. As for dangerous, Unix users - especially root,
and mount is restricted to root by default - are assumed to know what
they're doing.
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nothing was in use on it? In particular, could
sysinstall have opened something on it? In any case, unmounting the
file system causeing that functionality to return is expected.
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Mike Meyer wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Hartland
As a general rule, deciding that something is useless and dangerous
and removing it isn't the Unix way of doing things. Just because you
can't see a use for something
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard
with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install
process, and the install goes just fine
I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard
with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install
process, and the install goes just fine.
But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence,
draws the cute 5.x booto
a server that runs, but that (my
guess) hangs the PCI bus. The screen goes black, a few seconds pass in
which no input of any sort works, and then the system does a hard
reboot.
Sorry, but I can't help with that one.
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secondary. Normally, I get just the opposite.
This is just a minor annoyance, but I'd sure like to know how it
happened, and if it can be fixed without rebooting.
Thanks,
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Well, I handle my own mail, and *I* certainly got it. I even chmod'ed
/usr/bin/keyinit to close the known hole this bug created.
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it and run mergemaster again. That
doesn't require another reboot - I just do it immediately.
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[Replies have been pointed to -hackers to get this off of -stable.]
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On Wed Apr 24, 2002 at 12:17:37AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
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On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 11:07:18PM -0500
OpenSSL/OpenSSH
closer is probably an easy sell. The same is not true for sendmail.
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that no
software is going to overwrite other software, and provide way to
override that for root.
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-current
and 4-STABLE just fine.
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more willing to work
on the problem on my -current box, which doesn't disturb users if it
crashes, than on any of my -stable boxes, which also need to print.
Thanx,
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delete
/etc/security. I think putting that directly in the note in UPDATING
would be worthwhile.
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guess the question is, does SmartMedia preclude umass?
The Fuji SM-R2 is a umass cmopatible smartmedia reader. There's at
least one other available, but that's the one I've got.
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don't do that now for ipfw
firewalls, but that could be fixed.
For that matter, the firewall is turned on before any network services
are started, so there shouldn't be a serious problem, barring things
like the old ping-of-death.
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thing as disabling it.
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this confusion.
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firewall_load_ipfw_if_needed_then_run_ruleset_script_when_set_to_yes
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after all, you've enabled the firewall already. If you want it to
behave the other way when you build a custom kernel, you
can. Personally, I think the current behavior of making things more
secure is the better default.
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that it now has precompiled magic files. They should
have been installed when you installed the world. Try doing make
install in /usr/src/usr.bin/file, and see if that doesn't happen
now. If not, you'll need to build and install them yourself.
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Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote:
Note that pkg_version uses the INDEX file, which is in the repository
but not get up to date. For best results, you need to do a make
index in /usr/ports.
Quick correction here...pkg_version (for 4.3
the appropriate code to
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s. Keeping it under 512 bytes will
be the problem.
On the other hand, you could also install one of the boot managers in
the ports tree and use that. Personally, I prefer grub, but there are
other choices.
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. No one discussed any
change in the risk assessment. I think he turned it back on for the
same reason he turned it off: popular demand URL:
ttp://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51636+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010318.freebsd-mobile
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Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
I found the source of this jar.
I'he installed 'gkrellm' from ports.
It's installed as root:kmem with SUID bit (no SGID, however).
Running gkrellm while audio playback produces
Eugene Grosbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:24:46PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
There have been multiple reports of gkrellm causing SMP systems to
freeze - more accurately, gkrellm plugins cause this to
happen. Which prompts me to ask if you are running SMP
the system was
freezing before, except the sensors.
If anyone is interested in the smb panics, I've still got all the
relevant files if you need them, or information from them.
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information to
display, it's running, hence it's going to be in the RUN state. When
it's not updating, it's sitting waiting for a command or the timer to
run out - which is what select is used for. So that seems natural as
well.
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I just wanted to verify that the upgrade option for 4.4-RC1 was
intentionally missing, and not left off by accident.
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again, and reinstalling
the world should do the trick. The handbook covers this at URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
and following.
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well the new features work before doing
anything with those ideas.
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be
attacked, rather than trying to automate something that experience
shows doesn't automate well.
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job. Look in /usr/ports/databases for more information.
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that someone else thinks is
unusual. Until you can prove that there is no use for the output of
tail on a directory, adding code to tail to generate an error in that
case is silly.
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, maybe).
Deciding for the users what actions are an error and which aren't is a
*really* nasty habit. Windows does it all to often, which is one of
the reasons Windows sucks. Linux - at least some distributions - seems
to have picked up the habit from Windows. Oh well.
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Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
Mike Meyer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.25 09:59:49 +:
If the FTP site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts, that might
be a problem. But I don't think that's the case here.
every ftp site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts
Ceri Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
Very cool idea, but the graphviz port doesn't build on 4.3-STABLE,
failing with
=== Applying FreeBSD patches for graphviz-1.7c
aclocal: /usr/opt/share/aclocal/sdl11.m4: 11: duplicated
. I did it that way for a year or so before moving it into
.Xresources.
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it cover the first part of the disk, but not the entire disk.
I think I'm going to add playing with this to my list of things to
do
mike
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on
softupdates. The driver doesn't do it for you, though.
I'd be interested to know details about why softupdates makes it more
critical to have write caching off.
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I just upgraded to 4.3-BETA, and at boot got a warning about
"/var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory" when I rebooted. It now
exists, and is a berkeley db file.
Could someone tell me what this file is, and what creates it?
Thanx,
mike
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Hajimu UMEMOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] types:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:11:15 -0500
Chris Faulhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I believe wmlmmon is lmmon in a Gnome(GTK) window.
jedgar Ummm, no. :) It is a windowmaker dock app...
GKrellM is GTK+ based monitor that can display fan and
this, but I couldn't find it last time
I looked.
I've had BIOSes overwrite my disklabel on DD disks. Having the
information printed and ready saved my ass.
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ling it up as a FAQ entry - would that still
be useful? Do we want a place unconnected with the code documenting it?
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a serial line, then
you can do the installworld in single user mode. If they let you boot
an alternate kernel over a serial line, then you're set, aren't you?
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and /usr/obj the
same way the build system does. Or if you have one of them symlinked
that way (to split the build process across spindles), then the client
system must mount both /usr/src (or /usr/obj) and /shared, and symlink
/usr/obj (or /usr/src) to /shared.
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ne sup out
of /usr/src/Makefile? Maybe do it in two steps - combined supfiles
with a note in updating to encourage people to use them, then the
dike.
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it runs well with two CPUs, and have seen reports that it
runs well with more than that.
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Jonathan Smith writes:
I, for one, like the functionality, and thought it kinda already worked
that way (or maybe I _made_ it work that way on my machines, cn't
remember). I would like solid facts, rather than a religious/exagerated
discussion.
I agree. I first ran into this on solaris. I
John Baldwin writes:
;- The bottom line is that taking the name people have standardized on
;- for installing *local* packages and installing system-provided
;- packages there is a bad thing(TM). None of the solutions I used
;- suffered from that flaw.
;-Umm, if the name /usr/local disturbs you
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Long wrote:
:-I have a FreeBSD+drawbridge host which just runs and runs and has no
:-problems. It has been up now for 444 days
:-(2.2.6-RELEASE DRAWBRIDGE-3.0b2)
:-and I am planning to upgrade it RSN!
:-
:-Just wondered if FreeBSD ever suffered the 'uptime' problems that
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Aldenor Falcao wrote:
:-
:-I need to build python, cause the one the comes with 3.2 is broken.
:- It doesn't have the thread and SHA compiled in.
Huh? The one I just built (3.2-STABLE from late May) has thread built
in.
Not sha, though - you're right. You do want the stuff
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:-Supermicro usually has a jumper for PIIX versus BIOS Power save state.
:-Set it to the NON-default setting.
Well, they only had one such jumper - labeled PIIX4 vs. save PD
state. Changing it seemed made the system power back up after I
removed power
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