Subtle change in pf behavior from 6.2 to 6.3-PRE

2007-11-09 Thread Steve Watt
getting stored correctly by the earlier pass rules. Whee. Breadcrumbs for someone to google up some dark and stormy night. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.5" / 37N 20' 15.3" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN Fre

Re: Pthreads signals

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Watt
read masks are per-signal, and signals sent to the process when all threads within the process have the signal blocked remain pending against the process so any thread may accept the signal using sigwait()/sigtimedwait()/sigwaintinfo(). I suspect the answer is yes, but I haven't played with thread

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-21 Thread Steve Watt
A >2: Disk 0 > 1: FFS You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) at the correct time and enable the disk for booting. As shown here, there's no chance of it being bootable. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-I

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-31 Thread Steve Watt
in the ATA >> code and is probably a job for sos. > >I took the -L option off of my dump command in my daily dump script. I've >gone two days without locking up which is unusual. I think that may be what >was tickling the bug that was locking me up. This is a filesyste

Re: Status of ATA tagging in Stable

2003-03-30 Thread Steve Watt
drives don't do tagging correctly. Since I've got a semi-production server with the DTLAs in it, I gave up on tagging, just using UDMA, it's good enough. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM

dirbad panic "mangled entry" in 4.6-S from yesterday

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Watt
0}}} - - - >8 - - - So all I see from that is that something is, indeed, not right. I don't know the code well enough to say what. Got the core and kernel.debug lying around, if anyone wants more info. I ran daily by hand, but it didn't happen. Might have something to do with th

Re: Why sshd:PermitRootLogin = no ?

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Watt
om none? You edit it. Same work, no obvious advantage to without-password over no, and better obvservance of "install in the most secure way possible". Just like the discard port is disabled in inetd.conf -- same concept. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121

Sendmail rantlet

2001-10-02 Thread Steve Watt
. That seems (to me) to be almost as rude, or possibly more so, as overwriting rc.conf or passwd during the installworld rather than allowing mergemaster to do its job. Am I missing the point of the `hostname`.mc -> `hostname`.cf rule in the /etc/mail/Makefile, or is something seriously violatin

Re: Is -stable broken, or am I?

2001-02-12 Thread Steve Watt
conf. They're (now) the same, and one system still works, and one doesn't. So I tried blowing away /usr/src/contrib/binutils and redoing the buildworld. Still no good. Any guesses on what I should try next? Thanks, -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8&qu

Is -stable broken, or am I?

2001-02-09 Thread Steve Watt
bi' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/addr2line. *** Error code 1 [ and a cascade of "Stop in" deleted ] I wiped /usr/obj this morning, and tried again, and got the same failure. Clues? -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 1