script bug: rc.sendmail

2002-12-21 Thread Geoffrey T. Falk
To disable sendmail, one expects to set "sendmail_enable=NO" in /etc/rc.conf. /etc/rc.sendmail looks for sendmail_enable=[Nn][Oo][Nn][Ee] (should be [Nn][Oo] to conform with standard usage.) The consequence is that an administrator may intend to disable sendmail, but it will still be enabled. g.

Re: Cannot open "/dev/ad0" on -CURRENT

2002-12-24 Thread Geoffrey T. Falk
On 24 Dec, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I wrote the attached program to open "/dev/ad0". > > It consistently fails with: > fd: -1 > Error: : Operation not permitted At what securelevel are you running? g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the bo

Re: 5.0 without swap

2003-01-12 Thread Geoffrey T. Falk
Further to my previous message on encrypting swap: In order for it to work, apparently, one must change the fstype within the disklabel, so that the swap partition (e.g. /dev/ad0s1b) is fstype "4.2BSD", not "swap". At least, I had to do that before it would work. Geoffrey To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Data corruption in soft updates?

2002-12-18 Thread Geoffrey T. Falk
I've run into similar problems dual-booting 4.x and 5.x. Is there some utility one can use to synchronize this once and for all? IMHO, when the UFS1 superblock was changed, it should have been named something else like UFS1_1 to avoid confusion. gtf -- Geoffrey T. Falk, BSc, MA, SCJ2P, SCS