The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-07-04

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Dependency confusion

. ldd /path/to/exe will tell you which library a given binary is linked with, and you can run pkg_info -R 'db4*' to determine which ports depend on which versions of db. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Portaudit strange behavior.

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 08:02:47 Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hi, On all my servers I have portaudit version 0.5.13 If I try update audit database (by hand or from periodic script) I have: # portaudit -Fd auditfile.tbz 100% of 53 kB 39 kBps portaudit:

Re: Firefox: Video but no audio

On Monday 29 June 2009 18:19:21 Carmel NY wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009062122 Firefox/3.0.11 I am having a problem getting Firefox to play audio. For instance, on Youtube, it will display the video portion fine; however, there is no

Re: Firefox: Video but no audio

On Monday 29 June 2009 22:09:23 Carmel NY wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:57:01 +0200 dan mesli...@yahoo.fr wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 18:19:21 Carmel NY wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009062122 Firefox/3.0.11 I am having

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hello mfv ! Thanks for sharing your perl hack and your experience :-) I do not know anything about PERL, but I am starting taking a look at this ! THanks dan

configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

. Please keep me CCed as I am not subscribed. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-27

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Re: security/pgp on amd64

on the i386 and import on the amd64, but it did not change a thing. You mean the pgp-6.5.8_1 port, with a source tarball dated 1999-10-31? I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't 64-bit capable. Try the gnupg port instead. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Thanks [upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?]

Hello ! Thanks alll of you for taking time to answer my mail. I really appreciate it. I have (well...the system has) succesfully done the upgrade. I used both pkg_updating and portupdate-scan to scan UPDATING [pkg_updating did not show an entry suggesting to update python to version 2.6 (which

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

. You're better off adding a request-max-time limit to your webserver, or doing random-drops of existing connections if you get close to your fd or thread limit. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-20

articles posted within the past two weeks. Hence 'recent'. It was 'recently' suggested that the post should include the last few articles regardless of date. Thanks Michel On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org mailto:d...@langille.org wrote: The FreeBSD Diary

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-20

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: sed help

because $variable expansion isn't done inside single-quotes. If your names have spaces in them, consider swapping the name and address in your input file, since read splits on spaces and assigns the remainder of the line to the last variable listed. -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: ipmon-like tool for ipfw

the sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1, then any ipfw rule with the log flag on it will get logged via syslog to /var/log/security. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-13

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Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

itself (^Z), and doesn't indicate which signal is sent. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Control-Z the Sleep Signal

In the last episode (Jun 10), Polytropon said: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:07:30 -0500, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ^Z sends a SIGTSTP, which can be caught (or ignored, in your case). 18SIGTSTP stop process stop signal generated from

Re: Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes

for UFS). If you're already on an amd64 system with 4GB or more RAM you'll be fine. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

. I have syscons set to 1024 lines and screen set to 10240 lines myself. You can use vidcontrol -HP to dump syscons history if you need to copy more than you can select with the mouse on a single page, and screen has a whole sub-interface for interacting with its scrollback. -- Dan Nelson

sponsoring ZFS development on FreeBSD

donations directly to specific developers? Sincerely - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-06

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z (and obviously their dependancies)? Thanks! - Dan Naumov

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

Thanks a lot, this worked like a charm! - Dan Naumov On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Wojciech Pucharwoj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all

Re: vmstat questions

MAXCOMLEN is being used at this point; it's not storing a command name. http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/interrupt.h#L104 I don't know what the repercussions would be if you increased MAXCOMLEN to 40, but you can try bumping it and see what breaks :) -- Dan Nelson dnel

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-30

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Re: character sets for file names on ufs?

property is set. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-23

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Re: Limiting resources in cron jobs

exec the script with softlimit from daemontools (very easy to use), or exec with ulimit in the shell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: pthread_detach doesn't release memory

the thread when it exits instead of preserving the return code (for pthread_join to retrieve). It isn't responsible for freeing all memory allocated by the thread, and it shouldn't, since one thread may allocate memory that another thread frees later. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: pthread_detach doesn't release memory

loops. See these links for the gory details: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c?view=markup http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Better version of diff?

: egrep -v '^#' file1.txt | sort | uniq file1.tmp egrep -v '^#' file2.txt | sort | uniq file2.tmp diff -B file1.tmp file2.tmp;: comm would also work here No suggestions here. Sorting a file is not something diff should do imho. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-16

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: install both jdk15 and jdk 16 from port

based on some environment variables (see the javavm manpage for details). You can always override its choice by setting JAVA_HOME to whichever jvm you want. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-09

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Java without CUPS

I'll deal, but I'd like to stay CUPS-free if possible. Take a look at PR 120718. The same files work for the jdk7 tree, too, if you happen to track that. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Measuring CPU usage via SNMP

should always equal 100% cpu. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: install -s

be installed with install -s. BSD-style Makefiles use PROG= and SCRIPTS= definitions, and automake-generated Makefiles use foo_PROGRAMS= and foo_SCRIPTS= to install executable binaries vs scripts. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-05-02

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: group credentials cache in X11-session (xfce4, gdm) question

useful documentation for gdm... id tells you the credentials of the current process, while id harry tells you the group memberships in /etc/groups. Your credentials are set when you log in, and do not change ( unless you are root and call setgroups() or initgroups() ). -- Dan Nelson

Re: Is it necessary to generate a new SSL request each year?

(presuming none of the info has changed.) You can reuse the old one. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-25

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The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-18

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Re: Console mode scrolling

. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: passwd file transfer

passwd file to BSD's master.passwd format. Make sure you run pwunconv on the Linux box to merge your passwords from /etc/shadow back into /etc/passwd before running the awk script. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=passwdsektion=5 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

=64k -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-11

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Re: find command question

. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?

to install the fonts that are included in it. It's not going to install all of X. You might be able to comment out the RUN_DEPENDS entries in the pango Makefile to avoid installing any fonts, but your rrdtool graphs will look boring with no text :) -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: How to remove all files with a certain extension

-exec rm /dev/null {} \; find . -name *.tar -delete Make sure you quote your wildcards so the shell doesn't expand them, and use the -delete primary to save a fork/exec for each filename. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd

Re: How big can a tar file get?

can store; the total size of a tarfile has no limit, since it's a streaming format. Each stored file is independant of previous or later files, and there is no summary file-list either in the front or at the end. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-04

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-28

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The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-21

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: 7.1 mysql-server-60 stalls

the problem by disabling falcon. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

basic sata card recommendations?

asking for a brand-name controller (even a more-or-less generic one like Promise or something similar) that people have used and liked. Opinion counts a bit more to me here than saying it's supported. Any thoughts? -Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: netstat -NM uses

the system has rebooted. ps, vmstat, and I think some other commands have them too. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

Wojciech Puchar(woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl)@2009.03.15 19:14:57 +0100: would be really nice about advocacy of GOOD web browser that not only exits faster, but WORKS faster. i don't know any, except links but links doesn't have CSS support I know one: Google Chrome - but it's only for

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

No, that's not what I meant. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

the kernel to pull back swapped-out pages to write them to the core file. Couldn't this be avoided and the paged out pages simply discarded without reading them back in? Or do those pages contain necessary data at this point (page directories etc.)? -- Dan Nelson dnel

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-14

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Re: Replace console login prompt

prompt text. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

Besides the above cache problem, I am also experiencing timeouts with the enclosure which start happening after some time the enclosure is active. I am using it in raid 1 mode. This is Rosewill R2-RAID. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

Hi. atacontrol is reporting that the write cache on an eSATA enclosure I am using (Silicon Image chipset) with Silicon Image SATA controller has write cache enabled even though I want it disabled in loader.conf. My feeling is this has to be controlled by the enclosure, though such control doesn't

Re: IPFW torrent

: allow ip from any to any in via $trusted_interface out via $external_interface keep-state -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:04:45 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote: Hey all, I've got a dell 600SC in a remote location, and it's started freezing up (I'm thinking I've got a dying fan). I'm not familiar with this special

Re: Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:04:45 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote

Re: USENET?

In the last episode (Mar 08), Gary Kline said: are there any ports that offer an interface to USENET? I think mozilla did, but that was a long time ago ... . Mozilla simply changed names to Seamonkey and is still alive and kicking. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-03-07

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

. Since there's been no good port of the dell openmanage stuff to BSD (as far as I'm aware), anyone have any ideas how I can poll it? -Dan Mahoney -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org

Re: Login local2 to a log file

In the last episode (Mar 06), bsd said: How can I log messages sent to local2 to a given log file ? Which file do I have to update in order to achieve that? /etc/syslog.conf local2.*/var/log/local2 See the syslog.conf manpage for more options -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: libpthread not found

. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-28

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Top returning 0.0% cpu usage

boxes, so FreeBSD 7 might not even use the RTC anymore. Couldn't hurt to try an ntpdate -b, though (stop ntpd first)... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

root.amd64 filesystem and destroyed the i386 root and the snapshot. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-21

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gmirror keeps breaking

Is gmirror known to break on power failure - i.e., one of the drives (the same drive every time) becomes unsynchronized, needing a rebuild? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Mixer resets

and gkrellmvolume2 ports; then you'll always have a slider for each mixer channel available. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-14

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Accessing the complete log (rlog)

between 1995 and 1996: svn log -r '{1995-01-01}:{1996-01-01}' svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/ufs -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-07

-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Sendmail to Relay different domains to different hosts

to use the /etc/mail/mailertable file: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: /var grows, apache open file, which file?

deleted. If you're using newsyslog, make sure you have listed your apache pidfile on the line correspoinding to any apache logs so it knows which process to signal. See the newsyslog.conf manpage for more details. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: insert new line in files

the backslash. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: insert new line in files

In the last episode (Feb 06), Adam Vande More said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 06), Adam Vande More said: I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text like this: include

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

:) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: shell commands - exclusion

be called in the first place. otherwise is it better to protect them with chflags or other trickery? One workaround is to temporarily move the files you don't want to process into another directory, then move them back when you're done. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

I second BackupPC. Very nice, despite what some may consider a misleading name. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: NFS, how to find out which files are used

write a dtrace script that watches calls to nfs_namei, nfsrv_read, and nfsrv_write, and then matches read/write ops with the filenames that were looked up beforehand. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

local filesystems start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start reporting huge values. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Control IRQ assignment?

In the last episode (Feb 03), patrick said: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 27), patrick said: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on a new Dell Inspiron 530s. I'm having an issue where the same IRQ is being assigned for multiple

Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size

I go about making an exact duplicate. rsync --sparse seems to work fine for me: (d...@dan.13) /usr/tmp truncate -s 512M bigfile1 (d...@dan.13) /usr/tmp ls -lsk bigfile* 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 5368709120 Feb 2 13:09 bigfile1 (d...@dan.13) /usr/tmp rsync --sparse -v bigfile1 dan:/usr/tmp

Re: How to tell what $var assigned PORTVERSION equals.

asks make to print what the variable is without actually building the port itself. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

the unneeded device drivers. But the build failed -- and the error messages suggest that the problem had to do with linking libalias into the kernel. libalias seems to be there, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Ideas? Do you have options LIBALIAS in your kernel config? -- Dan Nelson

Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

In the last episode (Feb 01), Brett Glass said: At 05:43 PM 2/1/2009, Dan Nelson wrote: Do you have options LIBALIAS in your kernel config? Nope. There was nothing that said that such an option was needed (or even that it existed). I did find it, via a recursive grep, in a file labeled

Re: ls -lh show file not displaying correct size

. /dev/ad14s1d    226G    810M    207G 0%    /var/spool So I know that the 256G is wrong. Can any one tell me what is up with file size ? The 256G is correct. It's a sparse file (i.e. there are holes in it). ls -sk will print the actual disk space occupied by a file. -- Dan

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-01-11 - 2009-01-31

the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Quantum tape drive

drives. Try -b 128 (for a 64k block size). Another optimization would be to put a buffering program in between tar and your tape drive to decouple disk reads from tape writes. misc/team, misc/buffer, and misc/cstream in ports are good for this. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Quantum tape drive

In the last episode (Jan 28), Jaime said: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 28), Jaime said: /usr/bin/tar -cvpX /usr/local/etc/backups/skiplist-relative.txt -f /dev/sa0 -C / . If nothing else, I suggest bumping up your

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