our succinct answers.
I took it back off and commented out the line I added to
/etc/fstab so it can be brought back temporarily when needed but
isn't just sitting there waiting for lightning to strike.
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Thank you for any help.
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Alex Zbyslaw writes:
>Looks to me like you've taken away x bit for other (otherwise the t
>would be lower case). x permission on directories allows you to search
>that directory.
>
>Try chmod o+x /var/tmp (as root).
Thank you! I did and the T changed to t, fixing the
permission problem
Features=0x3febfbff
Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1041784832 (993 MB)
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is variable set. At least you don't
see it in the output of env.
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Roland Smith writes:
> Maybe the ownership and/or permissions of /usr/share/misc are wrong?
I checked against another system that isn't having any
trouble and found the permissions to be exactly the same. I
then ran strace -e trace=file to see what all it opens when
being run.
Bingo!
stkey algo not supported:
client ssh-rsa, server ssh-dss
Is there a safe way to make this work?
Thank you.
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sts or let
it slide a few days until a better time.
I like the quotation I read once that said that Unix is
a user-friendly operating system. It is just particular about
who it makes friends with.
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Paul Chvostek writes:
> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see
> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so
> happens that most Linux distributions don't have a real sh:
I kind of thought that was the real issue. While
something like
on about dialup lines and terminals, but
this is actually less complex.
Many thanks for any good advice about stty or anything
else that will allow one to use standard devices for this
project.
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opened by the new child.
Excellent ideas from both! Thank you.
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While running an expect script, is it possible to set an
expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable?
I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I
try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like:
set LOGFILENAME [exec echo \$TMPF
lobbers anybody else's file.
All that part is done except for that last part and that
is what you helped with. Many thanks.
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where to go next.
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ns of FreeBSD waited 15 seconds default. I safely
got it down to 1.5 seconds and might have even gotten it shorter
if I really knew how long it took the bus to settle.
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This actually turned out to be a red herring. One of the
things I had to trace was an attempted read from /dev/ttyd0 in
which I was trying to go past the actual read. This appears to
be what thoroughly confused the trace.
There was a logic error in the signal handler which
caused i
I recently built a couple of FreeBSD systems by
installing the operating system for FreeBSD4.7 on the new systems
and then extracting a tar ball taken from the / directory of a
known good system to essentially clone that system to these new
FreeBSD computers.
This appeared to go we
mpt="`echo `\!# "
with exactly the same results.
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lities like installation disks and rescue applications are
always a little tricky because they deal with the system at a
very low level.
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d file on a thumb
drive. When the OS saw it, it would use DHCP to get an address
and then start sshd. No usb drive or no floppy with a passwd
file on it, no network or sshd.
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Thank you. I will get one of those mfs-enabled 8.0 CD's and have
at it. All the boxes we need to upgrade have at least a gig of
RAM so this should be the answer.
Tim Judd writes:
> I'm surprised on how far braille has gotten onto computer systems.
Yes. I am sory that this is a bit off-topi
the way I am trying to set it.
Everything else seems to work correctly. I am getting
the configured interfaces and can ssh in to the root account so
it is almost the way I want it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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of text as soon as I ran
sysinstall. Thank you.
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is nice to know
that sysinstall can be remotely run without too much
strangeness.
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sting is that vi under
Linux, itself, has all the bells, so to speak.
I am getting in to an area in which I know less than I
should so I will stop here.
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esn't work. sysinstall reports that it can't
write the swap space.
fdisk reports a FreeBSD partition and all the others are
shown as free.
Any ideas? Thank you.
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ollowed by / on rest of disk.
Thank you. I wondered about that. I didn't know how
smart the allocater was. Technically, when I defined ad0s1-1 as
being the rest of the disk, nothing else had been defined yet so
that should mean 100% of the disk. That's called thi
Here is the output of fdisk from the drive to be formatted.
*** Working on device /dev/ad0 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=77504 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Let's try a million or so blocks left as swap.
ad0s1-1=ufs 77116032 / 1
#That
x27;t do.
ad0s1-1=ufs 77116032 / 1
ad0s1-2=swap 0
or should it be ad0s1a and ad0s1b?
When using ad0s1a and ad0s1b, there are no error
messages, but it also didn't create the swap partition. Thank you.
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a new piece of hardware during an upgrade or after a lightening
storm when every minute counts. Many thanks.
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the rough parts by a
good script. The challenge is to come up with something that
does not give someone the rope to hang themselves accidentally.
I am lucky in that I have a couple of old systems to do horrible
things to that are too slow and old for anybody else to need.
Again, than
How does one tell sysinstall to use an existing disk that is
already formatted?
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bout sysinstall that I didn't know as well as I thought
I did.
I think I have asked my quota of really dumb questions
for the day. Thanks to all for your patience.
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to
install FreeBSD all over mfs.
The CDROM for installing FreeBSD correctly formats the
drive and installs the OS on that very same box. My first
question is why doesn't the mfs do the same thing?
My second question will be on a separate message.
M
³ ³
³ ³ acd0 ATAPI/IDE CDROM³ ³
³ ³ ufsid/4b6787a7598a9a8bs1a ufsid/4b6787a7598a9a8bs1a ³ ³
Is that line with the ufsid some way to import a file without
having to install a CDROM or some other physical media?
Thanks for your help.
Martin
x
mq[ Press enter or space ]qj
Whatever it is that differs between using mfs to run sysinstall
and the CDROM to also run sysinstall is not obvious, at least to
me.
Sorry for the length of this message and I hope all the
lit
sysinstall can't seem to do the
installation. This does not make sense, but that is the score
right now.
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breaks its idea of the hard drive and where it is.
I have never been so confused about something that
seemed so straight-forward. Thanks for your help.
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from the local console in single-user mode
from the CDROM. I greatly appreciate all the help and welcome
any new ideas, but it appears to be back to the drawing board
for remotely-done upgrades.
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haven't figured out
why but it appears that ftp gets ahead of the ability to store
the files. Whatever it happening, it is now more right than
wrong.
Again, thanks for all your help.
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In the middle
of the United States, it is /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago
copied, not linked, to /etc/localtime.
The goal is to run the script I will build under mfsbsd
and then boot the system in working order as if it had been
installed via sysinstall by someone sitting at a co
S when the reboot happens.
Since you start with no actual drives mounted, you can
reformat the hard drive to however you need it, but you can't
reboot again until there is a working system back on the hard
drive or you just get a warm, humming paperweight. That's when
you need the
:
dd if=mfsboot.img of=/dev/ad0
After that, the reboot will launch mfsbsd and the rest
appears to be manageable.
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re any way to tell the existing
system to boot from /dev/ad0s1b next time? That would solve the
problem completely.
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The boot.config file I thought would boot mfsbsd on what
was the swap partition is not working. On this particular
drive, ad0s1a is the normal FreeBSD partition and ad0s1b is
swap. The idea is to use dd to write the mfsboot.img file to
/dev/ad0s1b and then boot from there. My boot.config f
n that has had
mfsboot.img sprayed on it, fdisk shows the first 3 partitions
as being unused while Partition 4 has a type of 165 or standard
FreeBSD.
I think I am calling the bootloader wrong since the very
same mfsboot image works properly when applied to /dev/ad0. The
only difference is th
s to actually connect the cable to your
FreeBSD computer.
As long as the usb-RS-232 converter actually works and
produces a new ttyUSBx device, the brand is not that critical.
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Chuck Swiger writes:
> Data centers use that for serial connections to stuff like Cisco routers
> and other terminal applications all the time. However, if the device is
> truly RS-232 rather than 422/423, it's nominally out of spec past 50
> meters
> and possibly won't go past 9600 baud.
I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing
seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several
versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the
same principle as described in depenguinator which is software
that lets one use grub in Linux to install FreeBSD on a w
letely rebuild the system
anyway, this would be the last gasp of the present system as it
gets ready to reboot, hopefully with mfsbsd and all hard drives
dismounted.
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out mfsbsd that tells you to just use scp to get the
image over to the target system and then, as root, use dd to
apply it to the boot device. That is not possible unless one
first boots from some other medium.
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done and we reboot to
take advantage of the new patches.
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tall ports before or after
> you update to the latest patch for your release should make absolutely
> no difference.
That is what I suspected but I wanted to start on the
right foot so I thought I would check.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch
command?
I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run
just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out
the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to build a
FreeBSD system on it. The script could
struggling to get out.
In my script, this is not a problem because the mfsboot
CDROM for 32-bit boxes chokes on a 64-bit platform and will not
boot. When on a 64-bit system, it boots like gang busters and
since it installs its own OS, there is no question at all.
Thank you all.
Martin
7;t handle. I
should forward this message to the Mac and there, I can use
safari to handle that message.
Those are the only messages that will need to go through
popd so I need a simple way to feed them in so the Mac can get
them out.
Thanks.
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System
x27;s mail via imap
to retrieve the messages.
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flush.
Doing the same command from a local or even a serial
console works fine and the new rules are installed.
Thanks and maybe I have been using the wrong technique
for reloading firewall rules all along.
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I have just answered part of my own question. If you
background the process as in
sh /etc/rules.fw &
it works. You still get knocked off the remote connection but
the backgrounded process continues to run without a controlling
terminal and completes.
The only remaining part of th
Mark writes:
> You could use "nohup"
That's is a very good idea.
Thanks.
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The Subject is most of the question. We will need to query an
Oracle 10 data base and manipulate data. Is this presently
possible under FreeBSD?
Thank you.
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uery the data base and
look for a given flag that something new is here, pull in what
is new, massage some headers and then send them to another
device. Only the initial retrieval uses the oracle data base,
but it is not a data base we control so we get it from the
Pinnacle server and w
ects a job number, not a process
ID.
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documentation.
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he poster get pointed in the
right direction on the serial console install. That has turned
out to be extremely useful.
The latest Debian Linux disk is also easy to install
serially if you can type on the local keyboard long enough to
type h for help, Enter, and then either
rescue or insta
this is that there has
been a thread on this list about open source software. One
comment I can make is that there is simply not these kinds of
hassles. Commercial sites are too busy looking goo-oo-ood! to be
useful much of the time.
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Michael Powell writes:
> Arghh! Wordwrapping broke it as a link. Try, try, and try again. Sigh
>
> Click here:
Thanks so much. I did catch the word wrap on the first link and
it worked. As I wrote you off list, there is a dependancy that
requires yet another trip through insanity to retrieve that
up frustration. I
don't know whether to laugh or swear.
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ally if it is not your system
that you are experimenting on. You can really mess things up
fast if you get a run-away loop and don't know what it is doing.
Anyway, my thanks to all. I will save your suggestions
because they demonstrate many ways of looking at the same
problem.
Martin Mc
cause that does make it seem to go away but it is really still
hanging around and any lock files it created are not removed.
The effect is about as bad as if it crashed and left lock files.
Normally, CTRL-c makes it remove the locks before exiting.
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INT) so now
either signal makes the application remove the lock and quit
gracefully.
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Mel Flynn writes:
> Agreed. You're solving the wrong problem by mapping CTRL-Z to CTRL-C. The
> questions you should be asking are:
> 1) Why are stale locks bad for the app?
Because if there is one, nobody else in our group can use the
app to assign IP addresses. I made it back in 1993 so that onl
Mel Flynn writes:
> If this is the sole purpose of the program, I would retire it if you're
> using
> ISC provided software for these services. rndc and omshell can do all of
> this
> using atomic operations. Information is gathered first, then sent in one
> block
> to the server, so even if two
ted" and ended.
I can certainly put a timeout in expect but we have been
using this same script, etc, for around 6 years and never had
this problem before so a timeout would just hide whatever has
changed.
My own gut feeling is that the FreeBSD system is fine as
we have no other p
hat's why I love Unix.
So, are there php-based or other packages that help
automate this process?
Many thanks.
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*Plus can be used
with Instant Client. No recompile, no hassle.
Any suggestion? Obviously the php application hasn't
gotten wind of the instantclient yet.
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d
power-down.
The only distribution that does work there is something
called "Oralux" whose development stopped around 4 years ago. It
has software synthesis and it does talk all right, but the sound
card can not record sound and it really is too old to be safe or
very usefu
came right up. Thank
you.
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Randall Wood writes:
> Yes, the program is mandb I think.
That's exactly what I also thought but there is no such program.
I think this may be one of those deprecation cases where the
function is now done some other way. I'll keep digging. Thanks.
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George Davidovich writes:
> If your testpage manpage is located in a man1 directory, it has to be
> named testpage.1 (or gzipped as testpage.1.gz). For a man2 directory,
> the suffix is .2, and so on. Rename the file and I'm sure things will
> work fine.
That was it! T
that
date +%s fails to do?
Nothing is broken, here. I am just curious. Thank you.
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Thanks to those who answered my question. I have discovered in
the process one big difference between the date function in
freebsd and Linux. Under freebsd, date -r 1234567890 or whatever
value you need converts that unsigned long in to the normal date
output set to that reference value. IN Linux,
for any and all useful suggestions. I am not locked in to any
particular software package or solution as long as I can stay ahead of
the unwashed rabble on the information highway.:-)
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Jan Muenther writes:
>BerkeleyDB is free to use - and it's in the ports as well. Don't worry.
Many thanks. I see references to it, but I am not sure what I
have done wrong or need to do to make the configure script in
spamprobe-0.8b find BerkeleyDB.
I found p5-BerkeleyDB so I tho
to make sure
a valid message or someone's complaint message about spam hasn't
mistakenly been dumped there.
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Where is the default execution path set for ssh logins who get
a bash shell?
I thought I knew the answer until I tried to change it on a
system that is giving everyone a path that needs /usr/local/etc in it.
The handbook mentions login.conf which I did modify with no
effec
of the flag?
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ere a sed script or other native application in FreeBSD that
can do this?
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our PBX, used to march []
and various other garbage characters that did look just like
regex. You just had to keep re-dialing until you finally got a
connection that worked.
Thanks to everyone for the help.
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.
I did try path/*.collect.log and nothing happened.
Thanks for any ideas.
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line. See glob(3) for details on syntax and matching
> rules.
I am sorry. It looks like I didn't look closely enough. Many
thanks.
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versa.
Any backup packages using tar would be fine as long as
they can do incremental backups and use ssh as the transport.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Thank you.
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a central server over SSH.
Thanks to each of you. I have actually experimented once
with rsync and I appreciate knowing about rsnapshot. I think one
of these plus dump may serve us well. Again, thanks for your
help.
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tween the
bsd dump and Linux's dump, but it wasn't difficult to get both
to dump one volume containing all the inodes to a file which is
actually a named pipe on the backup server.
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in the port of bash that seemed to set a
path.
The path I do get is perfectly good, but I also want users to
get a shot at /usr/local/etc which isn't in the default path.
Thanks a lot. I almost think I am loosing my magic touch. I
can't find the global PATH setter for bash2
/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/X11R6/bin:~/bin
This appears to correctly modify the behavior in the desired
manner.
Again, many thanks to all who answered.
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an ICMP reply or nobody answering, in
other words, perfectly normal behavior.
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Charles Swiger writes:
>That sounds about right. nslookup is a testing utility which allows
>one to query RRs for string you want, including ones which correspond
>to invalid hostnames.
>
>The underscore is not
with
data in a MSsql data base on yet a different platform.
The only thing I am bewildered about right now is how to or
maybe whether it is possible to access the oracle8I DB?
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