Re: ipfilter no longer in -CURRENT, whats the direction? (off to ipfw?)

1999-11-17 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:59:55PM -0500, spork wrote: I noticed that ipfilter is still gone... Was there any resolution here, or is ipfilter gone for good? All other concerns/features aside, I find the stateful inspection stuff much easier to setup than the ipfw filtering... I only touch

Re: Adding soundcards to newpcm

1999-11-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug Rabson wrote: Well, I finally decided to try to get my sound card working again. It is not detected as a PNP device, but rather as a motherboard resource using PNPBIOS. It is supposed to be an ESS1869 and, indeed, I use ESS drivers on Windows. But Compaq obviously decided to lay

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Switching to GCC 2.95.2 as base compiler

1999-11-17 Thread John Hay
I'll be pulling the switch to use GCC 2.95.2 as the base compiler in -CURRENT on Sunday evening (Freefall time). It seems that currently after introduction of 2.95.2 world could not be compiled with -jN option (complains about not being able to locate genrtl.h). This patch make "make

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
Steve Price writes: On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: # Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: # # Try this in -current # $ cat some_file | head # # I have to use ^C to regain control. # # ... and reverting to rev. 1.22 of eval.c fixes the problem. Does revision

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: Steve Price writes: On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: # Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: # # Try this in -current # $ cat some_file | head # # I have to use ^C to regain control. # # ... and reverting to

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
Martin Cracauer writes: Today I encountered again the problem when doing `man MIME::*' (you have to install /usr/ports/mail/p5-MIME-Tools). Curiously, I have no problem with `man \*' Again reverting to eval.c r1.22 solve the problem. I can now reproduce the problem. Please test the

Re: bdevsw ??

1999-11-17 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -CURRENT] Repeat after me: If I am running -CURRENT, I should be subscribed to -CURRENT, and that's where I should send my messages about -CURRENT. On Wednesday, 17 November 1999 at 9:53:19 -0500, Christopher Stein wrote: Could someone please tell me why bdevsw has

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: I can now reproduce the problem. Please test the appended diff which should fix this problem while still working for the here-backquote-three-stage-pipeline case. My apology especially to Bruce, I managed to pass your test case by not

Re: man reads /etc/rc.conf?

1999-11-17 Thread David Wolfskill
Other folks may also have expressed similar sentiments, but I'll quote a couple that I noted as I was blitzing through my 1900-message backlog (after being in class all last week): Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:57:15 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using command substitution in

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forrest Aldrich writes: : So wouldn't be the impact if a server was compromized in the absence : of an available fix :) A message to the security officer indicated that we don't have the root hole in -current or -stable, but are vulnerable to the DoS attacks. Warner

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forrest Aldrich writes: : So wouldn't be the impact if a server was compromized in the absence : of an available fix :) A message to the security officer indicated that we don't have the root hole in -current or -stable,

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Adam Wight
x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root. I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be excluded as well. -Adam Wight To Unsubscribe: send

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Rosengart writes: : I'd be happier if you said the message was *from* the security officer. :-) I am the security officer. :-) That's why I get the secuirty-officer's mail :-). I've not verified the information by

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-17 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: XFree86 makes it through the ports ``build'' target just fine. It breaks in ``install''. That's why I told Manfred I wasn't seeing the problem. I'd imagine the confusion is caused by the install target (improperly) building things. Yet another

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] TrouBle writes: : just a quick note, where do i find the information needed about the bind : problem i face in 3.3-RELEASE if any ?? You can find it at the BIND web site. FreeBSD has Bind 8.1.2. - From the chart at

Bumping libstdc++ version number

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The core team has discussed the issue of bumping the libstdc++ version numer because of the compiler upgrade: Yes, we do have a rule saying ``only one bump per release'', and that rules still stands. But no rule without exception: Clearly what we're looking at here deserves a version number

RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Adding soundcards to newpcm

1999-11-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Doug Rabson wrote: Well, I finally decided to try to get my sound card working again. It is not detected as a PNP device, but rather as a motherboard resource using PNPBIOS. It is supposed to be an ESS1869 and, indeed, I use ESS

Re: RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 02d801bf3132$71f6f8c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "David W. Chapman Jr. " writes: Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? Feature freeze in this year. Release in Q1/2000. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root. I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
since the environment is supposed to be part of the address space it is ssupposed to be private.. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Elischer wrote in list.freebsd-current: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your x

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver

1999-11-17 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Bishop wrote: BUT I have to say that on principle I'm with Rod on this one: EOF != EOT and mixing them up is a recipe for (inter alia) finding you can't read back dumps when you need them. Not to mention the fact

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Hibma
Yes. Boot system, kldload ums_mod, kldload umass_mod, plug in mouse and Zip drive and off you go. I assume "_mod" stands for module. Would you consider dropping that from the name? Very view things in /modules have "_mod" in their names. That was done because of some problem in

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Hibma
You mean along the lines of if_xx.ko? That might be an idea, apart from the fact that then the module name does not correspond in any way to the name used in the manpage. I'd love to see the various modules grouped logically. I'd vote in favor of usb_* in case it counts... It'd be

rtc0

1999-11-17 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
This is the output of my systat -vm 1 after the upgrade to gcc 2.95.2: 2 usersLoad 0.13 0.58 0.63 Wed Nov 17 19:11 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act

Re: RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Months. :) Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

ppp problems

1999-11-17 Thread Gfriday
everything is working fine as it used to after installing current but i get this error message when ppp tries to connect "ppp[52]: tun0: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor" i'm not sure how to fix this any ideas ?

init runs with console as control terminal?

1999-11-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
Since sometime last month, rc5des failed to start from my rc.local. I did a little investigation and it turned out that rc5des was started but later terminated by a SIGHUP. During its brief lifetime, /dev/console was its control terminal. Does anyone know what was going on? -lq To Unsubscribe:

Re: ppp problems

1999-11-17 Thread Brian Somers
everything is working fine as it used to after installing current but i get this error message when ppp tries to connect "ppp[52]: tun0: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor" i'm not sure how to fix this any ideas ? [.] You'll need to explain a bit more, and maybe share