ipnat's ftp proxying crashes -stable

1999-09-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm trying to setup my dual interface machine to act as an ftp proxy for my home LAN. The machine has two interfaces: ep0 (10.10.0.2/28) and ep1 (connected to the cable-modem, with DHCP-obtained settings). It is a real shame, this part is so poorly documented, but I

Re: Out of mbuf clusters

1999-09-21 Thread Kip Macy
You are, as is so often the case, correct. The way you phrase your responses sometimes blinds me, and evidently others, to the complete circumstances. -Kip On 21 Sep 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is in no way a

CODA and a SMP machine.

1999-09-21 Thread Carl Makin
A couple of weeks ago it was mentioned on this list that the CODA filesystem was not safe for SMP machines. Is this actually the case? Is this likely to change? Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1, again

1999-09-21 Thread Carl Makin
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Greg Lewis wrote: > > Actually, there is one other option, I used it. Compile a single CPU kernel, > > install StarOffice , then compile you SMP kernel and use StarOffice... > Ahh, so it only tries the forking during install then. I wasn't aware of Doesn't work for me. I

Apology (was: /etc/rc.conf restart)

1999-09-21 Thread John
All - my apologies... this question-mail was meant to be sent to freebsd-questions... not -stable. Sorry for the error. --John Welcome to the next of my "it seems like the answer would be so simple" questions... Is there a way to get the system to re-read /etc/rc.conf witho

/etc/rc.conf restart

1999-09-21 Thread John
Welcome to the next of my "it seems like the answer would be so simple" questions... Is there a way to get the system to re-read /etc/rc.conf without a shutdown/reboot? Thanks!!! --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > You are correct -- what one really needs is a per user limit on files -- > there may already be something to that effect, although I do not know of > it. That's because you completely disregarded all of the explanations for the current behavior tha

Re: netscape + X 3.3.5 + 3.3-stable

1999-09-21 Thread Gregor Moeller
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:41:00PM +0200, Markus Holmberg wrote: > Same here. > > This started happening to my 3.2-STABLE + Netscape Communicator 4.6 > (FreeBSD native) recently too. > > Frequently core-dumping with SIGBUS (always on Slashdot).. This never > used to happen before.. I tried th

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > machine running FreeBSD non-func

RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Kip Macy
Obviously not from the default settings. Typically limits are in place to protect something from something. This, however, may be an exception. -Kip On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Kip Macy
You are correct -- what one really needs is a per user limit on files -- there may already be something to that effect, although I do not know of it. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bryan Talbot wrote: > At 04:23 PM 9/21/99 , Kip Macy wrote: > >Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might mak

RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread David Schwartz
> Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > machine running FreeBSD non-functional. The default should be set with

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > machine runn

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Bryan Talbot
At 04:23 PM 9/21/99 , Kip Macy wrote: >Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for >special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is >dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a >machine running FreeBSD non-function