Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org: Aargh... So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. X (screen was

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.11 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-08-22 Thread David Naylor
4Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.5.11 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. The packages for FreeBSD 10 use the pkgng [3] format. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The

subvertion treat PostScript files as binary?

2012-08-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Why does subversion treats PostScript files as binary? I changed the bounding box in a text editor, but can't use svn diff: TZAV svn diff rep-room-mises-mesh.ps Index: rep-room-mises-mesh.ps === Cannot display: file marked as a

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Michel Talon
David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. You should read the following interview of Lennart Poettering http://linuxfr.org/nodes/86687/comments/1249943 The amount of hubris and self confidence he

/tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have several hundred GBs free)? PS! This

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Michel Talon wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 12:29:56 +0200 ] David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. You should read the following interview of Lennart Poettering

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 08/21/2012 09:04 PM, David Jackson wrote: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. It implies that he is building in a dependance on intractable hardware platform dependance when this is absolutely not the case,

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. There's also a periodic script to remove older files from /tmp which may help. My gut reaction is: what's taking up so much room? My /tmp contains

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 12:59:13PM +0200, Andy Wodfer escribió: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:29:56 +0200 Michel Talon articulated: David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. You should read the following interview of Lennart Poettering

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Andy Wodfer
Thanks to all for your input! Editing /etc/periodic.rc seem to do the trick, but now I faced a different problem which I've never seen before: locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 There are some directories that contains A LOT of small files I think. Need to investigate. Also

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Andy Wodfer
How can I find which directories break the MAXPATHLEN variable? or can I somehow run the periodic script in verbose mode to see the output? /Andy On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to all for your input! Editing /etc/periodic.rc seem to do the trick,

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 22/08/2012 12:59, Andy Wodfer a écrit : Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 22/08/2012 13:59, Jerry a écrit : On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:29:56 +0200 Michel Talon articulated: David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. You should read the following interview of Lennart

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /tmp filesystem full Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:12:25 +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote: How can I find which directories break the MAXPATHLEN variable? It's easy to do this with find and awk: % find / -type d | awk 'length LIMIT' where LIMIT is the numerical value you want to be exceeded (in your case, MAXPATHLEN).

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 From: Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread David Jackson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: [ Michel Talon wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 12:29:56 +0200 ] David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive and misleading. You should

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread John Hein
Andy Wodfer wrote at 12:59 +0200 on Aug 22, 2012: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:41:05 -0400, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: [ Michel Talon wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 12:29:56 +0200 ] David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Markiyan Kushnir
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/231832.html Already read and discussed/flamed here. -- Markiyan. On 22.08.2012 13:29, Michel Talon wrote: David Jackson said: In reference to the claims that systemd developers do not care about portability, this is deceptive

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 15:41:05 David Jackson wrote: So this is clearly not about portability, FreeBSD is free to implement these software interfaces to assure that software is portable to FreeBSD. Really? You make software portable by writing it to one environment and then changing every

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: That sort of shows my point in fact. There is nothing stopping FreeBSD from implementing cgroups, udev, fanotify, timerfd, signalfd, its not like Linux is going to enforce patents on these things, its software, and

Issue with kernel building

2012-08-22 Thread antonin tessier
Hi, I have a problem when I try to build my own kernel. I had never got such a one; here is my kernel configuration file and the building errors that it makes. #device tun # Packet tunnel. device pty # BSD-style compatibility pseudo ttys device

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 08:27:59 2012 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:25:51 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
If you use zfs, that is easy... zfs set quota=NNG pool/tmp if not try to mount tmp in memory... in /etc/rc.conf tmpmfs=YES tmpsize=400m reboot this would create a /tmp in memory (swap) size=400 Megabytes Sergio ___

Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread J B
Hi, I think it would be useful to get familiar with what systemd is, technically and fundamentally. Here is a thread in which a knowledgeable professional questions many technical aspects of it: open this thread in one browser window (to get a nice overview of what you already read):

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and var, though - if you are going to use a memory-backed filesystem, you should reserve all the space at the outset. Bad things can

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs. I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:21:12 +0100 RW wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp It doesn't, the default is an old-fashioned md device, not tmpfs. Sorry I misread

firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread david coder
is there a system png that comes w/ 8.3 that is distinct from the ports png? if not, how explain that install of firefox-14.0.1 fails w/ the error message that the system png does not support APNG even though the makefile for the png port contains the line OPTIONS=APNG Animated

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:01:50 -0400, david coder wrote: is there a system png that comes w/ 8.3 that is distinct from the ports png? if not, how explain that install of firefox-14.0.1 fails w/ the error message that the system png does not support APNG even though the makefile for the png port

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread david coder
thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On That should be the default. Anyway, you can always check which options had

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 22), david coder said: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On This line just tells you what the default is on a system that hasn't built the

Re: firefox png

2012-08-22 Thread david coder
+++ Dan Nelson [22/08/12 19:01 -0500]: In the last episode (Aug 22), david coder said: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On This line just tells you what the

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device, but the rest is right. Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for /tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device, but the rest is right. Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use an md

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: For the mentioned appliances, that would not be a problem. However there's a distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp that can be summarized like this: The content of /tmp may disappear after a reboot (see clear_tmp_enable=YES

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
David == David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes: David The fact is, FreeBSD can fully support systemd and all kernel and system David features, there is nothing here that is impossible for FreeBSD to David support. So this statement in the WikiP is false? systemd is Linux-only by

Re: Problem with r-o access in jail

2012-08-22 Thread James Edwards
Want a nullfs filesystem to be read-only for tech people to search-only maillog files. host machine's files: /var/log/mx1/maillog* files the maillog files are all 644 and r bit is set all along the path using ezjail jail root is /var/jails jail name is fixit mkdir -p

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device, but the rest is right. Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use an md

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp. Then you don't understand. ;-) The advantage of my approach is avoiding a kernel panic when

why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc. Gary

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 11:39:16PM -0600, Gary Aitken escribió: Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/08/2012 06:39, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? Because named chroots into /var/named in the default configuration. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: