Re: Should pam_ssh and xdm work?
I've uncommented the entries for pam_ssh in /etc/pam.conf, and am trying to log in via xdm on my local machine. I can type in my SSH passphrase into the password box, and it authenticates me, and runs my .xsession. So far, no problems. But it's not setting up the ssh-agent properly. Yes this is a known bug. We need to fix it. Two copies of ssh-agent appear to be run, and the environment variables SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID are not passed. They are not available in any xterms, and they do not appear in the environment while .xsession is being executed. Combinations of using sufficient and required for pam_ssh and pam_unix do not seem to affect things. Nor should they :-) M -- o Mark Murray \_ FreeBSD Services Limited O.\_Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Heh. And I thought I was the only micro-micro-hacker that grew up into Unix! I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. I poked a _lot_ of stuff from Compute!, including the assembler, and have several of their wire-bound books, too. I've got the 6502 monitor and 300bps modem cartridges, and if I dig around, I'll bet I can find the breadboarded interface to an audio cassette player I built so long ago from a Byte article! I soldered reset wires to both machines' mobos, too. I've still got all software I accumulated on floppy (even some cool EA games, and MicroProse's Gunship), but I have no idea if any of it is still readable. Those were the days, my friends... Dave In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think they have the code to the C64 supermon assembler? I spend 3 evenings poking it in from Compute! and now I can't find the cassette anywhere. I have that somewhere. I also have the Compute! with it in it. 8-). If you want to download it, you can get it from here: http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/programs/supermon.s I also have Aztec C for the C64. I'd give you a copy, but that would violate the license, since mine's paid for... 8^p. http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/ Is a pretty good C64 resource... see also: http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/ ...it has all the Waterloo stuff, among other things (schematics, ROM firmware images, etc.). BASIC, FORTAN, Pascal, APL, COBOL... 8-) 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: Oh my god. I don't even *remember* writing this one! This was when I was 18. Google's archive isn't complete but they've done an incredible job getting as much as they have. Pet, C64, DMail, Shell (for the amiga), backup/restore utilities, dme, dterm, AmigaUUCP, DICE, etc. It's all there in bits and pieces, complete with my trademark spelling errors. That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:04:44AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr stood up and spoke: Heh. And I thought I was the only micro-micro-hacker that grew up into Unix! I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. Well, I have three working C64's here, along with some badly misaligned 1541-II drives. I also have a CMD FD-2000 somewhere, yes, this lets you use 3.5 HD floppies on the C64, giving you 1.6 MB of data storage (I think the one-sided 5.25 1541 had about 170 kb). I also have a CMD SuperCPU here, this is a 20 Mhz accelerator (the normal C64 works at around 1 Mhz). Now, the SuperCPU also contains some 16 bit CPU that can work in comaptible mode to work just like the 6510. Still, this thing can also be programmed in native mode, so if you own this device you have virtually replaced your 8 bit processor at 1 Mhz with a 16 bit processor at 20 Mhz. I actually used my C64 until 1995, then I got a PC and switched right to FreeBSD (after three weeks of Windows 95). I should probably dedicate a weekend to find out if these 200+ C64 disks in my collection are still working (that is, if I get my 1541-II's properly alaigned again...) A few years ago I tried hard to get a look at a real C65, you know, these things that Commodore never really finsished, but which showed up in a few units after Commodore went bankrupt. However, I have never been able to pick up or only look at such a machine. Since only very few of them are available (and they are all very buggy), they are traded at very *high* prices between CBM fans... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
[PATCH] Fix endianness bug in YP
YP didn't work on my sparc64 testbox here until I crafted this patch. It's a simple combination of an endian problem on an arch where sizeof(long) != sizeof(IPv4 address). The patch can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/yp.patch and below: I've tested it on both sparc64 and i386. Both work fine. sparc64 didn't work prior to this. Unfortunately, my mailer is going to butcher it, so you probably want to fetch the version above. I'd like to commit it unless there are objections. Index: yplib.c === RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/lib/libc/yp/yplib.c,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -r1.36 yplib.c --- yplib.c 23 May 2001 15:37:10 - 1.36 +++ yplib.c 8 Jan 2002 10:30:39 - @@ -402,10 +402,12 @@ bzero(ysd-dom_server_addr, sizeof ysd-dom_server_addr); ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in); - ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = - *(u_long *)ybr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_addr; - ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port = - *(u_short *)ybr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_port; + bcopy(ybr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_addr, + ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr, + sizeof(ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr)); + bcopy(ybr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_port, + ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port, + sizeof(ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port)); ysd-dom_server_port = ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port; _close(fd); @@ -497,10 +499,12 @@ bzero((char *)ysd-dom_server_addr, sizeof ysd-dom_server_addr); ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; - ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port = - *(u_short *)ypbr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_port; - ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = - *(u_long *)ypbr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_addr; + bcopy(ypbr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_port, + ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port, + sizeof(ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_port)); + bcopy(ypbr.ypbind_resp_u.ypbind_bindinfo.ypbind_binding_addr, + ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr, + sizeof(ysd-dom_server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr)); /* * We could do a reserved port check here too, but this -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve! - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not
WEARING them might appreciate this.
At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers.
They have all of the old, and I use the term loosely, systems on
display, most still working.
What's pathetic is that my wife (who is also in this field) and I walked
down the ENTIRE line going used it, programmed it, programmed it, used
it. Didn't miss a one. Definitely worth a look see if you are in D.C.
area and can take the revelation that you are part of what the
Smithsonian considers HISTORY :-{
My pride and joy was a Dec Rainbow. It had dual processors! (Z80 and
8086) and single sided quad density floppies. Oh the joy of having your
operating system (CP/M), program AND data accessible all at the same
time!
If you don't know what a .ovl extension represents and have never
patched Wordstar, I'm sure this message has no meaning to you. Oh to be
young again.
Mike Smith
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Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote In those days I built my own SWTPc/09 clone system, running TSC FLEX and later TSC UniFlex. I still have it! Started off with 2 floppys, later grew a Miniscribe 3012, 10Mb @ 155ms average access time. 1Mbyte RAM. Motorola 6809 at 2 MHz. 2 years ago it still ran (OK, it blew a electrolytic cap in the HD power supply but that was an easy fix). Still have my SWTPc clone built around -83. Wire-wrapped from xerox'd original SWTPc schematics (only problem was that the schematics weren't always correct, took a while to figure out why the floppy controller didn't work :-). Never went beyond FLEX and a pair of floppies though, and cheated by buying a second hand SWTPc ct82 terminal (that's 82x16 on a 9 inch crt). That terminal together with a 300 bps modem was my usenet window for years. _ Mats Lofkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
PSI, Mike Smith says: Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not WEARING them might appreciate this. At the Smithsonian they have an exhibit on the history of computers. ... What's pathetic is that my wife (who is also in this field) and I walked down the ENTIRE line going used it, programmed it, programmed it, used We have the Science and Tech museum here in Ottawa. No its not as large, but it also has a computer museum. (http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/) But I had the same sad experience. I almost wanted to jump the rope to load the bootloader into a PDP-8... If you don't know what a .ovl extension represents and have never patched Wordstar, I'm sure this message has no meaning to you. Oh to be young again. I never did Z-80 and CP/M but that reminds me of a PDP-11 RT-11 overlay file. -- Diane Bruce, http://www.db.net/~db [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I got bored with the last witty aphorism. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: Those of you out there whose memories include CHANGING diapers not WEARING them might appreciate this. Heh, yeah, I'm having real nostalgia pangs reading this. Maybe we sould take this to freebsd-oldfarts@. the amazing nostalgia man (which the incredible power of remembering when this was all fields) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Things I've found in my attic, #2: A hundredweight of pornography.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Which ftpd for proxy ?
Hi all, Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? My Background: - I'm not looking for high performance, (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts). - I will have the usual security concerns with the imminent arrival of a flat rate permanent DSL connection :-) - /usr/libexec/ftpd does not (at least did not) support proxy requests. - I have apache installed on my firewall am using FTP_PROXY=http://gate but often remote ports distfile ftpd hosts refuse to serve me, perhaps because my apache is asking remote server on port 80, not ftp port. I looked at /usr/share/doc/handbook faq but noticed nothing. I investigated ports/ftp/* with grep -i prox etc ... POSSIBLES: bftpd: Very configurable FTP server that can do chroot easily CHANGELOG: You can have bftpd bind to only one interface, for example, if you want to run an FTP proxy server on the same port on another network interface. lukemftpd: Enhanced ftp server from NetBSD src/ftpd.cat8: prevents `third-party proxy ftp' muddleftpd: A new ftp server that can perform a variety of ftp tasks src/proxy.c oftpd: A threaded, anonymous only FTP server designed for security grep shows no prox proftpd:Highly configurable ftp daemon grep shows no prox pure-ftpd: A small, easy to set up, fast and very secure FTP server my distfile corrup, so not grepped. vsftpd: A FTP daemon that aims to be very secure grep shows no prox wu-ftpd:A replacement ftp server for Un*x systems The zero-length .notar file can confuse some web clients and FTP proxies TO AVOID: ncftpd: commercial yale-tftpd: tftp I'd appreciate comment please. IE which should I use ? Thanks. Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Free Software with Free Sources: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Re. PET 2001-8 etc Ancient google archives might be better on chat@ not hackers@ , however, You may want to look at http://www.vintage.org http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/vcfe/ A BSD box designed by Bill Jollitz. Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:00:58PM +, Julian Stacey wrote: TO AVOID: ncftpd: commercial Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. Joe msg30801/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Ancient google archives might be better on chat@ not hackers@ , however, You may want to look at http://www.vintage.org http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, Old people don't do chat. Don't worry. Most of us can't even remember where we left our teeth. So by tomorrow, we definitely won't remember any of this and the list will be boring again. BTW, Never send oldfarts links to sites you think may interest them that contain words like VINTAGE. We are the original hackers! Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Is this TCP tuning information true?
Hi, Fund a URL for TCP tuning at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/net100/auto.html At the bottom of the page, it says: OpenBSD/FreeBSD saved ssthresh/cwnd info for a path in the kernel routing table, as I recall? That info could be used to prime subsequent connections on the same path. Reference ? I traced the tcp_input.c/tcp_output.c (4.3-RELEASE), and did not found such information. Would someone confirm above information or point to where is the code or document for saving this ssthresh/cwnd information to the routing table? TIA, -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Issues with /stand sysinstall
There is no way, currently. It's done by the crunchgen scripts as part of making a release but there's no way to do it for the purposes of repopulating /stand. Tried -questions, no response. Verified issue on 4.5 PRERELEASE. Going to /usr/src/release/sysinstall and doing make all make install builds a sysinstall which seems not to include the functionality needed to run as /stand/sh, /stand/fsck and friends. What is the correct way to build and install all of /stand? /\/\ \/\/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Doug Rabson wrote: That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. Fastest I ever saw with a firmware hack was 53k... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 19:45, Terry Lambert wrote: Doug Rabson wrote: That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. Fastest I ever saw with a firmware hack was 53k... Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Julian Stacey wrote: Hi all, Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? man libalias Then install natd. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Miguel Mendez wrote: Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P There's no GCC for it, and some idiot keeps converting things to ANSI C, so I have an incredibly hard time compiling the code on my C64 and Amiga with Aztec C (from Manx software), which are both vanilla KR compilers. It used to be that UNIX was written in KR C by the people who invented both C and UNIX in the first place... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
: :That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since :the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but :it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. : :-- :Doug RabsonMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 Yup. Remember Bryce's 1541 Flash? He was working on beefing up the C64 serial link while I was working on beefing up the PET's (software driven) IEEE-488 link. We both managed to increase disk bandwidth by an order of magnitude, mainly by synchronizing the computer's 6502 with the peripheral's 65xx and then just stuffing data into the ports without bothering with any handshakes until the very end. That old usenet posting I posted has some references to it. -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?
Hi, I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. -- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], LPIC-1 www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Stacey wrote: Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? man libalias Then install natd. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?
Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. Hmmm, getfsspec seems to fill the need. Sorry for the noise. -- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], LPIC-1 www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Is there anyway from userspace to get the 'enum vtagtype v_tag' for a vnode for an open file?
* Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020108 13:55] wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, I want to find out the file system type from userspace for an open file. Can I get at this info? the stat call does not give it to me. Hmmm, getfsspec seems to fill the need. Sorry for the noise. I think you want fstatfs(2). -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Julian Stacey wrote: You may want to look at http://www.vintage.org http://www.vcf.orgVintage Computer Fest http://www.vcfe.org Vintage Computer Fest Europa, http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/vcfe/ A BSD box designed by Bill Jollitz. Add to that a friend of a friend: http://www.corestack.com Brandon D. Valentine -- Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari. - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Overriding ARG_MAX
At 10:54 PM -0500 1/4/02, David Miller wrote: What I usually want to do is something more like ls *.out |wc -l, or grep something *.data or cat *.foo | grep something. I have rebuilt the system in the past after greatly expanding ARG_MAX, and that does what I want. I'm just looking for an easy way to preserve it across cvsups, not looking for alternate ways to list the files in a directory:) While greatly expanding ARG_MAX might do what you want, it is a bad idea as there are a number of side-effects to doing that. You are not just fixing your problem, you are greatly increasing the memory usage of many things in the system -- some of which are going to assume the official POSIX setting for ARG_MAX (intentionally or unintentionally) no matter what you change it to. That is a mighty big hammer to swing to fix the problem you're talking about, and it's a hammer that you're going to have to keep expanding as you get more files to process. I doubt you'll be thrilled with this answer, as I am also going to ignore your direct question to answer what *I* consider to be the bigger question, but I would do this some other way. If it were me, I would write a script in perl or ruby which would do the operations I feel I need to do on these directories of files. Maybe I'd even generalize it, so I could feed it normal-looking commands, and the script would know how to break up the list of files to get the right results -- without going over ARG_MAX. This way you don't have to care about changing the size of ARG_MAX. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
:Unix! : :I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware :and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. : :I poked a _lot_ of stuff from Compute!, including the assembler, and :have several of their wire-bound books, too. : :I've got the 6502 monitor and 300bps modem cartridges, and if I dig :around, I'll bet I can find the breadboarded interface to an audio :cassette player I built so long ago from a Byte article! I soldered :reset wires to both machines' mobos, too. : :I've still got all software I accumulated on floppy (even some cool EA :games, and MicroProse's Gunship), but I have no idea if any of it is :still readable. : :Those were the days, my friends... :Dave Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the thing. I had replaced the character generator ROM with a RAM and wired in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. I had the machine language monitor extension rom. I had wired in an extra 16K of dynamic ram, giving me 48K total (bank selected) (imagine piggy-backing a bank of 14 or 16 pin DIPs on another bank and soldering each lead, except for the select, to the one below). I had the NMI button hooked up, of course, and I brought the TTL video lead for the monitor out to act as a poor man's oscilliscope. The insides of that box was a mess. These days traces or so tiny and chip leads are so close together (not to mention the 6+ layer boards!) that hacking a PC's hardware is pretty close to impossible. But it's funny... I never had a desire to hack up my C64's or my Amiga's. I guess there enough fun things to do with them that hardware hacking wasn't necessary. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:38:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Those were the days, my friends... :Dave Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the thing. I had replaced the character generator ROM with a RAM and wired in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. I had the machine language monitor extension rom. I had wired in an extra 16K of dynamic ram, giving me 48K total (bank selected) (imagine piggy-backing a bank of 14 or 16 pin DIPs on another bank and soldering each lead, except for the select, to the one below). I had the NMI button hooked Ah, but that is easy. I did the same when I got my hands on a free stack of DRAM chips. But mine were J-lead SMD jobs. Interesting... ;-) These days traces or so tiny and chip leads are so close together (not to mention the 6+ layer boards!) that hacking a PC's hardware is pretty close to impossible. Hm. 2 months ago I removed a SMD multifunction I/O chip from a dual CPU slot 1 mainboard. And put a new (well, had to desolder that one from a donor mainboard) chip back on. It *is* doable, but you need a stereo microscope, a Weller fine-pointed thermocontrolled soldering iron and lots of patience. Only downside: people started to dial 112 (our version of 911) when I told them ;)) W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: A Helping Hand
On 2002-01-04 23:00:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whichever hacker, Upon reading section 3.1 in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT, I learned that you can always use a helping hand. I, however, do not know how to program just yet. The project aroused my interest, and I'd like to help out when I can. If you'd like, I'll take any and all advice provided on how to go about helping the freebsd team through recommended reads, practices, and people to talk to. I learn very fast, and I am quite aspiring. If you're interested, we could talk more on IRC. The front page of http://www.FreeBSD.org/ has a link to the article titled Contributing to FreeBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html That should get you started :-) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
In a message dated 01/08/2002 2:11:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miguel Mendez wrote: Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P Can I interest anyone in a half box of Elephant Disks (the ones the labels wouldn't stay on)? DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Oliver Fromme wrote: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Stacey wrote: Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? man libalias Then install natd. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. The natd program has application level proxy code (natd is an application level program) that supports FTP, RTSP, QuickTime, RealAudio, and other application protocols that have the bad grace to pass IP address and port information over a control link. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Jan 08, at 01:38 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the thing. [SNIP] -Matt I've never been much of a hardware hacker, but my buddy, some eight years older than I (with an EE degree), hacked up his PET pretty good. I don't know the particulars, but I remember a wrapped core of wires some inch-think that went all over his house. He had managed to get the little thing to control his garage-door opener, his microwave oven, his stereo system, and I don't remember all what else. You could access it remotely, too. The stereo thang was SO cool. He'd cataloged all his 8'' quad tape reels - which he'd set up with some sort of markers on the unused channels - so you could walk up to the PET, select a song from a menu, it'd tell you what reel to mount, and it'd find that song and play it! FF, RW, skip, repeat, all the bells and whistles. Select radio freqs on the tuner, too! I remember all sorts of solenoids and servos he added to the guts of his stereo equipment to pull this off. I was like, 16 or 17, as I recall, and that just blew me away. He goes back to wire-wrapping instructions on CDC test equipment, and now is focused on bleeding-edge HDD controllers. He's the mad scientist guy in my life. My heyday was back when MS-DOS was still fair game, and DESQview was the cool thing to run on a PC. I hacked their and the BIOS interrupts a lot, and was actually paid pretty well for it. Can't do that no more, though. OK, enough of this Wayback Machine(tm) stuff. See Ya, Dave -- __ __ \__ \D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __/ \/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/\/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
:Hm. 2 months ago I removed a SMD multifunction I/O chip from a dual :CPU slot 1 mainboard. And put a new (well, had to desolder that one :from a donor mainboard) chip back on. It *is* doable, but you need a :stereo microscope, a Weller fine-pointed thermocontrolled soldering iron and :lots of patience. : :Only downside: people started to dial 112 (our version of 911) when :I told them ;)) :W/ :-- :| / o / /_ _email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :|/|/ / / /( (_) BulteArnhem, The Netherlands Ah, that's no fun. Try this: Take a surface-mounted circuit board, turn it upside down, and apply a heat gun to the backside. Now *that* is fun! -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 01/08/2002 2:11:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miguel Mendez wrote: Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P Can I interest anyone in a half box of Elephant Disks (the ones the labels wouldn't stay on)? ; I don't know which is more sad, the fact that I thought of doing this, ; or the fact that I still remember how. COUTEQU $FDED ; character output REPLY LDX #0 :1 LDA TEXT,X BEQ :2 JSR COUT INX BNE :1 ; blows up if string length 255 :2 RTS TEXTBYT No thanks, I've got a bunch from my Apple ][ days., $0D, $00 Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Matthew Dillon wrote: Ah yes. By the time I was ready to throw my PET away the hardware inside was so hacked up I don't think anybody but me could boot the thing. I had replaced the character generator ROM with a RAM and wired in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? We had the high resolution graphics board in one machine; it's where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now *that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character generator output with bitmapped graphics, and un-overlapping the video memory by actually wiring in the chip select for more RAM. I had the machine language monitor extension rom. 8-). Quick, what are A0, A2, and A4, and what are their operands? What's the difference between 4C and 6C? 8-) 8-). I had wired in an extra 16K of dynamic ram, giving me 48K total (bank selected) (imagine piggy-backing a bank of 14 or 16 pin DIPs on another bank and soldering each lead, except for the select, to the one below). I paid the $18 (a tidy sum, in those days!) for the 100 pin edge connector from DigiKey, and expanded that way. For the bank select, I had a set of sockets to sit in the sockets between the RAM and the motherboard for the select. Mostly I just ran with the 32K, which was enough for almost anything you would ever want to do... I had the NMI button hooked up, of course, and I brought the TTL video lead for the monitor out to act as a poor man's oscilliscope. The insides of that box was a mess. Heh. The only ugly thing about mine today is the replacement power diodes are larger so they won't cook, and I replaced the Molex connector do that opening and closing the case didn't short the power supply... These days traces or so tiny and chip leads are so close together (not to mention the 6+ layer boards!) that hacking a PC's hardware is pretty close to impossible. Not to mention incredibly uninteresting. When PCI went in, the experimentor's cards became too complicated, as well 8-(, so things aren't nearly as easy as they used to be, even back in the ISA days... But it's funny... I never had a desire to hack up my C64's or my Amiga's. I guess there enough fun things to do with them that hardware hacking wasn't necessary. You never did the Fat Agnes surgery, or the Spirit memory board thing on an Amiga 1000, so you could see the double half bright demo animation of the tap-dancing guy while In the Hall of the Mountain King played out the speakers? There's also the 68010 hack for the 1000 (you needed to hack virus code to make the MPSW fixup patch live across a reboot so that you could run the PC and Mac emulators, but it let you run SVR3.2 on the A1000, if you had the Supra SCSI drive and Zorro controller... ah, the first UNIX box I ever owned...). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. The natd program has application level proxy code (natd is an application level program) that supports FTP, RTSP, QuickTime, RealAudio, and other application protocols that have the bad grace to pass IP address and port information over a control link. I thought that natd just parsed the PORT and PASV commands and replies, respectively, and changed them accordingly, while just passing on everything else. That's not what I call an application-level proxy. It's a packet-level proxy with some hacks. ;-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Oliver Fromme wrote: I thought that natd just parsed the PORT and PASV commands and replies, respectively, and changed them accordingly, while just passing on everything else. That's not what I call an application-level proxy. It's a packet-level proxy with some hacks. ;-) What do you want it to do above and beyond that? There's very little else *to* do, I think... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
:UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? : :We had the high resolution graphics board in one machine; it's :where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now :*that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character :generator output with bitmapped graphics, and un-overlapping the :video memory by actually wiring in the chip select for more RAM. : : I had the machine language monitor extension rom. : :8-). Quick, what are A0, A2, and A4, and what are their :operands? What's the difference between 4C and 6C? 8-) 8-). AAaaahhh Aaaah take them away! take them away! God, it's all coming back. A2, ldx # immediate.. NO NO! I refuse! The pain, the pain! My favorite is A1 and B1. NO! STOP! But, do you know what '02' does? On an original 6502? The 6502 was a hardwired processor, which means that even the hex codes that didn't have an official instruction did things. Weird things to be sure, but things nontheless. They cleaned it up later on (in the 816) but not in the PET/C64 era and not on the 6502 based 65xx series. Somebody somewhere has a complete list of unsupported instructions that nevertheless do interesting things. I wrote a centipede game entirely in machine language and sent it off to cursor magazine, but they didn't publish it... I think they thought I might have stolen it or something it was so good :-(. The last level was the best... the centipede was invisible and only became visible for a few seconds when you hit it. I *so* wish I still had that code. :You never did the Fat Agnes surgery, or the Spirit memory :board thing on an Amiga 1000, so you could see the double half :bright demo animation of the tap-dancing guy while In the :Hall of the Mountain King played out the speakers? No, never did that. :There's also the 68010 hack for the 1000 (you needed to hack :virus code to make the MPSW fixup patch live across a reboot :so that you could run the PC and Mac emulators, but it let :you run SVR3.2 on the A1000, if you had the Supra SCSI drive :and Zorro controller... ah, the first UNIX box I ever owned...). : :-- Terry Ho! -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Jan 08, at 02:58 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: 8-). Quick, what are A0, A2, and A4, and what are their operands? What's the difference between 4C and 6C? 8-) 8-). LDY imm, LDX imm, LDY zpg. JMP abs vs. JMP ind. HA! -- Terry Dave -- __ __ \__ \D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __/ \/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/\/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
:... : in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti : on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. : :UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? No extra rom slots. Had to load from tape or floppy. :We had the high resolution graphics board in one machine; it's :where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now :*that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character :generator output with bitmapped graphics, and un-overlapping the :video memory by actually wiring in the chip select for more RAM. I seem to recall the CBM business machines (decked out PETs with a larger screen and other cool stuff) had some cool graphics capabilities, but the only time I was ever able to play with one was in the computer store. They were just too expensive for me at the time. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:36:55PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hm. 2 months ago I removed a SMD multifunction I/O chip from a dual :CPU slot 1 mainboard. And put a new (well, had to desolder that one :from a donor mainboard) chip back on. It *is* doable, but you need a :stereo microscope, a Weller fine-pointed thermocontrolled soldering iron and :lots of patience. : :Only downside: people started to dial 112 (our version of 911) when :I told them ;)) :W/ :-- :| / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :|/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands Ah, that's no fun. Try this: Take a surface-mounted circuit board, turn it upside down, and apply a heat gun to the backside. Now *that* is fun! Sure, works. But then you can generally throw the PCB away. I was trying to fix it remember? :-P Instead of a heat gun I saw some adventurous people use an acetylene torch. Now that works quick ;-) Fascinating.. -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: I had wired in an extra 16K of dynamic ram, giving me 48K total (bank selected) (imagine piggy-backing a bank of 14 or 16 pin DIPs on another bank and soldering each lead, except for the select, to the one below). Yes, now imagine doing that with 100 odd pin TSOP's with really small pitch, stacked three high... we have a couple of them at work for some eval boards which didn't have enough memory. Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
If memory serves me right, Matthew Dillon wrote: But, do you know what '02' does? On an original 6502? The 6502 was a hardwired processor, which means that even the hex codes that didn't have an official instruction did things. Weird things to be sure, but things nontheless. They cleaned it up later on (in the 816) but not in the PET/C64 era and not on the 6502 based 65xx series. I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone ever call the 65816 a cleaned-up version of anything. Talk about a Jeckyl and Hyde processor! (For the uninitiated, it had these mode bits where you could set parts of the processor to be either 8-bit or 16-bit mode, along with things like the 8086's segment registers to give you this pseudo-24-bit addressing. I think they finally did use all 256 opcodes on that one.) Oh yeah, I think someone had to do some amount of clean up for the 65C02 since it had a few more (defined) opcodes than the original 6502. [Centipede game] Ob-65XXX hack: I once wrote a spreadsheet, starting from a numerics package, ProDOS, and a GUI toolkit. In assembler. Doing the infix expression parser was especially fun. If anyone remembers Pinpoint Publishing and their still-borne Digit, well, that was it. I still have my code, in a couple of two-inch binders somewhere. Somebody somewhere has a complete list of unsupported instructions that nevertheless do interesting things. I have this odd feeling that such a list was either in the Zaks book or one of the Apple ][ reference manuals. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Okay. Could we move the trip(s) down memory lane to some other mailing list? I'm certainly old enough to wax nostalgic about many things, but somehow freebsd-hackers doesn't seem to be an appropriate place to do that. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Stacey wrote: Hi all, Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? man libalias Then install natd. I don't believe that's the solution I'm looking for. I may be wrong, or things may have changed, but when I built my firewall a few years back I was under the strong impression that NAT was a poor man's cheap dirty insecure replacement for a proper firewall ? I don't want to secure all my internal hosts, I just want the gate to be secure. I went to the effort of doing the thing right, building all the ipfw rules, getting internal external named roughly right, getting sendmails on gate internals to forward (OK, incoming is OK, but I admit outgoing is not yet right), getting apache reconfig'd to support proxying (it didnt used to, might now by default, can't remember), ftp proxy is about the last thing. I'm not be convinced it'd be worth tossing all that work putting in a NATD security loophole ? I suppose folks on [EMAIL PROTECTED] might know more about ipfw + proxies V. NAT, but I wasnt really asking to discuss that, I was asking for reccomendations on proxying ftpd's. Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
TO AVOID: ncftpd: commercial=20 Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. I wrote: (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts) I want a proxy ftpd for Home Use. I have no budget want no licensing hastle now or later. Free software is also easier to later clone, custom config supply to customers pre config'd with rest of systems. Are there features of ncftpd I can't get for free with the other ftpd's ? Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Mats Lofkvist wrote: Still have my SWTPc clone built around -83. Wire-wrapped from Never went beyond FLEX and a pair of floppies though, and cheated I was part of a 4 man team for a better DOS for the SWTPC M6800 in 79/80, I still have email contact with one of the fellow students who may have a copy of what he wrote back then, if wanted. Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
Nils Holland wrote: I should probably dedicate a weekend to find out if these 200+ C64 disks in my collection are still working (that is, if I get my 1541-II's properly alaigned again...) Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c valid.1 `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS ! (because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer even if the CRC fails, so I can then average each bit of each byte in each sector for all reads). `Valid' works at sector level, no knowledge of file systems, so it can rescue/ manipulate BSD FS sectors on floppy, tar images, DOS or Minix file systems etc. Julian J.StaceyMunich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:22:21AM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: TO AVOID: ncftpd: commercial=20 Just because it's commercial doesn't mean that it's no good. It is actually quite cheap, and we used it a lot at Pavilion Internet. I wrote: (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts) I believe that you can use ncftpd with a 5 user licence for free. Joe msg30838/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD Floppy driver needs enhancement...
Julian Stacey wrote: Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c valid.1 `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS ! (because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer even if the CRC fails, so I can then average each bit of each byte in each sector for all reads). `Valid' works at sector level, no knowledge of file systems, so it can rescue/ manipulate BSD FS sectors on floppy, tar images, DOS or Minix file systems etc. Sounds like the FreeBSD floppy driver needs to be modified to return the full buffer, even if there is a CRC error. This implies a descriptor being passed, so that the CRC and the data are seperate. You could probably just wadd an ioctl that expected the descriptor to be at the front of a data buffer, so that you passed the address of the descriptor + buffer, after the ioctl(). This seems a useful feature... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
console becomes unusable after screensaver -- who is to blame?
[replies sent directly to me may timeout and bounce, since I'm not online as often as I should be, but I'll check the list archives] Howdy This is something that normally hasn't been a problem -- with a different video card, I've loaded the green saver, done all my work on the sc consoles, the saver's kicked in when I've failed at staying awake, the monitor has powered down, and then when I've rolled over onto the keyboard, the monitor comes back on and I can work, or fall back asleep, or whatever. However, after putting in this newer Eeevil Kyro video card (pci1: SGS-Thomson model 0010 VGA-compatible display device at 0.0 irq 11 I haven't been able to wake up the display after the saver has kicked in for a length of time. I'm able to manually invoke (shift-pause) the saver and soon after, return to normal. And I've never had any problems with the other video card I've normally used. I made the mistake of falling asleep while listening to an mp3, and I seem to remember that it didn't sound quite right as I slept. When I half-woke, I couldn't get the display to come back on by the keyboard, but the mp3 sounded a bit better (I think, I was mostly asleep and the `music' wasn't something I'd be able to identify as sounding abnormal without being familiar with it, which I wasn't). I then moved the mouse. Then the `music' sounded like the machine had wedged. The monitor didn't come back on. I didn't get any response from a serial port that I thought might have a getty (later I verified it should). So after a reboot, when I got into saver mode again but without any mp3 playing, again I couldn't get the keyboard to wake the monitor. However, this time, whacking the mouse returned the display to life and indeed the mouse cursor was hopping smoothly around. But still the keyboard, a generic IBM clickety-click PS/2 model, could not be used for anything. But what I did notice is that each time I hit a key, any mouse movement would freeze for a few seconds, before returning to normal. Dis- and reconnecting the keyboard (I'm not admitting to doing so) did no good. Usual numlock and scrolllock keys made no difference. Only the serial port could be used, though I could cut and paste from the mouse into the login prompt. Obviously this particular video card seems to disagree with something. But who really is to blame? I don't know enough to say * the video card is responsible for hosing the keyboard * there's some BIOS video power manglement option that I need to change * there's something in the green_saver module or FreeBSD itself I haven't taken the time to try the several BIOS choices to see if they make a difference. But if anyone has any ideas, I'm open to learning. I haven't tried the apm_saver at all. --- Actually, it seems that what is happening with this particular video card and the green saver, is identical to what happens on a different machine with a completely different card and BIOS, when I boot without a keyboard attached at time of the kernel probe, such as when I boot to log to a serial console, and then attach the keyboard later. I have but a single keyboard I must juggle around. So it doesn't seem that the video card is at fault itself. Weird. thanks, barry bouwsma To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Which ftpd for proxy ?
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:00 am, Julian Stacey wrote: Hi all, Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? My Background: - I'm not looking for high performance, (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts). - I will have the usual security concerns with the imminent arrival of a flat rate permanent DSL connection :-) - /usr/libexec/ftpd does not (at least did not) support proxy requests. - I have apache installed on my firewall am using FTP_PROXY=http://gate but often remote ports distfile ftpd hosts refuse to serve me, perhaps because my apache is asking remote server on port 80, not ftp port. Give /usr/ports/www/squid a try, it can proxy HTTP and FTP. http://www.squid-cache.org/ Hope this helps, but if I where doing it I would use NAT and block any incoming from the outside. That way you can use other net apps too. -Casey Z -- This E-mail message was created with Open Source Software. Using: FreeBSD, http://www.freebsd.org KDE's KMail, http://www.kde.org Vist these sites and support O.S.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Very High Speed TCP Session ... How I can achieve ?
I would like to have a very High Throughput TCP session Between two Free-BSD but I'm unable to get Socket buffer larger than 256 Kbytes. My test scenario is a bulk FTP in a (totally empty) test Pipe of 1 Gbit/s and 170 ms of delay so my pipe size over 2 Mbytes. Thanks for any suggestion or reference you can give. /Giovanni. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Very High Speed TCP Session ... How I can achieve ?
hello, I tried setting socket buffer to 300 k and and am able to do it. What error do you get when you try to set socket buffer larger than 256 k. What is the version of freebsd u r using ? manish http://www.cis.udel.edu/~jain On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Giovanni Pau wrote: I would like to have a very High Throughput TCP session Between two Free-BSD but I'm unable to get Socket buffer larger than 256 Kbytes. My test scenario is a bulk FTP in a (totally empty) test Pipe of 1 Gbit/s and 170 ms of delay so my pipe size over 2 Mbytes. Thanks for any suggestion or reference you can give. /Giovanni. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-net in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
