/usr/libexec/elf/ld

hi ,, I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE .. umm .. I'm having a little problem compiling some progams .. and this is the error that pops up /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot open -ljpeg: No such file or directory .. and I have libjpeg on my system I've tried updated the cache

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > > how to become a hacker? > > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not so

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

Wes Peters wrote: > > Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > > how to become a hacker? > > > > Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: > > > > http

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message <377cbe28.f3d4e...@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes: : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine : just don't cut it either, unfortunately. I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his ID

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message Adrian Filipi-Martin writes: : The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine : booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk : id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's : the only thing that MS doesn'

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

In message <19990702174337.d3...@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : So that makes three of us that believe the check should be agaist "no" : rather than "yes". (setq check-against-no (+ check-against-no 1))

Re: Sv: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

In message <012801bec4ee$cfb29380$0e00a...@neland.dk> "Leif Neland" writes: : If there was someplace nice to put it: : ERROR! ^G^G^G^G^GFTP_PASSIVE_MODE must be either "yes" or "no" I disagree. This breaks the old behavior, while checking explicitly against no preserves all old behavior, except f

Re: Lizard...

In message "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : It's a better idea to not have people waiting for a long time. CDROMs and Disks are only so fast... And network downloads are not going to be as snappy as even a 2x cdrom anytime soon... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "u

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

In message <199907030442.waa00...@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : A hunch. I just tried to bring up my 1542CF with the bios disabled in : -current and it blew chunks like you described. Is your BIOS : disabled? If so, can you enable it and see if that works? It should : work with the

bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

[Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC build fine with these patches; I haven't tried to run a kernel built with them, though. Also, although I cau

netstat(1) / sockstat(1) field width adjustments

[Bcc:ed to net, please follow up on hackers] Attached are patches which widen the local/foreign address fields in netstat(1) (so as not to truncate the port number) and the protocol field in sockstat(1) (to accomodate 'divert'). The netstat patch has the unfortunate side effect of pushing the sta

Re: netstat(1) / sockstat(1) field width adjustments

Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > Attached are patches [...] ...and here are the patches. Noticed by: Peter Wemm DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no Index: src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/net

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > poll() is faster (it doesn't have to do bit twiddling), and it's interface > > is cleaner (it can report invalid fd's, something select() can't do). As > > its functionality is a superset o

support for i386 hardware debug watch points

Hi, After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility of the chip would

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

> > Hi, > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility > o

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > > up on the ix86 support for hardwa

Re: poll() vs select()

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Personally, I > > > would recommend poll(), since it provides some added functio

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Persona

Re: poll() vs select()

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > > > As for n

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > > Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD? > > > I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go > > > to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be > > >

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:18:52AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > > > can teach you. > > > > This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > > But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, either. You have t

BUG boot-time messages

The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is booting. The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. To: p...@mail.qcislands.net Subject: BUG boot-time messages From: Charlie Root Date: Sat, 3 J

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > [Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] > > Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to > 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC > build fine with these patches; I haven't tried to run a kernel built

USB floppy & booting

Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1" screen) and it seems to come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). They've apparently ditched both the PS/2 mouse and the IDE floppy and

Re: mbufs question/problem

At 04:10 PM 7/2/99 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > >> >> I have a customer who has been experiencing "slow downs" with a freebsd >> routerthey have substantially increased performance by reducing >> MINCLSIZE. I havent tracked the source, but im trying to

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:18:52AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone > > > > else > > > > can teach you. > > > > > > This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > > > > But it's certainly N

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > [Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] > > > > Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to > > 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC > > build fine with these

[PATCH] Preprocessor support for ipfw

Hi! There is one problem with ``preprocessor support for ipfw''. relay# ls -l 100 ls: 100: No such file or directory relay# ipfw list 100 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 relay# touch 100 relay# ipfw list 100 ipfw: error: extraneous filename arguments [...] Please review the attached patch

Re: BUG boot-time messages

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote: > The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is > booting. > > The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be > nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. I don't see that in FreeBSD's HEAD, RELENG_

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Doug writes: > Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but are there any circumstances > where naming the kernel include file "bpf.h" would conflict with > /usr/include/net/bpf.h? I don't think so. The bpf.h created by config(8) resides in the compile directory and is only used there; the

Re: poll() vs select()

"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Personally, I > > > > would recommend po

Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

i am trying to get a login classes for my users, so i decided to edit /etc/login.conf. Among other, i have yma classes this way: shell:\ :maxproc=5:\ :tc=auth-default: Looking for auth-default, i saw the following: ## Authentication methods ## Note that these are disabled by d

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > That said, thanks for asking - while looking into this matter I found > another problem :) new patches will be available soon. Nothing serious; a corrected patch is available on my freefall web page (http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

> In message <377cbe28.f3d4e...@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes: > : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number > : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine > : just don't cut it either, unfortunately. > > I have a friend that wants to boot FreeB

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message <199907031912.maa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there. That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing this since it is such a PITA. However, other posters in the thread gave me enough hints that

Repalcement for grep(1)

I have used FreeBSD for a couple years now. It is the only OS on my desktop. I have learnt many things from its source. I felt it was time to give something back. A few minutes later I decided to offer it to all BSDs. I also will offer it to the DaemonLinux group, Apple, the Darwin group, and

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 11:45:41AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > And, in some cases, disasters averted. I think all of us here have seen > a few graphic examples lately of what happens when the mentoring process > doesn't work. Sadly, mentoring can occasionaly hurt the mentor, too. I used to work f

Re: USB floppy & booting

Booting maybe (through BIOS support), but we do not support USB floppies from Y-E data yet at a later stage. I am working on support for it though. Nick On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs > (probably the Z5

Re: BUG boot-time messages

Brian F. Feldman wrote... > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is > > booting. > > > > The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be > > nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. > >

Re: BUG boot-time messages

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Brian F. Feldman wrote... > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > > The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is > > > booting. > > > > > > The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be > > >

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

When scouring through the threads - this one in particular caught my attention. In my experience, which is still very new, I think all of you make excellent points. For the most part, the novice/average person, believes that hackers are malicious, destructive individuals. A huge number of comput

Re: BUG boot-time messages

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 02:00:31PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be > > nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. > > I don't see that in FreeBSD's HEAD, RELENG_2_2, or RELENG_3 branches. revision 1.7 date: 1999/

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote: : I also do not use mmap(), I treat the file as a simple stream : instead. My code is also a bit slower on larger files, but a bit faster : on smaller files. Sometimes I am an order of magnitude slower. I am : never that much faster. I think not using mm

The busspace modernization initiative.

I'm trying to update the bus-space routines to match more closely the NetBSD routines. The new-config project has already done this, so I've been moving their code into a relatively pure -current tree. I'm finding that there are many places that assume that bus_space_handle_t is the same thing a

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Janie Dykes wrote: > When scouring through the threads - this one in particular caught my > attention. In my experience, which is still very new, I think all of > you make excellent points. For the most part, the novice/average > person, believes that hackers are malicious, d

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

tried it both with bios enabled and disabled I've even tried reseting to factory defaults, I enabled and disabled sync negotiation, I've also tried cutting the speed from 10 -> 5 -> 1.3 or what ever the slowest transfer rate wa Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re

devices in sysctl MIB?

Just a suggestion, perhaps there should be a dev tree in sysctl with nodes for each device type then device. interesting applications for this: reporting on packets dropped/sent and such displaying connection status (duplex/100mb/10mb... etc) enabling/disabling power saving features dev.iface.

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:26:30PM -0700, Janie Dykes wrote: > > you make excellent points. For the most part, the novice/average > person, believes that hackers are malicious, destructive individuals. A > huge number of computer users are misled and misinformed about the true > definition of the

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Janie Dykes wrote: > > > When scouring through the threads - this one in particular caught my > > attention. In my experience, which is still very new, I think all of > > you make excellent points. For the most part, the novice/average > > perso

Pictures from USENIX

I put a handful of pictures from this year's USENIX conference at . John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical

Re: Pictures from USENIX

On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 17:28:51 -0700, John Polstra wrote: > I put a handful of pictures from this year's USENIX conference at > . Hey, they're some of the best I've seen of USENIX. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone number

Re: Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

In article <377e34f9.ca198...@tdnet.com.br>, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > i am trying to get a login classes for my users, so i decided to edit > /etc/login.conf. > > Among other, i have yma classes this way: > > > shell:\ > :maxproc=5:\ > :tc=auth-default: > > > Looking for a

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

I would certainly welcome such info... The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the few things that is!). -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affo

Re: USB floppy & booting

According to Nick Hibma: > Booting maybe (through BIOS support), but we do not support USB floppies > from Y-E data yet at a later stage. I don't really care about it afterwards but I'll probably need to at least boot the installation floppy :-) > I am working on support for it though. Thanks !

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

On Sat, Jul 3, 1999, Marc Nicholas wrote: > I would certainly welcome such info... > > The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the > few things that is!). Nice, but misplaced. What does PCI/system version/etc have to do with running processes, exactly? > -marc -

Do we need GNU readline ??

I was building a library covered by the LGPL when I found this jewel under readline/README: _ This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any program to provide command-line editing and recall. It is call-compatible with the FSF readline library, but it is a fraction

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 1999, Marc Nicholas wrote: > > I would certainly welcome such info... > > > > The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the > > few things that is!). > >Nice, but misplaced. What does PCI/system version/et

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 12:13:55 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Thomas David Rivers wrote: Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD? I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go

Re: poll() vs select()

"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > In article you write: > > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really one > > >of usage. Why would one us poll() over select()? Is select eventually go ing > > >to go away for som

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > In article > > > 0...@crb.crb-web.com> you write: > > > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is > > > >really > one > >

Re: poll() vs select()

On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: >> "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: >>> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >>> In article > 0...@crb.crb-web.com> you write: > now supports the select() and poll(

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Is there interest in doing something like this in general? > > > > YES! As a matter of fact, I've done somethi

poll() scalability

This is an earlier posting that I attempted to make, perhaps it can provide a starting point for discussion. While this is already implemented, I'm not adverse to tossing it all for something better. -- Jonathan - Forwarded message from owner-freebsd-a...@freebsd.org - Date: Mon, 5 Ap

login problem:

My login.conf classes does not work, i have already looked for into The Complete FBSD, man pages, /usr/src/lib/libutil/* but nothing works the way i wanna. i think that only you hackers can help me. Here goes the classes: shelldef:\ :cputime=10m:\ :filesize=unlimited:\ :d

Re: poll() vs select()

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > In article > > > 0...@crb.crb-web.com> you write: > > > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is > > > >really > one > > > >of usage. W

Re: poll() vs select()

On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:31:20 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >>> On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Is there interest in doing something like

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:11:08PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Trust me, greenie, those of us who a FAR from 16 wish we weren't. ;^) What, and miss the sixties??? Get back to your handbasket! :-) Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the b

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 3, 1999, Marc Nicholas wrote: > > > I would certainly welcome such info... > > > > > > The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the > > > few things that is!).

/usr/libexec/elf/ld

hi ,, I'm running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE .. umm .. I'm having a little problem compiling some progams .. and this is the error that pops up /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot open -ljpeg: No such file or directory .. and I have libjpeg on my system I've tried updated the cach

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > > how to become a hacker? > > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not someth

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

Wes Peters wrote: > > Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > > how to become a hacker? > > > > Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: > > > > http://w

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Graham Wheeler writes: : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine : just don't cut it either, unfortunately. I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his IDE drive,

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adrian Filipi-Martin writes: : The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine : booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk : id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's : the only

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes: : So that makes three of us that believe the check should be agaist "no" : rather than "yes". (setq check-against-no (+ check-against-no 1)) >From my .cshrc: ... setenv FTP_PASSIVE_MODE ... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Sv: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

In message <012801bec4ee$cfb29380$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Leif Neland" writes: : If there was someplace nice to put it: : ERROR! ^G^G^G^G^GFTP_PASSIVE_MODE must be either "yes" or "no" I disagree. This breaks the old behavior, while checking explicitly against no preserves all old behavior, except f

Re: Lizard...

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : It's a better idea to not have people waiting for a long time. CDROMs and Disks are only so fast... And network downloads are not going to be as snappy as even a 2x cdrom anytime soon... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : A hunch. I just tried to bring up my 1542CF with the bios disabled in : -current and it blew chunks like you described. Is your BIOS : disabled? If so, can you enable it and see if that works? It should : work with the bios disabled, but I k

bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

[Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC build fine with these patches; I haven't tried to run a kernel built with them, though. Also, although I ca

netstat(1) / sockstat(1) field width adjustments

[Bcc:ed to net, please follow up on hackers] Attached are patches which widen the local/foreign address fields in netstat(1) (so as not to truncate the port number) and the protocol field in sockstat(1) (to accomodate 'divert'). The netstat patch has the unfortunate side effect of pushing the st

Re: netstat(1) / sockstat(1) field width adjustments

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Attached are patches [...] ...and here are the patches. Noticed by: Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c ===

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > poll() is faster (it doesn't have to do bit twiddling), and it's interface > > is cleaner (it can report invalid fd's, something select() can't do). As > > its functionality is a superset

support for i386 hardware debug watch points

Hi, After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility of the chip would

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

> > Hi, > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility >

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > > up on the ix86 support for hardw

Re: poll() vs select()

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Personally, I > > > would recommend poll(), since it provides some added functi

Re: poll() vs select()

On Jul 07, 1999 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Person

Re: poll() vs select()

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Jul 07, 1999 at 11:27:57AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > > > As for

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > > Is there any interest in supporting something like this in FreeBSD? > > > I'm volunteering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go > > > to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be > > >

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:18:52AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > > > can teach you. > > > > This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > > But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, either. You have

BUG boot-time messages

The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is booting. The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BUG boot-time messages From: Charlie Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > [Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] > > Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to > 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC > build fine with these patches; I haven't tried to run a kernel buil

USB floppy & booting

Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1" screen) and it seems to come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). They've apparently ditched both the PS/2 mouse and the IDE floppy an

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:18:52AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > > > > can teach you. > > > > > > This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. > > > > But it's certainly NOT somet

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > [Bcc:ed to net, committers; please follow up on hackers] > > > > Attached are patches for renaming 'pseudo-device bpfilter' to > > 'peudo-device bpf', courtesy of glimpse(1) and ed(1). LINT and GENERIC > > build fine with thes

Re: mbufs question/problem

At 04:10 PM 7/2/99 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > >> >> I have a customer who has been experiencing "slow downs" with a freebsd >> routerthey have substantially increased performance by reducing >> MINCLSIZE. I havent tracked the source, but im trying t

Re: poll() vs select()

"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:01:07AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > As for new code, use whichever you are comfortable with. Personally, I > > > > would recommend p

[PATCH] Preprocessor support for ipfw

Hi! There is one problem with ``preprocessor support for ipfw''. relay# ls -l 100 ls: 100: No such file or directory relay# ipfw list 100 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 relay# touch 100 relay# ipfw list 100 ipfw: error: extraneous filename arguments [...] Please review the attached patc

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but are there any circumstances > where naming the kernel include file "bpf.h" would conflict with > /usr/include/net/bpf.h? I don't think so. The bpf.h created by config(8) resides in the compile directory and is

Re: BUG boot-time messages

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jim Pazarena wrote: > The following messages appear on the display as my FreeBSD machine is > booting. > > The spelling of "failed" is totally incorrect, and it would sure be > nice to see the spelling corrected on a future release. I don't see that in FreeBSD's HEAD, RELENG

Login.conf (Whose problem is this) ?

i am trying to get a login classes for my users, so i decided to edit /etc/login.conf. Among other, i have yma classes this way: shell:\ :maxproc=5:\ :tc=auth-default: Looking for auth-default, i saw the following: ## Authentication methods ## Note that these are disabled by

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