'at now' not working as expected

2008-10-04 Thread Jeff Richards
When I try to schedule something immediately with an 'at now' command it appears to queue up but can wait multiple minutes before actually executing. Is there something I have missed with FreeBSD's version of at?  I've used 'at now' with AIX, Linux, and OpenBSD and it immediately executes for th

Re: 'at now' not working as expected

2008-10-04 Thread Guido Falsi
Jeff Richards wrote: When I try to schedule something immediately with an 'at now' command it appears to queue up but can wait multiple minutes before actually executing. Is there something I have missed with FreeBSD's version of at? I've used 'at now' with AIX, Linux, and OpenBSD and it imme

Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-04 Thread Eirik Wixøe Svela
I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. I understand that Ubuntu GNU/Linux is supposed to work well on this kind of machi

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:38:09PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > I prepared patch to make MFC of ata(4) driver into RELENG_7 > before 7.1-RELEASE. Depending on results of the testing patch > will be commited or not (if some regressions will be detected). > So if you want or just can test it, p

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-04 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Eirik Wixøe Svela wrote: I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. Why? I understa