Re: pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

2014-11-03 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 11/3/2014 9:50 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I simply do periodic(8) weekly runs of pkg version -vRl\ to catch any port that has not been updated due to being locked. On option to only report locked packages would simplify this and looks to me like it would be pretty easy to add, but unless you

Re: android bsd connectivity tools etc ?

2014-08-27 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/13/2014 9:21 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: It looks like mass storage was hidden in 4.0 and maybe removed after 4.2. Try searching the android app store for usb mass storage. Android supports MTP over USB 2.0 and 3.0. It also has backward compatibility for PTP. Support for MTP is a bit rocky

Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

2014-07-31 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 7/29/2014 3:18 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Darren, On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 09:36:06PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: D Never mistake silence for consent. D D The vast majority of people don't know pf is outdated and broken on D FreeBSD because they don't know what they're missing and likely

Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

2014-07-19 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 7/18/2014 6:51 AM, Franco Fichtner wrote: c) We never got the new syntax from OpenBSD 4.7's pf - at the time a long discussion on the pf-mailing list flamed the new syntax saying it would cause FreeBSD administrators too much headache. Today on the list it seems everyone wants it - so

Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

2014-07-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 7/18/2014 4:06 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: K b) We are a major release away from OpenBSD (5.6 coming soon) - is K following OpenBSD's pf the past? - should it be? Following OpenBSD on features would be cool, but no bulk imports would be made again. Bulk imports produce bad quality of port, and

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-25 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2/24/2014 6:56 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: One of the many problems with removing functionality is very well illustrated by what happens now, when you upgrade an pre-10 system running nameserver: you end up without it and eventually without your nameserver database as well. Imagine, one day a

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-25 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2/24/2014 6:56 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 24.02.14 13:47, Thomas Mueller wrote: I don't believe BSD users use base system of itself to send and receive email. They use ports (FreeBSD) or equivalent in other BSDs. One of the beauties of the BSD 'base system' is that upon installation

Re: libinit idea

2014-02-23 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2/23/2014 10:31 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: The main developer for systemd is very anti-portability and anti-!Linux. He had actively rejected patches that made his projects work on non-Linux systems. In order to port systemd to a non-Linux system, he wants you to first implement every Linux

Re: freebsd-update

2014-01-24 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 1/24/2014 11:31 AM, Mark Felder wrote: I agree with the rest of this thread. This is just awful. I'm basically forced to do source based updates when jumping major versions because freebsd-update is a nightmare to use. I've yet to go through a freebsd-update process that didn't require a

Re: PACKAGESITE spam

2013-12-22 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 12/22/2013 6:00 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote: Adrian Chadd said: The point is that some people like an audit trail. The audit trail for some people involves remote logging of syslog messages to a log host. This would include when packages are installed. There are two more: 1. When a port was

Re: PACKAGESITE spam

2013-12-21 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 12/21/2013 1:05 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 02:54:39PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote: It did not ask how to stop this stupidity. I asked to have this stupidity stopped by default. The spewing of this information in /var/log/messages

Re: dhclient can't limit bpf descriptor?

2013-12-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 12/14/2013 12:12 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: Opened up an old VM from a month or so ago (r257910) and dhclient won’t start. Specifically, dhclient complains (when run by root): “can’t limit bpf descriptor: Bad address” and then immediately exits. Are you running a custom kernel without the

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
At the risk of facetiousness, the nice thing about FreeBSD is that you have to deal with this problem only a few times per year. ;) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe,

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 10/11/2013 7:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: ... Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one supposed to use in its place? Use host. nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecated for

Re: expanding past 1 TB on amd64

2013-07-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 7/16/2013 2:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: ... The Haswell line of CPUs is widely reported to support DIMMs twice as large, and it's due in September. That would make the systems of late 2013 hold up to 1536GB of memory. I'd point you at stuff like the Supermicro X8BQ6 series of mainboards. QP

Re: announcing mdoc.su, short manual page URLs

2013-02-19 Thread Darren Pilgrim
One of the really cool things Constantine didn't mention is the entire site is just the nginx config! It's done with what some might consider slight abuses of rewrite rules, but it does mean the whole thing is completely memory resident. The full config on github is definitely worth a read.

Re: DHCP server in base

2010-09-25 Thread Darren Pilgrim
M. Warner Losh wrote: It would be very convenient to have this particular thing in the base, and we shouldn't be too dogmatic about never having any new 3rd party things in the base. Please no, don't add optional servers to the base. I already don't like sendmail, bind, ntpd and inetd in

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003.11.16 09:46:47 -0500, Robert M.Zigweid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2003, at 12:10 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote: I just committed a patch to change /bin and /sbin from statically to dynamically linked. If you don't like the idea of using a dynamically linked /bin and /sbin,

Re: How do put an ATA disk into sleep/standby mode?

2003-09-13 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003.09.13 01:16:16 -0700, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Pilgrim wrote this message on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 17:55 -0700: In my workstation, running 5.1-R, I have two disks, one containing FreeBSD, the other Windows. Since the Windows disk isn't used at all when

How do put an ATA disk into sleep/standby mode?

2003-09-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
In my workstation, running 5.1-R, I have two disks, one containing FreeBSD, the other Windows. Since the Windows disk isn't used at all when in FreeBSD, I would like to put it into standby or sleep mode (whichever is necessary) to make it spin down, reducing heat and noise production--both of

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003.09.08 14:54:37 -0700, Jason Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a feature to be documented.) In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or

Re: Invalid partition table error when creating more than oneslice during install?

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003-08-11, at 00:41:57, Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't

Re: Invalid partition table error when creating more than oneslice during install?

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't understand. The disk layout I want should look like this: s1: 20gb, FreeBSD s2: 10gb, Windows s3: ~83gb

Invalid partition table error when creating more than one sliceduring install?

2003-08-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't understand. The disk layout I want should look like this: s1: 20gb, FreeBSD s2: 10gb, Windows s3: ~83gb (the rest of the disk), data The partition, label, and install process all seems to work fine. However, when I reboot,

'Hard error reading fsbn' in 5.1 but not 5.0?

2003-07-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Just now, my 120GB western digital, immediately upon the mounting of all filesystems during startup, made a faint click, then my screen filled with errors of the form: ad6: hard error reading fsbn -# of -#--# error=10 That's not an exact quote, of course, since the messages scrolled by so fast I

New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs

2003-02-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
When I add a new slice or partition to a disk, the device files don't automatically appear in /dev. If I reboot, it shows up, but having to reboot twice just to add a filesystem to a running disk is absurd. How do I make /dev automatically add these devices upon creation? Failing that, how do I

Re: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs

2003-02-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim writes: When I add a new slice or partition to a disk, the device files don't automatically appear in /dev. If I reboot, it shows up, but having to reboot twice just to add a filesystem to a running disk is absurd. How do I

Re: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs

2003-02-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim writes: When I add a new slice or partition to a disk, the device files don't automatically appear in /dev. If I reboot, it shows up

Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joerg Wunsch writes: Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The above practices have worked fine for a long time in 4.x and still do even in 4.7p4, which is on this same machine. Get Matthew N. Dodd's patch at: ftp://ftp.jurai.net

Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I've been trying to move the installed OSes around on my hard disk, but am having a huge amount of trouble doing so. The task involves dd'ing the slices off the disk for safe-keeping, modifying the on-disk slice table, then dd'ing the slices back onto the disk in their new locations. However,

5.0-R freezing on kernel probe with Toshiba laptop?

2003-02-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S207 laptop. When I boot the generic 5.0-R kernel from a fresh install (fresh as in initial reboot), it will show the device lines for agp0 then hang indefinitely, requiring that I turn off the machine via the power button. This is a repeating event, and occurs

Re: How to build -current and install to empty slice?

2003-01-22 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Ray Kohler wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:05:37PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: How do tell make to use /5/usr/obj instead of /usr/obj? Will MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/5/usr/obj do this? I have more questons: Can I force make to ignore /etc/make.conf and /etc/defaults/make.conf and read another

Re: How to build -current and install to empty slice?

2003-01-19 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first question is a bit tougher. Not at all. Just prepare the slice so that it contains at least an 'a' partition (so you can boot from it), mount the fresh partitions in the correct places in relation to eachother

How to build -current and install to empty slice?

2003-01-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I'd like to try out -current, however I'm not willing to clobber by working 4.7 install. How do build -current on 4.7p3 away from my RELENG_4_7 source, then install to a seperate, pre-partitioned slice? Is it ok to create the filesystems with 4.7p3's newfs? Also, how do I cvsup a developer

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Matt Dillon wrote: Thanks to my dear friend Warner Losh. I've decided to leave FreeBSD and flame in another project. Maybe I could join OpenBSD, the seem to share my views on how to deal with other people. I hereby give maintainership of all my code to Warner, or, whoever wants it, for that