teaching libutil about home directories

2000-07-09 Thread Kelly Yancey
PR 19755 seeks to teach nologin(8) to look for .nologin files in a user's home directory. However, I feel that such knowledge is better obtained via the nologin capability in login.conf. Basically, file and program capabilities should perform tilde expansion. Libutil already does

Re: HEADS UP: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio Makefile (fwd)

2000-07-09 Thread Peter Wemm
"David O'Brien" wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:05:50PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: This is *not* the same as the a.out behavior which searched directories to find the largest number. ELF uses the symlinks and no searching, which is why ld and ld-elf.so is faster when locating directories

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: After the latest config/hints changes, just commenting the syscons driver "sc" line and uncommenting the pcvt "vt" line in the GENERIC kernel config file, a booting kernel panics after the the message "atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) .." with a fatal trap 12,

Re: Scheduler changes?

2000-07-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, i understand that this means maybe a somwthat large change in the system, but what do you think if we have a lok at implementing the CPU scheduler using weights instead of strict priorities ? Do we have parts of the kernel which rely on priority

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
From the keyboard of Daniel C. Sobral: After the latest config/hints changes, just commenting the syscons driver "sc" line and uncommenting the pcvt "vt" line in the GENERIC kernel config file, a booting kernel panics after the the message "atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) .." with a

Softupdates panic on SMP system

2000-07-09 Thread Ollivier Robert
Hi, I just got a softupdates related panic on my dual PPro during buildworld. Sources from July, 4th. Build with -j4. I'll keep the dump if there's any need. #0 boot (howto=260) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:303 #1 0xc0177a29 in panic (fmt=0xc0298c54 "from debugger") at

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: Thanks for the reply - it seems indeed to be a strange problem. In the mean- time i found out that the pcvt probe routine was never called until i added something like DEVMETHOD(device_identify, pcvt_identify) to the device methods structure. It didn't? Please,

Multiple free panic on SMP

2000-07-09 Thread Ollivier Robert
After updating to the very latest current code, I get a multiple free panic on my SMP machine. It always happen during buildworld in libc_r. Important note : I have the snapshot code from Kirk. The panic is in random_read which does a free. Here is the trace. panic: free: multiple freed item

Re: cvs-crypto unknown

2000-07-09 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Trevor Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I use the separate collections because cvsup times out otherwise (I guess my connection is too slow). A slow network won't cause this. There must be some other problem. The cvsupd server times out a connection

smbfs problem

2000-07-09 Thread A G F Keahan
Hi Boris, I have a strange problem with smbfs, where the mounted share times out and becomes inaccessible after a period of time. I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact moment when it happens, but basically: hightemplar:/home/alex$ mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync 135 async

Re: ppp -auto gone again

2000-07-09 Thread Udo Erdelhoff
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:04:47PM +0200, Daniel Rock wrote: - if (pri 0) + if (pri = 0) Groan. "The problem must be somewhere in ip.c, the other changes were purely cosmetic". Famous last words. Thanks, I've re-reverted to the current version, applied your patch and -auto mode

Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question

2000-07-09 Thread Leif Neland
These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm - Original Message - From: Josh Paetzel To: Robert Small ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 1990 6:02 AM Subject: Re: SCSI Question

Re: regex(3)

2000-07-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000709 12:46] wrote: I think all bugs with the performance improvements to regex(3) have all been solved now. I haven't heard of any problems for over a week about the first improvement (Boyer-Moore search), and I have now tested the code against the

Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question

2000-07-09 Thread Paul Herman
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Probably

Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question

2000-07-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2709 22:40], Paul Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions

Re: etc/rc.d things...

2000-07-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By all means, use start/stop args, but hard link the .sh files into seperate directories or something so that the order can be tweaked.. If all you want is to make sure that shutdown happens in the reverse order of startup, that can be done by

Re: regex(3)

2000-07-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: I think all bugs with the performance improvements to regex(3) have all been solved now. I haven't heard of any problems for over a week about the first improvement (Boyer-Moore search), and I have now tested the code against the original test

Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question

2000-07-09 Thread Ben Smithurst
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Both the original postings look

Re: Softupdates panic on SMP system

2000-07-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
I did some thinking about this, but no real code inspection, on a walk today- I think what is occurring is that the list of directory updates is getting refreshed from another process while the first process' list is being written out. A quick hack would be to make sure this doesn't happen (no

5.0-20000706-SNAP boot floppy failure

2000-07-09 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, In case anyone else it seeing this yet, or possibly working on it, the 0706 snap boot floppy boots up into sysinstall and then hangs. Switching to the debug screen yields: DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0. and that's

Panic with latest pcm commits?

2000-07-09 Thread Donn Miller
I just cvsup'd new sources as of an hour of this posting, and built a kernel. When I try to play an MP3 with mpg123, a kernel panic occurs. Also, rev. 1.27 of src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/channel.c is the latest version of this file that doesn't cause loud popping sounds when I try to play an MP3,

Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question

2000-07-09 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ben Smithurst wrote: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2709 21:20], Leif Neland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These messages are infected with the kak virus. See http://www.cai.com/virusinfo/encyclopedia/descriptions/wscript.htm Am I the only one to NOT see this? Both