cannot find root directory

2001-08-18 Thread Dan Cox
When I try logging in as anyone other than root I get a "Cannot find root directory" message and can't log in as that user. The only changes I made were running make-localhost and adding a domain. Any help is appreciated. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-18 Thread Dan Cox
Here is my situation. My house can't get DSL or cable. Our neighbors who live 20-30 feet away do have DSL and have agreed to share the connection. To make a long story short we have successfully set up a wireless LAN for the two houses, we've been using a windows laptop to test the connection. I w

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010818 03:09] wrote: > Here is my situation. My house can't get DSL or cable. Our neighbors who > live 20-30 feet away do have DSL and have agreed to share the connection. To > make a long story short we have successfully set up a wireless LAN for the > two houses, w

Re: Signal Handling

2001-08-18 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:09:32, zaunere (Hans Zaunere) wrote about "Signal Handling": > In a program that I am working on, I've decided to > catch signal 15, which then calls execl() in the > handler to reload the program from the on-disk binary. > I am able to send it the signal, it reloads, a

Re: ncurses

2001-08-18 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 17:57:44, zaunere (Hans Zaunere) wrote about "Re: ncurses": > *Whaps himself* Why didn't I think of that. However > the question still lingers, is there anyway to output > to stdout? Its kind of a moot point I suppose, just > curious. ncurses already outputs to stdout.

Re: ssh and setuid

2001-08-18 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 16:21:32, oli (Olafur Osvaldsson) wrote about "ssh and setuid": [...] > As the ssh in FreeBSD is by default not setuid it uses a higher than privileged > port for connecting so obviously that is the reason for my troubles. > > Wouldn't it be better to only disable rhosts_

shared memory models/techniques

2001-08-18 Thread fergus
hope this is an ok place to post this. as far as i can tell there are three ways to share memory between processes - using mmap, ipc shared mem or skip it using threads instead. is this right? basically i have a server process accepting many connections & i was using threads, however, it doesn'

Re: Very odd tty hanging problem.

2001-08-18 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 21:48:18, bicknell (Leo Bicknell) wrote about "Very odd tty hanging problem.": > >From another window, try to kill the processes as a user, no effect > with -9 or regular. Try to kill them as root, no effect normal. Kill > them -9 as root, and all but the first shell wil

Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread Matt Dillon
I just got through diagnosing some problems Mohan Kokal has been having with not being able to specify a large enough NMBCLUSTERS on large-memory (2G) machine. The symptoms were that he was able to specify 65536 clusters on a 1G machine, but the same parameter panic'd a 2G mac

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
All those mentionned in the release notes work.. aeronet, lucent-orinoco (wavelan) are two examples. You don't say what you used in the laptop.. Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Dan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010818 03:09] wrote: > > Here is my situation. My house can't get DSL or cable. Our neigh

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Smith
> The memory is not freed until you unmount (and then, the memory is > only free'd for use by other cfs mounts -- the process size does not, of > course, shrink). It doesn't? Does it just use malloc for these structs? When you say "of course", you kinda imply you're thinking of the "bad o

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread David Greenman
>There are two things I would like to commit for the release: > > - I would like to cap the SWAPMETA zone reservation to 70MB, > which allows us to manage a maximum of 29GB worth of swapped > out data. > > This is plenty and saves us 94MB of KVM which is roughly >

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:49:55AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > - I would like to cap the SWAPMETA zone reservation to 70MB, > which allows us to manage a maximum of 29GB worth of swapped > out data. Not to introduce machine dependancy, but on Intel max ram is 4GB, so it seem

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Wemm
Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:49:55AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > - I would like to cap the SWAPMETA zone reservation to 70MB, > > which allows us to manage a maximum of 29GB worth of swapped > > out data. > > Not to introduce machine dependancy, but on Intel

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:34:43PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE > tweaks. > > Intel ppro, pentium2 and pentium3 has a maximum RAM of 64GB. Pentium4 may > have more but I have not checked. It was my understanding from a previous thr

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:34:43PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE > > tweaks. > > > > Intel ppro, pentium2 and pentium3 has a maximum RAM of 64GB. Pentium4 may > > have more but I have not c