Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2006-12-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
M. Warner Losh wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Thanks for the new patch, I'll try it as soon as possible. I got a few minutes and tested it. > I don't have the proper environment to easily test this > out, but I think what I sent will

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : 1- Why does the kernel try to mount /dev at all? Why not > : simply let init mount it in all cases, with ot without > : init_chroot?

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
BSHELL, runcom_script); return (state_func_t) single_user; } if (wpid == pid && WIFSTOPPED(status)) { warning("init: %s on %s stopped, restarting\n", - _PATH_BSHELL, _PATH_

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I've created (and tested!) a new patch. I've tested on > > RELENG_6, but I think init(8) isn't very different on > > HEAD, so it should work there, too. > > > > Any comments are welcome. I

Re: Reading in real time from a file without pipes

2007-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
until the end of a file and when they get a EOF, > they simply wait a few milliseconds and try again. No. FreeBSD's tail(1) does not "poll" at EOF, which would be quite ugly and inefficient. Instead it uses the kqueue interface, so the kernel notifies tail when more data

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > just pass the string literal to the kenv() function, e.g. > > > > In fact that's what I tried first ... Alas: > > warning: passing arg 2 of `kenv' discards qualifi

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
M. Warner Losh wrote: > > this patch looks good, however, one nit: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : + if (stat("/dev", &stst) != 0) > : + warni

Re: dump reads more than restore writes?

2007-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
ile system. dump(8) is inefficient, but not _that_ inefficient. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

2007-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:27, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > Also, kenv(KENV_GET, ... is used a lot. Maybe it makes sense to have > > > a simple kenvget call. Would make a few lines a little shorter if > > &g

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
ack, and I don't know if something similar is applicable to the iSCSI situation. But I thought it wouldn't hurt to mention it anyhow. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
the box, and there's a hen-and-egg problem during boot when fsck+mount is to be run. But I think it should be possible to make it work without too much trouble. Best regards Oliver PS: I've set reply-to to the freebsd-geom list. I think it is more appropriate than -hackers. -- Oli

Re: installing fbsd from foreign system

2007-01-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
isk, then reboot. > I suspect to be the UFS problem to be the biggest one when it comes > to deal with that from a running Linux system. Right, Linux support for UFS is weak, not to mention UFS2. > Also as anything needs to run unattended, how do I set FreeBSD to > try DHCP on an

Re: top delay value

2007-01-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
uot;secure". If you want to make top more secure, type "chmod 700 /usr/bin/top". Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions exp

Re: top delay value

2007-01-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by > > typing "while :; do :; done". There are a thousand ways > > to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user > > > from do

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
a that you modify. When you modify or delete blocks that have not been modified since the last snapshot had been created, the space requirement of the snapshot data will grow by blocks. The number of snapshots in existence does not matter. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH &

Re: Status of unionfs in -STABLE

2003-11-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
ine. It doesn't provide all of the features of UNIONFS, but it can be used as a substitute in many common situations. I'm using it extensively, for example for shared read-only binaries across jails, and I've yet to see a panic. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix Gm

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
ag to ls, as it wouldn't help for portable scripts. PPS: FWIW, I like the patch (the second one which takes nanoseconds correctly into account). I would also suggest an option to display the nanoseconds in ls -l output. Maybe when -T is specified twice ...? (That way we wouldn't waste yet an

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
f that can operate on individual > fields. I always use "diff -Bb" for things like that, i.e. to ignore any changes in whitespace. Works perfectly fine. Maybe someone should just add "-b" to the diff command in those periodic scripts? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

2004-06-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
ore the crash. (BTW, that's a softupdates-related question, and it's not UFS2-specific.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily re

Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

2004-06-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
Joe Schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe Schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible > > > filesystem snapshots and > > > _leave them mounted_ to u

NFS + VM question

2004-10-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
o it might actually be able to handle it efficiently (i.e. share). But I really don't know. Any FreeBSD kernel hacker can enlighten me? If the memory isn't shared in this situation, is there a way to change the design so it can be shared? chroot and NFS are "musts", though. T

Re: NFS + VM question

2004-10-16 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:49:48 +0100, David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:27:38PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > [...] > > > If the memory isn't shared in this situation, is there a > > &g

Re: bootable install CD - relocate to subdir

2004-10-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
.c (where * is "release" for FreeBSD 4.x and "usr.sbin" for 5.x). In short, it searches the following directories, relative to the media base: / /FreeBSD /releases /$RELNAME /releases/$RELNAME where "$RELNAME" is the r

Re: RFC: proposed new builtin for /bin/sh (associative arrays)

2003-10-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
anpage description) ? My personal opinion (please don't kill me): It appears to me to be a "dirty hack" with very limited usefulness. If associative arrays are to be implemented, it should be done properly (like in zsh, for example). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secne

Re: The Hurd

2002-01-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
as "null". I'm sorry I don't quite understand. If you mean that the number of processes that a user is allowed to run can be limited: You can already do that in FreeBSD. You might want to read the login.conf(5) manpage, and particularly the "resource limits" sec

Re: Solaris /usr/proc/bin/pstack functionality?

2002-01-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
en you use the -f option (this is similar to ktrace's -i option). Regards Oliver PS: I tried strace under -stable only. I don't know if it works under -current as well. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this mes

Re: Tell gcc I have a i686

2002-01-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
nts and which not, and we do have /etc/make.conf and CFLAGS for exactly that purpose. I always hate super-clever makefiles and configure scripts that strip -O from my CFLAGS and insert -O6 -march=i686 or other unwanted things. It's a PITA. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver From

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
mands that I suggested above are portable and work for _any_ number of files, no matter what the ARG_MAX limit is. Sure, they're a bit longer to type, but if you're concerned about that, then you could wrap them into small scripts or shell functions. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromm

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Leo Bicknell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message written on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:48:40PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wro > te: > > ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l > > One process shorter: find -name "*.out" -maxdepth 0 | wc -l OK, but I tried to be

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry for replying to myself, but this just came to my mind ... Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I usually want to do is something more like ls *.out |wc -l > > ls | grep '\.out$' | wc -l A

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
sounded like he is searching for an application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of se

Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?

2002-01-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an > > application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. > > The natd program has application level proxy code (natd is an > appli

Re: FreeBSD Floppy driver needs enhancement...

2002-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
f the PC FDC: The µPD765 a command to look for the next track and return its location data. So you can just look what is there, then read it. And copy it. There were other, even more sick copyright mechanisms, though, which were impossible to copy (such as changing of the bitrate within a

USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-02-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
ve to get this thing working. Regards Oliver BTW: More information on the Memorybird: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/rl/peripherals/homeperipherals/memorybird.html -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be persona

kern/34712 (was: USB "Memorybird" quirks)

2002-02-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
ot;}, + /*quirks*/ DA_Q_NO_6_BYTE } }; I've submitted a PR accordingly, it's kern/34712. Can someone please commit it? Thanks! Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message m

Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-02-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
kind of things. After the first failure (which is detected in umass_bbb_state()), a flag (quirk) should be set in the softc, and afterwards umass_scsi_transform should translate 6-byte commands to 10-byte commands. Doesn't sound too complicated to me. Or am I totally wrong? Regards Olive

Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-02-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
call to do the > change if you wish to do this in for the SCSI transforms as well. I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software issue is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices you can boot from. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oetting

Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-02-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
Chris Dillon wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software issue > > is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices you can boot > > from. > > You mean can't boot from USB devices

Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port

2002-02-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
n advan- tage that awk syntax looks a lot like C). It's a simple drop-in replacement. In the kernel Makefile, replace ``perl5 vnode_if.pl'' with ``awk -f vnode_if.awk''. However, note that I've only tested it with gnu-awk. It _should_ run with the awk in -current, too, b

Re: Kernel after halt issued

2002-02-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
ware (unlike most everything else) does not have a hardware monitor, an infinite loop is entered when you halt the system. It could be argued that it would make sense to return to /boot/loader. But I don't think that would be easy to do. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co

Length limit of mounts (80 chars?)

2002-09-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
be very welcome -- thanks in advance! Regards Oliver PS: I'm using FreeBSD 4-stable. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any w

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
00 and then add ipfw fwd rules to forward between ports 2500 and 25. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any w

Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD?

2002-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
27;s on /dev/acpi to retrieve the information? I'm not an ACPI developer, but I really like the sysctl interface, because it enables you to retrieve information from within scripts easily. For ioctls you would have to write a separate tool to be able to access it. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Ol

Re: Getfsstat(2), statfs(2) and fstatfs(2) jailed.

2002-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
there are a lot of mounts (I mean _really_ many). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All

Mount option "nomtime"?

2002-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
would prefer hearing some opinions first before wasting time on something completely stupid. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the op

Re: Mount option "nomtime"?

2002-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > [...] > > For example, updating of mtimes is not neccessary on a > > file system that contains a news spool, or the content of > > a web cache, or s

Re: Mount option "nomtime"?

2002-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
pdates. Is that also true for NFS mounts? (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538

Re: Mount option "nomtime"?

2002-10-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
already there and has a few hundreds of Gbytes of space free, so that it'll be. Both have gigabit ethernet, so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm very curious how it will perform. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any op

Re: Mount option "nomtime"?

2002-10-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
ite access to the file that has been vnconfiged on the client. >From the point of view of the Filer, it is still just a file that someone is writing to. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be pe

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
rwise you could modify parent shell variables within command substitutions. You can easily verify this with ktrace. ;-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sheldon Hearn wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:13:42 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Command substitution certainly has to spawn a subshell, even > > for built-in commands, because otherwise you could modify > > parent shell variables with

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 That doesn't prove anything, because $$ always contains the PID of the "top-level" shell, as I explained in an earlier mail. Try this one: $ echo $$ `( /bin/echo $$ )` 14762 14762 I think you agree that a subshell is spawned in that case, don't you? ;-)

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
eryone who wants > can look for these user mounts and walk them at will. My private stuff is > quite public. You own it, so you can set the permission appropriately, so nobody else can access it if you don't want that. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Claust

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
r_device} | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr '\n' '|'`recsrc sed 's/#.*$//' ${mixer_config} | egrep "$slots" | xargs mixer -f ${mixer_device} fi Just my 0.02 Euro... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany

Re: Request for review: vnconfig.c

1999-08-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
fore trying > to write into the allocated space. I'd suggest to use asprintf(). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
;; > -4) > +4 ) > reboot > echo "reboot failed... help!" > exit 1 > ;; > [...] Why?!? I like the existing "case" style _much_ better, it's more readable and emphasizes the structure. Regards

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
wrong impression. I appreciate Doug's work very much. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Prat

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
m, but that's just me... Apart from the above -- Good work, Doug! Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"

Re: Help with exit status in shell script

1999-08-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
d pipe, but I haven't tried this. Another way would be to put the exit code into a temporary file, like this: trap "rm -f stage1.result" 1 2 15 ( ./stage1 2>&1 echo $? > stage1.result ) | tee stage1.out if [ `cat stage1.result` != 0 ];

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
no good reason. Apart from that -- Good work! :) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Ter

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
in the seriousness of the system. > Would anyone scream and projectile-vomit if I added this to identcpu.c? I would, FWIW. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) &qu

Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current]

1999-09-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
libedit could be used for (although it could need a few technical improvements, IMO, but the basic concept is there). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jede

Re: USB cameras

1999-09-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
240 digital camera is supported by "oPhoto" (http://www.fromme.com/ophoto/). I'm not aware of any support for USB video cameras. > Oh, btw, how long can USB be extended? There should be information about that on www.usb.org. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 1

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
mbers... On the other hand, I wonder why dd needs to know the maxium value of an off_t. That sounds broken to me. I haven't looked at the patch, but if it's dependant on the exact size of an off_t, then the patch is no good. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 3867

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
ng the server name from the MASTER_SITE specified in /etc/make.conf{,.local}? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
;$PKGS" | wc -l` -eq 1 ]; then PKG=`echo "$PKGS" | cut -f1 -d" "` if [ "$PR_LIST" = 1 ]; then echo "$PKGS" elif [ "$PR_NOTREALLY" = 1 ]; then echo

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
ecause of newbus, so I tried to port it, but without success. :-( Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-09-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
27;m a bit familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and twice the data rate (1 MBit/s). So the entry should look like this: {36, 2, 0xff, 0x1b, 80, 5760, 1, FDC_125KBPS, 2, 0x6c, 1} Actually, there should be a #define F

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > As Oliver Fromme wrote ... > > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit > > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb > > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and t

Re: Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get?

1999-10-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
n see them in the `ps` output. You can put the password in your ~/.omirc, for example (and make sure it has permissions 600). Teaching omi to accept URL syntax is on my to-do list. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Human readable df

1999-11-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
bility a lot, IMO. I'd send-pr a patch, if there's a chance that it will be comitted (I'd suggest "-s" for "separators"). Or does this start to get feeping creaturism...? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info:

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
get one of those to upgrade part of our students dorm network from 10 to 100 Mbit/s. A 100BaseFX port is required for our uplink. The price is very tempting, but if the beast hangs every other day, this is no good, obviously... Regards Oliver [1] About 500 and 900 $US, respectively. -- Oli

Re: PCMCIA-ATA/USB support for SanDisk/Digital Cameras

1999-12-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
und called ophoto which talks to it over USB, http://www.fromme.com/ophoto/ (Supports the Kodak DC-240 and DC-280.) > and there is another (more featured) which talks to it via serial called > gphoto.. Yep, but it's terribly slow... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibni

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

2000-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
gt; painful quickly, as such basic things like seek() are amoung them. ``long long'' is part of the C9x standard (or whatever it is called now, I'm not an expert). If TenDRA (or lcc) supports the latest C standard, then there should be no problem. Regards Oliver -- Oliver From

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
end: People posting ``open source'' programs would be required to send the code, or a Web site address where the code was displayed, to the government. Basically, does this mean something like tar cf - /usr/src/crypto | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? :-) Regards Oliver --

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-26 Thread Oliver Fromme
lement in a list, which marks the end of the list. NIL is the abbreviation of "not in list". (I'm not familiar with elisp, though.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
ver, for a big web- server, for a newsserver, and while we're at it, configure an appropriately sized MFS for /tmp, etc. ... This is a can of worms. Bottom line: I think it should stay the way it is now. :-) Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 3867

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
as someone else said, you can't make it fit everybody. What I would like to see in sysinstall is an option to make /tmp an MFS. But then again, that would probably open yet another can of worms... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger

Re: Block out PING.

2000-03-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
re just a particular type of ICMP packets (ICMP ECHO requests and ICMP ECHO replies, respectively). -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"

Re: Getting CPU usage in FreeBSD

2000-03-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
w the contents of cur.cp_time are used in the cpustats() function. Note that "cur" is a "struct statinfo", which is defined in /usr/include/devstat.h. The CPU states are defined in /usr/include/sys/dkstat.h. That should get you going. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme,

Re: Getting CPU usage in FreeBSD

2000-03-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Then look up the definition of kread() in the same file, and > > how the contents of cur.cp_time are used in the cpustats() > > function. Note that

Re: PXE

2000-03-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
s > already. I think that this will be committed ASAP. Over here, /usr/ports/net/etherboot works fine, after a bit of hacking. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) &quo

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
the local university. It's available from ftp7.de.freebsd.org. And no, it's not compressed. :-) (However, note that the server is in Germany. Depending on your connectivity, it might be a bit slow.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany

Re: Netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel?

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
100+ cards and can share > their story. > > Since I wrote this message, I have tried etherboot 4.4.5. Still no go. I'm using etherboot 4.2.11. Works fine. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) &

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