ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
anyone explain the discrepancy between bonnie and zpool/systat for the XFS pool ? Secondly can anyone suggest a reason that I can't seem to get the drives above 50% reported utilisation on reads ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in bonnie - that'll do. Rebooting with zfs.cache_flush_disable=1 made everything faster. Block writes and reads maxed out the discs at around 110MB/s and 200MB/s respectively - pretty close to the raw disc speed. Rewrite nearly doubled in speed too. Next stop NFS tuning. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
is all the motherboard would take. I've paid more than that for a *KILOBYTE* of memory - admittedly that was a long time ago. One big part of the changing landscape in computer economics is that RAM and disc are *cheap*. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
: ⁽¹⁾ Intended to use the patents in such a way that they would directly profit from it ⁽²⁾ Intended to lease the patent rights or outright sell the patent. [3] Want to prevent anyone else from using it to break into their market. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
assuming I'm just getting slow rendering, which is ok in this case. Sometimes the OpenGL screen saver modules crash without proper hardware support. If you're running a screensaver try disabling it and just using display blanking. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
is this filesystem (number of files, maximum number of entries in a directory, volume of data) ? Are there many users needing to be protected from each other ? What about archives ? snapshots ? growth ? churn ? uptime requirements, disaster recovery time ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:16:26 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On August 16, 2012 6:02:57 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
root to a group? If I add root to some new arbitrary group, what does it result in differently than if I do not add root to that group? The root user has the ability to ignore file permissions, but not the ability to subvert group membership tests in scripts or programs. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: implications of adding root to a group

2012-08-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:07:04 +0200 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 23 Aug 2012, at 17:26, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:51:10 -0700 Krims G krimskr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been looking at the /etc/group and have noticed that some

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
that the function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 = E[18~ not E[S). The TERM environment variable is supposed to describe the terminal not control it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings? It appears to me it does

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner l...@larseighner.com wrote: I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory. There is no TEKEN_CONS25 or TEKEN or CONS25. Exactly where is this documented? /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES is where I found it. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:58:36 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner l...@larseighner.com wrote: I grepped the entire /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf directory

Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

2012-08-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:12:57 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner l...@larseighner.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: If 9.0 had not broken my most important applications, I wouldn't

Re: Empty logfiles

2012-08-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
-exec truncate {} \; man find and man truncate for the gory details. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: installation of yuma

2012-09-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it first from the ports). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: sockstat

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it run setuid root. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: sockstat

2012-10-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:26:59 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2012 05:50:57 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 05:42:51 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I have FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0 and I running KDE 4.8.4 too. If I run KDE and try

Re: ZFS and zpool mistake

2012-10-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
. Yep once you've added a stripe there's no way to remove it. You'll have to copy the data off somewhere and then rebuild the pool. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: MFS root filesystem and static binaries size

2012-10-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of names. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
print servers available, finding one with parallel might be harder. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: FreeBSD based, standalone, print server

2012-10-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: how to disable page breaks in line printer

2012-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
at the top of the next. Surely I'm missing someting. How to get rid of this empty space? The printer may be doing this internally, many dot matrix printers had the ability to set the page length and perforation skip on DIP switches. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org

Re: Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups?

2012-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Re: Re[2]: HELP: some process eat my /var

2012-11-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
process. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: IPv6in4 tunnel with only one /64 prefix

2012-11-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
FreeBSD server. The part about creating the tunnel, routing between the home and the server works using private addresses (fc00::/8 over gif0). Why not just get a tunnel from one of the tunnel brokers, at least he.net and gogo6.com are still running free tunnels. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-15 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
talks to X as the display backend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
images and definition files to create VMs on the fly in response to a simple command. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
dependant meaning. Stop masturbating over a dictionary and work on your problem or take it elsewhere - please. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: portsnap

2012-11-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a thing or two about it. However that is not relevant, the sad thing is that you have destroyed any chance of getting whatever help you wanted by deciding to argue about what you think words should mean instead of understanding how they are being used. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org

Re: Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: csup to svn

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it. This will probably become intolerably clumsy for more than a handful of ports. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: portsnap

2012-11-22 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
\/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__ \||/ | | | (__Y__) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ == -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: How do you manage jails?

2012-11-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
or ezjail? ezjail here - my fileserver runs a bunch of jails for various services as well as a build jail. I find it convenient and it hasn't annoyed me yet. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ---BeginMessage--- On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:05:30 -0500 Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote

Re: Re[2]: How to allow httpd to run 'ipfw table 7 add ... '

2012-11-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
: /my/script/add_table.pl apache host=(root) NOPASSWD: /my/script/del_table.pl this will restrict apache to run only add/del tasks with table. what do you think? That also works. I have a slight preference for queue based approaches but that's just me really. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st

Re: set connection to a modem

2012-12-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
and 28 PPP and SLIP. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.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: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
} else if (ESRCH == errno) { // Process does not exist } else { // Something weird and undocumented went wrong } -- Steve O'Hara-Smith at...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: root filesystem and soft-update

2012-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
, just incomplete - but if it's /bin/sh that's gone it could be tricky recovering). The other reason is that softupdates is about optimising write performace, and the root filesystem shouldn't be getting many writes in normal use so softupdates is of no benefit. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith

Re: serial connection

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to this vpn over ssh setup with different device configuration http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ppp-over-ssh// -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
work fine for both openGL and the vdpau stuff. Virtualbox worked fine too, but this Atom doesn't have hardware virtualisation support so it's a bit sluggish. I've not tried (or wanted) Wine in years. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: Obsolete Shared Libraries?

2012-12-18 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
and work areas. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
files have to be sorted. For which purpose the sort program is most useful. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
this as a backup server. You might like the sysutils/ezjail port - I use it for a very similar purpose and find it works well. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Best approach to jails + zfs

2013-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Le 25 janv. 2013 à 18:41, Steve O'Hara-Smith a écrit : On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:25:06 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hi, I wanted to have the point of view of the community on the best approach in order to handle

Re: Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500 MFV mrk...@acm.org wrote: The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint. With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a minor issue. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
enough to use in the mirror when it arrives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:40:53 +0200 Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 28.01.2013 09:03, Steve O'Hara-Smith: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:05:05 -0800 Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: I recall

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the iso8859 encodings as basically obsolete. Unicode has it's faults, but it is the best general purpose encoding system available. There are also tools for unicode that can handle problems such as correctly sorting text for different languages which is not as easy as you might think. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: FreeBSD 9.1 Update?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
updates used by freebsd-update are still being produced. I am learning about FreeBSD after not using it for several years. My first FreeBSD was 5.4 i386 version. Hmm that release occurred during my break from FreeBSD between 4.x and 9.0. My first FreeBSD install was 1.1. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: I made a mess. libc

2013-02-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a copy of it where you can read it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of the license conditions is retaining their copyright notice - altering it would probably be a license violation. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
whatever is left over be removed? Just a thought, not a concern. I can't think why anyone would want to, and I expect there's a *lot* left over, certainly their copyright notice appears in many files in /usr/src. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: make package vs pkg create

2013-02-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the affected ports poudriere ports -u poudriere bulk -f /root/packages -j build build is my build jail, and /root/packages is a file listing the packages I want. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
an incremental dump. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
nicer to use powers of 2 bs=64k count=(n*16) skip=(n*16 - 1) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
, with a ton of dependencies which translates to a lot of work to keep it up to date in the base system, and all sorts of fun and games when other things using those dependencies need a newer version. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
they don't help much once you pass the device/controller max write block size. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-04-01 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
with no reference to the original code then it's a rewrite. I suppose there are edge cases where a rewrite may include a portion taken from the original (assuming compatible licensing), or where a fork has been so heavily modified that little of the original remains. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a repository, it's hard to build a secure public repository. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to use sudo or su rather than logging in as root, although for a single user system this doesn't really make much difference. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in the update/version reporting process but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, as things stand the version reported only changes when the kernel is updated, or if you recompile it after the update. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE the kernel version message hasn't

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:43:59 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
of these data bits should be fixed here first. Anything else would be a 'feature' :) That would be nice - one way to achieve that would be to add a writable oid for patch level and not bump newvers.sh for patches. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
a convention for a *long* time, at least since FreeBSD 1.1 was shiny and new in 1993. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: - List could silently discard such spam

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
be to give both boxes the same kind of drives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the same supplier tends to add to the probability that more than one drive is on the edge when one goes. It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:13:39 +0930 Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 21/07/2013 04:42, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. I thought there was three left - Seagate WD and Toshiba I assumed Toshiba were out

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:27:01 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: It's a pity there are now only two manufacturers of spinning rust. I didn't think there were _any_! Haven't oxide-coated platters gone the way of the dodo bird

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
users. An amazing number of things stopped working. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in detail. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.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: ttys file question

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
the details are there. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
in the standard place for exports and won't need fiddling with if you decide that you want to move one of them to some other filesystem. The second has the benefit that it integrates better with the ZFS tools. The one thing you don't want to do is put the same export in both. -- Steve O'Hara

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:20:00 - atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to enable persistence between reboots when using FreeBSD from a USB stick? What exactly do you mean by enable persistence between reboots ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:29:26 -0400 Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: mount -o rw / That would need to be mount -u -o rw / -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
/periodic.conf for details) until you get through a night without a reboot. Then the next step is to figure out why whatever is crashing the system does so, but first let's find out what. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Try this: echo ^G /dev/console You'll have to type ^V^G to get a real ^G in the command line (^ means control of course). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: Then there's the issue of writing it to the console rather than a virtual terminal, but I have a few hacks that'll achieve that part. /dev/console is your friend. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote)

2013-10-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
else who may want it. 3. Something else? Wait for someone else to do it. FreeBSD is a volunteer project and the best way to make it better is to scratch your itches and contribute the result. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org

Re: Tuning /etc/sysctl.conf

2013-10-14 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
to apply to your PC. Most changes you can make will benefit some workflows at the cost of making others less efficient. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo