Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
weekend, I'll see about getting it off there[1] and sending it to -hackers. [1] It has no network card anymore, and a dodgy floppy drive. Joy. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Bug in src tree?

2001-01-12 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Fri 2001-01-12 (21:38), Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:24:38 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > /tmp/ccmJEqq7.s:822: Error: operands given don't match any known 386 > > > instruction > > > *** Error code 1 > > >

Re: Bug in src tree?

2001-01-12 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
nstruction > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/PROFESSOR.010110. You're not using buildkernel, and thus you don't have the necessarily updated tools to handle that source. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2000-11-08 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
. -type f -name "*.c" | xargs wc -l | grep total 23149 total Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Updating ports

2000-10-03 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
e'll give at BSDcon (hopefully I can make it), and that will probably be a good brain-storming starter. So, things are looking up. I can't actually remember why I replied to this, other than to move it over to ports. My mind is a'wandering. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2000-09-21 (10:00), Donn Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Thu 2000-09-21 (08:48), Donn Miller wrote: > > > An example of what I get when I try to do a make buildkernel. I have set > > > KERNEL=CUSTOM in /etc/make.conf

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
data" {.data section} - "KERNBASE" {*UND* section} at file address 928. Do you have a populated /usr/obj? (ie, with nm) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: buildkernel broken?

2000-09-21 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
ce he knows more about this sort of thing, and says there may be a problem, I'll leave it to him. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Please consider some cosmetic changes in boot messages

2000-09-09 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
27;re talking 2001-07 to 2001-11, at a wild guess. We have lots of new developments, but also a much more streamlined system. It's anyone's guess when it'll be deemed stable and complete enough to roll. (and please don't quote me, since this is only my guess) Neil -- Ne

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d

2000-09-08 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Sat 2000-09-09 (11:25), Matthew Thyer wrote: > Don Lewis wrote: > > > > On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > } Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d > > } Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > } > I'd prefer a dependency based syste

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d

2000-09-08 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Fri 2000-09-08 (11:12), Don Lewis wrote: > On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote: > } Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d > } Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > } > I'd prefer a dependency based system. (cf. Eivind Eklund's newrc, at > } >

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d

2000-09-08 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
patch method is source code patches or a complete rebuild of -STABLE > or just wait until the next release. A more modular system could be > upgraded more easily. I agree. I'd suggest you check out the freebsd-libh mailing list, and ask there about how to check out the libh sources. Your contributions to the libh project will aid development of the next-generation package management and installer. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d

2000-09-08 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
. Warning: perl is necessary for kernel builds. > One of the big turn offs to FreeBSD in the System V world is: > "What!, why do I need to know which signal to send blah to reload > it ?". I agree. We need a simpler system. Simple, and obvious. None of this complex symlink stuff. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: perl built twice?

2000-09-03 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
iperl are built early on, in the 'build-tools' section (I think). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: AFS.

2000-08-30 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
ciently free. It doesn't sufficiently cover the use of small bits of its code, though. It is a non-terminating license. Neil (who wonders to which list one should redirect license talk) -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-24 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
o /usr/local, outside of the ports > mechanism. Try /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/consistency-check Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current

2000-08-13 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Sun 2000-08-13 (10:48), Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: > At 06:53 PM 8/13/00 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > >On Sun 2000-08-13 (09:20), Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: > >> >A make.conf knob to use a userinstalled library may create problems with > >> >different v

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current

2000-08-13 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
bringing Cyrus-SASL into the base system eventually > under the same rational used to bring OpenSSL in. What are the license issues on this? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Custom ISO Images

2000-08-02 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
make release You might need to adjust a few things, though ;) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Locale issues on -current

2000-07-24 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
. I was half > thinking that it was something related to gnome, but I haven't worked very > hard to fix it. Unsetting that variable makes the warning go away, whether > that fixes the problem or not. Viren: Is that in an X session, possibly running gnome? I've had this too. Neve

Re: kerneld for -current

2000-07-14 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
me :) What, exactly, does it do? Can you write a quick blurb about it, so we can see what the features are, what it buys us, why we want it, and things like that? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Check for ports updates

2000-06-28 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2000-06-28 (15:13), Leif Neland wrote: > Any reason not to put this into bsd.port.mk? > > make update It will break the system at least 20% of the time. Change 20% to 100% for gnome, kde, xpm, png, tiff, jpeg, and so forth. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Syste

Re: Bootstrapping perl (Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Mak

2000-06-28 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
the tool into the "strict path", but Mark used build-tools and a path to miniperl to do it instead, presumably since it is restricted to a very minor bit of the tree. (This reminds me that I have a skeleton document about 'make world' that needs serious attention. Too many projects.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Missing openssl/idea.h?

2000-06-23 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
#x27;s Makefile from about 6 hours ago or so. (well, a .if !defined(WITH_IDEA) CFLAGS+= -DNO_IDEA .endif ) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: building stable from current

2000-06-23 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
- as long as a reasonably > current make was available to jump-start the process. > > Thoughts & corrections greatly welcomed. Can you send the last 50 or so lines of build.log? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: "fetch | sh" panics system

2000-05-30 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
Kbytes/s) c - xterm c - xterm/pkg x - xterm/pkg/PLIST x - xterm/pkg/DESCR x - xterm/pkg/COMMENT c - xterm/files x - xterm/files/md5 x - xterm/Makefile Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-c

Re: Wrong permissions on /dev ?

2000-05-22 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
rk, because it could not open /dev/null. 'make world' doesn't (or at least, it shouldn't) touch permissions (or anything else) on /dev. Or was this a snapshot binary install? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: Breaking "build world" costs $5? (was: Can we please have acurrent that compiles?)

2000-05-15 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
t gives you an easy opportunity to thank the people who work with you on the project, and to continue the pointy-hat metaphor for further amusement. There is no obligation, nor should there be. That's not how the project works, after all. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi C

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-30 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
ces (developer time, bandwidth, machines) to provide this service. Kindly don't continue this discussion in this (inappropriate) forum. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
t one of every device out there. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Upgrade 3.4 -> 5.0 -current Success

2000-04-05 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
. It's not supposed to work over more than one major version, so I doubt 3.4 -> 5.0 will work for much longer. > Good work on the make/install process. Cool. Marcel and others deserve a massive round of applause. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Newbie question...

2000-03-29 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
ted by cvsup? Oh, and here you ask about it. Just install /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror, and answer the relatively easy questions. I'll get to writing something about it in the handbook. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-15 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
ct install-info. If anyone is willing to test an upgrade from 3.4 -> 4.0 with this fix, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll do it tomorrow. If we happen to slide tags and make a new release, this'd be great for cvsup upgrade path to the release. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PRO

Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list)

2000-02-17 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
lockout accounts if a brute force attempt (or > > other abuse) is detected. > > You've just described Kerberos. No, he just described something, amongst many many other things that might not be useful for mere mortals, that Kerberos can do. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PRO

Re: $FreeBSD tag confusion

1999-09-02 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
. Does this include $Date? I think the www tree expects them to be expanded. (I can't check at the moment, though) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-27 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
;t it (the Irish?) McMuffin which Mcdonalds sued for name infringment? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message