Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread John Robert LoVerso
> other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes Use a similar hack: map the sysctl tree to the filesystem (ala kernfs) and then stat the directory nodes. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-05-02 Thread John Robert LoVerso
Garrett Wollman speaks the truth when he says: > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > Because a previous link-state (aka shortest-path-first) routing > protocol had been deployed which was not. I can't believe

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread John Robert LoVerso
> No I have to use two vi sessions (or one ,more' and one ,vi' session) > in two different (!) windows (especially after a new installation, Or type "vi /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.site" and then hit ":N" to split the screen into two sessions, one in /etc/rc.conf and one in /etc/rc.conf.site. Use ^W

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread John Robert LoVerso
> Well, I need to learn a little about programming first, so where do you > reccomend I begin learning? > E-Mail: William Woods > FreeBSD 4.0 -Current If you don't know about programming, then you just shouldn't be running -current. Step back to 2.2.8R and enjoy the Floppy Tape support there. J

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread John Robert LoVerso
Will you be keeping the last snapshot of 2.2.X around when it returns? On another note, does curr...@freebsd.org now correspond to 4.X ("-current") discussions, while sta...@freebsd.org now correspond to 3.X ("-stable")? If so, is there / will there be a separate forum for 2.X ("-stable in a past