Re: Corrupted disk label and related issues (fwd)

2000-04-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "J.D. Falk" writes: : I sent this to freebsd-questions yesterday, and didn't get any : responses...looks like Andrew had a similar situation about a : month ago, and found a solution which I'm trying to adapt to : my own problem. Thing is, I

Corrupted disk label and related issues (fwd)

2000-04-19 Thread J.D. Falk
I sent this to freebsd-questions yesterday, and didn't get any responses...looks like Andrew had a similar situation about a month ago, and found a solution which I'm trying to adapt to my own problem. Thing is, I can't even get to the individual partitions

FTP_PASSIVE_MODE and libftpio

2000-04-19 Thread Eric D. Futch
In reference to a problem someone reported on the freebsd-mobile mailing list, I took a look at the handling of the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable in libftpio. What I found was that it would use passive ftp based on if the environment variable was set or not and didn't acutally check it's

Re: sigjmp_buf question

2000-04-19 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:39:44PM -0500, Steve Price wrote: > Where does one look in the source for the definition of what > each of the ints in sigjmp_buf._sjb (or jmp_buf._jb for that > matter) contain? The only occurrences of it (according to > grep(1)) are in the header file machine/setjmp.h

sigjmp_buf question

2000-04-19 Thread Steve Price
Where does one look in the source for the definition of what each of the ints in sigjmp_buf._sjb (or jmp_buf._jb for that matter) contain? The only occurrences of it (according to grep(1)) are in the header file machine/setjmp.h. I also looked into src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c and didn't see anyt

cscope open-sourced!

2000-04-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
FYI, For those who haven't heard, cscope has been open-sourced by SCO (under a BSD-style license, no less)! See: http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ I've got patches for FreeBSD, as well as a couple bugfixes, in case anyone wants to turn this into a port (I don't have the time, sorry).

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #814

2000-04-19 Thread Boaz Klappholz
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video on its side

2000-04-19 Thread Russ Pagenkopf
Hiya all, Let's see, how do I frame this question? Well, let me tell you what I'd like to do and maybe folks could gently push me in the right direction. :) I want to take a monitor running at 640x480 and physically turn it on its side (yes, I *can* do this :) and then I want to display the text

Re: Questions of the syncer process

2000-04-19 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :I have two questions related to the syncer process that replaces the old > :update process: > : > :(1) The syncer process is waken up once a second (it sleeps on lbolt). If > :I have more than 30 mounted filesystems, then each filesystem's dirty

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Mon 2000-04-10 (00:10), Doug Barton wrote: > > +if [ -z "${sourcercs_defined}" ]; then > > +sourcercs_defined=yes > > +sourcercs ( ) { > > +local sourced_files > > +for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do >

Re: Questions of the syncer process

2000-04-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :I have two questions related to the syncer process that replaces the old :update process: : :(1) The syncer process is waken up once a second (it sleeps on lbolt). If :I have more than 30 mounted filesystems, then each filesystem's dirty data :will stay more than 30 seconds. If I only have a c

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-19 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I have another idea: We make a sh script named "rcsource" or whatever, > which we source when we want to have the rc environment, [snip] > One possible extension may be a specifier of a preprocessor for a file: > > preprocessor__etc_defaults_rc.c

Questions of the syncer process

2000-04-19 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have two questions related to the syncer process that replaces the old update process: (1) The syncer process is waken up once a second (it sleeps on lbolt). If I have more than 30 mounted filesystems, then each filesystem's dirty data will stay more than 30 seconds. If I only have a couple o

Re: NFS attribute cache & profiling sysctl variables

2000-04-19 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > I have two unrelated questions I can not figure out myself: > > > (2) I am trying to display kernel profiling sysctl variables with sysctl > > -a or sysctl -A without success. They are defined i

Re: Safe sourcing of rc files

2000-04-19 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Mon 2000-04-10 (00:10), Doug Barton wrote: > +if [ -z "${sourcercs_defined}" ]; then > +sourcercs_defined=yes > +sourcercs ( ) { > +local sourced_files > +for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do > +case "${sourced_files}" in > +