John-Mark Gurney wrote:
right now, I'm trying to think of a way to eliminate the fgetln searching
for end of line... of course this would eliminate some of the simplicity
of design, but we can get a BIG speed increase if we simply don't scan for
the new line unless we NEED to... and if we
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes:
:
: [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the op-
:eration.
:
:Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs
:under?
:
:If it happened with files, that would be a bug and
* From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look, we're obviously not going to convince each other with this
discussion. I'm sorry I caused you much trouble by adding it without
working it with you first, but I believe the current state is workable
for both of us. Can we leave it as it is?
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
We got off onto a big tangent about switches and vlans and stuff and I
learned a number of interesting things, don't get me wrong, but we
still haven't established any consensus on the trade-offs of enabling
bpf. This wasn't meant to be a hypothetical discussion,
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a hack that requires to change libc
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes:
: Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
: important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
Not if they are started before the secure level is raised.
A problem is that
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sergey Babkin writes:
Any suggestions, anyone?
Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ?
That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else.
And modify sendmail to throw off mail for nonexistent users?
Alex.
--
Alexander B.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
[ cc'd to -doc, reply-to points there ]
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 04:09:20PM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote:
I prefer to work in flat ASCII. Perhaps the doc project can HTMLize
the final product.
We can, it just takes longer, that's all.
It would make life simpler if you can follow the general
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian F.
Feldman" writes:
: And how about having
: if (securelevel 3)
: return (EPERM);
: in bpf_open()?
There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
--
Ben
UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.
To
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:17:44PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
AFAIK it
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Mike Smith remarked
I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning
manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting
[Cross-posted: replying to -hackers]
I'm looking at booting(embedded devices) and I've been looking at lilo boot
loader code and booteasy bootloader code...
does anyone know of any documentation that anyone out there has done on this
topic? -- more specifically without
bios calls/support?
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
The isc dhcp server doesn't support a -SIGHUP reload, which would mean
a
Hi everybody,
I received a letter from Cron daemon
--
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:10:00 +0600 (ESS)
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron root@localhost /usr/libexec/atrun
CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
I don't know if my previous send was successfull, so I will send again. MY
apollogies if a copy of this email is already/has already been delivered.
Alex,
You may want to try the patches for qpopper (if this is what you're
using) to connect to a MySQL db for this sort of stuff. If you don't
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:39:16 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
I'd be in favor of adding a /etc/pwd_mkdb.conf or some similar
file.
Eeeuw! :-)
I'm not in favour of this idea, but issuing a single warning for one
or more UID's encountered isn't behaviour that would make retrofitting
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote:
I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions.
Your questions are easier answered in reverse order:
and how do you justify the additional cost to parse the file for every
single system call that uses it?
The
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:46:26 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style tomorrow
for review untill it's ready for inclusion.
Anyone who objects to your submissions is a woes -- real bastards wait
for you to do the work before shooting you
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:07:26 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
b$ time ./grep -E '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
b$ time grep '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
You think that's fair? Surely you can't expect Jamie's extended regex
support to outperform GNU's simple regex support?
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:18 MST, Doug wrote:
On some of the machines I administer I have some custom entries for
/etc/services that make more sense than the defaults, especially for
the ports 1023.
Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
instead of service
* Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990801 00:35]:
How does the attached patch grab you?
I think it perfect...
Now to find the time to wrote the sucker ;)
--
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project
Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1:
Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
instead of service names?
I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a
service name... it should be very easy to make the modification, and
I'm willing to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Masto writes:
: I hope you mean " 1". I often diagnose problems using tcpdump etc.,
: and I don't think bpf should be broken just because someone wants the
: minor "flags can't be turned off" feature of level 1.
Flags can't be turned off at level 1, and
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernd Walter writes:
: There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
: consistant with the meaning of "raw devices".
: That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
No. That would mean you'd have to start DHCP before raising the
secure
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 11:56:16PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
b$ time ./grep -E '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
b$ time grep '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
You think that's fair? Surely you can't expect Jamie's extended regex
support to outperform GNU's simple regex
Hi Alex,
Alex Povolotsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of
mail-only users. They should never access anything besides their
POP3 mailboxes and change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
We got off onto a big tangent about switches and vlans and stuff and I
learned a number of interesting things, don't get me wrong, but we
still haven't established any consensus on the trade-offs of enabling
bpf. This wasn't meant to be a hypothetical discussion,
"Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
In that case, my argument changes to:
"There's no good reason not to have bpf in the GENERIC kernel."
And how about having
if (securelevel 3)
return (EPERM);
in bpf_open()?
I like this.
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
: consistant with the meaning of "raw devices".
:
: Would you be willing to make this change?
Yes. I will make this change tomorrow unless
Matthew Dillon wrote:
: consistant with the meaning of "raw devices".
:
:Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
:important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
:
:-SB
Not if rarpd is started via the rc files... it would hook up to
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
I rather hope that the rumoured newer version of H. Spencer's regex
lib is faster... Being as slow for that pattern as it is has got to
be a bug of some sort... It's actually faster to scan the file twice,
once for the first string and then for
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote:
I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions.
Your questions are easier answered in reverse order:
and how do you justify the additional cost to parse the file for every
single system call
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:18 MST, Doug wrote:
On some of the machines I administer I have some custom entries for
/etc/services that make more sense than the defaults, especially for
the ports 1023.
Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug wrote:
} Sheldon Hearn wrote:
}
} On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote:
}
} I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions.
}
} Your questions are easier answered in reverse order:
}
} and how do you justify the
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From: Dirk GOUDERS h...@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
right now, I'm trying to think of a way to eliminate the fgetln searching
for end of line... of course this would eliminate some of the simplicity
of design, but we can get a BIG speed increase if we simply don't scan for
the new line unless we NEED to... and if we
:w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes:
:
: [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete the
op-
:eration.
:
:Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs
:under?
:
:If it happened with files, that would be a bug and
* From: Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com
Look, we're obviously not going to convince each other with this
discussion. I'm sorry I caused you much trouble by adding it without
working it with you first, but I believe the current state is workable
for both of us. Can we leave it as it is?
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
We got off onto a big tangent about switches and vlans and stuff and I
learned a number of interesting things, don't get me wrong, but we
still haven't established any consensus on the trade-offs of enabling
bpf. This wasn't meant to be a hypothetical discussion,
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a hack that requires to change libc
Warner Losh wrote:
In message 37a25361.34799...@bellatlantic.net Sergey Babkin writes:
: Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
: important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
Not if they are started before the secure level is raised.
A
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
I have a
37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.netSergey Babkin writes:
Any suggestions, anyone?
Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ?
That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else.
And modify sendmail to throw off mail for nonexistent users?
Alex.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
[ cc'd to -doc, reply-to points there ]
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 04:09:20PM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote:
I prefer to work in flat ASCII. Perhaps the doc project can HTMLize
the final product.
We can, it just takes longer, that's all.
It would make life simpler if you can follow the general
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.netSergey Babkin writes:
Any suggestions, anyone?
Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ?
That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else.
And modify sendmail to throw off
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9907301619280.6951-100...@janus.syracuse.net
Brian F. Feldman writes:
: And how about having
: if (securelevel 3)
: return (EPERM);
: in bpf_open()?
There are no security levels 3.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
--
Ben
UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.
To
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:17:44PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
AFAIK it
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Mike Smith remarked
I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning
manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting
[Cross-posted: replying to -hackers]
I'm looking at booting(embedded devices) and I've been looking at lilo boot
loader code and booteasy bootloader code...
does anyone know of any documentation that anyone out there has done on this
topic? -- more specifically without
bios calls/support?
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:
That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in
the rc files, before securelevel is raised.
The isc dhcp server doesn't support a -SIGHUP reload, which would mean
a
Hi everybody,
I received a letter from Cron daemon
--
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:10:00 +0600 (ESS)
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron r...@localhost /usr/libexec/atrun
CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9907301619280.6951-100...@janus.syracuse.net
Brian F. Feldman writes:
: And how about having
: if (securelevel 3)
: return (EPERM);
: in bpf_open()?
There are no security levels 3.
I don't know if my previous send was successfull, so I will send again. MY
apollogies if a copy of this email is already/has already been delivered.
Alex,
You may want to try the patches for qpopper (if this is what you're
using) to connect to a MySQL db for this sort of stuff. If you don't
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]:
Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html
still correct? I know there have been changes to
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:39:16 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
I'd be in favor of adding a /etc/pwd_mkdb.conf or some similar
file.
Eeeuw! :-)
I'm not in favour of this idea, but issuing a single warning for one
or more UID's encountered isn't behaviour that would make retrofitting
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote:
I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions.
Your questions are easier answered in reverse order:
and how do you justify the additional cost to parse the file for every
single system call that uses it?
The information
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:46:26 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style tomorrow
for review untill it's ready for inclusion.
Anyone who objects to your submissions is a woes -- real bastards wait
for you to do the work before shooting you
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:07:26 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
b$ time ./grep -E '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
b$ time grep '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
You think that's fair? Surely you can't expect Jamie's extended regex
support to outperform GNU's simple regex support? :-)
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:18 MST, Doug wrote:
On some of the machines I administer I have some custom entries for
/etc/services that make more sense than the defaults, especially for
the ports 1023.
Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
instead of service
Mike Smith writes:
v2 NFS doesn't support UIDs 65535, and UIDs around that number are
magic to it as well. There are serious security issues here (files
will appear to be owned by the wrong user).
Hmm, isn't this a separate bug in itself (unrelated to pwd_mkdb)?
Ie, somewhere in the kernel
I'd be in favor of adding a /etc/pwd_mkdb.conf or some similar
file.
...
While warnings and error messages should give me enough information
to address a problem efficiently (something on the wishlist of any
Wintendo administrator), once I know there is more than zero potentially
* Sheldon Hearn (sheld...@uunet.co.za) [990801 00:35]:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:46:26 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style tomorrow
for review untill it's ready for inclusion.
Anyone who objects to your submissions is a woes --
* Nik Clayton (n...@freebsd.org) [990801 00:35]:
How does the attached patch grab you?
I think it perfect...
Now to find the time to wrote the sucker ;)
--
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project
Sheldon Hearn scribbled this message on Aug 1:
Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port numbers
instead of service names?
I vote for allowing inetd.conf to specify a port number instead of a
service name... it should be very easy to make the modification, and
I'm willing to
In message 19990731193410.c18...@cicely8.cicely.de Bernd Walter writes:
: Maybe a set of sysctls with a switch to off only behavour would be a
: better way.
Actually, a better way would be to have the interfaces to the network
stack that would handle this stuff w/o needing to resort to bpf.
In message 19990731154458.a2...@netmonger.net Christopher Masto writes:
: I hope you mean 1. I often diagnose problems using tcpdump etc.,
: and I don't think bpf should be broken just because someone wants the
: minor flags can't be turned off feature of level 1.
Flags can't be turned off at
In message 19990731190814.a18...@cicely8.cicely.de Bernd Walter writes:
: There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
: consistant with the meaning of raw devices.
: That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :(
No. That would mean you'd have to start DHCP before
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 11:56:16PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
b$ time ./grep -E '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
b$ time grep '(vt100)|(printer)' longfile /dev/null
You think that's fair? Surely you can't expect Jamie's extended regex
support to outperform GNU's simple regex
Hi Alex,
Alex Povolotsky tark...@asteroid.svib.ru wrote:
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of
mail-only users. They should never access anything besides their
POP3 mailboxes and change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to
Oh yeah, and check out the jail code (sections 2 and 4, I *think* -CURRENT
only).
- alex
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org
with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
change password via (SSLed) web interface.
So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.
Alex Povolotsky wrote:
37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.netSergey Babkin writes:
Any suggestions, anyone?
Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ?
That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else.
And modify sendmail to throw off
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
:w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes:
:
: [ENOBUFS] Insufficient system buffer space exists to complete
the op-
:eration.
:
:Do you know what kind of circumstances that error *really* occurs
:under?
So you can get
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]:
Hi folks,
We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914).
Does anyone feel up to writing one?
Saw it before, noticed it, placed on my to-do list. If no-one objects
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
We got off onto a big tangent about switches and vlans and stuff and I
learned a number of interesting things, don't get me wrong, but we
still haven't established any consensus on the trade-offs of enabling
bpf. This wasn't meant to be a hypothetical discussion,
Brian F. Feldman wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
In that case, my argument changes to:
There's no good reason not to have bpf in the GENERIC kernel.
And how about having
if (securelevel 3)
return (EPERM);
in bpf_open()?
I like this.
Warner Losh wrote:
In message 9518.933378...@zippy.cdrom.com Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
: There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is
: consistant with the meaning of raw devices.
:
: Would you be willing to make this change?
Yes. I will make this change tomorrow
Matthew Dillon wrote:
: consistant with the meaning of raw devices.
:
:Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less
:important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation.
:
:-SB
Not if rarpd is started via the rc files... it would hook up to bpf
In message 37a3b701.851df...@softweyr.com Wes Peters writes:
: Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man
: pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh?
Yes. I'm also in a holding off pattern until we know the exact impact
for all daemons
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
I rather hope that the rumoured newer version of H. Spencer's regex
lib is faster... Being as slow for that pattern as it is has got to
be a bug of some sort... It's actually faster to scan the file twice,
once for the first string and then for the
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote:
I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions.
Your questions are easier answered in reverse order:
and how do you justify the additional cost to parse the file for every
single system call
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