Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup
Sven, I have PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.3.3 and a dual AMD Athlon system running FBSD 4.9-STABLE. I regularly mount partitions via NFS between these machines without a problem. With permissions set properly drag-n-drop works great. Alex On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Panna wrote: I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. It's soon to arrive and so I'm thinking about a good way of interacting the emac - which will be my main desktop - with my 5.2.1 server. Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba. So I thought that using an unixoid os would bring some advantages :-) I think that I'll use hfs+ on the emac. I've read about the hfs and hfs+ port but I doesn't want to take a risk. The freebsd server should act as mail and news-server and also as file server. Do I have to put the data on a fat32-slice? If I setup a nfs-mount on the freebsd server and copy data from OSX to it, is the data readable from Freebsd without the hfs port? You see I'm in a state of confusion.. Thanks in advance. Sven Hohage ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir (owner)802 863 5502 MacTutor: Apple Mac OS X Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql.host table not exist
Have you run mysql_install_db? On Mar 15, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Gareth Bailey wrote: I have just installed mysql. I have found the following error message in server.err: mysql.host table does not exist What do i need to do? Thanks Gareth ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir (owner)802 863 5502 MacTutor: Apple Mac OS X Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD4.9 MySQL 4.x
You might want to check out the MySQL installation manual: manual_Installing.html#BSD_Notes I have a relatively standard 4.0.16 installation running under 4.9-STABLE and haven't run into any problems with it. On Mar 15, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Pelle Andersson (SPD Systems AB) wrote: Hi List! I have read that MySQL and FreeBSD 4.x is a bad thing due to FreeBSD's bad(?) threading. I have also read that I can enable linux-threads when compiling. Does these LinuxThreads solve all MySQLFreeBSDThreading issues? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir (owner)802 863 5502 MacTutor: Apple Mac OS X Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network throughput and kernel configuration...
I've been experimenting with kernel configurations and network performance. I'm running a dual Xeon processor (500MHz) system with 10/100 ethernet (Intel). It's an Intel motherboard. The cable is CAT5 and I'm transferring between the FBSD box and an Apple G4 laptop with 10/100 ethernet. This is going through a Netgear 10/100 hub (non switching). In my limited capacity I'm using ncftp{put/get} to transfer large files. Using a basic, no frills custom kernel (nothing controversial), ncftp shows about 7.5MB/s throughput between these two machines. I added the following lines to my kernel conf options DEVICE_POLLING options HZ=1000 and modified /etc/sysctl.conf by adding kern.polling.enable=1 and now ncftp shows about 8 MB/s. (Recompile, reboot, etc) Perhaps I'm dreaming, but shouldn't I be getting better network throughput in either case? Perhaps a switch would be better than a hub? The G4 Powerbook shows its running en0 at half-duplex over 100baseTX. Which, I think, is the same for the dual Xeon system. Both are autoselect. Perhaps I should scrap the kernel config issue and configure both interfaces for full-duplex 100baseTX. Thoughts/experience/advice? Thanks for the help, as always. Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daily run output...
Read man periodic Everything you need to know can be found from there. As stated, you can modify the local daily script, add your own or create another directory and add a line to /etc/crontab. You can also put your own scripts in /usr/local/etc/periodic. Alex On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I have some scripts to execute everyday, I see that /daily contains some scripts but I don't know how to push mines on it and execute them without put on crontab, I mean if it can be achieved...thanks Vadim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 MacTutor of Vermont info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ( not yet active ) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mangling instant-workstation...
I want to use the instant-workstation port to package my setup and make is easier to rebuild from scratch. I've been doing this manually for a while and I'm pretty comfortable with the process now :-). However, there are many ports I want to set defines for (-D). How can I do this with instant-workstation? I thought at one point make.conf came into the picture. But I think I ran into name collisions, so that was out. Any ideas? Alex The only thing better than FBSD is the people on the lists. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 MacTutor of Vermont info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ( not yet active ) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Powering off after shutdown...
I have an Intel MS440GX motherboard and I can't find any information on the net regarding its soft power off feature which I believe it has (I could be wrong). When I issue the command shutdown -p now the system shuts down normally. However, I have to manually turn the power off. Does anyone know how to get the system to turn power off? I have wake-on-lan working. So, this is the other end of the process. Thanks, Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powering off after shutdown...
Yup. I've recompiled my kernel with device apm0 and added appropriately to rc.conf. So, far no luck. Perhaps the motherboard doesn't support it. I need to track down the board's manual. Thanks, Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:42:48 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management ...to enable and rebuild your kernel. I don't know about 5.x, but in 4.x you also need apm_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powering off after shutdown...
Okay. I'll try again. Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Alex (ander Sendzimir) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Powering off after shutdown... snip If I remember correctly, remove everything after nexus?. So that you will keep only this: device apm0 at nexus? That did the trick for me. - Mark - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(solved) Powering off after shutdown...
Okay: With an Intel MS440GX motherboard the following line in the kernel configuration file worked for me (thanks to those who contributed): device apm0 Issuing the command 'shutdown -p now' shuts the system down and turns the power off. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get Wake-on-lan to work reliably. I'm using the Perl module Net::Wake by Clinton Wong. When I manually power off the machine I can use wake-on-lan. However, when I soft power off, wake-on-lan doesn't appear to work. Hmm. Perhaps I need to send to a specific port? I've checked the BIOS several times and it appears to be in order. Besides it's worked several times already. I'm not sure what to do from here except go to bed. :-) Thanks everyone, Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 09:52 PM, Alex (ander Sendzimir) wrote: Okay. I'll try again. Alex On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Alex (ander Sendzimir) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Powering off after shutdown... snip If I remember correctly, remove everything after nexus?. So that you will keep only this: device apm0 at nexus? That did the trick for me. - Mark - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adelphia at home and NAT...
I chose Adelphia for my high speed internet service here in lovely Vermont. Well, actually, Adelphia is the ONLY choice. Don't get me started. DSL isn't even in sight. I would like to be able to ssh into my home machine from a remote internet site or someone else's computer. I've tried a couple of things I thought might work and no such lunch. I understand Adelphia might be using NAT to route packets to my home machine. If this is true, does it mean I'm can't ssh remotely? How, if possible, can I get through. There is a company in Boston that advertises a package that does dynamic DNS for home computers. I haven't looked into how it works, though. There's gotta be a way! Thanks, Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crontab
Have you checked out /etc/defaults/periodic.conf? On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Chris wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a number of scripts that run every night using a crontab. In my crontab file I'm using the MAILTO flag to get cron to email me every time it runs which results in a lot of emails. Is there any way of instructing cron to only email me if the cron job fails? regards Stuart Gibson Sure! Redirect stderror to /dev/null: /bin/sh /home/me/myscript /dev/null And this one won't mail you, whether it errors or not /bin/sh /home/me/myscript /dev/null 21 Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily, weekly, and monthly routines? -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers __ 01010010011101100011011001010111001001011000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Epson Photo Stylus 1270 setup...
Could someone walk me through the process of getting this printer up and running under fbsd? It's connected via USB. I know the connection is good because the printer generates output. The output is garbage, however. I don't know if I have printcap entry for this printer correct. I'm installed gimp-print. Thanks. Alex -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing This email is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, then please kill yourself. Since we have no way of verifying that you have killed yourself, you are on your honor. Our employees are carefully screened and don't correspond with dishonorable people. If you are found to be dishonorable, then please rekill yourself. Any employee found corresponding with a dishonorable person will be killed and then promptly fired. If you are a dishonor- able person, then please report to us the person from whom you have received this email and then kill yourself or rekill yourself whichever is appropriate. Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
kw:printing, usb, epson photo stylus 1270...
Howdy, folks. I'm wishing, I am, to get an Epson Photo Stylus 1270 working on a USB port. I know the connection is working due to output. However, the output is not what I want. It's garbage. I created a simple printcap entry by cloning an existing entry and changing the parameters appropriately. However, I am not doing any filtering before the signal goes on the wire to the printer. (It's been a while since I last got this working under FBSD and Linux and I can't remember what I did. In fact, I can't find my notes either which I'm pretty good about keeping.) So,..., when I print from GIMP I would get pages and pages of junk rather than a graphic image. I setup the GIMP to print to appropriate device (Epson Photo Stylus 1270), paper quality, print quality, etc. And viola. Junk. Now I print to file and examine contents. Well, it's sure not Postscript. I send this to the printer directly by copying it to the USB port. Junk. Okay, now I trying sending a plain text file to the device. Nothing. Now I'm wondering if I should be filtering the output before sending it to the printer. You help, of course, if more than appreciated. It's invaluable. Thanks. Alex -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing This email is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, then please kill yourself. Since we have no way of verifying that you have killed yourself, you are on your honor. Our employees are carefully screened and don't correspond with dishonorable people. If you are found to be dishonorable, then please rekill yourself. Any employee found corresponding with a dishonorable person will be killed and then promptly fired. If you are a dishonor- able person, then please report to us the person from whom you have received this email and then kill yourself or rekill yourself whichever is appropriate. Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
getting images off a digital camera...
I am getting a Sony DSC-F717 digital camera and I'm wondering if there are any software tools under fbsd to get the images off of it via USB? Also, does anyone know if there is similar for reading memory sticks via a USB memory stick reader or whatever they're called? Thanks, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: getting images off a digital camera...
Chad, I'm not familiar with USB storage devices. I have a USB scanner and printer and that's the extent of my experience with USB under any OS. Could explain in more detail what you do? Then again I'm asking this in part out of time constraints: I haven't looked at mounting a USB device in the man pages yet. Thanks for you help. I have a biology exam right now that looks like it's going to be a killer. I'm outta here. Alex On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 13:45, Chad Albert wrote: I use a Sony DSC-P50 and I am able to just mount it as a USB Storage device. Yours will probably work the same way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [notspam] Re: getting images off a digital camera...
Chad, Thanks again. That helps. In another post David Kelly suggest gphoto2 in ports/graphics. I looked into this and it does support the DSC-F707. So, perhaps it will work with the F717, too. Also, it supports your camera. I think I will try both approaches and see how they compare. Of course (doesn't it figure) I compile my kernel without USB mass storage support. Oh, well. It's about time for another kernel compile :-) Thanks again. Alex On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:21, Chad Albert wrote: All I have to do is mount it as if it were a regular drive on the system. I think the generic kernel has support for USB mass storage devices, so plug your camera in and make note of it's device name then mount it as if it were an msdos drive. In the following example my camera is /dev/da0s1 so after making a directory called camera in /mnt, I type mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/camera To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior
I experience the same symptoms, so I'll third this topic. I've noticed that it appears to happen only with man pages that belong to the system. When I man a non-system manpage, it works as expected whether running with X or without. (I was wondering if it might be X related. Just a thought. Apparently not.) Alex On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:28, Marco Radzinschi wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning of the document as if it doesn't exit. But what appears to be happening is that I'm getting multiple streams of output to the TTY: clint 37083 0.0 0.6 1116 588 p1 S+2:24AM 0:00.03 man thttpd clint 37084 0.0 0.3 628 308 p1 S+2:24AM 0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz | less clint 37085 0.0 0.2 604 216 p1 S+2:24AM 0:00.01 /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz So, it appears that both 37084 and 37085 are writing to my TTY, which is why it looks like it doesn't exit... -Clint I can second this strange behavior, but since it only happens on my firewall machine, which I rarely use interactively, I never bothered to diagnose it. As such, the only insight that I can offer is that it happens on only one of my 4.7-STABLE machines. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 2 22:23:20 EST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Alex(ander Sendzimir) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digitally Inclined of Vermont To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Unresolved reference compiling Objective-C ??
Jonathan, Could you provide the code? hello world can't be top secret, can it? ;-) Alex On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:32, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I just compiled a 'hello world' in objective c on a box with gcc but no GNUstep. I'm using the compile command as I found it in the tutorial. Any idea what I did wrong? thanks, jonathon snip -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: simple find command
Matt, It's unclear from your post whether you mean to find files that *contain* foo or files where foo is in the filename. Here are the two scenarios acted out. [1] Remove files that contain foo. cd directory/where/files/reside grep -r -i foo ./* cd'ing into where the files are is not strictly necessary. I like to do this for safety reasons if I mistype. Otherwise you may place the directory at the end of the grep command line as grep -r -i foo /directory/where/files/reside Do the resultant files meet your expectations? Check this before deleting them. It might be safer to move them to a holding directory first. Then delete them when you're beyond any quivering feelings of doubt. grep -r -i foo ./* | xargs rm -v I'm assuming there might be subdirectories where the files are. If not or you don't want to get into them, then remove -r in the grep command. [2] Remove files that have foo in their filename. find /directory/where/files/reside -name *foo* -print \ -exec rm {} \; Again, the caveat about checking your results before deleting is repeated here. The slash at the end of the line above (after -print) is because the line is too long in this email. This is the shell escape for line continuation. You can experiment with it. Perhaps this clears up some of the other posts. Alex On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:24, Matthew Bettinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having a bit of trouble with the find command. I am a novice in its use so maybe someone can help me out here. I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through and delete every file that contains the word foo. Some of my failed attemps... find . -exec grep -i foo -ok -delete {} \; find . -exec grep -l 'foo' -ok -delete {}\; find . -exec grep foo {}\; | xargs rm Thanks for any help. Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9yVBIXG7+MmNwciURAr1VAKCJWZF87EfqAk8hLdnj/prlZwpVDwCbBrAt Lq+3Zv2Ocd4EmxAXfdhp1OY= =HNAV -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Can I delete /usr/src ?
Yes. However, if you have custom kernel configuration files in /usr/src/sys/i368/conf, then save them some place safe if you have not done this already. Then remove with rm -rf /usr/src/* This will leave the /usr/src directory. An alternative is to tar and compress /usr/src with tar czf /tmp/usr-src-2002.11.05-archive.tar.gz /usr/src I've given my favorite archive naming convention. You can use it or use your own. When done, delete /usr/src as above. You can always CVSup the source again at a later time. Of course, if you still have concerns that have not been addressed here or I've gone astray from your original question, then don't delete anything until you get them answered. Alex On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:24, Darryl Hoar wrote: greetings, I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do that. I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Resolving hostnames takes forever
Wow. This has been extremely useful to me, too. I have virtually the same setup and problem. If I'm understanding what you [Dr Seaman] are saying, if I analyze the dns packet data, I might be able to determine if my ISP's DNS software is broken? I would like to try this because I have a suspicion this is very likely. Finally, would it be worth while to run my own DNS server? Will setting it up be more trouble than it's worth? Thanks, Doc. Alex On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 09:41, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:32:19PM +0100, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: The first thing you need to do to track down the problem is to trace the DNS queries your system makes while you attempt to browse the net. Supposing that your ethernet interface is fxp0, then you need to run commands like the following: # tcpdump -i fxp0 port 53 -w /tmp/dns-packets [ do some browsing in another window, then hit Ctrl-C ] This will record all the DNS traffic in the file in /tmp. You can view the transactions by: # tcpdump -r /tmp/dns-packets The reason for not just reading the DNS traffic directly is that tcpdump tends to generate and pick up it's own DNS traffic, which tends to lead to a massive feedback loop. snipa lot of good material/snip -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Resolving hostnames takes forever
Thanks to the list for such great information. I have installed mta and am currently running it. How to interpret the data correctly is the next step. I'm looking into bind. After this I might look into djbdns. I'm digesting. Thanks again. And this wasn't even my question originally! : ) Alex P.S. Matthew: I appreciate your concern about going off on ISPs. My statements were casual in that post. I would approach them carefully if I were to have good reason to suspect something on their end. I would rather offer them something concrete that might help them. Sometimes they're willing to accept customer input of a sort. So, yes. I appreciate your concern and your point is taken. Thank you. -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: release build
When you say, release build, I'm assuming you mean a kernel and base system. If this is the case, then, yes. It's pretty easy. [1] place your custom configuration in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (or link to it there) [2] read the top part of /usr/src/Makefile [3] you might want to create|configure /etc/make.conf by setting KERNCONF. For an additional 30M or so you can compile for both machines. [4] Assuming you have the two machines networking, setup nfs so that you can install from the PIII. This answer goes beyond what you asked with the nfs stuff. But there you have it anyway. No cross compiling. This is a basic overview. Questions? Alex On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:44, Sebastian Boldt wrote: Hello ppl, I got two different machines, a PIII 500 and a AMD k6-2 300. I want the PIII to build a release for the AMD machine with optimizations. Is this possible with a simple make release, or do I have to do some sort of cross compiling? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Default Sendmail install with FreeBSD
J U S T A S U G G E S T I O N If this machine is critical to you, you might want to consider determining which system/kernel source it's built off of and cvsup'ing that source, buildworld, etc and make a backup, knowing that you can restore to your original system. Then make the jump to 4.7-STABLE. Then again, perhaps I'm misunderstanding the purpose here. Alex -- A L E X A N D E R S E N D Z I M I RBattleface Computing Custom Computing - Linux Free BSD - C, Perl, Python, WWW [EMAIL PROTECTED] |802 863 5502| Colchester, VT 05446 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: make (build options)
Lute, You will want to invoke the following: make -DWITH_PSPELL install I apologize, but I don't know where this is/might be documented. However, it's a pretty general rule that you can go into any ports directory and look through the Makefile. Scan for if defined or if !defined, etc. In the sylpheed-claw port Makefile, there is a menu of options that are shown when compilation begins. NOTE: In some ports you will want to set variables, such as make WITH_GIMP=yes install Which is not the same thing as defining a variable (in case you don't already know this). Good luck, Alex On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 07:49, Lute Mullenix wrote: Hi there, I have been installing most of my software via the ports, and for the most part it been a simple matter of: make install clean however now I would like to install sylpheed-claws with the pspell option, and even though I have been through the info on make about three times still can't get it to work. Could someone please at least point me to some more docs so I can get this silly thing to compile the way I want it? Please CC me as I don't subscribe to the list, thanks. Lute ** Triple Boot: * FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 * Windows ME * ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
VariCAD and Mathematica...
Hi, folks. I'm wondering if anyone is running VariCAD | Mathematica under FreeBSD. If so, how did you get them running? Obstacles? Suggestions? Caveats? Thanks, Alex P.S. I've posted several (I believe) helpful responses to questions on this list and they have not come through. I'm wondering why. Does the list reject HTML? Which I found I was sending in, regretfully. I'm replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or freebsd-questions@... . So this post serves a triple purpose, of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: VariCAD and Mathematica...
Thanks. I've answered the HTML question. Alex On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:57, Alex(ander Sendzimir) wrote: P.S. I've posted several (I believe) helpful responses to questions on this list and they have not come through. I'm wondering why. Does the list reject HTML? Which I found I was sending in, regretfully. I'm replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or freebsd-questions@... . So this post serves a triple purpose, of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade?
Steve, Have you looked at the notes in /usr/src/Makefile? Also a thought: since you're dealing with a production machine, would it be easier to build an updated duplicate and migrate information to the new machine? Then you have not left in the cold should something go wrong. You can then duplicate the process on the production machine and you have two up-to-date systems. Alex On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:10, Steve Warwick wrote: Hi I have a 4.3 BSD machine to upgrade, and it's a production machine :( On a test machine I have learned to CVSUP. I have used sysinstall and played around with the upgrade potion of the menu. I have configured, built and installed the kernel a few times. Ok, got that, but how do I upgrade? I am probably missing the point, but do I have to CVSUP, sysinstall/upgrade, AND build-install the kernel? I looked at makeworld in the handbook but it read like the instructions to building a house! Surely it's not a complicated as it looks? Anyway, suggestions, links etc all gratefully received. TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message