8.1-STABLE amd64 machine check

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Langille
(s) x 4 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 Andrew: You posted about this on July 14. Anything new since then? John: Is it time for me to get a new CPU? thanks -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___

Re: 8.1-STABLE amd64 machine check

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, August 11, 2010 7:31 am, Andrew Heybey wrote: > On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > >> I am encountering a situation similar to one reported by Andrew Heybey >> at >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6E83197B-9DD5-4C7E-846D-AD176C25464D >> &

Re: Overview of CVS changes

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Langille
s that we are a 4-6 weeks from having a beta website ready to go. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe f

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Langille
and _could_ be extended to handle DST). Therein I > suggest to > - not touch current cron at all but switch to a different > executable by means of the newly introduced rc.conf variables > or to This is the safest route IMHO. No risk for that that choose not to use it. -- Dan Lan

Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Langille
Either we change the handbook to make it clear, as I hope my patch[1] does, or we fix buildkernel so it works as advertised in the handbook. I don't mind either solution. [1] <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24148> -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiar

Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Langille
et this as an attempt to goad a fix. It is. ;) -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Langille
? Details of the options for invoking the proposed new behaviour? Such things were marked as important during the discussions. It would be helpful to be able to read these things now that it has been commited. [before anyone suggestions, no, I'm not going to read the code to find out] -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etccrontab)

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Langille
Sergy wrote: > > > As far as I've watched this thread > > > nobody had explained it. So could you please elaborate ? > > > > Nobody explained it to your satisfaction but you still committed it? > > Nobody explained it to my satisfaction why I should not commit it. Ummm, well, that's a good reas

Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake

2001-01-22 Thread Dan Langille
r those people that know what > they are doing. Thanks for that Warner. Please have a read of this URL for me and give me some suggestions as to how you think it should be updated: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html ...and I'll submit a PR. cheers. -- Dan Lan

Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
in, my old PR is can still be found. Look for submitter = my name. Otherwise, it'll be the weekend before I have time. > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Dan Langille" writes: > : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > > This change shou

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
DZ wrote: > I could not find any non-commercial IP Address overtaking solution for > FreeBSD so I wrote this simple shell script. If you find it useful you can > use it. What is "IP Address overtaking"? - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan.

Re: Patch to fix "make buildkernel requires full obj directory" mistake

2001-01-24 Thread Dan Langille
> Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Dan Langille" writes: > > : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > > > > This change should do the trick if I'm reading things right. > > It's sti

gzip and cvsweb.cgi

2001-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
I've noticed that cvsweb.cgi sometimes gives me GZIP and sometimes not. I tracked down a fix for my needs, but would like some feedback please. The problem arose when FreshPorts old me it couldn't do anything with a Makefile it had just obtained (via fetch), so I went to look. What I found was

Re: gzip and cvsweb.cgi

2001-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
what I'm trying to do. At present, FreshPorts seems to be happy with /~checkout~/. But I would like to know more. thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Langille
them from saying it on our lists. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Where is ftp.FreeBSD.org?

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Langille
p://freebsdmirrors.org/ -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Where is ftp.FreeBSD.org?

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Langille
On 31 Jan 2001, at 13:59, Greg Black wrote: > "Dan Langille" wrote: > > > On 31 Jan 2001, at 13:51, Greg Black wrote: > > > > > Can you name one? I mean a mirror that doesn't send you to > > > ftp.FreeBSD.org for security patches etc, wh

Re: gzip and cvsweb.cg

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Langille
On 30 Jan 2001, at 14:35, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > At Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:01 +1300 (NZDT), > Dan Langille wrote: > > I've noticed that cvsweb.cgi sometimes gives me GZIP and sometimes not. I > > tracked down a fix for my needs, but would like some feedback please. >

Re: gzip and cvsweb.cg

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Langille
freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGo Search-current/Makefile?rev=HEAD Not the ideal situation. fetch *should* work. Surely fetch doesn't claim to be gzip compatible. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2001-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
After a suggestion offlist, here's the additional information from a boot -v: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0s1: type 0xa5, start 63, end = 2503871, size 2503809 : OK /: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir syncing disks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1..etc giving up

Re: panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2001-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
> were when it panic'd, while you have the drive mounted on another box. There is no /kernel.old any more. I have installed the new 4.2 kernel when the drive was mounted in another box. Its that kernel which produce the messages below. Thanks. > Dan Langille writes: > &g

panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2001-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
r ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir syncing disks 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1..etc giving up on 1 buffers I did an fsck on the disk by moving it to another box. The above messages appeared both before and after the fsck. Clues please! -- Dan Langille - novice in training [my

Re: panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
James writes: > You might also wanna try installing the same /kernel and /modules that you > were when it panic'd, while you have the drive mounted on another box. That's a point. I'll try that now. BTW: Someone sent me this: http://freebsd.sinica.edu.tw/pipermail/freebsd-taiwan-questions

Re: Trailing slashes and rmdir - POLA broken

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 4 Feb 2001, at 6:46, Greg Black wrote: > Observe the following: > > $ uname -rs > FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE > $ ls -l > $ mkdir foo > $ ln -s foo bar > $ rmdir bar > rmdir: bar: Not a directory I'm quite sure that rm bar will work. Hav

Re: Trailing slashes and rmdir - POLA broken

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
and getting up after 4 hours of sleep -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
I had to give up on that disk. I bought a new 10GB IDE to replace it (it's going to be vastly under-filled). I still have the disk, so if anyone wants to follow this up, it is still intact. On 2 Feb 2001, at 5:21, Dan Langille wrote: > I recently upgraded a box from 4.1-stable to 4.

An example script for creating a bootable floppy

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
declaration isn't a prototype ../../kern/kern_sig.c: In function `osigsuspend': ../../kern/kern_sig.c:729: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type *** Error code 1 -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: An example script for creating a bootable floppy

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
cvidctl.o(.text+0x26a): undefined reference to `vidsw' scvidctl.o: In function `sc_vid_ioctl': scvidctl.o(.text+0x77f): undefined reference to `vidsw' scvidctl.o(.text+0x7a3): undefined reference to `vidsw' scvidctl.o(.text+0x7bc): undefined reference to `vid_get_adapter' scvi

Re: An example script for creating a bootable floppy

2001-02-03 Thread Dan Langille
-8 101%/mnt I get a root mount failed, then a panic, but at least it's a kernel. If I make any more progress, I'll le you know. Thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

ping over IPSEC works in only one direction

2001-02-05 Thread Dan Langille
pass in from any to any 21 pass in quick proto esp from any to any clues please! thanks -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ping over IPSEC works in only one direction

2001-02-05 Thread Dan Langille
have the keys correct as ping works and tcpdump shows incoming ping request and outgoing ping replies. Quite odd. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
e box with a new box? Smaller window. > The only way I'm going to get my 3.2-R machine upgraded (and the only way > this person is going to get their 3.0-R machine upgraded) is when it > breaks and requires a complete reinstall to become operational. It might pay to send an email t

Re: qmail IO problems

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
ybe? perhaps http://freebsddiary.org/vinum.html -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Solution: Sendmail 8.11.3 on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-13 Thread Dan Langille
$ cat /usr/src/UPDATING > cat: /usr/src/UPDATING: No such file or directory > > Perhaps the documentation should be installed more thoroughly. Perhaps you should install the documentation. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got an

Re: Solution: Sendmail 8.11.3 on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Mar 2001, at 12:05, Greg Black wrote: > "Dan Langille" writes: > > | On 14 Mar 2001, at 11:57, Greg Black wrote: > | > | > "David O'Brien" writes: > | > > | > | Perhaps you should read the documentation we supplied on t

Re: OP make import?

2001-03-14 Thread Dan Langille
usable. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Mar 2001, at 16:12, Dennis wrote: > And why does all of your email have that stupid attachment? Whats the > matter, cant figure out how to use an open-source mailer? :-) It's called a PGP signature. Could you two kids please take this pissing contest off -hackers? Thank

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Langille
d to this list. Please take it elsewhere. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Above the law? (was: You gotta be kidding .... Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c)

2005-01-16 Thread Dan Langille
On 16 Jan 2005 at 17:30, Linus Caldwell wrote: > [Although this is formally a reply to Matt, I'm addressing the > committers community here] Then please address to to the committers mailing list. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Confer

processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-16 Thread Dan Langille
. As opposed to starting a separate perl script for each message (which is the the existing strategy and is usually fine, except when large numbers of messages turn up in a short period of time). -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathom

Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Dec 2000, at 11:22, Joseph Scott wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > # Which list would be more appropriate for asking advice on designing a > # mail processing strategy for FreshPorts 2 (i.e. processing all of > # cvs-all, not just the ports)? &g

Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
t getting queued in the local mail spool. > If you set this limit to 1, you'd avoid the need for any additional > file locking as well. Thanks. Offline, someone also suggested exim, which contains a perl interpreter. But I would rather develop an MTA independent soluti

Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
got mail > Just some thoughts. appreciated. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:11, Joseph Scott wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > # On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:03, Joseph Scott wrote: > # > # > Let's say, at a minimum you want the queue to run every 30 > # > minutes. However, if there are a larg

Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

2000-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
I used the filter binary for years; the > bad news is that this binary seems to be missing from elm-2.5. > > No such feature in mutt Thanks. Always interesting to know. BTW folks, the thread has moved to freebsd-ports, unless someone can suggest a more appropriate list. -

anyone want to learn XML / work on FreshPorts2?

2000-12-22 Thread Dan Langille
akers? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ 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 Dan Langille
The main evil of ssh is that server authentication is not enforced, making > mounting a man-in-the-middle attack basically trivial. It is possible. It is not trivial. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband -

Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 23 Dec 2000, at 2:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 23 Dec, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 23 Dec 2000, at 13:25, David Preece wrote: > > > >> At 15:37 22/12/00 -0800, you wrote: > >> > >> >The question asked is: why you believe ssh is beter > &g

Re: anyone want to learn XML / work on FreshPorts2?

2000-12-24 Thread Dan Langille
d a DTD. I've forwarded this message on to that person. Ideally, at least from a FreshPorts point of view, the XML would be generated at the same time the cvs-all mail message is created. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org

Re: anyone want to learn XML / work on FreshPorts2?

2000-12-24 Thread Dan Langille
can use. If anyone wishes to get involved, beyond these discussions, I suggest they join the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] On that list, we discuss the design in a bit more detail than here. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe develop" in the body of the message. -- Dan

waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-26 Thread Dan Langille
esn't start another one. Any ideas on how to do this? Any suggestions on the process? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
inadequete or my knowledge being too narrow. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
l dir are > located on the same filesystem, and you can use the rename() syscall. At present the files are created through procmail like this: |/usr/bin/perl $HOME/process_cvs_mail.pl > ~/msgs/$FILE I guess I could add a rename. cheers -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freeb

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
until no more files > > Truncate file > > > unlock the file > > > > The cleaner you mentioned: run it every 15 minutes, compare the > > date/time on the lockfile, if more than 15 minutes old, grab the PID, > > and kill the job, remove the lock. >

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
ead of 640, so I did this: |/usr/bin/perl $HOME/process_cvs_mail.pl > ~/msgs/$FILE && chmod o+r ~/msgs/$FILE Works great. Cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
On 27 Dec 2000, at 19:56, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 09:16:34AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001226 23:50] wrote: > > > > > > My idea is to have a daemon, or something resembling one, sitting on >

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
ed" with messages. This is usually the result of the website being offline or otherwise disconnected from the net. The mail builds up and then arrives all at once. That's the reason for freeing up the MTA quickly. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-27 Thread Dan Langille
2 floors down, under the stairs. I can't hear those fans :-) I'm impressed. No loss of signal I presume? Special cables? or just long? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org

Re: A couple of Junior Hacker tasks...

2000-12-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 28 Dec 2000, at 9:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > which are good candidates for people looking for a good and simple > task to do for FreeBSD. How do we know which are the "good and simple" ones? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ F

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dan Langille
f the daemon signals the perl script when it's already processing? Could a signal be missed? thank you. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 28 Dec 2000, at 11:29, Volker Stolz wrote: > Am 28. Dec 2000 um 10:33 MET schrieb Dan Langille: > > What about a daemon signalling a waiting perl script? > > Is it an issue if the daemon signals the perl script when it's already > > processing? Could a signal be mis

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-02 Thread Dan Langille
se, it's worth trying again. Someone out there has an interest in what you're doing. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-06 Thread Dan Langille
10M cables, the box boots as expected. Yes, I've thought of enabling no-keyboard booting, but there is no setting in the BIOS. It's on the motherboard I'm told and I've yet to open the box and find it. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
ars. Then, and only then, if the feedback is positive, consider changing it to the default behaviour. Such a radical change to cron cannot be implemented without sufficient field testing. That will take years. It cannot be simulated. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
ore. > Again, this change is from OpenBSD. We will synchronise with their > changes, and perhaps offer them back a patch to ignore what "ultra leet > sysadmins who rely on broken behaviour because people who don't are > simply stupid and shouldn't be running FreeBSD

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
_DST_HACK="NO" in rc.conf > with a comment pointing to the explanation should cover both > these items. If more is needed later, then it can be added. Do you mean /etc/defaults/rc.conf? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshpo

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-11 Thread Dan Langille
en as it does now. If the changes are modular, and I sure hope they are, it would almost be a matter of: if newcode then call new stutt end if But I'm guessing it's going to be a *bit* more complicated than that. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.or

Re: Software Patents

2001-01-11 Thread Dan Langille
> Maybe Julian could draft that statement and have someone sign it in > the name of the FreeBSD project? Speaking of patents, I hope you've all read: <http://www.idg.co.nz/computerworld/cw.nsf/ArchiveAuthor/C9CB523B4 A3818EBCC2569B20071EFC3?OpenDocument> -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Langille
== 0) { + break; + } + Oops. On 17 Sep 2003 at 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Sep 2003 at 20:49, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > I've had preliminary s

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-11-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Nov 2003 at 10:08, Dan Langille wrote: > Daniel: It appears the patch which was comitted didn't include > everything it should. I blame myself because the patch below > contains both debugging code and is reversed. I will submit a PR > with a patch. In brief, w

using devel/libusb to access USB

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Langille
n any devices, and therefore the while loop is never entered. We tracked the problem down to usb_os_find_devices() (within bsd.c) and found that various things were preventing the list from being created. We're wondering if anyone has had success with devel/libusb for similar things. -- Da

Re: Subscription to n lists

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Dec 2003 at 12:28, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: > Is there any way to stop this ? Ignore it. It's being handled. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

optionally include file within a Makefile

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
ting this error: $ make setup "Makefile", line 8: Need an operator where line 8 is the fi. Ideas? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsu

Re: optionally include file within a Makefile

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Dec 2003 at 19:02, Dan Langille wrote: > My goal is provide a way to override values in a Makefile with values > from a local config file. I'm getting further. What's the proper way to do an include? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ cat Makefile A?="things" all:

RE: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-05 Thread Dan Langille
. Don't let trolls trouble you no matter how many you see. They aren't contributing. And I second what Colin said. One troll. Many disguises. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebs

Chello blocking FreshPorts service

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Langille
ist. If anyone has contacts at Chello, please ask them to look into this. All attempts to get this resolved have been blocked. I've heard many stories about Chello standards of service. This situation validates everything I've heard. cheers -- Dan Langille

Re: Chello blocking FreshPorts service

2004-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 6 Jan 2004 at 9:24, Dan Langille wrote: > For some months Chello has denied smtp service from the FreshPorts > mail server. All queries to Chello regarding this matter have gone > unanswered. > > $ telnet smtpgate.chello.at 25 > Trying 213.46.255.2... > Connected

problems resolving bsdcan.org?

2004-01-25 Thread Dan Langille
y time: 203 msec ;; FROM: lists.unixathome.org to SERVER: nezlok.unixathome.org 66.154.97.250 ;; WHEN: Mon Jan 26 04:31:02 2004 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 130 I can't see the problem. Can you? Thanks. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ __

Re: kernel options

2004-02-29 Thread Dan Langille
/kernel | sed -n 's/^___//p' > MYKERNEL # options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel Not useful unless you've used it, which is not the default case. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-04 Thread Dan Langille
longer find > > themselves stuck with that. > > If they'd read pcm(4) they'd know how to get sound support up and > running without recompiling their kernel. Is there something wrong with > requiring that a new user bother to read the documentation? They would first have

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:26:47PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > If they'd read pcm(4) they'd know how to get sound support up and > > > running without recompiling their kernel. Is there something wrong with > >

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Dan Langille wrote: > *That* explanation is vast difference to saying they have to read man > pcm(4). The difference is sigficicant. In the same breath, someone needs to install a spell checker and verify the grammer. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdc

Re: cvsd problems

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Langille
gt; Sorry, forgot to tell you: > > Arch: i386 > > FreeBSD: 5.2.1 release > > CVSd: 1.0.1 > > Ok nevermind, I found the problem. But you haven't shared it. Please do. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/ _

F1+Konsole+bash = bash.core

2004-03-16 Thread Dan Langille
Re: [kde-freebsd] F1+Konsole+bash = bash.core Date sent: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:15:39 +0200 Copies to: Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 02:23, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > Would this be considered a Konsole issue? > > P

Re: F1+Konsole+bash = bash.core

2004-03-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Allan Fields wrote: > Ultimately this bug might be best directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if patching the system libreadline > doesn't help. I was trying to do that last night, but they were having DNS problems. I will try again later t

Re: F1+Konsole+bash = bash.core

2004-03-17 Thread Dan Langille
r.cgi?pr=ports/61297 Then I'll try sumbmitting that bashbug report again. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: F1+Konsole+bash = bash.core

2004-03-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Dan Langille wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Allan Fields wrote: > > > Ultimately this bug might be best directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if patching the system libreadline > > doesn't help. > > I was trying to do that l

fsck fails - mark sectors as bad?

2004-03-28 Thread Dan Langille
n 40829900 (ad2s1 bn 40829900; cn 2541 tn 138 sn 41) status=59 error=40 -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: fsck fails - mark sectors as bad?

2004-03-29 Thread Dan Langille
fsbn 1279903 of 768-895 (ad2s1 bn 1279903; cn 79 tn 170 sn 58) status=59 error=40 Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel: ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel:

Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-02 Thread Dan Langille
e $err_log file, no more > data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the program. I > can accept a signal. But what do I need to do in "program_name" to allow > the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file. When the signal is received, clo

Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-02 Thread Dan Langille
e $err_log file, no more > data is written to the file. I can not stop and restart the program. I > can accept a signal. But what do I need to do in "program_name" to allow > the data to be written after the "rotation" of the file. Sorry, I missed the >> above..

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html typo :(An before any of you get an Should be "And", not An. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Dan Langille
espect to acknowledging those that contribute. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: testing for substrings in perl

2004-06-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Jun 2004 at 16:31, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: > > > I think it might just be easier to do a straight comparison of the first N > > characters of the two strings where N = length of the directory name. > > > > Any s

Re: Kernel GENERIC config file

2004-07-27 Thread Dan Langille
s. Get it yourself from CVS via the cvsweb interface: see http://www.freebsd.org/ -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Raid problems

2004-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
ried installing freebsd > on a raid computer). You are asking on the wrong list. Ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

ld -X <== important or not?

2001-08-19 Thread Dan Langille
ld doesn't have this option. cheers -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ - the place for ports To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Is tar doing the right thing here?

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Langille
Why is this message not being suppressed? $ tar -czf test.tgz / 2>&1 > /dev/null tar: Removing leading `/' from member names And I don't really want to use the -P option. [Please cc me on all replies; thanks] -- Dan Langille : htt

comments on proposed uthread_write.c changes

2003-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
A problem with pthreads and EOT has been identified. See PR 56274. It was suggested the solution was probably just a matter of changing one of the >0 tests to >=0 in uthread_write.c Any comments on that? Here's a diff I came up with after looking at src/lib/libc_r/uthreaduthread_write.c. Any s

Re: comments on proposed uthread_write.c changes

2003-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2003 at 12:32, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Dan Langille wrote: > > > A problem with pthreads and EOT has been identified. See PR 56274. It > > was suggested the solution was probably just a matter of changing one of > > the >0 test

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