possible problem writing to SCSI tapes

2005-06-13 Thread Jacques Vidrine
Hi Everyone, I thought I'd forward this, in case there is someone interested in working on SCSI tape support. Andrew Hume wrote in the June 2005 ";login": For outright bugs, two examples come to mind. The first is the weakness of the FreeBSD SCSI system; we cannot reliably write t

Re: security or lack thereof

2005-03-23 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 3/22/05 9:04 PM, John Nemeth wrote: So, is it FreeBSD policy to ignore security bug reports? I sent the following bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Feb. 19th, 2005 and it still hasn't been acted on. This total lack of action on an extremely simple (and silly) three year old bug doesn't g

Re: CCD questions

1999-10-29 Thread Jacques Vidrine
m far easier to use than ccd, while providing more flexibility. -- Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Search a symbol in the source tree

1999-10-17 Thread Jacques Vidrine
quot;*.c" -print -exec "egrep" "-i" "idt" {} \; | less > Here , "idt" is a search string. That's because no one wants a separate invocation of egrep for every file! -- Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: se

Re: PPPoE offer.

1999-09-30 Thread Jacques Vidrine
Yes. The boxes from Redback (www.redback.com) support this mode of operation, which is primarily for sane deployment of DSL over an infrastructure built on bridging. Alcatel DSL products, used by BellSouth and others, operate in this mode (see RFC 1483 section 4.2). Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Jacques Vidrine
t; jail() and chroot() ? > > bye, > Harold jail() calls chroot() internally. Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Jacques Vidrine
sy to dump incrementally or reorganize. I also make sure that any one of them could fit on a single CD-ROM in case I decide to make an archive of some of them. Jacques Vidrine / n...@nectar.cc / nec...@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: VMware--anyone playing with it?

1999-05-17 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 17 May 1999 at 8:19, Jason Thorpe wrote: > I think the Connectix Virtual PC is cooler; VMware only runs on Linux > and NT because it requires gross hacks to redirect e.g. I/O space access. I haven't seen it... do you have a reference? Jacques Vidrine / n...@nectar.cc / nec...@

Re: VMware--anyone playing with it?

1999-05-16 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 15 May 1999 at 20:08, John & Jennifer Reynolds wrote: [snip] > Is anyone playing with that VMware stuff? [snip] It doesn't run on FreeBSD, only on Linux and Windows NT. Pity, because it is very neat. Jacques Vidrine / n...@nectar.cc / nec...@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe:

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-11 Thread Jacques Vidrine
nim's author) can handle cash or he > needs a preinstalled machine shipped to him. vmware to the rescue? + a couple of hundred megs of disk space Jacques Vidrine / n...@nectar.cc / nec...@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha