Re: Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius

2011-08-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:28:29PM -0300 I heard the voice of Mario Lobo, and lo! it spake thus: > > Unfortunately this Mobo died and only found AM3 boards for which my > phenom 955 doesn't fit. Not that it helps you now, but the 955 _is_ perfectly compatible with AM3. It's only the initial 920

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: > > I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze > ended early January which surprise me that they weren't included in > -RELEASE and we didn't have another RC. You mean the 9

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02:29PM + I heard the voice of Tom Evans, and lo! it spake thus: > > You say that snapshots of STABLE are stable and effectively a > running release branch, so why can't more releases be made? > > Is the release process too complex for minor revisions, could that >

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus: > > Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x > (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long > think of 4.x as an epic series). Having been a FreeBSD user

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:41:53AM + I heard the voice of Igor Mozolevsky, and lo! it spake thus: > > The problem, however, lies in the time between a patch is submitted > and is "picked up", if the latter ever occurs!.. That is where the > discouragement occurs. Quite. For instance, we're n

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: > > 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it > was out there because it was a rework of how almost everything in > the kernel worked. I'm not saying it was a cluster bec

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:20:15PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: > > the trouble with 5 was that it had to be all-or-nothing. > > [...] > > the size of the "giant pile of stuff" was not of our choosing. As may be, it's beside my point. Whether due to malice,

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:20:56PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:45 -0600, John Kozubik wrote: > > This is nice because no upheaval needs to happen with 7 and 8, and > > interested developers do not get kneecapped vis a vis 9 - they can

Re: diagonising a overheating problem

2012-05-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:19:26PM -0600 I heard the voice of Ian Lepore, and lo! it spake thus: > > dev.cpu.0.temperature is provided by the coretemp(4) driver, maybe > you need to kldload it? A quick Google suggests that model (g7-1365dx) is an AMD Llano proc, so I doubt "coretemp — device driv

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:12:14AM -0500 I heard the voice of Karim Fodil-Lemelin, and lo! it spake thus: > > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-6 device That's a 10k RPM drive. > FreeBSD 9.1: > > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes transferred in 60.024997 secs (85298 bytes/s

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Dur... > 10k ops in 2 seconds is 300k per second. RPM I mean... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:03:33PM -0800 I heard the voice of Dieter BSD, and lo! it spake thus: > > But dmesg claims "Command Queueing enabled", so you should be > getting more than one op per rev, and writes should be fast. Queueing would only help if your load threw multiple ops at the drive b

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote: > > now edit the master password file > > > > vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd > > Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc > It automaticly updates th

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2007-03-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:16:37AM +0200 I heard the voice of MOUILLE Jean Pierre Ext OF/DT, and lo! it spake thus: > > . 1 RAID 5 for data on nForce chip, with 3 maxtor/seagate 250 GB > disks (~450 GB data) ataraid(4): CAVEATS RAID5 is not supported at this time. Code exists, but it neith

Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:20:09AM +0200 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: > David Cramblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's in your /boot.config and /boot/loader.conf? > > I have no boot.config. > > > > [EM

Re: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > > You could theoretically install onto a local system, tar it up, then > unpack it in the unused partition on your remote machine, yes. > However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-12-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33AM +0100 I heard the voice of Søren Schmidt, and lo! it spake thus: > > I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it > fixes the problem or not. Behind the curve, as usual, I just upgraded one of my systems that's had the problem in the past to

Re: Csup cvsmode build discussion

2008-01-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:32:14PM +0100 I heard the voice of Ulf Lilleengen, and lo! it spake thus: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:08:20AM +, Bob Bishop wrote: > > > Why do you want prefixing? > > Prefixing is needed since csup already have a configuration parser > written in lex/yacc and there

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me that Stephen McKay remarked > > I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete > behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't > gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I r

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me that David Scheidt remarked > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition? > > Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked > > I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: > > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those > things can e

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked > > I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning > manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting > themselves in for, or at the very least that there sh

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:15:15PM +0900, a little birdie told me that Daniel C. Sobral remarked > Larry Lile wrote: > > > > /dev/wd0s1f on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime, synchronous, writes: > > sync 93 async 216) procfs on /proc (local) > > > > /var looks questionable... > > Indeed. :-) I

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:40:43PM -0700, a little birdie told me that Julian Elischer remarked > That one looks like a bug, either in reporting them or in doing them.. > > > /dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 34 async 954) > > what version are you running? FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1:

Re: Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ] On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Steve Ames remarked > > I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any > performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? > > Would my soul b

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked > > Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB > enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you > have access to the console, of course. We used th

Re: distributed scm+freebsd svn?

2009-07-27 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:17:34PM +0300 I heard the voice of Andriy Gapon, and lo! it spake thus: > > P.S. I am looking for a distributed solution (mercurial, bazaar?) > that won't take away what I have with git, but would correctly work > with svn mergeinfo. I use bazaar, but I don't use the sv

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:40:09PM -0700 I heard the voice of Brian Somers, and lo! it spake thus: > > I think this is a shame as I find the pros more compelling than the > cons, and I'm sure there are more than a few supporters out there on > hackers@ that will stay silent. FWIW, I'm in favor of

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus: > > I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take > care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only explicitly added files > are tracked. I do pretty much the same thing (

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:38:00PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Jim Carroll remarked > > I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file > systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, > fsck chokes trying to alloc enough bl

Re: poor fdc(4) performance

2005-11-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:44:18PM +0900 I heard the voice of Pyun YongHyeon, and lo! it spake thus: > > Yes, it could be. But I think the machine is fast enough to read > sequential blocks. Try running it without SMP. There may be enough happening in the MP locking bit that you end up falling b

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus: > > how about: > > FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only > maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support > something anymore, that is removed and moved to >

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:46:15PM -0500 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: > > In fact, I'm pretty sure 4.11 can be installed with a USB keyboard. > I may be imagining that though... Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine installing 6.0 last month with a USB keyboard.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > > The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB > keyboard' boot menu option ;-) How can I choose a menu option in the loader when the keyboard doesn't work in the loader? :p

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > > Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB > keyboard that did not work in the loader. The "emulation" or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked in the BIOS.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:28:23AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > >The "emulation" or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it > >worked in the BIOS. Worked when the OS got up to sysinstall, too

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:38AM +0100 I heard the voice of Christoph Kukulies, and lo! it spake thus: > > dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror Give it a bigger blocksize (say, bs=1m or so) and it'll go a **LOT** faster. > My motherboard is an ASUS P4S8X with an on board promise controller

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Cc trim a bit ] On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:53:11PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > > In order to do better you either have to: This is something that may be easier to: 3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanager or some such higher-level tool in a language

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:23:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:07:39AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > This is something that may be easier to: > > > > 3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanage

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-21 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:09:56AM +1100 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: > > Given that a port's dependency tree can depend on the options it is > invoked with, it would be nicer if the dependency tree was generated > dynamically, rather than pulled out of the latest INDE

Re: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:37AM -0600 I heard the voice of Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus: > > You can easily save the stream of updates as a redo log (well, > that's the idea I've been running around with). Isn't that what the gjournal SoC thing was about? -- Matthew Fuller (MF48

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0400 I heard the voice of Lucas Holt, and lo! it spake thus: > > I worked with someone once that said they blew out the ps/2 port on > the motherboard. I've seen this happen several times. Some boards were later revived by judicious use of a soldering iron, but

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-07-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:51:13PM -0700 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: > > I've always used: > find . -depth |cpio -pdlmv $dest While we're in workarounds, I fake with: % cat ~/bin/tarcp.sh #!/bin/sh cmd1="tar -cf - -C $1 ." cmd2="tar -xvpf - -C $2" echo "$cmd1 |

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems > > for just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup & recovery > > strate

Re: top delay value

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:42:26PM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: > > Bottom line: Disabling zero-delay in top doesn't buy you anything > at all. Meanwhile, you still can't zero-delay unless you're root. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Trying to use /bin/sh

2013-09-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 04:36:03PM + I heard the voice of Teske, Devin, and lo! it spake thus: > > xterm -sb -sl 400 -ls -r -si -sk -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-15-*" ^^^ being the operative bit. Or setting loginShell in resources; that way you don't have to change any

Re: vm balance

2001-04-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:24:36PM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matt Dillon remarked > > Without vmiodirenable turned on, any directory exceeding > vfs.maxmallocbufspace becomes extremely expensive to work with > O(N * diskIO). With vmiodirenable turned on huge directories >

Re: Config devices not in machine

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:26:58PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked > I'm new to FreeBSD (come from the *gasp* System V and RTU world) so I > hope this is the correct list for this. ( I'm sure I will be told if > it's not :-} ) > > Is there ANY penalty for having a device i

Re: smartmontools vs HP Smart Array 642 controller

2005-02-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:24:17PM -0600 I heard the voice of Chris Dillon, and lo! it spake thus: > > Your problem with smartmontools doesn't seem to be limited to the > Smart Array 642, I just tried it on a DL380 G3 with the Smart Array > 5i+ and got the same error you did. It appears to be a >

CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right all of a sudden. My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd to handle INDEX issues, since I can't think of anything else that would ma

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:40:46PM +0400 I heard the voice of Denis Peplin, and lo! it spake thus: > > > 2. Setup CVSup collection for subset of required files > > (is it possible?), and then keep this small collection > > up-to-date locally. > src-etc cvs collection already here. One thing that

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0700 I heard the voice of Mike Hunter, and lo! it spake thus: > > Is there a general-purpose approach to this kind of problem in the > FBSD world? I can see myself writing a C program called `slow` that > would take argv[1] as the factor ( > 1) by which argv[2]

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:28:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of Robert Watson, and lo! it spake thus: > > - Pretty recent work to get read-only reiserfs working (committed and in > the CVS repository). Which, by the way, I just used earlier this week to pull data and configs and such off an old a

Re: hosts.allow

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:45:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Robey, and lo! it spake thus: > > I'm not sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind. Someone else pointed out hosts_access(5). I just wanted to point out that unless you did something to it, it's probably not. The file is

Re: Re: system password's file

2005-10-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:54:26AM -0500 I heard the voice of Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus: > > I don't know if it's fixed now or not. I just converted a Mandrake box a month or so ago, which used MD5 hashes. Worked flawlessly. > Hm, considering the we'd like people to migrate from Lin

Re: nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:03:25AM +0200 I heard the voice of Andreas Klemm, and lo! it spake thus: > > Most favourite example: > I personally still get mad if it comes to the "u" undo key. I miss :N. You have to :split and then :n separately. > Standard vi lets you toggle your last change by

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:18:03AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mikhail T., and lo! it spake thus: > > According to smartctl, the drive runs at 56C during the copying. Its > idle temperature seems to be 54C. That sounds a little high to me. Smartctl has been weird lately, and it only shows temp on

Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
The whole "Stable Branch" thread on -security gave me an idea that's been perculating for some time. Problem: We have security problems in (say) -STABLE. They get fixed. We post an advisory about it, giving correction dates for -STABLE and -CURRENT, and the associated cutoff in which releases

Re: Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 12:53:16AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Dima Dorfman remarked > > Why not just use a date? I do this on most of my systems. My `uname > -r` reads: > > 4.1-2916-STABLE > > I started doing this for the exact same reason you described above--to > know when I up

Re: Does indent(1) have a KNF mode?

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:25:39AM -0800 I heard the voice of Steve Kargl, and lo! it spake thus: > Does indent(1) have a KNF mode? If not, > does anyone have/know a set of command > line switches that best approximates KNF? For the record, I tend to install GNU indent when I feel the itch, as it

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

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > CD format, please take in to account: And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had

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

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:05:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > For 5.x we already have a 3rd floppy that is dedicated to modules. > Unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it should because there > is no way to activate it during the boot sequence; it

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

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:43:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > Well, regardless of how you label it, these floppies still require lots > of care and feeding in order to work. We currently have no way to > support multiple floppies in a convenient way. My hop

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

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:36:10AM -0800 I heard the voice of Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > If I understand you right.. > A floppy boot, which loads the absolutely basic stuff (network drivers, > and some easy way to config the network) and then goes and grabs the > installer would otherw

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

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:36:42PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > Unfortunately, there are two problems with this. Now, > The first is that it runs after the kernel has already booted, so SCSI > devices that are handled by drivers on this floppy won't get probe

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

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:50:59PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: > > I don't necessarily agree here - I think sysinstall is a better place because > it's much much easier to write stuff for it than the loader. In the example > you mention the only reason to u

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

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:48:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >BTW Does camcontrol rescan cause the devices to be detected? Perhaps > >sysinstall could be "enhanced" to perform this duty as part of it's > >reprobe machinations. > > S

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

2004-01-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:23:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > >yes, we need something like > > > >struct pci_device_info { > >uint32_tpciid; > >charbrand[64]; > >charmodel[6

Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:27:08PM +0100 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav, and lo! it spake thus: > > CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU is not likely to have any positive impact on > performance, and fairly likely to render the system unbootable. I would guess just from the name that this (and some sim

Re: Odd ACL question

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:46AM +0100 I heard the voice of Harti Brandt, and lo! it spake thus: > > So if you restore a backup that is say, half a year old, you may > well have files that belong to no known user, even if restoring to > the same system. > > I suppose that mapping them to a well

Re: Adding 'realclean' target to /usr/src/Makefile

2004-02-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:56AM + I heard the voice of Bruce M Simpson, and lo! it spake thus: > > It would be helpful if it were pointed out in documentation somewhere > that the path to the compile and source directories, when doing NFS > kernel installs, has to be identical to those whic

Mozilla sucking file descriptors

2004-03-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits a crapload of errors

Re: Editing /usr/include/*.h?

2004-05-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:13:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: > > > On Mon, 3 May 2004, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > > > I want to modify sys/param.h to increase the value of MAXLOGNAME. I know > I've done exactly this.. > > edit /usr/src/sys/param.h Ther

Re: Memory Leak

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0700 I heard the voice of Tim Kientzle, and lo! it spake thus: > > The one problem I've had is that dmalloc.h redefines some standard > functions, which can cause gcc to complain. I usually just have a flag in my Makefile to enable dmalloc (adding a -D to the c

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Oh god, as everybody else is saying, I can't believe I'm getting involved in this, but... On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:58:21AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Richard Hodges remarked > > Why not parse it literally? For instance, http://www.ufp.org > would imply TCP, dest port 80, and host www

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:26:22AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Barcroft, and lo! it spake thus: > > Just to clarify. This is still a POLA violation. If a log file is > pulled out from underneath syslogd(8), one wouldn't expect it to start > logging again, even if the file was re-created. J

Re: MAXLOGNAME > 17 ?

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:52:38AM -0300 I heard the voice of milo, and lo! it spake thus: > > I think that change this value can resolv. After one cvsup of current, > my login and syslogd were compiled again but not works. Then I did one > attach with gdb in login and I watched that mistake was

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:43:59PM -0400 I heard the voice of Leo Bicknell, and lo! it spake thus: > > Another idea is to make a floppy just smart enough to load the installer > over the network, since PC's generally have more memory these days... Many Linux dists seem to do something like this n

Re: complicated downgrade

2003-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:34:28PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: > > Your biggest problems are going to be the creation of the /dev, > which will need to occur in an rc.local on reboot, Mightn't you be able to get away with this by something like: - Downgrade /

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100 I heard the voice of David Malone, and lo! it spake thus: > > A significant number of these are ad servers, so after complaining > to Doubleclick and getting no response, I've told my local name > server that it is authorititive for doubleclick.net and give

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0600 I heard the voice of Stephen Montgomery-Smith, and lo! it spake thus: > I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium > II specific inline assembler code. How do I tell the compiler whether > we are compiling on a i686? Dunno, how

Re: 3.3 to 4.5 remote upgrade possible?

2002-03-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:03:47PM -0500 I heard the voice of Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus: > > Is this "Mission Impossible"? I have no one at the site that can do this. > > If I say "make installworld" is the whole thing going to come to a > grinding halt? When I did a 2.2.8-STABLE to 4.

[fullermd@over-yonder.net: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5]

2002-03-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Come to think of it, -hackers may be the more appropriate forum for RFC'ing on this... - Forwarded message from "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Sickels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Trim the CC's a bit ] On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:00:08PM -0800 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > Other reasons I haven't even thought of yet 8-). > > > > Yeah, I was just wondering if there were issues making us keep a.out stuff > > in

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:53:16PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kenneth Culver, and lo! it spake thus: > > I didn't realize anyone still used netscape 4.x. It's so disgustingly > unstable and slow. That it is. The problem, of course, is that all the alternatives are more unstable and slowER. #inc

PR's in need of a home

2002-03-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
So, whose palm do I grease to get some PR's taken care of? ;-) - docs/31265 - Documentation (and adjustment) of cron allow/deny file formats Best (IMO, but then, I wrote it ;) patch at end of audit trail. - docs/35436 - Webpage update; don't push PAO Patch in PR - docs/

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5

2002-05-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:10:00PM -0400 I heard the voice of Matt Simerson, and lo! it spake thus: > > On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > &g

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5

2002-05-04 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeff Jirsa, and lo! it spake thus: > > Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more > logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating > temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it

Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
LE *, size_t *, size_t *, const char[3], int); #endif @@ -128,5 +130,8 @@ /* pw_scan() */ #define PWSCAN_MASTER 0x01 #define PWSCAN_WARN0x02 + +/* pid_begin() */ +#define PID_NOBLOCK0x01 #endif /* !_LIBUTIL_H_ */ Index: lib/libutil/pid_util.c ==

Re: ppbus questions

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:15:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of Martin Faxer, and lo! it spake thus: > > i'm trying to write a driver for an old cd-rom drive that you connect > to the parallel port. it is a shuttletech "para drive" 525. > > i don't have any driver docs or technical specifications

Re: Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
ID_NOBLOCK0x01 #endif /* !_LIBUTIL_H_ */ Index: lib/libutil/pid_util.c === --- /dev/null Sun Jun 23 11:44:00 2002 +++ lib/libutil/pid_util.c Sun Jun 23 11:50:59 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +/*- + * Copyri

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:59:10AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > I can't imagine it would be too extensive of a rewrite. The temp > file code could be kept, and in fileupd.c:fileupdate() instead of > rename("/etc/master.passwd.new", "/etc/master.passwd"), it

Re: Locking the passwd subsystem (was Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch])

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
And here's a run at Stage 2. This adapts a subset of programs to use the pid_*() locking supplied. The attached patch updates: , libutil (libutil.h and pw_util.c), chpass (chpass.c), pw (pw.c), pwd_mkdb (Makefile, pwd_mkdb.8, pwd_mkdb.c), vipw (vipw.c). This does NOT include passwd(1), since th

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:32:54AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > In fact, if you look at fileupdate(), you see that it already gains > an exclusive lock on the temp file, but not the original > "/etc/master.passwd" (if you will.) I think this is a bug, becaus

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:19:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > I think you might have your infp confused with your outfp. It's > not writing to the original "live" file, it's just writing the new > temp file. That part of the code is OK. I'm talking about

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
OK, this is the end for me today. I'm fairly sure, somehow, it's time to get some sleep ;p On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:51:46PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Moral of that story: This would mean for pw(8) that I can't update > the system passwords and the p

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:14:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Clearly, at the root of our disagreement is what we both perceive > the problem to be. Oh, certainly; that's what makes it fun :) > I don't see problems in the current implementation, aside

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:07:40PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: > > The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the > ability to allow authentication against the database while > it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period. Would

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:56:31AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > > > So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a > > committer to step in and make up our minds for us. > > I think the best thing to

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Darren Pilgrim, and lo! it spake thus: > > > And you can have more than a single swap partition. > > Up to four, so then the theoretical limit for swap is 8TB? I hope not, since I have 6 of 'em. 4's just the default. > Do these ma

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