Re: Is freebsd-update braindamaged, or I'm using it wrong?

2013-10-01 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2013-10-01 11:16, Ivan Voras wrote: This is the first time I've used freebsd-update in years, and I'm immediately flagging it as something I won't use in the future. For the last half hour it has been forcing me to manually resolve, one by one, in an editor, hundreds of "merge conflicts" suc

Re: Bug in qmail port's Makefile, where to report?

2013-06-19 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2013-06-19 00:38, Joe Schaefer wrote: I have a one-character patch to the Makefile that needs incorporation. Any tips for how to contact the ports maintainers for qmail? Submit a bug report through "send-pr" - it will be directed to the maintainer. http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Re: priv_check/make_dev/devfs.rules: What is preventing a device to show up in a jail?

2013-05-10 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2013-05-10 12:11, Alexander Leidinger wrote: I worry about what is going on. We have something which is supposed to provide security as required, but is does not seem to work as described. We either need to fix the documentation, or a bug in the code. To do the later it needs to be debugged

Re: serial console "detection" during boot

2012-09-21 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-09-17 22:23, Andriy Gapon wrote: what do you think of the following two diffs? +1 Most likely I overdid various checks in libi386/comconsole.c. And, obviously, the RETRY_COUNT value is pulled out of thin air. Any help and suggestions are very welcome. With this patch I am able to

Re: USB over IP

2012-05-21 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
Hi, On 2012-05-21 12:46, Daniel Braniss wrote: I need to control some lab equipment with several usb based controllers (mostly serial) and was wondering if it can be done over IP, there is such a thing called usbip, but couldn't find what 'server' is needed. all the boxes I found are not cheep

Re: Booting Ubuntu and freebsd side by side

2012-05-20 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
Hi, On 2012-05-19 20:59, سید احمد حسینی wrote: I used boot0 with boot9cfg : boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 ada0 And I can see boot0 menu ,but Ubuntu can't boot! On May 19, 2012 11:26 PM, "سید احمد حسینی" wrote: You should make sure that GRUB is installed in the PBR (partition boot record) of

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-22 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-02-21 10:05, vermaden wrote: I have created a PORT at last, its in the 'port' directory in the usual place: https://github.com/vermaden/automount/ Its my first PORT so feel free to bash me about my mistakes ;) It is not found on http://freshports.org/ I guess that you haven't subm

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-18 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-02-18 14:09, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2012 10:48:11 vermaden wrote: Added a check if ntfs-3g is available, if not then mount_ntfs is used instead. Added deleting of empty directories at ${MNTPREFIX}. Added ${MNTPREFIX} to be set to /mnt or /media according to

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-17 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-02-16 19:21, Alex Goncharov wrote: ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) * | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-02-14 18:13, Joshua Isom wrote: On 2/14/2012 10:57 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore desktop computers, suppose one of the cores fails, the FreeBSD OS crashes. My question is about how I can make the OS tolerate this hardware fault. The stra

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2011-10-04 19:02, Julian Elischer wrote: On 10/4/11 9:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Trond Endrestøl writes: It's in daily use at Gjøvik Technical College (Fagskolen i Gjøvik), here in Norway. Both the mail and web servers authenticates our users by LDAP, and nscd certainly speeds up th

Re: Mixing Asynchronous Network I/O and POSIX Threads

2011-09-18 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2011-09-18 17:32, Richard Yao wrote: Dear FreeBSD Community: I wrote a program for Linux that uses Asynchronous Network I/O and POSIX Threads. It uses a mix of gettid(), fcntl() and F_SETOWN to specify which thread handles each connection's SIGIO interrupts. gettid() is Linux-specific and I

Re: [PATCH] sysctl cleanup - unifying sysctls: vm.kvm_size and vm.kvm_free

2011-07-18 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2011-07-18 15:54, m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: Please consider this patch - it unifies sysctls: vm.kvm_size and vm.kvm_free. Currently these sysctls are only found under i386 and amd64: sys/i386/i386/pmap.c sys/i386/xen/pmap.c sys/amd64

[PATCH] sysctl cleanup - unifying sysctls: vm.kvm_size and vm.kvm_free

2011-07-18 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
Patch against HEAD (revision 224180) attached. Kind regards Uffe Jakobsen Index: sys/vm/vm_kern.c === --- sys/vm/vm_kern.c(revision 224180) +++ sys/vm/vm_kern.c(working copy) @@ -588,6 +588,26 @@ kmem_init_zero_region

Re: threads runtime value is incorrect (tc_cpu_ticks() problem)

2011-06-22 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2011-06-22 12:33, Svatopluk Kraus wrote: Hi, I've tested FreeBSD-current from June 16 2011 on x86 (AMD Elan SC400). I found out that a sum of runtimes of all threads is about 120 minutes after 180 minutes of system uptime and the difference is getting worse with time. The problem is in t

Re: kernel patch needed for wine?

2010-06-30 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
Alexander Kabaev writes: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:45:18 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote: Which means that Linux is broken in this regard because it's loading data as text, not data as data and text as text? Thanks, Nope, I think this is i386 vs. amd64 difference. NX page protection is enforced in l

Re: kernel patch needed for wine?

2010-06-30 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
Garrett writes: Also, is there perhaps a sideeffect dealing with the size of a char on FreeBSD vs Linux? That's a pretty badass way to load assembler instructions on the stack :). I may be totally wrong here - but could it be NX/XD/XN protection ? /Uffe ___

Re: Strange behavior of kernel module (output terminated)

2010-03-23 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 23/03/10 10.18, Dmitry Krivenok wrote: > > awk -f /sys/conf/kmod_syms.awk hello.ko export_syms | xargs -J% objcopy % > hello.ko > objcopy --strip-debug hello.ko > $ sudo make load unload h Try: $ sudo make load then wait a little and try: $ sudo make unload /Uffe _