Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-18 Thread Dave Hayes
it will become worse. If everyone is busy fighting evil, who is left to create the good? :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< A free society is one

Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
said: "I rarely read the handbook *and* find that the procedures or tools as advertised" -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< "

Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
documents the work and provides some sort of link or summary for people who are running production or near-production systems. I really don't understand why I have this perception, nor is it logical that the perception should exist in the first place. It remains nonetheless. -- Dave Hayes

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
documentation on new features), so I would find a command that suggested new features and pointed the user to related documentation extremely useful. I'm sure there are many others who would agree. :) Would you explain why you do not? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetca

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-16 Thread Dave Hayes
on, though I'll admit tainting it with some humor. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< People sell talking parrots for huge sums. They never pause to com

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-16 Thread Dave Hayes
ut I'd like to see someone explain why this isn't a valid solution to both sides. :D -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< A solved problem is as useful to the mind as a br

libgeom documentation?

2012-06-25 Thread Dave Hayes
Libgeom has these functions geom_gettree() and geom_getxml but there is no documentation in the man page. Was this intentional? Is there a place these functions are documented other than their source code? :) Thanks in advance. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org

Panic: vm_page_insert: already inserted

2002-08-21 Thread Dave Hayes
I've recently experienced this crash on 4.6.2-RELEASE. Relevant information is appended to this email message. My question is: should I submit a PR or try to troubleshoot my hardware? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expre

BurnCD doesn't "just work" at 4.6-p1

2002-07-04 Thread Dave Hayes
: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A man stopped Nasrudin and asked him what day of the week

Re: panic: vm_object_terminate: freeing busy page 0xc0fbcdc4

2002-06-28 Thread Dave Hayes
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What kernel version are you running? 4.5-p4 at the moment. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< I was to learn later in life t

panic: vm_object_terminate: freeing busy page 0xc0fbcdc4

2002-06-27 Thread Dave Hayes
Subject says why a machine died. Anyone have any ideas what this panic from vm_object.c means? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "It is error alone which needs the support of gove

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
ds to go with ideas in that document. Perhaps this is the handbook? I don't have a completely clear picture yet. Maybe some of you can help me get one? =) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
gt; exciting enough... 8-) 8-)). Gah! Too much excitement for me. ;) I'm sure you folks hashed this all over before, but really...calling a branch "-stable" when it really isn't is not good semantic practice IMNSHO. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PR

Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
What does the _BP extension mean on the RELENG tags? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< It is difficult to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious. To Unsubscribe: s

Problems with many ATA drives

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Hayes
16/63] at ata4-master WDMA2 ad9: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata4-slave WDMA2 Yes, we know that the "WDMA2" is happening, this state proved to be independant of a drive failing. It has to do with 10 drives in a tower and cable lengths... =( -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, U

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Hayes
revival. ;) Finding out that they've been using BSD code all along only rubs salt in the wounds. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "Trying to control information in the ne

The real answer to Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
. The bottom line to all this is that if there is any line in an /etc/fstab that mounts on "/", fsck will use the device actually mounted as root, and not the one in the file. Back to the drawing board. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>&

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
explains the interactions between rc scripts. For those who feel this is still too obscure, have a look at: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/etc/rc.subr and pay attention to the run_rc_* subroutines. It's not much, but it's a start. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA,

Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:17:49 MST, Dave Hayes wrote: >> Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the >> operating system with well known religious implications should be >> presented in a clearer fas

Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
omments on something they haven't seen and such posts have > contributed nothing. Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the operating system with well known religious implications should be presented in a clearer fashion, with links pointed to the relevant docu

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
ed times have I seen someone wondering why a service didn't start on linux/solaris/hpux and it turned out that someone put a regular file in a directory that was supposed to have links in it. Being burned by this repeatedly (especially when it's not my originating mistake) is not somethin

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
ux...a fact I've used to convince people that FreeBSD administration is easier, faster, better...etc. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There is enough for all in th

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
BSDs, which is -hackers as well I'd think. I'll CC it. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "I'll have you hanged, if you don't prove that you are a mystic." s

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
David O'Brien -Hackers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real > /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at? There is none. No default fstab exists. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena

Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
/sbin/fsck for it). Does anyone have any clues or am I going to have to insert printf() calls into it to see what is going on? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "Challenges make y

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
ield to zero *I deleted the /cdrom fstab entry from the file* and it still tried to preen it. ;) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There *is* no such thing as peer pressure, only

Benchmarking FreeBSD (was Re: technical comparison)

2001-05-24 Thread Dave Hayes
ies a complete (and/or relevant) set of these tweaks when comparing benchmarks. Does this already exist, and if not, how hard would it be to catalog every single relavent tunable parameter in a FreeBSD system? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Hayes
y as well. Not to mention networking. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< We can never have enough of that which we really do not want. --Eric Hoffer To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Mkisofs and ISO images that boot

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
Well. Can anyone shed any light on the apparent inconsistencies between the handbook, the man page, and what is -really- needed to make a bootable CD? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
weeks, and sometimes the /etc/pam.conf does -not- get upgraded. I dunno why, nor am I likely to check, but I thought I'd provide another datapoint. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Hayes
. So this breaks the C++ compiler and any apps that were compiled with this? Forgive me if I don't understand this... -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "They that can giv

Question about building source

2001-05-07 Thread Dave Hayes
Am I correct in assuming that: $ cd /usr/src $ make installworld DESTDIR=/vol1/FreeBSD will install the entire OS into /vol1/FreeBSD? Has anyone ever tried this? ;) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entire

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Hayes
WET. Naturally, given this information, production systems with that strategy are fairly out of the question. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Possession of a system of knowledge,

Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Hayes
something like this? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "There is someone willing to argue about any point." --I don't know, but I'll argue any attr

Burncd problems

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Hayes
rnel is telling me: acd0: READ_TOC - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 ascq=00 error=04 acd0: WRITE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04 acd0: SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04 -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expr

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-12-01 Thread Dave Hayes
ld very well be. I am following the instructions in UPGRADING under "To update from 3.x to 4.x stable". -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There is no greater calamity for a nation or in

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hayes wrote: >> >> Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: > I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. > Could this be your problem. No, I misreported the tag. If I h

make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: ===> objdump ... ../libiberty/libiberty.a(choose-temp.o): In function `make_temp_file': choose-temp.o(.text+0x264): undefined reference to `mkstemps' Is this a simple fix I hope? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altaden

Adaptec 29160 problems (what you all want to hear eh?)

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Hayes
lot of options in the bios, no dice. Anyone have any clues? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< He who has self-conceit in his head - Do not imagine that he

ASUS CUBX Motherboard 3rd and 4th IDE channels

2000-10-14 Thread Dave Hayes
tely looks like ata2 and ata3. Is there support for 4 IDE channels (i.e. 8 devices) in 4.1.1? (If not, take heart that the bios config does not even seem to recognize that there are 4 channels. I'm going to try to find a BIOS upgrade...) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [

Re: What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
the dangers in increasing it too much? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "What's so special about the Net? People -still- don't listen..."

What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-10 Thread Dave Hayes
; 5) { printf("pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC\n"); warningdone++; } The machine in question has 57 days of uptime. This code appears to imply that I only get to see this 5 times during this period. :) Was this intentional