Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an Interface > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in the > kernel). Make the call from within the kernel. > 2. Which structure and which member should

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > I've come up empty-handed hunting for a constant that defines the > maximum UID supported by the system. I'm working on our passwd and > pwd_mkdb stuff and want to get rid of the artificial limitation of 65535 > (USHRT_MAX) imposed in (at least) pwd_mkdb. > > Have I missed a useful define, or

Re: reserved/local ioctl values?

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> 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? Not really, as such. > In short, I'd hate to use a seemly unused

Re: BSDI Pthread + gdb (Re: Free BSDI CD!)

1999-07-30 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In > , > Rayson Ho wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure whether this is known to this list or > > not, but here is the URL for ordering: > > > > http://www.bsdi.com/products/evalcd/ > > The thing that gets my attention is the gdb with threads su

Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread eT
Mike Smith wrote: > > I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an > > Interface > > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in the > > kernel). > > Make the call from within the kernel. But I wa

Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an > > > Interface > > > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > > > > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in > > > the > > > kernel). > > > > Make the call from w

Re: FTPd authentication with PAM/MySQL

1999-07-30 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Steven Fletcher wrote: > I've seen the PAM modules/libraries/etc for MySQL and noticed that the > FTPD Makefile has a Kerberos PAM option, and was wondering if anyone > knows of a way to get FTPd talking to MySQL... or if it would work at > all? ftpd PAM patches (

RE: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #565

1999-07-30 Thread Kuehn, Volker
Sorry I know i should not mail to the mailinglist. But I can not unsubscribe Please help me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- >eration. Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs under? If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be fixed. The

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:53:56 MST, Mike Smith wrote: > It probably belongs in param.h, and you can probably safely calculate it > as (uid_t)0 - 1; Excellent. Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for ever

HOWTO: FreeBSD with integrated IPv6

1999-07-30 Thread Martti Kuparinen
Hi! As I promised earlier, here is some information how to integrate KAME and PAO into the FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE source tree. The current status is: - FreeBSD+KAME - no conflicts during merge - "make world" is working - systems are up and running without any problems :-) - FreeBSD+PAO

Re: (KAME-snap 936) HOWTO: FreeBSD with integrated IPv6

1999-07-30 Thread itojun
>PS. Should we setup a cvsup server somewhere (not in the USA) which would >have these branches? KAME people, what do you say of having such a >service in one of your servers? guys at imasy.or.jp has been doing it for FreeBSD228+KAME+PAO for a while, so please feel free to

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek writes: > I do. Still far too slow. I'll work on this tomorrow, since that > seems the only way to convince people that mmap is not such a big > win. :-( mmap() gives a fourfold speed increase. I call that a big win. I have a few other ideas which will make 0.11 even faster. D

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Howard writes: > DES tells me he has a new version (0.10) which mmap()s. It supposedly > cuts the run time down significantly, I do not have the numbers in front > of me. Unfortunetly he has not posted this version yet so I cannot > download it and run it myself. It's in the usual place (

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
John-Mark Gurney writes: > it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the > option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the > code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just needed to be enabled.. Funnily, I experience a near-doubling of running

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > John-Mark Gurney writes: > > it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the > > option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the > > code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just needed to be enabled.. > Funnily, I

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn writes: > Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are > there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for every > encountered UID greater that 65535 ? How many times do I have to go through this? There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb"

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > How many times do I have to go through this? Until I stuff a comment in the source that explains this. :-) > There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns > against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn writes: > Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is > generated? Something like "9 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The > current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-) Sure, and maybe modify the warning to say something like "legac

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > ok, I just made a patch to eliminate the copy that was happening in > procfile, and it sped up a grep of a 5meg termcap from about 2.9sec > down to .6 seconds... this includes time spent profiling the program.. > GNU grep w/o profiling only takes .15sec so we ARE gettin

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > I'm sorry. I've read your message and have decided that you're wrong. Not that you did bother to counter the points I made. You only comment on the one thing I said was probably insignificant. Are you taking your clues from me? :-) > Outside of the regexp library, algo

grep-0.11

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ftp://ftp.ofug.org/pub/grep/grep-0.11.tar.gz More (gprof-assisted) speedups. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@yes.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% > increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the > malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() but bot memcpy()? Here it is again,

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% > > increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the > > malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). > Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() bu

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() but bot > memcpy()? Here it is again, though against an old version: Bingo. REG_STARTEND is significantly more expensive than memcpy(). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Wes Peters
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > > > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the > > op- > >eration. > > Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs > under? > > If it happened wit

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:53:56 MST, Mike Smith wrote: > > > It probably belongs in param.h, and you can probably safely calculate it > > as (uid_t)0 - 1; > > Excellent. > > Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are > there magical reasons why we should want pwd_

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: : :> [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- :>eration. : :Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs :under? : :If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be f

Re: patch for behavior changes and madvise MADV_DONTNEED

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Your new "behavior" flag isn't known by vm_map_simply_entry, so :map simplification could drop the behavior setting on the floor. :I would prefer that the behavior is folded into eflags. : :Overall, I agree with the direction. Behavior is correctly a map :attribute rather than an object attribut

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Daniel C. Sobral scribbled this message on Jul 30: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% > > increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the > > malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). > > Could you please test my

bootloader....

1999-07-30 Thread Nielsen, Roy S
I'm looking at booting(embedded devices) and I've been looking at lilo boot loader code and booteasy bootloader code... does anyone know of any documentation that anyone out there has done on this topic? -- more specifically without bios calls/support? I've seen the booteasy code at: ftp://ftp.f

Re: patch for behavior changes and madvise MADV_DONTNEED

1999-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:51:35AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I'm not sure I see how MADV_FREE could slow performance down unless, > perhaps, it is the overhead of the system call itself. e.g. if malloc > is calling it on a page-by-page basis and not implementing any hysteresis.

Re: patch for behavior changes and madvise MADV_DONTNEED

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In any case, the man page for malloc/free explains how to change :the default, if you're a part of the "oppressed" 1%. : :Alan Not with a gig of memory :-). My only concern is for the performance curve to look good and not be too jagged. -Matt

No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi folks, We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christia

Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree over the past 6 months or so, but I don't know how much of that document is still appropriate for what we have now.

So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
We got off onto a big tangent about switches and vlans and stuff and I learned a number of interesting things, don't get me wrong, but we still haven't established any consensus on the trade-offs of enabling bpf. This wasn't meant to be a hypothetical discussion, I'm truly trying to measure the tr

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:45:51AM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: > I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The > prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer > to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Mike Smith remarked > > I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning > manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting > themselves in for, or at the very least that there sh

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread David E. Cross
Here is a pro vote for enabling BPF in GENERIC: It will let us use a dhcp client in the install programs, this is of tremendous use to many people as DHCP starts to become much more popular. I cannot net install a machine at home since that is on a DHCP cable modem service. Also, if root is comp

Re: patch for behavior changes and madvise MADV_DONTNEED

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Time for this oppressed person to go ln -s H /etc/malloc.conf... Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!_ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
If root is compromised, that's the only way bpf can be gotten to by default. When root's compromised, if no bpf is available, the mem devices can still be created (if not there) and network queues can be listened to. And can't IFF_PROMISC be turned on too? There's no good reason to not have bpf in

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> It will let us use a dhcp client in the install programs, this is of > tremendous use to many people as DHCP starts to become much more > popular. I cannot net install a machine at home since that is on a > DHCP cable modem service. Well, just to clarify this, if you're installing a 4.0 snapsho

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> There's no good reason to not have bpf in at least the boot disk kernel. It already is. That's not the question under discussion here - we're talking about how to make things work in the post-installation boot scenario. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubs

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > There's no good reason to not have bpf in at least the boot disk kernel. > > It already is. That's not the question under discussion here - we're > talking about how to make things work in the post-installation boot > scenario. When did that hap

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > There's no good reason to not have bpf in at least the boot disk kernel. > > > > It already is. That's not the question under discussion here - we're > > talking about how to make things work in

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
: But even if you turn off the bpf device, you still have /dev/mem and : /dev/kmem to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write : raw devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called kldload(8). BTW, I wrote this section because a hacker actually installed t

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : But even if you turn off the bpf device, you still have /dev/mem and > : /dev/kmem to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write > : raw devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called kldload(8). > > BTW, I wr

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> : But even if you turn off the bpf device, you still have /dev/mem and > : /dev/kmem to worry about. For that matter, the intruder can still write > : raw devices. Also, there is another kernel feature called kldload(8). > > BTW, I wrote this section because a hacker actually i

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Nate Williams
> This is a clear security vs functionality issue and I need to get a > good feel for which "cause" is ascendent here in knowing which way to > jump on the matter. Can we now hear the closing arguments from the > pro and con folks? I thought we decided that the networking gurus we're going to mak

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> BTW, I wrote this section because a hacker actually installed the bpf :> device via the module loader during one of the root compromises at BEST, :> a year or two ago. He had gotten it from a hackers cookbook of exploits :> which he convieniently left on-disk long enough for ou

docs for 3Com 3C515-TX NIC?

1999-07-30 Thread Steve Price
Anyone have detailed docs for 3Com's 3C515 NIC? I found Guy Helmer's driver, http://www.freebsd.org/~ghelmer/3c515/ but it didn't recognize the card I have. I was going to spend some time this weekend to see if I could figure out what was up. Just thought it might be easier if I had a little lig

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > This is a clear security vs functionality issue and I need to get a > > good feel for which "cause" is ascendent here in knowing which way to > > jump on the matter. Can we now hear the closing arguments from the > > pro and con folks? > > I thought

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I thought we decided that the networking gurus we're going to make it > possible to send out broadcast packets on an unconfigured interface so > that DHCP would work, so that bpf wasn't required. I believe we decided that this would be the preferred method, yes. I don't think, however, that we

Re: docs for 3Com 3C515-TX NIC?

1999-07-30 Thread Guy Helmer
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Steve Price wrote: > Anyone have detailed docs for 3Com's 3C515 NIC? I found > Guy Helmer's driver, http://www.freebsd.org/~ghelmer/3c515/ > but it didn't recognize the card I have. I was going to > spend some time this weekend to see if I could figure out > what was up. Ju

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Alton, Matthew
I prefer to work in flat ASCII. Perhaps the doc project can HTMLize the final product. Currently, I'm hatching a plan to free up an AMD386/40 running FreeBSD 2.1.5 for use as a 4.x sandbox. The little thing has been faithfully and unerringly natd-ing my whole Solaris/NetBSD/Linux/ UNIXWare LAN o

Re: No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: > Hi folks, > > We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). > > Does anyone feel up to writing one? Saw it before, noticed it, placed on my to-do list. If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) sty

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: > -hackers, > > Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html > > still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree > over the past 6 months or so, but

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> Sheldon Hearn writes: > :> > I plan to mention in the comments for each service in /etc/services, the > :> > latest RFC describing the service. > :> > :> Good idea. > : > : H... I'm not sure what this gets us. Wouldn't it be better to > :pl

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > Ok - but it's a bit misleading having both values in /etc/services.. > > > > Shouldn't be: > > http 80/tcpwww www-http #World Wide Web HTTP > > http 80/udpwww ww

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-30 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > The -n option to trafshow disables number->name translation for > both addresses and ports, although that might be more than what is wanted. > I do know what you mean though. On some of the machines I administer I > have some custom entries for /etc/service

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:56:55PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > I said that I did not care whether the thing is inside or outside > the regexp library. Yes, although I think at this point it's obvious we're coming at this discussion from fairly different perspectives. By the time you broug

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:27:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > it was VERY simple to do... and attached is the patch... this uses the > > option REG_STARTEND to do what the copy was trying to do... all of the > > code to use REG_STARTEND was already there, it just needed to be enabled..

Re: docs for 3Com 3C515-TX NIC?

1999-07-30 Thread Steve Price
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Guy Helmer wrote: # Have you tried booting with the "-v" flag to see the driver's probe # messages? Did you configure the card using the configuration "pnp" # commands before the kernel starts booting? For example, I did the former but not the latter. I'll stick it in a ma

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <8605.933365...@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : It already is. That's not the question under discussion here - we're : talking about how to make things work in the post-installation boot : scenario. I'm in favor of having it in the kernel by default. With one proviso.

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : And how about having : if (securelevel > 3) : return (EPERM); : in bpf_open()? There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to ma

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : And how about having > : if (securelevel > 3) > : return (EPERM); > : in bpf_open()? > > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is > consistant with the meaning of "raw

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message Alfred Perlstein writes: : What about the one-way sysctls that have been suggested? They need to be implemente dfirst. A quick securelevel > 0 in bpf_open would allow many people's objections to bpf in the kernel by default. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.o

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is > consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". Would you be willing to make this change? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <9518.933378...@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is : > consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". : : Would you be willing to make this change? Yes. I will make this change tomorrow unless there is sig

readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
Spent quite a bit of time today playing around with the newly repaired readdirplus option for nfs clients in -current. My thanks to Matt Dillon and Bill Paul. For those that don't remember, I'm trying to use amd/nfs client stuff on some freebsd web servers that read their data from our sun

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > Spent quite a bit of time today playing around with the newly > repaired readdirplus option for nfs clients in -current. My thanks to Matt > Dillon and Bill Paul. For those that don't remember, I'm trying to use > amd/nfs client stuff on some freebsd web se

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In message <9518.933378...@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: :: > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is :: > consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". :: :: Would you be willing to make this change? : :Yes. I will make this change tomorrow unless there

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Spent quite a bit of time today playing around with the newly :repaired readdirplus option for nfs clients in -current. My thanks to Matt :Dillon and Bill Paul. For those that don't remember, I'm trying to use :amd/nfs client stuff on some freebsd web servers that read their data from :our

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :> amd.Interfaces: :> :> /defaults type:=nfs;opts:=rw,vers=3,readdirplus,intr,proto=udp :> :> * rhost:=IP${key};rfs:=/Space/${key} : :Not to rain on your parade, but Dag-Erling informed me that there :was problems using NFSv3 over the loopback interface that can cause :locku

Re: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Anyway, Mr. Dillon, once I have a development box to smack around, I :intend to start with your suggestion of implementing a filesystem :of my own concoction by returning an error for all VOP calls and :issuing a kernel printf. How visible will the new VOP code be to :me at this level? The Peng

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message > "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : And how about having > : if (securelevel > 3) > : return (EPERM); > : in bpf_open()? > > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is > consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". Dis

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". : :Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less :important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation. : :-SB Not if rarpd is started via the rc files... it would hook up to bpf prior to the secureleve

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The only other major feature is the nq leasing stuff for cache coherency, > but it is highly experimental and you probably shouldn't use it. Plus > very few other OS's support it. heh... I'm just happy when the stuff works that's s

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:27:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Funnily, I experience a near-doubling of running time with similar > patches. Incidentally, it seems that it's not possible to assume that our regex library is even anywhere in the same league as the GNU regex library. b$ t

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <37a25361.34799...@bellatlantic.net> Sergey Babkin writes: : Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less : important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation. Not if they are started before the secure level is raised. Warner To Unsubscribe: s

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Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read.

1999-07-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html A story on upcoming plans for the Linux 2.4 kernel. Since they're going after a lot of the same performance goals we are, it's worth a read. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bo

Re: Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read.

1999-07-30 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html > > A story on upcoming plans for the Linux 2.4 kernel. Since they're > going after a lot of the same performance goals we are, it's worth a > read. It seems to me that a lot of the features mention

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1999-07-30 Thread Alex Zepeda
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Re: SURVEY: Sound cards that work under FreeBSD

1999-07-30 Thread Rich Neswold
If memory serves, didn't John Reynolds~ say: > > 1) The sound card make and model/chipset. Please be as specific as you > can with board rev numbers if possible. Please include wether the card is > ISA or PCI. Crystal Tidalwave32 -- plug-n-play ISA card CSN 1 Vendor ID: XTL0005 [0x05008c62] > 2)

Re: Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read.

1999-07-30 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html > > > > A story on upcoming plans for the Linux 2.4 kernel. Since they're > > going after a lot of the same performance goals we are, it's worth a > > r

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1999-07-30 Thread jir ですうう
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Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an Interface > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in the > kernel). Make the call from within the kernel. > 2. Which structure and which member shoul

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > I've come up empty-handed hunting for a constant that defines the > maximum UID supported by the system. I'm working on our passwd and > pwd_mkdb stuff and want to get rid of the artificial limitation of 65535 > (USHRT_MAX) imposed in (at least) pwd_mkdb. > > Have I missed a useful define, o

Re: reserved/local ioctl values?

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> 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? Not really, as such. > In short, I'd hate to use a seemly unused

Re: BSDI Pthread + gdb (Re: Free BSDI CD!)

1999-07-30 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rayson Ho wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure whether this is known to this list or > > not, but here is the URL for ordering: > > > > http://www.bsdi.com/products/evalcd/ > > The thing that gets my attention is the g

Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread eT
Mike Smith wrote: > > I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an Interface > > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in the > > kernel). > > Make the call from within the kernel. But I was un

Re: Changing Interface IP address

1999-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I would like to change the IP address (netmask, gateway etc.) of an Interface > > > (eg. fxp0) from within my C source code. > > > > > > 1. Is this possible to do without the SIOC ioctl call? (i am already in the > > > kernel). > > > > Make the call from within the ker

Re: FTPd authentication with PAM/MySQL

1999-07-30 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Steven Fletcher wrote: > I've seen the PAM modules/libraries/etc for MySQL and noticed that the > FTPD Makefile has a Kerberos PAM option, and was wondering if anyone > knows of a way to get FTPd talking to MySQL... or if it would work at > all? ftpd PAM patches

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1999-07-30 Thread Kuehn, Volker
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Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-30 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op- >eration. Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs under? If it happened with files, that would be a bug and should be fixed. The

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:53:56 MST, Mike Smith wrote: > It probably belongs in param.h, and you can probably safely calculate it > as (uid_t)0 - 1; Excellent. Another question I should have asked in my original mail is this: are there magical reasons why we should want pwd_mkdb to bleat for eve

HOWTO: FreeBSD with integrated IPv6

1999-07-30 Thread Martti Kuparinen
Hi! As I promised earlier, here is some information how to integrate KAME and PAO into the FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE source tree. The current status is: - FreeBSD+KAME - no conflicts during merge - "make world" is working - systems are up and running without any problems :-) - FreeBSD+PA

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