From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 11 05:34:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC9BAFC5 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x231.google.com (mail-pb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF4E41703 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f49.google.com with SMTP id jt11so9195075pbb.22 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:34:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=pi91yGH5p1waYaWMq4lH1tGI1Ra8VkvQxp/FAe4JRi8=; b=c0ZOJJJ9FpC/Mi2VRxSw709EOlvcUKMphLmazamTHa0bu4Ld/Drh52Jvc2kGDEp/u4 q7B6ID5/N9n5s11NTwdEwLfQDLaN0aNYe0S5JB0AVaCaHwFSG6RSTmklG0biS60jd4p+ Qrnjh+SZwoRZZvARE9mPnDvEJKQ6t/Tba6xNZ1IYYEj2RoyAo8D6fybRsoelUzF3u+LA pD4xVsbNNMjOpb54xXDBG8FcMCQduAKqo6tgbUPBkFx6zN/iW00cX0Szn7bIAN4cBCbx VujpQS6PAzsRtCEykl3Eyp6sDJKf/0bsuRHtoRK2VdmwOcHGYmvS1TGi/ZIxiGMfr52H N+Fw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.219.72 with SMTP id pm8mr7493423pbc.164.1386740096440; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:34:56 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.23.101 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:34:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com> References: <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:34:56 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SZTCzLTu0DIk68AAadUzWtY0Ga8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports From: Kevin Oberman To: Thomas Mueller , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" , Alfred Perlstein Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:34:57 -0000 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:49 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Thomas Mueller wrote this message on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:05 +0000: > > > gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml... > > > > > And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart... > > > > -- John-Mark Gurney > > > > > XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware > > > it was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing > > > most of our development there so oops! > > > > -- Alfred > > > > I just looked in FreeBSD-current, and it appears disklabel, hard-linked > with bsdlabel, is alive and well. > > > > Man page does not show deprecated. > > Maybe retired was too strong of a word... But it is recommended you use > gpart, since bsdlabel can't handled writing when other partitions are > open... > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 > > While bsdlabel lives, it is very painful to use once you learn gpart. A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful. Another would be netstat. FWIW, the fact that JunOS can output most everything in XML is a great thing that I wish every router and OS did! (Not the XML part, but a format suitable or easy parsing. JSON would probably be even better.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com