Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-04-02 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
/usr/bin/cc amd64$ size /bin/sh /bin/ls /usr/bin/find /usr/bin/cc textdata bss dec hex filename 1293711992 10272 141635 22943 /bin/sh 262551144 536 279356d1f /bin/ls 4346413524680 49496c158 /usr/bin/find 383330 15296 58664 457

IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
Hi Daniel, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:55:47PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 20/02/2013, at 21:43, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > >> What about getting a remote console like HP's ILO or Dell's DRAC ? > >> > >> You get to login remotely, you ca

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:47:36AM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 20 Feb 2013, at 08:46, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:42:57AM -0500, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> Just a thought with no working example but… > >> > >

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:58:10AM +0100, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to find a solution for this chicken and egg problem, > how to have an encrypted root filesystem on a remote server. > > Geli can ask for a root password at the console to unlock th

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
aid machines. Thank you but manual entry of the passprase is a prerequisite here so serving the key automatically is not an option. With kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:14:22AM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > 2013/2/20 Paul Schenkeveld > > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to find a solution for this chicken and egg problem, > > how to have an encrypted root filesystem on a remote server. > >

Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
unencrypted root and devfs would be unmounted, the real root mounted and the real /sbin/init started. But this may be a considered a dirty approach. Did I miss the obvious and easy solution? Any ideas? With kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___

Re: UFS1 vs UFS2

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 09:29:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > I don't think performance will be much different but if so, UFS1 would > > be (sightly) faster than UFS2 because one page read will get more inodes > > from disk and 32 bit (UFS1) arithmetic may be slightly faster than 64 bit

Re: UFS1 vs UFS2

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
(sightly) faster than UFS2 because one page read will get more inodes from disk and 32 bit (UFS1) arithmetic may be slightly faster than 64 bit (UFS2). If performance is an issue, consider turning off atime updates or even mount the filesystem read-only if possible. HTH Paul Schenkeveld __

Re: UFS1 vs UFS2

2012-12-30 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
n systems where space savings matter unless your application requires any of the new features that are not present in UFS1. Nanobsd(8) for example uses UFS1 by default too. HTH Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals, lecture video

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
s at BSD conferences at a very reasonable price, especially for people working or wanting to work as volunteers for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Your next opportunity is the EuroBSDcon 2012 conference in Warsaw, Poland where Kirk teaches on friday October 19, 2012: http://www.e

Automatic per-site configuration

2011-06-26 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
ute, when set the hostname obtained from DHCP is ignored. How do other people solve this? I'd prefer to to be prompted during boot and during login for the site I want to configure for. Kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.o

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
-configured. Also during transition from SUM to MUM, when rc encounters an error, it will drop into a "twilight zone" kind of SUM where some MUM initialisation is completed but not all of it. 3. To be really safe, you should check for everything that should not be runn

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
rhaps a compromise could be: -t Prefer dotted decimal over hex. -c If the netmask is contiguous, print it in CIDR, otherwise in hex (without -d) or dotted decimal (with -d). -d is already in use, hence -t although -D is also available. Does this make everyone happy? > Warn

Re: looking for error codes

2011-04-02 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
systems (please read the freebsd-embedded mailing list) deal with similar issues and that's what nanobsd(8) was written for. Read http://www.psconsult.nl/talks/AsiaBSDcon2010-Servers if you want to see that similar techniques can also be applied to servers. Regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___

Re: New Boot-Loader

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
n either a beep or a pause saves a lot of frustration for sysadmins already annoyed by the ever increasing POST delay rapidly pressing 6 when the boot0 menu appears. Thanks for your work! Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-26 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
de. I think it makes more sense to grow a WITHOUT_NVI knob in buildworld so that people building for embedded systems can exclude nvi and include another version of vi when really pressed for space, like we can replace the base systems sendmail by sendmail from ports or another MTA. Regards,

rc.d/jail issues

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
start A before B but shutdown B before A. Would it make sense to reverse the order in which jails are stopped during shutdown by reversing the nales in $jail_list? The attached patch reverses $jail_list during shutdown. Regards, Paul Schenkeveld --- etc/rc.d/jail.orig 2009-08-15 14:00

Re: little mistake in rc.subr?

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:01:29PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:04:21PM +0400, Dmitry Banshchikov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In /etc/rc.subr, at line 231, there is: > > > > if [ ! -f $_pidfile ]; then > > debug "pid file ($_pidfile): not readable." > > return > > fi >

Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
l form. Or change 'pts' to, for example, 'pt' so without changing utmp and related stuff we'll have space for a four digit pty number. -- Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: open(2) and O_NOATIME

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
nd of reset atime as i.e. cpio does looks far more complex than adding O_NOATIME to rsync. My $0.02 Regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Increasing partition size by removing partitions

2008-09-28 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
e among us could copy the existing FreeBSD partitions from slice 2 to slice 1, enlarging them if needed and using fdisk and bsdlabel to combine the two slices into one, all depending on the size of the slices. The big issue here is to be aware not to overwrite anything before copying it into its fin

Any progress on FreeBSD/xen port?

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
. Is someone still working on FreeBSD/xen or has work on the project stalled? Is there anything usable, even beta, around which I can use to get a feeling of what's involved in running FreeBSD under Xen? Thanks. Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@f

Re: Tar output mode for installworld

2007-07-15 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
. Again ENOTIME prevented me so far from writing the update tool but I can certainly help out here. If all works out well, this could also benefit ports where a package could be created without installing the port on the build system. Many hurdles to take, I know but certainly a goal to consider. -- Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Trying to get Quatech quad SIO to work

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
the documentation I know the board has 16750 Uarts and an interrupt status register. The documentation (and sources for a Linux driver) are at: http://www.psconsult.nl/quatech/ Can anyone tell me how to get this board to work, preferrably with FreeBSD-4? Many thanks in ad

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
zy when he saw men would walk on the moon sometime. Leonardo da Vinci was laughed at when he envisioned people flying like birds. We people had things wrong in the past when we held things for impossible. We may not be around to witness storing over 2^128 bytes of information but your wo

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
. Or are my thoughts to simplistic? > Thanks, > > Scott Regards, Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: recovering data from a truncated vn-file possible?

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:22:41AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > $ truncate -s > > Bah! Why use a utility, when you can write a program? Cause I find it hard to choose between C, Cobol and PL/1 when I decide to write such a program :-) >

Re: recovering data from a truncated vn-file possible?

2003-07-06 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
. > Or do this (slower, but it works): > $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=750 >> myfile $ truncate -s > -- Josh > > > > > -- Terry Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:16:54PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > > If people think that -q is a good option for printenv, I can come up > > with a patch for the standard printenv. Opinions? > > > Some form of unambiguous output from printen

Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
ts/rc.conf' will take care of that. Hope this helps. If people think that -q is a good option for printenv, I can come up with a patch for the standard printenv. Opinions? -- Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: X11 display problem

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
notice support for it in > OpenSSH. > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++[>++<-]>[<++>-]<.>[>+<-]>[<+>-]<+.+++..++ > +.>>+[<++>-]<++.<<+++.>.+++.--..>+. My $0.02 -- Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
mail, syslogd and so on. So this technique, although very usable for new projects, will not solve this problem. > tho Thanks for your answer, Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Just a wild idea

2002-09-22 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
ething going on already that I am not aware of? Please let me know. Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Question about what programs to use in /etc/rc*

2001-09-09 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
rick: before=`expr "${ifconfig_args}" : '.*[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp]\(.*\)'` behind=`expr "${ifconfig_args}" : '\(.*\)[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp].*'` other_ifconfig_args="${before}${behind}" And expr is in /bin. My EUR 0.024 (~$0.02 :-) > -- > Regards, Ulf. > > - > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message