Re: startx /dev/mem problem

2001-01-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
also be running at elevated securelevel. -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-22 Thread Crist J. Clark
| || |_| || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || |```|| |` Please, not on another list. -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Measuring Time on Serial Port Events

2004-01-13 Thread Crist J. Clark
he wire. The data we are concerned with has latencies of a few 100 ms, but calibrations on the PSTN are a typically 50-ms-ish. We need to have a few significant digits below that. Any pointers? -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing Networks

2004-01-14 Thread Crist J. Clark
x box or touch the routes on everything on LAN B to route 192.168.10.0/24 through 192.168.1.1. > Of course you must run a > route daemon in both machines (I supouse it's running now since they are > working as gateways) and the previous route must be added to the route > daemon

Re: ip_input - chksum - why is it done so early in ip_input?

2004-01-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
ksum verification. Keeping a single host from polluting the whole network, and only its LAN, with bad packets is considered worth the cost of every router doing the check. FWIW, this is one of the few places a standard demands that you not even provide the option to disable

Re: FW: How To Recreate /var Files?

2001-10-05 Thread Crist J. Clark
es under its temproot. Make sure that any log files that you may have added to your syslog.conf(5) are touched. -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To U

Re: cvs(1) Update and CVS/Entries

2001-11-10 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:28:41AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Crist J. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Even though the modification time of CVS/Entries is changed > > everytime, those directories are not added. > > Like it or not, that'

cvs(1) Update and CVS/Entries

2001-11-08 Thread Crist J. Clark
erytime I update the ports tree and it would be nice to know which are problems and which, like these, are "false alarms." -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/|

Re: nfsd and mountd in the wrong place

2001-10-10 Thread Crist J. Clark
Perhaps well tested patches to the rc(8) files and any source files than need to be modified would make this go more smoothly. -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Valid user name

2001-10-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
With the period included, the list would conform to > POSIX's definition of a valid user name. The historical reason '.' is avoided is because it breaks, # chown user.group file Syntax. See the COMPATIBILITY section of chown(8). -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL

Re: Valid user name

2001-10-13 Thread Crist J. Clark
k up their systems for them. After all, tools like adduser(8) are aimed more towards the inexperienced admin. If any administrative apps are going to do hand-holding, adduser(8) is one of them. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [E

Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files

2001-12-04 Thread Crist J . Clark
t; > Thanks, Mark > > > "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > > > I did some more checking on how dump(8) works. If you dump to an > > existing file, the file can never get smaller. That is, the file is > > not truncated. I'll look at whether there is a good rea

Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files

2001-12-04 Thread Crist J . Clark
should not be included (due to the nodump flag being set). This > too would result in dump files larger than they "should" be... > > The PR includes a patch which is meant to fix this problem. Yeah, I've been looking at these two together. -- Cri

Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files

2001-12-04 Thread Crist J . Clark
write(2) flags work. If our write(2) "does the right thing" with O_TRUNC and tape devices, there is no reason not to let it do the right thing on its own. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files

2001-12-04 Thread Crist J . Clark
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:10:49PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > | On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:02:49AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > | > Matthew Dillon wrote: > | > > | > | :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernd Walter writes: &g

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-05 Thread Crist J . Clark
l people. So let's verify > both of those and then revisit the issue. 4.5-RELEASE is only a month and a half away. By the time this "while" passes, we'll be there. If people have lived this long with the bugs, they can last until late January. -- "It's always fun

Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files

2001-12-05 Thread Crist J . Clark
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:02:47PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:26:39PM -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote: [snip] > > From what Ian said elsewhere in this thread, the O_TRUNC already does > > not "act strange" on a tape device. I don't see any

Re: install and boot on secondary master possible ? seems not...

2001-12-08 Thread Crist J . Clark
boot it. Go into the BIOS settings and see if there is a way to try to boot off of that drive. If that fails, make up a boot floppy. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install and boot on secondary master possible ? seems not...

2001-12-08 Thread Crist J . Clark
sk to make it possible for the machine to > >boot > > > off what I have installed on the secondary master ? I used the fixit > >disk > > > to mount the drive and tried to edit things in /boot, but I cannot > >figure > > > out exactly what to chang

Re: ether_input: drop bdg packet

2003-03-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
meone could point me in the direction of the code for > this as opposed to or in addition to the answer. The message is in src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. However, it was removed in revision 1.34 which is probably why you cannot find it. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PR

Re: ether_input: drop bdg packet

2003-03-19 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:24:45AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: [snip] > Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity, if it was removed, why does > the message still appear? You're using an older kernel/module built from source that had it? -- Crist J. Clark |

Re: /etc/rc.firewall and /sys/netinet/ip_input.c are doing the same thing

2001-12-25 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:10:09PM +0700, Igor M Podlesny wrote: > > well, not all the same, but partly. Take a look: Yes. We know. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark

Re: /etc/rc.firewall and /sys/netinet/ip_input.c are doing the same thing

2001-12-26 Thread Crist J . Clark
t from people unaware of the built-in protection from loopback addresses informing us that we should have rules like that by default. The rules don't hurt anything (just _try_ to measure a performance impact), but you should of course feel free to not include them in your own firewall scripts. -- &quo

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-05 Thread Crist J. Clark
pical SYN flood or DDOS are real threats. This thread (and the previous ones like the one Darren started a few months back) have already expended more energy on the issue than the threat warrants. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt.

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-07 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:57:26PM +0200, Yonatan Bokovza wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 02:39 > > To: Leo Bicknell > > Cc: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: which port for libcrypto.so.2

2002-01-15 Thread Crist J . Clark
.so.2 is part of the base FreeBSD system. It is part of the 'crypto' distribution. This is much more of a -questions question than -hackers. Re-directed. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark

Re: sysctl(3) errnos wrong?

2002-01-24 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Sounds like that, but changing it now would be too backwards incompatible. Then shouldn't we fix the documentation to reflect reality? > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:51:35AM -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote: > > Here i

Re: buildworld via ro mounted /usr/src

2002-02-01 Thread Crist J. Clark
in > that. This is solved in -CURRENT and is trivial to patch -STABLE to > fix. Or you can just use the 'kernel,' 'buildkernel,' and 'installkernel' targets in the /usr/src Makefiles. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildworld via ro mounted /usr/src

2002-02-01 Thread Crist J. Clark
make.conf) -j4 buildworld > # make KERNCONF=FreeBEER KERNCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc/conf -j4 buildkernel > # make KERNCONF=FreeBEER KERNCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc/conf installkernel > and so on... No, I was confused. I thought we were discussing how to do an "old fashioned" kernel build in a read

Re: crypt function - solution!

2002-02-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
tml). libcrypt contains the code for doing DES, MD5, and Blowfish passwords. No need for the old symlink kludge. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Un

Re: Kernel after halt issued

2002-02-14 Thread Crist J. Clark
me doing something they consider useful with the owned box and establishing themselves so that they retain control (but neither is impossible). The kernel-only box also has a HUGE security disadvantage that pretty much makes it a non-starter IMHO, no logging. -- Crist J. Clark |

Re: chroot+su idea

2002-02-15 Thread Crist J. Clark
Also have a look at jail(8). -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacker

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-16 Thread Crist J. Clark
6.204.21:80 that came (out of|into) to the firewall via interface (fxp0|fxp1)" That is, the 'via fxp?' at the end is telling you about the packet that _triggered_ the rule, not where the packet was actually forwared to. If you sniffed the connection, I expect that

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
What precise version of FreeBSD are you running, BTW? -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: file(1) returns amusing result

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
es/mysql323-client ^^ It's those two characters, 0x5453, at an offset of 0x200 bytes that causes the match. Gotta love file(1). -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:01:17PM -0500, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:49:46AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > What precise version of FreeBSD are you running, BTW? > > 4.5 RELEASE, as stated in original message. Do these patches help? In

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:38:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:31:13AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:01:17PM -0500, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:49:46AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > >

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:09:28AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:04:58AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > Do these patches help? > > > > > > can you please summarise the problem and what the fix is trying to > > > achieve ? &

Re: Odd ipfw behaviour

2002-02-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
tch: > > ipfw add 100 fwd 1.2.3.4 tcp from any to 1.2.3.5 80 in recv fxp0 > > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:31:13AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:01:17PM -0500, Michael R. Wayne w

Re: Default mail.local permission

2002-02-19 Thread Crist J. Clark
you've installed a new kernel. [snip] > After this manipulations all works fine. > Why so problems? Why 1555 is not default permission ? Ju-ust a little behind the times. See the UPDATING from 20001020. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multicast problem with sis interface?

2002-03-02 Thread Crist J. Clark
d have seen the original packet (the exception being very simple switches, but anyone who really wanted to could see everything over one of those anyway). If you are worried about this, don't buy Cisco. The first time I noticed this was watching NIDS go off multip

Re: crash partition

2002-03-02 Thread Crist J. Clark
dev, when I could just use a 321-meg sleep/dump partition. > > It *seems* to work, but that means absolutely nothing in the real world. And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap partition? -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: crash partition

2002-03-02 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:45:18PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap >

Re: bug in Time::Local (can't handle 1901)

2002-03-08 Thread Crist J. Clark
83648 mktime(3) will choke on dates before Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 UTC 1901. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: cryptography implications (privacy) of FreeBSD jail ?

2002-03-11 Thread Crist J. Clark
rward attacks. But I haven't done exhaustive research. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Userland Hacker Task: divert socket listener...

2002-03-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
if I left the code in a working state. I'm sure I had writing pcap(3) files working at one point. Tarball of what I got attatched. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpcd.tgz Description: application/tar-gz

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker Project: NOTES

2002-03-29 Thread Crist J. Clark
closer to the other BSD's. (Just askin', not proposin'.) -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: total module count

2002-04-01 Thread Crist J. Clark
les/Makefile? -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Hardlinks...

2002-04-09 Thread Crist J. Clark
f an issue) 4-STABLE system. The two main reasons being /etc/master.passwd, et al, and the problems with a read-only /dev. It takes extensive customizations and kludges to get this to work. -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL

Re: Hardlinks...

2002-04-09 Thread Crist J. Clark
mlinks with the passwd(1) and pwd_mkdb(8) commands as they stand. The commands will bail when they try to create a temporary file in /etc, /etc/pw.XX if /etc is read-only. If /etc is not read-only, the symlinks will get removed and the files actually written in /etc. -- Crist J.

Re: Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-11 Thread Crist J. Clark
nal > interface of the machine on a non-standard port and have it redirect > the query to a loopback address/port and return the query the > appropriate query result to me. Why don't you just have each named(8) listen on the different port?

Re: ipfw fwd to named

2002-04-16 Thread Crist J. Clark
n i launch dig without port options to the server 192.168.10.22 it says > that connection refused. > > I did same this sshd (put it in jail and forward its port) and > it works fine. > > What's wrong? Have you done a tcpdump(1) on the loopback to see

Re: Hardlinks...

2002-04-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:18:30AM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: > "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > It's arguable that "/" and "/usr" themselves

Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures

2002-05-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
he egregious violations of "correctness". The issue is that the server is reporting a _transient_ failure. That is, it's telling us that if we wait and try again later, we might get a correct response. How do we know if it is a permanently broken server or one that re

Re: Desired feature: ipfw pass for routed IPs

2002-09-19 Thread Crist J. Clark
quite sure I understand why it would be needed. If there isn't a route to send a packet out of an interface, it won't go out of the interface. Under what conditions would you see yourself blocking packets? Is this really an ackbassward way to filter routes from routing daemons? -- Crist J. Clark

Re: inet_aton() Bug or feature?

2002-10-03 Thread Crist J. Clark
reted as decimal). People use this notation all of the time, # ifconfig if0 172.16.1.10 netmask 0xff00 ^^ -- Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.freebsd.org/

Re: IP resolving

2002-10-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
g a message to syslogd(8). Figure out what it is and edit syslog.conf(5) appropriately. Are you using TCP wrappers or something? > then if they connect via rlogin or ssh, 'who', 'w', 'last', etc. all > report that they are connected _from_ MY box, which th

Re: IP resolving

2002-10-21 Thread Crist J. Clark
he actual output from the machine? What do, $ w $ w -n $ who $ last | head $ netstat -an Show? Do you get identical results with rlogin and ssh? Can we see both? > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:00:26PM -0600, Scott Carmi

Re: ATAPI tape drive (wst0) problem.

1999-12-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
kernel configuration file: > > options ATAPI > device wst0 And you did rebuild the kernel and reboot right? The dmesg output should contain references to this device, wst0, besides just the fact wcd1 found _something,_ no? -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: patches for de driver (full-duplex packet loss problems)

2000-02-13 Thread Crist J. Clark
rchives down, i can't do my own search, but i was > hoping someone on these lists could give me some pointers. Try www.deja.com and search the muc.lists.freebsd.* hierarchy. Just one question I always ask people trying to get things working at full-duplex, is the card plugged into a hub

Re: patches for de driver (full-duplex packet loss problems)

2000-02-13 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:29:15PM -0500, Jim Mercer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:05:55PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > with the mailing list archives down, i can't do my own search, but i was > > > hoping someone on these lists could give me some pointers.

Re: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-04 Thread Crist J. Clark
gas-guzzling vehicles in the region will continue to rise as will the miles driven per vehicle. > It's the same the whole world over. Energy policies and fuel costs aren't > driven by markets or even common sense. They are controlled by big > cartels, big government, and poli