Re: configuring all dependancies before making in ports
Thanks, that's a big help... Especially since I might have to rebuild my new system again soon, due to the lack of 64 bit support for my video card (PCIeGeForce 7300 - the X drivers can't seem to find the video device) On 2/2/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try: make config-recursive or, if i want to just take all the default options (like, for kde which is a ridiculously long build): make BATCH=yes install clean cheers, jonathan On Friday 02 February 2007 20:55, you wrote: Quick question, I'm trying to build a couple of packages that take a long time to build, even longer because they just stop when it's time to configure something. That's a problem if it's configure time, say when I need to sleep, or am at work. Is there a way to have the make run through all the dependancies that need build, running their configuration menus /before/ doing any of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
configuring all dependancies before making in ports
Quick question, I'm trying to build a couple of packages that take a long time to build, even longer because they just stop when it's time to configure something. That's a problem if it's configure time, say when I need to sleep, or am at work. Is there a way to have the make run through all the dependancies that need build, running their configuration menus /before/ doing any of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB2 drive speed problems
I have a notebook that has a USB2 controller. In windows I can get a 14MB/s data transfer rate in Windows (write) to my USB drive. However in BSD, I only get a 630KB/s transfer rate. Whats the best way to ascertain *why* I'm getting this slow performance? I'm not sure which diagnostic steps to take at this point. I know I had the USB2 modules compiled into my kernel. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux compatability question
Thank you, I had to use a different linux library (linux-dri I think), but it ended up working. -Jim Stapleton On 12/27/06, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:02:39 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm trying to run a linux app (binary) that requires libGLU.so.1, and it's an x86 binary. It requires a linux library. When I first ran it, it complained that the file libGLU.so.1 could not be found (it was in my /usr/X11R6/lib directory. I made a simlink with And that is a FreeBSD one. that name to that file to /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib and now get this error: ./partiview: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libGLU.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid Yes, the linux app tries to load a FreeBSD library. This is on an i950 based notebook (integrated intel graphics), using the i810 and vga drivers in X. FreeBSD 6.1, X is either 6.8 or 6.9 Any suggestions? Remove your simlink and install graphics/linux-libGLU. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
good news for FreeBSD lovers who admin Stellent Content Manager, irrelevant news for everyone else...
This is by no way an official post, but in my current job I admin a Stellent Content Server, which until recently only had AIX/Linux/SunOS/Win32 as supported platforms (maybe one or two other platforms that I've forgotten). I was about to try installing it with the Linux Compatability Layer where necessary, but right when I was going to start, all the images dissapeared off their website. This morning I checked, and along with the 7.6.2 (new sub-release?) I found a FreeBSD ISO. So, really, if you were interested in SCM but couldn't find it in FreeBSD, or wanted to move a system with it over to FreeBSD, you now can. If you don't know what SCM is, then you probaly wasted your time reading this message (sorry, I did warn you). I'm just happy to see a nice piece of mainstream commercial software on FreeBSD. It's not common enough as of yet. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?
I have made a post like this before, so I can hardly criticise you for that, though my goal was more to try to consolidate a group to work on the issue. I'll say this, while the graphics aren't as pretty as those of many Linux distros, the FreeBSD installer is a lot more user friendly and workable in 6.x than it was in 5.2 (5.3?) when I had tried it previously. It may not be a pretty GUI, but it has the functionality and flexibility, in fact, a bit more than even the GUIs of those I'd say, and it's not user-unfriendly anymore. Additionally, it's worth the switch now, simply for the fact that although the learning curve is a touch higher when things work, it's a lot lower when fixing things that don't, add to that the fact that more of the listed supported stuff just works without the hassle you get on Linux, it's well worth the switch. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux compatability question
I'm not sure what to do at this point, I'm trying to run a linux app (binary) that requires libGLU.so.1, and it's an x86 binary. When I first ran it, it complained that the file libGLU.so.1 could not be found (it was in my /usr/X11R6/lib directory. I made a simlink with that name to that file to /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib and now get this error: ./partiview: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libGLU.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid This is on an i950 based notebook (integrated intel graphics), using the i810 and vga drivers in X. FreeBSD 6.1, X is either 6.8 or 6.9 Any suggestions? Thanks, -Jim Stpleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cleanly reading compressed backups
I have several disk images, and I'd like to grab files off of them, but I'm not sure how. I made these images by booting up a linux boot CD (it seemed easier than a BSD cd at the time, and the results should be the same), and make a backup as such: dd if=/dev/sda | bzip2 -z9 | split [forgot the args, basically 1GB files that are bsd-backup-(date)-??] anyway, without uncompressing them back to disk (it's the same slice/partitions as I have now), what's the easiest way to get read access to these contents of the files in these backups? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.
Ok, to start this off, and so you know where I'm coming from - I do a lot with comptuers and I'm visually impared. This makes notebooks a royal pain in the posterior - to the point where I NEED a few features in KDE/Gnome,a nd cannot use Windows. However, add to that a lot of manufacturers don't support their customers very well, not even if it is plain and simple hardware, and you suddenly have a *very* restrictive list. I I've had bad experiences with many companies, and good experiences with really only two. One of which, while BSD/Linux friendly, is out of the picture for reasons of exceptionally immoral and frivolous lawsuites (in my oppinion), the other, while their support is surperb, does not provide drivers for anything but windows, and does weird stuff to their hardware. The latter company is Toshiba. I'm putting this here on the questions and not the mobile forum because I believe that they also make non-mobile machines, and this is a slightly more wide ranging question that normally is found there. My question: 1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's weirdities, would you purchase their machines? 2) If yes to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign to them to request they provide drivers for BSD and/or Linux - preferrably open source for one, or closed source for both, if it must remain closed for whatever reasons. 3) Off the topic of the main post, what are your top 3 vendors if your main consideration is the combination of (1) FreeBSD compatable hardware, and (2) Reliable/Honest/Intelligent and Customer Friendly tech support for hardware issues. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up SOHO server
Hmm, not familiar with dump or restore, but what I would suggest, is when you can get some down time, boot from a live cd, and using a dd/bzip2/split combo (or any other method of your choice), make a backup image of the drive as well, If you get a new drive with the same size/etc, it'll massively speed up the reinstall phase. When you recover, all you need is cat/bunzip2/dd to do the restore. It's quite a bit faster than a reinstall, especially if you compile your own apps - it saved me a lot of time when my notebook died. Sorry I couldn't be more help with your specific questions. -Jim Stapleton On 10/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have freebsd 6.1 installed running Samba authenticating my home users and pc's and home shares for each user. This also serves as a web development box for my internal network. Because there is a login script that runs to map drives on the remote pc's all users are accustomed to dumping there important data there. I am trying to come up with a backup and restore plan. Just plan to do complete dumps with the script below once a week which is good for me due to the fact of how the box is used. If a total drive crash happens I will just reinstall from cd then use restore to recover the dump. I am backing up to a usb drive connected to the server. I have printed the file system and taped it to the top of the usb drive hehehehe. Any other input would be appreciated. Also on the restore portion I plan to just cd into that slice and run dd if=/mnt/backup/file/Backup.gz |gzip -d |restore -rf - Since this is for home use and protection for only disasster/drive failure a new install will be done, will retore over write what is there to restore the old contents? vader# df -H Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a260M 55M184M23%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1g 20G 10G8.1G56%/home /dev/ad0s1d1.0G223k954M 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 12G2.5G9.0G22%/usr /dev/ad0s1e4.2G620M3.2G16%/var /dev/ad4s1 242G122G100G55%/music devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/var/named/dev /dev/da0s1d116G6.8G100G 6%/mnt/backup vader# more /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s1 /music ufs rw 3 3 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 The backup script vader# more dumpbackup.sh #!/bin/sh mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1d /mnt/backup/ dump=/sbin/dump chflags=/bin/chflags dt=`date +%Y%m%d` destpath=/mnt/backup/file lvl=0 # / src1=/dev/ad0s1a # /home src2=/dev/ad0s1g # /var src3=/dev/ad0s1e # /usr src4=/dev/ad0s1f dest1=$destpath/root_ad0s1a_l0_$dt.gz dest2=$destpath/home_ad0s1g_l0_$dt.gz dest3=$destpath/var_ad0s1e_l0_$dt.gz dest4=$destpath/usr_ad0s1f_l0_$dt.gz # Exceptions NO BACKUP $chflags -R nodump /usr/ports/ $chflags -R nodump /usr/src/ $chflags -R nodump /usr/obj/ $chflags -R nodump /mnt/backup/ # Fullbackup Level 0 Monthly $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src1 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest1 $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src2 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest2 $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src3 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest3 $dump -$lvl -Lauf - $src4 | gzip -2 | dd of=$dest4 #Finish Comments umount /mnt/backup/ echo Finished Another Weeks Backup vader# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question with mouse pointer
Thanks, that is what I was looking for/thinking of.
On 10/19/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:16 -0400
Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the best way to get a larger pointer on my comptuer? I'm
running Xorg/KDE. I tried to look, but the only thing I could find was
cursor profiles, and I'd rather not have to figure out how to create a
new profile...
Sorry for the lack of specifics and details, but I'm not what else to
put here. Lowering the resolution isn't really an option either...
Hi Jim,
usually (in my experience) this is done by changing the cursors you actually
use (rather than 'enlarge' the current by some software method).
On my 6.2-PRERELEASE system X cursors are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/
you can download packages and extract them in folders there, or simply install
them from ports (search for 'cursor' in the name). To change the default
setting (so it affects your login manager too, you need to edit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme
For example, I have the following cursor packages installed:
$ pkg_info | grep curso
cursor-bluecurve-theme-0.234_2 The Bluecurve X cursor themes
and my index.theme is:
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default
$ cat index.theme
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Bluecurve-inverse
#Inherits=core
There may be some way for your desktop manager to modify the cursor... but
this works, and I use XFCE, so i don't know those details about KDE or GNOME. I
think Enlightment has some mouse-pointer related settings, but it's been a
while since I tried it.
HIH,
B
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Question with mouse pointer
What's the best way to get a larger pointer on my comptuer? I'm running Xorg/KDE. I tried to look, but the only thing I could find was cursor profiles, and I'd rather not have to figure out how to create a new profile... Sorry for the lack of specifics and details, but I'm not what else to put here. Lowering the resolution isn't really an option either... Thanks, -Jim Stapleto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
yeah the ports make me fell in love with FreeBSD, the only thing that came close to FreeBSD ports is the gentoo portage, note came close but not really at par. yeah, portage wasn't bad, but it wasn't as clean as ports either. More errors, more fixing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
Also, I'm not sure when you guys tried Gentoo, but as of late (within the past ~1 year), the quality of the packages and system as an OS has improved quite a bit, in the sense that many stable items now install and work properly in the OS. Another off-topic comment I admit, but I thought it should be mentioned... I've been trying to deal with it for the past two months, on and off. OpenOffice would not compile, Xorg took a lot of tweaking and a few attempts, and a few other programs provided a bit of challange. Only KDE went more smoothly than it did in FBSD. I'd like to see portage in FBSD though, since ruby is pretty kludgy. Either that or a different means of recording package data and dependencies (been thinking of Perl for a while..). Where does Ruby fit into this? To my knowledge, ports uses Perl to my knowledge, and Portage uses Python. And while I wouldn't mind a few of the portage features, such as about 10k more packages, and a few of the interface/display options, I'd still rather use FBSD any day. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, you can always keep your system up to date if you like. Of cause, you can also choose staying at a certain version. I'm gonna join the whoever said this was on crack club. Going between major versions can be a challange due to mergebastard and the various config file change, but Gentoo's setup is really no different in that respect. However, when you want to compile the Kernel, the FreeBSD system is much mroe useful than that of Gentoo. I failed my first kernel build on FreeBSD (custom kernel config) before it booted properly, and have since done several more without issue. With Gentoo, after about half a dozen attempts at optimizing my kernel for my notebook, I gave up and used Genkernel, which was not as efficient, but at least worked. Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. Spend an extra 5 minutes researching your hardware before buying, more often than not, this'll save you the issues. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who are afraid of forgetting make commands.. -Garrett I agree, but since I couldn't get a decent custom kernel booting, that was my only option. And speaking of sht, in regards to Damiens last comment - I honestly don't believe that it's just binary drivers that keeps Linux with better driver support - there are more OSS drivers there too. The reason? It's fecal - linux only; cares that it works, they care much less about documentation and quality. It's enticing to the a lot of the developers and made the community larger - Hey I can spend my time coding how I want instead of following standards and wasting time with documentation!!. Don't get me wrong, I think binary drivers due play an issue, by my BSD desktop had binary drivers in it too, they just weren't supplied with the BSD images (I don't think they would have been stored with linux images either). anyway, just another two cents of my own. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested
On 10/15/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive, the /dev/da* devices do not show up. The system is running 6.1. When you plug in the USB drive, lines should be appended to the dmesg of the kernel identifying the device - or any errors. Please post that. The handbook says I need these: device scbus device da device pass device uhci device ohci device usb device umass You may need ehci if this is USB 2.0, but I think it would otherwise fall back on either ohci or uhci. Scanning dmesg for usb, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:32:22 (0) /usr/src dmesg | grep usb usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb1: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 usb2: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 usb3: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 See comment above on dmesg. You don't get all the relevant info by grepping for usb. The results from usbdevs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:34:11 (0) /usr/src sudo usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, Logitech addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: EHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: iAUDIO X5, Cowon Systems, Inc. Is that with the device plugged in? If so, seems logical that there is no device in /dev because it is not found. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 OK, here's the full dmesg. It's the IAUDIO X5 devices (I just use it as a portable hard drive a lot, which is why I called it that). After unplugging/plugging it in several times, I noticed my dmesg doesn't change: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Mon Jul 24 16:10:27 EDT 2006 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JIMKERN Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T1300 @ 1.66GHz (1662.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6e8 Stepping = 8 Features=0xafe9fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE Features2=0xc1a9SSE3,MON,VMX,EST,TM2,b14,b15 real memory = 526843904 (502 MB) avail memory = 506183680 (482 MB) ACPI APIC Table: INTEL CALISTGA ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: TOSINV Capell00 on motherboard acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR ACPI-0356: *** Error: Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.DOCK._STA] (Node 0xc3241360), AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI-0239: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.DOCK._STA] (Node 0xc3241360), AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI-0356: *** Error: Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.DOCK._STA] (Node 0xc3241360), AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI-0239: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.DOCK._STA] (Node 0xc3241360), AE_NOT_EXIST Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x16 port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_perf0: ACPI CPU Frequency Control on cpu0 acpi_perf0: failed in PERF_STATUS attach device_attach: acpi_perf0 attach returned 6 acpi_perf0: ACPI CPU Frequency Control on cpu0 acpi_perf0: failed in PERF_STATUS attach device_attach: acpi_perf0 attach returned 6 acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 battery0: ACPI Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_acad0: AC Adapter on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 acpi_video0: ACPI video extension port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xdc10-0xdc17,0xc000-0xcfff,0xdc20-0xdc23 irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 pci0: display at device 2.1 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia at device 27.0 (no driver attached) pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 17 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI
Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g
On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 10/7/06, Lars Engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got this: ural0: flags=108843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::215:e9ff:fe2d:72c3%ural0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 49.49.253.171 ether 00:15:e9:2d:72:c3 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps (OFDM/54Mbps) status: no carrier ssid mine channel 6 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100 I've tried replacing wep with wepkey, I've tried weptxkey 1 to 4, no luck on any of those. Any other suggestions? Perhaps the authmode needs to be set to SHARED? That didn't work either -- I also tried 8021x and wpa. Both gave me an error: ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid argument status: no carrier means you are not associated to the ap. When the reason is not obvious I usually do this: wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc before bringing the interface up w/ ifconfig. The console msgs should tell you what's going on. I don't recall if ifconfig ural0 debug will give you similar info. Of course it'd be better if the failure code for the last auth/assoc attempt was reported by ifconfig in this situation (I think it's available by ioctl but can't recall--if not it's easy to add and has been done for other systems). Sam PS. wlandebug is in src/tools/tools/net80211. well, it gave me something that is probably useful - but I've no idea how to use it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16:17:27 (0) ~ sudo wlandebug -i ural0 scan+auth+assoc net.wlan.1.debug: 0x0 = 0xe0assoc,auth,scan there was no other output. Nothing appeared in dmesg thanks, -Jim Stapleton addendum: I found a way to get by this problem - it only seems to fail when the mouse is plugged in before the drive, if I plug in the mouse first, the drive fails. I have verified this with anouth drive. This only happens when the mouse is plugged in directly, if the mouse is plugged in via a KVM (as it would be at home), the problem is not observed. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
Well, in my case: - No matter what method I use to install packages in Linux (Apt-Get, Yum, Deb, RPM, and to a much lesser extent, Emerge, and to a *MUCH* greater extent src tar.gz's), I tend to have a lot more trouble getting installs to finish than with BSD in ports. - The FreeBSD community is much more friendly and helpful than the Linux community, in my experience. Gentoo's is better than other Linux communities, but still not quite up to FreeBSD. - I notice a lot smaller number of It's 'X' liscence, therefore it has to be good, or It's open source therefore it has to be good fanboys in FreeBSD. The users tend to be more of a It works, so it's good type. This really makes the commmunity pleasant. - The documentation of FreeBSD is much better in both organization and detail - while good documentation can be found for Linux, FreeBSD just takes a lot less searching. - I've found a lot of breaks in Linux where I couldn't find anything short of a system re-install to fix them without a lot more effort in searching for some obscure piece of documentation. Aside from once when I blew up my kernel build, I didn't have that problem in BSD. - It's less popular than Linux, so it's less commonly known/accounted for, and it makes you just that much safer from hackers. Note: that's not to say it doesn't have it's issues, like every other OS, I could name a few dozen issues I've run into with FreeBSD without much hassle (mostly related to drivers, UI, and parts of the installer), but that's a different topic alltogether. -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested
It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive, the /dev/da* devices do not show up. The system is running 6.1. The handbook says I need these: device scbus device da device pass device uhci device ohci device usb device umass kldstat shows this: 1 12 0xc040 51e030 kernel 21 0xc091f000 1adb8linux.ko 31 0xc093a000 4d24 acpi_video.ko 44 0xc093f000 597acacpi.ko 51 0xc0999000 3b58 acpi_toshiba.ko 62 0xc3803000 9000 ibcs2.ko 71 0xc381 3000 ibcs2_coff.ko 81 0xc3df7000 d000 msdosfs.ko Looking for the modules, I find: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:05 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'scbus\.' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:10 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'da\.' coda.ko ida.ko snd_hda.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:12 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'pass\.' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:26 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'uhci\.' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:30 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'ohci\.' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:32 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'usb\.' usb.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:29:43 (0) /usr/src ls /boot/kernel | grep 'umass\.' umass.ko Scanning dmesg for usb, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:32:22 (0) /usr/src dmesg | grep usb usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 usb1: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 usb2: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 usb3: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 The results from usbdevs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:34:11 (0) /usr/src sudo usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, Logitech addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 1: EHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: iAUDIO X5, Cowon Systems, Inc. What is the best way to fix this without recompiling the kernel? I thought about compiling the drivers in the source tree individually: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:37:13 (0) /sys cd /usr/src; find . -iname '*da\.*' ./cam/scsi/scsi_da.c ./cam/scsi/scsi_da.h ./coda/coda.h ./dev/ida/ida.c but I could not do a make in the scsi or cam directories. make scsi gave me a don't know how to make class of error, and make cam gave me an error saying cam is up to date. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection
On 10/6/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like a few recommendations for small ports to try to install on my stand-alone machine. The stand-alone machine does not have connection to the internet; however, I do have a set of four (4)CD from the FreeBSD Mall and two (2) of the CD's have 'ports' on them. I would like to select one, two or three ports to install on this machine ... to go through the steps and experience of the ports process using the cdroms, so ... in essence I'm looking for suggestions of ports of a small nature (if there is such a thing). I'm not sure how familiar you are with Unis operating systems or the various tools available for all of it's incarnations, so, I'm listing these with info as if you were completely new to it. If you are not, I do not mean any insult or offense, I just don't know your level of experience, so I'm going for something relatively low that would give you a wide range of sights and sounds in the desktop *nix world. If you aren't /that/ new, just look at my list, and pick and choose your favorites. Ideally, you would want to install ports that you could make use of more than ports that are small. Even the larges ports rarely cause me issues. For small starts: bash - already suggested, very good shell nano - light weight and useful text editor pico - like nano, but made before or after, can't remember which vim - again, already suggested, good text editor, though not to my taste. It is lightweight and fast, though not to the extent of pico/nano. sudoku - I prefer pencil and paper because you can make notes, but it's fun naim - a console IM program intermediate projects: emacs - another popular editor, the largest (in size, not popularity - don't know what is the most popular) of the bunch, but I know people who get a lot of work done only starting one program *ever*, this is that program. It uses a large amount of resources for just a text editor, but you can do a lot more with it, and on a modern machine, that large amount is still relatively neglegable. xorg - an X (graphics) server, which will be extremely useful if you want more than a console command prompt. gaim - a multi-im client. quite useful, it could actually be in small projects, but you need X installed before hand. gnome - this is between intermediate and larger projects, a good and popular desktop/session manager, again, not to my taste, for as much smaller as it is, it runs slower than KDE on my systems. Nonetheless, a lot of people like it, and you should give it a try. * - Just about anything in the games directory Big projects KDE - like gnome, but more friendly to the people who like gui configuration, less friendly to those who like text configuration. I find it faster, but that could be because I have a lot of memory on all my machines - it's definetly larger. Might be the whole space for speed tradeoff that you can sometimes do, I don't know. Regardless, be prepared for a challange, you may not (read: probably won't) be able to get the full KDE running due to some apps not compiling. Read the updating file, and you may have to try kde-lite. openoffice.org-2.0 - a nice office suit, be prepared for a challange! Now, you may need a few java packages that won't be on the CDs for this - which you'll have to download elsewhere and put on either a CD or a flash drive. Have fun, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ndis + Linksys WPC54Gv3
I have just picked up this card for my notebook. On this site: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html it is reported to work. I have inserted the card, the status light on it blinks green then goes off. I ran ndis and generated the driver as specified, kldloaded the wlan_wep module, followed by ndis, followed by the card driver. After that I checked dmesg - the card did not appear (nothing with ndis or the card driver name). No errors came from kldload, and there was no ndis entry in /dev or /dev/net What's the next step in diagnostics? I'm runing FreeBSD 6.1 on i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?
d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in net and net-mgmt, didn't think of grepping the security directory. Thanks! -Jim Stapleton On 8/31/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn't tell me which directory it couldn't find, so I couldn't make the proper symlink. You could try a strings on the binary to try to find the directory - assuming that's the only problem, of course :-) --Alex the most important question is, what type of vpn concentrator do you have? if it happens to be a cisco vpn3000, the try this: /usr/ports/security/vpnc other wise, google [your vpn model] freebsd and see what turns up. cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra
The right stuff: sudo mount_smbfs -I server name NOT ip - don't ask me why, I don't know -W workgroup/domain name -d 550 -f 550 //myusername@server name NOT ip - I can answer this if you don't know and ask me why/share mount point That's about it. On 8/30/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/08/2006 2:18 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I didn't have the right stuff for logging into a domain, second time around when that was fixed, I had a / where there should have been an @. What was the right stuff for logging into a domain? Can you give an example command line? We've seen some machines where we had to add the -W parameter with the domain name (as the workgroup name, go figure) in order to get mount_smbfs to work... yet smbclient will happily figure this out itself. Cheers Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?
I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn't tell me which directory it couldn't find, so I couldn't make the proper symlink. I looked through the VPN via IPSEC portion of the handbook, but was left wanting. Anyone know of a better howto? My questions from the VPN/IPSEC section: (1) My machine isn't the router - can it still work? (2) I don't want to send a lot of garbage to the VPN connection, should I connect the loopback (127.0.0.1), my local ip (192.168.1.84), or create a new loopback or virtual network connection (how?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra
I'm trying to connect my FreeBSD notebook to some shares at work, which are on an EMC Celerra box, which uses the windows SMB protocol, but I keep getting an odd error, which right now I'm suspecting is an incompatability between the two, and I was wondering if anyone here has had previous experience with this: 1) I can mount_smbfs shares on my windows desktop at home 2) People here can mount drives on the celerra box from Windows and Linux 3) Every time I try to map a share from FreeBSD, I get the error: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: resource temporarily unavailable And no, I am not installing windows/linux on my notebook to get this (and sound) working, each has it's own issues which make it much worse for my uses. :-P Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra
nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I didn't have the right stuff for logging into a domain, second time around when that was fixed, I had a / where there should have been an @. Just point, laugh and make funny faces at me, I deserve it for the latter error. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/30/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect my FreeBSD notebook to some shares at work, which are on an EMC Celerra box, which uses the windows SMB protocol, but I keep getting an odd error, which right now I'm suspecting is an incompatability between the two, and I was wondering if anyone here has had previous experience with this: 1) I can mount_smbfs shares on my windows desktop at home 2) People here can mount drives on the celerra box from Windows and Linux 3) Every time I try to map a share from FreeBSD, I get the error: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: resource temporarily unavailable And no, I am not installing windows/linux on my notebook to get this (and sound) working, each has it's own issues which make it much worse for my uses. :-P Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver source compilation question
is not constant hdac.c:1862: error: (near initialization for `hdacchan_methods[5]') hdac.c:1863: error: `channel_getcaps_desc' undeclared here (not in a function) hdac.c:1863: error: initializer element is not constant hdac.c:1863: error: (near initialization for `hdacchan_methods[6].desc') hdac.c:1863: error: initializer element is not constant hdac.c:1863: error: (near initialization for `hdacchan_methods[6]') hdac.c:1864: error: initializer element is not constant hdac.c:1864: error: (near initialization for `hdacchan_methods[7]') *** Error code 1 Line 1587 of hdac.c: KOBJMETHOD(channel_init,hdacchan_init), channel_init is not described anywhere, but I noticed that several other driver files in the kernel tree use soemthing like this also - I'm assuming that I'm missing something in the makefile, but I cant figure out what. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IPSEC, am I missing something?
I was googling freebsd and vpn so I could use my notebook to handle work stuff remotely, and I found this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html guess I didn't need google. Regardless, it mentions a lot of kernel options. I checked my kernel configuration file, to see if they had been turned on, they weren't even in there and commented out let alone on (as some optionals are). What I found and added: #ipsec: Required for VPN options IPSEC#IP security options IPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations options FAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) options IPSEC_FILTERGIF #filter ipsec packets from a tunnel before adding these, I just had the default 6.1 generic kernel file with a few things commented and a couple uncommented. Am I missing soemeting? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?
OK, thanks. Right now there are no problems, I just am looking to figure out how to connect to my works VPN from home. Right now I'm looking at the actual VPN part, but after that I have to check how to do remote desktop/terminal services for the windows server I have to work on. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 8/27/06, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: What I found and added: #ipsec: Required for VPN optionsIPSEC#IP security optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations optionsFAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) optionsIPSEC_FILTERGIF #filter ipsec packets from a tunnel before adding these, I just had the default 6.1 generic kernel file with a few things commented and a couple uncommented. Just start with the first two options, then add the others if needed. But before you start, check if this actually solves the problem. There is a well known problem with IPSec across NAT-firewalls: Authenticated Headers don't work. Not all kernel options are in the GENERIC file, look for the NOTES file, platform specific NOTES are where you find the GENERIC for your platform, but there is also a general NOTES. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
driver source compilation question
I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. make and make install do nothing (I've extracted them to a folder in my home directory). How do I install them? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver source compilation question
In my case, I'm trying to compile the HDA audio driver for an Intel HDA sound card, I checked this driver makefile here: /usr/ports/audio/aureal-kmod/Makefile but I've no clue where to start, there's a lot of stuff in there. I'll look again in the morning, but any suggestions on an easier driver? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/25/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. make and make install do nothing (I've extracted them to a folder in my home directory). How do I install them? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to
On 7/31/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or something similar. I told my 7 year old I would load a game for him and wanted to look for an easy how too. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a configuration utility I used, can't remeber the name, but the name should be obvious using this - it'll create the base wine directory and such like that: $ ls /usr/local/bin | grep wine Sorry, I know it's a bit late, but I remember the tool now: wineprefixcreate makes a nice wine directory to wherever you have your WINEPREVIX variable set, and it works quite nicely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade
Not sure, seems more of a mysql question, but here's some guesses I have for diagnostics. could you run these queries? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE status 3 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sessiions WHERE sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql-\*). Previous to this, MySQL was behaving perfectly normally. Since the upgrade, I have found that every so often -- sometimes two or three times a day, sometimes every other day, but no more often than that -- one of the databases MySQL is hosting starts misbehaving, MySQL starts climbing in processor usage, and I have to restart MySQL to recover. By misbehaving, I mean that some subset of queries to this database start not returning -- they take forever. By climbing in processor usage, I mean that my load averages, which normally sit around 0, start going up to 3, 5, even 7. - How can I determine what query it is that is causing this to happen? I have turned on the log files by adding the following line to /etc/rc.conf: Hi! Since this time, I have, I think, found what query is causing the problem: SELECT u.*, s.* FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 LIMIT 0, 1 How can I determine _why_ this is causing MySQL to hang/enter some kind of infinite loop? Thanks, Ricky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone have any luck on installing FreeBSD on a SATA drive on an Adaptec 1205SA card?
I got this thinking adaptec would make their own chip, turns out it is a SiL 3112 (I got it to hopefully end the issues I was having with the SiL 2114 on my motherboard, turns out I just ended up with more). Anyway, while this new chip fixed the issues of write errors in windows, BSD cannot boot with the card installed, except in safe mode, and even then the installer hanges at random intervals. Any fix suggestions? The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S. The drive is a Seagate and was used for a FreeBSD install on an ASUS A8N-E motherboard, quite successfully. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade
I thought there were mysql forums, but I am not sure. In the queries I gave you, none of the results were too large I take it (not above the low thousands)? -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any problems. As this is more of a mysql issue, do you have any suggestions where it would be best for me to query them? Thanks, Ricky On Aug 2, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: Not sure, seems more of a mysql question, but here's some guesses I have for diagnostics. could you run these queries? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE status 3 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sessiions WHERE sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql-\*). Previous to this, MySQL was behaving perfectly normally. Since the upgrade, I have found that every so often -- sometimes two or three times a day, sometimes every other day, but no more often than that -- one of the databases MySQL is hosting starts misbehaving, MySQL starts climbing in processor usage, and I have to restart MySQL to recover. By misbehaving, I mean that some subset of queries to this database start not returning -- they take forever. By climbing in processor usage, I mean that my load averages, which normally sit around 0, start going up to 3, 5, even 7. - How can I determine what query it is that is causing this to happen? I have turned on the log files by adding the following line to /etc/rc.conf: Hi! Since this time, I have, I think, found what query is causing the problem: SELECT u.*, s.* FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 LIMIT 0, 1 How can I determine _why_ this is causing MySQL to hang/enter some kind of infinite loop? Thanks, Ricky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA Cables Suck!
I have SATA one cables/connectors, and they do come loose when fiddling in the case, but otherwise they are fine (when the case is closed and the machine is running. However, I do prefer the locking cables and jacks in SATA II. You might look at Newegg as your vendor, I believe I saw some there: http://www.newegg.com. Alternatively, I got some SATAII cables from, oddly enough, Microcenter, that were good priced and worked well. -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also... what can we do with the old cables to fix them... super glue them on?... Here's a question... Are all SATA cables rated for SATA-II? I've never seen a definitive answer to this question and newegg.com does not sells SATA-II cables... Also does the spec call for shielded cables? frustrated, need a place to unload thanks. I think Western Digital makes securelock cables that snap in place pretty well. might be worth a look. Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to
On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or something similar. I told my 7 year old I would load a game for him and wanted to look for an easy how too. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a configuration utility I used, can't remeber the name, but the name should be obvious using this - it'll create the base wine directory and such like that: $ ls /usr/local/bin | grep wine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1
That is pretty small. At the bare minimum level, you might be able to get it up and running, but not be able to do much of any real work on it without more memory. You didn't mention the amount of disk on the machine, but if you want to run X (needed for a Gui) then it will take more that a couple of GB and if you want KDE or Gnome to manage your Gui, it will take even more. I don't remember if Pentium I will do the trick or not, but probably will, just awfully slowly. A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM (and ION?), or maybe a medium weight (WMaker?), and no more. A memory upgrade is strongly recommended if possible. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What FreeBSD users really want
), and keeps the system resources from being wasted by things that aren't needed. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network no longer auto-starts after mergemaster
I rebuilt my kernel/world, but now my network no longer auto-starts. I can easily start it with sudo ifconfig fxp0 up, which, while it works, is mildly annoying. Anyone know what file I could have improperly mergemastered to get this result? My rc.conf file, I'm not sure what else I should put in (such as my /var/log/messages; everything as of the last boot?): # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Jun 16 08:17:49 2006 # Created: Fri Jun 16 08:17:49 2006 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=aragorn.ameritech.net ifconfig_fxp0=DHCP ibcs2_enable=YES moused_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES svr4_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES apmd_enable=YES Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network no longer auto-starts after mergemaster
On 7/20/06, Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:36:42 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebuilt my kernel/world, but now my network no longer auto-starts. I can easily start it with sudo ifconfig fxp0 up, which, while it works, is mildly annoying. Anyone know what file I could have improperly mergemastered to get this result? /etc/rc.d/netif? What were you rebuilding from / to (e.g., 6.1-RELEASE - -CURRENT)? I'll take a look at that file, thank you. 6.1 - 6.1 (just a rebuild of the kernel to make it more efficient, and the OSS tech support suggested it might get their drivers to work for my sound). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: coldfusion alternative
On 7/19/06, Glenn McCalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so a good customer of long standing wants a coldfusion website. Some developer, the husband of one of his staff (so that makes him a trusted advisor, right?), has convinced him it's the only way to do it. My position is maybe that's the only way -he- can do it but there's a whole wide world of alternatives out there. Looking at it, he wants to collect some data on an input form, then hash it over a couple of ways and present the results. Pretty graphics maybe as well. Looks to me like Perl... don't even need a real database, heck DB_File would work just fine for this. OK with me... ...but what's the argument to present other than you don't need coldfusion? I'd even put CF on the system and be done with it if there was a FreeBSD version (anyone have any luck with that?). Tracked down BlueDragon but that's apparently Win only as well. Ammunition wanted. Thanks Glenn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wish I had something more solid than this, but this is the best I have at the moment. I would never suggest cold fusion for one primary reason: Every bit of documentation I've seen suggests that fieldname_required hidden fields are a good idea for data verification, and they don't mention _anything_ else, or even suggest the risk with this. Well, the problem is, a hacker won't sent those tags, and if the data is critical, then not putting backups could be dangerous. This isn't necessarily an issue, any two-bit dev should be able to figure this one out. However useing that as well as a backup check is redundant and wasteful. Effectively you are wasting time or giving a hacker a hackme howto. Any language that promotes either of those is a language I would never trust - who knows what they've done inside of it, away from prying eyes. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank screen after existing X windows
On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following problem: X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts X again normally. The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. Thanks in advance, Martin Miedema. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting it, grab the last full entry) I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank screen after existing X windows
On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following problem: X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log it out it just shows a blank screen. I can blindly type shutdown -p now or startx (which starts X again normally. The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. Thanks in advance, Martin Miedema. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to post the end of your xorg log file as of the error (go to a non-x console after logging out of X but before restarting it, grab the last full entry) I had this issue before, it was caused by not having X setup right (I think I loaded a module it didn't like or had the driver settings slightly off), either way, making the config file slightly more conservative with the driver fixed it. I can't remember what I did, but the xorg.conf file made the error pretty obvious. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have uploaded my Xorg.0.log / Xorg.0.log.old and xorg.conf in a zip file which is available at: http://cyberswordshideout.tk/bsdstuff.zip Thanks, Martin. Please put the file in the mail to the newsgroup, or if you really don't want to put it here, host the plain-text, and not in an archive. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Included GCC
On 7/10/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said: Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1 without upgrading the whole source tree to another release? Is there a way to do this that will not include much risk of breaking my system? Thanks. You can install ports/lang/gcc41, which will give you gcc41 and g++41 executables. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I'm reading the OP's comment right, he may try to do what I did the first time... I was smart enough to back up the overwritten files first... which saved me a reinstall. DO NOT replace teh gcc, g++, etc. base files for the GCC compiler with the newly compiled files, that will cause a lot of compilation issues for many core things and does not work properly. I don't know why, but it doesn't; it seems a lot of things get very tied to a particular version of the compiler. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD X.org lock key issue
I am running x.org 6.9 and when I hit a lock key (caps, scroll, etc), X.org sucks almost all of my CPU for about a second. This doesn't always happen, but it usually happens, and I've yet to isolate it to haing any particular application open, It might be due to the number of applications open, I've not verified yet. It happens in the KDE and Gnome desktop managers. It happens in the Firefox, OpenOffice, Konsole and XMMS applications (really 90% of what I do in FreeBSD is on or through these). Anyone know what might be causing this? Anyone have an idea on where to look further? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: k3b package
On 7/8/06, Karl Hammerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was planning to install k3b from a package, but I wasn't able to find it in packages-6-stable or packages-6.0-release on any of the ftp mirrors. Am I missing something? - Karl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you/can you CVSUP the ports tree, and then try to install it from there? Is it not showing up in the ports tree when you do that? Is it showing up but the package not downloading? I recently installed this also without any mishaps. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD for kids...
I don't know of any. You could do a minimal install, install X + WM of choice (probably one that dosn't add games), and thend add the educational and math/sci related packages in ports? I think the directories they are in are relatively limited, and so finding them shouldn't be too hard. -Jim Stapleton On 7/5/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Is anyone aware of any project based on FreeBSD similar to Edubuntu (Ubuntu distro for kids) http://www.edubuntu.org/ ? I want to dedicated some boxes @ home for the kids, but I would prefer to spend time on BSD than tux. thanks!! Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE Text to Speech
Problem is, that's a bit of a niche so it may take a while to answer, but as a generalized FreeBSD form, and that being related to use on a FreeBSD system, It's a good question. Not to mention, I've not had time to look at it, but since I have blind family, I'd like to look at the screen readers for *nix some day, as it can't be much worse than windows/jaws. You may want to try some Festival or KDE Text-to-Speech groups also. If you get a response faster there, please post it here, as I am interested. -Jim Stapleton On 7/4/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System Info: FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13 19:46:07 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEIBERCOM i386 I am not sure if this is the proper forum for this question or not, but I might as well start here. I am trying to get the KDE text to speech to work. I installed the 'festival' port and the 'festvox-aec' port. Everything seems to be OK, but no sound is emitted. The sound works fine on everything else. There are no error messages displayed so I do not know where to look to get this working. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your thoughts and you change your world. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot upgrade
I would guess that means the file was corrupted somehow, though I don't know how. At any rate, I don't know how to fix that, and not loose the stored information. On 7/2/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!] /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:444:in `__system': Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ (CommandFailedError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:467:in `__sudo' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools.rb:473:in `xsystem!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:960:in `autofix!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:956:in `autofix' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:475:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:714:in `main' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:815:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:209:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1951 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!] This doesn't look good. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH
OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run an app, and everything I've read says that . should be in the classpath to make it work, so I'm thinking this is a BSD-Java implementation related issue. Any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:17 (0) ~/dev/java/test java -classpath . test.java Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/java [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:27 (0) ~/dev/java/test java -version java version 1.5.0-p3 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-p3-root_01_jul_2006_07_53) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-p3-root_01_jul_2006_07_53, mixed mode) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:43 (0) ~/dev/java/test ls test.class test.java I don't know what other info to send. Running 6.1, the specific port was ports/java/jdk15 Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions
Well, I'm not so worried about crashes, the only crashes I've had with BSD are with power failures, and this is a notebook :-) I was planning on having three slices on the drive, the first I would blast from a linux or BSD image as needed, the second would be ext2 or ext3 (or other?) and have /home, and the third would be my /data mount point, where I'd keep a synced copy of my Windows My Documents Folder (synced with my BSD desktop and my windows machine), as well as choice music files (it's too small for all that FLAC). Thanks -Jim On 7/1/06, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 17:44, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have to move between BSD and Linux on one system quite a bit, and I was wondering if there were any reasons to avoid EXT3 on a filesystem (such as /dev/ad0s1), as opposed to using the more standard BSD setups (such as UFS on /dev/ad0s1a)? I'm thinking mostly in terms of reliability, but also in terms of flexibility and speed. I haven't tried recently, but a year or so ago FreeBSD could not use ext3 as such. There is a port that adds ext3 fsck support for syncing the journal, FreeBSD can then mount it as ext2. The problem with that is that you then have a choice between reliability and decent write speed according to whether you mount it synchronously or asynchronously. I found that even having an ext3 transfer partition that's mounted by default was a bit of a pain, because without a journal or softupdates, booting after a crash can take a long time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH
wow, I feel dumb now. It's been a few years since I've dealt with Java. Thank you, -Jim On 7/1/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run an app, and everything I've read says that . should be in the classpath to make it work, so I'm thinking this is a BSD-Java implementation related issue. Any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:17 (0) ~/dev/java/test java -classpath . test.java Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/java [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:27 (0) ~/dev/java/test java -version java version 1.5.0-p3 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-p3-root_01_jul_2006_07_53) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-p3-root_01_jul_2006_07_53, mixed mode) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:54:43 (0) ~/dev/java/test ls test.class test.java I don't know what other info to send. Running 6.1, the specific port was ports/java/jdk15 Thanks, -Jim Java expects the name of a class, not the name of a file. You should invoke your test using java test The command java test.java is trying to execute a class named java in the test package. FWIW my classpath is: ./:/usr/local/share/java/classes/junit.jar:/usr/local/freetts/lib/ HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions
I have to move between BSD and Linux on one system quite a bit, and I was wondering if there were any reasons to avoid EXT3 on a filesystem (such as /dev/ad0s1), as opposed to using the more standard BSD setups (such as UFS on /dev/ad0s1a)? I'm thinking mostly in terms of reliability, but also in terms of flexibility and speed. Is there anything that should absolutely stay in UFS (such as /boot?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)
I'll just go based on the lines in the SUPFILE of interest: 1) *default base=/var/db Does anyone use anything else? Why (I mean beyond my database isn't in /var/db, Why isn't it there)? 2) *default prefix=/usr Anyone have their ports prefix someplace other than /usr? Again why is it elsewhere? 3) *default release=cvs tag=. OK, what other options are there for release/tag, and where can I find them? For tag, I know of RELENG_#, and I suspect there is also CURRENT_# and STABLE_#, is there any other, such as RELENG_#_#, etc? Any release other than CVS 4) *default delete use-rel-suffix I'm somewhat being a lazy bastard here, I know there's more about this in the man page, there's delete, use-rel-suffix, and a couple of other mentioned, but could I get a better explanation than there is there? Thanks, I mentioned the need for a GUI tool to make ports/cvsup more easy for the noob, and since I need to get some java experience to make myself look good for prospective employers, I'm going to try it. Don't worry, I plan to make a clone in a better language when I'm done. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)
OK, thanks. I knew about the date part, but as I could simply do three drop downs (month, day, year), date isn't too difficult. -Jim On 6/30/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) *default release=cvs tag=. OK, what other options are there for release/tag, and where can I find them? For tag, I know of RELENG_#, and I suspect there is also CURRENT_# and STABLE_#, is there any other, such as RELENG_#_#, etc? You can use either tag= or date= date= is useful if you know a specific port worked on a certain day and was broken afterwards, or if you're rolling out several machines over a period of time and want to ensure they all have the same ports tree for consistency sake. tag=. means latest. The ports tree doesn't have other tags. The source tree has RELENG tags, and tag=. is head (again: latest). See this page for more on source tags: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Bill Moran That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth. Jayne Cobb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH
nevermind, the documentation I had read is misleading, the problem isn't the classpath, but I have no clue what exactly it is... Anyone have some suggestions for a good forum to go to, everything I've read suggested my attempts should work. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/30/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My CLASSPATH variable isn't set, and I'm trying to set it (it's not in any readme I've found as to where to set it), currently it's set to the lib subdirectories of my java directory, but that's not working. using java/jdk1.4.2, can anyone tell me what my classpath should be? Java is installed here: /usr/local/jdk1.4.2 my settings are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:41:46 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $JAVAHOME /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:42:15 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:42:20 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $CLASSPATH /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/lib:/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/lib/jre/lib:. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH
My CLASSPATH variable isn't set, and I'm trying to set it (it's not in any readme I've found as to where to set it), currently it's set to the lib subdirectories of my java directory, but that's not working. using java/jdk1.4.2, can anyone tell me what my classpath should be? Java is installed here: /usr/local/jdk1.4.2 my settings are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:41:46 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $JAVAHOME /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:42:15 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:42:20 (0) ~/dev/java/test echo $CLASSPATH /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/lib:/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/lib/jre/lib:. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which options/files/chunks of the kernel source define xpt_done and xpt_release?
Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/25/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 25), Jim Stapleton said: I am trying to work on some stuff, and it references those functions, but I can't seem to find where they are in the kernel. xpt_done and a lot of xpt_release_* functions are in /sys/cam/cam_xpt.c -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cant buildworld
Also, I've had issues with custom CFLAGS, CPUTYPE, and CXXFLAGS settings in my make.conf file, you may want to look at that as well, that seems to stop the process at semi-random points (at least it seems that way with my limited knowledge). -Jim Stapleton On 6/26/06, pid42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops. I think I did just that. Cant try without right now but Ill get back to it. Thanks alot. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cant-buildworld-t1843687.html#a5058310 Sent from the freebsd-questions forum at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which options/files/chunks of the kernel source define xpt_done and xpt_release?
I am trying to work on some stuff, and it references those functions, but I can't seem to find where they are in the kernel. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?
I know xmms does a few stream formats (like MP3), and can probably handle most as it is plugin based. I use it as my main audio player in BSD/Linux as I like the interface most. It's a faitful winamp clone, which as my first music player that stuck. Anyway, the sterio looking controls do what they would on a remote control, there is a playlist (PL in the main window) that is drag and drop, with some labled buttons that should be relatively navigatable (add files/directories/etc). For a lot of configuration, right click on a couple of non interface areas until you see a menu with options-preferences come out. http://www.xmms.org/ http://www.xmms.org/docs/readme.php -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post
Mr. Hoffman, I'm surprised this hasn't been said, and I'm probably overstepping my bounds by saying this, but I've been following this topic, and I have trouble seeing it as anything but trolling. The freeBSD groups have always been excessively helpful and friendly, and you've done alot to insult and antagonize them due to the actions of *ONE* local group, that is not even related to the general groups you posted this too. These people on the general freebsd have a nice group without the trolling and antagonizing seen all over other similar groups. Please be more considerate and respectful with your claims and requests so that their forums can stay that way. 3) While you might want to refer to me as a name-caller, litigious, and puerile, it's far from clear that FreeBSD doesn't have political ties when the leaders of FreeBSD groups actively campaign for partially restricting people's ability to communicate in any language but English. Even if you ignored these extracuricular activities, though, you'd still be faced with the fact that FreeBSD is de jure politicized in favor of many things, including free software. Interesting you put this here, from a previous post: I'm not directly attacking your group. If you're not political, and I'm arguing against something political, how could I possibly be 'attacking' your group? These two in conjunction, both from you, technically count as libel I believe, you are making comments towards a group, such as calling them biggots, and then saying you know it's not true. Also, calling someone something, when they are not is still offensive: If I called you a rabid dog, obviously a false statement, I am sure you would be offended. Also, as to the prohibiting people from communicating in languages other than english, partially or otherwise, I'm sorry, but... A 3/4ths blind guy who is impatient and doesn't like spending time searching for things can find mailing lists for DOZENS of of languages... Look harder. Now each of these /IS/ language specific - but that makes sense, the idea here is COMMUNICATION. Ich kann auf Deutch sprechen, aber hier Ich kann nicht auf Deutch Verbindung stehen. In english, I can speak in German, but I cannot communicate in German here - most here (not all) don't speak it. I wouldn't go to a German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portugese, etc. etc. etc. mailing list and expect them to respond to me in English, or be anything but offended at my arrogance of posting there in English. 4) Discussions of copyright seem appropriate for freebsd-standard, since any reputable organization that publishes material with computers today makes a good faith effort to ensure they do not violate any copyright. It is therefore a de facto standard. But all groups at once? Just because they all fit the topic, doesn't change the fact that you are willingly and wontonly breaking the rule. Interestingly enough, I do agree with your first point that the copyright needed to be taken care of, but you could have handled this infinetly more effectively. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
(0x4,0xbfbfe850) 7851 rm RET fstat 0 7851 rm CALL fcntl(0x4,0x2,0x1) 7851 rm RET fcntl 0 7851 rm CALL fstatfs(0x4,0xbfbfe670) 7851 rm RET fstatfs 0 7851 rm CALL fstat(0x4,0xbfbfe850) 7851 rm RET fstat 0 7851 rm CALL fchdir(0x4) 7851 rm RET fchdir 0 7851 rm CALL getdirentries(0x4,0x8051000,0x1000,0x8050014) 7851 rm RET getdirentries 512/0x200 7851 rm CALL lstat(0x804f3a8,0x804f348) 7851 rm NAMI x86 7851 rm RET lstat 0 7851 rm CALL getdirentries(0x4,0x8051000,0x1000,0x8050014) 7851 rm RET getdirentries 0 7851 rm CALL lseek(0x4,0,0,0,0) 7851 rm RET lseek 0 7851 rm CALL close(0x4) 7851 rm RET close 0 7851 rm CALL stat(0x804f3a8,0xbfbfe850) 7851 rm RET unlink 0 7851 rm CALL open(0x2813fcd0,0,0) 7851 rm NAMI .. 7851 rm RET open 4 7851 rm CALL fstat(0x4,0xbfbfe8c0) 7851 rm RET fstat 0 7851 rm CALL fchdir(0x4) 7851 rm RET fchdir 0 7851 rm CALL close(0x4) 7851 rm RET close 0 7851 rm CALL rmdir(0x804f3a8) 7851 rm NAMI x86 7851 rm RET rmdir 0 7851 rm CALL open(0x2813fcd0,0,0) 7851 rm NAMI .. 7851 rm RET open 4 7851 rm CALL fstat(0x4,0xbfbfe8c0) 7851 rm RET fstat 0 7851 rm CALL fchdir(0x4) 7851 rm RET fchdir 0 7851 rm CALL close(0x4) 7851 rm RET close 0 7851 rm CALL rmdir(0x804f2a8) 7851 rm NAMI Linux 7851 rm RET rmdir 0 7851 rm CALL open(0x2813fcd0,0,0) 7851 rm NAMI .. 7851 rm RET open 4 7851 rm CALL fstat(0x4,0xbfbfe8c0) 7851 rm RET fstat 0 7851 rm CALL fchdir(0x4) 7851 rm RET fchdir 0 7851 rm CALL close(0x4) 7851 rm RET close 0 7851 rm CALL rmdir(0x804f4a8) 7851 rm NAMI bin 7851 rm RET rmdir 0 7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f5a8) 7851 rm NAMI GPLV2 7851 rm RET unlink 0 7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f6a8) 7851 rm NAMI preinstall.sh 7851 rm RET unlink 0 7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f7a8) 7851 rm NAMI preuninstall 7851 rm RET unlink 0 7851 rm CALL unlink(0x804f8a8) On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can. So is there source code? Or is it some dumb binary rpm? You could try running it under ktrace, then look at the output of kdump (assuming that works for linux apps), but the output will be *long* so you will have to edit out a judicious part which leads up to the Linux string being printed, and it might not help. But, it might, for example, look to see if some file exists (/etc/redhat-release or something). Darrin Chandler wrote: In addition, consider respecting the wishes of the developer(s) and not using it. If they have any sort of free license then you can always release a portable fork. Respect a license? Yes, probably. Respect the wishes? Fat chance. That way lies doom... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
Ahh, it is, in fact, a binary sh. The binary compatability looks pretty thourough, and it seems most of the details in the compatability section for most apps seem to involve making them check for BSD instead of linux, and ensuring they run in compatability mode, I'll run ktrace tonight. thanks. I really want to proove to these people that the port will not be a $60k effor, more like a $20 effort. On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can. So is there source code? Or is it some dumb binary rpm? You could try running it under ktrace, then look at the output of kdump (assuming that works for linux apps), but the output will be *long* so you will have to edit out a judicious part which leads up to the Linux string being printed, and it might not help. But, it might, for example, look to see if some file exists (/etc/redhat-release or something). Darrin Chandler wrote: In addition, consider respecting the wishes of the developer(s) and not using it. If they have any sort of free license then you can always release a portable fork. Respect a license? Yes, probably. Respect the wishes? Fat chance. That way lies doom... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
found it; uname -a, I fixed that line, now I just need to figure out how to get the appropriate libs (glibc) into my compat dir... it isn't in any of the linux compat ports. -Jim Stapleton On 6/19/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that was easier than expected. These blobs appeared around everything linux, but don't look horribly useful. I'll check later to see if I can find anything else. is there anything I should be looking for aside from linux? What you want to find is the error message you got about Only runs on Linux. I was assuming this is just a single binary, but if there is lots of stuff including sh scripts and stuff then a grep for some part of the string in all the files might point you in the right direction. I think Linux was all caps so a case-sensitive grep (i.e. not -i) for Linux should do the trick. If in doubt try to find the earliest word in the error string since ktrace will chop off long strings. (Sorry, lost your original post already and can't exactly remember the string). I really want to proove to these people that the port will not be a $60k effor, more like a $20 effort. Better not tell you my hourly rate then ;-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where does one find glibc for /usr/compat/linux/lib ?
I looked at a few of the emulator/linux* ports, and it was not in their pkg-plist files, only something in their usr/sbin (glibc_post_upgrad), which, when ran, does not generate a glibc that I can find in the any of BSDs lib directories, or the compat/linux/lib, compat/linux/usr/lib either. Is there any port I can install to get this? Or should i just make a link to my systems libc? Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
The problem is I don't already have one, though there is a reply to my other post that I'll be looking at in a few minutes, maybe something will be there. I updated the locate db, and tried to locate glibc, but I only found documentation, and a few bin (not lib) compat files that look like they are meant to upgrade something, but creat no glibc. What I was considering was linking my libc.so.6 file (no g) to a glibc file in compat. -Jim Stapleton Good stuff. The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one you want to the one you have and try! There's an FC4 linux in the ports, IIRC which is as recent as any Linux I have to administer; I have trouble believing you'd need a newer one otherwise the app won't even run on most Linux machines :-) Or maybe your app has an RPM for an older linux you could try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does one find glibc for /usr/compat/linux/lib ?
that's libc, not glibc, the stuff I'm working on is specifically looking for a glibc.so file. Am I missing something? -Jim Stapleton On 6/19/06, Pablo Marín Ramón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at a few of the emulator/linux* ports, and it was not in their pkg-plist files, only something in their usr/sbin (glibc_post_upgrad), which, when ran, does not generate a glibc that I can find in the any of BSDs lib directories, or the compat/linux/lib, compat/linux/usr/lib either. $ grep ^lib/libc /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/pkg-plist lib/libc-2.3.2.so lib/libc.so.6 lib/libcrypt-2.3.2.so lib/libcrypt.so.1 $ ls /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc* /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc-2.3.2.so /usr/compat/linux/lib/libcrypt-2.3.2.so /usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libcrypt.so.1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
Basically, I have an application that doesn't want to run in FreeBSD, though it may still run given the compatability layer. I was wondering if there was some way to make the OS respond when it ran the application, that it was linux and not BSD. i.e. $ ./some_app Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away! $ sysctl.pretend.register /home/me/some_app generic-i386-linux $ ./some_app Hello world! or $ ./some_app Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away! $ pretend_os generic-i386-linux some_app Hello world! Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can. On 6/18/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Basically, I have an application that doesn't want to run in FreeBSD, though it may still run given the compatability layer. I was wondering if there was some way to make the OS respond when it ran the application, that it was linux and not BSD. i.e. $ ./some_app Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away! $ sysctl.pretend.register /home/me/some_app generic-i386-linux $ ./some_app Hello world! That really rather depends on *how* the app is asking. If you can tell us that, we can almost certainly tell you how to fool it. Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can just comment out the test and recompile. Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its developers, maybe you should just look for an alternative. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD is #1
Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim On 6/12/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share it: Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May. Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with INetU, Hostway, IPower, New York Internet, Pair Networks andTiscali all sharing the top spot as the most reliable hosting company site this month. The six-way tie is a first for the reliability survey, as three and even four providers have shared the top position in the past. The showing reflects a strong month for hosting reliability, as the winners each had just 0.01 percent of their DNS responses fail, just a hair short of a perfect showing. All six companies have finished atop the survey at least once previously. It was a particularly good month for providers hosting their home page on FreeBSD, four of whom (INetU, iPowerWeb, NY Internet and Pair Networks) shared the top spot with two hosts on Linux (Hostway and Tiscali). Overall, five Linux sites are found in the top 10 this month, four on FreeBSD and one on Windows. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/06/six_hosting_companies_most_reliable_hoster_in_may.html Way to go FreeBSD!! Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
[resending to newsgroup, since I only replied to the OP] Well, if Crossover Office ran on FreeBSD, I would probably never boot my windows machine except as reference to help family with windows problems. Your hardware issues are quite good enough. Applications: Most non-windows operating systems won't run windows apps. However, with the Wine poject, many will run. For example, I have been playing Master of Orion III on my my BSD machine under wine, and it runs _better_ than in Windows. However, getting office, corel photopaint, visual studios and trillian to install properly seems to be an effort in futility. Crossover office would fix many of these problems, but it doesn't seem to install on FreeBSD, and it seems there is some trickery involved, using multiple operating systems to get it to work (not worth the expert, unless you are a major tech savant I suspect). That being said, the advantages and disadvantages of FreeBSD over the other main x86 candidate, Linux, at least to my experience; (1) Installation - FreeBSD is probably one of the most unpleasant installers to learn, that I've found, it's a lot better in 6.0/6.1 though. It's not gui, which is OK, but there are confusing and redundant options, that let you go out of order, and change things at bad times somtimes, and unless you are quite knoledgeable in the process, you can go out of order and really screw things up. Also, the hard drive configuration tool can have issues with some drive/chipset combos (such as a 120GB IDE Western Digital drive on the IDE chipset of an A8N-E motherboard in my experience). NOTE: Once you learn this, it's not that bad, and to be honest, it's a one time thing. (2) Upkeep - FreeBSD is much easier to keep up than linux. (a) you have this mailing list. I've never seen anyone use RTFM here, and even if they do something similar things, they will at least tell you *where* to look. (b) The handbook is VERY well written, and is inordinately useful. (c) Googled howtos and docs for FreeBSD seem to be better written than the linux equivalents. They don't assume nearly as high of a user-knowledge as Linux docs tend to, which is nicer to the novices. (3) Oh Crap! - On those Oh Crap! moments, that happen to everyone, some strange thing happens and you have to fix some horrible error. FreeBSDs better documentation, and more helpful error messages make fixing the issues much easier. The hurried newbie will find him/her self reinstalling less, and fixing without reinstalling more, saving a lot of time and effort. BSD is much better here. (4) App install; I've had horrible luck with *nix app installs, they allways seem to have some compilation issue in the source file distributions, unless you have exactly the right setup, and RPMs tend to lead to dependancy hell worse than any I've ever seen, the yucky app yum doesn't help this much. Debians apt-get is better, but still has it's issues. Ports is insanely reliable, and issues in ports are relatively easy to fix. FreeBSD is much better here. (5) Windows application compatability - Crossover Office unfortunately doesn't work on FreeBSD, so Linux has an advantage here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd-Devel
I understand that. If you have the time, ability, and willingness to do actually do the work, then you'll be doing a lot of people a big service. But don't kid yourself, it will take a lot of work. It isn't something that you're going to write in an afternoon. It will take months to do a decent job. Months of work. Months of people saying that whatever you're doing, you are certainly doing it wrong. Months of people who are doing things that you personally do not need, and who you will eventually hate because they keep asking for features that you personally don't want (or need) to write. Sadly, the willingness is the only one of the three I have. Thanks -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there an ies4linux port for FreeBSD?
I cant find it in www, net or devel, and the downloadable install script fails horribly. error message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:08:52 (0) ~/ies4linux-2.0beta6 ./ies4linux source: not found source: not found source: not found cabextract version 1.1 cabextract version 1.1 Wine 0.9.14 initAndConfigure: not found source: not found source: not found section: not found run_ies: not found ask_for_translation: not found Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd-Devel
I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a freebsd-devel list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? I'm looking here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lm/temp monitoring
That works well enough, thank you! -Jim Stapleton On 6/6/06, Toni Schmidbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:33:33 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: What package contains the lm utility (driver?) use for temperature monitoring? What is a good package to get a reading of my CPU/Motherboard temperature reading in a semi-usr friendly format? i'm using sysutils/mbmon on my athlon machines to monitor system temperature. hth, toni -- If you understand what you're doing, you're | toni at stderror dot at not learning anything. | Toni Schmidbauer -- Anonymous| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lm/temp monitoring
What package contains the lm utility (driver?) use for temperature monitoring? What is a good package to get a reading of my CPU/Motherboard temperature reading in a semi-usr friendly format? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
building xgl
Does anyone have experience building XGL on Freebsd? It has Makefile.am files, but no other files needed for automake (such as configure.ac/configure.in). Does anyone know where I can find them for this program, or if there is a trivial manner to generate them (following the gnu automake tutorial, changeing the names as appropriate, is only producing errors). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building xgl
disregard: it seems I went to a website that mislead me into thinking I had found XGL, when it was in fact, something else (and smaller), on Novel's website. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 6/4/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience building XGL on Freebsd? It has Makefile.am files, but no other files needed for automake (such as configure.ac/configure.in). Does anyone know where I can find them for this program, or if there is a trivial manner to generate them (following the gnu automake tutorial, changeing the names as appropriate, is only producing errors). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building xgl
/imlib.m4:167: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GDK_IMLIB /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/ao.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of XIPH_PATH_AO /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AALIB /usr/local/gnu-autotools/share/aclocal/ORBit.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_ORBIT autoreconf: running: /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin/autoconf autoreconf: running: /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin/autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac: installing `./missing' GL/glx/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' Xprint/Makefile.am: installing `./compile' hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 Any suggestions, or ideas as to which group to ask for solutions? I can't find any autoconf docs for the m4 pattern allow thing. I managed to get everything up to this working... *sigh* -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get MAC address using C program
Could you exec() ifconfig? On 5/30/06, girish girishlc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls any body tell me how to find out a MAC address in a program, Because I want to generate pseudo random number of IP address of some range for that MAC address and IP range will be the input and it should give IP address according to MAC address as a seed , but if I use difft MAC address (i,e for difft host ) it should give difft IP address, But if I give first MAC address it should give the same old IP address, So pls send me answer as soon as possible code in C and also if possible ALGORITHMS pls its very urgent Thank you, Regards Girish.L.C [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11R7 through ports?
OK so it's just taking a while to port. Guess I should be glad I didn't try downloading and compiling it straight. As for no functionality (mentioned a lot): evdev is functionality that supports more than 7 mouse buttons, and that's functionality that I would gain a lot benefit from. Thanks, that link was useful. -Jim Stapleton [from another thread, as reference] subject: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518 On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you can't use evdev unless you're using Xorg 7, as far as I know. Once you're on xorg7, you can use evdev as the driver for your mouse, and things Should Just Work. See this guide: http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000 HTH, Marshall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11R7 through ports?
Is there any way to get X11R7 through ports? The Xorg and XFree86 packages all seem to be 6.8/6.9 Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11R7 through ports?
I was informed in another post that X11R7 has a mouse driver I need, and through several posts that X11R6.x does not. (and previously I had tried using this driver, and verified that it is not in there) On 5/23/06, Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:05, Jim Stapleton wrote: Is there any way to get X11R7 through ports? The Xorg and XFree86 packages all seem to be 6.8/6.9 The only difference between 6.9 and 7.0 is the build system (imake vs automake/autoconf). As Kris says, there is no difference for end users. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518
Ahh! Thanks! Which port would you recommend for xorg7? It's not in devel or x11. I have 6.9 running now, and the install did go smoothly, so I'm willing to try a 7 install. Having all of these buttons work properly is probably the last step I would need to make a full and confortable switch completely from Windows to BSD :-) thanks, -Jim On 5/19/06, Marshall Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I was catching up on my freebsd lists, and saw this... Note that you can't use evdev unless you're using Xorg 7, as far as I know. Once you're on xorg7, you can use evdev as the driver for your mouse, and things Should Just Work. See this guide: http://floam.sh.nu/guides/mx1000 HTH, Marshall On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have IMWheel installed and setup, and below is the mouse setting for my xorg.conf file, however. Buttons 1-7 work just perfectly, however, 8 mimics the wheel-down, and 9 and 10 refuse to do anything, no matther what I do with imwheel or the utility that lets me remap the buttons Oh, and I was wrong in an earlier post, it isn't the driver that they posted and I couldn't use, it was the protocol (ignore my terminology, and not the sample mouse-config part with evdev in it). current mouse section of xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 10 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection ~/.imwheelrc none, Thumb1, Alt_R|Left none, Thumb2, Alt_R|Right none, Left, Alt_R|Left none, Right, Alt_R|Right ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc exec startkde imwheel -k -b 6789 I've tried using every variant of xmodmap that I could to alter the mapping of 6-10, however, nothing gets buttons other than 6 and 7 to work properly, and one of the others (I suspect it's 8) to mimic a completely different button. Unfortunately, button 7 is the only button that I don't like usin gon this mouse (hard to twist my hand to press it). By not work properly, I mean that in any mapping other than the default, (except reversing 6 and 7) with xmodmap, the buttons either do nothing (normally), or act in a manner not previously specifice (usually by mimicking a scroll up or down button). Mapping 9 and 10 into the place of 6 and 7 (i.e. ' xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 8 6 7 ' or ' xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 6 7 8 ') ensures that no buttons beyond 5 work. I strongly suspect that signals from buttons 8-10 aren't reaching the software that handles them properly. 8 is either being misread or sent wrong, 9 and 10 appear to simply be dropped. Thanks, -Jim On 3/31/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Aye, it's got a lot of buttons, and I've tried transferring several of the config settings, however, none of the drivers they pointed to seem to exist in BSD, and they also pointed to devices, again nonexistant in bsd. example, one involves the following: Option Device /dev/input/event1 Option Protocol evdev If I try to use evdev, x refuses to start, and says said module does not exist in the log file. The other variants I've seen have similar modules that I can't find and won't load. Thanks, -Jim On 3/31/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:13:49 -0500 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on getting my MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade back to Linux, I could, but I'd rather not do that, ports is much more useful than the extra three buttons). Hey Jim i suppose this is a logitech mouse with lots of buttons? if you know it works with linux, why not transfer the config from linux to freebsd? (u dont need to install anything, just try knoppix). It should work out of the box (I believe moused is same across platforms, and xorg shouldn't worry too much about what OS it's being used under). otherwise, have u read man moused ? beto Many people in Linux (at least), use imwheel for utilizing all mouse buttons on their mice, unless they use an internal X program to set the values for 'key strokes' obtained from the mouse by themselves (kind of a royal pain, if you ask me). Try searching for imwheel gentoo on google if imwheel's included in ports (don't have my FreeBSD machine in front of me right now to verify). Also, if you're looking for the codes for your mouse's buttons, try using xev. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions
CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel
I'm trying to install something that requires x11-toolkits/fox-devel, which will not compile, I've tried the following cvsup dates: 2006.05.05.00.00.00 2006.04.05.00.00.00 2006.03.05.00.00.00 2005.11.05.00.00.00 2005.08.00.00.00.00 Anyone know what CVSUP date works well? At the end is the last of the compilation error message: Thanks, -Jim c++ -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DHAVE_XSHAPE_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHM_H=1 -DFOX_THREAD_SAFE=1 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_JPEG_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_BZ2LIB_H=1 -DHAVE_XCURSOR_H=1 -DHAVE_XRANDR_H=1 -DHAVE_CUPS_H=1 -Wall -W -Woverloaded-virtual -Wformat -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=athlon-mp -DNDEBUG -Wuninitialized -pg -DHAVE_GL_H=1 -DHAVE_GLU_H=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o .libs/chart chart.o icons.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib ./.libs/libCHART-1.4.so ../src/.libs/libFOX-1.4.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so -lXrender -lX11 -lXext -lXcursor -lXrandr -lpthread -lpng /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so -lcompat /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so -lz -lbz2 -lm -lcups -lGL -lGLU -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.so.13: undefined reference to `stpcpy' /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: undefined reference to `tsearch' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wcslen' /usr/local/lib/libgnutls.so.15: undefined reference to `memmem' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `tolower' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `btowc' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `isspace' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wmemcpy' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wcscoll' /usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.so.13: undefined reference to `mlock' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wmemchr' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `putwc' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `modf' /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: undefined reference to `nl_langinfo' /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: undefined reference to `tfind' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `iswctype' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wmemset' /usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.so.13: undefined reference to `getrusage' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `towupper' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `strxfrm' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wctype' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `isalnum' /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: undefined reference to `strcspn' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `getwc' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wmemcmp' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wmemmove' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `ungetwc' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wcsftime' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `towlower' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `toupper' /usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.so.13: undefined reference to `clock' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `wcsxfrm' /usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.so.13: undefined reference to `setuid' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/fox-devel/work/fox-1.4.7/chart. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/fox-devel/work/fox-1.4.7. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/fox-devel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSUP date for a successful x11-toolkits/fox-devel
ahh, yeah, that's the cvsup date: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:25:54 (1) ~ uname -a FreeBSD aragorn.ameritech.net 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Thu Apr 13 13:54:03 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 weird., I had a custom kernel I compiled, I wonder why it's using GENERIC... *shrug* oh well, I'll think about that at some other time, I want to figure this out first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
maybe this is a bit off target, but it seems to me the ports tree is not too large: I've found stuff I've wanted that wasn't on the ports tree. I think it's too small. Unless you are on a 56k, but then everything ports related will be painful. However a reoganization could be in order... Currently we have: portbase/category/port/ Each category could have hundreds of ports that are related in the category, but clutter a search, especially in categories with over 100 ports... My suggestion, why not add another level: portbase/category/subcategory/port/ As well as some virtual categories, such as all perl, python, php, and c_c++ will be put under lang as sub-categories, with _all_ modules for these languages, and then if you are thinking mysql access for python while doing your ports search, you'll go to the databases/mysql/ subcategory, and see a symlink to the python module to access mysql. And then there would be a dependancy translation table: it if a dependancy isn't found, it'll look on the table, which will convert from the current structure to the new structure within the port make system, and hopefully prevent most/all change issues. Sorry if this suggestion is too farr off the topic (or already been posted, I got about half way through, and found I need to get to work...) Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.
Just remember it has to be a /better/ mousetrap. wouldn't it be a peopletrap in this case, since it's for people? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible
I know someone did it in linux for a booth at the mall for his company within the last year and a half, but I don't know the info. He had something like 4 consoles per machine. I'll ask, you'll find a response on this link, if one comes: http://vnboards.ign.com/pc_generalhardwaresoftware_and_tech_support/b22497/96702885/p1/?0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID
I've found that scsi isn't exceptionally faster given similar RPMs, or even slightly higher RPM (ex. a 10K RPM SCSI vs. 10K RPM SATA drive would have simlar performance). However, SCSI tends to high tighter standards, and you get the following advantages, which in some cases are worth the money, and in some cases arent: (1) More reliable/accurate reads/writes (2) Longer expected lifespan My advice for reliability is a RAID-1 setup with the most cost-effective disks you can find, then use the OS to do a drive spanning so you can put them in the same mount point (when it runs to the end of a disk, it starts on the next). I'm not sure if the drive spanning is possible though - I've not looked into it, though given that Windows can do it, I don't see why FreeBSD would have trouble. If that is still too expensive, you could try RAID-5, but the problem with that is, adding new disks wouldn't be quite as easy, you may not be able to use the RAID set until you get the replacement disk, and it's not quite as fast (I could be wrong on this part) as RAID1 in the case of writes. with a 8 Port card... Let's look at what I can achieve: Ports 1+2: 750GB Seagates (Biggest available), 1.5TB - I'm short on my 2TB Initial Ports 3+4: Mirror of 1+2 Maybe I'm missing something, where ports 4-8 (actually, 0 + 4-7)? With 8 500GB drives, and RAID1, you should be able to get 2TB out of that (and more cost effective than 750GB drives) Have you considered using two controller cards? nother thing that I read that I'm not completely sure about. Some of the Adaptec SCSI Cards advertises a max of 30 devices - some even more. Excuse the ignorance, but does the SCSI Bus not allow for a max of 8 devices? Do these cards then feature multiple buses to connect the cables to? If so, SATA will obviously not be able to provide something like this. 8 devices, 1 is the controller, I think some newer busses hold 16 devices, is is the controlelr, (so 7 or 15 drives). Now, a card may have multiple busses. I have an A-Ha 39160 in my machine, and if I remember correctly it has 2 busses on it (or is it three?), I don't use it to nearly it's capacity, I just got it for the price of a 19160, and I couldn't turn down that option. Now comes my question... Uhm.. Can SATA RAID Controllers be 'linked'. Say, I but 4 x 8-Port Adaptec SATA RAID Controllers... 2 x 8 Port Cards = 16 Ports for 1 RAID 5 Array (@ 750GB Drives, 12TB Max). The other 2 cards, to mirror. I know that I can use one Controller to mirror another, but can I extend a array across multiple controllers... And then naturally, just HOW much slower does the array function? The array will be using system cpu/memory, so quite a bit, and it'll cause a hit on system perofrmance, however, the trick here is you can do what I mentioned above with some trickery (I think), and just have the OS link the two file systems, it's not any RAID form, and shouldn't cost much performance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
securing beyond the handbook
I'm about to get a static IP and direct outside access for my BSD box (before it was hidden behind a firewall/NAT). I was comfortable with the level of security I've had, but with the whole open to the outside world setup I'll have, what would you suggest for securing it? I'll be running: Apache PHP MySQL SSH/SFTP OpenRPG (only occasionally, from a special nonpriv account) Any suggestions, any of these that you know are such huge security holes that you would absolutely demand something else be run? Any other security suggestions? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing beyond the handbook
Rephrase: I have 5 static IPs currently 1 is being used to power the NAT for all the machines inside the network, the other 4 are empty. I'm getting one of those 4 remaining, and having it point directly to my BSD machine. On 5/10/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no difference between a dynamic and static ip address from the point of the firewall. If you felt secure before, then getting a static ip address will have no effect on that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Stapleton Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:18 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: securing beyond the handbook I'm about to get a static IP and direct outside access for my BSD box (before it was hidden behind a firewall/NAT). I was comfortable with the level of security I've had, but with the whole open to the outside world setup I'll have, what would you suggest for securing it? I'll be running: Apache PHP MySQL SSH/SFTP OpenRPG (only occasionally, from a special nonpriv account) Any suggestions, any of these that you know are such huge security holes that you would absolutely demand something else be run? Any other security suggestions? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSD equiv of /proc?
I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dd issues
That doesn't sound like a backup to me. dd isn't a backup program, and CDs are not normally things you back up. A backup is just a copy of the data on a different media than the source (in this case, a hard drive). People back up CDs alll the time, in case they get scratched or damaged, and they don't want to have to deal with finding/obtaining replacements. In some cases, the replacements aren't even possible, such as if the distributing company went out of business. Use the conv=sync operation to transfer the last incomplete block correctly. Ahh, that will be useful. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dd issues
I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it yet). My questions are: (1) Why does this work? (2) Is it possible that not using the default/found block size will cause issues? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dd issues
On 5/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 19:44:00 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it yet). My questions are: (1) Why does this work? Why shouldn't it? Because the alternative does not work (default block size, block size less than 2k). (2) Is it possible that not using the default/found block size will cause issues? Yes. Without more background in what you're trying to do (you don't even say what backup program or what medium you're trying to back up to), or what your concerns are, it's difficult to answer this question. There are no specific issues with block size on most archivers, but in general large block sizes (64 kB or larger) will give better performance. program is dd, source medium is CD, destination medium is hard drive. Possible later medium is compressed files on HD DVD-RW ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?
Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee Enterprise)? Background: System lags occasionally, and has crashed a few times, and is getting disk errors (both HDs, one IDE, one SATA started this at the same time). I suspect the motherboard, but can't be certain, could be Mem or PSU. Could also be virus. So, I want to scan my backed up files while reinstalling Windows on the other machine, before letting them go back home to play. Thanks -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
