Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:26:22AM -0400 I heard the voice of Mike Barcroft, and lo! it spake thus: > > Just to clarify. This is still a POLA violation. If a log file is > pulled out from underneath syslogd(8), one wouldn't expect it to start > logging again, even if the file was re-created. J

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Mike Barcroft
Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"? > > > That would be a big violation of POLA. > > > > No ... > > Yes! Just to c

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Mike Barcroft
void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"? > > That would be a big violation of POLA. > > No ... Yes! > The traditional log-rotation dance goes something like: > > mv l

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread void
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:39:57PM +0100, void wrote: > > If syslogd used the kqueue interface, I believe it could open a new log > > file as soon as it was created, rather than waiting to receive a signal. > > Would this be worth do

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:39:57PM +0100, void wrote: > If syslogd used the kqueue interface, I believe it could open a new log > file as soon as it was created, rather than waiting to receive a signal. > Would this be worth doing, or would it be too big a divergence from the > traditional behavio

Re: anoncvs down?

2001-10-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:15:28AM +0200, Peter Wullinger wrote: > Have I just missed, that anoncvs.FreeBSD.org was shut down? > > This would be a problem for me since I do not have access to > a FreeBSD machine with good internet connection and I didn't > get cvsup (i.e. M3) to compile on the m

syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread void
If syslogd used the kqueue interface, I believe it could open a new log file as soon as it was created, rather than waiting to receive a signal. Would this be worth doing, or would it be too big a divergence from the traditional behavior? -- Ben "An art scene of delight I created this to be .

system hung with runnable processes

2001-10-26 Thread Jeff Fellin
I didn't see anything like this in the archives, so I'm sending this to the questions list and hackers list for assistance. I am running FreeBSD 4.3 on a L440GX+ motherboard with dual PCI buses: 32/33 and 32/66 dual Pentium III @ 700MHz with 256KB L2 cache. The system is running in Uniprocessor m

Re: dummynet stats

2001-10-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:48:56AM -0700, rick norman wrote: > I guess my question then is why did I need to stop the stream and restart > it before it would show up in the pipe? It seems that if I repeatedly flush, I cannot reproduce the problem from your description. If you can post the exact

Re: dummynet stats

2001-10-26 Thread rick norman
I guess my question then is why did I need to stop the stream and restart it before it would show up in the pipe? It seems that if I repeatedly flush, delete pipes, reinstall pipes, without stopping the data stream, that I get into a state where no data will register in the pipes until I stop and

Re: dummynet stats

2001-10-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:22:48AM -0700, rick norman wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to get inconsistent outputs from the same dummynet > stat query. Following is the output from two different queries : > > bash-2.05$ > bash-2.05$ ipfw pipe 3 show > 3: unlimited0 ms 2048 B 0 queues (1 buckets

dummynet stats

2001-10-26 Thread rick norman
Hi, I seem to get inconsistent outputs from the same dummynet stat query. Following is the output from two different queries : bash-2.05$ bash-2.05$ ipfw pipe 3 show 3: unlimited0 ms 2048 B 0 queues (1 buckets) droptail mask: 0x00 0x/0x -> 0x/0x bash-2.05$ b

Re: Bug in FreeBSD 4.4 in su

2001-10-26 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:46:00PM +0100, Bri wrote: > ok if you into your freebsd box from somewhere else and type su - root and > then type the root password it just hangs there and you think I'm sure I > typed the password correctly. Are you using a serial console? Or, a defferent question, a

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:31:56PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:06:59PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:49:08PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > O

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:06:59PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:49:08PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > > On the step 3, when marshalling results of the call, daemon > > > > creates a larg

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:06:59PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:49:08PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: [snip] > > > > > > On the step 3, when marshalling results of the call, daemon > > > creates a large collection of small buffers (usually 5

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:49:08PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Ian Dowse wrote: > > > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxim Sobolev writ > > > es: > > > > Nautilus from working properly. The problem disappeared when I've replaced > > > > writev(2) call with a

Re: ipfilter changes in rc.network (was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network)

2001-10-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:21:37PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > In some email I received from Arjan de Vet, sie wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >How many of the patches at http://labs.gr/~charon/patches/ should go into > > >FreeBSD-current ? > > > > I wrote similar patches

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:49:08PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxim Sobolev writ > > es: > > > Nautilus from working properly. The problem disappeared when I've replaced > > > writev(2) call with appropriate loop based around ordinary

Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ORBit Makefile ports/devel/ORBit/files patch-src::IIOP::giop-msg-buffer.c

2001-10-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Ian Dowse wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maxim Sobolev writ > es: > > Nautilus from working properly. The problem disappeared when I've replaced > > writev(2) call with appropriate loop based around ordinary write(2). Perhaps > > this should be investigated and the real source of t

Bug in FreeBSD 4.4 in su

2001-10-26 Thread Bri
ok if you into your freebsd box from somewhere else and type su - root and then type the root password it just hangs there and you think I'm sure I typed the password correctly. So then you u think ok the the SSH session died for some reason try to log back in via ssh and you can't and when you t

Re: ipfilter changes in rc.network (was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network)

2001-10-26 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Arjan de Vet, sie wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >How many of the patches at http://labs.gr/~charon/patches/ should go into > >FreeBSD-current ? > > > >Darren > > I wrote similar patches (see http://home.iae.nl/users/devet/freebsd/) > trying

Re: ipfilter changes in rc.network (was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network)

2001-10-26 Thread Arjan de Vet
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >How many of the patches at http://labs.gr/~charon/patches/ should go into >FreeBSD-current ? > >Darren I wrote similar patches (see http://home.iae.nl/users/devet/freebsd/) trying to fix more or less the same bugs/problems. Maybe it's a good idea if Gi

Re: how can i wipeout swap pages?

2001-10-26 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > To do what you want, which is to clean the backing pages, you Yes, i mean cleaning pages in the backing storage. > are better off doing it for all freed blocks, not just swap > blocks (if someone can read your swap, they can read other data > off you

Re: ipfilter changes in rc.network (was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network)

2001-10-26 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Giorgos Keramidas, sie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:45:11PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > > > I get the feeling this - inappropriate - setting of a _program > > variable is due to my misguided suggestion in PR conf/20202 > > which verbatimly made it into the

Re: anoncvs down?

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Wullinger
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:30:04AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:15:28AM +0200, Peter Wullinger wrote: > anoncvs mirrors are currently under discussion on -hubs. > > Rest assured, this problem *is* going to be fixed :) > Sorry for the crosspost ... Thanks anyway, Pe