Re: launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

Hi Robert; --- On Sun, 7/31/11, Robert Millan wrote: ... > > Do you know how does launchd compare to InitNG?  I'm > not familiar with either. > I hadn't seen InitNG so I can't compare. The license would be an issue for upstream FreeBSD though (assuming you want something that is not Debian spec

launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

Hello; Just passing by, I found very interesting the notes from the BoF. Since it seems you will be working on a systemd replacement for other systems, perhaps you will find it easier to start from launchd, which is free and was ported to FreeBSD on Google Summer Code. http://wiki.freebsd.org/lau

FreeBSD Foundation needs donations

Hi, Just FYI, in order to keep their non-profit status the FreeBSD Foundation needs small donations (less than 8000 US$ each): totaling 30400$ by this New Year. More information is here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml You can donate here: http://www.freebsdfound

Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

Hi Nathan; > Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck interesting anyone in merging it. > Possibly because of compatibility issues, and possibly because the specs > for both of those things are kind of icky. Then again, it might simply > have had to do with the development cycle for FreeBSD. Ad

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

--- Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there something you can do to ask the FreeBSD developers to switch their > > PPP to Samba's? > > This shouldn't be necessary. All we have to do is get the patches merged > upstream, and then point out to FreeBSD developers that with the n

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

--- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I'm discussing this with Samba's PPP people. Would you bring it up on the > lists when the patches are applied? > Sure I will. Please try to preserve the BSD license on the files you modified too. I noticed some files are GPL'd now but as lon

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

--- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:41:51AM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > Do you think so? That would help us much, since we wouldn't have to maintain > Samba's PPP ourselves. > The author's address is in the README

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

--- "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > I traced the version included in FreeBSD to here: > > ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/ > > That doesn't look right (unless it is from long time ago because it

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

--- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I think I saw this thread on Daemonnews too. > > Do you have any link? > Hmm.. no.. I was wrong. > > > I recently posted a patch for Debian's PPP to work on GNU/FreeBSD [2]. > Have > > > you tried it? It's untested yet and i'm waiting for s

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

Hi Robert; ... Hmm.. my intention was just to let you know how things are done in FreeBSD, I'm not really into suggesting which ppp you might want to use :). > > [1] see the archived thread: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200306/msg00114.html > I think I saw this thre

Re: Tried to compile pppd but no luck

Hi; I just wanted to point out that on FreeBSD the default ppp is the userland ppp by Brian Somers http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html . The preferred kernel interface for pppd is netgraph (see the manpage) and there is a port of mpd that supports it. cheers, Pedro. __