Re: FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Now Available

2021-04-05 Thread Colin Percival
location. Where is it? I think the freebsd-update build code might be homeless right now. I know I have seen emails mentioning that it needs to land somewhere but I don't recall any decision being reached. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap |

Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

2017-07-28 Thread Colin Percival
chine hangs > in the loader. Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running? It may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause problems for the newer loader code. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Foun

HEADS UP: Do not upgrade EC2 instances from 10.x to 11.x yet

2016-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
team. Thanks to Peter Ankerstål, Allan Jude, Warner Losh, and Glen Barber for their help in tracking down this problem. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.3 EoL coming soon

2012-03-06 Thread Colin Percival
|9.0-RELEASE |Normal |January 10, 2012 |January 31, 2013 | +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

(8.2|7.4)-RC3 amd64 bits in place now

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, I forgot to upload some of the amd64 RC3 bits to the mirrors earlier. They should be in place now. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
, 2010|July 31, 2012| +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Colin Percival
to that I don't really want to have any more mirrors than necessary. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd-stable

FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups

Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
Aristedes Maniatis wrote: On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote: 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a different mirror. Where can we find a list of mirrors? The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records: # host -t srv _http

FreeBSD Update slow right now, please be patient

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, FreeBSD Update is being slow right now due to server load issues. It will improve. Please be patient. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
FreeBSD Update realize that you're running 7.1-BETA: # env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update [...] Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Percival
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Re: 6.3-RELEASE panic

2008-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
it does on 7.0-RC1). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Available

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Percival
of the installed ports, but (unless some disaster strikes) this should be the last time it is needed until FreeBSD 8.x happens ~2 years from now. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-05 Thread Colin Percival
Max Laier wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure pf(4), removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea. The heuristics didn't work this time. :-( Yet they lose

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote: Miroslav Lachman wrote: I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major version upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3 my roots ~/.cshrc was accidentally replaced with dist

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
is due to it being removed from the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc). The fact that /.cshrc was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified is probably a bad idea -- I'll change the default freebsd-update.conf to deal with this. Colin Percival

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available

2007-11-19 Thread Colin Percival
-minor-version-upgrade.html for upgrading from 7.0-BETA1.5 or 7.0-BETA2 to 7.0-BETA3. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer FreeBSD Update wrangler ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R - 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-17 Thread Colin Percival
). FreeBSD Update will never produce mangled files as a result of applying a bsdiff patch to the wrong file -- it checks file hashes before and after applying patches and gracefully falls back to downloading complete files if it can't generate a file via patching. Colin Percival

Re: [HEADS UP] freebsd-update rollback broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: A quick heads-up to everyone here using my new FreeBSD Update upgrade code: If you have performed a minor version upgrade (e.g., 6.2-RELEASE - 6.3-BETA1 or 7.0-BETA1.5 - 7.0-BETA2) please do not attempt to roll it back using freebsd-update rollback. That code

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R - 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Colin Percival wrote: I believe that your system is now 6.3-BETA1 with a few shared libraries from 6.2-RELEASE mixed in. If you can get a copy of /lib/*.so.* and /usr/lib/*.so.* from a 6.3-BETA1 system and install those into place (in fact, probably all you need

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R - 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
-- is it a disaster if this system ends up stuck at 6.3-BETA1? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HEADS UP] freebsd-update rollback broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
your system unbootable. I should have this fixed within the next couple of days. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 Available

2007-11-11 Thread Colin Percival
will be provided via the freebsd-stable list when available. As promised, instructions on upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1 available

2007-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
FreeBSD 6.x to 6.3-BETA1 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to upgrade to 7.0-BETA2 should be here within 24 hours. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/

2007-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until the end of 2008. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
for errata against 6.2-RELEASE...I'm not sure what their current state is. Don't ask me, I just approve the errata which you send to me. Which hasn't been anything at all lately. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Scott Long wrote: Colin Percival wrote: I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices. In the past when X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix. Now that we have errata noticed and FreeBSD

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
.* . Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -xvzf test.tar.gz tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink

Re: freebsd-update weirdness

2007-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
-update fetch [...] No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3. This may look odd, but it's actually correct. The version number reported by `uname` is the version number of the kernel, and the change from 6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEASE-p3 didn't affect the kernel. Colin Percival

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
/rc.d/jail This is correct. The version you have here is not the version which was distributed with the release -- it's the version in the latest RELENG_6_2. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
, yet. I might add support for the snapshot ISOs at some point (at least for upgrading to/from them -- there will not be security updates built for them). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: freebsd-update changes kernel to SMP-GENERIC

2007-03-25 Thread Colin Percival
`sysctl kern.bootfile` say? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ANNOUNCE: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update

2007-03-16 Thread Colin Percival
1.69.2.13.2.5 + src/UPDATING 1.416.2.29.2.6 + src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.13.2.6 I guess I ought to update my CVS tree before using it to figure out the RCS numbers... :-) Colin Percival

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Colin Percival
on a patch for this and will be talking to re@ about having an Errata Notice sent out about this. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 6.1 to 6.2 freebsd-update binary upgrade on amd64

2007-02-04 Thread Colin Percival
upgrading, since you don't start running the new kernel until you reboot. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-update from 6.1 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE: directory creation caused failure.

2007-01-19 Thread Colin Percival
/upgrade, or document that it's a no-no. It will be documented. :-) Thanks, Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
team for being very patient with us and delaying the upcoming release to give us time to fix this. Sincerely, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: = FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

Re: HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
Philipp Wuensche wrote: Colin Percival wrote: In the end we opted to reduce functionality (the jail startup process is no longer logged to /var/log/console.log inside the jail) Thats a bummer, when Dirk showed me this problem the first time my ideas for fixing this problem without losing

Re: 6.2 Release

2007-01-10 Thread Colin Percival
upon your time zone. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Colin Percival
much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since 6.2 is so late in coming. Your opinion has been noted. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
merging of configuration files soon. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-26 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: Petr Holub wrote: I'm working on it. If I install RC1 now, would it be possible to upgrade to RC2 and RELEASE, or is it not ready yet? My intention is that anyone running 6.1-RELEASE, 6.2-BETA*, or 6.2-RC* will be able to upgrade to the latest release candidate

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-21 Thread Colin Percival
out all the details yet as to how this should be done to minimize the chance that my script will accidentally break things, but I'm not going to release anything until I think that accidental breakage is very unlikely. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd

Re: daemonology.net instructions - binary upgrade 5.3 to 6.1

2006-10-19 Thread Colin Percival
Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: At daemonology.net Colin Percival has some excellent instructions on how to do binary upgrades - he has even written a script to do a 6.0 to 6.1 upgrade. My question is: Can I do a 5.3 to 6.1 upgrade using the instructions for 5.4 system to FreeBSD 6.0 - see http

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
any complaints. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Colin Percival
a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes unsupported... Colin Percival

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
. Try running cvsup again, maybe from a different mirror. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
Christer Solskogen wrote: I've tried norway's mirror (my default), the danish, the swedish mirror and the mirror in holland. No change. Just to be sure I also deletet src/crypto before I tried the different mirrors. Exactly what command did you run to try to compile this? Colin Percival

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 Available

2006-09-20 Thread Colin Percival
be able to fetch the updates right now. If it doesn't, something is broken, and I'd like to hear about it. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Percival
that RELENG_6 = STABLE? Yes. I'm going to guess then that RELENG_7 is CURRENT. No, this doesn't make sense to me at all. RELENG_7 doesn't exist yet. RELENG_7 will be 7-STABLE once it exists, some time in 2007. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable

Re: 6.2 ETA

2006-08-30 Thread Colin Percival
accurate. What is a valid ETA for starting the 6.2R releng process? I'm not part of the release engineering team, but I'm not aware of anything which they're waiting for before starting the freeze. I'd be surprised if RELENG_6 isn't frozen by this time next week. Colin Percival

FreeBSD 6.0-6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
is entirely secure. The script can be obtained from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ and the SHA256 hash of the download is 29075fc5711e0b20d879c69d12bbe5414c1c56d597c8116da7acc0d291116d2f . Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sun, 2006-Jul-09 00:42:31 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: I have written an automatic script for performing binary FreeBSD 6.0 - FreeBSD 6.1 upgrades. That sounds useful. Are you intending to provide this for future FreeBSD minor-revision releases? Yes. This is made

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Colin Percival
Ken Smith wrote: BitTorrent -- 5.5-RELEASE ISOs are not available via BitTorrent at this time. They may be made available in the future on an on-demand basis. Thanks to ps, torrents are now available for 5.5-RELEASE: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ Colin Percival

FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Percival
://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006. Thanks, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
If you absolutely must run FreeBSD 4.11, install the RELEASE and then run FreeBSD Update. Personally, since FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its EoL about 8 months from now, and the 4.x-[56].x upgrade path is non-trivial, I recommend installing FreeBSD 6.1 instead. Colin Percival

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-21 Thread Colin Percival
). Given that most systems running portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential loading. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
or if not is their a way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors. I have a list of people who have offered mirrors, but so far I haven't seen any need for additional mirrors -- the two which already exist are showing no signs of slowing down. Why do you think there should be an .eu mirror? Colin

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 Available

2006-04-13 Thread Colin Percival
with the number set to 6.1-RC1? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason for this ? Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Colin Percival
), which processors do you see actually running processes? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Colin Percival
Pete French wrote: If you look at top(1), which processors do you see actually running processes? Errr, 0, 1, 2 and 3! What do # sysctl machdep.hlt_cpus # sysctl machdep.logical_cpus_mask # sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed say? Colin Percival

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2005-12-23 Thread Colin Percival
to those as soon as I have time. Sadly, I have a pesky thing called a full time job and my FreeBSD time has been occupied with portsnap lately. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Percival
Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Colin Percival wrote: I find this argument hard to accept. The vast majority of FreeBSD users will never need the NFS_ROOT option, and many systems do not even have the hardware for serial or parallel ports, yet those are supported in the GENERIC

What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Percival
is not how many people use this?, but instead would adding this option inconvenience more people than it would help?. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: How to update to the security advisories

2005-09-30 Thread Colin Percival
might like to try FreeBSD Update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update, or security/freebsd-update in the ports tree). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Colin Percival
; on /, for example, it is hard to imagine a situation where a normal user would use more than 150MB of space unless they were doing something which they shouldn't be doing. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: RELENG_6 periodic security default problem

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Percival
this; I've changed the grep regex to '^[+]' in order to catch lines from both unified and non-unified diffs. This change isn't going to be in 6.0-BETA3, but hopefully I can get it MFCed before 6.0-RELEASE. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Colin Percival
was deploying a new server today, I'd install FreeBSD 5.4. If I were planning on installing a new server next month, I'd install FreeBSD 6.0-BETA-whatever-number-we're-up-to-by-then. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
: nested extern declaration of `TSTMP_GT' What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that system? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: [Fwd: Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel]

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that system? Oops. I meant to ask about src/sys/netinet/tcp_seq.h of course... Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
like the mirrors managed to update at exactly the wrong time and got one patch but not the other. Fortunately, this doesn't happen very often. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-16 Thread Colin Percival
Mipam wrote: Thanks for the kernel. What parameters did you change in your SMP kernel. Just curious, surely gonna try your kernel. :-) I didn't change any parameters, I just used the SMP kernel configuration from the source tree (i.e., GENERIC plus options SMP). Colin Percival

FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
/SMP # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # echo 'bootfile=SMP' /boot/loader.conf and reboot. You should now find that `uname -ri` outputs 5.4-SECURITY SMP. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
Billy Newsom wrote: Colin Percival wrote: It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite popular [...] I'm curious how popular. Would you like to report some statistics here on the list? As in, how many SMP downloads did you get, say, in comparison to the GENERIC? Ok

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Percival
hyper-threading is still enabled by default in HEAD. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-26 Thread Colin Percival
branch). Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Something like that, yes. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
is expected to be supported until late 2007 (FreeBSD 5.5 plus two years), and FreeBSD 6.x will probably be supported until early 2009 (the last FreeBSD 6.x release plus two years). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Apache + Caching DNS: conflict at bootup? (DNS runs too late)

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Percival
Rob wrote: Some time ago, there was (or still is) a similar conflict with hostname resolution at bootup when using ntpd. Yes, but not with named -- the problem was only when using a dns cache from the ports tree, since those are started later in the boot sequence. Colin Percival

Re: MNT_USER?

2005-05-03 Thread Colin Percival
should Never Happen. :-) Colin Percival PS. Bravo to Ian for tracking down the bug in NFS -- I spent a while looking for this, but got hopelessly lost. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Will 5.4 be an Extended Life release?

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
a good idea. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Available

2005-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
upgrade to -RC3? I'm not sure if it's worth burning another few hundred megabytes of ftp mirror bandwidth. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Ready for dual core Opterons?

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Percival
to the operating system, so there should be no problems. For that matter, my understanding is that dual core opterons *are* separate processors, connected only via their normal external interface. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: MNT_NOEXEC on root filesystem with diskless PXE boot?

2005-03-31 Thread Colin Percival
how a bug which caused / to be labelled as noexec managed to avoid causing major problems until now. I don't know anything about NFS, but hopefully someone on -stable will be able to work out what's going on from the rest of your email (quoted below). Colin Percival In this case, / is mounted

Re: KDE refuses new processes when network goes away

2005-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
correct? I've seen this happen when the local hostname (i.e., the output of `hostname`) cannot be resolved. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 2 ntpd (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001)

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Percival
to look up names in DNS and then goes into an infinite loop. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Percival
(about 80 hours -- but 48 hours of that was over a weekend), but aside from that I have no complaints. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: Would anyone else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release sometime around, say, February? No, but quite a few people would like to see a 5.4 minor release sometime around, say, late February or early March. Colin Percival

5.3 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2004-12-09 Thread Colin Percival
not apply to any FreeBSD releases other than 5.3. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3 CD-R

2004-06-01 Thread Colin Percival
into the future. (Just look at the floppy disk situation.) Much better just to accept that it doesn't fit onto a 3 CD-R and move on. :-) Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: Any plans to update CVS beyond v1.11.5?

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Percival
At 20:59 19/04/2004, Doug Lee wrote: CVS is being updated but FreeBSD still uses v1.11.5. ... Any plans to update CVS in the base system? CVS 1.11.15 was imported into -current four days ago. I would assume that it will be merged onto -stable at some point after 4.10-RELEASE. Colin Percival

Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE

2004-01-19 Thread Colin Percival
/sysutils/makefs) saves about 23k on the mfsroot floppy. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: messed up /etc/gettytab

2003-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
=1.17.2.4 Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ok, are all the panics fixed now?

2003-08-27 Thread Colin Percival
, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case any more; now that we have all the release/security branches, I think it's safe to say that most systems which need absolute stability aren't going to be running STABLE. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PR 37395 - even with NO_SENDMAIL=true, /usr/sbin/sendmail overwritten

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
, but nobody has actually gotten around to doing it yet. Colin Percival To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message