Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-22 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Douglas Swarin writes: > : Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One > : brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a > : 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to

RE: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread John Lispton
Hi all, Thank you for all the helpful replies. Tomorrow I'll go shopping. :) Cheers, J Lispton _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own

Re: SCSI tape speed

2000-09-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Shannon Hendrix writes: > I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses DAT drives on a DPT SCSI > controller, preferrably with FreeBSD 4.1 and an Intel system. > > I find the speed is very slow, and I know in the past these drives were fine > with FreeBSD, though I can't remember which release

Re: SCSI tape speed

2000-09-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
How about some more details? I'm beginning to wonder if buffered mode got broken. I do know I just did some tests with a DDS3 drive and I consistently got 1MB/s or better on dumps. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > > I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses DAT drives on

SCSI tape speed

2000-09-22 Thread Shannon Hendrix
I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses DAT drives on a DPT SCSI controller, preferrably with FreeBSD 4.1 and an Intel system. I find the speed is very slow, and I know in the past these drives were fine with FreeBSD, though I can't remember which release now. With my most recent instal

virtual console 'snapshot'?

2000-09-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Is there anything like Linux's /dev/vcs* in FreeBSD? That is, some way to obtain the complete view of a virtual console - characters, attributes, everything? The snoop device gives deltas, but never the complete picture, unless the program running on that console decides to redraw the whole thin

Re: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread Hartoyo
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:00:45PM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote: > > That book is actually quite BSD-specific - it would be a wonderful > choice. The FreeBSD installation contains a package of the libraries > from that book! > Just wandering if anyone has another recommendation about BSD progr

Re: Monitoring user activity

2000-09-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: :hi , : :I'm look for a way to monitor what happens on my servers :I need to know each command being executed? : :is there away to do that . System accounting should do most of what you want. See accton(8), sa(8), lastcomm(1) to start with. David

Monitoring user activity

2000-09-22 Thread Mustafa N. Deeb
hi , I'm look for a way to monitor what happens on my servers I need to know each command being executed? is there away to do that . cheers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread Steve Tremblett
That book is actually quite BSD-specific - it would be a wonderful choice. The FreeBSD installation contains a package of the libraries from that book! Good luck! +--- John Lispton wrote: | | Hi | | I am a fair C programmer, and would like to start developing under FreeBSD; | would you cons

Re: Converting Sun Automounter maps

2000-09-22 Thread Travis Cole
Am-utils http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/ comes with a nice perl script called automount2amd that does a fine job of converting sun automount maps to amd maps. At work we have Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD all hapily automounting and talking nis. I did have to hack automount2amd so FreeB

Re: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake John Lispton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > programming described in the book? Or can I rest assured that the book > contents apply well to FreeBSD? Yes, the book explains everything on 4.3BSD, so everything applies to FreeBSD as well. Of course, FreeBSD (and the other BSD's, too) have had

[book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread John Lispton
Hi I am a fair C programmer, and would like to start developing under FreeBSD; would you consider the classic «Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment», by W. Richard Stevens to be a good choice for a programming book? Does current FreeBSD programming differ much from the "generic" UNIX

Re: Executable packages (long, sorry)

2000-09-22 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hmm... While I will not be contributing to this project, I wanted to remember everyone that the source code for UnixWare's packaging utility is available in Skunkware. FWIW, he Unixware stuff is very similar to Jordan's packaging utilities, in fact it has the same limitations. One thing I did l

Re: Converting Sun Automounter maps

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: > I've stumbling into the wonderful world of auto-mounting, and trying to > convert some maps from a Sun box to the FreeBSD format. I have amd.conf set up > OK as per the man page, but keep on getting errors when changing into the > relevant directory

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-22 Thread Dennis
At 08:27 AM 09/22/2000 +0200, Len Conrad wrote: > >> > I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even >> > ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to >> > drive leased-line links in France. >> > >> > etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000, Douglas Swarin wrote: > Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One > brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a > 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or > so, which is just fine for a

Converting Sun Automounter maps

2000-09-22 Thread Stephen Hocking
I've stumbling into the wonderful world of auto-mounting, and trying to convert some maps from a Sun box to the FreeBSD format. I have amd.conf set up OK as per the man page, but keep on getting errors when changing into the relevant directorys (like amd can't find an appropriate match). Has an

Re: Executable packages (long, sorry)

2000-09-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > Seems one might just as well investigate the SUN pkgadd format and see whether > such mechanism fits the bill... > > Ideally, the pkg also kows how to back itself out if it can't successfully > install. (although doing so should be an option, not th