SOFTUPDATES and fsck

1999-09-13 Thread Thomas Graichen
hello ... maybe this belongs more to fs than to hackers - but maybe this is the correct place here for it ... i've just read the soft updates paper from: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ at which the soft updates README's in the FreeBSD tree point and ran across the follow

aio_*

1999-09-13 Thread Jayson Nordwick
While reading through (at least trying to... I wish there was some sort of kernel documentation available, the entry fee is very high) the aio_* calls, I had a few questions to clear up my understanding: 1) Do they only work on files? The only implementation I see is in the VFS layer. 2) It

Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current]

1999-09-13 Thread Parag Patel
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:23:36 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: >> Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for >> line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic >> erase/kill line editing as it is.

Re: debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 20:00:02 +, greg wrote: > Hi, I want to see where some a deadlock is occurring in the kernel. I've got > a dump with a bunch of processes in the inode or namecache state. > > Can anybody give me a hint about how to find a proc's "kernel stack" - so that > I can

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:48:11PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > hello .. > > We're trying to turn up a firewall box running NAT with multiple external > IPs. I added the alias and set up natd.conf as follows: > > use_sockets yes > same_ports yes > # > # machine1 redirections > #redirect_port tcp

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:48:11PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > hello .. > > We're trying to turn up a firewall box running NAT with multiple external > IPs. I added the alias and set up natd.conf as follows: > > use_sockets yes > same_ports yes > # > # machine1 redirections > #redirect_port tcp

Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-13 Thread Doug White
hello .. We're trying to turn up a firewall box running NAT with multiple external IPs. I added the alias and set up natd.conf as follows: use_sockets yes same_ports yes # # machine1 redirections #redirect_port tcp 192.168.2.237:ssh 1.2.3.4:ssh #redirect_port tcp 192.168.2.237:smtp 1.2.3.4:smt

Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-13 Thread Doug White
hello .. We're trying to turn up a firewall box running NAT with multiple external IPs. I added the alias and set up natd.conf as follows: use_sockets yes same_ports yes # # machine1 redirections #redirect_port tcp 192.168.2.237:ssh 1.2.3.4:ssh #redirect_port tcp 192.168.2.237:smtp 1.2.3.4:smtp

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: !>< said: !> !>> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, !>> while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. !>> Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. !> !>It would be preferable

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: !>< said: !> !>> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, !>> while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. !>> Send mail to m...@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. !> !>It woul

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
!>I think that what needs to be done is to split the problem in two. First, !>allow the mbuf routines to return a failure even with M_WAIT. If M_WAIT !>is used, it simply means 'try harder, sleeping a bit if necessary'. This !>requires ensuring that all the networking code de

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
!>I think that what needs to be done is to split the problem in two. First, !>allow the mbuf routines to return a failure even with M_WAIT. If M_WAIT !>is used, it simply means 'try harder, sleeping a bit if necessary'. This !>requires ensuring that all the networking code dea

debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread greg
Hi, I want to see where some a deadlock is occurring in the kernel. I've got a dump with a bunch of processes in the inode or namecache state. Can anybody give me a hint about how to find a proc's "kernel stack" - so that I can find out what these kernel was doing for these processes when it l

debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread greg
Hi, I want to see where some a deadlock is occurring in the kernel. I've got a dump with a bunch of processes in the inode or namecache state. Can anybody give me a hint about how to find a proc's "kernel stack" - so that I can find out what these kernel was doing for these processes when it lo

RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> > Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > > > > An excellent initiative! > > > > I think there are many administrators/system managers out > > there with a huge stack of unused goods lying on the shelves to > > no use at all. Perhaps there should be a database where > > interested devicedriver programmers coul

NFS authentication

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org ---

RE: Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> > Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > > > > An excellent initiative! > > > > I think there are many administrators/system managers out > > there with a huge stack of unused goods lying on the shelves to > > no use at all. Perhaps there should be a database where > > interested devicedriver programmers could

NFS authentication

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org

Re: mounting a partition more than once

1999-09-13 Thread Tony Finch
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > :Well, in the absence of any comments I hacked around a bit and ended > :up with the following patch (against 3.3-RC), which permits the same > :block device to be mounted read-only more than once. The motivat

Re: mounting a partition more than once

1999-09-13 Thread Tony Finch
Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Tony Finch wrote: > : > :Well, in the absence of any comments I hacked around a bit and ended > :up with the following patch (against 3.3-RC), which permits the same > :block device to be mounted read-only more than once. The motivation > :for this is to permit multiple c

Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue Zhihui Zhang aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brian Mitchell (ISSATL) wrote: > > > syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. > > Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire > > a controlling terminal.

Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue Zhihui Zhang aka (zzh...@cs.binghamton.edu) said: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brian Mitchell (ISSATL) wrote: > > > syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. > > Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire > > a controlling ter

Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brian Mitchell (ISSATL) wrote: > syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. > Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire > a controlling terminal. > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > Can anyone

Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brian Mitchell (ISSATL) wrote: > syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. > Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire > a controlling terminal. > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > Can anyone t

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-13 Thread atrn
On 13 Sep, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > A staple bent properly and wedged in the crimp part of the pin between > the green wire to a black wire does the trick for me. When building a box of disks (no m/b) we used a paper clip. No m/b meant we could just short the pins and not worry about plugging it i

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-13 Thread atrn
On 13 Sep, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > A staple bent properly and wedged in the crimp part of the pin between > the green wire to a black wire does the trick for me. When building a box of disks (no m/b) we used a paper clip. No m/b meant we could just short the pins and not worry about plugging it in

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Just my 2 cents and a staple ... A staple bent properly and wedged in the crimp part of the pin between the green wire to a black wire does the trick for me. Now I turn that machine on via the power switch on the back of the power supply which ATX power supply people are now adding. I have a d

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Just my 2 cents and a staple ... A staple bent properly and wedged in the crimp part of the pin between the green wire to a black wire does the trick for me. Now I turn that machine on via the power switch on the back of the power supply which ATX power supply people are now adding. I have a de

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. It would be preferable if text were sent as text, since MIME-encoded patches requir

Re: mbuf shortage situations (followup)

1999-09-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > Send mail to m...@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. It would be preferable if text were sent as text, since MIME-encode

Re: more info Re: how did I manage this?

1999-09-13 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > >rm '$DEST_DIR' > rm: $DEST_DIR: is a directory > > >ls '$DEST_DIR' > $2 > rm doesn't work on directories.. go for $ rm -rf '$DEST_DIR' or $ rm '$DEST_DIR'/'$2' $ rmdir '$DEST_DIR' regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger

Re: more info Re: how did I manage this?

1999-09-13 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > >rm '$DEST_DIR' > rm: $DEST_DIR: is a directory > > >ls '$DEST_DIR' > $2 > rm doesn't work on directories.. go for $ rm -rf '$DEST_DIR' or $ rm '$DEST_DIR'/'$2' $ rmdir '$DEST_DIR' regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger o

Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Brian Mitchell (ISSATL)
syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire a controlling terminal. On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to let a daemon process print a message to the > console?

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Re: Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Brian Mitchell (ISSATL)
syslog() with the proper facility is probably the best way to do this. Another possibility is opening /dev/console, but I think that will aquire a controlling terminal. On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to let a daemon process print a message to the > console?

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Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me how to let a daemon process print a message to the console? Adding printf() does not work (I wonder if a daemon process has been cut of relationship with stdout). Thanks for any help. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.f

Let a daemon process print a message

1999-09-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me how to let a daemon process print a message to the console? Adding printf() does not work (I wonder if a daemon process has been cut of relationship with stdout). Thanks for any help. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.fr

softupdates panic in 3.3-RC

1999-09-13 Thread David E. Cross
Our ftp server crashed early this morning with what appears to be a softupdates error: > Sep 13 09:56:19 stumble /kernel: pid 41477 (perl), uid 0 on /exports/share3/ftp/.2: >file system full > > panic: softdep_write_inodeblock: indirect pointer #0 mismatch 0 != 15597568 > syncing disks... panic

softupdates panic in 3.3-RC

1999-09-13 Thread David E. Cross
Our ftp server crashed early this morning with what appears to be a softupdates error: > Sep 13 09:56:19 stumble /kernel: pid 41477 (perl), uid 0 on > /exports/share3/ftp/.2: file system full > > panic: softdep_write_inodeblock: indirect pointer #0 mismatch 0 != 15597568 > syncing disks... panic

Re: mounting a partition more than once

1999-09-13 Thread Tony Finch
Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a reason for disallowing concurrent read-only mounts of the >same disk device? i.e. would things go pear-shaped if I added this >capability? Well, in the absence of any comments I hacked around a bit and ended up with the following patch (against

Re: mounting a partition more than once

1999-09-13 Thread Tony Finch
Tony Finch wrote: > >Is there a reason for disallowing concurrent read-only mounts of the >same disk device? i.e. would things go pear-shaped if I added this >capability? Well, in the absence of any comments I hacked around a bit and ended up with the following patch (against 3.3-RC), which perm

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-13 Thread Matthew Jacob
> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > > command-line

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-13 Thread Matthew Jacob
> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > > command-line a

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > If you haven't already, I've just about finished a port > for this (it is > > pretty nifty). The only problem I have currently is that I > have to fetch 2 > > files for the port (the file listed above, as well as > > http://

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > If you haven't already, I've just about finished a port > for this (it is > > pretty nifty). The only problem I have currently is that I > have to fetch 2 > > files for the port (the file listed above, as well as > > http://h

device driver interface

1999-09-13 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I am trying to understand how to integrate device drivers with the kernel. (this is my first crack at device drivers) I have a few books on device drivers but they are a little old and have a slightly different interface with the kernel than FreeBSD. I figured the best place to start would be to

device driver interface

1999-09-13 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I am trying to understand how to integrate device drivers with the kernel. (this is my first crack at device drivers) I have a few books on device drivers but they are a little old and have a slightly different interface with the kernel than FreeBSD. I figured the best place to start would be to t

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > You probably already have it, as > /usr/src/contrib/global/gozilla/remote.c Blimey! -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > You probably already have it, as > /usr/src/contrib/global/gozilla/remote.c Blimey! -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it d

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> -Original Message- > From: Josef Karthauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 10:57 AM > To: Kelly Yancey > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More Press > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > If y

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Duane H. Hesser
On 13-Sep-99 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:45:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: >> > >> > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c >> >> The page you at

Re: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > If you haven't already, I've just about finished a port for this (it is > pretty nifty). The only problem I have currently is that I have to fetch 2 > files for the port (the file listed above, as well as > http://home.netscape.c

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> -Original Message- > From: Josef Karthauser [mailto:j...@pavilion.net] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 10:57 AM > To: Kelly Yancey > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org; dom.mitch...@palmerharvey.co.uk > Subject: Re: More Press > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote:

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hay, thaaank you! I really glad to receive your message! It will really shelp. Again, thanks a lot! Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Gustavo V G C Rios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990910 04:14]: > >I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious > >at k

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Duane H. Hesser
On 13-Sep-99 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:45:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Dominic Mitchell writes: >> > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: >> > >> > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c >> >> The page you attempted to access wa

Re: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:48:07AM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > If you haven't already, I've just about finished a port for this (it is > pretty nifty). The only problem I have currently is that I have to fetch 2 > files for the port (the file listed above, as well as > http://home.netscape.co

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hay, thaaank you! I really glad to receive your message! It will really shelp. Again, thanks a lot! Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Gustavo V G C Rios (gr...@ddsecurity.com.br) [990910 04:14]: > >I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious >

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:31:51 +0100 > From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: More press > > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Dirk GOUDERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > > >

RE: More Press

1999-09-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:31:51 +0100 > From: Dominic Mitchell > Subject: Re: More press > > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Dirk GOUDERS writes: > > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers

Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: > > On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. > The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or > some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, > often de0 is dead. > > This happend today

Re: L440GX+ Server Board

1999-09-13 Thread Pedro A M Vazquez
|o|... Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:16:30AM -0300, Luiz Morte da Costa Junior ...|o| wrote: > > Hi list, > > I can't solve the problem yet. > > When I runnig the dmesg command, I have: > > --- > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers

Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: > > On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. > The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or > some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, > often de0 is dead. > > This happend today

Re: L440GX+ Server Board

1999-09-13 Thread Pedro A M Vazquez
|o|... Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:16:30AM -0300, Luiz Morte da Costa Junior ...|o| wrote: > > Hi list, > > I can't solve the problem yet. > > When I runnig the dmesg command, I have: > > --- > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers

L440GX+ Server Board

1999-09-13 Thread Luiz Morte da Costa Junior
Hi list, I can't solve the problem yet. When I runnig the dmesg command, I have: --- da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 110

L440GX+ Server Board

1999-09-13 Thread Luiz Morte da Costa Junior
Hi list, I can't solve the problem yet. When I runnig the dmesg command, I have: --- da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
[I'm catching up on a bunch of FreeBSD mail since being out on vacation, so perhaps I've missed the essence of this thread..] I've also had the desire to capture the output produced when /etc/rc is run for all the reasons mentioned. I always thought that perhaps init would simply capture stdou

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
[I'm catching up on a bunch of FreeBSD mail since being out on vacation, so perhaps I've missed the essence of this thread..] I've also had the desire to capture the output produced when /etc/rc is run for all the reasons mentioned. I always thought that perhaps init would simply capture stdout

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > > that copies all it's output into the me

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > It dawned on me what can be done. Look, we get all the kernel printf's > > from the dmesg output saved in a buffer and pull that out later with > > syslog, looks like we could just slip a pipe fitting into /dev/console > > that copies all it's output into the mes

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:45:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: > > > > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c > > The page you attempted to access was not found on Netscap

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:45:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dominic Mitchell writes: > > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: > > > > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c > > The page you attempted to access was not found on Netscape's web site. > You

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Problem with FreeBSD

1999-09-13 Thread Tolyar
Hello All. I try install FreeBSD on HP Vectra VA/200DT - Pentium Pro/128Mb-RAM/ Quantum Fireball CR 4.3Gb/CirrusLogic5446PCI PCI/NE2000. When I try install FreeBSD (I'm tried 3.2-release/3.3-19990909-rc/snapshot-4.0-19990827-current) i have some trouble. On second floppy (mfsroot.flp) before ke

Problem with FreeBSD

1999-09-13 Thread Tolyar
Hello All. I try install FreeBSD on HP Vectra VA/200DT - Pentium Pro/128Mb-RAM/ Quantum Fireball CR 4.3Gb/CirrusLogic5446PCI PCI/NE2000. When I try install FreeBSD (I'm tried 3.2-release/3.3-19990909-rc/snapshot-4.0-19990827-current) i have some trouble. On second floppy (mfsroot.flp) before ker

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: > > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c The page you attempted to access was not found on Netscape's web site. You may have typed its location incorrectly, or it may have been mo

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dominic Mitchell writes: > If you follow the link from "netscape -help", you end up at: > > http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c The page you attempted to access was not found on Netscape's web site. You may have typed its location incorrectly, or it may have been moved, deleted, or inc

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dirk GOUDERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242c00.html > > > > of it... > > Netscape uses c

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:22:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dirk GOUDERS writes: > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242c00.html > > > > of it... > > Netscape uses commans to separate p

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dirk Gouders
> Dirk GOUDERS writes: > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242 c00.html > > > > of it... > > Netscape uses commans to separate parameters to the OpenURL command. > Fortunately, the API i

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dirk Gouders
> Dirk GOUDERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, sorry -- my "browse-url-at-mouse" function made > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/02c36562c23246242 c00.html > > > > of it... > > Netscape uses commans to separate parameters to the OpenURL command. > Fo

de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Christoph Kukulies
On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, often de0 is dead. This happend today again. When I came into the office I cou

de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Christoph Kukulies
On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, often de0 is dead. This happend today again. When I came into the office I coul

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No. The scrollback may be too short (especially after an fsck of a > > large filesystem after a crash), and it may even be empty (if you put > > something like VESA_132x60 in allscreens_flags in rc.conf) > We can tune the size of the scroll back b

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > > No. The scrollback may be too short (especially after an fsck of a > > large filesystem after a crash), and it may even be empty (if you put > > something like VESA_132x60 in allscreens_flags in rc.conf) > We can tune the size of the scroll back buffer can't we? Yes

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > command-line app to get l

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > command-line app to get li

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Gustavo V G C Rios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990910 04:14]: >I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious >at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Start with: Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD by Mar

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nate Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990910 07:14]: >In any case, if you install a recent version of FreeBSD, I doubt Mr. NT >is capable of crashing FreeBSD from externally. Just make sure he >doesn't have an account on it, since it's much easier to cause Denial Of >Service attacks if you don't s

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nate Williams (n...@mt.sri.com) [990910 07:14]: >In any case, if you install a recent version of FreeBSD, I doubt Mr. NT >is capable of crashing FreeBSD from externally. Just make sure he >doesn't have an account on it, since it's much easier to cause Denial Of >Service attacks if you don't spen

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Gustavo V G C Rios (gr...@ddsecurity.com.br) [990910 04:14]: >I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious >at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Start with: Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD b