Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
e, can stand up their own *ix box and run whatever they want on whatever port, the notion of only connecting to "privileged ports" as a way of protecting yourself (e.g., from password sniffing or whatever) is rather quaint and ineffective. -- Chris BeHanna ch...@behanna.org_

mpd 3.11 problems?

2003-02-06 Thread Chris BeHanna
3.10, and everything works again. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turning coffee into software since 1990. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable&

Re: when make installkernel doesn't

2003-01-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
a make installkernel *first*, *then* reboot and make sure it at least comes back to single user. Then and only then do you do an installworld. You might get yourself to goodness by copying your new kernel and new modules by hand from /usr/obj to their appropriate places. -- Chris BeHanna

Re: backups of SUPERBLOCK

2002-11-09 Thread Chris BeHanna
newfs parameters. Phil meant that you should pass the same blocksize, fragsize, minfree, inode density, etc., to newfs -N that you passed to the original newfs that created the filesystem. If you didn't do any custom tuning with newfs, it's likely that new

Re: TV output turn on

2002-11-09 Thread Chris BeHanna
o work on FreeBSD, then the GATOS project's atitvout package might help you. You will need drm working as well. You could, of course, just watch the DVD on your laptop. -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant PennaSoft Corporation [EMAIL

Re: freebsd test matrix

2002-10-16 Thread Chris BeHanna
, and all of those things are important. Some of the testing uses existing industry test suites and benchmarking tools, and some of it (much of it) is custom. Being able to compile, install, and boot is just the tip of the iceberg. -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com P

Re: Need instructions: build kernel on one machine; install onanother

2002-08-13 Thread Chris BeHanna
the base compiler is GCC-3.1, which has support for some of the newer CPUs. Example: env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.p3 make buildworld CPUTYPE=p3 -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant PennaSoft Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Need instructions: build kernel on one machine; install onanother

2002-08-13 Thread Chris BeHanna
contains something like: mount -t nfs buildmachine:/usr/src /usr/src cd /usr/src make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL KODIR=/modules umount /usr/src Of course, it needs a little polish, but you get the idea. -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.c

Re: Better to make XFree86-4 when XFree86-3 isn't running?

2002-07-07 Thread Chris BeHanna
ld) ATI Rage Mobility in my HP 4150B. YMMV. I tar'd up all of /usr/X11R6 and all of /etc/X11 when I jumped from 3.3.6 to 4.0. You're advised to do the same. -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant PennaSoft Corporation [EMAIL PRO

Re: pkg_fetch broken on 4.6 stable?

2002-07-02 Thread Chris BeHanna
usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf and inserting the following environment variable setting: ENV['PACKAGES'] ||= '/export/freebsd/packages-4-stable' You'll notice that the default setting (shown in a comment) is messed up in precisely the way you mention. -- Chris BeHanna So

Re: Samba problems, several machines

2002-05-03 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Dave Uhring wrote: > On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:23 pm, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > I don't know that I've ever tried it. I go through > > Control Panel->Printers->Add Printer, and browse the Network > > Neighborhood to find the Samb

Re: Athlon XP with NVIDIA AGP problem

2002-04-23 Thread Chris BeHanna
memory channels (and your RAM) for its buffering, having no onboard memory of its own. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Modules System (Was: Panic on 'kldunload snd')

2002-04-03 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Chris BeHanna wrote: > >>However, I was (slightly) less pleased to discover that a consequent > >>'kldunload snd' paniced the kernel. This is on a (cvsuped last night) > >>-STABLE box. > > > >

Re: mergemaster mtree:No such file or directory

2002-03-24 Thread Chris BeHanna
our favorite OS, is > it? Having "." in your PATH is a security risk. I don't have any problem making life difficult for people who have "." in their PATH. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PR

Re: Crash Using ogle

2001-11-03 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Heath Nielson wrote: > On Sunday 28 October 2001 05:40 pm, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > I attempted to view a DVD with the ogle port (nice DVD menu > > support), and I crashed my machine (4.4-STABLE, cvsup'd at > > Fri Oct 19 01:08:36 EDT 2001). T

Crash Using ogle

2001-10-28 Thread Chris BeHanna
t;) video board WD Caviar IDE hard drive on ata0-master using UDMA Hitachi GD-2000 DVD-ROM on ata1-master using WDMA2 dmesg is attached. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild

Re: cable modem choices

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
your NIC, e.g., "xl0" for 3Com 3C905, "fxp0" for Intel Etherexpress, etc.) Now you'll get an address at boot-time. I'm not sure, but if your box is already up when the installer comes, ifconfig dc0 down ifconfig dc0 up (or the equivalent for your NIC) mi

Re: How does FreeBSD performs in server tasks? [off-topic]

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
Getting back to some more specific info you wanted, the only web app I run that has bearing is Kalendus, and it responds mighty quickly. > "Add-in" topic: how DDR-memory instead SDRAM affects server performance? It *rocks*. For another benchmark, I pulled 110 MFLOPs from thi

Re: RAID5

2001-09-03 Thread Chris BeHanna
until I have replace it? Ok? Yes, but write performance will be absolutely horrible until you replace the broken drive and rebuild the volume. Note that if you lose one of those remaining two drives before you replace the broken drive and rebuild the volume, you're toast. -- Ch

Re: CPUTYPE and ports

2001-08-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
ow is if anyone has figured out a way to do a g++ equivalent to Microsoft's "precompiled headers". If so, please clue me in: they really speed up a build on a big project. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Broken world -- ipnat

2001-08-28 Thread Chris BeHanna
ut > it does note them if you're paying attention). Not by default. .o is in the "ignore by default" list. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Uns

Re: How can I find the version? (date/time ?) of cvsup'd sources

2001-08-22 Thread Chris BeHanna
icient. ls -lu supfile does the trick. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

RE: Silly crackers... NT is for kids...

2001-08-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
d initially enabled it, and have done nothing > > since...) > > I completely agree. I like the way RedHat 7.1 disables almost everything > on install. One could argue that they shouldn't even install sshd, since > they may well have a bug in it as well. Makes it awfully to

Re: Current stable (fresh sup) broken for no opt

2001-08-07 Thread Chris BeHanna
kes place. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Updating RELENG_4_3

2001-07-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
ommit. If the suggestion, "leave a small commit-free window around midnight UTC" is adopted, then you could use -D "00:00:00 UTC" and not have to worry (although you'd have to translate that to "[cc]yy.mm.dd.00.00.00" format for cvsup to process it). -- Chr

Re: HDD Problem

2000-12-27 Thread Chris BeHanna
when combined with a culprit PS. However, 2 days is kind of a long time for these problems to arise. There's just too much crap that happens these days to rule it out though. - End included text It could be that the UDMA controller is another "[thing] in error" on this moth

Re: Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE?

2000-12-26 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > Not that I'm a fan of the GPL, but wouldn't importation of gmake > > into the toolchain that gets installed by default help this problem > > alo

Re: Updating XFree86-3.3.6-x --> XFree86-4

2000-12-26 Thread Chris BeHanna
ways untar 3.3.6 someplace else and diff the trees. You'll probably want to rebuild the dependant ports anyway, so that they're linked against the new XFree libraries (I admit, though, that this wasn't an issue when I went from 3.3.6 to 4.0.1_10). -- Chris BeHanna Software Enginee

Re: Profiled Libs

2000-12-24 Thread Chris BeHanna
o taken up in /usr/lib, where the profiled libs get installed. > Also on a side note, when upgrading with mergemaster what flags should > be used with it? mergemaster -cv ? I omit the flags and just look at the diffs, as the author intended. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer [EMAIL

Re: How can i see just -stable logs

2000-12-06 Thread Chris BeHanna
le, you want to see RELENG_4. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "bogus" before responding. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

RE: pkg_version

2000-11-29 Thread Chris BeHanna
sion -v > /tmp/packages, one should be pretty well set. It isn't "fire and forget", but given all of the dependencies involved, as well as special flags that you might want to pass to a build (e.g., WITH_GNOME and WITH_KDE), I'm not sure you'd want that anyway. -- Ch

Re: Stability

2000-11-06 Thread Chris BeHanna
oblem. (Note: I'm going to have a couple of weeks off from work for medical leave, but I just finished the 100Mbps backbone in my house, so maybe I can help track down the mbuf problem--and my lingering SB16 no sound problem.) -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PRO

Re: All the x11-wm ports b0rken in 4.1.1-STABLE?

2000-10-25 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:13:12PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > If you had these lines in your supfile: > > > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > >

Re: gnome 1.2 install

2000-10-19 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > Hi Ade, > > Chris BeHanna has advised me to add "#include " before "#include > " and it did work. Deleting the libmalloc package is probably the better option. I had long since forgotten that package was insta

RE: procfs: out of memory!

2000-10-16 Thread Chris BeHanna
t; procfs (and a "full" linprocfs). AFAIK, they've always been full. I can run "top" just fine. I submit that your kernel and your userland may be out of synch. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Minor problem with new ports setup

2000-10-13 Thread Chris BeHanna
he cvs ports tree. Anyone else noticed this or know > why? The ports tree has changed significantly. Go to /usr/ports and type "make readmes" and they'll all be generated (it will take awhile). -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubsc

RE: mbuf leakage on 4.1.1-STABLE

2000-10-12 Thread Chris BeHanna
By tonight, I expect to see around 500 mbuf clusters in use, and a comparable number of mbufs in use. By late tomorrow, it will be time to reboot. :-( -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: make world

2000-10-10 Thread Chris BeHanna
ost half > > > way. IIRC, "make world" first cleans /usr/obj unless -DNOCLEAN is set, right? In that case, you should be alright. > Not forget to capture and examine the output from make. e.g. > make buildworld >& world.out & For sh, bash

Re: Machine Wedges

2000-10-06 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote: > Chris BeHanna stated: > : Ever since upgrading to 4.1.1-STABLE, I've been having problems in > : which the machine wedges every 2 or 3 days. It looks like something > : in the xl driver code, from what I saw in /var/log/messa

Machine Wedges

2000-10-06 Thread Chris BeHanna
e have any ideas? If you need more information, let me know. Thanks, -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: SB16 on irq 5

2000-09-25 Thread Chris BeHanna
red to irq 5. Simply moving my NIC to a different slot fixed the conflicts I used to get. This may also be your problem. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: pcm driver

2000-09-25 Thread Chris BeHanna
except in vmware. In vmware, I get crackling, crappy sound *except* when playing CDs; however, vmware does not make use of my subwoofer. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD

2000-09-15 Thread Chris BeHanna
ort -A. You need to install ksh to use set -A. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] #! /bin/sh # Shell script to generate all characters from # \ to \0377 (octal format) # Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] loop1='0 1 2 3' loop2='0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Re: making a RELEASE

2000-08-02 Thread Chris BeHanna
for make release to work. > > > Any documentation regarding "make release" procedure ? > > % less /usr/src/release/Makefile SLOW DOWN! "make release" will make the iso images (right?) What he wants, I suspect, is to cd to /usr/src and follow the inst

Re: disk partition limits

2000-08-01 Thread Chris BeHanna
can't create new for rest 1+ Gb :( > Slice (as i can remember) is more than 8Gb, HDD is IBM SCSI 18Gb. I don't know why this didn't work for you. Right now, My /usr is 17.7GB, and /export is 16.7GB. There are 5GB free on the disk in an unused FAT partition, just in ca

Re: make world fails

2000-08-01 Thread Chris BeHanna
At least, that's been my experience. YMMV. Regards, Chris BeHanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: PPPoE

2000-08-01 Thread Chris BeHanna
nds and a roadmap) guarantees 1500K down and 500K up for what I'm paying, BUT they block all the ports below 1024. :-( I can hack around that, given a friendly site outside their firewall who's willing to divert packets for me, but it's still a PITA. Regards, Chris BeHanna [

Re: General update methodology question

2000-08-01 Thread Chris BeHanna
branch, then tag the branch and merge out from my local repository's "mainline" whenever I resync it. Chris BeHanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

General update methodology question

2000-07-27 Thread Chris BeHanna
ging cause a problem? If so, I could always separate out stable and current in my local CVSROOT, and be sure to only tag stuff in stable. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable&