options MD_NSECT=30
into my kernel for a 150-meg /tmp. But I have done so, and it seems to
make no difference. I must be missing something.
% uname -a
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Aaron Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> > I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with
> > adduser. So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up
> > with a patch.
>
ne. Perhaps if this goes over well, Evan and I
will work on that next.
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--- /usr/sbin/adduser Thu Jan 13 12:20:38 2000
+++ adduser Tue Jan 18 16:57:05 2000
@@ -649,13 +649,17 @@
last if $passw
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>
> I dunno how well that will work if you are not running in Linux compatability
> mode, so you probably want to fetch a fresh set of sources for libbfd and
> build it yourself on/for FreeBSD.
Or look in:
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/bfd
/usr/src/gnu/usr.b
ached for financial assistance with
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
>The authors of bsd.port.mk have. Try this:
Oh, that's great! I've wanted for a long time to have a way of building
ports without being root. Thank you.
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come.
I assume that this flag would require write permission to the file, to
prevent bad security implications?
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nments until after
3.2 came out and had taken enough pounding to give me some confidence in
it.
I'm not blaming anyone, nor am I saying that I would have run things
better, but I *am* taking issue with the accusation of revisionism.
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ortunately, means precisely nothing.
In my tests, I've found that FreeBSD is getting faster with successive
releases -- I think because the increased weight of the extra disks helps
overcome wind resistance.
HTH, HAND.
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> Generally on FreeBSD machines that are otherwise unused and flush with
> memory, the formula I've seen for n is 4 * #CPU.
Thank you -- I didn't need a precise answer, just a good heuristic.
This will do nicely.
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ms with 512 MB or more of RAM, so that
hasn't been an issue.
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nder if this
strategy is actually hurting me, rather than merely failing to help
much.
Once I get a scratch box that I can waste on things like this, I'll run
some tests and find out.
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ere's free CPU, there should
always be a process available to use it.
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On 11 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Ben Rosengart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does anyone know of a method for determining the optimal number of
> > concurrent jobs with which to make world (or anything else for that
> > matter), given the amount of RAM, spe
Does anyone know of a method for determining the optimal number of
concurrent jobs with which to make world (or anything else for that
matter), given the amount of RAM, speed of processor, version of
FreeBSD, speed and layout of disk(s), etc.?
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Youse wrote:
> >
> > > One of the biggest reasons for the difference: FreeBSD, by default,
> > > performs _synchronous_ metadata upda
I have
> seen more than one [production!] Linux machine completely trash its
> filesystems because the implementors decided that their "NT-killer" must
> have good performance at the expense of serious, production-quality
> reliability.
Read the post again -- they were us
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
> Ben Rosengart wrote:
> >
> > Well, I for one would like a command that fetches a package without
> > installing it. I don't see any option to pkg_add for that.
>
> See fetch(1). ;^)
>
> (Sorry, catching up aft
t see any option to pkg_add for that.
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Wouldn't stackable filesystems solve this rather neatly?
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uldn't be done in rc.local.
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ge perms on the bpf device so that members of the wheel
group can read it.
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e that LINT or GENERIC could get some more informative
comments on this? I'd offer diffs, but I don't know whether all six
options are necessary, or some subset. I've cc'd this to hackers for
comments on this question.
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e that LINT or GENERIC could get some more informative
comments on this? I'd offer diffs, but I don't know whether all six
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a
> copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did
> just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and
> termcap respectivly.
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a
> copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did
> just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and
> termcap respectivly
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is
in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files
in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install.
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I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is
in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files
in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install.
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I am attempting to use syslogd on FreeBSD to log messages from a linux syslogd
> with little success. Is it possible to use the FBSD syslogd to log messages
> from other unix flavors?
Yes, absolutely. What is the problem you're experiencing?
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I am attempting to use syslogd on FreeBSD to log messages from a linux syslogd
> with little success. Is it possible to use the FBSD syslogd to log messages
> from other unix flavors?
Yes, absolutely. What is the problem you're experiencing?
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> ?? I thought we had already established that neither Linux or NT runs
> on Merced, only HP-UX so far.
"Merced silicon happens: Linux runs, NT doesn't"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990826-03.html
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> ?? I thought we had already established that neither Linux or NT runs
> on Merced, only HP-UX so far.
"Merced silicon happens: Linux runs, NT doesn't"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990826-03.html
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On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Thu 1999-08-26 (12:15), Ben Rosengart wrote:
> >
> > (The man page seems to be in error, though, when it says that "sysctl
> > vfs" tells what kinds of filesystems are available.)
>
> lsvfs should give
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> df -t noprocfs
>
> and voila no procfs in the output !
Well that works. Thanks.
(The man page seems to be in error, though, when it says that "sysctl
vfs" tells what kinds of filesystems are available.)
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On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Thu 1999-08-26 (12:15), Ben Rosengart wrote:
> >
> > (The man page seems to be in error, though, when it says that "sysctl
> > vfs" tells what kinds of filesystems are available.)
>
> lsvfs should give
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote:
> df -t noprocfs
>
> and voila no procfs in the output !
Well that works. Thanks.
(The man page seems to be in error, though, when it says that "sysctl
vfs" tells what kinds of filesystems are available.)
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> We also have a precedent for options which affect but do not imply a
> long listing (-o). I believe we should stick with that precedent and
> leave -n as it is.
Why not change -o's behavior too? I find the current behavior
unintuitive and kind of annoy
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> We also have a precedent for options which affect but do not imply a
> long listing (-o). I believe we should stick with that precedent and
> leave -n as it is.
Why not change -o's behavior too? I find the current behavior
unintuitive and kind of anno
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, jin biao wrote:
> Could you tell me where is the code of the functions(sendto,
> recvfrom,socket,bind...) located at FreeBSD source tree.
narcissus% pwd
/sys
narcissus% find . | xargs grep -a ^sendto
./kern/uipc_syscalls.c:sendto(p, uap)
narcissus%
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, jin biao wrote:
> Could you tell me where is the code of the functions(sendto,
> recvfrom,socket,bind...) located at FreeBSD source tree.
narcissus% pwd
/sys
narcissus% find . | xargs grep -a ^sendto
./kern/uipc_syscalls.c:sendto(p, uap)
narcissus%
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
>
> > [Regarding GPL]
> > If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only
> > have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the
> > source"?
>
> Yes, you can d
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
>
> > [Regarding GPL]
> > If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only
> > have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the
> > source"?
>
> Yes, you can
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> If you're writing unencumbered code, placing it under
> libcompat/gnu may lead to confusion because all other
> directory paths containing gnu contain GPL'd code.
> Just stick it into libcompat.
How about libcompat/gnuish? (F
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> If you're writing unencumbered code, placing it under
> libcompat/gnu may lead to confusion because all other
> directory paths containing gnu contain GPL'd code.
> Just stick it into libcompat.
How about libcompat/gnuish? (
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Gutov Grigory wrote:
> I have a question. I buy 6 MegaRAID Ultra PCI SCSI Disk Array Controller's
> and want to use they in FreeBSD, but not found driver. I wrote to
> supp...@ami.com and they siad that no driver for FreeBSD. I found driver for
> Linux and want use it in FreeB
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> I have a question. I buy 6 MegaRAID Ultra PCI SCSI Disk Array Controller's
> and want to use they in FreeBSD, but not found driver. I wrote to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they siad that no driver for FreeBSD. I found driver for
> Linux and want use it in Fr
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Chris Csanady wrote:
> I don't know, but I came across this at SGI:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
>
> It looks as though they plan to release it under the GPL. :(
So? It can still be distributed with FreeBSD. How many people are
going to want to modify this c
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Chris Csanady wrote:
> I don't know, but I came across this at SGI:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
>
> It looks as though they plan to release it under the GPL. :(
So? It can still be distributed with FreeBSD. How many people are
going to want to modify this
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
> That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
> That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> The -n option to trafshow disables number->name translation for
> both addresses and ports, although that might be more than what is wanted.
> I do know what you mean though. On some of the machines I administer I
> have some custom entries for /etc/service
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> The -n option to trafshow disables number->name translation for
> both addresses and ports, although that might be more than what is wanted.
> I do know what you mean though. On some of the machines I administer I
> have some custom entries for /etc/servic
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Ok - but it's a bit misleading having both values in /etc/services..
>
> Shouldn't be:
> http 80/tcpwww www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
> http 80/udpwww www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
>
> Should be:
> htt
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Ok - but it's a bit misleading having both values in /etc/services..
>
> Shouldn't be:
> http 80/tcpwww www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
> http 80/udpwww www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
>
> Should be:
> ht
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote:
> There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best.
I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked
someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the
problem user was.
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote:
> There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best.
I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked
someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 3, 1999, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> > > I would certainly welcome such info...
> > >
> > > The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the
> > > few things that is!).
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 3, 1999, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> > > I would certainly welcome such info...
> > >
> > > The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the
> > > few things that is!).
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, David Malone wrote:
> Some people think that doing the hosts.allow lookup is too expensive
> for some services but not others. (It requires opening /etc/hosts.allow,
> reading it in line by line and possibly doing DNS lookups).
I would hope that anyone concerned about speed
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, David Malone wrote:
> Some people think that doing the hosts.allow lookup is too expensive
> for some services but not others. (It requires opening /etc/hosts.allow,
> reading it in line by line and possibly doing DNS lookups).
I would hope that anyone concerned about speed w
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:53:28 GMT, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>
> > But if you can turn off wrapping, you can save a fork()/exec() per
> > connection.
>
> The only exec is an execv() at line 740 of inetd.c, which launches the
>
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:04:29 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > Because that only controls access, it does not actually turn wrapping off.
>
> Let me be more specific; if you don't want ftpd wrapped, just add
>
> ftpd: ALL : ALLOW
>
> to your /etc/host
Hello,
I'm looking for some documentation on how to create packages.
Specifically, I need to learn how to make the package perform certain
actions upon installation.
Does anyone have a pointer to some good docs on package rolling?
As usual with this list, I'd appreciate a copy of any replies, as
Hi folks,
I am trying to set the time zone to GMT on some 2.2.8 machines. This
is trivial on a 3.x system (cd /usr/share/zoneinfo && tzsetup GMT), but
on 2.x, tzsetup(8) doesn't take a time zone argument. Is there another
interface I can use? Or is it safe to copy a -stable tzsetup(8) over
and
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