Re: Stuck between current and 9 release.

2011-11-15 Thread eculp

Quoting Boris Samorodov :


14.11.2011 23:50, eculp пишет:


I have been looking for an amd 64 version of a release snapshot and
haven't found anything close.


Seems that you need this:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/

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Thanks Boris.  You are a life saver.  Hopefully the Handbook will be  
updated.  The current one has the following:


  Acquire the Memory Stick Image


  The memory stick image can be downloaded from the ISO-IMAGES/ directory
  from
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arch/arch/ISO-IMAGES/version/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-arch-memstick.img.
  Replace arch and version with the architecture and the version number
  which you want to install, respectively. For example, the memory stick
  images for FreeBSD/i386 9.0-RELEASE are available from
   
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img.



Thanks again.

ed
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Stuck between current and 9 release.

2011-11-14 Thread eculp
I was running current (before 10) last month, had a health emergency  
and when I could check the server current was 10.  I ereased all  
sources and switched all my csup files to release and begin building a  
new world daily with no problems to be sure all was well. ( probably a  
mistake ).  Port upgrades were building fine with portmaster so I just  
decided to reboot to see if all was well.( Dumb ) it wasn't,   
(Murphy's Law), the machine won't boot.  Rather than a spinning slash  
(/) a single one and it hangs.


I have been looking for an amd 64 version of a release snapshot and  
haven't found anything close.  I have no idea why it doesn't even try  
to boot.  I have tried all the loader options and get nowhere.  I  
could use any suggestions especially since I don't even have a amd64  
snapshot other than old ones to do a reinstall especially if there is  
a problem with the release.


Thanks,

ed

P.S. If this should be on another list please let me know.  If there  
is an AMD RELEASE 9 snap somewhere other than what is in the handbook.  
 Anything would be great.

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Has anyone been able to configure a Linksys E3000 using freebsd or pcbsd?

2011-08-11 Thread eculp
In a trade with a "friend", I ended up with a Linksys E3000.  The only  
windows machine that I have is my wife's 10" laptop that doesn't have  
a dvd.  I use FreeBSD or pcBSD for everything, workstations, servers,  
etc.  I need to configure this thing but can't find any instructions  
on web based configuration.  The FAQ and the dvd all imply that you  
must run the windows installation programs.  I doubt that is true.   
I've used other Linksys products, printservers, AP's, etc. with no  
problem.


Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

ed

PS I've thought about wine but the machines I have here are all AMD64.
   In addition, I'm going to have to reconfigure it at some point.
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Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread eculp

Quoting "C. P. Ghost" :


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM, eculp  wrote:

Quoting "C. P. Ghost" :


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten  wrote:


Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE
number of connections, or your apps are  "not good", this will be MORE
than enough RAM and CPU.

(...)

Maybe turn this into a virtual host and make some use of that hardware,
or just be happy using it at 5% capacity.


... or run some instances of Plone on it. Should be enough to keep it
busy and out of the idle thread even at moderate traffic. ;-)


I agree but somehow my extra resources (memory, disk, cpu, etc.) always seem
to find sponges in a short period of time.  This may be the exception.


It's certainly no exception. Programs tend to expand over time,
and when they expand, they tend to use up more time as well.

Since space and time complexity of programs are closely linked
to and bounded by each other, a corollary to Murphy's Law:
  "Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory."
is, of course,
  "Any given program will expand to use up all available CPU cycles."

I'm half-joking though


It has always been true for me.  I think ol'Murphy really likes me ;)

Thanks to all for having shared your combined wisdom,

ed


Anyway, I'm sure you'll put that new machine
to great use!


thanks

ed


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Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread eculp

Quoting "C. P. Ghost" :


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten  wrote:
Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some  
HUGE number of connections, or your apps are  "not good", this  
will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU.


(...)

Maybe turn this into a virtual host and make some use of that  
hardware, or just be happy using it at 5% capacity.


... or run some instances of Plone on it. Should be enough to keep it
busy and out of the idle thread even at moderate traffic. ;-)


I agree but somehow my extra resources (memory, disk, cpu, etc.)  
always seem to find sponges in a short period of time.  This may be  
the exception.


thanks

ed



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Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread eculp
I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a  
great price and am considering it as a web-server.


In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of  
comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a  
problem with.  I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a  
gaming machine needs the most aggressive hardware.  I have also seen  
this processor with 12 GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds  
better.


Any opinions and guidance are appreciated.

Thanks,

ed

I will be running 9.0 on this as I am already doing on one of my web-servers.

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Is Intel Core I7 930 2.80 Ghz as good or better option than AMD

2010-11-06 Thread eculp
I've always been an AMD fan but am getting the idea that they are  
loosing their edge.  So my question if the Intel Core I7 930 2.80 Ghz  
is as good and option or is their a better AMD at a similar o cheaper  
price?


I plan to install this in a GigaByte GA-X58A/UD7 motherboard with 6 Gb  
in a Cosmos-S Cooler Master cabinet with extra fans and Cooler Master  
600w power supply.


Any comments appreciated.

Please copy me on your answers.

Enjoy your weekend.

ed
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Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release

2010-01-05 Thread eculp

Quoting Andreas Rudisch :


On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600
eculp  wrote:


I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD
7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release



I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give
freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try.


freebsd-update does not work on STABLE branches. You can only track a
RELEASE branch and a few Beta/RC releases with it.


I am trying to follow the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html



From the first paragraph:

"Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can
upgrade"


Looks like I was reading what I wanted to read and not what was  
written.  Sorry.  Thanks for the the wakeup call.


Have a great day,

ed



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Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release

2010-01-04 Thread eculp
I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD  
7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release and then probably to 9.0  
current.  I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I  
might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try.  Previously I  
have used cvsup and/or a cdrom but freebsd-update is binary and even  
does ports so being lazy . . . .


I have tried and the following are the results.

freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

I am trying to follow the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html

I guess that I could just use cvsup or the new dvd.  Does anyone who  
has done this give me a tip?


Also to go from 8.0 to 9.0 should be fairly easy with cvsup, kernel,  
world, rebooting and recompiling all ports, no?


Thanks,

ed
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Current - USB2 - cups and lp devices.

2009-02-24 Thread eculp
I just rebooted my laptop that I have today's USB2 hopefully with the  
latest USB compatibility, if I understood the GENERIC kernel  
correctly.  I'm using i386 version, up to date as of this morning.   
Ports are completely up to date.  all etc/dev* stuff is as it was with  
USB1.


With localhost:631 I see Unable to open device file "/dev/ulpt0":  
Operation not permitted.  Probably because, there ain't none.  Is  
there something else that I need to do that I didn't do before?


This isn't critical.  I probably print only a few pages a week but I  
do want it to work when something is critical.


Thanks,

ed

P.S.  Maybe this should be posted on another list rather than questions?
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Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread eculp

Quoting Gary Kline :


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote:

Hi Gary,
ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the  
pluginwrapper and the flash version.
I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your  
installation step by step:

http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl

Cheers
herbs


thanks for your fbsd how-to!  looks great, and i will try it if
nothing else works.  i have ff3  (i think that is a
"Linux-firefox3" port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now
downloading the firefox-devel port.  in my opinion, too many way
to go and too little data on how to get everything working.

gary


Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel  
that IIRC is older not being updated.  I remember that someone had  
problems with that previously.


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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800
Gary Kline  wrote:

>
> Guys,
>
> If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> flashplugin-9.  So far, no joy.  I have firefox2, and when I try to
> pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
> still YouTube won't work.
>
> Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use?  Or is there another
> way of getting both audio+video?
>
> gary
>
>
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Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread eculp

Quoting Ian Smith :


I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of
this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run':

 addr='195.68.176.4#1440:'
 addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'
 addr='195.68.176.4#276:'

sh(1) in hand, I've tried:

 ip=${addr:%#*}
 ip=${addr:%%#*}
 ip=${addr:%[#]*}
 ip=${addr:%%[#]*}

but all of these report './testbit: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution'

How can I split these strings to exclude the '#' and all beyond,
preferably using sh syntax, at least without resorting to perl?


sed would work.  Something like

for i in addr='195.68.176.4#1440:' addr='195.68.176.4#16811:'  
addr='195.68.176.4#276:'

do
echo $i | sed 's/#.*//'
done

of course using the echo line in your script or something similar.   
I'm sure there are many simple or simpler solutions.


ed



Please cc me as I'm only subscribed to the digest.

TIA, Ian
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Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue

2009-02-06 Thread eculp

Quoting Da Rock :


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:50 -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote:

Quoting Da Rock :

> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote:
>> Hi  list,
>>
>>
>>  I followed  http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html
>>
>> To enable  flash9   support for FreeBSD7.0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I  installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility
>>
>> so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped

I would suggest linux_base-f8-8_11, the in /etc/sysctl.conf put:
compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16,


Ahh yes. Forgot that point- a must for flash9.


for firefox use the latest firefox3


Why firefox3? Isn't there stability issues? And doesn't the firefox
still need to be linux-firefox?


I hope not because I'm using it right now with a site that requires  
flash 9.  IMO, it works much better than windows firefox with wine  
emulation plus the linux firefox-devel has a security issue, I believe.


The only issue is with a few extra processes for flash on ocassion,  
but I'm not complaining.  The version of FBSD firefox from ports  
firefox3 I'm using is 3.0.5.



ed




port (firefox-3.0.5_1,1) NOT firefox-devel, all the plugins that you
want such as linux-flashplugin-9.0r152 and any others then
nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 and run the script and start firefox3 and all
should be well if I haven't forgotten something.

I would guess that the principal problem is the firefox-devel port
rather than firefox3.  IIRC, it is pre-firefox3.

ed
>>
>>
>>
>> second step I followed and installed  latestfirefox-devel
>>
>>
>> then I installed nspluginwrapper
>>
>>
>>
>> next step I downloaded this
>>  
ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

>>
>> from this link
>>  
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html  as adobe.com not allowing me to  
download

>> it.
>>
>>
>> then I untarred itand copied  libflashplayer.so  to
>> ~/.mozilla/plugins  ( I created plugins directory as there is no
>> default plugins directory  in  ~/.mozilla/
>>   and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper  -v
>> -a -i and  observed that it created
>> nswrapper.libflashplayer.so
>>
>>
>>
>> but   $  nspluginwrapper -l  given me  the   the message
>> segmentation fault  core dumped   sig 11
>>
>> what I made wrong ?
>>
>>
>>  I tried to restart  the firefox and   it restarted and showing
>> message  you updated to the latest fiefox version .
>>
>>
>> but when I accessed the   http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
>> URL I am getting message in the   console as
>>
>>
>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>> /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object
>> "libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]
>>
>> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
>> libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>> /home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object
>> "libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]
>>
>> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
>> libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>>
>>
>> but find commad showing that   libdl.so.2 is ther in
>> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2
>>
>>
>>
>> # find / -name libdl.so.2
>> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2
>>
>>
>> [dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease
>> compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
>>
>> [dhanesh$ uname -a
>> FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52
>> UTC 2008
>> r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>>
>>
>>  any hints to  make it work most welcome..  please see this paste
>> also  http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html
>>
>> thanks in advance
>
> Been where you are, done all that.
>
> First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install
> linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox,
> www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount
> -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc.
>
> Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work
> now, but it can be a little unstable.
>
> HTH.
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Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue

2009-02-06 Thread eculp

Quoting Da Rock :


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote:

Hi  list,


 I followed  http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html

To enable  flash9   support for FreeBSD7.0




I  installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility

so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped



second step I followed and installed  latestfirefox-devel


then I installed nspluginwrapper



next step I downloaded this   
ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz


from this link  
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html  as adobe.com not allowing me to download  
it.



then I untarred itand copied  libflashplayer.so  to
~/.mozilla/plugins  ( I created plugins directory as there is no
default plugins directory  in  ~/.mozilla/
  and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper  -v  
-a -i and  observed that it created  
nswrapper.libflashplayer.so




but   $  nspluginwrapper -l  given me  the   the message   
segmentation fault  core dumped   sig 11


what I made wrong ?


 I tried to restart  the firefox and   it restarted and showing  
message  you updated to the latest fiefox version .



but when I accessed the   http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
URL I am getting message in the   console as



LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library  
/home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object  
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]


Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library  
/home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object  
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]


Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory



but find commad showing that   libdl.so.2 is ther in 
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2




# find / -name libdl.so.2
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2


[dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2

[dhanesh$ uname -a
FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52  
UTC 2008  
r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386




 any hints to  make it work most welcome..  please see this paste  
also  http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html


thanks in advance


Been where you are, done all that.

First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install
linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox,
www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount
-t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc.

Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work
now, but it can be a little unstable.

HTH.

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Re: Flash9and FreeBSD7.0isssue

2009-02-06 Thread eculp

Quoting Da Rock :


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 05:43 +, dhaneshk k wrote:

Hi  list,


 I followed  http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html

To enable  flash9   support for FreeBSD7.0




I  installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility

so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped


I would suggest linux_base-f8-8_11, the in /etc/sysctl.conf put:  
compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16, for firefox use the latest firefox3  
port (firefox-3.0.5_1,1) NOT firefox-devel, all the plugins that you  
want such as linux-flashplugin-9.0r152 and any others then  
nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 and run the script and start firefox3 and all  
should be well if I haven't forgotten something.


I would guess that the principal problem is the firefox-devel port  
rather than firefox3.  IIRC, it is pre-firefox3.


ed




second step I followed and installed  latestfirefox-devel


then I installed nspluginwrapper



next step I downloaded this   
ftp://greyone.tulatelecom.ru/pub/linux/adobe/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz


from this link  
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.2608602.0.0.html  as adobe.com not allowing me to download  
it.



then I untarred itand copied  libflashplayer.so  to
~/.mozilla/plugins  ( I created plugins directory as there is no
default plugins directory  in  ~/.mozilla/
  and I invoked the nspluginwrapper $ nspluginwrapper  -v  
-a -i and  observed that it created  
nswrapper.libflashplayer.so




but   $  nspluginwrapper -l  given me  the   the message   
segmentation fault  core dumped   sig 11


what I made wrong ?


 I tried to restart  the firefox and   it restarted and showing  
message  you updated to the latest fiefox version .



but when I accessed the   http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
URL I am getting message in the   console as



LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library  
/home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object  
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]


Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library  
/home/dhanesh/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object  
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]


Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory



but find commad showing that   libdl.so.2 is ther in 
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2




# find / -name libdl.so.2
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2


[dhanesh]$ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2

[dhanesh$ uname -a
FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52  
UTC 2008  
r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386




 any hints to  make it work most welcome..  please see this paste  
also  http://rafb.net/p/Yz7dBS79.html


thanks in advance


Been where you are, done all that.

First, deinstall from ports emulators/linux_base-fc4 and make install
linux_base-f8. Then make install from ports www/linux-firefox,
www/nspluginwrapper and www/linux-flashplugin9. kldload linux, and mount
-t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc.

Run nspluginwrapper and then run linux-firefox. Tada! All should work
now, but it can be a little unstable.

HTH.

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Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10?[ Model Correction ]

2009-01-09 Thread eculp

Quoting Manolis Kiagias :


ec...@casasponti.net wrote:

Quoting ec...@casasponti.net:


I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife.  It comes with WindowsXP and while
configuring it for her  I found it to be a nice, new generation
laptop.  I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and
installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work.

Link because of the original subject error [Lenovo S110 rather than
the correct S10.  Sorry.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=D4B2E83FADD74C9F8BBA5B276072AD8C



Any comments or suggestions appreciated.

ed


According to the link, it has a broadcom wireless, which I believe will
be a problem.



Yep, I think you are right.  I remembered that broadcom was supported  
but I see I am very behind times with wireless and have been playing  
catchup with ath that now works great.


Thanks for the reality check.  I still think it is a nice machine for  
the price but . . . .


ed


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Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptop suggestions, but wait there's more...

2009-01-08 Thread eculp

Quoting Gautham Ganapathy :


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Modulok  wrote:

List,

Does anyone know of a laptop, preferably an older model so it's
inexpensive, (It doesn't have to be very fast.), that is:

As I mentioned in another thread, I just bought a Lenovo S10 with Atom  
processor 512k cache and 1G memory, 10+ screen, feels very solid, best  
scratch pad I've ever used and cost 399 dls.


I haven't put unix on it.  I'm probably going to buy another.  I gave  
this one to my wife for her iTunes and iPhone (cheaper than MAC :( )  
and while setting it up I was very pleasantly surprised at how solid  
it was and with great performance under XP that comes with it.


ed


1) FreeBSD friendly.
2) Isn't a portable skillet?
3) Is physically sturdy. Not bulletproof, but not creaking, sagging plastic.



My dell inspiron 9400 works quite well, except for
1. Card reader
2. Suspend/resume

It does get a bit warm, but not more than when I am running windows.
Battery time was also pretty much the same

It's no longer in production, but i believe the replacements are the
inspiron 1720 and the xps 1730

I am not sure if the newer 4965 802.11n wifi chipset that are
currently available would be supported, but you could opt for the 3945
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Re: Anybody using Lenovo S10? [ Model Correction ]

2009-01-08 Thread eculp

Quoting ec...@casasponti.net:

I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife.  It comes with WindowsXP and  
while configuring it for her  I found it to be a nice, new  
generation laptop.  I liked it well enough to consider buying  
another for me and installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what  
works and doesn't work.
Link because of the original subject error [Lenovo S110 rather than  
the correct S10.  Sorry.


http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=D4B2E83FADD74C9F8BBA5B276072AD8C


Any comments or suggestions appreciated.

ed


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Anybody using Lenovo S110?

2009-01-08 Thread eculp
I bought a Lenova S10 for my wife.  It comes with WindowsXP and while  
configuring it for her  I found it to be a nice, new generation  
laptop.  I liked it well enough to consider buying another for me and  
installing FreeBSD but I would like to see what works and doesn't work.


Any comments or suggestions appreciated.

ed


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Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-03 Thread eculp

Quoting "maddae...@gmail.com" :


On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM,   wrote:

I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf.
example:
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1"

I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots that are using
wpa[2].  The handbook isn't up to date and I have been looking for over a
week unsuccessfully.  As far as I know there isn't an X utility to do this
from and I've tried wpa_suplicant.conf with a router here but since I don't
understand it, I'm sure it is incorrect (plus the important clue that it
doesn't work)  Hopefully this is an easier and simpler way to do this.

The wpa_supplicant.conf configuration that I've tested is:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
## eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA2
ssid="TestRouter"
## bssid=[mac address of your access point here]
## key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
## pairwise=TKIP
## psk=[i forgot what this is, presumably the md5 of the passphrase.]
password="Testing123"
}

Any suggestions for getting out of this glass of water that I'm drowning in
would be greatly appreciated.


Handbook: Section 31
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS

HTML Manpage for wpa_supplicant.conf:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5

proto   List of acceptable protocols; one or more of: WPA (IEEE
 802.11i/D3.0) and RSN (IEEE 802.11i).  WPA2 is another name for
 RSN.  If not set this defaults to "WPA RSN".

I have 7.0-RELEASE working perfectly with WPA2/CCMP (using AES), so I
can't imagine that 8 would break it that badly, but I could be wrong..

Here's my (very simple) wpa_supplicant.conf (psk edited, of course):

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

# Home:
network={
ssid=""
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="x}&]{-9jimCm`6V:>LI#HiLa[Q5\jL/b;R:2)/%HU#zW=:&?K?PP8mx48`Jvx-K"
}


I really needed a working example and that did it.  I've tested with  
several and they all work fine.  I also reread the handbook pages and  
understood them much better. I also wasn't using /etc/rc.d/netif for  
testing.  I had forgotten about it.


Thanks so much,

ed



HTH

~MD
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HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-02 Thread eculp

I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf.
example:
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1"

I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots that are  
using wpa[2].  The handbook isn't up to date and I have been looking  
for over a week unsuccessfully.  As far as I know there isn't an X  
utility to do this from and I've tried wpa_suplicant.conf with a  
router here but since I don't understand it, I'm sure it is incorrect  
(plus the important clue that it doesn't work)  Hopefully this is an  
easier and simpler way to do this.


The wpa_supplicant.conf configuration that I've tested is:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
## eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
proto=WPA2
ssid="TestRouter"
## bssid=[mac address of your access point here]
## key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
## pairwise=TKIP
## psk=[i forgot what this is, presumably the md5 of the passphrase.]
password="Testing123"
}

Any suggestions for getting out of this glass of water that I'm  
drowning in would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

ed
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Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread eculp

Quoting Ott Köstner :


On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote:


I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really
locked-down, high security
box, almost an Internet appliance.  All he really does is use the Web,
and a little
light word processing.

What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea?


In this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD.
http://www.pcbsd.org/

PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer,  
pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird,  
Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box...


After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD  
-- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc.


Does anyone know if Flash 9 works on pcbsd?  In fact, I use current  
and it works but hangs probably 4 times a day and I have to kill the  
linux pviewer.bin processes and restart apache to continue.  It is  
much better than nothing though.  I'm still using wine with windows  
firefox and flash doesn't give me any problems but I have problems  
with character sets so I use it only for flash.


ed



Regards,
O.K.



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Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread eculp

Quoting Julien Cigar :


On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly
> things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling
> ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some
> problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example.

i don't have. i use only atapicam+cd driver, no acd.


Of course I tried atapicam too (I even removed acd totally from the
kernel), but it doesn't resolve the problem(s)


I assume that you made the recommended links en /etc/devfs.conf etc.  
so I won't go into it but it has been literally years that I haven't  
had an issue burning cd's or dvd's be it music, movies, OS's built  
here or elsewhere.  I've just recently started trusting all my burning  
to k3b because I like the music for success after finishing the burn. ;)


It works on all my different machines, even a cheapy acer laptop with dvdrw.

As I said, I've not seen it NOT work on any and all cheap hardware in  
a long, long time.  I guess maybe I'm just lucky.


ed

P.S. The only thing that doesn't work on my cheapy laptop is the  
crystal eye webcam but I think that even the linux crowd is having  
issues with it plus I'm too old to want to send my video.






> - my mouse (a Logitec MX 300, USB) is still undetected at boot. Every
> time I have to unplug/plug it after boot. Not a big deal I admit, but
> boring.
> - USB mass storage plug/unplug sometimes causes system panic. I know

never got such thing, except when i forgot to unmount



"except when i forgot to unmount" -> yep, the problem lies here, it's so
natural to just unplug an USB device


> that this is a well known bug that require some rearchitecting and that
> a proper umount has always been the way to umount a drive, but,
> honestly, you cannot seriously convince someone to use FreeBSD with
> things like this ...
> - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is
> just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but
> it's being resolved I think). Of course there are packages, but it's far
> less friendly to use (and manage) than apt-get/dpkg.

you may pkg_add from ftp repository


of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade

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Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-03 Thread eculp


Weldon S Godfrey 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:



I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this.

I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64

This is my loader.conf:

vm.kmem_size_max="16106127360"
vm.kmem_size="1073741824"
kern.maxvnodes="80"


I've always changed those variables in /etc/sysctl.conf

ed



However, this is what happens after reboot:

store1# sysctl -a | grep kmem
vm.kmem_size_scale: 3
vm.kmem_size_max: 3221225472
vm.kmem_size_min: 0
vm.kmem_size: 1073741824
store1# sysctl -a | grep kern.maxvn
kern.maxvnodes: 10
store1#


Is there some issue with vm.kmem_size_max being larger than 3G?  If  
this has been fixed, let me know.  I am using 7.0-RELEASE loader  
from amd64 iso since for some reason, when I complile a new loader  
on this Dell 2950-iii, I get an unusable loader (it just hangs  
before the screen to select safe mode, single user mode, etc).


Thanks,

Weldon
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Re: pf or ipf rules to allow p2p Limewire through

2008-11-28 Thread eculp

Michael Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


Fbsd1 wrote:
[snip]

The only way i can run limewire is
to disable my firewall and that does not make me happy.


This is simply not true. I have at one time or another run Limewire on
each of the three different firewalls. Currently for a little over
one year now it has been pf. The difference is just syntax.


Why don't you send the rules or as you say "difference in syntax" that  
are blocking limewire and p2p to the list for two reasons:

  1. to quickly find how it is being blocked and remedy your problem.
  2. Help an idiot like me block p2p.

good luck,

ed




I think the conclusion is that all 3 of the freebsd firewalls are unable
to monitor packet exchange of p2p applications. These firewalls were
designed before p2p applications were developed and their (p2p) inherent
design is to defeat standard firewall designs.


I really do not understand most of the above paragraph, it makes little
sense to me. Non sequitur.

The OSI reference stack has 7 layers. These firewalls are simple packet
filtering firewalls and only reach Layer 4. The Application layer is
Layer 7, and these firewalls do not perform the deep packet inspection
or decoding required to filter at Layer 7.

As far as reading the docs is concerned it should become apparent that
there are 3 modalities for configuring Limewire. In my situation I have
a FreeBSD server acting as a gateway with pf and DNS running. The UPnP
option is for a typical Windows user who may have a router device that
will assist a UPnP service to autoconfigure the Windows box. Proceed to
examining the second option, Manual Port Forward. I'll ignore the third
as it is "Do Nothing", which is useless.

So on the Limewire "Advanced -> Firewall" config page enter a port
number, such as 6346 in both the "Listen on Port" and the "Manual Port
Forward" boxes.

Then after your NAT rule in pf.conf enter something like the following:

rdr on $ExtIF proto tcp from any to any port 6346 -> 192.168.10.2 port 6346

and a corresponding filter pass rule:

pass in quick on $ExtIF inet proto tcp from any to 192.168.10.2 port  
6346 keep state


192.168.10.2 is my desktop machine where I use Limewire. It works just fine.


-Mike



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Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread eculp

Andrew Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Hmmm.  Isn't life interesting.  I would like to know how to block them and
others without causing strange secondary problems.

Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm
forgetting something important.

ed



I share your pain, Ed.  I've had to perform 3 complete re-installations of
computers in my household in the last year.  Each time, I found a
".limewire" file in a user's application folder.  The boys are now banned
from my wife's computer.  When the last culprit get's his computer back, he
will find it running an operating system that is not supported by Limewire.
The next time, he'll get it back without a network card.

Andrew


:)  I understand.  Hopefully someone has a reasonably efficient pf or  
ipfw based solution.  If it cuts some of the microsoft traffic that I  
am seeing much more of recently, I won't complain either. I have tried  
to control them by ip's and but domain names with limited success.   
Too many windows boxes at the office.


have a great day,

ed
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Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread eculp

Fbsd1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

These applications have predefined ports they use to start up the  
bi-directional packet conversation. But them unsolicited packeted  
come in from other pc nodes to share data using a wide range of high  
port numbers. IPFW, IPF, and PF don't seem to have a rule option to  
allow packs in/out based on program name that started the  
conversation.


I thought i read in openbsd pf manual that pf state processing will  
allow  applications like limewire to function normally by accepting  
the inbound high number port to pass through the firewall.


I have inclusive firewall rule set which means only packets matching
the rules are passed through. The inbound hight port numbers are
blocked by design.

How do other firewall users code rules to allow limewire to work?


Hmmm.  Isn't life interesting.  I would like to know how to block them  
and others without causing strange secondary problems.


Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm  
forgetting something important.


ed




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Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-17 Thread eculp

Vincent Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard
port for ssh. 722.





I've tried many variants but none have worked.  Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.


Hi,
-e 'ssh -p722' should do it in theory
I'm not certain if rsync over ssh honours the SSH_CONFIG(5) file(s) it
should do though. If so it could also be added on a per host basis there.
something like

Host foo.example.com
Port 722
User myuser
IdentityFile /path/to/custom/key


Hi Vince,

I tested the ssh_config changes and indeed they work beautifully and  
give me an added layer of flexibility.  This certainly seems to be the  
optimal solution for for different host configurations  without having  
to change remote scripts.


I hadn't even considered it.  Again DUH! Hello!

I can't thank you enough.

ed
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Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-16 Thread eculp

Vincent Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard
port for ssh. 722.

For example, when I test using my translation of the man pages:

rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST

I use:

rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backkup.net:722/backup/

the error generated is:

rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather
than greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]

I've tried many variants but none have worked.  Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.


Hi,
-e 'ssh -p722' should do it in theory
I'm not certain if rsync over ssh honours the SSH_CONFIG(5) file(s) it
should do though. If so it could also be added on a per host basis there.
something like

Host foo.example.com
Port 722
User myuser
IdentityFile /path/to/custom/key

Thanks, Vince.  That is a ver interesting solution.  I'm going to give  
it a try in the morning.


ed
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Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-16 Thread eculp

Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:43:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Test example.

I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using port
722 rather than 22.  I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I prefer
rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility.  The man says:

rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST

Which I translate to something like:

rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/

but I get the following:

rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather than
greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]

I've tried variants to the point of no return.  Help would be appreciated.


Check out the -e flag for rsync.  There are examples of how to use this
inside of the rsync(1) man page.


I can't believe I missed that.  Unfortunately I found the other first.  
 Just for the record. a simple:


rsync -avze 'ssh -p 722' /almacen/TestDir backupMachine.com:/backup/

worked as expected.

Thanks,

ed

P.S. I also apologize to the list for sending two emails in the  
morning.  I thought I had canceled the first but yet another error.  I  
shouldn't work on Sundays ;)


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How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-16 Thread eculp
I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard  
port for ssh. 722.


For example, when I test using my translation of the man pages:

rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST

I use:

rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backkup.net:722/backup/

the error generated is:

rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather  
than greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at  
main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]


I've tried many variants but none have worked.  Any suggestions would  
be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

ed
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How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-16 Thread eculp

Test example.

I need to sync a directory from my machine to another that is using  
port 722 rather than 22.  I can use ssh -pm722, scp -P 722 fine but I  
prefer rsync for the backup due to configuration flexibility.  The man  
says:


rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST

Which I translate to something like:

rsync -avz /almacen/testDir rsync://backupMachine.com:722/backup/

but I get the following:

rsync: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901" rather  
than greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at  
main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]


I've tried variants to the point of no return.  Help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

ed
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Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread eculp

Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:



On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote:
> Dear sirs
>
> please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from
> windows vista
>
> but i cannot understand which system to use
>
> i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software
>
> kind regards
>
> Peter

Welcome to the free world Peter!

FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also
very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off.
This means that you will have a very steep learning curve.

This list is /very/ helpful, others may not be so friendly or helpful.
This is great for newbies who need some real help in getting to know
their system and fixing problems, but there are times when even this is
not enough if you don't have enough experience with the system.

My advice is this: get used to the *nix (linux, unix and other
derivatives) systems and how they do things, and the best way to do this
is to use linux which is like a halfway house for windows users. The
software available for all systems is HUGE. And all this software will
usually run on both systems. The difference is linux will take care of a
lot of maintenance for you (like vista), but still allows you to get
your hands dirty hacking the system to your hearts content.

This is not to deter you from using FreeBSD - linux is a tough system
when compared to windows, but FreeBSD is even tougher; bit like
comparing a tank to fort knox. But the ease of use and experience you'll
gain from using linux will be more forgiving than using FreeBSD.


This is just wrong.I have always found FreeBSD to be easier
to install and configure the way I want it that the Red Hat or Suse
I often have to use for some servers at work.


Amen to that.  I've converted many Ubuntu users who had shot  
themselves in the foot.  They are now happy freeBSD users. YMMV


ed


You can learn them all if you want and use them all.
But, don't be bullied in to believing that FreeBSD is any harder
than the Lunix flavors out there.

jerry



My suggestion would be to get used to the *nixes with Ubuntu or even
PCBSD (which is a FreeBSD variant for newer users), once you have gotten
used to that give yourself another steep learning curve and jump to the
final level of FreeBSD straight-up :)

Keep in touch with this list and you'll get all your questions answered
no matter how ridiculous they may seem to the seasoned users here, and
the Ubuntu list is nearly as helpful from my observation (hence my
recommendation).

Once you have the experience you'll definitely want FreeBSD for its
security, stability, and more. You can run a desktop, a server, or just
about whatever you want on it. The possibilties are endless with nearly
any *nix system, but the stability can only be found with BSD.

Good luck with your endeavours and welcome, again

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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:07PM +0100, RW wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> > Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these
> > rules[*], use
> > of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely
> > prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you.
>
> I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
> My mail provider publishes SPF records.

SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp
level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate
backscatter not improve it.


Just a side comment for added clarity: this ultimately depends on how
the mail server administrator implemented SPF.  For example, our mail
servers *do not* do SPF lookups at the SMTP level (e.g. in postfix)
because 1) the added complexity is not worth it, and 2) spammers are
now hijacking DNS.

Instead, our servers use SPF in SpamAssassin, subtracting from
the spam probability score if an SPF record is found and matches
appropriately.


That sounds like it is definitely worth trying.

Thanks,

ed


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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages
from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is
using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip
addresses.


When this happens I enable the "move all messages from mailer-daemon
to /dev/null" rules in procmail for a day or two. And curse at the
people who originated the original spam...

Edwin


Edwin,great idea especially the last part.  I have done a good job of  
that today.



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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:


Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these
rules[*], use
of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely
prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you.


I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
My mail provider publishes SPF records.


SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp
level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate
backscatter not improve it.

Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent
argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers
will check that their spam is spf compliant.


I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation.


Most spammers aren't aiming to generate back-scatter as their primary
means of disseminating their spam, so they'll do what they can to get
the best chance of a successful delivery.  That means sending SPF  
compliant e-mails where possible.  It's actually quite simple for  
them to filter out SPF protected addresses from their target lists,  
so they do tend to do that, and it's typically the same list of  
target addresses they use for forged senders too.  It's telling that  
both having a correct SPF record  and having no SPF record at all  
have a zero score in SpamAssassin (ie. neutral) whereas  
non-compliance scores lots of spam points.


Also see my point earlier about rejecting messages during the SMTP  
dialogue.  SPF is easy to check early and lets you reject messages
before acknowledging receiving them, which means a lot fewer bounce  
messages to (probably forged) sender addresses.

Thanks, Matthew.

That I've not done due to the possibility of rejecting legit email.   
I'm going to revisit that decision.


ed



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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


--On Thursday, October 16, 2008 09:01:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages
from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is
using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip
addresses.  The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages.
I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and
maybe have a solution that I don't have.

The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce
blocking rules because they are completely legit.

I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with
our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address.



We call those "bounceback spam".  The only solution that I know of  
is to tag all outgoing messages with a special header and then check  
for that header on all returns and reject those that don't contain  
the header.  All legitimate bounces would contain the header because  
they originated with your MTA.


E.g. X-Bounceback-Check: 0987923874


I have added headers for years but unfortunately these didn't  
originate on my servers.  My email address was used as the return  
address for spam sent from multiple windows machines to .ru addresses.


Thanks for the suggestion, Paul.

ed



The value of the header can be anything you want it to be, and you  
can change it periodically if you want to keep statistical data.


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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:58:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi__:

> Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a
> cogent argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope
> that spammers will check that their spam is spf compliant.

I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation.


Actually that wasn't a joke, some people do cite that as the reason
why SPF helps with backscatter, that spammers will leave your domain
out of the "mail from" line if you publish SPF records for it.


I see that but it still touched my funny bone but the problem is how  
many mail servers and admins completely ignore SPF and what happens to  
those who do try to comply?  I'm sure that the hundreds of bounces  
that I have received are minimal in comparison to the delivered email.  
 In fact many are reporting that a user is "over quota"


Thanks,

ed
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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, RW wrote:

SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp
level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate
backscatter not improve it.


The main problem resulting in backscatter happens when forged spam  
from yourdomain.com get gets sent to a legit MX server which accepts  
the mail initially, and then generates a bounce due to later spam  
checking or failed delivery to an invalid user.  The bounces which  
then get generated by the legit MX are likely to pass spam checking  
at yourdomain.com.


Exactly what seems to be happening.


Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent
argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers
will check that their spam is spf compliant.



SPF doesn't provide a magic solution to backscatter, but it helps  
simplify the problem.


It should.

If spam can be rejected during the SMTP phase rather than accepted,  
then most spam-spewing malware simply drops the attempted message  
rather than actually send a bounce to yourdomain.com.  After all,  
the spammer is looking to deliver spam to lots of different  
mailboxes, not deliver tons of DSNs to a single mailbox or domain.   
Failing that, however, any bounces which are being generated are  
coming from or at least closer to the source of the spam, rather  
than coming from gmail, hotmail, etc.  And if the spamming machine  
is forging your domain, then yourdomain.com MX boxes have a decent  
shot of rejecting the forgeries via hello_checks, RBLs, or other  
methods.


Thanks Chuck,

ed

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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from
email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my
email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses.
The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages.  I'm sure that
others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a
solution that I don't have.

The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce
blocking rules because they are completely legit.

I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our
local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address.


The term coined for this type of mail is "backscatter".

There is no easy solution for this.  The backscatter article on
postfix.org, for example, caused our mail servers to start rejecting
mail that was generated from PHP scripts and CGIs on our own systems,
which makes no sense.  The article:

http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html


Thanks for the article, Jeremy.  I hadn't seen it.


If the backscatter is all directed to a single Email address (rather
than a series of addresses, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] accepted), then a solution is to reject
mail with an RCPT TO of an account or virtual address that does not
exist on your machine.

This, of course, has a wonderful side effect: spammers now have a way to
detect what Email addresses on your box legitimately accept mail, thus
once they find one which never gets a bounceback, will start pounding
that address to kingdom come.

Let me know if you do find a reliable, decent solution that does not
involve SPF or postfix header_checks or body_checks.


I wish ;)

Thanks again,

ed



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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:




On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:

Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these  
rules[*], use
of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely  
prevent the

spammers from joe-jobbing you.


I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
My mail provider publishes SPF records.
If the names and numbers in the bouceback messages are to be  
believed, however, the spammers have defeated SPF by hijacking DNS.   
The poor recipients never see my SPF records because they're looking  
at the wrong IP address.


Thanks, Matthew.  I guess that is the root problem of spf, the  
spammers, that it is supposed to stop.  It looks a bit like our  
economy, a loosing battle.


It really make me feel impotent this morning.

Have a great day,

ed

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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from
email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my
email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses.
The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages.  I'm sure that
others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a
solution that I don't have.


Did these come from Barracuda boxes?

Blowback like this is hardly new or legitimate as the From and Sender
header addresses are often (usually) forged in spam, and it does not do
anything useful to reply to them.  The forged addresses may just be
something scraped from the address book of a machine running the Microsoft
virus, Windows, or a deliberate ``Joe Job'' where a spammer is targeting
somebody who may have caused them problems.


It had just got up this morning and found my mailbox full of these and  
lost my cool.  I probably sent the email too quickly.  Thanks for  
helping me get it together.


ed


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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these
> rules[*], use
> of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely
> prevent the spammers from joe-jobbing you.

I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
My mail provider publishes SPF records.


SPF increases the probability of spam being rejected at the smtp
level at MX servers, so my expectation would be that it would exacerbate
backscatter not improve it.

Many people recommend SPF for backscatter, but I've yet to hear a cogent
argument for why it helps beyond the very optimistic hope that spammers
will check that their spam is spf compliant.


I feel the same way and thanks for adding some humor to the situation.

ed


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Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp

Yury Michurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:


Hello,
start with putting spf record on the domain,
http://www.netdummy.net/stop-bounce-mail.html
and finish with filtering bogus message-id wich was not orignated on your
server with whatever software you using.


I've had the spf record for a couple of years and I've started  
filtering.  I guess I was just looking for something different.


Thanks for helping me adapt to the real world.

ed



Regards,
Yury

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from
email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my email
address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses.  The end
result is that I am getting the bounce messages.  I'm sure that others on
this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I
don't have.

The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce
blocking rules because they are completely legit.

I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our
local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address.

Thanks for any suggestions,

ed
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I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread eculp
In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages  
from email services as a result of someone having used or worse is  
using my email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip  
addresses.  The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages.   
I'm sure that others on this list have experienced the problem and  
maybe have a solution that I don't have.


The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce  
blocking rules because they are completely legit.


I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with  
our local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address.


Thanks for any suggestions,

ed
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Re: two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-21 Thread eculp


Quoting Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:




I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a
server to connect
it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in
the Dell
that has the first dsl connection and the LAN.  I have been
running pf
on the two nics with nat and squid in transparent proxy
mode without
any issues. My problem is that I haven't come up with a
way to really
take advantage of the new dsl to reduce traffic on the
first.  I'm not
even dreaming of load balancing just sharing some of the
load.

I had thought about trying to get squid to use the second
connection
but my feeble attempts at redirecting it haven't made
much sense nor
have they worked. Most of our traffic is outgoing rather
than
incoming, if that helps.

I'm sure someone else must have a similar setup and are
doing better
than I.  Anything is better than nothing. Basically, I
think and hope
that I am just drowning in a glass of water.

Thanks for any suggestions.

ed


it all well depends on how many wires you need to make your boss happy.
if you feel like u can be replaced with a router maybe you should  
start making half-way websites rather than doing 2 way internet  
connections.
but there is a shoe for every foot. i actually admire the creativity  
of the pf coders. i hope you have at least 2 gateways. please don't  
drown.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html


Wow! Thanks, Nash.  This should do it.  I just read through it and had  
no idea it even existed. Especially the nat for two IP's


I'll start trying it tomorrow and will post the results.

Thanks again,

ed
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two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-19 Thread eculp
I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a server to connect  
it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in the Dell  
that has the first dsl connection and the LAN.  I have been running pf  
on the two nics with nat and squid in transparent proxy mode without  
any issues. My problem is that I haven't come up with a way to really  
take advantage of the new dsl to reduce traffic on the first.  I'm not  
even dreaming of load balancing just sharing some of the load.


I had thought about trying to get squid to use the second connection  
but my feeble attempts at redirecting it haven't made much sense nor  
have they worked. Most of our traffic is outgoing rather than  
incoming, if that helps.


I'm sure someone else must have a similar setup and are doing better  
than I.  Anything is better than nothing. Basically, I think and hope  
that I am just drowning in a glass of water.


Thanks for any suggestions.

ed
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Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

2008-09-18 Thread eculp


Quoting andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On Wed 2008-09-17 19:36:02 UTC-0400, Tom Marchand  
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:



Does anyone know of a utility that I can use with sshd to auto-block
by IP if there are more then N failed attempts in a row?



Why don't you have sshd listen on a different port?


I imagine that on some hosts where there are multiple users/customers,
moving sshd to another port isn't a practical solution due to people's
habits in trying to connect to the default port.  A human problem
rather than a technical one.

PS. Top posting is cruel.


I`ve been more or less watching this thread and haven't seen the use  
of   the ssh-bruteforce rules from the pf on line howtos being  
recommended.  In my own case pf, in addition to a couple of other  
changes, has worked well for us.  In the other changes mentioned we  
have also changed the ssh port that doesn't add security but has  
basically stopped logfiles full of dictionary attempts from what I  
expect are windows machines that have been violated and are being used  
to find more.


I would highly recommend pf brutforce rules or something similar with  
other firewalls.


ed
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Re: FreeBSD 7.0 install on Acer Aspire AM1640-U1401A

2008-09-14 Thread eculp

Quoting Christer Hermansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Joseph Olatt wrote:

Hello,

I have tried installing the following versions of FreeBSD:
   - 7.0 Release
   - 6.2 Release
   - 6.1 Release

on an ACER Aspire AM1640-U1401A computer and the install program is not
detecting the SATA hard drive.

Does anybody else on the list have the above computer and have they
succeeded in installing FreeBSD on it?


I have an Acer Aspire AMD and had issues initially installing FBSD.   
What are you seeing when booting the installion cd?  Do you get any  
errors?


ed



Any hints or feedback will be greatly appreciated.

regards,
joseph
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Maybe this is a very late reply but I haven't read this list for a  
while and this post/problem seems unsolved so I make a reply.


Maybe you need to adjust the settings in the bios.

I have the experience that to install and run Windows XP I need to  
*disable* native sata in the bios on some notebooks, e.g. HP 6710B,  
but to install and run Linux I must *enable* native sata in the bios.


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Bidirectional traffic control with PF and altq or dummynet

2008-08-21 Thread eculp
I have been using PF for several years now and used IPFW previous to  
PF that I've grown more and more fond of. I now need to manage  
bidirectional traffic  I have used Dummynet before to do similar  
things but it is my understanding that Altq can only manage outgoing  
traffic.


My questions are:

  Am I correct in saying that Altq can not manage bidirectional traffic?

if not

  I understand the dummynet can be used with pf and if so does anyone know
  of a howto to get me started?

Thanks,

ed
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Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-11 Thread eculp

Quoting "Robert Huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



eculp writes:


 I've got a question.  A friend has been loaning me his old laptop
 at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine.  I have not been
 able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in
 Ubuntu somewhare?  I'm actually thinking of running it under
 kqemu, if there isn't too much overhead, on my amd64 laptop until
 this gets sorted out.


The "Flashplugin"s in the ports collection are the Linux
versions, which require both a) an interface between the plugin and
the browser and b) the Linux emulation layer.
My last information about Flash9, gleaned from various FreeBSD
mailing lists: the problem is thought to be _somewhere_ between the
plugin and the emulation layer.  This is roughly equivalent to
saying there is a mouse somewhere in .
The current set of permanent pest control experts (the Linux
emulation crew) has considered the matter and decided this is not
worth the time.  As of the time I heard about it, this was in part
because a) Flash9 had tangible problems under Linux and b) even if
they knew what was broken in the plugin the track record of Adobe
being willing to fix it was poor.  (Volunteers for a special mission
should apply on the emulation@ list.)
Don't get me wrong - I'd love to have a working Flash
even under emulation.  But after _years_ of having hopes raised and
dashed I'm pretty much waiting for Flash10 which is supposed to have
an open spec API (ABI??).


Great information, Robert.  Thanks.

ed
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Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp

Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


eculp wrote:
This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up  
to date stable.  I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be  
provoking these crashes.  In fact in many years of running FreeBSD  
I've not seen something just happen like this.  It is a  
simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a  
new world and kernel.  Ports are updated about once a week and  
haven't seen any issues previously.  It has been running 24/7 since  
new, about 8 months.


3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore.  The info file follows:

Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b
 Architecture: i386
 Architecture Version: 2
 Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB)
 Blocksize: 512
 Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008
 Hostname: casasponti.net
 Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
 Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
 Panic String: page fault
 Dump Parity: 2395754794
 Bounds: 2
 Dump Status: good

the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it  
on line at a moments notice.  I think that what I need is probably  
a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where  
to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed  
it.  Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.


See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging.


Thanks Kris.  I did that and I'm assuming that since debugging was not  
enabled in my kernel I got:


/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(kgdb)

I assume it will only work with the new kernel because the  
kernel.debug only got to Cannot access memory at address 0x4b55.   
Which means I have to wait for another crash.


I have already compiled a new kernelwith debuging and will reboot  
tonight to install the kernel and hopefully will never need to test it.


Thanks for your help,

ed



However, panics that "suddenly" start happening frequently on a  
system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload  
changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail.


Kris



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Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp

Quoting eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up  
to date stable.  I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be  
provoking these crashes.  In fact in many years of running FreeBSD  
I've not seen something just happen like this.  It is a  
simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a  
new world and kernel.  Ports are updated about once a week and  
haven't seen any issues previously.  It has been running 24/7 since  
new, about 8 months.


3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore.  The info file follows:

Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 2
  Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008
  Hostname: casasponti.net
  Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
  Panic String: page fault
  Dump Parity: 2395754794
  Bounds: 2
  Dump Status: good

the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on  
line at a moments notice.  I think that what I need is probably a  
crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to  
start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it.   
Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.


Forgot I did try to debug but got nowhere:

/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.2
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(kgdb)

Ignorance, I'm sure.


Thanks,

ed
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reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to  
date stable.  I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be  
provoking these crashes.  In fact in many years of running FreeBSD  
I've not seen something just happen like this.  It is a  
simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and installs a  
new world and kernel.  Ports are updated about once a week and haven't  
seen any issues previously.  It has been running 24/7 since new, about  
8 months.


3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore.  The info file follows:

Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 2
  Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008
  Hostname: casasponti.net
  Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 05:54:42 CDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
  Panic String: page fault
  Dump Parity: 2395754794
  Bounds: 2
  Dump Status: good

the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it on  
line at a moments notice.  I think that what I need is probably a  
crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where to  
start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed it.   
Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

ed
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Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-11 Thread eculp

Quoting "herbert langhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

There are some instructions how you can get the Flashplayer running.  
Not perfect, but it will do in many cases.

http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html


Excellent howto Herb.  My problem is that it seems that firefox-devel  
doesn't work with amd64 but being stubborn, I'm forcing a compile just  
to be sure.  If it doesn't work on my laptop amd64 I will find a i386  
to test on.  Thanks for you work and documentation


Have a great day,

ed



Cheers
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Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-11 Thread eculp

Quoting "Derek Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Hey all,

I have tried using swfdec-plugin to do flash, but it doesnt seem to work too
well at least with firefox.
One ... I prefer being able to select what flash loads automaticly and
Two ... I like to be able to see the flash video but all it does is freeze

I can't seem to get linux-flashplugin7 anymore due to the restricted status.
Flashplugin9 locks up also, which we all know already. I have heard gnash
doesnt do much better... Anyone have a solution that works halfway?


I've got a question.  A friend has been loaning me his old laptop at  
work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine.  I have not been able to  
make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in Ubuntu somewhare?  
 I'm actually thinking of running it under kqemu, if there isn't too  
much overhead, on my amd64 laptop until this gets sorted out.


If anyone has flash9 working dependably under freebsd, please let us know how.

Thanks,

ed
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Re: Help Installing Sun JDK on FreeBSD

2008-06-04 Thread eculp

Quoting triggerme2ice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



I am currently in the process of updating the ports tree... something i
didn't know about earlier :clap:

We will see how the java installation will go... i will keep you posted :)


Thanks a lot, I guess that I have to have it to build openoffice.

ed



Vince Hoffman wrote:


triggerme2ice wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone would know of a brute force way of installing
the
(newest possible) sun JDK on FreeBSD 5.0 (or any other versions for
further
info)

Help a freeBSD user in need :teeth:


The latest version in ports is 1.6.0.3p4 if you need more receent than
that then no idea. If thats ok then
cd /usr/port/java/jdk16
make
Follow the instructions

Also see http://www.freebsd.org/java/
5.x has just been announce as no longer supported by ports though,
although support wont be removed, just not updated and checked as
changes are made.

You will need a current jdk to compile it though and need to get the
source files manually. To get a jdk to compile it I'd recommend
installing the package from
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
Although you could install one of the linux-sun-jdk* ports if you
prefer. you can pkg_delete the old jdk once you have the new one
installed.


Vince
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Realtek ALC268 HDA sound and mixer only have output/playback and no way to input to a Mic, etc.

2008-06-04 Thread eculp
Realtek ALC268 HDA sound  and mixer only have output/playback and no  
way to input to a Mic, etc.


It is on an acer aspire 5520-5679 AMD 64x2 that I'm running up to date  
current8 AMD64 on.


pciconf -lv shows:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:7:0:class=0x040300 card=0x01261025 chip=0x055c10de
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
  vendor = 'Nvidia Corp'
  class  = multimedia

# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  at memory  
0xf268 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20080420_0052] [MPSAFE] (1p:2v/1r:1v  
channels duplex default)


and the verbose dmesg can be seen at http://encontacto.net/SHARE/dmesg.txt

I need to use it for skype and it isn't possible.  Any suggestions  
appreciated.


I have also tried OSS without any success at all.

With OSS and skype-devel I get "problem with audio playback" in  
addition to the microphone not working. With Youtube.com oss just  
locks up firefox on playback.


ossinfo doesn't show the microphone, either.
http://encontacto.net/SHARE/ossinfo.aspire.txt

Thanks to all,

ed
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Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube

2008-06-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Derek Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


on Monday 02 June 2008Monday 02 June 2008 Tobias Hoellrich "Tobias Hoellrich"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Graham
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:59 PM
> To: Gerard
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: gnash leave a blank page when visit youtube
>
> I heard a rumor Microsoft was planning to create a linux version of
> silverlight, I also heard a rumor that silverlight could
> overcome flash
> alltogether. Yeah I have heard the same, I listen to MacBreek
> Weekly podcast
> and hear all about it on there :)

Got to add that to my book of funny rumours :) Show me one true
cross-platform product from Microsoft that has been updated in sync with
the Windows versions over the years. If you find that, I guess we have
an answer; if you don't find one, I guess we have an answer as well ;-)

Tobias


Don't get me started on keeping up with versions, adobe has ignored us, more
sites use flash9, ports has adobe marked as restricted and I cant find a ver
9 alternative to adobe :( Microsoft is worse on supporting their own
software, a product made for sale commericially *should* work smoother then
one given for free, but Microsoft doesnt see thing like that :p If anyone
knows a good alternative to flash9 let me know!


Better, yet.  Please let us all know.  That "Heads Up" should even be  
crossposted ;)


Flash 7 sites are becoming few and far between.

ed

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Re: Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?

2008-06-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:10:48AM -0500, eculp wrote:

I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current
amd64 to my iPhone.  Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and
upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't
have a version from FreeBSD.

When I connect my iPhone I see:

Jun  1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0:  on uhub3

in messages and that is it.  No new device or anything that I can find.

Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the
iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod
without success because I can't mount it, I assume.


The pags for libgpod (http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html), on which
gtkpod depends, says:

"There's also preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch
 but they must be jailbroken to work."

Whatever that means. :-)


Here we call it "un blocked" which I assume is synonymous with  
"jailbroken" but I can't seem to get FreeBSD to recognize it as  
mountable so gtkpod doesn't see it either.


Thanks for your help,

ed


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Re: Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?

2008-06-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Joshua Isom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

To be able to mount your iPhone, you're going to have to essentially  
void the warranty and risk turning it into a pretty paperweight.  It  
sucks, but that's the way it is.  But at least you can charge your  
iPhone using FreeBSD.


I'm already using it with a carrier that isn't yet authorized so I  
have to assume that it is "jailbroken" but I still can't find a way to  
mount it. It seems that it isn't recoginzed by FreeBSD current as  
being mountable.


Thanks for the warning.

ed



On Jun 1, 2008, at 11:10 AM, eculp wrote:

I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd  
current amd64 to my iPhone.  Eventually, I would like to be able to  
sync and upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes,  
that doesn't have a version from FreeBSD.


When I connect my iPhone I see:

Jun  1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub3


in messages and that is it.  No new device or anything that I can find.

Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the  
iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod  
without success because I can't mount it, I assume.


Thanks,

ed

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Re: Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?

2008-06-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Tom Ierna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Jun 1, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Joshua Isom wrote:

To be able to mount your iPhone, you're going to have to  
essentially  void the warranty and risk turning it into a pretty  
paperweight.  It  sucks, but that's the way it is.  But at least  
you can charge your  iPhone using FreeBSD.



If using libgpod through gtkpod only requires the iPhone be   
jailbroken, the above is not true. Jailbreaking your iPhone does not  
 void the warranty, and there is very little chance of bricking it  
by  just jailbreaking it. Bricking used to be an issue when mucking  
with  the radio firmware, but jailbreaking doesn't touch that stuff.


To jailbreak an iPhone, check out http://ziphone.org/


Hi Tom.  Thanks for the link and clarification.  AFAIK, my iPhone is  
"Jailbroken" because I'm using it on a Mexican carrier, TelCel and if  
I understand correctly, it would have to be to use the TelCel chip.


Ziphone is a bit slow but I'm going to go through it and see if I can  
find the reason why I'm not able to get a mountable device created.


Thanks again for your help,

ed



You will need either a Windows or Mac to do the Jailbreak though.

--
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Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?

2008-06-01 Thread eculp
I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current  
amd64 to my iPhone.  Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and  
upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't  
have a version from FreeBSD.


When I connect my iPhone I see:

Jun  1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub3


in messages and that is it.  No new device or anything that I can find.

Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the  
iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod  
without success because I can't mount it, I assume.


Thanks,

ed

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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Ezat - Ezatech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



   Ed,
   If flash is bothering you, its quite easy to just install the linux
   version of firefox on FreeBSD.
   Sabayon linux is a multimedia powerhouse.  Definately needs some good
   spec hardware to run even after most of the xgl services have been
   disabled. The sabayon image is around 4.2GB which gives you an
   indication.
   Ezat.


Ezat, thanks for the suggestion and the heads up on needed resources.   
I doubt it can be worse that Windows VISTA.


Are you able to use Flashplayer9 with linux firefox.  My Flash 7 works  
fine on both linux and freebsd firefox but I can not get Flash 9 to  
run reliably. Hopefully, I am behind on the latest flash info on  
FreeBSD.


Thanks,

ed


   eculp wrote:

 Quoting Mehul Ved [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

 On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp [2]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 wrote:

  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before
  FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most
  versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple
  with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the impossible
 but
  you never know.

 Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and
 contains
 lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem
 with that maybe
 you could look at Sabayon Linux too.

 I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on
 my laptop first and take a good look at the licensing.
 I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back
 a bit.
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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:45 PM, eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30
 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc.  They have just realized that
 a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was
 caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the
 ISP's wireless router.  They would like to change the PC's to unix
 desktops.

 I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that
 we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of
 hardware.  I would love to be proven wrong.  Therefore I am
 considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it
 easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add
 later.  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before
 FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most
 versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple
 with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the impossible but
 you never know.

 I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I
 would sure appreciate any suggestions.

 Thanks,

 ed


Ubuntu Linux. It's very windows-users friendly, and has a graphical
installer. It's based on Debian Linux. It also is a  LiveCD, so you
can test hardware before actually installing it to the HDD.


Thanks, I'm going to give it another try after SUSE.

ed

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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600
eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx
30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc.  They have just realized
that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall
was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to
the ISP's wireless router.  They would like to change the PC's to
unix desktops.

I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that
we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of
hardware.  I would love to be proven wrong.  Therefore I am
considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make
it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they
add later.  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since
before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the
most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead
simple with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the
impossible but you never know.

I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and
I would sure appreciate any suggestions.


In my experience from similar situations I would recommend OpenSUSE
from Novell, since it has to be as windows "like" as possible. OpenSUSE
is very well supported and since it is Novell who is behind the distro,
the company can provide professional support.

In general I recommend Debian over any distro, but in some rare cases
like this one, I would rather recommend OpenSUSE.


Hey Rico,

That really makes a lot of sense, I'll give it a try in a few minutes,

Thanks a lot.

ed

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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


eculp wrote:
I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx  
30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc.  They have just realized  
that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall  
was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to  
the ISP's wireless router.  They would like to change the PC's to  
unix desktops.


I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel  
that we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide  
variety of hardware.  I would love to be proven wrong.  Therefore I  
am considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will  
make it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that  
they add later.  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install  
since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would  
be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain  
dead simple with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the  
impossible but you never know.


I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation  
and I would sure appreciate any suggestions.


Thanks,

ed


PC-BSD would be a good choice but stay away from PBI. You may try  
also DesktopBSD, TrueBSD, or RoFreeSBIE.


Something like the above would be my choice except for potential  
driver availability and FLASH9 that hold me back.  I've not looked at  
TrueBSD or ROFreeSBIE although I have used FreeSBIE 6.0 IIRC.


Thanks,

ed


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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before
 FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most
 versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple
 with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the impossible but
 you never know.


Maybe PC-BSD or Sabayon Linux. Sabayon is based on gentoo and contains
lots of proprietory drivers built in. So, if you have no problem  
with that maybe

you could look at Sabayon Linux too.


I've never heard of Sabayon but will definitely give it a shot on my  
laptop first and take a good look at the licensing.


I really like the idea of PC-BSD but the Flash thing, holds me back a bit.

ed

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Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Chad Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Rico Secada wrote:


On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:45:14 -0600
eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx
30 pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc.  They have just realized
that a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall
was caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to
the ISP's wireless router.  They would like to change the PC's to
unix desktops.

I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that
we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of
hardware.  I would love to be proven wrong.  Therefore I am
considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make
it easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they
add later.  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since
before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the
most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead
simple with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the
impossible but you never know.

I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and
I would sure appreciate any suggestions.


In my experience from similar situations I would recommend OpenSUSE
from Novell, since it has to be as windows "like" as possible. OpenSUSE
is very well supported and since it is Novell who is behind the distro,
the company can provide professional support.

In general I recommend Debian over any distro, but in some rare cases
like this one, I would rather recommend OpenSUSE.



I would recommend investigating Ubuntu or one of it's clones (e.g.  
Xubuntu, Kubuntu). The install is "brainless", they offer commercial  
support through the parent company Canonical, and they are  
Debian-based.


Hi Chad,

Thanks a lot, I just tried the latest and greatest Ubuntu on my PITA  
laptop, acer 5520-5679, that is running FreeBSD current amd64 and was  
unable to get to the next step after the X configuration on the  
graphic installer.  I got no error so maybe I should have waited  
longer and something would have happened.  I think I dislike graphic  
installers unless maybe they were verbose and give an indication of  
the problem.


Another option would be PC-BSD or DesktopBSD as they both have very  
easy installations and will support most things that the above  
support. The only stipulation that I have run into is the standard  
trouble of Flash on BSD operating systems.


Very true.  Windows folks, have a hardtime not just clicking on the  
"you must update to the latest version of the flash player" or  
something like that and expecting it to just work.


Thanks again,

ed





Thanks,

ed
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Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-01 Thread eculp
I have installed freebsd server in a small company that has approx 30  
pc's of all sizes, shapes, brands, etc.  They have just realized that  
a large part of the problems that they had before the firewall was  
caused by the 30 windows pc's that were connected directly to the  
ISP's wireless router.  They would like to change the PC's to unix  
desktops.


I would like to install FreeBSD or any other bsd but don't feel that  
we have the drivers available to substitute such a wide variety of  
hardware.  I would love to be proven wrong.  Therefore I am  
considering a linux version with a graphic installer that will make it  
easier to train someone to install on any new machines that they add  
later.  My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before  
FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most  
versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple  
with most all drivers.  I suspect that I am asking the impossible but  
you never know.


I'm sure that I'm not the only person to run into this situation and I  
would sure appreciate any suggestions.


Thanks,

ed
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Re: Squid3.0 missing something with pf transparent proxy.

2008-02-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On 2/2/08, eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

when I
use the pf redirect it seems to not get the url parsing right for some
reason.  I put http://www.google.com and see
1201906217.304  0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /google.com/ -
NONE/- text/html
1201906217.466  0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /favicon.ico -
NONE/- text/html
1
in the squid access.log rather than http:://www.google.com.and the
screen shows:
http://encontacto.net/transSquid3.0.png


I faced that too. Turns out I had
http_port 3128
but I needed
http_port 3128 transparent


That one word solve the problem immediately.  Thanks a lot.  I was  
ready to give up on both myself and squid and uninstall.


Thanks again

ed



after making the change proxy worked perfectly fine.
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Squid3.0 missing something with pf transparent proxy.

2008-02-01 Thread eculp
I haven't been using squid since version 2.5.  I just built a new 3.0  
and did a very basic configuration that works fine configuring the  
prefs -> advanced -> network and adding the host and port but when I  
use the pf redirect it seems to not get the url parsing right for some  
reason.  I put http://www.google.com and see
1201906217.304  0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /google.com/ -  
NONE/- text/html
1201906217.466  0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /favicon.ico -  
NONE/- text/html

1
in the squid access.log rather than http:://www.google.com.and the  
screen shows:

http://encontacto.net/transSquid3.0.png

The pf redirect, etc is working fine, /dev/pf has squid as the group  
with rw perms, I have no idea where to look.  I've got the idea that I  
must have missed something in the 3.0 configuration.


Does anyone have it working and could you give me a hint or maybe  
share your squid.conf that works, just the diffs from the  
squid.conf.dist.


Thanks,

ed


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a suggestion for a good multifunction (printer, scanner, copier, fax ) solution?

2007-07-13 Thread eculp
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good multifunction (printer,  
scanner, copier, fax ) solution that is supported, out of the  box on  
up to date FreeBSD Current and/or FreeBSD STABLE preferably using  
cupsd w/gutenprint?  Epson - Lexmark - HP ?


I need a scanner and a printer so it sounds like a better deal to get  
two in one but suggestions from folks who have "been there and done  
that" are greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

ed
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Re: Re: About FreeBSD installation

2007-07-04 Thread eculp

Quoting Vladimir Tsvetkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


It depends on what you really want. If you don't want 64-bit version OS, I
don't think you'll have problems at all. Recently, my PC got fucked up, I've
changed the mother board, switched from 32 bit AMD Athlon to a 64 bit AMD
Turion, and successfully booted from the previously installed FreeBSD
4.9Release on the hard drive.
If you want the 64 bit version of the OS, further investigation from you are
needed.
Check this out:
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html


About two weeks ago, I lost two amd-32 servers and replaced them with  
amd-64 and am running off the old disks beautifully, and much, much  
faster.  I have over 500 ports on both.  One was and is running up to  
date Stable and the other up to date Current.  I was planning on going  
to AMD64 but with the current results, I really doubt that I will make  
the change until well after the current 7.0 release.


I made this decision based on recommendations made on this list a few  
days ago.  You might want to search the mailing lists if you need more  
assurance and if no just enjoy the AMD64.  I'm happy with their  
performance and price.


enjoy,

ed


Best Regards,
Vladimir

On 04/07/07, Yordan Yordanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello

I want to install the last stable release of FreeBSD Unix on my desktop
machine with AMD64 processor. Are there any differences in the FreeBSD ports
for these two platform: FreeBSD/i386 and amd64? In the FreeBSD handbook I
saw a workaround which should be applied to set up FreeBSD for  some
chipsets. If I have such a problem can I try to install i386 version
on my machine. There is no reason not to work, but I want to be sure that
this is possible.

Greetings from Bulgaria

Yordan



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Re: Re: flash

2007-07-03 Thread eculp

Quoting Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Richard Lynch writes:


 I found my surfing experience vastly improved without Flash.

 Formerly dog-slow sites are much faster.

 And there isn't any content I've felt deprived to not get.


There are an increasing number of sites - including way too
many companies who can afford to hire people who ought to know
better - where the entry page is 100% Flash.  Not even a button for
[Skip Flash].


Hopefully the iPhone will help that as it doesn't include flash.   
That, I assume is the reason for http://m.youtube.com/, at least  
reduce the flash menues.


ed
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Re: Re: Re: flash

2007-07-03 Thread eculp

Quoting Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:15:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


P.S.  Need a trick to get folks to recognize it as flash9.  I have an
idea, possibly incorrect, that most folks who are asking for flash8 or
higher will work with flash 7.


I agree with you here, and I will test any possible hack :)


When you finish your tests, I would appreciate your adding my email,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to the list.  When I get behind, I often suspend  
freebsd-questions.


Thanks,

ed

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Re: Re: flash

2007-07-02 Thread eculp

Quoting Anton Galitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On 7/2/07, John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



FireFox or Opera?

I was able to get Flash7 working well in Firefox using tips from Nikola
Lecic in a thread on this list about a month ago. Mostly this post:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200706020235.l522Zv7p002571

Can't seem to get YouTube working in Opera though. Just get the grey
square and some download activity, although the Flash player part of
this works:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

--
John.




Hey, I tried what those tips and it worked but not for much. after some
seconds of running appears those grey square again. Im using flash 9, ill
try flash7 now. This is what I get after executing firefox from the console:

%firefox
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
...
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection
closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed


I've found flash9 to be a lost cause on both Stable and Current but  
I've found flash7 to be stable on both and with both the linux and  
freebsd versions of firefox and op

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-29 Thread eculp

Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:12:39 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and
see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel
compiled in sys/i386.


amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64
and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to
pentium pro code  when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can
be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't
just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms.


Thanks, RW.  I had assumed that and had hoped to run my make  
buildworld, make buildkernel, mergemaster, make installkernel and  
make installworld then upgrade all ports.


The problem is that I haven't been able to figure out, how to build  
using all amd64.


Again very dumb on my part, I'm sure.

ed
As RW has said before it's possible. However, it's better and no  
doubt quicker to go about starting from scratch.

-Garrett


Hi Garrett,

I have decided to do that one machine at a time but for now I'm just  
going to keep all as is.  It seems to be working fine on both current  
and releng with the standard intel compilation.  I just ordered a new  
machine that I will setup with current amd64 for evaluation and then  
decide after I've actually used it.


Thanks to all for helping me get my feet back on the ground.

have a great weekend,

ed
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Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp

Quoting Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:12:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz
>>686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
>>3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily
>>kernel with the old configuration and all is well.  Of course the
>>old configuration was/is i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit
>>apps.


No, you do not *need* to compile for 64-bit apps.



>
>Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to
>64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is
>concerned, it may go either way.

Hi RW,

I probably didn't explain very well.  I'll try again.

The machines that I am updating are all athlon 32 bit machines, which
I have been doing a daily cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel,
installkernel, installworld and weekly portupgrade for several years.
I just removed the disks from one that is running current and another
that is running RELENG, both still running kernels cvsup-ed and
compiled yesterday as well as userland.  The ports are also up to date.

What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see
what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in
sys/i386.


It probably will not work very well.

The compiler on an i386 system does not know how to create amd64 code.
It is not configured to be a crosscompiler - it will only compile to native
i386 code.


There is not really any support for switching from i386 to amd64 by source
code.  It can apparently be done if you know what you are doing but it is
not trivial and not documented.

The normal build system assumes that you are doing a native build by
default.  It is possible to build for a different system, but then you
first need to build the necessary cross-tools (compiler, linker, assembler,
etc.) and then use that to build the rest of the system.





If all were to go well, I would then recompile all my ports.

My problem is that when I created a sys/amd64/conf/AMD (just a generic
kernel with PF added) file and went to /usr/src and tried make
buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD it didn't find the kernel configuration file.
 I tried with paths, etc. and no luck.  I also see that my daily
compiles and installs have not changed userland programs.
/usr/bin/file shows:

c++:  ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Using c++ and an example.  I assume it should give a 64-bin executable
if it were.  This particular file was built and installed this morning.

The bottom line is that I'm totally ignorant as to this change and
have been doing some really dumb searches in that I haven't found what
I'm missing.  I'm convenced that it is something braindead simple but
I am still looking.

The good news is that both the current and RELENG boxes are working
well with all as before.

Again any suggestions or even flames with more information are appreciated.


Why don't you just keep running the i386 version of FreeBSD ?
Is there some particular reason you want to use the amd64 version ?

Hi Erik,

Ignorance, I assume, is my only excuse?  At least thanks to your  
patience and explanation, I understand and am somewhat less ignorant;)  
 Originally, I had ordered these and I was promised that they were  
dual core and I had to pay in advance.  When they finally arrived, I  
found that they were standard AMD Athlon 3800+ and no x2 so it looks  
like I was "had" but that will be another story.  Then it would have  
made sense to change to 64 bit.  For the moment my problem is solved  
and I'll stay with 32 bit for now.


Thanks,

ed
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Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp

Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:12:39 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and
see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel
compiled in sys/i386.


amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64
and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to
pentium pro code  when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can
be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't
just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms.


Thanks, RW.  I had assumed that and had hoped to run my make  
buildworld, make buildkernel, mergemaster, make installkernel and make  
installworld then upgrade all ports.


The problem is that I haven't been able to figure out, how to build  
using all amd64.


Again very dumb on my part, I'm sure.

ed
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Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp

Quoting RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz
686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily
kernel with the old configuration and all is well.  Of course the
old configuration was/is i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit
apps.


Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to
64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is
concerned, it may go either way.


Hi RW,

I probably didn't explain very well.  I'll try again.

The machines that I am updating are all athlon 32 bit machines, which  
I have been doing a daily cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel,  
installkernel, installworld and weekly portupgrade for several years.   
I just removed the disks from one that is running current and another  
that is running RELENG, both still running kernels cvsup-ed and  
compiled yesterday as well as userland.  The ports are also up to date.


What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and see  
what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel compiled in  
sys/i386.

If all were to go well, I would then recompile all my ports.

My problem is that when I created a sys/amd64/conf/AMD (just a generic  
kernel with PF added) file and went to /usr/src and tried make  
buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD it didn't find the kernel configuration file.  
 I tried with paths, etc. and no luck.  I also see that my daily  
compiles and installs have not changed userland programs.   
/usr/bin/file shows:


c++:  ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1  
(FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped


Using c++ and an example.  I assume it should give a 64-bin executable  
if it were.  This particular file was built and installed this morning.


The bottom line is that I'm totally ignorant as to this change and  
have been doing some really dumb searches in that I haven't found what  
I'm missing.  I'm convenced that it is something braindead simple but  
I am still looking.


The good news is that both the current and RELENG boxes are working  
well with all as before.


Again any suggestions or even flames with more information are appreciated.

ed


Right now all is
working fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled
for Intel.


They are compiled for i386; Intel and AMD both produce CPUs for both
platforms.
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Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp

Quoting Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz
 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
 (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily kernel with the
 old configuration and all is well.  Of course the old configuration was/is
 i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps.  I have configured a slightly
 modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test
 only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find
 /sys/amd64/conf/AMD.  There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that
 didn't work either.

 The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled
 ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very
 simple.


It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate
partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list
archives. This question has come up before.

But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files,
configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles,
reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports
to your liking.


Hi Roland.

Boy am I glad that I asked.  That is probably the last thing I would  
have done.  Plus thanks for the answer, I must not have done a proper  
search.


I hope that the apps will run after reinstalling.   I assume that the  
source tree will somehow recognize that I will be building world and  
the kernel on a AMD64.  I'm downloading a copy of disk2 from FreeBSD  
now.


Have a great day.

ed
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Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz  
686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor  
3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily kernel  
with the old configuration and all is well.  Of course the old  
configuration was/is i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps.  I  
have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and  
was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make  
buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD.  There is  
an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either.


The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be  
compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing  
something very simple.


I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and  
RELENG.  All of which are up to date.  Hopefully there will be no  
major problems.  I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to  
build and install an AMD64 world and kernel.  Right now all is working  
fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel.


Any other suggestions appreciated.  Maybe someone might recommend  
upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first?


Thanks,

ed
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Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp
I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz  
686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor  
3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily kernel  
with the old configuration and all is well.  Of course the old  
configuration was/is i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps.  I  
have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and  
was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make  
buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD.  There is  
an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either.


The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be  
compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing  
something very simple.


I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and  
RELENG.  All of which are up to date.  Hopefully there will be no  
major problems.  I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to  
build and install an AMD64 world and kernel.  Right now all is working  
fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel.


Any other suggestions appreciated.  Maybe someone might recommend  
upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first?


Thanks,

ed
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log is showing - kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full

2006-09-01 Thread eculp
I have a log with a lot of these messages.  I have no idea what the 
messages mean.  This is a Dell 2850 IIRC, colocated in another country. 
 Is this as bad as it sounds and is there a kernel configuration 
setting that would solve this?


The server is running up to date current.  I know, but it is too late 
to change it.  It was a test machine that was substituted for a broken 
server in an emergency situation and has been there ever since.


Would a remote downgrade to Releng 6 be recommendable.  If so just how 
dangerous would that be.  I can visualize installing it over what is 
there and then rebuilding everything but I'm a bit worried that it 
wouldn't reboot.  If not I will need to weather the storms until the 
7.0 release.  If it weren't so far away I wouldn't worry.


Thanks for any help or suggestions,

ed

The full message that is repeated is

Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 132
Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full
Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 131
Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
Aug 31 18:10:01 far kernel: (da0:mpt0:0:0:0): Queue Full

with only the tagged openings now sequence changing.

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Segmentation Fault with pear on several machines

2006-06-28 Thread eculp
I've been updating all my ports and I started to get segmentation 
faults with pear.  All I have to do is to type pear, let it list the 
options and it finishes with the following error and threatens to open 
a debugger that never opens.


I now have three machines that have the problem.  There is little in 
common between them.  One is a P4 running up to date current, another 
is AMD Athlon also running up to date current and the last is a brand 
new DELL P-4 Server with 2G of ECC memory that I just finished 
installing RELENG_6, php5, php5-extensions, pear, etc. and have the 
same problem.  All the other machines are a couple of years old.  All 
three of the machines are cvsuping, building world, and kernels daily 
with no problems at all.  All the systems libraries, includes, etc are 
up to date.  I have installed world erased all more than a day old and 
re installed world several times in the last few days on the two older 
ones and the dell installation is less than 48 hours old and has build 
and installed world twice.


The simplest way to get the error is to just run the pear command and 
it finishes with the following:


 Type "pear help options" to list all options.
 Type "pear help shortcuts" to list all command shortcuts.
 Type "pear help " to get the help for the specified command.
 Segmentation Fault in 42156, waiting for debugger

I have no idea what could cause the problem and much less, how to 
troubleshoot it.  Google hasn't been my friend, yet, and that worries 
me ;)  Sounds like operator error, but I have no idea how.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

ed

P.S. Versions of software that I have are:

php5-5.1.4
pear-1.4.6
I haven't installed more pear because of the error.


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+pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

2005-10-22 Thread eculp
I'm seeing 4 Current servers that were running squid with no problems 
now dumping core with the following error in the log file.


+pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

I have no idea where to begin looking.  I went to the squid list and 
saw where it was caused by persistent connections on some platforms so 
I turned them off and there was no change.


All the machines are running up to date ports, with kernel and userland 
no more that a week old and it includes Intel and amd processors.  Two 
boxes have multiple processors so it doesn't seem to be a hardware 
problem.


Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

ed

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Re: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-04 Thread eculp

Quoting Martin Welk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:06:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution.  I
just found all this out and am totally blank.


Have a look at OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org/), it is available as a
FreeBSD port and it comes with a Windows GUI clients, if your client will
need that. It allows your FreeBSD box to be the endpoint of the connection,
and you can set network parameters for the connection from the server side,
for example, a route to the SCO box for allowing ssh or telnet.


Thanks, Martin.  I'm going there right now.  From what you say that is 
exactly what I need if I can easily keep the users off the LAN by 
restricting them to telneting to the SCO box.  These are far from being 
trusted users.  The connection will be used by a large companies staff 
for everything from accounting system updates to reporte generation, 
and printing.  I don't want them playing there :D.  The more I talk the 
more this sounds like a VERY restrictive jail.


Thanks again,

ed

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RE: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-03 Thread eculp

Quoting Gayn Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:




-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:07 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.


I installed a FreeBSD6.0 server/firewall for a remote
customer about a
week ago.  Today they told me that on there LAN they had a Unix box
that runs their internal ascii based accounting system that they have
been accessing by modem from home.  Now they want to access
it over the
Internet.  The box is a pentiumIII running a SCO unixV from 1990 or
2000 with no secure anything that I have been able to find.  In fact
the company who maintains their system uses uucp for updating.  I was
thinking ipsec, originally but now I don't see a way to configure the
SCO end of a tunnel.  The server has a simple pf firewall with only a
few ports open and opening ports isn't a problem.  The
application is a
terminal session.  Thirty users login in to it as root all
with windows
terminal sessions except for the modem connections and to
make it more
fun I shouldn't modify the SCO box because of their service contract.

I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure
solution.  I
just found all this out and am totally blank.

thanks,

ed



If your client is willing to use yet another box, you could front-end
the old SCO box with a dual port FBSD box and establish a secure tunnel
to the FBSD box.  This could also be done with a low-end firewall.


Thanks, gayn.

I assume that you mean installing it on the LAN behind the firewall and 
opening the tunnel to it.  I thought of that and mentioned it to them 
but found less that an enthusiastic response, that I expected.  They 
don't understand the value, unfortunately.  I guess I could do 
something like that with a jail, I would just need an extra IP, I guess.


Thanks again,

ed

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A secure connection to an SCO Unix 5.2 behind a pf firewall.

2005-08-03 Thread eculp
I installed a FreeBSD6.0 server/firewall for a remote customer about a 
week ago.  Today they told me that on there LAN they had a Unix box 
that runs their internal ascii based accounting system that they have 
been accessing by modem from home.  Now they want to access it over the 
Internet.  The box is a pentiumIII running a SCO unixV from 1990 or 
2000 with no secure anything that I have been able to find.  In fact 
the company who maintains their system uses uucp for updating.  I was 
thinking ipsec, originally but now I don't see a way to configure the 
SCO end of a tunnel.  The server has a simple pf firewall with only a 
few ports open and opening ports isn't a problem.  The application is a 
terminal session.  Thirty users login in to it as root all with windows 
terminal sessions except for the modem connections and to make it more 
fun I shouldn't modify the SCO box because of their service contract.


I would appreciate any suggestions for a reasonably secure solution.  I 
just found all this out and am totally blank.


thanks,

ed

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OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mapings

2005-01-20 Thread eculp
OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mappings.  I can't get 
openoffice to accept dead key mappings that are used to create accents.  

Could someone who is using spanish, french, italian, portuguese give me a hint 
as to what they do?  Every other program that I use does.  

Thanks,

ed

This is current with openoffice 1.1.4 both es and english versions.
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