Re: Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Yann Ramin
Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages from pwd_mkdb: "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters chpass: updating the database... pwd_mkdb: 14 > recommended max uid value (65535) chpass: done I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linu

Large UIDs (>65536)

2000-06-09 Thread Yann Ramin
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs (unsigned long) on a FreeBSD system? What would this require changing? From what I can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile everything, you should be ok. Am I missing anything here? Yann To Unsubscribe:

Cisco Port Grouping w/FreeBSD

2000-05-17 Thread Yann Ramin
force the switch to 100/full on the port, the Intel PRO 100/B card will run at 100/half, since it assumes the switch is a non-autonegotiating hub. Use auto select on both sides works very well. Yann -- Yann Ramin

Funny Network Transit Delays

2000-05-12 Thread Yann Ramin
isco Catalyst 2924XL switches. If I use a plain vanilla 10Base hub I get a cool 620KB/s. Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? Yann -- ---- Yann Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atrus Trivalie Productions www.

Re: LDAP NIS replacement

2000-03-14 Thread Yann Ramin
u sure that nss_ldap doesn't compile on freebsd? I think I > compiled it once (and of course it was unusable since FreeBSD > lacks NSS). > > regards, > > -oscar > > -- > pgp public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp fingerprint: 6D 18 8C 90 4C DF F0 4B DF