Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables

1999-08-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 02:54:53PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > kern.modules seems to be slightly more general in that you can > have kern.modules.xxx where xxx is anything under /modules that > needs/wants to some tuning via sysctl. This is daft. Given that we are planning on makeing everything

Re: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers

1999-08-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 4. [not quite easy] The CCD device ditto. > Earn brownie points: Make ccdconfig use sysctl instead of > libkvm to read back configuration. Anyone who decides to tackle this one is likely to have the wherewithall t

Linuxulator: Conclusions

1999-08-17 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Hi, 1. The Linuxulator sysctl knobs will be placed under compat.linux 2. The preferred way to advocate the Linuxulator is "Linux mode" Thanks everyone for the input. Now back to Chuck, -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCC Internetworking & Databases

Re: gnu tar upgrade?

1999-08-17 Thread Andy Farkas
> Upgrading tar is something I've been wanting to do for over a > year. Anything to speed me along would be helpful. > Well, like the README file in src/gnu/usr.bin/tar says: "This GNU tar 1.11.2. Please send bug reports, etc., to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a beta-test release. Please

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Amancio Hasty wrote ... > Oh Guys, > > I simply am trying to get information on which cd-recorder works Sigh. This sounds a bit like how the whole Balkan thing got out of hand. > well on FreeBSD. It will help to avoid confusion and postings if > there was a cd-record handbook section explai

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Crawford
I see no point in the proposed mechanism. The scanner can still tell the difference between a port with a listener and a port with none. The only case in which the attacker is confounded would be in distinguishing a box which is down or off the net from a box which has *no* services and does not

gdb

1999-08-17 Thread Richard Cownie
Hi all, I have a problem with gdb in 4.0-CURRENT. gdb-4.18 is almost completely useless for debugging C++ - oveload resolution is completely broken, and attempting to call functions frequently causes it to hang. I believe this is true on linux and solaris as well, gdb-4.18 is just not healthy.

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > How would this be different than a packet filter on inbound > connections? It would work in open network environments. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread adrian
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > > Looks like I'm volunteering to write a manpage for the net.inet > > > sysctls - or does one exist? - I sure as hell can't find it! > > > > :-), you put your keyboard in it now!!! > Yup, > > well I need the pointy hat too. A grep through the man tr

Re: make cvsup broken

1999-08-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ===> client > m3build > mkdir FreeBSD2 > --- building in FreeBSD2 --- > "/usr/ports/net/cvsup/work/cvsup-16.0/client/src/m3makefile", line 1: unable to read >".M3EXPORTS" >from directory "FreeBSD2" of package "formsvbt"

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoff Rehmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Plus, packets with RST in them are used for other purposes besides > > rejecting new incoming connections.. > > True, my implementation is specific that I only omit generating > a RST when the icoming segment is a S

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Leif Neland
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matt Crawford wrote: > I see no point in the proposed mechanism. The scanner can still tell > the difference between a port with a listener and a port with none. > The only case in which the attacker is confounded would be in > distinguishing a box which is down or off the

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
Hi Amancio, I've got a: acd0: CDROM drive at ata1 as master acd0: drive speed 1034KB/sec, 768KB cache acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track acd0: supported write types: CD-R, CD-RW, test write acd0: Audio: play, 128 volume levels (HP 7200i) which works great. Burning is

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
For a list of "reported to work" drives that work with cdrecord check out: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.8.html Also, notice the "It should run on: All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives, All ATAPI/mmc compliant drvies" The HP 7200 drive is list

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Nik Clayton
Amancio, On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > I simply am trying to get information on which cd-recorder works > well on FreeBSD. It will help to avoid confusion and postings if > there was a cd-record handbook section explaining all the gory > details. When you get

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
You got to be joking . Is not that I do or don't want to write documentation is rather that I don't feel qualify to write such a document. Besides, the recent scrimmage between Jordan and Brian does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling to dive into writing the documentation. Have Brian write the doc

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: > For a list of "reported to work" drives that work with cdrecord check out: > >http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.8.html > > Also, notice the "It should run on: All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives,

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Lets see what the CAM people have to say about providing an interface to ATAPI CDs including CD recorders. > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: > > > For a list of "reported to work" drives that work with cdrecord check out: > > >http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employ

Re: gdb

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Richard Cownie wrote: > I have a problem with gdb in 4.0-CURRENT. gdb-4.18 is almost > completely useless for debugging C++ - oveload resolution is > completely broken, and attempting to call functions frequently causes > it to hang. I believe this is true on linux and sola

Re: gdb

1999-08-17 Thread Richard Cownie
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > 4.17 is really no better, it tended to crash on some C++ programs. If > 4.18 doesn't work, try sending email to the authors of gdb, or look for a > pre-release version. > > - alex >From personal experience here, I disagree. We use gdb-4.17 all the time

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Amancio Hasty wrote... > Lets see what the CAM people have to say about providing an > interface to ATAPI CDs including CD recorders. > > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: > > > > > For a list of "reported to work" drives that work with cdrecord check out: > > > >http://

Re: gdb

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
A side note on gdb-4.18 8) (gdb) run Starting program: /tmp/./sieve Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. 0x281eeac7 in GC_find_limit (p=0xbfbfcff8 "", up=1) at ../../../../libgcj-2.95/boehm-gc/os_dep.c:681 681 ../../../../libgcj-2.95/boehm-gc/os_dep.c: No such file or directory.

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Crawford
> > This reminds me of a proposal for sendmail; instead of rejecting > > mail from known spammers, one would accept the connection, but > > slow traffic down to the slowest possible, so the spammer could > > only deliver very few messages. Instead of killing the spammer, > > make every mailserver

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Perhaps PHK could add this item to his list of baby hacker projects... > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > Lets see what the CAM people have to say about providing an > > interface to ATAPI CDs including CD recorders. > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: > > > > > >

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[ Amancio's reply moved to the *bottom* where replies belong.. ] Amancio Hasty wrote... > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > Lets see what the CAM people have to say about providing an > > > interface to ATAPI CDs including CD recorders. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S.

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
> > This is not a "baby" hacker project by any means. It will take someone > with a reasonable amount of knowledge and skill to do it. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not that familiar with Soren's work nor with CAM however my dealings with Soren in the past have not bee

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: : This is not a "baby" hacker project by any means. It will take someone : with a reasonable amount of knowledge and skill to do it. And time... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

ccd bugs (was: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers)

1999-08-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 August 1999 at 10:28:34 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> 4. [not quite easy] The CCD device ditto. >> Earn brownie points: Make ccdconfig use sysctl instead of >> libkvm to read back configuration. >

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
Oh, well then, :) I'm glad I said something before I actually bought one (I saw the atapi RW drives were rather cheap now (~US$125)) - kevin On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: > > > For a list of "reported to work" drives that work w

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Where did you get your Yamaha cd writer ? Tnks -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :>Any one care to recommend a CD writer for FreeBSD-current since thats :>typically what I run over here. : :Yamaha CRW4416S "just works" with -current and cdrecord, both for CD-R and :CD-RW. : :-- :Bob Bishop +44 118 977 4017 I picked up a Yamaha CRW6416S today and it

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Mike Smith
> Does anyone know how to create a bootable CDRom? There are a couple of techniques; look at /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh for the way we make the FreeBSD installation CDs bootable. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PRO

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Manfred Antar
At 07:42 PM 08/17/1999 -0400, Kevin S. Brackett wrote: >Oh, well then, :) I'm glad I said something before I actually bought one >(I saw the atapi RW drives were rather cheap now (~US$125)) Computergeeks has a Phillips Model: CDD-3600 2x2x6 SCSI CD-RW Kit for $139 http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bi

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Where did you get your Yamaha cd writer ? : :Tnks : :-- : : Amancio Hasty I just picked it up at CompUSA. You can probably also get it via buy.com but I haven't looked. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
One thing www.buy.com is really good for, even if you don't buy from them, is to get pricing information on a general search. You can then use it to do comparison shopping. http://www.buy.com/ click on "comp" Search for "rewritable" And there you have it.

Re: Can I obtain 'int-cvs-cur' by CTM ?

1999-08-17 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nickolay N.Dudorov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 12:13:33AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Last CTM delta in > > > ftp://ctm.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM-international/int-cvs-cur > > > is 'int-cvs-cur.01

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Tnks I will drive around a little , Fry's , compusa , central computers -- they are all very close to were I live in Sunnyvale, California. Tnks Again Guys! -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

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1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:38:27 PDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I just picked up a Yamaha CR6416sz internal scsi 2 for $339 from Central Computers should

re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hate to ask, do we support CD-RW? Yup! In fact, I recommend that you get a 5-pack of CD-RW disks so you don't turn your CD-R's into scrap while playing with the unit. -Matt :And I will probably bug next the multimedia group;however, :those

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Again a very good advice. Got four CD-RW . Two came with the unit and I bought 2 HP CD-RW disks. Plus got 5 CD-R . Those I will save much much later 8) Tnks Again! -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Leif Neland: > the slowest possible, so the spammer could only deliver very few messages. > Instead of killing the spammer, make every mailserver like quicksand, > drawing him down and drowning him :-] Postfix does this :) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMA

Re: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18-Aug-99 Ollivier Robert wrote: > > Instead of killing the spammer, make every mailserver like quicksand, > > drawing him down and drowning him :-] > Postfix does this :) Sendmail has tarpit trapping as well I think. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

myth2 demo fails to run ... missing /proc/meminfo ...

1999-08-17 Thread The Hermit Hacker
This was mentioned already, and a pseudo-fix suggested, but the fix is only good for those with access to existing Linux system, which, IMHO, kinda defeats the idea of emulation :) > ./myth2_demo_2.0 Cannot open '/proc/meminfo'! Your kernel needs to be compiled with the /proc filesystemsupport.

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi Guys Is me again 8) mkisofs -R /mount/dir | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 -dev=0:1:0 Okay, whats the magic device name to access the yamaha cd recorder . I have tried several combinations of names with no success. dmesg says that I have: cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Is me again 8) : :mkisofs -R /mount/dir | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 -dev=0:1:0 : :Okay, whats the magic device name to access the yamaha cd recorder . :I have tried several combinations of names with no success. : :dmesg says that I have: : :cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 :cd0: Removable CD-

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The device is probably dev=0,1 I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work. Try: cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq You should get: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,3,0' scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0 Devic

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-17 Thread Amancio Hasty
> :The device is probably dev=0,1 > > I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work. > > Try: > > cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq > > You should get: > > Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling > scsidev: '0,3,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 3 lu

RE: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Geoff Rehmet
> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > If you're still volunteering, write a script to generate a > sysctl description > map from the sysctl's in the kernel.. > > That would be very nice, and would kickstart me into > finishing documenting > all sysctls. :P > First issue: hangdog:~%

RE: Dropping connections without RST

1999-08-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
Geoff Rehmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sysctl -d needs fixing. :-) No, sysctl -d needs _implementing_. I've looked into this myself. I brought it up on -hackers in mid-February, and here in early June. "sysctl -d" invokes sysctl({0,5,...},...) (sysctl.c:show_var()). kern_sysctl.c documents (