Running with a readonly root partition

2008-06-13 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
As devfs is running by default, it seems to me that it would be relatively easy to run with a readonly root partition, assuming that the directories under which writing is necessary (ie; /tmp, /var, /home) are located in separate, writable partitions. The main advantages are that none of the con

Re: dmesg empty after shutdown -r

2008-05-01 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
On Thursday 01 May 2008 01:58:46 A Hamilton-Wright wrote: After "shutdown -r now" and the subsequent reboot, I have (... no dmesg) On Thu, 1 May 2008, Mel wrote: dmesg -M doesn't show anything either? Wish I'd thought to try that last night. I eventuall

dmesg empty after shutdown -r

2008-04-30 Thread A Hamilton-Wright
This is very strange. After "shutdown -r now" and the subsequent reboot, I have logged in to my machine FreeBSD qemg.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Everything seems to be running normally, e

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote: We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard links which is a plus. Just after I posted, I started thinking about

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
You haven't mentioned how large a USB drive you have available to use for this scheme, but it sounds to me like your situation can be summed up as follows: - you have two machines to back up, one is remote, but both have consistent network accessibility - you have a (removable) drive upon whi

CPU throttling on amd64

2008-04-25 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
Does anyone on this list know the state of any userland control tools for CPU throttling on the amd64 platform? I see in the archives that there was little functionality in this are as of 2004, and then substantial work in 2005 to make cpufreq available through sysctl. At that time there is a t