Re: Question about cvsup...

2007-11-18 Thread John Hay
Have I done something wrong in my config? > (I run in with "cvsup -l lockfile -g -L 1 ncvs-supfile") Maybe there is a umask difference between your interactive env and your cron env. I use this line in my cvsup config file to make sure the file permissions are the way I want them: *de

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread John Hay
looked. It would be nice if there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD. John -- John Hay -- john@mikom.csir.co.za > > FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage..

Re: svn commit: r193635 - head/etc

2009-06-18 Thread John Hay
d source files. If the file is listed as > having been changed, the -U option ignores it. If not, it > auto-installs it. Is it not possible to change the logic of -U a little. Only auto install if it is in mtree and has not changed. So if it has changed or is not in mtree, skip the auto install

Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT?

2009-08-17 Thread John Hay
ou can boot from different filesystems inside a pool though. You can set that with zpool set bootfs=pool/dataset John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: How can I force boot from alternate drive with boot.config?

2010-02-08 Thread John Hay
e: > > > > 1:ad(1,p3)/boot/loader > > > > where p3 is the root partition in my GPT partitioned drives. So I'm puzzled: > If I have a two drive system with BSD loaded on both drives and the drives > are configured with GPT partitions, how can I force t

Re: How can I force boot from alternate drive with boot.config?

2010-02-08 Thread John Hay
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:13:20PM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > > I use: ad(0p3)/boot/loader > > So, more precisely, if I wanted to boot from drive 1, I'd use this? > > 1:ad(1p3)/boot/loader Yes, unless there are more bugs hiding. :-) I fixed a few in August last year.

Re: Advice on deriving accurate time values from the kernel?

1999-07-15 Thread John Hay
or even worse, so they are no good for that. John -- John Hay -- john@mikom.csir.co.za > Hi, > > I am in the process of developing a device driver for the purpose of > stepper motor control. The timing of each pulse is determined by > external timing hardware on an I/O board,

Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ?

2001-03-15 Thread John Hay
; > > What are these shims? It is just the older driver interface. Don't worry it still works just fine. If you are using NETGRAPH in the kernel, you don't need to have sppp in the kernel, it won't be used. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread John Hay
e would still be able to use the keyboards separately too, even if you have to recompile the kernel for that. One nice usage would be on HP's quad kiosk machine. It is a single processor box with 4 x screen, keyboard and mouse, and then 4 people can use it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-03 Thread John Hay
e solutions: What about mergemaster storing a copy of the original somewhere on disk for usage next time? Then the first run may still be slow, but following runs will be able to use it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-05 Thread John Hay
uld be robust enough > for the project to recommend... What I do sometimes is to (in multiuser mode) make a copy of /etc to say /etc.new, the run mergmaster and stop it after it created /var/tmp/temproot and then rename the etc inside it also to etc.new and then run mergemaster -r. Then go t

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-13 Thread John Hay
missing a front end. If its cleverness could be married to the ease of use of mergemaster, we would have a winner. IMVHO John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: ntpd and cmos clock update

2005-08-30 Thread John Hay
ck could be synced periodically, the step on startup can mostly be avoided. I would also like something like this, maybe with a switch to enable/ disable it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
nt/swap: No such file or directory John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
> John Hay writes: > | > > the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not > | > > enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and > | > > supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. > | &

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread John Hay
t; Yes, you are right. Putting the ip number in the root-path cures the pxeboot failure. But is still only configure the NFS ROOT according to the kernel's output. I had a look at the pxe code in /sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c where pxeboot is built from and in /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c which

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-06 Thread John Hay
d this, swapping over NFS via vnconfig > was extremely unreliable; I think things are much better now). Thanks for the patch. I was able to make a swapfile with vnconfig on -stable, but on -current I just get a device not configured error. Your patch work just fine on -current. John -- John H

Re: React to ICMP administratively prohibited ?

2000-11-18 Thread John Hay
endmail not to do MX lookups again. Or if you don't want to use mailertables, you can set the confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST variable to true. This way you don't have to worry how someone else's machine is going to handle those icmp packets. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubs

Support for Syba pci multi i/o card?

2000-12-06 Thread John Hay
has support for a few pci cards, but it looks like they are single serial port cards and not dual or quad. So how should I go about getting the sio probe and attach to do more than one serial port per pci card? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?

2000-12-08 Thread John Hay
l was if they were using dma for the disk. Maybe they were using it on Windows and not on FreeBSD? (On FreeBSD 3 you have to enable it with flags in the kernel config file.) Also they don't say if they have changed the debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl from its default smallish 4096 bytes. Those 2 things

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread John Hay
ajority vote that a certain section is not being used anymore and may be axed. Then if a developer comes with an API change, he must like it enough to do the work needed for it or motivate to the majority why a certain part have to be axed But then it is the group that decide and not him

Re: arbitrary serial speeds

2002-02-28 Thread John Hay
Don't the stuff I committed to current do what you guys want? I'm planning to MFC it, but haven't asked Bruce yet. I'll need it before I MFC the puc driver. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I had changes to do this > BDE refused to commi

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread John Hay
just add it to pucdata.c, build a kernel with the puc device and off you go. :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread John Hay
t; I made the PUC driver a module, but once I load it and it tried to > attach and errored out I now get.. > mdtest# kldunload puc > kldunload: can't unload file: Device not configured I never tried to make it into a module because I weren't sure what the interaction with the si

microtime trustworthiness during booting?

2002-04-13 Thread John Hay
use the TSC as timecounter. Can it be that there is some kind of glitch somewhere when the TSC take over as timecounter? John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards

2002-05-06 Thread John Hay
brooks; state: Exp; lines: +15 -0 Fix tx-rate setting for Lucent cards. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [CFR] max-child-per-ip restriction for inetd

2002-06-16 Thread John Hay
diff (for 5-CURRENT) > http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/FreeBSD/inetd-perip-4s.diff (for 4-STABLE) Both the patches needs a colon (:) after the s on the getopt() line, otherwise you just get a nasty coredump if you try to use the "-s num" commandline option. John -- John Hay -- [E

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-22 Thread John Hay
nment, access to the box is normally controlled in anycase, so the people who have access to the box, normally also are the ones that have the root password or whatever is needed to (re)start those services. The only place where I think the check might still be usefull, is on a general shell login b

Re: Advice on deriving accurate time values from the kernel?

1999-07-15 Thread John Hay
or even worse, so they are no good for that. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I am in the process of developing a device driver for the purpose of > stepper motor control. The timing of each pulse is determined by > external timing hardware on an I/O board, whi

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread John Hay
looked. It would be nice if there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage.. > t

Re: Multiple routes to the same destination

1999-09-20 Thread John Hay
ing. > > Or assign them a weight. When the link goes down, the routes attached to > this interface decrease in weight by NN. If there is any other route to > the same destination with greater weight, the packets are sent that way > instead. But can't gated do this? (Or any other ro

Re: A bug in the sppp driver?

1999-09-29 Thread John Hay
ing to establish the link again. I have a fix that I'm testing for this. The loopback handling are broken. It just go in a transmit frenzy. I have tried the solution in gnats 11238, but I'm not happy with it, because it stops sppp when loopback is detected, which is also not what I want

Re: A bug in the sppp driver?

1999-09-30 Thread John Hay
e events. Have a look at the other drivers like ar(4), cx(4) and sr(4) to see how they use it. Also remember that they need an ifconfig to get started. That help them trough a lot of the states. Ifconfig will have the effect of giving an Up and then an Open event, which will take sppp from the Initi

Re: Release build

1999-10-05 Thread John Hay
/usr/include: No such file or directory > *** Error code 71 > > Does anybody know why ( i know that the directory /R/stage/trees/krb/ > does not exist , but the directory /R/stage/trees/krb4/ do exist ) ?? You are using an old /usr

Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases

1999-10-20 Thread John Hay
you've got a large vweb server? > That's also pretty inelegant. > > I seem to remember someone producing some patches for this on bsdi a couple > of years ago. > I think somebody sent patches to do it a while back. I think it might be in GNATS. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PR

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-08 Thread John Hay
d that we are in the process of getting Kame integrated into FreeBSD? :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread John Hay
l for IPv6?". :-) And we can substitute whatever functionality for jail. If we want people to even think of moving to IPv6 we will have to make as much of FreeBSD's functionality work on there as possible. > > So far IPv6 has gotten no futher than OSI ever did. I think I was

Re: Crypto in the kernel: where & how?

1999-12-10 Thread John Hay
rnat in the /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup directory. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-07 Thread John Hay
is worse than ever. I'm trying to work with them to see if we can get it better. BTW. Wes Peters' idea of a boat is way cheaper than what we pay for our 1Mbit/s link here. :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
talled and running on internat and the firewall is already configured to allow it through. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread John Hay
nderstood it is for the ftp area. You just define a collection or collections (if you want to break it up) for it and off you go. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread John Hay
bably talking about their own driver. In that case you have to add it to /sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.* or bite the bullet and new-busify it. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message