Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages > from pwd_mkdb: > > "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters > chpass: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: 14 > recommended max uid value (65535) > chpass: done > > I know the many UNIXes still have a cap

Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Yann Ramin
Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages from pwd_mkdb: "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters chpass: updating the database... pwd_mkdb: 14 > recommended max uid value (65535) chpass: done I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linu

Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > > I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs (unsigned > long) on a FreeBSD system? What would this require changing? From what I > can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile everything, you should > be ok. Am I missing anything here? How about t

Re: IOCTL to the character driver is failing

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> [moved to -hackers; this is an in-depth technical question] > > On Friday, 9 June 2000 at 0:28:04 -0700, NandaKumar P.K. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am in the process of debugging my character driver > > interface to the RAID controller card. Lots of my > > IOCTLs i sent from the user code works

Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Yann Ramin
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs (unsigned long) on a FreeBSD system? What would this require changing? From what I can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile everything, you should be ok. Am I missing anything here? Yann To Unsubscribe:

Re: Problem mouting NFS exports from multi-homed servers

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The one problem standing in the way of my being able to implement this :solution is a very specific problem with mounting NFS exports from :multi-homed servers on our network. We have this problem both from the :FreeBSD box itself and from the "NAT'ed" clients on the 10.x.x.x networks it :serves

Non-promiscuous tcpdump on 4.0-STABLE doesn't see outgoing traffic

2000-06-09 Thread sthaug
tcpdump -p (interface in non-promiscuous mode) shows incoming and outgoing traffic in 3.4-STABLE (as expected). tcpdump -p does *not* show outgoing traffic in 4.0-STABLE. Incoming is fine. Is this intended? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

quota/mount commands inconsistency

2000-06-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, recently, I have tried to setup quotas as usual. the first things I tries where the "rq" option then the "quota" option. ok, the "quota" option isn't supported under FreeBSD, as well as the "rq" option while the later is a little documented in fstab(5) : #define FSTAB_RQ"rq"

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 10 June 2000 at 11:02:48 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 9 June 2000 at 19:06:09 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:29:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 17:33:13 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm c

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 9 June 2000 at 19:06:09 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:29:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 17:33:13 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >>> Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the >>>

Re: IOCTL to the character driver is failing

2000-06-09 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -hackers; this is an in-depth technical question] On Friday, 9 June 2000 at 0:28:04 -0700, NandaKumar P.K. wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the process of debugging my character driver > interface to the RAID controller card. Lots of my > IOCTLs i sent from the user code works with the driver

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > > "Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > > > > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > > > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > > > be configured. :( > > > > That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> "Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > > be configured. :( > > That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. In this case, that's not c

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > be configured. :( That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. I have used different Mylex cards on a fe

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000609 16:45] wrote: > hi, > > Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures (see > kern/kern_proc.c) are allocated with M_WAITOK after finding them > fails and then inserted into the uidhash structure a race condition? > > Index: kern_proc.c > ==

uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures (see kern/kern_proc.c) are allocated with M_WAITOK after finding them fails and then inserted into the uidhash structure a race condition? There's also a problem with sbsize checking because of races going on here, what needs to happen i

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Narvi writes: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy >Asys > > > > > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > > > > > experiences with them over the years). > > > > Ugh. I was s

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wes Peters
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:38:54AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR > > > slot, especially since I only heard good things about the board > > > itself. I made an honest attempt but just ended up o

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > be configured. :( Try putting "SCSI" above anything else in the "boot order" menu. I've been trying for some time now to work out how

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Nicole Harrington.
Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to be configured. :( Ad that to the new BIOS that won't allow keyboardless reboots :( These came in a RED box. Nicole On 09-Jun-00 Wilko Bu

Re: Getting NIST mpeg2player to work?

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:48:40PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Does anybody have the NIST mpeg2player working correctly? I'm using the > code that sos put on freebsd.dk in Jan. It compile OK, but: > > WKB /home/src/DVD/nist>mpeg2player > Illegal instruction (core dumped) > WKB /home/src/DVD/nist

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:38:54AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR > > slot, especially since I only heard good things about the board > > itself. I made an honest attempt but just ended up ordering it > > anyway. I've tri

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
> > Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR > slot, especially since I only heard good things about the board > itself. I made an honest attempt but just ended up ordering it > anyway. I've tried to figure out what that slot does but I've only come > across marke

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys > > > > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > > > > experiences with them over the years). > > > > > > Ugh. I was suprised that I

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Michael Bacarella
> > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys > > > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > > > experiences with them over the years). > > > > Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR > > slot, e

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have wi

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:59:58PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and > > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards t

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. Anybody using the Ab

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:29:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 17:33:13 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >> > >> I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > >> $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlo

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and > > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards

Problem mouting NFS exports from multi-homed servers

2000-06-09 Thread Neff_Glen
I am looking to implement FreeBSD as a router/natd platform for five private 10.x.x.x/24 subnets to connect to the public world via a sixth NIC. Our immeadiate public address space is a protected network, so I am not concerned with any firewalling features. The one problem standing in the way of

Re: 4.0-Stable/XFree86-4.0/syscons switching crash

2000-06-09 Thread Graham Wheeler
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >I am running 4.0-S on a Compaq Presario laptop with a Trident Cyberblade > >VGA. I couldn't get this to work in anything other than 640x480 with > >XFree86-3.3.6, so I moved to XFree86-4.0... > > > >Anyway, XFree86 4.0 works for me, except for a couple of glitches. >

Re: rlist.h !!! help !!!

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have several programs that use rlist.h (for various reasons ) and I :cannot find it in FreeBSD 4.0 ! (mainly for swap info ) : :Has it been droped ? I know that the kernel/sys/rlist.h has been droped :but does affect the /usr/include/sys/rlist.h ? : :If it has been dropped what do I use instead

RE: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > EPoX == trash. Avoid like the plague. > > Buy EPoX. They're good. > > > ASUS K7v == good. > > ASUS K7v == slow. > > May 3 08:00:02 wantadilla /kernel: microuptime() went > backwards (65202.831743 -> 65202,804412) > In fact, I've seen the microuptime stuff doing bonnies on FreeBSD 4

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. We have one at work and it works fine. We