Re: Tuning /etc/sysctl.conf

2013-10-14 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ntend to apply to your PC. Most changes you can make will benefit some workflows at the cost of making others less efficient. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ood chance that you'll solve the same problem for everyone else who may want it. > 3. Something else? Wait for someone else to do it. FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. -- Steve O&#

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > Then there's the issue of writing it to the console rather than a > virtual terminal, but I have a few hacks that'll achieve that part. /dev/console is your friend. -- St

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
t a sound > card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Try this: echo ^G > /dev/console You'll have to type ^V^G to get a real ^G in the command line (^ means control of course). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith _

Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
esn't yet exist so create it and look in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details) until you get through a night without a reboot. Then the next step is to figure out why whatever is crashing the system does so, but first let's find out what. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > mount -o rw / That would need to be mount -u -o rw / -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:20:00 - atar wrote: > Is there any way to enable persistence between reboots when using > FreeBSD from a USB stick? What exactly do you mean by "enable persistence between reboots" ? -- St

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ers running multiple OSs then not having to remember that the FreeBSD/ZFS box manages it's exports differently to the Linux/ext2fs may well be a benefit. You may have management tools and not wish to extend them to handle ZFS explicitly. There can be good reasons both ways. -- Steve O&#x

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the standard place for exports and won't need fiddling with if you decide that you want to move one of them to some other filesystem. The second has the benefit that it integrates better with the ZFS tools. The one thing you don't want to do is put the same export in both.

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
are there. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
he tty devices are for outgoing connections, the cua devices are for incoming connections. For more detail see sio(4), after all the detail about multi-port serial cards and their master ports comes a couple of paragraphs describing the devices associated with each serial port in detail. --

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
rving connections to a bunch of dial up users. An amazing number of things stopped working. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:27:01 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: > "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wrote: > > > It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. > > I didn't think there were _any_! Haven't oxide

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:13:39 +0930 Shane Ambler wrote: > On 21/07/2013 04:42, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. > > > I thought there was three left - Seagate WD and Toshiba I assumed Toshiba were

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ght at the same time from the same supplier tends to add to the probability that more than one drive is on the edge when one goes. It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questi

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
only real way to tell would be to give both boxes the same kind of drives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi, > "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > > > > If list write access was changed

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ll" in FreeBSD mailing lists. It's been a convention for a *long* time, at least since FreeBSD 1.1 was shiny and new in 1993. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
> fixed here first. Anything else would be a 'feature' :) That would be nice - one way to achieve that would be to add a writable oid for patch level and not bump newvers.sh for patches. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-qu

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:43:59 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 > > "Mark Felder" wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith > >> wrote

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 "Mark Felder" wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > > > You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no > > kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
e hasn't changed. This could very reasonably be regarded as bug in the update/version reporting process but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, as things stand the version reported only changes when the kernel is updated, or if you recompile it after the update. -- Steve O'Hara-Smi

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
er to use sudo or su rather than logging in as root, although for a single user system this doesn't really make much difference. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
's easy to build a repository, it's hard to build a secure public repository. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ritten from scratch with no reference to the original code then it's a rewrite. I suppose there are edge cases where a rewrite may include a portion taken from the original (assuming compatible licensing), or where a fork has been so heavily modified that little

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ck sizes help, but except for things like tape they don't help much once you pass the device/controller max write block size. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ut forced to use them because the population > is so slim anywhere else. Usenet has suffered its generational > penalty. Actually the web forums are no help in that respect because they've caused what was once a concentrated audience to fragment over a hundred web forums.

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
with a ton of dependencies" which translates to a lot of work to keep it up to date in the base system, and all sorts of fun and games when other things using those dependencies need a newer version. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: periodic security always sends output mail

2013-03-10 Thread Steve Rikli
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:43:54PM +, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/10/13 03:26, Steve Rikli wrote: > >I would like to configure periodic on my FreeBSD servers to only send > >daily/weekly/monthly/security mails (or logs) when there is something > >"important" t

periodic security always sends output mail

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Rikli
the reason is /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security sets "rc=3" after running 'periodic security', and so there's no way to mask the output. Is there some other (preferably supported) means of achieving the goal of no mail or log unless there's something to

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
count=(n*20) skip=(n*20 - 1) Probably nicer to use powers of 2 bs=64k count=(n*16) skip=(n*16 - 1) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
n you use -r on a filesystem that is not pristine, or at least in the expected state for restoring an incremental dump. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: "make package" vs "pkg create"

2013-02-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the ports tree and rebuilding the affected ports poudriere ports -u poudriere bulk -f /root/packages -j build build is my build jail, and /root/packages is a file listing the packages I want. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
updates in Lite2 were merged in pretty quickly IIRC. > Not that I find it an issue, but could whatever is left over be removed? > Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I expect there's

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
that, also that copyright message belongs to the Regents of the University of California and unless I misremember one of the license conditions is retaining their copyright notice - altering it would probably be a license violation. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: I made a mess. libc

2013-02-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
n somehow get a copy of it where you can read it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
em updates used by freebsd-update are still being produced. > I am learning about FreeBSD after not using it for several > years. My first FreeBSD was 5.4 i386 version. Hmm that release occurred during my break from FreeBSD between 4.x and 9.0. My first FreeBSD install was 1.1. -

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
day I updated my 9.1 installations using it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: which pkg repository with 9.1

2013-02-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
> Is it possible that the November 2012 security incident means > there's still no installable packaged via pkg-install? > I was going to install rsync. I believe it is still the case that there is no official package repository. I've gone to using poudriere to maintain

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of UTF-8. I regard the iso8859 encodings as basically obsolete. Unicode has it's faults, but it is the best general purpose encoding system available. There are also tools for unicode that can handle problems such as correctly sorting text for different languages which is not as easy as you

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:40:53 +0200 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 28.01.2013 09:03, Steve O'Hara-Smith: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:05:05 -0800 > > Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Shane Ambler > >> wrote: > >>

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
s it certain that a replacement drive will be big enough to use in the mirror when it arrives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV wrote: > The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint. With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a minor issue. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-question

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 bsd wrote: > Le 25 janv. 2013 à 18:41, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:25:06 +0100 > > bsd wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I wanted to have the point of view of the commun

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
this as a > backup server. You might like the sysutils/ezjail port - I use it for a very similar purpose and find it works well. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
put files have to be sorted. For which purpose the sort program is most useful. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Obsolete Shared Libraries?

2012-12-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
up distfiles, packages and work areas. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
rs work fine for both openGL and the vdpau stuff. Virtualbox worked fine too, but this Atom doesn't have hardware virtualisation support so it's a bit sluggish. I've not tried (or wanted) Wine in years. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebs

Re: serial connection

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
lar to this vpn over ssh setup with different device configuration http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ppp-over-ssh// -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

2012-12-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
logging could be achieved at that level using (for example) a customised sshd that logs all the traffic. It doesn't quite log what commands get executed but it does log what gets typed and everything else will follow from that. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
just incomplete - but if it's /bin/sh that's gone it could be tricky recovering). The other reason is that softupdates is about optimising write performace, and the root filesystem shouldn't be getting many writes in normal use so softupdates is of no be

Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ion to signal process - belongs to someone else } else if (ESRCH == errno) { // Process does not exist } else { // Something weird and undocumented went wrong } -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-12-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
etail in section IV of the handbook - 27 Serial Communications and 28 PPP and SLIP. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: Re[2]: How to allow httpd to run 'ipfw table 7 add ... '

2012-11-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:03:08 +0200 Eugen Konkov wrote: > Здравствуйте, Steve. > SOHS> The only problem with this is it will allow apache to > SOHS> do anything with ipfw including flush all of the rules. I would > SOHS> suggest having apache dumping the paramet

Re: How to allow httpd to run 'ipfw table 7 add ... '

2012-11-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
g flush all of the rules. I would suggest having apache dumping the parameters of the command to be run into a queue of some kind (named pipe perhaps or a file based queue if it's important to survive shutdowns) and have a process reading the queue, sanity checking the parameters and then ex

Re: How do you manage jails?

2012-11-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
qjail or ezjail? ezjail here - my fileserver runs a bunch of jails for various services as well as a build jail. I find it convenient and it hasn't annoyed me yet. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith --- Begin Message --- On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:05:30 -0500 Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I w

Re: audio CD/CD-TEXT

2012-11-29 Thread Steve Randall
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:30:36 -0800 Waitman Gobble wrote: > Hi, > > A girl sent me her CD and it appears that she created a mixed mode > disc with CD-TEXT info of her lyrics. I can't recall playing/noticing > such a disc in the past 10 years so I'm at a loss. > > I can dump the audio tracks (cdd

Re: portsnap

2012-11-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: csup to svn

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
is will probably become intolerably clumsy for more than a handful of ports. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Home "Server"

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
e I'd go for a big ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
g or two about it. However that is not relevant, the sad thing is that you have destroyed any chance of getting whatever help you wanted by deciding to argue about what you think words should mean instead of understanding how they are being used. -- Stev

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it has a context dependant meaning. Stop masturbating over a dictionary and work on your problem or take it elsewhere - please. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ual box VMs using baseline images and definition files to create VMs on the fly in response to a simple command. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
rtualised display talks to X as the display backend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-15 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:30:43 -0600 Adam Vande More wrote: > Sounds like you have bad hardware. Drive, cable, controller etc. > Probably wouldn't hurt to do a fsck either. *After* identifying and fixing the hardware problem, otherwise you may make things worse. -- Steve O

Re: rm -rf and flags (schg, sunlnk)

2012-11-14 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
/PATH rm -rf /PATH The other way requires two traversals of the full tree, this way there's only one full traversal and a clean up which is small and fast. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: gfc-afc-volume-mon

2012-11-12 Thread Steve Randall
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:35:59 +1030 Shane Ambler wrote: > On 12/11/2012 09:40, ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I use FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0 r242324 mnow. After updtae from 9.1-RC2 to > > RC3 I have a problem with GIMP which start more slow than before and > > top shows me: > > > > > > THR PRI NICE SIZE

Re: IPv6in4 tunnel with only one /64 prefix

2012-11-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
d my FreeBSD server. The part about creating the tunnel, routing > between the home and the server works using private addresses (fc00::/8 > over gif0). Why not just get a tunnel from one of the tunnel brokers, at least he.net and gogo6.com are still running free tunnels. --

Re: Re[2]: HELP: some process eat my /var

2012-11-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
still open by some process. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups?

2012-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
oice, news/tin, while quite good for > newsgroups with a moderate number of articles can't > cope with some alt.binaries.* groups that contain over > 2,000,000+ active/unread articles. It effectively thrashes For binaries I wouldn't use a newsreader at all. I'd use

Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
t > the top of the next. > Surely I'm missing someting. > How to get rid of this empty space? The printer may be doing this internally, many dot matrix printers had the ability to set the page length and perforation skip on DIP s

Re: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:10:13 +0700 Olivier Nicole wrote: > I am digging along the line of netgraph, but ther eis no netgraph for > parallel port :( If there was it would be a connection to a PLIP network - actually I'd be surprised if there wasn't. -- St

Re: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
available, finding one with parallel might be harder. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: MFS root filesystem and static binaries size

2012-10-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
chgen produces a file with a lot of names. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: ZFS and zpool mistake

2012-10-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
t; I don't think there was anything written to the second disk but I cannot > remove it anymore. Yep once you've added a stripe there's no way to remove it. You'll have to copy the data off somewhere and then rebuild the pool. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: sockstat

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:26:59 -0500 ajtiM wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2012 05:50:57 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 05:42:51 -0500 > > > > ajtiM wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0 and I running KDE 4.8.

Re: sockstat

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
not available to normal users so it run setuid root. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
this though. The stuff in /rescue should work fine for getting a usable environment to go bug hunting in, but without a deep and intimate knowledge of how things are supposed to be it's going to be hard short of reinstalling. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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"

Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
so is the performance, but I'm just curious to find out others opinions on what they use for tape backup machines nowadays before I purchase something new. I back up between 2 and 4 TB per day at this particular site. Off-list replies if you don't feel comfortable specifying vendors publicly

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
my Western Digital Caviar Green > 3 TB hard drive failing? Either something was referencing sectors off the end of the disc, or the drive is failing. I'd be inclined to copy the data off somewhere safe and subject the disc to extensive tests with smartctl from smartmontools, then if it passes

Re: installation of yuma

2012-09-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
may need to install it first from the ports). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ 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: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
irst? > > ___ > > 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: Empty logfiles

2012-08-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
d . -name \*.log -exec truncate {} \; man find and man truncate for the gory details. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:12:57 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT) > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > >> If 9.0 had not broken my most important applications, I wouldn&

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > >> I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory. The

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory. There is no > TEKEN_CONS25 or TEKEN or CONS25. Exactly where is this documented? /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES is where I found it. -- Steve O'

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > &g

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) > > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > >> > >> Does 9.0 honor TERM settings? > >> > >

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like > strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 = E[18~ not E[S). The TERM environment variable is supposed to describe the terminal not control it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Direc

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:07:04 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 23 Aug 2012, at 17:26, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 > > Krims G wrote: > > > >> Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed th

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
se > of adding root to a group? If I add root to some new arbitrary group, what > does it result in differently than if I do not add root to that group? The root user has the ability to ignore file permissions, but not the ability to subvert group membership tests in scripts or pro

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
r mode > befoe other filesystems are mounted. You can 'live dangerously' and > symlink to a dir on a different filesystem and _probably_ not have > problems. A null mount would be a safer way of pushing /tmp onto /usr or indeed any other filesystem - th

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:16:26 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On August 16, 2012 6:02:57 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 > > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
is this filesystem (number of files, maximum number of entries in a directory, volume of data) ? Are there many users needing to be protected from each other ? What about archives ? snapshots ? growth ? churn ? uptime requirements, disaster recovery time ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-15 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
However, the display works fine and I'm assuming I'm just getting slow > rendering, which is ok in this case. Sometimes the OpenGL screen saver modules crash without proper hardware support. If you're running a screensaver try disabling it and just using display blan

Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

2012-08-09 Thread Steve Roome
tlen=8 bytes Aug 9 23:41:14 tv kernel: ukbd_intr_callback: modifiers = 0x0001 Aug 9 23:41:14 tv kernel: ukbd_put_key: 0xe0 (224) pressed Thanks very much, and apologies if there's a known answer, it's not something I've managed to find yet if it is. Steve Roome P.S. I'm hoping for

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
t; ⁽¹⁾ Intended to use the patents in such a way that they would directly > profit from it > > ⁽²⁾ Intended to lease the patent rights or outright sell the patent. [3] Want to prevent anyone else from using it to break into their market. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
4GB is all the motherboard would take. I've paid more than that for a *KILOBYTE* of memory - admittedly that was a long time ago. One big part of the changing landscape in computer economics is that RAM and disc are *cheap*. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ything else. Indeed this test is now CPU limited in bonnie - that'll do. Rebooting with zfs.cache_flush_disable=1 made everything faster. Block writes and reads maxed out the discs at around 110MB/s and 200MB/s respectively - pretty close to the raw disc speed. Rewrite nearly dou

ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
p can anyone explain the discrepancy between bonnie and zpool/systat for the XFS pool ? Secondly can anyone suggest a reason that I can't seem to get the drives above 50% reported utilisation on reads ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirro

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