Re: Nagios & Linux Threads

2006-04-10 Thread Hugo Silva
Douglas K. Rand wrote: I'm running Nagios 2.0 on FreeBSD 6 and I occasionally experience the problem originally discussed http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=165398+171880+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-hackers/20050821.freebsd-hackers (That is: a forked nagios process that consume

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-10 Thread Joseph Scott
On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I think at this point it's been pretty well established that: - Device naming and unit numbering is not stable enough to avoid breakage across hardware changes. - There is a need for generic and/or descriptive interface naming independent

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I think at this point it's been pretty well established that: - Device naming and unit numbering is not stable enough to avoid breakage across hardware changes. - There is a need for generic and/or descriptive interface naming independent of driver- and probe-order-based naming. - There are sta

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-10 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:48:25PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > I though thtis was already supported. We export bus/slot/function : > information devd, which can be used to configure the device. : : If I

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-10 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:48:25PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I though thtis was already supported. We export bus/slot/function > information devd, which can be used to configure the device. If I've read the specs or code incorrectly please do let me know -- my reading here is based on the PC

Nagios & Linux Threads

2006-04-10 Thread Douglas K. Rand
I'm running Nagios 2.0 on FreeBSD 6 and I occasionally experience the problem originally discussed http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=165398+171880+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-hackers/20050821.freebsd-hackers (That is: a forked nagios process that consumes as much CPU time as it

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if somet

No auto reboot after panic

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
(This message started life on questions, but no responses :-( If there's a better list to try, please point me! I have no clue how rebooting actually works). Setup: Dell 2850 running i386 FreeBSD 5.4-p5 (or so), ACPI enabled and apparently working (shutdown -p or -r work fine). After a ker

Re: Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >usb assigns addresses dynamically. Everyone else does it basically >statically. PCI slot/device numbers are static, but extreme >configurations can change the bus number. Some USB devices (though not all of them) provide a unique device ID. If this I

Re: Context switching

2006-04-10 Thread Scott Long
Nickolas wrote: Hello All! I'm porting a CPI card driver from linux to FreeBSD. Some initialization routines require much time (~1-2 seconds). Initialization of hardware should be done during opening device special file. So, I need to switch thread context. I'm doing it in such way:

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread joerg
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and > > > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a

Context switching

2006-04-10 Thread Nickolas
Hello All! I'm porting a CPI card driver from linux to FreeBSD. Some initialization routines require much time (~1-2 seconds). Initialization of hardware should be done during opening device special file. So, I need to switch thread context. I'm doing it in such way: mi_switch(SW_VOL

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and > > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What > > does it to do wire down device addresses? > F

Code Quality and FreeBSD

2006-04-10 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
A quick note to inform my fellow FreeBSD users and developers that my new book "Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective" (Addison-Wesley, 2006) is now available. Almost all the 623 examples I use in the book are drawn from actual code. NetBSD is the primary package I used for source code ex

Re: UFS extended attributes

2006-04-10 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > > > Started doing a little reading on the UFS and UFS2 file systems. I'm just > > wondering if all types of files have extended attribute blocks available > > including named pipes, sockets, and device files

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread joerg
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What > does it to do wire down device addresses? FireWire devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them