Re: E-Mail if updates available? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-03-29 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:27AM +0200, Jo Galara wrote: >on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are >updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for >FreeBSD? subscribe to: http://www.freshports.org/ -Alex IMPORTANT: This em

Re: limits for run away Firefox ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-19 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:51:02PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: >"Rick C. Petty" wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:43PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> > On 01/18/10 11:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> > > Doug Barton wrote: >> > > > On 01/17/10 17:07, Julian H. Stacey

Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?

2009-04-01 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:53:06PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: >You can increase the maximum amount of PTYs by editing a lot of source >files on your system. There is some good news: in -CURRENT we switched >to Unix98-style PTYs (/dev/pts/%u). Right now the maximum amount of PTYs

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >> >> About the only real improvem

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> About the only real improvement I'd like to see in this setup is the ability >> to spin down idle drives. That would be an ideal setup for the home RAID >> array. > >There is a FreeBSD port which handles

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-06 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would like to submit the idea of implementing a similar environment >into FreeBSD. After looking through the developers links and googling I >found no project for FreeBSD that implemented anything similar to thi

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-30 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:31:10PM -0400, L Campbell wrote: >> It depends on what you consider to be "comfortable". My primary machine is >> an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (running the RELENG_7 branch) and the only

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-24 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
>> If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer >> T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check following >As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p, I >wholeheartedly agree with "past experiences"... with "past

A Tale of Four Kernels...

2008-05-22 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Some may be interested in this. http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.pdf -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email i

Re: Hifn 7955 doesn't work with Freebsd 7.0-release

2008-05-21 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:19:26PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: >Unfortunately openssl doesn't use the accelerator by default. This means >all apps that use openssl likewise are not automatically accelerated. I >suggested a patch but it was not accepted. I can't recall how you f

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-11-27 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:27:41PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a >rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading >documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would be able to perfo

Re: file(1) cannot detect UFS2?

2007-06-10 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:41:31AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >I'm trying to use file(1) to detect file system type on partitions, and >so far it's working for any file system I've cared to try (the usual MS >and Linux list) *except* UFS2. Not sure if what you're doing *has* to be

kgdb(1) - dealing with a corrupt stack [?]

2005-02-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all, I am trying to debug why my kernel is panicing whilst playing audio via xmms. I am manually calling 'doadump' via ddb(4) - this seems ok. However, when I do a backtrace via kgdb(1) I seem to get a corrupt stack. Can anyone suggest why this would be happening and solutions to get a 'healt

Re: jiffy.

2003-03-31 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
erm...what are jiffies ? - aW Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example, process 1's deadline is when jiffies=10 and so on. I just discovered the global variable

Re: booting multiple kernels

2002-12-04 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Where can you get the "FORTH bootnext" replacement ? - aW You want the FORTH "bootnext" replacement that Jon Mini and James Harris worked on. This replaces the "nextboot" program, which was broken when FreeBSD went to the FORTH bootloader during the a.out->ELF tr

[hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?

2002-10-28 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Howdy Crew, I am about to buy a new hard disk for my FreeBSD work station. Since FreeBSD's ATA drivers implement Tagged Command Queuing and IBM make the only ATA disks that implement tagged command queuing ( ie since the 60GXP family ), an IBM 40GB 120GXP "looks like" the best solution. However,

Re: Bison

2002-04-28 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
ftware/bison/bison.html. aschne:>>-Anthony. aschne:>> aschne:>>On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:13:24PM +0930, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: aschne:>>> Howdy all, aschne:>>> aschne:>>> Can anyone point me to a good paper about Bison ? aschne:>>> ie What i

Bison

2002-04-28 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Howdy all, Can anyone point me to a good paper about Bison ? ie What it is, how it works, how it works with FreeBSD etc ? Cheers - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ld: cannot find -lintl

2002-04-12 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Thanks! How did u find that out ? On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: flynn:>>> I'm unsure how to go about solving this problem. flynn:>>> Any ideas ? flynn:>>Yes, install gettext-old, libintl is not part of the new gettext. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

ld: cannot find -lintl

2002-04-12 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Howdy all, I am having strange problems when trying to build *any* port. When I do a: make install clean on any given port I get this error: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lintl *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver-gnome/work/xscreensaver-4.02/driver. *** Error code 5 Stop

syscons(4) driver

2002-04-10 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Howdy Crew, >From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/relnotes-i386.html It says: The syscons(4) driver now supports keyboard-controlled pasting, by default bound to Shift-Insert My question: If moused is *not* running then how are u meant to select what u want to paste ? O

Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ?

2002-02-27 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Hi all, I would just like to know what the best way to keep track of the latest kernel for say stable would be? Is there something similar to www.freshports.org around ? ie a way to know that the kernel has been updated so I can compile the new one. Thanks - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail

Super Block

2002-01-14 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Howdy Crew, I am wanting to find out the significance of the Super Block, whether FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris... whatever. I know: * The Super Block contains critical data for the device's filesystem [but what ??]. * It is located on sectors 16 through 31 at the beggining of the device. * FreeB