Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:42:40 CST, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > But, I would not expect/allow "defaults" to be the mechanism > which includes the "real" values. Neither would I, but only because this hasn't been made clear in such a way that guys like you and me "get it". I reckon that a comment

Re: Which DHCP client

1999-02-10 Thread David O'Brien
OK, I've decided to import the ISC client. I am not pleased with this choice, but I believe the FreeBSD community in general seems to prefer this choice. Swaying arguments: 1. OpenBSD uses the ISC client and keep a careful eye on it for software engineering issues. (which is really all that buf

Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-10 Thread Dom Mitchell
David Malone writes: > We think we've sorted out this problem. Trying to make a cross > device link to an NFS filesystem decreases the reference count > twice, so if you do this a few times you can panic a machine. I've > submitted a gnats report (kern/9970). I can confirm that this also halts my

Need Help

1999-02-10 Thread andrea
HI I have a trouble with FreeBSD 2.1.5 After a mistyped rm :( when i try some commands like ps or netstat i got this message: ps: /dev/drum: No such file or directory What does it mean ? How can i fix it? The system still run .. for the moment..(sob). Please Help!! To Unsubscribe: send ma

RE: Need Help

1999-02-10 Thread Ladavac Marino
> HI > > I have a trouble with FreeBSD 2.1.5 [ML] 2.1.5 is hardly current (it used to be, some years ago :) > After a mistyped rm :( when i try some commands like ps or netstat i > got > this message: [ML] Careful with those thumbs when you run as root :) > ps: /dev/drum: No

Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-10 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Wed, 10-Feb-1999 at 17:01:00 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > 2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5 > > package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault). > > runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, John Fieber wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > > > If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when > > man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit > > something_or_other_flags in /etc/rc.conf the entry won't be > > there to edit. > > Why m

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread Jon Hamilton
In message , Richar d Wackerbarth wrote: } } On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, John Fieber wrote: } } > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, jack wrote: } > } > > If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when } > > man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit } > > something_or_other_flags in /etc

Syncing Disks

1999-02-10 Thread T.D. Brace
Hello, We have a problem with some 3.0 release boxes. One just went down two days ago. When it came back up, it hangs on syncing disks. I had a tech (it's in a remote location) boot into single user mode, and fsck the disks. This went fine, but when he exited from single user mode, it again h

Re: Syncing Disks

1999-02-10 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
There is a known problem with spontaneous reboots you should be aware about. Please look at the thread over the last few days. My advice would be to use 2.2-STABLE if you can until this is fixed. I have run into this on one of my machines. It "seems" to be network related. I am assuming (we kno

Re: Which DHCP client

1999-02-10 Thread jfesler
> NOTE that unlike the WIDE client, the ISC client defaults to overwriting > your /etc/resolv.conf file. In my case, an action that pisses me off > because I now have to write a messy /etc/dhclient.conf file to stop this > nonsence. On the flip side, you'll be able to set things the way you want

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread jack
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:42:40 CST, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > But, I would not expect/allow "defaults" to be the mechanism > > which includes the "real" values. > > Neither would I, but only because this hasn't been made clear in such > a way that

Re: locale errors

1999-02-10 Thread D. Rock
I think I have found a solution. The problem with the current definition is, that "ss" is folded into one character, while "ß" should be expanded to "ss" and sorted accordingly. I read the manual pages of colldef and found a solution, which sorted my test patterns right. ndex: data/de_DE.ISO_8859

Re: Syncing Disks

1999-02-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> the disks. This went fine, but when he exited from single user mode, > it again hangs on syncing disks. This is a brand new machine, worked > great for about 6 weeks - and this is the second machine to do this since > the first of the year. I had a similar problem when I upgraded to the Decemb

Re: 3.1?

1999-02-10 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 08:34:28PM -0500, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > Hello, > > Don't mean to be a pest, or a PITA by asking this, but is the 3.1 branch > still scheduled for the middle of this month? I haven't seen much on the > list recently about it, but probably haven't been paying enough att

hang going multiuser

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Timmons
I built and installed world+kernel last evening after the ibcs2 fix was committed to unbreak the build. When running either the new kernel or the pre-branch kernel from last month, I hang up on the way to multi-user. I can boot single-user, get my ccd drive going, get the network going, run cvs

umount -f

1999-02-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Will it ever work as it appears it should? Currently I have (on 2.2.8) m...@xxx:/tmp (1032) umount -f phosphorus:/phosphorus umount: /phosphorus: Device busy This is because phosphorus is unreachable and is unlikely to ever become reachable again. Currently, a reboot is r

Re: umount -f

1999-02-10 Thread David O'Brien
> Will it ever work as it appears it should? Currently I have (on 2.2.8) > > m...@xxx:/tmp (1032) umount -f phosphorus:/phosphorus > umount: /phosphorus: Device busy >From an email from Peter Wemm: In this situation, you need to do this: umount -f -t nfs phosphorus:/pho

Re: umount -f

1999-02-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> > Will it ever work as it appears it should? Currently I have (on 2.2.8) > > > > m...@xxx:/tmp (1032) umount -f phosphorus:/phosphorus > > umount: /phosphorus: Device busy > > >From an email from Peter Wemm: > > In this situation, you need to do this: > umount -f -t nfs pho

Re: umount -f

1999-02-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Just to ask, have you run lsof on /phosphorus to see if it is, > indeed, busy? lsof is unable to stat /phosphorus, of course. But, in any case, this should not be relevant, because the `-f' is specified... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread Brian Somers
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > > > If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when > > man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit > > something_or_other_flags in /etc/rc.conf the entry won't be > > there to edit. > > Why must it contain only changes? Is there any

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-10 Thread Brian Somers
> I kinda like the /etc./defaults directory... All default files should be > placed there. Only things edited should be in /etc.. It'll make for a much > smaller mess of files. I'm wondering about items like ppp examples? They're going into /usr/share/examples/ppp soon. I have some other thing

Re: hang going multiuser

1999-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :I can escape to the debugger; ps tells me I have processes 0-5 plus two :sh's. init is in the 'wait' state. Is there a command to show which :process is currently executing? Maybe it is telling me that and I can't :see it. : :The trace (same for both kernels) shows: : :vm_map_madvise :madvis

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-10 Thread Dom Mitchell
Mike Smith writes: > > You will get "no route to host" type messages. > > Yup. That's just the way it is - I can't imagine what alternative the > original poster thought they could have, steal an address? Ignore your > least? Get real. Nope, just curious as to what would would happen. I kind

Global Conference: SUPER CITIES OF THE 21st CENTURY

1999-02-10 Thread William A Rosenthal
___ Please join us in Madrid from May 2-5, 1999 for the World Development Federation's 7th annual Global Super Projects Conference on SUPER CITIES OF THE 21st CENTURY. Urban leaders and senior business executives from around the world wil

Re: HEADS UP: lpt driver going away

1999-02-10 Thread Andreas Klemm
> BE ADVISED that the nlpt driver will soon be renamed to lpt. Will the lpt driver be replaced in RELENG_3 as well ? -- Andreas Klemmhttp://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeB

Re: Need Help

1999-02-10 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:47:58PM +0100, Ladavac Marino wrote: > and that you should > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV > in order to try to recreate them. After that one should double check, if really every disk device has been recreated. With the new slice scheme in n