Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-14 Thread Russell Cattelan
On 6/13/12 6:29 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Russell Cattelan <mailto:catte...@thebarn.com>> wrote: > > On 6/13/12 2:16 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message > <mailto:alpine.bsf.2.00.1206130

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Russell Cattelan
ly in an async fashion. Unfortunately that will require locking a bit more fine grain than the current "Giant" lock. -Russell > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: kexec or similar for FreeBSD

2011-11-08 Thread Russell Cattelan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/8/11 4:10 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 08/11/2011 23:14 Russell Cattelan said the following: >> On 11/6/11 6:23 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> on 24/10/2011 20:55 Russell Cattelan said the following: >>>> So it has

Re: kexec or similar for FreeBSD

2011-11-08 Thread Russell Cattelan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/6/11 6:23 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 24/10/2011 20:55 Russell Cattelan said the following: >> So it has been a while and a lot of hair pulling but kload is >> sorta alive and kicking. It can now load the kernel from >> us

Re: kexec or similar for FreeBSD

2011-10-24 Thread Russell Cattelan
boot process due to interrupts arriving for unconfigured handlers. Fatal Trap (30) If anybody has some experience with acpi and interrupt configuration in general and is willing to help please let me know. - -Russell On 6/16/11 1:32 PM, Russell Cattelan wrote: > I have been contacted about

Re: kexec or similar for FreeBSD

2011-06-16 Thread Russell Cattelan
On 6/16/11 3:06 PM, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: On (16/06/2011 13:32), Russell Cattelan wrote: I have been contacted about possibly implementing a fast reboot mechanism for FreeBSD similar to kexec on Linux. I have just started looking into how this accomplished so I figured a note to freebsd hackers

kexec or similar for FreeBSD

2011-06-16 Thread Russell Cattelan
like kexec? Is it the right thing to do for FreeBSD. I'm concerned that the way FreeBSD handles early kernel modules (loaded via the boot loader) vs linux which does everything via initrd is going to be a problem. Thanks for any help on this. -Russell Cat

Re: sysconf -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

2010-10-11 Thread Russell Jackson
SD: Try pkg_add -r augeas. The port is textproc/augeas. Augtool is just the cli frontend to libaugeas. There's also language bindings for python and ruby. -- Russell A Jackson Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield ___ freebsd-hack

Re: sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

2010-10-11 Thread Russell Jackson
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Re: sysconf -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

2010-10-11 Thread Russell Jackson
ot;lenses" which are like formal language specs written in BNF. http://augeas.net/ -- Russell A Jackson Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-11 Thread Russell Jackson
John Gilmore, an underwriter of > the Wine project, threatened to withdraw support from some of these > developers unless the license was switched to the GPL, thus forcing their > hands. > -- Russell A. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Analyst California State Un

Re: change control on FreeBSD servers

2007-07-19 Thread Russell Jackson
everything in CVS/Subversion and use cfengine/puppet/commit-hook to push changes out. Cacti uses MySQL for configuration; I'm not sure what to do about that. -- Russell A. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield Tonight you will p

creating install media on usb drive

2006-03-20 Thread A.G. Russell IV
. I've googled, and searched the freebsd mailing archives. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. A.G. -- _______ A.G. Russell IV KC5KFDThe Knife Company e-mail: ag4

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
Gotta love when you reply to your own posts... :) On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Doug Russell wrote: > If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there... > > All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each > sector. You can do this yourself, even on a running

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > The SCSI card is an old Adaptec, AIC-7880 and I believe it does not > support automatic bad block detection/redirection. If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there... All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each se

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Try to use the "Verify" menu from the Adaptec BIOS. It finds and tries > to re-map the bad sectors (it tries to preserve data during this too, > unless the sector is completely unreadable). The verify commands issued by the BIOS are virtually useless co

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-07 Thread Doug Russell
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors > appeared: > > 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev – 1/42 > cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0 > Block 6578 > medium error unrecovered read error > HTFS i/o failure occurred whil

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-04 Thread Doug Russell
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jim Durham wrote: > The reboots started out happening at 5.15 pm or so. I had them unplug the > server completely from AC and restart it and now it's happening withing a few > minutes of 12:40pm every day. > > The 'last' command output is the only thing showing anything log-wi

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

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to > do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that > else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately > (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell This would

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

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I see a lot of people don't like the change, even though I made it > default to off and controlled by an environment variable. There's > no reason to keep pushing for it, then. There's significant support for it, too. As long as it can be disabled

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

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Of course, your work is commendable, but isn't is much simpler to just > not type commands like that? I mean, "rm -rf /etc" or "rm -rf /bin" > are just as bad, but do you really want to be checking for all > possible `bad' deletions? That way, we'll s

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Sean Farley wrote: > I had sudden reboots over a period of two years. Recently, they started > happening more often. It turned out that the capacitors had gone bad. > > Capacitors from about two to three years ago used a poor formula. This > site has information about it:

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

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Max Laier wrote: > I am not a fan of providing seat belts like this. People concerned about Neither am I. One of the best features of UNIX has always been that you can shoot yourself in the foot if you want to. If someone really wants seatbelts, they must be optional. Late

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
Oh, I love replying to my own posts :) On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Doug Russell wrote: > Try addingconv=sync,noerrorto your dd line. If most of the data > after the defect(s) can be read, you'll end up with an almost complete > partition which will likely run. You can

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > I have a new replacement 4Gb disk. With a FreeBSD boot CD I did a dd > and was able to get the new disk setup with all of the old disks > partition maps, boot data, etc.,. The new disk actually boots into SCO > but fails because it only has 100Mb or so

Re: Console serial speed

2003-07-31 Thread Russell Cattelan
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:58, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Russell Cattelan writes: > | How does one set the serial speed of the console. > | I changed the boot loader speed to 57600 in make.conf > | but the kernel seems to chose random speeds each time > | it's booted. > | Someti

Re: Console serial speed

2003-07-28 Thread Russell Cattelan
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 07:12, Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi, > > Bruce M Simpson wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:36AM +0100: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > How does one set the serial speed of the console. > > > > D

Console serial speed

2003-07-26 Thread Russell Cattelan
How does one set the serial speed of the console. I changed the boot loader speed to 57600 in make.conf but the kernel seems to chose random speeds each time it's booted. Sometimes it's 9600 sometimes it 115200 other times it's 38400. Note this is on 5.x current R

RE: HEADS UP: Broken if_dc NICs with MACs like 08:08[...] or 00:00[...]

2003-02-10 Thread Tony Russell
I have a whole bunch of "SMC EZ Card 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI card" (SMC1255 series) that we use as a log profile PCI card that suffer with 00:08:00:08:00:08 MAC addresses. Your patch resolves the problem. _____ Antony Russell Technica

determining context switching?

2002-03-29 Thread Russell Francis
this data to a user land application. Is this possible? If so how? Thank you much, Russell Francis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: RS232/V24 Driver

2002-03-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Volker Sturm wrote: > I want to write a driver for a device on the serial port. The problem is > that I dont get any info on the protocol that is used for data .. > there already? If not, are there ways to analyze the protocol by a > monitor or whatever technique appropriate?

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > customer service. Who knows, we might even get a few local shops to pre- > install FreeBSD on a machine or two, with their own FreeBSD discs thrown > in. It could happen. Heh.. We already do. :) I'm getting quite good at convincing small shops that

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Richard Hodges wrote: > I'm not sure how much of a difference the "certificate" would make, as far > as import duties goes. I live in Canada (Toronto, Ontario), and accoriding ... > duty, 7% GST, 8% provincial tax, plus a $5.00 handling charge by

kernel error: psmintr: out of sync

2001-05-19 Thread Russell
TIA, russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Doug Russell
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > I sent a confirmation of receipt and thank you note to the SMC > people today. I'm not sure if I should be posting their e-mail addresses > all over the lists though. Perhaps in this type of situation, someone needs to simply collate a list of names/organi

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-05 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Anything is possible, and I have heard of it happening at least > once. One of the other fun things about hot swapping keyboards > is that you can actually damage the connector which can cause a > short on the motherboard if the poor thing detaches

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-05 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging. > > > at linux it works. > > Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :) > > It can actually fry the entire motherboard. I doubt linux can > prevent that. > > FreeBSD 4.3 allows

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my > monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for > entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really > good purpose. Perhaps we should make

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Russell L. Carter
I'm going to try these ideas out, thanks for the pointers. I'm highly motivated to stop waiting so long :-). And a nice use for the systems that have been piling up, if this works out. I'll be reporting back... Cheers, Russell % %On 20-Jan-01 Wes Peters wrote: %> "R

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Russell L. Carter
ally cool. The problem, again, is that parallelism is limited by the directory structure, and the directory structure is entirely rational. Thanks! Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Russell L. Carter
dup would only happen if jobs were allocated at a higher level than they are now. Now for building something like a full version of TAO, why that might work. But even then, a factor of 2x is unlikely until the dependencies are factored out at the directory level. Russell %-- %"

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
ot;, if all you want to do is serve up web pages. Russell %:) % %Jamie % %On 2001.01.16 18:31:43 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: %> %> %> On 16 Jan, Jamie Heckford wrote: %> > Hi, %> > %> > Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included %>

Re: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2001-01-04 Thread Russell L. Carter
%In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, %Russell L. Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: %> %> Bingo! %> %> Thanks guys! % %Not so fast there, fella. You're not getting off that easily. ;-) %Could you please try the patch below? It is like the patch that Paul %sent,

Re: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2000-12-30 Thread Russell L. Carter
Bingo! Thanks guys! Russell %John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: %> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, %> Russell L. Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: %> > %> > On a fairly recent -STABLE I am getting this failure: %> > %> > ld-elf.so.1: assert fai

ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2000-12-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
an ACE/TAO C++ program that dlsym()s an object, uses it happily, and then gets the assertion when dlclose()ing from the containing object's dtor. The assertion is that the refcount != 0. What should I do to fix that? Thanks! Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

RLIMIT_DATA resource limiting..

2000-11-27 Thread Russell Hay
HI, I'm looking for the place where the RLIMIT_DATA field in the proc structure is being updated during memory allocation and de-allocation. I have searched through the kernel source (and the source for all installed files) and have not be able to find the location of this. If anyone can point

Re: ACE wrappers woes on 4.x-stable (pthreads)

2000-06-08 Thread Russell L. Carter
| |forgot to add: I need pointers to start digging around It might be interesting to trace through libgcc_r. Russell | |/fjoe | | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: ACE wrappers woes on 4.x-stable (pthreads)

2000-06-08 Thread Russell L. Carter
se the macros if you need exceptions with ACE/TAO. Russell | |-- Forwarded message -- |Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:07:54 -0500 (CDT) |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [Bug 581] Changed

Re: FreeBSD Posix threads

2000-02-04 Thread Russell L. Carter
ng on fine-grained benchmarks ("perform better") for an execution model based on C processes may be misleading in the realistic broader picture. Russell %-Zhihui % % % % %To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] %with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message %

Re: Anyone working on a DOMEX scsi driver ?

2000-01-17 Thread Doug Russell
> > I've just bought a Mustek SCSI scanner, and it is bundled with a > > seemingly very simple SCSI controller built by a DOMEX company (from > > Taiwan) > > Throw it away. > Throw it as far as you can, then drive over it with you car. :) > > > PS : the board identifier is DMX3191D - the chip

Re: Anyone working on a DOMEX scsi driver ?

2000-01-16 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > I've just bought a Mustek SCSI scanner, and it is bundled with a > seemingly very simple SCSI controller built by a DOMEX company (from > Taiwan) Throw it away. Throw it as far as you can, then drive over it with you car. :) > Does someone know w

Re: Major number for PCDMX driver?

2000-01-16 Thread Doug Russell
On 16 Jan 2000, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > > Hi, > > I've written a driver for SoundLight's PCDMX DMX512 boards. (DMX512 WooHoo! :) I was hoping someone would get a DMX512 controller working before I had to break down and do it myself. :) I've never seen a SoundLight bo

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-14 Thread Doug Russell
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the > > > logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no > > > > Start with the PR database. Grab a PR, see if you can figure out what makes > > it go wrong,

Re: FreeBSD Threads (was Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?)

1999-12-20 Thread Russell L. Carter
mplementation shows up before I was done coding my %> application.) I build against both existing interfaces, and adhere to the several POSIX specs. It seems to work fine. Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Basic question about threads and SMP

1999-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
UN0 0:00 15.76% 2.20% ex3 391 rcarter 30 0 876K 152K RUN1 0:01 14.71% 2.05% ex3 395 rcarter 30 0 876K 152K RUN0 0:01 14.01% 1.95% ex3 392 rcarter 30 0 876K 152K RUN 0 0:00 13.66% 1.90% ex3 Russell %-- %"Where am I, a

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-11-01 Thread Russell Cattelan
> // --- > > // -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org > > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Russell Cattelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

/usr/include/posix4/semaphore.h

1999-10-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi All, The stuff defined in /usr/include/posix4/semaphore.h, is not implemented in -current, right? If I missed it, I'd appreciate a pointer... Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Cattelan
e: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Russell Cattelan catte...@thebarn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Cattelan
; VFS? > > I believe that the VFS is conceptually sound and that the existing > semantics should be strictly retained in the new code. Any new > functionality should be added in the form of entirely new kernel > routines and system calls, or possibly by such means as > conve

Re: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Cattelan
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Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Cattelan
; VFS? > > I believe that the VFS is conceptually sound and that the existing > semantics should be strictly retained in the new code. Any new > functionality should be added in the form of entirely new kernel > routines and system calls, or possibly by such means as > co

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
tc., linux is looking very good. Surprisingly good. Thus... Cheers, Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
tc., linux is looking very good. Surprisingly good. Thus... Cheers, Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
SBC (with a KB connector on board). it IS a problem if |they want to do maintanence without bringing down the system. I fried two P6 ASUS motherboards this way, sorta along these lines, "hmm, keyboard seems to be dead, maybe try it in this machine" Russell | |Dennis | | |To

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
SBC (with a KB connector on board). it IS a problem if |they want to do maintanence without bringing down the system. I fried two P6 ASUS motherboards this way, sorta along these lines, "hmm, keyboard seems to be dead, maybe try it in this machine" Russell | |Dennis | | |To Unsubs

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
r redundant channels, degrading as needed. Apparently, these things don't need proprietary extensions for their functionality so use of FreeBSD for the backend OS is unimpaired. I suspect Yahoo has a few... Anyway, maybe followup this to freebsd-isp? Not much -ha

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
r redundant channels, degrading as needed. Apparently, these things don't need proprietary extensions for their functionality so use of FreeBSD for the backend OS is unimpaired. I suspect Yahoo has a few... Anyway, maybe followup this to freebsd-isp? Not much -ha

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
% % %On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Russell L. Carter wrote: % %> %> %Basically there are some applications and benchmarks for which FreeBSD %> %> uh, "benchmarks" only, until evidence is produced otherwise. [...] %ok here are some of the problems.. % %Matt's changes allow d

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
c. In fact, there's probably some interesting kernel architecture issues here. Let's hear them, now! If I wanted secrecy about architecture details there's a shitload less time consuming ways to do it then follow FreeBSD. Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.or