Re: E-Mail if updates available? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
0n Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:27AM +0200, Jo Galara wrote: >on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are >updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for >FreeBSD? subscribe to: http://www.freshports.org/ -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: limits for run away Firefox ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
0n Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:51:02PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: >"Rick C. Petty" wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:43PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> > On 01/18/10 11:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> > > Doug Barton wrote: >> > > > On 01/17/10 17:07, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> > > > > Hi hackers >> > > > > I'm tired of my X server occasionaly freezing, swap thrasing, & >> > > > > firefox dumps: 4,346,937,344 ~/firefox-bin.core >> > > > > so as a temporary cludge I ran >> > > > > touch ~/firefox-bin.core ; chmod 000 ~/firefox-bin.core >> > > > >> > > > Sorry I don't have a solution to your actual problem, but a >> > > > better way to deal with this is to do: ln -s /dev/null >> > > > ~/firefox-bin.core how about using: #chflags schg /firefox-bin.core ? -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?
0n Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:53:06PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: >You can increase the maximum amount of PTYs by editing a lot of source >files on your system. There is some good news: in -CURRENT we switched >to Unix98-style PTYs (/dev/pts/%u). Right now the maximum amount of PTYs >is limited to 1000 (0 to 999). What are "Unix98-style PTYs" ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?
0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >> >> About the only real improvement I'd like to see in this setup is the ability >> >> to spin down idle drives. That would be an ideal setup for the home RAID >> >> array. >> > >> >There is a FreeBSD port which handles this, although such a feature >> >should ideally be part of the ata(4) system (as should TCQ/NCQ and a >> >slew of other things -- some of those are being worked on). >> >> And the port is ? > >Is it that hard to use 'make search' or grep? :-) sysutils/ataidle When you dont know the string to search on ... yes. -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?
0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> About the only real improvement I'd like to see in this setup is the ability >> to spin down idle drives. That would be an ideal setup for the home RAID >> array. > >There is a FreeBSD port which handles this, although such a feature >should ideally be part of the ata(4) system (as should TCQ/NCQ and a >slew of other things -- some of those are being worked on). And the port is ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Idea for FreeBSD
0n Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would like to submit the idea of implementing a similar environment >into FreeBSD. After looking through the developers links and googling I >found no project for FreeBSD that implemented anything similar to this. >I have included a link below to give a better understanding of SMF and >its capabilities. I believe there was a port of MacOS-X 'launchd' to FreeBSD: [http://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd] I think launchd may use XML. -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop suggestions?
0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:31:10PM -0400, L Campbell wrote: >> It depends on what you consider to be "comfortable". My primary machine is >> an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (running the RELENG_7 branch) and the only >> hardware compatibility issue I've ever had was that suspend/hibernate >> doesn't work (display doesn't come back on). > >vbetool post? Is vbetool in ports ? I cant find it mentioned anywhere in INDEX-*. -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Laptop suggestions?
>> If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer >> T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check following >As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p, I >wholeheartedly agree with "past experiences"... with "past" being a key >word. While I could not complain about FreeBSD support (none of the >FreeBSD problems I have are ThinkPad-specific), manufacturing quality >has gone down considerably. My not-two-years-old X60 chipped in places >and my wife's 8-months-old T61p is no longer capable of keeping the >screen upright. This is in the stark contrast with T42p I (ab)used for >$work for more than three years, with the only visible outcome being >loss of the caption on the "Enter" key. So if Thinkpads are no longer the go ... what is ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
A Tale of Four Kernels...
Some may be interested in this. http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.pdf -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Hifn 7955 doesn't work with Freebsd 7.0-release
0n Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:19:26PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: >Unfortunately openssl doesn't use the accelerator by default. This means >all apps that use openssl likewise are not automatically accelerated. I >suggested a patch but it was not accepted. I can't recall how you force >openssl and/or consumers to use the device. How annoying is that. Why wasn't the patch accepted ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: handling pdfs?
0n Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:27:41PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a >rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading >documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would be able to perform >cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 pages there, until I put >together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back and read it. What I can't do is >print just a few pages out of several 800-plus page specs, and perform >paper cut'n'pasting. > >Is there some sort of util that will allow me to do cut'n'pasting among >different pdfs, or at the very least, only to print certain ranges out of >pdf docs, so I could do paper-wise cut'n'paste? An all-electronic solution >would be best, but I'd take whatever offered. /usr/ports/print/pdftk/ -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: file(1) cannot detect UFS2?
0n Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:41:31AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >I'm trying to use file(1) to detect file system type on partitions, and >so far it's working for any file system I've cared to try (the usual MS >and Linux list) *except* UFS2. Not sure if what you're doing *has* to be done with file(1). However, you can what you want like so: #dumpfs ad0s1a | head -1 magic 19540119 (UFS2) timeSun Jun 10 21:30:45 2007 -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
kgdb(1) - dealing with a corrupt stack [?]
Hi all,
I am trying to debug why my kernel is panicing whilst playing audio
via xmms. I am manually calling 'doadump' via ddb(4) - this seems ok.
However, when I do a backtrace via kgdb(1) I seem to get a corrupt
stack. Can anyone suggest why this would be happening and solutions
to get a 'healthy' backtrace.
NOTE: I have tryed a backtrace on a kernel with staticly compiled
drivers and with klds'. Same outcome.
(kgdb) where
#0 doadump () at pcpu.h:159
#1 0xc044e7b3 in db_fncall (dummy1=-1068282275, dummy2=0, dummy3=-1,
dummy4=0xe52b68e8 "") at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:531
#2 0xc044ec55 in db_command_loop () at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:349
#3 0xc0450910 in db_trap (type=12, code=0) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_main.c:221
#4 0xc052c112 in kdb_trap (type=0, code=0, tf=0xe52b6a58) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/subr_kdb.c:418
#5 0xc06827d6 in trap_fatal (frame=0xe52b6a58, eva=36) at
/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:804
#6 0xc0682d65 in trap (frame=
{tf_fs = -1030160360, tf_es = -1033502704, tf_ds = 2147418128, tf_edi =
-1066324840, tf_esi = -1023201776, tf_ebp = -450139444, tf_isp = -450139516,
tf_ebx = -1030158384, tf_edx = -1028611392, tf_ecx = 160, tf_eax = 0, tf_trapno
= 12, tf_err = 0, tf_eip = -1068282275, tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 77971, tf_esp =
0, tf_ss = -1068294051}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:247
#7 0xc06712da in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:140
#8 0xc2990018 in ?? ()
#9 0xc2660010 in ?? ()
#10 0x7fff0010 in ?? ()
#11 0xc0712c98 in turnstile_chains ()
#12 0xc3032e10 in ?? ()
#13 0xe52b6acc in ?? ()
#14 0xe52b6a84 in ?? ()
#15 0xc29907d0 in ?? ()
#16 0xc2b0a2c0 in ?? ()
#17 0x00a0 in ?? ()
#18 0x in ?? ()
#19 0x000c in ?? ()
#20 0x in ?? ()
#21 0xc0534e5d in turnstile_wait (ts=0xc2b35d80, lock=0xc070efe0,
owner=0xc3032e10) at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_turnstile.c:243
#22 0xc05055ef in _mtx_lock_sleep (m=0xc070efe0, td=0xc29907d0, opts=0,
file=0x0, line=0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_mutex.c:560
#23 0xc04e3509 in cv_timedwait_sig (cvp=0xc0714064, mp=0xc0714040, timo=0) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_condvar.c:334
#24 0xc0536cca in kern_select (td=0xc29907d0, nd=64, fd_in=0x81c63c0,
fd_ou=0x0, fd_ex=0x0, tvp=0xe52b6ccc)
at /usr/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c:753
#25 0xc053731c in select (td=0x0, uap=0xe52b6d14) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c:625
#26 0xc0683334 in syscall (frame=
{tf_fs = 47, tf_es = 47, tf_ds = -1078001617, tf_edi = -1, tf_esi = -1,
tf_ebp = -1077941784, tf_isp = -450138764, tf_ebx = 119451, tf_edx = 16, tf_ecx
= 139525536, tf_eax = 93, tf_trapno = 0, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = 673567859, tf_cs
= 31, tf_eflags = 12870, tf_esp = -1077942388, tf_ss = 47}) at
/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1001
#27 0xc067132f in Xint0x80_syscall () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:201
#28 0x002f in ?? ()
#29 0x002f in ?? ()
#30 0xbfbf002f in ?? ()
#31 0x in ?? ()
#32 0x in ?? ()
#33 0xbfbfe9e8 in ?? ()
#34 0xe52b6d74 in ?? ()
#35 0x0001d29b in ?? ()
#36 0x0010 in ?? ()
#37 0x0850fda0 in ?? ()
#38 0x005d in ?? ()
#39 0x in ?? ()
#40 0x0002 in ?? ()
#41 0x2825d473 in ?? ()
#42 0x001f in ?? ()
#43 0x3246 in ?? ()
#44 0xbfbfe78c in ?? ()
#45 0x002f in ?? ()
#46 0x in ?? ()
#47 0x in ?? ()
#48 0x in ?? ()
#49 0xefff in ?? ()
#50 0x3e9d7000 in ?? ()
#51 0xc2b78388 in ?? ()
#52 0xc29907d0 in ?? ()
#53 0xe52b6a6c in ?? ()
#54 0xe52b6a54 in ?? ()
#55 0xc26644b0 in ?? ()
#56 0xc0523eda in sched_switch (td=0x, newtd=0x1d29b, flags=Cannot
access memory at address 0xbfbfe9f8
) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_4bsd.c:865
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(kgdb)
Thanks
- aW
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Re: jiffy.
erm...what are jiffies ? - aW Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example, process 1's deadline is when jiffies=10 and so on. I just discovered the global variable 'ticks' which seems to suit my needs, is this correct? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: booting multiple kernels
Where can you get the "FORTH bootnext" replacement ? - aW You want the FORTH "bootnext" replacement that Jon Mini and James Harris worked on. This replaces the "nextboot" program, which was broken when FreeBSD went to the FORTH bootloader during the a.out->ELF transition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
[hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?
Howdy Crew, I am about to buy a new hard disk for my FreeBSD work station. Since FreeBSD's ATA drivers implement Tagged Command Queuing and IBM make the only ATA disks that implement tagged command queuing ( ie since the 60GXP family ), an IBM 40GB 120GXP "looks like" the best solution. However, my question is: Do the benifits from a having a larger disk cache such as the "WD 40GB 7200RPM w/8MB Cache" has, outweigh the benefits of Tagged Command Queuing ? Thanks - aW To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Bison
Thanks for that! - aW On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Anthony Schneider wrote: aschne:>>i suggest you read the info pages on bison. they are very informative, aschne:>>even aschne:>>somewhat about non-bison exclusive material (i.e. there's a bit of aschne:>>information aschne:>>about LALR parsing, BNF, etc.). It works on FreeBSD just like it does aschne:>>on any aschne:>>other UNIX clone that it runs on. You should read the info pages, and aschne:>>perhaps aschne:>>visit the online bison pages at aschne:>>http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html. aschne:>>-Anthony. aschne:>> aschne:>>On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:13:24PM +0930, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: aschne:>>> Howdy all, aschne:>>> aschne:>>> Can anyone point me to a good paper about Bison ? aschne:>>> ie What it is, how it works, how it works with FreeBSD etc ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Bison
Howdy all, Can anyone point me to a good paper about Bison ? ie What it is, how it works, how it works with FreeBSD etc ? Cheers - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: ld: cannot find -lintl
Thanks! How did u find that out ? On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: flynn:>>> I'm unsure how to go about solving this problem. flynn:>>> Any ideas ? flynn:>>Yes, install gettext-old, libintl is not part of the new gettext. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
ld: cannot find -lintl
Howdy all, I am having strange problems when trying to build *any* port. When I do a: make install clean on any given port I get this error: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lintl *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome/work/xscreensaver-4.02/driver. *** Error code 5 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome/work/xscreensaver-4.02. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome. ** Command failed: make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/xscreensaver-gnome (xscreensaver-gnome-4.00_2)(unknown build error) I'm unsure how to go about solving this problem. Any ideas ? - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
syscons(4) driver
Howdy Crew, >From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/relnotes-i386.html It says: The syscons(4) driver now supports keyboard-controlled pasting, by default bound to Shift-Insert My question: If moused is *not* running then how are u meant to select what u want to paste ? Or is this assuming that moused is running ? The way I'm interpreting this is: "we can now cut and paste _without_ a mouse on the console." Correct ??? - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ?
Hi all, I would just like to know what the best way to keep track of the latest kernel for say stable would be? Is there something similar to www.freshports.org around ? ie a way to know that the kernel has been updated so I can compile the new one. Thanks - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Super Block
Howdy Crew, I am wanting to find out the significance of the Super Block, whether FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris... whatever. I know: * The Super Block contains critical data for the device's filesystem [but what ??]. * It is located on sectors 16 through 31 at the beggining of the device. * FreeBSD keeps an alternate SuperBlock at the begging of every cylinder group. * The first alternate Super block on FBSD is at block 32. This is all the info I could scrounge up. What does the SuperBlock actually do ? Why is the SuperBlock so critical ? Can anyone give me a *good* summary on the purpose of the Super Block ? And/Or any recommendations ? Thanks - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
