Re: WTF

2000-08-24 Thread Administrator OrientAsia
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: I'm running 3.5-STABLE. Recently, my server has started rebooting, at random times, usually actually quite religiously about every 2 days. I thought it might be a RAM problem. Replaced with brand new RAM. Same problem. Any ideas, at all?

Re: Kernel won't compile (device xl)

2000-08-24 Thread David J. Kanter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:55:21PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:05:42PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: I've added support for a new Ethernet card, with device miibus and device xl. But when the kernel is compiling I get this error: [snip] put 'device ether' back

Re: nuking unsafe protocols (was Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons)

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vivek Khera writes: : s Surely rmt could work over ssh? : : Apparently not with its current implementation. It also must fallback : to using rcmd(3) for compatibility with other systems, if one were to : implement the ssh layer. OpenBSD's dump has this

Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons

2000-08-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:41:45 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: I know this is currently in "current", but won't this eventually make it to stable? Maybe. I would have thought that's unlikely though. However, even if it is, there'll be a HEADS UP posted to this mailing list, so you'll be aware that

Re: nuking unsafe protocols (was Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons)

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nathan Ahlstrom writes: : This PR may be of interest. : http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15830 Actually, no. It isn't that interesting. More interesting would be something like the following which does it for all rcmd based things. It is out of OpenBSD,

Re: nuking unsafe protocols (was Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons)

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vivek Khera writes: : Wow! If voting is considered, I vote for such a patch to be included. : It makes sense considering that ssh is now part of the core system. Actually, it turns out to be a bad idea and we should use, I think, the more generic rcmdsh from OpenBSD

Re: Requesting input for a handbook section entry

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris BeHanna writes: : I thought the pnp command went away in 4.x. Is it back for 4.1? It is gone in 4.x. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: nuking unsafe protocols (was Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons)

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Housley writes: : blaine wrote: : Umm, why not just use openbsd if security is the primary concern? : : Why shouldn't we provide the best level of security possible, using : OpenBSD as a target? We should be targetting things at a much higher level than

Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons

2000-08-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Francisco Reyes" writes: : UPDATING and I guess that I didn't have it at that point.. I am I guess it doesn't help that the UPDATING file says to read the whole UPDATING file before proceeding :-) On a more serious note, the UPDATING file is now mentioned in the

ATAPI_STATIC_ID

2000-08-24 Thread David J. Kanter
I tried to build a kernel that had the ATAPI_STATIC_ID option, but config said that the option no longer exists. Huh? I've had this option since 4.0, and saw in both GENERIC and LINT that ATAPI_STATIC_ID does seem to exist. Can someone explain this to me. -- David Kanter To Unsubscribe: send

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2000-08-24 Thread Ryan D. Walberg
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Humblest apologies

2000-08-24 Thread Ryan D. Walberg
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mouse question....

2000-08-24 Thread Gary Kline
Hi, Y'all, This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked the hardware ports, switched the mouse from COM1 to COM2. (COM2 or, in the case of my modem, /dev/cuaa1, is working.) Zip; nothing.

Re: mouse question....

2000-08-24 Thread Kent Stewart
Gary Kline wrote: Hi, Y'all, This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked the hardware ports, switched the mouse from COM1 to COM2. (COM2 or, in the case of my modem, /dev/cuaa1, is

Re: help with restoring sh

2000-08-24 Thread scot
Boot from a fix-it floppy and copy it there from the floppy... (and make sure the permissions are correct)... Scot On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: Hi all, I have been upgrading from 3.4 to 4.1 and during the reboot I get a permission denied when it tries to exec the

help with restoring sh

2000-08-24 Thread Theo PAGTZIS
Hi all, I have been upgrading from 3.4 to 4.1 and during the reboot I get a permission denied when it tries to exec the /bin/sh. I am trying to restore the file with one that is functioning properly..however I do not know how I should go about correcting my problem. I would appreciate any