Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Wes Peters
Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > This is a SysV-ish way to get info about mounted filesystems, so the > > glibc manpage is completely stoned (imagine that). I know this existed > > in SVR2, at least. > > I did some more investigating. A si

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
> > > Why not just use cvsup? It is already installed and running on internat > > and the firewall is already configured to allow it through. > > The question was about mirroring the FTP site, i.e. all of the binary > packages and stuff which are also there. > I understood it is for the ftp ar

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The syptoms are that the machine locks up. Hard. But there's a catch: > > Erm, Brian, You *know* nobody can debug a problem like this without > hard information. It's like calling a mechanic on the phone and > saying "My car won't go. It just

Re: Proper voltages for K6-2 500MHz unit?

2000-04-10 Thread Greg Skafte
the one I just got was a 2.2V. if your cpu doesn't have a heatsink glued onto it, it's labeled on the top of the cpu. Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth wrote: > > The technical doco that I have from AMD's website only covers CPUs up to > 475MHz, and they're at 2.4V. Would it be sa

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Mark Newton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:39:28PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > The new drive was mounted faithfully by the old fstab. Yet I now see > "Stale NFS Handle"s on my clients. What did I do wrong? restore(8) doesn't preserve inode allocations: A level zero dump must be done after a full r

Proper voltages for K6-2 500MHz unit?

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS SPS Perth
The technical doco that I have from AMD's website only covers CPUs up to 475MHz, and they're at 2.4V. Would it be safe to assume that the 500MHz units are the same? I know that the 400MHz units were at 2.2V (some at 4x100, mine at 6x66). I take it that they'll be at 5x100MHz FSB, some 400MHz p

Re: dutch keyboard map (+sort note)

2000-04-10 Thread W.H.Scholten
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Ollivier Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As there isnt a dutch keymap for syscons, > > > ^ > > > That's an acute accent (the same diacritic as in ''), not an > > > apostrophe. > > > > In 8859-1 yes but not in 8859-15 (aka Latin9)... > >

Re: NFS Panic Problem

2000-04-10 Thread Douglas Swarin
I finally managed to obtain a crash dump of the problem quoted at the end of this message. Strangely enough, it was crashing daily until the debug code went in, at which point it stopped crashing. Just today, though, we had the same panic. The machine is running -STABLE as of Mar 16 2000. Here's w

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread David E. Cross
D'oh. My bad. I think I am remembering this behaviour from SunOS days past. Oh Well. -- David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab Director | Rm: 308 Lally Hall Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread Mark Murray
> Why not just use cvsup? It is already installed and running on internat > and the firewall is already configured to allow it through. CVSUP only covers that which is already in CVS. The FTP stuff is what this chap is looking for. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.o

Help with network driver development

2000-04-10 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi all I've successfully ported the NetBSD if_ray (Webgear PCCard Wireless LAN) driver to RELENG_3 but have realised that the driver has a bit of a problem and I would like some advice on the best way to fix it. The card doesn't present a register set but uses a mailbox type system to set up mos

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Halstead writes: : I was trying to install gnome from ports cvsup'd today and i kept getting : stuck when building guile. cc never crashed however it seemed to be stuck in : an infinite loop(i stopped it after about 2 hours). when i remove "-O -pipe" : from th

problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-10 Thread James Halstead
I was trying to install gnome from ports cvsup'd today and i kept getting stuck when building guile. cc never crashed however it seemed to be stuck in an infinite loop(i stopped it after about 2 hours). when i remove "-O -pipe" from the qt makefile it seems to compile fine. is this a compilier p

RE: How hard would it be...

2000-04-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Apr-00 Warner Losh wrote: > ... to get FreeBSD to boot off a BSD partition that wasn't labeled as > 0xa5? I'm looking for a way to create a disk that a certain picky > BIOS will like and boot off of, and I think I have to create it with a > certain ID and then it will be happy. I suspect

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David E. Cross" writes: : :>I then used dump/restore to ensure that the :>inode numbers would remain the same. : :I don't think restore can preserve inode numbers. : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP si

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I was previously under the impression that a NFS FH was basically a :concatenation of a device # and an inode #. This was shot down earlier today. :The problem was that a disk had failed and we where doing a replacement (the :new disk was not identical to the old, it was substantially larger).

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > This is a SysV-ish way to get info about mounted filesystems, so the > glibc manpage is completely stoned (imagine that). I know this existed > in SVR2, at least. I did some more investigating. A similarly named, but almost entierly

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Hay wrote: > Why not just use cvsup? It is already installed and running on internat > and the firewall is already configured to allow it through. The question was about mirroring the FTP site, i.e. all of the binary packages and stuff which are also there. Kris

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David E. Cross" writes: >I then used dump/restore to ensure that the >inode numbers would remain the same. I don't think restore can preserve inode numbers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 95

NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread David E. Cross
I was previously under the impression that a NFS FH was basically a concatenation of a device # and an inode #. This was shot down earlier today. The problem was that a disk had failed and we where doing a replacement (the new disk was not identical to the old, it was substantially larger). I pr

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > You really need a linux box to read manpages and browse headers on if > you're going to be porting software. The glibc manpages claim it's a > 4.3BSD features, but it's not mentioned in the 4.3 manpages on the > FreeBSD site. It looks to me like the cl

Re: dutch keyboard map (+sort note)

2000-04-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Ollivier Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As there isn´t a dutch keymap for syscons, > > ^ > > That's an acute accent (the same diacritic as in 'é'), not an > > apostrophe. > > In 8859-1 yes but not in 8859-15 (aka Latin9)... Well, the original message was in Latin 1. You r

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Wes Peters
Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > I'm trying to port quicktime for Linux to FreeBSD (xmovie). > > I'm stumbling across the following code fragment: > > > > #include ! > > #include > > #include > [snip] > > > > is mntent a

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
> > > > I could do this. What arre the setup concerns? > > > nearly none, it runs chrooted... > > cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install clean > man rsync > man rsyncd.conf > > easy going... > Why not just use cvsup? It is already installed and running on internat and the firewall is alread

Re: Sample newbus driver: LED driver for I-Opener

2000-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : The leds on the iopener are controlled by two leds, according to bits in a gpio port. : publicly available information. This is a simple driver. If you read : from it, it gives you back one

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I'm trying to port quicktime for Linux to FreeBSD (xmovie). > I'm stumbling across the following code fragment: > > #include ! > #include > #include [snip] > > is mntent a linux speciality? You really need a linu

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> The syptoms are that the machine locks up. Hard. But there's a catch: Erm, Brian, You *know* nobody can debug a problem like this without hard information. It's like calling a mechanic on the phone and saying "My car won't go. It just doesn't move at all! Tell me what's wrong!" Compile in

Fatal trap 12 in arpintr in FreeBSD 4.0-Release

2000-04-10 Thread Gary T. Corcoran
As I mentioned the other day, after installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release I started getting random spontaneous reboots while in X (after running FreeBSD 3.4-Release for 2 months without any problems). Now that I've started debugging my driver, I enabled DDB, and now instead of rebooting I'm crashing int

Re: How hard would it be...

2000-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : So all they did to make them "tamper resistant" was to update the BIOS : to only boot QNX partitions? What a lovely little batch of STO. That's conjecture. I think they have done other things as well. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: How hard would it be...

2000-04-10 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Koster, >K.J." writes: > : Umm. Wasn't there something about NetBSD running diskless on that thing? > : Slashdot, if I remember will. > > Yes. There was. However, there is a rumor going around that the > proceedure will produce an unboota

proxy arp

2000-04-10 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Does Proxy Arp work only for sppp/slip or is it a kernel feature that works generally. I have a FDDI router (DEFPA on the uplink side, fxp0 100 MBit downlink). To avoid another network number on the downlink side I would like to do something that is known as proxy arp in sppp situations where th

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mark Murray([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:19:57PM +0200: > > I could do this. What arre the setup concerns? > nearly none, it runs chrooted... cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install clean man rsync man rsyncd.conf easy going... /k > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM mov

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > This can happen when the kernel is stuck in an infinite loop > somewhere, you're still responding to interrupts, just stuck > somewhere. > > FYI: > ~ % uname -a > FreeBSD thumper 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Apr 2 16:29:20 PDT 2000 >

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > All of those are proven to be stable, work on any UNIX (not just > FreeBSD/pentium) and there's a whole lot of books and howto's: "System > Performance Tuning", for example. Can you lead us to any of this HOWTO's? Tnx. Cheers, /* Alexey N. Doku

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-10 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > Since the move to /etc/defaults/rc.conf, one of the consistent examples > of foot-shooting is the user blindly copying that file to /etc/rc.conf > without reading the warning at the end not to do this, or at least to > delete the bit at the end that

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Kennaway) writes: > > > Can you say "gimmick"? :-) gcc often produces demonstrably broken code for > > optimisation levels higher than -O. > > That -O is safe seems to be a persistent myth. GCC also produces > broke

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > Can you lead us to any of this HOWTO's? Tnx. > Well, many good sys admin books exist, I already mentioned "System Performance Tuning", it's one of the Nutshell handbooks. I don't know the author off the top of my head. The mailing list achives will give you plenty of tips and tricks, althou

Re: Determining traffic on a socket

2000-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000410 03:15] wrote: > Hi all > > I doubt that this can be done, but it would solve me a lot of headaches > if it can! > > I would like to know if there is a way I can, given a file descriptor > (which will be a TCP socket), determine how many bytes have bee

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > CFLAGS= -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -pipe -s > -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math > > > > COPTFLAGS= -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -pipe -s > -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math > > > I'll bet you can beat all of those with regular system management optimizations. Killin

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Hi .. > > I agree that optimizations are most of the time "futile" :) .. so is > resistance :) ... ina ny case .. I like to live on the edge .. that is > why I'm running 5.0-current .. and I've compiled the following things > with optimization

Determining traffic on a socket

2000-04-10 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I doubt that this can be done, but it would solve me a lot of headaches if it can! I would like to know if there is a way I can, given a file descriptor (which will be a TCP socket), determine how many bytes have been sent and received through that socket since it was opened. Obviously on

fddi resolve multi

2000-04-10 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I built a kernel with device fpa0 pseudo-device fddi and while compiling the kernel I got a warning: #warning: implement fddi resolve multi... What does it mean? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Somers
> Well, it seems that -CURRENT likes locking up nowdays. It started happening > very recently, and I (as well as jlemon) do suspect that it's a problem > with some of the changes that were made to the syscall mechanisms on > 3/28/2000. > > Keep in mind that this problem is completely corroborate

Sample newbus driver: LED driver for I-Opener

2000-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
Here's a simple LED driver for the iopener. I did this as a thought excersize since I don't have one running FreeBSD right now. I've loaded/unloaded the driver and that's the extent of my testing. The leds on the iopener are controlled by two leds, according to publicly available information.

Re: How hard would it be...

2000-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Koster, K.J." writes: : Umm. Wasn't there something about NetBSD running diskless on that thing? : Slashdot, if I remember will. Yes. There was. However, there is a rumor going around that the proceedure will produce an unbootable system on newer, tamper resista

RE: How hard would it be...

2000-04-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
Umm. Wasn't there something about NetBSD running diskless on that thing? Slashdot, if I remember will. Kees Jan == You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: efficiency of maxproc hardlimit

2000-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bjoern Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000410 01:15] wrote: > Hello, > > up till now I was convinced that a proper /etc/login.conf > provides enough protection against silly dos efforts like > fork bombs. > > Well, while a hard maxproc of 64 protects very well against > > echo '#!/bin/sh > a

efficiency of maxproc hardlimit

2000-04-10 Thread Bjoern Fischer
Hello, up till now I was convinced that a proper /etc/login.conf provides enough protection against silly dos efforts like fork bombs. Well, while a hard maxproc of 64 protects very well against echo '#!/bin/sh a & a &' > a; chmod 755 a; ./a but it fails to prevent that this main(){fo

Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-10 Thread Doug Barton
Since the move to /etc/defaults/rc.conf, one of the consistent examples of foot-shooting is the user blindly copying that file to /etc/rc.conf without reading the warning at the end not to do this, or at least to delete the bit at the end that does the recursive sourcing of /etc/rc.conf an