:> filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into
:> fragments. These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but
:> are a number of sequential disk blocks. The default FFS block size is 8KB.
:> Each FFS block is subdivided into fragments. The default is 8 f
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> You have almost certainly run out of file fragments. Space on FFS
> filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into
> fragments. These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but
> are a number of sequential disk blo
> How do OpenBSD do it?
They use arc4random(), to add a random increment.
> Just curious whether you have a reference for doing this or
> whether it was
> an ad-hoc change. Playing with cryptographic algorithms isn't
> usually a
> good idea unless you're sure, as I'm sure you know.
Yup - dead
> How do OpenBSD do it?
They use arc4random(), to add a random increment.
> Just curious whether you have a reference for doing this or
> whether it was
> an ad-hoc change. Playing with cryptographic algorithms isn't
> usually a
> good idea unless you're sure, as I'm sure you know.
Yup - dead
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mark Newton wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > > I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> > > Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> > > I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
> >
> > You may have a program th
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mark Newton wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > > I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> > > Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> > > I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
> >
> > You may have a program t
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:27:38AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> Another data point: qmail adds _seven_ new users, and one new
> group. It has a very paranoid security model.
>
> I think that it uses a script to add them, but maybe I did it
> myself. It was a while ago...
The qmail port uses
> does KAME IPv6 and IPSec define additional facilities for
>syslog? I have been working with IPSec devices from a company called
>Network-Alchemy. They have additional syslog facilities including:
>IKE, IPSEC, L2TP, LOGIN (should be AUTH?), PPTP and others.
>
> Does KAME IPv6 and IP
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Sheldon Hearn:
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail port
> > I have the feeling that "Software Licensing Program" speaks .
>
> You can read about the Sun Community Source License on their web site now.
> It is the same license that brings the JDK to FreeBSD.
*NOT* As we read it (The JDK folks), the CSL doesn't allow us to release
the JDK on FreeBSD
Itojun,
does KAME IPv6 and IPSec define additional facilities for
syslog? I have been working with IPSec devices from a company called
Network-Alchemy. They have additional syslog facilities including:
IKE, IPSEC, L2TP, LOGIN (should be AUTH?), PPTP and others.
Does KAME IPv6 a
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:16:48PM -0700, Doug wrote:
>
> It's not a stupid question at all. There is already such a utility
> in the majordomo port, perhaps make this its own port and add that as a
> dependency? We've already been told that postfix (one of the favorite
> replacement MTA's f
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:27:38AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> Another data point: qmail adds _seven_ new users, and one new
> group. It has a very paranoid security model.
>
> I think that it uses a script to add them, but maybe I did it
> myself. It was a while ago...
The qmail port use
> does KAME IPv6 and IPSec define additional facilities for
>syslog? I have been working with IPSec devices from a company called
>Network-Alchemy. They have additional syslog facilities including:
>IKE, IPSEC, L2TP, LOGIN (should be AUTH?), PPTP and others.
>
> Does KAME IPv6 and I
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Sheldon Hearn:
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail por
> > I have the feeling that "Software Licensing Program" speaks .
>
> You can read about the Sun Community Source License on their web site now.
> It is the same license that brings the JDK to FreeBSD.
*NOT* As we read it (The JDK folks), the CSL doesn't allow us to release
the JDK on FreeBS
there has been some discussion recently, and lots of volunteering. however,
i don't think anyone has done any real work yet. i have a couple of sparcs
to use for it, and several other people have sparc boxes waiting to test
and contribute but no one has yet stepped up to lead the effort forward.
f
Itojun,
does KAME IPv6 and IPSec define additional facilities for
syslog? I have been working with IPSec devices from a company called
Network-Alchemy. They have additional syslog facilities including:
IKE, IPSEC, L2TP, LOGIN (should be AUTH?), PPTP and others.
Does KAME IPv6
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:16:48PM -0700, Doug wrote:
>
> It's not a stupid question at all. There is already such a utility
> in the majordomo port, perhaps make this its own port and add that as a
> dependency? We've already been told that postfix (one of the favorite
> replacement MTA's
this strikes me as unecessary. anybody installing a new mta can create the
necessary users and name them appropriately.
port maintainers have already solved this problem (see the install glue
for the qmail port, which as has been mentioned creates _seven_ users.) it is
not particularly hard, and t
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like
> "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or
> whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure.
May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at all
Luiz Morte da Costa Junior wrote:
>
> Hi Pete and All,
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pete Mckenna wrote:
>
> > We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
>
> Ok. My server has 2 processors. I supose that you have some servers with 2
> processors.
I think just one that I used to determ
> According to Sheldon Hearn:
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
> What about "mta", a name that was suggested (and used on
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> > Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> > I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
>
> You may have a program that still has a reference to that file open.
Nah, that
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
You may have a program that still has a reference to that file o
According to Sheldon Hearn:
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
What about "mta", a name that was suggested (and used on hub I think)
there has been some discussion recently, and lots of volunteering. however,
i don't think anyone has done any real work yet. i have a couple of sparcs
to use for it, and several other people have sparc boxes waiting to test
and contribute but no one has yet stepped up to lead the effort forward.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I am using 3.2-Stable and I have a 9GB disk drive used as cache for
> squid proxy. I have changed the min free space with tunefs program to 0
> but now I have a problem. Even though I have 250MB free space on the
> file system, I get file system full err
this strikes me as unecessary. anybody installing a new mta can create the
necessary users and name them appropriately.
port maintainers have already solved this problem (see the install glue
for the qmail port, which as has been mentioned creates _seven_ users.) it is
not particularly hard, and
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like
> "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or
> whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure.
May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at al
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> >
> > > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
>
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:46:40 -0600
Wes Peters wrote:
> Is this a real tulip, or one of the recent clones? Bill Paul has written a
> number of drivers for various near clones of the Tulip, none of which work
> quite like the Tulip (of course).
>
> See, for instance, the al, ax, mx, pn, vr
Hey all,
Mike Smith and I talked to the MySQL folks at the Orielly Open Source
show a few weekends ago. They were quite keen to imporve the quality of
their FreeBSD port but they dont have much experience running a FreeBSD
box much less one to actualy use.
What I'm looking for is some people in
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
>
>
> > > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> > > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> > > it unless you ask for it.
> >
> > I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the
Luiz Morte da Costa Junior wrote:
>
> Hi Pete and All,
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pete Mckenna wrote:
>
> > We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
>
> Ok. My server has 2 processors. I supose that you have some servers with 2
> processors.
I think just one that I used to deter
> According to Sheldon Hearn:
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
> What about "mta", a name that was suggested (and used on
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> > Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> > I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
>
> You may have a program that still has a reference to that file open.
Nah, tha
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
> Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
> I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
You may have a program that still has a reference to that file
According to Sheldon Hearn:
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
What about "mta", a name that was suggested (and used on hub I think
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I am using 3.2-Stable and I have a 9GB disk drive used as cache for
> squid proxy. I have changed the min free space with tunefs program to 0
> but now I have a problem. Even though I have 250MB free space on the
> file system, I get file system full er
"David E. Cross" wrote:
>
> I am modifying the tulip device driver to support this xircom card. I have it
> almost entirely working, *except* that it goes into infinite re-neogitiate
> loops. The card probes correctly at bootup, but any attempt to change
> information via ifconfig ("ifconfig de0
Hello,
I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
Evren
Original Message
Subject: free space problem
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:42:10 +0300
From: Evre
> > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> > it unless you ask for it.
>
> I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same
> thing ... user postfix ... (as well a
Mr. Greenman refered me to this mailing list for people who are trying to
get dialogic drivers for freebsd. I would like to get in contact with
people who are writting these drivers. I have source code for the dos
drivers witch is public domain from what I can tell. Anyway, anyone
instrested
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:51:10PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> >
> > > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
>
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:46:40 -0600
Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this a real tulip, or one of the recent clones? Bill Paul has written a
> number of drivers for various near clones of the Tulip, none of which work
> quite like the Tulip (of course).
>
> See, for instance, th
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Luiz Morte da Costa Junior wrote:
> > The onboard NIC works like any other Intel 10/100 using fxp0, adding a
> > asecond nic makes the onboard fxp1 (for failover purposes, I assume)
>
> I think that I don't have problem with my NIC (Intel 10/100).
The bus that the onboard NI
Hey all,
Mike Smith and I talked to the MySQL folks at the Orielly Open Source
show a few weekends ago. They were quite keen to imporve the quality of
their FreeBSD port but they dont have much experience running a FreeBSD
box much less one to actualy use.
What I'm looking for is some people in
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
>
>
> > > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> > > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> > > it unless you ask for it.
> >
> > I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing th
Hi Pete and All,
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pete Mckenna wrote:
> We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
Ok. My server has 2 processors. I supose that you have some servers with 2
processors.
> I have also put an adaptec 2940 in them and it works as well.
What is the adaptec trans
"David E. Cross" wrote:
>
> I am modifying the tulip device driver to support this xircom card. I have it
> almost entirely working, *except* that it goes into infinite re-neogitiate
> loops. The card probes correctly at bootup, but any attempt to change
> information via ifconfig ("ifconfig de
Hello,
I have sent this email a 2 days ago but nobody answered yet.
Is there anybody who I can contact with about this?
I need an answer because this is a serious problem for me.
Evren
Original Message
Subject: free space problem
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:42:10 +0300
From: Evr
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
> Why
Mr. Greenman refered me to this mailing list for people who are trying to
get dialogic drivers for freebsd. I would like to get in contact with
people who are writting these drivers. I have source code for the dos
drivers witch is public domain from what I can tell. Anyway, anyone
instrested
> > Why not do this as part of the port itself, ala majordomo? That
> > works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get
> > it unless you ask for it.
>
> I would just liek to point out that Postfix is also doing the exact same
> thing ... user postfix ... (as well
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Luiz Morte da Costa Junior wrote:
> > The onboard NIC works like any other Intel 10/100 using fxp0, adding a
> > asecond nic makes the onboard fxp1 (for failover purposes, I assume)
>
> I think that I don't have problem with my NIC (Intel 10/100).
The bus that the onboard N
We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
I have also put an adaptec 2940 in them and it works as well.
You need to run 3.2 or better to get the drivers for the on board
Adaptec.
The onboard NIC works like any other Intel 10/100 using fxp0, adding a
asecond nic makes the onboard fxp
Hi Pete and All,
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pete Mckenna wrote:
> We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
Ok. My server has 2 processors. I supose that you have some servers with 2
processors.
> I have also put an adaptec 2940 in them and it works as well.
What is the adaptec tran
smc...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Heres what suns web page says:
>
> "Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
> specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun
> Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration
> on future
>From: Sheldon Hearn
>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:33:06 +0200
>I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
>``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
>primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>...
>This has nothing to do with wha
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> > I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> > ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> > primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
> Wh
We have a few dozen running mostly as uniprocesser boxes.
I have also put an adaptec 2940 in them and it works as well.
You need to run 3.2 or better to get the drivers for the on board
Adaptec.
The onboard NIC works like any other Intel 10/100 using fxp0, adding a
asecond nic makes the onboard fx
wwo...@cybcon.com once wrote:
> Woulden't a port be the better option though? There are ports of Linux
> based Netscape...
It would be, but I only have so much time. And if the source is
available, I'd rather spend it poking around it. Or poke around
something else (like tc
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
Why not do this as part of th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Heres what suns web page says:
>
> "Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
> specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun
> Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration
> on fu
>From: Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:33:06 +0200
>I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
>``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
>primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>...
>This has no
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> No. Try for a patch that guesses how big the password file is (try
> using stat()) and tunes the cache dynamically.
>
> Hardcoding this at _build_ time is not any sort of "right" solution.
Agreed on all counts. I'd also like to add a vote for thi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] once wrote:
> Woulden't a port be the better option though? There are ports of Linux
> based Netscape...
It would be, but I only have so much time. And if the source is
available, I'd rather spend it poking around it. Or poke around
something else (like t
:>> "AGB" == Alex G Bulushev writes:
:
:>> If you are running softupdates, try turning it off (but I doubt this
:>> is the problem).
:
:AGB> we dont run softupdate because of posible problems with nfs+softupdate
:
:Hmm, I intend to setup a FreeBSD NFS server, and was planning to use
:
In message <17825.936203...@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: This has nothing to do with what's in the base system. This has to do
: with making it easier for people to run 3rd-party software, which isn't
: part of the base system, in a non-priveledged state.
I think this is a good ide
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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can
>be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself.
[snip]
>If Sun doesn't release the sources this month, I'll submit a port...
I for
In message The Hermit
Hacker writes:
: From a marketing standpoint, wouldn't it make for some seriously bad press
: for Sun to state "open source" and then turn around and not do it? *raised
: eyebrow*
Those who don't know about history are doomed to repeat it. Sun
originally released Java in a
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can
be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself.
To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and
make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a
new directo
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
Why not do this as part of t
>> "AGB" == Alex G Bulushev writes:
>> If you are running softupdates, try turning it off (but I doubt this
>> is the problem).
AGB> we dont run softupdate because of posible problems with nfs+softupdate
Hmm, I intend to setup a FreeBSD NFS server, and was planning to use
softupdate
On Wed 1999-09-01 (16:40), Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence.
> > :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make
>
> > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-)
> > It *had* to
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> No. Try for a patch that guesses how big the password file is (try
> using stat()) and tunes the cache dynamically.
>
> Hardcoding this at _build_ time is not any sort of "right" solution.
Agreed on all counts. I'd also like to add a vote for th
:>> "AGB" == Alex G Bulushev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:>> If you are running softupdates, try turning it off (but I doubt this
:>> is the problem).
:
:AGB> we dont run softupdate because of posible problems with nfs+softupdate
:
:Hmm, I intend to setup a FreeBSD NFS server, and w
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
This sounds q
> I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing
> PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives like SHA-1 (for
> yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for
> network performance.
I will doing Yarrow-1.0A, once the IPSec stuff is around.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: This has nothing to do with what's in the base system. This has to do
: with making it easier for people to run 3rd-party software, which isn't
: part of the base system, in a non-priveledged state.
I think this is a good idea. Plesae don't
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Hash: SHA1
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can
>be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself.
[snip]
>If Sun doesn't release the sources this month, I'll submit a port...
I for
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Hermit Hacker
writes:
: From a marketing standpoint, wouldn't it make for some seriously bad press
: for Sun to state "open source" and then turn around and not do it? *raised
: eyebrow*
Those who don't know about history are doomed to repeat it. Sun
originall
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can
be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself.
To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and
make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a
new direct
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
> After a bit of work on TCP sequence numbers, and generating initial
> sequence numbers which are difficult to predict, I have put some
> code together, which I belive makes the way in which FreeBSD
> generates initial send sequence numbers more secure.
Ho
>> "AGB" == Alex G Bulushev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you are running softupdates, try turning it off (but I doubt this
>> is the problem).
AGB> we dont run softupdate because of posible problems with nfs+softupdate
Hmm, I intend to setup a FreeBSD NFS server, and was planni
>
> Why is it OK for top to do it, but not pwd_mkdb? I probably end up
> updating my OS faster than I add users to my password file...
Top being wrong is not a justification for doing it wrong again.
> Tweak the cache to 32MB's, and never touch it again, regardless of how big
> your passwd file
On Wed 1999-09-01 (16:40), Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence.
> > :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make
>
> > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-)
> > It *had* t
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>
> > It seems that an interface configured with an address, which is then
> > deleted, and then set to a different address on the same network, the
> > machine continues to use the original address although all evidence of it
> > is gone.
>
> delete an
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
> ``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
> primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
>
This sounds
Hi folks,
I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
The last time I brought this up, my request was blown away in a flurry
of arguments against
> I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing
> PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives like SHA-1 (for
> yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for
> network performance.
I will doing Yarrow-1.0A, once the IPSec stuff is around
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
> After a bit of work on TCP sequence numbers, and generating initial
> sequence numbers which are difficult to predict, I have put some
> code together, which I belive makes the way in which FreeBSD
> generates initial send sequence numbers more secure.
H
>
> Why is it OK for top to do it, but not pwd_mkdb? I probably end up
> updating my OS faster than I add users to my password file...
Top being wrong is not a justification for doing it wrong again.
> Tweak the cache to 32MB's, and never touch it again, regardless of how big
> your passwd fil
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>> :>I've never heard of that. I've always found that two spaces
>> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read!
>> :
>> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>
> > It seems that an interface configured with an address, which is then
> > deleted, and then set to a different address on the same network, the
> > machine continues to use the original address although all evidence of it
> > is gone.
>
> delete a
Hi folks,
I plan to add a user ``smtp'' with UID 25 and a member of group
``mail'', for use in running non-priveledged MTA's in FreeBSD. This is
primarily for the convenience of maintainers of mail ports.
The last time I brought this up, my request was blown away in a flurry
of arguments agains
In article you write:
>Heres what suns web page says:
>
>"Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
>specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun
>Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration
>on future vers
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 smc...@aol.com wrote:
> Heres what suns web page says:
>
> "Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
> specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun
> Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collab
Heres what suns web page says:
"Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the StarOffice
specifications and will make the source code available through the Sun
Community Source Licensing program to encourage industry-wide collaboration
on future versions of the software. "
I ha
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