Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1, > > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible. > > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entri

Re: Backup methodes

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Ames
I've used rsync if your goal is to keep a backup reasonably up to date since you don't need to recopy all of the data at every backup. On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 10:44 PM 11/7/2005 +, Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| wrote: > | Hi, > | > | what is th

typo in dev/ed/if_ed.c

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Ames
Just got this during a kernel build: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -W missing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -an si -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/dev -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ dev/acpica -I/us

Re: GPS time.

2002-03-30 Thread Steve Ames
http://www.gpsclock.com/ is $380US and does PPS pulses accurate to plus or minus 1 microsecond of UTC. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:28:59AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:04:11PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: > > I just connected my gps (garmin gps II

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > Anders Hagman wrote: > > >I want to load share between two ADSL modems using a NAT/Firewall. > > > >Computer 1 \ > >\ /-- ADSL 1 > > \ / > >

calendar nit?

2001-10-09 Thread Steve Ames
I was sending an e-mail to someone and wasn't sure what day Thanksgiving was so I typed 'calendar -A 45' and saw the following: Nov 8* Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November) Odd that... -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: Cron pickle

2001-09-16 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:07:59PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > | This can be done with cron with single entry and small overhead. > | Run whis script at last minute of every day (or every 28-31): > | > | #!/bin/sh > | > | tomorrow=`date -v+1d %d` > | if [ $tomorroq -ne "0

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:02:43PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:45:03PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > > Someone recently commented in the tcsh/csh thread concerning the fact > > that the FreeBSD tcsh is maintained separately from the port, > > As is all 3rd party contribu

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:45:03PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > Someone recently commented in the tcsh/csh thread concerning the fact > that the FreeBSD tcsh is maintained separately from the port, > and nobody is really sure who is responsible for keeping the FreeBSD > version both in sync, AND,

Re: Why two cards on the same segment...

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:24:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > Hmm.. That hasn't been my experience at all. I have _always_ seen > outgoing connections use a source address of the closest interface > address that exists on the same IP network as the destination, OR, if > it is a non-local destin

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Ames
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > The crucial bottleneck for this kind of thing is the doubling > time. Unless your special purpose hardware doubles in speed as fast or > faster than general purpose CPUs, then eventually it's going to be > slow, then expensive, and fina

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-14 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Hrm... the filesystem test, I think, is fairly obvious. The default filesystem configuration doe

Re: IPFW quirk

2000-10-06 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:41AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:19:21AM -0500, Steve Ames wrote: > > > > Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an > > invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I p

IPFW quirk

2000-10-06 Thread Steve Ames
Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I poked around for a while and then it just started working again. A bit more poking and I discovered that it fails if there is a file called 'list' in the directory the com

Re: rcp -x

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Ames
Robert, Thanks for the explanation. That wasn't clear from the manpage. SSH sounds like the better path for me. -Steve On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > The -x options on rsh, rcp, and rlogin rely on Kerberos support, which it > appears you haven't installed. >

Re: OpenSSH 2.X problem with escape chars?

2000-07-08 Thread Steve Ames
Just forwarded my original message to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. -Steve On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:47:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > The same problem exists under 4-STABLE from 07/04/00. I haven't > > had timt to dig into it for real, but

OpenSSH 2.X problem with escape chars?

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Ames
Hey... just noticed something odd. I just upgrading one of my FBSD boxes to the latest -STABLE and modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config to use version 2 then 1 (Protocol 2,1). After doing this when I connect to that server the escape sequences (~^Z and friends (as per 'man 1 ssh')) no longer work. If I

can bin/10905 be closed?

2000-05-14 Thread Steve Ames
Could someone implement the patch from bin/10905? It really does make the output of the 'sa -m' command look much nicer in an environment where your using greater than 8 character usernames... Have been running -CURRENT with that patch for a few days now and no evil side effects :) -Steve T

more still breaks world

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Ames
buildworld still breaks in more (cvsup from around 12:30 EDT)... however it only breaks if you have obj directories: virtual-voodoo# make obj /usr/obj/source/src/usr.bin/more created for /source/src/usr.bin/more virtual-voodoo# make depend sed -e 's/\\//g' -e 's/\"/\\\"/g' -e 's/$/\\n\\/' <

in_cksum changes break IPSEC?

2000-05-09 Thread Steve Ames
Code from this morning (9AM EDT) gives me the following errors: linking kernel ipsec.o: In function `ipsec4_encapsulate': ipsec.o(.text+0x1ab9): undefined reference to `in_cksum' *** Error code 1 If I comment out: #options IPSEC #IP security #options IPSEC_ESP #IP security (crypto; def

swapinfo typo?

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Ames
# swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rad0s1b 1022720 102272 0%Interleaved /dev/rad1s1b 2558720 255872 0%Interleaved Total 3581440 358144 0% # I'm probably misunderstanding something,

Re: NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-31 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:04:34PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Steve Ames wrote: > > > > I have NO_SENDMAIL= true in /etc/make.conf but sendmail got rebuilt > > on the last makeworld anyway... this is -CURRENT from this morning > > (3/30). > > > > -Steve

NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Ames
I have NO_SENDMAIL= true in /etc/make.conf but sendmail got rebuilt on the last makeworld anyway... this is -CURRENT from this morning (3/30). -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD > > w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? > > Waiting for somebody at Intel to give us either hardware or simulator > time. Without eithe

64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Ames
Just read this article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2440002,00.html Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: pw bug

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Ames
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c line 736 of the file on my system: $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v 1.34 2000/01/15 00:20:21 davidn Exp The line in question: if (!PWALTDIR() && getarg(args, 'm') != NULL && pwd->pw_dir && *pwd->pw_dir == '/' && pwd->pw_dir[1]) { The conditional !PWALTDIR()

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Ames
> Drives that report their capabilities right :) > > ad0: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master > > ad0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, PIO > > ad1: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as slave > > ad1: 4134MB (8467200 sectors), 8960 cyls, 15 heads, 63

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Ames
> > What am I missing? > > Drives that report their capabilities right :) > > ad0: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master > > ad0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, PIO > > ad1: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as slave > > ad1: 4134MB (8467200 sectors

ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Ames
Hrm... no question that the ATA driver is better today, but its still not reporting DMA on my Quantum bigfoot drive (which should support DMA: http://www.quantum.com/products/archive/bigfoot_cy/bigfoot_cy_features.htm) The Maxtor is pretty old (But its been current since 3.0 :) but may still hav

Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Ames
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a partition (that is exportable) as as

Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Ames
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a partition (that is exportable) as a

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
> > Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html > > if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. > > > > Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems > > Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer > >

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
> > Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html > > if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. > > > > Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems > > Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer > > i

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
first VTY. Wonder if it utilizes the VGALIB? (Lizard that is) > Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder > than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. > > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: > > > > > Ever

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
first VTY. Wonder if it utilizes the VGALIB? (Lizard that is) > Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder > than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. > > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: > > > > > Ever

Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent selling

Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent selling

Re: UID Limits

1999-06-01 Thread Steve Ames
Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :) -Steve > From d...@flood.ping.uio.no Tue Jun 1 10:12:21 1999 > To: Steve Ames > Cc: a...@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-...@fr

Re: UID Limits

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Ames
s a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like: > > #define UID_MAX UINT_MAX; > #define GID_MAX UINT_MAX; > > I couldn't find it anywhere in the source but if there is one out > there, I imagine pwd_mkdb should use it. > > [ Quoted message from Ste