Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-25 Thread James Gosnell
" This gives the user the minimum information, leaves > breadcrumbs > > ... and is a little less potentially pejorative. :-) > > > > Also, while I see the utility in toggling daily/weekly in the *_enable > > variables, how much precedent is there for overloading *_enabl

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-08-06 Thread James
o went up > considerably. Any ideas on what I might be able to do? Hi Bill. I'm sorry you're having trouble. That's a pretty annoying problem. But no, I haven't noticed any increase in load averages. I'll keep an eye out, though. Wi

Re: SMALL FreeBSD capable board

2012-08-05 Thread James
faces. HTH! -- James. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-18 Thread James
>= FreeBSD 7 won't apply directly to 6. ksi and the refined SIGBUS traps don't exist yet. Here's how I fixed it at work. Using this on multiple releng_6* branches. HTH! -- James. CVE-2012-0217_releng_6.patch Description: Binary data _

Re: MIPS toolchain

2011-07-31 Thread James Jones
AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, James Jones wrote: > >> Does anyone have a prebuilt MIPS tool chain? > > For FreeBSD-related MIPS work, I generally use the FreeBSD "toolchain" target > followed by the "buildenv" environment, but t

MIPS toolchain

2011-07-29 Thread James Jones
Does anyone have a prebuilt MIPS tool chain? Sent from my iPhone ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

mips xlr system for direct compiling

2011-07-07 Thread James Jones
I have been working on cross compiling some software for MIPS XLR. I found it would be quicker if I direct compile. Can some one recommend a MIPS XLR system that I could have at home for doing some development work on? Or is the possible compiler farm I might get access to . ___

Re: Extended attributes for NFSv3 - possible Linux interop

2010-07-05 Thread James Morris
eable for me (I'm mostly on British > time). I'm in Sydney, btw. We could set up a call with potential stake-holders. > Any chance you might be at USENIX Security in DC this August? No, but I will be in Boston for LinuxCon approx. 9th-12th August. -- James Morris __

Extended attributes for NFSv3 - possible Linux interop

2010-07-01 Thread James Morris
1.nuked/src/nfs/ Thanks, - James -- James Morris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Announcing PathDB

2010-05-30 Thread James Mansion
C. Bergström wrote: Apologies.. I didn't really expect anyone to know about it. To me the best way to describe it is similar to gdb, but much cleaner codebase. Might be more effective to offer this to the llvm community, I would have thought. ___ fr

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread James Butler
in the FreeBSD tree which use macro packages other than mdoc and man, which are all mdocml (currently) supports - see the contents of /usr/share/doc/papers for example. groff is used for more than just manpages, even in the base system. -James Butler __

Re: grep

2010-03-30 Thread James P. Howard, II
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:15, Mark nesterovych wrote: > Decided to write BSD licensed grep and provide it to FreeBSD project if > success. How far along are you in this project? -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS j...@jameshoward.us ___ f

Re: grep

2010-03-30 Thread James P. Howard, II
o, you can get slightly revised source from here: http://github.com/howardjp/freegrep It compiles and runs on both FreeBSD 8 and MacOS X. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS j...@jameshoward.us ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: KLD hello.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch

2010-02-12 Thread james toy
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:06, Andrew Brampton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:25 AM, james toy wrote: >> Hello Hackers, >> >>    I am working on learning to write FreeBSD drivers; however, I have >> some practice writing IOKit drivers for MacOSX (they are entirely

KLD hello.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch

2010-02-10 Thread james toy
ST 2010 ja...@dontpanic.union.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src_klog/sys/DONTPANIC amd64 any information pointing me to being able to load this driver would be greatly appreciated. respectfully, james toy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-26 Thread james toy
Hi Linda, vfork() should mitigate this -- i suggest replacing. respectfully, =jt On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:47, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Ryan Stone wrote: >> Is squid multithreaded? > > No, it isn't: > >  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread james toy
Alexander, ==8<== >> http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg ==8<== The head maintainer of Yoper; Tobias G, runs a kernel patchset I work on from http://zen-sources.org as his default kernel. I am sure he would be more than happy to discuss some of their

Re: distributed scm+freebsd svn?

2009-07-29 Thread james toy
missing -- you can always add it ;) have a good day and respectfully, james++ On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:48, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:17:34PM +0300 I heard the voice of > Andriy Gapon, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> P.S. I am looking for a distri

Another reason to register and attend Kernel Conference Australia

2009-06-25 Thread James C. McPherson
istration page https://www.conveneit.com/secure/sun/kernel_jul_09/ Pricing: Students$95 regular price $300 Corporate pricing $195 per person (please talk with Gabriele DeCelis directly) I look forward to seeing you at Kernel Conference Austr

Only _3_ days left for earlybird registration to Kernel Conference Australia

2009-06-10 Thread James C. McPherson
t Delay To https://www.conveneit.com/secure/sun/kernel_jul_09/ I look forward to seeing you there. Cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.c

pxeboot and http

2009-06-05 Thread James Mansion
Is the ability for pxeboot to load from an HTTP source merged - or due to be merged? It was a gsoc from 2007 wasn't it? James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubs

Kernel Conference Australia 2009 - one week to go for earlybird registrations

2009-05-24 Thread James C. McPherson
more) for OpenSolaris Max Bruning (Bruning Systems) Porting USB HID Device Drivers Between Linux and OpenSolaris James Morris (Red Hat) Linux Kernel Security Overview Percy Pari-Salas (Bond University) Automated Testing of OpenSolaris Vivek Joshi (Sun Microsystems) Porting OpenSolaris across arch

Kernel Conference Australia 2009 - registrations and agenda pages NOW LIVE

2009-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel/speakers.jsp I'm looking forward to seeing you there. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/su

Kernel Conference Australia - Call for Papers deadline approaching

2009-04-21 Thread James C. McPherson
ould be a good thing. We also have a conference flyer which you can print out, available from http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp/resource/KCA2009_flyer.pdf I look forward to seeing you at the conference. Best regards, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://

Re: fgetc doubts

2009-03-10 Thread James Bailie
I must correct myself. It's more likely the return value of fgetc(), after having been assigned to a char, is being sign-extended when that char is compared to the in EOF, so that the comparison becomes a comparison between 0x and 0xffff. James Bailie wrote: ...EOF is getting

Re: fgetc doubts

2009-03-10 Thread James Bailie
; i < bufsiz && !grep_feof(f); i++) binbuf[i] = grep_fgetc(f); Thanks in advance, -- James Bailie http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To uns

Re: Possible bug (amd64/i386)

2008-09-06 Thread James Bailie
`nsiynngc.e.r.' to3 stop...0 0 done On my AMD64 box (using 32 bit FreeBSD due to the Nvidia drivers) my 7-STABLE is also showing this garbled text from time to time. -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ free

Re: Sed in FreeBSD

2008-07-05 Thread James Bailie
/csh, you need two backslashes because the shell recognizes backslashes inside single-quotes, which it shouldn't. -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (vm_map?) with DDB output

2008-06-23 Thread James Gritton
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 11:57:51 am James Gritton wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008 07:23:19 am Stef Walter wrote: I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The dea

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (vm_map?) with DDB output

2008-06-19 Thread James Gritton
John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008 07:23:19 am Stef Walter wrote: I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The deadlock occurs on a specific (although mundane) hardware configuration, and each of several servers runnin

Re: USB Install Method

2008-05-14 Thread james toy
Sean, How about a net-boot? That would be my next logical suggestion -- as far as I'm concerned its relatively hard to install via USB key at least i'm not aware of any current ways to do so. respectfully, jt On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Sean Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyo

Re: BDB corrupt

2008-05-13 Thread James Mansion
ve anything by way of a pointer? Google didn't help me here. James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

introduction

2008-04-22 Thread James
Hi folks, my name is James Harrison; I'm a computer science student at the University of New Mexico, studying mostly at the Los Alamos branch. I'm also a Unix systems administrator/developer at Los Alamos National Lab, where I've been working with embedded linux for a while. I&

Re: synchronous freebsd print

2008-02-27 Thread James K. Toothman
Use fprintf(stderr, ...) instead, as stderr is unbuffered by default. James Toothman About.com Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:08:28AM -0800, Sanjeev Kumar.S wrote: I have a quick question, and I believe this will be a common requirement. This is a standard C

Re: non-blocking io, EINTR

2008-02-27 Thread James Bailie
perror( "sigaction()" ); exit( 1 ); } -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
Kip Macy wrote: Do you have a set of regression tests for libev? It sounds like they would worth having to regression test kqueue. I would have thought that libevent and libev should both the checked against kqueue. Also APR and everything else that has support. I'm not the author of libev

Re: kqueue and libev

2007-12-17 Thread James Mansion
work with USB for example? How about an AIO request to read from a USB endpoint? It may well just be a case of 'fessing up to system limitations. James Compile and install rxvt-unicode on freebsd and run it with:

kqueue and libev

2007-12-15 Thread James Mansion
in the flags (i.e. using |EVBACKEND_KQUEUE|). It looks like a decent library, but these comments seem unfortunate. Does anyone know what the author is concerned about? James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

A question about swapping

2007-12-05 Thread James Mansion
adlock. I don't know about Solaris. I see that 7.0 will have an iSCSI initiator - is there any work underway to support reliable swap against an iSCSI target? James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-09 Thread James
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 05:47 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > If you keep a local repo, and checkout from the local repo, then > > your checkout will merge the changes (unless there are conflicts). > > Thanks the fact I know the an

floating point operations

2007-10-31 Thread James Healy
a flop instead of an int op on modern hardware. regards James Healy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKRJU4oawkrbYo/kRAnhtAJwJOzBh9LhT3cQkRp6hYze2w44pcgCfSbLj irZWz4qHd6lw0zjVaH/6d3s= =3e

Re: Hierarchical jails - any current work?

2007-09-19 Thread James Gritton
please please please familiarise yourself with the Vimage code that Marko Zec is working on. This is the stuff at http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/, right? I take it that's the definitive place to go. I recall having looked at that before, and I guess I was thrown off by the "net work virtua

Re: Hierarchical jails - any current work?

2007-09-19 Thread James Gritton
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Something like this: http://garage.freebsd.pl/mljail.README I did it some time ago, and this is one of the feature for new jail implementation with is beeing designed Yes, that's just the thing I'm talking about, so it looks like I have indeed be reinventing

Hierarchical jails - any current work?

2007-09-18 Thread James Gritton
I've been doing some work on a hierarchical jail setup, but I've got this nagging feeling it's been done before. Does anyone know of such an existing project? If not, I'll put forward my own code. - James Gritton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Problem with Broadcom 5704 B1 on amd64 6.2 release

2007-07-16 Thread James Shank
smart people on here would have to work with. Thanks again, JAmes On 7/16/07, James Shank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Stefan, Thanks for your help. I've attached the information you requested. In particular, here are the relevant sections of the dmesg output: pcib5: at dev

Re: Problem with Broadcom 5704 B1 on amd64 6.2 release

2007-07-16 Thread James Shank
Dear John, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the 7.0 livefs snapshot and had the same results as with the 6.2 release; identical errors on both. Thanks, James On 7/16/07, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 16 July 2007 01:37:40 am James Shank wrote: > Greetings, >

Re: Problem with Broadcom 5704 B1 on amd64 6.2 release

2007-07-16 Thread James Shank
vice_attach: bge1 attach returned 6 pci8: at device 11.1 (no driver attached) Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again, James On 7/16/07, Stefan Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James Shank schrieb: > Greetings, > > I've run into a problem

Problem with Broadcom 5704 B1 on amd64 6.2 release

2007-07-15 Thread James Shank
s 64-bit int. Any input on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. I've also attached full dmesg output as well as pciconf -l -v output. Thanks! -James dmesg.out Description: Binary data pciconf.out Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-hacke

Re: Kqueue queries

2007-06-12 Thread James Bailie
e events for closed descriptors out of your input queue. -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Kqueue queries

2007-06-12 Thread James Bailie
r once. kevent() will keep returning read events while the descriptor is open and readable. -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-19 Thread James Anderson
On 4/19/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf > vulnerability > just like OpenBSD? > As discussed on the security@ list at the time, no. Here is a mirror I found of the original thread: http://www.nabble.com/OpenBSD-I

Re: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)?

2007-03-17 Thread James Bailie
atterns, so the found file is being included in the expansion. You can force the expansion to occur first if you assign it to a variable: sh: FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found csh: set FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found Hope this helps, -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

/bin/dd fails with big disks containing bad sectors

2007-01-04 Thread James Risner
nfused as to the input and output seek position. They get out of sync with each other and all future output blocks are written earlier on the disk than is required. James Risner ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: getc in BSD (was FLEX issues)

2006-07-03 Thread James Bailie
Randall Hyde wrote: > This kind of gives me the impression that "getc" is defined a bit > differently under FreeBSD than other environments? Any ideas? Yes. It's defined as a macro. -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: fix for dhclient+aliases

2005-11-02 Thread James Flemer
ed-address 192.168.100.2; | option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; |} I hope to check out this patch shortly. Thanks. -James On 11/2/05, Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a proposed fix for dhclient interactions with IPv4 aliases. It > turns out that my speculation th

Re: linux call_usermodehelper equivalent in freebsd?

2005-04-19 Thread James Thomason
cgi/mid.cgi?3B646AAB.688669C5 Regards, James ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

System Panic (Trap 12)

2005-03-29 Thread James Nelson
ad_loop (arg=0xc34f2600) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_intr.c:547 #24 0xc0612dad in fork_exit (callout=0xc0613bb8 , arg=0xc34f2600, frame=0xe4d73d48) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:790 #25 0xc07ccd1c in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:209 James Nelson Emag Solutions,

System Panic (Trap 12)

2005-03-29 Thread James Nelson
ad_loop (arg=0xc34f2600) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_intr.c:547 #24 0xc0612dad in fork_exit (callout=0xc0613bb8 , arg=0xc34f2600, frame=0xe4d73d48) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:790 #25 0xc07ccd1c in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:209 James Nelson Emag Solutions,

Re: resolving routes externally

2004-11-24 Thread James
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:49:19PM -0500, James wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:36:46AM -0800, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > [ snip ] > > > > If I understand correctly, you want the kernel to queue packets until > > layer 2 address resolution is complete. Right now we don

Re: resolving routes externally

2004-11-24 Thread James
1]: Some hardware/ASIC based routers violate the RFC unfortunately. It's a little harder to implement there (see J vendor) -J -- James JunTowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead Boston IPv4/IPv6 Web Hosting, Colo

Problem with DVD writer and ehci on 4.10-STABLE

2004-09-08 Thread James Collier
il (config file and/or boot log - but the boot log is a hideous length with full debugging enabled.) Any advice - no matter how pointed - will be appeciated. Thanks & regards James Collier.

Re: Where is strnlen() ?

2004-08-11 Thread James Housley
Thordur Ivar B. wrote: While porting software from a friend wich was developed under Linux, I stumbled upon an error: src/socket.c:236: warning: implicit declaration of function `strnlen' Now my programming experience is nothing to brag about but I wonder why strnlen is not a part of FreeBSD's libc

Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-02 Thread James Housley
I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever. I log any output to a log file. It is run in a startup script like thie: program_name >> $err_log 2>&1 The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the

Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-02 Thread James Housley
I have a program that I have the is supposed to run forever. I log any output to a log file. It is run in a startup script like thie: program_name >> $err_log 2>&1 The problem is that after newsyslog rotates the $err_log file, no more data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart t

Re: BDM under current

2004-02-13 Thread James Housley
sebastian ssmoller wrote: hi, does anyone know whether i can use gdb + bdm under freebsd ? i found this page http://bdm.thehousleys.net/ which seems to be out of date. Probably not, I had it working well under 3.x, never really got it working in 4.x Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - N

Custom installworld

2003-09-30 Thread James Howard
ommon (buildworld, installworld, etc) or all targets? Thank you, James -- James Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 202-390-4933 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread James Nobis
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > > Hello James and Ken, > &g

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread James Nobis
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > Hello James and Ken, > > > > Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you > > have a Dell 8500. > > > > This is

Re: Boston area BSD meeting (or user group?)

2003-07-14 Thread James Housley
Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, folks, seems we have no user group in Boston. What about a few of us get together for some BSD chatting? If so,let me know what kind of meeting you'd like (beer, hacking etc.). Martin Sounds good to me, but I am not on freebsd-usergroups. I live on the South Shore

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-06-03 Thread Loren James Rittle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters write: >On Thursday 29 May 2003 00:12, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > However, we're dealing with something a bit more stable in terms of >> > code base, anyway. Having to commit a whole bunch of fixes for the

Supply laser markers

2003-04-06 Thread James
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Re: What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?

2003-01-30 Thread James Gritton
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then you simply group all the processes which share VM > objects together and report statistics on a group-by-group basis > rather then on a process-by-process basis. You won't know what an > individual process uses but you know exactly

Re: What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?

2003-01-30 Thread James Gritton
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can also theoretically push into shadow VM objects to locate > pages from the parent process that have not yet been COW'd into the > child (in the case of a fork()), noting also that these shadow objects > might be shared with other

Re: What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?

2003-01-29 Thread James Gritton
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > check out /proc//map for a really detailed map of the process. That looks good for a single process, suffers from the problem I'm having. For example, if I run a program that simply mallocs a chumk of memory and reads through it (to map it all in)

What's the memory footprint of a set of processes?

2003-01-29 Thread James Gritton
ing a page? I see some things in the VM code that look like recerence counts (such as act_count in struct vm_page), but they don't seem to really be such, or at least they don't count what I'm expecting them to. This is on 4.7. I haven't really looked at 5, so I don't know

Re: USB problem on A7N266-VM MoBo

2003-01-12 Thread James Pole
m happen in any other OSes? This sounds to me like a hardware problem and not a software problem. - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: 3COM PCI FaxModem with shared IRQ causes FBSD to freeze

2002-12-20 Thread jimmie james
s* to be working fine now, (execpt for multiple sound sources and the sysctl vchans kill all sound *shrugs*) so I hope this may shed some light, or offer some ideas. (please c.c me, as I'm not on the list, thank you) Jimmie James = -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GMU dpu

Re: The poor man's cryptfs

2002-09-25 Thread James Gritton
"Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you seen ports/security/vncrypt? Oops :-). I never was very good at looking to see what's out there. It looks good - it apparently supports different crypto algorithms and isn't broken WRT labels. Oh well, I can still call mine the poor

The poor man's cryptfs

2002-09-25 Thread James Gritton
After playing with a few encrypted filesystems, and giving up on them (after a kernel crash or two), I went looking for something else to encrypt. The logical choice is the device. Well, the virtual device. Like a cryptfs that's based on a loopback mount, I'm encrypting a virtual device based o

PXE and ftp install

2002-08-19 Thread Paul James
Hi, I am wondering if anyone has any experience using PXE installs via ftp. The problem encountered is when trying using mediaSetFTP with a valid ftp site, the URL menu window shows up instead. If using NFS as the mediaSet, that works without any problems. Looking at jkh's example in /release/ins

Re: serial console com1 to com1 == login race condition?

2002-08-09 Thread James Housley
Dan Langille wrote: > I have two remote boxes. My colocation hosts have strung a crossover > serial cable from com1 to com1 on these boxes. The idea is that if I > paint myself into a corner on one box, I can get access to it from > the other box via the serial cable. > > But... > > I will

Re: periodic firewire max-out question

2002-03-04 Thread James
ti-bus 1394 adapters on the consumer market. Adapters have multiple ports but all are on the same bus. I'd be curious to find one that actually has more than one bus. -James To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: to users of threads (GDB support)

2002-02-11 Thread Loren James Rittle
>> Loren Rittle indicated that they were [in a form useful to /usr/ports] Actually, to avoid all confusion, I privately wrote Kip to say that I was able to extract out his updated thread support and apply it to my local mainline binutils tree. That is a bit different than indicating the work is

Re: Where are the closed PR's ?

2002-02-06 Thread James Housley
Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am trying to break into contributing to FreeBSD. I've been reading > through the PR database, but the one thing that I do not see is the > closed PR's. > > The reason I want to see these is to see some sample problems, and how > they were closed. Being ab

Re: Possible bug in kernel w/pppoe & ipf ?

2002-02-01 Thread James Housley
Rob Zietlow wrote: > > Ahh yes, I knew I forgot something, Thank you Jim. yes My rulest was both > the original that worked before the DSL pppoe wackiness. I also had the > same routing issues when my /etc/ipf.rules said: > > pass in all > pass out all > > I still received the "no route to host

Re: which port for libcrypto.so.2

2002-01-15 Thread James Housley
Alwyn Goodloe wrote: > > When trying to run ethereal I get the message > > %./ethereal > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypto.so.2" not found > > Anyone know which package I can get this from??? > Check the compat port, they add the libraries from previous versions of FreeBSD.

Re: [Fwd: Jul 30 changes to ppp break my Telstra ADSL PPPoE connection]

2001-12-05 Thread James Housley
Brian Somers wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your report. Would you be able to grab me logs of the > connection that doesn't work (the latest ppp) and the one that works > (the pre-July 30 one) with the following set: > > set log tun chat lcp ipcp > > It may be possible to fix the problem by

Re: Jul 30 changes to ppp break my Telstra ADSL PPPoE connection

2001-12-03 Thread James Housley
Greg Lane wrote: > > G'day all, > > I have a problem with PPPoE over Telstra ADSL (Australia). A full > description of the problem can be found in freebsd-questions > (see [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated Nov 30) > with the subject: > > ADSL PPPoE (Telstra Aust.) began to hang between 4.3- and 4.4-RELEA

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-30 Thread James C. Durham
(snip...a large number of postings regarding slow performance by 4.x kernels with TCP/IP) A friend who works for a local university and I tried moving large files using variouis OS'es and hardware. These are FTP transfers with file sizes from 100 to 300 megabytes.. The conclusion we arrived at w

Report on FreeBSD 4.4 pthread implementation verses boehm-gc

2001-11-08 Thread Loren James Rittle
Hello all, I have ported the most recent version of boehm-gc (6.1-alpha) to FreeBSD/i386 under the auspice of the gcc project (it will be in Hans' 6.1 release and it is on the gcc mainline). I got one notable thing fully configured beyond what is in the ports tree (which is based on 6.0): thread

Re: calendar nit?

2001-10-09 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Steve Ames wrote: > I was sending an e-mail to someone and wasn't sure what day Thanksgiving > was so I typed 'calendar -A 45' and saw the following: > > Nov 8* Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November) > > Odd that... Is this tied to the missing days from 1753? Jamie

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread James Snow
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:32:56AM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > The issue I believe is passwords you type after logging in (e.g. > changing your password or logging into another machine), not the > password you actually use to log in... I just knew I was going to wind up tasting the sole of m

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread James Snow
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:39:07PM +0200, Harold Gutch wrote: > > :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote: > > :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > > :> > > :> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > > Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001, > wh

kern/26563 setting sample rate

2001-07-30 Thread James Halstead
I just wanted to see if this can get committed. I have been using it with no problems and it makes some programs work a little nicer for those of us with ac'97 cards (notably xmms) It is a simple one line patch. Would be nice if this could make it to 4.4-RELEASE... James To Unsubs

Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lars Kühl wrote: > Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes. > Use dump instead. A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that great either. There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump and it appears to be qui

Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread James Howard
Both tar and cpio seem to have problems doing backups on my server. Looking at the pax manpage, we see this: cpio The extended cpio interchange format specified in the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') standard. The default blocksize for this format is 5120 bytes.

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-25 Thread James Nuckolls
In mailinglist.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: > This is a good reference, but sadly it only really refers to "the > sockets paradigm as first popularized by BSD", which means they could > have followed the API without touching a single line of BSD code. > > To reiterate: What I'm looking for is some

Re: DVD IOCTLs on IDE?

2001-06-25 Thread James Halstead
have any luck tell me. I have been able to watch encrypted dvd's but it seems to like crashing when changing tracks. Also i have had a problem where xine will stop running after a while, seems to be running out of shared memory maps, something is not getting cleaned up properly. > Dave

Re: DVD IOCTLs on IDE?

2001-06-24 Thread James Halstead
On Sunday 24 June 2001 20:12, David Gilbert wrote: > ... One issue is that dvdio.h seems to be missing structure items that > are required by dvd software. I have attempted to compile livid (oms) > and videolan ... both which at least talk about working on BSD. Livid > refuses to compile because

Mergemaster killed symlink (was RE: Mergemaster bug + new feature [patch])

2001-06-18 Thread James Halstead
? I haven't gone as far as to find just what the offending area of mergemaster is. > > Kees Jan > > PS. I initially read the subject line as "mergemaster has one fewer bug and > one newly discovered feature". :) ;P James To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

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