Re: sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

Warren> Consider also the docs that tell the user to Warren>echo 'something_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf Warren> which can produce duplicate and possibly differing entries. Yup! Which is exactly why I like the idea of this tool. ___ freebsd-hacker

Re: sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

I think that this script might also fill a void with using Puppet as a configuration tool. Currently Puppet, as its default behaviour, uses files in /etc/rc.conf.d to set variables. I've found this approach really lacking because you cannot do things like: nfs_server_enable="YES" via a /etc/rc.

Nagios & Linux Threads

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: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?

I've recently switched to Smart Boot Manager which I noticed on freshmeat awhile ago. You can find it at http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe/ I found it easiest to download the DOS .exe and put it on a floppy and install it that way. For fitting in the boot block (no seperate partition required) it has

Re: several NFS mounts within a filesystem

** Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:47:52 +0300 ** in [several NFS mounts within a filesystem] writes: Peter> OK, so it might very well be that I haven't read everything; in that Peter> case, sorry for taking your time. However.. Peter> Am I right in thinking that the ke