Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:42:04PM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > Follow the link, dude. ..snip.. > David O'Brien had the audacity to say: > > But your table doesn't say which compiler was used for what. > > Thus I can't tell what that table is telling me. My apologies. -- -- David([EMAIL PRO

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
> Well, GCC 2.95.x can be patched for pentium, ppro, and k6 optimization > to make your programs run faster and more efficiently. If you could > compile the base system with it, you would glean more performance from > the box. If you go to http://www.goof.com/pcg/ you can see what I'm > talking ab

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Robinson
"David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >It isn't a Mt. Xinu poster. It is a BSDI poster with the Daemon on it >and it did say "4.4 > 5.4". "5.4" refered to System V Rel. 4., which was >fairly new at the time. Oh. Nevermind. The one I'm looking for is the Mt. Xinu poster with the ratty BS

Re: System hanging.. kind of...

2000-01-10 Thread Walter Brameld
David Kott wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD 3.3, and I have set up 3 files in my > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d system. > > They are apache.sh, mysql.sh, and postfix.sh > > When ever the system boots it seems to hang after the last .sh file. >

Re: process stuck in ttywri

2000-01-10 Thread james
At 10:59 8/1/2000 -0500, Mr. K. wrote: >This is the second time I've seen this on two completely different >machines (different network, different configuration, different state) so >I'm wondering if anyone else has run into it. What happens is while I'm >doing a make, one of the processes will g

Re: System hanging.. kind of...

2000-01-10 Thread David Kott
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > Hello, > I am running FreeBSD 3.3, and I have set up 3 files in my > /usr/local/etc/rc.d system. > They are apache.sh, mysql.sh, and postfix.sh > When ever the system boots it seems to hang after the last .sh file. > I have to type ^D to get the lo

Re: System hanging.. kind of...

2000-01-10 Thread Tom
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > Hello, > I am running FreeBSD 3.3, and I have set up 3 files in my > /usr/local/etc/rc.d system. > They are apache.sh, mysql.sh, and postfix.sh > When ever the system boots it seems to hang after the last .sh file. > I have to type ^D to get the lo

System hanging.. kind of...

2000-01-10 Thread Marcelo J. Iturbe
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 3.3, and I have set up 3 files in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d system. They are apache.sh, mysql.sh, and postfix.sh When ever the system boots it seems to hang after the last .sh file. I have to type ^D to get the login prompt. I thought that this command would kill what eve

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread Coleman Kane
Well, GCC 2.95.x can be patched for pentium, ppro, and k6 optimization to make your programs run faster and more efficiently. If you could compile the base system with it, you would glean more performance from the box. If you go to http://www.goof.com/pcg/ you can see what I'm talking about, there

Re: process stuck in ttywri

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Somers
> This is the second time I've seen this on two completely different > machines (different network, different configuration, different state) so > I'm wondering if anyone else has run into it. What happens is while I'm > doing a make, one of the processes will get stuck. If I look at top, I > wi

Re: PPP: a big disappointment of 3.4

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Somers
> Yesterday, I upgraded my father's 3.0-CURRENT to the 3.4 and now he is > unable to get online. When ppp's chat script completes, ppp logs > > Warning: truncated pap header (0 > 5) > > several times and proceeds to redialing. The /etc/ppp/ppp.conf is > the same as before. The ISP is Zipli

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
Brad please don't spread falsness. On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:19:10PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > There are also some issues with laptops and PC Cards, especially > CardBus cards. No version of FreeBSD does or ever has supported CardBus. So there can't be any 4.0 issues here. There are issues

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:40:54AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > Obviously, you have never tried to make world with the new egcs, it is almost WHY do you need to make world with GCC 2.95.2? Gcc 2.7.2 acutally produces smaller code. For some things even faster code. What is so glammorous about a

RE: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?)

2000-01-10 Thread Allen Pulsifer
> Actually, no. The distribution is called 4.4BSD, not BSD 4.4. The same > goes for 4.1 or 4.2 which were known as 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD respectively. > Anyone who understands what BSD is, will know the difference. You're right. My bad. 4.4BSD. See how easy it is to get it confused? Allen

RE: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?)

2000-01-10 Thread Tom
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > I have to agree with this poster. The next release should be > called FreeBSD 5.0. > > "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole > family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be > confused between BSD 4.4 and F

question on necessity of tcp_wrappers port

2000-01-10 Thread Vivek Khera
It seems to me that since 3.4 has tcp wrappers integrated into it (inetd has support built in, and libwrap is there) that the tcp_wrappers port is unnecessary. It really confused me when I did the install because the tcp_wrappers package was offered to be installed during the installation, and wa

Re: vinum problem

2000-01-10 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Which devices is it complaining about? I found it very easy to accidentally refer to the character/block devices (ie: /dev/vinum/raid0) at times during vinum setup instead of the raw devices (ie: /dev/vinum/rraid0). This will definitely cause some odd problems. I don't remember the step offhand wh

Re: vim-5.5.67

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 04:53:14PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: > Use the vim-lite port, or build vim5 using > > # make LITE=yes install > > (which is all the vim-lite port does) Acutally if you build Vim locally on an X-less machine, the X11 support will keep out since you don't the libs + hea

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: > > Perhaps we should skip version 4.4 of FreeBSD out of respect for our > fore fathers. ( IE: release versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5 ). > > It would kind of feel strange to have a release version of 4.4 for > FreeBSD.

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
> >the 5.x releases, I'm gonna have to think about taking down > >the ole poster with `4.4 > 5.4' on it > > > >(not that that would be a *bad* thing, I just wonder if I can > >find where said poster is hanging in this mess) > > Your Mt. Xinu poster is being underutilized (and underappreciated

Re: CPU voltage (was Re: load spike strangeness)

2000-01-10 Thread Coleman Kane
I believe that these readings have to do not only with the uneven voltages in the power supply, b ut also the accuracy of the instruments used to record them. --cokane Kip Macy had the audacity to say: > My machine is not overclocked and I get similar results > > > > Motherboard Temp

Re: Help _please_ "make world" faila

2000-01-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SA" == Szilveszter Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SA> Is the enclosed output all that you get? If so, am I right in SA> assuming that you do not delete /usr/obj/* before each build? IMHO SA> it is pretty much compulsory, esp if you also cvsup in the SA> meantime, that is /usr/src changes

uptime abort trap

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew B. Henniges
Hello all- I have a cronjob in /etc/crontab: */1 * * * * root/usr/bin/uptime >> /var/log/load about once every 2 days, I find a mail like this in my mailbox. From: Cron Daemon [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?)

2000-01-10 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:16:17AM -0500, James E. Housley wrote: > Allen Pulsifer wrote: > > > > "BSD 4.4" is a desciptive term still used to describe a whole > > family of OS's. People outside the FreeBSD circle are going to be > > confused between BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 4.4. This can easily be