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
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
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
>
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
[ 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
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
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
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
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 (
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
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
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
>
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.
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
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.
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
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
[ 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
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
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
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
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
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 |
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
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
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
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
>
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
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
>
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 /
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
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
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.
Come to think of it, -hackers may be the more appropriate forum for
RFC'ing on this...
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To: Daniel Sickels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
[ 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
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
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/
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
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
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
==
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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