Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/06/2012 04:16 Jason Hellenthal said the following: > runlevel support might be a better solution so it does not differ that > much from what other systems do and would be easy for people to grasp. Patches are welcome, as always. -- Andriy Gapon _

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-08 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:06:09PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/06/2012 12:57 Gleb Kurtsou said the following: > > What do you think about adding generic support for overriding *_enable > > options in rc.conf? > > > > I'd like to be able to disable services at boot prompt, e.g. > > # set r

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Rasmussen wrote: > On 08.06.2012 11:04, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> >> We find it useful, and a significant aid to maintainability and >> readability >> of configuration files. > > Hello, > > What happens if your server reboots while the DNS > server is down/

Re: nss compat shims

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Bushkov
I don't know for sure, but it seems that there was no need to support anything besides groups and password when nss_compat.c was committed. At that time, IIRC, the modules that we had in ports supported only these databases. -- Michael On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > I

Re: CD bootcode

2012-06-08 Thread rank1seeker
> > First > > - > > stage 2 boot '/boot/boot' AND '/boot/cdboot' shouldn't be made into working > > with symlinks. > > Just leave them, the way they are. First one can be navigated to loader via > > 'boot.config' file. > > So only '/boot/cdboot' should be edited, to react to the same 'boot.co

Re: CD bootcode

2012-06-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, June 08, 2012 10:33:00 am rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > - Original Message - > From: John Baldwin > To: rank1see...@gmail.com > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:16:33 -0400 > Subject: Re: CD bootcode > > > On Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:58:25 am rank1see...@gma

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
On 08.06.2012 11:04, Jonathan McKeown wrote: We find it useful, and a significant aid to maintainability and readability of configuration files. Hello, What happens if your server reboots while the DNS server is down/unavailable ? This seems to be a bad idea for the same reasons that putting h

Re: CD bootcode

2012-06-08 Thread rank1seeker
- Original Message - From: John Baldwin To: rank1see...@gmail.com Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:16:33 -0400 Subject: Re: CD bootcode > On Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:58:25 am rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: John Baldwin > > To: fre

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-08 Thread Aled Morris
On 7 June 2012 16:12, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I've run into _multiple_ scenarios where this isn't possible because > the terminal settings are screwed up in single user mode, and had to > resort to `sed -i '' `. > > ed is the standard text editor Aled

[Phrack Mag.] The false kingdom of jemalloc, or On exploiting the jemalloc memory manager

2012-06-08 Thread Oliver Pinter
An analysis of jemalloc - founded in phrack magazine. --[ Table of contents 1 - Introduction 1.1 - Thousand-faced jemalloc 2 - jemalloc memory allocator overview 2.1 - Basic structures 2.1.1 - Chunks (arena_chunk_t) 2.1.2 - Arenas (arena_t) 2.1.3 - Runs (arena_run_t) 2.1.4 - R

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 08 June 2012 09:43:25 Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > On 08.06.2012 11:20, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2012 17:00:04 Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > >> Hello list! > >> > >> Since the early days ifconfig(8) has the following functionality: > > > > [hostname in place of

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
On 08.06.2012 11:20, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2012 17:00:04 Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: Hello list! Since the early days ifconfig(8) has the following functionality: [hostname in place of literal address] Moreover, ifconfig em0 some_valid_fqdn/MASK silently ignores it,

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 07 June 2012 17:00:04 Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > Hello list! > > Since the early days ifconfig(8) has the following functionality: [hostname in place of literal address] > Moreover, ifconfig em0 some_valid_fqdn/MASK silently ignores it, so you > can't set valid CIDR address using