Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Kirk Strauser wrote: > ktrace(1) and check for the buffer size in use. It is probably too > small. > > Kris It seems to be doing a lot of read()s with 4096-byte buffers. Is that what you mean? It's also doing a lot of

Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
7110c in main (ac=Cannot access memory at address 0x18 ) at dumprecspg.cpp:63 63 int main(int ac,char** av) (gdb) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
Here's mine: -- #!/bin/sh echo echo 'Setting controllers to DMA mode' atacontrol mode acd1 udma33 -- I had to do that because my DVD-ROM would autodetect UDMA66 or higher and hang. -- Kirk Strauser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

ports/UPDATING instructions and Python 2.4

2007-08-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
ndent ports had been upgraded from py24-* to py25-*, effectively killing my webserver. Could someone else take a look at those instructions and see if they make sense - they look a little suspicious to me - or if there is some gotcha that I might have missed? Thanks. -- Kirk Stra

Partially solved (was Re: Web proxy that can cache cookies and rescale images)

2007-06-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I bought a Nintendo DS Browser (Opera 8.5) recently, and it's really > slick little device. However, it has one glaring issue: it won't store > passwords or cookies across boots so you have to manually log in to every > web s

Web proxy that can cache cookies and rescale images

2007-06-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
#x27;d also have to support some kind of authentication so that a given user only gets their own cookies. Does such a thing exist? Please help me. I'm getting hand cramps from pecking out the same logins every time I turn the thing on. -- Kirk Strauser pgpDSBpCxoWhN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Samba and mountd spin

2007-04-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
thing else I might look for?Î Kirk Strauser ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Setting Env

2007-03-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
s you think that? How did you install MySQL and Zope? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0lflqMejX7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Install with USB keyboard

2007-03-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
t situation, but wanted to say that it really is possible, at least on certain hardware. Oh, is there any way to ask your BIOS to make USB keyboards and mice show up as PS2? -- Kirk Strauser pgp8SqciFUuZO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

2007-03-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
arted working again. BTW, if anyone can tell me a good reason why the Zope port does "chmod 444" to all installed files, including the ones that *have* to be writable in "log" and "var", I'd appreciate it. I've been too lazy to file a bug so far,

Re: how to run root cmds when starting xorg?

2007-02-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
und #!/bin/sh kldunload whatever.ko and the install sudo and configure it to give your user the ability to run those two commands without entering your password. Finally, add "sudo loadsound" and "sudo unloadsound" to your startup and exit scripts. -- Kirk Strauser pgpWUV

Re: Need Mesa library in Linux emulation mode = How do I build a Linux library?

2007-02-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
uses OpenGL) up and running on my system. -- Kirk Strauser pgp1RvBXT15ve.pgp Description: PGP signature

Deciphering camcontrol - is prefetch enabled?

2007-02-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
ed? Since I left my handy "Cryptic SCSI Acronym Dictionary" elsewhere, I don't have any idea what the above is actually trying to tell me. -- Kirk Strauser pgpidQtb95hvA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why this script does not work as expected ?

2007-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
s to chop up the dumps into tape-sized pieces (even when writing to stdout), and the default tape size seems to be tiny. -- Kirk Strauser pgpeExtrf0Pi3.pgp Description: PGP signature

A bottleneck in gstripe?

2007-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
st load is when PostgreSQL is receiving massive imports? This is a production system and I don't have the opportunity to play with it as much as I'd like, so any pointers to experiments likely to make a difference would be most welcome. -- Kirk Strauser pgpnHawE5xGjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Weird perms with linux_base-gentoo-stage3

2007-02-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
ious reasons that I haven't really researched, but it does what we need. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Weird perms with linux_base-gentoo-stage3

2007-02-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
when I asked him if he'd solved the problem. Neither was I able to find the patch he mention. Any pointers would be most appreciated! I'm getting tired of manually fixing the permissions on every file I install (and hoping that 755 for exes is correct). -- Kirk Strauser pgpUTzlDPmnNl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Labeling a backward-compatible Zip disk?

2007-01-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
of 1996's technology. -- Kirk Strauser pgpsFx0EpwYUq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Help me pick a replacement graphics card?

2007-01-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
ns plenty of authoritative-sounding hits on both sides. Is there anything else I should be looking for? Any specific models you might recommend? -- Kirk Strauser pgpvk3POzDKpH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
e user? -- Kirk Strauser pgpCCD0vRRwLq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:44, Christian Baer wrote: > The problem was not the authorized_keys file itself, it was my home > directory. I don't think so. More likely, it was the .ssh directory itself. -- Kirk Strauser pgpXWYQbAuWpq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:51, Hugo Silva wrote: > Please don't feed the trolls. The weird thing is that I'd personally vouch for jdow not being a troll. I'm not sure where that came from. -- Kirk Strauser pgp1HsMf6qBzQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Grep a file

2007-01-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
ll, wish is still running as you. Either run "sudo -s" to get a root prompt, or: sudo sh -c "grep -v '^\;'extentions.conf > new_extentions.conf" which runs your entire command line, redirection and all, as root. -- Kirk Strauser pgpqrHvsqildR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
s on a -RELEASE system with -STABLE ports. How does one tell ports to install -STABLE packages - is that uname-dependent? -- Kirk Strauser pgpEtRmx4Y9Ll.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?

2007-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:28 am, Anna Vazquez Nikonova wrote: > Have some one resolve this problem with amarok lyrics with ruby behind a > proxy? > I need help.I have this same problem. Which problem? -- Kirk Strauser pgpVMP2ovwrtO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Is this homework? (was Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?)

2007-01-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
operating systems. -- Kirk Strauser pgp2V1W3Aaa8U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question & Re: Permissions advice needed

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one >> command as root. > One has to be very careful about giving out such access! > root h

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
only a handful, just hardcode them and be done with it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpzdoZYEJajd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
as a caching nameserver, then point all your windows boxes to it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpybxNBkjGze.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
sr/sbin/nologin This has the huge benefit of fully supporting nsswitch, so the same command fetches *all* of your accounts, including those in NIS/YP and LDAP. -- Kirk Strauser pgpmUi8ThFRJB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:57 pm, Andy Greenwood wrote: > I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario? Perhaps, but that seems like a lot more effort to accomplish a relatively easy job. -- Kirk Strauser pgpryAcPuyqUa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Question

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
d configure sudo to give him access to run that one command as root. -- Kirk Strauser pgpX62GnRqncn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an > NIS client. For starters, see yp(8). Would "getent passwd" and "getent group" be more definitive? -- Kirk Strauser pgpU9vIlBUWYA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
We're migrating over to it as the native backend for new applications, so the Foxpro stuff is loaded into its own schema inside the same database as the production data. -- Kirk Strauser pgprkpxt351qO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Adduser utility to generate "random" passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
enerate good random passwords. -- Kirk Strauser pgppuaGVN8vUP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
better than MySQL > 5.0.x in RELENG_6 with SMP and 2 GB of ram now? This has been true for our workload for several years. -- Kirk Strauser pgpAIJVatyFM2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
t a lot of other processing done without slowing the import process. > Let us know what solution you come up with, and good luck :) Will do, and thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpkGwbXhcq1H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
t; the imports themselves). Actually, I've been letting the vacuum daemon make that decision for the last few months with no perceptible ill effects. > Ok. Be careful not to use SELECT ... LIMIT ALL ;) LOL! Duly noted. -- Kirk Strauser pgpBuzSmV7V14.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
roblems we were having with 8.1.5. Other than the excessively long import times, it's absolutely screaming and we couldn't be more pleased. -- Kirk Strauser pgpn3EQQ5Wa0A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
like to throw more hardware at the problem but can't yet, is there anything I could do to make these imports go faster, short of running it async (which is far more dangerous than we're willing to risk)? -- Kirk Strauser pgpCTnmKI9Qrq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: > i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. -- Kirk Strauser pgplg6wDlyMbY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What Did I Do To My Server?!

2006-12-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
last two as necessary to fix any other Zope instances you're trying to run. -- Kirk Strauser pgpaZH9rcltuL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
measured in hundreds of thousands of hours, but a small number of thousand spin-ups. If your drive is cycling many times a day, you could get a nasty surprise in a relatively short amount of time. -- Kirk Strauser pgpafne3sZMBA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Instant Messenger software

2006-11-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 09 November 2006 18:33, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on > FreeBSD? We use ejabberd for the server, and Kopete (Unix) and Psi (Windows) for the client. -- Kirk Strauser pgpHlCUAHAGmr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
76) causing READ_DMA errors on my ATA drives. I have to stick with the older version 8774 for now. -- Kirk Strauser pgpx33q1OsL00.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: subversion on boot

2006-11-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
Since it's a (relatively) rarely used feature for us - no more than 50-60 connections per day - it's an easy way to not have to bother with it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpSXhxPTLMr9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:01 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit "m", then enter "ototal". That was exactly it. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpv29LbwLcuV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which processes are responsible? -- Kirk Strauser pgpJ2aFH5pyri.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CLI text editor recommendation

2006-09-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
m really is with PHP and not your text editors. If that was a widespread issue, you'd hear about it all over the place and not just in this one thread. -- Kirk Strauser pgpADrhTHnrju.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Putting a command/script as a user's shell

2006-09-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
d. It's easy, it works, and it doesn't require any setuid trickery or special accounts or anything else. -- Kirk Strauser pgp6bWTuEAWYV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable s2s on ejabberd?

2006-08-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
seems very quiet). -- Kirk Strauser pgpd8dkf2DOXy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable s2s on ejabberd?

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 18 August 2006 3:03 pm, Eric Schuele wrote: > Not sure if this will actually help or not. >http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html That's for "jabberd", not to be confused with "ejabberd" or "jabber". :-/ -- Kirk Strauser pgpn12u0oEXvx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Web server mailing list?

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 18 August 2006 9:42 am, albi wrote: > excuse me, imho this part of your question is a little unclear, i don't > get the php/mysql idea He wants to subscribe to mailing lists for Apache, PHP, and MySQL that are as good as this list is for FreeBSD. -- Kirk Strauser pgpEYV

Disable s2s on ejabberd?

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
port? I'm trying to build a private server without s2s functionality and can't find any documention on how to do it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpB94TPPkldL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
ed down), and I suspect that's true for most people. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

2006-05-31 Thread Kirk Strauser
be directed to Postfix via mailer.conf. -- Kirk Strauser pgpxoah3nfiUz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using Flash on FreeBSD [Fwd: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8564611]]

2006-05-31 Thread Kirk Strauser
ystems where you may download and install Flash > Player. Gee, I think I can see where the confusion is coming from. -- Kirk Strauser pgpOweToos70g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

2006-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
~/foo/master.passwd -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: textproc: Typesetting holy content

2006-05-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
Bach", but that's just me. Anyway, didn't html2latex (/usr/ports/print/html2latex/pkg-descr) work? -- Kirk Strauser pgpj7NVYqGf5n.pgp Description: PGP signature

PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
s behavior when upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1? Any ideas for a fix? I apologize for not having a logfiles, but I was pretty much in a panic to get it back up and running ASAP and didn't think about it until it was too late. -- Kirk Strauser ___

Re: Permissions have me stumped

2006-03-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 02 March 2006 19:42, Andrew wrote: > Any chance that this would happen to be a FAT32 file system? No - it's a good ol' UFS2 filesystem. -- Kirk Strauser pgpv1eS0FWgXv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How are ppl running QEMU under FreeBSD 6.x .. ?

2006-03-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 'k, I'm doing something wrong here, cause I just can't get it to run ... How did you install qemu? -- Kirk Strauser pgp8zVm3T1YEG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Permissions have me stumped

2006-03-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
tted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/singles": Operation not permitted (1) ... I know this is pretty minor in the scheme of things, but it still bothers me because it looks like it should work, but it doesn't. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: rm - Argument list too long

2006-01-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote: > for files in *.* > do > rm $files > done Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions. It's bad for you. Instead, use something like: find . -name 'sess.*' -delete -- Kirk Strauser pgpepCmOuaBna.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to bind ntpd to a single address?

2006-01-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:31, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > So how to I tell ntpd to bind to a specific IP address? ISC's ntpd doesn't support that, AFAIK. However, depending on your needs, you might be able to use OpenNTPD which does have that feature. -- Kirk Strauser pgpi

Re: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

2006-01-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
n on whether shooting one's foot is a good idea. We've already told you how to pull the trigger, but would still suggest you reconsider the decision. -- Kirk Strauser pgpyAWa2sCKyA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
'm going to make world again and see if the problem fixes itself. -- Kirk Strauser pgp6q6DFn4DL8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
60 0K 8K psleep 2:17 0.00% pagedaemon 13896 daapd 3 200 13916K 2064K kserel 1:53 0.00% mt-daapd 1461 postgrey 1 40 10572K 5548K select 1:51 0.00% perl5.8.7 866 root 1 40 3620K 1316K select 1:46 0.00% sendmail

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
now it is very > stable, he is doing a great job at maintaining that very complex set of > ports and deserves all of our patience and support. :) Oh, I agree entirely. I know that the lag is due to the complexity of the problem, and not the maintainers slacking off. -- Kirk Strauser pgpq

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
leased just over a month ago. Still, as much as I want to play with 3.5, I'll wait until the ports come along. People much better at building it than I am are having problems, so there's not much point in me trying it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpHHnRUzRQbE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
pretty high probability that KDE expects GNU make instead of BSD. That's the first thing I'd try. -- Kirk Strauser pgpE4DmrRXWMc.pgp Description: PGP signature

What's using my system?

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
man1 80 9016K 2700K nanslp 12:47 0.00% python2.3 1398 mailman1 80 8792K 5216K nanslp 12:26 0.00% python2.3 -- Kirk Strauser pgpnm94fQk2d0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sudo running without a password

2005-12-31 Thread Kirk Strauser
#3 I don't see anything in it that looks like it should prompt me for a password, then run with elevated privileges regardless of what I send. Any ideas? -- Kirk Strauser pgpcZtc5dC2eL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

2005-12-31 Thread Kirk Strauser
opic, but... He's a good programmer. Great. What does that have to do with his skills as a system administrator? I worked at a place that had a genius .NET developer, but I wouldn't run around replacing Unix servers with Windows just because that's what he liked. -- Kirk Stra

Re: Going from bind9 to djbdns

2005-12-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
and make him work to find a reason to blame them on something else. -- Kirk Strauser pgpVXH011ahj1.pgp Description: PGP signature

ejabberd + Bandersnatch?

2005-12-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
bug? My next step is to hit the Bandersnatch mailing list, but I thought I'd see if anyone else running FreeBSD had worked through this error already. Thanks, -- Kirk Strauser pgpzgbiCVNKsr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE 3.5 status?

2005-12-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
maintainer be spending his time on the port than answer my emails, so I'll go back to waiting patiently. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8cOPTDmzmw.pgp Description: PGP signature

KDE 3.5 status?

2005-12-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
Does anybody know where I can find the status of porting KDE 3.5 to FreeBSD? -- Kirk Strauser pgpUA7Neg99Ya.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: grep'ping the ps output....

2005-12-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 12 December 2005 10:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > ps | egrep firefox | egrep -v egrep Ouch! Replace that with: ps | grep "[f]irefox" which will never match the grep commandline itself. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies __

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
e OOo 2.0 installed, not 1.1. -- Kirk Strauser pgpuKazCMUAdI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gmirror Cannot access provider da0

2005-11-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 14:01, jd wrote: > grenvil# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/da0 > Cannot access provider da0. Is da0 in use by anything else? -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
evice nodes aren't being created correctly? Also, running "/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd" and trying to connect can give lots of useful information. -- Kirk Strauser pgpfGOdboCwVp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

2005-11-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
ons at setting the CPUTYPE variable in /etc/make.conf. FreeBSD 6.0 has sane and quick compiler defaults, so I usually leave the rest alone. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8sepiqWQ2D.pgp Description: PGP signature

cvsup vs. portsnap (was Re: cvsup problem)

2005-11-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
rtsnap. Is there any reason in the world why a normal user (eg one that doesn't need to fetch a version of ports from a specific date or tag) shouldn't completely switch to portsnap today? -- Kirk Strauser pgppoIjczDZ4y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cvsup problem

2005-11-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:59, Brian E. Conklin wrote: > Parsing supfile "/etc/ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup10.us.freebsd.org Why is everyone trying to using cvsup10 all of a sudden? I don't think I've ever made it past 5. -- Kirk Strauser pgp3ei2i

Re: KDE Konqueror:Can i have konqueror without KDEstuff port

2005-11-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
o have an enormous number of dependencies. That's by design and not really something that could be stripped down. -- Kirk Strauser pgp3Mv00grH3q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Major Error Upgrading to GNOME 2.12

2005-11-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
m. Out of curiosity, exactly what's wrong with portupgrade that these upgrade scripts (which never seem to work as expected on my system) claim to fix? -- Kirk Strauser pgp6pxB3yg4Hs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smbfs small read tuning?

2005-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
evel-2 oplocks working for best performance... Nuts. The server is a Windows XP (or 2003) machine. I'll see what our Windows guy can come up with. -- Kirk Strauser pgpTXlb3xMLJG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
ts the time that the PostgreSQL server has to spend committing the new data by several orders of magnitude. The net effect is that our web visitors don't see a noticeable slowdown during the import stage. -- Kirk Strauser pgpqY5JpRZNQO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
ns the same data. It's certainly not the ideal, but it's working out very well for us. -- Kirk Strauser pgplHnuNQg71N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
new_records.append(newline) > Hope this gives you some idea. It did. It must've been a long work week, because that all seems so obvious in retrospect but was completely opaque at the time. Thanks again! -- Kirk Strauser pgpd16wKmA9g0.pgp Description: PGP signature

smbfs small read tuning?

2005-11-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
the order of four minutes. The mount_smbfs(8) man page doesn't mention anything about tuning and I'm not sure where else to look. Is there a way to enable some kind of read-ahead cache or otherwise trade some memory or CPU for a speed boost? -- Kirk Strauser pgpStNcLBDEdv.pgp Descri

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
) that'll make the speed roughly similar to that of I/O. > Could you elaborate? That's been bugging me all weekend. I know I should know this, but I can't quite put my finger on it. -- Kirk Strauser pgpN5vT0gOSPn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
roc/2bsd-diff works fine - it's just slow. I wonder if rsync could be modified to output its patches rather than silently applying them to a target file. It seems to be pretty good at comparing large files quickly... -- Kirk Strauser pgpdXELVcLCLb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
f CPU for PostgreSQL instead of 45 minutes. The practical upshot is that the database will never get sluggish, even if the other "diff server" is loaded to the gills. -- Kirk Strauser pgp8crJHkPVTm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
, but is glacially slow. I'm basically looking for something that generates easily-parseable text. Since this is a young project, I don't particularly care if the output format is different from diff's. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Editor for C & C++ language

2005-10-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
nally run it in a suitable window. Since you're using KDE anyway, check out KDevelop. It's similar to Visual Studio. I'm with Johnny, though. I could live in Emacs quite happily. -- Kirk Strauser pgppDhztYKnhi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

2005-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
.jpg' -exec ln -s {} /home/drew There - you've removed any need for string manipulation with a simple cd. -- Kirk Strauser pgphjbvRhfxKN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Solved! (was Re: Happy Hacking keyboard, Emacs, and meta)

2005-10-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
lion thanks. That did the trick exactly! For bonus points, is there an easy way to get the same effect without patching files owned by the system, eg with Xmodmap or similar? -- Kirk Strauser pgpNvcmiqFs9Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Implementing software licensing in FreeBSD

2005-10-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
ears will snip out your patch and release a faster, more robust version of your program. Forget the licensing issues. Copy protection will never do as it's intended. Please, seriously, dig back into its history of failure and see why nothing good can come of this. -- Kirk Strauser

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