Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable

1999-08-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:11:33 MST, Doug wrote: I have a 3.2-Stable and a 4.0-Current system at home, both running rc5des. On both systems I set the priority in the rc5 options menu to '0', indicating lowest possible priority. On the -Stable system it's running at nice level '0', but

NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread John Saunders
I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the same (although I can't check at the moment). The following was sent to a sysadmin mailing list (SAGE-AU). --++ . | John Saunders -

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, John Saunders wrote: I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the I y2k-fixed xntpd in FreeBSD in January. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html CVS log for src/usr.sbin/xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c 1.6 Tue Jan 12 19:37:30 1999 UTC

whither readline.h?

1999-08-23 Thread Satoshi Asami
Dear currenters, /usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and 3-stable snaps for awhile. Does anyone know why? Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Kevin Day wrote: ... If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough. This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal

Linux compat: Lotus Notes Server 5 for linux ?

1999-08-23 Thread Nicolai Petri
I triedsubject but got only coredumps in return.. Anybody who was luckier ?? Nicolai Petri

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: I was extracting from the Exabyte to the DDRS disk while applying a CTM update from that disk against one of the DCAS disks when it crashed. The Exabyte went wonky (took about 6 goes to get the tape ejected) and the rest of the disk system locked

Re: whither readline.h?

1999-08-23 Thread Ayan George
Check under: /usr/src/gnu/lib/libreadline/readline -Ayan George [ Quoted message from Satoshi Asami, received Aug 23, 5:19am.] Dear currenters, /usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and

re: Linux compat: Lotus Notes Server 5 for linux ?

1999-08-23 Thread Nicolai Petri
I tried subject but got only coredumps in return.. Anybody who was luckier ?? I've gotten notes for solaris worling. Version 4.6 Nice... How well does it run ?? And did you install it on FreeBSD or Solaris ?? (I don't have a solaris so I prefer not to do it that way :) --- Nicolai

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-23 Thread Mike Smith
Kevin Day wrote: ... If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough. This is just my opinion though, and not to be used

Re: whither readline.h?

1999-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
/usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and 3-stable snaps for awhile. Does anyone know why? I just checked that cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/libreadline ; make obj all install does the right thing. Ideas where to

Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Bill Paul
Must... control... fist of death... I just tried to boot the latest -current snapshot (Aug 23) on my little 486/66 machine. The kern.flp kernel panics right after saying "Probing for PnP devices:". Now, this machine has a PCI bus but it doesn't support ISA plug and play, so before any of you lot

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-23 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and my memory played tricks on me. It was a different letter effect. :-) Andrzej, can you somehow turn it into a parody? If

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-23 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Mike Smith wrote ... Kevin Day wrote: This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal advice for anyone. I just don't want FreeBSD to become a ball of intellectual property infringements. :) Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and my

PCI interrupt routing in -Current/newbus

1999-08-23 Thread David E. Cross
How are PCI interrupts routed in CURRENT/NewBus? For example almost all of my PCI devices are mapped to IRQ11. I understand this is "normal" in the PCI world, but how does the interrupt dispatch routine decide which ints to route where? I recently put a panic() in a intr routine of mine just

Re: Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Bill Paul
Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following code: #if NPNP 0 /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */ pnp_configure(); #endif /* * Explicitly probe and attach ISA last. The isa bus saves * it's device

Re: Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Bill Paul wrote: Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following code: #if NPNP 0 /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */ pnp_configure(); #endif /* * Explicitly probe and attach ISA

Re: PCI interrupt routing in -Current/newbus

1999-08-23 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, David E. Cross wrote: How are PCI interrupts routed in CURRENT/NewBus? For example almost all of my PCI devices are mapped to IRQ11. I understand this is "normal" in the PCI world, but how does the interrupt dispatch routine decide which ints to route where? I

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

1999-08-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:37 PM +0200 8/23/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Is anybody capable to solve or fix bin/7973 in lpd? I have found the problem is still there (FreeBSD-3.2). Or am I anything missing/doing wrong? bin/7973: Bad control file owner in case of remote printing. The problem is that print filters ("if" in

NFSv3 on freebsd--solaris

1999-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
I'm forwarding this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I know many people are on the list that live in multi-platform worlds. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Solaris 7 machines cannot use NFSv3 mounts from a FreeBSD NFS server. When using NFSv2 the decrease in performance was very

Re: problem with the ata driver

1999-08-23 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: acd0: GCD-R520B/1.1 CDROM drive at ata0 as master acd0: drive speed 0KB/sec acd0: supported read types: acd0: Mechanism: caddy acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown medium Any clue? The drive was

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-23 Thread Brian F. Feldman
What revision of the K6-2 did this happen on? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!\-- Rich Kulawiec / To

RE: Floppy/diskless booting problem with -current: FIX

1999-08-23 Thread Mark J. Taylor
It seems that the problem is in kern/vfs_conf.c: When performing BOOTP configuration, nfs/bootp_subr:bootpc_init() is called before the root-mount attempts. This routine finds the first non-loopback and non-point- to-point interface, and does the bootp request. If it gets all of its needed

Re: Monday strikes again

1999-08-23 Thread Peter Wemm
Nick Hibma wrote: Anything the change to nexus.c that Peter Wemm made would change? Yes, 1.14 broke non-PCI systems, and 1.15 fixed it. I forgot to change: DEVICE_METHOD(device_attach, bus_generic_attach); to: DEVICE_METHOD(device_attach, nexus_attach); .. which would explain why

followup to apm problems.

1999-08-23 Thread Mike Muir
Ive been following the apm problems and changes in apm threads in hope that I would fix the problems that I too am having. I am using the latest sources for apm, apmconf and apmd, as well as the kernel. (as of 23/8/99, NZST, which is yesterday evening) dmesg is: apm0: APM BIOS on motherboard

SIO lost interrupt status in current?

1999-08-23 Thread George Michaelson
I've done a quick scan of the lists and GNATS db, and see some evidence that in the last 1-2 years there has been a thread of people who see bad sio performance, coupled to any of X, Audio and APM (including bios APM setting). The PRs most relevant (but only marginally IMHO) are:

Re: SIO lost interrupt status in current?

1999-08-23 Thread Nate Williams
I'm actually pretty sure it happens even without X11 live. This worries me! changing the modem serial speed down from 57600 through 33600 to 19200 made no difference. This also worries me. If the speed isn't being set down, then somehow interrupts are being turned off for a very long time,

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd--solaris

1999-08-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:... :am not implying that the problem might be on the FreeBSD side, it might :as well be a bug in solaris NFS implementation). : :I would greatly appreciate any help with the following problem. I have :a FreeBSD NFS server (3.2-STABLE, built on Aug 3), and a Solaris 2.7 :client. I run into

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd--solaris

1999-08-23 Thread vladimir
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 24 03:44:09 1999 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Introducing the Digital Brochure

1999-08-23 Thread The Digital Brochure
HAVE YOU HEARD about Digital Brochure, the powerful new media tool which is helping Real Estate Agents throughout Europe sell properties more efficiently and more quickly? Digital Brochure is a highly compressed, e-mailable, electronic product which utilizes pictures, text, and sound. It is

Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable

1999-08-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:47:05 MST, Doug wrote: How does that PR explain why rc5des with the same ini file is running at nice 20 on -current, seemingly without idprio and running at nice 0 on -stable, seemingly with it? Um, different nice levels. I didn't see that. Trigger happy. :-(

Teergrubes [was Re: Dropping connections without RST]

1999-08-23 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
process normally if the HELO and MAIL From/RCPT To look all right; otherwise continue to read small gulps of the DATA at slow intervals, then answer the final "." with a *temporary* failure code. I'd rather have spammers consume less of my CPU time and bandwidth, not have them keep coming

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-23 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400. 5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2 disks. No reason to buy double-sided media; just buy single-sided and punch a hole along the edge. :-) joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of

SIGBUS [was Re: gdb]

1999-08-23 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
(gdb) run Starting program: /tmp/./sieve Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors. What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86? Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that

bootparamd changed for use with inetd

1999-08-23 Thread Chuck Gagnon
Hi, I've dug through the archives and found no mention of this subject. Are there any political/technical reasons why bootparamd was not set up to work with inetd? If the answer is no, I've included a patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/bootparamd/bootparamd/main.c that allows it to work this

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread brooks
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: Remember that at least for the Yamaha you can set the speed to 6 if you are burning CD-R's. 4 is the max for CD-RW's. When I last used cdrecord (on Solaris) I remember finding that if I tried to write with a speed that was too high for the

Re: problem with the ata driver

1999-08-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: acd0: GCD-R520B/1.1 CDROM drive at ata0 as master acd0: drive speed 0KB/sec acd0: supported read types: acd0: Mechanism: caddy acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

1999-08-23 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Garance A Drosihn wrote (1999/08/23): Why would the filter be reading the control file? It is just a filter, supposedly reading from stdin and writing to stdout... Yes and not. You can look into apsfilter for example. It gets from control file JOB, USER and HOST items in case of ASCII

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread Nick Hibma
For your information: the patch supplied was not in xntpd-3.5f-3. So you might want to repatch after importing. Nick According to Harlan Stenn: Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP code since xntp3.4anything. I plan to upgrade CURRENT up to

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from ntp4, please submit them to UDel. Don't bother sending patches that only fix problems with ntp3; ntp3 is no longer supported. ntp-4.1.0 should be available in a few weeks. I'm waiting for some portability patches to settle

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread Nick Hibma
I've submitted patches for 3, but the patch applies to the GPS input filters, so I assume they can be ported. If not, pitty. Nick On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Harlan Stenn wrote: If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from ntp4, please submit them to UDel. Don't

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

1999-08-23 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Harlan Stenn: Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP code since xntp3.4anything. I plan to upgrade CURRENT up to 4.0.97 soon. I don't run STABLE at all and we're too close to 3.3 to change anything in it. Maybe for 3.4. -- Ollivier ROBERT