Re: __fpclassifyd problem

2003-10-24 Thread Nate Williams
[ add compatability hacks to libm ] We tried this at usenix, but it still didn't work. Obviously there is more going on. Before anybody goes and bumps libraries etc, it would be useful to know if running a statically linked jvm will work on -current. This sounds like a good plan,

Re: libthr and 1:1 threading.

2003-04-02 Thread Nate Williams
You should notice marked interactivity and UI latency improvements with threaded GUI apps over libc_r because GUI threads will generally no longer be blocked when disk I/O and blocking I/O occurs. For example, applications like Open Office, Netscape, et al, really get a lot better with

Re: sendmail: no local mailer

2003-04-02 Thread Nate Williams
evantd Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I evantd can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I evantd upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by evantd default) and it's output. evantd # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m

Re: sendmail: no local mailer

2003-04-02 Thread Nate Williams
evantd Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I evantd can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I evantd upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by evantd default) and it's output. evantd # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd

Re: Cordless Keyboard + Mouse

2003-01-06 Thread Nate Williams
Has anyone been able to get the Logitech Cordless Elite Duo, or any cordless kb/mouse combos to work? I've got the older Logitech 'Natural' wireless keyboard + wireless mouse working fine. I've had it for almost 3 years now, and aside from having to change batteries every 4-6 months it's been

Re: Cordless Keyboard + Mouse

2003-01-06 Thread Nate Williams
Has anyone been able to get the Logitech Cordless Elite Duo, or any cordless kb/mouse combos to work? I've got the older Logitech 'Natural' wireless keyboard + wireless mouse working fine. I've had it for almost 3 years now, and aside from having to change batteries every 4-6

Re: Poweroff problem with IBM ThinkPad T21 (ACPI?)

2002-12-04 Thread Nate Williams
I just put 5.0-DP2 on my IBM ThinkPad T21 (which I can finaly use, 4.x was pretty bad since only one of the two pcmcia slots worked, and numerous other problems, forcing me to use windows) and have been very very happy with it. Really? I ran 4.X on my T21 for over a year with no problems

Re: [PATCH] Workaround for bogus INT 12H BIOS serviceimplementation

2002-10-21 Thread Nate Williams
I've recalled that FreeBSD used RTC to determine base memory size in old days. I've tested this method on my machines and confirmed it's working well. If this is done, then FreeBSD won't work on many laptops and other desktops, which report 640K for memory, but the BIOS actually steals some

Re: devfs oddity?

2002-10-06 Thread Nate Williams
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Kargl w rites: root[208] cdcontrol play cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c cdcontrol: /dev/cd0cc: No such file or directory Why is an extra c appended to cd0c? The first c is part of the standard name for

Re: HEADS UP: UCONSOLE option has been phased out

2002-04-03 Thread Nate Williams
This is a JFYI that the UCONSOLE kernel option has been phased out as insecure. Fix your configs. Umm, it's listed as insecure in the every config file, so you're not saying anything that wasn't already known. However, it was required for some X applications to work correctly, which is why

Re: HEADS UP: UCONSOLE option has been phased out

2002-04-03 Thread Nate Williams
However, it was required for some X applications to work correctly, which is why it was still being used. No, it's just required for them to work when run by unprivileged users. Things like xconsole *are* run by unprivileged users. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The sendmail discussion...

2002-03-28 Thread Nate Williams
(my company demands that all software I write, including in my own free time, is copyright by them) You need to move to California, where this is against the law. Every California company I've worked for has made me sign a statement with the above stipulation. In order to avoid this, I

RE: BESTDEB: your Postfix installation is hosed

2002-02-11 Thread Nate Williams
You are reflecting messages back to a mailing list with thousands of subscribers. Cut it out. -- Terry Peter has applied the Big Hammer of Death to the problem for now, so it should be stopping soon if not already. Thanks Peter Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-06 Thread Nate Williams
: How many MB does your flash card where you're installing : FreeBSD have on it? I've installed a subsetted FreeBSD onto a 8MB CF card. For normal FreeBSD (as oppsoed to pico), the smallest amount of space you need is about 6.9M, and that can be stripped down to about 5M with compression

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-04 Thread Nate Williams
I don't get your point - what is wrong with having it a port? Well, here's one reason: 1) Remove all the network interfaces from your system (Ethernet, PPP, SL/IP, etc). 2) cd into /usr/ports and try to build UUCP. Unless you have a prepopulated /usr/ports/distfiles, it won't

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
All these solutions assume that everyone is wired up with IP connectivity. The original questions was who uses UUCP? Correct. One answer is: those without IP connectivity. Do you mean 'full-time IP connectivity', because if you can setup a UUCP connection, you can just as easily setup a PPP

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
POP and IMAP (I think) will lose all the envelope information, You've been listening to Terry too long. It's certainly not the case, although I've decided to quit arguing with Terry, since it's an excercise in futility. No matter what you say, he'll either change the subject or

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
Interestingly, Microsoft Exchange is one of the few commercial SMTP servers that can handle more than a few hundred ETRN based virtual domain instances. Go figure... Any Q-Mail based solution using the commonly available ETRN patch also scales well, although you have to 'roll your own'

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-02 Thread Nate Williams
POP and IMAP (I think) will lose all the envelope information, You've been listening to Terry too long. It's certainly not the case, although I've decided to quit arguing with Terry, since it's an excercise in futility. No matter what you say, he'll either change the subject or simply

Re: HEADSUP!!!! KSE Milestone-2 COMMITTED

2001-09-12 Thread Nate Williams
Congratulations Julian, and thanks for all the hard work to you and the rest of the folks! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-26 Thread Nate Williams
Wow. Why not use xdm? 8) Too lazy? Heh. You just uncomment one line in /etc/ttys and HUP init. It's not compilicated. Indeed. However, there are some differences in startup of which to be aware (.xinitrc vs. .xsession). I just hard-link the two files together. :) Nate To

Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias

2001-08-21 Thread Nate Williams
If you ever claimed to hold the copyright to software that has been released into the public domain, you would be commiting fraud. Not if I'm the author of the software. I can release my software under as many licenses as I'd like, including putting it into the public domain. However, I

Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias

2001-08-21 Thread Nate Williams
| If you ever claimed to hold the copyright to software that has been | released into the public domain, you would be commiting fraud. | | Not if I'm the author of the software. | | I can release my software under as many licenses as I'd like, including | putting it into the public

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-13 Thread Nate Williams
I said I'd drop it, but apparently there are people that don't understand the dinosaur mentality of certain organizations such as DOD, DISA/DECC, OSD, DARPA, USA, USN, USAF, and USMC. If it's not in the base setup, on a production box, you can't use it. *Huh* This policy must have been

Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?

2001-08-12 Thread Nate Williams
# Bash has a license which precludes its inclusion as part # of the base system. [Not that I favor more shells on the root file system, but anyway:] What about gcc and grep? Does the license differ or are these not regarded being part of the base system? We would get rid of them

Re: lockup after resume

2001-05-07 Thread Nate Williams
One surprising observation: If I disable APM in /boot/device.hints, my machine suspends and resumes JUST FINE. The BIOS alone seems to be able to suspend and awake the hardware behind FreeBSD's back. The system only hangs if FreeBSD is involved in the process. Hmm, I might try that.

Re: ipfw: several equal rules under same number bug

2001-04-29 Thread Nate Williams
How it can be possible? ipfw -a l: 07001 401680 deny tcp from any to any 7006 070010 0 deny tcp from any to any 7006 070010 0 deny tcp from any to any 7006 I use equal ipfw add several times from the script, but the rule number was the

Re: entropy bikesheds

2001-01-12 Thread Nate Williams
Can we decide this, please - do we want secure startup (which will take some effort to achieve), or can we say "screw it" and start insecure like the old system? Can we have both? Ie; by default we are insecure until some point we call an ioctl() that says 'no more, you must get real

Re: make release still broken...

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Williams
=== rpcsvc rpcgen -C -h -DWANT_NFS3 /usr/src/include/rpcsvc/key_prot.x -o key_prot.h rpcgen: cannot find any C preprocessor (cpp) *** Error code 1 Let me start a release. This means rpcgen has been using /usr/libexec/cpp which is *only* for the compiler's use. rpcgen should have

Re: weird cvs update problem

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Williams
U crypto/kerberosIV/appl/bsd/login_fbtab.c U crypto/kerberosIV/appl/bsd/osfc2.c U crypto/kerberosIV/appl/bsd/pathnames.h_ U crypto/kerberosIV/appl/bsd/rcmd_util.c cvs update: warning: unrecognized response ` If there are any IP options on `sock', die.' from cvs server cvs

Re: Fixing a.out compatibility

2000-12-29 Thread Nate Williams
It seems feasable to generate a new binary on a recent or an old patched FreeBSD version. The question is which is better. I think the newer the better. Otherwise, who is going to build the 2.2.8-stable box to make this one binary? I've already built a binary on 4.2-release that works.

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread Nate Williams
David hands Nate a freshly minted copy of BSD/OS 4.2, where he will see /usr/contrib/ burned on the CDROM (using an electron microscope of course :-)). Even Sun does this with it's 'OS vendor' tools. Uhm.. not everything. Many optional pieces from Sun installs in /opt. The SunPro

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
I'm aware that software was installing itself in /usr/local years before it was installing in /opt. On the other hand, vendor software was installing in /opt years before I ever saw it install in /usr/local. Most vendor software I know pre-dates /opt, and installed itself in /usr/local. I'm

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
Then again, your quoting of "packages" points up something else - I never saw prepackaged binaries for v6 or v7. I did on SysIII. As a matter of fact, the entire distribution was bundled into separate packets (all of them installed in /usr). :( Or BSD, for that matter. I never encounterd a

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
I'm aware that software was installing itself in /usr/local years before it was installing in /opt. On the other hand, vendor software was installing in /opt years before I ever saw it install in /usr/local. Most vendor software I know pre-dates /opt, and installed itself in

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
I ran mostly DEC boxes until the early 90s, which had all software installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Well, I ran DEC boxes for Dec (at WSE) back in the late 80s and early 90s, and don't remember anything being in /usr/local that I didn't drag of the net (or write myself) and

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
Fixing broken things is a good thing. Your argument about 'moving it from /usr/local to show how broken' is a good test procedure, but turning it into policy is something completely different. I think the 'tradition' of FreeBSD installing packages in /usr/local is enough to leave

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
: I know that as recent as 3=4 years ago, Purify installed itself by : default in /usr/local, on SunOS and Solaris. Lucid did this as well, : although things start getting pretty fuzzy going back that far. :) purify and the binary distributions of xemacs installed themselves into

Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles

2000-11-22 Thread Nate Williams
Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm somwhat limited in my resources at present. In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When

Re: Cardbus fixes

2000-11-19 Thread Nate Williams
I'll have to look up the CIS_PTR spec. I'm not sure I like hardwiring things like this. Where did you get a copy of the pccard spec? Do you have to order it from the pcmcia SIG? Mike has my really old copy you can have (if you can get it from him), and I think FreeBSD Inc. bought Warner

Re: ssh and scp fail connecting to a root account

2000-09-20 Thread Nate Williams
[ OpenSSH failure with particular malloc.conf flags ] Got it ! See version 1.6 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/setenv.c. This took me all night - Up for work in two hours !!! :-( Good catch! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: make buildworld br0ken in libutil

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Williams
Alternatively the sentiment just rose why we couldn't just collapse the crypt/hash functions of libcrypt into libc. It would make sense. It would make even make more sense to convince the other BSD to do the same (haven't checked recently what they do) and do the merge. I

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread Nate Williams
It's not just that, if you always have to cover your behind when doing tsleep you may wind up masking wakeup bugs. Places like "vfs_bio.c" line 586 of 3182: bp-b_xflags |= BX_BKGRDWAIT; tsleep(bp-b_xflags, PRIBIO, "biord", 0); if (bp-b_xflags

Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice?

2000-05-29 Thread Nate Williams
No, I don't mean rodents who've nibbled on chocolate-covered expresso beans, I mean PS/2 mice which fall victim to this new problem: May 19 00:50:45 zippy /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != ). I've seen it for the last few weeks and can only think that something must be stomping

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-17 Thread Nate Williams
It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS requires multiple packages to work. People shouldn't have to compile Motif up just to get a non-source version of the JDK to work. Versioning problems that can be caused by folks using different include files and/or

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Nate Williams
I think that you no longer have to include Motif with the JDK. Just let the distribution of Motif come from freebsd.org , i.e., a port or a package. Too much hassle IMO. I'd *much* rather distribute it as part of the package, and I'm looking into how feasible it would be to

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Nate Williams
If this Open Motif can be distributed as a port or package for FreeBSD itself (and it seems to me that it can), then what hassle is that for JDK on FreeBSD? It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS requires multiple packages to work. As long as

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Nate Williams
Unlike X (which rarely changes), I suspect the Motif stuff to change alot. I'm unclear on what gyrations you are expecting from a mature API codified in an IEEE standard. As long as you're using the Motif standard interface in your code you should have nothing to worry about. Ahh, but

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-15 Thread Nate Williams
Check it out at: http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ "We want to support the momentum of Open Source operating systems such as Linux® and FreeBSD by developing an Open Motif® licence for use with Open Source operating systems." Also the OpenGroup is looking for sites to mirror their

Re: HEADS UP: loader and libstand caution required.

2000-05-12 Thread Nate Williams
Please be sure that you build and install libstand before building a loader! (or use buildworld, that should work) Good job tracking this one down Peter Nate FICL is now active on the Alpha, and actually seems to work. The Alpha problems have been solved - it was an alignment

Re: db 1.85 -- 2.x or 3.x?

2000-05-02 Thread Nate Williams
Sleepycats license is not FreeBSD compatible :-/ I don't understand. Reading http://www.sleepycat.com/license.net, it seems to me that FreeBSD meets all the necessary requirements. Can someone who understands the details of the licensing issues either explain the situation to

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-25 Thread Nate Williams
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Nate Williams wrote: I'm violently opposed to removing it completely. The only thing I wouldn't be violently opposed to would be removing 'Attic' files (truly unused file), and having them stored away somewhere in the tree for archival purposes. You realize

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-25 Thread Nate Williams
I'd like to add that it can be particularly important when legal questions arise. You confuse the argument for SOME complete repositories with the necessity that ALL (or at each most) repositories be so extensive. No-one needs to grab a repository, unless they're looking at history.

Re: asm_pci.h,v Holy cow!

2000-04-25 Thread Nate Williams
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work perfectly. Stick the files under CVS No, that was not my proposal. I want to keep them out of CVS entirely. CVS is Not Good at handling binary files (even if you never change them). That's why I'd like them in a

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-24 Thread Nate Williams
I want to bring up a suggestion. I just want a little bit of argument on it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine. I want to suggest that, once a year, we go thru the cvs archive, and prune away all history more than 3 (or maybe 2, maybe 4) years old. I'm violently

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Nate Williams
Core should consider reverting the special rules that were originally created with the expectation of major breakage in 5.x back to the set of rules we had for 3.x and 4.x. I have no idea what special rules you are talking about for 4.x/5.x. 4.x-stable is a -stable tree and

Re: FreeBSD Build status

2000-04-17 Thread Nate Williams
: awi.o(.text+0x3b4): undefined reference to `memcmp' : awi.o(.text+0x3cf): undefined reference to `memset' What I want to know is why I don't get these with the GENERIC + awi config file I have :-( Are you compiling with optimization turned on? I believe mem* are inlined if optimization

Re: FreeBSD Build status

2000-04-17 Thread Nate Williams
: Are you compiling with optimization turned on? I believe mem* are : inlined if optimization is enabled. Don't think so. Both build -O. Poul's build may not have optimization turned on, since it's controlled by /etc/make.conf. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: FreeBSD Build status

2000-04-17 Thread Nate Williams
: : Are you compiling with optimization turned on? I believe mem* are : : inlined if optimization is enabled. : : Don't think so. Both build -O. : : Poul's build may not have optimization turned on, since it's controlled : by /etc/make.conf. It isn't something specific to Poul's

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Nate Williams
That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. _ALL_. *shrug* What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119. I

Re: signal mask from jmp_buf

2000-04-04 Thread Nate Williams
What is the proper way for obtaining the signal mask from within the jmp_buf struct on 4.x or -current? Previously with the JDK port for 3.x we did something like this: signalMask = jmpbuf[0]._sjb[6]; This no longer works now that we support 32 signals. Is there a

Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?

2000-03-27 Thread Nate Williams
: *not* preempted except when being interrupted, so there are no : 'priorities', per say. Or, rather, the relative priority is strictly : that the interrupt takes priority over supervisor code except when : disabled by said supervisor code. : :But locks with owners wouldn't

Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?

2000-03-27 Thread Nate Williams
: : *not* preempted except when being interrupted, so there are no : : 'priorities', per say. Or, rather, the relative priority is strictly : : that the interrupt takes priority over supervisor code except when : : disabled by said supervisor code. : : : :But locks with

Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?

2000-03-27 Thread Nate Williams
:And would there still be areas of the kernel that disable multiple :interrupts, perhaps CAM or the network stack for instance? What do :all the splbio and splnet calls translate into in this new scheme? : The entire design of the kernel is currently predicated on the spl*()

Re: problem with reboot on 5.0-current with VAIO

2000-03-21 Thread Nate Williams
When I use reboot(8) to reboot my Vaio z505sx, it waits nicely for the bufdaeon and the syncer to stop. Then the screen goes blank and the system completely hangs. Unplugging the battery and power is the only way to gte it booting again. It used to work fine with a 4.0-current of some 3

RE: load spike strangeness

2000-01-09 Thread Nate Williams
[ Moved to chat ] [Multiple irrelevant mailing-lists snipped.] On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:31:19 -0800, "FreeBSD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since when does an E-mail address require a "realname"? As Sherlock Holmes once said: ``It is always unpleasant dealing with an alias.'' plonk

Re: ** HEADS UP ** chownchgrp moved again

2000-01-07 Thread Nate Williams
This week, I have added chown-like functionality to mknod(8) and restored chown chgrp back to their previous locations. MAKEDEV has been updated to use the new functionality of mknod(8). Thanks for doing this David! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: ipfw optimizations

2000-01-07 Thread Nate Williams
One of the things I would do to optimize ipfw is: - instead of keeping one list with all the rules, split the list (the internal one) by interface and by direction (one list for ed1 incoming, one list for ed1 outgoing, etc.). one skipto rule is enough to switch between two rulesets

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-20 Thread Nate Williams
PCCARD used to exist separate from GENERIC due to the zp and ze drivers not being compatible with pccard's pcic driver. These drivers were removed from the system not too long ago by phk. The reason I added PCCARD to the system was because in the old code, I didn't trust the PCCARD

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-20 Thread Nate Williams
: So, my only comment is that if you believe that the code is stable : enough to not negatively effect desktop systems, and not too much bloat, : then have at it. Note, enabling PCCARD functionality w/out APM will be : a losing situation for many laptops, and adding APM functionality for :

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Day writes: Ack, I was using this very same thing for several devices in an isolated peer-to-peer network to decide who the 'master' was. (Whoever had been up longest knew more about the state of the network) Having this change could cause weirdness for

Re: HEADSUP: ntp4 to replace xntpd

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
Between the two of us Dave Mills and I have managed to get the "nanokernel" to act sensibly in the domain inside +/- 1usec which the old one didn't. (See http://gps.freebsd.dk for what kind of performance this can result in, given appropriate hardware). You may not know the answer to this,

Re: HEADSUP: ntp4 to replace xntpd

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
: You may not know the answer to this, but it's worth a shot. Wht kind of : accuracy can we expect using 'cheap' off-the-shelf GPS receivers? We're getting, with ntp4 on a 3.x kernel, about +- 4uSec with a cheap gps receiver + atomic clock on a i486 class machine. I've got the cheap gps

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
: If people do a "settimeofday" we change the boot time since the : amount of time we've been up *IS* known for sure, whereas the boottime : is only an estimate. There is one problem with this. The amount of uptime isn't the same as the amount of time since the machine booted. How can

Re: HEADSUP: ntp4 to replace xntpd

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
: : You may not know the answer to this, but it's worth a shot. Wht kind of : : accuracy can we expect using 'cheap' off-the-shelf GPS receivers? : : We're getting, with ntp4 on a 3.x kernel, about +- 4uSec with a cheap : gps receiver + atomic clock on a i486 class machine. : :

Re: HEADSUP: ntp4 to replace xntpd

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Williams
: Cool. I was under the impression that the cheap NMEA signals only gave : 2-5sec accuracy given the 2400 baud speed issues. If you have a PPS signal, then you can get fairly close even if the inforation about the PPS signal comes in at 2400 baud. Hmm, how do I find out how good it is?

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Nate Williams
If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be there ages ago. Not true. It doesn't take a disk expert to complain about a policy, but it takes one to fix bugs/add features to the

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs i386 architecture. Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then retired in

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
What we need here is a commitment to these new initiatives, not a lot of fence-sitting and clutching our knitting to our chests. If all our users were developers I would agree. But *most* of our users are not developers. Again, I say, think of what we're trying to achieve here. Good

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams writes: What we need here is a commitment to these new initiatives, not a lot of fence-sitting and clutching our knitting to our chests. If all our users were developers I would agree. But *most* of our users are not developers. -CURRENT

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs i386 architecture. Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
What is a killer is if a large number of people on popular hardware can't even boot, *at all*, in no, way, shape or form. Only that. The only way to find that out for sure before 4.0 is to push the issue *now*. I disagree, but I'm not making the decision. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs i386 architecture. Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Nate Williams
If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be there ages ago. Not true. It doesn't take a disk expert to complain about a policy, but it takes one to fix bugs/add features to the existing

Re: HEADS UP, bind update shortly...

1999-11-29 Thread Nate Williams
I'm about to import bind 8.2.2.p5 into src/contrib/bind and fix up the broken parts of the tree as I go. I will disable the named (and associated tools) build for the duration. If you want to do some make worlds or releases in the next 8 hours or so, do a cvsup pronto! Thanks Peter! Nate

Re: need patch review - NFS fixes for IP binding

1999-11-09 Thread Nate Williams
Instead, I have adopted and cleaned up the kernel portions of the patch and modified nfsd to allow the binding ip/host to be specified on the command line. Thus nfsd can be run bound to a specific IP address. This sounds like a great solution, thanks Matt! Nate To

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-03 Thread Nate Williams
I think most if not all the ethernet cards I or my customers have bought over the last year have sported mighty fine netboot capabilities. FWIW, few of the cards I've bought over the years sport netboot. And, netboot is an impossibility in 'embedded' systems that use things like

Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch

1999-10-11 Thread Nate Williams
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now, and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care that

Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch

1999-10-10 Thread Nate Williams
[Mayhaps too many Cc:'s kept in order to reach relevant audience] Thanks, sorry about the X-posting... On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:57:55PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: I Can't believe this email only produced TWO responses! I would have thought that this wouldhav brought out the chainsaws

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Nate Williams
In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the lack of softupdates should not be a problem. So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do development alot of writes are done to /. And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same

Re: sigset_t: a summary

1999-10-01 Thread Nate Williams
1. Should the ucontext_t changes be backed out, or is this the way we would like to go? (but only it better :-) We need something. Rather than say 'something better', I'd need to see what that better things is. However, given Bruce's comments earlier, it seems like we need to have

Re: Now that sigcontext is gone ...

1999-09-30 Thread Nate Williams
I'm trying to digest the recent signal changes and get a handle on what I need to do to make Modula-3 work. There is code in the runtime currently which catches SIGBUS and uses the sigcontext's "sc_err" member to find out the faulting address. That should be replaced by the siginfo_t's

Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal

1999-09-30 Thread Nate Williams
Mainly historical bugs. Includes are installed too early and they only match the new syscalls. Tools are built using the new includes, so they need new libraries to be consistent. Therefore the new libraries are built before the new tools. These bugs were implemented in FreeBSD-1 by

Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed

1999-09-30 Thread Nate Williams
you don't under stand, we are NOT talking about upgrades, we are talking about how to make a buildable system on -stable... There are essentially the same problem. In order to do an upgrade, you have to be able to build on -stable. :) === libgcc echo '#include i386/xm-i386.h' config.h

Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed

1999-09-30 Thread Nate Williams
P.S. It is really hard for me to not make personal attacks against you after all of the above and completely ignoring the rest of my message. No, I didn't. My statement was that your 'confrontational' style of email wasn't making things any better. Mellow it out, and instead of attacking

Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed

1999-09-29 Thread Nate Williams
Following up on my previous mail regarding the panic on the Alpha, I've been looking at the diff for the code in question, in "src/sys/nfs/nfs_socket.c": @@ -1501,14 +1502,16 @@ struct nfsreq *rep; register struct proc *p; { + sigset_t tmpset; + tmpset =

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Nate Williams
I agree. Your work also has a serious security concern if it allows this you to directly attatch to it's port 25. No it doesn't, but you do bring up another good point why not to use the ISP's mail server. Security. I don't want email to bounce on your box and potentially

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread Nate Williams
:[Insert semi-nasty message about how people should really be testing :their changes before they commit, how it is a blatant disregard for :basic human rigths not to do so etc etc etc] ... Insert nasty message about how people shouldn't post idiotic comments. Play nice boys! Remeber

RE: java too? (was Re: Perl still broken in 4.0-CURRENT)

1999-09-07 Thread Nate Williams
I think that java is still broken by this. .. java Segmentation fault (core dumped) I've just committed the fix in "src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.h" revision 1.12. The Java runtime was peeking into some of the dynamic linker's private data structures. My recent changes added some

Re: start xdm on a particular vty

1999-09-06 Thread Nate Williams
Do you know the appropriate channel to contact the XFree86 folks? In the mean while, I can take Sheldon's advice, submit it to our XFree86 port. By the way, I've just thought of something you should consider. I think there's still a problem with xdm, where trying to change vty while it's

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