CVS Commits (was: Re: ** HEADS UP ** /dev/[u]random file changes.)

2000-05-10 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa wri tes: > At 03:42 AM 5/10/00 -0700, Rudy Rucker wrote: > > > >I got the same failures last night. Is it common to make commits to the > >-stable branch without attempting a build? > > > >Don't get my tone wrong, I'm just curious about the FreeBSD >

Re: CVS Commits (was: Re: ** HEADS UP ** /dev/[u]random file changes.)

2000-05-10 Thread Nate Williams
> > >I got the same failures last night. Is it common to make commits to the > > >-stable branch without attempting a build? > > > > > >Don't get my tone wrong, I'm just curious about the FreeBSD > > >development process. > > > > I track it fairly often and no, its not common. More common ar

RE: CVS Commits (was: Re: ** HEADS UP ** /dev/[u]random filechanges.)

2000-05-10 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, Aegis (http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/aegis.html) is a revision control system that does atomic commits. It may be worth looking at. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61

Re: new kernel build procedure

2000-05-10 Thread Ken Keeler
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Eric Ogren wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Ken Keeler wrote: > > I was playing around with a couple of my new 4.0 stable machines tonight > > and discovered if /usr/obj is deleted the new make buildkernel > > installkernel process fails. > > This is intend

Re: gcore doesn't work?

2000-05-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Malone writes: : It's in newer versions of 5.0 - I don't think it's in 4.0 yet (or : atleast it wasn't when I cvsupped this morning). The fix also needs : to be merged into the linuxprocfs at some stage. I was confused. You are right. I'm in the middle of a

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kirby writes: : You mean you don't have a serial console? And yes, I can see where it may : be impractical (network access only, no serial ports, etc). I'd never do a server farm w/o a serial console machine to serve the serial consoles on all the machines

serial console buglet

2000-05-10 Thread Mike Nowlin
(Taken from "Re: Server Farms?") > You mean you don't have a serial console? And yes, I can see where it may > be impractical (network access only, no serial ports, etc). Speaking of serial consoles, I keep getting bit by a little bug that is a descendant of the RS-232 specification (mother) an

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-10 Thread Mike Nowlin
> I'd never do a server farm w/o a serial console machine to serve the > serial consoles on all the machines It would be a nightmare > otherwise... Long live "retired" Equinox 16-port terminal servers! VT100 on one port, modem on another, and 14 machines. (Plus a parallel port as an added

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Nowlin writes: : Long live "retired" Equinox 16-port terminal servers! VT100 on one : port, modem on another, and 14 machines. (Plus a parallel port as an : added bonus.) A buddy of mine has 4 8 port SCSI devices. 8 serial ports with modem control. Too bad

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-10 Thread Mike Nowlin
> A buddy of mine has 4 8 port SCSI devices. 8 serial ports with modem > control. Too bad he's never found the time to get it going under a > free os. I've been looking at this kind of thing recently. Several machines are out of card slots, but they do have available SCSI ID numbers. Does he/

Re: aclocal not found?!

2000-05-10 Thread Stefanus Du Toit
Do you have autoconf installed from /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/? And automake from /usr/ports/devel/automake/? If not, try doing so and then try building kde again. On 10 May 2000, Roland Jesse wrote: > While trying to build KDE2 out of its cvsuped sources: > [...] > aclocal:No such file or dir