Re: Applying your changes to a mailing list are not const

2009-12-22 Thread Doug Barton
hines to avoid accidentally typing killall there. 2. Less polite: This is not FreeBSD's problem, go away. :) Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/

Re: Alps GlidePoint driver for synaptics.

2009-11-15 Thread Doug Barton
for custom features of the touchpad? I have a similar model on my Dell laptop and it works fine with moused for basic features. It's old enough though that it doesn't have any features that are not basic. :) Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence wit

Re: [patch] add pwait utility

2009-11-07 Thread Doug Barton
t think that's what Kostik was proposing. When you get this committed (in whatever form) send a note to freebsd...@freebsd.org so that we can look at re-implementing wait_for_pids with this. I think this is a very nice addition, thanks for taking it on. Doug -- Imp

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-13 Thread Doug Barton
witch" > needs to be done anyway, so why not upfront? I disagree with your assertion that "the big switch needs to be done anyway." My personal preference would be to see first how many things will need overrides (WARNS != 6) before deciding whether it's wo

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-12 Thread Doug Barton
nd commits that address separate issues should be done separately anyway. That said, I think that the style-compliance issue is a valid one, and I personally would be in favor of that happening after the 8.0-release, FWIW. hth, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet prese

Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running should they fail.

2009-10-04 Thread Doug Barton
ot running' which arguably it should not do since that script is not for starting a persistent service, it's just a 'run at boot' thing. In any case, if you find what you think are bugs in rc.d related stuff feel free to report them to freebsd...@freebsd.org. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-25 Thread Doug Barton
Ivan Radovanovic wrote: > Doug Barton napisa: >> If you're developing your own app to display running processes >> implement it any way you wish. That's totally unrelated to the >> question at hand. >> >> Doug >> > I totally disagree with yo

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-25 Thread Doug Barton
at output to some width) > rather than to focus on functionality)? If you're developing your own app to display running processes implement it any way you wish. That's totally unrelated to the question at hand. Doug -- This .signature sani

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-25 Thread Doug Barton
nted out in the PR that most users would be surprised if 'ps -ax | grep foo' suddenly sprouted a lot more stuff that 'ps -ax' didn't have, and I agree. As a matter of personal preference I find the current defaults to be just lovely, and occasionally use -w or -ww if I need

Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring

2009-08-22 Thread Doug Barton
As terribly clever as you all are, can you please restrict the political commentary/humor/whatever to -chat? Thanks, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}

2009-08-08 Thread Doug Barton
Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Doug, good day. > > Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> I came across this problem during a recent portmaster update. When >> trying to strip off the * character using variable expansion in bin/sh >> it doesn't wor

Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}

2009-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
foo\ Should I go ahead and file a PR on this? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection var='foo\*' echo "var before stripping: $var" var=${var%\*} echo "var after stripping: $var" echo '' var='foo\$' echo "var before s

Re: dynamic and static DNS in the samie name server

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Barton
e) Actually you're both wrong. :) If this were a FreeBSD question then -questions would indeed have been the right list, but it's actually a BIND question which means it belongs on bind-us...@isc.org. Good luck, Doug ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: Reading acpi memory from a driver attached to hostb

2009-07-23 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Thursday 23 July 2009 2:08:35 am Andre Albsmeier wrote: | > On Wed, 22-Jul-2009 at 09:48:56 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > > Andre Albsmeier writes: | > > | On Sat, 18-Jul-2009 at 10:25:06 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: | > > | > On 18 Jul 2009, at 09:1

Re: svn commit: r193635 - head/etc

2009-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
John Hay wrote: > Is it not possible to change the logic of -U a little. Only auto install > if it is in mtree and has not changed. So if it has changed or is not in > mtree, skip the auto install. Apparently you didn't read the whole thread, but the answer is no. Doug -- T

Re: svn commit: r193635 - head/etc

2009-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Doug Barton writes: >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: >>> Great, now mergemaster blew away my ntp.conf and installed this one >>> instead. Apparently, it thinks AUTO_UPGRADE means it's fine to >>> overwrite an existing file with

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

2009-04-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alexander Leidinger writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 2 Apr 2009 | 16:16:34 -0700 (PDT)): | | > This worked well for us so I think it is a good idea. Also some HW | > watchdogs can be told to generate an NMI which can also produce a kernel | > dump/ddb prompt. I've al

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

2009-04-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
nto the IPMI event log in-case a disk or disk I/O sub-system died. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: freebsd-update's install_verify routine excessive stating

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Barton
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I assume, with "this" you mean my solution to the slow > > > shell loop problem (not quoted above), not Yoshihiro Ota's > > > awk proposal? > > > > I me

Re: freebsd-update's install_verify routine excessive stating

2009-01-23 Thread Doug Barton
s ^f >(i.e. it starts with an "f"). > - Print the 7th field of those matching lines. Like I said, I haven't seen the files, but this looks good at first blush. That said, the generation of the hash list file is just a drop in the bucket. The real inefficienc

Re: freebsd-update's install_verify routine excessive stating

2009-01-23 Thread Doug Barton
Agreed, when making changes like this you should always benchmark them. I did a lot of that when working on portmaster 2.0 which is why I have some familiarity with this issue. > > awk -F "|" ' > > $2 ~ /^f/{required[$7]=$7; count++} > > END{FS="[

Re: Small change to 'ps'

2009-01-06 Thread Doug Barton
Sheldon Givens wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It occurs to me that FreeBSD ps lacks the ability to disable header. Why is this necessary? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: bsd.obj.mk does not set CANONICALOBJDIR correctly when TARGET_ARCH and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX are set

2009-01-04 Thread Doug Barton
discovered that the reason my suggested change "worked" was really an unintended side effect. Your suggestion works great, so I've committed it. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

bsd.obj.mk does not set CANONICALOBJDIR correctly when TARGET_ARCH and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX are set

2009-01-02 Thread Doug Barton
LOBJDIR:=/usr/obj${.CURDIR} .endif However I would be happy with any solution that makes it work. It's trivial to test with 'mergemaster -i -D -A arm' Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz present on any drive

2008-12-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On 9 Dec 2008, at 23:54, Paul Wootton wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pegasus Mc Cleaft Sent: 07 December 2008 12:17 To: Doug Rabson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz

Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz present on any drive

2008-12-07 Thread Doug Rabson
On 7 Dec 2008, at 03:19, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Hello Hackers, Recently and friend and I have been trying to get the new gptzfsboot working on our machines and ran into a interesting problem. Initially I was building the world without the environment variable LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:41, Olivier SMEDTS wrote: 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On 11 Oct 2008, at 14:28, Danny Braniss wrote: To Doug: > ZFS boot is coming. great! any time estimate?, just curious, no preasure :-) Its part of pjd's current big ZFS patch which brings us more or less up-to-date with Solaris. I'm not the best person to ask when t

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Doug Rabson
On 11 Oct 2008, at 12:07, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy C

Re: Problem with an rc script

2008-07-29 Thread Doug Barton
n addition to the web pages another good resource is to read through the comments in /etc/rc.subr. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection #!/bin/sh # # PROVIDE: ntlmaps # REQUIRE: LOGIN # KEYWORD: shutdown # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf.local or /e

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
different UIs (see above). 2. At least one of those UIs should be functional over a standard serial console. 3. It should be scriptable. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
ong ways. The version of dialog we have in the system is prehistoric. The newer version is a lot better in the POLA department, and $SOMEONE was working on an update, but I don't know what happened to that effort. Doug -- This .signature sanitized

Re: ICANN votes to expand domain name character set

2008-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
lready. The good news is that on the software level if you can do that for the second level and above it's pretty easy to do it for TLDs. The more interesting problem there is a lot of ancient software, web scripts, etc. with hard-coded rules about how TLDs only have 3 characters hth,

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-06-16 Thread Doug Barton
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrey Chernov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design) and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports system processing but shurely a

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-06-15 Thread Doug Barton
ready for a wider audience. Of course, that's just my opinion. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-06-15 Thread Doug Barton
. egrep -l "DEPORIGIN:($origin|$ro_opd)$" $pdb/*/+CONTENTS Obviously this works in portmaster with the gnu grep, but if ro_opd is unset with the bsd grep I get: egrep: empty (sub)expression If I set ro_opd to something, it works. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Doug Poland
Ivan Voras wrote: On 20/03/2008, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: >> * Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does a

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Doug Poland
ture (i386) and OS version (6.3 --> 6.3 or 7.0 --> 7.0). -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 'periodic daily' memory usage

2008-01-28 Thread Doug Barton
Doug Barton wrote: > Why don't you post that diff? Sounds like a good idea to me. Oh, duh. Never mind. :) -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: 'periodic daily' memory usage

2008-01-28 Thread Doug Barton
solver for my home network is at 23M, with hardly any cache at all. If I thought there was a good alternative resolver I'd recommend one, but IMO BIND is it right now. There are a couple others in development right now, but they are not yet ready for prime time (again, IMO). hth, Doug --

Re: DIST_SUBDIR not working with MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE

2008-01-26 Thread Doug Barton
IST_SUBDIR) DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=${DIST_SUBDIR}/ .else DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE= .endif MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE} IMO it would be a lot more intuitive if the ports infrastructure did exactly this for the user. Doug -- This .signature san

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
You could also create a release, burn it to CD, and install from scratch. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

Re: vm_zone corruption 4.x

2008-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
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Re: cvs question

2008-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
27;cvs diff -u > ~/mytree.diff' and then wipe out what you had and check it out again. Then you can apply your diff as needed. You should also spend some time thoroughly reading the cvs man page. It's a fairly complex system, and it's easy to accidentally add a knob that

Re: ATAPI dvdreader always fails on a particular DVD movie title

2008-01-19 Thread Doug Barton
Yuri wrote: I tried to make a backup copy of one DVD that I own and 'dvdbackup' always fails at a particular point. Would the dvds in question happen to be Sony movies? If so a web search might be useful to you. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-11 Thread Doug Barton
If you don't like the license, don't use the software. If you want to complain/explain/debate about the license, find another forum. This subject is not on topic for the FreeBSD mailing lists. Thanks, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: Disk sync at shutdown and fusefs filesystems

2007-12-11 Thread Doug Barton
ot; in /dev/fuse[0-9]*) umount $mountpoint ; sleep 1 ;; esac done sleep 1 kldunload $kmod hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Disk sync at shutdown and fusefs filesystems

2007-12-10 Thread Doug Barton
#x27;m more than a little interested in getting fuse-ntfs set up here. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
ge! >> Basically my program runs about twice as fast when I run two threads as >> opposed to one - I cannot see doing any better than that! > > pure computation does not need kernel operations most of the time.. ie. > multi-threading kernel wont help much ;) It has an

DNS DDoS

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
very common, but fortunately the answer is simple. If you need any help with the DNS side of the equation feel free to contact me directly. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: page fault & degaradation performance

2007-11-08 Thread Doug Clements
Running out of memory and having to continually swap things in and out of ram degrades performance, yes. Page faults are simply how the virtual memory subsystem gets things done, like pulling things out of swap. --Doug On Nov 7, 2007 7:48 PM, binto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Btw >

Re: page fault & degaradation performance

2007-11-07 Thread Doug Clements
27; or 'top' to see if you might possibly benefit from more ram by reducing paging. --Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Doug Barton
this again for a while I'd update to 7.0 when it is released. The other alternative is to bribe someone who is local to do the installation for you, which all things considered would probably be easier all around. hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your prote

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-18 Thread Doug Clements
On 10/17/07, Doug Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you also send the output of ps -auxl? > > > > Also - do you notice this performance drop when running something like > > one of the network performance tools? I'd like to isolate the disk > >

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-17 Thread Doug Clements
em to run when the machine is hung up. I type in the command, but it does not run until the machine springs back to life. I'm not sure how this will affect measurements. http://toric.loungenet.org/~doug/sysctl-a http://toric.loungenet.org/~doug/psauxl http://toric.loungenet.org/~doug/systat-v

Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Clements
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Anyone have any clue about what might be going on? --Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Clements
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Anyone have any clue about what might be going on? --Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How TLS is used in Kernel thread

2007-09-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:20 -0700, Jin Guojun wrote: > By looking through _pthread_create() code and find it uses a magic > cookie -- TLS -- created > by rtld_allocate_tls(), and passed into kernel by sysarch() via > _tcb_set() / _kcb_set(). > > The information seems to be set by rtld (ld-elf.so

Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown

2007-08-31 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Sean Bruno wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Assuming that lack of an affirmative _enable variable is a constant, the only way that a service can be started is with either onestart or forcestart. The symmetry here would be to stop it the same way. This may be symmetrical, but I

Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown

2007-08-31 Thread Doug Barton
rests of the majority of FreeBSD users. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown

2007-08-31 Thread Doug Barton
ing at this from the other direction, what would be the benefit to having plain stop act in the absence of an _enable variable for that service? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.o

Re: what happened to make world?

2007-08-30 Thread Doug Barton
the better for you. We've given you the code, do what you will with it. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubs

Re: Core temperature

2007-08-10 Thread Doug Barton
, for what that's worth. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

2007-08-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
em but I think that might have been a joke. Systems that have IPMI version 2 are nice since that means they are supposed to support Serial Over Lan (SOL) via the standard :-) Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
then do "make package", then +CONTENTS can be a bit messed up for the > package. This is because the creation of other ports might disturb > _LIB_RUN_DEPENDS and might put in some extra entries in +CONTENTS. "Doctor, it hurts when I do THIS." "Well, don&#

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-29 Thread Doug Barton
Alex Dupre wrote: Doug Barton ha scritto: Not disputing your answer, but I'm curious. Why would it cause problems on some systems but not others? I haven't done anything with my cflags ... It depends on how much RAM + Swap do you have. I know people with 1.5Gb that have such p

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-29 Thread Doug Barton
Alex Dupre wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >>> (Over 2GBs of RAM + Swap being used). It does this consistently when it >>> tries to compile xf86PciScan.c (hope thats the right file). >> May not be the answer you want to hear, but I built all the xorg stuff >> multip

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
times on -current systems both pre and post the gcc + symver + version bump eras, and didn't have the problems you're seeing. What I don't have though is zfs, so that may be a place to look. One way to check is if you're not doing it already, use an mfs /tmp and

Re: 32/64bit KSE issues?

2007-04-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
7;s working. libkse will be a lot harder IMHO. David's stuff in -current just works. I routinely run 32bit thread stuff on 64bit hosts using the libmap32.conf trick to switch from kse to libthr. Thanks to David for making it work in -current. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

2007-03-09 Thread Doug Barton
see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90863 for an interesting related discussion. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hack

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

2007-03-08 Thread Doug Barton
Steven Hartland wrote: Given that it sounds like a potential workaround is to use the machines IP instead of name until this is fixed, thanks for the info guys. For as long as I can remember, it's been a Best Practice to have entries for critical NFS servers in /etc/hosts.

Re: 6.1 & SMP & PERC 3 on PE 2650

2007-03-01 Thread Doug Barton
en releases. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: HEADS UP: interrupt filtering & newbus API breakage

2007-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
ch with the latest HEAD, and run 'make universe' with the latest HEAD? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscr

portmaster and local ports (Was: Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?)

2007-02-15 Thread Doug Barton
o ignore these ports (with no skeleton) is probably a good idea for the long run anyway, so if anyone has an idea besides what I suggested above, speak up. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org ma

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-15 Thread Doug Barton
c. I don't know of any communities where those attitudes are well supported, but I do know that you won't get very far in this community that way. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Getting a patch commited

2007-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
nsible person for the PR hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Use of /etc/rc.conf.d (Was: Re: LDAP integration)

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Barton
Lamont Granquist wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Doug Barton wrote: >> It's not documented, but the code is there in /etc/rc.subr: >> >> grep 'rc.conf\.d' /etc/rc.subr >>if [ -f /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name" ]; then &

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
Lamont Granquist wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Doug Barton wrote: >>> And if you're looking specifically at the /etc/rc.conf config file, what >>> would be more useful would be an /etc/rc.conf.d/ directory. >> >> Good news for you, we already suppo

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
the overall rcorder at boot time, so all you have to do is make a port of your project and you're good to go. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
config (and > may be written by entirely different config management tools -- e.g. > system config management vs. application deployment/management), and the > /etc/periodic functionality is not flexible enough to cover all cases. That's not a bad idea, but you'll have t

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-09 Thread Doug Barton
Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:02:30 -0800 > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Vulpes Velox wrote: >>> I was just wondering. How many people here have given lots of >>> though about integrating FreeBSD configuration with LDAP. I

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-07 Thread Doug Barton
ded value to justify the pain of the change. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2006-12-30 Thread Doug Barton
ly interested in boot-time issues, and this sounds like an interesting problem. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-27 Thread Doug Barton
7;t easily get a serial console up and running, your earlier suggestion of putting the box back to the last known good 5.x release is a good one. At least that can help rule out hardware _failure_, as opposed to hardware-used-differently issues. hth, Doug --

Re: FW: IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x

2006-11-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
ess it via the web management | console, I just can not get the kernel driver to work with it. Any help | and/or references would be greatly appreciated. Could you try it static in the kernel and then with and without ACPI enabled? Doug A. ___ freebsd-h

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >> Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >>> Personally I think rm should do what you ask it to do - if you ask it >>> to overwrite a file which has multiple links, well... though luck. &

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
on where the pre-recent-patch behavior (overwriting the actual file when using -P on a hard link) is the expected outcome. It's all well and good to say, "tough luck," but I don't think that's what our users expect. Doug -- This

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
uggestions didn't make it through on this message. Please feel free to post them for review and send the URL to the list. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
atch. If there are no objections I'll do it myself if no one gets to it first. In any case I think that this is a good addition to the code, and I'm glad that this issue was raised. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: "tar -c|gzip" faster than "tar -cz"?!?

2006-10-12 Thread Doug Barton
er? If so, the effect you saw might be due to file system caching. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to change kernel version tag?

2006-08-28 Thread Doug Barton
Yuan, Jue wrote: > Hi all. > > Could I change the kernel version tag manually? /sys/conf/newvers.sh hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: [PATCH] get periodic.conf to use the correct ports INDEX

2006-08-27 Thread Doug Barton
Niclas Zeising wrote: > The periodic.conf in 7-CURRENT is still set to use the INDEX-6 ports > index file, instead of INDEX-7 which is the default on 7-CURRENT. This > should, I think, be changed. Done. Next time please consider using send-pr for this type of thing. Doug --

Re: get DMI information in kernel

2006-08-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
the ipmi(4) driver. It gets the IPMI HW info via SMBIOS. There is also and smbios driver as well. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-07-27 Thread Doug Barton
rtable > (and thus preferable) way: > > cd /from; find -d . | cpio -dumpl /to While I don't want to stifle anyone's creativity, I agree with Oliver (and other posters) on this one. The Unix way of doing things is small programs that do their jobs well, tied together to accomplish

Re: odd behavior in apache 2.0.58 today

2006-07-18 Thread Doug Barton
John Von Essen wrote: > Doug, > > Did some googling and I did find a connection between excessive > CLOSED_WAITS, and hanging apache, and webbots. Some of the IP's I saw in > my netstat were bots too. The problem has something to do with the bot > no longer acceptin

Re: odd behavior in apache 2.0.58 today

2006-07-18 Thread Doug Barton
aggressive spider went after sites on our systems. Restarting Apache was usually all it took to set things right again. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-07-06 Thread Doug Barton
esented would have value in other areas if they were implemented, so at best I would deem your characterization to be slanted. You may wish to consider if perhaps it is not also inaccurate. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection __

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-06-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kip Macy writes: | WOW THATS GREAT DOUG! \0/ - it didn't work for me. This was with the last patched driver for vmware 2. I'm not sure if it every made it into the port. http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/changes 28 Jan 01 Version 0.99-1-0.22 Support for multi

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-06-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kip Macy writes: | IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance. Really? Don't tell my vmware multiple instances! I used to run 10 on one FreeBSD host. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: problem with SCSI

2006-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
gt; > What (maybe not) causes troubles: > > okey# make clean > ===> Cleaning for m4-1.4_1 > rm: /usr/ports/devel/m4/work: Directory not empty > *** Error code 1 Try rebooting to single user mode and running 'fsck -y'. That may help. Good luck, Doug --

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