On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Hans Zaunere wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking to access kernel messages directly from
the kernel, and not through syslog if I can help it.
Look at how syslogd does it.
Kris
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:44:12PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
I'd like to apply this patch to pkg_add which reduces the amount of code
the compiler generates, and improves the clarity of the code.
1. s_strl* is obvious some form of safe strl{cpy,cat}. But *WHAT*
does it make safe?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Chojin wrote:
In fact, rico account has expired.
I removed expiration ,then now cron works.
But I thought cron had no problem if an account expires.
Strange... :p
Yeah, it shouldn't do that.
Kris
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:13:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The base system is not registered into the packages
system, because of sysinstall.
It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src.
I don't know if it's a good idea to have a
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:27AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
The base system is not registered into the packages
system, because of sysinstall.
It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src.
I don't know if it's a good idea to have a huge
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:31:59AM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote:
Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I'd sorta like to *see* them before writing the coding
equivalent of a blank check, but given reasonably functional
implementations, sure, I'd be happy to commit your sysinstall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Consider binary upgrades for things like security
alerts, which could happen automatically, based on
whatever criteria you specify (including root exploit
or Never Do Anything Without My Permission).
In case you'd missed it,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:14:18AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
but why hasn't a complete sysctl manual?
I see OpenBSD has a better sysctl manual, our sysctl(8) is too bad,
except the command usage info is useful, all left is garbage
information and waste disk space.
Submit something
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:21:24AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
I'm very concerned with the fact that this style of response has become
commonly accepted within the FreeBSD community.
Yes, we like patches. Yes, in this case the only reason we don't have
what David requested is that
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:34:11AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD.
Certainly. But I think it has to go beyond the installer. We
should define an environment that third party applications can
depend on being available in any
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:55:25AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
For very good reason, Jordan is no longer in a position to do this. We
as the FreeBSD community need to decide what we're going to do about
this, and we need to decide before another disastrous release cycle
happens. WRS does not
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:47:21AM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote:
You're assuming that not having Walnut Creek around is going to be
good for Linux Central, or good for FreeBSD? I personally wouldn't
give a bucket of warm spit for Linux Central's well being, but am quite
worried about the well
Just to throw some more fuel onto the fire, Thomas Dickey maintains
his own version of dialog, which is derived from the same parent as
the one in our tree, though somewhat divergent by now (mostly on the
FreeBSD side from local changes/hacks, I think):
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:03:41AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
We, for example, need to ask ourselves if there even should be an
official CD distribution of FreeBSD and, if so, what the selection
criteria for such officiality should be.
I was thinking about this the other day. I don't
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:00:19PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:55:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing BSDi ever did made any sense, so why does this suprise you? The fact
that BSDi didnt nothing positive for FreeBSD doesnt surprise me at all.
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:40:15PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
I was thinking about this the other day. I don't think there's very
much money likely to be made in value-add CD distributions in the
near future -- that requires hard work to add value, and that requires
someone being
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:55:14PM -0400, Mike Wiacek wrote:
I was looking at a bunch of bug reports, and quite a few pertain
to ftpd. Anyone thinking about going through and just cleaning it
up from head to toe? Not a complete rewrite or anything, but just
alot of straightening up. If no one
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
yup, exactly. to me it seems to be a major problem to get some unified
api out of openssl adressing fucnctions on the hardware -- i simply do
not know how other crypto
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:05:17PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the
community that they
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:58:23AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:07:28PM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Jiangyi Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010601 20:25] wrote:
Hi all,
After just changing a little in sys/kern/kern_sig.c, how can I rebuild
the kernel fast? I
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:59:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
1. Have the ata driver leave the write cache setting
alone by default, providing a sysctl which can cause
disabled or enabled if requested. When the default is
allowed, put something in dmesg which says Note: Write
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:00:51PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote:
Hello,
Few months ago, Jacques Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted mails about
implementation of nsswitch in -current.
Is there any progress in this area ? If so, any hope to see a MFC ?
It's working fine in -current, you'd have
Can someone take a look at this PR? It seems to still be relevant.
Kris
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:03:30 +0400
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ELF rlimits
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:15:07PM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote:
Is anyone else getting a bunch of empty mails from
owner-freebsd-hackers? They look something like this:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bcc:
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:02:31 +0200
All that ever changes is date and time...any
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
Did you enable write caching? You didn't mention, and it's off by
default in 4.3, but I think enabled by default on Linux.
I tried to leave the FreeBSD and Linux boxes as unchanged as possible for
my tests (they are lab
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:00:31AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to
write a lock to the CVS repo when running 'make update'
to get a freshly checked out source?
Yeah: you aren't running your CVS server in pserver
mode, and so are
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:15:18PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to
write a lock to the CVS repo when running 'make update'
to get a freshly checked out source?
Yeah: you aren't running your CVS server in pserver
mode, and
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:27:27PM +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote:
I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically
configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS machines. ResierFS is much much
faster than UFS+softupdates on these tests.
Linux (2.2.14-5 + ReiserFS):
Time:
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:16:35AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Dima Dorfman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010518 01:05] wrote:
Hi folks,
ipcs(1) is currently installed as setgid kmem. This isn't good for
obvious reasons. Moreover, the information it needs is easily
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:20:52PM +0200, Alexis Yushin wrote:
Hello there,
I wonder if anybody here has any experience with compiling
pure IPv6 system without IPv4 support in the kernel at all?
Are there any projects like that?
It's probably not all that difficult, as these things go,
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
ssh works just fine for me in 4.3. You must be doing something
wrong.
I used that sysinstall thing Jordan wrote to upgrade
from a 4.2 to a 4.3 system.
Is that what I'm doing wrong? ;^).
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:10:45AM -0400, Daniel Hemmerich wrote:
Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function,
strndup(), to libc?
So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of
memory, it is possible to give it a max length.
#include
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:51:18AM +0100, vishwanath pargaonkar wrote:
Hi,
i have free bsd 4.2 stable.
i did some changes may be 10-15 lines to kernel
source.
but thing i am amazed is kernel size.
size of kernel.GENERIC is 3258128.
but as of my kernel is 13068130 when i cheked it.
my
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:27:46AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
On 02-May-01 Andy Sloane wrote:
Hello,
I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more
interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the
CPU (much less CPU intensive than fire,
Hi all,
Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created.
Kris
Index: ar_io.c
===
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/pax/ar_io.c,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
options to pax(1) to gzip(1
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created.
Sigh. They could have generalized
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:48:27PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.24 12:27:58 +:
This is another reason why having a third-party modifying the advisory
to mark it up into XML is a bad idea; you lose the integrity
protection from the PGP
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote:
I have a partly-baked idea regarding the security advisories that
I see on freebsd-announce. While I applaud the intent of these
notices, I wonder if some sort of automation might not make them a
bit more useful.
Let's say we
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:22:05PM -0400, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
pkg_version may be a logical place to stick this functionality since
it already has code for parsing version numbers.
Ya... I think it would be wise to somehow include
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:02:27PM +, Julian Stacey wrote:
Does the cvs tree need some tags added ? Or do I need a another cvs command ?
Bug seen using a 4.2-RELEASE generic system:
cat /usr/cvs/.ctm_status
cvs-cur 7246
cvs export -r RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE src
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 07:42:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:19:02PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/thttpd-2.19+kq.patch
Commit them to the port! :-)
Yeah, I should. I should also submit them back to the author :-)
Kris
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:44:02AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
.) kqueue.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/thttpd-2.19+kq.patch
Kris
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:17:03PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
At 01:12 PM 04/18/2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
Hi,
better back out SMPng real fast, otherwise you'll get into a
flamewar with Dennis again ;)
I just fear that "ng" will have the same negative connotations that "NT" did.
Feel free to
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:21:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feel free to test it and contribute your bug reports to the
developers. We make -current available for this reason, you know..
Kris
Are there any sites or articles anybody knows of that desribe the
differences between
I've put a mailbox containing some of the 'interesting commits' I've
flagged from the OpenBSD CVS commit mailing list at
http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/openbsd.mbox
There are some easy commits there, but I don't have time to do much
myself (it's enough work just reading the commit lists).
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:08:07PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
I believe that this is the way things are supposed to happen; this
has been discussed on -arch recently, although somebody stated that
OpenSSL already has all the functionality. I wasn't quite able to
find analogous functions
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:45:48AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
hi all,
(sorry if this is the wrong place, but I realy want 4,3 in production
asap).
ever since 4.3 BETA i can't compile anything from the ports.
i've gone through the cycle of installing the distribution, or
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:13:03PM -0500, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
I am fairly poor with wording man pages, as you can see, but I think it
might be worth while just to point this out.
Thoughts?
I've wanted to do this, but so far haven't had time. Do you think you
could submit a patch?
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming
Apple's MacOS X ?
Good idea, write one :-)
Kris
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:24:14PM -0500, Elliott Perrin wrote:
I just did a cvs of src-all this morning, remade the world and am trying to compile
a new
kernel. I am able to make depend, but I just tried to do the make and got the
following
errors
cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls
A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to
have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have
this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs
works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the
actual transaction
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:31:33PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
I have cvsuped 4.2-STABLE today, make buildword and mergemaster,
after reboot, netstat no longer show TCP connections:
You didn't say that you built a new kernel: did you?
Kris
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:23:01PM +0100, milunovic wrote:
Does anybody have blow fish for FreeBSD or know wehere to find it?
I just want to change password
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:40:47AM -0500, Justin McKnight wrote:
To: FreeBSD-newbies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^^ ^^^
Something is wrong with this picture.
Kris
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:44:30AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
-On [20010220 02:30], Nigel Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I recently did a CVSUP on my ports because i wanted to install
enlightenment did a make install and recieved the following error.
Error: your port uses an
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:19:37PM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote:
hi all,
I'm bind 8.2 patch level 5.. in the last couple of weeks it started to
crash with Signal 6
SIG ABRT,
does anyone know what does this mean?
Read security advisory 01:18, and subscribe yourself to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:50:54PM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
For the point kris made, I'm not sure he understood what I was
suggesting -- I'm not suggesting just printing the md5 of the files when
you notice they've changed, but adding the md5 as another trigger for
deciding which files
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:39:03PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
Add a list of executables and their MD5's to the kernel, to be loaded at
boot time via the loader. Modify the kernel loader to refuse to exec
any executable whose MD5 is known but doesn't match. Ditto for shared
libraries and
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
When I start jail I often get page faults.
Also I want to chroot() in the jail (ftp daemon) but it page faults in all
cases.
nullfs is broken in all versions prior to 5.0-CURRENT. This is even
documented in the manpage. I don't
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:55:41PM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
Would it generally be viewed as helpful to add the option of reporting
the md5 for the files listed in /var/log/setuid.*?
To what end? We already know the files changed - adding their MD5
doesn't seem to provide the administrator with
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:13:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know of any attempt to write a Fast Filesystem driver for
windows 2000?. I have a machine that dual boots, and I can see the NTFS
under FreeBSD no problem, but I would like to see my freebsd volume under
windows,
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:47:05AM -0600, Daryl Chance wrote:
Hi,
I'm wanting to try and move from compiling a kernel with everything
in it, to complining a minimal kernel and loading the klms i need (NFS,
IPFW, etc etc). What file would i specify to load all the klms i want?
Is there
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:15:53PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:50:29PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Silly me--I forgot to mention, this is with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE.
How recent -stable? A bug like this was fixed recently. If it's older
than a week, Try upgrading :-)
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:25:15PM -0800, Eugene M. Kim wrote:
One more similar question: Does/will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-R(W)
drives in disk-at-once mode, perhaps using burncd(1)? I wanted to burn
some audio CDs in that manner but burncd on 4-stable didn't support DAO
writing.
Don't
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Matt Chew Spence wrote:
Another question in a similar vein:
Which, if any (besides root and nobody, which are a given), of these
default accounts are critical to the basic functionality of the box? Is
there a list somewhere where I can match
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:50:29PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Silly me--I forgot to mention, this is with FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE.
How recent -stable? A bug like this was fixed recently. If it's older
than a week, Try upgrading :-)
Kris
--
NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote:
Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW?
It supports them just fine..
Perhaps your question was really "does FreeBSD emulate a SCSI
interface to ATAPI drives?", in which case the answer is "no".
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Dave Hayes wrote:
I was asked recently if it was possible to run a FreeBSD server
entirely off of CDROM. Now I know that things like /var need to be
writable, and that the initial question as worded was rather naive.
However, modulo writable
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:42:41AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
Grand gesture. Laudable even. Yeah, that PAM sure seems to've
become popular. The Courier IMAP port also insisted upon its
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:15:16AM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote:
Is it possible to use my PentiumPro machine to do a 'make buildworld' for a
target machine that only is a 486? When compiling the kernel I can select to
omit 386/486-thingies and optimise the binaries for 686. Can I do the same
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:41:39PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CVSup7.FreeBSD.org will be down for at least a few hours this
afternoon (Pacific time) so that we can perform a hardware upgrade.
It may be down again later
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 07:14:32PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Actually, there already exists a function called dirname in libc, dirname(3).
Here's what I'm going to commit:
You might also like to contribute this back to the pppd maintainer
([EMAIL PROTECTED])..although since our version
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:14:16PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 07:14:32PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Actually, there already exists a function called dirname in libc, dirname(3).
Here's what I'm going to commit:
You might also like to contribute this back
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:38:11AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On 05-Jan-01 Charles Randall wrote:
nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4.
http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html
I think Mike Smith is 'sort of' working on support for HW crypto cards.. No
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:35:19AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
This sort of thing is why we added poll(2) and later kqueue(2) support
for getting notifications on directory changes.. eg: you can get an event
to tell you that a new file "appeared" in your directory.
See how the l0pht-watch port
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 09:27:49PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 08:29:01PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Umm, are you actually talking about real incidents here, or just
spreading FUD?
REAL incidents. Please remember I've been a committer longer you have
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:22:59AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:02:52AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
REAL incidents. Please remember I've been a committer longer you have.
This has nothing to do with it, since both of the times you are
referring to are well
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:20:34AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:37AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
P.S. Please stop dropping the mailing list from the CC list of your
responses..
Thank you for taking away my right to take a discussion private, and
posting my
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:16:51AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incorrect..the problems with SSH come down to flaws in the human
operator who ignore the warnings SSH gives them, and tell it
explicitly to do insecure things like connect to a server which is
suddenly not the one you're
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:46:16AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:28:07PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Incorrect..the problems with SSH come down to flaws in the human
operator who ignore the warnings SSH gives them, and tell it
explicitly to do insecure things like
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:25:11PM +1300, David Preece wrote:
At 15:37 22/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
The question asked is: why you believe ssh is beter
than say telnet. Or what advantages SSH has in general.
Sorry, don't have time to reply to this properly.
The main evil of ssh is that
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:03:23PM -0800, Gilbert Gong wrote:
It would just make pitching FreeBSD and other open OS's in the
enterprise a lot easier if there was an QA process that official
releases went through. Also volunteering to QA would be a good
training ground to gain familiarity
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:23:48AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Hi. I've switched to the new random.c you sent me for gawk. My
Linux/Alpha Guru reports that the code in it assumes that sizeof(long)
is always 4, and one particular test doesn't "look" very random on
the Alpha.
My question
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:22:51PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
Wouldnt putting up a compressed tarball of the releases reduce bandwidth
usage (and download time)?
I know I've asked this before, but it seems logical enough.
They're already compressed tarballs.
Kris
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text
but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides.
I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon..
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:31:12PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
When Kris and I discussed this functionality (before Brian went and did
it); we talked about much higher granularity than Brian implemented:
MD5 everywhere
DES everywhere
MD5 locally / DES yp
Convert to MD5
Convert to DES
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:18:27PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
Hi folks,
Anyone want to have a look at this? It's from the GNU awk maintainer.
Without knowing which random.c it was, it's hard to judge :-) Also not
knowing what the intended use is, it's hard to recommend something.
Kris
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:47:51PM +, Jamie Heckford wrote:
Very sorry for posting such a dumb question, but since I cvs'upd something
weird seems to have happened.
I am using this to compile my X app (which just uses Xlib.h at the mo)
gcc -L/usr/X11R6/include -o test test.cc
but
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:02:28PM +0300, hellman wrote:
Hello,
How can i port all content of my server to new one ?
On a new server i have new hdd...
I want to port kernel,all packages installed and so so so...
What is a correct answer for this?
tar and netcat or a NFS mount.
Kris
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:56:21PM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote:
After patching and installing, tcpdump can't be used anymore since it puts
very heavy load onto the network via xl0 and AppleTalk broadcast messages
(one message each 0.2 ms). Sorry, in the moment I don't know more details
...
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:59:48AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
In ftp.FreeBSD.org, below files were not updated from
2000/April/25 Why.
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/
I hope to sync latest 4-stable FreeBSD tree.
Use cvsup, it's much
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:03AM +1300, David Preece wrote:
BTW, we didn't fare very well at all in the top *average* uptimes. Sun,
OTOH, did. Bugger.
IMO, this can be plausibly explained by the availability of updated
code for the two platforms. With Sun they release patches relatively
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:03:49PM +0100, Robert Eckardt wrote:
However, while /dev/dsp works fine for 8bit /dev/dspW doesn't work for
16bit at all. 16bit mode gives some cracks and beeps, nothing more, as can
be seen from the following hexdumps:
16-bit recording on the SB16 is known to be
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:24:24PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:
What are the plans for incorporating Rijndael, the finalist algorithm
for the Advanced Encryption Standard, into FreeBSD?
Going into the kernel as soon as I get some free time..I have patches
from KAME to add AES IPSEC support,
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:11:06AM +0200, stop here. start everywhere. wrote:
Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD
has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world"
command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:15:59PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
Just a heads-up: under FreeBSD 4.1; some of the GNU auto* tools
(notably autoconf and autoheader) invoke /bin/sh, but presume that
that is really bash.
That sounds like something which should be reported to the GNU
maintainers.
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:
i installed some systems using the 4.0-RELEASE cd, then
cvsup to 4.x-stable and those systems use DES passwds, which is what
i want.
4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 14 10:01:02 EDT 2000
then i installed some more systems, using a
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:
also, is the new default for FreeBSD going to be MD5?
Yes. Only people with special circumstances need DES passwords.
if so, a note should be made somewhere.
Indeed. See my previous message.
Kris
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 06:14:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Set the value of the passwd_format login capability to "des" in
/etc/login.conf.
Brian Feldman neglected to document or mention this in the release notes
at all, as far as
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