Re: boot question
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:38:37 AM you wrote: Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:44:42 -0400 From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot question How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a disk that is partitioned with the GPT scheme? Things get a *LOT* messier if you want t relocate 'boot0' through 'boot4' as well as /boot/kernel. Depending on _just_ what you want to do, you may have to build and install custom versions of those executables. This is exactly what I want to do. I want a minimum of three partitions on the drive. One for swap, of course, but the other two I want to be: /boot / I have gotten the kernel to boot by tricking boot2 into finding boot.config by locating it at /boot/boot.config rather than /boot.config and adding the following line to boot.config: 0:ad(0,1,a)/kernel/kernel This gets me to the point where I have to enter the mount points manually at the mountroot prompt. So, this is good progress. This skips the loader stage of booting, however, which I would like to not have to do. The problem is that if I put the following line in boot.config: 0:ad(0,1,a)/loader then the loader cannot find its config file loader.conf In boot(8) there doesn't seem to be a flag that you can pass to set where to find loader.conf. So, how can I tell it where to find loader.conf if it is in a non-standard location? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installing FreeBSD on an encrypted volume
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain what I have done so far. first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the following command installed the boot code: # gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 The second freebsd-ufs is 200M for /boot and the third is for the GELI based encrypted swap and /. I used geli to encrypt ad0p3 and again used gpart to carve it into two BSD slices, one 512m for swap and the other the rest of the disk for /. After everything is newfs'd and ad0p1 and ad0p3.elib are mounted as /mnt/boot and /mnt/root respectively, I did export DESTDIR=/mnt/root and ran the install.sh scripts in /dest/8.2-RELEASE/base and /dest/8.2-RELEASE/kernels. The next thing I did was to modify the /mnt/root/boot/loader.conf file so that it loads the geom_eli module and edit the /mnt/root/boot/device.hints file so that the password on boot works correctly for the encrypted volume. And I moved /mnt/root/boot/GENERIC to /mnt/root/boot/kernel. Then I copied the contents of /mnt/root/boot to /mnt/boot. I created a directory /mnt/boot/etc and made a fstab and put one copy there and another copy in /mnt/root/etc This works great, however, I am left with /boot in two different places and /etc/fstab in two places as well. I would like to know if someone can come up wth a more elegant solution to this. At the moment I am mounting /dev/ad0p2 as /bootdir and whenever I update the system, once the update is done, I just do an archival copy of the contents of /boot into /bootdir/boot and if there is a change to fstab I make the change in both places. I understand that /boot cannot be encrypted (at the moment, until things change). But I would like to have /boot mounted directly from /dev/ad0p2 so there is only one copy of it. Any thoughts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Encrypted Volume followup
As a followup to my earlier question, are there plans for a geli aware boot0 so /boot does not need to be unencrypted? I know that this functionality can be done with TrueCrypt with FreeBSD running inside a TrueCrypt system, but having it part of FreeBSD would be great! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2
After following the handbook Chapter 24 to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2, I am
getting kernel errors for various postfix commands...
May 9 08:54:13 mx3 kernel: pid 57056 (trivial-rewrite), uid 125: exited
on signal 11
May 9 08:56:46 mx3 kernel: pid 57086 (smtpd), uid 125: exited on signal 11
I have searched the maillog and can't find any errors between restart
and such entries as...
May 9 08:54:13 mx3 postfix/master[19357]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 57056 killed by signal 11
May 9 08:56:46 mx3 postfix/master[19357]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 57086 killed by signal 11
I updated the ports after the reboot and did a 'portupgrade -af' after
the kernel update, restart, etc. I had no issues performing the upgrade
according to the handbook and the System State Comparison seems OK...
mx3# cat outfile.ids | awk '{ print $1 }' | more
Looking
Fetching
Fetching
Inspecting
/boot/kernel/linker.hints
/etc/crontab
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/mail/aliases
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
/etc/manpath.config
/etc/master.passwd
/etc/motd
/etc/passwd
/etc/pwd.db
/etc/spwd.db
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
/usr/lib32
I also tried 'make deinstall' for postfix and re-installed. And the
system reports 8.2-RELEASE. All the mail for a test domain seem to be
flowing without issue, but these kernel messages and warnings tell me
something is wrong. Can someone suggest what to do next in finding a
solution? Or is it best to post this to the postfix list?
Thanks, Robert
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Re: Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2
On 5/9/2011 12:33 PM, Reko Turja wrote: I updated the ports after the reboot and did a 'portupgrade -af' after the kernel update, restart, etc. I had no issues performing the upgrade according to the handbook and the System State Comparison seems OK... Did you do the whole mergemaster -p make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot test make installworld mergemaster sequence? As you tell about ending the process at reboot, I have a gut feeling that your userland is not up to date with kernel and the make installworld step is missing... -Reko Thanks, I think this may be my problem. I took it the wrong way when the handbook said this process is complete at the end of section 24.2 meaning the upgrade process is complete. It did say during the process that the kernel changed and I rebooted with another 'freebsd-update install' afterward. Didn't realize more processes to follow. I am using a GENERIC kernel and do not have the source on the disk, of course then I get... mx3# mergemaster -p *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment So, I just need to get all the source and then rebuild as you mentioned? --Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Newbie Needing Help
John or Judy Hixson writes: Actually I'm using 7.4 because that's the latest version Lucas' book covers and I learn better with a book in my hand. When I'm ready to actually use FBSD, I'll get going with the latest production release. At the level you're (probably) operating, the difference between 7.4 and 8.2 is minimal. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Newbie Needing Help
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 16:16:48 2011 Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:15:49 -0700 From: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help --XRI2XbIfl/05pQwm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 09 May 2011: =20 By the way, I remember a quote: =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Hello. My $NAME is ~inigo-montoya. You killed my process. Prepare to vi. --The Unix's Bride =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=3Do_selected=3D1469:1= action=3Dbrowseaction_mod=3Dshowcat=3Dcro =20 That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small problem: vi is pronounced like vee eye, not like the word vie. =20 I've always pronounced it like vie -- but I was introduced to it long before the web, back in the dark ages when each shop figured out their own pronunciations and wrote their own compilers. It was officially 'vee eye' -- so named because it was the _initials_ of the name 'visual iinterace to ed(1). It was originally a separate program that did _just_ the curses-based display functions, using 'ed' as a back-end process for the actual file manipulation. That said Prepare to 'vee eye' is a close enough phonetic match to 'prepare to die' for the joke to still work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: License for console fonts
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 18:04:36 2011 Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:04:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com To: Sean Hamilton seanhamil...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: License for console fonts In the last episode (May 09), Sean Hamilton said: What is the license on the fonts in /usr/share/syscons/fonts, especially swiss-8x8? Who/what is their origin? Would it be acceptable to include these binaries with a GPL-licensed program? I submitted the swiss fonts back in 1997, and I have a file called swisst.com on an old DOS directory dated 1995, so they're probably even older than that. I seem to remember the 8x16 font was inspired by a sample font that came with the ancient DOS font editor Font Mania, but for nostalgia's sake I goooled for it, started up DOSBox, and all of the sample fonts are fancy and not suitable for daily use. I don't think I came up with the name swiss myself, so I probably used another VGA font as a template, but my guess is the original author isn't concerned about the copyright status... You can consider them 2-clause BSD licensed like the rest of FreeBSD, until someone can find an older font that looks similar. 'Swiss' is a name _many_ people used for a free Helvetica look-alike font. a substantial number were explicitly released into the public domain by being prduced _without_ any copright notice -- This was *before* U.S. adpted the Berne Convention' copyright rules, and publication without copyright claim did, in _those_days_ (although *not* true today) did put it in the public domain. GNU, and GhostScript, had a Swiss font. Cassiday Greene (a type foundry company) had a Swiss in their catalogue. (copyrighted, but -very- inexpensive to license.) I think the X11 distribution has a real, licensed, Helvetica, Thus, an 'authoritative' answer abuut the 'swiss' font in the FreeBSDo distribution is going to depend on _which_ font named swiss that it actually is. I would _not_ want to hazard a guess on that point -- among other things, I'm *nt* a good enough typographer to tell the difference between 'very simmilar' fonts. wry grin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Newbie Needing Help
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 9 18:16:11 2011 From: Ricardo Cuevas Camarena rcue...@nic.mx To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 17:59:04 -0500 Subject: RE: Newbie Needing Help -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:21 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:55:22PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small problem: vi is pronounced like vee eye, not like the word vie. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] for(;;) puts(YES); Use the unix commands... $ yes I already have an over-abundance, from my last harvest of nits, but I guess I have to pick one more. To be equivalent to the putative 'c' fragment shown, the command-line equivalent is _not_ what was shown above. Rather it is: $ yes YES ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
remove all ports
Dino Vliet writes: Over time a few ports were installed, for which I have no use now. I figured out the alternatives I have are: Which is easier depends on a) how many total ports b) how many you want to remove c) whether you know exactly which ones need to go If if youy don't know the answer to (c), then it's probably easiest to scrub everything and start over. If you do, and (b) is a large number, ditto. Otherwise: make a list, go to /var/db/pkg, and run pkg_deinstall on each port. One man's opinion, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 8 12:15:43 2011 From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400 Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com writes: Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 machine and getting this error: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/import' gmake[6]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/extensions/smime/b uild' Makefile:84: *** missing separator. Stop. gmake[6]: Leaving directory The apparent culprit is indicated in the line above -- a syntax error in the Makefile for building 'smime'. If you underestand makefile syntax, check out that file, circa 'line 84' THE most common makefile error is leading _spaces_ on an action line, instead of a 'tab' ([HT], '\t', 0x08) character. [[.. sneck traceback ..]] `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird. I'd appreciate your expert advice... The actual error was earlier than you quoted. It _was_ there, just not at the end of things. :) Are you trying to run a parallel build? Reading the full trace _DID_ show a parallel build. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sending a Fax
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu May 5 21:50:34 2011 From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 19:21:29 -0700 To: FreeBSD Questions questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Sending a Fax One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via Google. Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have the owners manual? what does it say about faxing? *MOST* computer-driven fax machines have the 'logical equivalent' of a serial port, to which you send specialized AT (extended Hayes modem commands) to go into fax mode, and originate a call. Then you shovel out a bit-stream that is the already rasterized fax data. I've always used 'Hylafax' -- a _smart_ fax-management daemon that supports a whole bunch of different kinds of fax modems, handles -multiple- fax- modems, automatic retries, etc., etc. It supports a very simple protocol for queueing faxes from applicatioons, or the command line, and handles either ASCII or PostScript input. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Comparing two lists
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri May 6 19:27:54 2011 Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 02:09:26 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Comparing two lists Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files and output a list of lines that exist in both files. Is there a simple way to do this? diff? awk? sed? cmp? Or a combination of two or more of them? If the files have only 'minor' differences -- i.e. no long runs of lines that are in only one fie -- *and* the common lines are in the same order in each file, you can use diff(1), without any other shennigans. If the above is -not- true, and If you need _only_ the common lines, AND order is not important, then sort(1) both files, and use diff(1) on the two sorted versions. Beyond that it depends on what you mean by 'extensive' ones. megabytes? Gigabytes? or what?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Piping find into tar...
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed May 4 02:26:32 2011 Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 01:25:39 -0600 From: Modulok modu...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Piping find into tar... List, I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive which contains the files which find lists? I tried the following, but it didn't work (obviously). find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print | tar -cjf result.tgz You're asking 'the wrong question'. tar _requires_ the filenames to be listed as parameters to the command. There are at least four ways to accomplish this, given the specific example you show. 1) The simplest: tar -cjf result.tbz .*.txt *.txt 2) in-line substitution: tar -cjf result.tbz `find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print` 3) using the '-T' option: find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print0 | tar -c -j --null -T - -f result.tbz 3) using xargs: find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print0 | xargs tar -rjf result.tar; bzip2 result.tar Options 1) or 2) will fail 'immediately', if the pattern expands to an excessively long set of filenames. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: For My Edification
Daniel Staal writes: I would like to add the excellent manpages of the system. Unlike many Linusi, those manpages are kept current by the FreeBSD operating system developers and their documentation assistants. So whenever you're not fully sure about something, use man something. This applies to commands, configuration files, kernel interfaces, library calls and maintenance procedures. *Everything* is well documented. And you don't even need Internet access to get that information, as the manpage doesn't direct you to some arbitrary Wiki on the web. :-) And, vice-versa, you don't need a FreeBSD box to read them, if you have the web: They are all posted online at http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi for you to read. It is worth noting there are reference works - intended for those who already know something about a topic/program - not tutorials intended to teach concepts and terminology on how to do a specific task. At this point I usually recommend the most recent edition of _/The Unix System Administration Handbook/_. It is well-written; it covers flavors other than FreeBSD; and it goes into enough of the conceptual infrastructure to be very useful in diagnosing some kinds of breakage. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any way to have login output AND use rsync/scp ?
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 15:58:45 -0700 (PDT) From: George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com Subject: Any way to have login output AND use rsync/scp ? I have my .cshrc file run some basic netstat and 'w' commands so that when I log in, I can see at a glance what is going on on the system and notice any unusual login activity, etc. However this completely breaks both scp and rsync - they cannot function at all (apparently) with any kind of stdio output from the shell. Is there any way around this ? Is there some way to specify an alternate login shell when I use scp or rsync ? Or conversely: Is there some way for my login shell (csh) to notice that it is scp or rsync accessing the system, and skip the text output for them ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: building a port with very long list of build options
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Apr 21 22:45:24 2011 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:17:31 -0700 From: Carl k0802...@telus.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: building a port with very long list of build options Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge number of build options (eg. ghostscript). In my case I am cross-compiling on an amd64 host for what will be a NanoBSD i386 target, but I don't think that's important here. The scenario precludes using the familiar configuration menu. The problem is that the desired list of options far exceeds what would be sane to specify on the 'make' command line. In fact, it apparently even exceeds what typical text editors tolerate when trying to enter the line in a shell script. What is the recommended solution? One *can* use a script with an 'insanely long' set of options, by the sinple expedient of using \ to continue the list on the next line. In fact, when I make a script-file for building something with lots of options, I usually, fore 'readability' put each option on a separate line. e.g.: ./Configure \ --option_001 \ --option_002 \ --option_003 \ --option_003 \ ... ... --option_203 \ making _sure_ there is a blank line after the last option specification. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:36:37 -0500 From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: Stopping Less from creating Log Files This is a minor problem but I use more to read Email messages from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible to start typing and create a log file of the message in which ever mailbox directory one is reading out of. The man page for more is actually linked to less even though FreeBSD has /usr/bin/more and less. There is only one executable -- it has two hard links, thus giving the alternate names. I even tried in the .mh_profile to call more with -Oo/dev/null but if you hit a key, the logfile prompt appears and any subsequent key strokes are part of the new file name. This really is only a minor nuisance because it creates junk files that then have to be removed from the directory. So, if there is a way to make more or less not write anything, it would be more or less appreciated. It is said: For every fool-proof system, there exists a sufficiently-determined fool capable of breaking it. We have a winner! For the named programs, more or less, anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Marble and routing
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Apr 8 18:19:15 2011 From: Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:18:25 -0400 Subject: Marble and routing I'm in the U.S., so I believe that my only valid choice is OpenRoute service. Does it require any subscription payment, os is it available free? Google is your friend. search string marble routing (oddly enough ) What I got as the 4th link http://nienhueser.de/blog/?p=137http://nienhueser.de/blog/?p=137 seems very relevant to your question. To quote Sgt. Schultz, I know nothing about KDE, marble, or the openroute service. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
Tim Kellers writes: Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. That: ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ was the missing step for me. I tried this, and discovered that - at least for SeaMonkey - I had to go to the plugins manager and explicitly enable it before it would show up in about:plugins. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reverse dns in bind9
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:19:26 -0400
From: Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com
Subject: reverse dns in bind9
Hello,
I am attempting to setup reverse dns in bind 9 under freebsd... this is
in an attempt to allow mysql to work a little easier with DNS
resolution.
In my /etc/named/named.conf file I have the following:
// RFC 1912
zone localhost { type master; file master/localhost-forward.db; };
zone 127.in-addr.arpa { type master; ile master/localhost-reverse.db; };
zone 255.in-addr.arpa { type master; file master/empty.db; };
zone 192.in-addr.arpa { type master; file master/summitjnhome-reverse.db;
};
zone summitnjhome.com { type master; file master/summitnjhome.db; };
My master/summitnjhome.com looks like the following:
For starters, this should be in master/summitnjhome-reerse.db
$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA ns1.summitnjhome.com. bluethundr.gmail.com. (
201103271 ; Serial, todays date + todays serial
8H ; Refresh
2H ; Retry
4W ; Expire
1D) ; Minimum TTL
NS ns1.summitnjhome.com.
summitnjhome.com.
42 PTR LCENT01.summitnjhome.com.
43 PTR LCENT02.summitnjhome.com.
44 PTR LBSD2.summitnjhome.com.
45 PTR LCENT02.summitnjhome.com.
46 PTR LCENT03.summitnjhome.com.
47 PTR LCENT04.summitnjhome.com.
23 PTR virtcent01.summitnjhome.com.
24 PTR virtcent02.summitnjhome.com.
21 PTR virtcent03.summitnjhome.com.
26 PTR virtcent04.summitnjhome.com.
27 PTR virtcent05.summitnjhome.com.
28 PTR virtcent06.summitnjhome.com.
29 PTR virtcent07.summitnjhome.com.
30 PTR virtcent08.summitnjhome.com.
31 PTR virtcent09.summitnjhome.com.
32 PTR virtcent10.summitnjhome.com.
33 PTR virtcent11.summitnjhome.com.
34 PTR virtcent12.summitnjhome.com.
35 PTR virtcent13.summitnjhome.com.
36 PTR virtcent14.summitnjhome.com.
37 PTR virtcent15.summitnjhome.com.
38 PTR virtcent16.summitnjhome.com.
39 PTR virtcent17.summitnjhome.com.
40 PTR virtcent18.summitnjhome.com.
41 PTR virtcent19.summitnjhome.com.
and my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:
domain summitnjhome.com
nameserver 192.168.1.44
nameserver 4.2.2.2
zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa { type master; file
/etc/named/master/summitnjhome-reverse.db
};
the 'zone' line you show should *NOT* be in resolv.conf at all.
this line should be in the named.conf file *instead* of the one for
the '192.in-addr.arpa' zone.
then I restart both named and the network service
and yet if I were to try forward resolution:
LBSD2# host sum1
sum1.summitnjhome.com is an alias for LCENT01.summitnjhome.com.
LCENT01.summitnjhome.com has address 192.168.1.42
and then reverse resolution:
LBSD2# host 192.168.1.42
Host 42.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
I have no luck. Any thoughts on this?
see above.
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Recommendations for 3D modelling code for 3D printing?
Arthur Chance writes: I need to make some parts using 3D printing, and was wondering what software I should use to do the modelling. Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations about this? If it matters, I'll probably be using shapeways.com to do the actual printing. I was under the impression the 3D printers used proprietary software/formats. Am I mistaken? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
devd started with single-user mode?
David Demelier writes: I just realized that I can't use my USB keyboard if I start FreeBSD in single user mode. The keyboard is still detected but I can't use it. My memory says I had this problem several years ago. Back in 5.*, or maybe 6.*? It could fixed in the short term by a rebooting the machine. The long term fix was changes in the code. Since then, works for me. May we have more information avout your hardware and FreeBSD version, please? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating OpenSSH
Carmel writes: It is part of the base system. I don't know if it has a true maintainer. In any case, I would need commit privileges which I don't and never expect to have and have no desire to acquire.. I do not believe that is correct; a fair number of people contribute productively to the base system with out being committers. Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HAL must die!
Erich Dollansky writes: The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA - metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ... We do not care much who manufactured them. The software industry is still far away from this. ... in part, because the definition of a screw is not yet fixed. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Unable to umount
Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled. I am running with all ports up to date and the latest XFCE4. This problem started with the upgrade of XFCE4 and Xorg. Here is how it looks [robert@dell64] ~ mount_msdosfs /dev/da6s1 Flash [robert@dell64] ~ ls -l Flash total 128 drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 18:18 Android drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 6 1980 LOST.DIR drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 17:36 rosie_scroll drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 16:53 rssreader [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy If I log out of XFCE4 to the CLI, I can then umount normally. Is anyone else seeing this? TIA Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to umount
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:26:00 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled. I am running with all ports up to date and the latest XFCE4. This problem started with the upgrade of XFCE4 and Xorg. Here is how it looks [robert@dell64] ~ mount_msdosfs /dev/da6s1 Flash [robert@dell64] ~ ls -l Flash total 128 drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 18:18 Android drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 6 1980 LOST.DIR drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 17:36 rosie_scroll drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 16:53 rssreader [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy If I log out of XFCE4 to the CLI, I can then umount normally. Is anyone else seeing this? TIA Are you on the drive or do you have files open from the flash drive? Try this: lsof /home/robert/Flash or lsof /dev/da6s1 It will tell you what files are using the device, you should close all files before unmounting as well as making sure your not in /home/robert/Flash/ or some subdir of ~/Flash. Chris Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command. [robert@dell64] ~ lsof Flash [robert@dell64] ~ lsof /dev/da6s1 [robert@dell64] ~ [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to umount
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command. [robert@dell64] ~ lsof Flash [robert@dell64] ~ lsof /dev/da6s1 [robert@dell64] ~ [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ For shgiggles, try and umount it as root, does that actually work? [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ Should have mentioned...been there, done that ...tried and failed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to umount
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:48:40 -0800 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command. [robert@dell64] ~ lsof Flash [robert@dell64] ~ lsof /dev/da6s1 [robert@dell64] ~ [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ For shgiggles, try and umount it as root, does that actually work? [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ Should have mentioned...been there, done that ...tried and failed. Sorry. Sent the wrong copy paste entry last time [root@dell64] ~# umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [root@dell64] ~# umount /home/robert/Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [root@dell64] ~# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to umount
On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly That works! I did not have to do that before the recent updates to XFCE4 and Xorg but as long as I can umount, I'm happy. Thank you John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:36:29 +0100 Subject: Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship Aside, On Disclaimers:: Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- #include std/disclaimer.h It wouldn't be considered appropriate for Apple employees or contractors (well, outside of the folks working in investor relations, perhaps) to try to persuade someone to invest in a particular company because of which open source projects Apple might be contributing towards. In another context, someone from Apple who was familiar with those contributions might be free to discuss them, but they would generally be expected to not identify their affiliation with Apple to avoid unduly influencing other people or creating a real or perceived conflict of interest. To not declare affiliation for fear it might tilt perception of recipient, would be misguided. A disclaimer such as I work for XYZ. I do not speak for XYZ. would suffice. One declares affiliations to be fair to recipients safeguard oneself. Recipients are informed, can draw their own conclusions, not roast one for undeclared interest :-). Examples: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/how-ofcom-is-run/ofcom-board-2/policy-on-c onflicts-of-interest/ Section 6: PROVIDED .. there is full transparency about any such interests. Sorry, Julian, but Chuck had it _legally_ correctly, for the U.S.A.. As soon as someone so much as mentions 'investing' in a company, a whole bunch of rather draconian laws kick in about the offering of investment advice by someone affiliated with the investment entity. This has become very much of a 'hot button' issue in recent years, with a lot of new, *very*strict* laws being enacted, in part because of some of the recent major investment scandals, like Enron, AIG, etc.. Secondly, there is a matter of the 'company policy' of his employer with regard to employees giving 'investment advice' -- even if it is 'on their own time' -- about the company. Even if it isn't against the law, it could easily get him fired, instantly. Almost all publicly held companies (at least in the USA) have an 'investor relations' department, and those are the _only_ employees, other than the CEO, who are authorized give out investment-related information. Further, everything they _do_ give out has been (a) approved by senior management, and (b) 'vetted' by the legal department. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship
David Brodbeck writes: Apple produces the clusterfuck that is CUPS, I believe. Apple took over the CUPS project. They didn't write it. They're improving it a lot with every major OSX release, so I'm not sure why you're so upset. I think a lot of the hate for CUPS here is NIH syndrome. In my case, the hate is caused by the difficulty in configuration and trouble-shooting (and of course the related documentation mega-fail). Beyond that, it seems to work as advertised. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 9 10:40:23 2011 Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:57:03 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: pe...@vfemail.net Subject: Nonsensical Web Log Entries I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical entries like these caught my attention: 124.226.181.80 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:49:58 -0500] GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.0 301 294 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 123.10.97.102 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:01 -0500] GET http://makeabank.com/faq.cgi HTTP/1.0 404 3485 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 115.225.166.2 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:04 -0500] GET http://join1.winhundred.com/affiliate/link.php?ref=35840productid=7178 HTTP/1.0 404 3485 http://www.wingclips.com/; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 114.97.197.184 - - [09/Mar/2011:09:50:15 -0500] GET http://www.tosunmail.com/proxyheader.php HTTP/1.0 301 313 http://www.cashsoldier.com/VerifyerLevel.php; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Is my FreeBSD box serving as some kind of Web proxy? Your box is _not_ doing the proxying. that's why it's signalling errors for those requests. The perpetrators are _hoping_ you are running a misconfigured proxying front- end. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: python27 update
Jerry writes: Sadly, this is one of those times when portupgrade seems to handle things better, but you'll probably have to wait another day to see if things worked out better this time. For me, using portupgrade on 3 different systems (7.4 and 8.1) to upgrade Python 2.6 to 2.7 worked like a charm. Just my two cents. +1 Here also. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Firefox printing
(Followups redirected.) ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net writes: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. I send the following to gecko@ a day or two ago: I have a LaserJet 6mp, connected to: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 23 08:15:53 EDT 2010 amd64 running: cups-base-1.4.6_2 cups-client-1.4.6 cups-image-1.4.6 cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_6 Using this, I am able to print correctly from: the command line LibreOffice Acrobat Reader Opera I am not able to print correctly from: Firefox 3.6.14 SeaMonkey 2.0.11 In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space. Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows nothing that matches this. Does this match your symptoms? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Ethernet cards Intel PRO/1000 QP (82571EB) and Intel PRO/1000 QP (82575GB)
Patrick Lamaiziere writes: I've got two ethernet cards Intel PRO/1000 QP (82571EB) and Intel PRO/1000 QP (82575GB) in one router/firewall. I use OpenBSD 4.8 on this box. That works fine, but I see some input Ierr on the interfaces (using netstat), even when the load is not very high. I have Pro/1000 GT Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82546EB). huff@ uptime 9:46AM up 50 days, 22:16, 5 users, load averages: 3.85, 3.56, 3.81 $ netstat -I em2 -w2 (bandwith = 150 Mbits) huff@ netstat -in NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs IdropOpkts Oerrs Coll em01500 209.6.xx.yy/21 209.6.91.204 49357148 - - 54769770 - - em11500 10.0.0.0/810.0.0.1 13547336 - - 209590 - - Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
No Handbook in 8.2
Heidi Wyss writes: There seems to be no FreeBSD handbook in the 8.2 installation, likewise 8.0 and 8.1 (see http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/). Is this a botch or something else? Documentation is now included as a port, one per language. See e.g. misc/freebsd-doc-en. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about nethack and setgid
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:51:45 +0100 From: David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about nethack and setgid Hello, I don't understand how nethack can store the score in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile. the real binary is here /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack And the mode is -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1793635 25 Jan 2011 /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack So that means people in games group will run nethack as games user (owner of file) Actually, it means that the program will run with the _group_ id of the file -- i.e. the 'games' group. _That_ 's' is the 'sgid' or 'set groupID' bit. but I'm not in games group ! and I can save the file located in /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile which mode is -rw-rw-r-- games games Lo and behold! The file _is_ writable by the games group. I'm writing a game that will store file too, because I can't make it works like nethack I was planning using the setuid mode but I don't like much this .. What am I misunderstanding? the function of the 'setgid' bit. grin. Cheers, -- David Demelier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Feb 28 05:31:46 2011 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:24:30 +0300 From: c0re nr1c...@gmail.com To: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full 2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk: On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ So it's full. But by du it's not appeared to be full # du -hxd 1 / 2.0K/.snap 512B/dev 2.0K/tmp 2.0K/usr 2.0K/var 1.9M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K/dist 1.0M/bin 131M/boot 10M/lib 356K/libexec 2.0K/media 12K/mnt 2.0K/proc 7.2M/rescue 296K/root 4.7M/sbin 4.0K/lost+found 157M/ Do you have partitions mounted at /tmp, /usr, /var etc? Does the output of your du command change if you unmount those partitions? (It might be an idea to boot into a livefs CD or DVD given that du(1) lives in /usr/bin, so a bit tricky to unmount /usr and then run du) My guess is that you've at one time created files beneath what is usually a mount point. Mounting the partition over them makes those files inaccessible, but they still take up space on the drive. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW At last I found time to check it. Booted with frenzy life cd, mounted only / partition and saw trash /var/spool. Deleted it and it solved problem. But later was and idea to mount device of / (/dev/da0s1a) as /mnt/root and just delete those files without need of livecd. It works in Linux. But in freebsd i got # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/ mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted So only single user mode or live cd could solve it. *NOT* true. Stopping any daemons that were using /var/spooll, and then umount(1)-ing it would have done the trick from multi-user mode. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Performance
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Feb 27 14:54:09 2011 From: David cyber...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:46:03 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Performance Hello All: I am curious... does anyone know of a reasonably priced commodity server capable of sourcing/sinking 10 Gbps of data from/to disk via 2 x 10 GE network interfaces? Any ideas on how hard this would be to do with FreeBSD? I know of a proprietary linux-based system, but looking for open-source FreeBSD based system. A lot depends on what you need to do with the data. Do you need just the 'contents' of the network packets -- i.e. are you trying to send/recieve a single stream of data -- or do you need complete headers, augmented with timestamps, such that you can re- construct/replay what was 'seen on the wire'? Is the box 'dedicated' to receiving (or sending), and does -nothing-else- while that operation is in process? or do you need to sample the data in real-time as well? Another question is _how_long_ you need to handle the 2x10gbit/sec of data. a few seconds? a few tens of seconds? minutes? hours? If you need to 'go to disk' in real-time, you're looking at needing at least 3-4 gigabyte/sec of bandwith to disk. No commodity drives provide that kind of capacity, so you're looking at multiple drives 'in parallel' -- the logical equivalent of a 'striped' RAID array. Probably 12-16 spindles paralleled. Best handled with _hardware_ raid, directly in the disk controller, but I don't know of a commodity controller that supports enough spindles to give that bandwidth. This means one is best off doing it in the application softwre itself, rather than trusting the O/S to get it right. You're also looking at a _big_ disk array. Around 200 gigs for ONE MINUTE of data. Need 'only' an hour? That's merely 12 terabytes. The O/S is -relatively- unimportant. wry grin You need _good_ network cards, with good drivers -- preferably ones where most of the network stack can be off-loaded onto the card itself. You also need good disk controllers, ideally semi-autonomous (like SCSI), with fairly large data buffers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HAL's demise
Jerry writes: GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? Lack of someone willing, able, and available to do the work. (Should your name be on that list? :-) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HAL's demise
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: HAL's demise GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? HAL's demise is indefinitely delayed. Dave Bowman is otherwise occupied. And Frank Poole is out of ciruculation. *GRIN* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: variable line-display pager?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 19 18:28:20 2011 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:23:00 -0800 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:52:40PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 19 February 2011: Need help findind a way of using existing unix utilities to diplay chunks of N lines of a text files. Here N = the number of lines in the file. For instance, say that my xterm/console/Konsole is 80x53 lines. My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less or some GUI pager to display only 15 lines at one time. Tapping the space bar would display another 15 lines and so on until EOF. Is there a way of doing with with flags of the existing /usr/bin/less or is there some other pager that I can build? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The -z option is supposed to do this: less -z15 file.txt But it appears to work only on the second and successive pages. Oh. So _that's_ why. I tried less -m 15 [because the man pages sais z=N; i just tried what you did with -z15. Full page first time, 15 lines each spacebar thereafter. Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can squeeze my 15 or small-n lines' worth into. Can'y believe that there is nothing for all theses years I mean, geewhiz! Any idea where I Should look in ports or how to google this? how hard can it be? stty rows=15; less filename ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:35:35 -0500 From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net Subject: Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD [[.. sneck ..]] Basically, if a ZFS boot drive fails, you are likely to get the following scenario: 1) 'What do I need to do to replace a disk in the ZFS pool?' 2) 'Oh, that's easy.' Replaces disk. 3) System fails to boot at some later point. 4) 'Oh, right, you need to do this *as well* on the *boot* pool...' Where if a UFS boot drive fails on an otherwise ZFS system, you'll get: 1) 'What's this drive?' 2) 'Oh, so how do I set that up again?' 3) Set up replacement boot drive. The first situation hides that it's a special case, where the second one doesn't. For any foolproof system, there exists a _sufficiently-determined_ fool capable of breaking it applies. To avoid the first scenario you need to make sure your sysadmins are following *local* (and probably out-of-band) docs, and aware of potential problems. And awake. ;) The scenario in the second situation presents it's problem as a unified package, and you can rely on normal levels of alertness to be able to handle it correctly. (The sysadmin will realize it needs to be set up as a boot device because it's the boot device. ;) It may be complicated, but it's *obviously* complicated.) I'm still not clear on whether a ZFS-only system will boot with a failed drive in the root ZFS pool. Once booted, of course a decent ZFS setup should be able to recover from the failed drive. But the question is if the FreeBSD boot process will handle the redundancy or not. At this point I'm actually guessing it will, which of course only exasperates the above surprise problem: 'The easy ZFS disk replacement procedure *did* work in the past, why did it cause a problem now?' (And conceivably it could cause *major* data problems at that point, as ZFS will *grow* a pool quite easily, but *shrinking* one is a problem.) A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, down-time for replacement if/when it fails. A ZFS boot drive lets you replace the drive and *schedule* the down-time (for a 'test' re-boot, to make *sure* everything works) at a convenient time. Failure to schedule the required down time is a management failure, not a methodology issue. One has located the requisite sufficiently- determined fool, and the results thereof are to be expected. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?
Chad Perrin writes: In my experience, ThinkPads are among the highest quality laptops on the market. At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were _the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM's pc hardware division. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: script help
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:57 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Subject: Re: script help 2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: Hello folks: Hello! No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. cd /your/www/directory rm -rf copyright.htm (A) doesn't do what the OP asked. (B) doesn't do what you -think- it does. (i.e., it will delete at most one file) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Stuck
Rem Roberti writes: This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it could not proceed because the root partition was full. What! I did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. When I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for the root partion, which is around 10G. Anyway, when I rebooted, the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently where I stand. I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and would appreciate any help in fixing this. Of course, I smell a newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out where I went wrong. Start with this: du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 This will give you the largest directories; if any of them don't look right - investigate further. (For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 gbytes, of which I use 1.1. 10 gbytes is a lot of space.) Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
problem when including readline.h
I'm writing a C program which, for various reasons, has the warning level turned _way_ up. I'm now getting this: /usr/include/readline/readline.h:336: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' /usr/include/readline/keymaps.h:74: warning: previous declaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' was here and more like it. Other than turning down the warning level, what's wrong and how do I fix it? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem when including readline.h
Chip Camden writes: I'm writing a C program which, for various reasons, has the warning level turned _way_ up. I'm now getting this: /usr/include/readline/readline.h:336: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' /usr/include/readline/keymaps.h:74: warning: previous declaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' was here and more like it. Other than turning down the warning level, what's wrong and how do I fix it? Both keymaps.h and readline.h declare rl_make_bare_keymap as an external function. Perhaps you shouldn't be including both files? Except I don't. The include list: #include sys/types.h #include ctype.h #include limits.h #include mysql/mysql.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h #include strings.h #include sys/param.h #include unistd.h #include readline/readline.h #include readline/history.h No second keymap.h visible. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem when including readline.h
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Feb 13 17:00:08 2011 From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:56:12 -0500 To: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem when including readline.h Chip Camden writes: I'm writing a C program which, for various reasons, has the warning level turned _way_ up. I'm now getting this: /usr/include/readline/readline.h:336: warning: redundant redeclaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' /usr/include/readline/keymaps.h:74: warning: previous declaration of 'rl_make_bare_keymap' was here and more like it. Other than turning down the warning level, what's wrong and how do I fix it? Both keymaps.h and readline.h declare rl_make_bare_keymap as an external function. Perhaps you shouldn't be including both files? Except I don't. You have to chase through all the includes to see what is included by the files you directly include. It's pretty sure to be sometthing in the 'readline/' directory. The include list: #include sys/types.h #include ctype.h #include limits.h #include mysql/mysql.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h #include strings.h #include sys/param.h #include unistd.h #include readline/readline.h #include readline/history.h No second keymap.h visible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make
From: Vikash Badal vikash.ba...@is.co.za
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:30:02 +0200
Subject: RE: switching from gnu make to bsd make
-Original Message-
From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] Sent: 10 February 2011 10:11
AM To: Vikash Badal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:
switching from gnu make to bsd make
Of course, in my testing case OBJDIR and SRCDIR are empty, and I didn't
define any of CC, CFLAGS, INCDIR or LIBDIR, so the defaults have been
chosen.
Do you encounter a specific problem?
This is my problem:
vix:$ make make: don't know how to make src/%.c. Stop
Just telling people what happened is *NOT* enough for intelligent
diagnosis of the problem. You also have to tell people WHAT YOU DID
that provoked the error you encountered.
That said, dusting off my crystal ball -- which appears to be *working*
today -- you simply typed make at the shell prompt.
Try typing make all and see what happens then.
this is my make file:
--
CC= cc
* LIBS = -lpthread -lmysqlclient_r
CFLAGS= -Wall -g
INCDIR= -Iinclude -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/mysql
LIBDIR= -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql
OBJDIR= obj
SRCDIR= src
BINDIR= bin
PREFIX= /usr/local/nntpd
BINDIRFILES = ${BINDIR}/nntpd
OBJS = ${OBJDIR}/log.o ${OBJDIR}/cleanup.o ${OBJDIR}/config.o \
${OBJDIR}/leecherpool.o ${OBJDIR}/mytime.o
${OBJDIR}/upstream.o ${OBJDIR}/mysleep.o
${OBJDIR}/sql.o ${OBJDIR}/signalhandler.o
${OBJDIR}/list.o ${OBJDIR}/tcpserver.o
${OBJDIR}/listenpool.o ${OBJDIR}/workers.o \
${OBJDIR}/nntpd.o
$(OBJDIR)/%.o:${SRCDIR}/%.c
${CC} -c ${CFLAGS} ${INCDIR} ${LIBDIR} $ -o $@
all:${OBJS}
${CC} -o ${BINDIR}/nntpd ${LIBS} ${CFLAGS} ${INCDIR} ${LIBDIR} \
${OBJDIR}/log.o ${OBJDIR}/cleanup.o ${OBJDIR}/config.o \
${OBJDIR}/leecherpool.o ${OBJDIR}/mytime.o ${OBJDIR}/nntp.o \
${OBJDIR}/upstream.o ${OBJDIR}/mysleep.o ${OBJDIR}/sqlpool.o \
${OBJDIR}/sql.o ${OBJDIR}/signalhandler.o ${OBJDIR}/daemon.o \
${OBJDIR}/list.o ${OBJDIR}/tcpserver.o ${OBJDIR}/tmpfiles.o \
${OBJDIR}/listenpool.o ${OBJDIR}/workers.o \
${OBJDIR}/nntpd.o
--
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Recording from sound card
I'm having problems trying to record from a sound card under 8.1-RELEASE. The last time I tried this was many releases ago, possibly 4.x-RELEASE. Back then I would do something like cat /dev/dsp file but now when I try it I just end up with a 0 byte file. I'm using a different sound card than before so maybe that has something to do with it. Or possibly I just don't know which device to use. Playing sounds using cat file.wav /dev/dsp0.0 works fine, but I can't get recording to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: Creative CT5880-C (play/rec) default $ sysctl -a | egrep '(snd|pcm|sound)' hw.snd.vpc_reset: 0 hw.snd.vpc_0db: 45 hw.snd.vpc_autoreset: 1 hw.snd.latency_profile: 1 hw.snd.latency: 5 hw.snd.report_soft_matrix: 1 hw.snd.report_soft_formats: 1 hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0 hw.snd.feeder_eq_exact_rate: 0 hw.snd.feeder_eq_presets: PEQ:16000,0.2500,62,0.2500:-9,9,1.0:44100,48000,88200,96000,176400,192000 hw.snd.feeder_rate_quality: 1 hw.snd.feeder_rate_round: 25 hw.snd.feeder_rate_max: 2016000 hw.snd.feeder_rate_min: 1 hw.snd.feeder_rate_polyphase_max: 183040 hw.snd.feeder_rate_presets: 100:8:0.85 100:36:0.92 100:164:0.97 hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass: 1 hw.snd.verbose: 0 hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16 hw.snd.default_unit: 0 hw.snd.version: 2009061500/i386 hw.snd.default_auto: 0 dev.pcm.0.%desc: Creative CT5880-C dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm dev.pcm.0.%location: slot=9 function=0 dev.pcm.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1274 device=0x5880 subvendor=0x1274 subdevice=0x2003 class=0x040100 dev.pcm.0.%parent: pci0 dev.pcm.0.eapd: 1 dev.pcm.0.play.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans: 1 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanmode: fixed dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanrate: 48000 dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanformat: s16le:2.0 dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 4096 dev.pcm.0.bitperfect: 0 dev.pcm.0.spdif_enabled: 0 dev.pcm.0.latency_timer: 32 dev.pcm.0.polling: 0 $ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 75:75 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 73:73 Mixer cd is currently set to 75:75 Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 Mixer igainis currently set to 0:0 Mixer ogainis currently set to 50:50 Mixer line1is currently set to 75:75 Mixer phin is currently set to 0:0 Mixer phoutis currently set to 0:0 Mixer videois currently set to 75:75 Recording source: mic ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0 Squeeze has been released
[ Adding debian-...@lists.debian.org to CC. If you reply, please follow-up there since this is off-topic in FreeBSD mailing lists ] 2011/2/9 Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-dvd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/kfreebsd-i386/iso-dvd/ And according to the CHECKSUMS available in that directory there should be 7 DVD-ROMs for each architecture (amd64, i386): debian-6.0.0-kfreebsd-arch-DVD-N.iso where arch=amd64/i386 and N=1...7 but only the first DVD-ROM is available for each architecture. Where are other DVD-ROMs? These images currently install by downloading packages via internet. The CD/DVD is not actually used (except for booting) because of a bug in the installer. The fix for this bug will be included in 6.0r1, but for now it doesn't matter which ISO you download, they all do a network install. -- Robert Millan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
kern.crit messages
:2659 2nd 0xff002b9d6400 dirhash (dirhash) @ /usr/src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_dirhash.c:283 KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a _witness_debugger() at _witness_debugger+0x2e witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x807 _sx_xlock() at _sx_xlock+0x55 ufsdirhash_acquire() at ufsdirhash_acquire+0x33 ufsdirhash_add() at ufsdirhash_add+0x19 ufs_direnter() at ufs_direnter+0x662 ufs_makeinode() at ufs_makeinode+0x291 VOP_CREATE_APV() at VOP_CREATE_APV+0x8d vn_open_cred() at vn_open_cred+0x46a kern_openat() at kern_openat+0x181 syscallenter() at syscallenter+0x1aa syscall() at syscall+0x4c Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xe2 --- syscall (5, FreeBSD ELF64, open), rip = 0x80078118c, rsp = 0x7fffad48, rbp = 0x7fffb73f --- Just looking for advice on what to do about all this, can someone help? Thanks, Robert -- Robert rob...@webtent.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.crit messages
On 2/6/2011 12:20 PM, Vallo Kallaste wrote: By using the line: *default release=cvs tag=. for src-all collection you definitely grabbed -current sources. I'm not sure if downgrading by make world is supported but you could try. Backup first, try later.. Thanks. Can someone confirm these steps as the best way to attempt to get back to a 8.1 kernel I originally installed... 1. update my tag line to 8_1 2. update my source tree 3. run 'make world' I have backup already. I ask because in the handbook it says 'Do not use make world'... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html I was going to just rebuild the kernel with the proper source tree. -- Robert rob...@webtent.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Scanner recommendation
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi writes: As FreeBSD comes out with a new version about a year (or two..) 7.x - 8.x - 9.x a version of the sofware needs to be done (compiled) seldom. If the program is well-written, it may well be that re-compiling is all that needs to be done. (And I believe tha goal for new .0 versions is more like 18-24 months.) 2) Found an org, and using tax reduction program to finance software: here is is possible... Any new ideas??? Yes: skip phase 2. Have a person with s good reputation agree to do the work - accept pledges, talk to the author, then collect and transfer money. In the U.S., there's no reason not to ... but there's no strong reason to, either. Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Scanner recommendation
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 4 11:26:25 2011 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Gour g...@atmarama.net Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:24:10 +0100 Subject: Re: Scanner recommendation --Sig_/7ESsfH/1RtQF54bxqA=NpSI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:53:05 -0800 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely better than any free source software. =20 It's really puzzling how one-man shop can support write software which is so much better than any free software with support for so many scanners. Money *IS* a poweful incentive. grin Somebody saying I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner is motivation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11
Alexandre writes: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Pavlo Greenberg sir_...@onet.com.uawrote: [SNIP] But I'm agree with you, OOo's behavior after the last update is abnormal. Why not give a try to LibreOffice, that is in ports : http://www.freshports.org/editors/libreoffice/ I switched yesterday, having not known it was available. It seems to work on all OOo-generated material (as one would expect), and build cleanly and (subjectively) somewhat faster than OO. (This is on an 4x3ghz amd64 machine with 8 gb of memory.) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any package for surveys?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:08:06 + From: elbbit elb...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Any package for surveys? On 27/01/11 17:04, Bill Moran ... Thank you for taking the time to reply Bill. I am glad you challenge me. Someone needs to! In response to elbbit elb...@gmail.com: On 27/01/11 14:41, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi Simon, Thanks for taking the time to reply Andrew. elbbit wrote: I held off writing back because I have just launched a new website at: http://www.tibble.net/ Wait! Don't go! This isn't spam! Please! Just listen! Yes, it looks very spammy to me I sent similar emails to other lists and was promptly scalded for being so uncouth. I thank those who encourage me to stop spamming for teaching me humility. However, I think the importance of global self awareness is too important to worry about whether or not we like to know about the problems. This is the equivalent of a hit-and-run, in my opinion. I am here to stay, I am not going anywhere and the world will become self-aware in my presence. It is why I have been born. You are a delusion dipshit, and a bad liar. If you feel so righteous about your cause, why did you hijack another thread without changing the subject? With all the respect that is due to you, and all others who frequent these mailing lists, I feel the topic of global voting is too important to worry about whether or not my particular message fits into a defined category. And you think it's OK to *STEAL* other people's resources to get your message out, apparently. The people who run the mailing lists _pay_ for that equipment and network connectivity, and provide it to others for a specific use. You _are_ a thief, and as already stated a bad liar, and a delusional dipshit. Doing what you did is *expressly* against The AUP of your hosting services provider, Webfusion, Ltd. http://www.123-reg.co.uk/terms/aup.shtml That said, you've _made_ your rules, and now *you8 get to live by them. Since _you_ believe it is OK to inflict your 'important' message on those you do not know, and who have _not_ consented to hear it, you =cannot= object if the 'world' decides to do the same to _you_ and your mailbox. Russian brides, pharmaceutcals, watches, lottery winnings, money sharing, and whatever else people decide is 'too important' for _you_ not to be informed of. Annoying people who *run* mail-servers is a _really_ stupid thing to do. But, then, you're a spammer. And have just re-proven the validity of Rule #3, and Kruegers Corrolary thereunto, of the Rules of Spam. see: http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/rulesofspam.shtmld So, I guess, it's not _all_ that surprising. email: si...@tibble.net mailto:si...@tibble.net Domain name: TIBBLE.NET Registrant: Simon Tibble 74 Park Street Penrhiwceiber Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff CF45 3YL GB 07767650385Fax: 07767650385 Registration Service Provider: servi...@123-reg.co.uk 08712309525 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any package for surveys?
From elb...@gmail.com Fri Jan 28 08:33:17 2011 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:24:05 + From: elbbit elb...@gmail.com To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com CC: debian-u...@lists.debian.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any package for surveys? On 28/01/11 12:28, Robert Bonomi wrote: Thank you for taking the time to reply Robert. I value your opinion. elbbit wrote: I held off writing back because I have just launched a new website at: http://www.tibble.net/ Wait! Don't go! This isn't spam! Please! Just listen! Yes, it looks very spammy to me I sent similar emails to other lists and was promptly scalded for being so uncouth. I thank those who encourage me to stop spamming for teaching me humility. However, I think the importance of global self awareness is too important to worry about whether or not we like to know about the problems. This is the equivalent of a hit-and-run, in my opinion. I am here to stay, I am not going anywhere and the world will become self-aware in my presence. It is why I have been born. You are a delusion dipshit, and a bad liar. If you feel so righteous about your cause, why did you hijack another thread without changing the subject? With all the respect that is due to you, and all others who frequent these mailing lists, I feel the topic of global voting is too important to worry about whether or not my particular message fits into a defined category. And you think it's OK to *STEAL* other people's resources to get your message out, apparently. Hmm. Stealing. Taking without consent. Consent from whom? The network operator? According to the Debian website: There are many world-open mailing lists, meaning anyone can read everything that is posted, and participate in the discussions. Everyone is encouraged... - Under the heading Introduction: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Yes, *STEALING*. When you 'hijack' the resources the mailing-list owner/ operator has provided _for_a_specific_purpose_, for somethin *unrelated* to that purpose, you _are_ stealing. Hmm. I assumed the service was being offered to me. If I am wrong, I would like more people to confirm if Robert is right. The people who run the mailing lists _pay_ for that equipment and Pay... with money... which is a made up idea... network connectivity, and provide it to others for a specific use. ...in this case, communication... which we are doing :-) You _are_ a thief, and as already stated a bad liar, and a delusional dipshit. My opinion is that according to the instruction provided to it, your computer did all it can to send me your information. I did not steal it. You gave it to me. You offered, you know - where you make a motion towards me? Doing what you did is *expressly* against The AUP of your hosting services provider, Webfusion, Ltd. http://www.123-reg.co.uk/terms/aup.shtml Yes. Words. Somehow, it is commonly accepted that just because something is written in words that it is right. My emails challenge that. You _agreed_, _contractually_, to abide by those 'words' when you signed up for services with that provider. They 'took your word' that you were telling the truth. Do not be surprised if you find that they choose not to do any further business with you when they find out you -lied- to them. That said, you've _made_ your rules, and now *you8 get to live by them. I do not understand this statement. Please clarify. Since _you_ believe it is OK to inflict your 'important' message on those you do not know, and who have _not_ consented to hear it, you =cannot= object if the 'world' decides to do the same to _you_ and your mailbox. I agree, with everything that is me. But does this also not apply to you, also? I think you have made an error by joining a world-open mailing list if you are unable to tolerate other people's words. Russian brides, pharmaceutcals, watches, lottery winnings, money sharing, and whatever else people decide is 'too important' for _you_ not to be informed of. You see, the people who raise awareness of their product or service are after one thing - to increase the number which is displayed on their ATM machine. I do not want money. I do not promote a service or product. In fact, I promote an IDEA - the notion that we can abandon money altogether. So What? If you believe you can decide what is 'appropriate' for for _my_ mail box, others can do the same for *yours*. Annoying people who *run* mail-servers is a _really_ stupid thing to do. Unfortunately, any one who is part of the growing movement realises that ridicule, torture or even certain death are requirements of changing the world. John F. Kennedy, one of your own president's, paid dearly simply for saying some words. I say some words, and you too, want to kill me. I forgive you for being so misguided
Re: Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jan 28 11:37:00 2011 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:27:35 +0100 From: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports? Hello list, are there any emulators out there that can run the non-x86 versions of FreeBSD on a FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64 host? Such things, by definition, are a 'simulator', not an 'emulator'. They exist, they are *pricey* (think 5 figures, left of the decimal point) and they are =SLOW= (very, VERY slow!) compared to the real hardware. I'm especially interested in trying FreeBSD/sparc64 port, but I'd also like to test the FreeBSD/powerpc and the FreeBSD/arm ports on an emulator, before seeking real hardware. Pick up some low-end used hardware, it's _lots_ cheaper, and will give you a better feel for how it works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Printing from inside the applications in FreeBSD 8.1 with CUPS
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 27 12:01:23 2011 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:21:48 +0330 From: Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing from inside the applications in FreeBSD 8.1 with CUPS Hello FreeBSD fans, After a lot of work, I managed to get my printer work with CUPS with appropriate filters. Now, I can print the test page using http://localhost:631 and also I can print any postscript file from command-line. cat ~/MyPostscriptFile.ps | /usr/local/bin/lp Note that I can not print using simple lp command as there a lp in /bin/lp. How can I print from inside the applications? Take Firefox or gedit for instance. How can I print from those apps using FilePrint menu? I need to add stuff to those dialogs which open from FileMenu. There are only two choices Printer to File and Print to LPR. Printing to LPR does not work at all as I think it references /bin/lpr instead of /usr/local/bin/lpr. (Snapshot attached) How can I add more options in this dialog? Right now, in order to print I choose Print to File as PostScript and use command line cat PostScriptFile | /usr/local/bin/lp to print. Thanks for Help Bahman Kahinpour ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but....
From be...@bah.homeip.net Sun Jan 23 01:07:14 2011 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:58:51 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com CC: kl...@ns1.thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but 2011-01-23 05:07, Robert Bonomi: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:25:01 +0100 From: Bernt Hanssonbe...@bah.homeip.net Subject: Re: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but thought.org does not resolve: 'irrelevant, and immaterial'.grin %telnet thought.org thought.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known 'thought.org' does _not_ need to resolve. it is a 'domain-name', not a 'host'. If you want access to that host it must resolve. 'r-bonomi.com' doesn't resolve either. but hosts _under_ that domain do. Yes? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but....
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:25:01 +0100
From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net
Subject: Re: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but
thought.org does not resolve:
'irrelevant, and immaterial'. grin
%telnet thought.org
thought.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
'thought.org' does _not_ need to resolve. it is a 'domain-name', not a 'host'.
'r-bonomi.com' doesn't resolve either. but hosts _under_ that domain do.
In the real world, this means =only= that one cannot use http://{domain.name}
to reach a home page. one has to use http://{host.domain.name} instead
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Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 22 20:10:21 2011 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:00:52 -0600 From: Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Colorized compiler/linker messages Good Day, I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for example, emits messages in various colors. How is that done? Whatever it is that is writing the messages is putting out 'terminal control' character strings that specify the color. Where does one find what the various colors are supposed to signify? Read the _complete_ documentation for 'whatever it is' that is producing the messages. The colors signify 'whatever it is' that the author of that software chose to represent with that color. There are *NO* universal standards for such things. Or, is it just because it's more appealing? (A) appealing is in the eye of the beholder. (B) *why* 'somebody' did something/anything is known *only* to the party that actually _did_ it. You can ether ask *them* or get uninformed speculation from third parties. In broad, diagsnotic messages can be divided into a minimum of 4 'classes' (finer gradation is always possible): diagnostic -- 'gory details' of what the program is doing internally, to find out where what it is actually doing is different from what one 'expects' it to be doing. informational -- things you might 'want to know about', but do not indicate potentially incorrect operation. warning -- things which *probably* indicate a problem, but might be 'as intended' error -- something which is, without question, incorrect, and prevents proper program operation. A developer -might- use different colors for different 'classes' of messages, so that an experienced user of that program (who 'knows' what color is used for what) can tell 'at a glance' the serverity of the thing being reported. [ see (B), above, as regards applicability to -your- situationn ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bind97 from /bar/log/messages....
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 22 22:08:52 2011
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:00:47 -0800
From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:
Subject: bind97 from /bar/log/messages
Can anybody spot what's messed up here and help me get back up?
From earlier errors I added and then removed an A address label
before the IN NS ns1.thought.org ... That was the only thing I could
think of, and things still failed.
Here is the apropos part of the log:
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: starting BIND 9.7.2-P3 -c
/var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: built with '--localstatedir=/var'
'--disable-linux-caps' '--disable-symtable'
'--with-randomdev=/dev/random' '--with-openssl=/usr'
'--with-libxml2=/usr/local' '--without-idn' '--enable-threads'
'--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man'
'--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=i386-portbld-freebsd7.3'
'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd7.3' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=
-rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib' 'CPP=cpp' 'CXX=c++' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe'
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in
use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: creating IPv4 interface address in use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: creating IPv4 interface em0 failed;
interface ignored
**PROBLEM** _something_ is already using the port named is trying to listen
on, for an IPv4 address associated with interface em0
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in
use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: creating IPv4 interface lo0 failed;
interface ignored
**PROBLEM** _something_ is already listening on the specified port on the
loopback (lo0) interface, as well.
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: not listening on any interfaces
**PROBLEM** the 'something' beat this invocation of 'named' to the punch on
_all_ the interfaces it was trying to listen on for queries. dead in the water.
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: couldn't add command channel
127.0.0.1#953: address in use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953:
address in use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in
use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: creating IPv4 interface em0 failed;
interface ignored
**PROBLEM** _something_ is already using the 'control' port named is trying to
use, for an IPv4 address associated with interface em0
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: could not listen on UDP socket: address in
use
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: creating IPv4 interface lo0 failed;
interface ignored
**PROBLEM** _something_ is already using the 'control' port named is trying to
use, for an IPv4 address associated with the loopback interface.
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: zone thought.org/IN/internal: NS
'ns1.thought.org' has no address records (A or )
**PROBLEM** in the config file being used.
you have a line that declares IN NS ns1.thought.org,
but *NO* line ns1.thought.org IN A {IPv4 address}
or ns1.thought.org IN A {[IPv6 address]}
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: zone thought.org/IN/internal: not loaded
due to errors.
**PROBLEM** entire zone file ignored due to errors ini it.
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: managed-keys-zone ./IN/internal: loading
from master file
3bed2cb3a3acf7b6a8ef408420cc682d5520e26976d354254f528c965612054f.mkeys
failed: file not found
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: managed-keys-zone ./IN/external: loading
from master file
3c4623849a49a53911c4a3e48d8cead8a1858960bccdea7a1b978d73ec2f06d7.mkeys
failed: file not found
Jan 22 19:44:54 ethic named[2069]: running
Running, but doing nothing. sigh
And regarding the managed-keys-zone I have no clue. i do have a file
named rndc.key or suchlike, but that is as close as I can come to
anything to do with that string. ...So hope some of you DNS wizards
know.
tia,
gary
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{kl...@thought.org} Your email is screwed up, AGAIN! ( Re: bind97 from /bar/log/messages....)
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:42:16 -0600 (CST) Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - kl...@thought.org (reason: 550 5.7.1 kl...@thought.org... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required.) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to ethic.thought.org.: DATA 550 5.7.1 kl...@thought.org... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. 550 5.1.1 kl...@thought.org... User unknown 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
switching to perl-threaded
I guess I did a stupid thing to 'make deinstall' and then 'make reinstall' to change my perl option for WITH_THREADS. Now it seems all my modules are lost as my LWP::Simple does not work anymore. I then tried to pkg_delete that, successful, and 'perl -MCPAN -e install LWP::Simple' only to fail with a lot of these... Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/mach/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so What is the best way to handle getting my modules working under threaded perl? That module in particular was done through CPAN because I couldn't seem to find a port for it. Thanks, Robert -- Robert rob...@webtent.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: named/bind problems....
Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we fixed your resolv last night. Okay - let's start from scratch here Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP addresses or are you using it as a caching server. Getting a new named working/installed is not an issue. Config files are usually and issue. If you can explain your network topology and what you are trying to make work I can probably point you in the right direction. We did get your local resolution issue solved didn't we? RB On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Yesterday noon my time I rebooted my server. Things seemed to be slow. Several streams were hanging or stopping, and because ethic.thought.org had been up for 61 days I figured it wouldn't hurt to reinitialize stuff. Well, nutshell, disaster. For hours it wasn't clear whether the server would survive, but eventually i got a portupgrade -avOPk going and now I am close to having every port rebuilt. Now host kuow.org gives the the IP address of the U/Washington. Etc. last night for unknown reasons even this failed. I remembered that late last fall I was warned the bind9 was nearing its end/life. I okayed the portupgrade to remove bind9 and install whatever its follow up would be. Since then, my kill9named script[s] and my restartnamed script[s] have failed. Can anyone save me from hours of tracking down whatever I have to to put things right? Everything I get in trouble with this bind stuff it occurs how significant an achievement it is to have a service that automagically maps quad/dotted-decimals to actual words. Sorry if this sounds disjoint; it is past time for a lollipop and a blanket and a *nap* gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: named/bind problems....
okay, lets start from the beginning here... 1) Do you have your own IP address and IP address block that you are hosting DMS for or is it local only? 2) from talking with you last night I want to make sure you are aware of two things... A) resolv.conf is used for name resolution on EVERY system it tells ALL of the software to get name services from. We fixed this last night for one of your systems by pointing it at a name server that works (the one you had did not work) B) named provides name services (as well as forwarding to other dns services) and can be pointed to by resolv.conf on you local systems - if it is not working AND your local resolv.conf files are pointing there your name resolution will not work. C) you can get internet name services working temporarily by using some of the servers I have you 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in all of your resolv.conf files - you don't need named to work for this. You can also use /etc/hosts for your couple of local name/address translations as a work around until you get named working again. 3) dig is your friend for debugging named - you can use dig @local-dns-address lookup-name to debug your named while still using external name servers in your resolv.conf and local naming in /etc/hosts until you ACTUALLY are sure your local named is working. 4) The only thing you really really need a local named for is if you have a real IP block that you are responsible for providing name services on the internet for - rarely the case and even if you do you can temporarily jamb the names you care about in another DNS server somewhere out there like zoneedit or free dns temporarily. Get your stuff working then debug your named. RB On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:11:23PM -0500, Robert Boyer wrote: Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we fixed your resolv last night. Okay - let's start from scratch here Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP addresses or are you using it as a caching server. Getting a new named working/installed is not an issue. Config files are usually and issue. If you can explain your network topology and what you are trying to make work I can probably point you in the right direction. Last night I was on the right track; then suddenly things broke and I have no idea w hy. From the modem/router, the wire goes thru my firewa that runs pfSense. Then output from the firewall plugs into my switch. My DNS/Mail/web server is a seperate box that plugs into the hub/switch as well. [i think; it is hard for me to get down and crawl around under the desk.] The server has been running named since April, '01. I read DNS AND BIND to get things going; then in late '07 serious network troubles and help from someone in the Dallas Ft-Worth area reconfigured my network.This fellow mostly edited the /etc/namedb/named.conf and related files. I also host a friend's site, gratis. He is a builder; we have been friends for nearly twenty years. His site is a vvery small part of the picture; I mention it only to emphasize that my setup is not entirely trivial. Would it help to shar or tarball up my namedb files? FWIW, I am logged into ethic ona console. Usually I work in X11 and have xset r off set to prevent key bounces. We did get your local resolution issue solved didn't we? Ithink in KVM'ing from tao to ethic and back, the configuration we set up last night broke. At least, in watching portupgrade draw in more and more files [on ethic], when I KVM back to my desktop, the mutt settings get lost -gary RB On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Yesterday noon my time I rebooted my server. Things seemed to be slow. Several streams were hanging or stopping, and because ethic.thought.org had been up for 61 days I figured it wouldn't hurt to reinitialize stuff. Well, nutshell, disaster. For hours it wasn't clear whether the server would survive, but eventually i got a portupgrade -avOPk going and now I am close to having every port rebuilt. Now host kuow.org gives the the IP address of the U/Washington. Etc. last night for unknown reasons even this failed. I remembered that late last fall I was warned the bind9 was nearing its end/life. I okayed the portupgrade to remove bind9 and install whatever its follow up would be. Since then, my kill9named script[s] and my restartnamed script[s] have failed. Can anyone save me from hours of tracking down whatever I have to to put things right? Everything I get in trouble with this bind stuff it occurs how significant an achievement it is to have a service that automagically maps
Re: FreeBSD cups printing server
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jan 19 21:14:59 2011 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:39:01 -0600 From: Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Questions questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: FreeBSD cups printing server Hello list, I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 8.2 print server using the latest cups from ports. I have a Brother 9440CN printer and a Virtual pdf printer installed with cups-pdf both work great... my problem is I want to create a pdf for everything I send to the brother printer (for archival purposes) can I add multiple printers to a single queue? or is there a script somewhere, that I could copy the cups generated postscript to the cups-pdf printer? At least a couple of options: (the *UGLY* one) 1) define a named pipe 2) tell CUPS that that pipe is the printer device 3) from the system start-up script, launch a script that does the following in a loop: uses tee(1) to read from the named pipe, and copy to a unique archive file pipes stdout from tee(1) to the actual printer device ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem with shell script
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:01:45 +0100 From: Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr Subject: problem with shell script Hello I'm in trouble with a simple shell script that give erroneous value when running ... If I run commands interactively everything runs well ps ax | grep slapd | grep -v grep | wc -l 1 If I run in the following shell script : #!/bin/sh SD=0 SD=`ps -ax | grep slapd | grep -v grep | wc -l` echo $SD the result is 3 !!! Advice: don't try to 'out-think' the machine -- make it _show_ you what it is doing. Change the script to: SD=`ps -ax | grep slapd | grep -v grep | tee /dev/tty | wc -l` echo $SD I suspect thet the -name- of the script file has 'slapd' in it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:58:04 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:50:04 +0100, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote: Will the logs automatically create themselves? Usually not, but it depends on the logging mechanism. If a program continuously re-opens the file (after closing it) in APPEND mode, it should be created if non-existent. But if the program keeps the file open and just writes to it, it can cause trouble. Good programs check the return code of the writing operation and signal an error. Bad programs don't do that, they just keep writing to nowhere. :-) _syslogd_ *explicitly* does -not- _create_ any log files. it is documented in the manpages that it behaves that way. Whether or not this is a good idea is debatable, but it does allow you to suppress some logging w/o having to edit the syslog.conf file and/or re-start syslogd. I mean, I picture I have to manually touch a lotta them in order to avoid cannot find error messages? Syslog does -not- give any such messages, it just doesn't write the message anywere. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: awk question: replacing %d%s by %d %s
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:28:19 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: awk question: replacing %d%s by %d %s I'm aware that this is not an awk question list, but I'm confident there are many awk gurus here who can surely help me with such a stupid problem. I also know that I get more and more stupid myself for NOT being able to solve this, even after... some nearly infinite time. :-) I have strings of the form either number(s) or number(s)letter. I catch them with if(match(nr, [a-z])) ... where nr is the name of the string. What I need is a simple space between number(s) and letter, so for example 12a would get 12 a, 6d would get 6 d, and 58 would stay unchanged. I've tried with split(), with array manipulation and could produce 10 lines of code that didn't work as intended (it produced 1122aa, 66dd and 5588 according to the examples above). Obviously, sub(nr, [a-z], [a-z]); is nonsense. True. But sub(nr,[a-z], ); does the trick. (tested on Freebsd 7.2) Explamation: is a 'replacement side' magic incantation to the regex library that means 'that which was matched by the pattern regex'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 13 01:26:33 2011 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:20:14 -0600 From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com To: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Cc: questions questi...@freebsd.org, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.comwrote: Will the logs automatically create themselves? I mean, I picture I have to manually touch a lotta them in order to avoid cannot find error messages? Please don't top post. do something like this: shutdown now rm /var/log/* exit upon reentering multiuser mode, each logging service will create it's new file. FALSE TO FACT, with regard to any/all files that syslogd(8) uses, _unless_ syslogd is invoked with the '-C' option. Quoting from the manpage: For security reasons, syslogd will not append to log files that do not exist (unless -C option is specified); therefore, they must be created manually before running syslogd. Typically if a service is running and you delete the log from it, the service will not like it. You can HUP the service to have it restart logging, but you'd have to do it manually for each log you deleted. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:31:21 -0600 Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? To: questi...@freebsd.org On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.comwrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Please don't top post. do something like this: shutdown now rm /var/log/* exit upon reentering multiuser mode, each logging service will create it's new file. FALSE TO FACT, with regard to any/all files that syslogd(8) uses, _unless_ syslogd is invoked with the '-C' option. Quoting from the manpage: For security reasons, syslogd will not append to log files that do not exist (unless -C option is specified); therefore, they must be created manually before running syslogd. Wrong, read what I said again. I *did* read what you said. To be blunt, you are full of sh*t as regards any file used by the standard Berkeley syslog daemon, (syslogd). The Berkeley syslogd is the standard system log daemon on FreeBSD, although somme people do replace it with The appropriate service recreates the log file. _IF_ a service, e.g, apache logs _directly_ to it's own logfiles, this _may_ be true It is explicitly *NOT*TRUE* for log files used by the standard (Berkeley-based) syslogd daemon. The FreeBSD manpage for syslogd, quoted above, confirms that you do -not- know what you're talking about. Any basic system log would be covered by this. Male Bovine Excretement applies. Try it and see. I've got over 25 years experience as a professional system/network admin, all on BSD-derived systems. I can't tell you _how_many_ times I've been called in to fix a 'failure to log' problem that was due to the logfile simply -not- being present, even afer a reboot. Now I'm not infallable, so I cheked the reference documentation _before_ posting, The standard FreeBSD syslogd is -documented- as _NOT_CREATING_ the logfiles it uses, *UNLESS* the '-C' option is specified upon program invocation. Since a logging service cannot tell whether the system is in single-user or multi-user mode, you can verify this syslogd behaviour by simply deleting one of the common log files -- say /var/log/messages -- then killing the running syslogd, and re-starting it. As you say Try it and see. -- Those of you who think you know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Need some device help
am in the process of moving all of my NAS from open solaris to FreeBSD (I hope?) and have run into a few speed bumps along the way. Maybe I am doing something way way wrong but I cannot seem to find any info at all on some of my issues. I hope this is the right list to ask - if not please steer me in the right direction. I am not new to BSD's but then again I am not intimately familiar with a lot of the inner workings and things have change a bunch since my kernel hacking days of NET2 on a vax so this is probably just a parameter somewhere but I cannot seem to find it. Here goes... Question 1? I am trying to get FreeBSD running ZFS to work as both a server and a consumer of iSCSI targets and can't seem to attach to more than 8 devices. In fact it seems to break after a TOTAL of 8 SCSI devices on the client (initiator end) after attaching 8 SCSI devices da0 through da7 target discovery even stops working with this message when running ANY iscontrol commend on the initiator. ISCSISETSES: Device not configured I believe this is on the initiator end and has to do with the total number of attached scsi devices but am not completely sure - I am using the built in iscsi initiator and kernel module NOT open iscsi and istgt on the server. Any ideas? Is this on the server end somehow? Ps. There is absolutely no messages in any log server or client after the 8 device and iSCSI stops working the above message comes from the iscontrol command with the -v option. Question 2? In order to make device names persistent I am using glabel on raw non-partitioned devices to simulate solaris persistent device names. I also understand that I can use GPT disks and that glabel somehow integrates with the GUID? Is this the case or is using GPT a completely independent alternative to using glabel? In any case what is the best/most common practice to achieving the end result (reliably and dependably) in the FreeBSD world? Thanks a lot RB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which php??
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 13 21:16:20 2011 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:10:25 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Cc: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which php?? On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:41:15 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I cut/pasted part of the config page to a yello w notepad. It unfortunately has those unfortunate DOS EOL things with the ^M. There's a simple answer to that waste of disk space (two bytes per line break!): Correct accounting is 'one _excess_ byte per line break'. recode cp437..iso8859 filename no need to install the port/package -- tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile does the trick, with just a base install utility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 13 23:28:08 2011
From: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800
Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:03 -0600, Adam Vande More
amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
Amusing, but you're the one full of shit. There's more things to
automatic log file creation than are thought of in your imagination.
Adam,
I think Robert is right at least in regards of SOME programs that use
syslogd for logging OR do the logging stuff on their own.
I think that newsyslog will create the new log files if specified in the
/etc/newsyslog.conf file. That might be the confusion about some log
files being created automatically but others not. The newsyslog.conf(5)
manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified.
BINGO!
Furthermore 'newsyslog' is *NOT* part of the Unix 'standard'. You _cannot_
count on it being present on every/all Unix system.
Newsyslog is also -not- a 'logging service'. 'syslogd' is the logging
service, and syslogd does -not- create any files mentioned in its .conf
file.
Newsyslog, itself, doesn't even consult the syslog.conf file. It operates
entirely independantly o , and _tolally_ignorantly_ of, what syslogd does.
_IF_ 'newsyslog' exists,
and is configured to run at system start-up,
=and= the logfile in question is also configured in the newsyslog.conf file,
*AND* that logfile entry has the 'C' {create if missing} flag set,
_THEN_AND_ONLY_THEN_ will the file get created when the system transitions
into multi-user mode.
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Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jan 12 10:09:51 2011 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:04:26 +0100 From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? Hi, Is there a simple command to reset / clear everything in my /var/log? I've done a lot of testing, configuring, trial and error and most of my logs are just full of bullshit and I'd like a fresh start :-) something like: foreach file in (/var/log/*log) echo $file end maybe ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: File Listing
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Jan 10 15:19:23 2011 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:43:42 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: pe...@vfemail.net Subject: File Listing Is there one single-line command I can execute that will list every file in every directory on my FreeBSD box? I've been fussing with the ls and du commands, but the output is never quite complete. 'man ls' is your friend.ls -aR / (as superuser!) is the answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Sudo 1.7.4 and AD groups
Hi FreeBSD Folks, I'm using Samba 3.5.6 to authenticate logins and manage access on FreeBSD 8.1. With Sudo 1.7.2, I was able to use Active Directory groups in sudoers(5), but this doesn't seem to work in 1.7.4. Versions: $ uname -a FreeBSD cis-mvl.ml.unisa.edu.au 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 11 06:03:08 CST 2011 r...@cis-freebsd.ml.unisa.edu.au:/export/build/obj/export/build/src/sys/VMWARE amd64 $ sudo -V Sudo version 1.7.4p4 $ winbindd -V Version 3.5.6 /etc/nsswitch.conf: group: files winbind hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files winbind protocols: files rpc:files services: files shells: files /usr/local/etc/pam.d/sudo: authsufficient /usr/local/lib/pam_winbind.so try_first_pass authinclude system account include system session requiredpam_permit.so passwordinclude system /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Defaultsenv_keep+= EDITOR FTP_PASSIVE_MODE HOME PAGER Defaultsinsults Defaultsshell_noargs Defaultssyslog = auth Defaults!tty_tickets rootALL = (ALL) ALL %wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL %cis-sambagroupname ALL = (ALL) ALL Using version 1.7.2: $ /mnt/usr/local/bin/sudo -V Sudo version 1.7.2p6 $ /mnt/usr/local/bin/sudo -l Password: Matching Defaults entries for cis-username on this host: env_keep+=EDITOR FTP_PASSIVE_MODE HOME PAGER, insults, shell_noargs, syslog=auth, !tty_tickets User cis-username may run the following commands on this host: (ALL) ALL Using version 1.7.4: $ sudo -V Sudo version 1.7.4p4 $ sudo -l Password: Sorry, user cis-username may not run sudo on cis-mvl. The group looks correct: $ getent group cis-sambagroupname cis-sambagroupname:x:169013:cis-,iee-XX,cis-,cis-username,cis-XXX,cis-XX And if I add my username to sudoers(5), it works fine. Any suggestions? Thanks Rob. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
USB and 8.1
I am running release 9.1 under VMware Fusion and it works great - except No USB connections on any USB bus work at all - the kernel sees the connect but then encounters an error and disables the device immediately. Searched around a bit but didn't find anything definitive. Seems like this would be a fairly common thing? Any ideas on how to make freebsd USB work under VMware? RB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Help with nanobsd.sh??
I am trying nanobsd for the first time under 8.1 and have two fairly basic questions before I go about solving a few issues in my usual brute-force and wrong way. 1)Using a box stock system with a fresh install and the default nanobsd.sh with default configuration everything looks like it builds fine right up until 02:11:50 ## build diskimage 02:11:50 ### log: /usr/obj/nanobsd.full//_.di /usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.mnt: write failed, filesystem is full of course my working file systems are not full - far from it. I think it's talking about some disk images that the script is creating - what the heck? How can this be with the default config? 2)Is there an option to run nanobsd.sh without cleaning the obj directories? Really don't want to rebuild world and kernel from scratch for a couple of different packages in custom configs - let alone do it for solving build issues. Thanks RB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?
Modulok writes: Is there a command that lets me send standard input to two different places at the same time? (i.e. non-sequentially.) Think of it like a pipe character, but with a 'Y' branch instead. Basically, I want to record standard input to a log file, but also send it to another command for processing. man tee? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version
Chuck Swiger writes: Is there a command line utility, a la ethtool or the like, that can be used to query the NIC driver version? uname -a is probably the most general answer, as most FreeBSD NIC drivers don't have individualized version #s, aside from the OS version itself. That is not my understanding. To the OP: FreeBSD NIC drivers can and do have version numbers: huff@ grep \$FreeBSD /sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c /*$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c,v 1.64 2010/12/04 06:38:21 jfv Exp $*/ The system in question: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 23 08:15:53 EDT 2010 amd64 Obviously, the driver and OS version have nothing to do with each other. And the FreeBSD driver version will probably have nothing to do with any other driver version, especially one provided by the manufacturer. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?
patrick writes: I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a remote client site where it's not going to be easy to do it that way, and I'm going to need to guide someone less experienced through the install/upgrade process. While this may not be an option, my preference would be to 1) build a new machine, 2) install 8.1, 3) install the apps and data, 4) test thoroughly, then 5) ship the result to the remote location. Anything else is likely to be too painful for words. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Bot?
Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of 1000 spam messages to 70K recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG and Mail Statistics graphs setup and see no spikes in traffic. Their last sighting was over the weekend and graphs show a reduction in traffic during that time as expected, again with no spikes in traffic or messages sent/received by our Postfix/Amavisd-maia MTA. All services on that server including SSH, SMTP and mail queue size all monitored by Nagios and have had no alerts from that server. Nonetheless, they claim I must have a bot and the mail is not passing through my own SMTP. And I suspect little traffic is needed for the alleged bursts. They have no envelope info. Can someone advise on what port(s) are available for bot detection and/or prevention? In all my years of running FreeBSD as mail gateways, this is the first time I've had this issue. --Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Space
Adam Vande More writes: I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON processors and 6GB RAM. What is the recommended swap space? I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, others say stay with 2 x RAM. Definitely not 0, but 2x would probably be way too much IMO. 4 - 6 GB should be enough for most use cases. One data point: last pid: 58457; load averages: 1.91, 2.20, 2.27 up 8+19:16:27 18:51:23 166 processes: 5 running, 158 sleeping, 2 stopped, 1 zombie Mem: 1541M Active, 1267M Inact, 1223M Wired, 195M Cache, 802M Buf, 3440M Free Swap: 18G Total, 11M Used, 18G Free (That's 8g total memory.) It's a fairly lightly loaded workstation. A philosophical consideration: modern disks are cheap, and fairly fast. Repartitioning if you don't have enough is a pain. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Tomcat 6 log level
Hi, we've installed tomcat 6 via freebsd ports and would like to change the log level on our production server from INFO to SEVERE. However, the tomcat6 startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d did not load the logging.properties file of tomcat, so we've added a flag to the java_opts in /etc/rc.conf tomcat60_java_opts=-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0/conf/logging.properties When setting this option, it loads the config file, but throws some exceptions: Can't load log handler 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler ... Is there a recommended way to alter tomcat log level when installed through ports on freebsd? thanks! -robert___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what process is sending this packet?
S Mathias writes: I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: See /etc/services. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Openoffice
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Hi, It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it. By the way I tried Abiword and could not read in a plain text file - one with just regular text created with vi. It made some irregular blob in the middle of the page that looked like all the characters mushed together. Otherwise I would be using that and ignoring Openoffice. Jerry I am a user of AbiWord. Try installing /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts to solve the above problem and then fuggedabout openoffice. Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating
Da Rock writes: I'm running another set of updates, and I can't for the life of me get rid of this erroneous behaviour. I run portupgrade and it tells me it can't update ImageMagick because the Djvu option requires threads, and needs perl, therefore perl needs to be threaded. So it comes up with an IGNORE which is nuts because I run threaded perl. #pkg_version -v | grep perl mod_perl2-2.0.4_2,3 = up-to-date with port perl-threaded-5.10.1_3 = up-to-date with port Something I'm missing here? A fix would be nice, I should be used to it though- ImageMagick _always_ has issues for me. I just thought it'd be nice to get it updated for once- it looked so close :) I'm getting something similar, have been for a couple of weeks: ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/ImageMagick: OpenEXR requires threads. . Perl is non-threaded. Reinstall Perl with threads or undefine WITH_IMAGEMAGICK_PERL ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - graphics/ImageMagick (marked as IGNORE) (Follow-ups redirected to ports@, or I tried to.) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Completely remove user from system
Igor V. Ruzanov writes: One of simpliest ways to remove user is the `vipw' command. vipw opens master.passwd file in vi editor. Though it's called vipw, it will try to use any program pointed to by the EDITOR environment variable. Respectfully, Robert setenv EDITOR xemacs Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:23:30 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: I know its a little OT, but I'm hunting for a mainboard to plug this CPU into and build a file server. So the ideal specs are (and maybe dreaming too :) ): 184 pin RAM DIMM SataIII 4+ ports Either onboard or AGP Video 2x Gigabit LAN Obviously I don't need much RAM, just juice the throughput from the HDD to the LAN, and plenty of bandwidth. That said a lot of my specs could be pipe dreaming, I know. I'm looking at 3x 2Tb Seagate 64Mb SATAIII's so I'd rather not waste it, I'm sure you'd agree. I'll be setting up RAID5 in some fashion or other, just still choosing my method between ZFS and VINUM or something. So the need for as many SATA ports is a must :) Any help finding a suitable model would be much appreciated- very hard to find anything still in stock. And of course advice will be very welcome :) I just did a quick search on ebay australia for socket 939 motherboard and hit this http://shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40_trksid=m570_nkw=socket+939+motherboard_sacat=See-All-Categories One of my computers is a Asus A8N-VM 939. It has 2 ports for SATA and I added another SATA card into the PCI-E x1 slot. I found an AMD64x2 CPU on ebay that was reasonable nad have 4G of RAM. This is not the latest or greatest but it is still a very functional computer. I hope this helps. Robert P.S. I will be taking my first trip to AU in February and am quite excited about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SAS HBA card for freebsd?
I have been running FreeBSD for about a year and tracking the ZFS implementation for almost as long. I am reasonably happy with the current stable 8.1 ZFS configs that I have been running with a few TB of storage all managed with an integrated SATA controller on my test machine. I am about to invest a little bit of money in a production machine targeted for a bunch of cheapo storage attachment and plan to implement on FreeBSD / ZFS. I have searched around on this topic and most info seems to be a bit out of date or contradictory, so here is the question at the risk of being redundant. I need a SAS controller that has preferably 8 ports (two four channel) connections per card. I don't mind decent buying a RAID card but really really desire it to be configurable in HBA mode vs. RAID or JBOD with RAID signatures. There are plenty of HBA only cards that would be suitable but I can find none that seem to fit the bill in terms of FreeBSD. I have seen a couple of cheap RAID cards recommended but cannot seem to get a definitive answer of whether they are actually configurable as plain old disks (HBA mode) vs JBOD w/ RAID signature. Anybody using a reasonably priced card that fits the bill? Thanks RB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Best SAS controller
I have been running FreeBSD for about a year and tracking the ZFS implementation for almost as long. I am reasonably happy with the current stable 8.1 ZFS configs that I have been running with a few TB of storage all managed with an integrated SATA controller on my test machine. I am about to invest a little bit of money in a production machine targeted for a bunch of cheapo storage attachment and plan to implement on FreeBSD / ZFS. I have searched around on this topic and most info seems to be a bit out of date or contradictory, so here is the question at the risk of being redundant. I need a SAS controller that has preferably 8 ports (two four channel) connections per card. I don't mind decent buying a RAID card but really really desire it to be configurable in HBA mode vs. RAID or JBOD with RAID signatures. There are plenty of HBA only cards that would be suitable but I can find none that seem to fit the bill in terms of FreeBSD. I have seen a couple of cheap RAID cards recommended but cannot seem to get a definitive answer of whether they are actually configurable as plain old disks (HBA mode) vs JBOD w/ RAID signature. Anybody using a reasonably priced card that fits the bill? Thanks RB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 05:01:28 2010
From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
Subject: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release
Hi...
I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in
sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.
So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
Saver=fire (or whatever it is)
I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,
showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.
It's rogt. you did wrong;. Should have been a '#', not a ';'
How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command
line commands result in a not found error.
# fsck -p || fsck
# mount -a
# vi /etc/rc.conf{ or editor of your choice }
# reboot
Also. What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?
# vidcontrol -t off
see 'man splash'
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Re: DES Cipher
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 08:22:15 2010 From: Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:50:19 +0330 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DES Cipher Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? I hate to say it, but RTFM applies. 'apropos encryption' gives, among other things (and first), a cite to bdes(1). 'bdes' is a program that comes with the FreeBSD distribution. You have access to the source code of all of the distribution. 'Use the Souce, Luke applies, and will bring the mountain to Mohammad. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Dec 21 04:58:59 2010 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:58:38 +0100 From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A jail with a dash in its name I want to create a jail called forest-friend. And having a dash in the name seems to create problems for me. /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found how do I escape that? It looks to me like yo're chasing the wrong problem. That statement appears to be a shell variable assignment, yet the error message indicates that the system is trying to find an executable by the name of the entire expression. You need to show us the actual line in /etc/rc.conf _and_ the surrounding context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
