Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff
Excuse me again.. i was trying to test the situation explained here, so i just defined a user with pw command, waited for 2minutes and then power off the system.. Again i couldn't login anymore.. if we assume that, pw is still working with db files after 2 minutes, the question is that, is it usual for a command to keep db files busy, this long?? or is it pw problem? or is t something else that i'm missing?? thank you :) Best Regards, t.a.k On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:10 PM, takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: hi again, real thanks to all of you; for really complete and clear answers.. it's amazing to have a clear view of what's on, when you need to deal with it. :) as a quick conclusion, for now: 1- i inserted a shell file to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ which runs pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd and tested it.. the error mentioned in this email's title is no more seen in frequent tests.. (but i don't think it's that good to use a mkdb command this frequently.. right? for me, it was somehow a test..) 2- the notes mentioned about fsck was nice.. cause before this, we've faced uncleaned FS in the mentioned condition and we where in doubt where the automate fsck had gone?? ;) i think it's better to test the foreground fsck just in case.. for sure, background fsck has its own benefits.. but, any benefits has its own costs.. :) 3- this power-key functionality setting, is what i'll work on, as it seems helpful, in near future.. but, i think for this thread, it would be off-topic somehow to talk about its details.. i'll try to write them back, on related thread, if required and if it was new.. BTW, it was _really_ of hardware knowledge.. ;) again, thank you. :) Best Regards, t.a.k On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Allow me a few additions: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:45:59 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: Pressing the power button for 4 seconds as described is invoking the ACPI layer to stimulate call(s) down to the system BIOS. No. In most (but of course not all) default settings the long press will forcedly (and with _no_ message to the OS) turn off the system's power. The short press will emit the ACPI signal to the OS to deal with the power-off sequence itself. Still it's possible to have a different programming for the button. For example, it seems to be common to have this button perform a ACPI sleep, ACPI hibernate or ACPI powersafe mode on short press, and (as you mentioned) the ACPI power down on long press. But as I said: _What_ the button actually does is defined in the CMOS setup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface#Power_states have a look at this page to find out more about the various possible signals (power states). Whatever is set in the BIOS wrt to power control and various power-savings modes are passed through the ACPI layer. The problem with this is the acpi module in FreeBSD may, or may not, be a perfect implementation for every possible piece of hardware in existance. This statement especially applies in regards to laptops, where closing the lid can also trigger a specific signal, and opening the device again sends another signal. Vendors don't agree on how to properly do this, so there are many different ACPI implementations. % ls /boot/kernel/acpi* /boot/kernel/acpi.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_aiboost.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_panasonic.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_asus.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_sony.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_dock.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_toshiba.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_fujitsu.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko* /boot/kernel/acpi_hp.ko*/boot/kernel/acpi_wmi.ko* You can see from this example that FreeBSD only supports a subset of what can be considered possible. Of course there are many fields of compatibility, but it may still result in specific hardware not working properly -- mostly in the area of laptops and their accessories (like docking stations). The piece of that which really concerns me are individual manufactuer BIOS quirks can be just enough 'off' so as to misbehave even when the FreeBSD acpi implentation is basically sound. Even though I did not experience that myself, it can be considered possible. A sloppy ACPI implementation can be the source of many kinds of trouble, even involving such simple devices like a power button. The jist of this is (IMHO here - YMMV) is I consider it a bad procedure to turn off a server as you've described. Definitely. :-) Use the shutdown command properly instead. I would never do what your coworker did to any of my servers. A mechanicl protection could prevent that. Caveat being sometimes you have no other choice but to do a hard power-down. A hard power-down is done by using the switch on the power supply, and not using the ACPI/BIOS from pressing the power switch on the front. This is also
Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff
On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:58:49 +0430, takCoder wrote: Excuse me again.. i was trying to test the situation explained here, so i just defined a user with pw command, waited for 2minutes and then power off the system.. Again i couldn't login anymore.. if we assume that, pw is still working with db files after 2 minutes, the question is that, is it usual for a command to keep db files busy, this long?? or is it pw problem? or is t something else that i'm missing?? For login processes, the plain text files and the database files are involved. The pw command will modify all of them if you add a new user. The 2 minutes problem should not be related to pw (or pwd_mkdb), but maybe due to syncing. File system access (here: write) is done asynchronously, so the system will decide when it will sync the memory buffers with the (non-volatile) disk content. This task involves both the sync() call and how the actual disk driver acts to it. Note: Just because someone calls sync() does _not_ imply that the synchronisation takes place in that exact moment. But it should not require several minutes to complete the write and bring the files into the required state (on disk). Furthermore, file system corruption due to an abrupt cut of power should be avoided. Whenever the system comes up in a non-clean state, fsck should be run first, _then_ the boot process should continue. Still it's possible that this process leaves truncated files behind (e. g. the binary database files with a length of zero, which implies they will have to be rebuilt by pwd_mkdb). Alternatively to pw, you could try adduser, which is more an interactive program, but can perform the same tasks. Again, it would take care of updating all required files. This is the situation one would expect after the program ended, or at least some seconds after one got back to the root prompt. During the 2 minutes, you could use programs like lsof (it's in ports) to check if a program has a file open, so you could capture the power off while writing to file incident. After you could not login again, did you check the files involved in the login process? Those should include: /etc/passwd /etc/master.passwd /etc/group /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db Probably also /etc/login.conf and /etc/login.conf.db, but I think those are not critical to the success of a login attempt per se. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freesbd-update Continuously Wants to Update linker.hints
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:37:52PM -0500, Ryan Frederick wrote: I have a number of boxes running 9.1-RELEASE (amd64) that I updated to p3 yesterday via freebsd-update. However freebsd-update still indicates that linker.hints needs to be updated. Running `freebsd-update install` appears to install a new linker.hints file but still doesn't appear to satisfy freebsd-update. Incidentally I have another amd64 system that I did a clean install on last week, and it isn't exhibiting the same issue. Has/is anyone run(ning) into this issue? Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Yes, same happens to me too. Sorry, but I guess there is a problem on the server side. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Stephan pgpN8jJpMVyb2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freesbd-update Continuously Wants to Update linker.hints
On 01/05/2013 11:06, Stephan Schindel wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:37:52PM -0500, Ryan Frederick wrote: I have a number of boxes running 9.1-RELEASE (amd64) that I updated to p3 yesterday via freebsd-update. However freebsd-update still indicates that linker.hints needs to be updated. Running `freebsd-update install` appears to install a new linker.hints file but still doesn't appear to satisfy freebsd-update. Incidentally I have another amd64 system that I did a clean install on last week, and it isn't exhibiting the same issue. Has/is anyone run(ning) into this issue? Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Yes, same happens to me too. Sorry, but I guess there is a problem on the server side. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Stephan same here on multiple boxes, you beat me to posting ! Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA High Specification Dedicated Servers from £100.00pm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pkgng repositories
Hello List, FreeBSD home page say it is still fixing some security breach and ETA is unknown. Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? Security is not much of a concern, it is going to live in VM. Building from ports is cumbersome for likes KDE, Xorg et. al. thanks, Quark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello List, FreeBSD home page say it is still fixing some security breach and ETA is unknown. Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? Security is not much of a concern, it is going to live in VM. Building from ports is cumbersome for likes KDE, Xorg et. al. thanks, Quark http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? PCBSD has one! ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/mirror/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ (or i386) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? PCBSD has one! ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/mirror/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ (or i386) ___ Also if I remember right Xorg and KDE4 are included on the release DVD image. -- | _ ASCII Ribbon Eric S Pulley | ( ) Campaign Against pul...@dabus.com | X HTML Mail | / \ www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
fsck -y and SU+J
I see that if you run fsck on a filesystem with SU+J turned-on, fsck asks whether you want to use the journal. This causes a problem when running fsck -y. The traditional meaning of this command was: do a thorough, unconditional, non-interactive check; but now SU+J filesystems only get a journal sync. I can't even see the point in the question, surely someone that was content to use the journal would do a preen. This in 10-CURRENT. I'm not sure if it's like this in 9.1 or 9-STABLE, I only spent a week there trying to get intel kms graphics working on new hardware, so I'm new to SU+J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
yes, it does, bit dated though. - Original Message - From: Eric S Pulley pul...@dabus.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 8:24 PM Subject: Re: pkgng repositories On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? PCBSD has one! ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/mirror/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ (or i386) ___ Also if I remember right Xorg and KDE4 are included on the release DVD image. -- | _ ASCII Ribbon Eric S Pulley | ( ) Campaign Against pul...@dabus.com | X HTML Mail | / \ www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng repositories
thanks guys, Mark Mehmt - Original Message - From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 7:33 PM Subject: Re: pkgng repositories On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com wrote: Does some noble soul maintain any publically accessible pkgng repo? PCBSD has one! ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/mirror/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/ (or i386) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc_eisa ahc_isa ahc_pci alias_cuseeme Yes, the modules names aren't always exactly the man page name. Stubborn inventive use of apropos locate ( reading through stuff in /usr/src/sys/modules/ ) can help, but not everything is obvious. ahc(4) covers the first few. libalias(3) appears to be the only thing to even parenthetically mentions cuseeme (NB I didn't run grep over the whole dang filesystem, though). Most of the if_something are under something(4). For the geom_blahblah, see if it's covered by something mentioned in the SEE ALSO sexion of geom(8) or geom(4). Thanks to all for the pointers. With a little digging around, I have managed to reduce the 220 to zero, and now have all 643 (9.1 on amd64) briefly documented. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc_eisa ahc_isa ahc_pci alias_cuseeme Yes, the modules names aren't always exactly the man page name. Stubborn inventive use of apropos locate ( reading through stuff in /usr/src/sys/modules/ ) can help, but not everything is obvious. ahc(4) covers the first few. libalias(3) appears to be the only thing to even parenthetically mentions cuseeme (NB I didn't run grep over the whole dang filesystem, though). Most of the if_something are under something(4). For the geom_blahblah, see if it's covered by something mentioned in the SEE ALSO sexion of geom(8) or geom(4). Thanks to all for the pointers. With a little digging around, I have managed to reduce the 220 to zero, and now have all 643 (9.1 on amd64) briefly documented. If there is a list of them , is it possible to post that list to share it ? I think , it will be very useful as a reference . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freesbd-update Continuously Wants to Update linker.hints
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 01/05/2013 11:06, Stephan Schindel wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:37:52PM -0500, Ryan Frederick wrote: I have a number of boxes running 9.1-RELEASE (amd64) that I updated to p3 yesterday via freebsd-update. However freebsd-update still indicates that linker.hints needs to be updated. Running `freebsd-update install` appears to install a new linker.hints file but still doesn't appear to satisfy freebsd-update. Incidentally I have another amd64 system that I did a clean install on last week, and it isn't exhibiting the same issue. Has/is anyone run(ning) into this issue? Ryan __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Yes, same happens to me too. Sorry, but I guess there is a problem on the server side. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Stephan same here on multiple boxes, you beat me to posting ! Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting - t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546 e: p...@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com - IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA --**-- High Specification Dedicated Servers from £100.00pm --**-- Hi all, After upgrading my FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 using freebsd-update tool, I encounter the same issue: -- The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/linker.hints -- After searching on the Internet, this post on FreeBSD forums resolved the problem : http://bit.ly/15a5wW1 The full topic is here : http://bit.ly/15a5Dkv I hope this help you. Kind regards, Alexandre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Updating a broken link in page -http://adsm.vstyle.co.il/es/news/newsflash.html
Hello, I have bumped into your site while seeking for software and found your website very interesting :) Just a quick note, http://www.cdrom.com/is no longer active, and you are linking to it from page - http://adsm.vstyle.co.il/es/news/newsflash.html I was wondering if you don't mind updating the link to the updated websitehttp://en.downloadastro.com http://en.downloadastro.com/- A great download site with more than 300K software and games, including professional reviews and user ratings. We are now in a process of updating the links in websites all around the world and I will appreciate your cooperation. I am sure your *users will find it useful**.* Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
svnsync and local changes
Back when cvsup was in use, I mirrored the ports with cvsup-mirror. Then I could add files and make changes. My servers used my repository so they always had my changes and I only had to do them once. I am trying to replicate the same setup now that subversion is used. I've set up svnsync, and that works fine. I was able to add files with 'svn add' and 'svn commit'. My servers properly download all the new files. The problem is I can no longer use svnsync. Now it gives me Destination HEAD (316955) is not the last merged revision (316951).I've tried removing my files with 'svn rm', but that just changes the number in the error. Is there some way to get this to work with svnsync? Is there a better way for me to have a local repository that includes local changes? Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Wed, 1 May 2013, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? fxr.watson.org is a kernel source cross ref ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: svnsync and local changes
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Dan Lists lists@gmail.com wrote: Back when cvsup was in use, I mirrored the ports with cvsup-mirror. Then I could add files and make changes. My servers used my repository so they always had my changes and I only had to do them once. I am trying to replicate the same setup now that subversion is used. I've set up svnsync, and that works fine. I was able to add files with 'svn add' and 'svn commit'. My servers properly download all the new files. The problem is I can no longer use svnsync. Now it gives me Destination HEAD (316955) is not the last merged revision (316951).I've tried removing my files with 'svn rm', but that just changes the number in the error. Is there some way to get this to work with svnsync? Is there a better way for me to have a local repository that includes local changes? Thanks, I do something identical only i use git, and it works fine with local changes and upstream merges, though im pretty sure svn is capable also Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc_eisa ahc_isa ahc_pci alias_cuseeme Yes, the modules names aren't always exactly the man page name. Stubborn inventive use of apropos locate ( reading through stuff in /usr/src/sys/modules/ ) can help, but not everything is obvious. ahc(4) covers the first few. libalias(3) appears to be the only thing to even parenthetically mentions cuseeme (NB I didn't run grep over the whole dang filesystem, though). Most of the if_something are under something(4). For the geom_blahblah, see if it's covered by something mentioned in the SEE ALSO sexion of geom(8) or geom(4). Thanks to all for the pointers. With a little digging around, I have managed to reduce the 220 to zero, and now have all 643 (9.1 on amd64) briefly documented. If there is a list of them , is it possible to post that list to share it ? I think , it will be very useful as a reference . Well, it's far from perfect but yes, I can put it somewhere for download. How would you like it? CSV? Spreadsheet, Text file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Wed, 01 May 2013 18:31:47 -0400, doug wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2013, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? fxr.watson.org is a kernel source cross ref Indeed. fxr.watson.org was most helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Kernel Modules Documentation?
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc_eisa ahc_isa ahc_pci alias_cuseeme Yes, the modules names aren't always exactly the man page name. Stubborn inventive use of apropos locate ( reading through stuff in /usr/src/sys/modules/ ) can help, but not everything is obvious. ahc(4) covers the first few. libalias(3) appears to be the only thing to even parenthetically mentions cuseeme (NB I didn't run grep over the whole dang filesystem, though). Most of the if_something are under something(4). For the geom_blahblah, see if it's covered by something mentioned in the SEE ALSO sexion of geom(8) or geom(4). Thanks to all for the pointers. With a little digging around, I have managed to reduce the 220 to zero, and now have all 643 (9.1 on amd64) briefly documented. If there is a list of them , is it possible to post that list to share it ? I think , it will be very useful as a reference . Well, it's far from perfect but yes, I can put it somewhere for download. How would you like it? CSV? Spreadsheet, Text file? Text file . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
