Oh… Apparently this afflicted 7.3-RELEASE for a short while, then was corrected in 7.3-STABLE. So I’m not sure what problem I was encountering below. The consensus now is I was hitting MAXCPU. But I should have hit that on 7.2. I upgraded a VM to FreeBSD 7.3 from 7.2 and now it won’t boot. It […]
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— /etc/master.passwd 2010-03-08 16:00:49.000000000 +0000 +++ ./etc/master.passwd 2010-08-23 01:04:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40 2005/06/06 20:19:56 brooks Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40.22.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $ # -root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh +root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin @@ -21,23 +21,3 @@ pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide
I recently upgraded xorg on my workstation at the office. Immediately I started seeing problems with one of the monitors. It would go empty/blank/black for three seconds, then resume normal operation. Then it would go blank again when I interacted with the screen. In short, that one monitor was completely useless. Swapping cables on the
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This is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for my RadeonHD. X.Org X Server 1.7.5 Release Date: 2010-02-16 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 Current Operating System: FreeBSD subie.example.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Wed Aug 11 14:34:19 EDT 2010 dlangille@subie.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DVL amd64 Build Date: 12 August 2010 05:57:37PM Current version of pixman: 0.16.6 Before
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This is the xorg.conf file for my RadeonHD setupt Section “ServerLayout” Option “AllowEmptyInput” “off” Identifier “X.org Configured” Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0 InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer” InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard” EndSection Section “Files” ModulePath “/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/” EndSection Section “Module” Load “extmod” Load “record” Load “dbe” Load
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I am impressed…. my gmirror array continued to work even after the drives were renamed from da20 and da24 to ada0 and ada1. This happened when I tried out the ahci(4) for my SATA drives. It’s the type of thing I’m striving for soon in my ZFS array. All this started when I wanted to
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I’ve been thinking about giving up my mail servers for a while. After many years of getting great satisfaction from running my own, I’m thinking of letting Google run them for me. Economies of scale means Google can do a much better job than I ever could, and for a very great price. For $12
The FreeBSD Foundation says: “We are pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism.” http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2010-July/001335.html
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In a previous post, I wrote about a suspected LIMIT problem. It turns out that suspicion proved correct. The solution was to move to a nested query which limits the underlying data and then allows the outer query to grab all the associated fluff that surrounds it. Here is the fix to the original code:
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I found this interesting. The usual FreshPorts logging indicated an unusual number of account creations in a short amount of time. So I went looking. I found one IP address had created 20 logins. freshports.org=# SELECT ip_address, freshports.org-# count(ip_address) freshports.org-# FROM users freshports.org-# GROUP BY ip_address freshports.org-# ORDER BY 2 DESC freshports.org-# LIMIT 2; ip_address
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