Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard (howar...@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seve

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
If it will get ALL of you to give it a rest, how about: per-rule logging limits logging limit raising logging limit resetting Which would all NOT affect the statistics? I am, yes, suggesting I will implement it. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___

Re: securelevel too course-grained?

1999-07-27 Thread Warner Losh
In message <87126.933053...@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes: : I have a feeling it'll be time soon enough for us to make each of the : decisions that is normally affected by securelevel dependant on the : value of sysctl knobs. Presumeably one or more of them would be : "write-once" knobs

Re: SMC 1211TX

1999-07-27 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:44:03 +0800 Peter Wemm wrote: > > As far as I can tell, this is a RealTek 8139 board. > > Oh my, SMC must be really lowering their standards... The SMC9432TX is still an EPIC/100. The newer revs of that board are bug-free (unlike earlier models). I've had quite a l

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19755.933088...@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes: : +#ifdef SUPPORT_DOT : +/* Older configurations used '.' between user and group */ : +if ((group = strchr(q, ':')) != NULL || : +(group = strchr(q, '.')) != NULL) { : +#else :

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> A better patch would check to see if the text to the right of the '.' > is a valid group... However, the above will still parse > > fred.jones:fred.jones > > in the most desirable way, so I suppose the validity checking is > overkill. This is what I plan to commit (w/in minutes): -

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread James Howard
Due to the discussion of speed, I have been looking at it and it is really slow. Even slower than I thought and I was thinking it was pretty slow. So using gprof, I have discovered that it seems to spend a whole mess of time in grep_malloc() and free(). So I pulled all the references to malloc i

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/grep-0.7.tar.gz> Before importing, it must display a version number of 1.0 (or drop the version number). This is not Linux where everything is version 0.xy. -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord..

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> If it will get ALL of you to give it a rest, how about: > per-rule logging limits > logging limit raising > logging limit resetting > Which would all NOT affect the statistics? We need more input from people who use the code, to make sure they don't depend on the current 'featu

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
$ uname -a $ grep foo NONEXIST Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ gdb /usr/bin/grep grep.core ... (no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `grep'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Rea

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> A more general concern is whether Henry Spencer's regex routines > -- at least in our present "alpha-quality" version -- are up to I spoke to Henry at USENIX and he said he has a new version of his regex library. I have added it to my plate of things to update. -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com

Re: file(1) Magdir candidate: wintendo

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> I've had some interesting comments from David Bushong, motivating for > inclusion of his Magdir candidate on PR 12554. He makes a strong case > for a bloated file(1) Magdir. The only thing we're battling with is a > filename for his submission. My advice would be to submit his PR to Chris Demtri

Re: Missing ld.so in 3.2?

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> I think u must read following: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.2R/errata.html There is nothing on the 3.2 errata that addresses this. -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bo

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> various researchers and early-adopters, all of which can go to the > KAME site and grab the patches to 3.2-stable if they want to play now, > today. If we haven't done a good enough job of making that clear and > are suffering from defections to other *BSDs because of this, then we > just need t

FreeBSD and native IPv6

1999-07-27 Thread Martti Kuparinen
Hi! I have created a script to integrate FreBSD 3.2, KAME and PAO. As a result I have the following source trees: - FREEBSD+KAME("make world" is working :-) - FREEBSD+PAO (haven't tested yet, no conflicts) - FREEBSD+KAME+PAO(haven't tested yet, 2 minor conflicts) Once I have

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > If it will get ALL of you to give it a rest, how about: > > per-rule logging limits > > logging limit raising > > logging limit resetting > > Which would all NOT affect the statistics? > > We need more input from people who use the code, t

No Subject

1999-07-27 Thread Anders Vidmark
Hi Im getting unreferenced inodes that fills up /. The box is running freebsd 2.2.6-release and sendmail 8.8.8 Sendmails databases are rebuilt once every half hour. It seems like the unref. inodes comes from spammers.db and domainalias.db. Is there a way to avoid this? Will it get better if I u

RE: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?

1999-07-27 Thread Alexander Maret
Hi, thanks for your answer. I'll try and remove /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab as well. I'm not so sure about /etc/login.conf because I already tried to remove it and at boottime the system began to whine about a missing class (daemon). Well, the system booted and all daemons were running but I'm

Re: VMWare plug/quickie tests.

1999-07-27 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 06:01:35PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I just wish that it was the other way around. I'd actually run > > NT if I could get it in a VMWare compartment under FreeBSD. > > You would do well to pass these sentiments on to vmware; they're > currently counting noses in

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If it ever gets > >committed (I don't think it's particularly useful myself), > That's 2 against, 1 (me) for. Three against. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it could be made a sysctl knob... No, a socket option would be more appropriate. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi David, Your commit catalogued in the cvs log for newsyslog.c: revision 1.23 date: 1999/06/28 03:15:02; author: obrien; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to be consistant with chown(8). This one raised a number of eyebrows and a fe

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian > F. Feldman" writes: > : But we can install from a single downloaded boot floppy, over the > : Internet, which is better. > > Is that still true? I thought we went back to two floppies to do > this... It depends

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:41:24PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a > flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall > wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the > existence of /

Re: Unpacking Debian packages on FreeBSD

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I'd like to grope around inside a .deb file, which has been created on a > debian Linux box. Do we have any nifty tools for this, like rpm2cpio? I would look for something called "alien", which supposedly can conve

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:08:10PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > strongly opposed to it, or because you don't have time? If it's the > latter, I'll do it. If the former, note that your commit message was Consider also adding owner:group support to -stable in order to provide the longest change

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:54:32 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > It used to be that packages would depend on X, but Sheldon reminded me > (although I think it was accidental :-) that XFree86 was added to > PACKAGE_IGNORE_DEPENDS to prevent this. PKG_IGNORE_DEPENDS is what I had in mind. :-P Ciao,

TCP/IP hardening, take two

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I cleaned up the previously posted patches, tested them a little more, and added a sysctl knob for logging SYN+FIN packets (before optionally dropping them). A FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT machine with these patches and no firewall looks like this to nmap (with tcp.drop_synfin and tcp.restrict_rst enabled

replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. What's more, the code is ac

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:57:49 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Consider also adding owner:group support to -stable in order to > provide the longest change-over period possible. You have to read the CURRENT newsyslog(8) manpage before you realize that this is a lose-lose situation: COMPATIBILITY

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 27 Jul 1999 13:37:35 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/grep-0.7.tar.gz> > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. When I committed the port (textproc/freegrep)

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Version 0.3 broke port-building badly. Does version 0.7 make it through > a build of a whole stack of ports? Yes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Mike Pritchard
> :> There may be some confusion here. I am advocating that we *allow* the > :> zeroing of counters at secure level 3. > : > :Which is what I am advocating against. > > Let me put it a different way: > > ipfw allows you to clear counters. It is a feature that already exists. >

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 27 Jul 1999 13:48:21 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Version 0.3 broke port-building badly. Does version 0.7 make it through > > a build of a whole stack of ports? > > Yes. Excellent. I'll nuke the port once you've merged the new grep to STABLE. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe:

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. > > Go for it, the more GNU stuff we nuke the better :) > > -Søren > Geez

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. Have you run your systems with J-grep as a replacement for GNU grep for a while (making sure n

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:19:38 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > Getting rid of as much as possible, gradually, is a Very Good Thing; > this is how we get stability and performance improvements. Only if the replacements are as stable and robust as their predecessors. In this case, the implemen

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Nickolay N. Dudorov
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seven

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > In this case, I'm all for the change, since I don't use grep for serious > regex work and the readability gain outweighs any loss of performance. > you probably feel the same way. Out opinions are those of developers, > though. It's always worth remembe

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:49:22 EST, David Scheidt wrote: > Does any have numbers about how much slower the new grep is? Just by the way, if the latest version somehow uses mmap without my having noticed, then I've ontroduced a red herring. ;-) Version 0.3 certainly didn't use mmap. As I underst

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:19:38 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > > Getting rid of as much as possible, gradually, is a Very Good Thing; > > this is how we get stability and performance improvements. > > Only if the replacements are as stable an

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Jamie Howard
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Nickolay N. Dudorov wrote: > After making it on the CURRENT system I can only > see: > > grep: filename: Undefined error: 0 > > for every filename. Every file? > > This caused by very "unusual" return values for > 'grep_open' (and other '..._open') func

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Jamie Howard
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > That's true. I'd like to see the replacement grep do mmaping of the > input files if it doesn't already, as that would speed it up. Anyway, It does not use mmap right now. And this causes a significant perforamce hit on larger files. An older vers

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:23:44AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > How's it compare in speed? [I'd test it myself, but see my private > email...] Okay, following-up on myself, and indirectly Sheldon, It does seem a little too slow. I'm not sure that this is because it doesn't use mmap. Supp

reserved/local ioctl values?

1999-07-27 Thread Brian McGovern
I'l looking at defining about a dozen ioctl calls for a local device driver. When looking at the _IO, _IO, _IOW, _IOR, and _IOWR macros, I'm interested if there are any "reserved" or "local" values for the first parameter? In short, I'd hate to use a seemly unused value, just to suddenly be in

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > Geez, why don't we just write our own compiler and linker, assembler, > and everything? Let's get every last bit of GNU out of our system, for > no reason! This kind of NIH is not necessary, and only hurts us by > misdirecting our energies. > > > Seriously, I'd lov

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the bi

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > That reminds me. I'd like to see something like stat(1) go into the source > tree, but only if it were freely licensed, not GPL-infected. I could do > it in a day, I suppose, if it were worth it. Worth it is here defined as > "would be accepted to go in usr.bin." Ma

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Instead of zeroing it, how about raising the logging limit to (current + > > :whatever the limit was) > > : > > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > > >

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> This one raised a number of eyebrows and a few people asked you to hold > on to legacy support for a single release. It's a reasonable request, > given the obscure error message one gets for providing the previously > supported syntax: > > newsyslog: error in config file; bad permissions: > /va

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
> COMPATIBILITY > Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') > character to distinguish the group name. Begining with FreeBSD > 4.0, this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that > user and group names may contain the dot character. Hum... I t

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:43:33 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Sorry for bringing this up without doing all my homework. Diffs in the > pipeline. :-) Ha! Diffs that produce a win in the midst of an apparent lose-lose. We now continue to support the dot as a separator without breaking user- and gr

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi Brian, Okay, your mail quoted below came around the same time I sent my diffs. This entire response assumes that you don't like the diffs. On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:10:47 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > It was a one character fix in -CURRENT and I don't see any reason to ugly > the code with sup

Re: your mail

1999-07-27 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Anders Vidmark wrote: > Hi Hej, :-) > > Im getting unreferenced inodes that fills up /. > The box is running freebsd 2.2.6-release and sendmail 8.8.8 > Sendmails databases are rebuilt once every half hour. > It seems like the unref. inodes comes from spammers.db and > dom

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:18:14 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > I'm talking about cpdup, which can be found in > http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD/. Someone posted a port at the > time, but I don't know if anyone ever committed the port. I'll commit a port in the next few days. Ciao, Sheldon.

Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 05:25:23PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi Brian, To paraphase Bill Paul: G that's part of my last name. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bo

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:29 AM -0400 7/27/99, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On a file with 10+ lines, the speed difference is rather > restrictive. [...] Only about 10% of the time is spend in > procline(). There seems to be a lot of unnecessary strncpy() > that could be _easily_ avoided if free() on util.c:130 was >

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1999-07-27 Thread aladdin
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Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group

1999-07-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:07:34 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > To paraphase Bill Paul: > > G that's part of my last name. N! I was chatting to a buddy about this just after I sent you the diffs and actually mentioned to him that I thought I might have made this mistake again. Since t

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Robert Nordier
> Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. > I move that we r

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:But it might be hiding a real security threat/attack or a real breakin. :Say I've spent all night trying to hack into your machine and finally get in. :If I can reset all of ipfw's counters back to zero, and this is :something your security checking scripts are checking, you might not :thin

Re: securelevel too course-grained?

1999-07-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> Subject: Re: securelevel and ipfw zero :> :> However, it does not allow you to do it if you are sitting at secure :> level 3. : :You don't think that this discussion highlights the growing inadequacy :of the securelevel mechanism's lack of granularity? :Ciao, :Sheldon. It would be

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > You get *better* information on per-rule limits than on a global limit. > > No, you simply get a finer-grained ability to select. Which is almost always better. > > > If I'm an admin, I'm going to think "Well lets see, I want to store a > > > month of bad packets in it. > > > > If you're a

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> :Instead of zeroing it, how about raising the logging limit to (current + > :whatever the limit was) > : > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > The way I see it either some piece of software is moni

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> :That doesn't mean we shouldn't allow people to have an unsophisticated setup, > :just because a sophisticated one is available. It would be useful to have > :a per-firewall-rule counter, decrement it on each match if logging and > :set, and be able to reset to something higher. > : > : Brian Fu

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> I like the ability at secure level 3 to only reset the counters forward.. > It fits in with such things as the "append only" flag. Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. That's a very different setup than what we

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> ipfw allows you to clear counters. It is a feature that already exists. > > However, it does not allow you to do it if you are sitting at secure > level 3. > > Why not? I can't think of any good reason why clearing the counters > should be disallowed when sitting at a hi

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I just thought of a bad thing. If you allowed the counters to be zero'd :(or advanced) at securelevel == 3, then a 'malicious user' could write a :cronjob to continually reset them and cause a DoS attack on the system :(or in the case of advance, reset them to ridiculously high values), :thus fi

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If it ever gets > > >committed (I don't think it's particularly useful myself), > > That's 2 against, 1 (me) for. > > Three against. 4 against. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a > flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall > wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the Just to clear up a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall prob

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> But we can install from a single downloaded boot floppy, over the > Internet, which is better. 1. Irrelevant, since most people who want to try BSD/OS out probably aren't concerned about how FreeBSD installs itself; they're simply different products. 2. Incorrect, since we don't install

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Achim Patzner
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:12:25AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > How do you figure? Currently, the kernel will quit 'logging' denied > packets when the counter reaches a specific (compiled-in) number. ^ Then what is net.inet.ip.fw.verbose

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > How do you figure? Currently, the kernel will quit 'logging' denied > > packets when the counter reaches a specific (compiled-in) number. > ^ > Then what is > > net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit: 0 Well I'll be. You learn something new e

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Achim Patzner
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:15:11AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to > IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. *falling on my knees* If you're going to do that what would it cost me (in chocolate bars or sushi) to get you

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > (Another thing I just thought of is that this could cause DoS attacks on > > the system if a user compromised root and then set the limit to a very > > high number.) > > If you have someone going berzerk as "root" on a firewall you're definitely > going to have a completely different set of h

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > > > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. > > > > Go for i

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > You get *better* information on per-rule limits than on a global limit. > > > > No, you simply get a finer-grained ability to select. > > Which is almost always better. > > > > > If I'm an admin, I'm going to think "Well lets see, I want to store a > > > > month of bad packets in it. > >

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > I like the ability at secure level 3 to only reset the counters forward.. > > It fits in with such things as the "append only" flag. > > Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to > IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. That's a very > different setup t

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > How do you figure? Currently, the kernel will quit 'logging' denied > > > packets when the counter reaches a specific (compiled-in) number. > > ^ > > Then what is > > > > net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit: 0 > > Well I'll be. You learn

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a > > flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall > > wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the > > Just to clear

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > > > One could argue that accounting numbers in a firewall shouldn't be > > > > trusted, but I won't argue that point since the firewall is often the > > > > most 'natural' place to stick network accounting software. > > > > > > If you can't trust something in the kernel, then you just can't t

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > > I like the ability at secure level 3 to only reset the counters forward.. > > > It fits in with such things as the "append only" flag. > > > > Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to > > IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. That's a very > > diffe

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami
* From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Just to clear up a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall * problem. This is a ports bug which Satoshi or somebody introduced * when they added a dependency on the XFree86 port very prematurely. It * was premature because no actual

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > > > One could argue that accounting numbers in a firewall shouldn't be > > > > > trusted, but I won't argue that point since the firewall is often the > > > > > most 'natural' place to stick network accounting software. > > > > > > > > If you can't trust something in the kernel, then you ju

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > Again, it's not a fix, it's a feature. Not being able to mess with > > counters (logging or otherwise) is a feature. It may be a feature that > > you can do without, but that decision is not to be made lightly. > > I'm _saying_ to create a completely separ

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > > I like the ability at secure level 3 to only reset the counters forward.. > > > > It fits in with such things as the "append only" flag. > > > > > > Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to > > > IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. That's a very

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > Again, it's not a fix, it's a feature. Not being able to mess with > > > counters (logging or otherwise) is a feature. It may be a feature that > > > > you can do without, but that decision is not to be made lightly. > > > > I'm _saying_ to create a comp

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Williams
> > > > Again, it's not a fix, it's a feature. Not being able to mess with > > > > counters (logging or otherwise) is a feature. It may be a feature that > > > > > > you can do without, but that decision is not to be made lightly. > > > > > > I'm _saying_ to c

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Joe Greco
> > > > > Again, it's not a fix, it's a feature. Not being able to mess with > > > > > counters (logging or otherwise) is a feature. It may be a feature that > > > > > > > > you can do without, but that decision is not to be made lightly. > > > > > > > > I'm _

Re: VMWare plug/quickie tests.

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > Is there anyone in particular to whom we should write at VMWare? > I agree with his sentiments. I picked a likely looking name from the "contact us" page. Make sure that you only write if you are willing to pay for the product if they make it, and

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Julian Elischer
a system wide limit and each rule's logging counter individually resetable back to 0. On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joe Greco wrote: > > 1) Set a global VERBOSE_LIMIT mechanism and: > a) allow your logging counter to be reset, or > b) allow your limit to be raised to re-enable logging >

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-27 Thread Achim Patzner
> I'd like to see people other than you, I, and Matt discussing this. > Other people who use this feature of IPFW that have an opinion one way > or the other should speak up. I must admit being a bad boy - I'm using ipfw for firewalling and accounting: "log" rules for catching bad guys (and I'm n

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
On 27 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. First, I'm all for this idea, and applaud you and Jamie for taking it on. I do have a few questions. Does POSIX sa

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Wolfram Schneider
On 1999-07-27 13:37:35 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Jamie Howard
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > First, I'm all for this idea, and applaud you and Jamie for taking > it on. I do have a few questions. Does POSIX say anything about grep, and > if so, is this version compliant? Also, I'd like to put in another vote > for full GNU grep feature compliance,

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:32:40AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Just to clear up a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall > problem. This is a ports bug which Satoshi or somebody introduced > when they added a dependency on the XFree86 port very prematurely. It I can claim a bi

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote: > I do not have a copy of POSIX, but I do have Unix98 which is a superset of > POSIX. Right now, excluding bugs, it is Unix 98 and therefore POSIX > compliant Good news, thanks for addressing this concern. > except for -e. -e should permit mul

SMC 1211TX

1999-07-27 Thread Kelly D. Lucas
Is there a FreeBSD driver the the SMC 1211TX 10/100 EZ Ethernet Card? thanks, kdl -- Kelly D. Lucas| Kroll-O'Gara Security Consultant | Information Security Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650-812-9400 x 117 "Any opinions that I state are my own, and not Kroll-O'Gara's"

Re: SMC 1211TX

1999-07-27 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:14:33 -0700 "Kelly D. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a FreeBSD driver the the SMC 1211TX 10/100 EZ Ethernet Card? As far as I can tell, this is a RealTek 8139 board. -- Jason R. Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

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