esolving symbols and
> dropping unused calls?
Absolutely. Fasten your seat belt, you're in for a ride.
Of course, if you pull it off, you will win copious accolades. :-)
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ned, and then been dropped before the book was published. And I'm
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Nailing down interfaces would be a big help in actually making such a
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That's why we have the developers' handbook online, specifically so
things can be updated quickly. And it's difficult to get more text
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>
> Anyone know what this means? (I'm sorry if this is too basic for you... for
> me is a mistery yet)
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Yes, but every time I've seen those brought up, the high-level hackers
here say "Don't do that." :)
If we could get a definitive answer on acceptable flags, I'll put it
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-0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> That is a bug. The system is supposed to iterate through all the vnodes hanging
> off the mount point and vgone them. According to Kirk at least this used to
> work.
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> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Michael Lucas wrot
files from /cdrom. In other tty i umount -f /cdrom and
> kernel panics.
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:20:09PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Make a separate swap partition for each since you are going to be
> using the disk space anyway if you go with another setup.
Hmmm... yes, suppose you're right. Thanks for directing me to the
obvious.
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap
> partition?
Is it safe, useful, and reliable to use a -stable savecore to reco
tely nothing in the real world.
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to recall PCs getting cranky when there are multiple
> primary partitions of the same type? Or is it that WINDOWS gets cranky
> when it sees that?
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eminder. I guess I didnt realize they would consider
> simple and easy beneath their dignity.
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> Truly sorry for the trouble this one email caused you and others,
> Regards,
> Anjali
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> - Original Message -
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> Hi,
>
> This is probably not the right place for this qs., but I am posting it here since
>it's a quick & easy one. Does something like the FreeBSD zones exist in Linux ?
>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:26:07AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> (I think this should be a FAQ)
Will do.
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on? (And no, it
doesn't work if you just whack out the printf and the return. :-)
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:54:44PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> On Dec 11, at 04:23 PM, Michael Lucas wrote:
> NOW what'd I get myself into? The wife is gonna kill me.
Well, yes.
> > Nope. Just an @freebsd.org mail addy and a coupon for economy-size
> > Maalox. Sorry.
do anything
> to publicize it. I'll mail hackers@ again when it's done, for final review/
> critique.
Oh. Well, okay, you put up what you got.
Good start, now let's get some patches up there. :)
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d a long list of other people, all at different times.
They would want someone to pick up where they left off. At some
point, someone will succeed me as the FAQ "interested party".
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B
, or is this
going to wither on the vine like every other time it's been suggested?
Consider the gauntlet thrown (in the kindest possible manner, mind
you). Put up an initial patchset, announce it here and on, say,
daily.daemonnews.org, list an email address for patches on the web
page, and see wh
e (compared to what
> is applied to -STABLE), but as it sits right now, it would be better than
> nought for those that can't stay -STABLE.
Bingo. Something is better than nothing.
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e up, who (or what mailing list) do I want to notify?
If at all possible, take out a full-page ad in the New York Times.
FreeBSD could really use the exposure. Failing that, a posting on
this list would be fine. :)
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:41:51AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> [this is a re-post; apparently my first didn't take?]
Nope, we got it. As penance for re-sending, your penance is to
implement the ideas discussed below. :-)
> On Dec 09, at 05:26 PM, Michael Lucas wrote:
> Yup. T
or dedication to me.
It's cliche, but: ten thousand lines of code begins with the first
#define. (H click click click... okay, style(9) says it
should be the first #include. But you get the idea.)
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> -Dan
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Thanks! This was exactly what I'm looking for!
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:37:04AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, I haven't built a panicing kernel in years. Is there
> > any way to force a system to panic in such a way as
stion: can you set a system to reboot
automatically at a panic, save a core, and continue?
Thanks,
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ns that FreeBSD has one hell of a community. :)
Thanks again,
Michael
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y more than
migrant farm workers, that's about it. :(
So, if you're a sysadmin who likes to be pendantic, do please drop me
a line!
Thanks,
Michael
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*$M1D0 Z
/var/log/console.log 640 5 100 * Z
The sendmail.st rotation also seems odd: why rotate once a week at
some (essentially) randomly chosen time, rather than once a week at a
set time like the rest of the logs? But that's a separate issue.
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h I suspect one of you real hackers could do it
with your eyes closed, I feel obliged to offer.
Thanks,
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I think people might be waiting for us go get to the point where our work
> is actually usable.
Also, I believe that Will Andrews has expressed a firm desire to do
this. IIRC, his fingers have been in make lately.
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oc team will
pick it up.
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tches
with PRs. I've had several people claim that unified diffs are the
way to go, and that the handbook is just wrong.
Is the Handbook correct, or are unified diffs preferred? I'll be
happy to fix my article and submit a PR to correct the Handbook if
this is the case.
Thanks,
Michae
t for me.
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me know how it works for you...
If you want a memory-backed filesystem in FreeBSD, use md(4). You'll
be happier with the results.
MFS is good if you want a memory-backed filesystem that runs on all
4.4BSD-based stuff.
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:49:15PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001005 13:15] wrote:
> > (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics
> > normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?" ;)
&
anics & debugger dumps something people want to see, or is
the general attitude "then don't *do* that!" ?
If you folks want 'em, I'll send them.
(I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics
normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?&
Just log into th machine in question and type
% snmpwalk localhost private .1
This spills out pretty much everything you've got. You can add a few
things as described in man snmpd.conf, such as disk capacity, but it's
pretty conclusive.
If you have trouble with .1, or if the ucd-snmp mibs don'
There was a bug that caused this not too long ago. Try resupping &
rebuilding.
>
> Forgot to mention, it's a 4.1-stable box (PIII-450, 256MB ram, 1024MB
> swap)
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, FengYue wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, what does "psmintr: out of sync ( != 0008)." mean?
> > I got tons of this
>
> How did you implement SMBFS? Is it yet a part of FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE or?
> New kernel option?
>
Take a look at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/13/Big_Scary_Daemons.html.
All the links, and some hints, appear there.
Also, I don't want to claim even indirectly that I implemen
My understanding of SMBFS is that it's not intended to be a server.
It's a pretty solid client, though. I use it extensively, without trouble.
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> What's the current status the native smbfs support? Can it act as a both a
> client and a server? How does it compare to Samba in terms of func
>
> There was talks of starting a Southeastern Michigan group, but most
> of us around here are too lazy to actually do it.
>
I'll take on the job of attempting to coordinate a Southeast Michigan
users' group. If anyone's interested, email me.
Perhaps the Royal Oak or Farmington Hills area?
>
> I fully expect to be physically assulted by all who I encounter the
> next time I'm in California for this act of stupidity.
>
Physically assaulted? No, why do that when we can point and laugh?
It's legal, and much more devastating.
Just noticed you're in Michigan. Are you aware of any
> I did not have time to work out what's failing, but it should be easy
> to reproduce (start the installer with an option, hmmm, think it was
> /net, can't check, since I'm away from that system ...)
Yep. Run the installer as root with the /net option, and put it
under, say, /usr/local/office52
>
> Wonderful. I am about to steal the scripts to install on a bunch of Red
> Hat systems. Why is it when FreeBSD has something really nice like this
> to make the sysadmin's life easier, Linux ignores it?
>
It's called "Not Invented Here", and at times we're just as guilty as
anyone.
Of cou
> You, Matthew Dillon, were spotted writing this on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:57:33AM
>-0700:
> >
> > I don't particularly like to use MFS for 'large' partitions, mainly
> > because cached data blocks wind up in core memory twice (once in MFS's
> > memory map, and once in the VM page c
Hello,
I'm writing an article on Memory File System, just because I think
it's massively cool.
We had a thread some time ago on why MFS wasn't useful for certain
applications. I searched through the mail archives, and found lots of things MFS
wouldn't be right for, but not much of the other wa
Check out jail(8).
Takes more disk space, but well worth it.
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Wes Peters wrote:
> Michael Lucas wrote:
> >
> > I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait
> > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up
> > with the tedium.
> >
> > So, if I was to sit down
[various offers to take my place deleted]
Geez, you people are a lot of help. ;^)
So, I have just as much chance of getting it worked out if I just go
into netinet as anywhere? Will do.
Thanks,
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> * Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000112 14:35] wrote:
> > I find mysel
I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait
for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up
with the tedium.
So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the
logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no
log
> I admittedly haven't done much homework on this topic, but I was wondering
> if anyone has played with the idea of implementing ACLs on top of UFS.
>
> One of the weakest areas in UNIX is its lack of fine-grained access
> control for resources - the biggest resource being, of course, the
> file
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> Looks great!
Thanks.
I've moved it to a have a slightly less offensive URL, and will be
updating this as more arguments ensue.
http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/bsd-self-help.html
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