Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-02-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Stefan Esser writes: You could have blocked reception of ARP requests / ARP replies in your IPFW rules on one of the systems involved. Just try again with a completely open FYI- There's no way to block ARP packets with ipfw... it only deals with IP packets. er... if you use bridging

Maximize your website's traffic!

1999-02-01 Thread janet9981
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Re: vn and 4.0

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Is vn safe right now on -current? And does current's msdos fs :support fat-32? : :-- :Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) :d...@newsguy.com With that most recent patch ( which I am just committing now ) ... maybe. In -4.x, the alternate B_PAGING path in vn.c's vnstrategy()

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-01 Thread John Saunders
In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: At 12:09 PM 2/1/99 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: You are not supposed to understand this. You are not expected to understand this. It was (IIRC) the process switching magic at the heart of fork() in V7 (and earlier, I assume). If I remember right, it

RE: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-01 Thread Ladavac Marino
-Original Message- From: John Saunders [SMTP:john.saund...@nlc.net.au] Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 10:53 AM To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: At 12:09 PM

Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller

1999-02-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr. wrote: changing root device to wd1s1a ^^ changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic : cannot mount root (2) It doesn't matter what I set as num_ide_disks and rootdev, the system always tries to mount

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-02-01 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: You need to: 1) Upgrade your source tree to Jan 28 or later for 3.X or Jan 26 or later for 4.0 current, and make world and config and remake and install a new kernel, That's ok now :-). Thanks, Paulo. -- ... Overall we've found

Re: SIOCADDMULTI doesn't work, proposed fix

1999-02-01 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 02:02:48 -0500 (EST), Bill Paul wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu said: to compare 0 bytes worth of data and returns success). In my opinion, this is a bug: either the equal() macro should return false, or the zero length field should be detected by a sanity check and the

Re: nuts'n'bolts in vfs_bio

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello Matthew, : :thank you for reviewing vfs_bio.c. Your patch seems to :solve the problem with NFS writes remaining uncommitted. :At the time I can't see any NFS related data corruption. : :But when shutting down the server it still panics complaining :about dirty bufs. (happens in 9 out of 10

Re: nuts'n'bolts in vfs_bio

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've seen this for a non-NFS case. On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hello Matthew, : :thank you for reviewing vfs_bio.c. Your patch seems to :solve the problem with NFS writes remaining uncommitted. :At the time I can't see any NFS related data corruption. : :But when

RE: Kernel wont compile

1999-02-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 31-Jan-99 Tim Preece wrote: In file included from ../../sys/types.h:48, from ../../sys/param.h:56, from ../../i386/i386/genassym.c:45: ../../sys/inttypes.h:11: parse error before `int8_t' ../../sys/inttypes.h:11: warning: data definition has no type or

how to run a cvs server ?

1999-02-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Sorry if this is not 100% freebsd related... i wonder what should i use to run a local cvs server (to understand, something i can access setting CVSROOT=:pserver:u...@host:/pathname) i haven't found anything obvious with man -k cvs or man -k pserver... thanks luigi

RE: how to run a cvs server ?

1999-02-01 Thread Symmetron's FreeBSD Mailing Lists
check out http://www.cyclic.com/ (makers of CVS) or my favorite cvs manual at: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html The section of the online manual that talks about how to set up a pserver is at: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_2.html#SEC30 -john -Original Message-

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
Someone wrote: You are not supposed to understand this. I'd suggest that there's a vast difference in the intended audience of the code containing the above comment and FreeBSD. Not to mention a 20+ year gap in time. Whilst the official codebase may be under the control of a select group of

Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller

1999-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
Daniel C. Sobral d...@newsguy.com wrote: Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr. wrote: changing root device to wd1s1a ^^ changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic : cannot mount root (2) It doesn't matter what I set as num_ide_disks and

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
=Whilst the official codebase may be under the control of a select =group of committers, the code should be capable of being understood by =anyone who is reasonably proficient with C. Depends on your definition of reasonably, Mr. Special Counselor... That's what is being tirelessly debated for

NAT

1999-02-01 Thread pal
Hi! Is there any limit for open NAT connections? If it is where it can be set/change? Thanks, -pal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Problems with SLIP under 4.0-current...

1999-02-01 Thread oZZ!!!
Hello! % uname -a ..4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Jan 31 22:42:09 MSK 1999 % ifconfig sl0 sl0: flags=c013UP,BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST mtu 296 inet 195.2.84.116 -- 195.2.84.115 netmask 0xfff0 broadcast 195.2.84.115 i can't connect to my 195.2.84.115

Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller

1999-02-01 Thread Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr.
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: set root_disk_unit=2 That did it!!! FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT is now happily running on the master disk of the second IDE controller. Hello!! I'm running 4.0-CURRENT cvsupped last Friday. I've tried to move my installation from a partition on the

Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-02-01 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:25:03 +1300 From: Joe Abley jab...@clear.co.nz Never had a problem with it. Just to confirm that amd is not hideously broken beyond the point where _some_ people can use it just fine. Likewise, though nearly all of our NFS activity is among FreeBSD boxen. And we use NIS

3c589 doesn't work?

1999-02-01 Thread Alex Le Heux
Hi, Is there any reason why the 3c589 in my laptop stopped working after I upgraded it to -current? During boot it now only tells me: Initializing PC-card drivers: ed Instead of 3.0-RELEASE, which says: Initializing PC-card drivers: ed ep Any ideas? Alex -- Gezeur. Ik heb gewoon al

Obutuse code (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd))

1999-02-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 7:11:06 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: BTW, anyone looking further afield from the above comment might notice code like: register *foo; foo = u.u_area; foo-p_xyzzy =+ n; There aren't may C compilers left that can handle this sort of code... Ah, but

Re: style 9 pet annoyance

1999-02-01 Thread Eric Haug
Hi All, You should run vi with set tabstop=3 and shiftwidth=3 and see what you think of the 4 spaces that are IMHO now making the code look really bad. I think that the spaces stuff should be eliminated in favor of only tabs. Yes, i just deal with it. eric haug Saint Louis Univ To Unsubscribe:

Fix problems with SLIP under 4.0-current...

1999-02-01 Thread oZZ!!!
Hello! Here is a patch for SLIP under 4.0-current... After make it, i recompile kernel SLIP work. --- if_sl.c Tue Feb 2 01:42:35 1999 +++ if_sl.c.origTue Feb 2 01:56:41 1999 @@ -222,8 +222,7 @@ #ifdef SLIP_IFF_OPTS SLIP_IFF_OPTS; #else -/*

Re: style 9 pet annoyance

1999-02-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 17:03:55 -0600, Eric Haug wrote: Hi All, You should run vi with set tabstop=3 and shiftwidth=3 and see what you think of the 4 spaces that are IMHO now making the code look really bad. If that's the case, maybe we shouldn't. I think that the spaces stuff

how to record audio from the casstte thru pci128 audio in

1999-02-01 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I would like to know if there exist some software which can allow the user to record the audio from the cassette through the pci128 audio in. If so, would you please show me yours steps. Thanks. Clarence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: Fix problems with SLIP under 4.0-current...

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello! :Here is a patch for SLIP under 4.0-current... :After make it, i recompile kernel SLIP work. : :--- if_sl.cTue Feb 2 01:42:35 1999 :+++ if_sl.c.orig Tue Feb 2 01:56:41 1999 :@@ -222,8 +222,7 @@ : #ifdef SLIP_IFF_OPTS : SLIP_IFF_OPTS; : #else :-/*

KLD confusion..

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Take the following scenario: compiled in: module A kldstat -v shows module 'A' kldload A damned thing succeeds. e.g. [phaser.whistle.com] 516 kldstat -v Id Refs AddressSize Name 12 0xf010 1c8198 kernel.try Contains modules: Id Name 1

swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-01 Thread Robert Watson
So, never do stupid things as root; that's always my moto. Well, so I did something stupid as root, but it wasn't inherrently *that* stupid, at least not stupid enough to require a hard boot :). Below is the source code for the beginnings of an audit daemon--all it does is disable auditing on

Re: style 9 pet annoyance

1999-02-01 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 17:03:55 -0600, Eric Haug wrote: Hi All, You should run vi with set tabstop=3 and shiftwidth=3 and see what you think of the 4 spaces that are IMHO now making the code look really bad. If that's the case, maybe we

Make world failure in lpr.c

1999-02-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, 4.0-current sources current as of 9pm EST. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Version 1.28 (wollman) seems to have broken this... The relevant pieces being: +static char*Uflag; /* user name specified with -U flag */ + uflag = optarg; uflag =

lpr.c problem (never mind)

1999-02-01 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I see 1.29 (the fix) as of 10:30 EST... Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

3.0-current(12/98) - RELENG_3 problems

1999-02-01 Thread Kurt D. Zeilenga
I had a hoard of problems upgrading a 3.0-current a.out system circa ~12/7/98 to RELENG_3. After CVSuping, running make aout-to-elf-build would complain about OBJFORMAT previously being set in /etc/make.conf (which I don't think it was) and suggested I override it. Setting OBJFORMAT to elf, the

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:So, never do stupid things as root; that's always my moto. Well, so I did :something stupid as root, but it wasn't inherrently *that* stupid, at :least not stupid enough to require a hard boot :). Below is the source :... :Except I decided to test that feature that overrides the device filename

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: Uh. Mm.. Hmm :-) i = read(fd, size, sizeof(size)); ... malloc(bufsize * sizeof(char)) i = read(fd, buf, bufsize); When you are reading /dev/mem, 'size' can turn out to be anything. You are then

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :So this probably works for non-root users on files like /dev/zero that can :produce as much data as you might be interested in, suggesting a fun :denial of service attack for the bored and/or insane. : : Robert N Watson : :Carnegie Mellon Universityhttp://www.cmu.edu/ :TIS Labs at

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: Uh. Mm.. Hmm :-) i = read(fd, size, sizeof(size)); ... malloc(bufsize * sizeof(char)) i = read(fd, buf, bufsize); When you are reading /dev/mem, 'size' can

Dual console don't work

1999-02-01 Thread Bernd Walter
I use -h -D in /boot.config Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch the console back to vga without a terminal. -- B.Walter To

Re: how to run a cvs server ?

1999-02-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:30:40 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: i wonder what should i use to run a local cvs server (to understand, something i can access setting CVSROOT=:pserver:u...@host:/pathname) i haven't found anything obvious with man -k cvs or man -k pserver... Hi Luigi, There is a lot