[patch] touch(1) enhancement

2022-01-12 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
I've added an option to touch(1) - details here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260871 It adds "-R", which is like "-r", but in the case of a link, refers to the link itself. I'm not sure what the protocol is regarding adding "non-standard" options to standard commands, so ple

Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

2022-01-27 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Ed Maste wrote: > Since 2014 we have a copy of dma in the base system available as an > optional component, enabled via the WITH_DMAGENT src.conf knob. I thought it was enabled at default! > I am interested in determining whether dma is a viable minimal base > system MTA, and if not what gaps r

Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

2022-02-06 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Cy Schubert wrote: > dma doesn't support SMTP submission, we may need to review various port > default options or whether ports even support it. Good catch. Would a suitable workaround be to parse the dma.conf file for the SMARTHOST address, and then set up a simple tcp proxy on the local subm

Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

2022-02-06 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <202202061553.216fr0yt071...@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>, > Jamie La > ndeg-Jones writes: > > Cy Schubert wrote: > > > > > dma doesn't support SMTP submission, we may need to review various port > > > default options or whether ports even support it. > > > > G

Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

2022-02-07 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
> It was a let's consider all the gotchas before diving in with both feet. *shrug* And all I did was suggest one way to deal with it. I didn't disagree with your analysis. I don't understand the hostility. > For me personally, maintainer of nmh and heirloom-mailx, I will enable the > dma build

Re: USB Disk Stalls on -current

2022-02-07 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
grarpamp wrote: > Yes, some USB hw is very flaky, > but ZFS can work great on these... For what it's worth, I have had for 2.5 years, tracking stable, a NAS hanging off a single NUC usb port, with 14 hard disks, 12 of which are used for 2 ZFS, spools, of two 3X2 mirror spools. Albeit, I'm using

Re: What are the in-kernel functions to print human readable timestamps (bintime)?

2022-03-11 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Warner Losh wrote: > since we already add stuff to what's printed for the priority. We could say > <3,seconds-since-boot.fracsec> instead of just <3> and hack dmesg > to print the right thing. Isn't that what kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp does already? I use that, along with this script: 17:15 (4

ps(1) with '-ww' / libxo truncating output

2022-04-03 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
I've noticed that ps(1) (even with '-ww') is truncating output if it exceeds a cerain length. Further investigation shows that this is due to the libxo module. The ps(1) man page implies there will be no truncation if "-ww" is used. Is this a manpage issue, or a libxo issue, or a ps issue in the

Re: recover deleted file

2022-04-16 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Sami Halabi wrote: > Hi, > thanks for your response. > > Would someone from the foundation step in and put it in GSOC ideas? > > kirk@ - would it be possible for you to do it ? :) > How would you handle file modifications? Backup every original too, or just deal with literal deletions? If you ar

Re: FreeBSD is a great operating system!

2022-07-08 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 7/8/22 05:40, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Dear Hans Petter Selasky, > > > > Why do you say FreeBSD license is a killer? > > Because you can do anything you want with the operating system :-) "is a killer" could easily have been taken as a negative!

Re: security/clamav: /ar/run on TMPFS renders the port broken by design

2022-08-27 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Michael Gmelin wrote: > I like the idea of having something like tmpfiles.d, it would also help port > maintainers (could also be done as a port). I use tmpfs for /var/run and already have such a script for this very reason (although not clamav) I would have thought each port startup script sh

Re: weekly locate error Was: September 2024 stabilization week

2024-09-30 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Kyle Evans wrote: > It might be that the better long-term approach is to teach updatedb.sh > how to drop privileges and push that out of the periodic script to avoid > surprises like this from the different execution environments. This > /feels/ like the kind of thing we could take an opinion

Re: weekly locate error Was: September 2024 stabilization week

2024-10-01 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Kyle Evans wrote: > Yes, my proposal is that it stops doing that and we teach updatedb to > handle the priv-dropping instead, so that you get the same behavior no > matter how you execute it. Ahhh OK, I get you now. sorry, I musunderstood, I thought you meant the current "periodic" method runs

Re: weekly locate error Was: September 2024 stabilization week

2024-10-02 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Kyle Evans wrote: > This is the problem I have with mailing lists; 2/3 responses didn't go > back and read the critical bit of context to my stance (but at least you > still included it in your quote, the other one trimmed it entirely): I quoted the part I was referring to. I trimmed the rest,

Re: grep(1) bug - duplicate output lines

2025-03-11 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Kyle Evans wrote: > On 9/29/23 15:37, Kyle Evans wrote: > > On 9/29/23 13:25, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > >> Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > >> > >>> Brilliant! Thanks for the quick response and fix. It works fine for me - > >>> I've not m

Re: grep(1) bug - duplicate output lines

2025-03-11 Thread Jamie Landeg-Jones
Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > I've been running with these two patches since you posted them. I notice > that they haven't been commited, and the bug reported in the thread still > exists in current, so I'm replying to the original thread, both in the hope > that this sp

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