Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-16 Thread David Brodbeck
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Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread David Brodbeck
encountered that, at least on RedHat. I routinely override stuff in /etc/profile in my local .bash_profile. The bash manpage is pretty explicit that /etc/profile is read first. Are some distros doing something silly like sourcing /etc/profile in .bash_profile? -- David Brodbeck System Administrator

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread David Brodbeck
doing something pre-configured (like starting/stopping an existing service), but if you want to do something custom you have to do a *lot* of digging to figure out how to make it work. Some of the new stuff (like NWAM network configuration) is not even configurable without a GUI. -- David Brodbeck

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread David Brodbeck
of a day trying to figure out why Ubuntu wouldn't launch a new rc script I'd installed before realizing that the parallel init system it uses simply silently ignores scripts that don't indicate their dependencies in a way it understands. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread David Brodbeck
in /etc/netmasks. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers

Re: NFS - slow

2012-05-09 Thread David Brodbeck
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Re: easy way to determine if a stream or fd is seekable

2011-11-18 Thread David Brodbeck
to be. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-10 Thread David Brodbeck
as the root user with invalid UIDs. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like turning off negative caching would avoid a lot of potential problems for not much cost. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ freebsd

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10/10/2011 11:55, David Brodbeck wrote: Is there any reason to cache negative hits? It's very important for DNS since there are a fairly large number of misbehaving applications that don't stop querying until they get

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread David Brodbeck
for the new machine, then gets confused when a subsequent lookup of that account fails. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo