Re: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored

2005-02-01 Thread Romain Kang
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:29:00PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm > not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not > the vehavior I expected. The format of /etc/hosts has been thus for more than 20 years

Re: memtest86 for FreeBSD boot?

2004-02-21 Thread 'Romain Kang'
My hardware didn't seem to like the simple .lds change -- the console display filled with a fascinating array of characters and colors. I wound up starting with ldscript.i386 as my template instead (see below). Seems to work... Thanks, Romain Kang Disclaimer: I

memtest86 for FreeBSD boot?

2004-02-21 Thread Romain Kang
nough that someone has done it before... Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]except when indicated otherwise. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

3.2 -> 4.5 ep driver oddity

2002-02-19 Thread Romain Kang
Anyone care to offer explanations or suggestions? Thanks, Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]except when indicated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

4.2 pkg_add/pkg_delete inconsistency

2001-10-03 Thread Romain Kang
talled software. Regards, Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]except when indicated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: pkg_add puzzlement

2001-07-24 Thread Romain Kang
Eek! It's evidently been about 10 years since I looked at the man page for mkdir. Thanks for the helping of humble pie... Romain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

pkg_add puzzlement

2001-07-23 Thread Romain Kang
I've been using this in a PLIST: 1 @exec test -d %D/var/run/procstates || mkdir -p %D/var/run/procstates 2 @exec chown root.wheel %D/var/run/procstates && chmod 1775 %D/var/run/procstates The rationale for each line: - 1 Install: make sure that the directory exists, avoiding error messages i

gdb /dev/mem?

2001-03-21 Thread Romain Kang
pcb at 5b6b000 panic messages: --- --- #0 mi_switch () at ../../kern/kern_synch.c:858 858 if (switchtime.tv_sec == 0) (kgdb) x/d devtab_count 0x14: error reading /proc/454/mem Thanks, Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Romain Kang
If the components in question are not there, can anyone identify them? Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]except when indicated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: A decent way to get CPU idle time?

2000-10-06 Thread Romain Kang
ready. IMHO, getloadavg() is flagrantly meaningless. There are plenty of ways to skew the numbers without actually changing CPU activity. Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone, [EMAIL PROTECTED]except when indicated otherwise. | Is there a