Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1, of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible. DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by

Re: Backup methodes

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Ames
I've used rsync if your goal is to keep a backup reasonably up to date since you don't need to recopy all of the data at every backup. On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:44 PM 11/7/2005 +, Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| wrote: | Hi, | | what is the

typo in dev/ed/if_ed.c

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Ames
Just got this during a kernel build: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -W missing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -an si -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/dev -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ dev/acpica

Re: GPS time.

2002-03-30 Thread Steve Ames
http://www.gpsclock.com/ is $380US and does PPS pulses accurate to plus or minus 1 microsecond of UTC. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:28:59AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:04:11PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: I just connected my gps (garmin gps III

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: Anders Hagman wrote: I want to load share between two ADSL modems using a NAT/Firewall. Computer 1 \ \ /-- ADSL 1 \ / Computer 2

Re: Cron pickle

2001-09-16 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:07:59PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: Eugene Grosbein wrote: | This can be done with cron with single entry and small overhead. | Run whis script at last minute of every day (or every 28-31): | | #!/bin/sh | | tomorrow=`date -v+1d %d` | if [ $tomorroq -ne 01 ];

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:45:03PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: Someone recently commented in the tcsh/csh thread concerning the fact that the FreeBSD tcsh is maintained separately from the port, and nobody is really sure who is responsible for keeping the FreeBSD version both in sync, AND,

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Ames
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:02:43PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:45:03PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: Someone recently commented in the tcsh/csh thread concerning the fact that the FreeBSD tcsh is maintained separately from the port, As is all 3rd party contributed

Re: Why two cards on the same segment...

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:24:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: Hmm.. That hasn't been my experience at all. I have _always_ seen outgoing connections use a source address of the closest interface address that exists on the same IP network as the destination, OR, if it is a non-local

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Ames
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: The crucial bottleneck for this kind of thing is the doubling time. Unless your special purpose hardware doubles in speed as fast or faster than general purpose CPUs, then eventually it's going to be slow, then expensive, and finally

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-14 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Hrm... the filesystem test, I think, is fairly obvious. The default filesystem configuration

IPFW quirk

2000-10-06 Thread Steve Ames
Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I poked around for a while and then it just started working again. A bit more poking and I discovered that it fails if there is a file called 'list' in the directory the

Re: IPFW quirk

2000-10-06 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:41AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:19:21AM -0500, Steve Ames wrote: Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I poked around for a while

Re: rcp -x

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Ames
Robert, Thanks for the explanation. That wasn't clear from the manpage. SSH sounds like the better path for me. -Steve On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: The -x options on rsh, rcp, and rlogin rely on Kerberos support, which it appears you haven't installed.

Re: OpenSSH 2.X problem with escape chars?

2000-07-08 Thread Steve Ames
Just forwarded my original message to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. -Steve On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:47:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: The same problem exists under 4-STABLE from 07/04/00. I haven't had timt to dig into it for real, but

OpenSSH 2.X problem with escape chars?

2000-07-07 Thread Steve Ames
Hey... just noticed something odd. I just upgrading one of my FBSD boxes to the latest -STABLE and modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config to use version 2 then 1 (Protocol 2,1). After doing this when I connect to that server the escape sequences (~^Z and friends (as per 'man 1 ssh')) no longer work. If I

can bin/10905 be closed?

2000-05-14 Thread Steve Ames
Could someone implement the patch from bin/10905? It really does make the output of the 'sa -m' command look much nicer in an environment where your using greater than 8 character usernames... Have been running -CURRENT with that patch for a few days now and no evil side effects :) -Steve

more still breaks world

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Ames
buildworld still breaks in more (cvsup from around 12:30 EDT)... however it only breaks if you have obj directories: virtual-voodoo# make obj /usr/obj/source/src/usr.bin/more created for /source/src/usr.bin/more virtual-voodoo# make depend sed -e 's/\\//g' -e 's/\"/\\\"/g' -e 's/$/\\n\\/'

in_cksum changes break IPSEC?

2000-05-09 Thread Steve Ames
Code from this morning (9AM EDT) gives me the following errors: linking kernel ipsec.o: In function `ipsec4_encapsulate': ipsec.o(.text+0x1ab9): undefined reference to `in_cksum' *** Error code 1 If I comment out: #options IPSEC #IP security #options IPSEC_ESP #IP security (crypto;

swapinfo typo?

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Ames
# swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rad0s1b 1022720 102272 0%Interleaved /dev/rad1s1b 2558720 255872 0%Interleaved Total 3581440 358144 0% # I'm probably misunderstanding something,

Re: NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-31 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:04:34PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Steve Ames wrote: I have NO_SENDMAIL= true in /etc/make.conf but sendmail got rebuilt on the last makeworld anyway... this is -CURRENT from this morning (3/30). -Steve man mailwrapper man mailer.conf Then see /etc

NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Ames
I have NO_SENDMAIL= true in /etc/make.conf but sendmail got rebuilt on the last makeworld anyway... this is -CURRENT from this morning (3/30). -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Ames
Just read this article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2440002,00.html Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? Waiting for somebody at Intel to give us either hardware or simulator time. Without either of

Re: pw bug

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Ames
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c line 736 of the file on my system: $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v 1.34 2000/01/15 00:20:21 davidn Exp The line in question: if (!PWALTDIR() getarg(args, 'm') != NULL pwd-pw_dir *pwd-pw_dir == '/' pwd-pw_dir[1]) { The conditional !PWALTDIR() looks

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Ames
Drives that report their capabilities right :) ad0: Maxtor 71626 AP/QA3C1D20 ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, PIO ad1: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY4320A/A03.0500 ATA-0 disk at ata0 as slave ad1:

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Ames
What am I missing? Drives that report their capabilities right :) ad0: Maxtor 71626 AP/QA3C1D20 ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, PIO ad1: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY4320A/A03.0500 ATA-0 disk at

ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Ames
Hrm... no question that the ATA driver is better today, but its still not reporting DMA on my Quantum bigfoot drive (which should support DMA: http://www.quantum.com/products/archive/bigfoot_cy/bigfoot_cy_features.htm) The Maxtor is pretty old (But its been current since 3.0 :) but may still

Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Ames
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a partition (that is exportable) as

Async NFS exports?

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Ames
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a partition (that is exportable) as

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
if it utilizes the VGALIB? (Lizard that is) Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an

Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent selling

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
if it utilizes the VGALIB? (Lizard that is) Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an

Re: UID Limits

1999-06-01 Thread Steve Ames
Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :) -Steve From d...@flood.ping.uio.no Tue Jun 1 10:12:21 1999 To: Steve Ames st...@cioe.com Cc: a...@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd

Re: UID Limits

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Ames
: #define UID_MAX UINT_MAX; #define GID_MAX UINT_MAX; I couldn't find it anywhere in the source but if there is one out there, I imagine pwd_mkdb should use it. [ Quoted message from Steve Ames, recieved May 26, 5:56am.] Yeah, I just didn't know. I fired up 'vipw' and just