Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread utsl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:16:46PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 22 April 2002 at 19:53:06 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> That fix relies on the extensive PAM updates in -CURRENT however; in > >> -STABLE it can probably be similarly replicated via appropriate tweaking > >> of s

Re: sendfile() in tftpd?

2002-04-23 Thread utsl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > No, sendfile() is only for TCP connections, TFTP is using UDP. If you > > > > want performance, use something else. > > > It's even in the manpage: > > > Sendfile() sends a regular file specified by descriptor fd out a stream >

Re: sendfile() in tftpd?

2002-04-23 Thread utsl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:34:24PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > [ TFTP performance is poor ] > > > > > USE TFTP to get a tiny image up, and then go TCP. > > > > > > > > > Going to TCP soon assumes that you have a lossless medium in order to > > > transmit packets over. If you're using a lossy

Re: sendfile() in tftpd?

2002-04-23 Thread utsl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:07:32PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > Probably true, but the better solution is to find something else (or > > make something else) that doesn't completely suck like TFTP does. > > Because it's used so rarely, having it suck every once in a while isn't > so bad. TFTP

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:14:44PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > However you present the UI, when it comes to making changes, please > > have it queue up the actua

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Hi, > > > You might want to generalize things a bit and make a graphical GUI > > for GEOM instead. Eventually vinum will either be absorbed into > > GEOM as on

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:21:51AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 12:06:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You might want to look at EVMS on Linux. They have a few good ideas, > > like building a library and API underneath the user interfaces. From > > what