Re: Solving the syslogd problem

2020-01-29 Thread Piotr Meyer
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:32:30PM +, Alexander Nasonov wrote: [...] > I like it when fsck doesn't take ages to check /. With bigger /, > it's going to be problematic. IMVHO moving /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib to / is reasonable, and it will not lead to excessive growth of / - but /usr sh

terminus font set for netbsd

2019-04-24 Thread Piotr Meyer
Hi, recent changes to font set available in NetBSD gave me motivation for finishing some of my projects. Gallery of current available fonts was one[1] and there is second: conversion of venerable Terminus[2] fonts for NetBSD console. Terminus Font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (but

Re: /etc/rc.d/local starts not last

2019-04-14 Thread Piotr Meyer
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: [...] > Well, sometimes I find it useful to put there throw away startup > scripts. And not always every setup is worth the time to fix properly. I second that. IMVHO it is worthwhile to keep (or "back to") traditional /etc/rc.loc

Re: Specifying root device in /etc/fstab

2018-10-01 Thread Piotr Meyer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:50:21PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) > | With wedges you would just reference them by name. > > Yes, of course, that's better, when it is possible, but to work usefully > (as opposed to simply substituting a dkN device

RFC: data format and conventions for tabular display programs

2017-10-21 Thread Piotr Meyer
Hi, I just wrote a draft[1] for subject, alongside with small script[2] for testing and demonstration purposes. It is my personal hobby project and I will be grateful for comments and thoughts. 1 - https://github.com/aniou/cof/wiki/Draft 2 - https://github.com/aniou/cof Regards, -- Piotr 'aniou

Re: How to properly daemonize?

2017-07-17 Thread Piotr Meyer
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:38:19AM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: > But there's a difference between a general-purpose notification mechanism > and a process notifying it's (grand)parent exactly once upon statup, no? Of course - but I thought that assumptions and observations related to general-purpose

Re: How to properly daemonize?

2017-07-16 Thread Piotr Meyer
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 06:16:24PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: > >A better design would be to just use a pipe and write the status to > >that. No signals necessary. Parents knows if the status read from the > >pipe is bad OR you get EOF, initialisation went wrong. > > Meh, I fail to see how that's