Re: lots of Linux zombies (mtvp)

2001-10-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After watching some MPGs with the Linux binary-only mtvp (graphics/mtv > port) I noticed 40 zomby processes: Sorry, this is not really an answer to your question, but for playing MPEG files, I've found vlc and mplayer very useful, and in general bett

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-06 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:23:35PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:53:21 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:25:37AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > I know *you* have full-time IP connectivity to the internet and the

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-06 Thread James Halstead
Okay, I hope putting my $.02 in here does not get me into this war. I just have a comment/concern. Taking uucp out of the system will leave a security hole around will it not?. Actually I think this will make it worse. Now the users (unless they install a fresh system) are left with the uucp b

Re: uucp @ sourceforge

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Maxim Sobolev wrote: > I agree with Kris. These days it is not a big problem, especially for > an opensource project, such as UUCP. Most obvious possibility is a > Sourceforge - it provides all what is necessary (i.e. cvs repo, bug > tracking database, mailing lists, www space, ftp space etc) at z

PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
I'm interested in the UUCP code only in so far as it is an unnecessary -- and so far, undefended by you -- change to code that's working fine for other people. My interest in a hosting site would be first for a startup, and second, to host a competitor to the FreeBSD development, most likely base

PATCH FOR KRIS: add stub ufswrite to libstand

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Here is a patch for adding a stub write function to libstand, so that you could, for example, reimplement in FORTH the nextboot utility, which was murdered when the new boot loader was added. This only implements a stub function, but it has comments that indicate the needed semantics in the prese

FORTH PATCH FOR KRIS TO COMMIT

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Here is a patch to add the verbs "fwrite" and "flseek" to the FORTH interpreter. This is a necessary part of reimplementing the "nextboot" code, which was murdered when the new boot loader came in. Commit, K PLZ THX. -- Terry Index: boot/ficl/words.c ===

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Terry Lambert wrote: > After that, you can commit the patches to /sys/conf/param.c to > make maxfiles and maxfilesperproc tunable at boot time, and the > patches to login.c to make it possible to rebadge the "login:" > and "password:" prompts, and the patches to /sys/netinet/udp_usrreq.c > to mak

KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Here are patches to three of the Gigabit ethernet drivers to implement soft interrupt coelescing. I have included patches for the dc, ti, and vr drivers... the ti driver is by far the cleanest. I don't use Bill Paul's Tigon III driver, so I haven't included patche for it (the patches should be o

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > param.c was moved to kern/subr_param.c and is fully dynamic, and already > has these changes. Nice to know that my changes previously posted to -current in the 4.3 timeframe have been incorporated during the rewrite. Thanks! > If you're going to submit stuff, please at least

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-06 Thread Matt Dillon
In regards to UUCP as a port, I think it's a good idea. There is nothing preventing us from including the dist files in the CD distribution so network connectivity is not needed for someone to install it. If someone else puts together the port I would be happy to provide

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > param.c was moved to kern/subr_param.c and is fully dynamic, and already > > has these changes. > > Nice to know that my changes previously posted to -current in > the 4.3 timeframe have been incorporated during the rewrite. BULLSHIT! They came from

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Matt Dillon wrote: > In regards to UUCP as a port, I think it's a good idea. There is > nothing preventing us from including the dist files in the CD > distribution so network connectivity is not needed for someone to > install it. > > If someone else puts together the port I

NFS crash in -current

2001-10-06 Thread Doug Barton
I use NFS pretty heavily betwen machines on my home network. My little file server box is currently having "issues," so it crashes sometimes. Before the NFS mega commit recently when the file server went down for whatever reason my -current workstation would just sit patiently waiting for

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > If you're going to submit stuff, please at least do us the courtesy to ma ke > > > sure it is relative to recent source trees. This change was made quite s om > e > > > time ago on both -current and RELENG_4. > > > > Yeah; I made it las

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Terry Lambert wrote: > This is based on ideas in the Jeff Mogul (DEC Western Research > Labs) paper from 1995: These look like a subset of what Garrett was working on in 1996: (sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c) revision 1.95.2.1 date: 1996/04/01 18:59:25; author: wollman; state: Exp; lines: +378 -22 Th

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2001-10-06 Thread Alexander Kabaev
Apologies to everyone who will get this e-mail twice. My previuos attempt usig different email account has been bounced back by hub.freebsd.org. I reported this bug to Julian and he promised to fix it soon. Unfortunately, that didn't happen yet. In a meantime, I am using the patch attached. Of

RE: NFS crash in -current

2001-10-06 Thread Alexander Kabaev
My previos mail a) is missing a Subject b) contains typo in the patch, (td ? td->td_proc : NULLi)^ Unwanted 'i' is here :( Apologies to everyone again. I was in a bit of a hurry when sending previos messages. ___

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:40:57 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Here are patches to three of the Gigabit ethernet drivers to > implement soft interrupt coelescing. I have included patches > for the dc, ti, and vr drivers... the ti driver is by far the > cleanest. > > I don't use Bill Paul's Tigon

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: > > http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/95.8.html > > http://ftp.digital.com/%7emogul/usenix96.ps > > > > Kris: Commit this... K PLZ THX. > > Certainly not with this lousy patch with no context! To be clear: I was complaining about the non-context di

Weirdest ACPI failure

2001-10-06 Thread Andrea Campi
Hi, today I started experiencing some very weird failures on my laptop (Thinkpad 570E). I got: [...] Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00fdef0 ACPI-0446: *** Warning: Invalid checksum (4c) in table FACP ACPI-0305: *** Warning: Invalid table signature ^BOOT found ACPI-0191: *** Error: AcpiLoadTa

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:15:23PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > You may recall that this isn't the first time I've tried to offer my > > help in developing and committing your changes to an area of FreeBSD > > which you've complained about -- although at least this time you > > didn't just ign

Re: Different host behaviour

2001-10-06 Thread Doug Barton
Riccardo Torrini wrote: > Have you a suggestion of a date of a _not_too_much_ dangerous > -current to cvs? I really want to build world again, so I can > avoid this really stupid questions... 0:-) It's really up to you to follow -current and cvs-all and make that determination for your

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 12:15:23 MST, Terry Lambert wrote: > I'm interested in the UUCP code only in so far as it is an > unnecessary -- and so far, undefended by you -- change to > code that's working fine for other people. The change is not undefended. It's been made very clear from the beginni

Re: 4.x apps can't resolve hostnames

2001-10-06 Thread Doug Barton
Doug Barton wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > If this Yahoo! Messenger is the 4.x application, make sure to add > > COMPAT4X=TRUE to /etc/make.conf. This will remove old libc.so.4 > > from /usr/lib and install proper one into /usr/lib/compat. > > While this does install the approp

Broken ATA in recent -current

2001-10-06 Thread Doug Barton
Well, seems to be my week for finding bugs. With -current sources that are up to date as of now, the kernel panics when it tries to probe my CD writer. I have scsi hard drives, an atapi CD-ROM as master on ata0, and a CD-RW as master on ata1. Normally they probe like this: acd0: DVD-ROM at ata0-

Re: Need to update man section 4!

2001-10-06 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Thank you for your comments. The User Config menu is completely disabled and isn't available in -CURRENT now. I strongly doubt it will ever come back. You see, we can now set/unset/edit device resource "hints" from the loader(8) prompt, thus, there is little need to have the old User Config menu

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > param.c was moved to kern/subr_param.c and is fully dynamic, and already > > > has these changes. > > > > Nice to know that my changes previously posted to -current in > > the 4.3 timeframe have been incorporated during the re

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > Incidently, *knowingly* posting patches that are a year out of date do not > look good for anybody. :-( 24 Apr 2001 was not a year ago. I won't get into the "we don't use -current" argument again; if you want the patches, take them. The diffs will apply cleanly for the most