Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Jason Helfman
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com thus spake: I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages to the userland operations which provoked them.

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-14 Thread Andres Perera
ash tries to overoptimize by running certain command substitutions without a subshell On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: Hello everyone, I might be doing something dumb here, but this doesn't make sense to me. When I run the following script, I would expect

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-14 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: If you make the changes that I've suggested, you'll have consistent execution. The reason you're having inconsistent behavior is because Linux has /bin/sh symbolically linked to /bin/bash while FreeBSD has a more

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-14 Thread krad
On 14 March 2011 00:10, Andrew Moran amo...@forsythia.net wrote: I have successfully upgraded form FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2. Here were my steps: cvsup /root/stable-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown -r now *select single user mode*

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-14 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: If you make the changes that I've suggested, you'll have consistent execution. The reason you're having inconsistent behavior is because Linux has

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 1, Message: 15 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:08:20 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages

Re: spam?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:57:03 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 06:49 -0500, ajtiM wrote: In the last week I got four emails like

Strange interaction between dump and NFS

2011-03-14 Thread John Levine
Every day, in my logs I see this on an 8.2-RELEASE server: Mar 14 03:11:14 leila mountd[937]: can't export / Mar 14 03:11:14 leila mountd[937]: bad exports list line / -maproot and, indeed, showmout shows that the root isn't exported and NFS mounts of the exported root filesystem stop

DTrace in RELEASE?

2011-03-14 Thread Tom Worster
Does anyone know if it's likely DTrace will ever make it into the generic RELEASEs? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

BSDPAN support for Module::Build?

2011-03-14 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! Is there any BSDPAN support for Module::Build? Is there a package I can install that will add it? Documentation on the web for BSDPAN is remarkably limited... Thanks, Ricky The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail

Re: BSDPAN support for Module::Build?

2011-03-14 Thread Richard Morse
Thanks; I have that installed. I'm wondering if there is some way to get BSDPAN to register a Module::Build installation as a package. Right now, it seems to require a perl package built using ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I'm trying to create an installation package for an application, not just a

Re: BSDPAN support for Module::Build?

2011-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 14, 2011 3:07:01 PM -0400 Richard Morse remo...@partners.org wrote: Hi! Is there any BSDPAN support for Module::Build? Is there a package I can install that will add it? Documentation on the web for BSDPAN is remarkably limited... cd to /usr/ports type make search

moused flickering

2011-03-14 Thread Warren Block
With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer on a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker. It's not very visible on a mostly-black screen, but run lptest to get some text and mouse the mouse around. This seems new. It's possible it's a

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-14 Thread Andres Perera
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: If you make the changes that I've suggested, you'll have consistent execution.

8.2: What's usbdevs called now?

2011-03-14 Thread Ryan Coleman
I see usbdevs was part of 7.x but I cannot find it outside of a src directory in 8.2. Any recommendations? -- Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: moused flickering

2011-03-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer on a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker. It's not very visible on a mostly-black screen, but run lptest to get some

Re: moused flickering

2011-03-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer on a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker. It's not very visible

Re: 8.2: What's usbdevs called now?

2011-03-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.comwrote: I see usbdevs was part of 7.x but I cannot find it outside of a src directory in 8.2. Any recommendations? usbconfig(8) would be the replacement I guess. -- Adam Vande More

Re: 8.2: What's usbdevs called now?

2011-03-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Ryan Coleman wrote: I see usbdevs was part of 7.x but I cannot find it outside of a src directory in 8.2. Any recommendations? usbconfig(8) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread freebsd_user
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on the main boards controllers. Our dilemma is

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and

Questions regarding ithreads

2011-03-14 Thread Abhiman Yashpal Karkera
Hi all, Is there a way in Freebsd in which we could ensure that multiple interrupt events are serviced by a single ithread. When i was browsing through the code i see that whenever we do a bus_setup_intr() it ends up creating an event structure followed by the handler structure and then creates

Dealing with deprecated ports.

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Ballantyne
I want to upgrade devel/icu. In updating tells me to use portmaster -r icu This starts to rebuild gnome2-fifth-toe which wants to rebuild straw. But straw is marked DEPRECATED and portmaster won't rebuild it. I pkg_delete doesn't want to delete it because gnome2-fifth-toe depends on it. I

Re: Dealing with deprecated ports.

2011-03-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: I want to upgrade devel/icu. In updating tells me to use portmaster -r icu This starts to rebuild gnome2-fifth-toe which wants to rebuild straw. But straw is marked DEPRECATED and portmaster won't rebuild it. I

Re: Backtick versus $()

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