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, an

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

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 Z

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

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 I think that I can

Re: bpfilter -> bpf patches [LONG]

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 --

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: 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, 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: 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 compu

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 m

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,

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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX

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

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?

"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 > > pers

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 th

Pictures from USENIX

I put a handful of pictures from this year's USENIX conference at . John --- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynica

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 numbe

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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gustavo V G C Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > > Lookin

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 Aff

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/e

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 so

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really > one > > > >of usage. Wh

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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 someth

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:42

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:\ :

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really > one > > > >of usage. Why would one us p

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 lik

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

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!).

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