Re: Custom FreeBSD usb memstick

2012-11-08 Thread Robison, Dave
If you're just looking for a release on memstick, check out druidbsd http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ If you're doing it to learn the process, I'm sure you can learn a few things from druidbsd anyway... Enjoy Dave On 11/08/2012 14:07, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello hack

A question about creating a system call

2012-11-07 Thread dave jones
ce it with AUE_FOO? How to determine the system call should be audit or not? Thank you. Regards, Dave. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hacker

Re: Disabling ethernet link on an Intel nic?

2012-08-16 Thread Dave Duchscher
On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:16 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 11.08.2012 20:35, David Duchscher пишет: >> Greetings, >> >> I have a need to turn off the link of an ethernet port on a Intel nic. The >> issue is not a big deal but one we would like to solve. we have no way of >> signaling an upstream

Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-18 Thread Dave Hayes
it will become worse. If everyone is busy fighting evil, who is left to create the good? :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< A free society is one

Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
said: "I rarely read the handbook *and* find that the procedures or tools as advertised" -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< "

Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
documents the work and provides some sort of link or summary for people who are running production or near-production systems. I really don't understand why I have this perception, nor is it logical that the perception should exist in the first place. It remains nonetheless. -- Dave Hayes

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Hayes
documentation on new features), so I would find a command that suggested new features and pointed the user to related documentation extremely useful. I'm sure there are many others who would agree. :) Would you explain why you do not? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetca

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-16 Thread Dave Hayes
on, though I'll admit tainting it with some humor. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< People sell talking parrots for huge sums. They never pause to com

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-16 Thread Dave Hayes
ut I'd like to see someone explain why this isn't a valid solution to both sides. :D -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< A solved problem is as useful to the mind as a br

libgeom documentation?

2012-06-25 Thread Dave Hayes
Libgeom has these functions geom_gettree() and geom_getxml but there is no documentation in the man page. Was this intentional? Is there a place these functions are documented other than their source code? :) Thanks in advance. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org

Re: [PREVIEW] bsdconfig(8)

2012-03-05 Thread Robison, Dave
rses. Woo hoo, first to complain! -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If

Re: Ptrace in FreeBSD

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Arsenault
ANDERSON EDUARDO wrote: someone could help me use the PT_SETREGS on FreeBSD? I get the value of registers with PT_GETREGS normal, but when I make the modification and the use PT_SETREGS not working! could show me an example? _

memset bugs.

2007-08-14 Thread Dave Jones
meone can eyeball this for correctness and get it committed, or forward it on to the right people. Thanks, Dave --- src/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c~ 2007-08-14 15:44:11.0 -0400 +++ src/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c 2007-08-14 15:44:27.0 -0400 @@ -6331,7 +6331,7

Re: How should i start working on kernel programming?

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Arsenault
How would I go about debugging a LKM. I am currently working on a simple kernel module that overwrites the open() syscall and sends the output through a parsing routine. I've read many articles talking about using the (gdb) add-symbol-file lkm.ko and in fact that works but as far as I know I can

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Out of all the O'Reilly books I have, the LDAP one was the most useless. I forgot to say, "and out of all the LDAP books I have *as well*". -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
O'Reilly books I have, the LDAP one was the most useless. -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
feature, and an FCO was necessary to fix it. -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Process arguments

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Clausen
If I'm not mistaken pjd@ has written similar module which is called lrexec for RELENG_4 and RELENG_5. See his web site. Also recently rwatson@ enabled audit support in RELENG_6 and CURRENT, though I don't know yet whether it can log arguments. Great, lrexec was exactly what I was looking for

Process arguments

2006-10-29 Thread Dave Clausen
grp->pg_session->s_login; if (p->p_ucred->cr_ruid == 1001) { printf("%s %d %s\n", user, p->p_pid, uap->fname); } return (execve(td,uap)); } Running 'ls -al' with the above, I get the username, pid, and absolute filename printed su

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
performance. If you're never going to update a file > then making it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will > get better performance by making it non-sparse. Aha! Thanks for that, Peter. -- Dave, wondering why anyone would

Re: Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Cornejo
There are no block devices in FreeBSD, only character devices http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html dave c > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX com

Re: Bad block -> file mapping

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Horsfall
e math by hand, but if I don't have > to... It wasn't all that long ago that there was such a tool; I think it was "icheck -b" that went as far back as Edition 5? -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!

2006-02-22 Thread Dave
Hello, Thank you for your suggestion i will do that though i like the suggestion of using a vnode mounted image so i don't blow up the data i'm trying to save. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave

Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!

2006-02-22 Thread Dave
grief and that's the one i need! Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Edward B. DREGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:42 PM Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! First, c

urgent, need to recover superblock!

2006-02-22 Thread Dave
his data can be retrieved. An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not cover the entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any help appreciated. Some urgency! Dave. Script started on Sun Feb 19 07:56:47 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev#ls ad1

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
years of patches not applied, eh? -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Myron
hat I could verify that it's a problem with the P-ATA part of this controller. Any more ideas? dave myron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:50 AM To: Dave Myron Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Myron
troller working so that I can get back to my work files. If you know of existing patches please point them out (and I'll have to find instructions on how to apply them but c'est la vie). Thanks in advance, ----- 8< -

Re: Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
and disks (it was designed to clone smaller disks to a bigger Kingston drive as an upgrade). Kingston have verified the driver only works with their disks, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that the adaptor will as well. I should dig out the old disk and try it (if it

Re: Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
nt stinky# atacontrol mode 2 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = BIOSPIO Looks like I'm out of luck? The full dmesg output (which I'd truncated) is: ata2: at port 0x180-0x187,0x386-0x387 irq 11 function 0 config 37 on pccard0 -- Dave ___ freebsd-h

Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
I have a Kingston StrataDrive Plus adaptor, which in conjunction with a Windoze driver (and Kingston drives *only*) allow a 2nd ATA drive to be connected to a laptop. Any chance that it can be used with FreeBSD? 5.3-STABLE says "ata2: "

Re: calibrating time

2004-12-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
Or, for that matter, the traditional use of sleep(2) before that :-) -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

2004-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
gher density drives will be more sensitive > to both heat and dirty power. A third possibility is that all disks came from the same batch (and I've been bitten by that). After all, there's a reason why 250Gb can be squeezed into such a p

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
rom ourselves? You typed it, you suffer the consequences (and you'll think very carefully before hitting RETURN next time). Or don't you trust those to whom you have given root access? I can't believe we're having this conversation. -- Dave __

Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ?

2004-08-12 Thread Dave Airlie
he i915 is ported to FreeBSD but I've hadn't the time or FreeBSD skills to actually get it working :-) (I'd suspect my pci_alloc_consistent port isn't correct, ...) porting the i810 driver probably isn't a huge amount of work but I doubt I'll have any time to do it ..

linksys USB 200M

2003-09-18 Thread Dave Hastings
chool just started again and I need to access the internet from my machine. Posted is the part of the dmesg that shows whats going on. It just hangs on this forever. Thanks, Dave axe0: Linksys product 0x2226, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 axe0: Ethernet address: 00:ee:dd:c3:3c:f0 axe0: read PHY failed axe0

spl protection of selrecord / selwakeup ?

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Dolson
In FreeBSD 4.7, When writing a device driver, which spl should be used when calling selrecord or selwakeup() ? Some of the functions called by those functions (e.g., pfind ) have no protection of their own. Some drivers use spltty() or splimp(). Can someone explain why splhigh() is not requi

spltty / tty_imask question

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Dolson
A quick FreeBSD 4.7 kernel question: Is tty_imask supposed to have bits set for all sio devices? I.e., should bits 3 and 4 be set to indicate IRQ3 and IRQ4? I noticed by gdb of a running system that bit 4 was set, but not bit 3. We're seeing a panic due to re-acquiring COM_LOCK, and I was wonde

Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Kingsley
and on others as well. Creating a tar-ball, untarring in the new location, making necessary tweaks, seemed to work OK at first. But we can't reset passwords, etc. out side of sysinstall!? What are we doing wrong? What are we missing? Help! Thanks, -- Dave -- Dave Kingsley

Re: 5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Evans
I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on order. It has not arrived yet. I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault. To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if acce

Re: 5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Evans
Further to this problem, I booted CURRENT- 20 October 2002 and mounted the fixit floppy. Trying "tar cvf test /mnt" gave the usual errors as before. Mounting the fixit.flp as a memory disk using mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fixit.flp -u 4 mount -oro /dev/md4 /mnt and trying tar as before gave no erro

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Evans
REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through. I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow any keyboard input and does not proceed any further. (*** don't try this unless you have a way of re

5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Evans
The fixit.flp from the 5.0 DP2 cdrom appears to be unusable. When I attempt to use it after booting from kern.flp it comes up with errors of the form: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2528 of 2528-2530 (ST0 40 \ ST1 4 ST2 10 cyl 70 hd 0 sec 9) accompanied by ominous clicking noises from the flo

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-12 Thread Dave Evans
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes: > : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console > : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you

Re: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Evans
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Friday 10 January 2003 20:46, John Baldwin a crit : > [SNIP] > > > > > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a > > > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted

boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Evans
At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g. ad(0,e)/boot/loader. At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current of O

cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap partition

2003-01-10 Thread Dave Evans
My current installation is this: ad0s3a / 500MB ad0s3e 500MB ad0s3b 2000MB ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB ad0s3g /mountpoint2 1MB ad0s3h /mountpoint3 4MB I have -Current on ad0s3a an

Hi folk, needing basic help with shared mem

2002-11-02 Thread Dave & Julia Smith
have just come over from the Win32 platform and grasping some of the POSIX compliance coding is a tad different to WinAPI and Direct3D ;) I appreciate any help I can get on this, Thanks in advance, Dave Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Panic: vm_page_insert: already inserted

2002-08-21 Thread Dave Hayes
I've recently experienced this crash on 4.6.2-RELEASE. Relevant information is appended to this email message. My question is: should I submit a PR or try to troubleshoot my hardware? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expre

BurnCD doesn't "just work" at 4.6-p1

2002-07-04 Thread Dave Hayes
: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A man stopped Nasrudin and asked him what day of the week

Re: panic: vm_object_terminate: freeing busy page 0xc0fbcdc4

2002-06-28 Thread Dave Hayes
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What kernel version are you running? 4.5-p4 at the moment. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< I was to learn later in life t

panic: vm_object_terminate: freeing busy page 0xc0fbcdc4

2002-06-27 Thread Dave Hayes
Subject says why a machine died. Anyone have any ideas what this panic from vm_object.c means? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "It is error alone which needs the support of gove

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
ds to go with ideas in that document. Perhaps this is the handbook? I don't have a completely clear picture yet. Maybe some of you can help me get one? =) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <

Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
gt; exciting enough... 8-) 8-)). Gah! Too much excitement for me. ;) I'm sure you folks hashed this all over before, but really...calling a branch "-stable" when it really isn't is not good semantic practice IMNSHO. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PR

Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Hayes
What does the _BP extension mean on the RELENG tags? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< It is difficult to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious. To Unsubscribe: s

freebsd nis serving linux clients solution.

2002-04-13 Thread dave
#x27;t ask me why but that did it. That also fixed proftpd as well. Thanks again. Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD NIS serving linux clients.

2002-04-13 Thread dave
Hi, As far as i know fbsd is exporting md5 passwords. The rh box is set up to do md5, as well. Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

FreeBSD NIS serving linux clients.

2002-04-13 Thread dave
ines to /etc/pam.conf and PersistentPasswd off to proftpd.conf, restarted proftpd, however when a user tries to log in an error 530 occurs and in /var/log/messages i get a message that the password is not valid. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks. Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Adaptec NIC and Netfinity

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Brancato
e hardware platform is on a IBM Netfinity 4000R. I have disabled any PnP options in the bios and have also disabled floppy and com ports. I am posting the output from the command "dmesg" and also the output of "vmstat -I". Please CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with any info. Th

Instead of JFS, why not a whole new FS?

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Reyenga
How about writing a new filesystem based on UFS? This would save all of the hassle that JFS would bring: licensing, porting time, etc. Of course, it would likely bust any compatibility desired. What I'm thinking is a filesystem that takes the current UFS and improves upon it. It could support lar

Re: statefulness in character device drivers

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Rufino
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011208 19:43] wrote: > > > > I had some patches to do this, but lost them ages ago. If I get really > > bored next week, I'll redo them and stick them in a perforce branch. That > > said, it requires a bit more

Re: statefulness in character device drivers

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Rufino
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dav > e Rufino writes: > > > > > >On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> >They are talking about "per-open", not "per-fd-instance" data, > >> >which could easily exclude dup, dup2, and fcntl(f_DUPFD).

Re: statefulness in character device drivers

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Rufino
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >They are talking about "per-open", not "per-fd-instance" data, > >which could easily exclude dup, dup2, and fcntl(f_DUPFD). > > If you don't include dup/dup2/fnctl in your accounting, you > can only reliably tell "first open", "another open", "som

Re: statefulness in character device drivers

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Rufino
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011207 07:57] wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave R > > ufino writes: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I remember some discussions a while ago about a

statefulness in character device drivers

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Rufino
Hi, I remember some discussions a while ago about adding statefulness to the character device driver layer. What's the consensus now ? Is it going to be added, and if so, when ? Thanks, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the m

Problems with many ATA drives

2001-09-23 Thread Dave Hayes
16/63] at ata4-master WDMA2 ad9: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata4-slave WDMA2 Yes, we know that the "WDMA2" is happening, this state proved to be independant of a drive failing. It has to do with 10 drives in a tower and cable lengths... =( -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, U

Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility?

2001-09-14 Thread Dave Duchscher
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:46:08PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > any success in using an Airport AP with non airport cards? We have not had any problems using many different manufactures with the Airport AP. The only gotcha is if you using WEP. Different drivers using different methods of en

Re: perhaps one of phk's "intern" projects?

2001-07-26 Thread Dave Chapeskie
20 will be executed using /bin/sh % atq DateOwner Queue Job# REBOOT dchapes c 19 REBOOT+01:30:00 dchapes c 20 $ date; /usr/libexec/atrun -b % atq -v DateOwner Queue Job# 22:34:00 07/26/01 dchapes c 20 21:04:00

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Feustel
ginal Message - From: "Terry Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave Feustel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephane E. Potvin" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-24 Thread Dave Feustel
Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com are available from Simtek http://www.simtec.co.uk/ - Original Message - From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephane E. Potvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EM

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Dave McKay
icrosoft is against the GPL. Prolly won't find too much Linux code in Windows. The TCP/IP stacks (i've heard) are pretty close. Windows has added a few things, but essentially they are the same. The BSD licence and the GPL, as we all know, are very different. BSD good GPL bad. -- Dave McKay (i work for no one) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Hayes
revival. ;) Finding out that they've been using BSD code all along only rubs salt in the wounds. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "Trying to control information in the ne

The real answer to Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
. The bottom line to all this is that if there is any line in an /etc/fstab that mounts on "/", fsck will use the device actually mounted as root, and not the one in the file. Back to the drawing board. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>&

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
explains the interactions between rc scripts. For those who feel this is still too obscure, have a look at: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/etc/rc.subr and pay attention to the run_rc_* subroutines. It's not much, but it's a start. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA,

Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:17:49 MST, Dave Hayes wrote: >> Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the >> operating system with well known religious implications should be >> presented in a clearer fas

Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
omments on something they haven't seen and such posts have > contributed nothing. Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the operating system with well known religious implications should be presented in a clearer fashion, with links pointed to the relevant docu

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hayes
ed times have I seen someone wondering why a service didn't start on linux/solaris/hpux and it turned out that someone put a regular file in a directory that was supposed to have links in it. Being burned by this repeatedly (especially when it's not my originating mistake) is not somethin

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
ux...a fact I've used to convince people that FreeBSD administration is easier, faster, better...etc. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There is enough for all in th

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
BSDs, which is -hackers as well I'd think. I'll CC it. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "I'll have you hanged, if you don't prove that you are a mystic." s

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
David O'Brien -Hackers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real > /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at? There is none. No default fstab exists. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena

Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
/sbin/fsck for it). Does anyone have any clues or am I going to have to insert printf() calls into it to see what is going on? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "Challenges make y

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hayes
ield to zero *I deleted the /cdrom fstab entry from the file* and it still tried to preen it. ;) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There *is* no such thing as peer pressure, only

Benchmarking FreeBSD (was Re: technical comparison)

2001-05-24 Thread Dave Hayes
ies a complete (and/or relevant) set of these tweaks when comparing benchmarks. Does this already exist, and if not, how hard would it be to catalog every single relavent tunable parameter in a FreeBSD system? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Hayes
y as well. Not to mention networking. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< We can never have enough of that which we really do not want. --Eric Hoffer To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Mkisofs and ISO images that boot

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
Well. Can anyone shed any light on the apparent inconsistencies between the handbook, the man page, and what is -really- needed to make a bootable CD? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Hayes
weeks, and sometimes the /etc/pam.conf does -not- get upgraded. I dunno why, nor am I likely to check, but I thought I'd provide another datapoint. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Hayes
. So this breaks the C++ compiler and any apps that were compiled with this? Forgive me if I don't understand this... -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "They that can giv

Question about building source

2001-05-07 Thread Dave Hayes
Am I correct in assuming that: $ cd /usr/src $ make installworld DESTDIR=/vol1/FreeBSD will install the entire OS into /vol1/FreeBSD? Has anyone ever tried this? ;) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entire

Re: Where can I find out rules on blocking in threads?

2001-02-27 Thread Dave Smith
Well, my understand (limited) of *BSD's threading systems is that they are not truly pre-emptive -- they use a scheme similar to PTH for forcing a single process to jump around its process space. Given this, it doesn't suprise me that a few system calls don't yield; possibly because they aren't w

Re: Creating BSD bootable CD

2001-02-19 Thread Dave Smith
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:16:17PM +1300, David Preece wrote: > I started in the handbook, the section on backups and creating a bootable > floppy was invaluable. It's also worth trawling the archives of > freebsd-small, in particular look for "tinybsd" which (IIRC) is a > configurable script

Creating BSD bootable CD

2001-02-19 Thread Dave Smith
Greetings... I certainly hope I'm posting this to the right list -- if not, please redirect me accordingly. Thanks. :) I'm interested in taking FreeBSD and putting it on a bootable CD for use in a so-called "appliance". Can anyone recommend a place to start? Specifically, I'm unsure how to creat

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Hayes
WET. Naturally, given this information, production systems with that strategy are fairly out of the question. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Possession of a system of knowledge,

Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Hayes
something like this? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "There is someone willing to argue about any point." --I don't know, but I'll argue any attr

Burncd problems

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Hayes
rnel is telling me: acd0: READ_TOC - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 ascq=00 error=04 acd0: WRITE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04 acd0: SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04 -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expr

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-12-01 Thread Dave Hayes
ld very well be. I am following the instructions in UPGRADING under "To update from 3.x to 4.x stable". -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There is no greater calamity for a nation or in

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hayes wrote: >> >> Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: > I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. > Could this be your problem. No, I misreported the tag. If I h

make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Hayes
Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: ===> objdump ... ../libiberty/libiberty.a(choose-temp.o): In function `make_temp_file': choose-temp.o(.text+0x264): undefined reference to `mkstemps' Is this a simple fix I hope? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altaden

Moused doesn't reinitialize mouse after removal and reinsertion...

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Howland
flags:, packet size:3 psm0: syncmask:c0, syncbits:00 >From rc.conf: moused_flags="" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type="auto" moused_enable="YES" I'd greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me! If you need any more info about my system setup

Adaptec 29160 problems (what you all want to hear eh?)

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Hayes
lot of options in the bios, no dice. Anyone have any clues? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< He who has self-conceit in his head - Do not imagine that he

ASUS CUBX Motherboard 3rd and 4th IDE channels

2000-10-14 Thread Dave Hayes
tely looks like ata2 and ata3. Is there support for 4 IDE channels (i.e. 8 devices) in 4.1.1? (If not, take heart that the bios config does not even seem to recognize that there are 4 channels. I'm going to try to find a BIOS upgrade...) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [

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