Re: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
I don't agree with this change. hostname != name-that-IP-address-resolves-to. I can see how loggin the IP address (or some manifestation thereof) to a central logger, but this is too strong. Example: My laptop has a hostname set for my home network, and I connect it to my work network and DHCP

current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: I don't agree with this change. hostname != name-that-IP-address-resolves-to. Dunno what you are talking about. That has nothing directly to do with this. No one is talking about forcing you to change your hostname. The patch just

Re: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: I don't agree with this change. hostname != name-that-IP-address-resolves-to. Dunno what you are talking about. That has nothing directly to do with this. No one is talking about forcing you to change your hostname. The

Re: sysinstall move and make release on FreeBSD-stable

2001-01-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Maxim Sobolev wrote: Slightly OT, but could we have a flag to disable building sysinstall during make world? It's hardly a tool that is required for day-to-day operation, so in most cases it will only waste considerable amount of root partitition. 1) Now sysinstall is /usr/sbin, and it is

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same thing but without ccd involvement? M -- Mark Murray

Re: sysinstall move and make release on FreeBSD-stable

2001-01-20 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
3) Most of what FreeBSD installs is not required for day-to-day for most users. Since many users use sysinstall to some extent as a system managing tool, sysinstall is actually quite more oftenly used than many. It's currently the best way to install packages IMHO. With the automatic

Re: sysinstall move and make release on FreeBSD-stable

2001-01-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" wrote: 3) Most of what FreeBSD installs is not required for day-to-day for most users. Since many users use sysinstall to some extent as a system managing tool, sysinstall is actually quite more oftenly used than many. It's currently the best way to install packages

Re: sysinstall move and make release on FreeBSD-stable

2001-01-20 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
What are you talking about? pkg_add -r pkgname, that's all it takes. *hides head in shame* OK so I'm a sucker for the graphical interface =) DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Donald J . Maddox
This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or typing. It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though. On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Murray writes: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same thing but

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same thing but without ccd

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when moving the mouse or typing. It doesn't fix the 'hwptr went backwards' messages, though. Please tell me if sysctl -w

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Donald J . Maddox
If it helps at all, it's marginal. I still get skips. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: This is directly traceable to entropy harvesting by /dev/*random. I know it's not an option if you need to use ssh, but not loading random.ko will fix the sound problems when

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
OK, please try this, then; change the HARVEST_RING_SIZE in sys/dev/random/yarrow.h to a smaller power-of-2 (256 or 128 would be good), and let me know how that helps-or-not. Thanks! M If it helps at all, it's marginal. I still get skips. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Mark

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have a recent -current that hangs in 'make -j36 world'. I am now running a UP kernel of the same date: # uname -a FreeBSD celebris 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: \ Mon Jan 15 18:42:30 PST 2001 \ root@celebris:/usr/src/sys/compile/CELEBRIS i386 dmesg attached. tomdean dmesg

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same thing but

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread John Baldwin
On 20-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: On 20-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128

Re: bin/24444: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:09:24PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: "Crist J. Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:32:53PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: It should also log a message if the hostname changes. Should that be a responsibility of syslogd(8) or

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 20-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote: on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'll confirm a hang on both alpha i386 (both SCSI, qlogic ahc resp). The i386 was SMP. The Qlogic wasn't. Both were hung with phk's make -j 256 foolery. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: bin/24444: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Crist J. Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about just logging a sethostname(3) call? Still doesn't help. There are (at least) two different ways of setting the hostname, one being a syscall and the other being a sysctl. One could of course have the kernel print a message to the console

excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Steve Price
Is it just me or does 'syslogd -s' exhibit just a little bit too much paranoia about allowing socket connections? I was futzing with a Perl script that needed to syslog(3) some stuff and after much hair pulling I realized that 'syslogd -s' didn't even allow connections from localhost.

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Steve Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it just me or does 'syslogd -s' exhibit just a little bit too much paranoia about allowing socket connections? I was futzing with a Perl script that needed to syslog(3) some stuff and after much hair pulling I realized that 'syslogd -s' didn't even

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Steve Price
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:20:39PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: # # You can write to the /dev/log (usually symlinked to /var/run/log) # socket with '-s' set. # # If you want to or need to use network sockets, # # # syslogd -a localhost # # Should provide the behavior you want. As you noted

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Steve Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aha! I must have read that manpage a dozen times and I didn't catch on, but if I do this it works like I would expect even with '-s'. ...and even with -ss, which you might as well use unless you intend to log *to* remote hosts, or are sufficiently

sys/time.h w/ timespec stuff

2001-01-20 Thread Will Andrews
Hey all, I've lately been trying to dig into why OpenPackages make(1) currently doesn't compile on FreeBSD but does on OpenBSD. There is a (very slight) difference between their sys/time.h headers. The timespec* stuff is hidden behind the _KERNEL aura on FreeBSD, but not on OpenBSD. This is

loader / loader.old install behaviour suggestion

2001-01-20 Thread Kelvin Farmer
Hi, After /boot/loader is moved to /boot/loader.old, the install of the new /boot/loader can fail for whatever reason, leaving a computer that cannot automatically bootup, since someone has to type in /boot/loader.old at the boot prompt. I suggest that if the boot process can't find /boot/loader

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:39:37PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:20:39PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: # # You can write to the /dev/log (usually symlinked to /var/run/log) # socket with '-s' set. # # If you want to or need to use network sockets, # # # syslogd

XFree86 4.0.2

2001-01-20 Thread David Syphers
How should I install XFree86 4.0.2 on a system running a -current snapshot from January 20? I tried downloading the binaries from xfree86.org, but Xinstall.sh complained that my extract file was bad (it wasn't), and when I ran 'sh Xinstall.sh -check' it told me that "binaries are not

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2001-01-20 Thread Nathan Zornes
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