ommon (buildworld,
installworld, etc) or all targets?
Thank you,
James
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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
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
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.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
> Nice one! I'm going to be using this all over the place myself.
I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :)
Jamie
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Zachary M. Smith wrote:
> like to provide support for developers. I'd have to get
> approval from the organization that oversees the system
> before I committed any resources in their name, but I would
> like to help. If this is the wrong place ask, please kindly
Zach, I co
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote:
> You don't even have to overwrite it some times. Accessing word-size-only
> registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic...
I have never worked with FreeBSD at this low a level. How does one do
this and why? :)
Jamie
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Thanks. I took advantage of it to commit a question to the FAQ which
> James (on the cc list) asked recently: "what is a repo-copy?", let
> me know if it answers your question well enough. (it's in the misc
> questions bit.)
This is very nice. I unde
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Cosmic 665 wrote:
>
> Statically Compiled modules are much better then the lkd's. Get used to it
> :P
But I only need EXT2FS support once everyone few months. It makes no
sense to have it eating kernel memory 100% of the time.
Jamie
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Umm, which knobs? I added the only two options the security stuff currently
> uses, what else does it need?
For each script under /etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}/, there is a
knob in /etc/defaults/periodic. This controls whether the script is run
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Try the attached. They haven't been thoroughly tested, but that's what
> -CURRENT is for, right? :-) I even remembered to update the manual page
> this time...
This needs to have knobs and stuff located in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
Also, it would b
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering why the kernel module for ext2fs doesnt exist. I
> think this will be very useful because a lot of linux users come to
> FreeBSD and want to mount their existing linux partitions, and they have
> to recompile th
Will we be seeing a move in this direction towards a more configurable
security script? Is anyone planning it?
I am porting the scripts to Linux and will hold off on security if
nothing is being planned or make the changes myself. I just do not want
to duplicate efforts.
Also, I found a bug wi
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Somers writes:
> > I was trying to figureout how the periodic scripts were run when I
> > noticed that cron had coredumped back in October and left a core file in
> > /var/run/cron. I got to thinking, it would be nice if the daily scripts
> > would report whe
I was trying to figureout how the periodic scripts were run when I
noticed that cron had coredumped back in October and left a core file in
/var/run/cron. I got to thinking, it would be nice if the daily scripts
would report when core files are found so they can be cleaned up.
Jamie
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" write
s:
> You are right and work is under way to break out this functionality in
> a MI driver. Search the mailing list archives for details. A first
> attempt can be found at:
>
> http://jeroen.vangelderen.org/FreeBSD/misc_device/
>
We know I ask dumb questions a lot, but this one may not be so dumb. A
friend of mine was joking about having a device called /dev/foo which
would be like /dev/zero, except it would spit out the word "foo" over and
over again. Well, we laughed about it, but today, I implemented
it. (This was co
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jack Rusher wrote:
> Parag Patel wrote:
> >
> > Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
> > Southpark (esp. Cartman) and the PowerPuff Girls? Just a couple of
> > things I want to see...
>
> Oh... My... God... I would pay to print the t-shirts
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Intel has furnished us with IA-64 hardware and a porting effort is
> already underway. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to
> help out in some way with the process.
What can those of us just out here do?
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Having just read Konstantin Boldyshev's introduction to FreeBSD assembly
programming, I have a couple of questions.
When I looked through some code in the source tree (and with a little
background from the article), I noticed that INT 80 interface appears to
be newer than an older interface, "CAL
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Duane H. Hesser wrote:
> Anyone remember the old Pyramid OSX 'universe' command?
>
> In the mid-80s, when the "System V" versus "BSD" dichotomy was in
> full bloom, Pyramid delivered a system with two "universes" available.
> A user could specify 'universe bsd' and work in a
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote:
> Well, I'm not about to give up FreeBSD running on my desktop, but at times
> it is frustrating to not being able to use so much stuff out there that's
> meant to work for Linux but doesn't work for FreeBSD for one small reason
> or another. I think the use
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote:
> And not without reason. Their proposal aimed to replace FSF utilities with
> BSD equivalents - I don't think they are considering the kernel as a utility.
> I don't really any benefit from this.
>
> The binaries being distributed for Linux make use of Lin
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote:
> Hi,
> I apologize beforehand if this topic has already been discussed at
> length here or elsewhere.
>
> More and more commerical sites are providing software packages that contain
> binaries for Linux. While FreeBSD does provide Linux emulation,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wes Peters writes:
> Drat, that's right. Anyone wanna pollute the kernel and filesystem
> layers with a "reserve this filename" function? That sounds fugly,
> doesn't it?
That's why I suggested a simpler solution even I can code :)
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How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing
programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No?
Jamie
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I was preparing a port which uses mktemp(). Of course, the linker
complained and suggested using mkstemp(). Except mkstemp() returns an
integer file descriptor whereas normal people use FILE * pointers,
including the author of this port. How about an mkftemp() which wraps
around mkstemp() and
I don't get a lot of time to pay attention to the lists, so this might
have been asked before. Does the csh->tcsh move imply that sh->ksh will
be happening soon? Didn't NetBSD do that a while ago?
J~
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At a site I am working at, we need to be able to limit which users can
bind a socket to an address under IPv4. Basically, bind() needs to check
the caller's groups and if you are one of several allowable groups, let it
pass, otherwise, error out.
Now, I glanced over the bind() code and it does n
I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it
to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses
Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in
fact. Does FreeBSD provide a similar interface? Poking around the man
pages has
On 25 Oct 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> James Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I submitted a PR (bin/14342) which adds a lot of speed to mismatches in
> > Henry Spencer's regex code. Who knows a lot about regex whom I can bug?
>
> Umm, how about
I submitted a PR (bin/14342) which adds a lot of speed to mismatches in
Henry Spencer's regex code. Who knows a lot about regex whom I can bug?
Also, grep has gone through a lot of changes since the last time it was
talked about on this list. The current version can be found in the ports
collec
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Is it possible to compile a kernel with no filesystems supported and have
> > the boot loader load FFS? I have built an FFS module but I have not yet
> > had time to test it. Frankly, I am kind of afraid to for fear of trashing
> > my system.
>
> As l
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> You should note that neither QNX nor FreeBSD exhibit the above
> behaviour. KLD is a linker; it allows you to link more stuff into the
> kernel after it's been started. It doesn't implement a coprocess model
> of any sort.
Yes, I knew this for FreeBS
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> > On Slashdot, ...
> >
> > Under QNX, if your driver crashes, the kernel just restarts it.
>
> That's not in the least bit how QNX works... oh well, it's slashdot.
I've noticed Slashdotters tend to be clueless.
It doesn't matter in this case,
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
>Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with
> the file system.
Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server
that will spontaneously do this then crash.
Jamie
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On Slashdot, in a discussion regarding QNX, someone described it with the
following:
Under QNX, if your driver crashes, the kernel just restarts it.
After reading it, I became more interested in KLDs. My only prior
experiece was installing the Linux KLD and that was done by a port.
Any
When running "strobe" (from the ports collection, it is a port scanner), I
often or always get the message "file: table is full" many, many times.
I have seen this under 2.2.6 through 4.0. What exactly is going wrong
here and what should I do to fix it?
Jamie
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's
> no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to
> recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product.
I heard somewhere that Linux was released und
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's
> no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to
> recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product.
I heard somewhere that Linux was released un
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate
> changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version
> of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed?
I did, they have a feedback form I filled out yesterday. I mentioned tha
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate
> changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version
> of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed?
I did, they have a feedback form I filled out yesterday. I mentioned th
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> Ehm, this isn't possible in the same way that it is w/ FreeBSD.
> Basically, you need to grab the booter, the installer, and mkfs (all
> MacOS programs), then download the appropiate kernel, base distrib, and
> etc distrib. Not quite as slick, but it works
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> Ehm, this isn't possible in the same way that it is w/ FreeBSD.
> Basically, you need to grab the booter, the installer, and mkfs (all
> MacOS programs), then download the appropiate kernel, base distrib, and
> etc distrib. Not quite as slick, but it work
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> I've researched this guy a bit more, and I have to say I think it was a
> hoax.
What a disappointment. It would have been nice to see it running on the
Mac68k (or any other older platform, 8086? :).
> Uh, MacBSD is actually pretty nice. Alan Briggs and
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> I've researched this guy a bit more, and I have to say I think it was a
> hoax.
What a disappointment. It would have been nice to see it running on the
Mac68k (or any other older platform, 8086? :).
> Uh, MacBSD is actually pretty nice. Alan Briggs an
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two
> > weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at
> > FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :)
>
> I'd say that's a question for Grant
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two
> > weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at
> > FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :)
>
> I'd say that's a question for Grant
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> I rather hope that the rumoured newer version of H. Spencer's regex
> lib is faster... Being as slow for that pattern as it is has got to
> be a bug of some sort... It's actually faster to scan the file twice,
> once for the first string and then for
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> I rather hope that the rumoured newer version of H. Spencer's regex
> lib is faster... Being as slow for that pattern as it is has got to
> be a bug of some sort... It's actually faster to scan the file twice,
> once for the first string and then for
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> fgetln() does a complete copy of the line buffer whenever an
> excessively long line is found. On this point, it's hard to do better
> without using mmap(), but mmap() has its own disadvantages. My last
> suggestion to James was to assume a worst case
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> fgetln() does a complete copy of the line buffer whenever an
> excessively long line is found. On this point, it's hard to do better
> without using mmap(), but mmap() has its own disadvantages. My last
> suggestion to James was to assume a worst cas
Due to the discussion of speed, I have been looking at it and it is really
slow. Even slower than I thought and I was thinking it was pretty slow.
So using gprof, I have discovered that it seems to spend a whole mess of
time in grep_malloc() and free(). So I pulled all the references to
malloc i
Due to the discussion of speed, I have been looking at it and it is really
slow. Even slower than I thought and I was thinking it was pretty slow.
So using gprof, I have discovered that it seems to spend a whole mess of
time in grep_malloc() and free(). So I pulled all the references to
malloc
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine,
> how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better
> off we are for my money.
You misinterpretted, I didn't know you could do that therefore I didn't
implement that.
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine,
> how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better
> off we are for my money.
You misinterpretted, I didn't know you could do that therefore I didn't
implement that.
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