quick query

2001-08-03 Thread Paul
sorry to bug this list with this question. I'd like to test the newer ray(4) driver that's in -CURRENT. What snapshot should I install? Is there anything else I should know before installing -CURRENT? (besides what the "cutting edge" section of the handbook says) R

RE: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch.

1999-01-17 Thread paul
ive it might be useful to know what CPU is actually installed rather than just the class of CPU. On a related note, I'd be interested in benchmarks for the Celerons, how does the on-chip cache compare to the off-chip cache. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

The removal of MT_RTABLE

1999-01-18 Thread paul
menting out lines by clobbering the first two chars, e.g. /*efine MT_RTABLE 5*/ /* routing tables */ It looks like it was invented by Garret and fenner followed his good example :-) Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: Directory structure on current.freebsd.org

1999-01-20 Thread paul
cific when it comes to releases since the alpha release of the alpha code can get a tad confusing, I think that's why it was changed in the first place. It'd be nice if i386 could become IA32 but it probably won't happen. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: KLD naming

1999-01-20 Thread paul
orage /display /network /filesystems /screensavers etc. Not a specific proposal for actual directories but perhaps a better direction. I think we should start thinking more in terms of function, rather than bus, in a lot of what we do with devices as we abstract out the bus code more effectively. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: KLD naming

1999-01-21 Thread paul
s been added in from elsewhere. Although I'm in favour of this naming scheme over directories you can reach the point where the names are holding too much metainformation that really should be directory structure. There wouldn't be need for directories at all if you put the structure in

RE: KLD naming

1999-01-21 Thread paul
modules that are *not* third party supplied when you've got a directory full of the things. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: KLD naming

1999-01-21 Thread paul
e a single module rather than split the product into submodules that fit our categories. Why not allow SafeCo_firewall.ko rather than netif_foo_SafeCo.ko netproto_bar_SafeCo.ko etc. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: WARNING: Today's current breaks passwords

1999-01-22 Thread paul
te after the tag and Matt's code was commited, did a make world, built a new kernel, rebooted and couldn't log in! After changing root's password it went from being DES to SHA1 so I suspect it's failing to honour the existing hash algorithm and trying to use SHA1 regardless. Brandon

RE: keymaps

1999-01-22 Thread paul
ogin That's exactly what I do with xmodmap and X. The standard maps can continue to reflect the actual layout of the keyboards then rather than having a number of variations according to popular user preference. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-26 Thread paul
area. You might not want to remove the low level devices or it could be a vinum configuration option. If something like vinum doesn't exist then you're not going to be doing any mirroring or concatenation and Doug's solution would be fine for creating the device nodes needed t

RE: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-26 Thread paul
in use every time but I can't see how netscape itself can be directly responsible for a system lockup, it must be tickling some interrupt problem. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread paul
at encapsulates how the current code looks but you're free to write in any style you want as long as you write enough of it". In the long run you may as well not bother with style(9), either there is a standard style or there isn't, a man page documenting current style without

RE: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread paul
c % d ^ e) there's no spoken language analogy that flows left to right so we have to parse it in much the same way as the compiler does. I bet that most people are mentally putting braces around the expressions to break it up or at least something along those lines. Therefore it makes sense to actually put the parens there in the first place so that people can parse it more quickly with the naked eye. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: was: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-08 Thread paul
#x27;s getting overly engineered and we're just chasing our tails. Why can't there be a set of shipped defaults, set in /usr/share that is never touched by local sites and by definition will always be up to date and then have a single file /etc/rc.conf that provides local overrides. Wh

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

1999-02-11 Thread paul
scripts for answering chap challenges) that will go > in there, and it's a more generic place > > Besides, with all this activity, it'd be nice to get out of /etc > altogether :-) Have another think about it. /etc/defaults does have its merits but it isn't going to work

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

1999-02-11 Thread paul
> -Original Message- > From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:a...@iafrica.com] > Sent: 11 February 1999 13:24 > To: p...@originative.co.uk > Cc: br...@awfulhak.org; tr49...@rcc.on.ca; curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. > > > &g

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

1999-02-11 Thread paul
ht look like and to show > them how to achieve things that require quite a few commands - such > as playing server, doing multilink etc. > > > Paul. > > Besides, IMHO, /etc/defaults will either be abused by system > administrators or will be a poor-mans copy of src/etc.

RE: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff

1999-03-10 Thread paul
alternative user interface to vi or emacs for editing options. Is there something awkward about the way sysinstall works that requires it to have its own config file? Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

panic: zone: entry not free

1999-03-16 Thread paul
on the alpha at the moment (but I'm working on that) and I probably won't be able to do anything for another 24 hours if you need more info. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: /etc/rc.conf, take 46!

1999-03-22 Thread paul
k in those > files specified > in ${additional_rc_conf_files}. I still think we're chasing our tails with all this configuration stuff. Why can't /etc/rc load /etc/defaults/rc.conf followed by /etc/rc.conf (if present). Don't have anything in /etc/defaults.rc.conf except defau

RE: EGCS optimizations

1999-04-06 Thread paul
it would be by cpu performance. The relative speed differences of the different egcs/libc binaries is probably smoothed out by the i/o affects which is why the times look so similar. Something that is more cpu bound would be a better benchmark for comparing the optimisation options. Paul. To Un

RE: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0?

1999-04-17 Thread paul
lnc0 at 0x300-0x317 irq 5 drq 6 on isa > lnc0: Memory allocated above 16Mb limit It looks like the change to allocate memory from the top rather than the bottom has broken it since on my box, at least, it's getting memory from the end of physical memory now whereas it never used to. C

RE: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0?

1999-04-17 Thread paul
een > 3.1-RELEASE and 4.0-CURRENT, either in the config file or the > lnc driver? I've just committed a fix for this. It was caused by the change to the way vm_page.c allocates memory Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0?

1999-04-19 Thread paul
riate for the stable branch in the first > place.) I didn't think the memory allocation change was in stable but I may merge the lnc changes back into -stable anyway since it's a cleaner way of doing things. I've got some other lnc problems to fix first though. Paul. To Unsubs

RE: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread paul
resource hints. > bus calls all child drivers to probe what has been found or hinted at > bus calls all child drivers with an identify methods to see > if they can > find something on their own without an id or hint. If I'm reading this right then you'd call an identify function in all available isa drivers and have them try and identify hardware? The risk here is that isa drivers/devices don't play well together and will trash you're machine if asked to probe for hardware that isn't present. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes

1999-04-28 Thread paul
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Paul [mailto:wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu] > Sent: 28 April 1999 14:27 > To: dil...@apollo.backplane.com > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes > > > O

RE: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-30 Thread paul
d these terms to post to the list, it would still be open for everyone to follow. This should reduce the number of whining messages on the development list from people who shouldn't really be running the development branch. Paul Richards Originative Solutions Ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: -stable vs -current (was Re: solid NFS patch #6... )

1999-05-01 Thread paul
* stuff up ( NFS/VM/VFS/BIO/VN/SWAPPER ). Then what happens to -stable, is it going to get thouroughly tested with all these changes? You're currently treating -stable as a "beta stable" in that users who track it are being used as beta testers to find the bugs caused by merges from

RE: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-05-01 Thread paul
s isn't 15 years old! I agree with the sentiment though :-) Although, if it's widely used I suspect it will stabilise much sooner than a couple of years. If it has the required features it might be worth playing with on the back burner to see how it shaped up. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports

1999-05-02 Thread paul
called the BBC Computer. It was *way* ahead of it's time, I still have it in the garage. Graphics resolutions that were better than the IBM PC that came later, 3 channel sound capability, the ability to add a second processor, an OS that was really neat. It was one nice piece of kit, ahh nostalgia. Paul Richards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: alpha kernel build failure (w/patch)

1999-07-05 Thread Bill Paul
f we're really lucky then some day this will get fixed correctly, by somebody who is not me, as I have plenty of other things to keep me busy. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager

Re: wi0 almost works with Wavelan Turbo card

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Paul
mming manual without NDA) and I don't have a turbo WaveLAN card so I'm unable to duplicate your problem on my own equipment. If I can't duplicate the problem and analyze it, I can't even begin to fix it. -Bill -- =

Re: wi0 almost works with Wavelan Turbo card

1999-07-19 Thread Bill Paul
ould hurt performance). > There is also a version 4 linux driver for the silver card, thats the one with > the WEV encryption. WEP, not WEV, and whether you have encryption or not depends on if it's supported by the firmware in your card, not on the driver (though you do have

Re: wi0 almost works with Wavelan Turbo card

1999-07-19 Thread Bill Paul
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Access Denied 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Data format error Looks like it doesn't like anything under columbia.edu. It likes freebsd.org though. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul

Re: sysinstall network performance

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
s). > > I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to. Could > this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration? Well, since you didn't tell us what kind of network card(s) you have, that's impossible to say. -Bill -- ==

IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
ection would be useful. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Colu

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
EST i386 Should be in there. I don't think that's it. Note that the 'mbuf siz' value that gets printed is the exactly the same every time. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Man

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
d you elaborate a *lot*. A whole lot. >We need to fix that panic to have it simply drop the packet, I guess. No, we need to fix the code so it handles 32K "packets" (datagrams) correctly. -Bill -- ===== -Bil

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
le to do is snoop the requests coming from the SGI but that's hard since they're encapsulated in a TCP stream. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
a string bytes, plus padding to a longword boundary, *plus* a longword length value. Some comments would have been useful here. (Hint, hint.) What I don't know is whether or not the calculation for dirlen is wrong or not. Hopefully now that I've shown everyone the light, maybe somebody can tell

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
SIGNED + nlen + rem); Should this be 7 * NFSX_UNSIGNED or is it correct as it is. I don't know how dirlen relates to the entryplus3 structure. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
rade the other SGIs without worrying about them clobbering my FreeBSD machines. Hm. I wonder what would happen if the FreeBSD host was the client and the SGI was the server. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | Sys

Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
not related to the transport. Anybody have any ideas? I did my good deed for the day. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center fo

Re: readdirplus client side fix (was Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm)

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
if (newvp == vp) > + vrele(newvp); > + else > + vput(newvp); > newvp = NULLVP; > } > nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_UNSIGNED); > -- =

Re: readdirplus client side fix (was Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm)

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
with the FreeBSD server). I think this was just a consequence of the filesystems being laid out differently. The patched FreeBSD client works fine now with the SGI server. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212)

Re: readdirplus client side fix (was Re: IRIX 6.5.4 NFS v3 TCP client + FreeBSD server = bewm)

1999-07-29 Thread Bill Paul
g different, I'll be happy to try it out. Not a bad day's work. :) -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Tele

FYI for those with 3Com 3c905C cards

1999-08-02 Thread Bill Paul
y curious to see what effect it has. If you notice any improvements (or not), please let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | C

PCI bus on 486/66 no longer detected

1999-08-09 Thread Bill Paul
y have any bright ideas? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Col

Re: buildworld fails in /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/..

1999-08-21 Thread Bill Paul
rface description file escaped before I could commit it with the rest of the miibus code. Okay, I just fixed it. Thanks for the heads up and sorry for the trouble. My turn to wear the pointy hat again. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Pa

Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Bill Paul
the ISA graphics adapter for some reason. Anybody have any bright ideas where I can start looking for the problem? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EM

Re: USB broken?

1999-12-29 Thread Bill Paul
DB, but *WITHOUT* USB support. - Boot this kernel. - Type kldload usb - See if the system crashes. - If it does, it will drop into the debugger. - Type 'trace' - Report what it says. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul

Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection?

2000-01-04 Thread Paul Eggert
;t users just use --binary-files=without-match instead? I have the impression that this option won't be typed interactively much. Could you please try the patch enclosed below instead? It implements all the above suggestions. 2000-01-04 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: panic in uipc_mbuf.c or if_aue.c

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Paul
contents of the mbuf!! Show is what it thinks the real length is! -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Columbia University, New York City =

Re: buildworld fails on Alpha

2000-01-14 Thread Bill Paul
get a src/sys/modules/an/Makefile for compiling the Aironet driver module. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecom

Re: Current, XEON and MP performance

2000-01-16 Thread Bill Paul
; liked taking a closer look at it I could provide them with access to the > machine (and its console). I ran out of clues... Hard to tell really without more info. We don't know what your test programs do, so it's impossible to predict what their behavior should or shouldn&#

Re: Current, XEON and MP performance

2000-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
ted rev=3D0x00. And it is working perfectly well in > another machine. Again, there is a distinct lack of details. You can't just say it doesn't work. You have to describe the failure. > > Ok. Tell me what info to gather. Any preferred benchmarks? Again, you didn't sho

Re: USB D-Link DSB-650 kue0: failed to load code

2000-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
Length), USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK, 0); to this: usbd_setup_default_xfer(xfer, dev, 0, 100, req, data, UGETW(req->wLength), USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK, 0); Then recompile your kernel/module/whatever and try again. (And let me know what happens, of course.) -Bill --

Re: /dev/sndstat

2000-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
g MAKEDEV snd0. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Columbia University, New York City ===

Re: USB D-Link DSB-650 kue0: failed to load code

2000-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
antly better than with the UHCI controller. Just my rotten luck I'm stuck with a UHCI one in my laptop. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PRO

Re: ...(file transfer crashes system) ethernet driver or IP stack bug?

2000-01-20 Thread Bill Paul
sd.org/~wpaul/PNIC. You have the driver source. Somebody *else* try and figure it out, and then tell me then answer when you have it. That said, if you have overclocked this machine, then un-overclock it *right* *now* and never, ever do it again! PCI bus master DMA is goofy enough without pe

Re: Problems with an0 and ISA Aironet Card..

2000-01-27 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Paul Reece had to walk into mine and say: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > Back up. You're leaving out some info. > > > > - When did you buy these cards? (The firmware rev may

Problems with an0 and ISA Aironet Card..

2000-01-19 Thread Paul Reece
clues/hints/tips etc? Cheers. Regards, Paul. (replies to me direct please - not on list) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problems with an0 and ISA Aironet Card..

2000-01-20 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Paul Reece had to walk into mine and say: > Having a few problems trying to get an ISA Aironet 4800 card working under > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT. I did try with 3.4-RELEASE first with the > appropriate drivers, but had even

Re: Problems with an0 and ISA Aironet Card..

2000-01-20 Thread Paul Reece
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bill Paul wrote: > Back up. You're leaving out some info. > > - When did you buy these cards? (The firmware rev may be an issue. > knowing when you bought the card helps me figure out if your firmware > is newer than mine.) Cards were purchased

Re: ifconfig hang

2000-02-05 Thread Bill Paul
G boot floppy and run the diagnostics on the diskette supplied with the card. If the vendor-supplied diags also wedge the system during a transmission, then you need to check your hardware. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul

Re: setproctitle() in FreeBSD 4.0 ...

2000-02-07 Thread Paul Saab
sysctl_kern_proc, "Process table"); -SYSCTL_NODE(_kern_proc, KERN_PROC_ARGS, args, CTLFLAG_RW, +SYSCTL_NODE(_kern_proc, KERN_PROC_ARGS, args, CTLFLAG_RW|CTLFLAG_ANYBODY, sysctl_kern_proc_args, "Return process argument"); -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [E

Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list)

2000-02-21 Thread Paul Richards
the whole though, I'm not sure that this is a direction that has a definate win to it. How many binaries are there that have access to the master.passwd file? How many lines of code need to be audited for those binaries, compared to the number of lines of code needed to implement a secure daemon solution? Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-21 Thread Paul Richards
on as an install method at all. Given that "novice" walks you through the install steps but still allows you to do a customised install, it should perhaps be called "installation", the custom option should be changed to something like "maintenance" because really tha

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Paul
pport > zero copy TCP receive. > > The Alteon boards, on the other hand, have most of the features necessary, > and if I get some time, I may add the last feature (header splitting) to > the firmware. > > The other alternative is SysKonnect, and that might actually be a goo

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Paul
f the XMACs and performance on that port would get spotty. I think the total TX FIFO memory on the XMAC II is 2K. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-04 Thread Bill Paul
t you can modify the > firmware, and so header splitting is an option there. It would even be > possible to split the headers off of IPv6 packets, or any other protocol > that you have knowlege of. If you can actually modify the firmware to do this then you have a lot more guru

Re: ssh strangeness in -current...

2000-03-08 Thread Paul Richards
e before. > > You really need to read the -current mailing list if you're going to > run -current. Saying that openssh took you by surprise as a -current > user is sort of like saying you didn't know Elvis was dead. :-( but he isn't! He was working in a chip shop last

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:59:09AM +, Paul Richards wrote: > > > > Are expressions like ((uid_t)0-1) portable/safe ? Maybe that's a better > > way of approaching this. > > To get the all-1's number, maybe it's bett

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
value even if the type allows it to be larger. This is of particular significance to UIDs which are currently limited to a far smaller value than would fit in a uid_t. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > They must not go into . That header file is defined by > > > the ANSI/ISO C standard. The standard doesn't permit polluting the

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2000-Mar-13 12:01:03 +1100, Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >id = strtoul(p, (char **)NULL, 10); > >if ((errno == ERANGE) || (id >= UID_MAX)) { > >warnx("%s > max uid value (%lu)", p, UID_MAX); > &

The pw command

2000-03-09 Thread Paul Richards
Non-root users can use the pw command to get information from the master.passwd file e.g. ps showuser paul paul:*:1000:1000::0:0:& Richards:/home/paul:/usr/local/bin/bash which shows the class, password expiry and account expiry. I'm not sure whether that's information that

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > > > > > > I guess it could go into in the > > > "!defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)" section. Bruce might have a b

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-12 Thread Paul Richards
Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2000-Mar-13 13:14:40 +1100, Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >#define UID_MAX ((uid_t)0-1) > ... > >I can see the flaw in that straight away in that uid_t isn't available > >in > > Not a problem. C macros

Re: The pw command

2000-03-10 Thread Paul Richards
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Paul Richards wrote: > > > Non-root users can use the pw command to get information from the > > master.passwd file e.g. > > > > ps showuser paul > > paul:*:1000:1000::0:0:& Richards:/home/paul:/usr/local/b

MAX_UID ?

2000-03-11 Thread Paul Richards
r/include/limits.h ? Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-11 Thread Paul Richards
John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think we need a MAX_UID and a MAX_GID to perform checks like this. > > Anyone got any objections to adding them to /usr/include/limits.h ? > &

Re: MAX_UID ?

2000-03-14 Thread Paul Richards
he kernel does. Most applications are limiting themselves to USHRT_MAX, those applications should be fixed to use UID_MAX, even if we still limit UID_MAX == USHRT_MAX for backwards compatibility. So, seems like the right place for constants like UID_MAX. Any disagreements there? I guess the abo

Re: Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Bill Paul
. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Columbia University, New York City = &quo

Monday part II: The Terror Continues

1999-08-24 Thread Bill Paul
don't want to find out what first prize is. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Columbia University, New York City ==

Heads up: 3Com XL driver converted to miibus

1999-08-29 Thread Bill Paul
ed by ifconfig (active or no carrier). -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PR

Re: kernel build fail- /pci/if_xl.c:133: miibus_if.h: No such file or directory

1999-08-30 Thread Bill Paul
ad xl Or you can include the following in /boot/loader.conf and reboot: mii_load="YES" xl_load="YES" -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work:

Re: Problems with the latest changes to ifconfig (I guess) -> Bad

1999-08-31 Thread Bill Paul
y is with the embedded 3c905B NIC in some of the Dell machines in the lab, which aren't currently running FreeBSD. Don't you just love hardware programming? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System

HEADS UP: 3Com xl driver changes

1999-09-19 Thread Bill Paul
omebody notices a problem, please let me know immediately. For that matter, if you notice an improvement, let me know as well. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work

Re: Page fault with ethernet xl0

1999-09-20 Thread Bill Paul
. Dammit. You didn't even tell me what kind of card you have. Do you really need me to ask you for this? Go back and boot the kernel in verbose mode and show me *EXACTLY* what it says. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul

Beneath The Planet Of The Mondays

1999-09-25 Thread Bill Paul
t. I would suggest a similar punishment for those who break our own build, except that I suspect many of you are wearing viking hats already. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu

Re: Is the wb driver broken?

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Paul
can't actually get my hands on. > Thanks for the help. I seem to be over the hump on the wb interface > anyway. I trust this means it's actually passing traffic. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212)

Re: Is the wb driver broken?

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Paul
anymore. Specifying media 100baseTX without mediaopt full-duplex implies half-duplex. Leave off the mediaopt half-duplex part and it will work. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manage

Re: Is the wb driver broken?

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Paul
n, make sure the link light is lit. Try to ping somebody on the network (or run tcpdump on the interface). You can't just sit there and look at it: you have to experiment. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-602

Re: Issues with xl0

1999-10-04 Thread Bill Paul
funny. I know what you're thinking: "why is he being so nasty?" Because I can't stand it when people expect me to play the "minimum information" game, and you are by no means the first. Some people may be able to read a chewing gum wrapper and divine the secre

Still waiting for xl driver reports

1999-10-10 Thread Bill Paul
you run the comparison on the same hardware. Comparing a PIII 600Mhz host running Linux to a PII 300Mhz host running FreeBSD is not a fair comparison. Unless FreeBSD ends up being faster. :) -Bill -- = -Bill P

Texas Chainsaw Monday

1999-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
idn't it stop at the compilation failure? I suspect the answer has to do with some sort of obj directory problem, but it's impossible to tell that based on the build report. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Bill Paul
e for those who do! :) You work for Intel yet claim technical ignorance? I dunno man... :) -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for

Re: Texas Chainsaw Monday

1999-10-22 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Boris Popov had to walk into mine and say: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > > > install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 mount_nwfs /vol2/release/sbin > > install: mount_nwfs: No such file or directory >

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