Re: nsswitch functionality

2002-12-06 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: printing of uint64_t in the kernel

2003-01-03 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-06 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: A file with holes - a bug?

1999-11-22 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: CD-RW long filenames/rw filesystem.

1999-12-30 Thread Brooks Davis
[Redirected to -questions where it belonged.] 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

Re: FreBSD 3.3, power off and power button stuff

2000-01-21 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
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 > 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

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
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 > >

mprotect(2) won't make shared memory read-only

2000-02-28 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: mprotect(2) won't make shared memory read-only

2000-02-28 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: mprotect(2) won't make shared memory read-only

2000-02-28 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Keeping using locally modified source

2000-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Why StarOffice continuously restarted setup - the answer

2000-03-16 Thread Brooks Davis
[This is -questions material, not -hackers, redirecting] 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

Re: WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo (Silver)

2000-03-20 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: NCR/FXP and coredumps

2000-03-22 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Shim Code #error needed

2000-03-25 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Shim Code #error needed

2000-03-25 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Onboard Intel Networking - i82559

2000-03-26 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: BSD VS BDS

2000-03-28 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: bad memory patch?

2000-04-06 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: bad memory patch?

2000-04-06 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: bad memory patch?

2000-04-07 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: mntent.h - what is it?

2000-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Brooks Davis
[Redirected to -chat where it belongs.] 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?

Proposed fix for DHCP and hostname

2000-05-10 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: Bad Block scan

2000-05-16 Thread Brooks Davis
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

Re: hardware memory question

2000-05-20 Thread Brooks Davis
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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