pw(8): $ (dollar sign) in username

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Re: pw(8): $ (dollar sign) in username

Craig Rodrigues wrote to Ryan Thompson: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:35:45AM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: Problem is, smb requires a '$' at the end of the username, which our pw(8) doesn't allow. The same patch which you proposed was suggested on the freebsd-current list. See the thread

Re: Who broke ls in FreeBSD? and why?

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Re: Who broke ls in FreeBSD? and why?

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Re: Logging users out

by ``user''. Sending SIGKILL does so in a non-catchable way. c) /sbin/halt is pretty much guaranteed to do the trick ;-) Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Ryan

Re: Filesystem holes

Matt Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson: : : storage is rather inefficient for our table of about 2,850,000 members : : (~2.1 GB total storage). There are 64M possible hash values in our : : current implementation, and our record size is variable, but could be : : safely fixed at about 1.5KB

Re: Filesystem holes

Ryan Thompson wrote to Matt Dillon: Matt Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson: : : storage is rather inefficient for our table of about 2,850,000 members : : (~2.1 GB total storage). There are 64M possible hash values in our : : current implementation, and our record size is variable

Re: Filesystem holes

Matt Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson: :Hi, Matt! Thanks for the replies. I'll try and keep you interested ;-) : :Hmm... Perhaps you're still missing my original point? I'm talking about :a file with 96GB in addressable bytes (well, probably a bunch of files, :given logical filesize

Re: Filesystem holes

Leif Neland wrote to Ryan Thompson and Matt Dillon: What will happen, if somebody (possibly you, as mahordomo says), tries to make a backup of that file. Make sure to use a program that can cope ;-) Will the copy also be with holes, or would that file suddenly use all 96GB

Re: Filesystem holes

Matt Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson and [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : Hi all... : : One the tasks that I have undertaken lately is to improve the efficiency : of a couple of storage facilities we use internally, here. Basically, : they are moderate-size tables currently implemented in SQL, which

Filesystem holes

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Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

or the local drive), assume they have free reign over the entire system, and any network resources root normally has access to. -- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th

Re: Annoying nfsrcv hangs

Matthew Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson: :ps al on my system shows multiple nfsrcv hangs on processes such as df, ls :and umount. Without any other characteristic problems, the nfs server : [...] I assume the hangs are on the client? Not surprising if its a 3.2 system. A whole

Annoying nfsrcv hangs

until now.. Has anything been built into -CURRENT to address these hangs? It has plagued many in the past, and continues to do so. Yours truly, - Frustrated :-) -- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologie

Re: your mail

for the more technical array of questions and their responses. "More technical" generally means questions pertaining to the source code of the operating system itself. -- Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 50% Owner, Technical and Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologie

Default minfree performance restrictions?

And would definitely qualify as an "invasive" change. Food for thought, though :-) Any insights? I suppose I could just go ahead and try it, but, before I end up doing a reinstall (cd /usr/src make blowupworld), I thought it better to ask a more experienced following of users :-) --