birda port (was Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20)

failure was more likely due to the IR ports not being aligned properly (major jury-rig...). The tarball expects to be unpacked in /usr/ports. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electr

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

er > doesnt YP do somethign similar ? (I've never had to use YP, thought I have > been on the receiving end of some of the consequences). And I, somehow, had failed to notice that there's no NSS on FreeBSD. *smacks self on head* Not quite so simple after all, I guess -- brandon

Re: rc.resume

oes your /etc/apmd.conf "exec" /etc/rc.resume in response to resume events? -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineeringKF8NH c

Re: portupgrade insists on tty output

rently opens /dev/tty. > How I can run it in batch mode? Possibly "portupgrade -y". -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering

Re: natd

he context switching for NATted packets when using natd. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check

Re: mergemaster: what if I want both left and right?

efore a need for 'neither' arises. "e", then save the empty file. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH c

Re: setting kern.ngroups

'll find that any program that looks at the group vector will blow up because it only has space reserved for 16 groups. You don't want to go there. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general)

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:20, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, it means that there are no tag values that are meaningful for > > ports-all; you need to use tag=. (no tag, meaning retrieve the HEAD) >

Re: Tools to modify shared libraries

different between different systypes; even if someone had developed one, it's just as likely to be for Linux or Solaris as for *BSD, and as a result wouldn't be particularly useful. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

n a nutshell is that we're going to be fixing old IPv4 holes in new guises for a while.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon

Re: kqemu support: not compiled

On 2008 May 13, at 0:18, bazzoola wrote: I press Ctrl + Alt + 2 then I type info kqemu I get "kqemu support: not compiled" Without looking, I'd guess this means the qemu binary was built without kqemu support enabled. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,

Re: sshd_config question

On 2008 Jun 29, at 19:22, Jeff Richards wrote: After setting those options I kill -HUP the sshd process. I thought sshd ignored SIGHUP and you had to actually stop and restart it to pick up configuration changes. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

:// www.infrastructures.org is in general a good resource for such things. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon universityKF8NH

Re: scp -c none (was Re: NFS client slow on amd64 6.2-PRERELEASE #2)

but then, neither is PAM support. I'm not sure we care what they think, given that FreeBSD's openssh supports PAM.) -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and comput

Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

/dev/de0s1. How did you format this drive ? It comes formatted FAT32. I bought one last week as well, and tried to mount it to extract the included software before repartitioning. I finally mounted it on an OSX box to copy the software to CDR. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris

Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

th fdisk before trying to mount, because some vendors like to use s4 instead of s1 (hello Iomega :> ) -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie

Re: Portupgrade script.

rld and/or ports rebuilds if there's no surprises lurking; otherwise I handle them manually. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon

Re: Either I do something wrong or there is a regexp bug in sed !!

extended". sed, ed, and grep speak BRE syntax, whereas awk and egrep speak ERE syntax. + is special only in ERE syntax. (And then there's GNU, where the difference between BRE and ERE is that some things use a preceding backslash in BRE and don't in ERE, and vice versa, so GNU sed d

Re: Beastie/ how about Mozilla?

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:30, Frank Mayhar quoted someone as saying: > > said "Why don't you try Mozilla?" His reply was "...I am a > > Christian..."Was the first time I have known of anyone being > > offended by a dragon ion. LOL. *oy* Jus

Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

d the drive will show up as an "sd" device. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mello

Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:48 +0400, Igor Robul wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > >You need the umass driver either compiled in or loaded as a module; it > >glues the USB layer to the sd layer, and the drive will show up as an > >"sd" device. > > &

5.3-S (Mar 6) softdep stack backtrace from getdirtybuf()... problem?

TABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Mar 6 02:56:16 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/RUSHLIGHT i386 -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engine

Re: 5.3-S (Mar 6) softdep stack backtrace from getdirtybuf()... problem?

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:29 +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote: > I saw these similar trace on a 5.4-RC1/amd64 with 9 NFS mount. I suspect > this is a issue with busy NFS server? No, no NFS involved at all, nor any other network filesystem, client or server. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,f

Re: system breach

Console_Getopt-1.2/ drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel512 29 Aug 16:29 XML_RPC-1.5.0/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 15433 12 Jul 02:09 package.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 22193 12 Jul 02:09 package2.xml That looks like CPAN to me. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL

Re: system breach

would do this, I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. See my other mail about a suspicous port (pear-1.4.11) PEAR would also make sense; it's a (apparently lamer, at least security-wise; then again, it *is* PHP :> ) CPAN-alike for PHP. -- brandon s. allbery[lin

Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

u use csup which is in the base system (and only supports updating the base system, hence portsnap). -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, car

Re: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one?

bably a good idea; I'm not planning to switch my installed systems from cvsup any time soon. I hope portsnap and csup will be better documented in the future, though; that whole "cvsup wants modula-3" thing is just a little annoying :) -- brandon s. allbery[linux,

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

logy"). Really sounds like the decision of a legal dept. and not a CEO. Hounding on AMD won't help right now regardless; they're still finding out what kind of mess they've acquired, making changes to it is a long way off. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,per

Re: release cycle

eased for a while), but not RELENG_4 or earlier. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university

Re: Strange process

x axl | grep xpdf" instead. I was asked to look at something like this a week ago; as above, it was stuck in START and "ps" refused to show it without "x". (Didn't really get anywhere with it.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EM

Re: (try) core dumps

. Heh. Yes, while autoconf uses "conftest" for its test executables, Metaconfig (which I think only perl uses at this point) uses "try". -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]

Re: utf-8 support in libc?

en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE is symlinked to a US-ASCII collation sequence which is identical to binary. This is incorrect for UTF-8; there're all kinds of strange things that need to be done to sort UTF-8 properly.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL P

Re: Weird / FS behavior

ection, so one of the files being concatenated into cal.vcs is cal.vcs. (This has always been true for all shells, in my experience.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] elec

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

is to wait a week or two after release and then install -STABLE. In short: keeping FreeBSD up to date tends to be painful at best. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: syslogd: Logging subprocess ... exited with status 126

7;t just list the FIFO as a file, maybe try "| cat >/var/run/nmd.log" ? Alternately, you should do away with the FIFO entirely and invoke the program that you currently have on the read end of the FIFO in syslog.conf. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PRO

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

eleTYpe... Call(-out) Unit Access, IIRC. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH __

Re: Release Schedule for 2006

it up with the ipw(4) driver maintainer? Last I heard, *only* ath and maybe the ndisulator worked reliably. : ( I don't know if anyone has stepped forward to maintain any of the other drivers. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system adm

Re: sendto: No buffer space available

mmon factor was the use of a 3c905B card (and not even the same card). -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator[WAY too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF

Re: Silo overflows

chine based on a Tyan Tomcat III motherboard with dual Pentium200s (non-MMX). I do *not* see any problem if I use the "emergency holographic shell" from the 4.2-RELEASE boot floppy; but I *do* see it if I use the 4.2-RELEASE GENERIC kernel. I also see it if I only boot singleuser.

Re: Make Buildkernel Failed

On Sunday, May 13, 2001 12:13:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + | make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel failed because | /usr/src/sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c:76 miibus_if.h does not exist. +--->8 Perhaps you missed the heads-up yesterday that fxp now requires miibus. -- brandon s. allbery

Re: /var error

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:05, Mike Hoskins wrote: > I think it's just Linux/SysV folks that are used to lsof. Linux and System V have fuser; lsof used to be the BSD workaround for lack of it. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator

Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE import

memory management or how the PAE import changed it.) -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT! E-xpedient nuke

Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump

oon as someone reported that configuring portupgrade to use bdb_hash fixed it.) -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.