Re: Remote Console
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 16:44 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I would not support your chaining idea, though.[...] The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. Well, chaining is such a strong word. How about connecting the serial ports in a ring? The thing is that he only jumps from one box to the other, not through more/all of them. I actually prefer this solution over a portmaster, unless it supports SSH. I would hate to telnet with a clear-text password across the Internet. SSH'ing into a live system, and them calling upon the other system via serial port seems like a good solution to me. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: simpler boot loader
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:39 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: something like for NetBSD - just load one ELF file from disk and that's all. FreeBSD /boot/loader and it's script are overcomplicated. What complicates the normal boot process is that the kernel requires a pre-boot environment to be set up. That's what the various loader steps do, mainly loader. About a year ago I tried to hack a Cobalt RAQ so that it would boot the BSD kernel. The problem is that the Cobalt has Linux in the BIOS... it boots straight into a Linux boot loader which then loads the Linux kernel (in ELF format I believe). Replacing that Linux kernel with the FreeBSD kernel does not work. I had tried to hack boot2 and loader so that it can be run from the Linux loader (in ELF format) and then set up the pre-boot environment and load and execute the kernel. However, my x86 assembler skills suck (in a previous life I did 65xx and 68xxx, but not x86). The loader segfaults every time and I had tabled the project. The interim solution for me was to have the Cobalt boot into VMware which then run FreeBSD. The performance kinda sucks and I would prefer to run BSD directly, so eventually I'd like to revisit that. In closing, I'm not aware of an easy way (without major hacks) to boot the FreeBSD kernel as a single file. You can try to look at the code for boot2 and loader write an ELF binary that does the same and loads FreeBSD. If you get something together, *please* let me know. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: redundant ethernet adapters - fault tolerance?
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:17 +0200, Martin Pála wrote: Is ethernet adapter HA supported in FreeBSD? For example on linux it is possible to select active-pasive mode of ethernet bonding module (linux alternative). This works perfectly (only one interface is active at a time, the other is backup). I achieved a similar set up (two NIC's and two switches, meshed against 2 routers). My solution as a bit easier. I selected one NIC as the primary interface. Then I have a script running in the background that pings the router every 5 seconds. If it does not get a reply it does a second ping, and should that fail too it does the following: - it deletes the IP address(es) from the primary interface - it shuts the primary interface down - it deletes the default route - it brings the secondary interface up - it assigns the IP address(es) to the secondary inteface - it sets the default route That's the easy part. Then the script also does: - runs sed over /etc/rc.conf and replace the primary interface names with the secondary ones - runs sed over /etc/ipnat.rules - runs sed over /etc/ipf.rules - writes the ipf state table - runs the ipfs tools on the state and NAT file to change the primary i/f name to the secondary - clears the ipfilter state and rule table - reloads the ipfilter rules - reloads the ipfilter state and NAT tables It then swaps interface definitions and resumes the loop, pinging the router the again. Works like a charm. Any router, switch or NIC can fail, and the system will automatically fail-over, even preserving existing TCP sessions in the firewall state tables. (Hint: the ipfs tool is broken. I had sent an email to Darren with the fix. Not sure if that found it's way into the source yet. If you run the ipfs tools, but can not change interface names, send me an email and I'll forward the patch to you.) Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Multisync plugin for Evolution 2
Greetings, has anyone gotten the Multisync plugin for Evolution 2 compiled and installed under FreeBSD? The CVS snapshot of multisync 0.82 contains the evolution2 plugin and it seems people are using it under Linux. It is currently not available via the FreeBSD ports tree. Multisync can be installed via the port, but the Evolution 2 plugin has to be download and installed by hand. However, I'm encountering various autoconf/automake/libtool related errors and am stuck. If someone else has successfully compiled that on FreeBSD, please share your experience. I'm pulling my hair out over this for the last 6 hours and am starting to bald :( Thanks! Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Running own servers
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:59 -0500, RL wrote: I just called my cable modem ISP (adelphia) and they said a static IP address is $130 per month!! Forget that! Now what are my other options? I do have a dynDNS address for my dynamic IP, but I can't run a DNS server and do reverse DNS with that. :( Without your ISPs assistance, you wouldn't be able to run reverse DNS anyway. Forward DNS on dynamic IP's is tricky as you have to re-register/change your name servers IP address with your domain name provider every time you get a new address. DynDNS for SMPT is doable, but forget DNS. -Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running own servers
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 23:04 -0500, RL wrote: So I guess my only option *if* I wanted to do this was to buy a business class DSL service that offers a static IP? Or find someone with public name servers that is willing to pull zones from your name server. Your domains then reference those 3rd party name servers, but not your own. But since those 3rd party name servers pull zones from your box, you are still in control of your zones as far as configuration of zone information is concerned. Regards, Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running own servers
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:16 -0600, Chris wrote: Or find someone with public name servers that is willing to pull zones from your name server. Your domains then reference those 3rd party name servers, but not your own. But since those 3rd party name servers pull zones from your box, you are still in control of your zones as far as configuration of zone information is concerned. I can't see how that will work. If an IP block say belongs to Verizon, THEY are authoritive. You just can't steal stuff and have it resolve both ways. For reverse DNS, that is correct. You still won't be able to do reverse DNS. However, forward DNS works just fine. I have a friend for example that administrates his own zone files for the two domains he owns. My primary name server pulls that info from his box, and my secondaries will pull it from my primary. His domains all reference my name servers. That way the domains use stable name servers, but he is still able to make changes (i.e. new CNAME and A records) without my involvement. Again, this is only for forward resolution. Reverse resolution has always to be delegated by the IP block owner to a stable name server within that block. I'm not aware of any ISP who would delegate reverse resolution to an address outside of their control. Cheers, Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:33:33PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: Okay, thank you but that page didn't help very much. I know how to rebuild and update the server, and I've done it many times but what I need to know is if I must rebuild my jails to when I rebuild the server. Maby the hostsystem and the jail gets out of sync? Yes. Whenever you build world for your host system, you should also build for the jail (using DESTDIR). Otherwise they get out of sync as you suspect. Regards, Frank ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:04:54AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: Okay, I see. I've not done this with my jails so I think it's time to do it But until now everything has worked anyway, upgraded from 4.9 to 4.10-p5. How important is it to rebuild the jails too? I don't think it has to do with importance. Rather it has to do with correctness. Jails use the running kernel. You have to rebuild kernel and world together to prevent them from getting out-of-sync (easy to test with top). Hence, you also have to rebuild your jail-world when you rebuild your kernel. Hope that clarifies it. Regards, Frank ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to rebuild my jails too when I rebuild the server?
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:13:08AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: I see. So if I've got a synced jail and host then top will work? I thought top never worked inside jail for some memoryissue or something like that? No, I was using that as an example for the host. I don't think top will work in a jail. I think I should go and rebuild my jails too. It's just a bit of work with three jails, thank god that I've got a fast box :) Not really. Update kernel, then: make buildworld make installworld make DESTDIR=/jail1 installworld make DESTDIR=/jail2 installworld You only need to compile once. Still the issue with config-files but I think I'll back them up and just restore them. uhm... we're talking binaries here. I'm not sure why you would need to restore your config files. But making backups is always a good practice. Regards, Frank ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: placing syslogd logs into postgresql
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:43, asolomon15 wrote: Does anyone know of any scripts or programs that can place syslogd logs into database tables? Not syslogd, but syslog-ng. http://kdough.net/docs/syslog_postgresql/ Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Official wallpapers
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:51, Glenn Sieb wrote: So then when do we get Bride of Chucky? :) http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nprountz/wallp/other/secure_bsd.jpg Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FreeBSD and WinNT
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:27, Fractal wrote:
I have a FreeBSD 4.8 and I need to install on the same machine
WindowsNT-like operating system. I tried to do this and installed it.
But after recovering of BSD bootstrap loader using sysinstall I found
that I cannot load Windows. Namely, there was two question signs
('??') in the second string of BSD loader menu (the first was
'FreeBSD') and after selecting it by F3 my computer rebooted. Windows
should run on NTFS partition, not FAT. Can I do something and if yes,
what?
I'm one of those guys that prefers to boot into the Windows boot
manager. From there I can start Win2000 (used solely for games these
days) and FreeBSD.
So if you were to install BSD first, then Windows, and not recover your
bootsector, you would boot into Windows like I do. My boot.ini looks
like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=c:\bootsect.bsd
[operating systems]
c:\bootsect.bsd= FreeBSD
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT= Windows 2000 Professional
Native Mode /fastdetect
bootsect.bsd is nothing else than a copy of /boot/boot1 from BSD. So
from the Windows boot menu, I choose FreeBSD (or wait) and it boots BSD.
Cheers,
Frank
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Re: [OT] Re: Devil Mascot
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:39, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance... Too fluffy. FreeBSD is a no-fluff OS! ;-) No, but it keeps going and going and going and going and... Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
ERserver for Postgres from ports
Greetings, I'm curious if anyone had success installing/running the erserver port (databases/erserver) for Postgresql. It doesn't seem to install all files properly after ers_setup (had to copy from examples/erserver and edit them by hand). The next issue was that the Java stuff didn't run. After looking around in the work directory of the port, I was able to build (first using ant, then running build.sh) seemingly all required components. After copying the jar, classes, and lib files/dirs into the home directory for erserver, I finally got the java stuff to run (without throwing errors into the log/stderr file). However, log/replication.log shows these errors: 2004-06-10 17:54:59,807 [main] DEBUG replic - LOGGER STARTED 2004-06-10 17:54:59,832 [main] ERROR replic - ReplicationServer::run: com.postgres.replic.server.ReplicationException: ReplicationServer::initializeProps: java.lang.Exception: ReplicationConfig::loadConfig: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.postgres.replic.server.ReplicationServer.initializeProps(ReplicationServer.java:508) at com.postgres.replic.server.ReplicationServer.run(ReplicationServer.java:139) at com.postgres.replic.server.ReplicationServer.main(ReplicationServer.java:68) Which looks to me like the Java app needs debugging too now... Where did I mess up? Most other ports are cleanly installed with make install, but this one seems to be a nightmare. I'd really appreciate any clues as to how to get the erserver port running. Thanks in advance, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: App like M$ Project
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:05, Bob Collins wrote: I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would also like to run it on FBSD, but if it could also run on Winderz, for some of my (L)users, that would be good too. Another one is Mr. Project: http://mrproject.codefactory.se/ Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Gnome 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.8?
Greetings, I noticed that Gnome 2.6 is not supported on FBSD 4.8. Has anyone tried running the upgrade script on 4.8 yet? What is the reason it is not supported? (Other than forcing folks to upgrade...) Are there any workarounds or hacks to get Gnome 2.6 play nicely with 4.8? Thanks, Frank -- Warning at the Gates of Bill: Abandon hope, all ye who press ENTER here... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: portsdb issues
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: make describe complains on each of them. Post the errors if you want us to be able to analyze things. Well, after doing a make describe in /usr/ports, it barfs with: ---8--- === databases/mytop mytop-1.4|/usr/ports/databases/mytop|/usr/local|A top clone for MySQL|/usr/ports/databases/mytop/pkg-descr|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|databases||/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql /usr/ports/devel/p5-Term-ANSIColor /usr/ports/devel/p5-Term-ReadKey /usr/ports/devel/p5-Time-HiRes|http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/ === databases/namazu2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. ---8--- As soon as I delete /usr/ports/database/namazu2, and run make describe again, it gets farther. I tried to assemble a list on my laptop recently, and so far I had on it: ---8--- rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/sparc-rtems-gdb rm -rf /usr/ports/databases/namazu2 rm -rf /usr/ports/net/samba-devel rm -rf /usr/ports/www/mozilla-bonobo rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/linux-glib2 rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/linux-libglade rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/qt-designer rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gconf2 rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/ruby-glib2 rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gnomevfs rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade rm -rf /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade2 rm -rf /usr/ports/misc/bookcase rm -rf /usr/ports/*/k* rm -rf /usr/ports/sysutils/filelight rm -rf /usr/ports/textproc/cbedic rm -rf /usr/ports/textproc/linux-expat rm -rf /usr/ports/textproc/linux-libxml rm -rf /usr/ports/www/quanta rm -rf /usr/ports/audio/arts rm -rf /usr/ports/audio/amarok rm -rf /usr/ports/deskutils/basket rm -rf /usr/ports/deskutils/dragstack rm -rf /usr/ports/deskutils/superkaramba rm -rf /usr/ports/games/easysok rm -rf /usr/ports/games/atlantikdesigner rm -rf /usr/ports/games/six rm -rf /usr/ports/games/spacehulk rm -rf /usr/ports/games/taxipilot rm -rf /usr/ports/graphics/pixieplus rm -rf /usr/ports/graphics/showimg rm -rf /usr/ports/math/algae rm -rf /usr/ports/math/fung-calc rm -rf /usr/ports/multimedia/hayes rm -rf /usr/ports/editors/vimpart rm -rf /usr/ports/misc/renamedlgplugins rm -rf /usr/ports/multimedia/noatun-plugins ---8--- I believe that recently broken too with other ports coming out. BTW: All on 4.8-RELEASE-p15 if that matters. It might..that version is no longer officially supported by the ports collection (see http://www.freebsd.org), and there was a change to make(1) before 4.9 that corrected a parse error in certain makefile syntax. Over time ports have started to rely on this bugfix. Okay, I tried upgrading to 4.9 (p4 I believe), and run it again. Same problem, so I don't think it depends on the BSD version. I'm clueless... all I can think of is to systematically remove broken ports and to run make index on that reduced set. Since upgrading to 4.9 doesn't help, I have no clue what to try next. Any pointers as what to try are appreciated. I should have a bit more time the next couple weeks to dig into this. Thanks, Frank -- Warning at the Gates of Bill: Abandon hope, all ye who press ENTER here... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
portsdb issues / make index failure -- SOLVED
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 19:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: I can't see anything in this or some of the other ports you mentioned (namazu2) that might cause problems. My best guess is that something is still non-standard about your system, but I can't do better than that. Kris, I finally found the problem to the make index problem I was having. The issue was that make index barfs with: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: *** Error code 1 Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: make describe barfs with: === databases/namazu2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/databases. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports. The problem turned out to be the NOPORTDOCS flag in my /etc/make.conf. With that flag present (hoping not to waste space on port documentation), the make index build fails since... uhm... sometime beginning of February. However, with NOPORTDOCS commented out in /etc/make.conf, the make index (and portdb command) run without any errors (except the usual missing dependencies for other languages). I'm posting this to the lists as well in case someone else has the same issue. Anyone with make index problems is encouraged to remove the NOPORTDOCS flag and try again. Regards, Frank -- Warning at the Gates of Bill: Abandon hope, all ye who press ENTER here... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:42, Eric F Crist wrote: Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just why you use what you do. I use FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Everything works including video, audio, PC card, DVD, firewire, USB, and APM. Perhaps your problem is not so much the OS but the laptop. It would help to tell us what kind of laptop you have. Why I use BSD? Mainly for stability, usability, performance and security reasons. Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: portsdb issues
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:00, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I waited a bit, then ran cvsup on the ports, once more, and this time there was more to download, including a new INDEX-5 file. I ran portsdb -Uu once more, and it worked perfectly. I guess my ports tree was out of sync somehow. Whoa... if that was out of sync, then cvsup2 is _still_ out of sync. I'm running make describe to find the broken ports. So far I found: /usr/ports/devel/sparc-rtems-gdb /usr/ports/databases/namazu2 /usr/ports/net/samba-devel /usr/ports/www/mozilla-bonobo /usr/ports/converters/ktextdecode /usr/ports/devel/kdesdk3 /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop /usr/ports/devel/linux-glib2 /usr/ports/devel/linux-libglade /usr/ports/devel/qt-designer /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gconf2 /usr/ports/devel/ruby-glib2 /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gnomevfs /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade2 /usr/ports/lang/klogoturtle /usr/ports/ftp/kbear /usr/ports/mail/kshowmail /usr/ports/misc/bookcase /usr/ports/misc/katalog /usr/ports/misc/kde3-i18n-af make describe complains on each of them. I have already dumped the ports tree and cvsup'ed it completely fresh. (First cvsup yesterday afternoon, last cvsup today around noon.) Is there something wrong with cvsup2 perhaps? BTW: All on 4.8-RELEASE-p15 if that matters. I never had that many issues with the ports in the past. It all started recently when sparc-rtems-gdb and namazu2 went belly up. Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:31, stan wrote: I have a system that I have removed all teh non English language port directories, and I run a cvsup _with_ a refuse file for these. Then I did a portdb -Uu. This resulted in a fair number of complaints, but when I ran portupgrade -aRr it hapilly took of running. Granted this sytem only has 19 ports installed. But it seems to work. Am I missing somehting hrere? Nope. I've been doing that too. I have non-english and unused ports commented out in my ports-supfile (ports-all commented out and individual ports are in), and also listed non-language ports in refuse. portupgrade runs fine. portdb complaints with a ton of error messages about dependencies missing etc, but all is well. The only gotcha I encountered is when new ports branches are added (i.e. port-dns). Since I list specific ports in my supfile, new ports are not caught automatically, which means the supfile needs occasional maintenance. That's about it. And you're right, it's a space saver on small drives :) Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Retired Linux user wants to switch
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 19:59, greg wrote: FreeBSD is an operating system, not a religion. It is to me. :) Ever since I've seen the light and escaped from Windows hell into BSD heaven. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Laptop starts back up on its own
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: When i had this problem, the solution ended up being to set the computer to not power up when another computer tries to access it online. That seemed to stop the weird powering on. -Thomas How did you change this setting...where was it done? Check your BIOS settings and disable Wake-On-Lan, Wake-On-Ring and similar auto-on features. -Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: DNS/Webhosting question
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 07:25, Roman Neuhauser wrote: which of my servers is primary and which secondary if I can edit the data on either and have it synchronized to the other? The one you list as primary in the Start Of Authority :P Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: 200gb hard drive?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:56, Derrick Ryalls wrote: When manufacturers talk about drive size, they use base 10. When computer report drive size, they use base 2. So, if you divide 200,000,000 bytes by ( 1024 * 1024 ), you get roughly 190gig in binary, so off the bat you lose 10gigs of space due to marketspeak translation. That's not always the case. I have seen disk manufacturers use something like base 20 :) In other words, they advertise a 160 GB drive which only holds 120 GB. I hope they get sued for this crap talk about deceptive marketing...geesh... Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: DNS/Webhosting question
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:23, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, What tools exist in Freebsd to determine the primary dsn server for a domain Heh.. . everyone seems to be responding with 'nslookup -type=ns foo.com' or 'host -t ns foo.com', but those queries return *all* name servers and make no distinction which one is the primary. For that you have to query the SOA which contains the primary name server for a domain. - host -t soa foo.com Regards, Frank (being a smart-ass today) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Evolution without gnome
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 22:54, Chris wrote: Evolution is slick. I loved it - but the fact remains that it is bloated and runs horrid if you happen to save messages, and they are in the k's. The secret to get Evolution to run decent is to use the maildir format instead of mbox for all message folders. I have around 2200 folders with a total of 1.7 GB in the ~/evolution folder, and Evolution performs great. I believe that during startup it reindexes the mbox files, that's why it takes so long. If you use the maildir format, you save that time. For the most part, I'm very happy with Evolution. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Problem with new laptop touch pad
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:06, Ray Seals wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:28, Ray Seals wrote: Just purchased and eMachine M3512. I cannot get the touch pad to work. Anyone else know if it's supported or any ideas on getting this running. I have tried it with both 4.8 and 5.1. I would rather have 5.1 working since the ethernet port is firewire and I can get it working in 5.1 but not 4.8. Well, the touch pad is a Synaptics Touchpad on PS/2 port. Any info on getting this to work would be appreciated. My Dell Inspiron 8100 has a Synaptics Touchpad. There was nothing special that needed to be done. It is found like any other PS/2 mouse as psm0. Isn't that found during startup on your box? Check your messages log file or dmesg | grep psm0. Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ssh keys - howto?
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 05:18, Jan Grant wrote: No, you don't. Use puttygen to create the key (as you've done) and copy the public half of it to your FreeBSD box (as you've done). I was reasonable sure that I created my keys on BSD and converted the public key to Putty using an import function. However, looking at my version pf Putty Key Gen (0.53b) I do the option to create keys and export them into OpenSSH format. I guess the correct answer is: Whatever floats your boat. Create the keys where you want, just make sure you convert the public key to the format your box needs. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ssh keys - howto?
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm stumped. Just need to get ssh keys working. I have FBSD-5.1 web server with sshd running. I have a workstation running W2K with WinSCP3. I have tried Puttygen to create the keys and copied the key to .ssh directory on FBSD, renamed it authorized_keys but it don't work. I then ran ssh_keygen on the BSD box, but don't know what to do with the two files it created, there are no instructions about that part in the man file. Does anyone have a how-to on settup of ssh between w2k and fbsd? I'm not aware of a How-To, but you have to create the files on FBSD. Then copy them to Putty. There should be an option in Putty to convert the OpenSSH keys to Putty keys. Once converted, they will work. See the Putty Help files of web site for more info. Hope this helps, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:05, stan wrote: BTW, out of curoisity, Did I need to delete the ~/.g[nc]* filles/directories? If I had not would they have been auto upgraded? Your Gnome config files? No. Not unless you want to start with default settings :) Looking foward to playing with Gnome 2.4, hope it's a step back twoard 1.4 from 2.2, which I loathe. I'm not too thrilled with this upgrade. While it's nice to lock icons on panels (I also appreciate various bug fixes), I'm a bit miffled since it broke my pager. When I click in a workspace window in the pager, it switches to that workspace, but moves all windows around kinda funky. :( Oh well, still, I don't mind taking 3 steps forward and 1 back :) Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote: I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I can't get loged intot a session using gdm. I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user home directory. Still no luck. I tried the Gnome failsafe session, still no luck. Looks like it doesn't even _try_ to start Gnome, and I get a console message about gdm_slave_session_start: Execution of PostLogin script returned 0. Aborting. Heh... same thing happened to me. Here is what you need to do: cd into /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm. There you find your gdm.conf. After the cvsup, you have (or have a newer version of) factory-gdm.conf. A comparison showed wha'ts missing. Go ahead and edit gdm.conf. Search for PostSessionScriptDir. You should see a path assigned to it. You should also see a definition of PreSessionScriptDir. What you don't see is PostLoginScriptDir. Go ahead and add to that section following line: PostLoginScriptDir=/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/PostLogin/ Then restart gdm (/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop and /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start) and you should be good to go. Hope this helps, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Multiple screens TV and Monitor??
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:24, kristof wrote: Does anybody know how you to configure your Xfreeconfig file so that it can lanch two X windows at the same time. I would like te be able to view my screen on my tv and monitor at the same time. I can do it separatly(TV or Monitor) but it has to be possible to have twinview. I have an NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX 440 SE and I'm pretty sure it supports this feature (Works in WINDHOOS). Any links with information or advice on how to adchieve this would be very welkom Kristof, this should be explained in the documentation or FAQ of the Nvidia Linux driver. There is a twinview keyword that enables TwinView in X. There are also a couple other options that specify the second display, it's screen size, and where (layout-wise) it is located in relation to the primary display. I have my Xconfig file for TwinView attached. It enables my TFT display (DFP) (Inspiron 8100 with GeForce2 Go) and the external monitor (CRT). The keyword for the TV output I believe is just TV. All those things are in the DEVICE section. Use the attached stuff as an example and modify it to fit your needs. Hope this helps, Frank PS: Anyone know a decent and not too expensive TFT flat screen capable of 1600x1200? Section ServerFlags # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging # NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. DontZoom EndSection Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce 2 VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce2 Go Driver nvidia VideoRam 32768 #Option FlatPanelScalingMode scaled Option CursorShadow On Option CursorShadowXOffset 2 Option ConnectedMonitor DFP,CRT Option TwinView On #Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 90 #Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 80 Option TwinViewOrientation RightOf #Option MetaModes 1600x1200,1024x768; #Option MetaModes 1024x768,1600x1200; Option MetaModes [EMAIL PROTECTED],1600x1200; Option UseEdidFreqs On EndSection Section Module Loadbitmap Loadextmod Loaddbe Loadtype1 Loadglx Loadfreetype EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen Device NVIDIA GeForce 2 Monitor Dell 1600X Laptop Display Panel DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 #Modes 1024x768 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection #Section ServerLayout #Identifier Normal #InputDevice Mouse CorePointer #InputDevice Keyboard CoreKeyboard #EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse Driver mouse #Option Protocol PS/2 #Option Protocol IntelliMouse #Option Device /dev/mouse Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Option Protocol Xqueue # Emulate3Buttons # Emulate3Timeout50 EndSection Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard Driver Keyboard Option Protocol Standard Option AutoRepeat 250 12 # Option Protocol Xqueue # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Xleds 1 2 3 # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: #LeftAlt Meta #RightAltMeta #ScrollLock Compose #RightCtlControl # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. #XkbDisable # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below
Re: CDRom able to play DVD movies
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, what ive heard is there's some kind of tweaked emulation under windows, which tricks the system into thinking the cdrom drive is a dvd drive, and the system compensates for the work the drive cant actually do [perhaps some kind of 'on the fly decode/read']. no idea if such a beast exists. and with today's prices, its probably easier to simply buy a dvd drive. :) Sounds to me like you are confusing this software with a software DVD player/decoder. Most systems should play DVD's through a built-in hardware decoder and display it on the screen in overlay mode. If you don't have built-in decoder, you can use software like WinDVD to read the DVD (still from a DVD drive) and the software does the decoding and displaying on the screen (which will usually slow the system down bad, potentially resulting in frame loss). You still need a DVD drive to read DVD's though. Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: CDRom able to play DVD movies
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 11:44, Neu, Benjamin S. wrote: Is there an echo in this mailing list?! :) Maybe :) I only kept half of the thread. Sorry for wasting bits Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:52, Stacey Roberts wrote: 2] Does anyone know of any reason why traceroute might fail on FreeBSD, but work on Win2K Pro? Stacey, FreeBSD uses UDP based traceroute while Windows boxes use ICMP based traceroute. Some providers (like ComCast cable) block ICMP packets (so tracert on Windows fails), but let UDP packets through (which means that BSD based traceroute succeeds). HTH, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
