Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per se,

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Peter
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:50:03 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. Well, that's no problem per

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:38:40 -0700 (MST), Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote: UFS: I usually setup a ~10G slice for the OS [ad0s1] and in that slice I have a /tmp /var /usr...and then use the rest of the disk for another slice containing all my data and home directories - This way if I ever need

Re: ATI Eyefinity support in FreeBSD

2009-11-14 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:06:10 -0500 PJ PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca replied: [snip] Hey, this is indeed very interesting. But did you read the fine print at the bottom of the page? Linux support scheduled to be enabled via a future ATI Catalyst™ driver release. Nobody cares about us FreeBSD

Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
I have a somewhat flaky system. I would like to compile ports to packages multiple times and do a file comparison. Since packages are tar files they wouldn't match for sure just because of the different time attributes. There may be other differences. Anyone know how to generate packages

freebsd.org slow?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
Anyone else notice how slow freebsd.org is? Chris ___ 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: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 14, 2009 a las 07:51:17AM -0800, Chris escribió: I have a somewhat flaky system. I would like to compile ports to packages multiple times and do a file comparison. ... Hi Chris, What is behind the idea to compile and pack a given port twice if there are no errors

Re: freebsd.org slow?

2009-11-14 Thread Modulok
Chris, Seems alright now, for me anyway. (Indeed, the ever-irritating works for me response. Though it seemed the only thing appropriate here. Sorry. :)~ -Modulok- On 11/14/09, Chris christopher...@telting.org wrote: Anyone else notice how slow freebsd.org is? Chris

Re: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread Chris
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, November 14, 2009 a las 07:51:17AM -0800, Chris escribió: I have a somewhat flaky system. I would like to compile ports to packages multiple times and do a file comparison. ... Hi Chris, What is behind the idea to compile and pack a given port

rc.subr patch to set FIB to demon

2009-11-14 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hello, . Link to news: http://www.kes.net.ua/softdev/fib_patch.html rc.subr.patch - 2c2 # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1.2.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $ --- # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1 2008/05/12 07:29:03 mtm Exp $ 605d604 664a664,669

Re: php4-gd

2009-11-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:59:16AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Arek Czereszewski wrote: I have on some web servers php4-gd port installed and I am totally confused. Portaudit says Affected package: php4-gd-4.4.9 Basically, if you're running PHP4 on a public site then you should be

RE: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-14 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: krad [mailto:kra...@googlemail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 09:19 To: Steve Polyack Cc: Derrick Ryalls; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ZFS disk replacement questions 2009/11/3 Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net Derrick Ryalls wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at

Re: Produce identical packages for checksum comparison?

2009-11-14 Thread b. f.
Chris wrote: I'm also thinking of building a simple checksum database to track what actually changes and what my options were when I compiled it. It would allow me to better make regression decisions. I could also be free to delete packages and know if I recompile it later that it was the

[FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root

2009-11-14 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
I have been thinking and experimenting for weeks, but I cannot figure this out. I have an Intel SS4200 NAS that I wish to use as a ZFS NAS with FreeBSD 8.0. The device has 4 SATA bays, and I don't want to use one for a UFS root disk. I don't want to use up hundreds of megabytes of RAM