Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.

2011-04-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed: Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? There is a

ZFS performance strangeness

2011-04-12 Thread Lars Wilke
Hi, There are quite a few threads about ZFS and performance difficulties, but i did not find anything that really helped :) Therefor any advice would be highly appreciated. I started to use ZFS with 8.1R, only tuning i did was setting vm.kmem_size_scale=1 vfs.zfs.arc_max=4M The machines are

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Lowell Gilbert writes: The secure mode disables log files, but it also changes several other behaviours, so you may not find it to be an improvement. The code supports changing those secure features separately, but only by editing the source; if you go that way, it will probably be much

Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Mario Lobo
Forgive my lame question but where can I check which version 8-CURRENT is without updating my sources (i.e. 8.x-RC1, 8.x-RELEASE, etc)? Thanks, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)

FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) does not install under Hyper-V

2011-04-12 Thread Scheller, Roland
Hi, I'm facing issues with installing and updating of FreeBSD 8.2 (i386) under Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008, Service Pack 2): 1. Update Freebsd 8.0 (i386) - 8.2 under Hyper-V (via cvsup) FreeBSD 8.0 is running fine under Hyper-V on this system since a long time. I had no issues at the

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 11:52:59 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html you will find a list of available versions and their state. Hope that helps Peter. This is what I needed! Thanks, Peter! -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 11:33:08 Paul B. Mahol wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: Forgive my lame question but where can I check which version 8-CURRENT is without updating my sources (i.e. 8.x-RC1, 8.x-RELEASE, etc)? There is no 8-CURRENT any more.

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
Here's a nice oneliner ;) fetch -qo - 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh?rev=.;only_with_tag=RELENG_8;content-type=text%2Fplain' | awk '/^REVISION=/ || /^BRANCH=/' REVISION=8.2 BRANCH=STABLE Ruben On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:49:35AM -0300, Mario Lobo typed:

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 12:15:27 Ruben de Groot wrote: Here's a nice oneliner ;) fetch -qo - 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh?rev=.;onl y_with_tag=RELENG_8;content-type=text%2Fplain' | awk '/^REVISION=/ || /^BRANCH=/' REVISION=8.2 BRANCH=STABLE

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Mario Lobo wrote: Forgive my lame question but where can I check which version 8-CURRENT is without updating my sources (i.e. 8.x-RC1, 8.x-RELEASE, etc)? You can check your FreeBSD version by typing # uname -a on some terminal. On

Kernel loading very slowly with specific (wrong?) loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, when you use the following loader.conf: # cat /boot/loader.conf hint.sio.1.flags=0x20 comconsole_speed=115200 boot_multicons=yes and have no /boot.config, then booting the kernel is extremely slow. It writes about one character per second on the screen. Also i dont actually have a serial

Re: FreeBSD's tftp and tftpd-hpa

2011-04-12 Thread John Hein
Martin Cracauer wrote at 11:53 -0500 on Feb 11, 2011: FreeBSD's current tftp client doesn't work with tftpd-hpa. FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (XEN) #0: Fri Jan 21 15:54:41 EST 2011 ~(fbpv)1% tftp 192.168.1.1 tftp get pxeboot Got ERROR packet: Unsupported option(s) requested Error code 2048:

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-12 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:36:37 -0500 From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: Stopping Less from creating Log Files This is a minor problem but I use more to read Email messages from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible to start typing and create a