NTP, UTC, and (negative) leap seconds

for any info. -- David Magda ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: DNS Flag Day and freebsd.org problems

On Jan 17, 2019, at 20:11, Michael Sinatra wrote: > > I suspect the freebsd.org hostmaster will probably want to drop a line to ISC. I’ve gotten a response from the dnsadm@ folks, who will follow up with the ISC folks. Not many people know about this it seems: https://old.reddit.com/r

Re: DNS Flag Day and freebsd.org problems

Which then tells me to go to dnsadm@. Thanks. > On Jan 17, 2019, at 19:42, George Mitchell wrote: > > On 1/17/19 6:55 PM, David Magda wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On February 1, 2019, there will be some major changes to DNS with regards to >> EDNS: >> [.

DNS Flag Day and freebsd.org problems

Hello, On February 1, 2019, there will be some major changes to DNS with regards to EDNS: > A number of DNS software and service providers have announced that we will > all cease implementing DNS resolver workarounds to accommodate DNS > authoritative systems that don’t follow the EDNS protoco

Re: pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

On Nov 4, 2016, at 04:54, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Would be wonderful if someone could catch up pax(1)'s libarchive(3) > transition, but I guess the libarchive developers aren't interested or > have very much spare resources… Have you asked them? Do they know it is a problem? Do they have a b

Re: pax(1) needs to learn POSIX-pax format (by libarchive(3)?)

On Nov 1, 2016, at 13:44, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Has anyone ever thought about? Unfortunately I'm lacking skills and time :-( You’ll want to talk to the folks here: http://libarchive.org That is the upstream project. It actually started on FreeBSD over a decade ago but spun off o

Re: Can't get ntp to work

> On Oct 18, 2015, at 08:03, Marcin Wisnicki > wrote: > > My ntpd stopped synchronizing clock sometime ago (default ntp.conf). > > To debug the problem I've tried running ntpdate and got strange results: > >> # ntpdate 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org >> 18 Oct 13:53:14 ntpdate[55102]: no server suitab

Re: protecting some processes from out-of-swap killer

On Tue, April 28, 2015 05:51, Ronald Klop wrote: > The OS trying to kill a process is probably not what you want. So when you > protect(1) postgres the OS will kill another process, which I hope is not > running without reason. > My advice would be to > - or increase your swap space > - or tune po

system backups (was: Package database)

On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:23, Jim Ballantine wrote: > The backup in /var/backups was a copy of the current DB, so it was not > usable, however there was/is and older backup that was not corrupt. So I > restored > it into /var/db and then update that one. Which is nice reminder to everyone about th

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

On Wed, July 31, 2013 02:55, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > I'm also more than a little surprised about people dragging out > sendmail as a shining example of *good* (bug-free?) software. Does > nobody remember any history here? It wasn't *that* many years ago > that we seemed to have "sendmail-bug-of

Re: svn - but smaller?

On Tue, March 12, 2013 19:32, John Mehr wrote: > This sounds good to me, and as long as there's some sort > of a consensus that we're not breaking the principle of > least surprise, I'm all for it.  The one default that may > be unexpected is the defaulting to the stable branch -- > people who trac

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

On Mon, March 4, 2013 11:07, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 02.03.2013 03:12, David Magda: >> There are quite a few scripts out there: >> >> http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=zfs > > A lot of them require python or ruby, and none of them manages > synchr

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

On Mar 1, 2013, at 21:14, Ben Morrow wrote: > But since ZFS doesn't support POSIX.1e ACLs that's not terribly > useful... I don't believe bsdtar/libarchive supports NFSv4 ACLs yet. Ah yes, just noticed that. Thought it did. https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarNFS4ACLs _

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

On Mar 1, 2013, at 12:55, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Yes, I'm working with backups the same way, I wrote a simple script that > synchronizes two filesystems between distant servers. I also use the same > script to synchronize bushy filesystems (with hundred thousands of files) > where rsync p

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

On Mar 1, 2013, at 15:39, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > >> What about extended attributes? ACLs? Are those saved by tar? > > I think tar (as root or -p) will attempt to preserve those. Specifically bsdtar (with libarchive) and star: https://github.com/l

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

On Mar 1, 2013, at 12:23, Daniel Eischen wrote: > dump (and ufsdump for our Solaris boxes) _just work_, and we > can go back many many years and they will still work. If we > convert to ZFS, I'm guessing we'll have to do nightly > incrementals with 'tar' instead of 'dump' as well as doing > ZFS s

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote: > > The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at > creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was > 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. > I would want to use and dev

Re: The MFC process...

On Tue, July 17, 2012 02:10, Eitan Adler wrote: > Of interest to me: if it could be limited to just the commits I made > and optionally show me the log message and diff it would be very > helpful. > > On a general note: be careful with any level of automation with this > script though. Sometimes th

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the > OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen f

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On Jun 2, 2012, at 00:51, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > On 02.06.2012, at 07:19, Freddie Cash wrote: > >> >> Glustre sits above the storage system, replicating data between systems. >> So, disks -- ZFS (via Zvols) -- Glustre. >> > > How is this different than ZFS using remote zvols via iSCSI? Can

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On Jun 1, 2012, at 21:03, Chris Nehren wrote: > You say your'e using ZVOLs but then recommend gluster for large > filesystems. I would like to take a moment to point out that one of the > design goals of ZFS was to scale beyond the capabilities of current > hardware. > > What does gluster do tha

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On Jun 1, 2012, at 08:33, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > For example if one wants an e-mail server, that is better served in the long > run by IMAP+MTA than any form of Exchange, because you are not tied to one > single platform and that vendor's lunacy. Otherwise FreeBSD runs just fine as > server fo

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

On Jun 1, 2012, at 09:12, Phil Regnauld wrote: > * Gluster > > For very large FSes, nothing beats it, especially now that 3.3 has been > released. Isilon built their OneFS on top of FreeBSD, does that count? :) Panasas too IIRC. ___ freeb

Re: Sector size of a zvol

On Fri, February 3, 2012 11:05, Pete French wrote: >> You can use the method described here to create a zvol with 4k sector >> size: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-December/010350.html > > I saw that, but it describes setting up a zpool, not a zvol - or are > you saying that

Re: Sector size of a zvol

On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:03, Pete French wrote: > [...] But what I am talking about is the sector size > presneted by the 'fake' disc that a ZVOL creates - that always seems > to be 512 bytes, despite the fact that the zvol blocksize is 8k. Seems > odd to me (and that 8k size os alterable, but j

Re: Sector size of a zvol

On Fri, February 3, 2012 07:25, Pete French wrote: > So, I was trying to create a disc witha sector size of 4096 bytes, and I > assumed that simply creating a zvol with that blocksize would do the > trick. > But it appears that whatever the blocksize is on the xvol, diskinfo is > reporting the sec

RE: FTPS Server?

On Thu, January 5, 2012 14:28, Malcolm Waltz wrote: > I've included a working vsftpd.conf below for FTPES. For what you are > doing, you may not need all of these parameters. The pasv_ parameters are > mostly only necessary if you need to serve data through a NAT/firewall. > The pasv_min_port an

Re: cpio and directory owner preservation behaviour

On Thu, September 22, 2011 10:54, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: [...] > [root@R3]/#(cd /usr/local/etc; find . -name ripd.conf -type f | cpio > -dumpv /tmp/) > > The file owner and permission for ripd.conf is keept: > [root@R3]/#ls -alh /tmp/quagga/ripd.conf > -rw--- 1 quagga quagga 134B Sep

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

On Mon, September 19, 2011 08:45, Pete French wrote: >> Does it specifically have to be a vlan(4), or can you perhaps add >> another >> address to lo(4), or perhaps create a "lo1" in addition to the "lo0"? > > It can be anything really - I was looking for a "generic" interface > I can configure wit

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

On Mon, September 19, 2011 08:02, Pete French wrote: > Can anyone see any problem is doing this ? i.e. creating a vlan interface > which doesnt correspond to any physical interface, just as a place to hang > IP addresses. I am trying to work around a problem with carp and ndp when > there are multi

Re: Unable to shutdown

On Tue, August 30, 2011 11:50, Kevin Oberman wrote: [...] > The more I look at this, the more it seems to me that it is an issue > with the Seagate drive and not a FreeBSD issue. Probably a bug that is > never triggered on Windows, so is largely unnoticed. I suspect Widows > probably orders the com

Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

On Jun 10, 2011, at 17:24, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Dedup can require a huge amount of RAM, or a dedicated L2ARC SSD, depending > on the size of your storage. You should not enable it unless you are > prepared for the consequences. Under OpenSolaris, each tracking entry for a deduped block (wh

Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

On Jun 10, 2011, at 17:25, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Am I missing something? How about using fletcher[24] for dedup? Fletcher is fairly weak as things go, and so even though two checksums are the same, there's a decent chance that the data is actually different. At least with recent releases

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

On Apr 1, 2011, at 23:35, Matthew Dillon wrote: >The solution to this first item is for the OS/filesystem to issue a >disk flush command to the drive at appropriate times. If I recall the >ZFS implementation in FreeBSD *DOES* do this for transaction groups, >which guarantees that

Re: unable to pwd in ZFS snapshot

On Dec 26, 2010, at 06:32, Daniel Braniss wrote: btw, why use rsync if 'zfs send| zfs recv' work realy nice? You're assuming that both sides of the transmission are on ZFS, which is not always true. It may be that the FreeBSD/ZFS system is the "back up server" for a network of Linux mach

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

changed recently. See also the best practice guide, which should be generic enough to cover most operating systems: http://tinyurl.com/2gehn4#Recommendations_for_Saving_ZFS_Data http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Recommendations_for_Saving_ZFS_Data -- Davi

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

On Nov 22, 2010, at 17:13, Andrew Reilly wrote: The currently accepted practice is to create a ZFS file system on the backup drive and just keep sending incremental snapshots to it. As long as the backup drive and host system have a snapshot in common you can do incremental transfers. This

Re: TTY task group scheduling

On Nov 18, 2010, at 18:43, Julian Elischer wrote: we are part of the way there.. at least we did abstract the scheduler to the point where we have two completely different ones. you are welcome to develop a 'framework as you describe and plug it into the abstraction we already have. It

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

On May 30, 2010, at 22:17, Kirk Strauser wrote: For instance, what happens if a disk-full condition occurs 2 minutes before the cron job would have run that would've averted it? At what level do you trigger deletions that would both 1) provide enough of a safety margin that disk-fulls are u

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

On May 29, 2010, at 16:07, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'd propose standardizing on an attribute like org.freebsd:allowautodestroy. Modify ZFS's disk full behavior [...] Also run a daily periodic script to ensure that the free space stays below a configurable threshold each day so that ZFS isn't

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

On May 30, 2010, at 18:03, Kirk Strauser wrote: The "only one need" that it addresses is that now FreeBSD would come with a built-in recovery system. Did a "make installworld" but screwed something up and ended up with a non-bootable system? Pop in a recovery CD and revert to the "4 hours a

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

On Mar 24, 2010, at 19:45, Michal wrote: It's all well and good having 1 ZFS server, but it's fragile in the the sense of no redundancy, then we have 1 ZFS server and a 2nd with DRBD, but that's a waste of money...think 12 TB, and you need to pay for another 12TB box for redundancy, and yo

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the server operators--and dead servers are also r

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:36, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:08:23 +1100 Peter Jeremy wrote: Having re-checked my maths, using both your "time reset" results, can you please try: sysctl machdep.acpi_timer_freq=3570847 That should result in a drift of close to zero (well with

Re: ZFS user library?

On Jun 22, 2009, at 04:00, Borja Marcos wrote: I see... Not rocket science actually. Just the standard functionality of zfs(8) without resorting to ugly execve and text parsing, something more reliable to list snapshots, etc. Maybe it's a matter of waiting... At some point it probably wil

Re: ZFS user library?

On Jun 18, 2009, at 13:21, Kip Macy wrote: I was wondering if there are plans to document and keep the ZFS user library as a reasonably stable API. You really need to ask that on the ZFS lists. Usually Solaris man pages indicate that an API is not stable (assuming) man pages exist. With a fe

Re: ZFS version 8 on stable?

On Jun 13, 2008, at 09:54, Dillon Kass wrote: Your only option is to wait until this is committed or patches are offered at least. pjd is the man so it shouldn't be too long :-) Another option could be to see if you can help with the coding. :) ___

Re: [OT] Which one is best MTA for me?

On Aug 28, 2007, at 13:46, Clayton Milos wrote: I use qmail with vpopmail not because it's necessarily the best MTA but because I know it backwards. I've patched it and tweaked it so it runs like lightning but all the patching and tweaking tought me the guts of how it runs. If something goe

Re: named.conf restored to hint zone for the root by default

On Aug 2, 2007, at 18:16, Kevin Oberman wrote: Also, the root zone is updated twice a day, every day (at least to the extent of a serial number bump) whether it is needed or not. Forcing the minimum refresh to once a day could delay the recognition of a new zone for up to a day and that is

Re: ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

On Dec 19, 2006, at 09:07, Oliver Fromme wrote: Roland Smith wrote: [...] The following patch to ntp_loopfilter.c should quell the message: STFU patch --- ntp_loopfilter.c.orig Tue Dec 19 14:13:25 2006 +++ ntp_loopfilter.cTue Dec 19 14:14:02

Re: FreeBSD 6.2

On Dec 12, 2006, at 13:10, Wilko Bulte wrote: Only if Santa thinks you have been nice to your family the last year :) Personally I've always wanted to get a copy of his naughty list. ;) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

On Oct 23, 2006, at 19:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! - back to Pawel

On Sep 13, 2006, at 21:00, Karl Denninger wrote: BTW, part of the issue here with the -BETA thing is that there's no clear timeline on this available to people. I certainly was not aware that you were in a pre-check period to locking down the code to start the process of burning the next

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

On May 22, 2006, at 11:49, Allen wrote: On my Slackware machines, it was no problem at all, I'd use wget to grab the patch .tgz file, then do this: upgradepkg *.tgz I believe there was some talk in the past of treating the base system like a package. NetBSD has some code that does this

Re: ssh- lagging logins

On Apr 19, 2006, at 00:16, Low Kian Seong wrote: Cyberhigh, Well, you can always try to find out what is going on my passing the '-vvv' parameter to ssh while it's trying to access the remote machine. On 4/19/06, CyBerHigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using Freebsd 6.0 and running Ope

Re: Maximum Swapsize

On Apr 10, 2006, at 21:45, Pete Slagle wrote: When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all. You need enough swap space to do a dump in case a panic occurs. While panics are (hopefully) rare, if it does happen, you usually want things set up so that you can figur

Re: Disappointed

On Apr 10, 2006, at 17:56, Mark Linimon wrote: In the meantime, we volunteers (who do at least 90% of the FreeBSD work) will continue trying to do our best, with no written guarantee that it will suit your purposes. If you read the EULA on most commercial operating systems you'll find that

Re: nss_ldap problem

On Mar 4, 2006, at 04:04, Frode Nordahl wrote: /etc/nsswitch.conf group: ldap files hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: ldap files shells: files imap: ldap Why do you have "ldap" first? I would use "files ldap" in any case so local changes can override the directory. And if there's a

Re: XFS -when?

On Feb 14, 2006, at 16:27, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Do you guys if a stable xfs support is going to be release? A search for 'freebsd xfs' came up with the following at the top of the list: http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/ I would recommend that if you have more questions please ask

Re: vinum or gvinum

On Sep 9, 2005, at 07:31, Michael Butler wrote: Swap is the first slice which is not mirrored and the second slice contains the bootable file-system which is mirrored. What happens to a running system if the disk dies and swap suddenly disappears? :) __

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

On Aug 15, 2005, at 18:19, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Are there specialized raid test suites or should I just write a script that writes/deletes a lot of files? There's the Bonnie and Bonnie++ file system testing programs. I believe one or both are in the Ports. ___

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:03, Bill Vermillion wrote: Actually I saw that documented a very very long time ago in an Intel Unix manual. It's present in more recent documentation. :) The sync utility can be called to ensure that all disk writes have been completed before the processor i

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:08, Bill Vermillion wrote: If you only do huge copies and immediate shutdowns rarely, then maybe it's just a good idea to remember how softupdates work, and then fsck, then shutdown. This may sound simplistic, but what about a triple sync(8)? ("sync; sync; sync") ___

Re: SATA vs SCSI ...

On Jun 26, 2005, at 22:34, Marc G. Fournier wrote: In fact, looking at the SATA 2.x specs, each chanell there is rated at 300MB/s, which, again, if I could 'max out evenly', could seriously blow away the SCSI bus itself ... *If* I'm reading this right ... ? Bus speed does not equal drive s

Re: ACL not supported on 5.4?

On Jun 11, 2005, at 19:08, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Are handbook bugs handled through send-pr like everything else? Yes, use the "docs" category. There's also a web interface: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org maili

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

On Jun 4, 2005, at 18:41, Karl Denninger wrote: Having an offsite copy is just good common sense. Best to make it an explicit comment. As the saying goes, common sense often isn't (common). :) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

On Jun 3, 2005, at 18:50, Karl Denninger wrote: As with all backup strategies (absent write-once media in SOME cases) if the media is PHYSICALLY connected to the machine and it is hacked it is possible for a hacker to scribble on THAT as well. This is no more likely, however, Or a voltage

Re: Why Move . . .

On May 28, 2005, at 15:56, Claus Guttesen wrote: whatever. The ports-collection will take care of dependencies. Upgrading is done by portupgrade zsh for instance. Just a small hint: personally I tend to always use the "-b" option to create a backup copy of the previous version (usually saved

Re: gmirror

On May 14, 2005, at 10:48, Vladimir Dzhivsanoff wrote: On 5/14/05, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is my tool in ports (benchmarks/raidtest/) which does what you want. The README file wasn't moved to ports, IIRC, you can find it here: big thanks, Pawel You may also want to ch

Re: gmirror

On May 14, 2005, at 09:16, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: This is the way RAID1 works. Try to imagine how disk's heads are moving - there will be no speed-up in sequential reads, this is not RAID0. Mirror characteristics are: - the same speed for sequential reads as for one disk; - the same speed for

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

On Apr 6, 2005, at 07:04, Bob Bishop wrote: I'm currently runnning a 5.3 with the ntpd from 5.2.1 (ie version 4.1.1 not 4.2.0); looks good so far, I'll report back after a sensible interval. You may also want to poke your head into comp.protocols.time.ntp with this issue. Some of the designers a

Re: Headless install with 5.X floppies not possible?

On Apr 2, 2005, at 09:45, Ralph Hempel wrote: I haven't tried it with 5.x, but here's how I modify the CD to allow headless installs for 4.x Wouldn't is be better to simply use the "-P" option instead of "-h"? From boot

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

On Apr 1, 2005, at 05:45, Peter Jeremy wrote: Any suggestions as to why this is happening? (And how I can stop it regularly flipping) I don't think this is really an issue. It may be annoying to see it in the logs, but NTPv4 uses each algorithm when it's appropriate to get the most accurate time

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

On Mar 3, 2005, at 19:20, Emanuel Strobl wrote: If you consider upgrading to 5.4 you can use any onboard chipset or cheap controller card with some geomclasses, namely g_mirror. It's fantastic and the only stateful mirror solution I know. And you can mirror only parts of your disk, or mirror acr

Re: Any hosting companies offering FreeBSD 5.3 yet?

On Feb 26, 2005, at 04:28, John Pettitt wrote: I'm thinking about moving one of my servers to a new home (it's currently at servepath.com on a FreeBSD 5.0 box) - does anybody know of a reputable hosting company that's offering 5.3 boxes? Most places have x86 servers, does anyone know of companies t

Re: Save the Demon!

On Feb 8, 2005, at 18:31, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can this be true? Are they really looking to kill the FreeBSD demon? It's "daemon", not "demon". :) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stabl

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

On Feb 2, 2005, at 16:56, Eli K. Breen wrote: Lastly this machine is in production and cannot be rebooted. Stop the NTP daemon and restart it so that it uses the "-x" option. From ntpd(8): -x Normally, the time is slewed if the offset is less than the step threshold, which

Re: clock running fast

On Dec 30, 2004, at 15:58, Federico Galvez-Durand Besnard wrote: Your NTPD will never be stable with a wrong localtime setting. NTP does not care about local time. All values that NTP uses are in UTC: local time is a function of the operating system and is not used when calculating time values.

Re: Large port updates

On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:38, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: you can use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to tell portupgrade which options to use when upgrading a certain port. I usually check the makefile of ports When using portupgrade(1), are Makefile.local files consulted? __

Re: 4.x can't read 5.x dump?

On Dec 3, 2004, at 21:03, Adrian Wontroba wrote: On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:36:09PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: Should I expect a dump taken from 4.X to be restorable on 5.X though? Yes. Phew. I didn't even think about the possibility of dump not being forwards compatible (8-( Maybe a note should be

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

On Jun 28, 2004, at 11:06, Matt Douhan wrote: why ? they may not be public machines at all and be isolated to an environment where security is not the primary concern Have you not seen the SSH exploit in "The Matrix Reload"?!?! :> How do you know some evil-doer wouldn't use an exploit from an int

Re: how to interpret crash?

On May 26, 2004, at 17:34, Robert Watson wrote: [...] This is a NULL pointer dereference in some piece of code. The instruction pointer is 0xc0230fee, which if you have a kernel with debugging symbols, you can convert into a source file and line number (see the handbook for [...] Currently debu

Re: update strategies

tall should work fine. The resultant binary after the 'make' is in the /usr/obj hierachy. -- David Magda Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _

booting old kernel (Re: panics after upgrading to -STABLE Aug 9, 2002)

rnel.old' to load the old kernel into memory. You can now do a 'boot' to boot into multi-user mode, or 'boot -s' to go into single-user mode. This procedure worked for me. YMMV. Further commands are available in the loader(8) man page. You can find the man page onlin