From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 12:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (gw-ipinc.museum.rain.com [206.29.169.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B28E37B417 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3PJmCio003117; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@ns.museum.rain.com) Received: (from list@localhost) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3PJmBeC003116; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:48:11 -0700 From: James Long To: Jason Cribbins Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world lasts longer than the energizer bunny Message-ID: <20020425124811.A3066@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005201c1ec7b$03ad34e0$15841bd8@kibserv.org>; from freebsdlist@kibserv.org on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is a keyboardless box (something fried on motherboard long ago) that I > had to initiate the make world through telnet on a windoze box. If I had > know it was going to take this much time I would have telneted from another > freebsd box. My windoze machines typically need to be rebooted every few > days to clean up memory leaks. > I might be in trouble here. Tip 1: run the make in the background. For instance I have a script called /root/mbw which does a little prep, and the "make buildworld" step. I invoke it thusly: /root/mbw >mbw.out 2>&1 & That makes /root/mbw run, sending its standard output and standard error to mbw.out, and runs it in the background, so that I don't have to keep the ssh (or telnet) session active for the duration of the make. To check the progress, inspect mbw.out, perhaps with tail -f mbw.out Tip 2: I haven't done a lot of build worlds, but by the procedure I use, at some point, you're going to have to log in directly on the console of the keyboardless box. If you have it set up to use a serial console to bypass the non-functional keyboard interface which I am inferring, that will work, but the make installword is best done in single-user mode, when telnet/ssh are not at your disposal. I would think a 486 with a fried keyboard interface would be worth about the same as a first-class postage stamp. Perhaps you could upgrade to a P90 or better? They're cheap also, probably will mount in the same case, and might even use the same 72-pin RAM, if your 486 uses 72-pin memory. Listen to Kris on time estimates. My PII-400 (192M) or dual 450 (704M) machines build in about 60-90 minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message