Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-12 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 08:13 +1100]: > Note that whilst increasing the DD blocksize will speed up the > transfer, it will also increase the amount of collateral damage when a > hard error occurs. If you rummage around the ports or tools tree, > you'll find a utility (its na

Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

2006-08-26 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-27 01:13 +0200]: > guys... please use the official portsclean ! :) > > included in the sysutils/portupgrade > > portsclean -h > portsclean 2.0.1 (2006/06/13) > > usage: portsclean [-hCDDiLnPPQQq] > > -h, --help Show this message > -C, --workc

moused vs. init / single user mode from $firewall_script

2006-10-22 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hallo, I wanted to change my $firewall_script to be able to stop the boot and go to single user mode. So I added "kill -TERM $$" (like in some other rc.d scripts). But the system failed to go to singel user mode, I got only "can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Permission denied". If

Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?

2005-01-24 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Sam Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-24 19:29 -0800]: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > >The real reason that they are there is that ttyd waits for carrier > >detect, while cua doesn't. > > Non-blocking open followed by block on read/write and/or select dealt > with that long ago. But can you use

Re: switching between groups

2004-01-06 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-06 18:11 +]: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:14:06AM -0500, Adil Katchi wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas how it's possible for a user > > that belongs to multiple groups to somehow limit his or her own capabilities > > by using

Re: switching between groups

2004-01-06 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Adil Katchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-06 17:01 -0500]: > I don't follow, what do you mean? A file with mode rwr-- owned by root:group1 could be read by anyone who is not in group1. Nicolas Confusing quote: > -Original Message- > From: Nicolas Rachinsky [mai

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-09 00:02 -0700]: > Well, except when mfsroot.gz becomes too large to fit on a single > floppy. Right now it is about 90k away from that. What happens when > mount_nfsv4 gets put on there? John Baldwin and I already spent a > day over the holiday break ma

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-10 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Richard Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-09 20:59 -0500]: > Richard Coleman wrote: > >I apologize if this is a dumb question. But rather than using two > >floppies during the install process, why not three or four? > > > >Richard Coleman > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sorry, I just got caught up

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 10:19 +0100]: > Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Understood. I just think saying "let's get rid of floppies" is > > shooting a dog that happens to be near to hand because you don't like > > that dog, to stretch the analogy. > > I d

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 11:02 -0800]: > If you could make this work such that you just stuffed GENERIC and the > mfsroot onto however many floppies it takes, I think that would almost > certaintly solve re's problems with floppies (i.e. if all they had to do > when the kernel

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Avleen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 13:34 -0800]: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > Now, who wants to give this a try? > > > > OK, I tried now the following: > > > > I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Flop

Re: FreeBSD's malloc problem ?

2004-04-24 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Anton Alin-Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-24 21:27 +0300]: > tmp = (char *) malloc(strlen(s)); // line 68 Hmm, you need strlen(s)+1 bytes to store the string -- don't forget the trailing null byte. Nicolas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [PATCH] basic modelines for contrib/nvi

2004-07-25 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* José de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-25 18:03 -0300]: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:15:04 +0200, Jilles Tjoelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There are some options which can pose a security risk, including but not > > limited to cdpath, tempdir, path and shell. You should make a list

Re: Controlling external hardware via lpt0

2004-08-03 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Fernando Gleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-03 13:04 -0300]: > I need to control some external hardware with a small program in > FreeBSD. I thought about using the 8 data bits of the parallel port > for sending the control bits to the hardware. > The hardware is a very simple combinational lo

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-10 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]: > I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found > directory on another device, but no such luck. Is there anything else > that I'm overlooking? I'm willing to try anything since I'm doing all > this on a jun

Re: passwordless ssh logins with shared _HOST_ keys - not working.

2004-10-18 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Joe Schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-17 16:48 -0700]: > I am trying to allow _all users_ on CLIENT to login to > SERVER without a password. Is your ssh setuid root? Is UsePrivilegedPort set? UsePrivilegedPort Specifies whether to use a privileged port for outgoing connec-

Re: hints on shell string expansion ?

2003-07-07 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 00:46 -0700]: > but i because the string of actions is used in several places, > I would love to find a way to group actions into a single > variable and then write something like this > > actions="allow 'deny log' 'pipe 10'" > for act in $

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: > I seem to remember calling "panic" from ddb actually does > something strange. Try "call boot(1)" or "call boot" instead. > > Does anyone have a grasp on an alternate way of panicing a 4.7-R > kernel? kill -6 1 ___

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 17:34 -0400]: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:11:32PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > * Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: > > > I seem to remember calling "panic" from ddb a

Re: RFC: proposed new builtin for /bin/sh (associative arrays)

2003-11-01 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-31 21:16 +0100]: > Maybe I'm not understanding your intentions, but isn't that > already possible using "set | sed -n '/^foo_/s/=.*//p'"? > > Or do you want to avoid external programs? In that case it > would be a little bit more difficult to do, but i

bug in libutil or ppp?

2002-03-08 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hallo, I think there is an bug either in libutil's login function or in ppp. If you login via a port not in /etc/ttys (for example, i4brbch0) with ppp and utmp is enabled (the default) then ppp calls login() from libutil, login writes an entry to wtmp but not to utmp, because i4brbch0 is not in

Re: Running different startup scripts on behalf of loaded kernel and kernel modules

2002-03-12 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:38:42PM +0200, * Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think, I should refine my question ... > > How can I understand, when the startup scripts are going to be runned, which menu >item is choosed ? Does the output of "sysctl kern.bootfile" and kldstat hel

bin/35454

2002-03-15 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
Hello, I hope this mail is appropriate for this mailinglist. I have a question regarding a pr I've submitted. I've made the mistake to submit it without a patch. One week later I wrote a patch, and submitted it in a followup, but I fear that everybody interessted in the PR had already looked at

Re: Help: FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.5 upgrade problem using sysinstall script

2002-04-04 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Koroush Saraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-04 09:56:39 -0800]: > Hi All, > I would like to upgrade a bunch of FreeBSD4.3 computers to FreeBSD 4.5. > Following the FreeBSD handbook I have setup a computer as an ftp server to > serve the contents of the CD4_5_1 as the root for anonymous FTP. > I l

Re: accessing data track of multimedia CD?

2002-06-07 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-06 18:04 -0400]: > I've been beating my head for hours against a wall trying to research > this: > > Under FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE), with an ATAPI device (/dev/acd0c), how > can I mount, or otherwise access the data in a 'data track' of a > 'multimedia C

Re: sorting in C

2002-06-14 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Dan Arlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-14 14:40 -0400]: > dumb question: extra "&" in the previous post? > > why do both this > > qsort(&array, NUM_INTS, sizeof(*array), > > (int (*)(const void *, const void *)) comp); > and this > qsort(array, NUM_INTS, sizeof(*array), > (int (*)(const voi

Re: Beep after shutdown

2002-07-17 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Sean Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-17 02:23 -0700]: > Greetings, > > The fact that FreeBSD does not beep after it finishes shutting down has > costed me dozens of hours of reformatting inconsistent filesystems, and > probably all sorts of little bits of data loss which I'm just unaware

Re: coredump incomplete

2002-10-01 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Paolo Pisati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-01 23:01 +0200]: > > I'm trying to reproduce a bug of my system, and create a dump but, > just after my system rebooted, at the end of the > boot process, savecore found a seek problem or something like > that and the vmcore created was of only 10 byte