FreeBSD's SCM periodic bikeshed

2012-11-19 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
[security@ and questions@ dropped] * Alexander Yerenkow [20121119 14:40]: > http://www.fossil-scm.org/ > > I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C. > Baptise Daroussin probably could tell us more about fossil pro and cons. Jörg Sonnenberger has been testing it on NetBSD. htt

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-29 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Hartmut Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070529 08:21]: > I've seen no numbers WHAT actually makes the ports stuff so slow. To > make my point a last time: until there are numbers, there is no guess > around what to do. It just occured to me that DTrace could be a big help with this task. I sugge

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

2007-02-08 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
[moved to ports@ with notice in [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070207 07:17]: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joan Picanyol i Puig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading > > o

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

2007-02-08 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
[moved to ports@ with notice on [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Ulrich Spoerlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070208 22:37]: > Kip Macy wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: > > > > >I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading &g

pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

2007-02-06 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070207 01:05]: > If you let us know what your goals are, we might be able to help you > get there. I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading of packages. More flexible logic in how the '-r' option is handled would be nice (being abl

Re: installing fbsd from foreign system

2007-01-28 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070128 14:03]: > I need to find a way to integrate the FreeBSD install process into > their current deployment system. Currently their install process is > running from a Linux install system which does the partitioning, > make_fs etc. Sounds like you could use a de

Re: Configuration differences for jails

2005-04-21 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Jeremie Le Hen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050420 18:55]: [snip much appreciated example] > > I don't think it's easy to take /etc/ outside the root fs, but I don't > > see how to share /bin or /lib without leaking info. > > > > How do you handle this? > > As I said above, null mount each directory

Re: Configuration differences for jails

2005-04-20 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Jeremie Le Hen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050420 16:37]: > > Now with some distance, I must admit that all this gymnastic is quite > > boring. I now decided to run two virtual hosts as they are managed in > > a very natural way. These two hosts are just like two real boxes, one > > running Bind and

Re: vinum question

2005-04-14 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Rex Roof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050414 19:34]: > i noticed the documentation hasn't been migrated to gvinum, though. > > anyone have a config suggestion to stripe two mirrors? Short answer: you can't. Longer answer: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?423CAE7E.4070009 qvb -- pica

Re: vinum question

2005-04-14 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050414 18:43]: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:50:20AM -0700, Matt wrote: > > > >>I have a two disk array that I want to move to another machine. It is > >>configured with striping using vinum. What is the best way to set it up > >>under a n

Re: query cdrw tray

2004-12-17 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041217 13:12]: > Ok, this a good one for experts. > > How to I ask the CD burner if it's tray is open or closed? I am creating > a automagical shell script to do semi-unattended backups and need to > figure out how to make sure there is a cd in the tray before I

Re: mdconfig - need some help

2004-10-31 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Christoph P. Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041031 22:38]: > # fsck /dev/md2 > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type I've seen this if /dev/md2 is not in /etc/fstab > # fsck -t ffs /dev/md2 > ** /dev/md2 > Cannot find file system superblock > ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device

Re: finding alternate superblocks in ffs

2004-10-31 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Christoph P. Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041031 14:53]: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:47:04PM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 03:26:04PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Any idea what I can do now? > > > > > > > > I wrote a little program that o

NFS locking issues: Portmapper failure

2004-10-04 Thread Joan Picanyol
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed to all lists] Hi, This is a respost of http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040930172241.GA2882 with some additional information; since I got no response, I'm trying better luck here. Short version: rpc.lockd does not start on a 5.3-BETA6 client

Re: how to logically disable memory

2004-08-10 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040809 11:42]: > is there an 'easy' way to mark some memory as unusable? thanks, Linux has BadRAM: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html, I think someone was thinking of porting it to FreeBSD... (or maybe it was you ;) qvb -- pica ___

Re: bugs with disk space

2004-06-10 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Jose Hidalgo Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040609 19:35]: > srv0:~# df -hi / > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 126M 125M -8.9M 108%1364 148908% / > > srv0:~# du -shx / > 36M/ > > The operating system complains about f

XFree86 debugging

2004-02-24 Thread Joan Picanyol
[resent from questions@, no luck there :(] Hi, I've installed XFree86-Server-snap hoping to get DRI for my Radeon 9200. In the process, I've found that X gets SIGABRT after (somewhat) long inactivity periods. I recompiled with USE_DEBUG=1 hoping to get a backtrace, but I can't find the coredump (

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-13 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031113 11:46]: > Jos Backus wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel > > > 2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid where /var/run/myapp/ > > > is

Re: Adding second-level resolution to cron(8).

2003-07-07 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030707 07:42]: > * Has someone already done this? I know two replacements of cron with second resolution: http://multivac.cwru.edu./runwhen/ http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html qvb -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mta versus sendmaill

2002-07-28 Thread Joan Picanyol
* neologism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020728 10:08]: > I mean something like this: > > case ${mta_enable} in > [Yy][Ee][Ss]) > if [ -r ${mta_start_script} ]; then > sh ${mta_start_script}# eventually + ${mta_configuration} > fi > ;; > esac Well, Dan Be