SysAdmin

以前一直是装FreeBSD最小安装，因为感觉很多东西在服务器上根本用不到；又更有甚者，前几天甚至在考虑进一步精简系统，使其在服务器上安装尽可能少的文件（例如开发工具完全不安装）。结果今天发现了一个之前一直没有注意到的问题：game这个看似没用的distribution其实也还是蛮有用的，比如生成素数表，等等。

由于磁盘故障，ftp.freebsdchina.org 暂时无法提供服务了(初步估计是panic掉了)。更头疼的是，由于连续5年运行没有出过什么严重问题，这台机器在机房的位置恐怕也不太好找了。

It seems that my box loses its uptime record after I have migrated it to the Yizhuang IDC. The two things are related, but technically speaking, they are not. Actually I have discovered gokeeper’s hosts losed their uptimes as well, but I did not know why before. Sometimes I thought that was because the Linksys switch we have used, but there are some evidence that it is not; also I have at a point doubted the Cisco devices were misconfigured or have some firewalling features, but that’s not the answell, either.

less is a very popular command line tool that is distributed with a lot of *nix distributions. Thanks goes to David Wolfskill (our postmaster) who helped the test.

The current plan is to MFC less(1) before 6.2-RELEASE’s freeze, but because the date is near, we may want to change the plan.

Today Hiroki Sato has committed the long waited www/ cleanup mega-patch. Key features:

• Localized sgml, xmls and xslts are moved into <lang>/share/sgml/.
• Duplicated stuff between English and localized versions are eliminated as much as possible.
• Switched to use a custom FreeBSD DTD for HTML.

一直有人抱怨FreeBSD的bsdlabel(8)和fdisk(8)不好用，而进一遍sysinstall又太过麻烦，因此这次有人把磁盘编辑器从sysinstall(8)里面拆了出来，作了一些修改使其成为了一个新的工具——sade(8)。

总有一天把它重写了……想知道为什么：
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install && make WARNS=6

最近一直觉得自己的邮件服务器的垃圾邮件明显增多，于是仔细检查了一下，发现灰名单策略放的太过靠后，以至于前面的一个策略使得灰名单能够被轻易绕过。查了一下db的时间，原来这已经持续很久了，怪不得。。。

看看用的都是一些什么不上档次的用户名。。。

愈发习惯FreeBSD下的生活之后，用Windows反而时常感觉不爽。例如最近微软推出的Internet Explorer 7的Beta 3，竟然不允许从Beta 2直接覆盖升级，实在让人感觉十分不快。