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Pete Wright | 1 Mar 2012 02:58

ansible

not *BSD specific - but certainly could be of use for *BSD shops (or any
Unix shop frankly):

https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible

Michael DeHaan wrote another bit of code called cobbler which I am a big
fan of and have used in many places - so I reckon he's got a good track
record.  I really like his desing principle behind ansible - KISS.
seems like a nice alternative to the creaky pdsh and clusterssh scripts
I've been using for ages.

If I get some time I may try to write a port for freebsd - or get it
working on workstation at the least and document it :)

-pete

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Pete Wright
pete <at> nomadlogic.org
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George Rosamond | 4 Mar 2012 04:43

Weird build problem on FBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE

(In the old days, people were more than interested in posting this sort 
of stuff, so I thought I'd bring back some of that old flavor.  We used 
to be much more humble. :)

So following FreeBSD stable on a particular box, I hacked away at the 
kernel for some specific needs.

buildworld kept dying, and I determined that for some crazy reason, even 
after csup'g, that the file /usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.txi was 
missing.  The rest of the directory was populated with the correct files.

I resolved it quickly by copying it over from another box once I figured 
it out, but I still don't know how this file wouldn't be there in the 
first place.

Both boxes were csup'd from the same mirror (cvsup9).  So no point in 
confirming that the file is on the mirror.  Nothing fancy going on in 
the build, just the usual csup, buildworld, etc.

Any insights?

g
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Charles Sprickman | 4 Mar 2012 06:11
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Re: Weird build problem on FBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE


On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:43 PM, George Rosamond wrote:

> (In the old days, people were more than interested in posting this sort of stuff, so I thought I'd bring back
some of that old flavor.  We used to be much more humble. :)
> 
> So following FreeBSD stable on a particular box, I hacked away at the kernel for some specific needs.
> 
> buildworld kept dying, and I determined that for some crazy reason, even after csup'g, that the file
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.txi was missing.  The rest of the directory was populated with
the correct files.
> 
> I resolved it quickly by copying it over from another box once I figured it out, but I still don't know how
this file wouldn't be there in the first place.
> 
> Both boxes were csup'd from the same mirror (cvsup9).  So no point in confirming that the file is on the
mirror.  Nothing fancy going on in the build, just the usual csup, buildworld, etc.
> 
> Any insights?

I generally read -stable everyday, and in the past few months I've seen numerous reports of one or two goofy
cvsup servers screwing things up for people.  I never saw any discussion of the root cause or whether the
servers were pulled from the pool, but in all cases the underlying weirdness (which sounds much like
yours) was resolved by switching to another cvsup mirror.

C

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Jason Hellenthal | 4 Mar 2012 20:52

Re: Weird build problem on FBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE


On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:11:33AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:43 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
> 
> > (In the old days, people were more than interested in posting this sort of stuff, so I thought I'd bring
back some of that old flavor.  We used to be much more humble. :)
> > 
> > So following FreeBSD stable on a particular box, I hacked away at the kernel for some specific needs.
> > 
> > buildworld kept dying, and I determined that for some crazy reason, even after csup'g, that the file
/usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.txi was missing.  The rest of the directory was populated with
the correct files.
> > 
> > I resolved it quickly by copying it over from another box once I figured it out, but I still don't know how
this file wouldn't be there in the first place.
> > 
> > Both boxes were csup'd from the same mirror (cvsup9).  So no point in confirming that the file is on the
mirror.  Nothing fancy going on in the build, just the usual csup, buildworld, etc.
> > 
> > Any insights?
> 
> I generally read -stable everyday, and in the past few months I've seen numerous reports of one or two goofy
cvsup servers screwing things up for people.  I never saw any discussion of the root cause or whether the
servers were pulled from the pool, but in all cases the underlying weirdness (which sounds much like
yours) was resolved by switching to another cvsup mirror.
> 

Or using SVN: (I reccomend it over the use of [cvsup/csup])
svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ /usr/src/
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George Rosamond | 5 Mar 2012 02:07

Re: Weird build problem on FBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE

On 03/04/12 14:52, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:11:33AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 10:43 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>>
>>> (In the old days, people were more than interested in posting
>>> this sort of stuff, so I thought I'd bring back some of that old
>>> flavor.  We used to be much more humble. :)
>>>
>>> So following FreeBSD stable on a particular box, I hacked away at
>>> the kernel for some specific needs.
>>>
>>> buildworld kept dying, and I determined that for some crazy
>>> reason, even after csup'g, that the file
>>> /usr/src/contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.txi was missing.  The rest
>>> of the directory was populated with the correct files.
>>>
>>> I resolved it quickly by copying it over from another box once I
>>> figured it out, but I still don't know how this file wouldn't be
>>> there in the first place.
>>>
>>> Both boxes were csup'd from the same mirror (cvsup9).  So no
>>> point in confirming that the file is on the mirror.  Nothing
>>> fancy going on in the build, just the usual csup, buildworld,
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Any insights?
>>
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Jonathan | 5 Mar 2012 03:07

Home storage server build

After having 2 drives fail within hours of each other and losing yet
another stick of RAM in my current 6 year old FreeBSD ZFS storage server
I'm looking at building a new one next week.  If people are interested
I'll try to keep the list up to date on what I find.

My current requirements:
Budget - Probably $500-$1000
Must have ECC RAM

My current hardware (that I will reuse):
Coolmaster Stacker case w/ 850 watt power supply
My current drive array 4x 1.5TB and 4x 2TB drives (2x ZFS RAIDZ)
LSI SAS 3081E-R HBA
2x 5in4 SATA hot swap bays

My current question is what motherboards would you recommend?  Brands to
look at or avoid or specific models are welcome.

Currently the best performance per dollar for a CPU seems to be the
Intel E3-1230 or E3-1235 by quite a bit
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59137.  AMD offerings in the same
price range don't appear to have anywhere near the performance.

I plan to put as much RAM on the board as my budget can handle.

Jonathan
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Charles Sprickman | 5 Mar 2012 05:17
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Re: Home storage server build


On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:07 PM, Jonathan wrote:

> After having 2 drives fail within hours of each other and losing yet
> another stick of RAM in my current 6 year old FreeBSD ZFS storage server
> I'm looking at building a new one next week.  If people are interested
> I'll try to keep the list up to date on what I find.
> 
> My current requirements:
> Budget - Probably $500-$1000
> Must have ECC RAM
> 
> My current hardware (that I will reuse):
> Coolmaster Stacker case w/ 850 watt power supply
> My current drive array 4x 1.5TB and 4x 2TB drives (2x ZFS RAIDZ)
> LSI SAS 3081E-R HBA
> 2x 5in4 SATA hot swap bays
> 
> My current question is what motherboards would you recommend?  Brands to
> look at or avoid or specific models are welcome.
> 
> Currently the best performance per dollar for a CPU seems to be the
> Intel E3-1230 or E3-1235 by quite a bit
> http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59137.  AMD offerings in the same
> price range don't appear to have anywhere near the performance.
> 
> I plan to put as much RAM on the board as my budget can handle.

With your budget, I'd have a look at dropping two of these in for
ZIL:
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Andy Kosela | 5 Mar 2012 15:56

FOSDEM 2012

Anyone attended?  It looks the BSD presence there was very strong

 http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2012/03/trip-report-fosdem-2012.html

Hopefully someone was there with a camcorder and will put everything
on youtube bsdconferences channel.

--Andy
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George Rosamond | 5 Mar 2012 16:17

Character Frequency Analyzer

A bit OT, but very cool:

www.characterfrequencyanalyzer.com

For those who don't know, the basis of cryptanalysis is frequency analysis.

In English, the larger the body of text, the more likely that the 
frequency of letters will match:

ETAOINSHRDLU

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George Rosamond | 5 Mar 2012 16:21

Re: FOSDEM 2012

On 03/05/12 09:56, Andy Kosela wrote:
> Anyone attended?  It looks the BSD presence there was very strong
>
>   http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2012/03/trip-report-fosdem-2012.html
>
> Hopefully someone was there with a camcorder and will put everything
> on youtube bsdconferences channel.
>

Definitely.

I haven't been, but there's a lot about FOSDEM that is done right, from 
what I've seen remotely.

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