Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, often de0 is dead. This happend today

how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
I need in directories without link to parent in it or with link to parent renamed to something exotic name. What is the method to do it without kernel patching in FreeBSD 2.2.X or 3.X ? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: making users modem dial from webpage

1999-11-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kelly Yancey writes: On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Leif Neland wrote: I've been asked if this is possible: Having a webserver running a database of some sort. User clicks a button on a form, a cgi-script runs, determines the ip of the user, and sends a command to "something" on the users pc,

Re: Creating Dedicated disk.

2000-02-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Corey Leopold writes: I have a situation where I have a Tar file of a complete 3.4 FreeBSD system from the / directory on down. I'm trying to get this file onto a new system using a "dangerously dedicated" scsi disk, but am having problems getting the boot sector right using, disklabel,

Re: building netscape plugins

2000-02-24 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alan Batie writes: Has anyone built a plugin for Netscape? I just downloaded 4.72 and sdk30b5 and built the UnixTemplate "nptemplate.so" on 3.3-RELEASE. When I go to Help/About Plugins, netscape complains that it has a bad magic number. It's the FreeBSD netscape, but I tried "brandelf"ing

expand label?

2000-02-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
I saw discussion in this list about change MAXPARTITIONS to 16 or 22 instead of 8. And I remember decision to expand. But in FreeBSD 4.0-2208-CURRENT MAXPARTITIONS=8 and no easy way to expand by only translate with different MAXPARTITIONS. Yes, I edit /dev/MAKEDEV sys/disklabel.h

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Nik Clayton writes: Recommended disk and partition layout In order to reduce space wastage, and provide a flexible partition layout for future work, the following disk partition layout is recommended. First, you need three 'standard' filesystems, of roughly this

Re: ISO

2000-03-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
p_a_r writes: Where can i download the 3-4-stable as an iso image?? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.4-install.iso -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: .cshrc problem

2000-03-24 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kasper writes: [Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...] Hello i have done this in the dot.cshrc file move to .cshrc in your home directory ** alias h history 25 alias j jobs -l ...

Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?) - another use for loopback subn et?

2000-04-01 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Eric Peterson writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Tony Finch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that packets sent to any of those addresses would go via the loopback

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-05-12 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Kris Kennaway writes: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: Unless this has been changed from 3.4 to 4.0, gcc defaults to /var/tmp. I never understood why, and the gcc manual page claims that it's /tmp (I think). MFS users, synchronize your TMPDIR variables ... now. :-) It did.

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Arun Sharma writes: Is there any reason why FreeBSD doesn't store file creation times on the disk (apart from historical reasons) ? in adddition to atime, ctime and mtime? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alfred Perlstein writes: 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nobody can see them my mean: in crontab adding some command that this is hidden. impossible(*) afaik. possible if use similar to linux emulator method to redirect open(2) - but it is TOO expansive and kernel need to be

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Jeremy writes: On 2000-May-25 19:03:56 +1000, Brian Somers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course access timestamps are usually useless anyway as most (?!!) people will back up their system from time to time OOPS ! I never realised before now - dump *doesn't* update the access time.

Re: Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Essenz Consulting writes: I posted this awhile back I didnt get much response. Basically, I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. Every couple of days it reboots for now reason. When I looked at the logs, it shows regular log data, then the next line reads "/kernel: Copyright (c)

Re: Linking Linux object files under FreeBSD

2000-05-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to link object files which were compiled under Linux on a FreeBSD system. Background: I have to extend a programm for which I only got the object Files. This programm calls functions I have to write. As I don't have a

Re: AW: Linking Linux object files under FreeBSD

2000-05-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
d_f0rce writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi, Background: I have to extend a programm for which I only got the object Files. This programm calls functions I have to write. As I don't have a Linux system at home I would like to use those object-files

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Narvi writes: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent experiences with them over the years). Ugh. I was suprised that I

Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?)

2001-01-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Mike Wade writes: On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: Performance isn't even the main thing. As I said earlier, it's plain bloody unreliable. Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they think something is wrong with the card. They were surprised when I reported that it works

Re: escape sequence for 'Ic' terminal capability

2001-01-31 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Pentchev writes: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:05:01AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: I'm thinking of messing with the syscons ioctl handler to allow setting of color values - all EGA- and VGA-compatible video controllers allow this. The idea is to later define my termcap(5) entry to let

Re: mount_null and jail

2001-02-08 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Attila Nagy writes: Hello, I am trying to do the following setup: /jail /jail-run The first is a directory in a filesystem and holds the necessary files to run the given application. The second directory is also a simple directory but /jail mounted into it with mount_null. The

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-10 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Matt Dillon writes: :Matt Dillon wrote: : Yes. In general softupdates will make the entire filesystem safer. :Does it make sense to use softupdates on file systems like / and :/usr which have little file creation/removal? I have had softupdates turned on for all of my mount points

Re: Help please (Server crash)

2001-03-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Dmitry Samersoff writes: I have server under FreeBSD 4.2 with apache fired simple C++ CGI for each connection. Aproximately every 12H uptime server stop responding. Kernel answers to ping, establish TCP connection but unable to fork process. (no messages in /var/log/messages) Looks

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-03 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Chris Costello writes: On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Mike Smith wrote: tcpcash_addr = (typeof(tcpcash_addr)) malloc(sizeof(*tcpcash_addr) * TCPCASH_ROWSIZE * TCPCASH_COOLSIZE); Just as a note on coding

Re: 4.1 lockup side question ...

2000-08-29 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Clarence Brown writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] As you may know I'm bashing about trying to find the point where my 486 based machine locks up on a warm boot. I have been programming embedded system for about 15 years using DOS and later windows based

Re: graphics adapter ports reference

2000-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Nathaniel G H writes: I have been pulling my hair out for a while with some low level code I'm writing, and I'd like some help. Hardware ports 3D0h through 3DFh (controlled by the IN and OUT instructions) can be used to control the graphics adapter. I need some sort of reference material

Re: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-14 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
gerald stoller writes: I started up my (version 3.3 ) freeBSD , and the first thing that I did was mount a MSDOS diskette and did a find on it (with -name "*hd*" ). I got three lines of output stating something like 'date error; month (14) out of range', then a long pause

Re: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Koster, K.J. writes: I also think that the find program should be checked to see why it crashed and fix it to keep it from doing similarly in the future; I don't know whom to contact as yet. No matter how broken, a program is unable to crash the OS (well, very, very unlikely

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Hao Zhang writes: I am doing some testing on FreeBSD 3.3 platform by sending some UDP packets thru FreeBSD routers. It's found that the duplications happened in FreeBSD router. Now The FreeBSD 3.3 is running on Pentium III, and NIC is 3C905B-Tx. To

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Pedro J. Lobo writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Intell EtherExpress fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-cost ethernet card for FreeBSD now. As far as I know

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-16 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: What is the FreeBSD naming convention for devices of disk slices and labels? Considering my system is installed on the first partition of /dev/wd0 (non-dedicated), these are the block-device interfaces I have to my disk: wd0 wd0cwd0fwd0s1 wd0s1c

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-16 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: [ snip ] 1. What are wd0[a-h] used for? For wd0sN[a-h] where N is number of first slice recognized as FreeBSD slice If I understand correctly, wd0[a-h] will be the same as wd0s3[a-h] in a situation where DOS is on first slice, Linux on second and FreeBSD on

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Doug Barton writes: .. And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions ports/sysutils/stat, for example

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Daniel C. Sobral writes: Marc Tardif wrote: 4. If I want to use /dev/wd0s2 as a raw slice for reading and writing, what are the steps to follow? You can't write several blocks near /dev/wd0s2 beginning. Use /dev/wd0 with proper address That is rather risky. Wouldn't it be

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-19 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Marc Tardif writes: What is slices content? s1 - almost right FreeBSD label s2 - not a right FreeBSD label but similar enough to label. s3 - no label or similar at all. How to do such a content that screw the system? This is my way for this test: - shorten s2 to 3 cilinder. -

Re: cannot install freebsd over a 15 GB IDE Disk

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios writes: i amgetting crazy since i cannot install my freebsd over a 15GB ide disk! I am sure i have seen messages in the questions mailing list about that, but i could not find than from search web interface. Since, i would be glad if you could help

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Edward Elhauge writes: I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how to work reliably with them. I have installed UPS boxes on each machine and

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
David Scheidt writes: On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be. :I am wery glad that now mostly no need

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Sergey Babkin writes: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: David Scheidt writes: . SCSI just works, on everything I've ever used it.I've had a occaisonal problems with things like termination. High quality cables and enclosures solve this. I wouldn't let an IDE disk

Re: SCSI tape speed

2000-09-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Shannon Hendrix writes: I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses DAT drives on a DPT SCSI controller, preferrably with FreeBSD 4.1 and an Intel system. I find the speed is very slow, and I know in the past these drives were fine with FreeBSD, though I can't remember which release now.

Re: ftp transfers

2000-09-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Ron Scott writes: Today Ivan van der Merwe wrote: I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put this in the crontab if possible. In windows you can specify a file containing all the files that you want downloaded. Can I do the same on Unix Sure, try wget

Re: find, -delete, and relative paths

2000-11-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Cyrille Lefevre writes: "Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail list archives: Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: 15

Re: Really odd BTX halted problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

2000-10-28 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
John Baldwin writes: On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Dillon writes: :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously :dedicated mode. Yup.

Re: Easy way to recover disk

2000-12-30 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Warner Losh writes: The only thing I couldn't figure out how to do was to mount the file. Since I grabbed the disk partition, I wasn't sure I could just use vnconfig since there was no FreeBSD label on that partition. vnconfig -s labels /dev/vn... -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To

Re: Protections on inetd (and /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* in general)

2001-01-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Pentchev writes: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:47:23AM +0100, Walter W. Hop wrote: The exploit managed to start inetd, camped on the specified port I guess, if it doesn't exist already, that it wouldn't be so hard to create a small patch to the kernel, so that only processes

Re: restrict connection

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

Re: de0 strangenesses

1999-09-13 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Christoph Kukulies writes: On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, often de0 is dead. This happend today again.