mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

(!!!) on another machine. Is this a bug or intended? What is the intended functionality of -U? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgp...@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schul...@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Backing Up ZFS

mention rdiff-backup but of course there are plenty of others. I just happen to prefer rdiff-backup, mostly because of it's rsync mirror + history semantics and completely trivial setup. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com' Key retrieval: Send

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

the built binaries. I have some tools to help me do this that are semi-public, but not really in a nice state at this time. Let me know off-list if you would be interested. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

xorg gfx card: amd64+xvideo+decent 2d performance

, but then I cannot find any cards that have them (only integrated on motherboards, which puts too much of a constraint on the choice of motherboard). Anyone got any recommendations? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

have done more often than I would like) I recommend using tar -cp or rsync -a. I preserves everything I care about preserving, and it has well-known and well-tested semantics that I feel comfortable with. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

at boot due to loader variable.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: I'd like some help

any more sense than what you have already read. If things are unclear, please clarify what part you are having trouble will! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

after 1-2 weeks. But the response was such that I could not feel confident that the question was accurately forwarded to the right individual. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

/continuous-archiving.html Also the very long transaction used for the backup will prevent vacuuming from freeing tuples for the duration of the backup. If you have tables that rely on very frequent vacuuming for performance, those may be affected. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: Howcome mail deletion time varies?

this; I could be wrong. Assuming the server is using Maildir I don't see why this should happen on the serverside, nor have I had that experience even with large folders (large enough that no mail client can handle them properly)). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller

Re: dovecot questions

in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing something, user management is beyond the scope of what dovecot itself is providing. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: Updating ports

. If there could be some cooperation going in terms fo enabling upgrading tools to work better, I might be more motivated to finally resume work on that pkgmanager rewrite. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL

Re: Updating ports

., files moving between packages can cause problems). In the end I tend to either build binary packages from scratch and use portupgrade -afPP to upgrade, or do in-place upgrading with portmanager. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

the value of a variable*? Although that last bit has to do with more than the choice of a shell, it highlights perfectly the type of trouble you run into when you try to be portable with the least common denominator. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Jail question

system calls, which creates the sandbox. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: csh programing book

available everywhere. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

won't help except perhaps to lower the statistical probability of running into problems (that's just a guess). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

If you are running without write caching turned on (which is the default), That should be, if you are running WITH write caching turned on. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

not break the file system's ability to guarantee ordering of certain critical operations, which is why write caching causes a problem (the drive re-orders writes for performance and you end up with B happening before A, but consistency depended on B happening AFTER A). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

of expected inconsistencies. If you are getting prompts as a result of unexpected inconsistencies, that indicates *something* is wrong. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sysutils/etcmerge vs mergemaster

. But even so, three-way merging is nice, so etcmerge remains interesting. Thanks, -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description

sysutils/etcmerge vs mergemaster

spread in use. Are there problems with it that I don't know about? How many people use it in production? Are there advantages to mergemaster that causes mergemaster to even be preferred over etcmerge as the default tool in base? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: cp --verify?

does not want to update any files there (if it did it would be an indication of corruption). -c makes it checksum regardless of whether the file size/ctime matches, but it will not make it re-do the checksumming after an update. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second question. sysctl -d vfs is likely to be informative Thanks! That looks like what I'm after. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval

Re: increasing maximum connections in PGSQL

Can anyone point me to some How-to documentation on raising this value to increase postgresql connections? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/kernel-resources.html -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL

Re: Unable to delete a package

. In practice though it tends to work.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org pgpqO0EpOXXKW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to delete a package

(probably at virtual console 7, 8 or something). If you want gdm to die you have to actually kill gdm; otherwise it will restart the X server when you kill the previous instance (thinking you just logged out of your session). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device

to make the retries continue for a longer period (other than patching the source), it would be welcome, since during boot I need the kernel to be able to taste it on the initial attempt, since failure will cause a panic immediately. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller

Re: Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device

for it to attach to the USB bus, wait a few seconds, and insert it all the way - it will get properly detected. Similarly if connected on boot there is no problem. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

BIOS version. I'll have a closer look and inquire with Dell what the intended functionality is (hopefully it doesn't turn out to be something that requires Windows/Linux to work around). Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

that in a BIOS ... Now that you mention it I do think I recognize that. It would fit with the ~ 2 GB visible memory, but on the other hand the kernel does print the full 4 GB during boot. But will definitely have to look into that. Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter

Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

visibility issues were a thing of the past on amd64. Any insight? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Custom builds from ports

and upgrades. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

with disabling write caching. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Starting again from Scratch

they should and/or stale dependencies and whatnot in the pkgtools package database. If someone has magic information here I'd love to hear it. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

mfi RAID monitoring

not get the latter to work.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Raid Controller

the 3112 and the 3114. I recommend some Googling on the specific situation with the 3124. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

mentioned problem that happened way in the beginning, I have not had a single problem with it. Definitely my new favorite controller... -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vidcontrol: getting active vty: Inappropriate ioctl for device

at the console it should work. But in X it won't. You can make it do what you ask to the system console with: vidcontrol /dev/console But that will require root privileges. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL

Re: In regard to SATA controllers.

looking good for me, but it has not been that long yet. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Best remote backup method?

integration with snapshots and overall coherent feeling. If backup diskspace and bandwidth was not a concern I'd use it. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Best remote backup method?

automatic rotation schemes with hourly/daily/etc you have to script that on top. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

. By your name you may be in Sweden; so FYI I purchased these cards from Mullet (www.mullet.se). They're the only supplier I have found that carries this locally. It's a shame really since it's such a good card given the price. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

this. This was Seagate. I have not investigated whether I can trigger it as easily with the Maxtor. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

in FreeBSD. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

to remember to post an update for interested parties and/or the archives when I have tested it more. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc

Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

it is priced very well. If the Marvell is out, other main contenders are the 8 port LSI MegaRAID, Highpoint RocketRaid and 3ware cards. But these are all on the expensive side, with the half-exception of the MegaRaid 300-8XLP which is only semi-expensive. Any recommendations? -- / Peter Schuller PGP

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

and not some dodgy half-assed ASIC..). Yes. Given that I do not intend to utilize the hardware RAID support, having to go for a RAID card is to me just a downside, even disregarding the increase in cost. Thank you for the input! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

, though I have not yet had any kind of hardware disaster or similar so I cannot speak to how their tech support works in those cases. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E

Re: Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

down to 1 block. You can then remove the file. Thanks, that explaints it. And it did work. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

. This is on FreeBSD 6.1 with UFS2 + softupdates. No snapshots exist of the filesystem. 1.7 million files may be extreme, but I don't see why an empty directory would ever consume more than one inode? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

if you agree with the sentiment to begin with. Can anyone confirm or deny whether double traversal *IS* supposed to work without difficulties/special cases on current versions of pf/FreeBSD? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

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geom_eli and Safenet/hifn crypto accelerators

50% system utilization on a dual-core 3800+, which I take to be one core saturated unless geli is able to use both CPU:s for the same userland I/O operation.) Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send

pfsync broadcasts without explicitly enabling it

this on has only been running for a few days, so I am even more sure I haven't done so on this one than on the other one. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: background fsck

and /var - as an alternative to just one huge root partition. Does anyone want to speak up as to whether the behavior *is* intentional, or just an unintentional bug? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E

Re: gmirror, gvinum or ccd to mirror root-filesystem under 6.0R

presume this isn't a problem with geom_mirror per se, but rather has to do with an attempt to access a destroyed geom or similar. (This wasn't the root filesystem btw - if it was the root filesystem then the system has a right to panic :)) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

Re: Necessary code or trash?

to a dynamically linked /bin by default. (See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

log). Also: The CPU usage problem occurrs on both outgoing and incoming traffic, and on both NIC:s. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: 3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

I should add that this is currently on RELENG_6_0, but the situations has been the same for a long time. At least as far back as 5.3, but I believe forever (meaning probably 5.1 or so for this machine, I am not sure). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: gbde - destroying master key without lockfile

Instead of destroy I use nuke. Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

gbde - destroying master key without lockfile

-contained; no need to backup anything else or keep it in synch.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: gmirror rebuilds on every reboot

buffers from being flushed properly and/or the gmirror to shutdown correctly. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#REREAD-RC It's worth mentioning that if you're on 5.x and are looking to reload certain specific settings (such as daemon configurations etc), you can run /etc/rc.d/affected-script reload (or the equivalent in /usr/local/etc/rc.d). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Re: Blocking on multiple threads with timeout

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Re: glabel - refuses to label = g partitions

of the device, I don't remember). My last partition ended at exactly the last block of the device. Presumably /dev/ad1 is tasted by geom_label before /dev/ad1s1{g,h,whatever}, which means that geom_label will find the label on /dev/ad1... -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID

glabel - refuses to label = g partitions

after a glabel somename /dev/ad1, and the kernel log contains: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad1 is label/somelabel -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

takes only one command. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd

Re: Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

have encoded in all those .qmail files (if any). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: POP3 IMAP

that works well. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

, requiring a lot of fiddling with pkgdb. I tried portmanager in the past but missed the fact of 'proper' upgrading of entire dependency chains. I will have another go now though. Thanks for the clarifications! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

to upgrade all ports without disabling the machine in question. As it stands now, I much prefer portupgrade to NetBSD's pkg_chk for exactly this reason, even if portupgrade requires manual tweaking sometimes. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller

Re: traffic volume monitoring - what program

and cleaner to configure than mrtg (in my experience). If you're interested I have a few scripts that do what you want in a basic bandwidth graphing situation for a few hosts; generating relatively sane graphs. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller

Re: darcs and ghc building

the issue, whatever it is, is fixed in 6.2.2. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

, and/or read through the example muttrc that comes with the freebsd port. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

. It doesn't have that particular feature you mentioned, but the one news reader that is closest to being perfect for me is slrn - very nice. As someone mentioned; leafnode can be used as a suitable proxy NNTP server that can pull news from multiple servers. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies

Re: vinum

. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Root fs full - free space always below 0

have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: USB Storage devices (Cigar/Pen) in FreeBSD?

to boot from the device. Otherwise I've not found anything interesting. Perhaps this is just because they work 'out of the box' and there are no quirks or issues that merit attention. I don't know about booting off them though. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: startx kde

should do the trick. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The journalling file system saga

remotely interested in this? Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval

Re: The journalling file system saga

mostly gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain specifics. Is there such a thing in existence? If not I may try to put one together, for other people like me. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The journalling file system saga

of ReiserFS 4, rather than because of any actual or fictional advantages in performance of ReiserFS 3.x as compared to the alternatives. The idea of ACID transactions at the filesystem level is just too attractive to resist. :) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?

I'm not sure about. Anything else out there? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Mylex RAID management on FreeBSD?

not used one on FreeBSD - only Linux. Are Mylex cards stable under FreeBSD? Any opinions would be welcome. Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

an attempted rm -r, they go back to state 'up' (both test and test3, even though I only try to remove test). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: Nvidia Drivers

; and follow the instructions in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/pkg-message -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

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Re: Internet 2

UHLW 0 0 dc0 I don't see a default route anywhere in there. Add one with 'route add default IP_OF_THE_GATEWAY. Without a default gateway you won't be able to reach anything for which there is not a specific entry in the routing table. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Re: spam in an inbox.

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Re: Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Java runtime?

to first install the linux-JDK though for bootstrapping purposes. Choose the JDK you would like to install and do 'make install'. It's going to ask you to download files from Sun manually due to licensing restrictions. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter

Re: Java runtime?

that it is compiling the standard library for the native JVM.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

environments. I'm very surprised FreeBSD doesn't handle this by default out of the box. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

concrete evidence why it would actually be bad. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

somewhere that there was a problem with that particular controller but I don't remember why. So - if I want a USB 2 controller that works fine with FreeBSD, which one shojuld I get / which chipset should it be using? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D

Re: Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

So - if I want a USB 2 controller that works fine with FreeBSD, which one shojuld I get / which chipset should it be using? To be more specific I found a controllre by Q-Tec (425U) wtih a Via VT6202 chipset. Anyone know if this will work? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP

Re: Rxvt replacement?

Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least smaller than xterm. Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked off rxvt apparantly). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Bluetooth

to the internet via GPRS over bluetooth with a Nokia 7650 and the built-in USB adapter in the IBM T40p. It seems to run stable (well except for the buggy-in-general phone). Dunno about HID though. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL

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