rtld breakage still in -stable, or is it me?

2000-03-08 Thread Niall Smart
.com/getdoc.xp?AN=573655265 http://x31.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=565253105 A recompile of apache etc did not solve the problem, neither did a make world yesterday Any hints? Regards, Niall -- Niall Smart email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (087) 8052390 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Various Questions

1999-08-12 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:29:47 GMT, Niall Smart wrote: > > > Or is the test for IFF_PROMISC made earlier in the code? You > > should only print a disabled message when it has previously > > been enabled so that log file watchers can always mat

Re: Various Questions

1999-08-12 Thread Niall Smart
> -- snip -- > if (pswitch) { > /* > * If the device is not configured up, we cannot put it > in > * promiscuous mode. > */ > if ((ifp->if_flags & IFF_UP) == 0) > return (ENETDOWN); >

Re: Various Questions

1999-08-12 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:29:47 GMT, Niall Smart wrote: > > > Or is the test for IFF_PROMISC made earlier in the code? You > > should only print a disabled message when it has previously > > been enabled so that log file watchers can always mat

Re: Various Questions

1999-08-12 Thread Niall Smart
> -- snip -- > if (pswitch) { > /* > * If the device is not configured up, we cannot put it > in > * promiscuous mode. > */ > if ((ifp->if_flags & IFF_UP) == 0) > return (ENETDOWN); >

[Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-04 Thread Niall Smart
the future. > > Best regards, > > Olivia Cheriton > VMware, Inc. > > - Original Message - > From: Niall Smart > To: > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 11:09 AM > Subject: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS > > > Hi. > > >

[Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-04 Thread Niall Smart
the future. > > Best regards, > > Olivia Cheriton > VMware, Inc. > > - Original Message - > From: Niall Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 11:09 AM > Subjec

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-21 Thread Niall Smart
[ CC list nuked ] > Ok, here goes my understanding of how things should be, please correct me > if i'm wrong. > > There are three parts to the problem: > > 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group, >hosts, ethers, etc from. > >This should be handled b

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-21 Thread Niall Smart
[ CC list nuked ] > Ok, here goes my understanding of how things should be, please correct me > if i'm wrong. > > There are three parts to the problem: > > 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group, >hosts, ethers, etc from. > >This should be handled

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-21 Thread Niall Smart
> 3) Close all FDs except the ones you explicitly want to keep. This >is normally something like: > for (i = getdtablesize(); --i > 2; ) > close(i); >The advantage is that you are sure you don't miss any. The >disadvantage is that it requires a system call for

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-21 Thread Niall Smart
> 3) Close all FDs except the ones you explicitly want to keep. This >is normally something like: > for (i = getdtablesize(); --i > 2; ) > close(i); >The advantage is that you are sure you don't miss any. The >disadvantage is that it requires a system call fo

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-15 Thread Niall Smart
> And pidentd will still be supported. Eventually, I'd like to have those > huge majority who do not use DES tokens with pidentd move to the > inetd identd (when committed)... How about a standalone identd with DES `tokens' and any other nice to haves that it doesn't make sense to implement in a

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-15 Thread Niall Smart
> And pidentd will still be supported. Eventually, I'd like to have those > huge majority who do not use DES tokens with pidentd move to the > inetd identd (when committed)... How about a standalone identd with DES `tokens' and any other nice to haves that it doesn't make sense to implement in a

Re: [Off Topic] ODBC and yahoo

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
David Miller wrote: > > Couple of questions which are pretty much off topic > > 1) Does anyone know of a way to talk to a remote oracle server via odbc or > oci? Access is required specifically under apache and mod_perl or php, > but we've spent a couple of man-days looking for straightforwa

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
> Maybe if I call the sysctl "vm.crashmenow". No, that will just make more > people actually try it. It might be doable as a compile-time option, > since you wouldn't be able to run anything approaching standard on > such a system anyway. I don't see much use for it myself. As I

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
> I'm not sure if XPG4v2 requires command substitution to behave > like that. At least, both Solaris' and DEC UNIX... oops... > True64 UNIX do execute all command substitutions in a subshell > (`pwd` does not affect the surrounding shell), and both claim > XPG4 compliance. They only execute a su

Re: [Off Topic] ODBC and yahoo

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
David Miller wrote: > > Couple of questions which are pretty much off topic > > 1) Does anyone know of a way to talk to a remote oracle server via odbc or > oci? Access is required specifically under apache and mod_perl or php, > but we've spent a couple of man-days looking for straightforw

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
> Maybe if I call the sysctl "vm.crashmenow". No, that will just make more > people actually try it. It might be doable as a compile-time option, > since you wouldn't be able to run anything approaching standard on > such a system anyway. I don't see much use for it myself. As

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-14 Thread Niall Smart
> I'm not sure if XPG4v2 requires command substitution to behave > like that. At least, both Solaris' and DEC UNIX... oops... > True64 UNIX do execute all command substitutions in a subshell > (`pwd` does not affect the surrounding shell), and both claim > XPG4 compliance. They only execute a s

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-13 Thread Niall Smart
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:47:30 MST, Doug wrote: > > > > > Finally, Brian might want to search the bugtraq archives before > > > he commits anything. There have been quite a few identd related > > > discussions, and it wo

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-13 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:37:13 GMT, Niall Smart wrote: > > > The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar > > with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of > > a general problem with command substitution.

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-13 Thread Niall Smart
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:47:30 MST, Doug wrote: > > > > > Finally, Brian might want to search the bugtraq archives before > > > he commits anything. There have been quite a few identd related > > > discussions, and it w

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-13 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:37:13 GMT, Niall Smart wrote: > > > The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar > > with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of > > a general problem with command substitution.

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-12 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > cd /tmp > echo .`cd /`. > pwd > > Any takers? The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of a general problem with command substitution. > PS: And no, this is not an invitation to chat about t

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-12 Thread Niall Smart
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > cd /tmp > echo .`cd /`. > pwd > > Any takers? The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of a general problem with command substitution. > PS: And no, this is not an invitation to chat about

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-11 Thread Niall Smart
> I don't see a point to that. However, I am finished. Please go to > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/ and get getcred.patch and inetd_ident.patch. Hmm, +#ifdef FAKEID + snprintf(fakeid_path, sizeof(fakeid_path), "%s/.fakeid", pw->pw_dir); + fakeid = fopen(fakeid_path, "r"); + if

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-11 Thread Niall Smart
> I don't see a point to that. However, I am finished. Please go to > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/ and get getcred.patch and inetd_ident.patch. Hmm, +#ifdef FAKEID + snprintf(fakeid_path, sizeof(fakeid_path), "%s/.fakeid", pw->pw_dir); + fakeid = fopen(fakeid_path, "r"); + i

Re: poll() scalability

1999-07-06 Thread Niall Smart
> > could buffer siginfo's in user space, although this introduces > > complexity if you want the ability to cancel queued signals... > > yes, that is the hard part :) Well, how about the kernel passes siginfo and siginfo_cancel events up to userland, siginfo will remove any siginfo's from its b

Re: poll() scalability

1999-07-06 Thread Niall Smart
> > could buffer siginfo's in user space, although this introduces > > complexity if you want the ability to cancel queued signals... > > yes, that is the hard part :) Well, how about the kernel passes siginfo and siginfo_cancel events up to userland, siginfo will remove any siginfo's from its

Re: 'rtfm script'

1999-07-05 Thread Niall Smart
> At that point the converstaion turned to talking about Irish soap carving > and the fact that www.OpenBSD.org doesn't run OpenBSD. I guess I was wrong > about IRC being positive. Well, you can blame the first bit of surrealism on jkh, the poor fella has some awful ideas about what the Irish do

Re: 'rtfm script'

1999-07-05 Thread Niall Smart
> At that point the converstaion turned to talking about Irish soap carving > and the fact that www.OpenBSD.org doesn't run OpenBSD. I guess I was wrong > about IRC being positive. Well, you can blame the first bit of surrealism on jkh, the poor fella has some awful ideas about what the Irish do

Re: poll() scalability

1999-07-05 Thread Niall Smart
> > Also, you really want to return more than one event at at time in > > order to amortize the cost of the system call over several events, this > > doesn't seem possible with callbacks (or upcalls). > > yes, that would be a nice behaviour, but I haven't seen it become a real > issue yet. the s

Re: poll() scalability

1999-07-05 Thread Niall Smart
> > Also, you really want to return more than one event at at time in > > order to amortize the cost of the system call over several events, this > > doesn't seem possible with callbacks (or upcalls). > > yes, that would be a nice behaviour, but I haven't seen it become a real > issue yet. the

Re: [DISKLABEL FRAGGED] Clues requested... ;)

1999-06-21 Thread Niall Smart
ted disklabel entry: size offsetfstype 819200 3932324.2BSD ^CPROG= findsb CFLAGS = -aout -static -W -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes MAN1= .include /* * Copyright (c) 1999 Niall Smart. All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary form