Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > Guess what - I *did* carefully read the handbook before cvsupping > stable. Ahh, I see. So... You read, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ \ handbook/current-stable.html Under, "20.2.2.3 Using FreeBSD-STABLE" Which states,

RE: Is FreeBSD more secure than Windows NT or Windows 2000?

2001-07-23 Thread Aaron Namba
This is a couple days old by now, but for the record, yes, there is a program that is standard amongst Windows NT/2000 systems integrators that will reset your admin password in a jiffy. Very handy. Also, I'm not sure about this password during reinstall. I've reinstalled NT and 2000 many times w

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Lumos wrote: > "the stable branch is effectively a bug-fix stream relative to the > previous release" True. > "[-RELEASE is] really just a ``snapshot'' from the -STABLE branch that > we put on CDROM," Well, it is really a snapshot, that's true again. Maybe it would

Re: High interrupt rate

2001-07-23 Thread Rob Schulhof
Hello, Thanks for reply. I found that using the i8254 clock rather than the TSC clock seemed to solve the problem, but perhaps it's merely coincidence. --Rob On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:56:55 +0300 > From: Valentin Nechayev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: High interrupt rate

2001-07-23 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 20:35:42, rrs (Rob Schulhof) wrote about "High interrupt rate": > I'm puzzled why my system is spending 1% of CPU on system interrupts when > completely idle. I even with avery thing killed except kernel proceses top > and vmstat show 0.8% is spent servicing interrupts. A

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Lamont Granquist
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > It seems to me that it would be in the very best interest of > FreeBSD to apply whatever quality controls are appropriate to > ensure that "stable" means what it says. You're checking out the head of a development tree. It will never be stable in your

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread A. L. Meyers
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Lumos wrote: > > > I'm not whining about -STABLE, but then again I didn't lose. However, > > I think the current attitude toward people who end up losing after > > basically being led to -STABLE by the documentation

Re: problem with burncd

2001-07-23 Thread Jake Roersma
On 2001.07.21 13:58 Patrik Sundberg wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:36:17PM +0200, Patrik Sundberg wrote: > > hi, > > > > i have the following problem with burncd running: > > FreeBSD radiac.mine.nu 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #10: Sat Jul 21 > 00:20:25 > > CEST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Lumos wrote: > I'm not whining about -STABLE, but then again I didn't lose. However, > I think the current attitude toward people who end up losing after > basically being led to -STABLE by the documentation is bad. It might > be a good idea to add "NOTE:

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Steve Lumos
Mike Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Steve Lumos wrote: > >> It is very easy for a reasonable person to read (or more likely skim >> [tell me you don't do it]) the description of -STABLE in the handbook >> and conclude that it means what it sounds like, and then feel >> bamboozl

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-23 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > do you suggest that if someone wants "stable-stable" not just > "stable" he should cvsup RELENG_4_3 instead of RELENG_4? I suggest you spend half the time reading documentation and trying to actually understand the FreeBSD build hierarchy you do posting

Re: probably remote exploit

2001-07-23 Thread Nick Barnes
And you need to be sure that you really _are_ booting off the CD, not booting a hacked kernel from the hard disk which detects that you have a bootable CD in the drive and assumes that you're trying to boot off CD to clean up your system, so _pretends_ to be booting off the CD except when you come

Re: probably remote exploit

2001-07-23 Thread Jason Andresen
Mike Hoskins wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tom wrote: > > > But if a backdoor is installed, you can't trust cvsup, or make either. > > Any binary could have been tampered with. For instance, I would make a > > backdoor make that would detect that an installworld is underway, and > > always