Re: Why not stick with [STABLE] [Was: RE: Releases]

2001-04-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:18 PM 4/9/01 -0700, Yann Sommer wrote: >Heya all, > >I've been following this thread with some extra attention, since I remember >beeing new to FreeBSD and complaining about a dedicated Server I ordered, >running BETA. It is just, as has been mentioned a few times before on this >list, again

4.3-RC, strange with ep0

2001-04-10 Thread Martin McFlySr
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], in machine was installed: fxp0, fxp1, fxp2, xl0, ep0. (ep0 record included in kernel file) After cvsup/make world/make-install kernel/reboot ( FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Tue Apr 10 01:02:55 MSD 2001 ) ep1 was appeared instead ep0. I hope, in 4.3-R|ELEASE this bug was fixed?

installworld freezes in /usr/lib

2001-04-10 Thread Lewis, Rodney
Hi all, Last night I tried to upgrade to 4.3RC2 but have had problems. Here's what I did. Sorry for the brief info but I am not at my machine. Any insight would be appreciated. I cvsup'd to latest. Which was only about 4 files as I have been keeping track but not installed since March 20th

NATd & high internal load - help

2001-04-10 Thread Marko Cuk
Hello !! I have problems with high load on FBSD box. First I had the 4.2 STABLE , then I cvsuped to 4.3-RC. Same thing. When high traffic occurs on 100mbit hub, to wich is fxp0 connected, load and processor usage on natd process is very high and after a while it won't pass packets anymore to out

NATd & high internal load - help

2001-04-10 Thread Marko Cuk
Hello !! I have problems with high load on FBSD box. First I had the 4.2 STABLE , then I cvsuped to 4.3-RC. Same thing. When high traffic occurs on 100mbit hub, to wich is fxp0 connected, load and processor usage on natd process is very high and after a while it won't pass packets anymore to out

Re: fdisk & disklabel dont work!

2001-04-10 Thread iedowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey writes: >> # disklabel -r -w da0s1 auto >> /kernel: da0: cannot find label (no disk label) >> /kernel: da0: cannot find label (no disk label) >> /kernel: da0s1: cannot find label (no disk label) >> /kernel: da0s1: cannot find label (no disk label

Re: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:54:32PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Next, the case of the bind and ntpd updates. Yes, these were fixed > in -STABLE and -CURRENT very quickly, but were only documented in UPDATING. > How many people who are running -RELEASE have this? That's right, none. If > the

Re: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:29:43AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: > > At 03:45 AM 4/10/2001 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > >Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar > > >with. > > > > -CURRENT fits all those requirements

Re: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:55:13PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > > > Just because the problem is difficult to solve does not mean it can not be > > > or should not be solved. > > Fine, how about you solve it and the rest of us will get back to all > > the o

Re: Can I stop BUILDWORLD from starting from scratch?

2001-04-10 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 10-Apr-2001 Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 07:45 PM 4/9/01 -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >>On 09-Apr-2001 Miha Nedok wrote: >> >> I really wish it'd be possible to just make selective portions >> >> of the source tree, is that possible? >> > >> > You might look at /etc/defaults/make.conf >>

Re: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Michael R. Rudel wrote: > x.x-BETA is ... notoriously buggy. It has bugs, that's the point of the x.y-GAMMA rather than x.y-BETA might would be a good move. Then we'd have 1/2 the world asking what "GAMMA" means. We could then hit over the head them wit

Re: how to track stable

2001-04-10 Thread Ben Smithurst
FreeBSD Admin wrote: > Can someone point me to a clear step-by-step explanation of how to do > this? I have cvsup'd the stable sources and the ports, but now what? 1. Set KERNCONF=FOO in /etc/make.conf, where FOO is the name of your kernel. 2. cvsup, you say you've done that bit. 3. # cd /usr

Re: Can I stop BUILDWORLD from starting from scratch?

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Christian Chen wrote: > > But why is "something" breaking ? The build process should be clean. If > > not, something is messed in your source code repository. > > Well, I know that when I installed 4.2-RELEASE off of CD, make world > in /usr/src did not

Re: how to track stable

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:36:20PM -0400, FreeBSD Admin wrote: > Please bear with me. I have tried to understand this process, but still it > is not clear to me. I have read > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html > http://www.freebs

Re: how to track stable

2001-04-10 Thread Ralph Huntington
Kind regards and grateful appreciateion to those who responded. I thyink I get it now. Thanks again. - Ralph To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Runt packets

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
:I have a dual-homed machine doing routing and firewalling on which hundreds :of the following messages appear in my logs every 10 minutes or so: : : /kernel: icmp-response bandwidth limit 44069/200 pps : /kernel: arp: runt packet : last message repeated 14691 times : :At the same time these m

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2001-04-10 Thread zer0byte
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problem with stable installworld

2001-04-10 Thread Greggory Gruen
Hello all, You'll have to excuse me, I'm quite the new user. I sychronized my source with the stable branch using cvsup. Everything went ok with buildworld but now installworld is giving me errors. I get something along the lines of: ln: /usr/share/man/man3/mvaddnstr.3.gz no such file rm -f

RE: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: Seems to me that if the lowest-common-denominator had some way to :: stay stable that didn't involve using cvsup or a compiler, this would :: be a non-issue. :: :: Numbered binary patches, anyone? Troll! ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in

fixed problem with installworld

2001-04-10 Thread Greggory Gruen
problem fixed. I misread the handbook and thought I could use the -j during make for the installworld. I got rid of it and all was well. thanks Gregg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: NATd & high internal load - help

2001-04-10 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:07:34PM +0200, Marko Cuk wrote: > > I have also 84 ipfw rules for firewall ( most of them reset and deny and > a few dummynet pipes ). > Is the processor too slow for that ? Depending on the order of these rules: possibly. -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo /

Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone?

2001-04-10 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
"Bruce A. Mah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems that they've been moved, the new ata(4) explains how to set them > > (ie from the loader) > > And it's also mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT: > > # To provide more flexible configuration, the various options for the > # ata(4) driver are now boot

Release (patch included)

2001-04-10 Thread Scot . W . Hetel
Since, noone supplied a patch that will help users to find the information when the tag changes from -STABLE/-CURRENT to -BETA or -RC. I created a patch to newvers.sh that will display an informitive message. This patch changes the version string to include a message that can be used to inform t

Re: Release (patch included)

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 17:11] wrote: > Since, noone supplied a patch that will help users to find the > information when the tag changes from -STABLE/-CURRENT to -BETA > or -RC. I created a patch to newvers.sh that will display an > informitive message. > > This patch c