Quoth Peter Olsson list-freebsd-sta...@jyborn.se:
(But I will try running freebsd-update without merging /etc,
and use mergemaster -F instead. Should solve my problem.)
I'm fairly sure this won't do what you want, and in fact won't work at
all, unless your /etc is identical to the stock /etc
Quoth David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com:
I personally think (but you may totally disagree with) that an operating
system *is* an operating system. And I really hate easter eggs or
anything else not serious being integrated into the system. I think
about a new user installing FreeBSD
Quoth Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jim Ballantine j.ballant...@gmail.comwrote:
My /var/db/pkg has become corrupt, and I can't find an archive of it to
install in it's place. Does one exist and if so where? If not any ideas
on
how to rebuild the db?
Quoth Jan Bramkamp cr...@rlwinm.de:
On 15.07.2013 21:51, Daniel Eischen wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier just to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
anyway?
PAM and NSS switch are two different subsystems. NSS is just for
resource lookups (users, groups, hosts, ...). PAM is for access control.
With
Quoth h...@freebsd.org:
I would like your comments on release notes for each release.
Although I have been working on editing them for years, the workflow
is still not optimal and sometimes delay of the preparation became an
obstacle for release process. I would like to improve it, but
Quoth Unga unga...@yahoo.com:
I think you may be reading too much into the malloc manpage.� When it
mentions the use of per-thread small-object caches to avoid locking it's
talking about performance, not thread safety.� Allocations of all sizes
are thread-safe, the library just assumes
Quoth Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk:
- Original Message -
From: Daniel Kalchev
On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote:
I say that knowing lots of people use ZFS-on-root, which is great -- I
just wonder how many of them have tested all the
Quoth Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net:
Note that the machine is not booting from ZFS -- it is booting from and
has its swap on a UFS 2-drive mirror (handled by the disk adapter; looks
like a single da0 drive to the OS) and that drive stalls as well when
it freezes. It's definitely a
Quoth Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net:
Quoth Ben Morrow:
I don't know what medium you're backing up to (does anyone use tape any
more?) but when backing up to disk I much prefer to keep the backup in
the form of a filesystem rather than as 'zfs send' streams. One reason
Quoth Phil Regnauld regna...@x0.dk:
The only risk that makes me uncomfortable doing this is that the pool is
always active when the system is running. With UFS backup disks it's
not -- except when being actually written to they're unmounted, and this
materially decreases the risk of an
Quoth Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net:
Dabbling with ZFS now, and giving some thought to how to handle backup
strategies.
[...]
Take a base snapshot immediately and zfs send it to offline storage.
Take an incremental at some interval (appropriate for disaster recovery)
and zfs send THAT
Quoth Daniel Eischen deisc...@freebsd.org:
Yes, we still use a couple of DLT autoloaders and have nightly
incrementals and weekly fulls. This is the problem I have with
converting to ZFS. Our typical recovery is when a user says
they need a directory or set of files from a week or two ago.
Quoth David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca:
On Mar 1, 2013, at 15:39, Daniel Eischen wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, kpn...@pobox.com wrote:
What about extended attributes? ACLs? Are those saved by tar?
I think tar (as root or -p) will attempt to preserve those.
Specifically bsdtar (with
Quoth Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org:
If there are people out there using, for example, SSDs on an ICH7 in
non-AHCI mode, it would be good to know and get pciconf -lvbc output
(specifically the entry for their ATA/SATA controller). But as with all
publicly released operating systems, most
Quoth Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:19:57AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 22:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Also, John, please consider using malloc(3) instead of heap-allocated
buffers like file_buffer[6][] (196608 bytes) and command[]
Quoth Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de:
OK, tried manually wihtout Poudriere:
cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
make deinstall
rm -r /var/db/ports/apache22
make clean
make -DBATCH -DPROXY=on -DPROXY_HTTP=on -DSUEXEC=on
-DSUEXEC_DOCROOT=/var/apache
Quoth 'Jeremy Chadwick' j...@koitsu.org:
Regarding your svn-lite theory of having that added to src/contrib/,
let me introduce you to Subversion's actual dependencies, and I'll
explain why these would have to remain enabled (for a base system
Subversion) as well:
* SQLite3 (used for
At 9AM + on 24/01/13 you (Ben Morrow) wrote:
Quoth 'Jeremy Chadwick' j...@koitsu.org:
Regarding your svn-lite theory of having that added to src/contrib/,
let me introduce you to Subversion's actual dependencies, and I'll
explain why these would have to remain enabled (for a base
Quoth Mark Felder f...@feld.me:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:22:26 -0600, Alex Povolotsky
tark...@webmail.sub.ru wrote:
It was a break-in. Some dumb php script running with user privileges
managed FreeBSD to hang on disk io up to stopping responding to anything
besides reset.
Yikes!
Quoth Sami Halabi sodyn...@gmail.com:
בתאריך 17 בינו 2013 05:18, מאת Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org:
From src/sys/conf/NOTES, this may be what you're looking for...
#
# Don't enter the debugger for a panic. Intended for unattended operation
# where you may want to enter the debugger from
Quoth Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com:
Doesn't the change to strnvis() break the ABI on FreeBSD 9.X? I
thought you could always compile a binary on an earlier version of
FreeBSD 9.X and trust it to work without recompiling on any later
minor version of the same major version line.
No, it
Quoth Shawn Webb latt...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Ben Morrow b...@morrow.me.uk wrote:
Quoth Shawn Webb latt...@gmail.com:
# ifconfig bridge0
bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu
1500
ether 02:fe:21:34:d3:00
inet6 2001:470
At 5PM -0500 on 15/01/13 you (Shawn Webb) wrote:
I figured it out. In my jail initialization scripts, I'm running '/bin/sh
/bin/rc' after doing initial network setup. The rc script puts the
interface in IFDISABLED mode. So if I run the ifconfig command to remove
the flag, I'm golden.
Yes,
Quoth Shawn Webb latt...@gmail.com:
I've been working on sharing a 6in4 IPv6 tunnel (via a gif device) I have
with Hurricane Electric (tunnelbroker.net) to my jails via epair devices.
My setup is a bit unique in that the IPv6 tunnel is behind an OpenVPN
connection. I've had varying degrees
Quoth Derek Kulinski tak...@takeda.tk:
I personally really like OpenSuSE command which is: zypper ps
What it does is it lists all processes that have files opened that
currently don't exist (i.e. link count is 0). This helps tremendously
in determining which processes need to be restarted
Quoth Mateusz Guzik mjgu...@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:29:14PM +, Ben Morrow wrote:
Quoth Derek Kulinski tak...@takeda.tk:
I personally really like OpenSuSE command which is: zypper ps
What it does is it lists all processes that have files opened that
currently don't
Quoth Hiroki Sato h...@freebsd.org:
Gregory Shapiro gshap...@freebsd.org wrote
in 20130108180920.gj36...@rugsucker.smi.sendmail.com:
gs How can I unstupid sendmail here?
gs
gs I don't think sendmail is being stupid here as it is doing what it has
gs been doing under 8.x and 9.1 (the
Quoth Hajimu UMEMOTO u...@freebsd.org:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:01:52 +0900
Hajimu UMEMOTO u...@freebsd.org said:
ume I changed getipnodebyname to obey ip6addrctl in years past. I read
ume RFC 2553 again, and realize that it mentions IPv6 addresses are
ume returned 1st. So, my past change
Quoth Hajimu UMEMOTO u...@freebsd.org:
Hi,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:29:00 +
Ben Morrow b...@morrow.me.uk said:
ben Where does it say that? All I can find (but I might be being stupid) is
ben the bit in the description of AI_ALL where it says 'A query is first
ben made for records
Quoth =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBXxIVzaWtvd3NraQ==?= luk...@wasikowski.net:
W dniu 2012-12-22 04:41, Kimmo Paasiala pisze:
Yeah, this is problem in network.subr. An interface is not recognized
as IPv6 capable if the interface is not in ipv6_network_interfaces
and there's no ifconfig_IF_ipv6 in
Quoth CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl:
I was using portupgrade/portinstall -PP on 9.1-RC3 with no problem.
After freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE I cannot install any port from
packages. Should I additionally configure my system somehow? Where did
the portupgrade took the packages from last time /
Quoth CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl:
I have tried to chceck for badblocks on my / but I did not find badblocks
program on LiveCD and there is no option to install it. This is very useful
utility, please add it as part of LiveCD :-)
There is no badblocks utility in the FreeBSD base system. It
Quoth =?utf-8?Q?Efra=C3=ADn_D=C3=A9ctor?= efraindec...@motumweb.com:
Hello.
I recently upgraded to 9.1-RC3, everything went fine, however the /
partition its about to get full. Im really new to FreeBSD so I don’t
know what files can be deleted safely.
76M
At 7PM -0600 on 27/11/12 Efraín Déctor wrote:
From: Ben Morrow
Quoth =?utf-8?Q?Efra=C3=ADn_D=C3=A9ctor?= efraindec...@motumweb.com:
I recently upgraded to 9.1-RC3, everything went fine, however the /
partition its about to get full. Im really new to FreeBSD so I don’t
know what files
Quoth Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com:
On 26 Nov 2012 08:12, Perry Hutchison per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote:
... don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long ...
It's really time to get away from CVS and I suspect
it will be going away sooner than
Quoth Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Claude Buisson clbuis...@orange.fr wrote:
I can easily understand that developpers are happy to switch to new tools,
but
the question is: do FreeBSD developpers care a bit about non developpers,
and
FreeBSD
Quoth Ken Smith kensm...@buffalo.edu:
The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
release branches (releng/*) from now on. Updates of the CVS repository
will continue for the existing stable/* and
Quoth Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk:
I do aswell :D The thing is, I see it two ways; I worked for a a huge
online betting company, and we had the money for HP MSA's and big
expensive SAN's, then we have a lot of SMB's with no where near the
budget for that but the same problem with lots of data
Quoth sth...@nethelp.no:
If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up
with ad0s1a (note the s1), then you have an invalid
partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what
you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time
you only need to wipe out the second sector on the
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com:
On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
gee, thanks!
That worked.
r...@talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8*
/dev/ad8/dev/ad8s1 /dev/ad8s1a
r...@talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/
r...@talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/
Quoth sth...@nethelp.no:
So what's an easy recipe we can run on 7.x hosts to see whether we
would have problems with 8.x?
From what's been said so far: If you have adXsY devices in 7, *and*
bsdlabel adX
finds a valid label (*note*: that is the whole disk, not the
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com:
On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks.
This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid
dangerously dedicated disk, as demonstrated by doing:
# fdisk
Quoth Xin LI delp...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow b...@morrow.me.uk wrote:
Are you able to clarify exactly what is no longer working in 8? I've
read things here and there about dangerously dedicated disks no longer
being supported, but no detail about what
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com:
On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com:
On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks.
This is not true. The problem
Quoth Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:09:12PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Basically, all this comes back to the same thing: the entire base
system concept needs to be revisited (that's a nice way of saying
nuked from orbit, but that's my opinion).
Hmm, I
Quoth Harald ha...@free.fr:
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:04:52PM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
I was about to say 'I believe the vuxml entry for firefox is incorrect',
but I see it's been fixed. Neither 3.0.13 nor 3.5.2 are vulnerable, and
vuxml now correctly reports this.
Today security
Quoth Harald Weis ha...@free.fr:
There is a huge problem though:
I've got now two vulnerable ports, firefox3 and linux-pango.
The linux-pango case is apparently several months old.
Any idea why the linux world doesn't seem to bother?
How to persuade my user now not to use firefox, but
Quoth Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org:
How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag
files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do
anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good?
Since my machine has spent the last 48hrs or so rebuilding
Doug Barton wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Ben Morrow wrote:
The problem with that is if you install pkg A deliberately, but it then
later becomes a dependancy of pkg B. If you remove pkg B (because it's
no longer needed) there is then no evidence that pkg A was installed on
purpose, rather than
Quoth Andrew Reilly andrew-free...@areilly.bpc-users.org:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:30:33PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
I do the same thing. I wish the ports system kept track of which
ports were installed explicitly by me, and which were only
dependencies. Then it would be possible to
Quoth Andrew Reilly andrew-free...@areilly.bpc-users.org:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:00:01PM +, Ben Morrow wrote:
and I also have a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscache which looks like
[snip]
and a /usr/local/etc/svc.subr as attached. It's somewhat more general
than is needed
Quoth Andrew Reilly andrew-free...@areilly.bpc-users.org:
So: does anyone know how to modify the boot-time order so that
svscan starts at (or before) the point in the boot cycle where
BIND would, on other systems? I suspect that it should be
possible by changing the PROVIDE: in svscan.sh to
In article 20090109184126.ga2...@pollux2.free.local.net you write:
When mounting a (cd9660) CD-ROM of the medical database Vidal in order
to try an installation with wine, I've discovered that I cannot see
two files (visible under Windows), setup.exe and some .ini file the
full name of which I
In article 496819f...@vintners.net you write:
cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup10.freebsd.org | tee /root/cvsup-090108.out
make buildworld | tee /root/make-buildworld-090108.out
make kernel KERNCONF=GENERIC | tee /root/make-kernel-090108.out
You know about script(1) I take it? It makes keeping a
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