Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Jos Backus wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:45:45AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > OK. We already have one of those. We call it "init". 8-). > > Feature-wise init and svscan/supervise don't quite match; svscan has more > features, one of which being that it doesn't use a single control file

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-15 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:30:31PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jos Backus wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:45:45AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > OK. We already have one of those. We call it "init". 8-). > > > > Feature-wise init and svscan/supervise don't quite match; svscan has more

BTX loader reboot on Soekris comBIOS1.22 fails (patches for btx.s and loader/main.c enclosed)

2003-11-15 Thread Adrian Steinmann
After "reboot" in the FreeBSD-stable BTX loader just hangs on Soekris comBIOS 1.22 Soren asked me: ... how does the loader do the actual reboot ? And does it differ from how FreeBSD otherwise reboots ? I have investigated this now: from FreeeBSD, /sbin/reboot first tries a 8042 keyboard rese

Re: BTX loader reboot on Soekris comBIOS1.22 fails (patches forbtx.s and loader/main.c enclosed)

2003-11-15 Thread Soren Kristensen
Hi Adrian, Adrian Steinmann wrote: In the BTX loader, the reboot command simply exits the loader, and end up in exit near line 252 in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.s which disables paging, flushes TLB, switches to real mode, flags a warm boot (writes 0x1234 to 0x472) and then jumps to the BIO

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-15 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 14 November 2003 02:57 pm, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > > > Is this as good a list as any for observations on the FreeBSD > > > "make release" process? I can'