Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

2004-12-17 Thread Gary Corcoran
First, I would've sent this to freebsd-ide, or freebsd-ata, but there *still* doesn't seem to be such mailing lists (WHY??) ... (isn't it about time for such a list, to join freebsd-scsi ? ;-) ) And please don't redirect me to -questions, as no-one who really knows anything reads that list any mor

Re: A program to automatically switch keyboards for syscons

2004-12-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
You might be happier using the new vkbd as the 'main' keyboard and feeding events to it from kbd[0-9] (excepting vkbd). Won't work in the debugger, or before the daemon starts, but will be a heck of a lot better than we have now w/o doing the switch-o-matic this program does. Warner _

Re: nfs within jail

2004-12-17 Thread Matt
David Scheidt wrote: Matt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, there's nfsshell, an FTP-like client. just google for nfsshell. Won't help in case of NFS4, I guess :-( Stefan Thanks. I'd like to try the nfsshell, but I can't get it to build. It doesn't appear to be a port either. I'm an amat

Re: cpu update

2004-12-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Tony Sheehan wrote: I have a PC which has a AMD 1900 XP cpu and a Gigabyte 7VTXE+ motherboard. I decided to upgrade to a 2600 Barton chip which seemed OK according to the Gigabyte site. However, after installing the chip my system crashes frequently (and randomly?) often when opening Outlook

Re: query cdrw tray

2004-12-17 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:11:52PM -0700, Ed Stover wrote: > > How to I ask the CD burner if it's tray is open or closed? I am creating > a automagical shell script to do semi-unattended backups and need to > figure out how to make sure there is a cd in the tray before I start > burning. Any help

Re: files_getstate

2004-12-17 Thread Joseph Koshy
> I can't find the source to files_getstate *anywhere* in /usr/src. > Can anyone tell me where to find this missing function/macro? Try "src/lib/libc/include/nss_tls.h": ... static int \ name##_getstate(struct name##_state **p)

Re: duplicate CVS modules in merged CVSROOT

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:09:45AM +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote: > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav: > > >Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>It seems some checks should be added to module merging code... > >> > >> > > > >...or somebody should stop using the merged CVSROOT. > > > I sugg

RE: A program to automatically switch keyboards for syscons

2004-12-17 Thread Norbert Koch
May be, I should do an ioctl KDSKBMODE to K_RAW to not miss any kind of keyboard event? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

A program to automatically switch keyboards for syscons

2004-12-17 Thread Norbert Koch
Hello. For an embedded system I need FreeBSD to accept input from two keyboards at the same time. As syscons cannot do that and it is obviously not trivial to change that, I wrote the enclosed program. After switching syscons to the first keyboard available, it calls select for the other keyboard

files_getstate

2004-12-17 Thread Mike Meyer
I am, for perverse reasons, writing my own version of getpwuid_r on 5-STABLE. The real source to this lives in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c There, the code looks values up in a db database using a key that consists of a magic cookie prepended to the userid. The magic cookie is built from a cons

cpu update

2004-12-17 Thread Tony Sheehan
I have a PC which has a AMD 1900 XP cpu and a Gigabyte 7VTXE+ motherboard. I decided to upgrade to a 2600 Barton chip which seemed OK according to the Gigabyte site. However, after installing the chip my system crashes frequently (and randomly?) often when opening Outlook Express. Also the syst

Re: query cdrw tray

2004-12-17 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041217 13:12]: > Ok, this a good one for experts. > > How to I ask the CD burner if it's tray is open or closed? I am creating > a automagical shell script to do semi-unattended backups and need to > figure out how to make sure there is

query cdrw tray

2004-12-17 Thread Ed Stover
Ok, this a good one for experts. How to I ask the CD burner if it's tray is open or closed? I am creating a automagical shell script to do semi-unattended backups and need to figure out how to make sure there is a cd in the tray before I start burning. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [EMAI