methods of payment (was: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development)

2006-03-31 Thread Marco Molteni
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:00:37 +0200 Marko Lerota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, thanks. But it's not only the Colin issue. The FreeBSD project > also can't be sponsored from here. what about good old postal money orders? Or maybe wester union ? marco ___

Re: rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize itself?

2005-10-20 Thread Marco Molteni
On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:49, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Marco Molteni wrote: > >> Try putting the "&" in command_args; that way it'll only be used > >> during startup. I do that in some of my homegrown rc.d scripts.

Re: rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize itself?

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Molteni
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:36:55 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 19), Marco Molteni said: > > I have a program that I would like to control via a rc script, > > say /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myprog > > > > problem is this prog

rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize itself?

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I have a program that I would like to control via a rc script, say /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myprog problem is this program needs to be put explicitly in background. I was playing with things like command="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog" but this obviously works only for the start case.

diskless: meaning of conf/base ?

2005-10-18 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x. I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and I think it is useful. What I am missing is the usefulness of conf/base, especially conf/base/etc, that diskless(8) suggests to fill with the same etc in $diskle

Re: diskless broken in 6.x ?

2005-10-05 Thread Marco Molteni
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700 Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and > > diskless run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4.

diskless broken in 6.x ?

2005-10-05 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc, /etc/initdiskless and finally /sbin/init. It seems to hang in init after calling multi_user(). A bi

Fw: sponsoring to port the graphire USB tablet device driver to FreeBSD

2005-08-27 Thread Marco Molteni
FYI, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only marco Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:58:52 +0200 From: Marco Molteni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Arvid de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMA

building something from CVS with GNU autotools

2005-07-05 Thread Marco Molteni
I pulled all my hair and lost my sanity. I searched mailing lists ang google, found a lot of people with my same problem but never a definitive solution. Problem is when trying to build on fbsd no matter which program out of CVS (ie: not a release) which uses GNU autotools. After patching ./autog

Re: watching a file for ownership change

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Molteni
On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:05:50 +0100 Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > I'd like to find a way to watch one of the user's maildirsize files > > that seems to flip ownerships at least once a day and try to > > determine

Re: memory leak in inflate.c

2005-03-14 Thread Marco Molteni
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to debug a memory leak in executing gzipped binaries > when the parameter list is too long. The function in question is > inflate_dynamic(). > > /* decompress until an end-of-block code */ > if (inflate_codes(glbl,

Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?

2005-02-02 Thread Marco Molteni
Deomid Ryabkov wrote: [..] E.g., if an unlink call is issued and an inode is within a particular filesystem (luckily, most of our data already lives on or can be easily moved to a separate filesystem), a notice is sent to some userland daemon: "file /www/xxx/yyy.shtml is unlinked". Or opened for

USB and remote wakeup?

2005-01-25 Thread Marco Molteni
I am investigating the USB remote wakeup feature for an ethernet adapter. Are there any example of FreeBSD/NetBSD supporting this? thanks marco ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To uns

Re: remote debugging question

2004-09-29 Thread Marco Molteni
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:22:29 -0700 Jerry Toung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > thank you for all the feedback. The "set remotebaud 1" thing in my > previous email was a typo, I usually enter 9600. > So you're saying that I may have a communication problem. I would like > to point out that

remote kernel gdb: break, continue: fatal trap 12

2004-08-19 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I am playing around with remote gdb on a -current cvsupped 2 days ago. In gdb I set a breakpoint on ums_open (USB mouse driver, as a module), in the console I execute cat /dev/ums0, the breakpoint triggers, in gdb I issue a continue and I get a Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode, a

Re: kernel debugging, console and GDB_REMOTE_CHAT option

2004-08-19 Thread Marco Molteni
Replying to myself: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 Marco Molteni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernel option GDB_REMOTE_CHAT allowed to share the same serial line > for console and remote gdb. > > Looking at the following commit message for src/sys/conf/NOTES, it > says that GDB

kernel debugging, console and GDB_REMOTE_CHAT option

2004-08-19 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, kernel option GDB_REMOTE_CHAT allowed to share the same serial line for console and remote gdb. Looking at the following commit message for src/sys/conf/NOTES, it says that GDB_REMOTE_CHAT has been removed, but it is not clear to me how to obain the equivalent of that option. Could somebody e

Re: events when (de)associating or when cable is (un)plugged

2004-03-27 Thread Marco Molteni
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:39:50 +0100 Marco Molteni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > You may also want to have a look at Wireless Tools for Linux > http://halibut.aquilamsl.com/ > they might have already considered this. sorry, mistake. Right url is Wireless Tools for Linux http:/

Re: events when (de)associating or when cable is (un)plugged

2004-03-27 Thread Marco Molteni
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Now experimenting with different types of changes to the > link/association on wifi level. Not exactly clear yet on the semantics > of a 'lost link' myself; > i.e. loss of assoc with -a- basestation; with the basestati

Re: Wacom Graphire3 USB Tablet and FreeBSD

2004-02-21 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi Arvid, [Bcc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which should the the list for USB development] On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 Arvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people, > > I have a bit of a problem to get my Wacom Graphire3 (USB) to work with > FreeBSD. At first I thought I

Re: make installworld DESTDIR=foo troubles

2003-12-12 Thread Marco Molteni
Peter Edwards wrote [2003-12-12]: [..] > >>make installworld DESTDIR=$DESTDIR, or > >>env -i make installworld DESTDIR=$DESTDIR [..] > Try > env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj DESTDIR=$DESTDIR make installworld > > I suggested this before for a different problem, and it wasn't a > solution, but th

Re: make installworld DESTDIR=foo troubles

2003-12-11 Thread Marco Molteni
Makoto Matsushita wrote [2003-12-12]: > > molter> what am I missing? > > It seems that you forget to set PATH environment variable. As you > know, "env -i" does not pass any environment variable to child process > if any other variables are explicitly set. Hi Makoto-san, if you look at my prev

make installworld DESTDIR=foo troubles

2003-12-11 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi all, I have a -stable box on which I would like to compile 4.9-release, and install the 4.9 world on a different partition (so to be able to boot from that partition too). I think I want to do something similar to a release or to a cross-build, but somehow the make installworld step fails. /

differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

2003-07-21 Thread Marco Molteni
[I sent the same message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but since that list seems not very active, I am asking here too] Hi all, the subject says it all. I am considering using FreeBSD for a robotics project, and I am thinking of using 4.x for stability. But, since we will probably use USB a lot, I am wo

are /etc/ld.so.conf and ld-elf.so.conf still used by ldconfig(8) ?

2003-06-27 Thread Marco Molteni
On -current, according to the ldconfig man page: == FILES /var/run/ld.so.hints Standard hints file for the a.out dynamic linker. /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints Standard hin

Re: gcc problem/openoffice failure

2003-05-28 Thread Marco Molteni
Julian Elischer wrote [2003-05-27]: > > For the last month (more actually)(and after completely rebuilding my > system and all the ports on it) I have not been able to compile > the openoffice port due to gcc failures. > (I have posted the message earlier several times) > Has anyone been able to

Re: freebsd running on a cdrom

2003-01-03 Thread Marco Molteni
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run off a cdrom. [..] As somebody else already mentioned, try www.freesbie.org. It is based on another project that seems stalled, livecd. Works fine, the development team is italian but we do understand

kernel/userland ssh filesystem for FreeBSD?

2002-12-11 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, as you might know, both kde (via kio-fish) and gnome (via gnome virtual file system) provide a userland filesystem-like API that allows to "mount" a remote filesystem using ssh. What I don't like about those solutions is that they require the application to use a particular API (kio slave or g

Re: Report from EuroBSDCon 2002

2002-11-19 Thread Marco Molteni
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luigi Rizzo writes: > >Very nice report, thanks :) > > > >just wanted to mention that i am totally unrelated to the Torino > >crew (at least, as far as i can tell... unless there was some > >former

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-26 Thread Marco Molteni
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:28:34 -0600, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 August 2002 02:51, Marco Molteni wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:36:15 -0600, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > Are there plans to

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-26 Thread Marco Molteni
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:36:15 -0600, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? > > Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a > new/different/broken USB interface so they're just recognized as ugen > d

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Marco Molteni
[Bcc to -multimedia] On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > webcams based on the Linux pwc driver. It's nowhere near working yet, > but I've learned a few things that may help you along

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-16 Thread Marco Molteni
On Thu, 16 May 2002 11:34:51 +0100, Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:15:09AM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > > I have got a nifty IBM ultraport camera. It is an USB device that can plug > > directly on the lid of IBM laptops. [..

writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-16 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I have got a nifty IBM ultraport camera. It is an USB device that can plug directly on the lid of IBM laptops. http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ProductDisplay?cntrfnbr=1&prmenbr=1&prnbr=04P6135&cntry=840&lang=en_US The only "technical" information in the documentation that come

Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.

2002-04-25 Thread Marco Molteni
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:02:02 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > them... At the end, it was gtkhtml which was holding the old > libfreetype.so.6, but it had cost me the whole evening to find out. > > Why didn't ldd tell me which lib it was which was failing? > With this ide

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

2002-04-23 Thread Marco Molteni
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:38:26 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 2002-04-23 (21:13), Joerg Micheel wrote: [..] > > The system has to work right away, when installed out of the box. Period. > > No when's and if's. And don't tell me that X11 is an add-on and luxury. > >

Re: FreeBSD Convention in EU

2002-04-22 Thread Marco Molteni
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:12:10 +0200, Andy Sporner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I heard some random comment here about a possible convention (sort of like > BSDCon) in Europe. Does anyone know about this or if there is going to be > such a thing? http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/ marco To Unsubscr

build of usbhidctl broken in -stable?

2002-04-11 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I think the build of usbhidctl is broken in stable, and by this I mean it is not self-contained under /usr/src but expects to have include files under /usr/include and the library uder /usr/lib. If I do a make buildworld I get ===> usr.bin/usbhidctl cc -O -pipe -c /usr/src/usr.bin/usbhi

[PATCH] src/examples/cvsup/README

2002-03-27 Thread Marco Molteni
[BCCed to -stable] Hi all, I was used to stable-supfile used to track -stable and standard-supfile used to track -current. Since april 2001 this is no more the case, and standard-supfile tracks the branch it was originally pulled from. I don't want to go into a bikeshed painting contest, but I

can I do this with a KLD?

2002-03-19 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, in netinet/in_proto.c there is struct ipprotosw inetsw[], which contains the entry points for the various Internet protocols. If one wants to add a new protocol he has to add the entry points in that array. Would it be feasible to add a new protocol as a KLD instead? If yes, how? If not, wh

Re: Junior hacker test

2002-03-18 Thread Marco Molteni
On 2002-03-18, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Mark all the usage() functions in the tree __dead2. Hi Warner, I had a look at the source (mainly to count the occurences of usage() ;-). I have a question: since from my understanding __dead2 must be added to the function declaration, what about the case

Re: upgrading to the new version of libpcap?

2002-02-11 Thread Marco Molteni
On 2002-02-08, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:10:16PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote: > > > > FreeBSD -current and -stable have libpcap 0.6.2, imported 10 months > > ago. The current libpcap from www.tcpdump.org is 0.7.1 (and has > > features

upgrading to the new version of libpcap?

2002-02-08 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, FreeBSD -current and -stable have libpcap 0.6.2, imported 10 months ago. The current libpcap from www.tcpdump.org is 0.7.1 (and has features I am interested in, namely the parsing of 802.11 frames). Is there a rule on how/when to update to a newer version? thanks Marco To Unsubscribe: send

Re: upgrading to the new version of libpcap?

2002-02-08 Thread Marco Molteni
Please find included a small patch to src/contrib/libpcap/FREEBSD-upgrade marco --- FREEBSD-upgrade Tue May 27 02:05:19 1997 +++ /home/molter/FREEBSD-upgradeFri Feb 8 18:31:19 2002 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ To make local changes to libpcap, simply patch and commit to the main branch (a

upgrading to the new version of libpcap?

2002-02-08 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, FreeBSD -current and -stable have libpcap 0.6.2, imported 10 months ago. The current libpcap from www.tcpdump.org is 0.7.1 (and has features I am interested in, namely the parsing of 802.11 frames). Is there a rule on how/when to update to a newer version? thanks Marco To Unsubscribe: send

status of bluetooth support for FreeBSD?

2002-02-04 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi all, I remember an email thread on -hackers last October on bluetooth support for FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=589265+595599+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-hackers/20011007.freebsd-hackers There were two different projects, one in design phase (by John Kozubik <[

Re: Heads up! My interview....

2001-10-09 Thread Marco Molteni
On 2001-10-08, Matt Dillon wrote: > OSNews interviewed me, it's up in today's page! I think it's a really > good interview but, of course, I am biased :-) > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=153 Matt, in the interview you talk about > native process and device-level descriptor mi

how to share include files between kernel and userland?

2001-07-27 Thread Marco Molteni
Hi, I am writing a program to parse frames dumped to bpf by an, the aironet driver. I am using the latest patches by Doug Ambrisko, that allow the driver to dump not only the 802.11 frame but also the special Aironet header that the device prepends to the 802.11 frame, ie: aironet header | 802.

Re: gdb remote debugging on slow computers

2000-09-01 Thread Marco Molteni
m using DOESN'T enforce the connection to come from hostB; this means that there is a race condition that allows the first connection to hostA, port to grab the debugging section! If you are interested I have a small shared library wrapper around accept() to fix this. Marco

Re: Mosix in FreeBSD.

2000-08-18 Thread Marco Molteni
if someone know some about it please let me know. Mosix started on BSD/OS, and was then rewritten for Linux. I think the BSD/OS version has died, but you may ask the Mosix people, now that the *BSD are getting more attention... Marco -- Marco Molteni "rough consensus and running code"

Re: kernel panics at boot, how to specify dump device?

2000-05-12 Thread Marco Molteni
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 11 May 2000 at 13:03:59 -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote: > > > On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Marco Molteni wrote: > > > > > I have a 4-STABLE kernel that panics at boot. How do I force the kernel > &g

kernel panics at boot, how to specify dump device?

2000-05-11 Thread Marco Molteni
pecify the dump device at the loader prompt? Am I correct that once you specify the boot device the kernel will automatically dump at panics? Thanks for your help Marco -- Marco Molteni "rough consensus and running code" SRI International, System Design Laboratory To Unsubscribe: send mail