Re: NSS and PAM

2003-12-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
anyone considered the idea of hybridizing PAM with Digital^WCompaq^WHP's SIA matrix setup? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ

Re: NSS and PAM

2003-12-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
. But this arrangement allows traditional APIs to work reasonably --- and you can layer PAM and NSS on top of it as compatibility APIs. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical

Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
step which optimizes executables for fast runtime linking and loading. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH

Re: devd/devctl

2003-09-13 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
objects according to the documentation). -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT! E-xpedient nuked APK

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd)

2003-09-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT! E-xpedient nuked APK subdomains; kf8nh.apk.net is DEAD. Sorry

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd)

2003-09-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:41, Steven G. Kargl wrote: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote: I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user sgk, I cannot fire up X clients

Re: Regarding recent spam on the list

2003-08-19 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
these list addresses as return addys? It's W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's spreading *fast* -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ

Re: when should 5.x be stable enough for web servers

2003-08-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Saturday 16 August 2003 18:10, Eriq Lamar wrote: On i386 hardware and two processors amd mp. should I wait for 5.2. You should probably wait until a release is tagged RELENG_5, indicating that it's considered stable. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL

Re: Gaim Crashing X

2003-07-25 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
dying after sending a partial X protocol request to the server, that would probably do it; XFree86 doesn't seem to deal with that very well, in my experience. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL

Re: Shell programming 101: Is this an expr(1) bug ?

2003-02-18 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
) The Solaris manpage claims: EXIT STATUS As a side effect of expression evaluation, expr returns the following exit values: (...) 1 if the expression is either NULL or 0 So it looks like correct behavior, if slightly odd in this particular context. -- brandon s allbery [openafs

Re: comms/birda on -current and PalmPilot sync.

2003-02-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
and that it is configured properly (don't use PnP autoconfiguration, and if possible set it as an SIR port in the BIOS). -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering

Re: Cisco vpnclient

2003-01-31 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe

Re: what is interference?

2002-12-29 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
Nov 17 12:28 /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-hacks/interference* In my experience it's not especially unusual for xscreensaver hacks to occasionally bomb out on any platform; unless there's some other reason to suspect a problem, I'd not worry about it too much. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris

Re: sa_handler and sigaction...

2002-12-26 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
P1003.1-1990 specifying sa_handler and P1003.1-1993 adding sa_sigaction. I should add that sigaction() without sa_handler is almost entirely useless for portable programming, so it would be downright bizarre for POSIX to specify sigaction() and yet omit sa_handler. -- brandon s allbery [openafs

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
see if you can find the deadbeef. My recollection is that beyond 5 arguments, a pointer to the remaining ones is passed. (But my recollection may be wrong and I don't wish to subject myself to the source cesspool at the moment) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL

Re: disklabel(8) floppy panic

2002-04-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 13:35, Joerg Wunsch wrote: j@uriah 92% ls -l /dev/fd1* (...) lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel4 Apr 2 20:34 /dev/fd1c@ - fd0 Uh? -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL

Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)

2002-03-13 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
perl dump core (or sometimes just die with a Bizarre copy of ...) on all our supported platforms when perl's malloc() is used. Of course, that might just be a bug in 5.00503, since I never tried 5.6.x with perl's own malloc()...) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL

Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700)

2002-03-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
, it will likely use sio for SIR devices. (Although the person(s) doing the ng work should probably speak up and correct me now) -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer

RE: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
? -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineeringKF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
of propagating, so you can run things the old way if you want or if you can't DTRT using the rc.config entries.) Also, I think they borrowed this setup from DU / OSF/1. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 08:52, Emiel Kollof wrote: Oh, I am not volunteering, it's way beyond my capabilities. Hm, Darwin is (userspace-wise) mostly FreeBSD 3.x, isn't it? I wouldn't expect porting its NetInfo implementation to be particularly difficult. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
to use YP, thought I have been on the receiving end of some of the consequences). And I, somehow, had failed to notice that there's no NSS on FreeBSD. *smacks self on head* Not quite so simple after all, I guess -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system

Re: kernel build fails

2002-01-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:38, Doug White wrote: Why are there C-style comments in a Perl script? At a guess, it's a here document. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical