Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Kozlov
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:25:39AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:15:00 +0300 Alex Kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1]: > > $cat /usr/local/bin/service > > Basically what I had in mind, but it can be made more portable across > FreeBSD configurations. > [...] > > And here

Re: read with timeout ??

2008-08-07 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need to >> do a >> read from an fd, but I need to associa

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread wbentley
I am surprised by the overwhelming response that this thread has acquired. I have spent the majority of the day reading all the responses that everyone has put forward. I would like to clear a few things up, comment on others, and suggest some solutions to a lot of good points that everyone has mad

Re: read with timeout ??

2008-08-07 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need to do a read from an fd, but I need to associate it with a timeout, on the order of 1 second, something like that. I had the feeling that

read with timeout ??

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need to do a read from an fd, but I need to associate it with a timeout, on the order of 1 second, something like that. I had the feeling that there's a function in FreeBSD's libc tha

Re: Suggestion for 'pkg_add -r'

2008-08-07 Thread Anders Nore
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:40:35 +0200, Lars Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:47:24PM +0200, Anders Nore wrote: >> >>RELENG_7: >>http://home.no.net/andenore/patches/pkg_install_2008-08-06_RELENG_7.diff >> >>CURRENT: >>http://home.no.net/andenore/patches/pkg_install_200

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Kurt J. Lidl
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:02:30PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Aug-06 19:14:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. > > The main purpose of SMF appears to be to drum up business for Sun's > training courses by radically

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:16:36PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >The Solaris smf tools provide some nice facilities: one is single > >interface to start, stop, check and restart all the services on a > >system. We pretty much have that ... > >The other is a single interface to enable, disable and q

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-07 Thread Pegasus Mc cleaft
On Thursday 07 August 2008 19:47:31 David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:34:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > > The problem is cvsupd - since it's written in Modula3 and doesn't > > support IPv6 you have to use an inetd/netcat hack to accept IPv6 > > connections on the server. As mentione

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-07 12:19:20 -0500, "Sean C. Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grr! Optimization should not be a requirement for checking for >uninitialized variables. Yes, gcc adds "fun" to development. This is documented: `-Wuninitialized' Warn if an automatic variable is used without first

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-07 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:34:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > The problem is cvsupd - since it's written in Modula3 and doesn't > support IPv6 you have to use an inetd/netcat hack to accept IPv6 > connections on the server. As mentioned in > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-J

Re: restore of file system into USB key terrible slow

2008-08-07 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > What means 'Header with wrong dumpdate'? It's a warning message that probably shouldn't be printed, but has no impact other than the printing of the warning. We've fixed bug that causes it to be printed recently. David. ___

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Sean C. Farley ha scritto: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Sean C. Farley ha scritto: You are testing c which has not been set. It works OK if you set c then do the test: + c = fgetc(f); if (c != EOF) - printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); + printf("%

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Kozlov
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:29:49AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To who it may concern, > >> > >>I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use > >> BSD at home but Solari

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:54:10AM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Sean C. Farley ha scritto: You are testing c which has not been set. It works OK if you set c then do the test: + c = fgetc(f);

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Sean C. Farley ha scritto: You are testing c which has not been set. It works OK if you set c then do the test: + c = fgetc(f); if (c != EOF) - printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); + printf("%c\n", c); Yes, you are right, this is what I meant, I'm just a bit diso

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:54:10AM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > >> Sean C. Farley ha scritto: >>> You are testing c which has not been set. It works OK if you set c >>> then do the test: >>> >>> + c = fgetc(f); >>> if (c != EOF) >>> -

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Sean C. Farley ha scritto: You are testing c which has not been set. It works OK if you set c then do the test: + c = fgetc(f); if (c != EOF) - printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); + printf("%c\n", c); Yes, you are righ

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:46:37PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering why fgetc() returns 0xff if called with /dev/null: > > #include > #include > > int > main(void) > { >int c; >FILE*f; > >f = fopen("/dev/null", "r"); > >if (c != EOF)

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Hello, I'm wondering why fgetc() returns 0xff if called with /dev/null: #include #include int main(void) { int c; FILE*f; f = fopen("/dev/null", "r"); if (c != EOF) printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); } Hmmm,

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Hello, I'm wondering why fgetc() returns 0xff if called with /dev/null: #include #include int main(void) { int c; FILE*f; f = fopen("/dev/null", "r"); if (c != EOF) printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); } gcc f

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:36 -0700 Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Solaris smf tools provide some nice facilities: one is single > > interface to start, stop, check and restart all the services on a > > system. We pretty much have that ... > > > > The other is a single interface t

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:15:00 +0300 Alex Kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1]: > $cat /usr/local/bin/service Basically what I had in mind, but it can be made more portable across FreeBSD configurations. > #!/bin/sh > > name=$1 > cmd=$2 > > . /etc/rc.subr > if [ -z "${name}" -o -z "${cmd}" ] >

strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hello, I'm wondering why fgetc() returns 0xff if called with /dev/null: #include #include int main(void) { int c; FILE*f; f = fopen("/dev/null", "r"); if (c != EOF) printf("%c\n", fgetc(f)); } > gcc foo.c > ./a.out ÿ This causes a bug in

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So you take each line from inetd.conf (literally) and wrap it in > > several KB of XML. This definitely adds to bloat and doesn't even > > obey the spirit of XML (since the content of each inetd.conf ent

Samba, Response too big for UDP, retry with TCP, Kerberos implementation on FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Ginzburg, Oleg
//sorry for spamming to another freebsd-ports maillist. This channel is more suitable// Hello, I receive a similar problem in a current configuration (FreeBSD 7.0-Release amd64, samba-3.0.31_1) like this: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-July/133625.html and most likely I assume proble

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:50:45AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: > > rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub4 > > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: v

Re: Suggestion for 'pkg_add -r'

2008-08-07 Thread Anders Nore
RELENG_7: http://home.no.net/andenore/patches/pkg_install_2008-08-06_RELENG_7.diff CURRENT: http://home.no.net/andenore/patches/pkg_install_2008-08-06_CURRENT.diff Some comments: * I think you have reversed the patch. :-) * Build errors: cc1: warnings being treated as errors file.c:433:

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Michel Talon
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Have you plug'ed in or out while writing to da1 another device in the > USB? I saw this as well with a USB key which worked normaly until I did > a plug'in/out on the bus; No, i did not touch to the usb bus. I tried to use the stick on several FreeBSD machines, without an

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: > rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub4 > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x08ec product > > 0x0020 bus uhub4 > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion ker

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, August 07, 2008 a las 02:01:22PM +0200, Michel Talon escribió: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: > rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub4 > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x08ec product > > 0x0020 bus uhub4 > > Aug 6 10

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So you take each line from inetd.conf (literally) and wrap it in > several KB of XML. This definitely adds to bloat and doesn't even > obey the spirit of XML (since the content of each inetd.conf entry > remains opaque). s/inetd/rc/g I completely agree

Re: Suggestion for 'pkg_add -r'

2008-08-07 Thread Rui Paulo
On 7 Aug 2008, at 11:53, Anders Nore wrote: Hi, In my pkg_improved GSoC project I've added a nice feature for 'pkg_add -r' which displays the size of the file being downloaded as well as progress status in % and bytes/kb/mb/... and download speed. If someone could test it and comment it

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Michel Talon
> Matthias Apitz wrote: > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub4 > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x08ec product > 0x0020 bus uhub4 > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Aug > 6 10:06:12 > rebelion ker

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-06 19:14:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. The main purpose of SMF appears to be to drum up business for Sun's training courses by radically changing Sol10 Administration for little benefit. >Basically what it d

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did not mean to say that the scripts themselves were decrepit. I > mean the whole Unix runlevel rc.d apparatus in general is decrepit. FreeBSD doesn't have runlevels. Solaris does. You don't like runlevels, but you want FreeBSD to be more like So

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, August 07, 2008 a las 04:18:19AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick escribió: > Can we get the brand and model of USB stick, and any specific > model/version numbers that are on the device? The dmesg you provided > doesn't have very good vendor strings in it (that's not your fault).

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, August 06, 2008 a las 07:29:31PM +0200, Oliver Fromme > escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I've updated usb/80361, see > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80361 > > > because I have the sa

Suggestion for 'pkg_add -r'

2008-08-07 Thread Anders Nore
Hi, In my pkg_improved GSoC project I've added a nice feature for 'pkg_add -r' which displays the size of the file being downloaded as well as progress status in % and bytes/kb/mb/... and download speed. If someone could test it and comment it would be perfect, below you can find the patche

Re: consolekit on 7.0-STABLE i386

2008-08-07 Thread sam
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:00:37PM +0400, sam wrote: Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0400, sam wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: 0 3 97 0 16 0 68660K 643M 0 0 0 012 0 28 34 120 385 0 3 97 0 16

Re: consolekit on 7.0-STABLE i386

2008-08-07 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:00:37PM +0400, sam wrote: > Kostik Belousov wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0400, sam wrote: > > > >>Nate Eldredge wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, sam wrote: > >>> > >>> > 0 19 0 1113M29M 112 0 0 032 0 0 1 100 5

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To who it may concern, I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to increase the administrative capability

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 07.08.2008 um 08:31 schrieb Michael B Allen: mean the whole Unix runlevel rc.d apparatus in general is decrepit. Hi, Jordan! 8-) There should be a library to install, start, stop, restart, uninstall, disable, enable, change order of services and also change the runlevel. And then there sh

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Anthony Pankov
I wonder opinions on more general question: Does somebody believe in necessity of separate infrastructure for daemons(services)? As for me i very dislike unclean of "what where located". Some configuration lie in /etc, some in /usr/local/etc, some in /usr/local/program_name. In addition there is

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I've updated usb/80361, see > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80361 > > > because I have the same problem as well that an USB key attaches fine > > > when plugged in at boot time, but not later: > >

Re: consolekit on 7.0-STABLE i386

2008-08-07 Thread sam
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:16:49PM +0400, sam wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, sam wrote: 0 19 0 1113M29M 112 0 0 032 0 0 1 100 5549 1682 11 1 88 0 19 0 1113M29M 297 0 0 0 136 0 0 2 122 78880

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To who it may concern, > >I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use > BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to > increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. >

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 06, 2008 a las 07:29:31PM +0200, Oliver Fromme escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > I've updated usb/80361, see > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80361 > > because I have the same problem as well that an USB key attaches fine > > when plugged in at boot

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Kozlov
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:06:38AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: >On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:34:51 "Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But of course the format of data in a database is largely irrelevant. > > You could implement the same thing with dbm files or a more forgiving > > text format.