Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Hi. I've finally installed FreeBSD 4.0 and to tell you the truth, I'm > not very impressed. I was expecting some bugs but not like that... I don't see a problem with FreeBSD 4.0 so much as a problem with someone jumping beyond their abilities. :) Please, go back to 3.2-STABLE. 4.0-CURRENT i

Re: Earn Cash

1999-07-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Luckycasino.com now blocked by spam filters. Sorry, as always, for the interruption. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: current.freebsd.org's 4.0-1999070[89]-CURRENT dir perm

1999-07-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Weird! Fixed. > Permissions in > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386 > are: > > drwx-- 19 root 0 1024 Jul 8 12:38 > 4.0-19990708-CURRENT > drwx-- 19 root 0 1024 Jul 9 12:37 > 4.0-19990709-CURRENT > > Val > __

Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD > ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system. > > Why not? A. Likely because someone running only on a -current box last committed a change to the port which broke it with 3.x. Please submit a bug

Re: Permissions on current.freebsd.org

1999-07-13 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
This is most odd - I will go investigate this. Absolutely nothing has changed with the build scripts recently which is what makes this so weird.. - Jordan > Something broke with the -current snapshots generation on > current.freebsd.org, probably a few days ago. The permissions > aren't set ap

Re: Permissions still broken on current.freebsd.org

1999-07-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Already done.. :) > Hi, > > The permissions of new -current snapshots on > current.freebsd.org are still broken. :-( > > If everything else fails, I'd suggest to set > up a cronjob to fix the permissions, until the > cause of the problem is found. Putting up > snapshots without letting us dow

Re: sysinstall network performance

1999-07-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to. Could > this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration? The CVS metadata was removed, reducing the inode count per port significantly. This results in faster extraction time and hence "faster" downloads, assuming that ex

Re: vty3 and 4.0 snap 080799

1999-08-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It sounds like ppp is simply exiting immediately. I'll turn debugging on and give it a shot myself; perhaps somebody broke something. - Jordan > I should have also stated that I tried all the other "F" keys also. > The only vty that is available/active is vty1 for debugging. Every other > F-key

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Mkisofs is good for creating an ISO 9660 file systems. Wormcontrol and > dd are a good combination for writing them. This would be true if the worm driver wasn't actually dead. You should at least check on these things before publically recommending obsolete mechanisms. :) In the world of CAM

Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...]

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
All of this would be true if your personal definition of "emulator" were the prevailing one, but that is unfortunately just not the case. :) When the average computing public thinks of an "emulator", they think of something like MAME or the SNES emulator. Even the more compute-minded folks tend

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> So can we have the manufacture and model of your cd-recorder ? 8) Yes, it's a "Smart and Friendly" (gah!) "Rocket Recorder" - it does 8X CDR, 6X CDRW and 24X CD. I like it. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messa

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Wormcontrol uses WORM ioctls, handled by both of the ATAPI drivers. Utterly irrelevant, not that you seem to let it stop you. > But ATA and wcd are both not CAM. dd works just fine. You can solve data See above. dd's unsuitableness for writing CDs has nothing whatsoever to do with CAM. > Yo

Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...]

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Others have pretty much already listed my preferences: "Linux compatibility" "Linux ABI support" "Linux binary compatibility" or any of the other obvious permutations thereof... - Jordan > Okay, I will bite. > > What would you call the linux emulator to convey the proper > meaning to the suit

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
In my case, you should always assume SCSI unless expressly indicated otherwise. I hate ATAPI devices, no insult to Soren's fine work intended. :) - Jordan > > I take it that the absence of the interface means your cd-recoder uses scsi. > > Tnks A Lot! > > > > > So can we have the manufactur

Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I kinda like the idea of a top-level compat category; it will keep the top level uncluttered when sysv and iBCS compatibility start requiring their own knobs, and if you put linux at the top level this will later be used as justification for putting all the other "compat" stuff up there too. I th

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Sigh.. OK, whatever Brian, it's clear that I can't communicate with you and any future correspondence between us will be by way of your mentor, Mike Smith. You had I have had our last public exchange since you're now in my killfile. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...]

1999-08-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I agree with this as well. > > "Linux compatibility" > > "Linux ABI support" > > "Linux binary compatibility" > > The suggested "linux mode", has a nice non-technical simple ring to it. > If we called it this, the non-educated might not come away with the wrong > idea. Management(tm) may not un

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there > might be some whitespace in there, too. Actually, that's mostly just historical legacy. When the quotes, it's safe even if the expansion is empty or contains whitespace. I got kinda annoyed with this last night and

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> The X also protected test from the case where the expansion included a > string like "-x", although with most modern implementations of test (or > shells with test as a builtin) this is no longer a problem. And certainly not in any of these cases. :) > I agree with some of your changes

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-22 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> For the immediate future, it looks like it will -- it seems as though > we don't have the man power to make the necessary changes to sysinstall > to support "installing the docs as packages", so I'm going to fix up > src/release/Makefile as necessary to cope with the new directory structure. I

Re: libalias or libnat. Vote ?

1999-08-22 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> As of a few days ago, ppp(8) supports the -nat flag (as well as > the -alias flag for backwards compatibility), however, it's not > clear that we really want to go the whole hog and change the > library name & interface too. I've been on both sides of this issue, to be sure, but I have to sa

Re: gcc compile error

1999-12-29 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> XFree86 3.9.xxx was cvsup on December 24th I am sorry but this is > sufficient information to reproduce the problem. Not if you actually want the problem solved. There's this thing called "making it easy on the people you're demanding things of" in order that they might have some chance of

Re: gcc compile error

1999-12-29 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Sending out an attachment of that size to a public mailing list was hardly necessary, and the increasing stridency of your posts leading up to this only serve to indicate that you may be heading in the truly wrong direction with all this and seriously need to rethink your strategy before you do so

Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV)

2000-01-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Everything that sysinstall does WRT devs is abstracted by libdisk. > On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've > > > > > never encountered that kind

Re: Your misleading, no, LYING message to me

2000-01-03 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Dear friends, I know that many of you may feel slightly let-down by the fact that nothing truly significant seems to have happened during our transition to the year 2000, a good many button-clicks on www.cnn.com having gone for naught as the hour approached and receded, nothing following yet more

4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
And given that we've already slipped from December 15th, I think you can treat this as a pretty hard deadline, to be further slipped only grudgingly and in response to clear and dire need. 10 days, folks! Make 'em count.. :) The code freeze will last for 15 days, during which time the 4.0 snaps

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> My question is not how much time the developers are being given -- the > *real* question is how much time the developers will give. Thank you for saying this. If developers were constant-output devices, we wouldn't need code freezes to motivate them into moving at all. :-) - Jordan To Unsub

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> There are many people who use freebsd in the real world that have been counti ng > on 4.0 including support for ipsec and ipv6, ipsec more importantly. We would > be willing to wait an additional couple of months for this functionality, ple Sadly, you've picked a particular bit of technology th

So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
If I stick an audio CD in my SCSI (rebadged Toshiba) CDRW drive and try to read data off of it, I get the following behavior: root@zippy-> dd if=/dev/rcd0c bs=2k of=/dev/null dd: /dev/rcd0c: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out (cd0:ahc0:0:4:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 (c

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It's a feature freeze, sorry. I still expect the loose-ends that are in place as of that date to be tied up afterwards. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
[Moved to just -current; this doesn't need to keep getting cross-posted] > It's not like were moving from v4 to v6. Were just asking that it > be included in the OS. It should be available to researchers using > 4.0-RELEASE. That's all im saying. There is no reason to ask for resources > or anyth

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Hmm! Better hold the 4.0 Code Freeze until this sorts out! No, just better sort it out more quickly than usual. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: IPv6 (Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Get IPv6 into the tree. Now. Thank you. Start helping and stop asking. Now. Thank you. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> You mean an Adaptec controller, right? Yes, I guess Adaptec did buy those guys. > Try tosha or cdda2wav and report back on whether or not it works. dd has > never been a supported way to read audio tracks, for the reasons outlined > above. It may be possible in some situations, but it was pr

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I think what is actually going on is that it doesn't like the 0x82 density > code that most other drives use. So that's what the first error message > likely tells us. (the density is given in the mode select parameter list, > thus the invalid field) > > The second error message likely means

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Also, I can now add that cdda2wav does work (hurrah), but it does yelp that it can't read the CD TOC. Of course, the mystery is that tosha no longer works yet was not changed, nor was the ripit script I call tosha from, so something on our side of the fence also moved with respect to this drive.

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> In addition to trying cdda2wav, here's something else you can try in your > tosharc: > > "SAF" "" "" 0x28 1 0x82 0 10 0 > > or: > > "SAF" "" "" 0x28 0 0x00 0 10 0 Yep, tried both - no go. The first produces: (pass0:ahc0:0:4:0): MODE SELECT(06). CDB: 15 10

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I'm reading this thread, and no, I have no idea. :-) > To be honest, I've never heard about an "SAF" drive. It's a "Smart and Friendly CD-R8020", also sold as the "CD Rocket Recorder" here in the U.S. It does 20X reads, 8X writes and 4X re-writes. And no, I don't usually waste my CDR heads o

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-07 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Doesn't this statement make the entire thread about IPv6 + PC-Card support > entirely moot? Feature freezes don't mean we can't improve those two areas, > right? Right? :-) PC-card, perhaps, but I think IPv6 still needs "improvement" far less that it needs significant integration. :) - Jordan

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-07 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I think you'd do far better to stop bitching and simply start helping. The people I've heard yell the very loudest in this discussion are also the people who: a) Have not helped Yoshinobu Inoue to any great extent during his calls for patch testing. b) Have not volunteered to help with the i

Re: load spike strangeness

2000-01-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Can we please end this discussion? End it now. It's of no importance to me or, I venture to say, the postmaster whether or not someone wishes to use an alias in these mailing lists and it's certainly not a topic which follows the charter for the FreeBSD-current mailing list. In fact, the only c

Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT

2000-01-18 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Not yet, but it should. If someone can help me out here it would be > greatly appreciated. "Setting it in sysinstall" is easy. Deciding where and how to set it in response to questions at certain stages of the installations(s) is more the sticking point. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Warning: ioctl(... TUNSLMODE ...) to be depricated....

2000-01-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Jordan, I believe this change should go into 4.0-RELEASE rather than > happening afterwards so that we have a minimal number of people > (hopefully none) using TUNSLMODE. TUNSLMODE was never MFC'd. Do it. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: connectivity problems with current.freebsd.org

2000-01-25 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I'm sure this is a silly question, but then why does usw3 appear to _be_ a > mirror? Why have usw3 at all? It's NOT a mirror and I really wish people would stop jumping to conclusions with tenuous data because it's really very simple and not like anyone is currently speculating: 1. There is

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> 1. sysinstall forgot to write my hostname to /etc/rc.conf . I had gone > into the options menu and selected "DHCP"; when I picked my network > interface it looked for and found a DHCP server and popped up the > network configuration box with most of the fields filled in (including > domain name

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> IMHO, that is the wrong assumption. Most DHCP servers I've seen aren't > setup to provide hostnames to the requrestor. Seems they're set up incorrectly then. You can't be a good "network citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches your primary IP address or, among othe

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> OR we can make a [binary] port of it. This would not be hard to do. > Let me know if you prefer this approach. I think the easiest and most POLA-friendly approach would be to add them [back] to Xbin.tgz. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Why not check to see what the hostname is after dhclient is run and then > stick that name in the network setup dialog box. If the user does edit > the hostname themselves, then you can flag that event. That would work in that one specific case with that specific dhcp server. Now change the dh

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Personally I'd prefer to just fix the DHCP client so that it correctly > sets the hostname as obtained from the server... Yeah David, sheesh! ;) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

-current is still broken as of 2000/01/27

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
===> libexec/getNAME cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/libexec/getNAME/ge tNAME.c cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -o getNAME getNAME.o gzip -cn /usr/src/libexec/getNAME/getNAME.1 > getNAME.1.gz ===> libexec/getty cc -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> That's not correct; your DHCP configuration should reflect the hostname. > > Sysinstall doesn't fill in the hostname field because the crunched binary > is missing the hostname(1) command. If we were to add that, it's just > possible that we'd get hostnames working too. Actually, that's not

Re: proposed patch (build loader without forth)

2000-02-04 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
approved > Hi, > > would it be ok to commit the following patch to > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile so that we can build > a smaller loader without Forth support, which is still useful > to boot a picobsd kernel ? > > cheers > luigi > > rizzo# diff -ubwr Makefile.40RC Make

Re: ftp passive modem is on by defaut?

2000-02-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Having passive mode on by default *across the board* is truly the right thing to do in this day in age and there's no reason not to default to it now. We've received too many tech support emails (and phone calls) from people with firewalls who were confused with the previous default. - Jordan

Re: 4.0-20000204-SNAP install catching sig 11 (properties.c)

2000-02-07 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
>I have rebuilt sysinstall inside the 0207-SNAP area and can > recreate the problem by simply running sysinstall as root and > running an installation to /install. Also, previously, I was > using a cdrom as the media, I am now using ftp. Thanks for your debugging work so far. I just got back

Re: Problems with 4.0-RC Installation

2000-02-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Thanks for these - they're all known problems with the release candidate which I'm working on correcting now. Many of these problems stem from the fact that I don't have an "official" XFree86 release for 4.0 and I just threw my own together here with less than optimal results. :-) - Jordan > He

4.0 will ship with NODOC=YES

2000-02-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Unless the docs people can actually make the doc tools build again and successfully format the docs under -current. :) Sorry for what sounds like a threat of sorts, but I've been building the -current snapshots with NODOC=YES for months now because that aspect of release building just hasn't work

Re: 4.0RC missing libXThrStub.so.6?

2000-02-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It's being fixed as we speak; I know the problem now. :) - Jordan > Today The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > Up until this afternoon, when I lost an IDE drive, I've been using CVSup'd > > sources and ports, so haven't fllowed the threads too closely dealing with > > 4.0RC, so this is probably alrea

Re: rpc.lockd

2000-02-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Well, I'd first be very interested to know if anyone has even seen this work. :) I have seen regrettably little feedback about it so far. - Jordan > * David E. Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000211 16:50] wrote: > > I realize that we are all very busy and the coming 4.0-RELEASE has also > > compoun

Re: rpc.lockd

2000-02-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I can understand part of the reason for this... 4.0-RELEASE is right > arround the corner, and people are focusing on delivering a stable product, > not introducing alpha code into the system at the last second. the current > rpc.lockd is a known value, placing a "maybe" version into the stream

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I have been having some problems gettign Mozilla to start up under > FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT .. and the comments given in the Bugzilla forum > all seem to blaim my problems to having a gcc 2.9.5.2 compiler and an (old) > 2.9.1 assembler. That's odd, I have M13 working just great here under -current

Re: problems with openssl in 4.0rc and ports/security/openssh

2000-02-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Are there any plan to distribute USA_RESIDENT=NO version of > des binary distribution? I have no current plans to build such a thing and am USA_RESIDENT myself so it would be a questionable thing from a legal standpoint, I think. I can hardly wait until September when the RSA patent expires! :

Re: 4.0 snapshot install problems

2000-02-13 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
They've simply been renamed - it's no biggie. I have some patches in my inbox for adding the new acd devices, I just haven't gotten to them yet since it's still easy enough to edit them in the "unknown" category if one really needs to. - Jordan > Hi all > > I've been trying out FreeBSD 4.0-200

Re: anon FTP setup on Feb 23 SNAP

2000-02-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I just did an install of the Feb 22 snap. The new wording for the anon > ftp section is really screwy. It's been turned around. The old straight > forward "Do you want to enable anon ftp?" was fine. It's been turned around because people usually just hit return without reading the dialogs and I

Re: anon FTP setup on Feb 23 SNAP

2000-02-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I agree but the wording is a bit weird. Maybe it should read: > "Do you want to enable anon ftp?" but if they just hit return it > defaults to no. There's no way to make a libdialog yes/no requestor "default to no" or I'd have done exactly that. C'mon, give me at least minimum credit for havin

Re: OpenSSH /etc patch

2000-02-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> +# Generate SSH host key, if it doesnt exist. Both sshd and ssh need it > +# so we do it unconditionally on sshd_enable. Are you sure ssh requires a host key? I could have sworn this was entirely related to sshd and could thus be lumped into the same "if sshd_enable=YES" clause. - Jordan To

Re: openssh uses /etc (bad)

2000-02-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> No, that would be contrary to the conventions documented in hier(4). > /usr/libexec is for things that are executed by other programs. > Normal persistent daemons such as sshd belong in /usr/sbin. Take a > look at the current contents of those two directories and you'll see > the distinction.

Re: Build World dies....

2000-02-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Can we please stop cross-posting this? -current alone is a more than adequate mailing list. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> So do I. Unfortunately our hands are tied - the version of FreeBSD > distributed in the US must not contain these because they are patented > technologies and not available for unrestricted use. Unfortunately this is > also the same version distributed worldwide on FreeBSD CDs, install At this

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> It already does this if you get your crypto from internat. US mirror sites > only carry the neutered (no-RSA) version, but internat carries RSA and > builds it conditional on USA_RESIDENT. And why don't the USA sites have the RSAREF version? I'm still not sure I understand the compartmentaliza

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> > openssl becomes a "distribution" like the DES bits are. Depending on > > external packages is actually something I'm trying to wean sysinstall > > away from because the dependency is a PITA and the creation of the > > packages collection is not automated in the same way that distribution > >

Re: FTP_INTERNAL_LS

2000-02-16 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Haha, so much for that issue then. :) > "David O'Brien" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:04:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > What about making FTP_INTERNAL_LS the default for 4.0? > > > > > > I'm very much in favour of this, > > > > Agreed. Do you want to bug JKH, or should I? ;

Second release candidate snapshot up for FTP, come and get it.

2000-02-14 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Primary: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.0-2214-CURRENT/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/4.0-2214-CURRENT/install-i386.iso [bootable ISO installation image] Alternate: ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.0-2214-CURRENT

Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> "Install" button and things proceeded to install with no hitches--however, i t > seemed that randomly (because I couldn't pick out any pattern to it) the > screen would flash back to the "FreeBSD Configuration Menu" as it cycled > through new packages to install. The gray dialog that shows w

Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-18 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> it makes sense to slice it that way. Also, as far as teaching new users how > to install it, I _always_ show them the custom route. While this may sound > harsh, its used to familarize them with all of sub-components, and I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard instea

Re: Rc2 install

2000-02-18 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Perhaps the release notes, or hardware file need to note you really do need > more than 8M ? The CD boxes all say 16MB and the release notes/hardware guide don't say anything at all about this. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in t

Re: Installing linux_base 6.1

2000-02-18 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I am currently having a problem installing linux_base, both the port and the > package on -current. I used to lurk to discover these problems by browsing > the mailing list, but they are down. :-( > > I just cvsupped and rebuilt the world today and it still fails. Here are the > messages: Yes,

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Building with rsaref can't be the default case, because it's restrictively > licensed and not legal for some people to use. It's trying to figure out who "some" people are and how to address the needs of people who don't fit that category that I'm still having a hard time with here. If I have

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Hmmm. I'm beginning to wonder if openssl shouldn't just be backed-out at this point. The situation with RSA makes this far more problematic than I think anyone first thought, and I've seen a lot of breakage so far for what appears to be comparatively little gain over what we had before with the

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Victor Salaman wrote: > > > > > I personally think that it's braindead to add openssl to the system > > > and stripout parts of it (RSA & IDEA). Don't get me wrong, I love to > > > have > > Pardon me for coming late to the party, but what was

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Having _a_ general-purpose cryptography toolkit in the base system allows > us to add in all sorts of cool things to FreeBSD (https support for fetch, > openssh, random cryptographic enhancements elsewhere). OpenSSL just > happens to be the only decent freely-available (BSDL) toolkit. And I sti

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> How does OpenBSD do it? Cant we do what they do? 1. They're in Canada 2. What they do appears to be kind of icky, e.g. it requires more "hand work" than I think the average FreeBSD user would be willing to accept (or the average developer would be willing to see in the tree in such a

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Don't remove OpenSSL from the three... put the whole thing there, the whole > openssl distro in the tree. The problem with the patent is not that you > CAN'T get the software, the problem is that you can't build with it and use > it. But nobody said that you can't have it in the system. It's up

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Well, you're the release engineer of course..but I don't think the > problems are insurmountable. Sysinstall could be made to install the > correct package after asking the user the right questions (if they choose > to install crypto): Again, I simply do not wish to depend on any more packages

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Given that we can't import rsaref into FreeBSD and we can't depend on it > as a port, that about rules out any options for installing from > sysinstall. The remaining possibility is what we have now, namely manual > installation of the package post-installation, which is documented in the > hand

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Well, I guess I'll be less frantic about this when I see the ports > > infrastructure working properly with this - having openssh fail > > came as a rude shock. :) > > See Jim Bloom's patch of earli

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> How does OpenBSD deal with it? Why is it so easy for them? It isn't. Go look for yourself. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 08:34:42PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > 1. They're in Canada > > What does that buy them? They have the same restrictions on rsaref since > it originated from the USA. I don't believe they're under the same legal

Re: Installing linux_base 6.1

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> The /compat symlink should just die. compat bits should not be on the > root partition, so why are we pretending? /usr/compat should be the only > supported place. Peroid. You miss the point entirely. Compat bits aren't intended for the root partition, they're intended for wherever you happ

Re: wrong default in login.conf

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Jordan, please approve this patch. > > It seems not good to have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE On as default while ftp program > itself have it Off by default. Lets either change ftp program defaults to > Passive On or login.conf defaults to Passive Off. I prefer second variant: Um, the point of turning FT

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> 0. RSA situation > [ a very nice point-for-point analysis of the situation elided ] Christian, Thank you for this summary; it helps a lot to have all the relevant information presented in one place like this. Now we can begin cutting to the heart of this matter, which I'll do in the form of e

A potential fix [was Re: openssl in -current]

2000-02-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
OK, I've dinked around with this some more and I think I might have at least a partial solution to this whole mess (it still doesn't make openssl actually useful to us, it just makes it less annoying :). First, apply the following patch: Index: Makefile ==

Re: Installing linux_base 6.1

2000-02-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> And how exactly are you going to tell /usr/bin/login, /usr/bin/chpass, > /usr/local/bin/wu-ftpd, etc., where to find that file? Remember, if > it's ports that read the setup file, it can be moved around anywhere > by changing PREFIX -- but for files that are read by the system, it is If it's P

Re: When is the estimated release of the FreeBSD-current 4.0?

2000-02-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> When is the estimated release of the FreeBSD-current 4.0? First week of March. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

"Interesting" failure mode for static linking with shared libs.

2000-02-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
root@zippy-> cc -fPIC -c stub.c root@zippy-> ld -shared -o stub.so stub.o root@zippy-> cc -static test.c -o test stub.so root@zippy-> ./test ELF interpreter /usr/lib/libc.so.1 not found Abort trap root@zippy-> cc -static test.c -o test stub.o root@zippy-> ./test Now in the client, calling doit()

Re: minor nit with 4.0-RC2

2000-02-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> > Yes, a clean install. > > No, the sysinstall version of /etc/group did not have the tag. > > Ok, that's bad. I'm cc'ing Jordan so he can look into it. Thanks for th e > report. These are the little things that really need to be tested. I'm not sure I understand this - sysinstall doesn

Re: "Interesting" failure mode for static linking with shared libs.

2000-02-22 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> As a workaround for a static binary, you should be able to use > -Xlinker -Bstatic > instead of > -static Actually, it appears that just -Xlinker is necessary; it works fine in conjunction with -static. Thanks for this most helpful tip! I can see a *lot* of scenarios where I'll be using -

Heads up! OpenSSH is about to enter the tree.

2000-02-23 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Since it came down to making openssl actually useful for something or taking it out of the tree, we accelerated progress somewhat on the openssh integration work. This is using the rsarefglue stubs I've been talking about for the last couple of days to "abstract" rsaref away so we don't have any

Re: USA_RESIDENT= in latest current

2000-02-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Perhaps, but take a look at the installation... it sets it > to USA_RESIDENT="YES" (note WITH quotes). Fixed, whoops! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: login.c patch

2000-02-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
approved > Test condition is always true which is not supposed. > > Please approve this patch. > > --- login.c.bak Sun Feb 20 22:52:16 2000 > +++ login.c Sun Feb 27 17:35:35 2000 > @@ -382,9 +382,9 @@ > refused("Home directory not available", "HOMEDIR", 1); >

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2000-02-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> But now, I prefer to use pam_ssh.so with wdm. Wdm doesn't support PAM > session. So, I merged the code from XFree86-3.3.6 of xdm. Hmmm. I see that /usr/ports/x11/wdm has merged in support for FreeBSD's login classes, but not PAM. Are you planning to merge these changes of yours into the por

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