Re: Oracle OCI code on FreeBSD

1999-06-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:14:47 EST, Dan Nelson wrote: Install the linux_devel port and resign yourself to building Linux executables whenever you have to talk to Oracle. We've _just_ been through this whole nightmare and resigned ourselves to using a Sparc for talking to Oracle. :-( Ciao,

FTP mirror at the Internet Solution (South Africa)

1999-06-10 Thread Geoff Rehmet
We are in the process of commissioning the new Internet Solution ftp site, and it now looks like the FreeBSD mirror is out of its previous state of total disrepair. (see ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/FreeBSD) If anyone notices problems, please let me know, or email ftp-ad...@is.co.za. We should be

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy research. I haven't seen that many iconoclasts in my short encounter with FreeBSD.

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Huey
You say that as if it's a good thing... I'd amend it to The Linux camp seems to think it's a good idea to ignore countless man-years of research and development in the field of OS design, and make the same mistakes other people have made, corrected and documented years before them. I haven't

PAM + pppd + Radius

1999-06-10 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, I've got a problem with pppd + pam: pppd[304]: no modules loaded for `ppp' service pppd[304]: PAP login failure for ... I've recompiled pppd with -DUSE_PAM, and I've added in pam.conf this: ppp authrequiredpam_radius.so try_first_pass What is wrong? What does no modules

apmd for FreeBSD

1999-06-10 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, folks. graham ooh apmd, cool. graham I was wondering if someone had started somthing like this, I'm excited. Sorry to late, now first version of apmd package for FreeBSD is available at apmd(8): http://home.jp.freebsd.org/~iwasaki/apm/19990610/apmd-usr.sbin.tar.gz 3.2-RELEASE kernel patch

IR Remote for AverMedia and FlyVideo

1999-06-10 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, Several people have asked my recently about supporting the AverMedia remote control and the FlyVideo Remote Control units for their Bt848/Bt878 TV cards. Well, I finally got a reply from AverMedia and after checking on the Linux Infra Red Controller (LIRC) web site, I found the source and

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread John S. Dyson
Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy research. I haven't seen that many iconoclasts in my

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Dennis
At 09:43 AM 6/10/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking traditions and concepts invented after lengthy

PAM + pppd + Radius(2)

1999-06-10 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, Now I've solved modules problem with pppd. My pam.conf is this: login authsufficient pam_skey.so login authrequisite pam_cleartext_pass_ok.so login authrequiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass ppp authrequiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass

Re: What is FTW?

1999-06-10 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: In the FAQ of FreeBSD 2.X, 13.12. Alternative layout policies for directories, there is the following sentence: Most filesystems are created from archives that were created by a depth first search (aka ftw). What does ftw stand for (My guess

restrict connection

1999-06-10 Thread Alexey Ryndin
Hi, I need Your advice. It is necessary to restrict network access to some box. All IP addresses of hosts from which it is allowed to connect to the box are known. From some of them it is allowed to use ftp, from some - telnet and so on. What is the best way to solve this problem? It is necessary

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199906101017.daa27...@mag.ucsd.edu Bill Huey writes: : It's a good thing because assumptions about memory useage within the kernel, : portability abstractions, internal buffer queue overhead, etc..., need : to reexamined to see if they are still relevant. While it is true that one

Re: What is FTW?

1999-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 10), Zhihui Zhang said: On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Most filesystems are created from archives that were created by a depth first search (aka ftw). What does ftw stand for (My guess is File Tree Walk)? Can anyone give me examples of programs that

making release

1999-06-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
I still don't seem to have the right combination of things to make a release: -- elf make world completed on Thu Jun 10 08:41:26 GMT 1999 -- + touch /tmp/.world_done + cd

Re: restrict connection

1999-06-10 Thread David E. Cross
We have similiar restraints for a certain number of our machines, we have solved this problem by using FreeBSD's built in firewall (just add 'options IPFIREWALL' to your kernel config script). Here is a *very* simple firewall config to do some such restrictions): You may note that there are

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Huey
: This is always good, assuming that this is done properly with peer review : and that folks listen to it. Linux isn't peer reviewed in the traditional sense of this meaning, so your whole argument fails because of that. I'd agree if it was entensively peer reviewed, it might be a good

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199906102125.oaa28...@mag.ucsd.edu Bill Huey writes: : Yeah, that's problematic and short sighted on their part. It's certainly : not a question of expertise from what I've seen since there are very : competent technical folks with strong acedemic CS backgrounds hanging : out on the

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Bill Huey wrote: There definite technical problems with Linux, but it doesn't seem to measure up to the level of criticism that I've seen directed at it because the source tree is a consistently moving target. s#moving#wreckless# - bill fumerola - bi...@chc-chimes.com -

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-10 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
* Dennis (den...@etinc.com) [990610 19:58]: At 09:43 AM 6/10/99 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: Arun Sharma adsha...@home.com writes: I'd say most of the differences are in implementation and development methodology. Linux camp seems to be proud of breaking

P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread Dennis
In a nutshell, does anyone have a handle on the relative preformance of these are? 233Mhz P5 vs 233Mhz Celeron 333Mhz Celeron vs 333 Mhz PII Thanks Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Subcribe ?

1999-06-10 Thread Frederic
Hi I want to subscribe to the list. A+ Frederic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

New hacker

1999-06-10 Thread Frederic
Hi I am student in softaware developement I live in France I would like to listen and to participate to your list Take care Frederic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

DOC Flash Support

1999-06-10 Thread Dennis
Is there support for DiskOnChip Flash Disks? Anyone have any experience? Thanks, Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: DOC Flash Support

1999-06-10 Thread Marc Nicholas
Yes...there is support in 3.1/3.2/4.0...I believe the driver is included as part of 4.0-CURRENT. PHK wrote the driver under contract with M-Systems, so the driver itself is object code rather than source. I'm currently having very bad experience with a DOC 2K and 3.2-RELEASE and the 3.2

Re: P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: In a nutshell, does anyone have a handle on the relative preformance of these are? 333Mhz Celeron vs 333 Mhz PII For a typical job mix, it is pretty close to a wash. The PII seems to have a slight advantage, on the order of 5%. If you are compute bound,

Re: P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: In a nutshell, does anyone have a handle on the relative preformance of these are? 233Mhz P5 vs 233Mhz Celeron 233MHz P5 (w/L2 cache on motherboard) 233MHz Celeron (no L2 cache) 333Mhz Celeron vs 333 Mhz PII In my experience, the Celeron CPUs which

Re: P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread Stein B. Sylvarnes
At 18:17 10.06.99 -0500, Chris Dillon cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.us wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: In a nutshell, does anyone have a handle on the relative preformance of these are? 233Mhz P5 vs 233Mhz Celeron Last time I looked, the price difference was enough that the Celeron

Thanks

1999-06-10 Thread Frederic
Thanks to all for so quick answer and advices. I made all standard procedure to subscribe. I am a student in software development and electronic (70 % of soft) I am know installing and giving foods to a web server powered by FreeBSD and Apache That is why I am interesting by the list. I was

Re: Thanks

1999-06-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:34:39 +0200, Frederic wrote: I am know installing and giving foods to a web server powered by FreeBSD and Apache [...] But but FreeBSD is not a version of Linux ! Right ? The headers of the mail don't leave me convinced. I still believe the guys at USENIX are getting

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-10 Thread Terry Lambert
For what it's worth, and to throw another hat into the fray, it seems to me that two things are driving the tension here: 1) Matt is effectively in a position where he no longer has to work, and can now dedicate a significant amount of focussed effort over long intervals at

Re: restrict connection

1999-06-10 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alexey Ryndin writes: I need Your advice. It is necessary to restrict network access to some box. All IP addresses of hosts from which it is allowed to connect to the box are known. From some of them it is allowed to use ftp, from some - telnet and so on. What is the best way to solve this

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-10 Thread John S. Dyson
For what it's worth, and to throw another hat into the fray, it seems to me that two things are driving the tension here: 1)Matt is effectively in a position where he no longer has to work, and can now dedicate a significant amount of focussed effort over long intervals at