Re: pthread_mutex_trylock and glib-2

2004-09-07 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:12:08 -0700, Pascal Hofstee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a few hours of digging through both the glib-2 as well as the > beep-media-player sources i finally managed to figure out why > beep-media-player apprently crashes on startup when using libpthread, > but not when u

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Nicolas BĂ©rard Nault
Correct me if I'm wrong but those servers have to run in linux emulation ? If I'm right, that could explain why it can be slower sometimes. Also, do your servers use STABLE or CURRENT ? Steven Hartland said: > Possibly of interest for you then, we run around 100 machines > providing public and cla

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-07 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:54:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the authorization mechanism is limited to plain text, then yes. I know > that "strings" can be used to attempt to find the passphrase in the load, > but there may be ways to prevent the passphrase from being retrieved in > this

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-07 Thread Steve Watt
On Sep 7, 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } Subject: Re: Booting encrypted } } > Having the password compiled in to something that's necessarily clear-text } > on the same media? } } If the authorization mechanism is limited to plain text, then yes. I know } that "strings" can be used to attempt

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-07 Thread ctodd
> Having the password compiled in to something that's necessarily clear-text > on the same media? If the authorization mechanism is limited to plain text, then yes. I know that "strings" can be used to attempt to find the passphrase in the load, but there may be ways to prevent the passphrase fro

Some SuCon 02 Photos

2004-09-07 Thread Slawek Zak
Hi, You can find some admittedly amateur photos taken at SuCon 2004 here: http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~zaks/SuCon%202004/ /S ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-07 Thread Steve Watt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Has any work been done to boot from an encrypted filesystem, or otherwise >modify the loader to support GBDE with a "compiled-in" passphrase? The >purpose would be to prevent reverse engineering of an appliance based on >FreeBSD. Thoughts, ideas? Having

Booting encrypted

2004-09-07 Thread ctodd
Has any work been done to boot from an encrypted filesystem, or otherwise modify the loader to support GBDE with a "compiled-in" passphrase? The purpose would be to prevent reverse engineering of an appliance based on FreeBSD. Thoughts, ideas? Thanks! Chris __

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 02:35 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: > I'm working on updating our advocacy material used on the website, in > the Handbook, and now in a set of generic slides that can be used or > adapted for presentations. > > If you have ideas about cool new functionality that we should

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Possibly of interest for you then, we run around 100 machines providing public and clan based game servers mainly on FreeBSD. A few months back did some benchmarking OS vs OS some of the highlights are here: http://gaming.multiplay.co.uk/stats/server_os_comparison.htm FreeBSD does very well in a nu

Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Murray Stokely
I'm working on updating our advocacy material used on the website, in the Handbook, and now in a set of generic slides that can be used or adapted for presentations. If you have ideas about cool new functionality that we should do a better job of touting, know of large FreeBSD users (I could espec

Re: IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE stopped logging?

2004-09-07 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, 08:32-0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why my firewall has stopped logging to > /var/log/security. The last entry was from Aug 17 and there has been at > least one restart and a few hundred thousand packets denied. > > FreeBSD * 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD

IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE stopped logging?

2004-09-07 Thread Ryan Sommers
I'm trying to figure out why my firewall has stopped logging to /var/log/security. The last entry was from Aug 17 and there has been at least one restart and a few hundred thousand packets denied. FreeBSD * 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 #1: Thu Jul 1 18:24:26 CDT 2004 [EMAIL P

Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD

2004-09-07 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > Dennis George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can > > freeBSD support dual processors. Or can I utlize dual-processor in its > > fullness ? Actually, I think he's more insterested in

Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD

2004-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Dennis George wrote: Hi, Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can freeBSD support dual processors. Or can I utlize dual-processor in its fullness ? yes. in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes in 5.2 yes in 4.x mostly yes :-) Dennis Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote