Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Doug
Doug wrote: > > Greetings, > > As previously discussed, here is a first draft of the rc* script mods. I > consider the first step in this process to be Jordan's cleanup of the > variable syntax. This is step 2, which most notably converts test's dealing >

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Doug
'm not overly concerned about getting _my_ way on a lot of these things, so long as we get a style that is consistent and that everyone can live with. > > Doug--- /usr/src/etc/rc Thu Aug 26 20:56:36 1999 > > +++ rc Fri Aug 27 09:52:39 1999 > > @@ -8,24 +8,25 @@ >

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next > > > sentence. > > > > Well, that was definitel

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Matthew Dillon wrote: > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-) Actually I took that class in Jr. High School, way back in '77. It was the only good advice my Jr. High guidance counselor gave me. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
one of those "religious" issues... I see this as step 3. of the project, and will go ahead with it after step 2. is done if there is no objection. 3. Anything else I should be looking at in this phase of the game? Doug --- /usr/src/etc/rc Sat Aug 28 13:51:10 1999 +++ rc Sa

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Doug wrote: > > > Okey dokey, I can take a hint. :) > > Can you take another one, regarding the unnecessary spaces after the > values in your "case"s? i.e., that they should be taken out and shot? > :-) *sigh* I am co

/usr/src/etc files without $FreeBSD tags

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
infree /usr/src/etc/motd /usr/src/etc/namedb/named.root /usr/src/etc/rc.diskless1 /usr/src/etc/rc.diskless2 /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc /usr/src/etc/termcap.small Having the tags in the files helps mergemaster, if nothing else. :) Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make upgrade' target recently? Doug "Andy V. Oleynik" wrote: > > Crist, I had latly same sort of things. >

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, John Birrell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it > > shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make > > u

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
od of people writing extremely non-portable scripts with them. Maybe I'm missing something though... Also, keep in mind that it's not just case sensitivity that we're working with here. It's also the fact that case is a sh builtin, as opposed to test which is not. If you want

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread Doug
John Birrell wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:55:42PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > > `make' has changed. > > > > Ok, that's the cause then, so what's the solution? :) And > > meanwhile is it going to hurt anything if I put a suggestion on my

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread Doug
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, John Birrell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:27:00AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > John Birrell wrote: > > > The solution is to fix `make'. I could commit the fix, but I'm not > > > in a position to build -stable just now. I'm not sup

Re: Minor patches to pwd_mkdb

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
also like to add a vote for this since we have multiple machines with 16k user password files. I had intended to start looking at the code and offer a solution instead of a me too, but it sounds like others are already on the right track, so I'll be glad to test something if someone comes up w

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
ports. Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get it unless you ask for it. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
, so this proposed change won't help it at all. My point is simply that fixing this problem is the responsibility of the port maintainers. There is no point in adding something to the base system that will only benefit a few people when a mechanism to solve the problem which does not a

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Doug
te and painless solution. And ultimately -Stable will become -Release, so your argument here is absurd on its face. Please understand, this is not a personal attack. I'm sure that your proposal was motivated by good intentions, but those of us who see the harm in it and understand the issues involved are trying to explain why it's a bad idea. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
pose of asking for review ahead of time. I'll have some freebsd-hacking time tomorrow if there are any more nits to be picked. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

sysinstall nit

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
Present in -Stable and -Current. If you go to Configure | Distributions | src and attempt to choose All, the src distribution never gets selected and nothing gets installed. I can send a PR if needed, but it's such a small thing I didn't think it would be worth it. Doug To U

Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
o stop and ask rather than just panic(). Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
Michael Reifenberger wrote: > > Hi, > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > ... > > can find the files at http://gorean.org/rcfiles/ > looks good so far. > I'm missing rc.serial in rcfiles. Thanks for the reminder. I didn't make any changes to that fil

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
> > > fsck_output="$(/sbin/fsck -p | /bin/tee /dev/console)" > > /sbin/mount -at nonfs > > echo "${fsck_output}" >/var/run/fsck.boot > > > > but I don't expect people to be happy about moving tee(1) from > > /usr/bin to /bin.

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
and it's a lot cleaner than mine for a number of reasons. Completely beyond me to code, but very nice from the design standpoint. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: Thereis no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug
o adding a panic() key combo, just wondering if it's duplicating existing technology. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-18 Thread Doug
ot my intention. For all I know, you product could be the best thing since sliced bread. However the current state of the political aspects of software development is what it is, so we are better served by not ignoring it. Good luck, Doug (who speaks only for himself) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

TSC vs. I8254 (Was: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 mp_clock.c)

1999-09-20 Thread Doug
t a serial port card and voila, FINALLY I have a serial console. TIA for any insights, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: TSC vs. I8254 (Was: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 mp_clock.c)

1999-09-20 Thread Doug
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > I know that someone will be tempted to warn me about the evils of > overclocking, but please don't. :) However, just in case anyone is > interested either the overclocking or the overdrive chip seems to have > fried the on-board ser

Re: kernel config and sysctl

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
one_pass: 1 net.inet.ip.fw.verbose: 1 net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit: 2000 which are not present if there is no IPFW. Can't help you much beyond that, but hopefully that'll give you a place to start. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too youn

Re: The -o port=xxx option in NFS

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
Is this > > right? > > > In answering myself, the port number should be 2049. Why do you want to specify the port? If you have no need to do that, just leave the option out. Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, &#

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Doug
urces of pkg_{info,delete}). > > What about to extend the pkg_delete to use a syntax like : > > pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/netscape-communicator-4.61/ A hearty "Me too" for this option. It's something I've often wished for. I can 'cd /var/db/pkg' a

Re: here to help

1999-09-27 Thread Doug
e. One of the things you will see in there are instructions for new users who want to contribute to the project. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-29 Thread Doug
read/write? I would like to be able to open it read only so that non-root users can start lmmon without needing to change the privs on /dev/smb0, but having read your warnings about the delicacy of the smb device I didn't want to just go changing things willy-nilly. As far as I can see noth

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-29 Thread Doug
Doug wrote: > > Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > > >Not necessary. The mainboards of the ASUS P2B series have > > >everything onboard that you need. We have it working with > > >the intpm0 driver and a tool called "lm" that I donwloaded >

Weird sockname errors with -current and apache

1999-10-01 Thread Doug
ould help, and if so how would I specify that this specific binary use those libraries as opposed to the ones in /usr/lib? Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. Here are some details on the binaries, let know if anything else is needed. Thanks, Doug ldd miva miva:

zalloci/pv_entry problem (Was: Weird sockname errors with -currentand apache)

1999-10-04 Thread Doug
o them. I am currently working on taking advantage of apache 1.3.9's new vhost settings for httpd.conf so that we can reduce the size of our conf files (and thus the httpd's), but meanwhile it looks like our unusual settings have uncovered a problem worth fixing. Thanks, Doug -- "St

Re: zalloci/pv_entry problem (Was: Weird sockname errors with-current and apache)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug
to do. Remote GDB is an option here if you think that'd be a better tool. I'll check to see if I'm getting dumps when the machine comes back. Thanks, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

New crash, NFS/multiple frees related. (Was: zalloci/pv_entry problem)

1999-10-06 Thread Doug
, so maybe it's just bad luck. In any case, here is the latest data. Any input would be appreciated. I can resend the pertinent details to anyone who needs them. Thanks, Doug Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode mp_lock = 0005; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 0100 fault

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Doug
ike a soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?" Anything I can do to help mail me and let me know. Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

How to determine data/text/stack sizes of running proccesses?

1999-10-14 Thread Doug
s, etc. for a couple days now and haven't found anything that will give me this information on a running process. Any pointers would be welcome. Thanks, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-16 Thread Doug
you need to do is remove the world rx permissions on the parent directory, and make sure that they don't have access via the group permissions. You might also want to look at chroot. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Pay

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-16 Thread Doug
xb0ff, which has improved things somewhat, but our hardware vendor slipped in some IBM DeskStar drives on us, and they've been no end of trouble. He _may_ live to regret his "mistake." The good news is that the first machine rebuilt with the SCSI drives and using ncr0 + fxp0 is not s

Re: [PATCH] Remove references to ramdisk* in rc.conf(5)

2010-11-12 Thread Doug Barton
If you want review for rc.d related stuff freebsd-rc@ is your best bet. Meanwhile, this patch is fine, thanks for taking the time to look at it. AFAICS neither 8 nor 7 has this feature either, so feel free to MFC. Doug On 11/12/2010 17:19, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, ramdisk* hasn&#

Re: [PATCH] Remove references to ramdisk* in rc.conf(5)

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
MFC to 8 and 7 is done, I'm not going to MFC this to 6. Thanks again, Doug On 11/12/2010 17:52, Doug Barton wrote: If you want review for rc.d related stuff freebsd-rc@ is your best bet. Meanwhile, this patch is fine, thanks for taking the time to look at it. AFAICS neither 8 nor 7 has

Discussion about upgrading BIND in RELENG_7

2010-12-17 Thread Doug Barton
anything to contribute please follow up on that list. Thanks, Doug - -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right p

Re: NFS Performance

2011-01-08 Thread Doug Barton
orted them then? Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :)

Re: NFS Performance

2011-01-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/08/2011 10:19, george+free...@m5p.com wrote: No, I did not report the problems then.-- George Well we're glad you're reporting them now. :) Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much.

Re: Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64")

2011-01-27 Thread Doug Barton
) The fact that 'make release' uses cvs is not a feature B) It is quite trivially worked around (I speak from experience) hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience

Re: NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease

2011-01-29 Thread Doug Barton
Sorry if I missed it, but I haven't seen an answer to the question of whether you've kldload'ed the nvidia module. When you type 'kldstat' does the nvidia module show up in the list? If not, type 'kldload nvidia' and try again. hth, Doug -- Noth

Re: NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease

2011-01-30 Thread Doug Barton
ke to see you get your problem resolved. In any case, good luck. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours

Re: Tracking down a problem with php on FreeBSD

2011-02-05 Thread Doug Barton
sing 'make config', that's what it's there for. :) Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the r

Problem with etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting

2011-02-21 Thread Doug Barton
[Yy][Ee][Ss]) gzip --keep -f acct.0 || rc=3;; esac sa -s $daily_accounting_flags acct.0 && unlink acct.0 || rc=3 Can anyone see why that would be wrong? If there is no objection, I'll be committing the attached patch. Doug

Re: Problem with etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting

2011-02-22 Thread Doug Barton
0.006 secs Mon Feb 21 23:23 accton -root pts/2 0.006 secs Mon Feb 21 23:23 ln -root pts/2 0.006 secs Mon Feb 21 23:23 mv -root pts/2 0.007 secs Mon Feb 21 23:23 accton -root pts/2 0.011 secs Mon Feb 21 23:23 Doug -- Nothin&

Re: Problem with etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting

2011-02-22 Thread Doug Barton
o then the dirname should be restored. Example: $ foo=/a/b//c $ echo ${foo%/*} /a/b/ $ dirname $foo /a/b A) I refuse to believe that our users are that stupid B) Even if they are, it works Doug (ok, "refuse" is a bit strong ...) -- Nothin' ever doesn't ch

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-27 Thread Doug Barton
e/zoneinfo to compare /etc/localtime to (ideally with fully path), I'm happy to provide a mechanism in mergemaster to make sure it stays up to date. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT expe

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
ar/db/zoneinfo. It looks like this hasn't been MFC'd, although I'm not sure why. The change came in from svn rev 198267 by edwin (CC'd). Edwin, Any reason not to MFC this? Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much.

Using mergemaster to keep /etc/localtime updated

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
to run tzsetup. 3. If /var/db/zoneinfo does not exist, and the new code has not been added yet, attempt to determine the right answer, and create a /var/db/zoneinfo file. (Note, I do not look forward to writing that bit.) :) Sound reasonable? Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn&

Re: Using mergemaster to keep /etc/localtime updated

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/28/2011 15:38, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/3/28 Doug Barton: I'm starting a new thread since while the previous one contained a lot of good information it was starting to get a big fragmented, and as someone pointed out mergemaster is not a general solution so I want to focus on the

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
usr on the same filesystem. This point has been repeated several times in this thread so far, hopefully this can be the last? :) Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and

Re: Updating PCI vendors database

2011-04-04 Thread Doug Barton
orward. Oh, and I personally don't see a problem with MFC'ing this, but I'm willing to be convinced. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge

Re: Updating PCI vendors database

2011-04-04 Thread Doug Barton
problematic with this change (p4?*COUGH*). Eh? I don't parse this. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the ri

Re: Updating PCI vendors database

2011-04-04 Thread Doug Barton
at $WORK to this file was several thousand lines long, and that was just additions IIRC. Thanks for bringing this up, but I don't care. :) The tools serve us, not the other way around. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much.

Re: Looking for resources to get started

2011-04-22 Thread Doug Barton
interesting and worthwhile. I am knowledgable in C, scheduling, data interface, somewhat also in cryptography One project that I'd very much like to see support for is truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/ That will combine several of the interests that you mentioned above

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/29/2011 20:34, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: I'm still leaning toward just making the "V" in "Verbose" and "S" in "Single User" bolded. Why not just underline hotkey characters? That's already a well-known standard in lots of places. Agreed, that's a much

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
nce you could have a wireless instance in one jail and another instance in another jail. However, to manage that instance can require the ioctls and the host doesn't have access to it anymore either. Running an X server in a vimage has some issues. Most are pretty easy to over-come. Maybe it m

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alexander Leidinger writes: | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | wrote: | | > doesn't have access to it anymore either. Running an X server in a | > vimage has some issues. Most are pretty easy to over-come. | | Are you using my patch | (http://www.leidinger.

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alexander Leidinger writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 19 May 2011 | 14:38:40 -0700 (PDT)): | | > Alexander Leidinger writes: | > | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | > | wrote: | > | | > | > doesn't have access to it anymore either. R

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

2011-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/31/2011 07:39, Alexander Best wrote: ...which leads me to the conclusion that -O should be set when DEBUG was defined: an all ARCHS. +1 -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of know

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2011 07:54, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Anyway, consider sendmail and BIND. I think these are important enough > to get some more protection. What additional protection could capsicum offer beyond chroot'ing? (That's not a snark, I don't quite understand all the movin

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-07-11 Thread Doug Barton
ce, SHM namespace, and from executing any > system calls. Fair enough, although I'd love to see an actual threat analysis before I concluded that BIND should be close to the top of the list. Thanks for the response, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn'

Re: FW: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu bugs?

2011-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
There also seems to be a bug with the new boot loader that if you bounce out to the prompt and do 'boot kernel.other' the kern.module_path sysctl is not updated. It still lists /boot/kernel first; but that should be replaced by /boot/kernel.other. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but noth

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu bugs?

2011-07-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/17/2011 20:40, Devin Teske wrote: > What release are you running? Recent HEAD -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) h

Re: [PATCH] Add /etc/rc.d/vimage startup script for creating vnet jails

2011-08-27 Thread Doug Barton
Please stop cross-posting to multiple lists. If you want review for an rc.d issue post it to freebsd-rc@. Thanks, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowl

Re: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/02/2011 07:07, Jarrod Lee Petz wrote: > We have an AIX system It's not clear to me what the FreeBSD related problem is here. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the

Re: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/02/2011 17:51, Jarrod Lee Petz wrote: > Hi Doug, > > The problem itself is currently seen on AIX yes. So you're much more likely to get help on an AIX list. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. --

Re: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/03/2011 06:46, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:25:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 09/02/2011 17:51, Jarrod Lee Petz wrote: >>> Hi Doug, >>> >>> The problem itself is currently seen on AIX yes. >> >> So you're much

Re: Hello World assembly language

2011-09-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/28/2011 13:26, Colin Barnabas wrote: > I found a hello world program written in assembly language which > runs on my amd64 8.2 stable box. However, I can not seem to get > it to print a new line. Any suggestions on how to print a line > feed in assembly? No, we will not help you do your comp

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/10/2011 11:55, David Brodbeck wrote: > Is there any reason to cache negative hits? It's very important for DNS since there are a fairly large number of misbehaving applications that don't stop querying until they get some kind of answer. And speaking of DNS, while I think that improving nsc

Re: What is going on with ash / sh

2011-11-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/02/2011 13:28, Mark Saad wrote: > Hackers > What is going on here, if I run the following shell script, what is > the expected output . The script is named xxx > > #!/bin/sh > ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep xxx > > Here is what I see > > > # sh xxx > 88318 p0 S+ 0:00.00 sh xxx > 883

Re: sleep/select call in a thread doesn't return if system date is changed

2011-11-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/02/2011 22:07, Deepak Gupta wrote: > 6.3 release ... is well past EOL. You'd want to run your tests with something more recent ... ideally with 9.0-RC1, or at minimum 8-stable. -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Br

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/25/2011 00:12, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <2025070241.ga7...@dataix.net>, Jason Hellenthal writes: >> List, >> >> When using @reboot with cron you expect your proccesses to always start when >> the system boots up and only when the system boots. But long after the system >> in ques

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/25/2011 00:29, Stefan Bethke wrote: > I didn't even know cron had this feature. Why wouldn't you add custom rc.d > scripts for these tasks, or add the commands to rc.local? Personally I find this feature very useful for unprivileged users to do their own stuff at

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
efore running the @reboot jobs. I'm not quite so sure that the current behavior needs to be preserved though ... I doubt people purposely restart cron often enough to be anything but surprised by the current behavior. Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/25/2011 16:16, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 11/25/2011 08:09, Cy Schubert wrote: >>> You're right. Sorry. It was late, after a long night of O/T. >> >> Actually I was in the same boat, which is why

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/25/2011 23:08, Cy Schubert wrote: > If average users really do need to run something at boot they're likely > running some kind of service I don't think second-guessing what users are doing is going to be a useful exercise here. I will also tell you flat out that this is not the only use fo

Re: Spinlock panic in FreeBSD 7

2011-12-16 Thread Doug Barton
r first step should be to upgrade to 7-stable. hth, Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freeb

Re: mfi (Dell H700) + hot swapping doesn't appear to work with RC1

2011-12-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
h edges on the new driver that are being worked out by a few people. It supports all current LSI MegaRAID cards. So things should get better in the near future. Thanks, Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: [PATCH] makefs from multiple directories

2012-01-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/04/2012 15:42, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > Do we care about submitting it back to NetBSD? The answer to this question is always yes. :) We work hard to maintain good relationships with the other BSDs, and sharing improvements to common code is a critical component to that. D

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-06 Thread Doug Barton
Looping in hrs@ because he's the author of those changes. On 01/06/2012 11:35, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:49:45 -0600, Sergey Kandaurov > wrote: > >> >> You mean ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" ? >> > Yes... Unfortunately that's what I get for typing it manually and being > d

Re: trouble with atrtc

2012-01-07 Thread Doug Barton
You'll probably get a better response from freebsd-stable@. Good luck, Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolution

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/16/2012 16:02, Julian Elischer wrote: > It pretty much boils down to one thing.. man power.. If the basic design of the system is wrong, it doesn't matter how many person-hours you throw at it (or don't). -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
so generously of their time and effort. I tried to make the point back in June that there was no reason to cut 9.0-RELEASE yet because we don't have solid support for clang in either the base, or ports (amongst several other reasons) and that the delay for getting that working would be a

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
f what 5.0 was supposed to be. So what we need to do is to learn from the mistakes that were made, and figure out how we can make *reasonable* plans for both new features, and the framework for the future development that we want; without making the "all or nothing" mistake again. Doug

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Doug Barton
combine that with the ideas that are being put forward about teams that "own" a production branch, and a more frequent stripped-down release process, I think this is a very workable model. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Bread

Re: Giant lock gone? (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)

2012-01-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/18/2012 16:58, Dieter BSD wrote: >> The original goal for 5.0 was to completely remove the Giant lock (and >> do other cool SMP-related stuff). Eventually it was realized that this >> was too big a goal to fully accomplish in 5.0 (albeit too late in the >> process) and the goal was changed to

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, John Kozubik wrote: Hi Doug, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/18/2012 11:46, John Kozubik wrote: - mark 9 as the _only_ production release While I understand your motivation, I am not sure this is a workable goal when combined with the goal that others

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
ches (including 7), is already in 9.0, and will be in 8.3. Obviously you have to have everything in kernel and/or loader.conf that's necessary to get your local disks available, and the system to the point where it can start running rc. But everything else can go in kld_list. hth, Doug --

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/18/2012 10:43, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > >> loading modules through loader.conf is >> veeryy slooww ... > > Is it noticeably slower to load (say) a 6MB kernel + 2MB of > modules than to load an 8MB kernel?

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/19/2012 08:13, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Given the context of the thread, this: > > >> loading modules through loader.conf is > >> veeryy slooww ... > > seemed to be an objection to modularizing the kernel. The only way you could come to that concl

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/2012 08:54, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Tom (Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:44:09 +) * > | On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > | > Because loading modules through loader.conf is > | > veeryy slooww I added an rc.d scrip

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
ever happened to POLA? This change surprised me, wasn't mentioned > in /usr/src/UPDATING, You're supposed to compare your existing kernel config to the new GENERIC every time you do a major version upgrade. That would have made the change quite obvious. Doug -- It'

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/2012 07:23, Patrick Powell wrote: > Oooh! Ahhh! Just what I was looking for. l will extract this from 9 > and put it on my system. Glad you like it. :) One thing though, you're actually better off updating to the latest -stable of whatever branch you're using, some work has gone into

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >