Re: gamin - fam
On 05/06/06 01:21, dick hoogendijk wrote: Does anybody have a solution for the gamin / fam problem. Afaics only the courier package needs FAM still. So, I have two questions: (a) does courier run well without fam support? (b) does courier run with gamin support? As it gets more and more packages that depend on gamin and not on fam it seems obvious that I change the fam support to gamin. But I don't want to harm my courier mailer system (I use the MTA, IMAP and POP3 units) I could be wrong, but the I'm pretty sure that the last time I checked, courier-imapd (which is the only one of the three that I use) only needed fam if you wanted to use its enhanced idle mode that will notify clients when mail arrives (by watching users' maildirs with fam) in pretty close to real-time. I use it, and it's a nice (if essentially cosmetic) feature. I don't think the POP protocol has any facility similar to IMAP's enhanced idle, so I don't see how fam would be used there. I use Postfix for my MTA, so I am not familiar with courier's MTA, but I suspect that it wouldn't use fam either. (Why would it need to?) If you're willing to simply check for new (IMAP) mail every X minutes, then you don't need fam. (I think. :) I haven't tried getting it to use gamin, though. -Marshall Pierce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse/KB issues (interrupt problems?) on 6.0-RELEASE
I'm having a really odd problem with my mouse (Logitech MX510 over USB) and keyboard (plain old PS2 keyboard). I'm running Gnome, with up to date ports, on 6.0 (amd64 -- see below for uname, etc). A minor, if possibly related, mouse clicks sometimes don't register (though I heard that there's nothing I can do about this -- ums(4) simply doesn't like new mice yet). The more important problem is that much of the time, typing has no effect until I nudge the mouse. (In other words, I'll type a handful of characters, see that they're not showing up, then jog the mouse, which causes all the characters I've just typed to pop up.) This only seems to be a problem inside Gnome -- I've never had that symptom on the console. I had the same symptom with a wireless USB keyboard, as well. Should I try ULE? Or maybe go up to 7? This box is just a way for me to test FreeBSD's viability as a desktop OS, so I don't mind fiddling with it. Thanks for any help. Marshall Pierce uname -a: FreeBSD ghettotech.st.hmc.edu 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 2 19:07:38 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/ sys/GENERIC amd64 Hardware: MSI K8N Neo Platinum (socket 754, nForce3 250) mobo AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 1 GiB DDR400 dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 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 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 2 19:07:38 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ (2496.24-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0xfe0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE, MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 AMD Features=0xe0500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1024999424 (977 MB) ACPI APIC Table: Nvidia AWRDACPI ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard acpi0: Nvidia AWRDACPI on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) pci_link0: ACPI PCI Link LNK1 irq 7 on acpi0 pci_link1: ACPI PCI Link LNK2 irq 3 on acpi0 pci_link2: ACPI PCI Link LNK3 irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link3: ACPI PCI Link LNK4 irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link4: ACPI PCI Link LNK5 on acpi0 pci_link5: ACPI PCI Link LUBA irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link6: ACPI PCI Link LUBB irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link7: ACPI PCI Link LMAC irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link8: ACPI PCI Link LAPU on acpi0 pci_link9: ACPI PCI Link LACI irq 4 on acpi0 pci_link10: ACPI PCI Link LMCI on acpi0 pci_link11: ACPI PCI Link LSMB irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link12: ACPI PCI Link LUB2 irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link13: ACPI PCI Link LFIR on acpi0 pci_link14: ACPI PCI Link L3CM on acpi0 pci_link15: ACPI PCI Link LIDE on acpi0 pci_link16: ACPI PCI Link LSID irq 10 on acpi0 pci_link17: ACPI PCI Link LFID irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link18: ACPI PCI Link APC1 irq 16 on acpi0 pci_link19: ACPI PCI Link APC2 irq 17 on acpi0 pci_link20: ACPI PCI Link APC3 irq 18 on acpi0 pci_link21: ACPI PCI Link APC4 irq 19 on acpi0 pci_link22: ACPI PCI Link APC5 irq 16 on acpi0 pci_link23: ACPI PCI Link APCF irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link24: ACPI PCI Link APCG irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link25: ACPI PCI Link APCH irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link26: ACPI PCI Link APCI irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link27: ACPI PCI Link APCJ irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link28: ACPI PCI Link APCK irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link29: ACPI PCI Link APCS irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link30: ACPI PCI Link APCL irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link31: ACPI PCI Link APCM irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link32: ACPI PCI Link AP3C irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link33: ACPI PCI Link APCZ irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link34: ACPI PCI Link APSI irq 0 on acpi0 pci_link35: ACPI PCI Link APSJ irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff,0xcf0-0xcf3 on acpi0 pci_link29: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.1.INTA is invalid pci_link23: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.2.INTA is invalid pci_link24: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.2.INTB is invalid pci_link30: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.2.INTC is invalid pci_link25: BIOS IRQ 5 for -2145774616.5.INTA is invalid pci_link27: BIOS IRQ 4 for -2145774616.6.INTA is invalid pci_link34: BIOS IRQ 10 for -2145774616.9.INTA is invalid pci_link35: BIOS IRQ 11 for -2145774616.10.INTA is invalid pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: NVIDIA nForce3-250 AGP Controller mem 0xe000-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xeb003000-0xeb003fff irq 21 at device 2.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: OHCI (generic) USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: nVidia OHCI root
Re: how to check CPU Heating Capacity (Temperature)
On Aug 8, 2005, at 0:17, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Try using healthd, it's in ports: /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd It works OK for me :) Ivailo Tanusheff [snip] DeadMan Xia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/2005 11:29 PM To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject how to check CPU Heating Capacity (Temperature) I m using FreeBSD 5.4 on Intel Xeon Dual Processor machine, is there any command r utility which may give the specific details, abt how much percentage for cpu heat, means wat is specific temperature of cpu. Thanx in advance. DeadMan Xia I prefer xmbmon, myself. healthd gave nonsensical temperature values for me. You can run xmbmon as 'mbmon' if you aren't running X. -Marshall Pierce
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:34, Peter wrote: Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/ rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko Try the Frisbee package: http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 For what you need, it should be very easy to figure out how to use Frisbee from the README. Frisbee is very fast at distributing OS images (read the USENIX paper on it, if you're sufficiently interested), and scales extremely well when sending out an image to multiple clients at once. -Marshall Pierce
Re: decisions for MAME machine
I have an arcade monitor, so I needed to run advancemame, but I could not get it to work on FBSD. (It needed a very recent version of svgalib which only worked under linux, or something like that.) So, after messing about with various linuxes, it now mostly works under slackware. I'm not saying it's impossible to get advancemame to work under fbsd, but I at least could not do it easily, so rather than fight it, I just went with something that worked out of the box. If your computer is reasonably recent, I doubt you'll have to worry about performance. The mame box that my current project will replace ran pretty well on a 300mhz p2. -- Marshall Pierce Harvey Mudd College '06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 3, 2004, at 8:40 AM, Jason Stewart wrote: On 03/06/04 11:14 -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote: I'm making a MAME cabinet and I'm starting to evaluate as much MAME-related software as I can find. Seeing as there is some Linux software out there, I was wondering if anyone has done a project with a FreeBSD box? A lot of these projects use DOS SVGA - how does FreeBSD compare in terms of performance/usability? What about Linux? experiences/advice/warnings welcome! I am already familiar with various sucks or rules opinions - stick to the topic plz! :) cheers, lazybones Basically you'll have to use xmame or advancemame/sdl. I haven't used advanceamame on FreeBSD (which is what you will need if you want to run the games with the best video modes or if you want to run the games on an arcade monitor), but I've run xmame successfully. The performance is about the same as linux and a bit worse than pure DOS (dos doesn't have any other background processes running and uses very little memory). I've been in the process of building my own cab for the past year, and it's a huge job. I'm planning on writing an ebook about this in the near future so people can learn from my mistakes. Make sure that you read *all* of the docs with the mame software that you choose and get a video card that can have it's VGA registers reprogrammed by svgalib. The Trident Blade64 is what I use. Good Luck, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UDMA ICRC error
I occasionally get those errors as well. When I'd boot, the drive would try and do ATA-100, fail, and revert to PIO-4. (I blame the cheap PCI IDE card, it came free with a hard drive, and I have to use it, since the nforce2 chipset on my mobo won't see anything but primary master and secondary master under FBSD.) I can make it work by setting the drive to ATA-33, though. (The command, for me, is # atacontrol mode 2 UDMA33 xxx but check the manpage to see what options you should use.) I've been using the hard drive for about 7 months now, and it works fine. I don't put anything I care about much on it, though. -- Marshall Pierce Harvey Mudd College '06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 29, 2004, at 1:13 PM, SWIT wrote: I got this on several hds. was told once it was cuz the hd was like ata 100 and the cable or controller didnt't match . however sometime later (months) the drives died. tyring to redo a machine that had these errors that the drive died in. MD - Original Message - From: white vamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: UDMA ICRC error i keep getting this in my securty run mailings and in my logs what dose this mean ? my HD going bad or what ... ad0s1b: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 1418815 of 197376-197503 (ad0s1 bn 1418815; cn 88 tn 80 sn 55) retrying ohh ond its different every time aswell vampextream# uname -a FreeBSD vampextream.com 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 and thx inadvance for any help on this .. David D. _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Checking New Password
These may be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/30/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html Marshall -- Marshall Pierce Harvey Mudd College '06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:32:13AM +0100, Zen wrote: Being new to BSD I was wandering if someone can point me in the correct direction. I want to let users to change their own passwords. But I do not want them to use things like cat dog or dictionary names. Could some one point me in the correct direction please. I would like to use some thing like 6-8 characters with number and upper and lower case letters Checkout the security/checkpassword-pam port. http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/ Dammit. No, don't bother checking that: it's something different. Doesn't do what you want at all. However, using pam modules to enforce good standards for passwords is the way to go. But I can't see anything appropriate in the ports collection. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
