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

2012-01-20 Thread Chris
anch; and ports built for HEAD may not > work on -stable. > > -- > DE > > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable

2012-06-03 Thread Chris
On Sun, 27 May 2012 20:50:59 -0300 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2012 14:05:16 Yuri wrote: > > On 05/27/2012 10:01, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > So, at least in my case, I respectfully disagree with the > > > assessment in the Subject. > > > > i386 is one difference (I use amd64) > > FX 7

Re: Multiple IP Jail's patch for FreeBSD 6.2

2007-05-16 Thread Chris
t some point. Cheers, Marko ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Would like to see this in 7.0 considering many of us hav

Re: Multiple IP Jail's patch for FreeBSD 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Chris
On 16/05/07, Marko Zec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:32:37 Chris wrote: > On 16/05/07, Marko Zec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 14 May 2007 22:47:57 Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Bjoern A

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
answer as to why it didnt work and why it shouldnt be changed or supported. I did get an answer from someone that said that it should work in 3.0+, I tried and it didnt work. *shrug* probably just my mobo and FBSD didnt like each other in this regard. regards, chris Vince Vielhaber wrote: > &

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav scribbled this message on Aug 4: > > "Kelly Yancey" writes: > > > [...] > > > > Which reminds me - has anyone thought of using DMA for zeroing pages, > > to avoid cache invalidation? The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on > > disk and DMA it into

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
27; will be supported in 4.0 As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. regards, chris -- Christopher Day E-Mail re...@tig.com.au Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218 when the rain/wh

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Chris writes: > > Anyways thats all I can think of. The only way I can see that using DMA > > to refresh pages as a faster method is if the DMA controller can do it > > quicker than the CPU which I doubt is likely, also it will only be &g

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-02 Thread Chris
sources, patch said XFree86 sources (this may take a little fiddling to get it all in the right places) then recompile and install and voila you have yourself a native Banshee server for X. Any probs you can email me (or the dude who wrote it) and I may be able to help you. regards, chris

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

2006-01-15 Thread chris
you can mount a small memory filesystem think it's called mbfs or something and change the work dir to that then you should be able to compile KDE using ram instead of the HD > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ashok Shrestha wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am curious to know if there is a

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 default pty/tty-limit (256) OFF!

2006-01-16 Thread chris
Then change the default it isnt hard you cant just come on a mailing list and demand a patch be raised just becuase you think this is rediculous this is why we have man pages and all that google.com/bsd your english is pretty poor too if you dont like freebsd then dont use it but dont demand people

FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Chris
/ls -f 1 2 3 4 /afs/whatever% /compat/linux/bin/ls 1 2 3 I believe that this might also be what is causing linux-netscape to wedge the machine (with home directories on afs), although I'm not positive. Any ideas where to start the search for the offending code? Chris

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Chris
Silly me--I forgot to mention, this is with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

PAM issues..

2000-12-06 Thread Chris
he thought on keeping login around? I would be willing to try to fix the last two, but I'm not sure what to do with the first. Any ideas as to that problem would be welcome. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

forth/loader question..

2000-12-25 Thread Chris
This would allow a number of machines to be booted diskless and yet have different boot configurations. Following, is my first forth attempt at such functionality. If anyone has any ideas, or would like to integrate something similar into one of the 4th scripts, I would appreciate it.

linux_ioctl_disk problems..

2000-12-29 Thread Chris
0x20002): b_bcount 1 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) Any ideas? Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-02 Thread Chris
sources, patch said XFree86 sources (this may take a little fiddling to get it all in the right places) then recompile and install and voila you have yourself a native Banshee server for X. Any probs you can email me (or the dude who wrote it) and I may be able to help you. regards, chris

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
answer as to why it didnt work and why it shouldnt be changed or supported. I did get an answer from someone that said that it should work in 3.0+, I tried and it didnt work. *shrug* probably just my mobo and FBSD didnt like each other in this regard. regards, chris Vince Vielhaber wrote: > &

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
ges as a faster method is if the DMA controller can do it quicker than the CPU which I doubt is likely, also it will only be useful if it can do 32-bit addresses. sorry for the ramble. regards, chris -- Christopher Day E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
4.0 As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. regards, chris -- Christopher Day E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218 when the rain/when the children rei

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyways thats all I can think of. The only way I can see that using DMA > > to refresh pages as a faster method is if the DMA controller can do it > > quicker than the CPU which I doubt i

State of FreeBSD/xbox

2011-04-03 Thread Chris Rees
ast person on the planet running FreeBSD on an Xbox? I'm planning on hacking around a bit to see if I can fix it next week, but I was wondering if anyone else had similar ideas or a solution! In short-- FreeBSD/xbox is bitrotted (or so it appears!) Chris _

Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Chris Richardson
best "trace suite" for freebsd kernel? What about going through source code .. Is it better to use Combination of Ecllipse/Qemu and FreeBSD Source tree? Does this method will provide us with someway to see how booting process invokes the kernel to memory ? Any help will be appreciated.

Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Chris Richardson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Chris-- > > [ ...Reply-to: set to direct towards the most appropriate list... ] > > On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved within project which will &g

OMAP3 Question

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Richardson
Hi Community, I wanna emulate OMAP3 Processor. Is it approach I can use to emulate OMAP3 without the need to any hardware? Wishes ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Utmpx usage

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Rees
I don't have a CURRENT machine to try it on... I may have also made some terrible mistakes -- I'm not hugely familiar with utmpx. Thanks! Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/runit-utmpx.patch ___ freebsd-hackers@free

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
tribute to do > > exactly what you asked for. > > > > cheers. > > alex > > > > Thanls, but I need it for MBR. > > Domagoj S. MBR has only a one-bit wide field for active status. You'll need logic in the first boot to change the flag, perhaps an fdi

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
u are trying to get to another filesystem > because the main one is broken. > Doesn't sound that useful to me- I think of the main use for nextboot being to try new kernels on a one-time basis. If you're rescuing a broken filesystem surely it's better to just set another slice active? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: compiler warnings (was: Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes)

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
he warnings I get there are frightening. I find it comforting that they're just that: warnings. How do they frighten you? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

CONF class of files

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Rees
Hi all, Macros are being tested for bsd.port.mk that use a new class of files, in the same vein as the BINOWN variables I have introduced CONFOWN, CONFGRP, CONFMODE and CONFDIR. Please would someone review and give an opinion on [1]? I'd _really_ appreciate getting it in before 9-R Chris

Re: CONF class of files

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Jun 2011 19:53, "Warner Losh" wrote: > > I like it. I think we should get it in ASAP. > > Warner You have a src bit ;) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: CONF class of files

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 June 2011 09:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 18:40, Chris Rees wrote: >> Macros are being tested for bsd.port.mk that use a new class of files, >> in the same vein as the BINOWN variables I have introduced CONFOWN, >> CO

Re: CONF class of files

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 June 2011 15:36, Dieter BSD wrote: >> CONFDIR is for base, not ports > > Perhaps ${BASE_CONF_DIR}, ${PORTS_CONF_DIR}, ... Have a look at the surrounding code, it matches the other variables that we have always used. Please don't let this become a

Re: CONF class of files

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Rees
On 19 June 2011 10:14, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:50, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 19 June 2011 09:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 18:40, Chris Rees wrote: >>>> Macros are being tested for bsd.port.mk tha

Re: State of FreeBSD/xbox

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 April 2011 22:11, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Chris, Kostik, > > * Kostik Belousov , 20110403 21:26: >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:40:14PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> > In short-- FreeBSD/xbox is bitrotted (or so it appears!) > > Well, I did run FreeBSD HEAD on my X

Re: State of FreeBSD/xbox

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 June 2011 16:31, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2011 16:19:14 Chris Rees wrote: >> It was panicking on boot apparently, though kdb doesn't appear to work >> with the USB keyboard I was forced to use. > > If you give USB some time to enumerate I sho

Re: State of FreeBSD/xbox

2011-06-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 Jun 2011 16:51, "Chris Rees" wrote: > > On 26 June 2011 16:31, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > On Sunday 26 June 2011 16:19:14 Chris Rees wrote: > >> It was panicking on boot apparently, though kdb doesn't appear to work > >> with the USB keyb

Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
Hi all, [crees@zeus]~% tail -n 2 /usr/ports/UIDs dbxml:*:949:949::0:0:dbXML user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin [crees@zeus]~% grep crees /etc/passwd crees:*:1001:1001:Chris Rees:/home/crees:/bin/tcsh chris:*:1001:1001:Chris

Re: Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 June 2011 17:59, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 28), Chris Rees said: >> Hi all, >> >> [crees@zeus]~% tail -n 2 /usr/ports/UIDs >> dbxml:*:949:949::0:0:dbXML user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin >> nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexi

Re: Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 June 2011 20:50, jhell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:30:23PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 28 June 2011 17:59, Dan Nelson wrote: >> > In the last episode (Jun 28), Chris Rees said: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> [crees@zeus]~% tail

Re: Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 June 2011 20:57, Chris Rees wrote: > On 28 June 2011 20:50, jhell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:30:23PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >>> On 28 June 2011 17:59, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> > In the last episode (Jun 28), Chris Rees said: >>> >> H

Re: Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 Jun 2011 21:33, "Greg Lewis" wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:11:54PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 28 June 2011 20:57, Chris Rees wrote: > > > On 28 June 2011 20:50, jhell wrote: > > >> Also: (stable/8) /usr/ports/UIDs > > >>

Re: [PATCH] __FreeBSD_kernel__

2011-07-03 Thread Chris Rees
Call me pedantic, but that was a nonsensical statement. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [PATCH] __FreeBSD_kernel__

2011-07-03 Thread Chris Rees
On 3 July 2011 15:44, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 15:38:41 +0100 > Chris Rees wrote: >> 2011/7/3 Alexander Kabaev : >> > >> > __linux__ is exactly what __FreeBSD__ is and dies not identify >> > kernel but rather Linux as whole OS,

Re: A style proposal for referring to upper-level directories in Makefiles

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Rees
DIR=                ${.CURDIR:H:H:H}/crypto/openssh >     .endif > > The new method is functionally equivalent to the old and I see no drawbacks > to it, do you? > >   -mi Not too convinced I'm afraid-- in the logs I can at least see at a glance where ${CURDIR} is, and how many direc

Re: Concurrent execution of rc-scripts with rcorder(8)

2011-08-21 Thread Chris Rees
*** Sorry, emailed from wrong address and it bounced from hackers ***: I might suggest moving this to rc@. I'll try it later, looks interesting. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Rees
nected. (& easy to edit, > & format without the tool chain from hell that doc uses) hence I > suggested adding a URL in see also of man. > > Cos' if eg I get a phone call from an MS [l]user saying "what do I > do with your .bz2?" I would first by reflex type m

Re: /usr/src -> make doesn't recognize target when '-f -' is used

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Rees
ell, via STDIN, I've attempted to feed it, with syntaks from a 'make.conf' > file, so I wouldn't have to provide file, via __MAKE_CONF. > Looking again in man pages, I see that -f flag relates to Makefile syntaks > and NOT to the make.conf. > Yes, it means that make

Re: /usr/src -> make doesn't recognize target when '-f -' is used

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 September 2011 17:23, wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Chris Rees > To: rank1see...@gmail.com > Cc: h h , hack...@freebsd.org > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:16:57 +0100 > Subject: Re: /usr/src -> make doesn't recognize target when '-f -' is us

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Rees
ght to be a unified mechanism for ports > to use when adding users, so that necessary notifications -- > e.g. restarting nscd if it is running -- can be done in a > standardized way and any necessary customizations can be done > in a single place. There is, and I've been trying (with

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Rees
need to restart cron shortly after boot? What if boot takes longer? Plenty of competent coders in here, but please consider me interested in helping with a solution if needed. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

2011-11-26 Thread Chris Rees
think we need to go the route of using files to store >> > information when there is enough information available already via >> > syscall's. >> >> If system startup were to be unusually delayed (dhcp or nfs trouble eg), >> $time_

Re: CPUTYPE and friends, from 'make.conf' benchmark

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Rees
world and kernel, with > > 'make.conf': > > -- > > CPUTYPE?=core2 > > CFLAGS+=-march=native > > NO_CPU_CFLAGS=yes > > COPTFLAGS+=-march=native > > NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=yes > > > > And, how does it do if you remove everything except

Re: CPUTYPE and friends, from 'make.conf' benchmark

2011-12-06 Thread Chris Rees
ke.conf': > -- > CPUTYPE?=core2 > -- > > > Also, you should set these in src.conf. Sticking them in make.conf is > > going to annoy people when you ask why your ports are breaking ;) > > > > Chris > > I want my ports, to also be optimized for target CPU, n

Re: gcc 4.2 miscompilation with -O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer on amd64

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Rees
not every branch returns are beeing corrupted. > >>> > >>> Do you think this issue may be somehow related to yours? > >>> Are there any patches/solutions to fix it? > >> > >> Should we turn off -fno-omit-frame-frame-pointer on PPC then? It's

Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Chris Rees
/dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me... Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 December 2011 12:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote: >> Is there a simple way to check for existence of a driver?  I could >> even check for /dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me... > > kldstat -v, but

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Chris Rees
2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:23:58PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 28 December 2011 12:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> > >> > On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> Is there a simple way to check for existence of

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-29 Thread Chris Rees
2011/12/29 Kostik Belousov : > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:53:19PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2011/12/29 Kostik Belousov : >> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:46:57AM +, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : >> >> > On Wed, Dec 2

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-29 Thread Chris Rees
2011/12/29 Kostik Belousov : > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:46:57AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : >> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:53:42PM +, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : >> >> > On Wed, Dec 2

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-29 Thread Chris Rees
2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:53:42PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2011/12/28 Kostik Belousov : >> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:23:58PM +, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 28 December 2011 12:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >>

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

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Rees
e not comparing like with like. Linux is not an OS; FreeBSD is. Are you talking about Linux? Debian? Red Hat? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 January 2012 20:30, Atom Smasher wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chris Rees wrote: > >> > what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? >> > >> >> You're not comparing like with like. >> >> Linux is not an OS; FreeBSD i

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

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Rees
burst your bubble but this is utterly meaningless statistic. > You show nothing but correlation and in no way a causation. Back in > the days when the UK banks ran ATMs, &c on Windows NT (I have no idea > what they are running now) they went through a lot more "value" than >

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

2012-01-22 Thread Chris Rees
n a search on pr's and only came up with around ~4k. Is there a trick I'm missing? > > Scroll up and count the serious and critical bugs too :) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

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

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Rees
meouts, and these can eventually lead to a maintainer reset. >> > It is less a problem of having the tools than having the will to do > everything publicly. From experience, committers loves to do all kind > of things privately/secretly. Hm, a bit of a paradox-- I now deny that anything l

Re: src builds and STDERR

2012-03-01 Thread Chris Rees
p://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-December/029852.html > . Why this patch is still not in FreeBSD proper, I do not know. If you send a PR, I'll do what I can to get it in-- you know things sometimes get lost in mailing lists! Chris

Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)

2012-03-03 Thread Chris Rees
Using patch: MD5 (boot2_test.patch) = 72412f9b47b114302268561f12c1b46b > > http://www.starforce.biz/stage2boot_1.jpg > > This is the worst patch as even RE-typing doesn't work. > That is, it is completely unable to boot. > > Throw me another patch! > > > > Plea

Re: Fwd: on purpose or forgotten ? hardcoded compiler in basesystem-makefiles

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Rees
libdisk.a > /usr/src/lib/libdisk/Makefile >gcc -g3 msgring.lex.c msgring.yacc.c -o msgring > /usr/src/sys/mips/rmi/Makefile.msgring > > ah@abaton:~$ find /usr/src/ -name Makefile\* -exec egrep > '^[[:blank:]]+cpp[[:blank:]]+..' {} \; -print >cpp -DOVLY_

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Rees
gt; selection menu, as human would. > Well in that case, better to not show menu at all, thus only "blic" into > slice 3. > At next boot it is at slice 4 again. I'm afraid this sounds like a great way to make a very confusing scenario, where you have to reboot twice to be sure of a consistent boot sector, unless I've misunderstood you. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Rees
ecompile/disassemble it? Or attempt to load it, and dump it from memory? > — hacker/cracker advice _strongly_ desired — You've had great answers from a few people on the native driver front, but if you're desperate for a short term fix ndiswrapper has worked miracles for me in the past

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Rees
odern binaries (newer than 4.x) without my changes >> to make it use libthread_db. You can find the patch I used for this at >> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/pstack_threads.patch > > > should be in ports? > > I'm on it. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Rees
his is "the most advanced unix" from Oracle. > I prefer "less advanced" FreeBSD > Ridiculing other projects is not a great way to show superiority. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Booting Ubuntu and freebsd side by side

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Rees
s, and grub2 is a particularly horrifying thing to work with. I'd ask on ubuntu-us...@ubuntu.com; there were some clued-up people there when I used to be on that list-- however don't let them talk you into using grub2 to boot FreeBSD ;) Chris ___ freebsd-

Re: PID/UID namespaces

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Rees
hing called > a "Process Descriptor." > > Is namespacing of PIDs and UIDs an eventual goal of the jails project of > FreeBSD? It would certainly prevent many common problems when setting up jails; UID collision is much more common tha

Re: PID/UID namespaces

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 May 2012 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message > > , Chris Rees writes: > >>It would certainly prevent many common problems when setting up jails; >>UID collision is much more common than you'd think, given that the >>default UIDs remain the same.

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Rees
e per hour instead of roughly every 11 minutes. >>  [Note that */11 means 0,11,22,33,44,55 not every 11 minute] >> 5) Patch the save-entropy script to reduce the write load when >>  it's run (see PR bin/134225). >> 6) Use a swap-back /tmp > > use tmpfs and don't fear to add /var/tmp to it. I would fear to add /var/tmp-- /var/tmp should persist across reboots. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Rees
On 26 May 2012 16:04, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> use tmpfs and don't fear to add /var/tmp to it. >> >> >> I would fear to add /var/tmp-- /var/tmp should persist across reboots. >> >> Chris >> >> > as i noted - check your ca

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
it is technically possible > hardware-wise? with any USB controler or special one? USB is not peer-to-peer. Try Firewire/1394. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: CD bootcode

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Rees
, so in '/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot/cdboot.s': > -- > loader_paths: .asciz "/BOOT/LOADER" >.asciz "/boot/loader" >.byte 0 > -- > > I injected third '.asciz' line with full path to 'loader' and recompiled it. > And what is first line "/BOOT/LOADER" doing in there ?!? > Because strict ISO9660 8.3 is case insensitive and uses caps? Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Rees
stantly. > just sometime somebody decide to change number :) Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates and support stop. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hac

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, "Damien Fleuriot" wrote: > > On 6/14/12 9:09 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2012 5:52 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > wrote: > >>> > >>> Friends, > >>>

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 15, 2012 9:39 AM, "Peter Jeremy" wrote: > > On 2012-Jun-14 08:09:30 +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > >Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates > >and support stop. > > There's nothing stopping you from from running -stab

Re: BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Rees
brk() works for memory. > > > > BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which takes 10GB but uses 5GB. > > i could write simple program to find out what blocks are unused and then...do nothing. > What if you cp it? Chris __

Re: BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, "Xin LI" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> file t

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Rees
about this? > ;) I say we have GPT this decade :) Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
ged as root and tried to understand the /etc tree, boot process and gave up really quickly. > just seeing a files and directories (both numerous) of just a kernel binaries was truly enough. > > Now... lets go back to FreeBSD which is controllable and understandable by a human. Yo

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
foolevel". > > > > still single rc.conf, not much bigger in practice. > > > > 2) no change in rc.d/* scripts and rc.conf, but change in scripts. > > > > > > If everyone agree i think i may write this new scripts. > > Sorry but I completely disagree here. Why ? > > Because do one thing and do one thing well. What do you mean ? He means the UNIX philosophy. http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Rees
k I understand >> "i have no idea why this fscadm enable/disable. editing config is enough." >> and would ask you elaborate for me. Thanks, > > > why adding solaris style command to add a line in text file. just edit a text file. > Scripting? Chris _

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
s get 'stuck' but it's so obvious when it happens it's no big hardship. I have a Belkin adaptor one by the way, and it works very well with FreeBSD apart from that issue, if that's any help. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@free

Re: sysctl filesystem ?

2012-06-25 Thread Chris Rees
e useful. Just because Linux uses it doesn't make it a bad idea. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Nehren
oking at ldns to create such a tool. It shouldn't be difficult for anyone familiar with C and DNS who has the tuits to spare. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpR1jUEqDRxU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Rees
; switched on where I spend ages switching it all off/deinstalling it all, I > know which I prefer - and others have made similar comments. That's crazy- this is the logic that led to our sh having tab completion and history disabled by default for years. How many people honestly knew

Re: Gentoo Solution to Nanny Terminal Problem

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Rees
gt; > > > > 0:55 Fri 06-Jul sean@queen [~] pkg_info -W bash > /usr/local/bin/bash was installed by package bash-4.2.28 > > 0:57 Fri 06-Jul sean@queen [~] pkg_info -W /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail was installed by

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Rees
isable that feature' then. Since that is the case, you should stop commenting, now, and simply disable it if/when it comes out. Chris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Chris Rees
ers? > > Please answer it is important for me, and many other people for a future. This is not 'going down'. This is adding features to help newcomers. You are free to disable them. It will not remove anything from FreeBSD. I point to Doug's statement on elitism. Chris ___

Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Chris Rees
uot;, "desktop environments" and so on. > > this only generate herds of morons that "know FreeBSD" and dissolve real user base. What is the 'real user base?' People who insult newcomers and call them morons? People who consider it cool to use a OS that is unneces

port devel/doxygen failing to test on -CURRENT and -STABLE

2012-07-08 Thread Chris Rees
;s hanging on a _umtx call. I'm gratuitously ignorant of what goes on there... but the timings of recent commits to umtx.h [3] could indicate a link (hope it's not bogus...). Any pointers on what I should do next? Chris [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/doxygen-truss [2] htt

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Chris Rees
d program whenever a "command not found" >error occurs. > > As a first prototype, the database could just be a text file > and the look up program could be a shell script that uses > grep and sed. Anyone looking to implement something like this could also talk to Sulev-Madis

Better ldns docs? (Was: bikeshedding about BIND)

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Nehren
or how things fit together. I suppose you could say "well volunteered" to that, too, but I'm not sure if the docs will get finished in time for a good CLI client for 10-RELEASE. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren pgpjqnyBdJSbw.pgp Description: PGP signature

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