to chflags noschg it, which works better than chmod 000 (if
the FS supports it).
But I agree that it would be nice to prevent ffox from segfaulting;
unfortunately this is one of those apps which segfaults a lot (for me at
least). =)
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, but I'd be
for one option to specify limited width and another option (-w) to
specify as wide as possible.
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fileno(stdout) or just plain STDOUT_FILENO instead of new_fd.
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a macro for each type. Without an example of
how you want the output to look, it's hard for us to show you code that
will produce such output.
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if you have the space and it was a bad disk, I'd probably dd
to a new disk or file, then mount that disk or file read-only, and then use
rsync.
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just under 256 KB of
room since our UFS code will search for the superblock at a byte offset of
262144, but there aren't any knobs to newfs so you'd have to hack it
together. Take a look at /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/ for starters.
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driver.
YMMV,
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the ATI hardware isn't capable of this, but nvidia's cards seem to
be. It's too bad the open source drivers haven't made enough progress in
this area yet.
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struct bar *bp = fp-bp;
which isn't legal in 'C'.
I thought we were talking about C99, in which case this is perfectly legal.
I certainly use it all the time in my C99 code.
And I thought this was the point of this discussion, to be able to declare
variables when you first use them.
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:36:09PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:47:38PM -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:30:14PM -0600, Octavian Covalschi wrote:
Why is spinning down is bad for HDD ? I believe it's better to spindown a
drive,
instead
docs, so if anyone knows the command I'd be willing to
write a patch against atacontrol!
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avoid
power-cycling your drives, they should last longer (in that you're less
likely to destroy the heads).
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:20:58AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2...@kiwi-computer.com wrote:
That's not how devfs works. It's actually a feature
that devfs doesn't list everything ever possible
http://storage9.myopera.com/freejerk/files/bug-feature.jpg
written
to dynamically create device nodes when needed.
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devfs /dev I believe I saw recently that
devfs mounts were merged into standard mount code.
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:21:25AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:15:17PM +0200, Artis Caune wrote:
I suspect you've run into a well-known svn bug that affects svn merge. I
thought they had fixed it with subversion 1.5.4, but apparently it's still
.
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upgrade that I've had any problems. The box
was 99-100% idle during those tests and I don't see an interrupt storm or
anything funny like that. Any ideas?
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From /var/run/dmesg.boot:
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991
with.
In fact in each sshd_config, I have:
UseDNS no
In dnsmasq, I have each host listed in /etc/hosts which is used by dnsmasq
for forward and reverse DNS. No this problem started when I updated the OS
on my gateway.
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nothing special about it. It looks like the TSO disabling fixed my
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:51:28AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
Is there a way (without using fsdb(8)) to list the block list from a
given inode? thx
ffsinfo -i inode -l 0x230 filesystem
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people believe that you are a troll. It is obviously not constructive
since the problems are known and (supposedly) are being worked on.
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is to use
the latest kernel and mount from the mirror.
I'd like to see other OSes do all of that.
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probably can live without it.
I'm almost certain this will help, but I believe this shouldn't be the
answer to this problem. There's no reason atkbdc(4) should block the
entire kernel for any appreciable amount of time.
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, but lulf@ I think
was working on that. There are many things I don't like about LVM at all,
particularly in the naming and how impossible it is to setup a root mirror
at install (or even mirror whole disks).
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restart it, skipping the first 10 seconds of video. That workaround has
always worked for me.
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:12:00PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux NDISwrapper?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndisapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASEformat=html
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DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE=
.endif
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR_OVERRIDE}
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can lengthen the
interval by an indeterminate amount.
If timeout is a null pointer, the select blocks indefinitely.
To effect a poll, the timeout argument should not be a null pointer, but
it should point to a zero-valued timeval structure.
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enough. I
agree with the other poster(s) who said that if it prevents complex code,
it might be worth it. Your case isn't complex enough to warrant the
spawning of a shell process, especially when one of your primary goals is
to reduce total runtime.
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to be installing
the same port multiple times at the exact same time, but maybe a lock could
be held on the package directory (i.e. /var/db/pkg/$PKG_NAME). Again, I
don't believe this is strictly necessary.
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as pmake without sacrificing the much-used flexibility it provides.
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) instead of VARCHAR(1).
If SQLite isn't even standards-compliant, why is anyone considering it? =)
Nitpicky, I know, but it makes me wonder what else they don't follow...
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[1] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:06:37PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Some of the fields can (and do) have unbounded length.
Kris
Where is that specified in the SQL spec? Or are you just saying that
SQLite provides this flexibility?
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anything useful.
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I've also seen disks work just fine while powered that just plain quit
immediately after a power cycle.
So you may save power by spinning the disks down, but I doubt you're
saving disk life (unless they're powered down for weeks at a time).
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has a solitary (unshared) IRQ and
swap with the modem.
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(look at security/heimdal), but at least the separation is
manageable.
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:06:36AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Rick C. Petty wrote:
I doubt you'd get the code to work under 6.x or 5.x even. I'm not sure if
any GEOM-related stuff ever made it into fsck, but certainly the background
checking code and softupdates changes were introduced
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:18:58PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Rick C. Petty wrote:
I find that the following command works just fine for me:
find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -delete
The following is probably the most efficient solution.
It doesn't run into all
is certainly not faster to type for some
people, and really what's important is how much operator time is spent.
One nice thing about unix is that there's more than one way to skin a
cat(1), pardon the pun. So use what you feel more comfortable using!
Three cheers for free unix,
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fine for me:
find /usr/ports -type d -name work -prune -print -delete
=)
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with no PS/2
keyboard attached-- but I'm using a similar USB keyboard on another
6.1-STABLE box just fine. Any ideas?
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output of dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents
to a new filesystem, that way you guarantee the blocks
allocated to the file are contiguous.)
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this is
essentially what the -S option to gnu's tar does. In this example, you
may not mimic the allocated blocks of a sparse file, but you would
optimize the copy to use as few filesystem blocks as possible.
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handle extended attributes? Last I checked, it didn't. But then again I
don't think cp or tar do either. Feel free to enlighten me.
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(or -S, it's all the same to me).
While we're at it, I think we should add the -S option to bsdtar. I'm
willing to do the work and make patches (to cp tar), if someone is
willing to review and commit them.
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On 08/01/06 12:40, Rick C. Petty wrote:
It could possibly be bad if you have a real file (say a 10GB file,
partially filled with zeros - a disk image created with dd for
instance), and you use cp with something like -spR
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:26:28PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
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Obviously, I didn't add the error checking/handling, but AFAIK this is
essentially what the -S option to gnu's tar does.
Yes, but gnu tar doesn't do this accurately
would work just
fine. I guess a better solution would be to check every 512-byte chunk
and seek if zero. It's up to the underlying filesystem to implement
this as a sparse file, if that filesystem supports such a thing.
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Out of space? Darn.
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to add all 18 options to our cp, then -a shouldn't be
added at all. It doesn't provide any useful functionality, and the
argument to make it more compatible with Linux is silly unless you add the
other 9 options. If you want the linux cp, use the linux cp.
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:42:02PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
On 07/31/06 12:28, Rick C. Petty wrote:
In both cases, why don't you just use:
/usr/compat/linux/bin/cp
Two reasons - it's not in the base system, so a port has to be installed
- and linux_base is FC3 now, so if you want
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:01:24PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
Rick C. Petty wrote:
-l may be a useful option, but at what point is the line drawn between
bloating our base cp and having a gcp port (or using linux_base)??
It's like saying if you need this option, go to Linux - it just seems
the old /dev/fd/1 /dev/fd/2 directories used to be under
MAKEDEV...
How is that the same? MAKEDEV was in the day before devfs, so the device
entries needed to be created by the underlying filesystem. In devfs,
things are only present if they represent an active device.
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on the spare parts pile and plugged them into a
KVM.
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mounted as a filesystem). I hope the
GEOM people are working to improve this.
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is solved.)
What's wrong with using:
ifconfig_plip0=down
???
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call it C)
that isn't likely to evolve any further. Oh wait, we already did :-P
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only gripe is the channels
are misnumbered:
port #1 maps to channel 3
port #2 maps to channel 1
port #3 maps to channel 0
port #4 maps to channel 2
I had to use the serial numbers to make sure I was writing on the correct
drives, so that was annoying.
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usage (e.g. something like bsdlabel(1)):
kldfind [-qv] -c category ...
kldfind [-qv] -s string ...
kldfind [-qv] -h
Personally, I'd prefer clarity over brevity. Just my 3 cents,
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remember if I needed the frequencies-- I had some initial problems
using the DVI input and nvidia not detecting things correctly, but then I
added this to the Device section:
Option ConnectedMonitor DPF-1
YMMV,
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote:
Rick C. Petty wrote:
What determines the probing order of the ports/channels on the PDC40718
(Promise TX4 SATA300 controller)? The SATA ports are labeled Port 1
through Port 4. I have a total of four of these cards, and all
-- ---
Port 1 ATA channel 3
Port 2 ATA channel 1
Port 3 ATA channel 0
Port 4 ATA channel 2
Has anyone else noticed this with these cards? What can I do to fix it?
I'm running both 6.0-RELEASE and RELENG_6_1 as of 2006-May-07.
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, but gv_rebuild_plex is only called
in the context of GV_PLEX_RAID5 on degraded plexes.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Feel free to enlighten me! :-)
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it guarantees power ground connection is
established before the data pins. Many KVMs buffer the keyboard I/O so it
can wait until power ground are established before trying to send/recv
data. I've never blown out a PS/2 port or device, and I hot swap much more
than I should...
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for certain devices.
This way, we use unix-isms such as:
1). can the user mount filesystems? (vfs.usermount)
2). does the user have permissions to the device? (e.g. group-read/write
to said device)
3). does the user have permissions to the mountpoint? (e.g. user
read/write/execute)
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had the problem since I stopped using
x11vnc.
I only use the nVidia drivers and x.org.
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. Like I said, one rxvt would accept keyboard events and
another rxvt right next to it wouldn't. It was an X.org server, I forget
the version. I've not noticed the problem recently, but I could try to
reproduce the problem if necessary.
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knowing it wasn't just me...
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and ums
through the boot loader and manually (I will try to reproduce these).
Maybe the problem is in the USB layer??
FYI, I tried this on 6.1-BETA4, fresh from the ISOs.
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:27:08PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:11, Rick C. Petty wrote:
My BIOS (Asus A8N-E rev 1010) has no option for disabling USB keyboard
support, but I can either disable the USB controller or disable the USB
legacy support. I doubt
. The same hardware
boots just fine with 6.0-RELEASE (although I need to choose the USB
keyboard option if I plan on typing). Any suggestions?
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