Re: Devilator - performance monitoring for FreeBSD

2005-02-02 Thread Andrew J Caines
ke to see pretty pictures. I'd also vouch for collecting orcallator data using rsync over ssh from the client systems to the cruching and report generating server. -Andrew- -- ___________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engine

Re: Error when making installworld : SOLVED

2004-03-11 Thread Andrew J Caines
Ganbold said... > I added group authpf and everything worked well. Isn't this exactly the kind of thing which "mergemaster -p" is supposed to pick up? -Andrew- -- _______ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems

Recovering from RELENG_5_1 -> RELENG_5.2 world/kernel statfs fubar?

2004-03-01 Thread Andrew J Caines
e recent aborted installworld[2]. I'm AJC_Z0 (09:00 - 18:00 EST) and AJ_Z0 in #freebsd on FreeNode IRC. [1] http://halplant.com:88/misc/51.files.lastinstallworld [2] http://halplant.com:88/misc/51.files.ALL -Andrew- -- _

malloc backed md/mfs filesystem swapped?

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew J Caines
rw,-M,-s1m,async2 0 -Andrew- -- ___ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither li

Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge

2004-02-09 Thread Andrew J Caines
try to compile, but maybe some others can offer their experiences? -Andrew- -- _______ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary

Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge

2004-02-09 Thread Andrew J Caines
notion of putting data "on the outside of the disk" doesn't apply. In fact in this configuration it _may_ make sense to use one big filesystem and leave it to the OS to optimise the filesystem I/O. -Andrew- -- ___________

Default mfs/md fs on /tmp (Was: adding more ram

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew J Caines
-on-/ problem. -Andrew- -- ___________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safe

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew J Caines
stopped me putting my DNS cache, web server and distributed.net client under the watchful eye of supervise(8) (from DJB's daemontools[1]), though. [1] sysutils/daemontools, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html -Andrew- -- ___________ |

Re: Relinking binaries to new .so libs when versions change?

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew J Caines
fact that some libs don't follow the major/minor rules[1] a/the >> problem? >> [1] >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies-shlib.html So, I'm still interested in knowing how to do the wrong thing. -Andrew- -- ___

Relinking binaries to new .so libs when versions change?

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew J Caines
ers-handbook/policies-shlib.html -Andrew- -- ___________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | _

FYI: Petition against Verisign net abuse at petitiononline.com

2003-09-18 Thread Andrew J Caines
- -- ___ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Fran

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew J Caines
ll. I think this was about a month or two ago. Sorry for the extreme vagueness, but I thought it better to mention it. -Andrew- -- ___ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can g

Re: about /usr/ports make with options..

2003-08-23 Thread Andrew J Caines
can stay lean. The ports system itself is comparatively lean and sophisticated so it's no real barrier to add tools like this. -Andrew- -- ___ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They

Re: about /usr/ports make with options..

2003-08-23 Thread Andrew J Caines
ts variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. Personally, I'd just install the port with the default layout and copy your custom files into the new locations, just for the sake of simplicity. Install or update the port using portupgrade, eg. # portupgrade --new --upward-recursive --recursive --

Re: RFA: Keeping sysadmin programs resident/available

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew J Caines
How about sshd.ko? [I've no idea if this suggestion is even sane] -Andrew- -- ___________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporar

Re: mount_null evil ?

2003-03-10 Thread Andrew J Caines
lem. -Andrew- -- _______ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail t

FreeBSD license plate

2001-10-06 Thread Andrew J Caines
he top left) and round green-blue one in the bottom right corner. -Andrew- -- ___________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporar

Re: Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-09-02 Thread Andrew J Caines
uld like me to send you the device to test and enjoy for a while. Would any takers please let me know if you're interested so we can work out something. -Andrew- -- __________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMA

Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew J Caines
ice da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4340MB (924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) Instructions, directions to such, experiences and suggestions are all welcome. -Andrew- -- ____________

Re: Large /dev/md0 ramdisk

2001-08-13 Thread Andrew J Caines
Perhaps someone on -hackers could provide a good pointer or give details. -Andrew- -- ______ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb