Re: libc_r, signals and modifying sigcontext

2001-07-21 Thread Arun Sharma
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > Greetings. I'm trying to port an application to FreeBSD. I have > a signal handler registered using signal(2). It modifies the > data pointed to by the third argument - of type sigcontext (specifically > sc_eip) - so that the execution

libc_r, signals and modifying sigcontext

2001-07-21 Thread Arun Sharma
Greetings. I'm trying to port an application to FreeBSD. I have a signal handler registered using signal(2). It modifies the data pointed to by the third argument - of type sigcontext (specifically sc_eip) - so that the execution would resume at a different point). However, when execution resumes

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:06 PM -0700 7/20/01, David O'Brien wrote: >The way to do this, is first install -stable. >[...] > >Now install -current in the normal way. >[...] > >You might be able to optimize the number of times booting from >CDROM to change the partition type of ad0s1. It occurs to me that it is actuall

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > This box, a P2/266

Re: NFS local mount

2001-07-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:38:07PM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: > I had been meaning to ask if there was a reason why NFS mounts happened > before NFS servers were started but life kept getting in the way :-) If /usr was nfs mounted on a machine, then /usr needs to be mounted before nfsd was loade

Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs

2001-07-21 Thread Matt Dillon
: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: :>> FWIW, I vote that we rever to the traditional default and require :>> -R1 or -b to avoid boot time hangs. The standard behaviour for most :>> NFS implementations that I'm aware of would do this. :> :>I agree; people at work have bitched

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > This indeed fixed it. I always though Unix^WFreeBSD was supposed to allow > you to shoot yourself in the foot. sysinstall obviously decided it needed > to outsmart me. Not so much out smart you, but the code that maps da0a to da0sXa i

Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel

2001-07-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Anyway, the above is a long-winded justification for the following > > suggestions: > > 1) if disklabel has already been told about '/', then it > >

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [SNIP] > > How did you do those two installs though? David is not saying that I don't remember very well : it may well have been done via cloning an existing slice via dump/restore (thus no sysinstall troubles ...) [SNIP] > > Where you have trouble is if you have t

Re: fdisk(8) adjusting to head/cylinder bounderies

2001-07-21 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Dean writes: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: > >> Below is a patch that makes fdisk request user confirmation before >> making any changes to the start and end of partitions. > >Please allow this behaviour to be overridden by a flag

Re: fdisk(8) adjusting to head/cylinder bounderies

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: > Below is a patch that makes fdisk request user confirmation before > making any changes to the start and end of partitions. Please allow this behaviour to be overridden by a flag that can specified so that scripts don't suddenly stop a

fdisk(8) adjusting to head/cylinder bounderies

2001-07-21 Thread Ian Dowse
For about a year, fdisk(8) has had code that automatically adjusts partitions to begin on a head boundary and end on a cylinder boundary. This is fine in most situations, but the way it is implemented makes it awkward to override, and more importantly it is way too easy to mess up an existing par

Re: strange with named

2001-07-21 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 15:07:00, lucky (Alexey Privalov) wrote about "strange with named": > Jul 21 13:43:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1475 for >"host.domain" > Jul 21 13:48:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1486 for >"host.domain" > Jul 21 13:5

Re: strange with named

2001-07-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Alexey Privalov wrote: > > hi all. > i have FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and named 8.2.3-REL. > everyday i see following strings in my log: > > Jul 21 13:43:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1475 for >"host.domain" > Jul 21 13:48:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.5

question about ttys

2001-07-21 Thread Amir Shalem
in kernel, when I have (struct tty*)cur_tty pointer how can I know if the cur_tty is a console (ttyv) ? or X windows ? I'm writing a wheel support for console, but it creates problem with the X windows. thanks, Amir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

strange with named

2001-07-21 Thread Alexey Privalov
hi all. i have FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and named 8.2.3-REL. everyday i see following strings in my log: Jul 21 13:43:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1475 for "host.domain" Jul 21 13:48:17 host named[124]: denied update from [196.127.211.51].1486 for "host.domain" Jul 21 13:

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. > > > > What I did is create > >

Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs

2001-07-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Ian Dowse wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: > >> FWIW, I vote that we rever to the traditional default and require > >> -R1 or -b to avoid boot time hangs. The standard behaviour for most > >> NFS implementations that I'm aware of would do this. > > > >I agree; peop