On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Octavian Hornoiu wrote:
> Winbind requires nsswitch to work properly and I know that FreeBSD
> does not support it currently but why is this not a top priority at
> the moment? I would much rather have nsswitch working than some of
> the minor features int
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:00:04PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
>
> 2. cast always to uintmax_t and use %ju.
This is correct.
> The first possibilities seems wrong, because one should not include a
> non-system header, the second because given a (hypothetical) machine with
> 128-bit uintmax_t this
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote:
> I'm sorry I didn't mention it in my original post but the plan is that
> whenever a filesystem is "adopted" and the permissions are overwritten
> the filesystem's ID is changed to prevent it being recognized as "local"
> to any systems that previously kne
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 01:48:38PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> By the way, I also find out if you copy a file with holes into another
> file, the holes in the first file will be replaced with 0s in the second
> file, taking more disk space (check with du). Is there a better solution
> for this
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On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:19:58PM -0500, Kenny Drobnack wrote:
> A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under
> all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use
> it, is grab a bunch of stuff you wan
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:43:16PM -0800, Ralph Seguin wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty getting APM and power
> control working in FreeBSD 3.3
> I've built a kernel with APM enabled in the config
> file and enabled it in
> rc.conf, however apmd says it's starting up, but ps
> never shows it run
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800, John Milford wrote:
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> Is there any real interest in moving beyond 1TB? I think that
> it would incur a non-trival overhead as I believe that unsigned ints
> would not work and we would be looking at going to 64 bit values. Or
> I guess something
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:27:03PM -0800, John Milford wrote:
> Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800, John Milford wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any real interest in moving beyond 1TB? I think that
> >
On a -current system as of a week or two ago (as well as a 3.3-RC and a
2.2.8-STABLE box) I've found that mprotect fails with with EACCES when
trying to make a shared memory segment that was created user read/write
read-only. It works find if I malloc the memory instead and making the
shm segment
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 01:36:08PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000228 13:23] wrote:
> > On a -current system as of a week or two ago (as well as a 3.3-RC and a
> > 2.2.8-STABLE box) I've found that mprotect fails with with EACCES
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 12:50:13PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On a -current system as of a week or two ago (as well as a 3.3-RC and a
> 2.2.8-STABLE box) I've found that mprotect fails with with EACCES when
> trying to make a shared memory segment that was created user read/wri
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Luke Hollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> > I was using sysinstall the other day and hit Auto defaults just to see
> > what it suggested, and got this on a 20GB disk:
> > wd0s1a/ 50MB UFS
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 07:59:39PM -0500, James Howard wrote:
> At a site I am working at, we need to be able to limit which users can
> bind a socket to an address under IPv4. Basically, bind() needs to check
> the caller's groups and if you are one of several allowable groups, let it
> pass, ot
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 01:39:54PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> David Scheidt wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> >
> > > Upon reading of Microsoft's fabulous innovations in the filesystem arena,
> > > I started playing with some ideas of my own (not to be confused w
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:51PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> A while ago I tried to install StarOffice and had
> a problem that every time I tried to start it it went
> into setup again and again. I've asked about this
> in -hackers and
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:32:49PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
>
> The FreeBSD driver doesn't currently support encryption, correct.
> The Linux driver does, so perhaps it would be fairly easy to port the
> functionality, and the Linux driver is dual-licensed under GPL and BSD
> licenses so there's
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:47PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> Two item:
>
> 1) I managed to crash an intel N440BX mobo with an fxp card and the
> onboard ncr drivers. Lots of network traffic (ping floods) and disk IO
> (rawio in parallel on two disks) took it down in something like two
> hours
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 01:43:12PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I've been burned about 6 times now by the shim device support becoming
> optional. Oh well, that's current.
>
> However, I was thinking that it would be nice if there was something
> simple to grep for to see what drivers still ne
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:04:11PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brooks Davis writes:
> : I like it. The new entry in UPDATING should help, but it's easy to
> : forget and the current errors aren't very obvious.
>
> Well, I *WROTE* the
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:04:35PM -0500, John Von Essen wrote:
> What is the status of support for onboard Intel networking? Intel
> EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI Cards work fine with the fxp0 driver, but I am
> have having alot of problems with the onboard intel networking. For
> example, SuperMicro
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:39:11AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>
> The most important strength of NetBSD is its availability on many
> different hardware platforms. If you plan to set up your servers on Intel
> or DECalpha software, FreeBSD might do better for you. For example,
> FreeBSD supports
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:41:15PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote:
> I saw this link recently...
>
> http://home.zonnet.nl/vanrein/badram/
>
> Apparently, you make a floppy with the supplied image, boot with it to
> find the bad RAM addresses, and then those addresses are passed on as a
> kernel param
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:01:56PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote:
> I think the concept here is that it allows you to use the bad RAM. It's
> like bad blocks on a hard drive. SO now, if you think you have bad RAM, you
> can run the test, mark the bad blocks, and memory will be allocated 'around'
> th
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:04:23PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> : Maybe I'm mis-understanding something, but isn't this situation
> : analagous to bad sectors on a hard drive? Isn't this similar, at
> : least in theory, to remapping dead
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> I'm trying to port quicktime for Linux to FreeBSD (xmovie).
> I'm stumbling across the following code fragment:
>
> #include !
> #include
> #include
[snip]
>
> is mntent a linux speciality?
You really need a linu
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> This is a SysV-ish way to get info about mounted filesystems, so the
> glibc manpage is completely stoned (imagine that). I know this existed
> in SVR2, at least.
I did some more investigating. A similarly named, but almost entierly
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:44:59PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on x86 with gcc 2.95.2 and the
> httperf-0.6 port gives a SIGFPE and dumps core when run against a system
> that has no web server running. (The default behavior is to measure
> localhost when no argum
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> My former employer (SRI) has done lots of research, and have gotten a
> receiver good to 1cm, but it takes about 24 hours for it to
> 'synchronize' to that accuracy. With dual receivers, you can get 2-3 mm
> accuracy by comparing th
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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:25:55PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake David Holloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > You are associating one persons accuracy numbers with
> > someone elses experiments.
>
> Ah. So what are the prof's accuracy numbers?
Hi,
There's a long standing issue where you can either have a hardwired
hostname and have it all the time or you can get your hostname from DHCP
and not have one unless you set it manualy while not networked. I have
hacked up a solution which I think avoids POLA violations. My only
concern with
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
>
> I thought FreeBSD had an option on install to run a bad block scan on a
> drive? Just installed (4.0-RELEASE) and noticed it wasn't there. Any
> specific reason...or maybe a reference page that explains. Thanks in
> advance.
Bad
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:41:56AM -0400, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
> This isn't really FBSD-related, but this seems like a good place to ask...
>
> I have a Linux dual P-II 333 that had the following memory config:
>
> bank 1 - 32M DIMM/100
> bank 2 - 64M DIMM/100
> bank 3 - 64M DIMM/100
>
>
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