Re: NSS and PAM

2003-12-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
d for authentication), with later entries falling back to NIS or traditional files. But this arrangement allows traditional APIs to work reasonably --- and you can layer PAM and NSS on top of it as compatibility APIs. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] syste

Re: NSS and PAM

2003-12-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
d to get at least one major Linux > distro to adopt the same infrastructure. Has anyone considered the idea of hybridizing PAM with Digital^WCompaq^WHP's SIA matrix setup? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats]

Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
l linking/postprocessing step which optimizes executables for fast runtime linking and loading. -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.

Re: devd/devctl

2003-09-13 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
rt "interface" objects according to the documentation). -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd)

2003-09-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:41, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > > I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use > > > startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user &g

Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd)

2003-09-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
authority file? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT! E-xpedient nuked APK subdomains; kf8nh.apk.net is DEA

Re: Regarding recent spam on the list

2003-08-19 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
ng rampant > and using these list addresses as return addys? It's W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's spreading *fast* -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and compute

Re: when should 5.x be stable enough for web servers

2003-08-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Saturday 16 August 2003 18:10, Eriq Lamar wrote: > On i386 hardware and two processors amd mp. should I wait for 5.2. You should probably wait until a release is tagged RELENG_5, indicating that it's considered stable. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]

Re: Gaim Crashing X

2003-07-25 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
ies" makes it happen less often. If it's dying after sending a partial X protocol request to the server, that would probably do it; XFree86 doesn't seem to deal with that very well, in my experience. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system

Re: Shell programming 101: Is this an expr(1) bug ?

2003-02-18 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
'^ad\([0-9]\)$' (Solaris 8 box) The Solaris manpage claims: EXIT STATUS As a side effect of expression evaluation, expr returns the following exit values: (...) 1 if the expression is either NULL or 0 So it looks like correct behavior, if slightly odd in this p

Re: comms/birda on -current and PalmPilot sync.

2003-02-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
the right serial port and that it is configured properly (don't use PnP autoconfiguration, and if possible set it as an SIR port in the BIOS). -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrica

Re: Cisco vpnclient

2003-01-31 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
it can be defeated. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls

Re: what is interference?

2002-12-29 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
-xr-x 1 root wheel 32016 Nov 17 12:28 /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-hacks/interference* In my experience it's not especially unusual for xscreensaver hacks to occasionally bomb out on any platform; unless there's some other reason to suspect a problem, I'd not worry about it too mu

Re: sa_handler and sigaction...

2002-12-26 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
ndary sources has P1003.1-1990 specifying sa_handler and P1003.1-1993 adding sa_sigaction. I should add that sigaction() without sa_handler is almost entirely useless for portable programming, so it would be downright bizarre for POSIX to specify sigaction() and yet omit sa_handler. -- brand

Re: bug in awk implementation?

2002-07-15 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:37, Robert Drehmel wrote: > To me, this seems like a bug in 'gawk'. The AWK language uses > only the first character in RS as the record separator, to my > knowledge. Hm, I thought that was a gawk extension. -- brandon s. allbery [linux][sol

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
linux prepsyscall routine & see if you can find the deadbeef. My recollection is that beyond 5 arguments, a pointer to the remaining ones is passed. (But my recollection may be wrong and I don't wish to subject myself to the source cesspool at the moment....) -- brandon s. allbery [

Re: disklabel(8) floppy panic

2002-04-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 13:35, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > j@uriah 92% ls -l /dev/fd1* (...) > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel4 Apr 2 20:34 /dev/fd1c@ -> fd0 Uh? -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hat

Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)

2002-03-13 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
ashes; this fairly reliably makes perl dump core (or sometimes just die with a "Bizarre copy of ...") on all our supported platforms when perl's malloc() is used. Of course, that might just be a bug in 5.00503, since I never tried 5.6.x with perl's own malloc()...) -- brandon s.

Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700)

2002-03-03 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
27;s also based on birda, it will likely use sio for SIR devices. (Although the person(s) doing the ng work should probably speak up and correct me now....) -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] [EMA

RE: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
r code? -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineeringKF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first&quo

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
er > doesnt YP do somethign similar ? (I've never had to use YP, thought I have > been on the receiving end of some of the consequences). And I, somehow, had failed to notice that there's no NSS on FreeBSD. *smacks self on head* Not quite so simple after all, I guess -- brandon

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 08:52, Emiel Kollof wrote: > Oh, I am not volunteering, it's way beyond my capabilities. Hm, Darwin is (userspace-wise) mostly FreeBSD 3.x, isn't it? I wouldn't expect porting its NetInfo implementation to be particularly difficult. -- brandon s. allb

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
the real files alone instead of propagating, so you can run things the old way if you want or if you can't DTRT using the rc.config entries.) Also, I think they borrowed this setup from DU / OSF/1. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrato

Re: kernel build fails

2002-01-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:38, Doug White wrote: > Why are there C-style comments in a Perl script? At a guess, it's a here document. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [WAY too many hats][EMAIL PROTECTED] electr