Re: bash pipe redirection gets stuck

2012-12-04 Thread jb
long at rule.lv writes: Dear all, I stumbled upon a problem where multiple pipe redirection occasionally get stuck when trying to get sha256 sum of a stream. You can try to reproduce the problem if you have /usr/ports/shells/bash installed (output redirection used in this command is

Install on Intel

2012-12-04 Thread ksg
Do you know if FreeBSD will install with a Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz Carlos Griffith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Install on Intel

2012-12-04 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:28 AM, ksg k...@teleguam.net wrote: Do you know if FreeBSD will install with a Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz Carlos Griffith Yes it will. You'll want the amd64 version, likely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Install on Intel

2012-12-04 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:28:58 +1000, ksg wrote: Do you know if FreeBSD will install with a Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz There's basically nothing that would speak against it. You could use amd64 for this one (as it is a 64 Bit CPU), and you probably have more than enough RAM to justify. :-)

ipfwNG project?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
I came across the wiki doc for ipfwNG (http://wiki.freebsd.org/IpfwNg) and wondered if any of the concepts of this project are currently being developed for FreeBSD and when we might start seeing those concepts included in releng/ code. -- Take care Rick Miller

gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? In the last paragraph of our description of PXE booting FreeBSD: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread FBSD UG
Hey Rick, I've managed to setup an gPXE boot where a diskless client booted OpenSUSE over AoE from a FreeBSD server. Not exactly what you want, yet the setup is mostly the same for all OS's... My main source of info came from this site: http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos greets Arno Beekman

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Dan, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? In the last paragraph of our

Re: CARP within VirtualBox Does it work?

2012-12-04 Thread dweimer
On 2012-12-01 03:14, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 30 November 2012 20:44, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: On 2012-11-29 14:07, dweimer wrote: On 2012-11-29 12:53, Fleuriot Damien wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:43 PM, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: I was trying to setup a test of CARP on

Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
About 20 years ago, I saw some code in which you verified whether or not a process was running by giving it a kill -0 command. If the process was running, nothing happened to it but your kill -0 command exited with a 0 status. If there was no process with that PID, the kill command exited

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Subject: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:39:41 -0600 From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu About 20 years ago, I saw some code in which you verified whether or not a process was running by giving it a kill -0 command. If the process was

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/12/2012 22:10, Walter Hurry wrote: I think there's a problem with 'pkg info' irrespective of how the package is built. $ pkg info -s -F gcc-4.6.4.20121123.txz gcc-4.6.4.20121123 flat size is: 0 B gcc-4.6.4.20121123 package size is: 0 B $ pkg query -F gcc-4.6.4.20121123.txz %sh 567

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? gpxelinux.0 is what I've used in my PXE article. The latest version I tried was from SYSLINUX 4.04. gPXE is loaded as a secondary

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was already fixed in master. Thanks! Does that fix 'pkg info' reporting zero size, or the 'pkg update' misreporting of size difference, or both?

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/12/2012 20:42, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was already fixed in master. Thanks! Does that fix 'pkg info' reporting zero size, or the 'pkg update'

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Robert Bonomi writes: 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### /dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output ps -p 54321 /dev/null date ran the date command if there was

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Robert Bonomi writes: 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### /dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output ps -p 54321 /dev/null date ran the date command if there was

Issue with the pkgng repository

2012-12-04 Thread Walter Hurry
I have another minor issue with pkgng: Say package foo-1.0 depends on bar-1.0. Then bar-1.0 is upgraded to version 1.1. So a new package bar-1.1 is built (from the port), and replaces bar-1.0 in the repository. The repository database is then updated using 'pkg repo'. Now the repository

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Helmut Schneider
Rick Miller wrote: Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? I use mfsBSD (http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/) and pxelinux. DEFAULT boot/menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 0 MENU TITLE network boot menu - FreeBSD LABEL ^1 - mfsBSD 8.2

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:50:38 -0600 Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu wrote: Robert Bonomi writes: 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### /dev/null appears to do what I need

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/12/2012 20:48, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/12/2012 20:42, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was already fixed in master. Thanks! Does that fix 'pkg info'

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:10:41 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/12/2012 20:48, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/12/2012 20:42, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was

Re: Issue with the pkgng repository

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/12/2012 20:52, Walter Hurry wrote: I have another minor issue with pkgng: Say package foo-1.0 depends on bar-1.0. Then bar-1.0 is upgraded to version 1.1. So a new package bar-1.1 is built (from the port), and replaces bar-1.0 in the repository. The repository database is then

root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is? -- Rick -- Sent from my mobile device Take care Rick Miller

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 12/04/12 22:50, Rick Miller wrote: Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is? -- Rick Hi Rick Maybe in the FAQ?

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:50:42 -0500 Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Hi all, I remember one time seeing a site that explained why soft-updates was not enabled for the root filesystem. I tried looking for it earlier, but failed to locate it. Is there someone who knows where it is?

Re: Issue with the pkgng repository

2012-12-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:32:19 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is a flaw in your package repository maintenance process. Helpful and detailed response snipped for brevity Thanks. Noted. I shall rethink the process accordingly. ___

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread John
On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John free...@growveg.net wrote: Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src That one should give you 9.1-RELEASE. thanks for

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 12/04/12 20:47, John wrote: On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John free...@growveg.net wrote: Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src That one should give

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Reed Loefgren rloefg...@forethought.net wrote: I re-built my home and work machines to 9.1-RELEASE today and tonight a lap top is next, all using the same URL for svn. They all have a different revision number: Home machine is r243863M, work machine is r243864M