Re: FreeBSD tar errors on valid empty tar.gz

2008-01-10 Thread Sean Winn
On 11/01/2008, at 11:47 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Not that I'm aware of. gtar works but libarchive tar fails on the file it created. Yes, in 6.2. What about the report that it works in 6.3? Indeed. Trying to create a tarball using a non-ex

Re: malloc(): warning: recursive call

2006-09-03 Thread Sean Winn
On 04/09/2006, at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: mail in malloc(): warning: recursive call Cosmic rays? Anything I could try to find the cause? I know what it is, but you won't going to like it. As far as I understand this happens when a process gets a signal in the middle

Re: Remote tunefs -n enable

2006-02-22 Thread Sean Winn
Peter Jeremy wrote: One approach would be to stick a script into /etc/rc.d that executes early (before root is made R/W) to run "tunefs -n enable ..." and then delete the script after rebooting. Or just create a script /etc/rc.early that has the tunefs line in it. If that script exists, it'

Re: 5.x: how do I get a *swap*-backed /tmp via rc.conf?

2005-10-10 Thread Sean Winn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I made the somewhat unexpected discovery that in FreeeBSD 5-STABLE, if I use the "tmp*" variables in /etc/rc.conf to have an MFS /tmp created, it is apparentyly not swap-backed -- as I expected from the part of the mdmfs man p

Re: atkbd: changing flags at boot time

2005-06-27 Thread Sean Winn
On 28/06/2005, at 2:16 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: On June 27, 2005 05:52 am, Joao Paulo Marques Mattos wrote: Brian Candler wrote: [This is with FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE] set in /boot/device.hints hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x0" FreeBSD 4.x supports device.hints? I thought that was a 5.x feature. S