Re: New FreeBSD packaging system

2007-05-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
gt; going to be making changes to the way the ports/packages store the > information about what exists, it should be done in such a way that > it is scalable and at the same time extensible (is this a word?). So why not take the same approach that is used in the password and shadow files. That way you have a plain text editable file which then builds the pwd.db and spwd.db files that are used by the system. Or am I missing something there. > Bert JW Regeer Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

2006-08-29 Thread Bill Vermillion
sr/ports directory runs much faster, be sure to add NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES in your /etc/make.conf. After you run that on the entire tree besure to comment it out so that when you run make clean inside a port you clean all the dependancies too. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Vermillion
- which as I said is rare. The way to check if a web-site is readable by all it to use a monochrome monitor [ exceedingly hard to find nowdays ], and at least some government sites are now required to be that way. Color can be a great way to emphasize items >IF< the chroma and luminance

Re: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
They all laughed on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 13:32 when Mike Meyer said: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > >From: Bill Vermillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > has some > > >color vision problem. Mine is a bit

Re: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
"Ang utong ko ay sasabog sa sarap!" exclaimed Sergey Babkin while reading this message on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:18 and then responded with: > >From: Bill Vermillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > has some > >color vision problem. Mine is a bit more than others.

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
admin a system needs to be able to run on something as lowly as a pure serial terminal as the above poster notes. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Filesystem monitoring question

2005-11-18 Thread Bill Vermillion
t; My question is: What do I need to learn in order to construct a > trigger for my code? > If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly > appreciate it. What is that you need that fam won't do. See man 1m fam. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _

Re: system password's file --failed

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Vermillion
e fields and put the encrypted portion of shadow where it belongs. And put that in master.passwd and USE VIPW - which will check the file. If master.passwd is correct when you exit vipw it will build /etc/passwd. I don't recall the script the other person posted, but the directions above

Re: systems password's file

2005-10-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
oved to getting their mail directly from their ISP. It was about a 10 minute job [max] using cut(1) and paste(1). Since I'd started with Unix before pool and on limited systems, those tools came to mind naturally. Both the SGI and SunOS conversions worked flawlessly. Bill -- Bill Ver

Re: Software suspend on FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
ething similar... > No. Yes. It depends upon which shell you are using. For shells that support it you just suspend it with control-Z. A restart is issued with 'fg' - foreground. Unless of course the OP means something entirely different. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
#x27;t have to really worry about, unless you plan to shove the entire computer off the desk when it is running with the power on. Bill [The orignal post was in of freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 126, Issue 5] -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ fr

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSd4.7

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
ure the filesystem is in an stable state. The 'fragments' you see referenced in the fsck only reference the number of files that are stored in fragments - eg not occupying a full block allocation. Bill Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _

Re: immenent disk failure ?

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
rors like that was in the 3.x era with a SCSI controller. Last IDE problem I had was a bad read that force the system into PIO mode with over 75% performance decrease. The only way around that one that I was aware of was a reboot. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___

Design and Implemenations of FreeBSD

2005-03-24 Thread Bill Vermillion
#x27; sale with 43% discounts - over 700 books. I hate to think how much I've spent on computer books in the past 20 years or so - but it's in the thousands. Sort of a college educations at home. I still have my first Unix books - the Bell Labs Unix Programmers

Flushing HD cache - was Re: FUD about CGD and GDBE

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Vermillion
ivability static and at least 20G when turning. And a human body will not normaly survive a 20G shock. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Vermillion
file systems? IT surely is a lot faster. You could mount 10 CD images this way and only use up 6GB space and with 500GB HDs coming in at $399 [I saw local ads for that last week] it could be cheaper than trying to find a changer. > End of freebsd-ha

Re: Protecting from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Bill Vermillion
iasing rm to rm -i. If you know that you can't shoot yourself in the foot, you will not treat rm as if it were a loaded automatic pistol and you don't reinforce your double checking. Then one day you go to a machine that doesn't have the safety-

Re: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-08 Thread Bill Vermillion
om the HD that was heard above the noise of the 4 Liebert air-handlers in the colo. That was a SCSI 'cudda. The bearings were getting really bad. As one of the other posters notice SCSI and drives designed for server work - not made to be the cheapest desk-top

Re: fsck fails - mark sectors as bad?

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Vermillion
years, so I've never had to do this on a current BSD type FS - just the old S51 and early FFS on commercial Unix systems. Bill > End of freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 54, Issue 1 > ** -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
've only had to access them via floppy about twice, as I can rebuild and reinstall remotely. As long as I don't have to remake a file system I'm in good shape. But CD's just aren't always in 'industrial' type machines - as the only time they'd be used

Re: adding more ram

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Vermillion
round 1996 - reserverd swap space for applications when the application started up so those needed large swap space. Often it was never used, but the design allocated it anyway. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Vermillion
# DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# ...[deleted - only left significant line - wjv] /dev/da0s1f /usrufs rw,noatime 2 2 This has among other things a new hierarchy and in this underpowered system I saw no need to write ati

low level format of an IDE drive

2002-07-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
go astry because of an old-bios and could not get anything to work. It was a brand new warranted drive. Manufacturer 'recertify' - one of the options on the Maxtor disk - made everything lovely again. For SCSI problems I have access to an SGI and their low-level SCSI utility is wonde

Re: lsof and listening processes on 4.5

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Vermillion
ports all the time. I'm running 4.5-Stable #9 and I recompiled lsof yesterday from the prots with absolutely no problems. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:30:56PM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: > > > > > On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcas

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
2.168.1.2 to 192.168.2.255, the packets are dropped to the > floor. IMO, this is wrong... But the question now is - what is the netmask on these interfaces.? That will make a difference. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V5 #152

2001-06-17 Thread Bill Vermillion
t BSD-derived, ... Using Windows Explorer and searching for contain text with "Regents of the University of California" yield results for: C:\windows\ftp.exe -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-13 Thread Bill Vermillion
eone might try to enforce that. It was a well-know useage but someone did patent it. This goes to the era of the suits on 'look and feel'.We just need to hide all the code from the lawyers. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: kernel size..

2001-05-10 Thread Bill Vermillion
0 when i cheked it. > my kernel is stable there is no probs. > but y is size soo big?? No one will have a clue unless you at least tell us what lines you modified. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V5 #1

2001-01-07 Thread Bill Vermillion
g - not running a job twice for example. I've not had a problem on BSD - but then I don't have anything scheduled in those hours except things that run every hour. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message