Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Lutz Albers
--On Freitag, 10. September 1999, 10:56 +0930 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 09-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: >> VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later >> versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things >> better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16

Re: upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2

1999-09-09 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything > seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so > I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to > find them and move th

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-09 Thread Stas Kisel
> From ja...@puck.nether.net Thu Sep 9 18:10:06 1999 > I am creating about 100 icmp sockets, and as they are > created, allocate a very large SO_RCVBUF: > (void)setsockopt(localstruct->icmp_s, SOL_SOCKET, > SO_RCVBUF, (char *)&hold, sizeof(hold)); This can be a part

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > It is other way around. I don't want half of FreeBSD binaries linked > > > with libc.so.3 and half is linked with libc.so.4. > > > > Recompile. You have the sources. > > ??? What recompile? Why do you think I have the sources - there is > quite a few binary-only Fr

Re: More press

1999-09-09 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
> There is a short but sweet[1] article on ZDNet today regarding FreeBSD: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2324624,00.html Hmm, can't find that sweet thing -- typo? Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Amancio Hasty
I would start by using a java gui tool to design the look and feel of the xmailer and allow the application to load java classes or lets call them plug-ins. There is lots of stuff available for java including good design patterns and methodologies. Once the overall design is completed then tra

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Lutz Albers
--On Freitag, 10. September 1999, 10:56 +0930 Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: >> VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later >> versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things >> better. (I'm stil

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-09 Thread Stas Kisel
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 9 18:10:06 1999 > I am creating about 100 icmp sockets, and as they are > created, allocate a very large SO_RCVBUF: > (void)setsockopt(localstruct->icmp_s, SOL_SOCKET, > SO_RCVBUF, (char *)&hold, sizeof(hold)); This can be a part of

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> The box is just going to be running NATD and IPFW, maybe DHCLIENT. > > Mr. NT is been told he can try and break-in, crash what ever this box > from the internet side. > > I am asking for links, pointer to make sure this is configured as > secure/solid as possible. I will be installing 3.3-STAB

upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2

1999-09-09 Thread Ben Jackson
I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to find them and move them into a separate directory). One thing that confused me for several

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> The box is just going to be running NATD and IPFW, maybe DHCLIENT. > > Mr. NT is been told he can try and break-in, crash what ever this box > from the internet side. > > I am asking for links, pointer to make sure this is configured as > secure/solid as possible. I will be installing 3.3-STA

upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2

1999-09-09 Thread Ben Jackson
I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to find them and move them into a separate directory). One thing that confused me for severa

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: > > I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail > > under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail > > folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed

Re: help

1999-09-09 Thread darren
Hello: One suggestion I have is webmin. Look at www.webmin.com. >and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that help sysadmins >do their work Darren Wiebe dkwi...@hagenhomes.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread Brian Mitchell (ISSATL)
> I have about 5 years experance with FreeBSD. I am running it at home > connected to a cable modem. My server is fairly secure from the > outside. I periodically read and act upon the builins from CERT, etc. > > The box is just going to be running NATD and IPFW, maybe DHCLIENT. Some suggestio

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: > I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail > under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail > folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed me to > do that. Even Netscape FreeBSD/NT use differe

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Florent Parent
Nate Williams writes: > > > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > > > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > > > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) > > > > Does it do IMAP? > > It doesn't even

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: > > I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail > > under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail > > folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowe

A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
I have been presented with a challenge. For a local school we have "won" putting in FreeBSD as firewall between the cable modem and the rest of the school network. Our opponent is last years IT commitee chair, who was booted because he was a jerk and wouldn't do things they was the school wanted.

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Kris Kirby
Andrew Reilly wrote: > I have an ATX system that must be looking for a keyboard-located > power switch of some sort. It won't power up unless I unplug the > (PS-2) keyboard, and then plug it back in again. That seems as > though there's something fairly complicated in the system that _is_ > being

Re: help

1999-09-09 Thread darren
Hello: One suggestion I have is webmin. Look at www.webmin.com. >and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that help sysadmins >do their work Darren Wiebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread Brian Mitchell (ISSATL)
> I have about 5 years experance with FreeBSD. I am running it at home > connected to a cable modem. My server is fairly secure from the > outside. I periodically read and act upon the builins from CERT, etc. > > The box is just going to be running NATD and IPFW, maybe DHCLIENT. Some suggesti

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: > I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail > under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail > folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed me to > do that. Even Netscape FreeBSD/NT use differ

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious > at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. > > Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. > If, later, i were able to code somet

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Florent Parent
Nate Williams writes: > > > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > > > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > > > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) > > > > Does it do IMAP? > > It doesn't even

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 David Scheidt wrote: > > fetch mail from INBOX). > Netscape does, actually. I set up a friend's computer to do this, over an > ssh-forwarded local port, even. It all more less "Just worked". On a win98 > box, even. shudder. Yeah, I forgot to mention Netscape.. OK no mailer wit

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Does it do IMAP? I have only seen *1* emailer which does IMAP properly > (xfmail) > all the others either don't support it at all, or treat IMAP like POP (ie just > fetch mail from INBOX). Netscape does, actually. I set up a friend's computer to

submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. If, later, i were able to code something to freebsd, and suppose i do, what (or better, how) s

Re: help

1999-09-09 Thread andrew
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Donna Kean wrote: > hi my names donna kean and i'm a 3rd year is student at the australian > defence force academy. i'm enrolled in a systems administration > course and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that > help sysadmins do their work such as create

Re: Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
Mike Smith wrote: > > Please word-wrap your messages, as reading them unwrapped is a major > nuisance. > Sorry, I had turned it off for a specific message and forgot. > > You should do this soon. > I know. But I was barely able to create it the first time. > Because nobody is testing using a

A Challenge

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
I have been presented with a challenge. For a local school we have "won" putting in FreeBSD as firewall between the cable modem and the rest of the school network. Our opponent is last years IT commitee chair, who was booted because he was a jerk and wouldn't do things they was the school wanted

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I'm more tempted to revert to the major/minor versioning. Every change > triggers a minor version bump, but only if the library is still backwards > compatible with minor version 0 and the same major version. Otherwise a > major

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Kris Kirby
Andrew Reilly wrote: > I have an ATX system that must be looking for a keyboard-located > power switch of some sort. It won't power up unless I unplug the > (PS-2) keyboard, and then plug it back in again. That seems as > though there's something fairly complicated in the system that _is_ > bein

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) Does it do IMAP? I have only seen *1* emailer which

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm more tempted to revert to the major/minor versioning. > > ELF has no minor revision number (IMO a mistake, but it's not my call). I agree that it is a mistake. However, if you think of "major" changes as different libraries, it does make sense. W

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: > > Does it do IMAP? > It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get my email, > which works *MUCH* better than anything else I've found. Woe is me. Oh well.. back to xfmail :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) > > Does it do IMAP? It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get m

Re: How to follow child process in gdb

1999-09-09 Thread Assar Westerlund
Zhihui Zhang writes: > Your response suggests that I can not achieve the same result simply by > using (I am using gdb 4.18): > > (gdb)set follow-fork-mode child As far as I can tell, `set follow-fork-mode' only works on HP-UX. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "u

Re: Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
Please word-wrap your messages, as reading them unwrapped is a major nuisance. > On my dual processor I am running old boot blocks and an AOUT kernel. > I need the AOUT because I have a lkm device the talks out the parallel > port to "Background Debug Module" for a Motorola 68332. I haven't bee

RE: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Sep-99 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > options: There are no jumpers on the mobo to he

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle > with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bios

Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
On my dual processor I am running old boot blocks and an AOUT kernel. I need the AOUT because I have a lkm device the talks out the parallel port to "Background Debug Module" for a Motorola 68332. I haven't been able to convert it over yet. My code is up to date with cvs-cur.5648.gz (Sept. 9

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious > at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. > > Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. > If, later, i were able to code some

make bug? bin/13039

1999-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Can someone who understands make(1) check out bin/13039 specifically the fix would be nice in 3.3 if we can get it (the fix is in the PR) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 David Scheidt wrote: > > fetch mail from INBOX). > Netscape does, actually. I set up a friend's computer to do this, over an > ssh-forwarded local port, even. It all more less "Just worked". On a win98 > box, even. shudder. Yeah, I forgot to mention Netscape.. OK no mailer wi

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Does it do IMAP? I have only seen *1* emailer which does IMAP properly (xfmail) > all the others either don't support it at all, or treat IMAP like POP (ie just > fetch mail from INBOX). Netscape does, actually. I set up a friend's computer to do

submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Suppose, i would like to spend time and patience learnig Fbsd internals. If, later, i were able to code something to freebsd, and suppose i do, what (or better, how)

Re: help

1999-09-09 Thread andrew
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Donna Kean wrote: > hi my names donna kean and i'm a 3rd year is student at the australian > defence force academy. i'm enrolled in a systems administration > course and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that > help sysadmins do their work such as creat

Re: Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
Mike Smith wrote: > > Please word-wrap your messages, as reading them unwrapped is a major > nuisance. > Sorry, I had turned it off for a specific message and forgot. > > You should do this soon. > I know. But I was barely able to create it the first time. > Because nobody is testing using

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I'm more tempted to revert to the major/minor versioning. Every change > triggers a minor version bump, but only if the library is still backwards > compatible with minor version 0 and the same major version. Otherwise a > majo

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) Does it do IMAP? I have only seen *1* emailer which

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm more tempted to revert to the major/minor versioning. > > ELF has no minor revision number (IMO a mistake, but it's not my call). I agree that it is a mistake. However, if you think of "major" changes as different libraries, it does make sense.

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: > > Does it do IMAP? > It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get my email, > which works *MUCH* better than anything else I've found. Woe is me. Oh well.. back to xfmail :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Softwar

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later > > versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things > > better. (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...) > > Does it do IMAP? It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get

Re: How to follow child process in gdb

1999-09-09 Thread Assar Westerlund
Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your response suggests that I can not achieve the same result simply by > using (I am using gdb 4.18): > > (gdb)set follow-fork-mode child As far as I can tell, `set follow-fork-mode' only works on HP-UX. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > > > > Other OSes started to avoid version bumps. Linux promises to not bump > > > > the libc version since glibc2. > > > > > > Yes, we now have a multitude of patches floating around for all those > > > gli

Re: Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
Please word-wrap your messages, as reading them unwrapped is a major nuisance. > On my dual processor I am running old boot blocks and an AOUT kernel. > I need the AOUT because I have a lkm device the talks out the parallel > port to "Background Debug Module" for a Motorola 68332. I haven't be

RE: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Sep-99 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > options: There are no jumpers on the mobo to h

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle > with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bio

Release Canidate

1999-09-09 Thread James E. Housley
On my dual processor I am running old boot blocks and an AOUT kernel. I need the AOUT because I have a lkm device the talks out the parallel port to "Background Debug Module" for a Motorola 68332. I haven't been able to convert it over yet. My code is up to date with cvs-cur.5648.gz (Sept. 9

make bug? bin/13039

1999-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Can someone who understands make(1) check out bin/13039 specifically the fix would be nice in 3.3 if we can get it (the fix is in the PR) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > > > > Other OSes started to avoid version bumps. Linux promises to not bump > > > > the libc version since glibc2. > > > > > > Yes, we now have a multitude of patches floating around for all those > > > gl

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Disabled > > > no automatic restart on power failure > > > > You _should_ be able to change this. > > > > > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > > > routers or firewalls where an U

help

1999-09-09 Thread Donna Kean
hi my names donna kean and i'm a 3rd year is student at the australian defence force academy. i'm enrolled in a systems administration course and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that help sysadmins do their work such as create users, monitor the system etc. i was hopeing t

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Disabled > > no automatic restart on power failure > > You _should_ be able to change this. > > > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > > routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkill

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 10), Andrew Reilly said: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER > > > > It's even "easier" :-) > > I subscribe new

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER > > It's even "easier" :-) > I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as > maex-listn

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Disabled > > > no automatic restart on power failure > > > > You _should_ be able to change this. > > > > > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > > > routers or firewalls where an

help

1999-09-09 Thread Donna Kean
hi my names donna kean and i'm a 3rd year is student at the australian defence force academy.  i'm enrolled in a systems administration course and i have to write an assignment about freebsd gui tools that help sysadmins do their work such as create users, monitor the system etc. i was hope

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Disabled > > no automatic restart on power failure > > You _should_ be able to change this. > > > none of them is satisfactory especially for picoBSD things such as > > routers or firewalls where an UPS is overkil

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > > Other OSes started to avoid version bumps. Linux promises to not bump > > > the libc version since glibc2. > > > > Yes, we now have a multitude of patches floating around for all those > > glibc2 binaries that just won't work on glibc

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 10), Andrew Reilly said: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER > > > > It's even "easier" :-) > > I subscribe ne

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER > > It's even "easier" :-) > I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as > [EMAIL PR

Re: How to follow child process in gdb

1999-09-09 Thread Kip Macy
This appears to be an oversight on the developers of gdb's part, but direct from the info page: GDB has no special support for debugging programs which create additional processes using the `fork' function. When a program forks, GDB will continue to debug the parent process and the child proc

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > > > Other OSes started to avoid version bumps. Linux promises to not bump > > > the libc version since glibc2. > > > > Yes, we now have a multitude of patches floating around for all those > > glibc2 binaries that just won't work on glib

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa (fwd)

1999-09-09 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >> 3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :). > >On a different topic, does anyone know of a good X mailer >(currently I am using exmh) : > >1. user friendly >2. filtering capability >3. thread topic support > > >Kin

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > For what it's worth, I agree with Marcel. Version bumps should be > > discouraged, but not totally avoided. > > What is the reason to not avoid the version bump? Because if you don't have the latest/greatest library (old machines), newer programs that are compiled against the latest/greates

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
> For what it's worth, I agree with Marcel. Version bumps should be > discouraged, but not totally avoided. What is the reason to not avoid the version bump? > Carrying around old libraries > with older version numbers is *hardly* a burden for the users, and those > folks who are running old ve

Re: How to follow child process in gdb

1999-09-09 Thread Kip Macy
This appears to be an oversight on the developers of gdb's part, but direct from the info page: GDB has no special support for debugging programs which create additional processes using the `fork' function. When a program forks, GDB will continue to debug the parent process and the child pro

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Narvi wrote: > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody > in such a 'jar' would not notice (be able to notice) the existence of > others at all. > > With somedata hiding and given file systems mounted only in such a 'jar' > the ones in it woul

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > For what it's worth, I agree with Marcel. Version bumps should be > > discouraged, but not totally avoided. > > What is the reason to not avoid the version bump? Because if you don't have the latest/greatest library (old machines), newer programs that are compiled against the latest/greate

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa (fwd)

1999-09-09 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >> 3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :). > >On a different topic, does anyone know of a good X mailer >(currently I am using exmh) : > >1. user friendly >2. filtering capability >3. thread topic support > > >Ki

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > I think he wants something like an "inverted chroot" > (you can see out but others can't see in? > (into all facets, e.g. process stats, etc.) > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody in such a 'jar' would not notic

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
> For what it's worth, I agree with Marcel. Version bumps should be > discouraged, but not totally avoided. What is the reason to not avoid the version bump? > Carrying around old libraries > with older version numbers is *hardly* a burden for the users, and those > folks who are running old v

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) [990909 07:15]: >On 09-Sep-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: >> > I would not be able to see any other proccess which i am not the >> > owner, top would indicated, only 8 proccess, for this current scenario. >> > >> > Linux already have such a facility! > >Hack

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote: > I used to work somewhere where we didn't wany any of the users > to know anything about any other groups of users processes. > We did this by restricting ps to only show other procs that > had the same primary group as the person executing ps. > Root an

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > > Yes, we shouldn't version bump every time someone has a whim, ending > > > up with 10 version bumps/week, but neither should we avoid them > > > altogether and cause the Linux syndrome of programs refusing to work > > > because they have the *wrong* version of glibc2.3 (or whatever) > >

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:56:05 CST, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Yes, we shouldn't version bump every time someone has a whim, ending > > up with 10 version bumps/week, but neither should we avoid them > > altogether and cause the Linux syndrome of programs refusing to work >

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Narvi wrote: > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody > in such a 'jar' would not notice (be able to notice) the existence of > others at all. > > With somedata hiding and given file systems mounted only in such a 'jar' > the ones in it wou

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > I think he wants something like an "inverted chroot" > (you can see out but others can't see in? > (into all facets, e.g. process stats, etc.) > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody in such a 'jar' would not noti

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
> Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > Other OSes started to avoid version bumps. Linux promises to not bump > > the libc version since glibc2. > > Yes, we now have a multitude of patches floating around for all those > glibc2 binaries that just won't work on glibc2.1. Instead of a simple and > intuiti

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bio

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990909 07:15]: >On 09-Sep-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: >> > I would not be able to see any other proccess which i am not the >> > owner, top would indicated, only 8 proccess, for this current scenario. >> > >> > Linux already have such a facility! > >Hack ps

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Peter Wemm
Mike Smith wrote: > > > any idea on how to force ATX power supplies to restart after a power > > outage without having someone press the 'power' button on the front > > panel ? All the motherboards i can find now have their bios with two > > options: > > > > Disabled > > no automa

Re: More press

1999-09-09 Thread Bill Fumerola
[redirected to -advocacy where this belonged first off] On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > There is a short but sweet[1] article on ZDNet today regarding FreeBSD: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2324624,00.html > > Not too in-depth, but it gives

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote: > I used to work somewhere where we didn't wany any of the users > to know anything about any other groups of users processes. > We did this by restricting ps to only show other procs that > had the same primary group as the person executing ps. > Root a

More press

1999-09-09 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
There is a short but sweet[1] article on ZDNet today regarding FreeBSD: http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2324624,00.html Not too in-depth, but it gives a good quick overview, calling FreeBSD a true Unix, emphasizing it's history compared to Linux. - Chris D. Fa

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
> > > Yes, we shouldn't version bump every time someone has a whim, ending > > > up with 10 version bumps/week, but neither should we avoid them > > > altogether and cause the Linux syndrome of programs refusing to work > > > because they have the *wrong* version of glibc2.3 (or whatever) > >

Re: message queues for I/O (usenix paper)

1999-09-09 Thread Justin C. Walker
> From: Garance A Drosihn > Date: 1999-09-09 10:33:59 -0700 > To: jus...@apple.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: message queues for I/O (usenix paper) > In-reply-to: <199909090144.saa02...@rhapture.apple.com> > X-Sender: dro...@mail.rpi.edu > > At 6:44 PM -0700 9/8/99, Justin C. Walk

Re: 32+ signals and library versions

1999-09-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:56:05 CST, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Yes, we shouldn't version bump every time someone has a whim, ending > > up with 10 version bumps/week, but neither should we avoid them > > altogether and cause the Linux syndrome of programs refusing to work

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