From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 9 11:41:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54A114C22 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA62003; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:41:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 11:41:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199905091841.LAA62003@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP References: <199905091836.OAA22196@cs.rpi.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I just picked myself up a SMP MB and 2 P-II-400s. I just want to tell you :"way to go!". : :There is one bit of wierdness though. I run setiathome for FreeBSD, and I :usually run it with 'setiathome >logfile&', then I tail -f that logfile. :For some reason the 'tail -f' is not working; the logfile is getting written :to, if I access it in a different terminal (cat, a new tail, whatever) I see :the additiional information. Any ideas? : :I am running with softupdates. I can provide a dmesg and config file if :it is usefull, I am also running a debugging kernel with DDB so I can :try anything you need :) : :-- :David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu :Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Are you sure you aren't restarting setiathome? tail -f tracks the seek position of the file. If you restart setiathome without restarting the tail, the logfile will truncate to seek position 0 but the tail will still be hanging onto whatever seek position it had gotten to before. p.s. I'm running setiathome on both of my SMP boxes too. I think it's a much better use of idle cpu then trying to break encryption keys. I'm not redirecting it to a log file, though. -Matt Matthew Dillon :Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 :Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 :I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message