Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
Adrian Steinmann's talk at EuroBSDcon regarding a single user SSH daemon for rescue purposes highlighted an interesting point regarding some binaries. The GEOM userland binaries such as gmirror, gstripe, etc. use dlopen() to load classes from /lib/geom and therefore cannot be statically linked an

pppd and DNS

2005-12-20 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
Hi, Looking through pppd sources I found that it doesn't know how to request DNS info from the server, while ppp can. Here I mean requesting DNS info and updating /etc/resolv.conf. Did anyone tried to make it possible with pppd? Since I used to pppd I'd like to teach him this useful functionality.

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:37:20AM -0500, Allen wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:55, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +, Allen wrote: > > > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you > > > could run from the CLI or the GUI that w

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > 3. Full review and update of the install docs, handbook, FAQ, etc. > > There are sections that are embarrassingly out of date (one section of > > the handbook apparently states that we only support a single brand of > > wifi car

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Joel Dahl
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > > > 3. Full review and update of the install docs, handbook, FAQ, etc. > > > There are sections that are embarrassingly out of date (one section of > > > the handbook appar

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 06:41 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > Adrian Steinmann's talk at EuroBSDcon regarding a single user SSH daemon > for rescue purposes highlighted an interesting point regarding some > binaries. The GEOM userland binaries such as gmirror, gstripe, etc. use > dlopen() to load cla

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
> This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will > listen for the last three months or so. I also think that it is > advantageous for users who are using, say 4.2, to be able to find > documentation for 4.2 without having to interpret a nest of "if you have > 4.x do this, if

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
> Yep, I really like this. The current mess is impossible to maintain > (and also impossible to read). Yesterday I tried to update the kernel > configuration chapter to cover 6.0, but I gave up since there are "do > this for 4.X, do that for 5.X, and maybe this too for 6.X" everywhere. Seems as

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 06:41 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Adrian Steinmann's talk at EuroBSDcon regarding a single user SSH daemon > > for rescue purposes highlighted an interesting point regarding some > > binaries. The GEOM userl

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +, Ceri Davies wrote: > > This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will > > listen for the last three months or so. I also think that it is > > advantageous for users who are using,

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think you should change TORTIOUS to TORTUOUS in the license. Reading > license disclaimers may indeed be tortuous, but tortious is an actual legal > term, not a misspelling. It comes from the root word 'tort' which is a legal > word for 'sue'

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 11:57 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think you should change TORTIOUS to TORTUOUS in the license. > > Reading license disclaimers may indeed be tortuous, but tortious is an > > actual legal term, not a misspelling.

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > The other concern is does this force the entire crunch to require a > > working rtld now? If so, that would mean that this wouldn't be > > appropriate for something such as

FreeBSD VGA Framebuffer

2005-12-20 Thread Dale DuRose
Hi I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer? and how to use it? Cheers ~ Dale ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > The other concern is does this force the entire crunch to require a > > > working rtld now? If so, that w

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:31 pm, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > The other concern is does this force the

Re: FreeBSD VGA Framebuffer

2005-12-20 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Среда 21 Декабрь 2005 02:51 Dale DuRose написал(a): > Hi > > I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer? > and how to use it? > > Cheers > > > ~ Dale Yes and No - there is no framebuffer as it is in Linux, but if you want to have a better resolution in your cons

error on first boot

2005-12-20 Thread irwan lamany
hi all i'm new in freebsd, i've install freebsd 6.0, everything ok, but when i finish and start for my first boot, i've got error below: "ad0:Failure-read_mul status=59error=40lba=12431 g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[(offset=6332416,lenght=32768)] error=5 vnode_pager_getpage:i/o read error. vm_fault : page

Re: FreeBSD VGA Framebuffer

2005-12-20 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:51:24AM +1300, Dale DuRose wrote: > Hi > > I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer? > and how to use it? Yes it has. It's sources are in /usr/src/dev/fb and there is no man page (at least on RELENG_4). Not sure it even exist in RELENG_[56]. -ip

Problem booting FreeBSD from cboot FreeBSD from cdrom using grubdrom using grub

2005-12-20 Thread Tony
Hi, I'm trying to make an iso image that will boot FreeBSD using GRUB boot loader. Grub will boot /boot/loader and the loader will boot /boot/kernel. It goes well on my disk, but when I try to make a livecd, it fails. I spend some time figuring out that /boot/loader does not probe cd it self,

Re: FreeBSD VGA Framebuffer

2005-12-20 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:51, Dale DuRose wrote: > Hi Hello > I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer? > and how to use it? You could look into KGI: http://kgi-wip.sourceforge.net/ http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD/ There is patch set around for RELENG_6 from a few mon