. I understand Thunar's developer is a freebsd guy so I posted on the thunar list too... but heard nothing. Good luck! Xfce and Thunar seem rather nice and lighter than the alternatives, I just wish they were a bit more stable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick
When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does it work? It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with "top" saying it's in state "kserel". I haven't been able to resolve this on the ports or thunar lists. :-( The one time I saw it work, it was able to mount USB drives automatically (in my case, a digital audio recorder). I didn't have to do anything special but I was running hald and friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and copy the files off, then unmount. I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the right technical solution? I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?
I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or that there's a bunch of stuff in it. She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and copy the files off, then unmount. I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the right technical solution? I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Web mail for phones
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've searched the web a lot, but could not find anything about this; > maybe I can't figure the proper terms to search for. I was poking around for this recently and noticed that OpenWebmail includes a style (stylesheet?) which they say is designed specifically for small screens like phones and PDAs. Can't find the reference now, tho, sorry. I was probably searching on ``webmail "cellphone" '' or similar. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD
"Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. > For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay > with a laptop hard drive. > They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. > They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need to get an internal laptop > IDE cable and a laptopn hard drive... > > they also support netboot! So yo dont really need the hard drive, Sure, agreed. The EPIA's just what I needed for the space I had at the time. I was just pointing out that diskless boxes, net booting, and NFS mounted apps are a big win. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD
cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting > from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. > Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading > programs [and those boards are not the fastest, though 100% silent ;-)], > but users here are happy enough with them. Ditto: I have one of these in my kitchen and like it -- no sysadm, silent, etc. Not the fastest but mine is 3 years old. Only problem I've noticed is if Mozilla (or whatever) uses all the RAM then X11 restarts, losing your sessions. Doesn't happen all the time. One day I'll set up swap to run over the net. I really like the fact that I install stuff like Mozilla and other software on one box (the server) and its immediately available around the house on the rest of the boxes. The less sysadm I do the better. >> - Do I need to use gigabit ethernet? Or is it enough to use a normal 100 >> Mbps wired network? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when >> using many terminals, but I do not have experience. > > For a diskless setup, 100 MB switched on the client side is enough; but > you'd definitely prefer gigabit ethernet on the NFS server. I'm using switched 100Mbps ether but I only have the one diskless client. I have a couple other clients mounting just some of the filesystems over the net and would prefer GigE but it's not bad as it is. I'd definitely do this diskless thing if I had 10-20 client terminals to set up, like in an internet cafe or something. If they get wedged, who cares: just power-cycle them. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Subversion web development question.
I'd definitely go with SVN for a code repo. I use a couple different SVN servers on various teams I work with at my clients. I also set one up for myself for code I'm working without other coders, mainly so I could get at it from home, on the road, or some client's site; a laptop or two, a desktop or two Very convenient. You might also consider integrating it with the Trac issue tracker . It has a very nice SVN repo code browser, takes bug/issue/feature tickets, offers a wiki (e.g., for writing project plans, docs, whatever). It's integrated in the sense that you can check in code into SVN and say in your log message something like fixes #37 and Track will notice and close the open ticket #37 for you. You can reference code within Trac too. It's lightweight and gets out of your way. I prefer it to other trackers and trouble ticket systems I've used like Remedy , Jira, and even the venerable RT. Even if all you use is Trac's code browser it's a win, but the other stuff is real helpful with no bloat. FWIW, it's all written in Python. (a language I prefer to PHP and Java) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On some Dells, there is a BIOS option to boot with "USB legacy support" > (or some similar wording) or without USB support at all. Having the > correct setting is pivotal to getting the USB keyboard to work. The > correct setting varies from model to model. What fun. I didn't see any option like this on my Dimension 9150. :-( > Additionally, sometimes escaping the boot loader and setting > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" is still required on some hardware (even with > 6.1). I'll look into this. > That might be faster ... get a FreeSBIE disk. Tried this, very nice LiveCD. But I couldn't figure out how to get it to see and then mount my SATA disk partition so I could fix its /etc/fstab. Perhaps I missed something, but the /scripts/mount_disks.sh didn't seem to find the hard drives. Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FreeBSD installation CD will also do just fine with fixit shell. > Any CD from 5.X onwards should mount UFS2 partitions even if you are > running some later OS version. Given your USB trouble, a 5.X CD might > even be preferred since it has the boot option you want. Since I couldn't figure out how to get FreeSBIE to mount the hard drives, I started downloading the FreeBSD-6.1 install CDs. While waiting, I got the dead box to boot over the net from my main box (which boots a small diskless box I run in the kitchen). That at least brought it up to the point where I could ssh into the box then fix the /etc/fstab. Kinda round-about but it worked. :-) Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The keyboard usually works on the boot menu as the bios is in control. > So, exit the menu to load the kernel modules you need, usb, ukbd and > uhid I think should do. Then boot into single user mode. I tried this, but when it started to boot it said the modules were already installed and then hung at the point where it sees "atkbdc0". > For next time, this happens, I suggest you build a kernel with usb > keyboard support built in. I think the GENERIC kernel now supports usb > keyboards by default, which explains why the boot option has been removed. I'll check to make sure my custom kernel has this. Thanks to everyone for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard
I have a borked entry in my /etc/fstab: the box can't find /dev/da4s1 or something at boot. So it hangs at boot asking me if I want to use /bin/sh in single user mode. But when I bang on the USB keyboard, FreeBSD doesn't hear the keys. I recall that previous boot menus offered a "boot with USB keyboard" option, but this is no longer on my FreeBSD-6.1 version built from cvsup a couple months back. Any suggestions how to get it to see the USB keyboard in the boot? This Dell box doesn't have a non-USB keyboard input. If not, any suggestions on how to get it to boot to a point where I could fix the /etc/fstab? Only thing I can think of is burn a bootable FreeBSD disk, boot from it, then mount the hard drive and fix fstab from that. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed
robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with > various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year > now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it on a solid NFS server like a NetApp and front it with any number of MTAs and IMAP servers. Maildir is NFS-safe. If a (used) netApp is too expensive for you, the same approach still keeps your complicated services off your most critical file server. I used qmail-ldap (qmail with LDAP for virtualization) and a handfull of 1U SMTP/IMAP/POP/Squirrelmail servers. Each server had a local read-only replica of the LDAP data sync'd from the LDAP master. Zero downtime in well over a year, even with taking individual boxes down (one at a time) for upgrades and such. You could also look at Vpopmail virtualization for qmail. I've not tried to scale that across multiple boxes so I don't know how you'd replicate the account info. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)
I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't the fastest for building World or large ports. If I build on the new Pentium D box, will the binaries run on the other systems? Or are there some compatibility issues? Since the FreeBSD release binaries run on all the CPUs I'm guessing there won't be any problem. I've seen some multimedia ports that can optimize for a certain chip but I don't tend to use them. Should I worry and just build on the fastest system I have? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.0 Migration Guide?
Rowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Migration Guide? > Try /usr/src/UPDATING, search for "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable > or higher to 6.x-stable" (near the end of the file). I *just* went through this on two 5-STABLE systems, worked like a charm. Very nice. Thanks to all the FreeBSD developers who made this so trouble-free. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Card for Xorg dual-head Xinerama? (Matrox G450 problems)
I'm running FreeBSD-5.4 from cvsup and having some Xorg problems with Xinerama on my Matrox G450 dual-head card. While Xinerama works fine for local X11 apps, an app started on a remote machine displaying back to my box fills the fvwm frame with nothing -- except whatever bitmap was already there. Moving the window moves the image of the bitmap around. Killing the app leaves the fvwm frame; I have to "kill" the frame in fvwm to make it go away. If I turn off Xinerama, everything works fine, but obviously I don't have Xinerama. Any suggestions for a good dual-head card which works well with Xorg and Xinerama? I've got two 21" CRTs so don't have DVI input. I don't game so I don't need that kind of speed. I'd prefer something quiet, that doesn't require a fan to prevent it from melting. I'd like to keep it inexpensive. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > http://www.opensourcecms.com/ > I'm probably going to try a few out, since there's only a couple in the > ports. Among my top candidates are Mambo, geeklog (in ports), drupal > (also in ports), opencms, Etomite, and Magnolia. While I'm no expert on it, I think Plone may be the most well thought out and fully-featured CMS out there; it also looks real nice, right out of the box, and is fully buzzword-compliant :-). It runs on top of Zope, so there are lots of ways to extend functionality. There are also a bunch of add-on Products which can do all sorts of stuff, from Wikis to PhotoAlbums. Zope's written in Python, so it would not be leveraging your Java and Perl stuff. I front mine with Apache but it's not required to do so. Plone's in ports. There are now three books on Plone which should help you if you want to go this way; McKay's is available online if you want to take a look at what you can do with plone. http://plone.org/ http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook If you want to stay on the Java side, you could check out Jakarta Slide, which calls itself a "low-level content management framework". But that does sound a bit low-level to me. I'm not generally keen on large Perl and PHP suites, even though I've written some myself. Probably just my own phobias. There's another well-featured CMS I've read about -- but haven't played with -- called Bricolage. It's in Perl IIRC. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: VPN questions
"Aaron P. Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest looking at openvpn, it is a ssl based vpn that is fairly easy > to set up. I might shy away from freeswan as it is for the most part > out of development, only one more rollup and that's it. Any suggestions for something compatible with Cisco's 3080 VPN product? Something that will work from behind my home NAT box, ideally? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Remote backup hosting setup?
Tim Aslat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some > very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I trash a critical file and don't notice it for a couple days, the (nightly) rsync will have overwritten the good version with the trashed version. So I've been thinking of having maybe 5 different copies at the destination and rsyncing to a different one each night so I have 5 different "backups" to go to -- just like in the days of tape. Something conceptually like: rsync -avR --delete / remote:/BACKUP/`expr $dayofyear % 5`/ Yeah, you need to store 5x copies of your client's data, but disk is cheap. It gives 'em 5 days to realize they've just hosed that critical file and you can be a hero for restoring it. Income potential. You might be able to achieve similar by rsyncing to a single destination directory and using FreeBSD-5.x's "snapshot" facility. Create a (read only) snapshot of the destination partition every night. it only costs you the amount of diskspace consumed by *changes* from the snapshot to the current data. Like a NetApp. Keep 5 snapshots around and get the same effect as the multiple rsync destinations in my example above. Haven't tried this but it seems appealing. Also, the original poster mentioned the source was windoze. If you google "rsync windows" you'll find help on installing ssh and rsync on a Windoze box so maybe you don't need UNIX at your client's firm. Check SAMBA for access to shares. Amanda used to have some hooks to backup 'doze shares to tapes, perhaps you could leverage their work. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mini itx
arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > im collecting some bits to start a mini itx project > http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp > i have the need for a small silent pc > > has anyone used these boards with bds? I'm using an EPIA 6000 as a workstation in the kitchen. I boot FreeBSD-5.2 diskless so it's silent. Since there is no disk heat, I can also unplug the CPU fan. Totally silent. Very nice. Not a speed demon, but plenty fast for surfing and such. I'll probably do the same for the next machine I buy for my office: I find it a lot easier to code and think without fan and disk noise. (The server's in the basement with a bunch of RAID disk). I had X11 working on the built-in chipset with an older snapshot port, but the recent one doesn't work for me. I haven't tried heavy duty multimedia stuff nor decss and such on it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Documentation for LDAP Mail Server
David Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to setup a mail server on my FreeBSD box that runs Postfix and > Cyrus that authenticates through OpenLDAP and have encryption (ssl?). > Also, I'd like everything to be database backed... DB3 or DB4? I > can't seem to find anything on the internet that will show me how. > > Does anyone have know where I can find such a tutorial or howto on the > net or even a book that I could buy at a bookstore? Plenty of work ahead. I know you said Postfix, but you might wanna look at what the qmail-ldap gang is doing, it's a nice system, but also has a steep learning curve. http://www.nrg4u.com/ That being said, there's some discussion of integrating Postfix with LDAP starting on page 148 of Gerald Carter's _LDAP System Administration_, on O'Reilly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/ Conveniently, this chapter is available as a sample at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/chapter/ch07.pdf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?
"Clarence Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could download Eudora for Windows and import > the outlook email into Eudora. It stores the email in > mbox format. I don't know if their mbox format is fully > unix standard, but they are the same people that maintain > the qpopper pop3 daemon, so they obviously understand > unix mbox format. When Eudora uploads to an IMAP server, it damages the message. It mutates MIME headers and puts in fake HTML which only Eudora can recognize. Been through this with a bunch of customers, lots of scripts to fix the Eudora-damaged mail, not any fun. It's stupid for them to intentionally break MIME-formatted mail but that's what they do. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
SORBS lists mx2.freebsd.org as open relay
I was adding RBL blacklisting to my qmail setup, with rblsmtpd using some blacklists which a couple folks on inet-access suggested. I noticed it logging connections from mx2.freebsd.org as being in SORBS: rblsmtpd: 216.136.204.119 pid 45632: 451 Open Relay See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=216.136.204.119 That web page indicates port 25 is an open relay, failing a test on April 7 2004 01:46:38 GMT, relaying from [EMAIL PROTECTED], to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I manually confirmed their test, it appears as if it's a relay. This seems surprising since I know you guys have clue. When I test using some of my own addresses, it says Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied So is mx2.freebsd.or intentionally relaying from/to SORBS? On purpose? To fool it into thinking it's a relay when it's not? Any other ideas? I'd like to use some semi-reputable RBLs but can't afford to block freebsd mail. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems installing to AMI MegaRAID array
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It has a 'RPX' module installed which enables RAID on my 8 4.3GB SCSI > drives, apparently via an AMI MegaRAID controller. I've been able to get > into the MegaRAID bios setup and configure an initialize a RAID volume, > but FBSD can't find it. > > I've installed FBSD on several RAID systems before, so I didn't think it > would be a problem. But the GENERIC kernel doesn't seem to find the > controller. I have a DELL-branded "CERC" AMI MegaRAID IDE RAID board. FreeBSD recognizes it as the normal AMI SCSI RAID card with driver "amr". It's my only disk media. I built an array in BIOS then installed FreeBSD on it. When installing FreeBSD-5, I think I had to use the 3rd floppy image which had the "amr" driver on it, as I don't believe it was built into the kernel on the boot/root floppies. After install, I added "amr" to my kernel def and rebuilt. I see now my GENERIC file has "amr" in it. Perhaps I'm confused or maybe it didn't have it back then. So if you've already got FreeBSD installed make sure it has the "amr" device built in. If you're installing from scratch, check the 3rd floppy for stealth drivers. Not sure this helps for your specific hardware but it's worth a shot. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: SUNRays
Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a > monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for > everything else. That's not an architecture that you're going to get > FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. I'm quite happily running FreeBSD-5.1 on a diskless VIA system: just cpu, ram, ethernet, screen: it netboots then mounts partitions from my main machine via NFS. Very nice: zero noise, reliable, no sysadm duties. The diskless support for 5.1 is really quite nice; man diskless. In the past, I've run NetBSD diskless on Sun IPX and ELC systems. I suspect that if the SunRays do a PXE boot then they can be given addresses by DHCP, boot files via TFTP, and filesystems via NFS -- just like any other diskless client. I don't know if FreeBSD runs on SunRay's CPU, however. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: IDE RAID controllers
Irvine Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They recommend the LSI MegaRAID i4 - see > http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html I got a DELL 600SC "server" a while back, not expensive, came with a DELL "CERC"-branded MegaRAID i4: 4 IDE drives on the single PCI controller card. I've been running them as a couple RAID-5 volumes under FreeBSD-5.x. Do a search on the lists for CERC and you should find my other postings on this. I had some problems with drives failing but it appears it was an early run of flakey WD1200JB 120GB drives, not the controller. I haven't tried hot swapping or other stuff, but that's not why I bought it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?
Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A photo disk is most likely not ufs - it's msdosfs. > msdosfs is not is normaly not used on the whole device (exeptions are > floppies), so you want using the correct slice. > E.g. mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt Yeah, I tried msdos as well (man page is wrong specifying ufs), still no joy. I was able to mount it on my 5.1 system so I'm happy now :-) Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?
I have an old digital camera which has a 64MB CF card in it. A friend loaned me a USB card reader to extract the images. I don't seem to be able to mount it on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE per the umass man page. After plugging in the card and USB reader, dmesg shows: umass0: PQI Travel Flash, rev 1.10/2.05, addr 2 da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 650KB/s transfers da1: 62MB (126976 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 62C) The man page says: camcontrol rescan 0 Rescan a Zip drive that was added after boot. The command above assumes that the Zip drive is the first SCSI bus in the system. disklabel -w -r da0 zip100 newfs da0c mount -t ufs /dev/da0c /mnt I do the camcontrol and it appears to see it: thanatos# camcontrol rescan 0 Re-scan of bus 0 was successful thanatos# camcontrol devlist -v scbus0 on ahc0 bus 0: at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) < > at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 () scbus1 on umass-sim0 bus 0: at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da1,pass1) scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0: < > at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0) I skip the disklabel and newfs since I've got photos on it already. Attempts to mount fail: thanatos# mount -t ufs /dev/da1c /mnt mount: /dev/da1c on /mnt: incorrect super block thanatos# mount -t msdos /dev/da1c /mnt msdos: /dev/da1c: Invalid argument Any clues? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
PC-style Console rendering with remote Xterm or rxvt? MEGAMGR
One of the four WD1200JB disks on my Dell CERC ATA RAID controller died and I'm trying to get at the controller remotely. Previously, I used: http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/MegaRAID_SCSI/UserInterfaceGUI/MegaMGR.tgz which replicates the BIOS-level text interface to the controller: create/destroy arrays, silence alarm (!), rebuild array... I used it at the system text console, which does not emulate a vt100. It's very convenient because I don't shutdown the system as I do with the boot-time BIOS utility. I'm currently remote and getting into the box remotely using xterm or rxvt. When I startup MEGAMGR, the text is briefly readable then gets turned into something that looks like PC-line-drawing characters or other unreadable trash. Thus, this cool utility is unavailable to me remotely. Even when I'm home, this box lives in the basement and I'd prefer to have a network-aware way to talk to it -- that I can read :-). I'm guessing it's using various PC-style Console characters and line drawing chars that are not present on xterm nor rxvt. Is there some kind of terminal I can use which does emulate the console behavior (is this termcap's "at386" or something)? Or is it fonts/charsets I don't have? I looked in ports but didn't see anything which sounded relevant. I just got a little success by cruising the termcap file and selecting one which said it didn't do the pseudographics, from within my xterm: setenv TERM vt100-nac It kinda works but it's a little ugly and still difficult to read for using such a powerful/dangerous tool. Suggestions welcomed. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Fw: PERC 4/DI Raid SCSI Controler
"ipack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bought a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC 4/Di Raid SCSI Controler > and I would like to use FreeBSD on this server, so I would like to > know when it will be possible to have Dell PERC 4/Di drivers, I got a cheapie Dell 600sc server with a CERC 4-channel *IDE* RAID controller. It is also makde by LSI/AmericanMegaRAID and appears to present the same interface to the system as the PERC -- FreeBSD-5.x recognizes it right away as an "amr" device. I expect the difference is just that it has IDE interfaces to talk to the disk instead of SCSI. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: open source content management systems?
anubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at Bricolage > From the website http://bricolage.cc/ I've been thinking of giving that a whirl too, after reading that online tech site www.TheRegister.co.uk decided to use it. The article they link to points out that Salon.com and Macworld.com use it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/31/30959.html A lot of folks have suggested Zope. A friend pointed me at Plone which is built on Zope. I've been playing with it a bit but I'm finding that I really need to RTFM to "get it". I like the fact that it doesn't require a relational database to get up and running so it's a no-brainer to install and poke at it. http://www.plone.org/ It's even in ports: /usr/ports/www/plone: Info: A user friendly implementation of the CMF written on top of ZOPE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: new search tool for FreeBSD community
Vlad Shabanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rambler (www.rambler.ru) developed new search tool working > with FreeBSD project mail archives. You can try it at > http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ > > Index contains messages from all mail archives including cvs commits, > bug reports, etc. We plan to update database daily. Very nice, much needed. Bolshoya spaceba!! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?
Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is out there. Look at http://www.freebsdmirrors.org to find just > about any release you want. (Most mirrors don't carry the older > releases, but some do.) Heh, I looked at ftp1-9.freebsd.org in the US and ftp.internat.freebsd.org in South Africa before I gave up. Happily, my need for 3.0-RELEASE is gone since I have tested RealServer8 broadcasting an encoded feed fine on 4.8-STABLE with the 3.0 compatibility stuff. Very cool. Thanks all. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: radius server
adrian kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > Does freebsd provide radius server? > > If yes, how can we get this running? any documents > also There are a number to choose from in the Ports collection: /usr/ports/net: wildcard *radius* drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 19 02:15 freeradius drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Feb 22 08:46 gnu-radius drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 May 20 02:16 radiusclient drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 7 02:16 radiusd-cistron drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 18 02:15 ruby-radius drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Feb 22 08:46 tac_plus-libradius I've used Ascend, Livingston, Cistron extensively and played with FreeRadius a bit. I'd suggest starting with FreeRadius since it seems to have the most momentum behind it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not simply use the compat3x libraries on 4.8-RELEASE? Bingo, just stumbled across that with a friend's suggestion. So far, RealServer8 seems to be working. Need to do a few streaming tests befor I declare victory. Excellent. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
How to get FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE?
I've been asked to install a specific version of RealServer on FreeBSD, and this version requires FreeBSD-3.0. I usually pull down the floppies and then install from the net. I can't find floppies for anything older then 4.7. I expect I can use modern install floppies and use the "options" to specify 3.0-RELEASE instead of what's default on the floppy, but then it undoubtedly be unable to find the actual distribution to download and install. If I could find an ISO, I probably can borrow a friend's CD burner but I can't find an ISO for 3.0-RELEASE either. It would seem stupid to install 4.7 on the box, then use cvsup to pull down the source for 3.0, then compile that and install it on top of 4.7. Ick. I'll have a FreeBSD-4.8-STABLE box nearby, and I guess it might be possible to cvsup 3.0-R and build there, but not how I'd go about net-installing onto the target, without NFS. Any suggestions? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address
Alfonso Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I wondered if it could be possible to have a primary and a secondary > nameserver with only one public IP address, sort of like virtual domains on > apache... Well, a nameserver can answer queries for many different zones, like for queries about foo.example.com as well as bar.localhost.net That's easy. If that's what you're trying to achieve. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address
JacobRhoden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:52 am, Alfonso Romero wrote: > > Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address? I > > have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using > > natd to connect the other PCs on my LAN, and was wondering if I could have > > two DNS servers to register domain names. > > No its not. If you really wanted two seperate nameservers on 1 machine (which > are both accessable to the world) you will need to have two static ips at > that box. What are you trying to do? Serve one set of data to the Internet (world) and a different set to your internal LAN? This is common for hiding internal host/address information. It's usually called "split dns" or "split brain" or "split horizon". I believe BIND can do this, but I haven't used it for this. I've been using the "djbdns" suite which has this built in. Each record can be tagged with a label which can be associated with a set of addresses (e.g., inside LAN, anyone else) and it will reveal or hide that record based on the requestor's address.djbdns is a rather different architecture than BIND so if you're used to BIND it's a bit of a learning curve. If you're not wedded to BIND, you might be interested in djbdns. Check www.djbdns.org, the record label you want is the percent sign. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Boot/install/config util like Solaris Jumpstart?
We're planning on deploying a handful of commodity boxes to act as a loose mail cluster hidden behind a pair of load balancers. They'll have almost identical SW installs: APOP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP. Naturally they'll have per-box differences, like their ethernet address, perhaps some box-unique service like webmail. If we were deploying on Solaris, we'd use their Jumpstart tools. It allows diskless booting, then automated install of base OS, additional packages, then subsequent configuration tweaks. Very handy for a rack of 1U boxes. Is there something like this for FreeBSD? Or do I have to roll my own, most likely based on the existing dhcp/tftp/nfs diskless boot code with per subnet and per target address filesystem overlays (/etc/rc.d/[init]diskless)? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...
John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Dell PowerEdge] > > What model? There are quite a few PowerEdges out > > It's a 600SC - P4 1.8 - Perc3/SC FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied CERC RAID card (amr device recognized it, but it drives 4x ATA disks rather than SCSI), and an Intel gigabit ether card. Got X11 working on it rather easily too. I don't have any other drives (than the supplied IDE CD) in the box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
amr AMI MegaRAID IDE card: "spare" drive as slave?
I have an AMI MegaRAID sold by Dell as a CERC ATA100; it has 4 discreet channels of IDE and can do RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10. I've been running it as RAID 1 for a couple months no problem, with a pair of WD1200JB 120G disks and a pair of 20G disks -- two logical partitions. The man page only talks about the amr driver for SCSI so I'm guessing that the interface to the computer looks identical to the AMI SCSI cards, but the disk interface is simply IDE. chris@pectopah_34% dmesg|grep am amr0: mem 0xfeb0-0xfeb0 irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0 amr0: Firmware 6.61, BIOS 1.01, 16MB RAM amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 19068MB (39051264 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) amrd1: on amr0 amrd1: 114428MB (234348544 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a For performance, naturally each disk is an IDE master on its own IDE cable. I'd like to get another disk or two and use them as hot spares so if one of the existing drives goes bad the amr controller can just rebuild the data on the spare. Can such a spare run as the IDE channel slave without impacting performance of the master? My thinking is that the controller should send no data to the slave unless the master dies so it shouldn't slow the master (and hence the RAID volume) but I don't know enough about how this hardware works. Any info would be most helpful. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
PhotoCD: ata/acd mount issue, data overrun with lockup
A friend gave me a CD burned by a film processing lab and I had problems mounting or dd'ing it off: thanatos# mount /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0a on /cdrom: incorrect super block thanatos# mount_msdos /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount_msdos: /dev/acd0a: Invalid argument thanatos# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0a: Invalid argument thanatos# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=/tmp/cdnoise dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000214 secs (0 bytes/sec) I was finally able to mount it per the hint on the mount_cd9660 man page with: thanatos# mount_cd9660 -o rw -v -s 0 /dev/acd0c /cdrom/ Under my mount point I see (most importantly) directories "pictures" and "previews", the former with a bunch of 3MB files, the latter with a directory for each roll and files in the 75KB range. But when I try to view the large images with xv, or even use "cp" to copy them to disk, I see lots of problems in the logs and it tends to hang my system intermittently (comes back, but during the hang even the mouse is frozen): chris@thanatos(259> cp /cdrom/pictures/ku6553-r1-0a.jpg ./ Jul 25 08:14:57 thanatos /kernel: acd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting Jul 25 08:14:57 thanatos /kernel: ata2: resetting devices .. done Jul 25 08:14:58 thanatos /kernel: acd0: read data overrun 63488/0 This causes xv to take about 15 minutes to pull up one of the 3MB large pictures, and rendered the computer mostly useless during that time. Vitals from dmesg: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #12: Wed Jul 3 11:08:15 EDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Thanatos acd0: CD-RW at ata2-slave PIO4 Is there a problem I can fix here? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
