Re: cdcontrol(1) speed command

2002-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
. The device is a name such as cd0 or mcd0. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: determining context switching?

2002-03-29 Thread Dan Nelson
can't find a function which returns this data to a user land application. Is this possible? If so how? Take a look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/vmstat.c. You'll want to use sysctl() to pull the vm.vmmeter data block, which is of type struct vmmeter. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ? sysctl -a crashed the GENERIC kernel

2002-03-27 Thread Dan Nelson
are usually due to an excessively overclocked CPU, or bad RAM. Try dropping your CPU speed 5%. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: idprio

2002-03-26 Thread Dan Nelson
one (say for /), you may not be able to kill the other process without rebooting. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: idprio

2002-03-26 Thread Dan Nelson
a vnode lock and then be usurped for processor? System calls aren't preempted, but if while processing a syscall, the kernel decides to tsleep(), say because of disk I/O (a very common thing when dealing with vnodes :), then another process is free to start running. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Removing data segment size limit

2002-03-15 Thread Dan Nelson
with the people on the Squid mailing-list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Dan Nelson
'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | wc -l -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules

2002-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 20), Cliff Sarginson said: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:58:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 19), Cliff Sarginson said: Hello, Someone suggested this may be the right list for this. - Has consideration in the loadable modules

Re: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules

2002-02-19 Thread Dan Nelson
will automagically load modules it depends on to run ? See the module(9) and MODULE_DEPEND(9) manpages. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: dump(8) race conditions?

2002-02-07 Thread Dan Nelson
-1001057530]: count=1024 [ ... ] Dump should ideally be run on an unmounted filesystem. The next best is to create a snapshot ( /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot ) and dump that. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Diskless USB Issue

2002-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
into FreeBSD without using DOS (have grub load /boot/loader which in turn loads the kernel). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: fork rate limit

2002-02-04 Thread Dan Nelson
the rate drops? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: stack alignment issues (was: unbelievable benchmark output)

2002-02-03 Thread Dan Nelson
-current or, easier to read the entire thread: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freebsd-current/messages/39583?threaded=1 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: shell scripts that hang around forever

2002-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
!= * ] ; then for i in $FILES ; do $HOME/scripts/test-freebsd-cvs.sh $i ; done fi done it looks fine. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Port: Intel Fortran (and C++?) compilers

2002-01-24 Thread Dan Nelson
of them and put them in intel/compiler50/ia32/substitute_headers. You'de have to do the same for any offending FreeBSD headers. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Insane performance regression?

2002-01-20 Thread Dan Nelson
to rebuild the kernel, and a binary search should let you narrow it down in under 2 hours, I'd say. I would have suggested looking at Alfred's SMP file locking commit on 2001-01-13, but if your program just does malloc()s it shouldn't be affected by that. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sar on FreeBSD

2002-01-11 Thread Dan Nelson
) of the things sar would need to measure. The only problem is writing sar, sa1, sa2, and sadc. If you don't mind the GPL, the Linux systat package includes an implementation of sar. In 1999, SCO promised to release their source under MPL, but never did. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sar on FreeBSD

2002-01-11 Thread Dan Nelson
, they published a press release saying they would, but the web page referenced in the announcement never had any download links, and is now 404. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
fsck is using to grow and fill up the filesystem. Unlikely, but possible if your disk is almost full already. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step

2001-12-13 Thread Dan Nelson
the overhead of the TCP stack if you're not leaving your own ethernet? You should be able to easily saturate a 100mbit link with FreeBSD 4.* machines, and I can do 15-20MB/sec with Netgear GA620 gigabit nics (SMP 2 x pIII/600). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Statically linked version of cvs...how to make it?

2001-11-13 Thread Dan Nelson
/Makefile , make obj make depend make make install. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: *.info documentation missing for CVS (and other GNU tools)

2001-11-09 Thread Dan Nelson
the info distribution checkbox in sysinstall? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Network Startup

2001-10-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 16), Andrew Reid said: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:22:21PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 15), j balan said: Does anyone know the command to reload rc.conf 'reboot' is the only sure way. That's a bit of a problem as far as I'm concerned

Re: First prg with sysctl

2001-10-13 Thread Dan Nelson
; mib[1] = KERN_MAXPROC; len = sizeof(maxproc); sysctl(mib, 2, maxproc, len, NULL, 0); Note: always compile your programs with -Wall. gcc would have flagged this as: test.c:18: warning: passing arg 4 of `sysctl' makes pointer from integer without a cast -- Dan

Re: TCPIP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
0 discarded for bad checksums udp: 127972686 datagrams received 0 with bad checksum ip: 26765 total packets received 0 bad header checksums Each counter has probably rolled over at least 5 times (I have to ask, why aren't these 64 bit counters?) -- Dan

Re: Fwd: MTU table?

2001-09-17 Thread Dan Nelson
an MTU of 576 bytes on that route and doesn't try anything larger in future. This would be great *except* that I'm trying to turn the whole thing into a factory for ICMP cannot fragment messages. Is there a simple way to flush the route-mtu table on the server? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: Cron pickle

2001-09-16 Thread Dan Nelson
. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: function calls/rets in assembly

2001-08-24 Thread Dan Nelson
.globl printasint .type printasint,@function printasint: pushl %ebp movl%esp, %ebp subl$16, %esp pushl 8(%ebp) pushl $.LC0 callprintf leave ret -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: Network performance tuning.

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Nelson
enough that I couldn't keep it working. I didn't have any problems with it in the couple of years I had it on my system. There was a post in June on the -net mailinglist from a guy that is working on getting SACK into -STABLE, so there's hope yet. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Nelson
off the BSD ftp source; you're looking for evidence that the kernel itself has BSD stack code in it, right? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Access to symbol table(including dynamics) at runtime

2001-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
, or tell me why this can't be done, i'd be very thankful. :) Would dladdr() do what you want? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Bizarre shutdown behavior

2001-05-26 Thread Dan Nelson
for this, they will try to start up again. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: -R for make update ?

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
.endif In other words, would adding '-R' hurt? If you are accessing a local CVS repo that you have updated via cvsup, no. But if you are accessing something on freefall directly, I think you need the locking just in case someone is committing at the same time. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Error Code 70

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 21), Beech Rintoul said: I'm trying to do an install and I keep getting an error 70. Can someone please tell me what that is? Error code 70: Stale NFS file handle If you have any NFS mounts, try dismounting and remounting them. -- Dan Nelson

Re: syscons problem

2001-05-20 Thread Dan Nelson
? If init can't spawn a getty, it usually logs it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: MxN threads on Linux

2001-05-16 Thread Dan Nelson
the reasons :) Probably because the coders are waiting for SMPng to stabilize a bit before working on threads. Once work starts, it will be visible to all in CVS, just like SMPng is now. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: ftime libcompat

2001-04-28 Thread Dan Nelson
| grep ftime ftime.o: T ftime for some reason you forgot to include your compile line and the error message you got. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: TCP intercept?

2001-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
going through it, though. Since the router doesn't know the capabilities of the 2nd host at the time it proxies the connection from the 1st, you can't negotiate any enhanced TCP features like SACK or rfc1323 (window scaling or timestamping). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: windows tech article?

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Nelson
ce. For non-techies, it is perfect. They have heard of Unix, and know that Linux is one of the more popular unix-type OSes. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Locking and Mail spool Files

2001-03-25 Thread Dan Nelson
correctly ensure consistency while reading in data ... ? As long as everything that touches your mailboxes use dotlocking, you should be safe. Use procmail as your local mailer, and make sure your mailreaders use dotlocking. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-16 Thread Dan Nelson
own system while writing this. [1] It's sort of misfiled: $ cat /usr/ports/devel/mob/pkg-descr This is a port of mob, that tries to figure out memory system characteristics at run-time. $ -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help

2001-03-08 Thread Dan Nelson
. The pages may be clean or dirty. [snip excellent explanation] Hey, can we get this into a manpage, like vm(9) or something? Jesper's question is definitely a FAQ, and it'd be nice to point people to some official documentation. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: ipchains ported to FreeBSD

2001-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 01), jett tayer said: can ipchains / iptables be ported to FreeBSD... this is a suggestion if u dont mind. We've already got ipfw and ipfilter; why in the world would we need a third packet-filtering systam? :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
or "options NMBCLUSTERS" and rebuild your kernel. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
Cisco's documentation, and it doesn't look like FEC is anything beyond plain old trunking (with the option of autoconfiguration on some hardware). As long as you configure the appropriate ports on the switch on the other end as "SA-Trunk", or "Trunk", you should be okay. --

Re: qmail IO problems

2001-02-05 Thread Dan Nelson
is running by looking at the output of the "mount" command: /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, NFS exported, local, soft-updates) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Permissions on crontab..

2001-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
r. Or it might need to be setuid for some other reason, since OpenBSD runs their crontab setuid root, and they usually are pretty security-paranoid. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel time drifting -0.3% to -50% from H/W clock.

2001-01-12 Thread Dan Nelson
ent timing values for each clock with "sysctl machdep | grep freq". -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-28 Thread Dan Nelson
on /usr fails? Other than that, I love the idea! Force-mount it read-only if necessary, or simply copy a static sshd into /sbin. Runnning fsck -y is the wrong solution, since if fsck can't fix an error automatically, something pretty bad has happened (physical media error, someone dd'ing onto the

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-16 Thread Dan Nelson
new mail is delivered? That's why dotlocking is recommended for locking mail spools. Both procmail and mutt will dotlock your mail file while it's being accessed. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Fixes to top(1) to use the full width of the screen for p_comm

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Nelson
around and tells you what mutex a process is waiting on. It replaces "MUTEX" with "M##", where "##" is the first 6 characters of the mutex name passed to mtx_init. At the moment all I see is "MGiant" all over the place, but hopefully that'l

Re: Embarrassing CVS question.

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Nelson
ork. It's important to pick a file that has existed since the tree was created, since any tags laid down before the file was created won't show up (get status on Makefile.inc1 as a comparison). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: SVR4 missing syscall

2000-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
Followups to -emulation, please In the last episode (Nov 21), Walter C. Pelissero said: Dan Nelson writes: In the last episode (Nov 20), Walter C. Pelissero said: I'm trying to run a SCO SVR4 executable on FreeBSD but I get a SIGSYS (invalid system call) at the very beginning. Here

Re: Hiding the cursor on the console

2000-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
, which will turn it off, then setting it back to normal when you want to turn it on again: off: ESC [=16;15C ESC [=3C on:ESC [=15;16C ESC [=3C -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Resolution

2000-11-16 Thread Dan Nelson
is really 720x400 pixels if you want to keep track. If you want more lines/columns on the console, see the vidcontrol manpage. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Help writing a screen saver module

2000-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
to be running. In other words, Don't Do That. Sorry. You can make it look like you're switched to vty 0, by making your screen_saver() function simply copy the contents of vty 0 to screen memory on every update. Just make sure both vtys are the same size first... -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: irq status

2000-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
But remember that this simply lists what IRQs active drivers in teh system think the hardware uses. PCI and ISA-PnP devices can tell the system what their IRQs are, but when you have to deal with legacy ISA cards you really don't have a good way of figuring out what IRQs they use. -- Dan

Re: fifos over NFS

2000-10-06 Thread Dan Nelson
So if you're running completely diskless, or had NFS-mounted home dirs, for example, you can still use fifos. Your example works if you run both lines on the client, or both on the server. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: fifos over NFS

2000-10-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 06), Paul Herman said: On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: I think that's expected behaviour. Fifos should be usable on NFS mounts, but an active fifo is only usable for processes running on the same machine. That's cool, seems reasonable. BTW, the hanging

Re: Question about -Wchar-subscripts

2000-10-03 Thread Dan Nelson
characters. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
o this all the time to programs that I *don't* want to attach directly to with gdb. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BIOS statistics

2000-09-07 Thread Dan Nelson
values rise after the machine has been on for long periods of time. ports/sysutils/healthd should do the trick. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: code question...

2000-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
ALLOC PROBLEMS" section. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: nfiles

2000-08-03 Thread Dan Nelson
way. Figure out how pstat -T does it: $ pstat -T 294/3240 files 0M/1173M swap space -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Test version of AudioFS

2000-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
t mutually exclusive, though. What about game CDs that have a filesystem on track 1 and music on the other tracks? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-31 Thread Dan Nelson
and return the requested data. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more-less

2000-07-11 Thread Dan Nelson
, they can add the flag themselves. Besides, the default scheme is unreadable on the console anyway (blue and purple and red on black? what were they thinking?) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode

2000-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
, so the only way to do it now is to start up packet filtering. Why do you need to turn it on? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BPF and Promiscuous Mode

2000-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
activity the web servers will be doing, and with either of those enabled, ipfilter should be able to process the packets. I've never used ipfilter myself, though, so I can't say whether this will definitely work or not. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Passing values between shell-variables

2000-06-25 Thread Dan Nelson
a ksh developers list then. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Passing values between shell-variables

2000-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
not sure what local() and getint() are, since you didn't include the source to them, but you should probably be using the getenv() and putenv() functions to read environment variables. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
:34:46 hp8100mp1 printer: paper jam Jun 9 10:35:12 hp8100mp1 printer: error cleared Jun 13 08:14:43 hp4000sa printer: paper out Jun 13 08:14:43 hp4000sa printer: error cleared so, they are already tagged. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
previously mentioned. That documentation is misleading, then. The hostname is definitely not looked at. See syslogd.c, the logmsg() function. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
Directory simtelnet/msdos/microsft/ FilenameType Length DateDescription === pd0646.zip B21113 921209 Updated CHKDSK.EXE UNDELETE.EXE for DOS 5.0 $ Try one of those, from your favorite Simtel mirror. --

Re: SVR4 Emulation [was Re: iBCS status?]

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Nelson
cument any of this. You have to root through headers trying to figure out what structures are used when. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Nelson
g. I don't know how hard it would be to add, either. You'll probably have to ask -hackers about that (cc and reply-to reset there). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: SVR4 Emulation [was Re: iBCS status?]

2000-06-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 08), Mark Newton said: Ok -- I envisaged that there'd be a difficulty with different SysV vendors who used different semantics for the same syscalls, or different syscall numbering schemes. "It could happen!" (and, as we can see, it probably has). Possibly.. But

Re: iBCS status?

2000-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
() and fstat() work. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: iBCS status?

2000-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
7 apparently has two additional syscalls: lseek32 and lseek64, but I don't know what numbers they are; I don't have UW7. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: truss -f, updated patch

2000-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
I had patterened my code after a free version of truss for Digital Unix. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: bpf question

2000-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
-w logfile.txt", I drop no packets. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-26 Thread Dan Nelson
rogram die on an unexpected divide by zero than continue with invalid data. Why should we treat (1.0/0.0) any differently from (1/0)? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-26 Thread Dan Nelson
d queueing, update PR kern/10398. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-26 Thread Dan Nelson
:) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: reducing the number of NFSv3 commit ops

2000-04-04 Thread Dan Nelson
a large file, I see commits too (a 64K commit every 128K or so on my system). Mounting another FreeBSD box, I see absolutely no commits at all. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: shell issue

2000-03-24 Thread Dan Nelson
in /etc/login.conf . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3.4 - large file - seek problems

2000-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
not a stock FreeBSD program. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Block out PING.

2000-03-08 Thread Dan Nelson
-. ) 20 pps- 20 pps - 20 pps -' -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Nelson
2TB worth of storage on a pair of Sparcs, and we probably could have created two 1TB filesystems. We went with 200gb and 100gb volumes instead, for ease of backup. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Regarding DOS violations

2000-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
. I'd say that most database-backended servers have a similar problem, and do have per-IP query limits or some other form of restrictions. The best (worst?) example of this I can think of is the all-too-common IIS "HTTP/1.0 Server Too Busy" message. -- Dan Nelson

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
of mbufs a couple times because I had a lot of backed-up FTP connections over a T1 link. Easiest way to determine what you need is to just let the system run for a while, and then rebuild the kernel with your NMBCLUSTERS set at your peak value + 50% . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NMBCLUSTERS

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Nelson
:) Although if you are already at your peak load for the day, you might be okay. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: HP Type C1559 problems

2000-01-31 Thread Dan Nelson
rface, and "man ch" for the C autoloader interface. cat /dev/rsa0 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
variable, there's not much you can do about it under Unix. And I'll not even mention what happens to this when you start swapping. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 19), Charles Sprickman said: On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: The handbook instructions are for kernel-generated panics; for a manual panic like yours, the stack is unimportant. The easiest way to see which processes are active is to run this: (kgdb

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
796K 1040K ttyin0:00 0.04% 0.04% tcsh 24537 inch_hom 2 0 640K 872K sbwait 0:00 0.04% 0.04% httpd-1.3.3-us You're running a different httpd here. Try moving the binary from this machine over to the other one and see if the loadavg drops. -- Dan Nelson

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: I'm not sure what the problem is. You're 97% idle. Maybe the hosted web sites on this machine are slightly more active than the ones on the other box. You

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB compiled into the kernel, and crashdumps enabled. By now, you should know my next question... What am I looking at? I built a kernel

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
it was running 2.2.7 or 3.0, but it was definitely FreeBSD, running a standard ircd. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Upper -Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Dan Nelson
var=MixedCase lvar=${var:l} echo $lvar -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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