Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

, I think my next experiment will be to try the Linux binaries on FreeBSD and see if it behaves similarly. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

on Linux. I'd also swear that this is a regression and that it used to run much faster on the same FreeBSD machine back when it was running 6.x, but I never bothered to benchmark it then because it didn't seem to be an issue. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

mine: -- #!/bin/sh echo echo 'Setting controllers to DMA mode' atacontrol mode acd1 udma33 -- I had to do that because my DVD-ROM would autodetect UDMA66 or higher and hang. -- Kirk Strauser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4

been upgraded from py24-* to py25-*, effectively killing my webserver. Could someone else take a look at those instructions and see if they make sense - they look a little suspicious to me - or if there is some gotcha that I might have missed? Thanks. -- Kirk Strauser PGP.sig Description

Partially solved (was Re: Web proxy that can cache cookies and rescale images)

On Thursday 07 June 2007, Kirk Strauser wrote: I bought a Nintendo DS Browser (Opera 8.5) recently, and it's really slick little device. However, it has one glaring issue: it won't store passwords or cookies across boots so you have to manually log in to every web site each time you turn

Web proxy that can cache cookies and rescale images

so that a given user only gets their own cookies. Does such a thing exist? Please help me. I'm getting hand cramps from pecking out the same logins every time I turn the thing on. -- Kirk Strauser pgpDSBpCxoWhN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Samba and mountd spin

for?Î Kirk Strauser ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting Env

install MySQL and Zope? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0lflqMejX7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Install with USB keyboard

, but wanted to say that it really is possible, at least on certain hardware. Oh, is there any way to ask your BIOS to make USB keyboards and mice show up as PS2? -- Kirk Strauser pgp8SqciFUuZO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

why the Zope port does chmod 444 to all installed files, including the ones that *have* to be writable in log and var, I'd appreciate it. I've been too lazy to file a bug so far, but every time I upgrade Zope I have to remember to reset those permissions. -- Kirk Strauser pgpURNL4plUxj.pgp

Re: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?

#!/bin/sh kldunload whatever.ko and the install sudo and configure it to give your user the ability to run those two commands without entering your password. Finally, add sudo loadsound and sudo unloadsound to your startup and exit scripts. -- Kirk Strauser pgpWUVdbZQYd0.pgp Description: PGP

Deciphering camcontrol - is prefetch enabled?

Cryptic SCSI Acronym Dictionary elsewhere, I don't have any idea what the above is actually trying to tell me. -- Kirk Strauser pgpidQtb95hvA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Need Mesa library in Linux emulation mode = How do I build a Linux library?

) up and running on my system. -- Kirk Strauser pgp1RvBXT15ve.pgp Description: PGP signature

A bottleneck in gstripe?

PostgreSQL is receiving massive imports? This is a production system and I don't have the opportunity to play with it as much as I'd like, so any pointers to experiments likely to make a difference would be most welcome. -- Kirk Strauser pgpnHawE5xGjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why this script does not work as expected ?

the dumps into tape-sized pieces (even when writing to stdout), and the default tape size seems to be tiny. -- Kirk Strauser pgpeExtrf0Pi3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Weird perms with linux_base-gentoo-stage3

really researched, but it does what we need. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird perms with linux_base-gentoo-stage3

. Neither was I able to find the patch he mention. Any pointers would be most appreciated! I'm getting tired of manually fixing the permissions on every file I install (and hoping that 755 for exes is correct). -- Kirk Strauser pgpUTzlDPmnNl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk?

. -- Kirk Strauser pgpsFx0EpwYUq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Help me pick a replacement graphics card?

. Is there anything else I should be looking for? Any specific models you might recommend? -- Kirk Strauser pgpvk3POzDKpH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh public key authentification

? -- Kirk Strauser pgpCCD0vRRwLq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What is this mean by this term

On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:51, Hugo Silva wrote: Please don't feed the trolls. The weird thing is that I'd personally vouch for jdow not being a troll. I'm not sure where that came from. -- Kirk Strauser pgp1HsMf6qBzQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh public key authentification

On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:44, Christian Baer wrote: The problem was not the authorized_keys file itself, it was my home directory. I don't think so. More likely, it was the .ssh directory itself. -- Kirk Strauser pgpXWYQbAuWpq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Grep a file

run sudo -s to get a root prompt, or: sudo sh -c grep -v '^\;'extentions.conf new_extentions.conf which runs your entire command line, redirection and all, as root. -- Kirk Strauser pgpqrHvsqildR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

. If you really want to use packages you'll need to revert that to the standard setting of including cups support. Well, that and he's trying to install -RELEASE packages on a -RELEASE system with -STABLE ports. How does one tell ports to install -STABLE packages - is that uname-dependent? -- Kirk

Is this homework? (was Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?)

. -- Kirk Strauser pgp2V1W3Aaa8U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:28 am, Anna Vazquez Nikonova wrote: Have some one resolve this problem with amarok lyrics with ruby behind a proxy? I need help.I have this same problem. Which problem? -- Kirk Strauser pgpVMP2ovwrtO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

benefit of fully supporting nsswitch, so the same command fetches *all* of your accounts, including those in NIS/YP and LDAP. -- Kirk Strauser pgpmUi8ThFRJB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automatically get nameservers

, then point all your windows boxes to it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpybxNBkjGze.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automatically get nameservers

hardcode them and be done with it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpzdoZYEJajd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question Re: Permissions advice needed

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one command as root. One has to be very careful about giving out such access! root has much power. Hence sudo, where

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

than MySQL 5.0.x in RELENG_6 with SMP and 2 GB of ram now? This has been true for our workload for several years. -- Kirk Strauser pgpAIJVatyFM2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Adduser utility to generate random passwds ?

. -- Kirk Strauser pgppuaGVN8vUP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

backend for new applications, so the Foxpro stuff is loaded into its own schema inside the same database as the production data. -- Kirk Strauser pgprkpxt351qO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an NIS client. For starters, see yp(8). Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive? -- Kirk Strauser pgpU9vIlBUWYA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question

him access to run that one command as root. -- Kirk Strauser pgpX62GnRqncn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question

On Monday 08 January 2007 12:57 pm, Andy Greenwood wrote: I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario? Perhaps, but that seems like a lot more effort to accomplish a relatively easy job. -- Kirk Strauser pgpryAcPuyqUa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

at the problem but can't yet, is there anything I could do to make these imports go faster, short of running it async (which is far more dangerous than we're willing to risk)? -- Kirk Strauser pgpCTnmKI9Qrq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

and we couldn't be more pleased. -- Kirk Strauser pgpn3EQQ5Wa0A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

letting the vacuum daemon make that decision for the last few months with no perceptible ill effects. Ok. Be careful not to use SELECT ... LIMIT ALL ;) LOL! Duly noted. -- Kirk Strauser pgpBuzSmV7V14.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

. Let us know what solution you come up with, and good luck :) Will do, and thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpkGwbXhcq1H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. -- Kirk Strauser pgplg6wDlyMbY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What Did I Do To My Server?!

to fix any other Zope instances you're trying to run. -- Kirk Strauser pgpaZH9rcltuL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

of hours, but a small number of thousand spin-ups. If your drive is cycling many times a day, you could get a nasty surprise in a relatively short amount of time. -- Kirk Strauser pgpafne3sZMBA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

errors on my ATA drives. I have to stick with the older version 8774 for now. -- Kirk Strauser pgpx33q1OsL00.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Instant Messenger software

On Thursday 09 November 2006 18:33, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on FreeBSD? We use ejabberd for the server, and Kopete (Unix) and Psi (Windows) for the client. -- Kirk Strauser pgpHlCUAHAGmr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: subversion on boot

a (relatively) rarely used feature for us - no more than 50-60 connections per day - it's an easy way to not have to bother with it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpSXhxPTLMr9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Which process is hogging my drives?

Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which processes are responsible? -- Kirk Strauser pgpJ2aFH5pyri.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:01 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit m, then enter ototal. That was exactly it. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpv29LbwLcuV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CLI text editor recommendation

hear about it all over the place and not just in this one thread. -- Kirk Strauser pgpADrhTHnrju.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

. So, to recap, when a user logs in, the reboot.sh script will be executed. It will use sudo to run the reboot command as root, without prompting the user to enter any password. It's easy, it works, and it doesn't require any setuid trickery or special accounts or anything else. -- Kirk

Re: Disable s2s on ejabberd?

). -- Kirk Strauser pgpd8dkf2DOXy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Disable s2s on ejabberd?

to build a private server without s2s functionality and can't find any documention on how to do it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpB94TPPkldL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable s2s on ejabberd?

On Friday 18 August 2006 3:03 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: Not sure if this will actually help or not. http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html That's for jabberd, not to be confused with ejabberd or jabber. :-/ -- Kirk Strauser pgpn12u0oEXvx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

people. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Flash on FreeBSD [Fwd: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8564611]]

may download and install Flash Player. Gee, I think I can see where the confusion is coming from. -- Kirk Strauser pgpOweToos70g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

. -- Kirk Strauser pgpxoah3nfiUz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 16:22, N.J. Thomas wrote: The following works for me: luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/* (Sudo 1.6.8p12, FreeBSD 5.4) Why not give them root while you're at it: luser$ cd ~/foo; ln -s /etc/master.passwd; sudoedit ~/foo/master.passwd -- Kirk

Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content

. Anyway, didn't html2latex (/usr/ports/print/html2latex/pkg-descr) work? -- Kirk Strauser pgpj7NVYqGf5n.pgp Description: PGP signature

PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

from 6.0 to 6.1? Any ideas for a fix? I apologize for not having a logfiles, but I was pretty much in a panic to get it back up and running ASAP and didn't think about it until it was too late. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Permissions have me stumped

On Thursday 02 March 2006 19:42, Andrew wrote: Any chance that this would happen to be a FAT32 file system? No - it's a good ol' UFS2 filesystem. -- Kirk Strauser pgpv1eS0FWgXv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Permissions have me stumped

/singles: Operation not permitted (1) ... I know this is pretty minor in the scheme of things, but it still bothers me because it looks like it should work, but it doesn't. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How are ppl running QEMU under FreeBSD 6.x .. ?

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, I'm doing something wrong here, cause I just can't get it to run ... How did you install qemu? -- Kirk Strauser pgp8zVm3T1YEG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rm - Argument list too long

On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: for files in *.* do rm $files done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something like: find . -name 'sess.*' -delete -- Kirk Strauser pgpepCmOuaBna.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to bind ntpd to a single address?

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:31, Darren Pilgrim wrote: So how to I tell ntpd to bind to a specific IP address? ISC's ntpd doesn't support that, AFAIK. However, depending on your needs, you might be able to use OpenNTPD which does have that feature. -- Kirk Strauser pgpiXu61XgOvj.pgp

Re: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

shooting one's foot is a good idea. We've already told you how to pull the trigger, but would still suggest you reconsider the decision. -- Kirk Strauser pgpyAWa2sCKyA.pgp Description: PGP signature

What's using my system?

0.00% python2.3 1398 mailman1 80 8792K 5216K nanslp 12:26 0.00% python2.3 -- Kirk Strauser pgpnm94fQk2d0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

expects GNU make instead of BSD. That's the first thing I'd try. -- Kirk Strauser pgpE4DmrRXWMc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

ago. Still, as much as I want to play with 3.5, I'll wait until the ports come along. People much better at building it than I am are having problems, so there's not much point in me trying it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpHHnRUzRQbE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

is doing a great job at maintaining that very complex set of ports and deserves all of our patience and support. :) Oh, I agree entirely. I know that the lag is due to the complexity of the problem, and not the maintainers slacking off. -- Kirk Strauser pgpqJD7NjE0F6.pgp Description: PGP

Re: What's using my system?

% pagedaemon 13896 daapd 3 200 13916K 2064K kserel 1:53 0.00% mt-daapd 1461 postgrey 1 40 10572K 5548K select 1:51 0.00% perl5.8.7 866 root 1 40 3620K 1316K select 1:46 0.00% sendmail man top is helpful -- Kirk Strauser

Re: What's using my system?

world again and see if the problem fixes itself. -- Kirk Strauser pgp6q6DFn4DL8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

, but... He's a good programmer. Great. What does that have to do with his skills as a system administrator? I worked at a place that had a genius .NET developer, but I wouldn't run around replacing Unix servers with Windows just because that's what he liked. -- Kirk Strauser pgpn1V5rux1yP.pgp

Sudo running without a password

don't see anything in it that looks like it should prompt me for a password, then run with elevated privileges regardless of what I send. Any ideas? -- Kirk Strauser pgpcZtc5dC2eL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Going from bind9 to djbdns

. -- Kirk Strauser pgpVXH011ahj1.pgp Description: PGP signature

ejabberd + Bandersnatch?

thought I'd see if anyone else running FreeBSD had worked through this error already. Thanks, -- Kirk Strauser pgpzgbiCVNKsr.pgp Description: PGP signature

KDE 3.5 status?

Does anybody know where I can find the status of porting KDE 3.5 to FreeBSD? -- Kirk Strauser pgpUA7Neg99Ya.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 status?

on the port than answer my emails, so I'll go back to waiting patiently. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8cOPTDmzmw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: grep'ping the ps output....

On Monday 12 December 2005 10:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: ps | egrep firefox | egrep -v egrep Ouch! Replace that with: ps | grep [f]irefox which will never match the grep commandline itself. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Removing packages

, not 1.1. -- Kirk Strauser pgpuKazCMUAdI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gmirror Cannot access provider da0

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 14:01, jd wrote: grenvil# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 Cannot access provider da0. Is da0 in use by anything else? -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Jail cloning problem

aren't being created correctly? Also, running /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd and trying to connect can give lots of useful information. -- Kirk Strauser pgpfGOdboCwVp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE Konqueror:Can i have konqueror without KDEstuff port

of dependencies. That's by design and not really something that could be stripped down. -- Kirk Strauser pgp3Mv00grH3q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cvsup problem

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:59, Brian E. Conklin wrote: Parsing supfile /etc/ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup10.us.freebsd.org Why is everyone trying to using cvsup10 all of a sudden? I don't think I've ever made it past 5. -- Kirk Strauser pgp3ei2iLFrcq.pgp Description: PGP

cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

in the world why a normal user (eg one that doesn't need to fetch a version of ports from a specific date or tag) shouldn't completely switch to portsnap today? -- Kirk Strauser pgppoIjczDZ4y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

the CPUTYPE variable in /etc/make.conf. FreeBSD 6.0 has sane and quick compiler defaults, so I usually leave the rest alone. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8sepiqWQ2D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12

. Out of curiosity, exactly what's wrong with portupgrade that these upgrade scripts (which never seem to work as expected on my system) claim to fix? -- Kirk Strauser pgp6pxB3yg4Hs.pgp Description: PGP signature

smbfs small read tuning?

is on the order of four minutes. The mount_smbfs(8) man page doesn't mention anything about tuning and I'm not sure where else to look. Is there a way to enable some kind of read-ahead cache or otherwise trade some memory or CPU for a speed boost? -- Kirk Strauser pgpStNcLBDEdv.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

) Hope this gives you some idea. It did. It must've been a long work week, because that all seems so obvious in retrospect but was completely opaque at the time. Thanks again! -- Kirk Strauser pgpd16wKmA9g0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

, but it's working out very well for us. -- Kirk Strauser pgplHnuNQg71N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

don't see a noticeable slowdown during the import stage. -- Kirk Strauser pgpqY5JpRZNQO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smbfs small read tuning?

performance... Nuts. The server is a Windows XP (or 2003) machine. I'll see what our Windows guy can come up with. -- Kirk Strauser pgpTXlb3xMLJG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

the speed roughly similar to that of I/O. Could you elaborate? That's been bugging me all weekend. I know I should know this, but I can't quite put my finger on it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpN5vT0gOSPn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Fast diff command for large files?

, but is glacially slow. I'm basically looking for something that generates easily-parseable text. Since this is a young project, I don't particularly care if the output format is different from diff's. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

will never get sluggish, even if the other diff server is loaded to the gills. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8crJHkPVTm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

fine - it's just slow. thinking out loud I wonder if rsync could be modified to output its patches rather than silently applying them to a target file. It seems to be pretty good at comparing large files quickly... /thinking -- Kirk Strauser pgpdXELVcLCLb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Editor for C C++ language

it in a suitable window. Since you're using KDE anyway, check out KDevelop. It's similar to Visual Studio. I'm with Johnny, though. I could live in Emacs quite happily. -- Kirk Strauser pgppDhztYKnhi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

with a simple cd. -- Kirk Strauser pgphjbvRhfxKN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Implementing software licensing in FreeBSD

your patch and release a faster, more robust version of your program. Forget the licensing issues. Copy protection will never do as it's intended. Please, seriously, dig back into its history of failure and see why nothing good can come of this. -- Kirk Strauser pgpNtwI4CmxK0.pgp

Solved! (was Re: Happy Hacking keyboard, Emacs, and meta)

the trick exactly! For bonus points, is there an easy way to get the same effect without patching files owned by the system, eg with Xmodmap or similar? -- Kirk Strauser pgpNvcmiqFs9Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

/etc/make.conf and settings CFLAGS=-Os to build the smallest binaries possible. That may save you a few KB. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

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