RELENG_3 actually supports the "package origin" but there's no support

2001-08-20 Thread Akinori MUSHA
I've found that the package origin support was merged into RELENG_3 but OSVERSION and bsd.port.mk have not reflected it. pkg_create: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create/main.c?rev=1.18.2.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup OSVERSION: http://ww

A few "how to do this?"-questions

2001-08-20 Thread Martin Krzysiak
Hi people, I'm still new to FreeBSD, so sorry for whatever You don't like about my questions... 1) In /etc/ttys, I uncommented the line where xdm is started and replaced the 'x' in xdm with 'k' to start kdm. I think something is wrong, because kdm tells me there is a wrong parameter

Re: Showstopper in 4.4-RC1 (SCSI)

2001-08-20 Thread msch
Hello, > > Just to add another data point: I have a SCSI driver which also detects as > sym0, and it runs with no problems whatsoever, even with SCSI_DELAY set to > 5000 (from the default of 15000), as in the example here. I would suggest > recompiling with SCSI_DELAY set back to 15000 and s

fsync semantics and directory changes

2001-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
Hail, I'm wondering how to fsync() changes to a directory such as link() with softupdates or async mode. Linux has the "open and fsync the directory" approach. With softupdates, fsync() syncs directory corresponding to the open file handle. However, how do I sync unlinks, for example? Would o

Re: CVSUP

2001-08-20 Thread jacks
Yeah, there are about 17 sites in the USA. Best to run traceroute on each to find the fastest site. Sometimes closer is not better many are more than 20 hops while another is only 11 hops (from here) but depends on your location too. At 10:34 PM 8.19.2001 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On M

4.4-RC1 kernel crashes on fujitsu laptop, 4.3-RELEASE does not.

2001-08-20 Thread David Gilbert
Rather consistently, 4.4-RC1 crashes on my Fujitsu Lifebook E-6150 laptop where 4.3-RELEASE (and most of 4.3-STABLE) does not. Crashes are of the Fatal-trap-12 type with random processes (most recently gcc) as the active process. I cvsup'd the 4.4-RC1 kernel somewhere around Sunday afternoon. I

Re: DOH! Something PCI-related recently broken in -STABLE

2001-08-20 Thread Chad R. Larson
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:21:44PM +0100, Joshua Goodall wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: >>> Yes. Compaq have this really crack-smoking idea about how the >>> pcibios is supposed to work. In a fit of brilliance, some rocket >>> scientis

Compaq (was: DOH! Something PCI-related recently broken in -STABLE)

2001-08-20 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Monday 20 August 2001 14:10, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Yes, but that dosn't alter the fact the someone at Compaq smokes > crack. And that they don't really care about compatability. > > Early Compaq desktops had a hack in their BIOS that looked for a > specific signature on the hard drive, and w

stale entries in utmp (security issue?)

2001-08-20 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Hi! 1. login as root 2. type 'login -f username' when username is valid name of user that is not logged now 3. type 'logout' 4. Now you are root but command 'w' does not say so (security?) 5. type 'logout' 6. Now command 'w' says user 'username' is still logged but it has no processes. This seem

Re: stale entries in utmp (security issue?)

2001-08-20 Thread Tom
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > 1. login as root > 2. type 'login -f username' when username is valid name of user that is > not logged now > 3. type 'logout' > 4. Now you are root but command 'w' does not say so (security?) > 5. type 'logout' > 6. Now command 'w' says use

Re: stale entries in utmp (security issue?)

2001-08-20 Thread Eugene Grosbein
> > 4. Now you are root but command 'w' does not say so (security?) > > 5. type 'logout' > > 6. Now command 'w' says user 'username' is still logged but it has no > > processes. > > Since the root user can just delete the utmp file, there is not too much > to be done about this. Some UNIX syst

Re: stale entries in utmp (security issue?)

2001-08-20 Thread Timothy Luoma
I don't know if this will work (or even compile) under FreeBSD but this is what I used to use on my NeXT (which was BSD-based) machine. http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/source/systems/next/ghostbuster/ Source code and makefile included. HTH TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Compaq (was: DOH! Something PCI-related recently broken in -STABLE)

2001-08-20 Thread Bruce Burden
> > I called to complain that it wouldn't *power* *up*. > My office mate had a hell of a time with Compaq, trying to get Tech Support to acknowledge that the disk was DOA. > > The tech support guy told me that they don't offer support if you install > non-compaq *software* on the com