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Hi all,
I'm just curious to understand why some system calls, let's say mkdir(2), return 0 on success and a different value on error (while setting errno at the same time). In this way the coding pattern seems to be:

while if the mkdir (and other calls) returns a non-zero value on success it could be rewritten as

that seems to me more C-like. Can anybody explain me the rationale behind the above code pattern?

Thanks

Hi,

I have a strange problem, Every disk usage read or write is slow through any daemon (between 80 and 380KB)

As example:
- FTP.
- SMB.
- SCP.

But if i copy files directly on a disk or through a program (sabnzb as example) i get MB's of write and read speed.

Has anybody experienced a sort of problem?
I use FreeBSD 8.1, i have 5 disks in a raidz configuration.

Help is mutch appreciated.

Thank u!

Aron.

Not sure if this should go in a different location - please move if necessary!

I'm using ZFS (obviously) and set up zfs-snapshot-mgmt. My config is as follows:

Based on the manpage this should create snapshots once a day (1440 minutes) at 2AM based on the 120 minute offset from midnight. When I let this run for a couple days I get this when I list snapshots:

I can determine any pattern that makes sense with that. 20:00 isn't 120 minutes from midnight or any obvious time. Can anyone explain what's happening?

Hello,

I'm slowly learning FreeBSD through a virtualized environment. I'd like to eventually make it my primary OS.

I'm having trouble setting console resolution.

I've added 'vesa_load="YES"' to loader.conf. I've installed vmware-tools but when I try to invoke vidcontrol MODE_XYZ I get the following error:

vidcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Any ideas what needs fixing?

I am a long time linux user but new to FreeBSD. I'm switching from Kubuntu. I've searched forum and how to and have not found the answers to this.

Under Kubuntu, my HD has:

I know that I delete / and recreate it as a slice T 165 and it becomes the FreeBSD with partitions.

The partitioning utility does not allow me to create mount points for /home or /public.
Will these be mounted when I install FreeBSD? If so, I can then copy data and use these partitions.

Could anyone help me in solving this problem?
I've tried to install and configure radius server on freebsd 8.2 using chillispot, freeradius. I followed this link address http://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/freeb...stallguide.txt

After following the step, I run radius debug using /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -X the end line result:


After finishing following step by step in that link address, I tried to run daemon of freeradius. Radius daemon is located in the directory /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd. I run the command like this
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd start
then I checked the radius daemon status using command
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd status
The status result is radius is not running.
Then i follow one of the post in this forum that saying he was solving this problem by changing the ownership of the daemon, so i follow the instruction and change the ownership of the daemon. I tried to run chown command like this
chown -R radiusd : radiusd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radiusd

but the result is the same, and my radius still not running.
Could anyone help me please in solving this problem?

best regards,

ryuu

Hi, I was wondering how http traffic on the gateway can be caught and redirected with ipfw/nat.
my setup is as follows:

on the gateway outside interface i have:
I have a second instance of natd on rl0.
the ipfw rules are:
tcpdump shows the gateway forwarding to the destination and not to squid.

does anyone have any idea where this is going wrong?

I'm trying to install x11/xorg on a fresh installed 8.2-RELEASE machine and I'm getting errors from make. I've tried to install each module individualy (input-keyboard, input-mouse and video-intel to be exact) and they all exit with the same error described bellow.


Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I'm actually trying to configure pf in order to protect jails from DDOS attacks. For this, I tried doing this:

/etc/pf.conf

but I get a syntax error from line 23 .

Is the rdr-to syntax working on FreeBSD ?

Thanks, Gollum

Hello,

I'm learning about how to create and configure jails by Ezjail. This works fine, but I think ip aliasing is not really practical to make the jail get an IP. Here is my /etc/rc.conf: For configuring pf, it would be better to have an interface for each jail. So, I have tried to add a wlan interface in "wlans_urtw0" and configuring wlan1 as follows: but this doesn't work: I get . Moreover, I read that urtw driver won't be able to create two interfaces ..

How could I solve this ?

Thanks, Gollum

Hello,
I used port net/samba35, because net/samba34 is vulnerable. I didn't remove default options, however, I enabled SWAT support. Compilation succeeded.

I put in /etc/rc.conf. I just little changed default config.

The nmbd seems to be broken.
I don't know what might be the reason of this problem. Thanks for any suggestions.

Attached Files

smb.conf.gz (4.1 KB)

Hello,

I try to set up a jail with two IP addresses.
I use ezjail:
ezjail-create my_jail 42.42.42.42

Then I edit file /usr/local/etc/ezjail/my_jail.
I tried two different ways, but none works:
1) 2) ifconfig
Thank you in advance for your help.

hi, folks! i've got a little problem.. i'm setting my sh prompt, but doesn't seems to work... how can i fix it?
thx in advance!

i can get it installed but when i go to install gnome i keep getting the same error, i fallowed the install guide for gnome. the error is "error code 1" it's freebsd 9.0 beta, i've installed and reinstalled it many times. i would like to run freebsd with gnome.

Hi. I did it in the past and everything worked seemlessly. Just upgraded grub syntax to grub2 and didn't even copy my 40_custom file, cos I thought it was so easy. But no luck this time around. The only difference is I now squeezed 2 distros (kubuntu and opensuse) on my extended partition. FreeBSD is on 4th slice. The partition layout:

Now, the old grub entry was:
The grub2 entry looks sth like:
During FreeBSD install I chose "don't install any bootloader" option. Does it mean chainloading is not possible? I'm pretty sure I did this last time to and everything worked ok. But I may be wrong. What if I install FreeBSD bootloader, will it wipe out Windoze bootloader? How do I install bootloader without affecting MBR? I read that FreeBSD is supposed to be natively supported in grub2. If so, why isn't it recognised?

Hello forums!
I've got a trouble with displaying kanji in any KDE3 applications(with any font, including fixed and other full-unicode fonts):
http://smages.com/images/124fail.png
(all the kanji symbols are displayed like a box)
Can anyone provide me any ideas of solving that?

As I recall, there was no such problem in Linux.

Hi there, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and after configuring my wifi connection, I'm trying to download-compile-install xorg with the command "make install clean" in the folder /usr/ports/x11/xorg/ but it failed after some hours with that output

how can I fix that? D:
thx in advance

https://extrememoderate.wordpress.co...ession-part-1/

A comparison of different algorithms with different FS block and HDD sector sizes.

Hi,
I messed something up in my FreeBSD Jail.

Now MySQL doesn't start anymore.

Regards
bsus

For example if i would create a uid/gid based rule

This would log all activity to the ipfw0 interface from that user, .. if ipfw disable verbose, ofcourse ..

Now my problem i run apache-itk-mpm, .. and the setuid processes aren't logged neither are those of ssh, .. strange thing is the process has that specific uid however it is nog logged because it is a setuid. And i've noticed same goes for other processes, that use setuid.

Is there a way arround this.

An other consurn is, for example lastcomm

so ps aux only shows the users processes same goes for sockstat, however if the user types lastcomm it shows all history?

I use i3-2310m GPU in ThinkPad X220i on 8.2 amd64.
According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
but only get 1024x768 screen.

Hello, I recently decided to make the switch from Linux/Mac OS, to FreeBSD, I'm happy to say i have this strange feeling i just got home.

Laptop: Macbook Pro 5,5
FreeBSD -v: 9.0-CURRENT (no dual-boot)

I firstly tried installing 8.2-STABLE which to my surprise the installation iso led me to various kernel-panics before prompt/sysinstall, once it booted fine (a few errors on stdout) but the installation worked, to my surprise this random kernel panic just kept happening, after recompiling kernel (BTW, awesome kernel compiling system, config is small and simple) i decided to try 9.0-BETA which also led me to kernel panic on the live fs, i got it to install and I'm in it right now. Random kernel panics (ON BOOT) keep happening, 1 out of 3 boots is my guess.Since I'm new i don't really know what to paste, so that's what I'm asking.

(I have this wild guess that panics happen when i have USB wifi plugged in during boot, but haven't been able to replicate it every time)

What output do you need to check/verify this?

Hi,

I am using xfce4 as my desktop and within this mousepad is a text editor. On saving file, if one do not specify UTF-8 as a locale, one will get an error that say

Can't convert codeset to 'ASCII'

when I use thai characters, non english characters, within mousepad. There is no error when using english characters.

Is there anyway to set the default locale to UTF-8 for mousepad ?

Any helps and hints are welcome and appreciate.

with best regards,
psr

Hello,

I have sucesfully installed Freenas 8.0, which bases on FreeBSD 8.2, from CD on 4GB Compact Flash. Card is connected to PC through CF->IDE adapter. I am using quite an old PC to run Freenas. It has Pentium III 500MHZ proccessor and 512MB RAM (Fujitsu-Siemens Scovery 250).

The problem is the computer won't boot from CF card with Freenas isntalled. There is only blinking cursor in the top left corner on the screen. It doesn't respond to any input from keyboard. Here is a list of thing I have tried:
- disconnecting all other drives (HDD and CD)
- turning DMA on/off in BIOS
- connecting adapter to different IDE channel/ using differend cable.

My bios doesn't support LBA addressing so I am forced to use CHS (Cylinder/header/sector). Please, can anyone suggest anything else what might help?

Hello, thanks for reading...

I'm playing with speeding up building ports.

I want to see if there's any benefit to putting the "work" dir in memory.

I tried this, in /etc/make.conf

/memdisk is the mounted memory filesystem (mfs). /memdisk/portwork exists and is writable and all ... I was thinking that /memdisk/portwork would have subdirs for each port which is building. I tested it with a few ports and it seemed to work. Then I tried to build the x11-wm/hs-xmonad port. Built some deps including ghc fine ... but then it fails like this:



Okay, so it can't cd to /memdisk/portwork/mtl-2.0.1.0 ... which sounds reasonable as that dir did not exist when I looked for it immediately after the build failed. The thing is, I discovered that if I simply re-run make it works. Since I did not try to build this port's build dependencies before changing make.conf I do not know if the hiccup which requires that I run 'make' twice for hs-xmonad is because of setting alternate WRKDIR. Is this what WRKDIR is for? Is one of these ports not respecting WRKDIR, or maybe I am going about this the Wrong Way and if so can anyone recommend a Right Way? :stud

Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or clarification!

I have a mail server setup for my domain, and I can successfully send mail to any destination. However, I cannot receive any mail. When I do a telnet to port 25 it replies with connection refused.

In my pf.conf I have:
and I'm passing all connection for SMTP:
The dmz_smtp IP is the internal lan 192.168.2.22/32.

It is listening on port 25 and connects for localhost, but not externally. My DAEMON_OPTIONS have for address:
Does that need to be changed to the external IP or remove Address from DAEMON_OPTIONS entirely since the default is to listen on all?

Hello I am new to FreeBSD and I was hoping to learn the foundations of it by using a study guide. Today i tried installing FreeBSD.

I succesfully installed it and tried it next to my other operating system and it worked; I then decided to reinstall FreeBSD as the only operating system and used the A option for all partitioning during setup.

Something went wrong during the installation, and when I chose to install by memorystick (I think this was when it happened) I got an error message and decided not to continue with the installation but instead start over with the installation again. This did not work and my computer no longer boots my memorystick or previous OS installations.

It says:
When I try to install FreeBSD by using the memorystick like I did the first time the computer tells me to remove the external device and then restarts and the same invalid partition message appears :(.

So my question is what I did wrong and how to fix it?

Hello,

I have to stay home today just in case my employer calls me for assistance, so i decided to mess around with FreeBSD ports on my laptop :)

I've installed gcc46 (as described in the handbook, but for gcc44) and tried to recompile all ports.

I known this is not a good idea, but remember i'm just playing with my computer to kill time and probably most of the softwares i've installed so far.

I got some problems with the stack protector flag (now enabled by default), lots of ports failed to build with the following error :

So i decided to remove it (...) by adding the line "SSP_CFLAGS=" in /etc/make.conf, only for ports.

Seems like it's building fine now, but i have a couple of questions :

Is this a known problem ?
Is SSP_CFLAGS= the "right way", if any, to disable stack protection ?
Or, is there any way to keep stack protection and build with gcc46 ?

Hello

I've seen hard disks being referenced by their IDs, i.e. /dev/disk/by-id/something in some threats (example) as well as the mail archives, which is IMO quite useful - partition labels do the job elsewhere but I read recommendations everywhere to use whole disks for zpool-vdevs.

My problem is, that I don't even have the /dev/disk directory to begin with. I guess it's a kernel module or config option that needs to be loaded/set (since zfsboot eventually can't access /etc/devd.conf when booting to zfs-root backed by disk-id vdevs), but I don't know which one...

... can anyone tell me?

i want to enable some config at Hal, this is my config:
and like work fine at hal
but still not work when mount (not 666 always 700):
mount by:

command "# hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes" response:

x( help me pls. its named "volume.policy.mount_option.-m" @ FreeBSD ?
ps: not gnome installed, don't tell me via GCONF.

Hi, I want to setup a mail server mainy postfix with mysql. I want to make my own php webmail interface to my website.

I also want to use php to use the mail function to use these accounts too... to automate e-mails to users.

Like when they register they will have to verify their e-mail address.

I need to learn how e-mails get passed and how I can make my mail serve to send e-mails and receive e-mails.

any good tutorials other then the manuals on here and postfix website. I already tried them and tried many other online tutorials I was able to follow the steps but still when I got to the point where I had to make mysql tables I got lost as to what information needs to be in that table. So I never got things to work at all. Yet, I was able to config postfix to use it's own mail maps system. I was able to send and receive mail.

any ideas of some good resources that can teach me how e-mail servers work and how I need to set my postfix mail server ???

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expensesto EuroBSDCon 2011.

The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travelgrants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submitthe Travel Grant Request Application bySeptember 5, 2011 to apply for this grant.

How it works:

This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers,documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc). In somecases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active communitymembers and FreeBSD advocates.

(1) You request funding based on a realistic and economical estimate oftravel costs (economy airfare, trainfare, ...), accommodations(conference hotel and sharing a room), and registration or tutorialfees. If there are other sponsors willing to cover costs, such as youremployer or the conference, we prefer you talk to them first, as ourbudget is limited. We are happy to split costs with you or anothersponsor, such as just covering airfare or board.

If you are a speaker at the conference, we expect the conference tocover your travel costs, and will most likely not approve your directrequest to us.

(2) We review your application and if approved, authorize you to seekreimbursement up to a limit. We consider several factors, including ouroverall and per-event budgets, and (quite importantly) the benefit tothe community by funding your travel.
Most rejected applications are rejected because of an over-all limit ontravel budget for the event or year, due to unrealistic or uneconomicalcosting, or because there is an unclear or unconvincing argument thatfunding the applicant will directly benefit the FreeBSD Project.Please take these points into consideration when writing your application.

(3) We reimburse costs based on actuals (receipts), and by check or banktransfer. And, we do not cover your costs if you end up having to cancel your trip. We require you to submit a report on your trip, which we mayshow to current or potential sponsors, and may include in our semi-annual newsletter.

There's some flexibility in the mechanism, so talk to us if somethingabout the model doesn't quite work for you or if you have any questions.The travel grant program is one of the most effective ways we canspend money to help support the FreeBSD Project, as it helps developersget together in the same place at the same time, and helps advertise andadvocate FreeBSD in the larger community.


More...

I'm a total noob with BSD. A friend has a Sony DVD player with an internal harddrive. The drive was stuck in a loop, trying to consolidate. The drive has been formatted with UFS. After running desktopBSD the drive was recognized but gave an error 'Mounting the file system failed'.

If the drive can be accessed, files can be retrieved. Any advice?

When I was first starting out with FreeBSD, I was using -RELEASE and noticed that if I would add packages and later use ports, I would get all kinds of error messages about certain ports or packages requiring certain versions of things and it just seemed to be a nightmare and I switched to using ports exclusively.

Now that I'm using -STABLE and packages are coming from the "latest" repository as opposed to "release", and I really have no interest in compiling xorg, firefox, libreoffice, k3b, etc, is there any reason I couldn't just add those packages and then switch back to using ports? Or will I end up getting warning messages about program versions again?

Hi Guys,

I have a box with FreeBsd 8.0-Release, runnig ipfw as firewall.

So, i have some rules to block "WLM" on squid and it's working good, but, on the ipfw there
are some problems. I will tell you how was my network config:

Interfaces
-----------------------------------------------
if external = rl1
if internal = rl0

They are defined on ipfw script as ife and ifi.


|-Rules
||-Defining WLM Servers ip's and free ip's from my network that can connect to them

...
Rule #09320
Rule #09420
...

|-Allowing all from ipfw external ip to any

Rule #14720
Well, when i try to connect from any ip from my network, ipfw Deny the connection if the ip are not defined in the variable "freeWLM" on the rule #09320, but next it Allows the connection from external interface of firewall to the port 1863 using the rule #14720 and then the ip that initiate the connection of WLM get's ON-LINE.

If i remove the rule #14720, no one of the ip's in my network, include those on the freeWLM variable can connect to the WLM servers, as show the log security:

The rule #65534 is:

Thank you for help me out.

Hi all
I am thinking to make one Blu-Ray project for educational purpose and interconnect the Blu-Ray project(Blu-Ray disc) to the PS3 interface through BD-J(Java coding for Blu-Ray) to take advantage of some PS3 features. Is it possible?.Could anybody help me with this topic and advice me?
Thanks in advance.
Alejandro Castan

Hello,

I have ASUS M2NVP-VM motherboard with NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller. But snd_hda does not detect microphone.

uname -a
/etc/rc.conf
/boot/loader.conf
mixer
dmesg in attach

Anyone have any ideas?
Thx

Attached Files

dmesg.txt (8.3 KB)

What's a good way to monitor my home network? I have a freebsd router/firewall and everything goes though that.

Optimally I would like something that graphs it over time and also breaks it down by "type" of traffic (udp, p2p, http, etc) so I can get a general feel of what is sucking up all the bandwidth during certain times of the day (I have room mates). Also source would be good too.

Hey guys,

I have successfully been running a FreeNAS Server for a while now without any issues.
I recently switched to a Software RAID configuration (GEOM Mirror) with my Disks and have had some weird problems with my 1TB Software RAID.

My server would suddenly shutdown after I tried accessing smb or when it was told so by a cron job but
it halted at the end and did not switch off completely. I then had to go up to the server and reboot it manually.

The following error messages where printed (only) on the monitor:

When I try to manually stop the device with the same error comes up in the cli.
I ran fsck on the mirror and it doesn't find any faults.

Here some additional information:

Software RAID 1 with a Samsung SpinPoint F1 1 TB and WDCaviarGreen 1TB.

I've been also getting smartd reports with errors from the WDCaviarGreen Disk. This may be at the root of the problem:

(I can post full smartd report, if needed)

I know that the Load_cylce_count parameter on the WD Disk is very high, since I've only recently used WIDLE3 to set the parking of the head to a higher value. Maybe the disk is broken.. (hope not!)

Further errors are logged about the mirror device, but which, after searching through the FreeNAS forum, I have found to ignore because they are falsely reported by the OS.

System Info:

FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda (revision 6694)
OS Version FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p6 (revision 199506)
Platform amd64-embedded on Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
RAM 2GB

I'd be glad for some help with resolving this problem.

Cheers

I've read the handbook as well as numerous posts about broadcom wifi cards in this forum. It seems like bwi and bwn-drivers are not recognizing my wifi-card. Im using freebsd 8.2, 64 Bit.

lspci | grep -i net
pciconf -lv
dmesg | grep pci5
So theses are my bwi-settings:

/boot/loader.conf
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
After reboot only the wired device shows up.

ifconfig
I've successfully installed the firmwares as described in bwi manpage.

Same issue with bwn.

What am I missing?

PS: Sorry, CMD-Tag doesn't seem to work properly.

Hi guys,

This seems like it should have a simple solution but I haven't been able to find one.

'top -a' seems to truncate at 128 columns - is there any way to make this wider?

Thanks!

So when I try to scrub my little pool it dies. It scrubs and scrubs until it has scrubbed about 90% of the pool. This I am certain of because the second time I tried to scrub I checked every now and then, and death happen around the 90% mark. What happens is that the screen is all black and nothing really, I have to hold the on button in for 4 sec. before it will even shutdown. And then I can restart... not good.

The pool is made of 2 vdev's both Raidz, one is 6x 1TB and the other is 6x 2TB. At first the pool had only the "1TB" vdev, but when it got around 90% used I added the second vdev. It should also be noted that the "1TB" vdev has used 4.82TB and has 632GB available, the "2TB" vdev has used only 166GB and 10.7TB available.

So my theory is that when I scrub everything is good until it have to scrub data from both vdev's in the pool. Then it reveals itself as a racist and tries to deny the "2TB" vdev any help, tsk tsk this kinda discrimination against the "bigger" vdevs will not do. :P


And I also wonder if the scrub will continue from where is stop when it crashed when I start the system up again.
And lastly, any word on the "Block Pointer Rewrite"?

Edit: If it was unclear, why does it crash, how to fix it, will the scrub continue from last time and any word on about the BPR?

I am running FreeBSD 7.4 and VMware Fusion 3.13. I am trying to setup "open-vm-tools" (instead of using VMware Tools).

I have never installed or used "open-vm-tools", but this is what I've done so far:

1. pkg_add -r open-vm-tools

Note:
The install had no issues.

2. I typed the following in the rc.conf file:

3) I rebooted the freeBSD 7.5 virtual machine and I have no "grab/release" mouse input between the guest/host. The mouse is trapped inside the guest (unless I use a keyboard hotkey sequence to release the mouse to the host. I also cannot drag and drop a file between the guest and host and vice-versa.

Anyway, I'm missing some obvious steps here. Can somebody clue me in?

Hi,
i'm installing FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on a amd64 PC.

Basic configuration is
/boot on UFS2
/ (and other) on ZFS v15

To install FreeBSD on this configuration, i do this manually through a howto (HowTo in the FreeBSD Wiki)

I would like to use Grub2 as Bootloader.
To install Grub2 i chroot in the target and cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/grub2 and run make.
Directly after this i got the
Error: "Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

With no further information.

Search this forum, google and asking on irc does not result in any help.

Thanks in advance for any help, that can be given.

Greetings
paraqles

Can the editor "vi" highlight syntax?:
- Shell
- C / Cpp
- Pyhton

I know of the existence of the editor "Vim", but would like to work on "vi".

I read some documents about UFS-J and the man pages too, so I guess I'm able to install a new system with UFS-J filesys. My questions are related to UFS-J requirements and performances and if it is enabled on the next release on FreeBSD (9.0).

My home server is an old machine, PII 466MHz 512MB RAM, in the past I ran in trouble with FreeBSD 8.0/8.1 and HDD (about 30-40 power failures per year, one of them was fatal), anyway, I should use an UPS. No UPS. The problem is not my personal data, it's the system configuration instead. In the past I spent a lot of time reconfiguring system, ports and services, now I have a virtualbox twin on another machine configured in the same way of the server (but it's not really the same) and an USB mem stick always plugged in with 6h buckup of all system/ports/personal configuration files and some scripts to configure a new installation.

Now, is appropriate to install UFS-J on a machine like the above? the services I run are httpd, mysql, qmail, and a not-so-often-used desktop (X server + XFCE + some WMs) primarily in remote but 99% I use remote console only. The term 'appropriate' refers to RAM and CPU.

The close to coming FreeBSD 9.0 will support (at installation time) UFS-J by default?

Thanks in advance for your replies

I'm having an issue routing on a specific client site.

Our configuration consists of a 3xT1 data line backed into a FreeBSD 5.5p10 system (I know, we're upgrading it over the Christmas break this year) that provides IPFW2 and NATD services to manage routing WAN IPs to LAN IPs on our various subnets.

We host several web systems on these subnets and our normal policy is to modify external DNS and internal DNS separately so that everything is optimized. For example, we would set store.mycompany.com on the external DNS to point to the WAN IP and set store.mycompany.com on the internal DNS to point to the LAN IP.

This method has served us well for years and allow us to roll with a lot of changes very rapidly.

However, we now are working on a project that requires us to do things a bit differently. We need our internal systems to be able to go to np.mycompany.com and utilize only the WAN address for the resolution.

When we do this, we get timeouts from our internal systems. Basically, the web browser just sits and spins forever.

My traceroute and ping work just fine, but the that's it.

In addition, if I configure a local system to utilize a dedicated WAN address and plug it directly into the external router of the 3xT1 interface, I get success.

So, my conclusion is that I have something missing in my routing that is preventing this from working when behind the firewall. I guess it could also be a firewall entry, but I've testing doing an allow all and still get the same results.

I just have the feeling that I'm missing out on something very simple and that soon I will be hanging my head low to my own ignorance.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts anyone might have.

Hi there,

I'm searching currently a suitable plugin for chromium to playing audiostreams directly inside the chromium browser. I mean directly without to open a another application such like Gmplayer on a Internet radio like on Frequence3
I've tried it with www/gecko-mediaplayer from ports. But that seems not to work.
So I want to ask now which one would work?

cheers
Darko

Hi,

I have set a 60 cpu-seconds limit on a user and it does work on the shell.
cat /dev/zero is being killed after 60s.

However, when I run PHP-scripts via FastCGI / suexec, this limit does not apply - seemingly.

The users are in an LDAP-directory and I use a different attribute to store the login-class, which I have mapped via nss_map_attribute.

I'm using apache-worker-2.2.17_2 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64.

What did I miss?

Is there a way to verify that suexec actually has that resource-limits patch included?

I have tried the installation from the 8.2 amd64 ISO three times and each time it fails to install the boot loader to the MBR. I receive GRUB error 17 when I try to boot post-install. The installation is fairly uneventful and gives no errors. I tried twice with BootMgr and once with the Standard boot loader.

After the first, I attempted to manually install to the mbr with boot0cfg off a live disk per a few other threads, but with no success (though it reported no error when installing to ada0).

My computer is a Phenom II on an nvidia-based board with two sata drives; the primary, first-channel hard drive always has the operating system and the second-channel hard drive is for data storage.

I have many years experience with Linux, but I am new to the BSDs and this has me a little stumped.

What am I doing incorrectly?

Hi

A few days ago I decided to remove the dust of some older games and try to play them in wine. My system is an Alu Macbook 13.3" late 2008 with FreeBSD 8.2 Release.

First problem was the sound in general (not only wine). The System has an ALC885 Audio Chipset inside. Of course I read the handbook and searched the web but couldn't get the sound running at all. I loaded the modules sound and snd_hda via loader.conf. Because of this chipset which is known to be differently wired by the manufacturers there has to be something added to /boot/device.hints. Here was/is the problem: How to know what Options are the right ones? (I read the man pages for snd_hda) Do I really have to try all the combinations and always restart after each one? I searched the web but all I found were different advices for Macbook Pro which did not really work. Finally with the following options the headphone connector works but the Speaker does not:
So any idea how to figure out the correct options for the speaker other than the method of trial and error? At least I have sound so I can live with headphone connector if nobody has a better solution.

So here is the second problem regarding sound in this case connected to wine. As I wrote above I wanted to play some games and here sound almost doesn't work at all. First one is Diablo II LoD. I have sound in the intro videos but then nothing ingame. Searched the web but did not find anything but the statement on winehq.org that the sound except intro does not work so maybe no solution here possible. The second game I tried was Commandos II and here I have sound in the main menu and afterwards nothing. If I disable music in the menu there is sound at the beginning ingame (some kind of ingame sequence) then again silence. Next step was save and end game then start again with load (so skipping sequence) which brought the ingame sound at least for about 30sec. But this is not a long term solution (always saving and restarting the whole game after sound output). So to summarize it seems that every time there is new sound output (music from the menu, ingame sequence, normal ingame sound) there is no sound furthermore (only restart helps). So any tips here? I did not find anything working. (I already checked that there is no sound and not only muted via mixer in console.) Sound setting was built-in oss and emulation checked in winecfg audio. (Full hardware acceleration did not make any sound at all.)

So as a last attempt I tried to use the ossv4 from ports (audio/oss) which did not work at all. First I unloaded sound and snd_hda and installed audio/oss with a following restart. With this configuration I don't have any sound in FreeBSD. ossdetect finds my hardware but ossmix has much output:
Any suggestions here how to get the sound working?

I was hoping that someone could help me out with the following problem - I had previously successfully created my ZFS raidz storage pool but I wanted to add a fourth drive to it.

I made the mistake of using the following command:

zpool add -f storage00 /dev/disk/by-uuid/24a92cd8-265a-4bc5-974e-bdb61d927633

I am now unsure how to remove the drive and then add it back correctly. At first my pool was completely nonfunctional. I then preformed a export and and then an import. Next I performed a scrub of the pool. Now when I run a zpool status I get the following:

I am still able to read and write to the pool. It appears as ZFS is seeing the drive as a second raid/mirror configuration.
I have tried the following:

I would like to remove the drive with out losing all of my data however if this is not possible I am open to suggestions.
Please let me know if I have omitted any pertinent data or if any other information is needed.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Ok I have what looks like spam been submitted over tcp 127.0.0.1:25 to exim smtp server.

I suspect is a rogue web/php script of which there is 100s of accounts on the server.

So I can either manually check 100s of apache access logs and look for matching timestamp to email submission or what seems more logical is somehow monitor 127.0.0.1:25 connections.

so it seems I need to if possible monitor for localhost:25 connections and then have the system tell me what file is doing that access. Is this possible and if so how do I do this?

Ideally I need to lock this down to a file, if I just lock it down to a uid it will probably be the apache user as its a mod_php installation so no unique uid's running scripts.

exim logs on max verbosity simply tell me the email is submitted over 127.0.0.1:25 tcp, if it was done over sendmail then it would show the script but it wasnt it was done over tcp.

I think I am looking at either a server root compromise or rogue script on server.

the obvious places such as /tmp are clean.

thanks.

Hi there,

We want to switch on our Laptops from amd64 to i386. But currently I'm unable to build the system on my Buildserver with FreeBSD 8 stable on amd64

what will do the Trick? I want build FreeBSD 8 stable

Some time ago i read about fscd. Today I installed FreeBSD 9 beta, and there is no fscd in it.

Latest fscd update was 07.23.2011.
Fscd is dead? Will autor (or community) support it? Will it available at FreeBSD 9 (current) or in port collection?

Sorry for my english.

Hello,
I'm going to write some scripts, which may help me to monitor my server activity. It seems to me that Ruby is good for this task, because I learn it and like it more and more. There is library:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/ne...doc/index.html

1. I'm going to send mail to my gmail account.
2. Sending email via Net::SMTP using gmail account seems to be too complicated. Is creating own SMTP server to send log email a good idea?
3. Which daemon would be equivalent for this? It seems to me that Sendmail in base system is too complicated. If you suggest using other software, it will be nice to use it.

Thanks,

Hello, sorry I am French :e
I have a problem with my computer ... I have not already install Xorg and I want connect me to internet with a Thompson WLG 1500A Key and I don't know how make.
On Ubuntu I have install "ndiswrapper", but on FreeBSD I don't know what do ...

Thanks you for your help :)

I been trying to install FreeBSD 8.2 to an HP Pavilion a1013w with Pentium4 (i386). After completing install, most recently a minimal configuration (I've tried a couple times with similar results) the first time I try to boot from the hard disk it throws up a -, then a \ and there is stops. No error, no text of any kind. Immediate stop.

I have tried searching this forum and the interwebs in general. I get lots of information about when a system hangs on boot, but nothing about this particular sort of hang. Can anyone offer me a clue?

TIA.

Tom Purvis
Colorado

After a really busy morning, one of my apache error log files was 9.5GB. It was a silly mistake in php coding on my part.

I went ahead and deleted the file (disk was full), but when I do :
df -h it still shows this :

/var is still 100% full. How do I free this space up?

This morning, I was checking my processes and noticed something I haven't seen before.

Is this something I should be concerned about?

Hi,

Is it possible to disable KDE's parallel build system ?
Right now it's eating all my 4 CPUs and i find it quite annoying, because i can't do anything else while waiting...

Thanks,
Tobé

How does one get the system to recognize the mouse on Sun sparc?

Thank you

I just build Rawtherapee 3.0_3 on a -current from yesterday.

It starts up ok, shows directory contents, loads RAW, but then it does not show it, only the empty work window comes up and the program is unresponsive.

Does it work for others or e.g. on -stable? Phrased differently, is this something for the freebsd list or for rawtherapee?

Thanks, Mathias

P.S. Some details:

procstat -t gives:
and procstat -k:

Hi,

often, during upgrade of some ports (like perl, for example), courier-authlib is removed and then reinstalled, and I need to restart courier-authdaemond in order to make imapd functional.
It's a normal behavior or some my mistake in some configuration?

We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation's 2011 Semi-Annual Newsletter. In this edition:

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There is discussion on the PCBSD mailing list about default login manager for Xfce, LXDE and other lighter desktop environments and conclusion is that LXDM would be a nice/better fit than the present GDM.

However, I wonder why there is no LXDM port available considering there is LXDE "meta" port available?


Sincerely,
Gour

Got lots of errors (actually every second) on a new server, it seems related to USB which I will never use. How can I safely disable USB and the errors?

Hello,

I am currently building a NAS out of old parts. specs are:

• CPU: AMD sempron 2.2 ghz
• Ram: 4 gigs
• HDD: 2x hitachi 1TB, 1x 40GB WD raptor, 1x 500GB

What I was planning to do was:

• 40GB raptor would be the OS drive
• 1TB DATA I care about
• 1TB Nightly rsync backup of DATA drive
• 500GB Drive for torrents/FTP
• All drives would be UFS

With the hardware I have, would ZFS be a better idea?
If so What sort of hard drive layout would you suggest?

Hi all !

I have a problem with my powerpc, which is a Mac NewWorld, a clamshell, dark blue and white: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#i...Palourde.22.29 . Mine is one of those released on the 13th of September 2000.

First, I had the "probing non-existent USB port" : installation manual for ppc. There's the solution, so I go away with it.

But, the installation hangs at another moment :
Google didn't find anything, and I don't know how to resolve that. I thought the cause might be the cd player, which may be dead, but I'm not sure at all.

Thank you for your reading,

Ttghtg

PS : Btw, is there huge differences in BSD administration and Linux administration ?

Hi there,

Currently I'm trying to get running Adobe Flash on Chronium the OpenSource variant of Google Chrome. Flash self is running. On Opera it runs like a charme.

is there something what could do the trick?

cheers
Darko

Hello,

Im trying to change encryption for password hashes from MD5 to blf on FreeBSD 8.2.

What I did:
changed in /etc/login.conf from to rebuild the login database with cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf;

changed root password with passwd;

Still, in /etc/master.passwd I see not What am I doing wrong?
Sorry for my english,

CoTones

Hi folks, anyone else experiencing firefox 5 SIG 11 in realvnc?
Firefox runs fine in local X session, and X11 forward to remote X desktop.
There are no plugins, extensions, etc. installed for firefox.

Tried --sync, same deal. I CAN start firefox with --safe-mode.

Tried disabling, individually, each option presented by the initial firefox dialogue, and collectively all those options, restart firefox, crashes with SIG 11.

Tried rebuilding firefox, no dice. Tried rebuilding vnc, no dice.

vnc-4.1.3_4

firefox-5.0,1

I have a core file if needed.

Thanks

P.S. My apologies, I missed the ports forum, and incorrectly posted in this one.

Hello everybody,

at the moment I'm busy getting wine to work on FreeBSD 8.2 64 Bit. So far I've set up a working 32 Bit chroot environment, and compiled wine. So everything should be fine, but everytime I want to start wine, I have to become root, to be able to chroot to my wine environment. Under Debian there is a package schroot which enables normal users to chroot without becoming root. I searched the ports but didn't find that one. Is there something similar for FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance.

Well, we had a fire in the building our office was located in. Luckily, the server room survived (mostly) and we managed to retrieve most of our data. With that said, we are in the market for a couple of new servers. We use FreeBSD to host several of our services (mail, subversion, ftp, jira/confluence, etc) most of which used our Windows ADS domain for authentication (I think we will try Samba PDC with LDAP this time). We are a fairly small company so we don't need anything terribly beefy in the way of hardware.

Can anyone recommend a hardware platform that runs FreeBSD out of the box? Looking at something in the $1000-$2500 range. We typically use Dell stuff but I am open to other brands too. I was considering the PowerEdge R515 but I am curious what other recommendations I might garner.

Thanks!
Philip

Hi list,

I want to buy another printer to use mainly with Windows. Even though I have no good feelings about those devises, that claims to be able to do everything I need. Even though, I need a better scanner with ADF and duplex printing (it need to be able to connect wirelessly to my Windows stations).
So my question is if I can find such a thing, that I can connect to my FreeBSD server too. And if you can recommend a specific model.
I have been looking at a lot of models, but I can't figure out if any of them would be able to work through FreeBSD, cups etc. Examples:
HP Officejet Pro 8500A (CM755A)
HP Photosmart Premium Fax e-All-in-One (CQ521B)
Canon PIXMA MX885
Epson...
Brother...
In the first place, I may have to connect it via USB or ehternet. If it could be connected by my wireless adapter (Linksys WUSB600N), it would be nice

Best regards,
Jon

Back in February I built my FreeBSD 8.2 (64 bit) box and was running without many issues. Last month I installed Windows 7 (64 bit), not by choice but I needed an app that is windows only, on a second drive... I unplugged my BSD drive and plugged in the new drive for the install, when done I swapped the cable back and when happily back to BSD.

Last weekend I decided to try out Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bit), and followed the same procedure, new drive, all other drives unplugged...install, play, swap back...

This is where I hit a wall. Seems that Ubuntu's Grub2 flashed info to my BIOS defining my boot sequence, and not allowing me to boot anything unless the Ubuntu drive is connected. OK, no big deal, I would like to be able to boot into all three without having to open the case, so I connect all three and start fiddling with Grub2's config. Grub sees the Windows drive without issue automatically, but not the BSD. I play with it till I get Grub2 to locate and acknowledge the drive, but BSD will not boot. I just get a blinking cursor!!!

I am using the custom grub menu, the code that loads the drive and gets tot he blinking cursor is:
How can I get BSD to boot?

I'd love to see this book updated for FreeBSD9. Any chance of the authors seeing this thread? :)

Hello all.

I am not sure if this fits here or in the ports forum, please feel free to relocate the thread if necessary.

If I have a FreeBSD 7 server, I would not have to upgrade the whole OS, if I want to upgrade MySQL 5.0 to 5.1, right?

Or in reverse, if I have installed Mysql 5.0 on FreeBSD 7.4 and I decide to upgrade FreeBSD to 8.2, I won't have to upgrade Mysql too, right?

So following this, I can "decouple" OS updates from "third party applications", which is important and convenient, IMO.

Or am I completely wrong about this?

Like my subject, is there any way i can build FreeBSD 9 with GCC 4.6 ? I just read this article. Seems they able to build FreeBSD with GCC 4.6 and seems its not legal ? CMIIW

Hi,

I'm using FreeBSD for some time now, alas on a user level, today I ran into the following:

Can someone point me in a good direction to solve this with the two ports marked ingnored?

Thanks,

Huib

Hello!

Just wanted to warn, if anyone is using mercurial-server, don't update mercurial to 1.9 (on server)
You won't be able to push. Looks like mercurial-server needs update. (I contacted developer, waiting response)

Hi there,

On Laptops with i915 or radeon 9200 mobile video cards it is possible to play Enemy Territory? Currently I've a Laptop with FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE AMD64. 3D runs fine I was able to start warsow but not Enemy Territory. It seems I've no 3D with Linux emulation. On my Desktop with a NVIDIA Card the game runs fine. Is there a workaround or should I try it with a fresh i386 install?

cheers
Darko

Hi there,

Currently I'm searching a HCL about compatible Bluetoothdevices. I need to to buy for some boxes a Bluetooth USB Dongle/Stick. Is there a actual HCL somewhere available? I'm living in Germany and I want order this devices in Europe if they could running on FreeBSD.

best regards
Darko

Sincerely!

Ok a lil background first.

Model: Lenovo Z560 / 310M Nvidia Graphics Chipset / i5 Intel Pentium / 4 Gig Ram

Bought from New Egg on June 6th 2011. Open Box purchase.

Ive installed and reinstalled ubuntu, backtrack5 (debian core) without a problem however this would always upset grub and windows in general when I would remove Ubuntu to try BackTrack5. Window's wouldnt boot but I would use Window's Recovery Disk and which never failed to allow me to reboot back into Windows and begin again.

After doing this a few times I decided to download and use Easy BSD. I used it in conjunction with Ubuntu, BackTrack, and Windows without a problem.

I then took the leap to install FreeBSD. I began to install FreeBSD ONLY after removing all linux OS's. The only thing I had was Windows 7 which was fine. I think I had a primary partition created right behind Windows 7 also which FreeBSD requires. --- I was extreamly careful with which partion NOT to erase and could see clearly the windows partition by the shear size of the OS and installed FBSD just after that. --- There was another partition after that which was the Lenovo back up or somefink but that "backup" never interfeared with the linux installs.
So the partition went MBR, Windows7, FreeBSD, and Lenovo "Backup". The "Backup" as Im refering it to is preinstalled on the hd of new Lenovo's. At least it was with mine. So after going through all my options etc for the FreeBSD install I press the button to install and it asks me to "remove the disk" and the install would then reboot...

When the Laptop attempted to reboot it stayed on the boot splash screen. I could do NOTHING. I couldn't key F2 I couldn't key F12 which were my only options at the boot screen. I even tried to press the Lenovo Recovery Button eventually. This would wipe out the entire Hard Drive and give me a clean slate at least but nothing... I scoured the web for 2 days and came up with the conclusion my circuit board died. I even tired to take my hd out and put it back in yada yada... Anyway, the newer laptop CMOS's are soldered on the board and cant be removed like a Desk Top CMOS which would allow me to reboot my system. The laptop was less than 2 months old so I sent it back to Lenovo.

FINAL: Lenovo says they replace the HD as they feel it was Hitachi's fault and not the circuit board... What are the chances of that happening as I dont feel FreeBSD was at fault and replacing a hard drive is cheaper for them than replacing the circuit board obviously? I bought the Lenovo/IBM becuase of its fledgling reputation. It tested overall just under the MacBook and was only 1/3 the price when compared to the higher end Mac. Could having the 3rd party Easy BSD (which I used without hassel with both BackTrack and Unbuntu) have gotten in the way with FreeBSD install somehow? Yes, I know about GAG but havent tried yet. The Easy BSD show's Linux (flavors) and FreeBSD compatible with the boot Mgr and states it clearly on their website. Any insight would be helpful.

I apologize for the length of explanation.

I feel that world gone mad , when I take a look on open source project which most of them programed in c (music player , video converter , operating system , web server , mail server , gtk .... etc) and search for book on these topics I didn't find any most of the book on c just take about basics , there is no book or information specialized on these topic you have to read the code to understand how it is work .

I think this is unfair for some one like me , I learn from books and I hate to read code just to learn some thing new , Im really disappointed , any help please , I want to start coding till now I have read these books on operating system :

1- Minix (most of it ) .
2- operating system concept (most of it ).
3- Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.
4- practice of programing (half).
5- kenrigen the c language (all the book).
6- design of rootkit (first chapter).

but I didn't wright a line of code on operating system till now , (except some rootkit), I just want to start righting c code to do any thing , what I should do ? (by the way Im php developer and work for yahoo ) ?

So I coded this last night and been playing around and tweaking the concept. Before anyone asks my purposes are academic. I wanted something that worked like I have been doing so manually and wanted more hands on time with python so I figured why not start on something like this that would be useful to me.

Posting the script code as I would love comments, critique, or good ideas for addition, and of course if it is useful to you, have at it.

Ken

Here is my pf.conf
(1).Peoples can't connect to hlds server when firewall status is 'on';
(2).I want share internet and ignore this line 'set skip on rl0' (how to)

Please see my pf.conf

I've recently noticed that the firewall on this FreeBSD system has stopped working, so I went to restart it but it keeps giving me an error:

I've tried adjusting my /etc/ipfw.rules file to say /sbin/ipfw (based on which ipfw) instead, but the error just evolves into:

Here's what you need to know:

What am I overlooking here?

Thanks.

I have a box with two nic cards, AAEON TF-AEC-6831-A1-1010.
We use the box to act as a gateway between LAN / MESH network and to do video replication.

/etc/rc.conf
/etc/ipnat.rules
ifconfig:
I can get to the 192.168.224.49 by using the URL of http://192.168.1.116:8049
but I can not get to http://192.168.1.116:8021 to get to 192.168.119.31

Any suggests? Thanks.

I am using FreeBSD 8.0.
Upgrading the OS on all the boxes we have shipped would be painful but not impossible.

I need to translate from Linux to FreeBSD a very simple script, but I don't understand what is wrong:
It is done to compile with debug symbols.
I think find simply needs a ./ but for sed I don't understand what is wrong. I have this error:
Can anyone help me? Must be simple, I guess, but not for me...

Hello FreeBSD,

Would you please enlight me how to add an extra NIC without having to reboot the machine??

I already know how to add an extra NIC but i have to reboot the server! :S

Kindly,help me



BR
Ahmed Amer
Cairo,Egypt

Hey guys. I'm having trouble using Openbox with Xfce. I installed Openbox and Obconf just like I was supposed to but it's not working for me. I enter like I was told to but that only works maybe 1 out of 8 times and I don't know why. It also never saves so I have to keep doing that over and over every time I use Xfce. Can anyone help me with this? I need to know how to make it run automatically and work. Xfce is harder than Gnome hehe :P I erased /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 and replaced it with in my ~/.xinitrc file like a friend told me to do but it's the same problem with or without it :(

Hey guys. I'm having some trouble. I did a reinstall of FreeBSD and I'm using XFCE instead of Gnome. I like it more but I'm having some trouble with it. My cdrom is not being detected in Xfce and it's the same when I use a USB drive. I'm using Thunar, I believe if that makes a difference. I removed the adc0 line in the fstab like you are supposed to but nothing has changed. Can anyone help me with this?

Hello everybody, I'm finishing a degree in computer science :stud, and my final project is a module in freebsd, is the first time I'm working with KLD on freebsd and I need help.
I'm using an example of kld, and it would like to know how to use kernel_threads, how to put the thread to run on the following function kt_log_rw_arq, when KLD load;

I am working on porting the Ubuntu One client to FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The process has gone well for the most part, but I'm running into an error during the install process. The error reads:

The error strikes me as odd since that is where I'm trying to install the library.

I checked a few sites and they indicate this is an error with either the configure script or the libtool program.

Following the advice on this page: http://code.google.com/p/beagle-lib/...etail?id=40#c0
I changed the configure parameters to use /usr/local as the configure prefix, but I continue to get the same error.

Hi there,

I want to ask here about how long will be GNOME 2 available from Ports? I really don't like GNOME 3. And currently on a fresh system I'm deciding me between GNOME 2 and XFCE4. XFCE4 is a Fallback for me only. So if I would know that the GNOME2 Ports would be the next 12 months inside the ports available, then I would chose GNOME 2.

cheers
Darko

Hi all,

I totally new to FreeBSD and I really like it so far. However I have a few problem, one of them being my laptop keyboard is disabled when i unplug the USB mouse. As soon as I replug the mouse, keyboard works fine. If I boot the laptop without the USB mouse then the keyboard works fine.

In the xorg.conf file I tried to replace "kdb" with "keyboard" in the keyboard device section, but it didn't help.
NB: mulitple edited mouse configs are test in order to configure the Thinkpad scroll with trackpoint (still no success, but that's another problem I'll deal with later).

Running, FreeBSD9 Beta1.I'm using a Thinkpad X301, and here is a copy of my /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

If you need any additional information, please let me know.

I had a problem with very slow work of http, rdp and another network protocol through ssh tunnel or openvpn after i'm updating FBSD 7.2 to 7.3 on my laptop. Connection can be established more than 20 minutes and FBSD completely freezes... Please, help my understand this problem. In log no error messages:(

Hi, i just wrote a howto for installing the BETA-1 of FreeBSD 9 with an encrypted root (ufs) using 80% bsdinstall and 20% shell. I uploaded the howto to an external address (sorry):

LINK

Note: The howto doesn't really explain much. It just shows how it can be done. Read the man pages of the commands used for more detailed information.

If you have ideas for improvement or something else, feel free to post them.

Keywords:

• Freebsd 9.0 (beta 1 used here)
• Encrypted Root
• UFS
• /boot unencrypted
• GPT

Dear All,

Pls, help me!

Today, I use telnet from windown to access Squid.conf (Linux use FreeBSD)

I have username and password access Server Linux use FreeBSD. But i don't know how to access it?

Pls, help me command step by step. ( access squid.conf, edit, start, stop, backup, log, config web proxy,...)

thanks!

hi all


i'm trying to install FreeBSD on hp DL160G5 but when i choose any of the options its hangs on

this message < high precision event timer > and the server hang, i tried older version and same problem , i checked the server hardware but no problems , what i can do

Hi all.
I have a problem. I have shell script:

If I send message how:
I have error:
If I send message how:
I do not have error. But my logfile has next string:
If I send message how:
or
All ok.

How can I fix it?

Hi, I've bought HRT music streamer 2 asynchronous USB DAC for a FreeBSD 8 stable system, but some troubles occured. I installed multimedia/mplayer and audio/vitunes from ports(vitunes needs mplayer for playback.), tested some music files, but it was very noisy, so that I hardly heard the 'music'.

I checked the sysctl variables and noticed that the dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate is 96000 and cannot be changed. The dev.pcm.0.play.vchanmode was 'fixed' and it can be changed but there are fixed, passthrough and adaptive modes only and no 'asynchronous' mode.

Is there any solution?

Hi everyone,

after a recent round of updates, I'm finding that printing from eog is taking ages.
Other programs, such as OpenOffice Draw or kview don't seem to be affected.

top yields the following:

This takes about four to five minutes, accompanied by intense HDD activities until the printer will finally rumble away :( Printing itself is as quick as it should be. This is happening with both the HP Deskjet (hpjis/foomatic) and the laser printer (generic PCL5).

I do recall that some of the p5-* ports were updated, plus I'm quite positive nothing happened to ghostscript. For completeness: System is 8.1-RELEASE.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Frank

Hello everyone,
I started with FreeBSD and Linux from the world, in my installations the installation process was as follows:
(200 mo)-> /
(200 go) ->/home
(100mo)->/root
(4go)->/swap
(2go)->/tmp
(50go)->/usr
(10go)->/usr/local
(2go)->/var
/ech
nb: all partition are on ext4

To better understand my needs:
I wish to create a workstation with an exchange «/ech*beep*»*beep* with windows 7/64bits

would like your opinion on this type of partitioning in bsd especially the notion of slice is still unclear, is it useful to do so?
I want to use KDE as graphical environment.
Knowing that a jail in ''virtualbox'' with xp would be welcome.

Merci d'avance.

Any way to determine what ISO Level a disc was created with (image or physical)? file only tells that it is an ISO9660 filesystem. Did some googling but didn't turn up anything useful.

Thanks.

I have two 8.2 systems, one just installed. On the first system, gnucash 2.4.5 was installed, courtesy /usr/ports. On the second one, the one on which FreeBSD was just installed, there was no gnucash installed. On both, I did

portmaster /usr/ports/finance/gnucash

On both systems, I got an error when portmaster tried to build gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.5. The complaint was that the package was already installed. If it was already installed, why did portmaster try to install it at all? Perhaps a broken port? I got the gnucash install going again by doing a pkg_delete -f gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.5 and in doing so, got an error that not all files could be removed, and raising the question that the package manifest was not correct (I should have copied the error but didn't; sorry; but I've given you the gist of it).

One comment on FreeBSD 8.2: I've been a harsh critic of FreeBSD in the past. I've had bad experiences with a couple of 7.x releases (the USB layer prior to the re-write in 8.x was really awful) and with 8.0 (the new USB stuff hadn't settled down at that point). None were ready for prime time, at least for my type of desktop usage, forcing me back to Linux. But 8.2 is really rock-solid and I've got it installed in place of Linux on every one of my machines where it will run (I've got a lot of them, each one serving a useful purpose, though my wife would disagree). My only issue is that it doesn't support nearly as big a hardware repertoire as Linux (I've got an Atom-based Toshiba netbook and a mini-itx machine I built around an Intel D510 dual-core Atom motherboard and the Intel graphics driver doesn't work on those machines). Hopefully at least the Atom issue will change with the upcoming 9.0 release. I hope the quality of that release is as good or better than 8.2, which sets the bar pretty high.

I should also add that I've thrashed around a bit trying to find an acceptable Linux distribution for my minimal tastes (I don't use a desktop environment; I just run dwm) and haven't found anything as good as 8.2. I've run Slackware for over a year and its quality is very high, but the package management, or lack thereof, has gotten very old. The primary supplier of packages beyond what the release provides, slackbuilds.org, is very well run, but there is no formal QA of the packages themselves and no coordination, at least in time, with new Slackware releases. I had a number of issues with Debian (flakey wireless networking, the awful Sys V init stuff, out-of-date packages because they take forever to release, it's generally too complicated and the documentation is all over the place). I tried Gentoo. Installation takes 1/2 a day on a fast machine and then X was flakey (I've used it before and it's a major maintenance headache). Arch? The rolling release stuff will bite you eventually, because they can't possibly test the whole system when they release something. I've had Arch blow up a couple of systems in the past. So for my style of computing, FreeBSD leads the pack. I hope it stays that way with the new major version soon to be released.

The following command does not work:

gnome-session-save --gui

Quote from the FreeBSD FAQ site (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q9):

It doesn't save your Window Manager. The old Window Manager re-appears once you reboot the machine. The only way you can save your Window manager is by setting it in the "Configuration Editor".

Take this command (AKA: gnome-session-save --gui) off the FreeBSD FAQ site.

Hi Unix-Friends,

I recently tried to get xorg running on a Samsung N220 Netbook. All xorg-related packages are up to date. Using
results in the attached xorg.conf file, but the screen just gets black using it. Logs are also attached to this post.
Its an intel card:
Best Regards
Danny

Attached Files

	xorg.conf.txt (2.9 KB)
	Xorg.0.log.txt (11.1 KB)

Hi

I want to watch directory for modification by kqueue mechanism. Simple code:
After XXX hours of googling, I still can not figure out how I can get the name of the newly created file.
For get the filename that already was on the kqueue initialization - I can fill the structure from fullpath (pdent->d_name).
I see one way - have one copy of files and after creation compare lists and see what has been added. Also i need to re-initialization of the monitor to restart for monitoring newly created file. but I think it's stupid. In the Linux event/inotify mechanism i can get the file name from @->userdata data.
I am right that in the case of kqueue I have to constantly re-read and compare the lists to get the name of the created file? Thanks.

It's past time for me to migrate my mailserver to my new setup onsite. I've put it off because of my failure to document my relatively complex (at least to me) qmail setup in the days before I started documenting religiously. It's been up and running more or less unattended for almost 3 years.

I've been torn on whether to try and recreate and document what I did before or move to Postfix. The current setup does everything I need it to do, even if it did take a lot of effort to get it there. I've also got a masochistic fondness for it, having devoted so much time and brainpower to figuring everything out.

So, reasons for going:

- Stagnant development
- Complexity (patches and such)
- Lack of documentation beyond lwq, the mailing list and whatever is scattered around the Internets
- New mailserver at work uses Postfix
- Something new

Reasons for staying:

- Familiarity
- Ability to start putting new server together now without learning new MTA
- Desire to reclaim lost glory
- Umm
- Got to be something else
- DJB is a pretty cool guy?
- Not sure if the ultra-secure argument still holds water anymore or not, but there was always that...

Look at that, 7-5 in favor of staying. All pretty emotional reasons; I guess I'm more of a right-brained kind of guy.

I'll still start messing around with Postfix, maybe I'll fall in love with it a few months down the line and do this all over again. Who knows? Feel free to try and talk me into doing it now :P

Hi,

I noticed some odd things with volume labeling UFS filesystem. I was trying it on FreeBSD-8.2R. I prepared HDD "ad1" for one slice covers whole HDD with one partition via sysinstall. After slicing and bsdlabeling via sysinstall I have got:

Then I initialized UFS via newfs (not in sysinstall). I add switch -L to get partition with volume name "datadisk":

After that I've got label "datadisk" not for bsdlabel "d" but for slice "s1":


I found that if disk is prepared directly with bsdlabel (not via sysinstall) it works as I expect:

Then I changed to this:

I leave offset 16 of partition "e" set by bsdlabel. I continued with initializing UFS:

The volume was created as I expected only for partition "e":


It seems volume label doesn't work correctly when offset of partition is 0.

Could someone explain to me why volume not set to partition when partition offset is 0? And why sysinstall creates partition with offset 0 and bsdlabel normally creates offset 16?

What I'll call Computer Bad: Mac mini (Intel Core 2), was running FreeBSD 8.2-release, tried upgrading to 8-STABLE, but these issues persist. Has a single Firewire 400 port.

Device 1: a dual Firewire enclosure, has both a Firewire 400 port and two Firewire 800 ports. Contains two drives.

Device 2: a pocket-sized Firewire enclosure, has one Firewire 400 and one Firewire 800 port.

Device 3 is this: http://tech.acomdata.com/minipal.asp. It attaches to the mini via Firewire and USB, and provides a hub for each, and additionally has a drive on the Firewire bus. We can ignore the USB aspects of this.

I'll compare against Computer Good: which is a Sony Vaio, whose details probably not important, except it's also running FreeBSD 8-STABLE. After I do a `kldload sbp` on this machine, and attach either of Device 1 or 2, or both of them in a chain, they all are immediately recognized and show up as /dev/da0, da1, and da2.

However that's just for testing. I need to get these devices recognized on Computer Bad.

And on Computer Bad, **when Device 3 is in the mix**, and the other devices are chained off it, I can do so--- although it takes some voodoo. I cannot have the sbp module loaded at boot time; if I do so the boot will hang until I disconnect or power down all attached Firewire devices. However, if I wait until boot has completed, then do a `kldload sbp`, once or twice the devices were then recognized. Most often, though, I have to do a dance of unplugging the devices, replugging them, power-cycling them, fwcontrol -r'ing, and so on. If there's a system that works reliably, I haven't been able to find it. Nor have I found any way to make this work solely from the commandline. `camcontrol rescan all` hangs until I disconnect or power down the devices. `fwcontrol -r` resets the bus, but the devices don't show up. And so on. However, with some persistence at the cable/power-cycling dance, I have always been able to get the drives recognized when they're chained off of Device 3. And once the drives get recognized, they give me no further trouble during that session. Even if I then power Device 3 down. I've transferred 1 TB of data to Device 1, I think without any trouble.

I'd live with this if I could. However, I can't keep Device 3 in this setup; it's required elsewhere.

And **without Device 3**, I can't find any way to get Devices 1 and 2, either together or solo, to be recognized on Computer Bad. I've tried connecting to either their Firewire 400 or their Firewire 800 ports (though on the other side, Computer Bad is only attempting Firewire 400). I've tried doing the `kldload sbp` before connecting them, or after, or whatever, and no luck. I've tried `sysctl -w hw.firewire.sbp.auto_login=0` and `sysctl -w hw.firewire.nocyclemaster=1` at various points, but this doesn't seem to change anything.


These problems showed up when Computer Bad had a fresh 8.2-release installation. I tried upgrading to 8-STABLE, which is what Computer Good had, but no joy there.

I've been searching and searching but haven't found much, even ideas to try. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Here are some details.

1. Here's uname -a, pciconf -lcv, kldstat, and sysctl hw.firewire on Computer Good:
http://dpaste.com/hold/588061/.
2. Here's the stretch of dmesg where the devices are connected and successfully recognized on Computer Good: http://dpaste.com/hold/588063/.
3. And here's what I then see on Computer Good (fwcontrol, fwcontrol -t, and camcontrol devlist -v): http://dpaste.com/hold/588066/.

4. Here's uname -a, pciconf -lcv, kldstat, and sysctl hw.firewire on Computer Bad: http://dpaste.com/hold/588062/. Notice the hw.firewire.sbp.auto_login is at 0, that's because following some diagnostic advice I found while searching I disabled that in /boot/loader.conf. It doesn't seem to affect my results at all.
5. Here's the stretch of dmesg where the devices are connected but fail to be recognized on Computer Bad: http://dpaste.com/hold/588076/
6. Here are fwcontrol, fwcontrol -t, and camcontrol devlist -v on Computer Bad, before kldloading sbp and attaching the devices: http://dpaste.com/hold/588068/
7. Here are the results of the same, after kldloading sbp and attaching the devices:
http://dpaste.com/hold/588069/. At this point, doing `sysctl -w hw.firewire.sbp.auto_login=1; fwcontrol -r` seems to produce no change. Allowing sbp to load with auto_login=1 from the beginning produces no change either.

At some points in my experimenting, I was able to get one or two additional entries in the `fwcontrol` output on Computer Bad, but I can't reproduce that now. And I didn't notice any additional progress when that occurred.

Hello!

I want to compile the new version of openjabnab (which is an open source server in c++/php for nabaztags) that you can find at this address: https://github.com/OpenJabNab

I did several compilations of previous versions without problem, but this time, compilation stops with an error:
I tried to compile with BSD standard g++ and with 4.6 port version. Same problem.
I am on FreeBSD 8.2 and use qt4-4.7.3 from port.

Instructions for compilation are:
I don't know what to do because program compile quietly on Archlinux or Debian.
Is there anyone here who could confirm the problem and/or help? I do'nt develop myself in c++... :(

Hi,

I have troubles with high disk usage on my FreeBSD system.

The system disk is used for 100% (according to gstat) for most
of the time. This is very annoying because the systems becomes
unresponsive.

It seems that this has something to do with sendmail. When I kill
all sendmail stuff and the periodic scripts the high disk usage
is gone.

These are some of the processes:
The funny thing is, I deleted , still it is running.

Is there any way to figure out which process generates all the disk access? This would
be a great help to find out what is going on.

Thanks

Johannes

Hi,

Is anyone else besides me experiencing problems with the new Ati 6.14.2 driver? In my case it seems a lot slower than before.

It's looks like it sometimes has no 2D acceleration, especially in Midnight Commander. When reading a file with F3 and exiting again, you can see the window redrawing on the screen. This happens since the new ati driver so I think the new driver is the problem.

I use a Radeon 4870 on Xorg + Fluxbox btw.

Marco

Hello, i'm planning to buy lenovo x220 4290rv5. Does anyone have opinions about compatibility freebsd with this model ?

Hi everyone,

My organization would like to install a production server (Wordpress website on FreeBSD) as a virtual machine.

1) Are there any limitation/problem if using FreeBSD as a Virtual Machine ?
2) Do you know actual prod websites installed on virtual infrastructure ?

Thank you for helping,

David

Has anyone had any luck getting a Realtek 8188ce driver working on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64? (or at all for that matter)

I know realtek is crap, I just bought a Thinkpad w520, nice laptop but skimped on the wifi (looks like I might have to upgrade it) thinking I would be able to get a working driver going.

I reviewed the HARDWARE.TXT on the DVD and it shows rtl8192 is supported under the rl driver. I built that and loaded it successfully but didnt work. I also went the route of grabbing the WinXP64 drivers (.inf and .sys) then used ndisgen to build an ndis driver but that too didnt work (even after a lot of .inf parsing and manual converting to UTF-8).

It "looks" to me like the rtl8192 is packaged in the same rtl8188ce driver from a Windows standpoint. I saw rtl8192 listed on the FreeBSD rl driver but not the 8188ce.

Anyone else gotten this to work (or have any suggestions?) Worst case Ill just pony up for a supported card but I just didnt want to deal with external WLAN NIC's (looking to keep it internal for neatness/portability factor). Thanks in advance.

Using KDE 4.5.5 and I went to change the login in my system settings to auto-login and I get the message:


It may also be worth noting that I get this message on the end of my bootsplash before logging into KDE:


I took some advice from another post around the web and added to /etc/fstab file:
That just changed the error to number 7 when I tried to change to autologin.


Then I edited /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.conf and added:


This let me fill in the autologin settings but when I logged in again it just said:

I do know that somewere along the way my user settings got deleted when I installed base programs and I had to add them back and maybe thats where this situation started.


Any ideas?

In order for me to load KDE i have to manually type:

... and then as user to startx.

... or I have to run kldload nvidia.ko in /etc/rc.local.


/boot/loader.conf

/etc/rc.conf


dmesg

I've been at this all day, on irc, reading handbook... kinda drained and could use any help i could get.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread...ewpost&t=25513

Strange, I've been using Whitehorn's versions of 9.0 since last April. After kernel rebuilding and a few tweaks, they are quite stable to me.

Wait, I'm using Tier2 architectures.

Silly me.

Hi people,

I am a new guy here, with a new (and maybe foolish) project. As a retired HP guy I have not touched UNIX in ten years, but I have my son's old crashed (disk) PC. Thought I might turn it into a UNIX box.

Was a half-baked UNIX support guy with HP for a while. Not the HP-UX bunch, but a system outfit tied to UNIX workstations. I like the OS. But I got my stuff pre-packaged from our labbies, and only needed to wade in an inch or two to solve problems. I never needed to fiddle with odd configurations. Customer had the workstation we sold them. Oh, simple world!

The PC I am looking at is one of those little, proprietary beasties HP calls a Pavillion. Maybe five years old. A lot of non-standard stuff I fear, and I am wondering if this is a hopeless, difficult, OK, or slam-dunk case.

Else recycle, or (cringe) Windows.

Thanks in advance,

JohnCMcD

So there's a local user on one of our servers, let's say testuser. When I run

to add testuser to the group, test group, it returns with:

With the lack of documentation, I don't even know if we have a NIS server. Could you guys point me in the right direction?


Also, I'm running FreeBSD 8.1

people...is there some software similar to songr? i'm closing the circle now,just need that info to do the great step to BSD!

Hello everybody. I've got 2 computers: #1 - freebsd with internet connection, ipfw and apache web-server, #2 - windows, connected to internet through #1.
I can see my web-site from internet, but i cant see it from #2 computer. But if i set apache to listen internal ip-address it works fine.
Can you help me to resolve this problem?
Thanks!

rc.conf:
firewall

no Firewall

Hello,

I bought a tew-652brp (300N) but I am unable to connected to the wifi router when the security is set (spend too much time to resolve, already contact the trendnet support..., it remember me why I switched from Linux to FreeBSD (busybox on the tew-652brp)). So I am wondering what kind of security/setup I can do:


Concerning the security I think about to run mdp (version 5) on the fbsd firewall to authorized the wifi users to gain access to my Internet connexion (with some ipfw rules too) (a sort of vpn). I have some M$ machines (I know, nobody is perfect) that why I look to mdp (easy setup for the client's machine).

Does this solution seems to be secure ? Any comments or suggestions are welcome

Thank you in advance for your help.

l2f

I'm currently running PF on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE. My current PF rules look like...

When I add
before the first pass out rule for $int_if none of my LAN computers can access either the server or the internet any longer.

Any help with this would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Hi all.
I work in the console. I rarely use GUI.
But I have another unsolved problem.

When I work on the console, the console prints the message:
These messages prevent me at work (for example in the editor)
How do I them off?

Hi,

I have the following scenario:

FreeBSD boxes run ipsec-tools and have three interfaces: em0-gif0 on the VPN side and em1 on the other. VPN router handles two VPN tunnel: one for FreeBSD Box1 and an other for FreeBSD Box2.
It could happen that Server2 and Server3 has the same IP address so I think on the FreeBSD Box1 the destination address has to be changed in the incoming packets destined to Server2 and the source address in the reply packets. As far as I know NAT might help.
I started to try it with PF.
man pf.conf says:
- nat: Translate outgoing packets' source addresses (any protocol).
- rdr: Translate incoming packets' destination addresses

According to this I have to use NAT on em0 or gif0 but it does not work as on em0 the traffic is encapsulated and the gif interface is inappropriate for NAT.

Any ideas?

BR
zgabe

I have a Digital PC 3100 that I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.2 onto. The problem I'm having is, when I try to boot from the CD, it comes up with:

Along with about 10 other lines. Is there a way to bypass this or is this a lost cause?

Hi guys,

I have a 8.2-amd64 machine on which I blew up the boot blocks (isn't booting any more). It's s supermicro server btw and we have a ZFSonRooT setup there.

The way I want to go about fixing it is booting into single user mode, mounting all the datasets, undoing the modification I did to the boot blocks, recompiling and installing the "old" version of the boot blocks for the system to boot.

The problem is that after I boot a 8.2-DVD and then go to fixit mode, load the opensolaris and the zfs modules, I cannot list the ZFS pool name (I don;t know the ZFS pool name because I didn;t setup this machine) and without the name, I cannot import the pool to fix the boot blocks.

So, my question is if there is a way to list the zpool in single user mode so that I know which pool I have to import or if there might be another way of fixing this problem.

LE: already tried and but no good.

I've got a whole load of servers at work, unices and some of the other sort.
Nobody in my firm seems to know much about networks.
It (the network) seems to have grown without much design or thought, so I guess
I'll need to sort it out myself.

Could anyone recommend any books on diagnosing problems, monitoring and increasing network
performance and such like?

Thanks.

I my freebsd 7.0 box, there is no "lockfile" command
therefore I can't use the lockfile approach.

So, what is the best way to ensure only one copy of bash script is running?

I have installed wordpress on my freebsd 8.1 where i have php5.3 and nginx 1.0 webserver i can see that require_once function in php is not working but here require is working how can i fix this bug in freebsd.

hi all

I have 9-CURRENT with tons of stuff on ZFS (entire drive).
I was out of this computer for a while and today I couldn't boot and saw just this:

now I'm running UFS MY GUID LABLE


Looks like something important has evaporated...
I read about v28 update and same problem but I don't remember I did such update.
Anyway I tried what's recommended there but without success.

What actually could happen? How to revive the installation?

Would appreciate if any method exists for fixing this problem.

The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD-9.0 release cycles is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available.

I asked this in a followup to a post a few months ago, but didn't get a response. Maybe I should have put it in a separate thread, so I'll try again.

In the forums editor, C-b in bound to entering bold tags. I have emacs-style key bindings setup in my browser, so I'm constantly intending to go back a character, but instead enter bold tags. Is there an easy way to turn off the binding of C-b to bold tags?

Hi,

Does anybody know how to enable SPDIF on envy24 card? Specifically I'm trying to get ESI Juli@ card working with FreeBSD 8.2. The card has been properly identified, but I only get analog output, no optical or coax.

I was expecting to find something like dev.pcm.0.spdif_enabled knob, but it's not available. Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,
How to install fonts Windows XP in OpenBox?
- Times New Roman
- Courier New
- Arial

Thanks.

On our VPS (FreeBSD), someone deleted some of the server-level users x( that were connecting the server and the self-hosted wordpress app on a given domain. Restore is not an option because my hosting company (Verio) can only restore the whole server which would cost a small fortune (too many websites). I thought of a possible solution but I want to make sure that nothing goes wrong if I do this. Would it be possible to download all WP directories from the server, reinstall self-hosted wordpress on the domain and then upload the old WP directories back to that domain. Would that keep the WordPress site content intact and restore the server level user access between the domain and self-hosted Wordpress Ap?

Hi all.
I used OpenBox and tint2 and wbar.
But as they run together?
I run OpenBox. After that, run the console and
Then run the tint
What is <config_file> in
How do I run it together?

Well, looks like I'm heading back to FreeBSD after a 4 year stint with Gentoo. I might keep Gentoo on a couple systems, but I'm definitely shifting the others.

I've been using FreeBSD since 1998 and have absolutely loved the stability. The reason I left the *BSD world was because in Gentoo I could compile everything from the ground up. Unfortunately, some packages are not being maintained or some people think all we need is last year's linux-header file or an old-as-hell package that no one wants to update.

Ok. So the question I have is this.. Can I install FreeBSD on a LZMA-compressed ZFS filesystem without a couple dozen steps and a dozen mount points? I don't remember FreeBSD having so many darn mount points. I'm also installing it on a GPT, mostly due to my arrays being >2TB in size.

Another question.. Is there a way to install it over SSH? I've been able to install several Gentoo systems this way, but can't find a way to do it with FreeBSD.

I do admit, I'm a little rusty.. But I'd love to hop back into the FreeBSD universe ASAP.

I do not even know how to add keyboard layouts OpenBox:
English (default)
Russian
Ukrainian

Change keyboards Left Shift + Left Alt.
Do not even know how!

Thanks.

I searched the forum but did not get a hit so I'm trying here.

I have added a user on my server to learn how stuff works, It seems that the user can go out from his directory and browse the files on the system such as /home . How do I lock the user to only be in his directory when I created his account.

thanks.

Hi

I'm wondering about this:

Why are these gtk-2.24.5 and gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.5 printed, althought they are up to date?

Could it be related to this in /usr/ports/UPDATING ?
Which I first missed but ran later?

I've bought a sandy bridge system and I did know that there is no driver for Intel HD3000 graphics. I don't need the best graphical performance anyhow, but the problem is I couldn't get 1920x1080 resolution. X server uses vesa driver and I set 1920x1080 mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but it seems it doesn't work. Is there a way to FHD with Intel HD3000? or need a discrete graphics card?

There's an screenshot of SGI's old IRIX with Indigo Magic desktop here. Can somebody tell me what the font is that's used in the Toolbox and in the window header of the Icon Catalog? I'm almost certain it's a standard font, but I can't for the life of me tell which one it is.

Thanks in advance,

Fonz (I'm not quite the font wizard)

I tried to make my old webcam (Creative VF-0040) work on my FreeBSD v8.1. After installed v4l_compat, libv4l, pwcview cuse4bsd, webcamd from the ports,
kldload cuse4bsd.
webcamd -d ugen2.2 -i 0 -v 0
it stops there after output:
Is this right? or should it exit to the shell? I checked the /dev/video0 and /dev/input/event0 are there.

Try to run pwcview, it says pwcview -s cif or sif doesn't work either.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi,

I'm still somewhat new to FreeBSD, converted from linux (ubuntu if you must know). I'm trying to play the same video game under wine in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE x86 as I did in Ubuntu, and it is significantly slower in terms of framerate.

I'm seeking any advice on how to improve my gaming experience. Thus far, here's what I've tried:

• Ensured soft-updates are enabled on my primary filesystems (was already set by default I believe)
• Disabled atime updates on my primary filesystems
• Updated to use a kernel which doesn't load most of the unnecessary modules for my system
• Disabled all server daemon processes (e.g., nfsd)
• Reduced the number of virtual terminals I have from 8 to 3 (via /etc/ttys)
• Added the following to my /etc/make.conf
  
  Code:

  ---

  CPUTYPE?=athlon64
CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops

  ---

• Ensured all my ports were up-to-date and upgraded them as necessary with portupgrade
• Switched to a more lightweight window manager (fluxbox)

My system is a Acer Aspire x1200-U1510A (AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+, 4GB RAM), with an added Nvidia GeForce 9400 (yes, I'm using the "nvidia" driver).

I've also recently configured my system to use dtrace and I've started to try to analyze the game process to identify bottlenecks. I've seen some odd behavior (such as calling the open system call on a directory thousands of times).

I'm starting to worry that there isn't much I can do since the bottleneck is likely in the video card drivers.

My next ideas are to do further dtrace or truss analysis and then try running the game from a tmpfs filesystem.

If anyone has any suggestions either for performance improvements or areas I should look into, please respond :)

Hello all,
first of all I'm a newbie so please sorry if I ask stupid questions.

I was connected with putty by my notebook via wifi to my bsd box and I was installing a port (/usr/port/net/serviio) using make install clean while my home network went down.
First I loose the external connection and I realize it because the install stopped while it was downloading something, then I loose the wifi so the putty session went out.

After that I restarted my home router but I don't know what is going on in the bsd box because the new putty session doesn't show me anything about.

I think that the whole down has taken something like no more than 1 or 2 minutes.

What can I do? May I simply restart the install process?

If I type top -P, it doesn't seem to happen anything, the CPU si working for no more than 1-2%.

Thanks a lot for your help.

I've been sucked in...

I'm supposed to be studying my ass off at school and all I've been doing is tinkering away on my computer for the last year!

I'm always installing, updating and configuring new things, setting up small test networks, and buying new compatible hardware!

It's fun though :p

I have machine with 3 cards: rl0(internet), rl1(Lan1), rl2(Lan2). ##rl1 and rl2 are NATed.## wrong --> rl0 is only NATed

The question is:

How to write altq queues so that the sum of download bandwidth from internet(rl1) will be dynamically shaped among computers in these two networks?

For example: let's assume that my internet connection is 1 Mbps of download. In this case I have no idea what sholud I set on rl1 and rl2 in bandwith. I've tried this one:
int1_if = rl1
int2_if = rl2
There is no error but it doesnt work in max download . Network gets down.

Hello to all,

I just bought a brand new Thinkpad W520 and was planning to run 8.2 amd64 on there. I would consider myself intermediate with linux/FreeBSD. About the issue I am hitting:

1. Installing from FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 CD
2. BIOS settings are dialed in to be most compatible and only enabled the devices I plan to use (usb/cam/bluetooth)
3. Always hangs at: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0

Researching I see many people have been running into this issue back from FreeBSD 5.0 - current and other BSD distros as well. Many of the threads people seem to have given up, others state the work-around is to disable the keyboard at the loader prompt and use a USB keyboard then build a new kernel after its installed. I can't see how thats an acceptable solution.

Digging deeper I found a handful of suggested boot options such as:
set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x8"
set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
tweaking the IRQ

Others suggested disable acpi, another said to manually load ukbd module (even though it looks like it was already loaded by default). I was able to disable every device on the bios and get an installation working with the native keyboard but then when it went to configure my bios-disabled NIC it kicked me out of the install. This leads me to believe that it works just fine and there is some resource conflict going on. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to perform an install with the original keyboard and with all my devices enabled/usable without having to use an external keyboard? I dont have a PS/2 to USB adapter and don't plan on buying one. I want to take the hard road so I can really become fluent with FreeBSD. Thanks

Hello All!

Has anyone tried to enable the sound in xlock (xlockmore)?

In "man xlock" you can find some sound options like
[ -infosound string ] [ -validsound string ] etc.

But if you will try to run something like this:
xlock -validsound
you will get a message:
xlock: bad command line option "-validsound"

I highly doubt open source drivers will ever be available, but over the past year I have noticed a increasingly faster driver release schedule from Nvidia. Going back before the 2xx.xx series of drivers, Nvidia would usually release a update every 3-6 months. This past year though it seems a new driver is available every 2-4 weeks. Kudos to Nvidia! (now I just wish CUDA support would arrive)

Hello,

Is there a way I can have a minix kernel and plan 9 software on my FreeBSD 8 box ?

Regards,

roelof

Anytime I have a request to have a user added to access our server, I get a headache. It shouldn't be that tough, but I always have problems. I tried to add a user, "ysingh", that account didn't work. Okay, I'll delete the account :

Should be good right? NO:

Not sure how to go about deleting this guy now.

In my next post I'll show my process to try and add an account.

Hello, there:
Well, I bump into two tiny problems recently, and am not sure about the reason. Yesterday, I tried to deinstall some packages via "pkg_delete", everything is fine except the message shown like this on console:
I don't know what does this mean. Do I have a broken DMA or hard disk? x(
And secondly, I failed to shutdown my computer sometimes. When I press the "Shutdown" button in Xfce 4.8, it'll sometimes (not too often) hang or cease on this message:
I've to reboot my box manually, after which... Uh, "Shutdown" works fine for me.:(
So, is there anything wrong on my box? Could you help me? Thank you in advance. :f

Not sure if this is the correct section, if not please move it to the correct one.

For the past couple of years I've been using pan (news/pan) which I really like. But, it has a few drawbacks, it only allows a maximum of 4 connections and it doesn't support SSL. My usenet provider allows 20 connections on my account and I'd really like to use SSL.

So my question is, what alternative usenet clients are there?

• Preferably GTK but if the client is good enough I won't mind QT
• 'tasklist' so articles/attachments are queued and downloaded in the background while still being able to browse/read postings
• support for more then 4 concurrent connections
• SSL support
• Images and such should be visible 'inline' in a posting
• supports Yenc
• able to handle multipart postings

I think that pretty much sums up the 'requirements' I have :e

As I said, I'm happy to continue using pan, just wondering if there's something else out there (and I couldn't really find anything in the ports tree).

I have

"RTC BIOS diagnostic error 8<fixed_disk>"

in dmesg out.

What does it mean?

Hi all.
I have a problem.
How to create a new user to the sh-script?

I have:
But after the command:
- in the console message
How to automate?
Thanks.

Hi,

I have an ADSL connection that gets dropped very often (I can ping the modem-like device but nothing further). This can happen when doing a google image search and scrolling fast, for example.
Some googling revealed that putting the mtu of the network interface to 1492 should fix the problem. I tried it with a wired connection and the solution seems to work but when I tried it with the wireless connection it didn't work. From ifconfig:

While wlan0 has mtu=1492, wpi0 has mtu=2290. I can set the mtu of wlan0 to 1492 but when I try to set the mtu for wpi0 I get:

How can I change the mtu value for wpi0?

Thanks,

V.

Hi,

I have a VPN tunnel between a Juniper SRX100 router and a FreeBSD box running ipsec-tools.
I created this scenario according to the FreeBSD Handbook. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ipsec.html)

The tunnel works well but I can see inbound packets only on the gif interface (FreeBSD box).
Is it normal or I have routing/policy problems?

BR
zgabe

I have some Freebsd servers on our internal network.
So they are not internet visible.

Obviously the host name can be set, but what I would like to know is:
is there a convention for a local domain name?

I guess one doesn't use a 'real' domainname if the host cannot be reached?

I am chiefly concerned with sending email out. Unfortunately I need to send to
an exchange server and like most MS stuff it appears to be brain dead and oft confused.
As is the administrator.
So I would like to get my house in order first.

Are there any conventions I should follow?

Hi there,

On the Ports it seems mod-vhost-ldap is to old so I'm trying to compile the newest version on FreeBSD. I want to have Vhosts running using ldap with www/apache22-worker-mpm. I'm not a Coder, I've poor knowledge about C and I'm not really familar about GCC APXS and such stuff. The build breaks on "-c-lldap_r"

Here I've pasted the Makefile
http://pastebin.com/CfQiwNEw

Here I've pasted the complete build
http://pastebin.com/DCuvbfY5

Can anyone tell me what exactly is mean with -lldap_r and suggest how I could fix it? It seems that something about ldap was not find. But everything is installed.
Thanx in advance!

Hello everyone,
I'm really a newbie to FreeBSD.

I'm trying to make vncserver able to automatic start up on boot with a user that's not root.

So, I spent 3 nights reading everywhere about my issues and I was able to get vnc working with xfce4. The server I used is tightvnc.

Now, the last step for now is to make it start up on boot.

I made a script, tightvnc, and I put it into /usr/local/etc/rc.d

then I modified my /etc/rc.conf adding
Now, when I reboot I have:

I've checked the .vnc permission that are:

and

this is the content of /usr/home/Lorenzo/.vnc/xstartup


Can you please help me?

Thanks in advice.

I have an extrange problem. Trying to upgrade all ports with portmaster on 8.2-RELEASE, got an error when compiling devel/m4.

I've searched for this, but don't get anithing usefull. I'm really lost.

Any idea ???

Thanks !

Hi. May be i wrote to the wrong place, so i apologize if so. After upgrade to version 270.41.19 of x11/nvidia-driver i see problems on FreeBSD 9-amd64 - when everything freezes - the mouse and graphical output. Keyboard (for example cltr + alt + f {1-8}) does not work too. However - machine still available via remotely by SSH, and audio playback is works. In the top i see that Xorg load the cpu core at 100%. I reproduce the problem in only one case - when I try to use adobe flash in firefox. In this case the first time usually flash works, but if i open a new flash or do

killall -9 npviewer.bin

- most likely the problem will appear. I did downgrade nvidia driver to version 256.53 and the problem magically went away. Where am I correct to bug report, to NVIDIA? Has anyone encountered the same problem?

Hi all.
I wrote script automation install GUI. He has next lines:
But, after run
run GUI and script stops. Last two commands do not run.
I must click (Ctrl+Alt+F2), login, and manually carry them out.

How can I be?

Thank you.

i think all of BSD's are made for servers[the best choice],far from to compite with 'penguin'...

yeah is my think and want some respect(do not edit/erase) that's all i ask!

Howdy all.
I just got off the Windows Xp. There I used the admin account. But I saw that many UNIX users is not recommended to be "root".

Yes, I understand that I can play in "Russian Roulette":
But if I become a guru in this matter ...
Are You use the account "root" for themselves?

P.c. I understand that if I put the server - then the account "root" to lay the brick course.

Hi people..

I'm trying to get mailman working on a freeBSD server. Everything seems fine except for the web/cgi interface. Mailman is bailing out because it cannot figure out the group of apache user (who runs all the cgi stuff):

mailman uses getgrgid() to verify the group-name and it is returning null. I wrote a small test program to call getgrgid(). It returns the right group if I run it from my account or as any other humans, but it fails for system accounts like www, nobody, pgsql etc. One of my own system hardening attempts might be creating the trouble here, but I'm not able to figure it out :PP

Would appreciate any help to sort it out.. Thanks in anticipation :)

I have to replace a device of my raid system, but I am not sure how to do it the right way.

My server occasionally hung up, and I found failures of one device ad10
As I unterstand I just have to replace the device physically and then by the replace command in the pool, like:

Is this right that way?
How can I find out which physical device is ad10? I have a HP ProLiant ML150 server.
How can I see the size of the disk (capacity)?
My pool looks like this:
(ad14 is another problem)

I also tried to offline the disk, in order to prevent the server from additional hangups, but it seems there is no way?
Thanks for any help!
Daniel

Hi, fellows
I've got some questions here:

1. How to make portmaster install latest version of dependencies, example install mail/postfix with openldap support, need to install openldap, but i want openldap-server-2.4.26 to be installed, not openldap-server-2.3.43?
2. How to remove package configurations made by first time "make install clean", so that i can choose which module to be compiled again?

Thanks and have a good day.

Hi!

I was wondering can anyone enlighten me why this:

happens.

Screenshot on left is with $ playd cat | $PAGER
Screenshot on right is with $ playd list

Relavent code:
playd cat: http://hg.bsdroot.lv/aldis/playd.sh/.../playd.sh#l432
playd list: http://hg.bsdroot.lv/aldis/playd.sh/.../playd.sh#l437 (same as playd cat, except that output is piped to $PAGER)

So pretty much playd list should be equivalent to playd cat | $PAGER, but it (playd list) doesn't show unicode characters.

For the sake of experiment I replaced /bin/sh with /usr/local/bin/mksh and I got same output.

I really want to fix this.

Hello dear All,

i searched the forum and didnt find anything interesting on my question.
the question is
So this is seems like mem allocation failures for smth. how i can cure it? i've got 2 routers with freebsd 8.2 and PF running on them. and both have those failures.
what should i do?
amd64 on both.

Hi,

I have a fresh install of 8.2 and trying to make some small changes to the GENERIC kernel.
when I run this command...

I receive the following error: there were some posts on the net about how i should run "adjkerntz -i" to fix this issue but that doesn't help me much.

has anyone else run into this issue and if so, how did you resolve it?

ASUS EeePC 1015B hardware list:
AMD Fusion APU C50 1.0GHz (dual core) Processor
AMD Radeon HD 6250 with WSVGA(1024x600)
...


I have installed FreeBSD 8.2R-amd64, but there are some problems:

1. When using pciconf -lv, I found
Which module should be load? I have tried "kldload amdbus" and it's useless.

2. How to enable the camera?
The camera is on the screen. In Windows7, the driver name is "ECam Utility".

3. How to enable the Hotkeys?
I have using kldload acpi_asus, but the Hotkeys (Fn+*) can't use.
dmesg -a found some warning messages:
4. Display driver seems exceptional
I have installed Xorg 7.5.1 with xf86-video-ati. Although X can work, there are some error messages when enter X:
It looks like the display dirver doesn't take effect.

5. Battery drain is too fast
The full power only lasts 2 hours, instead of 7 hours in Win7.
How to optimize it?

THANKS!

Hello I can't work with two network connections (same subnet) simultaneously.

In linux it fix : enabling arp_filter but in FreeBSD how to fix it?

Error Log

How is Bind setup to handle mail if the pop3/imap and smtp mail servers are split? Which of them gets the MX record?

I've been having my eyes on the supermicro C-200 boards lately for workstation usage. However the ability to run X with 2D acceleration is a requirement, and I am not sure whether the integrated MGA-200 is supported in FreeBSD. According to the DRI project page at sourceforge all Matrox cards should be supported on FreeBSD's xorg-drivers, however since the MGA200 is more then a decade old already, I wonder if the probably also decade-old driver works with FreeBSD 8 and more importantly the comming FreeBSD 9 ?

Wow man, FreeBSD really dates back. :D

I saw it mentioned from a 1999 Slash article about Microsoft Hotmail crash. A lot of user comments try to blame FreeBSD as well as a marketing ploy by Microsoft to advertise Windows as superior. :eek:

Check it out:
http://slashdot.org/story/99/12/25/1...rruptedUPDATED

Atheros wireless card, FreeBSD 8.2.

Everything works, except one problem: it will disconnect after a certain period of time (10 mins, for example). To reconnect, I have to use .

To simplify the task, I wrote a simple shell script which basically repeats the above commands every 5 mins, to make sure that I can have consistent wireless connection. I set the shell script auto-run whenever the system starts. It works, but I feel it's kind of dumb. Unfortunately, I don't know any other solutions.

Is there a better/cleaner way to solve this problem?

Hi,
Can anybody tell redirect me to right forum where I can ask questions related to SSH/Console and PAM?

Regards,
Uday.

Hi. I've tried doing more research on my issue that I've been having with my card but I seem to only have found one thing which is: "Upgrade to FreeBSD 8-STABLE" which I have tried and did not fix the issue.

I installed FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE onto my laptop the other day and when I try to setup wireless when I reboot to use the card I start to see:

Which occurs every few seconds.

My card is an Atheros AR9285 (AR928X)
pciconf -lv output:

I am using FreeBSD 8.2 Release. I am unable to upgrade Evince.
When I try to upgrade Evince using # portupgrade evince
I get the following error:
I have checked UPDATING and ran the command
# portupgrade -o archivers/xz lzmautils\*
but it gives no output.

Also I cannot delete xz:
# sudo pkg_deinstall xz
When trying to reinstall xz, I get the following error:
# sudo make reinstall
I have tried to fix this problem by installing lzma (along with xz) but still evince compilation is giving same error.

There is a thread where OP fixed same problem by reinstalling xz:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=24880
using
# pkg_add -r -f xz
and then running portupgrade command
# portupgrade -o archivers/xz lzmautils\*
but I am unable to do the same because pkg_add is unable to find package for xz (may be because I have updated ports)
Please help.

Is there any way/option to make top output the full COMMAND column in the cli ? The command output is truncated. Yes, with -a i have long names.


if there isnt, someone should tell the maintainer.

I recently switched from Windows Xp on FreeBSD. In Windows XP, only one GUI - Explorer. I found that in UNIX have a choice: GNOME, KDE, OpenBox - what to choose?

I installed PC-BSD - he was using KDE. I have a very fast computer - no inhibitions. But I do not like multimedia interface (similar to Windows 7).

Now, I installed FreeBSD 8 and GNOME2. I like GNOME - but it's too big. To start GNOME2, I installed X11 - startx. startx - Very compact GUI - stunned. But as run LibreOffice 3 or Battlefield Bad Company 2?

What advice would you give GUI?
- Run LibreOffice
- Run FireFox
- Run Gimp
- Run Battlefield Bad Company 2 (made a separate topic)
Thank you.

I've been using 9.0-CURRENT for over a month without any problem. Recently, however, I decided to set up SSH server (making use of [ports]dns/ddclient[/port], since I have a dynamic IP address). After that, I saw lots of attempts to log in to my PC from all over the world. That's why I installed security/blocksshd and recompiled my kernel with pf module (and since I had to recompile my kernel, I also recompiled world upgrading it to 9.0-BETA1). All is running well, but there started to appear some strange X problem. It's shown on the screenshot. My another PC with world compiled on the same day, also running SSH server with dns/ddclient and /security/blocksshd and pf compiled into the kernel doesn't have such problem. What could be the reason and how to repair it? I've already recompiled x11/nvidia-driver but it didn't repair it. It only appears when I move my mouse. Also, there are a few mice on the screen, all in one row (horizontally). It only shows up on the upper half of the display, the rest is all OK.

Hi, probably most of you know this tip, and it is nothing special or new, but because of that it is really useful, I decided to write about it. Sometimes we need to reboot/reload system, because of various causes. There is a possibility to do it much faster than typical restarting. I think, that this command is suitable better for use with non-graphical/server FreeBSD instalations (please refer to WARNING! notice). It also can be used for various others operations; with jails (e.g. jail_cell_exec_start as a /etc/rc.conf file variable.) or auto-reboot and daemon startup etc. rc(8). Just run;

# /bin/sh /etc/rc

WARNING! I noticed that when this command is execute under a graphical environment, there appears some problems with applications (e.g. when clicking on the Firefox icon, there is no response). There is possibility, that it affected only me. Interesting is that when executing this command under "clear, black console" (immediately after logging to the system with no login manager) and after start environment with startx command, all applications seems to operate correctly. That's the reason for why I mentioned about better using this command in production use (where often there is not graphical environment).

Hi all.
Who ever installed Battlefield Bad Company 2 on FreeBSD?
It is possible to play?

We need to use Linux wine?

I have sometimes installed WIndows Xp - I would like to play with FreeBSD.
As a GUI (in FreeBSD) - Gnome2

hi all,

quite the newbie to FreeBSD here.

I have installed freeBSD 8.2 on a fujitsu RX300 server, with a LSI raid controller based on the LSI SAS 2108 Raid on Chip.
After installation,
the boot process will hang for about 5 min, after selecting option from 1 to 5
at the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' , with progress cursor hanging at '/','|','\' or '-' .

I have tried using
1) Boot FreeBSD
2) Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled
3) Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode
4) Boot FreeBSD in single user mode
5) Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging

None which made any difference.

The problem which causes the loader to hang for 5 min , seems to occur before
the 1st line of boot message appears.
i.e
Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980 ..... (blah, blah , blah)

Could this be due to some of the kernel modules ?

Another interesting note, was that the boot up from the installation DVD,
also hangs for about 3 mins at the same place.

See attached for the screen shot at which the loader hangs

Thanks in advance for any help / suggestion

Attached Images

freebsd8.2_loader_hangs.jpg (50.6 KB)

Hi,

I just installed the most recent netatalk release. Unfortunately apfd, the most important
deamon of the package keeps crashing:

I disabled the avahi option in the ports config file, but that did not change anything.
Does anyone run netatalk 2.2 with afpd successfully?

Johannes

Is it compatible?

I want to use FreeNAS with ATTO ExpressSAS R380 connected to G-SPEED ES PRO disks.

ATTO have Redhat/Suse driver and software available, would it work with FreeBSD/NAS?

Thanks!

Hi,

last week, it was the first time for me setting up a lagg interface with a cisco switch and had this page from the handbook as a guide:
Link Aggregation and Failover

I had troubles getting everything to work because the lagg interface always showed "no carrier" as status and couldn´t get an address. After much googling, I found the reason for this is because you have make the laggports "up" before you create the lagg interface.

The rest went off without a hitch and it was so cool to see everything "just work". You really got double the perfomance and perfect failover!

If this had been explained in the handbook, it would have saved me half a day´s worth of troubleshooting.

Correct approach:
/etc/rc.conf:
I think it would make things much easier for other people in that situation, if this was explained on that page. How does that sound?

/Sebulon

Hello everybody,

I have a dell laptop with a 1397 wireless card, and I am trying to get it working with FreeBSD 8-STABLE (i386). As far as I can tell, the "appropriate" driver for this chipset seems to be bwn(4) (I kldloaded /boot/kernel/if_* to see which driver might be supported :) ). Of course, I might be wrong (I'm afraid), since I don't see my chipset present on the supported hardware list of bwn(4). I have also installed the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port which is suggested by bwn(4) for the firmware. The only messages I have got on dmesg so far, are:

while some more details regarding my system are:

The wlan0 interface is always in "no carrier" state, and the info regarding the ssid and IP settings are related to my setup. No encryption is used on my setup.

Most probably I am trying to get something to work that is not meant to wok yet :). Nonetheless, If anyone has some positive experience with this chipset on FreeBSD, I'd be glad to know it. A quick search on the web brought up nothing certain.

Thank you all in advance.

So far on the router(on freebsd) was set Nat between rl0 (wan) and rl1 (lan). Unfortunately I need to connect one computer directly to router by next network card. I put it in to machine and set bridge between rl1(this card has address) and rl2 (new card). On pf I allowed trafic on rl2.
The problem is that computers behind rl2 can ping gatway which is rl1 but cant ping computers behind rl1. In "clear bridge" when none of card has address (rl1 rl2) then connections beetwen computers behind rl1 and rl2 are possible but of course there is no access to WAN.

How to make working bridge between r1(gate/lan side) and rl2 (free) and NAT between rl0(wan) and rl1 ?

I currently have a 1TB drive that I use as the system drive, and a 2TB drive I use for data and backups. I would like to add two more 2TB drives and run them as 3x2TB in ZFS so I can protect my data in case of a drive failure.

I'm just curious what the best way to handle this kind of setup would be.

Do I just set up the system as if there was only the 1TB drive, then add the 3x2TB drives and use it as a location where I can store my data, as well as add backups of the 1TB drive?

Being able to keep the 1TB system drive backed up would just be a plus.

Would it be better to just run 3x2TB and ditch the 1TB drive? I keep hearing about using ZFS on the root partition and don't understand if it's a bad thing or not.

Any thoughts?

Hello all,

I finish my first port to FreeBSD, rednotebook 1.1.7.

It is a GPLv2 desktop journal X11 application written by Jendrik Seipp.
It is written in python 2.x.

http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/

I don't know right or wrong that I put it into two categories, deskutils and python.

I just test it in my FreeBSD 8-Stable amd64 and I do not submit it yet.

Please download the attached file for testing.

Attached Files

rednotebook.tar.gz (2.7 KB)

hello worldd
im new
i prefer getting the "minor" instead of major, but not sure if this is the right iso to try freebsd 7.0-20060512-BSDINSTALLER-i386-disc1.iso why is it disc1 ? my laptop is msi u100 plus series under the ftp folder there are more than one iso file, which one is for home use, i'll b burning the disc from winxp environtment before i format everything

i'd like to try the firewall from freebsd

Hey there,

So, I got smartmontools all setup, even configured periodic to send me daily reports, but smartd isn't logging anything locally.

According to the man page, it's supposed to poll every 30 minutes and by default log to the daemon facility of syslog.

What's unlcear, is if I should see an entry every 30 minutes that shows that it polled or only see a log entry if there are errors or changes to the smart status of the disk?

Normally I'd expect a log entry just to show that the service is doing what it's supposed to, not just for errors. But the man page is a bit fuzzy.

Relevant smartd man page snippet:
I'm assuming here that "-l" is optional and if not present, smartd will do as indicated, polling every 30 min and log the results to the facility "daemon", as indicated above (which in turn should go to messages or syslog logs).

Is this right?

This is my smartd.conf:

Looking at the default syslog.conf however, there is no daemon facility:
So, I added a daemon facility like so:
And I also hupped syslogd so that the new settings would take.

Any helpful hints are appreciated!

Hey,

Why is Sendmail included in a FreeBSD base installation? Average hosts handling mail routing seems to be uncommon. Are the majority of FreeBSD installations in the wild handling mail?

I am not throwing stones, I am not saying it's a bad idea, I just want to understand. Why sendmail and not say... Perl or Unzip or Bash?

Apologies if this discussion has taken place many times before.

Hey,

When I install a package such as "zip" using the pkg_add command, the zip software cannot be accessed via my path until a logff and logon. I am logging in as root to do this. If I attempt to "zip --help" right after executing "pkg_add -r zip" I receive the message "Command not found". I can see the program in /usr/local/bin, but I cannot execute the command via my path until I logoff and back on.

I assume there is something fundamental about the operating system that I am not understanding. Typically, for instance, in windows if you place an executable somewhere in your path you can use that program immediately without logging on or off.

Thanks in advance,

A Noob

Is it possible to modify an existing account so that it doesn't need a password (or accepts a blank password) to login?

Can anyone provide the steps to get a FreeBSD server to authenticate with TACACS+ or point in the right direction to get some directions. I have been googling for 2 days now. Thanks.

Hi guys,

I'm experimenting with the FreeBSD kernel in these days just because I'd like to have a bit of experience also with it and not to stick to the Linux kernel only.
Let's say I have a kernel module that, when loaded, print "Hello, World!" on the console every 5 seconds, what do I need to do?
I've found very few information regarding callout_* functions, are they right? I tried to write an example but I can't get them work at all.

Thanks for your help.

sirus

Ok i have a strange issue where i have two interfaces setup as follows:

Fail over works well & the other host is pleased with the connection as-well, however what is happening is that the link does NOT aggregate the speeds of each of the Gigabit Links, rather it seems for the most part to send traffic mainly across one of the two NIC's and then occasionaly swopping to preferring the other.
But the collective speed is NEVER beyond the capabilities of 1Gb NIC.


Anybody have input?

According to this thread http://serverfault.com/questions/464...any-nfs-mounts Linux has a max 255 mounts limitation. Do anyone know if it is the same with FreeBSD?

I have a LSI card ,the firmware show it is LSI 1068E SAS IR firmware, I want to use ZFS on it , I need to Flashing IR firmware to IT firmware ? I do nothing (not set RAID in the card firmware) , I can set the ZFS pool , this is not good? Which is recommendations ?

My os is 8.1 and dmesg info is :

Greetings!

I've had this problem for sometime, when I try to run java, javavm. It won't do it on some users I got then it will show:
While if I do it from either root or wheel users it works just fine.

And I have set the permission to +rx on java for "Others".

I installed FreeBSD 8.2 to test different solutions. I would check now the library named security/libparanoia. I know that it can be used in two ways. Relink critical applications with -lparanoia -L/usr/local/lib or override standard functions in libc (using libparanoia/copy-to-libc shell script). As directed in port description. libparanoia seems to be old, but as I wrote, I would like test it. The problem is, that, I do not know how to relink daemons. Maybe function, which are included in libparanoia are already available in FreeBSD?

# ln -lparanoia -L/usr/local/lib network_daemon_path_here?
# ln -lparanoia network_daemon_path_here?

Hi,

im kind of new to FreeBSD... so maybe its a stupid question.. but... since im trying to run a secure system Im kind of sensitive to this kind of things...

I've installed FreeBSD 7.4 about a week ago, had fetched portsnaps and updated them at least once...

Today I did again fetched ports and saw, that in that one weeks time 651 patches have been commited...

So Im asking myself... is my proxy being hacked, am I doing something wrong, or is it normal?

Thanks in advance!

kriscom

Hi there,

It is possible like for procfs to secure mount linprocfs inside a jail?
Currently I'm playing again with Debian kFreeBSD inside jails. Debian mounts linprocfs on /proc and applications like PostgreSQL 9 needs them.

Hi guys,

Working on a 8.1-PRERELEASE and having problems with 1 find cmd:
The idea of the script is that if there are files older that 10 min, a rsync is started, else the script just exists. It will be run from crontab every 10 min.

The problem is that if I create a file in that dir, the find cmd will not discover it. I;ve been hitting my head against the wall since yesterday and I also tried -atime, -mtime, with several combinations of days, hours, minutes but couldn't find a proper option to use.

Can anyone lend a hand here ?

Hi guys,

Working on a 8.1-PRERELEASE and having problems with 1 find cmd:
The idea of the script is that if there are files older that 10 min, a rsync is started, else the script just exists. It will be run from crontab every 10 min.

The problem is that if I create a file in that dir, the find cmd will not discover it. I;ve been hitting my head against the wall since yesterday and I also tried -atime, -mtime, with several combinations of days, hours, minutes but couldn't find a proper option to use.

Can anyone lend a hand here ?

I am running a Resolver running BIND 9.6.2-P2 on FreeBSD 7.1. During peak traffic, this resolver is servicing ~300Kqueries/minute. The resolver is configured to allow 200tcp clients and 10000 recursive clients simultaneously. The max-cache-size limit has not been configured.

The memory utilization on the resolver keeps increasing steadily and in stepped pattern. Recently it shot up to 80% of the total RAM of 24GB. In order to retain the normal functioning, named had to be restarted. Memory utilization by named is around 7K MB and shown as under:
Can you please advise on what needs to be done to get rid of this high, consistently increasing memory utilization problem? If we limit the max-cache-size, will it reduced?

Thanks,
Manju

Hi Experts,

I am building something and I am getting following error-

Can anyone please guide me to load filemon?


Thanks,
akki

Hi there,

I've tried to setup a Debian kFreeBSD Jail using debootstrap from Ports. My Testbox has got FreeBSD 9 CURRENT installed. ZFS v28 Hyperpower Yeah ;)

My Problem is that I couldn't mount linprocfs currently

The linux module is already loaded
Is that a known Bug?

i noticed in my log that my ftp is getting hacked. thousands of unsuccessful attempts to connect. All from the same IP. Is there a way to automatically block an IP after like 10 unsuccessfull attempts at logging in? they appear to change the user id on each try.

Thanks!!

I keep seeing the below in my maillog. I assume that they are trying to us my email system tp send spam? None of the domains or anything is "my" stuff.

How can I specifically block domains and IP address (my own blacklist)?

Jul 20 21:43:31 unix1 postfix/smtpd[20344]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from napi.net-flow.com[192.220.126.136]
Jul 20 21:43:32 unix1 postfix/smtpd[20344]: disconnect from napi.net-flow.com[192.220.126.136]
Jul 20 21:44:30 unix1 postfix/qmgr[20260]: 22E187E858: from=<>, size=18088, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 20 21:44:30 unix1 postfix/qmgr[20260]: 7F9727E85E: from=<>, size=21404, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 20 21:44:30 unix1 postfix/smtp[20382]: 7F9727E85E: host eforward2.registrar-servers.com[38.101.213.202] said: 450 4.1.1 <honeylocust@blackrimmedmania.info>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: unknown user: "honeylocust@blackrimmedmania.info" (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Jul 20 21:44:30 unix1 postfix/smtp[20381]: 22E187E858: host eforward2.registrar-servers.com[38.101.213.202] said: 450 4.1.1 <faustian@blackrimmedmania.info>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: unknown user: "faustian@blackrimmedmania.info" (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Jul 20 21:44:31 unix1 postfix/smtp[20381]: 22E187E858: lost connection with eforward3.registrar-servers.com[205.251.134.191] while receiving the initial server greeting
Jul 20 21:44:31 unix1 postfix/smtp[20381]: 22E187E858: lost connection with eforward1.registrar-servers.com[69.160.33.82] while receiving the initial server greeting
Jul 20 21:44:32 unix1 postfix/smtp[20382]: 7F9727E85E: to=<honeylocust@blackrimmedmania.info>, relay=eforward3.registrar-servers.com[205.251.134.191]:25, delay=166867, delays=166865/0.01/2.4/0.14, dsn=4.1.1, status=deferred (host eforward3.registrar-servers.com[205.251.134.191] said: 450 4.1.1 <honeylocust@blackrimmedmania.info>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: unknown user: "honeylocust@blackrimmedmania.info" (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Jul 20 21:44:38 unix1 postfix/smtp[20381]: 22E187E858: to=<faustian@blackrimmedmania.info>, relay=eforward4.registrar-servers.com[199.204.19.103]:25, delay=170048, delays=170040/0.01/8.1/0.08, dsn=4.1.1, status=deferred (host eforward4.registrar-servers.com[199.204.19.103] said: 450 4.1.1 <faustian@blackrimmedmania.info>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: unknown user: "faustian@blackrimmedmania.info" (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Hi,

I'm attempting to use systat -ifstat to monitor total bandwidth utilization since uptime. It appears to rollover totals to 0 after 4GB or so. Is this a design "feature" or a datatype limitation? Either way, is there any way this can be fixed so that it never rolls over after startup?

I'm looking for drivers to install FreeBSD on Intel's Modular Server. Intel supports Linux but does not support FreeBSD and suggests going to FreeBSD Org for such drivers/guidance. Anyone have experience in this regard? I've noticed vendors marketing the Modular Server with FreeBSD as the OS so it is currently available; the question is who/where.

Hi there

Today I thought about to install tinderbox from ports inside a jail. But I've read "no longer functional in the current infrastructure" about this port.

So for building, packaging and distributing software for jails and servers is tinderbox still a solution? Or is tinderbox deprecated now? Is an alternative available?
I'm using FreeBSD 9 CURRENT now because yesterday the codefreeze has begun.
FreeBSD almost does not ship packages that I could use directly like Apache, PostgreSQL, JAVA. All these needs features like MIT Kerberos or AJP for Apache an no X

cheers
Darko

This isn't a support request on a current port, but I didn't know where else to ask...

I cloned the lightspark-devel port and have been tweaking it to successfully build the 0.5-rc version. Hoping to make small steps of progress, I've been testing only the CLI utility. (Hopefully cutting down on complexity introduced by the browser plugin) At this point the lightspark binary is segfaulting inside ld-elf.so. I've done some debugging of this issue but I was wondering if there were any suggestions for documentation or other resources I should pursue to continue diagnosing the problem.

Here's a little more detail on the steps I took to arrive at this point:
1. Worked to get lightspark 0.5-rc to build outside of ports. There were a few changes to the source needed in addition to the patches supplied by the port.
2. Discovered the libmap settings needed to get lightspark to link to the proper gcc45 libs at runtime
3. Rebuilt lightspark using my updated port with debugging symbols enabled
4. Temporarily installed an ld-elf.so binary with debugging symbols to help track down the issue

The current backtrace leads to symlook_obj:

The obj structure being passed in appears to have some bogus data, at least relating to the other context of the function. If I had to take a wild stab at it, I would guess that it still has to do with stdc++ versions, but my knowledge relating to the topic is frightfully limited.


I appreciate any input you have.

Thanks

Greetings, I have one question. Let say, that I have TP-LINK router. Computer with FreeBSD is connected to the router with cable (RJ45). There is also laptop which is using WiFi to connect to the internet. Normally (I mean connection without router) I'm using DHCP to get my IP address from my ISP. When I'm using router, I have three IP address. One visible on the network (IP from ISP) and two set in the router, e.g 192.168.1.10 for computer with FreeBSD and 192.168.1.11 for laptop. But that's obvious.

So, when I'm writing the PF rules, which (IP) should I use/filtering? That from my ISP or that, which is setting in router? Or I should use the address which is assigned to the network interface? Or always use address from my ISP (visible on the Internet)? No matter, if I'm using a router or not?

I noticed, that when I'm using router to internet connection, PF is blocking less packets when I check pfctl(8) utility. Otherwise, when I'm connected to the internet without using a router (with an assigned IP address from my ISP) it is different. PF is blocking much more packets. It is normal behaviour?

On the router there is firewall enabled with some options, like SYN Flood protection. Maybe router firewall filters now all network traffic?

Hello

I have Postfix, courier_authdaemond, and courier_imap running with virtual email addresses (currently two domains on the server). Email is coming and going fine. I want to implement a spam and anti-virus solution into the mix. Everytime I try (and have tried a couple of different products) I am unable to get postfix to process the mail so I comment out the changes and restart postfix.

Does anyone have a good wiki or instructions (without missing steps) for how to turn on spamassassin, amavis, and claimav (or a better alternative) within this kind of setup?

Thanks

Sorry if this question already and weak in English.
LAN Card installed, the DEC / Intel 21143 and clones 10/100 Ethernet (quard ports) with the error report.
Operate on a FreeBSD 8.2 i386 mainboard atom D425KT, LAN card can be installed on a PCI 32bit, pci-X active, mainboard atom D425KT slot Pci only 1 slot@ 32 bit.
Use the ifconfig command to see that appearing macadress = ff: ff: ff: ff: ff: ff on dc0, dc1.
The dc2, dc3 work normally.
Try to disable ACPI, it has the same effect.
Then test deployment on the Windows xp, 7 use a normal 4 port same mainboard.

Greetings. I cannot configure automountig of k800's memory stick under freebsd 8.2-release. According do thisthread, there is some issue with power_on delay, which is not enough for SE. After plugging in the phone dmesg says:
Then I choose file transfer mode:
There is two new devides appears in /dev:
da0 (phone memory)
da1 (memory card)

But there is no partitions shown up, so I cannot manage them. Googling around I've found that partition /dev/da1s1 appears after issuing command # mount /dev/da1 /mnt/usb

Also I've noticed, that I can reset state of usb device, it helps either:
# usbconfig -u 0 -a 2 reset
$ ls /dev/da*
When I done that, I can mount both storages using KDE device notifier or Dolphin. How should I configure devd to execute "reset" command automaticaly? Or maybe there is some better solution exists?

Hi there

I was wondering me that on a fresh installation after I've installed Grub2 from ports no support about ZFS is available.

breaks because no zfs module here :(

Will there comes somthing about that in the future? Or should I use Grub2 from the project-pages?

Hello,

I work with a network simulation program with an extra module called OMNeT and oppBSd. In this module the freebsd tcp/ip stack has been implemented.

how and where I can write the mac and IP address of the Destination dierektly in source code "route.c" assign, so that the route initialized without sending an arp query?
In this program one can not enter the mac and ip address by "arp-s", because the simulator happens in a virtual field of OMNeT.

I've been looking for a Documation of the source code in web but not found, can someone please tell me, where can i find such doumentation?

I look forward to your help and thanks in advance!

Hello,

When I do # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew/ort) version|total install'

The output is this :
So I guess there are no updates.

But when I do # portmaster -na then this is the output:
Now it looks if there are updates.

Can anyone explain me the difference.

Roelof

Hello all,

I am unsure what if anything I have done to disable my ability to switch virtual terminals using alt + f-keys. Is there a setting in the kernel config that may change this such as the SC_PIXEL_MODE option, VESA, or something I may have set in my .cshrc? I am at a loss, becasue I have seen this once I installed X, but never before X has been installed. I am using 8.2 Current.

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I have written a backup script, which creates a tar.gz of a dir.
The dir contains different file types mostly about 10MB all together we have about 60GiB of data.

Now tar should tape this together and compress it then with gzip. The archive gets the date as name and is now parked for about 30 days in an extra backup dir.

So much to theory. The script works properly with GNU/Linux but under FreeBSD there many issues.

I have found now that the issue is a tar issue, the rest of the script works good and the script is even listet in the cron logs.


There was until now only one time where the script worked proberly but until now I couldn't locate any new backups.
When I execute the script manuelly I see how tar is already working but at the end something everytime makes tar to fail.
I know this because the script ends with:
And the server is always on when I come back....

Sry for the awful english, Regards

Hi.

I'm having trouble building graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4 on 8.1:

Any ideas?

With thanks,
Ohle

Hello guys.

I just start learn freebsd,and i want to ask help.
Is it possible in network whith proxy server create rule for one computer conection to internet without proxy

Hi community,

I am using freebsd 8.2 with the steam port. I installed linux_base-f10 from ports collection, too. Linux procfs is mounted and working. The gameservers are configured with the right ips. These ips are set in the rc.conf and are reachable via other services.

If I start my gameservers (cs and css), there are no errors, so I guess the problem is not to find here. No errors while compiling the ports, too.

Netstat tells me that the gameservers are listening on the defined ips/ports. The only port that is marked as "open" by nmap by an extern pc is 27015 of the css server. If I try to connect or add it to the favorites, it can not be found.

There is no firewall running at the server. Each gameserver has it own ip and they are both listening on port 27015 on their ip.

Ideas what could cause this? Maybe anything related to the linux base?

Regards
Jay

Hello Dear FreeBSD Guru's ~ I Glad To Be Here ~ I'm New Unix User FreeBSD I Tried For one week in virtualbox but now i want to install FreeBSD to be as default desktop on my laptop
i use Linux two year's ago , ubuntu , debian , fedora , slackware ,

but one thing i want to know about it can i install openbox ? or old gnome (Gnome2 Not Gnome3) Can any One Give Some Links Before That ~ Also Can I Programming Under GPL Licenses ?
Using FreeBSD ~ & My English Is Not Good Much For Give Me ~ :)

I downloaded the FreeBSD 8.2 release for i386 and successfully installed it on my Dell desktop. So here are my noob questions...

1. I thought there was a GUI? My install is all command prompt.
2. If there is a GUI, how do I install it?
3. How can get from the $ prompt to the # prompt and what is the difference?

I'm sure I'll think of more questions later. Thanks.

hi guys,
i'm a newbie on FreeBSD.
my laptop is thinkpad x201i, i follow the handbook, have install FreeBSD
8.2 on it.
i find there must be some problem on the Xorg or the video card driver.

the problemes are:
1, on the firefox, when i look a long page, the page's slippage is very lag
2, use the mplayer play just a small resolving capability film, not 720p or 1080p, the mplayer will show "system slow to play"

and the X's cpu% is always high,especially make a big software int a xterm.

please help me,
which video card driver should i download and how config the xorg.

thx :e

Just wanted to find out other people's impressions of the power consumption/power efficiency of computers running FreeBSD vs other OSes. Based on my limited testing(possibly flawed), my impressions is that FreeBSD has ended up not faring so well vs Windows7 and Ubuntu, and wanted to see if other people have experience the same or suggest any tweaks I can make.

Built a rig with following components:

• Intel G620 CPU (Sandybridge)
• Intel DH67GD motherboard
• 2 x 2gb Kingston RAM
• Seasonic 330W power supply

The above setup is running headless, so no keyboards/mice/display devices are connected. For testing purposes, no HDDs are connected internally(to be used for RAID later)

I tested with the following OSes:

1. FreeNAS 8 (based off FreeBSD 8), with powerd running - 31W
2. FreeNAS 7 (based off FreeBSD 7), with powerd running - 31W
3. Windows 7 Ultimate - 23W
4. Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 - 28W(with display/keyboard/mouse connected). Believe this is <25W with the peripherals disconnected.

I realise that FreeNAS is only a derivative of FreeBSD and haven't tested with the latest version of vanilla FreeBSD yet,but I reckon it'll still be similar to the figures I'm getting with FreeNAS.

Is FreeBSD just known as not so power efficient? I would have assumed that it would be better than a bloated beast like Win7....

Would appreciate any thoughts.

What gives? No one is using Amarok or gimp? How can I get these programs to install?

I have an HP Envy 3D laptop with FreeBSD 8.2-Release and Xort 7.5 from the AMD64 DVD.

I cannot start X - I get a core dump.

Any ideas?

tomdean

As root:

But, xorg.conf.new was created.