Re: [PATCH] nsswitch extensions + caching

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:33:17AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Michael Bushkov wrote: > > [...] > > > > so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch? > > what does it get us? > > It gives us the ability use mod

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-30 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:45:48AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > The fruitiest features are as follows: Will it automatically install new versions of files where the old one was not altered? That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you about a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to

Re: how to set dumpdev

2005-04-28 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:37:16AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > i can't use dumpon, since the kernel is panicking on boot, so > >tried in loader.conf: > > dumpdev="/dev/ar0s1b" > >but getting: > >db> call doadump > >Cannot dump. No dump device defined. > >0x25 > > > >i need this