Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:52:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if > > vfs.usermount is 1? > pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may > be superior to simply using sudo? Using sudo is a hack? :) --

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-04-05 Thread Sergey Babkin
>Same here. As mentioned in the original message, I can use the mouse >to open a new window under firefox. The new window will accept >keyboard input, the old one won't. It's almost as if it's deadlocking >on input. > >Reminder: my final question was "how do I go about debugging this >problem?".

keymaps

2006-04-05 Thread User Elisej
I need to understand and write keymaps. I have read kbdcontrol(1) and kbdmap(5), but these two is too superficial. Is there another document? These manuals do not explain for example: How to make "Alt+a" acting as sequence "Meta a"? "Alt+a" acts in other way, than "a" pressed after the key marked

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-04-05 Thread Sergey Babkin
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > The focus management and the highlighting of the window manager > > decoration are not physically connected in any way, so a bug in the > > window manager might cause it to do the highlighting but forget to > > give the focus to the application. > > But mouse focu

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Marko Lerota
Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Donations can be sent by paypal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if you would > prefer to send a cheque (which is probably only worthwhile for cheques > in Canadian or US dollars), please contact me by email to obtain my > mailing address. In either case, please

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Marko Lerota
Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In terms of cross-border payments, this is always > difficult. You might want to look at one of the > cross-border specialists like Kagi.com or > moneybookers.com or the digital gold currencies. OK, thanks. But it's not only the Colin issue. The FreeBSD projec

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >What are admins supposed to do on systems with more than, say, a hundred >users. Having to add a line to /etc/fstab for every user is of course >scriptable, but that does not make it less insane. Would it make sense to be able to specify a group in fstab

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:52:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if > > > vfs.usermount is 1? > > pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may > > be supe

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:37:11PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:52:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if > > > > vfs.usermount is 1? > > > pardon my

patchset-10 release (Re: [unionfs][patch] improvements of the unionfs - Problem Report, kern/91010)

2006-04-05 Thread Daichi GOTO
It is my pleasure and honor to announce the availability of the unionfs patchset-10. Patchset-10: For 7-current http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs-p10.diff For 6.x http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs6-p10.diff Changes in unionfs-p10.diff - Fi

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stefan Sperling wrote: I wasn't serious. Sudo is fine by me as well. However, having something that is in the base system (and not in ports) to allow user mounts would be neat. Still, KDE and GNOME and even xorg are in ports as well, so that point is not a really strong on

Re: Function calling

2006-04-05 Thread Nicolas Cormier
On 4/4/06, Lutz Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > But when the program uses the libc I have more RET than call ... > > What's the good way to find function calls and return ? > > I'm doing something similar at the moment, utilizing the Branch Single > Stepping feature available in most

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Would it make sense to be able to specify a group in fstab? > Then the users can be simply given membership of this > group to mount the devices. Why not just assume allowable users are in the "operator" group. Isn't this what th

Re: patchset-10 release (Re: [unionfs][patch] improvements of the unionfs - Problem Report, kern/91010)

2006-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:46:59PM +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote: > It is my pleasure and honor to announce the availability of > the unionfs patchset-10. > > Patchset-10: >For 7-current > http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs-p10.diff > >For 6.x > http://people.freebsd.o

odd behavior with geom - gmirror - read/write simultaneously

2006-04-05 Thread Thiago Damas
Hi, I'm having a odd behavior while using geom_mirror. I have the following situation: - RAID1 with 2 SATA disks # gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/home0 COMPLETE ad2 ad3 - home0 as /home # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail C

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-05 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:40, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 11:12:03 +0100, Khaled Hussain wrote: > >Why does everyone talk about dump+restore as a pair? I thought it was > >possible just to dump a filesystem to a different hard disk i.e. > >dump -0a -f /dev/ad2 / > > It is. But /de

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 12:14:29 -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: >> >> Would it make sense to be able to specify a group in fstab? >> Then the users can be simply given membership of this >> group to mount the devices. > >Why not just assume

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 12:14:29 -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: If not operator, then maybe one configurable group, defaulting to operator. Sounds like a good idea. -- Peter Jeremy What group do NFS and SMBFS shares belong to? Mike "Silby" Silbersack

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 14:53:55 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. > >Actually, boot1 + boot2 occupy sectors 0,2-15 of the bootable slice (the >a partition starts at the start of the slice to be confusing) with the >actual disklabel table in se

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-05 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:15, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 14:53:55 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. > > > >Actually, boot1 + boot2 occupy sectors 0,2-15 of the bootable slice (the > >a partition starts at the start of t

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-04-05 Thread Frode Nordahl
On 30. mar. 2006, at 22.20, Colin Percival wrote: Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security Officer.

setuid scripts wrapper (RFC, proposal)

2006-04-05 Thread Sply Splyeff
There are some security problems with kernel-level script setuid execution which discourage from using it. The standard recommendation is to write a binary setuid wrapper for each script needed. But maybe it's better to use one simple, well reviewed and verified setuid wrapper for all common tasks?

FreeBSD Kernel Quality?

2006-04-05 Thread Benjamin D Adams
I came across the fallowing website: http://scan.coverity.com/ Looks like they check open source projects for source quality. They Have the fallowing listed: Project | Current # | Original # | Lines of Code | Defects / Defects Defects KLOC

Re: odd behavior with geom - gmirror - read/write simultaneously

2006-04-05 Thread Vasil Dimov
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:09:56PM -0300, Thiago Damas wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a odd behavior while using geom_mirror. > I have the following situation: > - RAID1 with 2 SATA disks > # gmirror status > NameStatus Components > mirror/home0 COMPLETE ad2 >

automatic checking of source code

2006-04-05 Thread Divacky Roman
hi I just found http://mygcc.free.fr/ which is a project for automatic checking of source code for bugs (memory leaks, unreleased locks, null pointer dereferences). I recall there was some SoC project to achieve something similar but this is complete and ready to run... it might be of some intere