Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-30 Thread Keith Stevenson
stead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment. In my opinion, the "URLification" of the user environment would be a negative unless there were a very easy way to turn it completely off. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data

Re: The future of multiprocessors (was: SMP in 2.4 (fwd))

2001-04-19 Thread Keith Stevenson
tem based on the Power4 processor. According to the design papers I've read, the Power4 has two processor cores per die. Big computing it certainly not going away. SMP may not be the most efficient design, but NUMA appears to have a lot of promise. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith St

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

2000-03-26 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:36:24PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > > > Which card(s) do your patches support? I have a 3Com 3CR990-TX (typhoon) > > which does both TCP checksumming and 3DES (for IPSec). I&

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

2000-03-25 Thread Keith Stevenson
gt; you'd want to do to say if it's enough for a general mechanism. Which card(s) do your patches support? I have a 3Com 3CR990-TX (typhoon) which does both TCP checksumming and 3DES (for IPSec). I'd love to give it a try. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson Syste

Repeated softupdates panics in 3.3-STABLE

2000-01-03 Thread Keith Stevenson
/wd2s1e 1016303 279793 65520630%/var /dev/wd0s1f 101630390322 844677 10%/var/log Thanks for any guidance. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Keith Stevenson
hub is running 3.3-RC in a Sep 12 build). How about 3.4? I am running 3.3 and everything is fine. I'm using IDE drives on my system, so I was wondering if they might be putting enough of a brake on the I/O subsystem to avoid the problem Peter is reporting. Regards, --Keith Stevenson--

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Keith Stevenson
It handles no local deliveries. Just another real-use data point. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Keith Stevenson
curious... All I've heard is a marketing presentation. I haven't seen this is the real world yet. IBM just released a new version of AIX (4.3.3). One of the big features is CPU affinity in order to made better use of the CPU caches. They claim to have done this be having a sepa

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Keith Stevenson
All I've heard is a marketing presentation. I haven't seen this is the real world yet. IBM just released a new version of AIX (4.3.3). One of the big features is CPU affinity in order to made better use of the CPU caches. They claim to have done this be having a separate r

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Keith Stevenson
ne of the things I hold over the heads of the Linux folks I deal with is the fact that FreeBSD is a professional quality operating system which doesn't need useless blinking lights like BogoMIPS. Chalk me up as one of the people who considers "Linux works like that" as a negative. Re

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Keith Stevenson
ne of the things I hold over the heads of the Linux folks I deal with is the fact that FreeBSD is a professional quality operating system which doesn't need useless blinking lights like BogoMIPS. Chalk me up as one of the people who considers "Linux works like that" as a negative. Re

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
the proposed smtp user would address postfix's needs. Qmail, as has already been pointed out, is a very different story. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
the proposed smtp user would address postfix's needs. Qmail, as has already been pointed out, is a very different story. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
maintainers of mail ports. > This sounds quite reasonable to me. We already have a precedent in the bind (uid=53) user. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
maintainers of mail ports. > This sounds quite reasonable to me. We already have a precedent in the bind (uid=53) user. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A

Re: Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-08-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
my hacking hours are limited. Code is available at: http://www.kagekaze.org/stat.tar.gz Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6

Re: Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-08-01 Thread Keith Stevenson
my hacking hours are limited. Code is available at: http://www.kagekaze.org/stat.tar.gz Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0

Re: Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-07-28 Thread Keith Stevenson
could include a few sample outputs that I could work from. The current version already solves my problems, but I'll be happy to hack away at it if you are interested in including it in FreeBSD in some way. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data C

Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-07-28 Thread Keith Stevenson
I hacked this together last night. The only GNU code I looked at was the Linux stat(1u) man page. (A man page is forthcoming, especially if there is some interest in using this implementation.) The code is also available at http://www.kagekaze.org/stat.c Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith

Re: Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-07-28 Thread Keith Stevenson
if you could include a few sample outputs that I could work from. The current version already solves my problems, but I'll be happy to hack away at it if you are interested in including it in FreeBSD in some way. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Ser

Was someone looking for a BSD licensed stat(1)?

1999-07-28 Thread Keith Stevenson
I hacked this together last night. The only GNU code I looked at was the Linux stat(1u) man page. (A man page is forthcoming, especially if there is some interest in using this implementation.) The code is also available at http://www.kagekaze.org/stat.c Regards, --Keith Stevenson

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-21 Thread Keith Stevenson
, one of the very attractive features of specifying the crypt function in the login class is the ability to assign different crypt algorithms on a user by user basis. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louis

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-21 Thread Keith Stevenson
, one of the very attractive features of specifying the crypt function in the login class is the ability to assign different crypt algorithms on a user by user basis. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PG

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Keith Stevenson
okups. > > > > the Entry would be of the form > > > > > > > > ldap:*:389:389:o=My Organization, c=BR:uid:ldap.myorg.com > > > Horrible idea. > > suggestions? > > /etc/auth.conf > Given that this is a PAM module, wouldn't /etc/pam

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Keith Stevenson
dea is to have an entry in the /etc/passwd enabling LDAP lookups. > > > > the Entry would be of the form > > > > > > > > ldap:*:389:389:o=My Organization, c=BR:uid:ldap.myorg.com > > > Horrible idea. > > suggestions? > > /etc/auth.conf > Gi

Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs

1999-07-13 Thread Keith Stevenson
ppen is that > packets get through your firewall destined to a nonexistent address (i.e. if > you allow incoming port Y traffic then people can send to port Y on > nonexistent IP addresses (i.e. your peer addresses) which will be dropped by > the kernel). Keep in mind that if securelevel >

Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs

1999-07-13 Thread Keith Stevenson
gh your firewall destined to a nonexistent address (i.e. if > you allow incoming port Y traffic then people can send to port Y on > nonexistent IP addresses (i.e. your peer addresses) which will be dropped by > the kernel). Keep in mind that if securelevel > 2, the ipfw rules can no

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-06 Thread Keith Stevenson
, PAM integration is still a work in progress. John Polstra laid out a lot of the groundwork, but there is still a lot of work left to be done. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-06 Thread Keith Stevenson
, PAM integration is still a work in progress. John Polstra laid out a lot of the groundwork, but there is still a lot of work left to be done. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerpri

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-26 Thread Keith Stevenson
/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &quo

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-26 Thread Keith Stevenson
7,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.o

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-26 Thread Keith Stevenson
ranularity, they can disable libwrap support on the inetd command line and use tcpd. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To U

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-26 Thread Keith Stevenson
larity, they can disable libwrap support on the inetd command line and use tcpd. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.steven...@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-25 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:31:26 -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > > What is possible now that wasn't possible with tcpd from the ports > > collection? Why incorporate libwrap (and make our inetd funct

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-25 Thread Keith Stevenson
not also start tinkering with the format of inetd.conf. I'm just not comfortable with creating "FreeBSD-isms" when there isn't a clear improvement in functionality. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University o