On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:38:31PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> At the risk of being dragged into this, I've see this kind of behaviour
> on RELENG_3 also in the past.
I have vague memories of it in 386BSD. It's really nothing new at all.
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mmercial
software which is shaped and bounded by QA procedures as well. Overall,
though, I'd hazard a guess that open-source software is generally more
reliable (it is in my experience, anyway).
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rk stack is implemented in FreeBSD.
> > hope its very similar to linux architecture.
>
> there is some streams supprt as part of the SYSV emulation.
> I have no idea how complete it is or if it can be
> used natively.
Don't even think about it :-)
these points is very simple:
> "See /usr/src/UPDATING"
It's more like, "See /usr/src/UPDATING after updating your source."
> Unfortunately, my system has no /usr/src/UPDATING.
If you had updated your source, you would have /usr/src/UPDATING.
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s particularly true in the case of the
Aironet 802.11 gear, which has even worse restrictions wrt bridging
and even more expensive access points.
(FWIW: With the Aironet kit, when you place the card into "monitor
mode" you can't transmit frames at all).
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reversed...
It's because the Palm's serial port only runs 3 wires, and doesn't
provided a DCD signal. Opens on ttyd0 block until DCD is asserted,
so you're screwed if you're on a Palm :-) Opens on cuaa0 succeed
straight away if the device is idle.
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g 'unleashed' in you computer blah."
>
> So that's that. No further discussion would be entered into. They've made
> their decision. with a parting shot that:
>
> "what we need to concern ourselves with as a Christian school is the
> 'message' or 'image' that may unwittingly be portrayd.&
eful things to know about.
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time soon.
That means we really need to put the syscall mappings into the svr4.ko
module as we do at the moment, but perhaps put the syscall# -> syscall()
mappings into separate modules (solaris.ko, sco.ko, unixware.ko, etc).
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sn't always work), or an explicit branding, or
an appropriate setting of the kern.fallback_elf_brand sysctl MIB variable.
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of SysVR4. Things like ioctl() commands,
signal numbers, and basically all the other things the emulator translates
could exhibit minor differences between flavours, but the bulk of it should
be the same from vendor to vendor.
Comments?
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:25:53AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 06), Mark Newton said:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:48:10AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> >
> > > I was recently playing around with iBCS support in FreeBSD
> > >
~newton/freebsd-svr4/ for more info.
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mbering is a bit more complicated than dev/inode concatenation
anyway, but the lack of inode number preservation is probably what bit you
this time.
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ld appreciate it.
I think the Stallion serial port drivers do something kinda similar.
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:59:13AM +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
> I'll attach the output of pccardc dumpcis.
Blurgh. Maybe I'll attach it this time.
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sure *someone* here knows an answer.
I know the WaveLAN stuff is crap, and I'd rather be using Aironet at
the moment (at least that works!), but we've thought it prudent to
give the Lucent stuff a try (even if only to make sure our suppliers
understand that we can change v
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:12:17PM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 March 2000 at 11:12:21 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
>
> > Another thing which would be useful is the ability to "vinum-ize" an
> > existing filesystem without destroying it first. On So
e way that'd be done for any other logical
volume.
I'm not sure that you can do that with vinum, though. Greg and I talked
about it about six months ago as a nice thing to have, but there are,
of course, other priorities...
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hich is
roughly US$2.76. That means the US price of petroleum can rise by almost
100% and people still still drive the kind of distances which usually
constitute international travel.
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making it work.
So is there? :-)
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n the
damage they can do if they misbehave, then just give them the root
password so they won't have to dick around with floppies anymore.
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:48:59AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 10-Feb-00 Mark Newton wrote:
> > Those clauses aren't enforcible - Yet. They will be when (if) the
> > Digital Millenium Copyright Act passes.
>
> Has it been proposed yet? (For .au)
gt; reveal my results to anyone?
Those clauses aren't enforcible - Yet. They will be when (if) the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act passes.
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ct to have persistent
connections back to the host they were loaded from).
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&qu
. And would definitely qualify as an
> > "invasive" change. Food for thought, though :-)
> >
> > Any insights?
> >
> > I suppose I could just go ahead and try it, but, before I end up doing a
> > reinstall (cd /usr/src && make blowupworld), I th
ind with DCD asserted as the console, falling back to COM1 if
we can't find any ports with DCD (indicating that someone has failed to
follow our cabling insistence)
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expect sequence to "plug-through" any arbitrary TCP port when
I was forced to endure a tn-gw proxy with a previous employer; I can
provide it (under a BSD-style license) if anyone is interested.
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return(1);
kludgeraw = 1;
+ } else if (gimme8bit) {
+ syslog(LLEV, "RAW connection requested");
}
if((rfd = conn_server(av[1],port,0,buf)) < 0) {
***
*** 768,774
return(2);
}
!
baddest(fd,d
t;
> I know forced umount is dangerous, but soo ... =P
It's described as "dangerous" precisely because it causes a kernel
panic.
Why on earth would you want/need to do that anyway?
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Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> FreeBSD 3.3 uses ELF format and previous versions (2.x.y) use AOUT format.
You should be able to build an a.out kernel by putting
makeoptions KERNFORMAT=aout
into your kernel config file.
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C, wouldn't it? :-)
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ll have had backups from immediately
before your upgrade, and reversing the upgrade will be a simple matter
of restoring your backups.
Why do you want to reverse it anyway?
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Dodge Ram wrote:
> Also, is there a list of reasons for a SIGSEGV ?
Only one: "Your program is buggy" :-)
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loader where you have full access to the BIOS.
While you're reading through it all, always keep the fact that there's
probably a better way at the forefront of your mind :-)
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achieve (instead of
how you're trying to achieve it) and we'll be able to give you a different
way of doing it which actually makes sense.
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Has anyone had any problems running FreeBSD-SMP on Intel GX-chipset
motherboards?
Conversely, does anyone have any recommendations for other motherboards
to buy?
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t;?
Not needed - The devfs registration stubs are called during driver
initialization which happens at boot time anyway; When the devfsd
starts up and reads messages from its socket, it'd get a queue of
device instances.
I'm envisaging something like /dev/log here; When syslo
e, where "operation" is "create", "delete", "online", "offline",
etc. Why worry about the complexities of a vfs to handle /dev in the
kernel when almost all of it can be done in userland?
[ Heh. *now* there'll be some wailing and gnashing
t; than happy to revise the benchmark if time permits, and I'll be forwarding
> the posts to him so he's got some impetus. :)
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Ben Rosengart wrote:
> I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is
> in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files
> in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install.
/bin/ed
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> I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is
> in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files
> in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install.
/bin/ed
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to that file open.
Nah, that'd still influence the display from "df".
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to that file open.
Nah, that'd still influence the display from "df".
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(almost)
> eliminate the need to do fsck...
The UFS checkpointing stuff Kirk is working on is supposed to be the
magic bullet that fixes this. XFS will be kinda neat too.
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't be the first to do it either (IRIX has
supported 16 partitions per spindle for years).
Have you made the change on your hackbox already to make sure it doesn't
have any negative implications?
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(almost)
> eliminate the need to do fsck...
The UFS checkpointing stuff Kirk is working on is supposed to be the
magic bullet that fixes this. XFS will be kinda neat too.
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't be the first to do it either (IRIX has
supported 16 partitions per spindle for years).
Have you made the change on your hackbox already to make sure it doesn't
have any negative implications?
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ia.
>
> Yes... Why is this a FreeBSD problem then? I would have thought it would
> be up to MacOS to do the UID remapping (I must be missing something)
"Think Different": The MacOS is BSD.
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ia.
>
> Yes... Why is this a FreeBSD problem then? I would have thought it would
> be up to MacOS to do the UID remapping (I must be missing something)
"Think Different": The MacOS is BSD.
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> it should hit a signal, isn't it? Why that is not happening?
We only had this thread a week ago. Please consult the archives.
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> it should hit a signal, isn't it? Why that is not happening?
We only had this thread a week ago. Please consult the archives.
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Are you
sure you're setting your login.conf settings properly?
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sure you're setting your login.conf settings properly?
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ny key
5. enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt
Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-)
[ admittedly, I haven't tried this since before the new boot blocks were
committed, but it worked perfectly last year... ]
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press any key
5. enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt
Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-)
[ admittedly, I haven't tried this since before the new boot blocks were
committed, but it worked perfectly last year... ]
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Arun Sharma wrote:
> The second alternative - to mark system daemons as special
> sounds much more attractive.
Ok, now define the difference between "system daemons" and any other
daemon (or, for that matter, any other process).
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Arun Sharma wrote:
> The second alternative - to mark system daemons as special
> sounds much more attractive.
Ok, now define the difference between "system daemons" and any other
daemon (or, for that matter, any other process).
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reconfiguration for free. It could even defer the
initial construction of config_devtab until boot-time if you used
"options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" to provide default configuration data...
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ntime reconfiguration for free. It could even defer the
initial construction of config_devtab until boot-time if you used
"options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" to provide default configuration data...
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the security problems that causes when setuid executables
assume that they only need to be worrying about one filesystem namespace.
:-)
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the security problems that causes when setuid executables
assume that they only need to be worrying about one filesystem namespace.
:-)
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btw? :-) ]
FWIW, the guy I was talking about embarked on a network install from
another machine with a CD-ROM drive and an NFS server; the network
install failed for slightly related reasons, having to do with the
idea the hardware in this box is generally crap.
The disappointing thing
DEFCON, btw? :-) ]
FWIW, the guy I was talking about embarked on a network install from
another machine with a CD-ROM drive and an NFS server; the network
install failed for slightly related reasons, having to do with the
idea the hardware in this box is generally crap.
The disappointing thing
ffect
> of calling malloc().
It's just using a different definition of "successful return of malloc()"
to the one you're trying to use :-)
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ffect
> of calling malloc().
It's just using a different definition of "successful return of malloc()"
to the one you're trying to use :-)
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who cares how arcane it is?
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ddies: Once a complicated interface is in an exploit script,
who cares how arcane it is?
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Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone
have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it?
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have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it?
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lso to a local isp
> - desktop sends a mail to me that means it is online
> (sends an ip address as well)
> - laptop logs in
>
> is it too much? any idea?
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> - desktop sends a mail to me that means it is online
> (sends an ip address as well)
> - laptop logs in
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> is it too much? any idea?
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imizing their system for good benchmark performance rather than
good real-world performance.
'twill be interesting to see the offical report to find out where the
various strengths and weaknesses really are.
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y spend the odd evening doing something, it is too much hassle.
>
> In case FreeBSD wants to enter commercial environments, we have to behave
> like behaving in commercial environments.
Ok, so let's follow Microsoft's industry-leading documentation standards.
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> > SCO has been a real pain in the bum about partition tables for as
> > long as I can remember.
>
> To be fair, this is UnixWare
You mean "UnixSwear," don't yo
where other than on your normal
boot disk either. I've never had any luck getting SCO OpenServer
onto a secondary disk of any kind.
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;s replying to this message: you will
no doubt delete this text in your reply, because it's stressing
that you should CONSULT THE ARCHIVES. have you consulted them? if
not, please, please, please exit your editor without saving your
response, and consult them. thank you for your
Arun Sharma wrote:
> Mark Newton writes:
> > Arun Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > While we're on the init topic, is there any strong feeling here about
> > > BSD /etc/rc* scripts Vs SysV ? The nice thing about SysV initscripts
> > > is the ab
top any service you
like without involving SysV init.
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possible is an I/O scheduler which
supports prioritization. Hmm...
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Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> > > DESCR file?
> > /usr/ports/INDEX ?
>
> Isn't the DESCR much more detailed than this INDEX file?
> (compare mail/mutt/pkg/DESCR and the INDEX file)
Use INDEX to work ou
Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> > but for most people who just want to build a handful of ports,
> > browse the tree to see if there's anything cool they want, and
> > then forget the ports tree 'til the next upgra
Mark Newton wrote:
> /usr/ports/buildenv would contain everything that the non-special-case
> /usr/ports directories currently contain, except the Makefiles. They'd
> continue to live in their present location.
I thought of another advantage of this approach: You can upgrade
t'll cut
down considerably on overhead. It'll cut down on the number
of subdirectories in the ports tree by 66% at least.
Ok, fire away -- tell me why it'll never work :-)
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David Scheidt wrote:
> "Linux is for people that hate Microsoft. FreeBSD is for people who
> love Unix."
I like "Linux is Luke Skywalker; FreeBSD is Yoda."
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ngle I/O; it'll also take small contiguous regions (extents)
and remap them into the next-power-of-two extent size as they grow.
I know I could probably see by looking at the source, but does FreeBSD
still impose a 64k limit on physical I/O operations? That'll have
to go too...
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