Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: > > On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. > The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or > some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, > often de0 is dead. > > This happend today

Re: restrict connection

1999-06-10 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alexey Ryndin writes: > I need Your advice. It is necessary to restrict network access to some > box. All IP addresses of hosts from which it is allowed to connect to > the box are known. From some of them it is allowed to use ftp, from some > - telnet and so on. What is the best way to solve this

Re: Protections on inetd (and /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* in general)

2001-01-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Pentchev writes: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:47:23AM +0100, Walter W. Hop wrote: > > >The exploit managed to start inetd, camped on the specified port > > > > I guess, if it doesn't exist already, that it wouldn't be so hard to > > create a small patch to the kernel, so that only proce

Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?)

2001-01-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Mike Wade writes: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Performance isn't even the main thing. As I said earlier, it's plain > > bloody unreliable. Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they > > think something is wrong with the card. They were surprised when I > > reported that it

Re: escape sequence for 'Ic' terminal capability

2001-01-31 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Pentchev writes: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:05:01AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I'm thinking of messing with the syscons ioctl handler to allow setting > > of color values - all EGA- and VGA-compatible video controllers allow this. > > The idea is to later define my termcap(5) entry t

Re: mount_null and jail

2001-02-08 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Attila Nagy writes: > Hello, > > I am trying to do the following setup: > > /jail > /jail-run > > The first is a directory in a filesystem and holds the necessary files to > run the given application. The second directory is also a simple directory > but /jail mounted into it with mount_null. >

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-10 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Matt Dillon writes: > :Matt Dillon wrote: > :> Yes. In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer. > :Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and > :/usr which have little file creation/removal? > I have had softupdates turned on for all of my mount poi

Re: Help please (Server crash)

2001-03-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Dmitry Samersoff writes: > I have server under FreeBSD 4.2 with apache fired simple C++ CGI for > each connection. > > Aproximately every 12H uptime server stop responding. > > Kernel answers to ping, establish TCP connection but unable to fork > process. > (no messages in /var/log/messages) Lo

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-03 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Chris Costello writes: > On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > tcpcash_addr = (typeof(tcpcash_addr)) > > malloc(sizeof(*tcpcash_addr) * > > TCPCASH_ROWSIZE * > > TCPCASH_COOLSIZE); >Just as a note

Re: 4.1 lockup side question ...

2000-08-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Clarence Brown writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > As you may know I'm bashing about trying to find > the point where my 486 based machine locks up > on a warm boot. I have been programming > embedded system for about 15 years using DOS > and later windows based t

Re: graphics adapter ports reference

2000-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Nathaniel G H writes: > I have been pulling my hair out for a while with some low > level code I'm writing, and I'd like some help. > > Hardware ports 3D0h through 3DFh (controlled by the IN and > OUT instructions) can be used to control the graphics > adapter. I need some sort of reference mate

Re: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-14 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
gerald stoller writes: > I started up my (version 3.3 ) freeBSD , and the first thing that I did > was mount a MSDOS diskette and did a find on it (with -name "*hd*" ). > I got three lines of output stating something like 'date error; month (14) > out of range', then a long pause

Re: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Koster, K.J. writes: > > I also think that the find program should be checked > > to see why it > > crashed and fix it to keep it from doing similarly in the > > future; I don't know whom to contact as yet. > No matter how broken, a program is unable to crash the OS (well, very, very > u

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: > Hao Zhang writes: > > I am doing some testing on FreeBSD 3.3 platform by sending some UDP packets > > thru FreeBSD routers. It's found that the duplications happened in FreeBSD >router. > > Now The FreeBSD 3.3 is running on Pentium III, and NIC is 3C905B-T

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Pedro J. Lobo writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > > > Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: > > > > > > Intell EtherExpress > > > fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-c

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-16 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: > What is the FreeBSD naming convention for devices of disk slices and > labels? Considering my system is installed on the first partition of > /dev/wd0 (non-dedicated), these are the block-device interfaces I > have to my disk: > > wd0 wd0cwd0fwd0s1 wd0s1c

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-16 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: > [ snip ] > > > 1. What are wd0[a-h] used for? > > For wd0sN[a-h] where N is number of first slice recognized > > as FreeBSD slice > > > If I understand correctly, wd0[a-h] will be the same as wd0s3[a-h] in a > situation where DOS is on first slice, Linux on second and FreeBS

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Doug Barton writes: .. > And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem > of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge > there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions ports/sysutils/stat, for example 0cicu

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: > > > This is what I have in fdisk (from /stand/sysinstall): > > > Offset SizeEnd Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > > 0 63 62- 6 unused0 > > > 6319375651937627wd0s1 3freebsd

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Daniel C. Sobral writes: > Marc Tardif wrote: > > > > 4. If I want to use /dev/wd0s2 as a raw slice for reading > > > >and writing, what are the steps to follow? > > > You can't write several blocks near /dev/wd0s2 beginning. > > > Use /dev/wd0 with proper address > > > > > That is rather risk

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-19 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: > > What is slices content? > > s1 - almost right FreeBSD label > > s2 - not a right FreeBSD label but similar enough to label. > > s3 - no label or similar at all. > > How to do such a content that screw the system? > > This is my way for this test: > > - shorten s2 to 3 cili

Re: cannot install freebsd over a 15 GB IDE Disk

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios writes: > i amgetting crazy since i cannot install my freebsd over a 15GB ide > disk! > I am sure i have seen messages in the questions mailing list about that, > but i could not find than from search web interface. > > Since, i would be glad if you could help

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Edward Elhauge writes: > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. > > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how > to work reliably with them. > > I have installed UPS boxes on each machin

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
David Scheidt writes: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact > :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than > :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be. > :I am wery glad tha

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Sergey Babkin writes: > "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: > > David Scheidt writes: . > > > SCSI just works, on everything I've ever used it.I've had a > > > occaisonal problems with things like termination. High quality > > > cable

Re: SCSI tape speed

2000-09-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Shannon Hendrix writes: > I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses DAT drives on a DPT SCSI > controller, preferrably with FreeBSD 4.1 and an Intel system. > > I find the speed is very slow, and I know in the past these drives were fine > with FreeBSD, though I can't remember which release

Re: ftp transfers

2000-09-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Ron Scott writes: > Today Ivan van der Merwe wrote: > > I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put > > this in the crontab if possible. > > In windows you can specify a file containing > > all the files that you want downloaded. > > > > Can I do the same on Unix > > Sure, try wget

Re: find, -delete, and relative paths

2000-11-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Cyrille Lefevre writes: > "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: > > > I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail > > > list archives: > > > > > > Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubbe

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
John Baldwin writes: > On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon > > writes: > >> :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some > >> :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously > >> :dedicated mode. > >>

Re: Easy way to recover disk

2000-12-30 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Warner Losh writes: > The only thing I couldn't figure out how to do was to mount the file. > Since I grabbed the disk partition, I wasn't sure I could just use > vnconfig since there was no FreeBSD label on that partition. vnconfig -s labels /dev/vn... -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsu

Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: > > On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. > The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or > some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, > often de0 is dead. > > This happend today

how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
I need in directories without link to parent in it or with link to parent renamed to something exotic name. What is the method to do it without kernel patching in FreeBSD 2.2.X or 3.X ? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Doug writes: > "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: > > I need in directories without link to parent in it > > or with link to parent renamed to something exotic name. > What are you trying to accomplish? If you are trying to create > directories that users cannot &

Re: how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Warner Losh writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" writes: > : I need in directories without link to parent in it > : or with link to parent renamed to something exotic name. > : > : What is the method to do it without kernel patching >

Re: making users modem dial from webpage

1999-11-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kelly Yancey writes: > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > I've been asked if this is possible: > > > > Having a webserver running a database of some sort. > > User clicks a button on a form, a cgi-script runs, determines the ip of > > the user, and sends a command to "something" on the

Re: Creating Dedicated disk.

2000-02-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Corey Leopold writes: > I have a situation where I have a Tar file of a complete 3.4 FreeBSD system > from the / directory on down. > > I'm trying to get this file onto a new system using a "dangerously dedicated" > scsi disk, but am having problems getting the boot sector right using, > disklabe

Re: building netscape plugins

2000-02-24 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alan Batie writes: > Has anyone built a plugin for Netscape? I just downloaded 4.72 and > sdk30b5 and built the UnixTemplate "nptemplate.so" on 3.3-RELEASE. > When I go to Help/About Plugins, netscape complains that it has a bad > magic number. It's the FreeBSD netscape, but I tried "brandelf"in

expand label?

2000-02-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
I saw discussion in this list about change MAXPARTITIONS to 16 or 22 instead of 8. And I remember decision to expand. But in FreeBSD 4.0-2208-CURRENT MAXPARTITIONS=8 and no easy way to expand by only translate with different MAXPARTITIONS. Yes, I edit /dev/MAKEDEV sys/disklabel.h sys/disklabel

Re: ahc0 errors

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
[Jos_ Monteiro] writes: > i've been experiencing several problems with an adaptec 2940u2w. > > the disk and controller are detected as: > > ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 > ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct

Re: doscmd under FreeBSD 4.0 20000214-SNAP

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Sam Leffler writes: . > If you want to learn about this sort of stuff get a copy of The Undocumented > PC. URL? > I'd be interested in talking to anyone that's successfully using doscmd to > do anything. I want to use it to run a DOS app that communicates with a > Panasonic KSU but can't see

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Nik Clayton writes: > Recommended disk and partition layout > > In order to reduce space wastage, and provide a flexible partition layout > for future work, the following disk partition layout is recommended. > > First, you need three 'standard' filesystems, of roughly th

Re: ISO

2000-03-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
p_a_r writes: > Where can i download the 3-4-stable as an iso image?? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.4-install.iso -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: .cshrc problem

2000-03-24 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kasper writes: [Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...] > Hello i have done this in the dot.cshrc file move to .cshrc in your home directory > ** > alias h history 25 > alias j jobs -l ... > **

Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?) - another use for loopback subn et?

2000-04-01 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Eric Peterson writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Tony Finch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that > >> packets sent to any of those addresses would go via > >> the lo

Re: bad memory patch?

2000-04-07 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Maybe I'm mis-understanding something, > but isn't this situation analagous to bad sectors > on a hard drive? Yes it is not. > Isn't this similar, at least in theory, to remapping dead > sectors and continuing to use the drive? > (except that the disk's onboard controll

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-05-12 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kris Kennaway writes: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > Unless this has been changed from 3.4 to 4.0, gcc defaults to /var/tmp. I > > never understood why, and the gcc manual page claims that it's /tmp (I > > think). MFS users, synchronize your TMPDIR variables ... now. :-) > > It

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-05-12 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Warner Losh writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris >Kennaway writes: > : (incidentally, another reason to use -pipe is that the above filenames are > : predictable and probably handled insecurely so that another user can cause > : any of your files to be overwritten when you compile someth

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Arun Sharma writes: > Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on > the disk (apart from historical reasons) ? in adddition to atime, ctime and mtime? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alfred Perlstein writes: > > 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nobody can > > see them > > my mean: in crontab adding some command that this is > > hidden. > impossible(*) afaik. possible if use similar to linux emulator method to redirect open(2) - but it is TOO expansive and kernel need

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Jeremy writes: > On 2000-May-25 19:03:56 +1000, Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Of course access timestamps are usually useless anyway as most (?!!) > >people will back up their system from time to time OOPS ! I > >never realised before now - dump *doesn't* update the acces

Re: Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Essenz Consulting writes: > I posted this awhile back I didnt get much response. > > Basically, I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. > > Every couple of days it reboots for now reason. When I looked at the logs, > it shows regular log data, then the next line reads "/kernel: Copyright > (c

Re: Linking Linux object files under FreeBSD

2000-05-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to link object > files which were compiled under Linux on a FreeBSD system. > > Background: > I have to extend a programm for which I only got > the object Files. This programm calls functions > I have to write. As I don't

Re: AW: Linking Linux object files under FreeBSD

2000-05-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
d_f0rce writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > > > Background: > > > I have to extend a programm for which I only got > > > the object Files. This programm calls functions > > > I have to write. As I don't have a Linux system > > > at home I would like to use th

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Narvi writes: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy >Asys > > > > > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > > > > > experiences with them over the years). > > > > Ugh. I was s