ifioctl

2001-05-14 Thread vishwanath pargaonkar
HI, i have freebsd 4.2 stable. i want to know how autoconfiguration feature of ipv6 gets enabled. as far as i know ifioctl will call if_up . if_up calls if_route and if_route calls in6_if_up which calls in6_ifattach which forms link local address. but how is ifioctl is initiated for a interface??

Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch

2001-05-14 Thread Dima Dorfman
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Still, let me say that I do hope to get back to 'xargs', and add > > the -I option. I must admit my enthusiasm for doing -I wore off > > after seeing the current code to 'xargs'. N

Re: MIN()/MAX() definitions in sys/param.h

2001-05-14 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 00:17:31, dima (Dima Dorfman) wrote about "MIN()/MAX() definitions in sys/param.h": > Is there a reason the definitions of the MIN() and MAX() macros in > sys/param.h are under an '#ifndef _KERNEL'? Quite a few files in the > kernel define these (well, at least MIN) thems

Re: wint_t

2001-05-14 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 17:45:02, bright (Alfred Perlstein) wrote about "Re: wint_t": > > The C standard says that wchar_t should be able to all members of thye > > largest extended chracter set. AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't have any character > > set which requires more than 8 bits. > > wint_t should al

Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:09 AM +0200 5/15/01, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > >Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start > >> ``discussing'' it again :oI > > > >from my point of

Making snp(4) a module

2001-05-14 Thread Dima Dorfman
Right now, snp(4) can't be compiled as a module because it depends on hacks in the tty subsystem similar to the following: #ifdef DEV_SNP if (ISSET(tp->t_state, TS_SNOOP) && tp->t_sc != NULL) snpin((struct snoop *)tp->t_sc, cp, cc);

Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch

2001-05-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:09 AM +0200 5/15/01, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start >> ``discussing'' it again :oI > >from my point of view, it would be better to implement -i/-I than this >hack which has no advanta

Re: xargs(1) "replstr" patch

2001-05-14 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd suggest going ahead and committing it ASAP - before people start > ``discussing'' it again :oI from my point of view, it would be better to implement -i/-I than this hack which has no advantage in performance and functionnality than : while read a

Re: Mkisofs and ISO images that boot

2001-05-14 Thread Sergey Babkin
Dave Hayes wrote: > > >From the handbook: > > > 10.8.2. mkisofs > > ... > > The last option of general use is -b. This is used to specify the > > location of the boot image in producing a ``El Torito'' bootable > > CD. This option takes an argument, which is the path to a boot image > > from the

Re: wint_t

2001-05-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:01PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > What is the proper definition of wint_t? curses.h has it as a "long int", > however NetBSD (and GCC's libstdc++) has it as an "int". > I think either definition is fine. It should be at least as wide as a wchar_t. stddef.h has wch

wint_t

2001-05-14 Thread David O'Brien
What is the proper definition of wint_t? curses.h has it as a "long int", however NetBSD (and GCC's libstdc++) has it as an "int". -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: Mkisofs and ISO images that boot

2001-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14-May-2001 Dave Hayes wrote: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 149504 May 8 17:00 cdboot* > > Ah! Just what I need, right? So... > > $ cd /random/place > $ mkisofs -U -R -o FirstCD.iso -b boot/cdboot FirstCD > ... > Size of boot image is 292 sectors -> mkisofs: Error - boot image >

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Dillon
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > Did you notice, before the crash, that the kernel had some trouble > querying the offending device? That happens with me, and then a > little while later in the boot it crashes. Yes, the symptoms were the same as yours. The initial probing during b

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-14 Thread J Wunsch
"Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to > recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain > point in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. I just committed a change to the fd

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-14 Thread Shannon Hendrix
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:35:15AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > For the second boot I unplugged the USB hub. This time everything was > > > fine... I'm sending this mail from the FreeBSD machine's console. > > > > Replying to my own post: > > > > The problem is the Logitech joystick, not the

How to transfer data from netgraph node to user program?

2001-05-14 Thread Roman V. Palagin
Hello! I've wrote netgraph node which collects some information from network. Now I want to transfer collected data into user program. I've NGM_XXX_STAT message which initiates data transfer and program which uses libnetgraph to communicate with node. When I send NGM_XXX_STAT message node must st

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread David O'Brien - Hackers
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:14:05AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > That said, I am working on some things to make mm handle cases where the > user has not modified the files easier to deal with. We should have /etc/MD5SUM.install which contains the MD5 checksum of the installed files. The upg

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David Taylor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.13 21:16:33 +: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > --- > > VERSION_NUMBER=`grep "[$]FreeBSD:" $0 | cut -d ' ' -f 4` > > echo "mergemaster version ${VERSION_NUMBER}" > > --- > > That would appear to be mergemaster grepping for the $

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 crashing with USB hub attached...

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Dillon
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Shannon wrote: > > > For the second boot I unplugged the USB hub. This time everything was > > fine... I'm sending this mail from the FreeBSD machine's console. > > Replying to my own post: > > The problem is

watchdog timeout

2001-05-14 Thread vishwanath pargaonkar
Hi, can any one tell me what is this message which i get on my console( when i login as root). wb0:watchdog timeout .wb0 is my interface name. what is this? y is this coming? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

log function

2001-05-14 Thread vishwanath pargaonkar
Hi, i have freebsd 4.2 stable. suppose if i want to print buffer in som log file for debug. can i do it using log function? i saw log function in kernel source. like log(LOG_ERR...) log(LOG_INFo) tell me abt this log function clearly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Writing pseudo-driver for FreeBSD

2001-05-14 Thread Jayesh Krishna
Hi Mission accomplished( the skeleton pseudo-driver is up). I was able to link it statically and also dynamically( i had promised julien) to the kernel. Now the basic ioctls are working 8-) Special thanx to Julian, Julien and Brian and to all hackers who looked into my problem...:-) ja

Re: FreeBSD 4.2 ,kernel panic.

2001-05-14 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrea writes: >MY FreeBSD 4.2 system has begun to crash some time ago.. >fault virtual address = 0x9ec03e00 This virtual address suggests that these crashes are caused by a bug that was fixed around two months ago. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getm

Re: MIN()/MAX() definitions in sys/param.h

2001-05-14 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Is there a reason the definitions of the MIN() and MAX() macros in > sys/param.h are under an '#ifndef _KERNEL'? Quite a few files in the It is to inhibit use of these macros. The {i,,l,lu,q}{max,min} inline functions are supposed to be used instead.

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Alexey V. Neyman
Hello there! On Sat, 12 May 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: >On -current, I watched identical problem with mystical ssh brokenness, >with "No RSA support in libcrypto and libssl" message from ssh, >after when all possible underwater stones were verified (including >/dev/random and /dev/urandom, r

Mkisofs and ISO images that boot

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
>From the handbook: > 10.8.2. mkisofs > ... > The last option of general use is -b. This is used to specify the > location of the boot image in producing a ``El Torito'' bootable > CD. This option takes an argument, which is the path to a boot image > from the top of the tree being written to

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a very likely 3rd possibility: > ssh works fine, but the upgrade process has holes that even traps the > experienced. I'll confirm this. I've done several upgrades and fresh installs in the past 2 weeks, and sometimes the /etc/pam.co