Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere
On 2009.09.24 15:26:34 -0500, Stef Walter wrote: It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point versions. That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries for (eg) 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are not supposed to change. It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x, but a 7.2 binary might not run on 7.0. It should be more or less the same with the API's. PS. do note that there is no 100% guarantee. At times the defacto policy might be violated if there are very good reasons for doing so. This would e.g. an important fix for something where the changed ABI, more likely K(kernel)BI, change should affect few people and the change is required for fixing some important bug. Is this a policy of the project? If so, is it documented anywhere? Or is it just a convention? I don't remember seeing it ever documented, just discussed. What I wrote above is also just my understanding of curreny defact policy. -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT?
On 2009.08.17 09:32:54 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition partition and made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this pool. So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, etc. I have been playing around with gptboot, but it's not ready for any kind of general use yet. So far I parse and print the complete partition table and has the start of a framework to configure gptboot directly similar to boot0cfg. One of the first features I plan to have working is to be able to select which partition to boot, but it's not the main goal - that's nextboot like functionality. The WIP can be find in FreeBSD.org perforce at //depot/user/simon/gptboot/... AKA http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=dcd=//depot/user/simon/gptboot/c=2qs@//depot/user/simon/gptboot/?ac=83 -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update missed?
On 2008.09.27 03:59:28 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The advisory explicitly goes over what files were changed, and what revisions include the fix. The below versions include the fix. If you have older versions, then the answer is no, you do not have the fix. http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-08:01.libpthread.asc src/UPDATING 1.416.2.37.2.6 src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.15.2.5 src/lib/libpthread/sys/lock.c 1.9.2.1.8.1 src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c 1.116.2.1.6.1 These are for CVS tag RELENG_6_3. I do not use freebsd-update. That said: The man page for it states that it's a binary updater for pieces in the base system, so you looking at your *source* files would indicate absolutely nothing, other than when you last ran csup to update your /usr/src tree. I do not know of a way to verify if your libpthread library actually contains the fix. We will have to wait for Colin's answer. Errata's are distributed with freebsd-update just like advisories. Since freebsd-update 2 (the one in the base system) /usr/src is also updated if it exists. That said, note that freebsd-update does not get's patches from CVS so $FreeBSD$ unfortunatly isn't updated. I just checked, for 6.3 the patch 'EN-08:01.libpthread' is on the freebsd-update build server. -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer (IE, one of the people making freebsd-update builds) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)
On 2008.06.07 06:18:55 +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:41:35PM +0200, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: - How check the encryption/decryption ? Openssl seems ok, i've got quite the same results as NetBSD on a Soekris net5501 box. But i must use -engine cryptodev, why ? This is ok, as you may not want to use it, right? $ openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine cryptodev -elapsed engine cryptodev set. ...CUT... type16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 1151.08k 4134.25k 11936.49k 22504.83k 25576.36k When i test ssh -c aes128-cbc hostname, ssh does not use the crypto device. I receive a crypto_newsession() followed by a crypto_freesession(), i mean i don't receive any crypto_process(). Have you tried to put some debug to opencrypto? I believe openssh should use it automatically, at least this was the case some time ago, AFAIR. OpenSSL 0.9.7 (in FreeBSD 6 and older) enabled it by default. After the OpenSSL 0.9.8 import it was not enabled automatically anymore. I have yet to figure out why this changed. sam@ made a patch to enable it always but I was not entirely sure it was the correct way to do it so I haven't committed it. You can enable it per application in the openssl config file, if the application calls the correct openssl config init function, which OpenSSL AFAIR does not. I will try to look more into this, but no promises as to when I will get to it. If anyone can make / get a patch which is OK'ed by the OpenSSL people I will be more than happy to commit it. BTW. I think phk@ already worked on a patch for AES in the AMD Geode LX, but I can't remember details or have time to look it up right now. -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD OpenSSL janitor ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openssl with zlib support
On 2008.06.06 19:02:36 +0200, Mohacsi Janos wrote: Dear All, Are there any reason to not enabling zlib compression for TLS in openssl on FreeBSD ? No, that seems like a mistake. Which FreeBSD version are you using, and are you using OpenSSL from base or ports? Would it break ABI if I enable it by tweaking the openssl Makefile? Probably not, but I'm not sure where it's enabled/disabled so I can't say for sure. I will try to look into this more, but it might not be until sometime next week. -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy
On 2008.02.28 14:58:53 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the FreeBSD repository. I don't think he has any problems with it being distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright statement i just want to ask before I distribute it... Uh... I wrote a replacement for that in 2001 (~des/bin/fixtags.pl). I'm surprised you still use John's version, which is excruciatingly slow, since 1) it's a shell script, 2) it's a *recursive* shell script, 3) it runs rcs twice for every modified tag. If it ain't borken :-). Speed is rarely an issue since the CVS master server is fast, and most of the time only a few files are copied. For other intersted parties I got OK from John Polstra to put his script online with std. BSD license so it can now be found at http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/scripts/Fixtags . In case anyone is interested I put the script I use for repo-copies at FreeBSD.org online as http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/scripts/cvs_repo_copy . The script probably need to be adjusted to local config and use at your own risk etc - but it hasn't done anything bad for me yet :-). -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy
On 2008.02.27 08:36:30 -0700, John Hein wrote: Can someone point me at a script that does tag renaming after a repo copy? John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the FreeBSD repository. I don't think he has any problems with it being distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright statement i just want to ask before I distribute it... -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org cvsmeister ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.2
On 2007.08.25 13:45:05 +0200, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Ralph, I found Ralph Engelschall scripts to upgrade FreeBSD systems. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt I would suggested just using the documented procedure from the FreeBSD Handbook. I haven't done any 5.3 - 6.2 upgrades but I have done many other 5.x - 6.x and I haven't had a problem in any of the cases. Of course I mostly have console on systems which makes everything a lot simpler / safer, but you didn't say if that was requirement for you (being able to upgrade without console). -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with apache bench
On 2006.12.30 21:10:50 +0100, Bartosz Giza wrote: from couple of days i am trying to figure out what is wrong with apache bench. I want to test my remote site with it but all the time i got this error message. % ab -c 10 -n 500 http://x/test.php Test aborted after 10 failures apr_socket_connect(): Operation already in progress (37) Total of 8 requests completed I have had some problems with ab from apache 2.0/2.2, but ab from apache 1.3 it worked fine. I just had to get it to work so I didn't look more into why it broke on newer versions. -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects
On 2006.10.30 21:31:51 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 19:38:49 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: the user is unaware that there are multiple links. I don't think that just unlinking the file and issuing a warning is a good solution because it's then virtually impossible to locate the other copy(s) of the file, which remains viewable. I missed the fact that the warning message includes the inode number. My apologies. This reduces virtually impossible to hard. I still think this current behaviour is undesirable and a security hole. Maybe someone from the SO team would like to offer their opinion - I might just have my tinfoil hat on too tight tonight. With hat paranoid dude, and not any official FreeBSD hat - I don't care to think this through enough to say anything with a FreeBSD hat for the time being, on this topic Personally I think rm should do what you ask it to do - if you ask it to overwrite a file which has multiple links, well... though luck. I guess rm exiting for antifootshoot without -f can be OK, that's still very visible to the user. What's currently in -CURRENT is probably a bad idea since you might end up with a file which you thought you had deleted, but in fact you haven't. That said, I wouldn't trust -P to _really_ remove the content of the files anyway, so personally I don't really care much. If you want the file to be gone, use encryption in the first place, or use apropriate tool (hammer, axe, C4, etc.). / -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pam_krb5 problems
On 2006.08.30 16:03:40 +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: has anyone successfully configured pam_krb5? It seems that the ticket Hey, It's being used in the FreeBSD.org cluster, but I never looked at how it's setup. For the parts I have messed with it just works... -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jails, cron and sendmail
On 2006.08.27 02:13:03 +0200, Dirk Engling wrote: I have the following problem: since I need and do not like any kind of smtp activity in my jails (there's no 127.0.0.1 in a jail, all services listen to the jails external interface), I put those lines into my /etc/rc.conf: [...] I know it's not exactly the solution to your problem, when you don't want the mail, but I find that using the mail/ssmtp port for local mail in jails is pretty nice. There is no deamon running and I can have one config file in all the jails which says that ssmtp should relay the mails to a real mailserver. (Might be useful for other people building jails.) -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: [...] the above points to a filel that says 6.0 errata Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Send patches. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpdIZZE2L9Q8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released
On 2006.05.11 20:53:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: [...] the above points to a filel that says 6.0 errata Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Send patches. Patches? For what? [...] For the errata page, which was what the above text mentioned. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpD9OAM14iWo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option
On 2006.04.03 01:32:36 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know we have vfs.usermount, but this is not always sufficient since the user has to own the mount point in question. What I propose is to add a ``user'' mount option à la Linux. This would make mount and umount setuid root, but would allow much more flexibility when it comes to removable media and desktop systems. Any reason you can't just use sudo... ? I simply have lines like: simon ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/mount /mnt/cdrom,/sbin/umount /mnt/cdrom in my sudoers file [1]. This way I can also restrict exactly who can mount. I really dislike setuid root binaries, so I really prefer if we could avoid adding more. As Colin noted, if this is to be done via a setuid program, it probably should be a new program, since setuid programs has to have a lot of special handling of things like file descriptors etc. which normal programs can safely ignore. [1] Note I haven't checked if this opens new and interesting holes, but it doesn't matter too much on my laptop, since if somebody has access to simon that's just as bad as someone getting root. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpyE4Mezbwos.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs
On 2005.03.10 14:41:30 +0300, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: Kris == Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kris nullfs seems to work fine, unionfs is very fragile and easily Kris exploded. nullfs is absolutely useless for jail's because TOO slow. That obviously depend on your use of jails and nullfs. It works just fine for me. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpwLjjCOoXyp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [CFR] Specify the lock(1) timeout unit
On 2004.10.21 14:37:10 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Here's a little patch that teaches lock(1) about timeouts specified in seconds, hours, or days in addition to the minutes it currently assumes. I could commit this in a week if there are no objections. Wouldn't it be more natural to just append the time-unit type to the argument given to -t, e.g. -t 10s or -t 10h. That just seem like the more intuitive way to handle it to me... Note: this is a suggestion, not an objection to the original patch. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgplLx6xiPz8q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [PATCH] Re: Linksys PCM200
On 2004.10.20 22:59:50 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [got no answer on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tested this on 5.3-BETA7 - works OK, no more watchdog timeouts. So could someone review those patches and add them to the source tree? It's probably a good idea to update dc(4) and supported hw list also. /usr/src/sys/pci/if_dc.c udiff: [...] Unless a src committer picks this up within the next couple of days I would suggest filing a PR with the patch so it does not get lost. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp6hW4GpGJZ3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /
On 2004.10.02 16:48:46 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2004-10-02 at 10:19:28 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for rm(1) of FreeBSD: Of course, your work is commendable, but isn't is much simpler to just not type commands like that? I mean, rm -rf /etc or rm -rf /bin are just as bad, but do you really want to be checking for all possible `bad' deletions? That way, we'll start to look like some software from Redmond... :) As keramida has noted this particular case is more likely to be made by mistake than many others, e.g. by doing rm -rf / foo/bar where rm -rf /foo/bar/ was meant. Therefor I really think keramidas _optional_ foot-shooting feature is a nice thing. I know I will enable it on my systems if it's committed, and probably keep it as a local patch if not. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Bikeshed Team pgpLItYADoz5L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: make quickworld? (like in DragonFly)
On 2004.08.14 10:03:37 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2004.08.11 00:36:06 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the changes in world and kernel sources after a cvsup? DragonFly BSD features make quickworld and make quickkernel which does exactly that. You can do that already: make buildworld buildkernel -DNOCLEAN Does adding NOCLEAN=true to /etc/make.conf have the same effect? It should (though I haven't tried it); just remember to disable it when things start to blow up :-). -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgpzXuNlJFEdW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: make quickworld? (like in DragonFly)
On 2004.08.11 00:36:06 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the changes in world and kernel sources after a cvsup? DragonFly BSD features make quickworld and make quickkernel which does exactly that. You can do that already: make buildworld buildkernel -DNOCLEAN -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgpdQMAuh4g5g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.
On 2004.04.08 23:34:26 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Von Essen writes: If the fund raising is connected with FreeBSD, could people who donate larger amounts get some form of acknowledgement on the FreeBSD site? This would give an incentive for vendors who sell products that rely or use FreeBSD to donate larger amounts. (see above) Everybody who donate will be listed (possibly anonymously) on http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/donations.html I cannot promise exposure on the main FreeBSD Project pages, that would be up to the webmasters (and to some extent the core team) to arrange and allow for such precense. We currently have list of donors both on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/index.html#DONORS and on http://www.freebsd.org/donations/donors.html so I don't see a reason why donations to phk's project could not be somewhere on the main FreeBSD website. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Status GBDE attach at boot
On 2004.01.17 14:53:58 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: Hi, I'm interested to know what may be in the pipeline as far as GBDE boot time attach/automation support. Has anyone committed to implementing these features? (I don't see it anymore (on the 5.3 todo list) in releng pages.) 5.2 already has support for attaching GBDE volumes at boot by using the /etc/rc.d/gbde script. I have been using it for a while, and it works OK. I sent a patch yesterday to the freebsd-rc mailing list make the gbde rc.d script work a bit better (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/message/659 ). As a fstab is concerned with mount hack, this is the right approach I think it's better to just use a rc.d script to attach gbde volumes before the normal filesystem mount, since it seems more clean. Of course the rc.d script could be enhanced e.g. to support random keys, like your temp feature. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Status GBDE attach at boot
On 2004.01.18 10:19:31 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:43:42PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2004.01.17 14:53:58 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: Hi, I'm interested to know what may be in the pipeline as far as GBDE boot time attach/automation support. Has anyone committed to implementing these features? (I don't see it anymore (on the 5.3 todo list) in releng pages.) 5.2 already has support for attaching GBDE volumes at boot by using the /etc/rc.d/gbde script. I have been using it for a while, and it works OK. Ahh.. ok, didn't see the changes yet. That is a straight forward approach - could there just as easily be a similar facility for other geoms? That shouldn't be a problem... of course depending on exactly you want to configure it might be more or less simple to do. The dependency tree for the rc system can make the script start when needed in the boot sequence without any hacks. Of course the issue of how to set user configuration still exists (as discussed a few times before on the lists), since rc.conf can fast become very cluttered. I sent a patch yesterday to the freebsd-rc mailing list make the gbde rc.d script work a bit better (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/message/659 ). As a fstab is concerned with mount hack, this is the right approach I think it's better to just use a rc.d script to attach gbde volumes before the normal filesystem mount, since it seems more clean. Of This is good including specifying lockfile dir, but implies passphrase entry before continuing on always the console? This is the way it works now, but this could be extended. I'm mainly using gbde to encrypt /home on desktops, so asking the password on the console works fine for me. Which brings us to passphrase from file/filedesc issue vs. from tty / on command line. Could password prompts be read from another terminal or from secure source like key device or remote terminal while the booting continues in the mean-time? I don't see any reason why not, if the connection is secure, but I haven't looked into this (since I haven't had the need to) so I'm not exactly sure what kind of problems there are (both programming and security issues). course the rc.d script could be enhanced e.g. to support random keys, like your temp feature. Yup. Idea was raised previously on the lists by lucky and phk. Seems like a good idea for swap,/tmp setup. I actually have an rc.d script by Geoffrey T. Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED], which was posted to some mailing list a few months ago, for gbde swap with random password, but since it confuses the crashdump system I'm not using it right now. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is FreeBSD going?
On 2004.01.08 21:39:07 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: : and the Copyright page has that plus a similar claim for : FreeBSD, Inc. (For 2004, even.) That should be changed. To? I have noticed FreeBSD, Inc on the copyright page a few times, but I never really knew what to replace it with. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: optionally include file within a Makefile
On 2003.12.18 20:13:16 -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
On 18 Dec 2003 at 19:02, Dan Langille wrote:
My goal is provide a way to override values in a Makefile with values
from a local config file.
I'm getting further. What's the proper way to do an include?
Perhaps (not tested, so there may be typos):
.if exists(${HOME}/.bacula-regress)
.include ${HOME}/.bacula-regress
.endif
or something along those lines. The make(1) manual page contains a lot
of useful information.
--
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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Re: Archive for cvs-src
On 2003.10.10 14:08:21 -0700, Sandeep Kumar wrote: Hi, The oldest message in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src.mbox/cvs-src.mbox seems to be from 2003/03/24. Is there a way to get messages prior to that? Older messages for all the mailing lists are at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ . The source commit logs can also be found in CVSROOT-src/commitlogs in the CVS repository. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour
On 2003.09.05 12:29:10 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Ted Faber wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of course, I could be wrong... it wouldn't be the first time. :-) If you haven't you need to check out /etc/host.conf , the file that configures the hostname lookup order (at least on 4.8). man 5 host.conf will tell you all about it. If you have already configured this, you might want to look again. (man -k resolver should help you find whatever it is on 5.x - I suspect it's nsswitch.) My host.conf is a FreeBSD 4.8 default one: it lists hosts, then bind. That's why I don't understand why it's doing DNS... there's a listing in hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first. Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM
On 2003.08.02 15:35:48 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in:
http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html
[snip]
cvs ci src
cvs commit: Examining src
You are committing on the wrong repository!
cvs commit: Pre-commit check failed
cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
Where is this 'wrong repository' concept coming from? My CVSROOT
hasn't changed. A google search for that disgnostic message yeilds
no hits...
The problem is the file CVSROOT/nocommits.sh, which is used as a
safeguard in the FreeBSD tree. I replace the file every time I run
cvsup with the following version:
nocommits.sh
#! /bin/sh
# $FreeBSD$
#
# This is just some basic anti-foot-shooting to avoid accidental commits
# to cvsup'ed copies of the repository etc.
OKUSER=simonln
if [ x`/usr/bin/id -un` = x${OKUSER} ]; then
exit 0
fi
echo I should only commit as ${OKUSER}!
exit 1
/nocommits.sh
You could just make a simple script which call 'exit 0' (or perhaps
remove the file; I haven't tried that), but the above version fits
better into my rather odd setup :-).
I have started some work on documenting the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM use,
but unfortunatly there are only 24 hours in a day, so I have no idea
when I will get around to finishing it.
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Re: Committing a driver to -stable
On 2003.07.18 13:28:27 +, Bosko Milekic wrote: [CUT] wait for someone from the TRB (is there a list of who's part of this group somewhere, anyway?) and/or -core to respond before you take There is a list with the TRB members at http://www.freebsd.org/internal/staff.html . -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gethostbyname_r
On 2003.07.02 14:45:49 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: On Monday 30 June 2003 14:39, Kris Kennaway wrote: There was a bogus non-reentrant version half-implemented in libc in both 4.x and 5.x, which I recently removed in 5.x. I need to remove it on 4.x as well. General consensus seems to be that implementing it properly is Hard. Yes, it is, or at least was in 4.x. I thought we got a shiny new gethostbyname_r with Jacques Vidrine's nss implementation in 5.0, though. Is this not right? Not yet. Jacques Vidrine explained what would be required to do it, on -threads about a week ago : Msg-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=16837+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-threads/20! -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gethostbyname_r
On 2003.06.30 16:43:27 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: I was wondering if anybody was working on an implementation of a reentrant gethostbyname_r function, mostly because it looks like mozilla/firebird will This was discussed on the -threads mailinglist a few weeks ago. Try looking at the achieves. I don't thin anybody is working on it at the moment. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: TODO list?
On 2003.06.27 16:10:13 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: Hi -hackers, I currently have a lot of free time and I was wondering whether there was a TODO list of some sort for bugs that need fixing in FreeBSD. I really want to help the project, and I think such a list would make it much easier to do so. If there's no official TODO list, could someone point out some things? I know C/C++, but I'm very unfamiliar with the kernel. Great :-) There is always plenty to do. I would suggest looking at the PR system and at the 'Contributing to FreeBSD' article which can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Hope you find something interesting to spend some time on. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD
On 2003.02.10 17:41:47 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Wow, deja-vu! /me runs and hides for not checking the achieves first :-) -- Simon L. Nielsen msg39895/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD
Hello I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Should I send patches for this, or is it not important to fix? A random example is stdbool.h v. 1.6 on line 30 which has a trailing tab. -- Simon L. Nielsen msg39858/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?
On 2002.12.22 13:36:21 +, Leo Bicknell wrote: Perl 5.8 does not seem to be a part of 4.x, is it in 5.0 or -CURRENT? Perl 5.8 can be installed from ports (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/). FreeBSD 5/-CURRENT does not have perl in the base system at all. -- Simon L. Nielsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
