Re: [PATCH 3/5] console-client: replace function epilogue with console_exit

2013-10-10 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:08:20 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > * console-client/console.c (main): Replace epilogue with console_exit. > --- > console-client/console.c |3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/console-client/console.c b/console-client/console.c >

Re: RFC: [PATCH] SCM_CREDS support

2013-10-24 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:38:11 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Well, the question is quite simple: what happens when the sender > > provides faked ports, e.g. pointing to other proc/auth servers? That's > > where having to explain how the patch is working would possibly even > > work out the securi

Re: Comments on libmemcached patch?

2011-09-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> For this patch, the amount of data dynamically allocated is not large, a > few strings of size much less than PATH_MAX of 4096 bytes. According to > the manpage for malloc the default MMAP_THRESHOLD is at 128kB. > > Alternately asprintf could be used instead of malloc+snprintf, but > asprintf is

Re: Hurd stacks, some more (was: RFC: ruby1.9.1 FTBFS)

2013-07-04 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:06:09 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > I wonder: if MAP_STACK is set, would it even be > reasonable for mmap to ignore the supplied length, and instead use the > one "proper" value, 0x20? I think that this is only acceptable if the length exceeds the supplied length. This

uploaders

2013-07-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
ev > + xkb-data, gawk, flex, bison, autotools-dev, libdaemon-dev > Uploaders: Jeff Bailey , > Neal H. Walfield , Michael Banck , > Samuel Thibault I just noticed this. I'm not a DD any more. And, Jeff hasn't been active in years. It might be appropriate to prune the

Re: [PATCH 10/16] hurd: add fsys_get_children

2013-07-30 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:59:18 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > fsys_get_children returns any active translators bound to nodes of the > receiving filesystem as an argz vector containing file names relative > to the root of the receiving translator. What if the caller is chrooted? The filenames sho

Re: [PATCH 10/16] hurd: add fsys_get_children

2013-07-30 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:44:22 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:20:32PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > > fsys_get_children returns any active translators bound to nodes of the > > > receiving filesystem as an argz vector containing file names re

Re: Hacking gnumach to track parental relationship of tasks

2013-09-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:57:41 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > I made two rather small and (as I thought) straight forward changes to > gnumach to keep track of a tasks father task and to make this > information available. What happens when the parent task is destroyed? Are the children destroyed wit

Re: booting problem

1999-12-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi All, I get the same exact results that Tim is getting when trying to boot the HURD. My setup is very similar to his: AIC7895 w/ 9G drive sd0s1: Linux Root sd0s2: Linux /usr sd0s3: Hurd (990 MB) sd0s4: Linux Swap I, however, have no Sound card installed nor do I have a network card currently

Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello All, I hope that everyone had a great New Year. As per my initial message on this subject (archive/latest/3341), I have been unable to boot the HURD. The problem that I am encountering is identical as far as I can tell to the one described by Tom (archive/latest/3158) and also referenced

Re: Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:39:01PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > 8GB IDE drive (pri master) > > > > Linux sits on the SCSI drive, a Hurd partition lives on the first 990MB > > of the IDE drive. >

Re: Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello, On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 06:19:41PM +0100, root wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:00:03AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > > > Grub believes that the SCSI drive is hd0. > > Ah, okay. It's the BIOS deciding this. Of course, I should have thought of t

Re: Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Marcus, Great news, I believe that I have figured out the problem! The following will best illustrates what is happening: com1: Root device ``E!!' does not exist! Root device name? [`E!!] foo Server boot script? [/dev/foo/boot/servers.boot] Root device `foo' does not exist! Root device n

Re: Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Roland, On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 03:31:51PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Thanks for tracking that down. I have checked in changes that should fix > serverboot so it understands the newer ext2fs directory format, but I > haven't done any testing at all (beyond compiling it). I can put up a ne

Re: Still having booting problems

2000-01-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 03:51:06PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: Roland, Thanks alot. It worked great! And thank you, Marcus, for helping me find the bug. -Neal > I've put a serverboot binary (stripped and unstripped copies, both bz2'd) > up at ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/roland/. --

Bug in Ethernet Card DE 530TX+ Driver

2000-01-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello all, I recently bought a DLink 530TX+ NIC Card (based on the Realtek 8139A chip set, ie not the Dlink 530TX which is based on the VIA Rhine chip). GNUMach claims to successfully detect the card as eth0. I can successfully set up the translator. However, upon use (where use is defined as `l

Bug in dselect or MACH terminal driver

2000-01-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I appears that dselect cannot correctly display under the MACH terminal. When I try to scroll in select mode, the screen gets `destroyed' and I must constantly use ^L to redraw it. As a side note, I have not yet tried a remote session of dselect to see if the same behavior is exibited. I will

Bug in apt-get?

2000-01-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello, Upon trying to do an `apt-get update', I receive a `socket exception'. I have no problem using ftp, telnet, ping etc. -Neal -- Neal Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMass L

Re: Todo

2000-01-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Marcus, > Welcome to the wonderful world of unported software. The apt version in the > archive is old, outdated, and broken. > > Brent unfortunately can't boot, so he can't move on with apt currently. > Maybe I'll jump in, but there's lot of other stuff to do before... Do we have a todo list

load averages

2000-01-08 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, My box has been up for about seven hours. The extent of my usage is browsing source code via nvi on the console and via a telnet session. After coming back from dinner an hour ago, my box went from slow to a crawl for no apparent reason. I ran `w' to get the load avenge; they were over 40!

Re: load averages

2000-01-08 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > I have not seen anything quite this before. Whenever you see a load spike > like this, please do ps to see what the particular processes involved are. > If you use ps -Au it will sort by cpu usage (I think there is a sorting > option too). > Hi, I felt it happening again (it had now been u

trivfs

2000-01-08 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I am trying to make a trivial translator. I have had no problem implementing the reading side it thanks to Gordon's hello world translator. However, I am having problems getting the waiting side of it to work in doing so, I have made several observations: If any of the /src/hurd/libtrivfs/*

Re: trivfs

2000-01-08 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I apolgize for the bad message but it appers that ispell can work against you at 3 in the morning ;). Anyhoo: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:02:16AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > translator. However, I am having problems getting the waiting side > > of it to work in doing so, I have made seve

RAM Disk

2000-01-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, As an exersize, I began to write a trivial translator which turned out to be a ramdisk. I have made it fairly efficient and (hopefully complete). It is avaliable at ftp://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/hurd/ramdisk.tar.gz I have not found a RAM disk in the hurd cvs repository; if this code is

Re: gdb

2000-01-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 03:25:39PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so...done. > > > > [1]+ Stopped gdb trivial_translator 52 > > That is gdb crashing. I believe that I have discovered the cause of this. If one does not compile with debugging sym

Idle time

2000-01-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello all, I believe that this might be a possible error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ext2fs $ w 1:15:25 AM up 13 hours, 5 users, load averages: 1.67, 2.46, 2.79 USER TTY FROMLOGIN@ IDLE PID WHAT login co - 12:11PM 29hrs32 -login prompt (bash) neal p0 1

Re: ??? downloading from the right place?

2000-01-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Seth, This is the correct place. The Linux Kernel is for GNUMach; we use a lot the the drivers, no need to duplicate the work. If you look in cross-install and native-install, you'll see most of what you need to download (which happens to be most of base and interpreters/perl). -Neal On F

Re: ??? downloading from the right place?

2000-01-16 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I apologize for the misinformation, I somehow came under the impression that we were including it since Mach makes use of many of the drivers. -Neal On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:28:58PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > This is the correct place. The Linux Kernel is for GNUMach; we > > use a

Re: hurd boot problems

2000-01-19 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Try this: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-0001/msg00056.html -Neal On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:27:29AM +0800, da Bobstopper wrote: > hiya > > i recently downloaded gnu/hurd using the process outlined at > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu/easy.html > > well, everything se

sush

2000-01-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I just did a sush as myself (nonroot) and got root privledges without entering a password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ whoami neal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ id uid=1000(neal) gid=1000(neal) groups=1000(neal) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l /foo ls: /foo: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ touc

Re: sush

2000-01-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
Sorry about that. -Neal On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 05:39:39PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > This is fixed by a change I just checked in (see utils/ChangeLog in cvs). > Thanks for the report. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: sush

2000-01-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I inferred that you had already checked in a fix (ie days / weeks ago) and I was reporting an old problem. -Neal On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 05:43:29PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Sorry about that. > > Sorry about what? You reported the problem, so I fixed it, and now you can > get the fi

libps

2000-01-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi All, ps.h states on lines 257-260 that: /* The process's argv, as a string with each element separated by '\0'. */ char *args; /* The length of ARGS. */ unsigned args_len; It actually contains that plus an extra null at the end. If this is really a bug, this should fix it: --- /src/hurd/p

Re: libps

2000-01-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > That comment is imprecise. The code is correct as it stands. It should > say that it's stored in what we now call "argz format" Ok, then I propose the following patch: --- /src/hurd/include/ps.h Wed Jun 2 02:24:36 1999 +++ ps.hSun Jan 23 16:14:26 2000 @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ s

hurd/ihash.h

2000-01-24 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello all, Does hurd/ihash.h have any dependencies specifically on hurd.h or am I making some kind of stupid mistake? -Neal -- Neal Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMass Lowell -

argz_stringify

2000-01-24 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I was trying to use argv_stringify on a `near' argv structure; it has everything but the null terminator, for example, char test[] = "a\0b\0c\0d\0e". If I make the call as follows: argz_stringify(test, sizeof(test), ' '); This works great, (ie when the last character is indeed a null). H

Re: argz_stringify

2000-01-24 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Thanks. I agree that it is poorly formed input, however, I was equating the function to a strn* type function due to its size_t nature. -Neal On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:03:42PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > This could be fixed, but it's arguably a poorly-formed input to the > function that

libps

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I was looking through the ps.h source and I can see no way to find the effective gid of a running proccess, is there a way to do so and if so, how? -Neal -- Neal Walfield

Re: libps

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:37:20AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > No, there isn't one. The proc server only returns you the owner uid (which > is usually the same as the first effective uid). I suppose it could have a > call to return full id sets for each process. Can you get this information >

Re: libps

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > One can get the gid via ps -G gid under Linux, DEC and Solaris: > > There is no -G on my Linux syste. I am running Debian potato: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps --version [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux school 2.2.14pre17 #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 21:41:13 EST 2000 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id

Re: general compilation questions..

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > oh. Is there a way to do virtual terminals like in GNU/Linux? > > Not yet. There is screen which is better than nothing. -Neal -- Neal Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMass

ps_tty_name broken?

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I believe that ps_tty_name may be broken. I have included two examples using libps. The first is the broken one. Here we see that after using ps_tty_name and trying to use a new procset the program crashes. The second example demostrates what should happen, ie it doesn't crash. I used owne

getting a directory from a port

2000-01-25 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, What is the correct way to get a directory name from a message port. For example: mach_port_t cwdir; in struct proc_stat (/include/ps.h:283) Thanks -Neal -- Neal Walfield

uid -1

2000-01-26 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi all, Since many funtions return -1 for unsuccessful uid lookups, it would seem to me to be a good idea to make a user corrosponding to this. Such as in sush etc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sush bash-2.03$ whoami whoami: cannot find username for UID 4294967295 bash-2.03$ Comments? -Neal --

Re: libps

2000-01-26 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:58:08PM -0800, Gregory Ade wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED](pts/0):~ 52 > ps --version > procps version 2.0.4 > > This version does support -G. > It seems I forgot to copy the version info from ps in my original message, Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps --version pr

libps - PSTAT_TASK_BASIC

2000-01-29 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I am trying to access: proc_stat_task_basic_info(proc)->virtual_size after successfully setting: PSTAT_TASK_BASIC, however, the structure reports: (gdb) p *proc->task_basic_info $8 = {suspend_count = 0, base_priority = 12, virtual_size = 153505792, resident_size = 1474560, user_time = {

Re: A bunch of problems

2000-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 01:40:49PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I want to set up nfs because I have a ethernet with to boxes. I have > > no problems telneting from and to my hurd box from my linux box, but I > > simply do not know how to set up a translator for nfs. I haven't find > > any docum

Hurd Box

2000-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi all, I have a hurd box setup that has a pretty good configuration (450Mhz and 192 Ram) and is up almost all of the time. If, you need someplace to test code or jsut want to try out the hurd, pop me an email and I will see what I can do. -Neal -- -

Re: Getting HurdHurd Box

2000-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, There is no supprt for ppp yet, only ethernet. If you have another box act as the gateway then this is not a problem. As for cds, they do not yet exist per say. Someone on the list might send you the debs on cd if you ask. I would but I can't as I have no burner, sorry. -Neal On Sun, Feb

Re: hurd install

2000-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, It sounds like you are building the hurd in the same directory as your copy of the CVS repository. Try building the hurd in another directory. This is the `normal' way to do it (ie the tried and true method). -Neal On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:07:27PM -0500, Ali Ijaz Sheikh wrote: > > Hi! >

Re: hurd install

2000-02-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I don't know what I was talking about last night, but whta I said is totally unrelated to your problem. Sorry. -Neal > It sounds like you are building the hurd in the same directory as > your copy of the CVS repository. Try building the hurd in another > directory. This is the `normal' wa

Re: Problems booting the hurd

2000-02-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, This sounds familiar, try: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-0001/msg00056.html -Neal On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:24:04AM +0100, Tobias Hunger wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:13:41PM +, Bruno Voisin wrote: > > > # Partit

Re: Problems booting the hurd

2000-02-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, apt-get does not (yet) work. dselect and dpkg, however, do but only if you use ftp as your access method. -Neal > Many thanks... It just worked fine with the hurd2130.deb ! > > Anyway, here comes another problem : while running under the hurd, i > downloaded apt-get packages and instal

Re: Geting the hurd up and running

2000-02-16 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, This was fixed in the latest packages (specifically, hurd_2131 or the like). Make sure that you are using that. If you are still having problems then please email us back. -Neal On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:55:19PM -0600, Matthias Granberry wrote: > What are the steps to make the thing bo

Re: Another User!

2000-02-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Adam, Congrats and thanks. If you post this on an ftp, I am sure a few people will pick it up and the changes will make there way upstream. The current task list is at: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-tasks Feel free to polish that off. Then you can check the debian bug tracking

Re: i want to help ! how ?

2000-03-05 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 06:17:41PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:57:23PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > It's not rewriting pfinet, but integrating ppp with pfinet. > > > AFAIK, Thomas thinks about something l

Re: Installing Debian/Hurd

2000-03-05 Thread Neal H Walfield
HI All, >From what I understand (correct me if I am wrong), GNUMach has support for the 2.0.x drivers while OSKit supports the 2.2.x seriers. You may want to try that out (It is available as a branch in CVS GNUMach). -Neal On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:51:00PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On S

Re: sometimes no echo from telnetd

2000-03-09 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:46:14PM +0100, Mariusz Woloszyn wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > when I work on a remote Hurd box from my Linux box, sometimes > > the echo is dropped, that means, the characters I type are not > > echoed back to me, neither is the output of pro

pthreads

2000-03-12 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi all, I am working on a pthread implementation to run under gnu mach for my OS project this semester; expect to see some bits in the next month or so. Here is the problem that I have run into so far: Background: As a minimal implementation, I have a basic pthread_t, pthread_attr_t and pthread

Re: vts?

2000-03-13 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Guys, On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:37:54PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:24:55PM +0800, da Bobstopper wrote: > > i also noted that vi and lynx both have an annoying tendency to crash. i've > I guess. Which vim do you use, and what problem does it have? I am guessing

Re: Hurd sources

2000-03-18 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Try this page: http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html -Neal On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:44:38PM +0100, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new in the Hurd world... I used it some time ago but now I > reinstalled it. Well, my question is about getting the Hurd and Mach > sources

Re: Hurd and the Alpha

2000-03-19 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi Greg, Currently, the hurd only runs on the i386 family of processors. If you would like to start a porting effort to the alpha, I would suggest that you start port gnu mach. If you get that running, then you need a boot loader. Again, grub is only for the i386 (at the moment, plans are in pro

Re: URLs for new developers 20000322

2000-03-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, OSKit: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/ Mach: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/www/mach.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/doc/books.html Grub: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ General OS Books: ftp://ftp.cse.ucsc.edu/pub/comp.os.research/93/93-0

Re: URLs for new developers 20000322

2000-03-26 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, An HCL: http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/hurd/hurd-hardware.html -Neal On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:34:46AM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote: > it's been a while since info URLs were posted so for the new folks, here > are some URLs to help you get started: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/hu

Re: installation

2000-03-29 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > my hurd partition created from linux /dev/hdc > > or grub hd1,0 > ^ > hd2,0 for /dev/hdc; hd0 for hda; hd1 for hdb > > or gnumach hd2s0 Read the next line. Grubs finds the devices in `bios' order. > > > > it took me a while to notice that grub was ignoring my cdrom an

Re: Please where Hurd tarball?

2000-03-30 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, You can find all that you are looking for at either: hurd.gnu.org -- The main web site or http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/#debian-hurd -Neal On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:28:41AM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > Could someone please direct me to an ftp site for the latest stable and > un

Re: Latest Tarball Problems

2000-03-30 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, No need to cross post, 95% (guess) of those on help-help are also on debian-help On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:13:54PM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote: > Oh, of course. I forgot to execute native-install. I completely reinstalled > my > hurd partition from the Mar 1 tarball and executed native-inst

Re: fs questions

2000-03-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:07:16PM +0200, Zsombor Gergely wrote: > Could anyone give a pointer/explain > > - how shadowfs (if the usual unix /usr/bin and /bin directories are merged > together with shadowfs, how can I tell, where a file goes if I copy > something to /bin under the Hurd?)

Re: fs questions

2000-03-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:08:56PM +0200, Zsombor Gergely wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:59:10AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > shadowfs is not yet implemented. Currently, /usr is a link to the current > > Not for any single OS? The only implementation that I know of

Re: gnu-india.org under construction

2000-03-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, It does not seem to even bu underconstruction, your primary dns server does not know who you are. Welcome to the team. -Neal On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:49:35PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi GNUs > > http://gnu-india.org is still under construction. I got free hosting > services fro

Bug #59433

2000-04-01 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Should bug #59433 be closed (and added to a FAQ)? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/59/59433.html -Neal -- Neal Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMass Lowell - Fox 1512

Re: Some simple questions.

2000-04-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:06:39PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote: > Hello GNUbies. > > I've successfully install the HURD from the tar, two weeks ago. I > compiled GNUMACH successfully today. No problems. Congrats. > > I would like to know, though, how to translate ('mount') a Zip disk in how to

Re: I have successfully installed GNU/Hurd

2000-04-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:46:23AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All > I have successfully installed GNU/Hurd on PII 64MB, 540MB Sec Master. Congrats! > >From now onwards I will start my part of contribution to GNU and free > software movement. Soon I will meet different Linux user gr

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-04-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I have a fast hurd box on ethernet. If you would like access (or anyone else for that matter), just toss me a note and I will setup an account for you. -Neal On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:23:48PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > &

Re: Another installation report -was- (quite long)

2000-04-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Though I haven't tried ( and don't recomend it ) much the same effect > should be obtained by simply unplugging the keyboard from a running PC, I unplug my keyboard all the time and it does not happen - I have a KVM that does not throw a presence back to the motherboard. -Neal -- --

Re: Server programming

2000-04-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I imagine it easier to write an http client than server, but that is just me. If you want to learn how to write translators, there a a bunch to get you started in the /src/hurd/trans. >From there, you can fix ftpfs (which is _very_ buggy) or write that httpfs translator or any number of othe

Re: Time.

2000-04-07 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I think that it might be you box as mine is fine and as been running the hurd since december. -Neal On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote: > Hello again, > > I've noticed that every time I use The Hurd my system time/date is > changed. It started with a few hours, then

Re: Time.

2000-04-07 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:43:54PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote: > Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I think that it might be you box as mine is fine and as been running > > the hurd since december. > > Do you know what might have caused it? This only

Re: First European Debian Meeting

2000-05-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi All, Speaking of meetings, I am planning on attending the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux; This was announced last week on debian-devel and a few other lists, it is attached here is you have not heard about it. I am curious who else if going to be present and if they might be interested in

Re: Getting HURD up and running

2000-05-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, > I can get grub to boot hurd from a floppy. However, when hurd begins to > boot, if I press anything on my keyboard, I get a kernel panic. If I try This is a known issue, work around: do not hit anything on your keyboard while the hurd is booting. > and just let it boot, hurd just sorta

Re: Try try again

2000-05-05 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Start over and when you format your partition, passing the -O none arguments to mke2fs. This will disable the extra features that linux likes and may be confusing the hurd. Although this should be fixed, it is worth a try anyway. Good luck and keep plugging! -Neal On Thu, May 04, 2000 at

Re: cannot autoconf HURD

2000-05-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, When I build the hurd from cvs, I do the following: % cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs login No password % cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co hurd % cd hurd % autoconf % mkdir build % cd build % ../configure % make Note that one really needs to build the hurd from a different di

Re: Hurd conference in Paris - delayed

2000-05-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
Tis a shame, however, with more notice, who knows who you will get ;) -Neal On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 07:10:11AM +0200, diablero wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:56:31AM +0200, diablero wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a student in a french computer science school. With all of the members > > of the schoo

Re: Hurd conference in Paris - delayed

2000-05-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Just a thought, has anyone planned to be in the Libre software Meeting > this summer, that could be a chance for most of us to meet and talk > about Hurd, I know that Richard will give a conference about Hurd. > > Anyone interested ? I am planning on being there, however,

procfs

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, A while ago, I created a procfs translator (an emulation layer for linux proc compatibility). I have not done any work on it in the last three months, therefore, and thanks to John, I am releasing it prematurely. For the most part, it works (ie does not segfault), however there are alot of m

Re: Hurd Boot Errors

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> in less than 1 Gb of hardisk space. ^ partition -- Neal Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMass Lowell - Fox 1512 Ph

Re: Hurd Boot Errors

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > > in less than 1 Gb of hardisk space. > >^ partition > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 2038416865920 1067272 45% / > /dev/hda1 396623 32264343878 9% /hurd > > Shouldn't th

[RFC] translators

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, Having written several translators myself, I find that the hardest part is discovering the functions that I need to override and the correct prototypes. To solve this (other than better documentation), I believe that rather than leaving the linker to do the function overriding, the hurd shoul

Re: Samba

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I also know > that, in a multiserver environment, the number of IPC messages required > decreases performance, because each message operation involves an expensive > context switch. Although this is true for Mach, this is not necessaril

Re: Samba

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Neal H Warfield wrote: > > If we reimplement mach over an exokernel, it will only decrease > > the microkernel's portability -- we now have a dependency on an > > exokernel rather then a generic piece of hardware. > > What's the difference? Either you port the Mach microkernel or you port the >

Re: Samba

2000-05-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Neal H Warfield wrote: ^ Is this suppose to be flame bait? I am not amused. > I'm assuming that the hurd library(ies) that implements Mach services simply > runs in user space. I was referring to the ipc, which takes place entirely in the kernel. > Consequently,

Re: runsystem

2000-07-01 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: State of PCMCIA?

2000-07-01 Thread Neal H Walfield
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -------- Neal H Walfield[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Massachusetts at

Re: HURD top

2000-07-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
-Neal -- ---- Neal H Walfield[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Massachusetts at Lowell[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 603-415-3645 Phone: N/A (Nice) Love

Re: Makefile-ish init and ideas

2000-08-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
Cons > project, which touts to be a make replacement, as listed on the GNU software > page. (http://www.dsmit.com/cons). > -- Neal H Walfield[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Massachusetts

Re: Problems installing hurd on i386

2000-08-31 Thread Neal H Walfield
ee the -O switch to mke2fs). -Neal > thanks, > > prabhu -- -------- Neal H Walfield[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Massachusetts at Lowell[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 603

Re: Problems installing hurd on i386

2000-09-01 Thread Neal H Walfield
d not /target/ > /target was the mount-point for the HURD partition. > > What I did was to move the whole root file system to / which made things a > lot easier. I was working with an installation ram-disk when I did this. > -- Neal H Walfie

Re: Problems installing hurd on i386

2000-09-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
test Debs or tarball. -Neal -- ---- Neal H Walfield[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Massachusetts at Lowell[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 603-415-3645Phone: 978 531 6587 Love is the triumph of i

Re: root-device

2000-09-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> flo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel halts during first boot

2000-09-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
anks and good luck, -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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