Buckets of spam on list?

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
Has FreeBSD's spam filter opened its legs again? Along with MOBILE, ACPI, and just about every other spammer-friendly open list? -- Dave ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] > Then the names match exactly what the branches are: "current" is the > current head of experimental development, "releng" is the release > engineering branch, and "stable" is the stable branch for people who > want to track only security fixes

Re: Attention Julian Stacey

2006-09-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > lol, that's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. > > Inflamatory. Refered to postmaster. That's even funnier. -- Dave ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

2006-05-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, the signedness of time_t is merely historical. > time_t predates explicitely unsigned integer data types in C. > The historical definition seems to have been "long". Actually it was int[2] - see line 0213 of the Lions Book. Or

Re: a place for configuration files

2006-03-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Andy Newman wrote: > > but the /usr/local directory paradigm is a Berkeley thing. > > It probably began with the 4.X distribution > > It's in a 3BSD tree I have lying around. Dated 1980. I was using it on Edition 6 (and possibly Edition 5) in the 70s. -- Dave __

Re: panic with RELENG_6, 2005-11-09 source

2005-12-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rory Arms wrote: > I'm not subscribed to the list, so include me in any replies. So that explains the spam I get via this list... It's a spam magnet. -- Dave ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Rick Kelly wrote: > The main reason for sync;sync;sync on V7 UNIX was because you couldn't > do a shutdown, only a halt to the hardware monitor, on the PDP11. You > can verify that behavior with SIMH. :-) And you weren't supposed to use "sync;sync;sync" but this: # sync # s

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Holger Kipp wrote: > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > > with stable branches. > > It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, > especially a

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andrew L. Neporada wrote: > > The not working (more expensive) one gets recognized as ucom0 and I have > > ucom0, also I can receive signal but not transmit. > > > [skip] > > Take a look at http://gate.intercaf.ru/~lesha/6100/ and try patch > http://gate.intercaf.ru/~lesha/

Re: bktr_core.c commit breaks building kernels on RELENG_5

2005-01-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Jon Noack wrote: > This commit broke building kernels on RELENG_5 (see tinderbox logs): > > cognet 2005-01-16 01:01:15 UTC Thanks; I was wondering what broke... > I believe this change was unintended: > > @@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ vbi_read(bktr_ptr_t bktr, struct uio *ui >

Re: bktr_core.c:1261: error: `FNDELAY' undeclared

2005-01-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
Skip it - someone else spotted the problem just before I did (seems to have been a broken commit). -- Dave ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

bktr_core.c:1261: error: `FNDELAY' undeclared

2005-01-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, last updated 1st Jan 2005. Just did a CVSUP of -STABLE. make buildworld - OK. make buildkernel KERNCONF=STINKY Goes swimmingly, then... cc -O -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STINKY/opt_global.h -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -I@/../inc

Re: question on vinum

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Are there known methods/techniques to restore data from failed concat or > > stripe volumes? > > Certainly. It's known as "taking a backup", perhaps to a tape drive or some > other form of storage. If you don't have a backup, and you lose a disk in a