Cool script to update ports in cron..

2005-02-01 Thread Julio Capote
Hey guys, over the past week I've been working on a nifty script to update your ports tree periodically. I attached the script to this message, notable features: *logging *supfile-independant *easy configuration Hope you guys find it as useful as i did. =) - Julio ___

Re: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored

2005-02-01 Thread Romain Kang
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:29:00PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm > not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not > the vehavior I expected. The format of /etc/hosts has been thus for more than 20 years

/etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored

2005-02-01 Thread David Scheidt
If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not the vehavior I expected. It looks like it's the usage of strpbrk() in the gethostent() function of src/lib/libc/net/gethostbyht.c. It wouldn't be hard t

Re: Geode integrated peripherals support?

2005-02-01 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Milan Obuch wrote this message on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:52 +0100: > On Friday 21 January 2005 00:51, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Milan Obuch wrote this message on Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:00 +0100: > > > > [skip] > > > Great, could we cooperate? > > > > Sure, though Joerg Wunsch has been doing wor

Re: TX rate problem in hostap mode

2005-02-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, We are using a Samsung wireless card (PRISM2) with FreeBSD 5.3 in hostap mode and client is running FreeBSD 5.3 with Orinoco wireless card, all works fine but tx rate at hostap it is all time in 2Mbps. We found this article for solve this problem with FreeBSD 5.x: http:/

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:31:11PM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote: +> > I've made some fixes a week or something +> > ago, I just created a patch against HEAD if you want to try it: +> > +> >http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/jail_2005020101.patch +> > +> > There can still be some remaining

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Justin Hopper
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:40 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:13:04PM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote: > +> We are considering open sourcing all of our stuff, to contribute back > +> what we can to the OS that allowed us to build our entire company. I'd > +> really like to

TX rate problem in hostap mode

2005-02-01 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, We are using a Samsung wireless card (PRISM2) with FreeBSD 5.3 in hostap mode and client is running FreeBSD 5.3 with Orinoco wireless card, all works fine but tx rate at hostap it is all time in 2Mbps. We found this article for solve this problem with FreeBSD 5.x: http://excamera.com/cgi-bin

Re: differences between bsd ifconfig and linux ifconfig...

2005-02-01 Thread Julio Capote
I actually got a response from someone in freebsd-devel, its due to the differences in drivers between bsd's kernel and linux's On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:48:39 +0100, Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Capote wrote: > > >I was wondering if anyone knew architecturally and fundamentally

Re: differences between bsd ifconfig and linux ifconfig...

2005-02-01 Thread Arne Schwabe
Julio Capote wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew architecturally and fundamentally why bsd's ifconfig can display active state information regarding the physical medium and why linux ifconfig cant? Not to start any trolling on which is superior, just curious about the difference. Well Linux' (

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail' -- desirable jail features

2005-02-01 Thread H. S.
In my opinion, FreeBSD is currently behind in virtual server implementations for a few reasons; It does not support multiple IPs in jails. Sure, there are patches, but the one here doesn't compile on 5.3-STABLE, for example. Support integrated into the base system would be neat. It would also be n

differences between bsd ifconfig and linux ifconfig...

2005-02-01 Thread Julio Capote
I was wondering if anyone knew architecturally and fundamentally why bsd's ifconfig can display active state information regarding the physical medium and why linux ifconfig cant? Not to start any trolling on which is superior, just curious about the difference. - Julio __

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Xin LI
I have attached an "alpha" patch in attachment that implements skeljail, which includes an "installskel" target to install a (hmm... as many as you wish and your hard disk allows) skeleton after buildworld. In order to make use it, follow the following procedure: 0. make buildworld is a prerequis

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Xin LI wrote: 在 2005-02-01二的 11:40 +0100,Pawel Jakub Dawidek写道: The thing that can be useful IMHO is possibility to use reboot(8)/shutdown(8), etc. inside a jail, but... I'm unfortunately too busy with other (probably less interesting, but profitable) projects. Quick question:

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:52:17AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: +> ??? 2005-02-01?? 11:40 +0100???Pawel Jakub Dawidek? +> > The thing that can be useful IMHO is possibility to use +> > reboot(8)/shutdown(8), etc. inside a jail, but... +> > I'm unfortunately too busy with other (probably less in

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Xin LI
å 2005-02-01äç 11:40 +0100ïPawel Jakub Dawidekåéï > The thing that can be useful IMHO is possibility to use > reboot(8)/shutdown(8), etc. inside a jail, but... > I'm unfortunately too busy with other (probably less interesting, but > profitable) projects. Quick question: Is this mean we can have

Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-01 Thread Deomid Ryabkov
This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report name of the file/directory being changed. Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file? I could, if I hadn't near 10 millions of them. Hm. I meant monitoring the directory itself, as a file, then parsing the d

Re: GENERIC build broken

2005-02-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:01 am, Jason Henson wrote: > On 01/24/05 20:32:04, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>> I have stared with fascination on this email for a full 30 minutes. > >>> > >>> What could possibly be going on in the mind which ca

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-02-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Scott Long wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, yoke an wrote: > > My motherboard is using an ICH5 southbridge and your suggestion is works. > > As you said, my sata disks appear to be normal IDE drives but it is not > > running on Raid mode. Currently I'm having 2 H

Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Deomid Ryabkov wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Deomid Ryabkov wrote: This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report name of the file/directory being changed. Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file? I could, if I hadn't near 10 millions of them. Hm. I meant mon

Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-01 Thread Deomid Ryabkov
Ivan Voras wrote: Deomid Ryabkov wrote: This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report name of the file/directory being changed. Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file? I could, if I hadn't near 10 millions of them. -- Deomid Ryabkov aka Rojer [EMAIL PRO

Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Deomid Ryabkov wrote: This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report name of the file/directory being changed. Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: bug in calcru() - the clock is ticking

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, all - i am currently running the experiment with both suggestions - doug's one of simply re-ordering the equations, and my more complicated one with the conditional (and the re-ordering) - the first significant data point will come tomorrow, when the test cpu times pass the first error thre

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Xin LI wrote: > What I am going to proposal is a concept that I call it "skeleton jail", > or "skeljail" for short. A skel jail is something that shares most base > system binaries/libraries with the host, through read-only mount_null's. Please post your scripts :-) We rec

Call for comments: CoxR, a CVS/mail-lists/BTS searching system

2005-02-01 Thread Kei Sasaki
Dear Sirs/Madams I am a second-year master's student at the Osaka University, Japan. My major is computer science and my interests lie in the development process of open source software, interests that I pursue being part of the local research group on software process. My research group is sug

Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-01 Thread Deomid Ryabkov
We need to keep track of changes to filesystem containing large number of files. The number of files is huge (to the point where walking the directory structure becomes impractical), but the amount of changes is small. However, there is no single source of these changes: it might be a script, or

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:13:04PM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote: +> We are considering open sourcing all of our stuff, to contribute back +> what we can to the OS that allowed us to build our entire company. I'd +> really like to see what others have done to make jails more manageable, +> as it seem

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
Dear Xin, On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Xin LI wrote: XL> What I am going to proposal is a concept that I call it "skeleton jail", XL> or "skeljail" for short. A skel jail is something that shares most base XL> system binaries/libraries with the host, through read-only mount_null's. [snip] XL> I have s

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
> I'm curious if your idea for jails extends to running 50+ jails on a box > or not? I'd definitely be interested in any feedback you have on what > problems may or may not be encountered with so many mounts and also the > stability of nullfs nowadays. PHK has just made a call for unionfs and nul