On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:51:06 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Sounds like a good enough reason to me to port the newer NetBSD LFS code
to FreeBSD.
Or, even better, for someone to implement background fsck for soft
updates.
-GAWollman
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:51:06 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Sounds like a good enough reason to me to port the newer NetBSD LFS code
to FreeBSD.
Or, even better, for someone to implement background fsck for soft
updates.
I recently wrote:
It's not the green that's important, it's the 'OK'. The way Redhat
Linux boots, you can see at a glance which start-up commands failed and
which ones succeeded. The way FreeBSD boots, it's all one big blur.
Also, in the Linux scheme, there is a standard mechanism to keep
Moin,
sorry for the late notice, I forgot to mail this yesterday.
/etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in
${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like
databases to call their own shutdown methods and clean up after
themselves. All the ports
Thomas Gellekum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in
${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like
databases to call their own shutdown methods and clean up after
themselves
This will make it a bit harder to
Rahul Dhesi wrote:
Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
that direction.
It's not the green that's important, it's the 'OK'. The way Redhat
Linux boots, you can see at a glance which start-up commands
We have gone to some pains in the past to make the rc.d scripts silent.
Either work or fail silently.
if [ -x ... ]; do
...
done
Now, with the addition of the start/stop, there is a message output if
the argument is not 'start' or 'stop'.
The default should be 'start'. These scripts
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
Linh Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
j/k
I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
that direction.
It's not the green that's important, it's the 'OK'. The way
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
And its actually very useful IMHO. Thats what rc.conf is for though, right?
enable_pkg_apache="YES"
enable_pkg_qmail="YES"
enable_pkg_mysql="YES"
and so on .. ?
Before people start going "huh?" .. that was an idea, not an outline
as to what
Quickie question:
By implementing the 'start' and 'stop' in the local scripts, how much
should one _expect_ their systems bootup and slow down times to take?
I'm hearing whines of being to linux like, to sysv'ish and some likely
valid complaints on startup/shutdown time.
I, for one, like the
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:53:09PM -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
Many Linux distributions do this too. It seems about as useful as a car's
idiot light(s)... IMO, I would prefer to see useful information during
boot than that eye-candy.
In the last episode (Jul 06), Thomas Gellekum said:
sorry for the late notice, I forgot to mail this yesterday.
/etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in
${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like
databases to call their own shutdown
In the last episode (Jul 06), Thomas Gellekum said:
sorry for the late notice, I forgot to mail this yesterday.
/etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in
${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like
databases to call their own shutdown
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
:
: Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
:
: j/k
:
:I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
:that direction.
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be
because I have boxes that take
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
:
: Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
:
: j/k
:
:I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
:that direction.
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
:
: Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
:
: j/k
:
:I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
:that direction.
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be
because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot
An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to
boot (which does not include the POST/memory check/BIOS screen) was a
486SX/33
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
Many Linux distributions do this too. It seems about as useful as a car's
idiot light(s)... IMO, I would prefer to see useful information during
boot than that eye-candy.
I'd prefer to buy a box of blinkenlights to put in a spare 5.25" bay and
let
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
Linh Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
j/k
I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
that direction.
It's not the green that's important, it's the 'OK'. The way
Jonathan Smith writes:
I, for one, like the functionality, and thought it kinda already worked
that way (or maybe I _made_ it work that way on my machines, cn't
remember). I would like solid facts, rather than a religious/exagerated
discussion.
I agree. I first ran into this on solaris. I
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
An Alpha my team manages with 1 TB of images on UFS takes 4 hours to
fsck.
Sounds like a good enough reason to me to port the newer NetBSD LFS code
to FreeBSD.
Brandon D. Valentine
--
bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Walter Campbe
ll writes:
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be
because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot
An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to
boot (which does not
--- Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An Alpha my team manages with 1 TB of images on UFS takes 4 hours to
fsck.
Now that's a bit of thrashing, eh?
Jordan, or anyone else who might know.. How long does it take "our" beast
(ftp.freebsd.org) to bring up
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:53:49PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Walter Campbe
ll writes:
HP/UX does something like this. I find it rather useful, but that may be
because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot
An
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