Make world broken in doscmd; patch

1999-10-08 Thread Philipp Mergenthaler
Hi, the change in src/sys/i386/include/ucontext.h (in struct __mcontext), where "struct trapframe mc_tf;" was replaced by it's members broke doscmd. (The relevant files are $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/include/ucontext.h,v 1.3 1999/10/07 12:40:34 marcel Exp $ $FreeBSD:

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
The Hermit Hacker wrote: Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? As long as the module is up to date. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Make world broken in doscmd; patch

1999-10-08 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: the change in src/sys/i386/include/ucontext.h (in struct __mcontext), where "struct trapframe mc_tf;" was replaced by it's members broke doscmd. Fixed. Thanks, -- Marcel Moolenaarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCC Internetworking Databases

Re: make install trick

1999-10-08 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:21 PM -0700 1999/10/7, David O'Brien wrote: HP and SGI workstations have a single huge /. Why do you need /usr seperate from / when you aren't diskless (or /usr'less)? If you've done your job right, it can be mounted read-only. This makes it harder for someone to

Sv: My status with upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0

1999-10-08 Thread Leif Neland
Another thing was syslogd was looking for /var/log/security and can't find it, how can i fix this? Just touch /var/log/security syslogd can't/doesn't _create_ files, just _append_ to existing ones. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in

Re: make install trick

1999-10-08 Thread David O'Brien
If you've done your job right, it can be mounted read-only. This makes it harder for someone to break into the machine and obtain root access, because now they have to be root to unmount /usr and remount it read-write, so that they can put their trojan script on there that they're

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:15:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: There should be fairly few writes to the root partition, so having An opionion. I use the HP workstation model where my / is 1800M. I have You are not disagreeing with him, David. You are just talking about

RE: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-08 Thread David Schwartz
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:15:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: There should be fairly few writes to the root partition, so having An opionion. I use the HP workstation model where my / is 1800M. I have You are not disagreeing with him, David. You are just talking about

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which was

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread David Greenman
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:09:23AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Intel's ECC implementation is not perfect (1), but it's good enough to catch these sorts of problems. Just as an interesting side note, we had a motherboard which supported ECC ram and had ECC ram in it and which was

Re: identd

1999-10-08 Thread Ben Smithurst
Phil 0. Nature wrote: Has anyone else experienced problems with identd not working? Uh, you'd probably have to be more specific. What identd (pidentd from ports, or something else). What version. In what way doesn't it work. What error messages are being logged. What version of FreeBSD.

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-08 Thread David O'Brien
We're talking about the special case of small root partitions, such that softupdates inability to make empty space available quickly can make the difference between a major operation's success or failure. This is almost impossible on a 1.8Gb root partition. Again why? What's

linux emu and quake3test

1999-10-08 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
IT seems that a recent change to the linux emulation code has caused q3 to have problems, whenever I try to go to an internet game, I get a message on the console: usage: ping [server] doing this operation worked fine yesterday. Kenneth Culver

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:ECC doesn't protect against certain types of motherboard address line : errors (since although the ECC is correct, the selected address is wrong, so : thus the data is wrong). There's parity protection on parts of the CPU : address bus, but I don't believe there is any protection between the

staroffice

1999-10-08 Thread Randy Bush
anyone successful installing staroffice 5.1? is http://lt.tar.com/so50.out still the best hint? randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: maxphys = 0??

1999-10-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: You need to move your sources further forward. Alas, it didn't help. What versions of what files I should have? The warnings are still appearing, at fsck time. Alas, similarly I get: changing root device to wd0s1a