Re: rc.shutdown and jails

2004-12-10 Thread Nielsen
watch out for environment variable leakage into the jail subsystem when using jexec. A minor concern, perhaps. This is what the jkill from the jailutils package does: http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/freebsd/jails/jailutils Cheers, Nate ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: rc.shutdown and jails

2004-12-11 Thread Nielsen
but others that served the same purpose would work just as well. http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/freebsd/jails/jailutils/ The only thing I miss from this change is the inability to have per-jail consoles (which was possible with the 'jailer' package in 4.x), but that's another

Gratituous ARP and the em driver

2004-01-11 Thread Nielsen
When I change IP addresses on my 'em' gigabit NIC, ARP isn't sent properly. This appears to be the problem in the following bug report, however i'm using the 'fixed' version of the em driver (in FreeBSD 4.9). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54488 Does anyone have any tips on how to g

Re: Gratituous ARP and the em driver

2004-01-14 Thread Nielsen
ld need to reinitialize the NIC each time an alias is added. I haven't seen any other network drivers do this. And, yes, it occurs every time an alias is added or removed from the NIC. Not just the first time. Cheers, Nate Robert Watson wrote: On -1 xxx -1, Nielsen wrote: If you run tcpdump on

Re: jail && (ping && traceroute)

2003-05-31 Thread Nielsen
This has been discussed at length. Search the archives of this mailing list (or maybe it was freebsd-security) for interesting insight. Sure set me straight as to the consequences Nate - Original Message - From: "Alexandr Kovalenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday

Re: NFS mounts and jails

2003-09-09 Thread Nielsen
> As far as I know, that means that NFS partition has to be mounted > (redundantly?) for each jail, even in (in my case), they'll all be > access in the the same way (eg. read-only). Yup, that's right. > - is my assertion correct; that is, do I need to redundantly mount > the same NFS partition

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-10-30 Thread Nielsen
Christopher Vance wrote: May I suggest a different feature: the ability to mark an open file (not just its fd) 'remove on close', with permission checked at mark time rather than close time (this status forgotten if not permitted when set) and the unlink actually done at close time only if the file

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-14 Thread Nielsen
-- Original Message - From: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 13:20 Subject: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem > Hi folks, > > I tried this on -questions without any luck, so I'm hoping for a better > re

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-21 Thread Nielsen
Yes I've had the same problem. One system runs just fine with it's jails, and another crashes habitually. It has to do with a certain jail (and services). Our system are set up to be able to move jails between them (great for backups and near perfect uptime), and a certain set of jails always hang

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Nielsen
> 1) do you allow them write access to their /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/io ? Actually haven't yet let anyone else inside a jail with root capabilities. Will soon though. So, no probably not, unless there's a daemon which does just that. > 2) does this sound like what you see? Can you still ping

Re: ipfw/dummynet suggestion

2002-06-29 Thread Nielsen
Usually remote MAC address. It's used for restricting users on a subnet. I have an ugly hack that does this at present and am looking forward to the MAC address support. Yes, I know users can conceivably change their MAC addresses but most would never know how. They change their IP addresses to ge

Re: ipfw/dummynet suggestion

2002-06-29 Thread Nielsen
> Seriously, I'm wondering what "security restrictions" are so > onerous that users are willing to change their IP addresses to > get around them, and why they are there in the first place? Well in certain cases it's company policy that certain machines (ie: users) can't browse the web during cer

Re: Uptime of a system

2002-07-09 Thread Nielsen
How do you apply your kernel patches? Just wondering. > Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: > > 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and is > a rather active box normall

Re: ipfilter

2002-07-10 Thread Nielsen
That's not how you specify rules. Read the ipf(8) manual page. Cheers Nate > (14:58) root@(bgd)[~] ipf block in all from any to any To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-28 Thread Nielsen
IPFW's forwarding feature can be used for transparent proxying on another machine. To do it on the same machine, you'd probably need to use NAT. Nate > I haven't actually tried this, but shouldn't it be possible > to use IPFW's forwarding feature for that? For example, > let sendmail run on por

Re: jail

2002-12-02 Thread Nielsen
xecuted that command at the same time. Removing the periodic script from the host system solved the problem. This has occurred on a number of machines, and apparently has nothing to do with vn's although that may agravate the problem. Nate Nielsen > "Terry Lambert" <[EMAIL

Re: LED support for ALIX 2/3 series

2010-12-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:38:23 +0100 >> From: Emanuel Haupt >> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org >> Subject: LED support for ALIX 2/3 series >> Is anyone interested in porting leds-alix.c [1]

Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 22:16:53 -0700 > Tim Kientzle wrote: > >> There are a few different parallel command-line compressors and >> decompressors in ports; experiment a lot (with large files being read from >> and/or written to disk) and see

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:41, David Gilbert wrote: > I have 734 ports installed on my laptop right now. I'm pretty sure, > at times, I've had over 1000 ports on my laptop. > > On machine with moderate numbers of ports (most servers seem to have > 50 to 200 ports), portupgrade takes a modera

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 March 2007 07:34, Danny Braniss wrote: > Hi, > Now that I have my hands on a server that can boot iSCSI, > I started to look into it. After figuring out what magic is needed > in the dhcpd.conf (just add option root-path > "iscsi:target-iptarget-name") I can boot FreeBSD to t

Re: Verizon Wireless Card v620 (Novatel Wireless)

2007-09-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Anthrax De Oracle wrote: > > Success ... on device from ugen1 to ucom0 > ucom0: Novatel Wireless Inc. Novatel Wireless Merlin CDMA, rev > 1.10/0.00, addr 2 > > ..I have successfully gotten my device to detect as ucom.. (ucom0: > Novatel Wirele

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I ha

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :) (and the layout is messed up) The front

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote: > My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, > so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from > this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't > read -mobile). I haven't played

Re: Memory leak in net80211 on FBSD 6.0

2005-11-29 Thread Nate Nielsen
Nate Nielsen wrote: > I'm experiencing a memory leak in the net80211 code. I have two atheros > 5213-A cards on two embedded systems running FreeBSD 6.0. They are setup > as IBSS (adhoc) stations. After roughly 15 seconds of ~14Mbps TCP > traffic (single stream) I promptly

Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-05 Thread Nate Nielsen
I've recently been optimizing the hifn driver for low performance systems like the Soekris. I've implemented polling (rather than using interrupts for everything) in the driver, which speeds things up considerably. The polling functionality in FreeBSD is currently a bit NIC centric. With a few cha

Re: Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-07 Thread Nate Nielsen
Nate Nielsen wrote: > The polling functionality in FreeBSD is currently a bit NIC centric. > With a few changes other types devices can use the polling subsystem. > Attached is my first whack at this. > > This is some of my first hacking on the FreeBSD kernel. It'd be great if

Re: Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-10 Thread Nate Nielsen
effect; in polling mode the maximum > packet rate was achieved while there was still idle CPU time. Interesting. My (simple) work on this has been on low powered CPU machines (such as the Soekris single board systems): http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/freebsd/slow-cpu-routers.html > I have a proof o

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:29 am, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:23:37PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > written by phk) that is designed to do disk-to-disk recovery - it > > > copys data in big slabs until it gets an error and then works around > > > the faulty ar

Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-10 Thread Nate Nielsen
I'm developing for small embedded systems, and I'm looking into the possibility of dumping a kernel core dump to a USB memory stick (umass driver). It currently doesn't work (see below), but I'm interested in fixing it. Yes, I know it'll be slow. It's probably also a non-tested (and non-reliable)

Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-11 Thread Nate Nielsen
Ian Dowse wrote: > > The USB stack supports polled operations, so it's actually not to > hard to make this work. Below is a patch I had in one of my local > trees that adds a CAM poll handler to the umass driver. I've just > tested this and it does seem to make kernel dumping work, but I > guess i

Re: FreeBSD-6 and em interface speed

2006-02-21 Thread Nate Nielsen
FreeLSD wrote: > Good day! > I've obtained the following strang results with the em Ethernet interface > speeds on a 6.1-PRERELEASE: > Polling on: > UDP stream to FreeBSD: 327843.84 Kbit/sec, > TCP stream to FreeBSD: 524550.12 Kbit/sec. > Polling off: > UDP stream to FreeBSD: 740409.38 K

Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-21 Thread Nate Nielsen
Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: > >>You're correct that dumping is meant to be done with interrupts and task >>switching disabled. The first thing that the umass driver is missing is >>a working CAM poll handler. Without this, there is no way for command >>c

devctl attach/detach notification for disks

2006-02-22 Thread Nate Nielsen
I'm working on a bit of code to get devctl notifications for attaching and removing of disks. This would allow actions to be taken via devd when a disk is attached or removed from the system. Currently I have the attach and detach notifications hooked into disk_create() and disk_destroy() in geom_

Re: devctl attach/detach notification for disks

2006-02-25 Thread Nate Nielsen
M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nate Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : I'm working on a bit of code to get devctl notifications for attaching > : and removing of disks. This would allow actions to be taken via devd > : wh

Re: Intel 945GM chipset support

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:34, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > This doesn't sound good :( > > As i found in XOrg's documentation, i945 graphics chip is supported by > i810 XOrg driver, but i suppose the apg support must be provided by the > kernel ?! I suspect that you will have agp suppor

Re: Rebooting jails

2006-07-25 Thread Nate Nielsen
'jailer' can do this but it requires a process running in each jail. http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/freebsd/jails/ Cheers, Nate Dirk Engling wrote: > I'm currently looking for a standardized way to 'reboot' jails from > within.

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

2007-01-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 02:06, Danny Braniss wrote: > Hi, > While I think I have almost solved the problem of network disconnects, > It downed on me a major problem: > When a 'local' disk crashes, the kernel will probably hang/panic/crash. > if i don't try to recover, then there is no change in

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

2007-01-09 Thread John Nielsen
Forwarding a relevant comment from a parallel discussion on -questions. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: iSCSI Date: Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:35 From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Free BSD Questions list In the last episode (Jan 09), DA

Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-10 Thread John Nielsen
I have a few questions for pjd (or anyone else) about using gjournal, particularly when used with gmirror. 1) I'm running 6-STABLE and plan to test with gjournal6_20061030.patch (from the mailing list; updated version of 20061024 that applies cleanly). Is there a better/newer version for -STABL

Re: nForce3 NIC on 5.3 (i386)

2005-01-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 12:29 am, Sven Ahtama wrote: > Anyone here who have managed to get the nForce3 MCP NIC to work with > FreeBSD 5.3 on i386 platform? FWIW, I've had pretty much the same experience, although you were more thorough than I was. I installed 5.3-R on a new motherboard with

Re: Locating obsolete ports distfiles

2005-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 22 August 2005 12:43 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > I currently have just over 8GB is /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of these > > files are more than 10 years old and long obsolete. Does anyone have > > any suggestions on how to

Re: kernel.gz.aa & kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: > wonder how could I decompress $subj filesthey doesn't seems to be in > tar or gzip formats. > > files are taken from kern1.flp nad kern2.flp on 5.4-RELEASE/floppies cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab > kernel.gz gunzip kernel.gz JN __

Re: kernel.gz.aa & kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 05 September 2005 04:56 am, Matthew West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:47:30AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: > > > wonder how could I decompress $subj filesthey doesn't seems to be >

Re: kernel.gz.aa & kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 05 September 2005 07:58 pm, John Nielsen wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 04:56 am, Matthew West wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:47:30AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > > > On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: > > > > wonder how could I

Re: IPFW NATD = NAT POOL

2005-09-22 Thread Nate Nielsen
No. I think each instance of natd (at least last time I looked at it) could only use one IP address as it's public address. Cheers, Nate Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: > Exists the possibility to make NAT POOL with IPFW + NATD ? > ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

Re: sata

2005-10-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 October 2005 01:29, rusel wrote: > Hello, does any FreeBSD relase supports Intel`s SATA Controller? 1) You should have been able to find this out on your own. Specifically here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html (which is linked to from the Release Informati

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Nielsen
On 17 Dec 2000, Nat Lanza wrote: > Nothing documented the current kernel, Not to be obtuse, but the source always documents the current kernel for any OS... -- Christopher Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 31 July 2004 21:08, adp wrote: > I recently posted the following message to MySQL discussion list. The > response there, and the one I keep finding on Google, is that this is a > long-standing issue betweeen FreeBSD and MySQL. For me this has been > happening since FreeBSD 4.4. I don't

Re: firewall and ports

2002-03-13 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Martin Vana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: firewall and ports > hi, > I sit behind a tough firewall, and none of the ports in port collection > is able to fetch files need for install. > How could I

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Gary Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? > Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a > 4.x machine? I'm new to "load balanc

gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread John Nielsen
Hi folks, I tried this on -questions without any luck, so I'm hoping for a better response here . :) I remotely administer a FreeBSD 4.5 machine that is connected to the internet through and MSN DSL modem. This modem does NAT (for a single client) rather than bridging the connection. So the Fr

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Nick Rogness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Niels

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Lars Eggert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem > John Nielsen wrote: &g

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-14 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:31 AM Subject: Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem > I have this working fine. On the BSD m

Re: I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Evan Dower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:35 PM Subject: I Volunteer > I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be > for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at t

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images.

2002-06-23 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Jefferson Harlough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images. > Where might I find ISO images for the FreeBSD 2.2.x releases? Do such > files exist? > > I have an older system with a

Re: multi-link 802.11b through netgraph yields poor performance.

2002-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
John Kozubik wrote: > Julian, Archie, et al, > > I have experimented with a multi-link 802.11b connection between two > laptops. Both are 4.5-RELEASE, one has two aironet LMC352 cards, and > one has two Lucent gold cards. > > I have successfully used ng_one2many, etc., to establish a working > mu

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread John Nielsen
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost > power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. > > I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't have any > support to do this (In the past

USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a new/different/broken USB interface so they're just recognized as ugen devices at the moment.. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 26 August 2002 02:51, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:36:15 -0600, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? > > > > Specificially, the OfficeJets and

Re: Arp and Route Commands

2002-11-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 November 2002 13:53, Karl Timmermann wrote: > I'm new to the list and was hoping maybe someone could help me. These > commands work in Linux (and in this order), but not in FreeBSD/Mac OS X > as the arp and route commands are different: > > arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 >

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 02 December 2002 05:13, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:36:15PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > > Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? > > Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a > >

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-07 Thread Christopher Nielsen
the file are Jim> stored as diffs. IIRC, plan9 has something similar with its three-tier, hierarchical filesystem, except that it's not diffs that are copied, it's blocks that have been written since the last dump. See http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/doc/9.html for more det

Re: [net] bpf question

2000-05-22 Thread Christopher Nielsen
d a patch to improve the situation. THe patch involved > bumping up a buffer from about 16kb to 256kb. Unfortunately I no longer > have the details handy, but if you did a search for BPF/IDS/NFR/Ranum > you might find something. http://www.nfr.net/forum/publications/LISA-97.htm -- Christ

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.2

2007-08-25 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
for you (being able to upgrade without console). -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

2008-02-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
it doesn't have a copyright statement i just want to ask before I distribute it... -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org cvsmeister ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

2008-02-28 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2008.02.28 14:58:53 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Simon L. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the > > FreeBSD repository. I don't think he has any problems with it being >

bootloader....

1999-07-30 Thread Nielsen, Roy S
I'm looking at booting(embedded devices) and I've been looking at lilo boot loader code and booteasy bootloader code... does anyone know of any documentation that anyone out there has done on this topic? -- more specifically without bios calls/support? I've seen the booteasy code at: ftp://ftp.f

Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

2008-06-07 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
openssl config init function, which OpenSSL AFAIR does not. I will try to look more into this, but no promises as to when I will get to it. If anyone can make / get a patch which is OK'ed by the OpenSSL people I will be more than happy to commit it. BTW. I think phk@ already worked on

Re: openssl with zlib support

2008-06-07 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
Would it break ABI if I enable it by tweaking the openssl Makefile? Probably not, but I'm not sure where it's enabled/disabled so I can't say for sure. I will try to look into this more, but it might not be until sometime next week. -- Simon L. Nielsen _

Re: freebsd-update missed?

2008-09-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
2 (the one in the base system) /usr/src is also updated if it exists. That said, note that freebsd-update does not get's patches from CVS so $FreeBSD$ unfortunatly isn't updated. I just checked, for 6.3 the patch 'EN-08:01.libpthread' is on the freebsd-update build server. -- Si

Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT?

2009-08-20 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
WIP can be find in FreeBSD.org perforce at //depot/user/simon/gptboot/... AKA http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/user/simon/gptboot/&c=2qs@//depot/user/simon/gptboot/?ac=83 -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
ew people and the change is required for fixing some important bug. > Is this a policy of the project? If so, is it documented anywhere? Or is > it just a convention? I don't remember seeing it ever documented, just discussed. What I wrote above is also just my understanding of curren

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
descriptors etc. which normal programs can safely ignore. [1] Note I haven't checked if this opens new and interesting holes, but it doesn't matter too much on my laptop, since if somebody has access to "simon" that's just as bad as someone getting root. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpyE4Mezbwos.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: [...] > >the above points to a filel that says "6.0 errata" > > Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't > tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Se

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.05.11 20:53:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > >On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > >>Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >[...] > > > >>>the above points to a filel that says "6.0 e

Re: jails, cron and sendmail

2006-08-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
mails to a real mailserver. (Might be useful for other people building jails.) -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: pam_krb5 problems

2006-08-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.08.30 16:03:40 +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > has anyone successfully configured pam_krb5? It seems that the ticket Hey, It's being used in the FreeBSD.org cluster, but I never looked at how it's setup. For the parts I have messed with it "just works"..

Re: Tracing binaries statically linked against vulnerable libs

2006-10-14 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
f etc. in the past. For ports which just links statically against a library from another port, and therefor need to be recompiled after the library port is updated I don't think they should be marked vulnerable in VuXML, but it might be a good idea to bump the portrevision of the ports to forc

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
I wouldn't trust -P to _really_ remove the content of the files anyway, so personally I don't really care much. If you want the file to be gone, use encryption in the first place, or use apropriate tool (hammer, axe, C4, etc.). -- Simon L. Nielsen ___

Re: problem with apache bench

2006-12-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
after 10 failures > > apr_socket_connect(): Operation already in progress (37) > Total of 8 requests completed I have had some problems with ab from apache 2.0/2.2, but ab from apache 1.3 it worked fine. I just had to get it to work so I didn't look more into why it broke on newer

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
for jail's because TOO slow. That obviously depend on your use of jails and nullfs. It works just fine for me. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpwLjjCOoXyp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: optionally include file within a Makefile

2003-12-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
include? Perhaps (not tested, so there may be typos): .if exists(${HOME}/.bacula-regress) .include "${HOME}/.bacula-regress" .endif or something along those lines. The make(1) manual page contains a lot of useful information. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
> > That should be changed. To? I have noticed FreeBSD, Inc on the copyright page a few times, but I never really knew what to replace it with. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status GBDE attach at boot

2004-01-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
d e.g. to support random keys, like your "temp" feature. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status GBDE attach at boot

2004-01-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.01.18 10:19:31 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:43:42PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2004.01.17 14:53:58 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm interested to know what may be in the pipeline as far

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
reebsd.org/donations/donors.html so I don't see a reason why donations to phk's project could not be somewhere on the main FreeBSD website. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make "quickworld"? (like in DragonFly)

2004-08-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
exactly > that. You can do that already: make buildworld buildkernel -DNOCLEAN -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgpdQMAuh4g5g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make "quickworld"? (like in DragonFly)

2004-08-14 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.08.14 10:03:37 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2004.08.11 00:36:06 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
ida has noted this particular case is more likely to be made by mistake than many others, e.g. by doing "rm -rf / foo/bar" where "rm -rf /foo/bar/" was meant. Therefor I really think keramidas _optional_ foot-shooting feature is a nice thing. I know I will enable it on my sys

Re: [CFR] Specify the lock(1) timeout unit

2004-10-21 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
ore natural to just append the time-unit type to the argument given to -t, e.g. "-t 10s" or "-t 10h". That just seem like the more intuitive way to handle it to me... Note: this is a suggestion, not an objection to the original patch. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentati

Re: [PATCH] Re: Linksys PCM200

2004-10-21 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
ood idea to update dc(4) and supported hw list also. > > /usr/src/sys/pci/if_dc.c udiff: [...] Unless a src committer picks this up within the next couple of days I would suggest filing a PR with the patch so it does not get lost. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp6hW4GpGJZ3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
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Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.02.10 17:41:47 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have > >trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). > Wow, deja-vu! /me runs and hides for not checking the achieves first :-) -- S

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
easy to make your own ISO with only floppies/boot.flp (2.8MB) which would then contain only the installer... I'm not really sure how many drivers boot.flp contains though. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TODO list?

2003-06-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
' article which can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Hope you find something interesting to spend some time on. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gethostbyname_r

2003-06-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
hieves. I don't thin anybody is working on it at the moment. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gethostbyname_r

2003-07-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
rine explained what would be required to do it, on -threads about a week ago : Msg-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=16837+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-threads/20! -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Committing a driver to -stable

2003-07-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
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