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 >

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
Hello I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Should I send patches for this, or is it not important to "fix"? A random example is stdbool.h v. 1.6 on line 30 which has a trailing tab. -

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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Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
haven't tried that), but the above version fits better into my rather odd setup :-). I have started some work on documenting the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM use, but unfortunatly there are only 24 hours in a day, so I have no idea when I will get around to finishing it. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
t; My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind. > That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in > hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first. Do you use Privilege Separation? That can giv

Re: Archive for cvs-src

2003-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
lists are at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ . The source commit logs can also be found in CVSROOT-src/commitlogs in the CVS repository. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-22 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2002.12.22 13:36:21 +, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Perl 5.8 does not seem to be a part of 4.x, is it in 5.0 or > -CURRENT? Perl 5.8 can be installed from ports (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/). FreeBSD 5/-CURRENT does not have perl in the base system at all. -- Simon L. Nielsen To Unsubscribe