Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Forth Interest Group web page (http://www.forth.org/) if you want to search for reading material. And, yes, it's a love/hate kind of thing. :-) I think someone ported a userland version of Forth as lang/ficl. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-06 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ifies whether sshd should try to verify the remote host name and check that the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the very same IP address. The default is ``no''. ? AFAIK, that means the reverse mapping result will not be held aga

Re: 5 "Advanced" networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ly trying to hide my firewall/gateway and logserver. Thank you for your reply, I'll go read a little :-) Err... contrary to what Terry says, there is an option that prevents FreeBSD from decreasing TTL, thereby making it stealth. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: build-tools and sed

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Thanks for the clarificaton. Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:31:13PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Shouldn't sed be part of the build tools? No. build-tools are a different beastie; they are the tools that are only built during buildworld to "build" somethi

build-tools and sed

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
quot; sed -e 's,!!TRAD_HEADER!!,"hosts/i386bsd.h",g' ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET} .else sed -e 's,!!TRAD_HEADER!!,,g' ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET} .endif Which was rather annoying when I got caught in the sed bug. Updating sources did not fix the problem, be

Request for Review: syslogd

2002-09-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
hosts, but this small change should do for now (for me, at least). The patch is at http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/syslogd.diff, and a patch for stable's present syslogd is at http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/syslogd.diff.stable. (please cc me to any discussion on this, or I'll probably

Re: CPU Temperature and MRTG

2002-06-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
> Atenciosamente, > Vitor de Matos Carvalho > System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
y just give up. I certainly would > > have. While it's a laudable aim to have a secure system, you have to > > be able to use it too. I'd suggest that we do the following: > > I think we need to make an ACPI call in the loader to power off > the mac

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
you want it always, either a port option so I can put it in make.conf, or an environment variable so I can put it in login.conf. But security is good. As a matter of fact, I'll change loader not to load a kernel by default, since this is a security hole in case the machine reboots. But don't w

Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks

2002-03-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t; +splitfs_stat(struct open_file *f, struct stat *sb) > +{ > +intresult; > +struct split_file *sf = (struct split_file *)f->f_fsdata; > + > +/* stat as normal, but indicate that size is unknown */ > +if ((result = fstat(sf->curfd, sb)) == 0) > + sb-&g

Re: BootFORTH language reference

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
is info with the loader(8) man page. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They did what they could to help her, using human skills -- and then, when that failed, left it in the hands of the gods. In this case,&q

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Igor M Podlesny wrote: > > > > kernel?="/kernel" > > Is there any chance off implementing syntax like > > kernel=${kernel:-/kernel} > > which is obviously sh-compilant? Perhaps I was unclear. This is what I would prefer, but I don

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ned to be such that the files could be processed by sh(1). I rather prefer to keep faithful to that by using the shell expansions tricks sh(1) has. OTOH, that wouldn't be a trivial task to undertake, and I don't have time to do it. Add to that, being able to sh-process loader.conf files is

Re: ALT- (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen)

2001-10-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
would be an instance where you have > wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with > 0xa0 instead of 0x20? What I most do not understand this is what does a-acute (0xa0) have to do with space? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argument

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ehand. That's my local > hack, your way is probably better :) But if you do that, you'll get a single argument back, instead of a number of arguments, some of which have space in the middle, or not? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argument

2001-10-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. > It this case each word is interpreted as a separate argument by 'for' > and script doesn't find files. Any way using `` won't work. for i in a "b c" d works, for instance, but there is not way that I know of that you can control the output

Re: Boot proccess

2001-09-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
amp; mfsroot.flp from the floppy, uncompress them, load them > in the RAM and make them running ? > > In short, which program gives enough knowledge to the microprocessor (?) > and allow him to use kern.flp & mfsroot.flp in order to boot and make the > operating

Re: Multiple kernels selector...

2001-09-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > [[ Please excuse me for replying to a one year old message, but I have >a question or two ]] > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : ." Loading /boot/current.conf. Please wa

Re: natd passes inconsistent addresses to ipfw?

2001-07-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
> With less robust, non-dynamic rules, everything works fine. Can > anyone spot what's going on here please? It's doing precisely what you told it to. Perhaps if you would move the check-state before the nat? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > It seems that rc.network requires an interface to be specified for natd > > for it to be started. Alas, I do not and cannot specify an interface for > > natd, using alias_address instead (and

Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
It seems that rc.network requires an interface to be specified for natd for it to be started. Alas, I do not and cannot specify an interface for natd, using alias_address instead (and disliking even that, since what I really want is static nat). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS

Re: not showing in ps

2001-07-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
p2 > > how i may kill that 31341 port coz ps isnt showing it. Install lsof and try "lsof -i :31341". But, frankly, it looks like you have been hacked. 31337 = Elite. 31341 is too close to that. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-06 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
uff isn't as mature as many people > are used to. > > This end-to-end issue is not a theoretical consideration. While the > 1's complement internet checksum isn't that strong, it does detect a > bunch of bug-like behavior like this. > > Louis Mamako

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ard W. Stevens. It seems to me to be kind of moot to check the same value twice, unless you suspect hardware problems. Aren't you talking about two different checks over the same data instead of checksum off-loading? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching > enabled in any distribution I'm aware of). ;)) AFAIK, ata write caching is enabled by default by the hardware manufacturers. This was not the case originally, but benchmarks spoke louder. -- Daniel C. Sobral(

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
rybody followed > the rules > and played nice, but it is just something you can't count on in real > life. Uhhh, no. The original message was remarking about a software development team which repeatedly fail to deliver the product to the specs asked for, and that said team blamed FreeBS

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ne *specifically* mentioned that FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE disables hardware caching on IDE, and Linux does not. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
s per track, less tracks per same size, less track seek needed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
est must be made on the *same* slice. If you configure two different slices, the one on the outer tracks will be faster. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Nadav Eiron wrote: > > I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically > configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS machines. ResierFS is much much > faster than UFS+softupdates on these tests. For that matter, did you have vfs.vmiodirenable enabled? -- Dani

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
he dirpref changes. (Hey, once in a while we can play the kernel of the day game! :) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t on very large directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it _might_ have since been committed to stable. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jason Andresen wrote: > > If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks. It can. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: wint_t

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
y of software doesn't have to > do that (about the only place you will see it is in > a translator-used application). Funny. I use it on e-mail. Perhaps if you lived in a country that used a language other than English you would have a different perception of this issue... -- Daniel C.

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
an Lemon or whoever can come up with a "compromise" that would work, fine. But otherwise, and I think otherwise is likely, please explain the above to this person. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a

Re: Little confused

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
GG(foo,bar) should make > static void * const blabla_foo_blabla_bar = &bar; > > I never saw something like this in programs.Does anybody have any link > where I could find more about this kind of making macros? That's standard C. Kernighan&Ritchie (double sp?) comes to mind. --

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
x my article and submit a PR to correct the Handbook if > this is the case. Either will do. Unified diffs are less verbose, but sometimes they are too confusing to be of any use. The point is to use _either_ of them instead of plain diff (because both of them have "context" -- li

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
cts in the working set, then few pages of the swap will need to be swapped in for tracing, and the rest can be outright discarded without ever swaping them in. On the gripping hand, FreeBSD on configurations without swap is not unheard of by any means either, and overcommitting

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
algorithms work by running the > system out of VM and then backing off? That's pure nonsense. I don't "think" anything. I'm reporting facts. Many algorithms do work that way, whether you think they are non-sense or not. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
lid approaches > :that depend on not overcommitting, and I really hate having to defend > :non-overcommit against such bogus arguments. > > You've completely ignored the point that overcommit has nothing whatsoever > to do with memory pressure. You are as

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
them is silly. If you want non-overcommit, code it and send the patches. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney e' que nao tem mais cavalo bobo por ai&#

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
vercommitting, and I really hate having to defend non-overcommit against such bogus arguments. You don't implement it because you don't think it's worth your time and you are not being paid to do so. That's a perfectly good reason, and if people would just stick with it the th

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
allocates all available memory, touching every page, and then some other application touches a pre-allocated page not backed by memory or swap, it is quite likely mine which will get killed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ble. > > Show me a modern OS (excluding real-time and/or embedded OSes) that > makes this guarantee. Solaris and AIX (on AIX this is optional on a global or per-application level). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
being asked for. OTOH, the *only* way to get non-overcommit to FreeBSD is for someone who *wants* that feature to sit down and code it. It won't happen otherwise. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipism

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
to mention that the recommended way of doing this is placing the following line in /boot/loader.conf: kern.ipc.nmbclusters="65536" instead of editing /boot/loader.rc directly. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Too ba

Re: specify a different kernel to boot

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
n loader' The loader.conf(5) man page is probably more appropriate. Or just check /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Everyone else does. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Ki

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
provider uses a screwed up version of PPPoE with non-standard ethernet frame types for the identification (?) phase. As a result, all my friends resorted to running Roaring Penguin PPP, but _I_ am not going that way. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PR

Re: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?)

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e, it's just not being > used due to the presence of the /etc/pam.conf. > > This would make installing PAM entries far easier for the ports. Ports shouldn't touch /etc. Does the existance of /etc/pam.conf precludes /usr/local/etc/pam.d from working? -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t; But you might actually check the handbook for that. The default frame type won't work. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ted to cd installs?). Anyway... what _are_ the kernel options? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t; cases, you should not specify this option. Use it >> only if you know that there are multiple access >> concentrators or know that you need a specific serĀ” >> vice name. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: Protections on inetd (and /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* in general)

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ich perform no useful function to normal users. >/sbin/init already enforces this condition, how about expanding it? Setup jail instead. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Go for it! We did a version of him here holding a smoking AK-47 and > looking positively demented and it was one of the most popular > renderings at the office. :-) And the reason it never circulated outside that office is...? :-) -- Dani

Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mouss wrote: > > and you must make sure your kernel is compiled with > options CD9660 Err... no. The kld gets autoloaded if the kernel doesn't have cd9660 compiled-in. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: boot microsloth windoze 2000

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t; When I push F5 FreeBSD boots. BUt I thought that windoze should. > If I disable HD0 in BIOS, windows uses its own boot manager and boots fine. > > Do I miss something? Windows is screwed and can't handle not being the first. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [E

Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
d it and I certainly didn't want to create > partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I > found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up > installing and it worked for me. :-) FreeBSD boot manager is probably in

Re: forth/loader question..

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
it doesn't execute anything. In a private discussion long ago, Jordan said he would like for .rc and .4th files to remain scripts, and .conf files to be variable-setting files (like they are now :). Except, of course, that there are a couple of exceptions on the .conf files format to allow for t

Re: kobj, makedevops.pl etc.

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
les or check out /boot/defaults/loader.conf. BTW, also check out /usr/share/examples/make_device_driver.sh. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Xbox

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ified applications won't run. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Boot process robustness

2001-01-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
and the boot process resets it at the end. Of course, loader doesn't have write capability. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
works (or did up to november) on the Compaq Presario 1621. Note the apm and acpi can't be used together in the same kernel. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which cance

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
uld be better off with 256 entries in each directory, and cut the depth by half. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscri

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : ported to every hardware platform under sun, and we do not go out of our > : way to provide security. Thus, NetBSD and OpenBSD have the edge on us on > > What? I don't

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
n by providing a better overall enviroment on the platforms we support. The problem is that you can't one-line that. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled th

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
on the file > discriptor locking patches he committed. Why is it that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things originated on BSD? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How frequently do people fsck? Well, that depends on whether I'm attached atm or not. Oh, you mean filesystems? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The br

Re: vm_pageout_scan badness

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
small program without user input it wouldn't have security problems. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe:

Re: vm_pageout_scan badness

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
definitely > something I am going to keep in mind for a later release. That sounds very, very clever. In fact, it sounds so clever I keep wondering what is the huge flaw with it. :-) Still, promising, to say the least. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: int80h.org

2000-11-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
he proper > HTML/SGML/XML out of it. Plus, you can use environmental variables, > declare them, too, so you can do something like: > > % = [C] [^code] # Declare $C to mean "^code" > $C (This is some code.) > > Then you get: > > This is some code. /me detects

Re: Couple of config questions...

2000-11-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
me would also be VERY appreciated. Not that I know of. It should be a quick hack to implement, though. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, i

Re: 2 pci , 1 isa, same type NIC makes freebsd seems to be confused

2000-11-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
, and there is nothing to be learned from the experience. /me sighs -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but

Re: porting a Linux app

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Andrew Otwell wrote: > > gcc -static -I /pathto/new/include -L /pathto/new/lib sourcefile.c -nostdlib -nostdinc -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know

Re: fclose vs ferror (from libc/getcap)

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
dubious interpretation. The variable is a handle to the stream, not the stream itself. Are you sure of the SUS wording? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know.

Re: fclose vs ferror (from libc/getcap)

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ve rules. Undefined behavior means anything goes. On a standard, it means the behaviour is implementation-defined (which may be undefined or not). And notice that ferror() is not an access to the stream. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: RTP as system calls.

2000-11-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
#include ? You are not calling system calls from inside the kernel, and you are also not using errno like you would from userland. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has been convicted of criminal posses

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ian Dowse wrote: > > I think a few slots are reserved, so you can consider 1050 as being > equal to 1064. Try putting > > set kern.ipc.maxsockets=4000 > > in /boot/loader.rc and rebooting. Eeee! kern.ipc.maxsockets="4000" in /boot/loader.conf

Re: kernel stack size?

2000-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
les are declared. If I could somehow > do this in a different way, it would really help a > lot. Don't do that during interrupt. Queue the data to be processed by a kernel thread later. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > ... > > That's vmstat's problem, not a feature. :-) ... > > If it's not vm-related, it shouldn't be listed by vmstat. > > Interrupts aren't vm-related either, yet vmstat displays them. And it shouldn&

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t. > iostat is also designed primarily for continuous output use -- displaying a > line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its That's the objection I raised to Mike. :-) I suggested systat, though that has it's problems too. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: granularity of gettimeofday()

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
it is, in fact all CPUs can find out what time it is > *at the same time*, without interferring with each other. > > I belive those two features are unique to FreeBSD at this time. We need to write benchmarks that place heavy emphasis on these features, then. :-) -- Daniel C.

Re: Is this how to use Freebsd?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
the rest. /usr and /home, please. :-) That's our default. > A couple of suggestions: > > 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete without even reading all html-formatted messages. -- Danie

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
eft unused for historical reasons. OTOH, using a partition (try to avoid using c -- if you want the whole slice, create a partition with the same data as c) would be cleaner, from the point of view of various utilities, than using a slice. You do lose a few sectors. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
; dedicate to some purpose. In such a case, I could chown the device to an > appropriate username and group. Furthermore, I could avoid the unfortunate > mistake of overwriting my current FreeBSD fs in case I get the addresses > wrong. He is incorrect. You can use /dev/wd0s2 any way you wan

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
; partition. > Lastly, where else could I have found this information other > than asking on the FreeBSD mailing list? Beats me, but it _should_ be in the handbook. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I de

Multiple kernels selector...

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ions: .conf files names, kernel names and directory names, depending on what option you choose. Put this stuff in a file (asciimenu.4th, for example) and then replace the "start" on loader.rc with the following: s" /boot/asciimenu.4th" fopen dup fload fclose initialize drop

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
oc(sizeof(*tcphash_addr) * 256); > >You shouldn't be casting malloc and I don't see any reason > to use *(foo[nmemb]) syntax. u_int32_t **tcphash_haddr; >From the code, it's a variable-sized array of fixed-sized arrays. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ut this only happens in the case of artificial limits. > ps: Perhaps you could check the code, it is only 11K long. Sure, send it. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Satan was once an angel, Gates started by wri

Re: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true?

2000-07-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
rue# do not build BIND > > If it does not, where in the handbook should > I drop a note about it, besides FAQ (of course). > > Regards, > Mario Ferreira > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
self in a position of not being able to meet the previous commitments wrt to memory allocation, it will kill the application with the largest memory allocations. I'll bet you the fifth season of Babylon 5 this is what's happening. :-) Try limiting the maximum memory allocation to the to

Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more->less

2000-07-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ERM=${TERM:-cons25} > -export TERM > -PAGER=more > -export PAGER > +export HOME=/root > +export TERM=${TERM:-cons25} > +export PAGER=less That's not garanteed to work. Not all shells support export used in this way. So, again, no. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel

2000-07-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Please, this is not a topic for arch. While I appreciate the author's intent, it is indeed "old news", well known and for which we have a specific set of solutions. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why the RockRidge message?

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
and this is the wrong solution, obviously (LOG_INFO or not). The right solution would be return this information upon request through some mean. If you can figure out a portable way of doing it, be my guest. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
tops to sleep and then > wake them up again. Right now pccard insert/removal can be missed > when you put a laptop to sleep... BTW, have you decided between NetBSD and BSD/OS cardbus code yet? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
w.freebsd.org, it doesn't exist. :-) /me removes all references to Jordan from www.freebsd.org. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscr

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
simply incapable for some reason, either always or at specific times, it should fail on SLEEP, effectively disabling hybernation on any setup with it (shoganai). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ugh room. Heh. :-) Yeah, that would be... desirable... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e RAID would still have to be taught), with it's inherent disadvantages? If what you describe is accurate... imho, that's the diametrical oppositve of the right way. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ed as if nothing had happened, do you? That's what hybernation does under Windows. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscr

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Parag Patel wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so > >he can lo

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