Well, here we go again!

Ports freeze is over and the overnight update of the ports tree results in literally 100s of ports to be updated in order to stay current. Problem is, as it has been the last several cycles, that several of the ports which are dependencies for many others - cairo, for example - are broken or are themselves dependent on broken, vulnerable or deprecated ports. Now I KNOW these problems will be resolved, the sun will continue to shine, the birds will sing and all will be right with the world. But what I find disturbing is that this has become a regular thing, part of the rush to get t

devfs confusion

Can't write to usb devices as a non-root user on 7.2-stable. Have in /etc/devfs.conf: perm da* 0660 own da* root:operator in /etc/devfs.rules: [local=20] add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator in /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset="local" in /etc/sysctl.conf vfs.usermount=1 A user in group operator can mount usb devices, but cannot write to them. The mount point, e.g. /home/someuser/mnt is always set to mode 744 and user root:wheel. What did I miss?

Nvidia driver for AMD64

I'm about to install FreeBSD on a system that would support the AMD64 version, but the proprietary nvidia driver would be a plus :-) The latest version for AMD64 is 195.36.15, released on Mar. 16. If anyone has yet installed it on 8.0, would they care to relate their experiences with it?

Starting vncserver on boot?

I am running FBSD 8.0 on a computer intended as a server, and would like to dispense with the use of a monitor on that computer. I am able to connect to it using Tightvnc on another computer on the LAN that does have a monitor, so this seems like a feasible possibility. However, it would be desirable for vncserver to start on boot on the headless machine, which it presently does not. This is apparently not a service that can be started with rc.d. Once logged in, however, it is only necessary to type "vncserver" to make a remote desktop available. If anyone has suggestions on how to d

ipfw, freebsd 6

Hi, How make forward port ex. local 5000 to external host example.com:9000 and setting timeout (default is 60s per connection) how change it...? R

Need help in hacking FreeBSD used as a control plane on Juniper routers

Hi there, I'm looking for help in hacking FreeBSD used as a control plane on Juniper routers. It is possible to install FreeBSD on ordinary PC or vmware/qemu and then Junos (Juniper Operating System that lays on top of FreeBSD) and have cheap training environment. It is called Olive. The main problem I'm facing now is interface naming. Junos uses interface names like ge-0/0/0 for first gigabit interface, ge-0/0/1 for second and so on. FreeBSD in the other hand uses em0, em1 (for e1000 NICs). Unfortunately Junos depends on interface names and does not allow to configure some of

FreeBSD-SA-10:02.ntpd fails

Hi, what did I miss? [root@ns3 ]# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd [root@ns3 /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd]# make clean && make obj && make depend && make && make install [...] cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../../../contrib/ntp/include -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../ -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../../../contrib/ntp/libopts -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd -DSYS_FREEBSD -DPARSE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DOPENSSL -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector -c version.c make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/../libparse/libparse.a. Stop [root@ns3 /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd

newbie question: Howto install an old FreeBSD version?

Hello, I am new to FreeBSD (coming from linux world). We are running some servers at FreeBSD 6.2 and I have to test something. So I would like to setup another 6.2 machine fpr testing. I have found an iso-image and have installed a minimal 6.2 FreeBSD. Then I would like to add some packages. I have set PACKAGEROOT ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org PACKAGESITE /pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/ to install other packages. But every time I try to install a package like this: pkg_add -r bash I get this error message: pkg_add: can't stat package file 'bash' Please

Port for qt4-corelib broken?

Hello I have just downloaded the port for qt4-corelib. When I run make I am informed that I don't have corelib-4.5.2.tar.gz (notwithstanding that the freebsd ports page from which I downloaded the port says it's 4.6.1???). I am then informed that ftp.freebsd.org doesn't have it either and I should download it by hand. Of course I can't find it at ftp.freebsd.org either... Searching for this file on Google did not produce any valid results. Help! TIA Bernard Higonnet

Two HD with soft RAID1 in a datacenter: GEOM broken on FreeBSD 7.1

Hello, After a mail reading from a 3Gb inbox file (yes I know!), the mail process crashed... kill -9 pid did NOT work! I restarted the server with a clean shutdown... But 2 minutes later, the server is up but no SSH access... The datacenter offers a "rescue manager" with a network boot. I was able to mount the 2 disks, delete the file in /var/mail/ When rebooting with this network boot (other kernel), the dmesg gives me : ad4: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD1A> at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD1A> at ata3-master SATA150 GEOM: ad4s1: geometry doe

Ephemeral ports

Hi, While looking for some valid port configurations, i came across that in Solaris 2.2 by default the ephemeral ports for TCP and UDP start at 32768. Just eager to know the reason of why does it start at 32768 (2 to the power of 15) ? And i wonder why does it not follow the IANA range ? Interestingly, many linux kernels also use the same and why do not they stick towards IANA range ? BSD and Windows stick towards 1024 to 4999 and 1025 to 5000 respectively, while Vista and FreeBSD stick towards IANA range ! Any ideas ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru

CARP over VLAN interfaces

Are there any limitations using CARP over VLAN interfaces in FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE? Every time I set it up, all of the VLAN interfaces stop working, even before I bring the CARP interface up: # VLAN setup ifconfig vlan2 create ifconfig vlan2 vlan 2 vlandev de2 ifconfig vlan2 inet 192.0.2.2/24 ifconfig vlan2 inet 192.0.2.254/24 alias ifconfig vlan2 up Here, VLAN 2 is accessible, via either IP address. # VLAN 6 setup ifconfig vlan6 create ifconfig vlan6 vlan 6 vlandev de2 ifconfig vlan6 inet 192.0.6.2/24 ifconfig vlan6 inet 192.0.6.254/24 alias ifconfig vlan6 up Here, VLAN

Relocating resources with gnu configure

I am looking for a general outline, describing what I need to do to relocate resources, that are built using the gnu ./configure auto build system on a *nix computer. I have a monthly subscription with a shell account. This account allows me to compile and run programs on there server. I have a single user account and do not have access to modify the contents of directories outside of my $HOME directory. So I will need to put the libraries that I build under my home directory. I decided that I would follow the standard of /usr/local directory structure. The only difference would b

Loading FreeBSD 8.0 on a USB drive on a laptop ?

Ok, here's the situation. I have two computers: my FreeBSD desktop, running FreeBSD 7.0 (with a more or less dead monitor), and a laptop running XP (and supporting a lot of stuff that I use extensively, e.g., Photoshop, various video editing tools (virtualdub, avisynth, tmpgenc, etc.), games/simulations (primarily Harpoon), and so on. I use X11 to access the FreeBSD system (which is in another room) from the laptop. Oh, I also do some applications (Tcl/Tk driven) for both Unix and M$ Win, including a freeware hurricane tracker (JStrack) and a freeware brewer's recipe formulator (G

ANDA AKAN MENDAPATKAN BONUS UANG SETIAP HARI

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4-Clause license (BSD License)

Hi, I have been trying to understand the BSD license. It seems that the 4-Clause license is the original license and followed by 3-clause license (New BSD license) And now, a simplified version in the form of 2-clause license (Simplified BSD license). Interesting to know that the BSD License allows proprietary use, and Works based on the material may be released under a proprietary license or as closed source software I wonder why the original BSD license includes a advertising clause ? and Why has it been scrapped later ? I searched the internet, but did not get a clear p

Hardwaresuggestions for ZFS Fileserver

Guys, I'm looking to replace my Mac Mini with a nice FreeBSD ZFS file server solution. The server will be housed in a 4U 19" case, 6 SATA drives (mixture of WD, Seagate and Samsung GreenPower disks) as tank + 2 SATA drives to boot and run 24/7. So far, I'm considering an Intel i3 (probably the 540) with an H55 Express Board (probably the Gigabyte GA-H55-UD3H), 4GB of RAM (maybe 8GB, might depend on my mood to spend money at that date) and one or more PCIe SATA Controller (Dawicontrol DC-310e probably). I've not heard a lot about the H55 and FreeBSD besides some problems with

Cannot shutdown as normal user (X11 / GNOME, FreeBSD 7.2)

Iv'e a problem with X11 / GNOME on FreeBSD 7.2. If this is not the proper group to post this, would you please direct me? I have conigured FreeBSD to start gdm when I boot, and then gdm to log me in as a normal (wheel) user. Everything works out well, except when I want to shutdown the computer, GNOME only gives me the option to 'suspend' or 'hibernate', and all those options acutally do are log me out. The built-in help system directs me to an internet site which returns 404 not found. I have googled the problem, but not found anything relevant. Is there any alternative to # sh

cp1250 and mounting windows volumes

Hello world! :-) Is it possible to mount windows encoded files (codepage CP1250) under FreeBSD? Is the CP1250 locale/encoding supported? I have some troubles reading files created under windows because of the filename encoding (unfortunately a lot of people here create polish name file with spaces in the middle). Best regards, Tomek

FreeBSD Rel 8.0 build failure

I know this has been discussed before (not necessarily here), but here is the error from make buildworld: cc -O2 -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/usr.sbin/config -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -static -L/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib -o config config.o main.o lang.o mkmakefile.o mkheaders.o mkoptions.o kernconf.o -ll -lsbuf -legacy sh /usr/src/tools/install.sh -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 config /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/sbin -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> stage 2.1: cleaning up the object tree -------------------------------

Sound driver

Is there any chance of us ever getting a sound driver for Soundblaster CA106 soundcards? -- mechanic

cdrkit vs. dvd+rw-tools and the dvd iso 4gb max filesize problem

Hello world! Simple and tricky question - who can burn a 4.4GB file to a DVD+/-R disk on his FreeBSD? ;-) I am wondering why FreeBSD still uses obsolete dvd+rw-tools package by default instead of cdrkit. The main disadvantage of the dvd+rw-tools is that it is based on a mkisofs and so it cannot write files larger than 4GB to a DVD/Bluray disks (the same is for creating iso images). Due to some licensing problems [1] cdrtools project split up and cdrkit with genisoimage came to the light. After over an hour of googling it turned out that this is the filesize >4GB is a limitation

NFS export of ZFS mount point

Hi I have a drive using ZFS and organised with one mount-point for each home directory like: $ zfs list pool/home 296G 7.63T 140K /pool/home pool/home/user1 229K 7.63T 29.9K /pool/home/user1 pool/home/user2 9.49M 7.63T 513K /pool/home/user2 pool/home/user3 4.43M 7.63T 44.8K /pool/home/user3 pool/home/user4 4.77M 7.63T 120K /pool/home/user4 etc... I'd like to export pool/home and all the sub- mount point at once.. However, when I mount pool/home from the oth

Point-to-point link without PPP on freebsd? Is it possible?

Is it possible to implement a point-to-point link on FreeBSD without using PPP? I'm trying to create a "tappable" link between a fbsd firewall and router that can be used to monitor multiple networks (connected to the router) using Snort. I realize that I could just as easily use a /30, but I'm just curious if it could be done with a /31 not using PPP. NAT for the internet connection is performed by the firewall Here is a rude drawing of the network (hopefully Google Groups, doesnt distort it too much). Internet -----> Firewall --------------------> Router -----> 3 subnets

what happened to ttyd0

Greetings, I just upgraded a Sun v20z AMD box from FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE to 8.0- STABLE and ran into some unexpected problems. The v20z has a ALOM that I can ssh too and connect to the console and run the upgrade in single user mode. After booting into the FreeBSD 8.0 kernel, I have no getty running on ttyd0. So after my panic attack subsided, I re- started the thing and let it boot to multiuser, I ssh'd in and finished the upgrade in multiuser mode. I have alot to do, upgrade all the ports, etc but its looking okay for the most part. My question is, what happened to ttyd0, its n