Re: `type' built-in command in /bin/sh

2008-11-26 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:12:22AM +0300, Zajcev Evgeny wrote: >> Hello there. I just hit into "problem" that built-in sh command type >> outputs to stdout when error occurs. I mean it returns non-0 status, >> but outputs t

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-26 Thread ancelgray
To AMD CS5536 users: This is Andrew Gray. I have finished the audio driver for the AMD CS5536 companion chip. It is working on a PC Engines Alix 1C low power board under FreeBSD 7.0. It can be found at: http://modelofreality.org/snd_amd5536.html Let me know how it goes. Andrew Gray ancelg

RE: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Steele
>He had you install a stock MBR on the second disk. You never copied >the boot loader from the first disk, so that's what you're going to >use when you boot from the second disk. You need to install the boot >block you want on the second disk. Which probably means >boot0. boot0cfg will do that for

Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-26 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:46:44 -0800 "Peter Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The phrase "and copy the file systems over to the mirror" worries > >me. Do you actually copy the file systems, or do you let the mirror > >system do it for you? In particular, are you mirroring file systems or > >the

Removing zpool log device - 8.0-Current

2008-11-26 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
Hello Hackers, I was wondering if anyone knows a work around for this. I have added a log device to one of my zfs pools (it is a unused ATA drive slice that has no activity on it after boot up as most other directories live in there own zfs filing systems). I have added a SSD

Re: crontab(5) enhancements

2008-11-26 Thread H
Artem Naluzhnyy wrote on 20081126: > I have two suggestion for newsyslog(8) and periodic(8) entries in > default /etc/crontab file: > * nice(1) newsyslog and periodic entries to shape CPU load spikes; > * lockf(1) them to prevent simultaneous execution. I think a pointer to at leas

RE: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Steele
>The phrase "and copy the file systems over to the mirror" worries >me. Do you actually copy the file systems, or do you let the mirror >system do it for you? In particular, are you mirroring file systems or >the entire disk? Because the boot blocks aren't part of any file >system, so you won't hav

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/26 Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There's also something called "lzop", though I'm not > yet sure what exactly that is. lzop is the LZO archiver - created for high-speed compression, not compression efficiency. Unfortunately, LZO is GPL :( But that reminds me - while you're adding c

Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-26 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:29 -0800 "Peter Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice > for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the > conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that > coun

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread Tim Kientzle
Ivan Voras wrote: bf wrote: There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA SDK, has placed the latest version, available at: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2 into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it would seem sui

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:02 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > > How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format? > Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or > wrapper that supports LZMA. tar.lzma is quite popular ___

FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Steele
I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that counts down 10 seconds waiting for the user to pick on option. I see a single line sh

crontab(5) enhancements

2008-11-26 Thread Artem Naluzhnyy
Hi, I have two suggestion for newsyslog(8) and periodic(8) entries in default /etc/crontab file: * nice(1) newsyslog and periodic entries to shape CPU load spikes; * lockf(1) them to prevent simultaneous execution. So instead 1 3 * * * root periodic daily there may be 1 3 * * * root lockf -t

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread Tim Kientzle
bf wrote: I think you need contact to author. I don't see information about public domain on russian page I should add that there has been a discussion of the license change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms the change: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_

TSO on VLAN interface, FreeBSD 7

2008-11-26 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi All, When I create a VLAN interface it does not inherit the parent interface capabilities. Is there a way to enable TSO (as other capabilities) on VLAN interfaces? Thanks, Yony ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
> > I think you need contact to author. > I don't see information about public domain on russian > page I should add that there has been a discussion of the license change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms the change: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Stanislav Sedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Stanislav Sedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "Ivan Voras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org > Date: Wednesday, Novembe

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? > To: "Sean C. Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > freebsd

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread Stanislav Sedov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > Not so long ago (the end of April, this year) someone tried to switch > ImageMagick to using lzma-compressed tarballs, and caught a lot of flak > from others who were unfami