At 9:19 AM +0200 9/15/03, Soren Schmidt wrote:
It seems Rich Morin wrote:
With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again...
There is no time for this on 4.9 (at least if it should be done properly.
5.1 has support for all SiS chipsets...
I'm not interested in pu
With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again...
At 10:01 AM -0700 6/17/03, Rich Morin wrote:
I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, as:
478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz
512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.)
SiS962(L) Southbridge
I then found that I couldn't boot the (FreeBS
I have a project for which I need a generalized time-based scheduling
daemon. cron(8) is almost ideal, but it only has minute-level resolution.
So, I'm thinking about modifying cron to add second-level resolution.
Before I start, I thought I'd ask a few questions:
* Has someone already done th
I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, as:
478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz
512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.)
SiS962(L) Southbridge
I then found that I couldn't boot the (FreeBSD 4.7) system, getting:
ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting
ata0: resetting devices
After a bunch of Googling
At 10:37 AM -0800 11/19/02, Brooks Davis wrote:
Once the if_xname patch is in, it will be exceedingly simple to add some
code to ether_ifattach to do that if you really want.
Well, _I_ really want FreeBSD to move in the direction of "plug and play";
this is merely one small contribution. That s
At 3:17 PM +0100 11/19/02, René Scharfe wrote:
OK, perhaps this can be made even simpler. Put this into your /etc/rc.conf
and be done:
# a hack to ease the configuration of machines with only one NIC
_single=`ifconfig -l link`
eval ifconfig_${_single}="inet 192.168.254.193 netmask 255.255.
At 11:39 PM -0800 11/18/02, Doug Barton wrote:
Pardon me if I'm being dense, but I don't understand what your proposal
does that the existing interface config tools do not.
Well, it's quite possible that I am replicating some existing feature;
feel free to clue me in if this is the case.
Can y
René Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has developed an alternative way of performing
this function. It's a LOT smaller than my version, yet it seems to cover
all the bases. To use his version, you put:
network_interfaces=SINGLE
ifconfig_single=" inet 192.168.254.193 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defined by sgl_ifconfig_aliasN variables.
#
# Written by Rich Morin, CFCL, 2002.11
# set -x# DEBUG
# sgl_ifconfig=" inet 192.168.254.193 netmask 255.255.255.0" # DEBUG
# sgl_ifconfig_alias0="inet 192.168.
g interface.
Here is a first-cut implementation of some code to do this:
=
:
# iffy - automagical definition of interfaces
#
# Written by Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CFCL, 2002.11
# set -x# DEBUG
ifconfig_SGL=&qu
My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a
single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had
functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the
overhead a great deal.
A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs
togethe
I have a luggable FireWire drive which I am considering using for
backups and data mobility on a variety of machines and operating
systems (roughly, *BSD, Mac OS X, and (eventually) Linux).
I'd welcome any suggestions as to things to do or avoid. I'd rather
not get a ways down the road and disco
A friend of mine is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Linux.
He says, however, that he can only get a Linux port of Oracle and
he is worried that it will not run properly under FreeBSD's Linux
compatibility mode. Can anyone give me some Real Information on
this?
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At 10:48 PM +0100 6/4/01, Brian Somers wrote:
>As you suspect, mounting nosuid makes /etc/security skip the
>suid checks... good for giving the security-unconscious a reason
>to fix their system :)
Works for me...
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/etc/security takes a number of hours to run on my system. The problem
is that I have some very large mounted file systems and the code to look
for setuid files wants to walk through them all. I recoded the check in
Perl, but it ran at about the same speed. I have considered reworking
the code
A private note inquired:
>> Then, a Perl script on the local machine could look up the
>> advisories, run the tests, and report the results
>
>What exactly does this buy me, other than additional delays,
>over what I get now?
Nothing in this proposal would supplant the advisories for those who
I have a partly-baked idea regarding the security advisories that
I see on freebsd-announce. While I applaud the intent of these
notices, I wonder if some sort of automation might not make them a
bit more useful.
Let's say we encoded the advisories in XML and put them up for HTTP
access, encodin
At 3:52 PM +0200 3/25/01, Walter Hop wrote:
>Yeah, but we could argue if this was a choice based on technical details
>or if FreeBSD was just picked for the BSD license
The NeXT work had been done on 4.3BSD, so both the code base and the
implementors' background made the use of a BSDish platf
At 11:18 PM -0800 3/24/01, Dan Feldman wrote:
>You're right, there's no need to pick fights. But I'm just pointing out
>that there's no reason FreeBSD should work particularly hard to create the
>appearance of an alliance with Apple, when all they've done is use the
>source of some kernel componen
As a part-time journalist, I receive a fair number of press releases.
Most get tossed, unopened, in an effort to simplify my life. When I
do open a release, it all too frequently contains news of some VP of
paper clips who has gotten promoted to Senior VP of office supplies.
I have considered wri
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