On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:06:35PM +0200, Ali Okan YÜKSEL wrote:
I know for UPDATING, it s not correct way, but i tried and 8.2 system works
with 8.3 kernel (copied 8.3 /boot/kernel directory to freebsd 8.2
/boot/kernel) and it s not good solution but i want to know;
- What are specific
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:20:28PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
Does anyone know a light-weight BSD-licensed (or analogous) library / piece of
code for doing useful things with graphs?
Thank you.
Errr graphs is fairly ambiguous, and things with graphs covers a
very wide range of
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:11:21PM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:
...
But, I would like to drive this to a solution on arch@. We don't have an
atf@, but we do have a test@ and testing@. We have too many mailing
lists already, so let's finish this up here if we can and then
continue
Huh??!?
At least as far back as 06 Jan (based on the mtime of /etc/src.conf), I
had set up src.conf to read:
PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver
as I use that driver on my laptop.
Further (as some of you may recall), I maintain private mirrors of the
src ports repositories on the laptop, which I
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:21:07PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
The problem is fixed now. This time I tested build and install with the
same code. :(
Ah; I see. Cool; thanks! :-)
Sorry for the breakage,
...
Eh; let's hope that's the worst thing that happens for the rest of the
month, shall
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:10:04AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
mostly kernel time.
Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.
true. system that never crash are not often booted
...
I'd rather not get into a long discussion about this, but the above
reflects a perception
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 03:53:26PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
On 4-6-2012 9:54, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
I forgot to switch back to base gcc before
compiling the nvidia driver. I installed the driver and rebooted, xorg
came up but as soon as I logged in, kwin crashed, then the machine
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:46:23AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
After the recent system upgrade that brought nvidia-driver-295.49 my
system began to malfunction.
...
9400GT
I can't believe this is only my problem. I think the version should be
rolled back until the problem is fixed.
...
First:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:15:58PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
...
I still have the old problem kernel around, but it's probably not
instrumented for any meaningful diagnoses.
...
Several months ago, I was running a set of meaurements (to determine how
performance for a certain task varied
As I mentioned in
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120306000520.GS1519, at work,
we're trying to use mtree(8) to do reality checks on server
configuration/provisioning. (We are not proposing the use of mtree to
actually enforce a particular configuration -- we are only considering
using it
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 06:05:51PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
...
I guess the question is why do *you* find the /set lines to (even just
occasionally) not be useful?
...
Simple: I overlooked them. :-}
Thanks for the clarification: I *thought* there might be something
fairly obvious that I
I recently found that, running FreBSD/i386 stable/8 as of around
r221857, the disk quota subsystem appears to overflow wrap as it
crosses the 2TB mark.
Evidence: I ran a task in a loop, invoking quota -h after each
iteration. Each invocation should write about 114.2GB to the file
system.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:38:29PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:27:32PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
There are other ways to do it, of course -- e.g., the first time the
utility is run, it could actually ask, but then cache the information in
some place so it could
Recent changes to /usr/share/zoneinfo have reminded me that my
regular updates to my FreeBSD machines via source update
/usr/share/zoneinfo, but /etc/localtime remains a copy of whatever
was in /usr/share/zoneinfo for the selected zone at the time
tzsetup(8) was last run -- and I certainly don't
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:31:22PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
On 03/27/2011 08:38, David Wolfskill wrote:
It would (in principle) be possible to teach mergemaster(8) how to
do this (possibly by including a cookie in ~/.mergemasterrc or
/etc/mergemaster.rc to tell it what the reference zoneinfo
I'm using a little shell script to capture selected sysctl OID
values periodically, in an attempt to get a better idea how the
resources of a system are being used during a long-running (usually
measured in hours), mission-critical workload.
In the process of testing this, I've seen some of the
I won't claim that the approach I use is best for anyone (even me),
but it generally works adequately for my purposes.
I use a dual- (actually, quad-)boot approach, and set up the file
systems in such a way that /usr/local is a symlink from each bootable
environment to the same place.
On my home
src/usr.bin/netstat/if.c was modified back in late November 1995, to
expand the Network field from 11 characters to 13:
| Revision 12459 - (view) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
| Modified Wed Nov 22 22:21:04 1995 UTC (14 years, 8 months ago) by se
| File length: 11619 byte(s)
| Diff to previous
I'm in the process of setting up some reference machines at work;
about the only interesting thing about them is that each is
configured to be able to boot from any of the 4 MBR slices; I have
a script for cloning one slice to another, at which point I can
boot from the newly-populated slice and
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:11:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de writes:
sendmail's configuration was never a black art unless you needed
features beyond what the m4 macro set supported.
The m4 macro set is a fairly recent development.
I was
For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD
machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e.g., one can act as a
fallback if an attempted software upgrade proves to have been ill-timed.
In the past, I've done this manually; while a bit tedious fairly
target-rich with
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:58:29PM +, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 2010-03-01 14:34:50, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
% fgrep 'Directory not empty' inkscape.txt
rmdir: /work/ports/devel/boost-libs/work: Directory not empty
...
rmdir: /work/ports/x11-toolkits/pangomm/work:
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:31:11AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
Thoughts?
INSTKERNNAME rather than INSTALLKERNEL?
Well, I was interested in knowing which config was being used, not so
much what the name of the subdirectory in /boot was going to be.
(Default value for
In the usual case where a machine is (only) used to build its own
kernel, this is admittedly of no benefit.
But for build machines that are used to build kernels for other
machines (as well as themselves), it kinda bugged me that I was being
told which kernels were being built, but not which one
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:59:13PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, David Wolfskill wrote:
Attached patch is against head; for the above, I had patched stable/7.
Thoughts?
INSTKERNNAME rather than INSTALLKERNEL?
Well, I was interested in knowing which config was being
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Jay Loden wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
ps(1) and top(1) both use ki_pctcpu, see the getpcpu()
function in src/bin/ps/print.c and format_next_process()
in src/usr.bin/top/machine.c
Hi Oliver, thanks for the reply. I noticed the same after some
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Nikola Kne??evi?? wrote:
Hi,
I would like to obtain fore mentioned data from within my module. I
need these performance metrics to see how certain code executes, and
make decisions during the runtime. pmc(3) seems complete, but it also
seems
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:41PM +0530, chandra reddy wrote:
Hi,
I am getting the following error when i run tar on a directory.
[chan...@home]$ tar zcf config-xsl.tar config-xsl/9.6
tar: Cannot open directory
At work, we have some machines we're setting up that have a fair amount
of UFS2 scratch space.
While we would prefer to leave the file systems in question intact
iff they are clean, we do not want to run fsck(8) against them
if they are not (because we expect that it would take too long);
rather,
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:22:24AM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
...
Anyone know of a reasonable way to quickly determine whether or not
a UFS2 file system is clean from the command line?
dumpfs will tell you the status of the 'clean' flag:
dumpfs /dev/ad0s1d | grep clean
That will output
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:35:42AM +0300, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
...
Some of the stuff you want can be found here:
r...@shark:~# file -s /dev/ufs/home
/dev/ufs/home: Unix Fast File system [v2] (little-endian) last mounted on
/home, volume name home, last written at Fri Dec 26 06:33:07
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:41:29PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
...
* At 1229033597.287187 it issues an fstatfs() against FD 4; the
unsuccessful return is at 1229033597.287195, claiming ENOENT.
Say WHAT??!?
...
But is this error transient or permanent ? I.e., would restart of rm
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:06:20PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
...
What concerns me is that even if the attempted unmount gets EBUSY, the
user-level process descending the directory hierarchy is getting ENOENT
trying to issue fstatfs() against an open file descriptor.
I'm having
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:30:26AM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
...
The different behaviour for -CURRENT could be the newer RPC layer that
was recently introduced, but that doesn't explain the basic problem.
OK.
All I can think of is to ask the obvious question. Are you using
interruptible or
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:15:38PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
I seem to have a fairly- (though not deterministly so) reproducible
mode of failure with an NFS-mounted directory hierarchy: An attempt to
traverse a sufficiently large hierarchy (e.g., via tar zcpf or rm
-fr) will fail to visit
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:20:05PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
Kostik Belousov wrote:
...
Did you saw me previous answer ? Supposed patch for your problem was
committed to head as r185557, and MFCed to 7 in r185796, and to
7.1 in r185801.
Please test with latest sources.
did you
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 02:20:32PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
...
i'll try to check it here soon, but in the meantime, could you try the same
but mounting directly, not via amd, to remove one item from the equation?
(I don't know how much amd is involved here, but if you are running on a
I seem to have a fairly- (though not deterministly so) reproducible
mode of failure with an NFS-mounted directory hierarchy: An attempt to
traverse a sufficiently large hierarchy (e.g., via tar zcpf or rm
-fr) will fail to visit some subdirectories, typically apparently
acting as if the
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:34:10PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
...
One solution would be to let xconsole just display /var/log/messages.
Errr... it may be rather a pathological case, but you might want to
check the content of /etc/syslog.conf on the local machine before
getting too carried away
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:46:36PM -0700, Charles Beckham wrote:
[... netstat -ibdnW doesn't show changes in Obytes (or Opkts)...]
...
as you can see, the ipfw counters are increasing, but not the netstat
output, any ideas, or am i missing something?
First, what is the output of uname -r (at
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:15:15PM -0700, Charles Beckham wrote:
sorry, heres a uname
x# uname -a
FreeBSD x.worxtech.net 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Sun May 25
12:15:51 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X
i386
also i should point out that this machine has ~ 100
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:49:48AM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
My professor told me about instructions being in /usr/src/Makefile
for rebuilding my world. I feel better about following them because
they are close to the command line to me and can't be out of date, right?
No. Any comments or
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:09:36PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
...
I find this functionality very useful, but the addition of another flag
as problematic. First of all, old releases don't have it. Secondly, the
behaviour you describe should be the default anyway (IMHO).
Thank you for your
I recently started using output from sysctl(8) to get information from
some FreeBSD systems in what I hope is a low-impact way.
I wanted to avoid installing or configuring any additional software on
the machines; as they didn't have an SNMP daemon running (and I'm not
the one who actually
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:32:46PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
...
Whilst not addressing your issues with sysctl, have you considered
using process accounting (acct(5) and sa(8))?
Yes, but I have the impression (of which I wouldn't mind being
disabused) that that approach would perturb the
At work, I'm trying to get some measurements for what is going on on
various systems, especially when developers are trying to use them.
(The goal is to improve the situation; measurement is a rather early
step in that process.)
To that end, I've cobbled up a Perl script that acts as a wrapper
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:48:40PM -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
My apologies
I forgot to do a cvs commit of sbin/ipf in addition to contrib/ipfilter
and sys/contrib/ipfilter. I've just done a commit that should fix this.
...
It did:
g1-18(6.3-P)[1] uname -a
FreeBSD g1-18.catwhisker.org.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:55PM +0300, Artis Caune wrote:
How about aditional flag (X) to newsyslog, which don't compress first
log file?
This is useful for apache.
...
After a bit of discussion here, and using a patch to newsyslog.c
supplied by Dirk GOUDERS [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which I
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
...
We have a requirement to retain some number of logfiles, but only
compress those older than the Nth generation.
Thus, we might retain 90 rotated generations of the log file, of which
the oldest 50 are compressed,
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:12:29PM +0200, Joost Bekkers wrote:
On Fri, August 10, 2007 18:13, David Wolfskill wrote:
Biggest problem I can see (with what I want to accomplish) is how to
specify it in the config file.
We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:39:42PM +0200, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of
plain log files and M the number of compressed ones.
This would also negate the need for a new flag.
It could also be done with a numerical flag n
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:55PM +0300, Artis Caune wrote:
How about aditional flag (X) to newsyslog, which don't compress first
log file?
...
Interesting idea, but it still falls short of something we recently
needed to do at work:
We have a requirement to retain some number of logfiles,
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:55:18PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Another simple question (I hope):
Is there any reason why shell commands should be used in place of a
C command (in this case chmod via vsystem instead of the chmod(2)
function)? It seems like the fork / exec would be more
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:38:42PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
In case someone can fix this, it seems that at least
mx2.freebsd.org is blacklisted at dnsbl.sorbs.net
The above is off-topic ofr the technical FreeBSD.org lists.
Please address your concerns about SORBS to those who either run or
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:22:40PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
I had one of these [kernel panics] a couple of weeks ago or so...
...[upgrade to -STABLE as of 15 June; repeat panic]...
The message to which I'm replying (posted to -stable) has the
particulars about the panic in question
ave a rich fantasy life.)
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quot; file to permit "fred" the
level of access (to the requisite command(s))?
Assuming, of course, that "sudo" had been set up in the first place.
[Probably not really -hackers material]
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his presumption could be useful, if used in
sufficient moderation.
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do it with
sendmail.
At least in the case of sendmail, the queue directories should be owned
by the user in question (especially if they're mode 0700).
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). And I do it with
sendmail.
At least in the case of sendmail, the queue directories should be owned
by the user in question (especially if they're mode 0700).
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On the NIS master, I also turn on nis_server_enable nis_ypxfrd_enable.
The (NIS) map "amd.master" contains the mountpoint/map pairs to use for
amd.
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to use for
amd.
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ementation (among other things) -dependent).
Hope someone finds a bit of this of use,
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:19:46 +0100
From: Nik Clayton n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk
Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at
http://www.inter-mezzo.org/
Coda (which already has a FreeBSD port) also does this, as well as a few
other things. However, Coda is
it first... and possibly find some interesting information
left over from a previous program (No, that wasn't a UNIX system,
let alone FreeBSD. :-})
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From: "Nathaniel Schein" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:34:18 -0700
The sendmail.cf file comes set by default to deny mail relay. What changes
must one make to enable relay?
See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README, especially lines 763 - 809.
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From: Nathaniel Schein nsch...@prisa.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:34:18 -0700
The sendmail.cf file comes set by default to deny mail relay. What changes
must one make to enable relay?
See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README, especially lines 763 - 809.
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for now), so I'll be quiet (on -hackers) for a bit, but
welcome out-of-band discussion.
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at last year's
hackersparty here in the Netherlands.
I'm having a sense of deja vu... flashbacks to USENIX conferences of
years past and the faces project... and the X-Face: header on email.
(ftp.uu.net:/faces/{dhw68k.cts,pooh}.com/david.Z, in case anyone cares.)
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:52:12 -0700
From: Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au
Could you point me to more about this (RAGF) scheme?
[ML] I don't know if I have spelled it out correctly, but this
is the authentication scheme used on mainframes (IBM at least) where all
syscalls are routed
pages; I believe that most folks using
UNIX have had access to the real thing -- and certainly anyone working
with an Open Source UNIX(-like) system has access to them.)
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to ensuring that my colleagues (some of whom are
certainly better known in the FreeBSD community) don't need to spend
their time doing sysadmin stuff; that's why I'm here. :-)
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