Re: Jail syscalls

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a > > little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size > > of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards > > compatibility w

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

> I am pro. > > It takes a root compromise to use it anyway, and its usefulness > for DHCP and rarpd is too compelling. > > Perhaps the comments in the GENERIC file could be updated. Well, given that I've gotten primarily positive support for this I guess it's time to do it. Warner, do you wan

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

> This is a clear security vs functionality issue and I need to get a > good feel for which "cause" is ascendent here in knowing which way to > jump on the matter. Can we now hear the closing arguments from the > pro and con folks? I am pro. It takes a root compromise to use it anyway, and its

Re: What's new in Linux 2.4

* Peter Jeremy (jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) [990804 01:13]: > Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second > Edition)" . > > This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating > system completely compatible wi

Re: NSS Project

hi, there! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as > implemented > by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also > attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, > installs,

Re: What's new in Linux 2.4

* Peter Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990804 01:13]: > Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second > Edition)" . > > This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating > system completely compatible with the IPv4

Re: NSS Project

hi, there! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented > by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also > attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, > installs, an

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

hi, I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by Win98 and BIOS. Can someone help? And what does "ide_pci: gener

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

hi, I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by Win98 and BIOS. Can someone help? And what does "ide_pci: gene

Re: BSD voice synthesis

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I use

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 8:01 PM +0200 8/3/99, Robert Nordier wrote: Garance wrote: > - If I select 2.2.8 at the PowerBoot menu, it comes up > with one error message about "no /boot/loader", but > then it comes right up in the 2.2.8 system. So this > works fine, although it looks odd. You're us

Re: BSD voice synthesis

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I us

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/Research/GIGABIT.HTM -- - bill

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 8:01 PM +0200 8/3/99, Robert Nordier wrote: >Garance wrote: > > - If I select 2.2.8 at the PowerBoot menu, it comes up > > with one error message about "no /boot/loader", but > > then it comes right up in the 2.2.8 system. So this > > works fine, although it looks odd. >

Re: BSD voice synthesis

On 03-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Personally I liked the speak: device for

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/Research/GIGABIT.HTM -- - bil

Re: BSD voice synthesis

On 03-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Personally I liked the speak: device for

Re: Jail syscalls

> Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a > little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size > of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards > compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size

Re: Jail syscalls

Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size of the

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

:while the thread was still fresh, but I got distracted by work and other :projects, so here it is a tad late. : : For those of you who hadn't been following the previous calloc() thread: : I had theorized that we could see an improvement in the performance of :... It's always fun to run the

TCP stack hackers take a bow

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Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

:On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: : :> > I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software :> > to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? :> :> If you have 10+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). : :I find it hard to believe that handling 10

Overloading my machine?

Hi there, I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): - three IDE disks - floppy - IDE CD-ROM - three ep NIC - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for the processor, b

Re: Jail syscalls

> Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a > little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size > of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards > compatibility when things change such as, for example, the siz

Re: Jail syscalls

Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size of the

Re: NSS Project

Oscar Bonilla wrote: >If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. I would appreciate it. Overall, I like the idea of NSS. But, having worked on Solaris 2.x for some time, we need to avoid some of the blunders Sun made: The biggest problem with Sun's NSS implementation is that it's no longer po

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

Assar Westerlund wrote: As an enhancement, the strtol() check should verify that the passed service number is completely numeric: >--- inetd.c.orig Mon Aug 2 22:35:28 1999 >+++ inetd.c Mon Aug 2 22:41:52 1999 >@@ -830,34 +830,50 @@ >continue; >}

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

:while the thread was still fresh, but I got distracted by work and other :projects, so here it is a tad late. : : For those of you who hadn't been following the previous calloc() thread: : I had theorized that we could see an improvement in the performance of :... It's always fun to run th

What's new in Linux 2.4

Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition)" . This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the IPv4 specification", which is further expanded in a followup artic

TCP stack hackers take a bow

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Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

:On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: : :> > I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software :> > to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? :> :> If you have 10+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). : :I find it hard to believe that handling 1

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software > > to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? > > If you have 10+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). I find it hard to believe that handling 100,000 us

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. > > It is generally slower to acces 32k on different HDDs than to acces 64k on > > one HDD. > > It

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As an enhancement, the strtol() check should verify that the passed service number is completely numeric: >--- inetd.c.orig Mon Aug 2 22:35:28 1999 >+++ inetd.c Mon Aug 2 22:41:52 1999 >@@ -830,34 +830,50 @@ >continue

Re: NSS Project

Oscar Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. I would appreciate it. Overall, I like the idea of NSS. But, having worked on Solaris 2.x for some time, we need to avoid some of the blunders Sun made: The biggest problem with Sun's NSS implementation is th

What's new in Linux 2.4

Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition)" . This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the IPv4 specification", which is further expanded in a followup arti

Re: more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

On 3 Aug 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > > * At this point, this should never happen > > */ > > /* ARGSUSED */ > > static int > > nfs_fhtovp(mp, fhp, nam, vpp, exflagsp, credanonp) > > register struct mount *mp; > > struct fid *fhp; > > struct sockaddr

Re: Tuning web benchmarks

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999, David Miller wrote: > After the "Broken pipe" message it dies with a returncode of 141. You might want to try the Apache lists for this. -- |Chris Costello |When all else fails, let a = 7. |If that doesn't help, then read the manual. `---

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software > > to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? > > If you have 10+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). I find it hard to believe that handling 100,000 u

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. > > It is generally slower to acces 32k on different HDDs than to acces 64k on > > one HDD. > > I

Re: more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

On 3 Aug 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > * At this point, this should never happen > > */ > > /* ARGSUSED */ > > static int > > nfs_fhtovp(mp, fhp, nam, vpp, exflagsp, credanonp) > > register struct mount *mp; > > struct fid *fhp; > >

Tuning web benchmarks

Hi all:) We're installing a half dozen big web servers this season (P-II/450+, 512 MB ram). Right now I'm trying to run some benchmarks to see what needs tuning. It appears that the benchmarking clients are what need the tuning so far. We're using "ab" (apache benchmark) which ships with apache.

Re: Tuning web benchmarks

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999, David Miller wrote: > After the "Broken pipe" message it dies with a returncode of 141. You might want to try the Apache lists for this. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |When all else fails, let a = 7. |If that doesn't help, then read the manual. `---

Re: Jail syscalls

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Brian F. Feldman: > > Jail is in RELENG_3 >[ text explaining my wrongness] Ack. My memory worked in conjunction with my imagination to trick me. > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr

Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS

> From: Jason Thorpe > Date: 1999-08-03 12:04:48 -0700 > To: Oscar Bonilla > Subject: Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:28:29 -0600 > Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > Anyone knows abo

Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

Sorry for posting this out-of-the-blue, I meant to post it last week while the thread was still fresh, but I got distracted by work and other projects, so here it is a tad late. For those of you who hadn't been following the previous calloc() thread: I had theorized that we could see an imp

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the "checkpassword" module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail f

Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:28:29 -0600 Oscar Bonilla wrote: > Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) > mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? > It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been > talking about. In NetBSD, we specifically didn't

Tuning web benchmarks

Hi all:) We're installing a half dozen big web servers this season (P-II/450+, 512 MB ram). Right now I'm trying to run some benchmarks to see what needs tuning. It appears that the benchmarking clients are what need the tuning so far. We're using "ab" (apache benchmark) which ships with apache

Re: Jail syscalls

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Brian F. Feldman: > > Jail is in RELENG_3 >[ text explaining my wrongness] Ack. My memory worked in conjunction with my imagination to trick me. > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Free

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with > the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I > have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other > hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so > I want to have a better idea of what I'm doing

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about > > right. > > Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I > can't decide if the abo

Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS

> From: Jason Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1999-08-03 12:04:48 -0700 > To: Oscar Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:28:29 -0600 > Oscar Bonilla <[EMAIL PROT

Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

Sorry for posting this out-of-the-blue, I meant to post it last week while the thread was still fresh, but I got distracted by work and other projects, so here it is a tad late. For those of you who hadn't been following the previous calloc() thread: I had theorized that we could see an im

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the "checkpassword" module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about > right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:28:29 -0600 Oscar Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) > mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? > It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been > talking about. In NetBSD, we

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> By now the floppies for PowerBoot had come, so I tried > installing that. I could now boot the HD, and PowerBoot can > see the two partitions with freebsd installed (it even > recognizes them as freebsd). Right now, my situation is > that: > - If I select WinNT at the PowerBoot menu, it com

Re: Overloading my machine?

"Andrej Brodnik (Andy)" schrieb: > Hi there, > > I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running > FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): > > - three IDE disks > - floppy > - IDE CD-ROM > - three ep NIC > - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter > > Now, th

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 1:24 PM -0400 8/3/99, i (Garance A Drosihn) wrote: So, my guess is that my primary problem is that I have only a vague idea of what I'm doing... Where is a good point to start looking for a better idea? I tried searching the web site for "multi-boot", but that didn't turn up much. I have a

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

* Wes Peters (w...@softweyr.com) [990803 10:13]: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: > > > Wes Peters writes: > > > > NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. > > > > ;^) > > > > > > It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with > the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I > have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other > hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so > I want to have a better idea of what I'm doin

Berkeley IRS and NSS

Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been talking about. Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to m

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about > > right. > > Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I > can't decide if the ab

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 12:55 PM +0200 8/3/99, Graham Wheeler wrote: Hi all I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I am also interested in doing things like this, and my initial attempts didn't work quite the way I had hoped. Earlier I had a dual-boot setup wi

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about > right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> By now the floppies for PowerBoot had come, so I tried > installing that. I could now boot the HD, and PowerBoot can > see the two partitions with freebsd installed (it even > recognizes them as freebsd). Right now, my situation is > that: > - If I select WinNT at the PowerBoot menu, it co

Re: Overloading my machine?

"Andrej Brodnik (Andy)" schrieb: > Hi there, > > I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running > FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): > > - three IDE disks > - floppy > - IDE CD-ROM > - three ep NIC > - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter > > Now, t

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 1:24 PM -0400 8/3/99, i (Garance A Drosihn) wrote: >So, my guess is that my primary problem is that I have only a >vague idea of what I'm doing... Where is a good point to start >looking for a better idea? I tried searching the web site for >"multi-boot", but that didn't turn up much. I have

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

* Wes Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990803 10:13]: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Andy Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990802 00:53]: > > > Wes Peters writes: > > > > NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) > > > > > > It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this a

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

> Juha Nurmela wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing > > > argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from > > > a module's perspective)? > > > > It's splatted together, b

Berkeley IRS and NSS

Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been talking about. Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

At 12:55 PM +0200 8/3/99, Graham Wheeler wrote: >Hi all > >I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, >but am not having much luck. I am also interested in doing things like this, and my initial attempts didn't work quite the way I had hoped. Earlier I had a dual-boot setup

Re: Overloading my machine?

:Hi there, : :I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running :FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): : : - three IDE disks : - floppy : - IDE CD-ROM : - three ep NIC : - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter : :Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for the

Re: NSS Project

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): > > *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as > implemented > by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also > attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.c

Re: BSD voice synthesis

Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) > > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to h

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> > This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > > default as appropriate. > > If you do have the installations in two seperate

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> > If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, > > you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you > > want. > > Boot selector programs like os-bs work with partitions, not disk slices. > That's why I wanted separate partitions. At the moment I

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > > This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > > default as appropriate. > > If you do have the inst

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the > arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one > device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). Yes, the naming 'module_get_file_argstr()' had the _file_ for

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

> Juha Nurmela wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing > > > argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from > > > a module's perspective)? > > > > It's splatted together,

NSS Project

Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and works for some

Re: Overloading my machine?

:Hi there, : :I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running :FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): : : - three IDE disks : - floppy : - IDE CD-ROM : - three ep NIC : - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter : :Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for the

Re: NSS Project

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): > > *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented > by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also > attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.con

Re: BSD voice synthesis

Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) > > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

Ach. As I read my original mail here I realize that I didn't make clear that the chief aim of developing this FS is to glean information for the FS doc. My idea is to learn by writing a toy FS and to elaborate upon the experience in the form of a FS-doc. I'll hold off until the new FS code is he

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> > This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > > default as appropriate. > > If you do have the installations in two seperate

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> > If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, > > you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you > > want. > > Boot selector programs like os-bs work with partitions, not disk slices. > That's why I wanted separate partitions. At the moment I

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > > This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > > default as appropriate. > > If you do have the ins

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the > > arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, on e > > device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). > > It seems to me that the one who gets

NSS Project

Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and works for some

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the > arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one > device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). Yes, the naming 'module_get_file_argstr()' had the _file_ for

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

Peter Wemm wrote: > > Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the > arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one > device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). It seems to me that the one who gets the arguments is the one who searches for it.

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

I'll follow these guidelines. Thank you. > -Original Message- > From: Nik Clayton [SMTP:n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:47 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'Nik Clayton'; 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; > freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; d...@freebsd.org

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

Juha Nurmela wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing > > argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from > > a module's perspective)? > > It's splatted together, by just putting ' ' b

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

Ach. As I read my original mail here I realize that I didn't make clear that the chief aim of developing this FS is to glean information for the FS doc. My idea is to learn by writing a toy FS and to elaborate upon the experience in the form of a FS-doc. I'll hold off until the new FS code is h

Overloading my machine?

>From brodnik Tue Aug 3 15:27:35 1999 Subject: Overloading my machine? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:27:35 +0200 (CEST) Organization: IBC, Iskra Systems Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > >I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but > >am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular > >creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, > >the third for swap, and the fourth for the remai

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

> This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on t

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > assuming we are making it at all, the less pain. It provides a way > of getting parameters that is compatible with what is already > possible with loader (ie, the module need not differentiate between > it's method of loading). The code is working and ready. Actuall

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