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DaemonForums http://www.daemonforums.org// BSD discussion forums en Thu, 17 May 2012 15:37:16 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daemonforums.org/images/misc/rss.jpg DaemonForums http://www.daemonforums.org// Other Nagios fork Icinga 1.7 released http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7144&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 22:36:06 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1577673 ---Quote--- Icinga lead developer Michael Friedrich has announced the release of version 1.7 of the Icinga... From http://h-online.com/-1577673

Quote:

Icinga lead developer Michael Friedrich has announced the release of version 1.7 of the Icinga open source network monitoring system, a fork of Nagios.

]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7144 Issues with cas* driver http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7143&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 18:40:49 GMT I'm relatively new to the OpenBSD scene, so here it goes:

I have a pair of Sun Cassini Quad Port Gigabit adapters in an x86 box. The issue is the MAC address seems to disappear in OpenBSD. I never had this issue with FreeBSD or Gentoo.

Here's a snippit:

Code:

ppb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci2 at ppb0 bus 8

ppb1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci3 at ppb1 bus 10

cas0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 5, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi0 at cas0 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

cas1 at pci3 dev 1 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 15, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi1 at cas1 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

ppb2 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci4 at ppb2 bus 9

cas2 at pci4 dev 2 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 13, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi2 at cas2 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

cas3 at pci4 dev 3 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 14, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi3 at cas3 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

ppb3 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci5 at ppb3 bus 5

ppb4 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci6 at ppb4 bus 7

cas4 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 6, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi4 at cas4 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

cas5 at pci6 dev 1 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 14, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi5 at cas5 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

ppb5 at pci5 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 21154AE/BE PCI-PCI" rev 0x00

pci7 at ppb5 bus 6

cas6 at pci7 dev 2 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 15, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi6 at cas6 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

cas7 at pci7 dev 3 function 0 "NS Saturn" rev 0x30: apic 5 int 13, address 00:00:00:00:00:00

gentbi7 at cas7 phy 0: Generic ten-bit interface, rev. 0

Any ideas on why this is happening? ]]> OpenBSD General Simba7 http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7143 PostgreSQL 9.2 beta improves scalability, adds JSON http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7139&goto=newpost Tue, 15 May 2012 21:13:07 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1573815 ---Quote--- The beta release of version 9.2 of the open source PostgreSQL database has been announced by the... From http://h-online.com/-1573815

Quote:

The beta release of version 9.2 of the open source PostgreSQL database has been announced by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, promising major improvements in performance that enable better horizontal and vertical scalability. One new optimisation – index-only scanning – allows searches to avoid reading the underlying tables and instead search only the indexes; index only scanning happens automatically but there are a number of caveats to its effectiveness. It is claimed though that it will, for most use cases and data warehousing, provide "an order-of-magnitude performance improvement".

]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7139 FreeBSD FreeBSD 10 will be using Clang instead of GCC http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7138&goto=newpost Tue, 15 May 2012 21:10:48 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1575954 ---Quote--- The FreeBSD developers have announced that they are using the LLVM compiler with the Clang front... From http://h-online.com/-1575954

Quote:

The FreeBSD developers have announced that they are using the LLVM compiler with the Clang front end to replace GCC as the project's default C and C++ compiler for the FreeBSD 10 release.

Clang is now installed by default for FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE (the current version of the distribution) and FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT, which will be the next release. All official kernel variants for FreeBSD 10 have also been successfully compiled using Clang and the developers are working to extend this to custom kernel configurations.

]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7138 Openbsd 5.1 review on Distrowatch.com http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7137&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 11:54:25 GMT As a relative newcomer to Openbsd, I decided to write a review of the 5.1 release for Distrowatch.com from a desktop user's perspective. Openbsd has come a long way in terms of improved hardware support and ease of setup and my experience has been very positive.
The review is at Distrowatch.com in their news section. I would post the url but the forum software does not allow new members to post urls. Perhaps one of you would be kind enough to post it in a reply in this thread.

Have fun
Ralph Ellis ]]> OpenBSD General RalphEllis http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7137 FreeBSD FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012 http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7136&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 04:06:35 GMT Code: --------- Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March 2012. It is the first of the four...

Code:

Introduction



   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March

   2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This

   quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD,

   9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. The

   FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of

   Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIXŽ operating

   system. Our release engineering team has been also busy with

   preparation of the 8.3-RELEASE, which was publicly announced in April.



   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report

   contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.



   Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period

   between April and June 2012 is July 15th, 2012.

     __________________________________________________________________



Projects



     * FreeBSD Services Control

     * GNU-Free C++11 Stack

     * Growing filesystems online

     * The FreeNAS Project



User-land Programs



     * Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System

     * Replacing the Regular Expression Code

     * The bsdconfig(8) utility



FreeBSD Team Reports



     * Release Engineering Team Status Report

     * The FreeBSD Foundation Team Report



Kernel



     * DTrace Probes for the linuxulator

     * HDMI/DisplayPort Audio Support in HDA Sound Driver (snd_hda)

     * Improved hwpmc(9) Support for MIPS

     * isci(4) SAS Driver



Network Infrastructure



     * Atheros 802.11n Support

     * IPv6 Performance Analysis

     * Multi-FIB: IPv6 Support and Other Enhancements



Documentation



     * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project



Architectures



     * FreeBSD/arm on Various TI Boards

     * FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ DPAA

     * NAND File System, NAND Flash Framework, NAND Simulator

     * Porting DTrace to MIPS and ARM



Ports



     * A New linux_base Port Based Upon CentOS

     * BSD-licensed sort Utility (GNU sort Replacement)

     * KDE/FreeBSD

     * Perl Ports Testing

     * The FreeBSD Haskell Ports

     * The FreeBSD Ports Collection

See the complete report at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ay/001420.html ]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7136 Handwriting recognition http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7135&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 03:42:25 GMT I have a Thinkpad X41 tablet, currently running Linux because xf86-input-wacom doesn’t (currently) run on OpenBSD. What are some useful programs for... I have a Thinkpad X41 tablet, currently running Linux because xf86-input-wacom doesn’t (currently) run on OpenBSD. What are some useful programs for working with tablet input and/or handwriting recognition?

For taking notes in class or writing on PDFs, Xournal works pretty well. You can write on top of any PDF, and export the result as PDF, making it useful for signing forms (instead of the typical “download, print, fill out, scan, email” cycle). It doesn’t do any handwriting recognition, though.

Another program I’ve found useful for identifying Japanese characters is KanjiPad (OpenBSD/FreeBSD japanese/kanjipad, pkgsrc misc/kanjipad).

I’ve found some web apps that do handwriting recognition as well. I’d like to find native apps that replace them, to avoid being reliant on external servers, internet connection, and a bloated web browser.

shapecatcher: finds a Unicode character.
Ajax Hwr: finds a Japanese character. Like KanjiPad but recognizes kana too.
Web Write: converts written sentences to plain text.
Web Equation: converts handwriting to LaTeX or MathML.
Detexify: like Web Equation but only does single LaTeX characters. Source code available.

]]> General software and network backrow http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7135 <![CDATA["Lightweight" TeX setup for NetBSD 5]]> http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7134&goto=newpost Sun, 13 May 2012 21:03:04 GMT For TeX typesetting, just plain TeX is enough for my purposes. I don't use LaTeX, nor do I want to download a full teTeX installation. I find the following set of packages is sufficient:

Code:

dialog

dvipsk

ghostscript

ghostscript-fonts

jpeg

kpathsea

lcms

libpaper

perl

png

poppler

ptexenc

t1lib

tex-amsfonts

tex-amsfonts-doc

tex-cm

tex-cm-doc

tex-dvips                                                                                          tex-hyphen-base

texlive-tetex

tex-misc

tex-plain

tex-tetex

tex-tex

tex-tex-gyre-doc

tex-texlive.infra

tiff

web2c

xdvik

xz

This provides plain TeX, xdvi, mf, dvips and ps2pdf. This set of packages is "complete" in that it has no other package dependencies. As the pkgsrc collection is continually being changed, the necessary packages may not be the same by the time you read this.

The total size of the .tgz files for these packages is about 55 MB, which is "lightweight" compared to teTeX which weighs in at 237 MB.

For context, the above works on NetBSD 5.1.2 release i386, and I suspect it should work for any NetBSD 5.*. I have not tried 6 beta. The packages are available from:

http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/p.../i386/5.0/All/ ]]> Guides IdOp http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7134 issue with /tmp .. resizing failed .. how to nuke it and create a new one ? http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7133&goto=newpost Sun, 13 May 2012 13:17:03 GMT Hi ! /tmp issue was discussed here (http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=7112) I was unable to resize /tmp with disklabel using c... Hi !

/tmp issue was discussed
here

I was unable to resize /tmp with disklabel using c option (can't write label)
There was a good suggestion from Denta :

Quote:

An easy fix would be to just nuke that partition, make a smaller /tmp and then a new partition for storage.

I'm not sure how to proceed .. for fear of messing up things & lose the big/full 500g disk , I hope you'll help me out.
Thanks you very much ! ]]> OpenBSD General daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7133 <![CDATA[[Solved] question about echo with sudo]]> http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7132&goto=newpost Sat, 12 May 2012 17:36:39 GMT /etc/mk.conf doesn't work. # echo "USE_SYSTRACE=Yes" > /etc/mk.conf works. Why does 'echo'...]]> Hi !
$ sudo echo "USE_SYSTRACE=Yes" > /etc/mk.conf
doesn't work.
# echo "USE_SYSTRACE=Yes" > /etc/mk.conf
works.

Why does 'echo' disregard sudoing ? ]]> OpenBSD General daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7132 could mixing packages and ports problematize system integrity in this case ? http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7131&goto=newpost Fri, 11 May 2012 21:13:25 GMT Hi everybody ! Could mixing packages and ports problematize system intergrity/stability when upgrading the OS and a few packages while still... Hi everybody !

Could mixing packages and ports problematize system intergrity/stability when upgrading the OS and a few packages while still keeping compiled ports comparatively older (ie, ports tree) ?
(Please correct me if my question is *false* or ill-founded or .... ) ]]> OpenBSD Packages and Ports daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7131 any console-mode alternative to ip2nation.com http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7130&goto=newpost Thu, 10 May 2012 15:50:41 GMT Hi everyone ! Can you think of any console-based alternative utility to http://www.ip2nation.com ? Hi everyone !

Can you think of any console-based alternative utility to http://www.ip2nation.com ? ]]> General software and network daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7130 turning on more ttys .. http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7129&goto=newpost Thu, 10 May 2012 15:44:49 GMT Hi ! Is it an insecure practice on my part to turn on more ttys ? Much thanks to you ! Hi !

Is it an insecure practice on my part to turn on more ttys ?

Much thanks to you ! ]]> OpenBSD General daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7129 AC adapters .. when are they harmlessly exchangeable ? http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7128&goto=newpost Thu, 10 May 2012 15:36:21 GMT Hi everybody! As a general rule, we must use the right AC adapter for the right machine .. Sometimes,though, we are obliged to break the rule... Hi everybody!

As a general rule, we must use the right AC adapter for the right machine .. Sometimes,though, we are obliged to break the rule because we miss the thing in nearby stores ..
When would such a replacement be harmless ? when would it cause overheat ? or fire even ?
(for instance : replacing Titanium AC Adapter with ibook's or the other way round .. replacing dell's with compaq's .. voltage is the often same but slight differences exist in Watt outputs ) ]]> General Hardware daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7128 why does it fail to create drawable ? http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7127&goto=newpost Thu, 10 May 2012 15:35:46 GMT Hi !

It keeps saying "failed to create drawable" each time I start firefox when on fvwm.I wonder why it's the case with firefox (only) .. do I miss any related lib or something ? ]]> OpenBSD General daemonfowl http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7127