Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> But will not work on STABLE or RELEASE because intpm(4) is not merged. >> I port it to 3.2-STABLE , and I send it for Nicolas,the GURU of IICBus/SMbus >. Not perfectly yet. I only pointed out the bug that was containd in the patch he s

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Elischer writes: >I read it as her talking about chroot in general. We do. See source. :-) > >On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian >> Elischer writes: >> >> >You have to examine ALL fd's in case one h

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I read it as her talking about chroot in general. On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian > Elischer writes: > > >You have to examine ALL fd's in case one has a directory open that is > >outside the chroot.. > >(see man fchdir(2)) > > We do. See

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread sthaug
> >However, the problem is, it only works with 3.0-current from > >around January. It doesn't work with any recent -stable or > >-current. I suspected it was because of newbus, so I tried > >to port it, but without success. :-( > > It *does* work on recent CURRENT.You need not to patch for CUR

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Someone has a method of monitoring temperatures via a probe at a > > reasonable cost and inputting it to the computer but I don't remember > > where I saw it. > >Not necessary. The mainboards of the ASUS P2B series have >everything onbo

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jim Flowers wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > MRTG is capable of graphing anything that can be expressed as a number. > For an example look at the contributed example that graphs estimated > bandwidth. I modified this to run with nttcp and use it to track the > capability of all my circuit

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Elischer writes: >You have to examine ALL fd's in case one has a directory open that is >outside the chroot.. >(see man fchdir(2)) We do. See source. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers r

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Jim Flowers
MRTG is capable of graphing anything that can be expressed as a number. For an example look at the contributed example that graphs estimated bandwidth. I modified this to run with nttcp and use it to track the capability of all my circuits. Someone has a method of monitoring temperatures via

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Does anybody have any tips for using the above combination for graphing temperatures? | | Leif As far as I know, MRTG is only able to fetch data from SNMP MIBs. Which, in order to get the information you're looking for, two things have to happen. You need to first have the kernel fetch that

Re: XFCom_SiS for Xfree86

1999-09-26 Thread Richard Puga
thank you for your reply. I am running FreeBSD 3.3-Release which I installed Xfree86 3.3.5 I have played around with all the settings such as turning off Accelorated graphics and such and I stll get the problem.. which btw is; the windows seem to draw ok as well as the text in the title bars b

Re: XFCom_SiS for Xfree86

1999-09-26 Thread Francis Jordan
Richard Puga wrote: > Xfree86/Linux emulation question. > > I have a SIS 6326 AGP based motherboard and undstand that it is > supported by XFCom_SiS located at > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xsis/glibc2/xsis.tgz > > Has anyone gotten this to work under FreeBSD? No, an

Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R

1999-09-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :> What it all comes down to is a juxtaposition of what people believe :> is appropriate verses what people are actually willing to code up. :> I'm willing to code up my importance mechanism idea. The question is :> whether it's a good enough idea to

Re: [Fwd: Bsd Problem]

1999-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
> > I was wondering if I could get help. Doug Madderom is a developer at > AGCS and has asked me to forward this to the FreeBSD newsgroup. Any > help is appreciated. Thanks. Commentary follows: > I wrote a character device driver using ioct as the method to pass data in a > structure to and

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
> I've pored over -question, to no avail, so here goes. > > We are trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge > 6300. > > Said beast has a DPT SmartRAID IV controller, and 2G of memory. > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > When we try an ins

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:52:36AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > While we're talking about making package handling easier for > newbies, I'd like to present two simple shell scripts that I > wrote quite some time ago. Yeah, I know I could send-pr this, > but I'm not sure if they're really worth i

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
You have to examine ALL fd's in case one has a directory open that is outside the chroot.. (see man fchdir(2)) julian On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Carol Deihl wrote: > Alexander Bezroutchko wrote: > > it is possible to escape from jail > > Following program escapes from jail (tested under 4.0-1999091

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread TrouBle
I actually currently use -SNIP - EDITED FOR SECURITY - syslog (LOG_NOTICE,"Changing directory/root to %s",path if (chdir (path) || chroot (path)) return 1; }else{ syslog (LOG_NOTICE,"No ("EDITED FOR SECURITY" ) dire

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread TrouBle
Umm I think you have gotten this backwards, it is more secure to chdir first then chroot I think you have this backwards. in my virtual environment i chdir working dir, then chroot... ive not been able to escape my chrooted jail setup yet. nor have i seen any code that will > >

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread TrouBle
Ummm sorry but i think you have goten this backwards it is more secure to chdir, then chrrot, not chroot then chdir I believe what you have here is backwards > > As we all know, the chroot can be escaped because the sample > program doesn't change the current working directory, and it's > s

chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Carol Deihl
Alexander Bezroutchko wrote: > it is possible to escape from jail > Following program escapes from jail (tested under 4.0-19990918-CURRENT): [snip program code that chroot's but doesn't then chdir inside the new area] As we all know, the chroot can be escaped because the sample program doesn't

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Specifically, what 'tips' are you looking for? -marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x11 fax: 416.979.8223 ce

mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Leif Neland
Does anybody have any tips for using the above combination for graphing temperatures? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

XFCom_SiS for Xfree86

1999-09-26 Thread Richard Puga
Xfree86/Linux emulation question. I have a SIS 6326 AGP based motherboard and undstand that it is supported by XFCom_SiS located at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xsis/glibc2/xsis.tgz Has anyone gotten this to work under FreeBSD? Thanks in advance Richard Puga [EMAIL PRO

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Doug
Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > At 26/09/99, you wrote: > >The second script is called "pkg_rm"; it can be used to delete > >packages like pkg_delete, but you can use arguments in the same > >way as for pkg_ls above (i.e. "pkg_rm lynx"). Think of it like > >pkg_info | grep | pkg_delete. > > > >

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Rajappa Iyer
Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rajappa Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1. It does a terrible job at tracking dependencies, IMHO. If you > > install packages A, B and C at the same time and A depends on C, > > it's not smart enough to install C first. pkg_order | tsort should >

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version > > that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands > > you should run to update any out of date

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Christian Carstensen
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version > that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands > you should run to update any out of date ports. I cron this and mail > the output out once a week. Nick, in deed,

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:05:20AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > What about to extend the pkg_delete to use a syntax like : > > pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/netscape-communicator-4.61/ > > it can help so much everyone that can automagically complete file/path > names with the shell :-) If yo

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Kris Kirby
Wes Peters wrote: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > > Boy, we're having fun asking you to rewrite your program. It's good training > > > for you, though, this is what it's like to be a programmer in "The Real > > > World". ;^) > > > > You bet! And we haven't even gotten to the topic of th

Re: Corrupt File System

1999-09-26 Thread Kris Kirby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to mount /dev/vn0 Produces a file /mnt (not a directory) I do believe you want the directory to exist before you attempt to mount to it. (mkdir /mnt) -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Un

FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3)

1999-09-26 Thread Jaakko Salomaa
Hey, how am I supposed to fetch directory listing with ftpio(3) or fecth(3)? ftpio doesn't seem to contain necessary functions for it, and fetch's ones aren't implemented. % ./test test: fetchListFTP(): not implemented And all other listing functions seem to be front-ends for this one. They seem

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Jos Backus
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:05:20AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > What about to extend the pkg_delete to use a syntax like : > > pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/netscape-communicator-4.61/ > > it can help so much everyone that can automagically complete file/path > names with the shell :-) zsh u

Re: about jail

1999-09-26 Thread Alexander Bezroutchko
> And your point is? Do the base system or another jail show qwerty too? I think we are talking about slightly different things. I know that jailed process can not change base system's hostname. But it can change it's own. Sometimes it is necessary to obtain the list of processes which belongs to

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Dan Moschuk
| If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version | that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands | you should run to update any out of date ports. I cron this and mail | the output out once a week. | | You could have it automatically create and execute a

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > That's because you are not a loser. Losers want plug-and-play. This > pkg_get is plug and play, pkg_add isn't. It doesn't, for instance, > automatically retrives a list of the packages available fromt he net > and show them to you. I meant luser, of course. With thi

Re: about jail

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alexander Bezroutchko wrote: > > > > And > > > /proc//status must show this value. > > > > It already does. > > ... > vm1# cat /proc/$$/status > zsh 480 479 479 440 5,2 ctty 938282449,544330 0,55195 0,55194 pause 0 0 >0,0,0,2,3,4,5,20,31 vm1 >

Re: Corrupt File System

1999-09-26 Thread andrew
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Jan Pechanec wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Isn't you partition table corrupted? That may well be...I'm not really sure...the data is still there as I can dd parts of the disk to a file then use beav to view it...I can read ascii text but

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: >And, oh while you are at it, why not create a CAM SIM that makes IDE >available through CAM. That would save me a lot of work :-) Its not on my current TODO list, I want all the lowlevel things done first. If somebody writes the support I'll consider putting it in, b

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:11:32AM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote: > On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > >Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane > > for about two weeks. > > > >Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially > > for those

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-26 Thread Nick Hibma
And, oh while you are at it, why not create a CAM SIM that makes IDE available through CAM. That would save me a lot of work :-) Nick On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Christopher Masto wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > Anyhow, I

Re: Corrupt File System

1999-09-26 Thread Jan Pechanec
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't you partition table corrupted? What does it mean ``No bootmanager sees it''? If BootEasy doesn't display FBSD partition in its menu, the partition table in MBR is bad. If BootEasy can see it, but refuses to load the system, the problem is

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Erm, I must admit, I've never actually tried it or Debian Linux. It merely seemed reasonable humor-fodder. :) - Jordan > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:54:32PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and > > > some enviromental variables

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Christopher Masto wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with > > to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats > > thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will prob