Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread John Polstra
George Michaelson wrote: > > The discussion(s) took place on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The search string in the archives which works is: > > kirk AND soft-update AND integration > > note the soft-update, not softupdates. Thanks! I couldn't remember for sure where the discussion had been.

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread George Michaelson
The discussion(s) took place on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The search string in the archives which works is: kirk AND soft-update AND integration note the soft-update, not softupdates. note hackers. not current or stable. If you search anywhere else you will get techno-related issues. cheers

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread George Michaelson
cool. endit. -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311| http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread John Polstra
George Michaelson wrote: > Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit > "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately? > > A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the > FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for > more details.

Re: Found the startup panic - ccd ( patch included )

1999-06-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 June 1999 at 17:56:33 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > So far I've run the latest buffer cache related fixes overnight on my > SMP test box without any problems. > > Is anyone still experiencing buffer-cache related problems with CURRENT? My problems are gone. But I'm

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread George Michaelson
Here is the 1-question FAQ: Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately? A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for more details.

HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

1999-06-30 Thread John Polstra
Sometime this weekend (July 3-5) I am planning to repository-copy the soft-updates sources from their current location in "src/contrib/sys/softupdates" to "src/sys/contrib/softupdates". All of you using soft-updates will need to adjust your symbolic links in "src/sys/ufs/ffs" after this change ha

Re: Found the startup panic - ccd ( patch included )

1999-06-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
So far I've run the latest buffer cache related fixes overnight on my SMP test box without any problems. Is anyone still experiencing buffer-cache related problems with CURRENT? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Bad reference to zname in vm_zone struct

1999-06-30 Thread Boris Popov
Hello, Here is a 'little' problem with vm_zone structure and field 'zname' in it. zinit() function takes a pointer to name of zone and assigns it to field zname. Since nfs module defines this name in the static module memory pointer to name becomes invalid when module unl

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Wemm
"David E. Cross" wrote: > This is a bit of a tangent from the original post, but when did the FreeBSD > kernel start supporting ELF natively (not talking about Linux emulation). > I made the mistake of attempting to run a 3.0 ELF world with a 2.2.5 > kernel, and it worked (mostly). I was unaware

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread David E. Cross
This is a bit of a tangent from the original post, but when did the FreeBSD kernel start supporting ELF natively (not talking about Linux emulation). I made the mistake of attempting to run a 3.0 ELF world with a 2.2.5 kernel, and it worked (mostly). I was unaware that anything that "old" support

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 > > without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are > > unfortunately not an option). > > I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this ta

Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-30 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:09:13PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Damnit! I forgot the most important part of my argument -- people > upgrading from 2.2.8 and don't read the release notes are going to have > an /etc/rc.conf that sets inetd_flags="", hence their systems won't > wrap! Wouldn't

Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:07:31 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Okay, so let's say we've got Joe Bloggs upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.3 . He > doesn't read the release notes, so he doesn't notice that inetd now > wraps by default. The impact on him is: Damnit! I forgot the most important part of my arg

Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:41:54 MST, Doug wrote: > > This is a situation in which we can't make _everyone_ happy. For the > > particular case you've provided, anyone who upgrades from 2.2 to 3.3 > > without reading the release notes will get what's coming to him. > > That's always true, but

Re: Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT

1999-06-30 Thread Ilya Naumov
ÓÒ , 30 ÉÀÎ 1999, Thomas Dean ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: > I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The > notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get > around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. > > Everything worked OK, except the boot manager.

Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default

1999-06-30 Thread Doug
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > First, the setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should default to > > off, as defaulting it to on violates POLA for the many many people who > > haven't updated to 3.x from 2.2 yet. > > If we were integrating TCP Wrapper support into the base system for the > very firs

Re: Upgrading from ancient to current...

1999-06-30 Thread Mike Nowlin
> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5, and would like to upgrade to 3.1 > without losing the tremendous amounts of data on my drive (backups are > unfortunately not an option). > I have seen several posts containing advice for accomplishing this task > by altering sysinstall options, but this see