On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:23:37AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
in /etc/src.conf - WITHOUT_LPR=yes
and these symbolic links in /usr/bin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 Mar 18 2009 /usr/bin/lp -
/usr/local/bin/lp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Mar 18 2009 /usr/bin/lpoptions -
Just fwiw (probably nothing), I'd like to express a strong yes please
vote for a move in this direction.
I currently use djb's daemontools to manage qmail and dnsserver+tinydns,
and am pretty sure that I'm going to migrate the rest of my
/usr/local/etc/rc.d services under there too, now that I
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:39:49PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
Mind you, I do agree that it would be very nice if we [the
industry] could figure out benchmarking tactics which did
not depend on the knowledge level of the person doing the
benchmark. It would also be really nice to see
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:52:57AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
I'd leave the bug alone, pending real enlightenment...
Me too. I've never met a command name with an = in it.
By the way, who uses env(1) anyway? In the past twenty years, I've only
ever used it as shorthand for printenv(1).
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:49:21PM +, Terry Lambert wrote:
There is _no_ performance problem with the existing implementation,
if you treat postgres as the existing implementation; it will do
what you want, quickly and effectively, for millions of record keys.
Does postgres make a good
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:25:16PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
One of my personal mail folders has 4400 messages in it, and
I've only been collecting that one for a few years. It's not
millions, but its a few more than the 500 that I've seen some
discuss here as a reasonable limit (why
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:17:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
the life of all users of the system simpler. There's no real
excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of
files.
One of the things that I've always liked about Unix was that
there aren't as many arbitrary limits on
On 25 May, Greg Black wrote:
This is just not true. For the vast majority of the systems
that have ever been called Unix, attempting to put millions of
files into a directory would be an utter disaster. No ifs or
buts. It might be nice if this were different, although I see
no good reason
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010206 12:07] wrote:
Does sendmail even use fsync()?
It better. :)
Quick grep of the sendmail sources shows most of the six fsync
calls protected by a flag (SuperSafe or nofsync ). I
One big difference of the P4 is the SSE2 instructions and
registers. It's now reasonable to ignore the old floating point
stack altogether, and do floating point work with the SSE
register file, getting the SIMD speed up where that's useful.
(Because sse can now do doubles as well as floats.)
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
PS. Before this starts a flame war, let me say that I really believe
that MacOS X is a very good thing for everyone involved, although the
choice of Mach for the microkernel seems a little arbitrary if not
misguided.
It's
Has any more come of this?
I've just started playing with LADSPA (The Linux Audio
Developer's Simple Plugin API http://www.ladspa.org) on my
FreeBSD 4-STABLE box, and run into a similar problem.
This is an entirely C API, and the demonstration applications
are all straight C, but some of the
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:00:46PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
No, that's the one case where they help. But people aren't trying to
squeeze whole systems into small disks anymore;
Really? News to me...
Well, even if there are/were folk who want tiny disk footprints,
and crunching
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 03:09:49AM -0400, Sean Lutner wrote:
I install Star Office 5.2 on my 4.0-STABLE box tonight. I didn't use
ports. I ahve linux emulation enabled. I got the bin file, ran it and it
installed.
The only quirk I hit was the location Star Office looks for test in.
It
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 12:47:38PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bjoern Fischer writes:
: Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt),
: turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine
: to another location, then
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:36:14PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes:
: Maybe I'm wrong because of lack of my understanding on crush dump and
: loader. Please help us :-)
I think that you
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes:
: That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to
: user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through
: a regular boot process? At leas
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:30:55PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
(*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process
dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just
ensuring that all processes are sleeping
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie.
leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a
lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:03:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Apr 26), Sheldon Hearn said:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:05:23 MST, Brooks Davis wrote:
Is FreeBSD's behavior correct? Why or why not? You can use the
included code snippet to verify that this occurs.
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
[open source is irrelevant because none but but the authors can
really fix things]
[open source _means_ that it's never finished]
[the existing commercial support sucks]
Seems like a pretty pointless and content-free set of remarks to
be
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:14:34AM -0500, Dennis wrote:
At 09:19 AM 3/13/00 +1300, Joe Abley wrote:
I have yet to find a "real product" with good documentation.
I hate when these discussions get so out of context. The original point
regarded source code, and whether it was useful enough to
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:45:44PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
On 06-Mar-00 Doug Barton wrote:
All that said, if the ports make system depends on the current
behavior, it has to be fixed before we can contemplate any changes.
Patches accepted.
The construction
set --
Hi Wes,
On 07-Dec-99 Wes Peters wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
Software
is created by humans, and humans are fallible, therefore the
software is also fallible.
No, that doesn't logically follow. Just because it's possible
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
Software
is created by humans, and humans are fallible, therefore the software
is also fallible.
No, that doesn't logically follow. Just because it's possible
for humans to make mistakes doesn't mean that it's impossible to
do or
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:09:13AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after
my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I
"subscribe to" has changed,
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:52:36AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
While we're talking about making package handling easier for
newbies, I'd like to present two simple shell scripts that I
wrote quite some time ago. Yeah, I know I could send-pr this,
but I'm not sure if they're really worth it
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:47:21PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
* Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990912 13:05]:
I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see
http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle
problems with this:
- GHC
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 02:47:21PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
* Simon Marlow (simon...@microsoft.com) [990912 13:05]:
I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see
http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle
problems with this:
-
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
It's even "easier" :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
Disabled
no automatic restart on power failure
You _should_ be able to change this.
none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as
routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill...
You
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
It's even easier :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
maex-listn
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
Disabled
no automatic restart on power failure
You _should_ be able to change this.
none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as
routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill...
You
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :).
On a different topic, does anyone know of a good X mailer
(currently I am using exmh) :
There aren't any. :-) (depends on your value of "good")
1. user friendly
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :).
On a different topic, does anyone know of a good X mailer
(currently I am using exmh) :
There aren't any. :-) (depends on your value of good)
1. user friendly
2.
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:00:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warren
Welch writes:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm
:
: Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort
: of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards
: that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa?
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
Supporting winmodems
btw would be nice, although i doubt manufacturers will give us their code.
That might not be necessary, eventually. I've heard, obliquely,
of a project to develop "open source" modem (data pump) software
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
Supporting winmodems
btw would be nice, although i doubt manufacturers will give us their code.
That might not be necessary, eventually. I've heard, obliquely,
of a project to develop open source modem (data pump) software
that
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:00:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message 4.2.0.58.19990906100437.04bf3...@arthur.intraceptives.com.au
Warren Welch writes:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm
:
: Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort
: of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards
: that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa?
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
primarily
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
primarily
Hi Greg, hackers list,
I don't want to express an opinion about the need or otherwise
for mandatory locking, but I would appreciate a teensy
clarification of the problem domain:
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:43:45PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
To write a block to a RAID-5 device, you need to:
Hi Greg, hackers list,
I don't want to express an opinion about the need or otherwise
for mandatory locking, but I would appreciate a teensy
clarification of the problem domain:
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:43:45PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
To write a block to a RAID-5 device, you need to:
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 11:48:41PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Actually, applications are written assuming that malloc() will not
fail, generally speaking.
Is this really the case? I'm pretty sure I've _never_ ignored the
possibility of a NULL return from malloc, and I've been using it
for
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:34:06PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
Just for those that have been following the benchmarking thread, this
is exactly the same symptom set that FreeBSD demonstrates when loaded
by WebBench. The gotcha here is, again, the giant kernel lock.
Rather than trying to do
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