Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: But I've often wondered how frequently a production system has such problems. I've been a sysadmin for many years and can't remember this ever happening. It's much more common to blow a hard drive, or have flaky memory, etc.

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:51:48PM +0100, boyd, rounin wrote: From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't that be 'chmod +t /bin/sh' ??? Definitely. Why waste a new bit when there's already a perfectly good one that is (or was) defined for the purpose. the 't' bit was known as the

panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Alex Deiter
On recent -CURRENT + http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_irq.patch panic: NULL softc for 0 cpuid = 0; Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x55: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db tr Debugger(c08983fd,0,c086865c,e041ccbc,100) at Debugger+0x55 panic(c086865c,0,80246,0,e041cce8) at panic+0x156

Re: Re: rpc.lockd core dumped

2003-11-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
I can only say that I had a core dump under current on sparc, but the core file was unusable. Can you compile rcp.lockd with -g in CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and try to find out with gdb where it aborts? harti Hi :) I investigate a little more this nfs locking issue. I recompile my system with

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread boyd, rounin
From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for overloading the 't' bit, I don't believe it's ever been used for anything else on executable files. directories ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current

Problem with GDB on latest -CURRENT

2003-11-21 Thread Vladimir Grebenschikov
Submitter-Id: current-users Originator:Vladimir Grebenschikov Organization: SWsoft Confidential: no Synopsis: Problem with GDB on latest -CURRENT Severity: non-critical Priority: medium Category: bin Class: sw-bug Release: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386

Re: VMWare build failure

2003-11-21 Thread Ben Paley
Thanks to everyone who suggested things... now the port's been updated it compiles fine. Doesn't run, however, but I'll try to suss that out myself... thanks, Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Guy Helmer
Tim Kientzle wrote on Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:31 PM Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 6:26 PM +0100 11/17/03, Julian Stacey wrote: Seconded ! Better commit an improved switch with default = Off. The time for voting was months ago. ... I'm pretty comfortable with the failsafes

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread othermark
I got bit by this just two days ago. I have one machine that tracks -current. It upgraded to DYNAMICROOT just fine. I nfs mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj on another 5.0-release machine made the necessary adjustments, installed the kernel, rebooted, remounted and began make installworld. It

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Doug White
The OHCI driver is largely synced with NetBSD so you might see if they have the same bug. This might be the underlying wierdness we were seeing in gtetlow's microdrive with transfers over 8k. The one-page-crossing ohci limitation is really annoying. On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OHCI driver is largely synced with NetBSD so you might see if they have the same bug. I'll look around for a bootable NetBSD CD. This might be the underlying wierdness we were seeing in gtetlow's microdrive with transfers over 8k. The

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Guy Helmer wrote: Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover a machine that I hosed after the statfs change by trying to installworld without building booting a new kernel first. Great! Any changes you could suggest to /rescue based on that

MAJOR number

2003-11-21 Thread Roman Kurakin
Hi, I need a new MAJOR number for our new device. How can I get it? I've read that FreeBSD doesn't use them any more. But we may need it to not interfere with other device drivers in previous releases of FreeBSD. ??? ce Cronyx Tau-32 E1 adapter ___ Best regars, Roman

Re: acpi_cpu

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: You should run a benchmark with different values for hw.acpi.cpu.current_speed to be sure the throttling control still works ok. I left it mostly intact so you shouldn't see any problems but it's still good to test. As you change

Re: DStumbler / BSD-AirTools Error with new Wi code?

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:32:37PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: I don't know if Lucent cards are supported or not. How old is your kernel, btw? You should update to -CURRENT as there have been many wlan fixes since 5.1-RELEASE. -sc To the best of my knowledge, only PRISM2 has ever been

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:31:10PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: * /rescue/vi is currently unusable if /usr is missing because the termcap database is in /usr. One possibility would be to build a couple of default termcap entries into ncurses or into vi. My suggested candidates are

Re: spin lock sched lock held by 0xc25a8640 for 5 seconds

2003-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:31:23PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On 20-Nov-2003 Kris Kennaway wrote: I updated bento last night, and it panicked after a few hours with: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 01 fault virtual address = 0xe5 fault code

Re: DStumbler / BSD-AirTools Error with new Wi code?

2003-11-21 Thread Tilman Linneweh
* Bruce M Simpson [Fr, 21 Nov 2003 at 20:36 GMT]: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:32:37PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: I don't know if Lucent cards are supported or not. How old is your kernel, btw? You should update to -CURRENT as there have been many wlan fixes since 5.1-RELEASE. -sc To the

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Whoops. http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ueagle/download.html. BMS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:11:33AM -0800, Doug White wrote: The OHCI driver is largely synced with NetBSD so you might see if they have the same bug. This might be the underlying wierdness we were seeing in gtetlow's microdrive with transfers over 8k. The one-page-crossing ohci limitation

grub on -current?

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
Is anyone using this successfully? I had to install it from Linux. The grub.conf below works when installed by the Linux grub-install but FreeBSD's port always fails with the below messages. Package: grub-0.92 The other problem is I think grub cannot boot UFS2 partitions so I'm using UFS1.

xl0: watchdog timeout

2003-11-21 Thread Jimmy Selgen
Hi I'm getting some strange xl0 timeout messages on 5.1-CURRENT (synced today). I've searched the archives, and it seems that this problem is related to ACPI (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=608457+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20031109.freebsd-current) Strange thing is that this

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: But I've often wondered how frequently a production system has such problems. I've been a sysadmin for many years and can't remember this ever happening. It's much more common to blow a hard drive, or have flaky memory, etc.

Re: MAJOR number

2003-11-21 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roman Kurakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : ??? ce Cronyx Tau-32 E1 adapter I've checked -stable and -current. You may have: 185 ce Cronyx Tau-32 E1 adapeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your adapter. Sorry for the hassles in getting it.

Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

2003-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:22:49PM +0100, Jimmy Selgen wrote: Hi I'm getting some strange xl0 timeout messages on 5.1-CURRENT (synced today). I've searched the archives, and it seems that this problem is related to ACPI

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:35:50PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OHCI driver is largely synced with NetBSD so you might see if they have the same bug. I'll look around for a bootable NetBSD CD. NetBSD is different in that point. This might be

VFS deadlock suspected in -CURRENT

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi all, Last night's -CURRENT appears to have demonstrated deadlock. My experience in this area is extremely limited so I have been trying to track down the problem with kan's help. It manifested itself as being unable to log into the machine directly (via serial console, *or* sshd) due to

Re: kernel panic trying to utilize a da(4)/umass(4) device with ohci(4)

2003-11-21 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:35:50PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OHCI driver is largely synced with NetBSD so you might see if they have the same bug. I'll look around for a bootable NetBSD CD. NetBSD

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
--On Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:40 PM -0500 Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ust put a tiny termcap file in /rescue (i.e. termcap.rescue) that contains 5 or 6 of the most common terminal types (cons25, vt102, etc), and have /rescue/vi default to cons25. If you are hosed enough to

Re: spin lock sched lock held by 0xc25a8640 for 5 seconds

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
Since both of these happen in irq handlers, you might want to look at the new random entropy gathering use of locking. -Nate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-21 Thread Don Bowman
So i have a machine freshly installed from 5.1 mini iso. I did a cvs co of latest current sources, and accidentally did a 'make world' instead of 'make buildworld'. Now i just get 'Bad system call' when i try to do anything. i need to get the correct kernel on there, does anyone have a

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
Is this an SMP box? If so, please do: x/xl cpu_softc x/xl cpu_softc+4 x/xl cpu_softc+8 And send me the output of acpidump -t -d tiamat-MachineType.asl -Nate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Guy Helmer
Tim Kientzle wrote: Guy Helmer wrote: Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover a machine that I hosed after the statfs change by trying to installworld without building booting a new kernel first. Great! Any changes you could

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
Sorry to reply to myself. Are you loading acpi as a module and have an SMP box? If so, please try this patch, recompile the module, and go again: retrieving revision 1.32 diff -u -r1.32 Makefile --- Makefile15 Nov 2003 19:26:06 - 1.32 +++ Makefile21 Nov 2003 21:37:41 - @@

Re: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-21 Thread Scott Long
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Don Bowman wrote: So i have a machine freshly installed from 5.1 mini iso. I did a cvs co of latest current sources, and accidentally did a 'make world' instead of 'make buildworld'. Now i just get 'Bad system call' when i try to do anything. i need to get the correct

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:52 PM +1100 11/20/03, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: --On Wed, Nov 19, 2003, Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have a: chflags ldcache /bin/sh Shouldn't that be 'chmod +t /bin/sh' ??? Definitely. Why waste a new bit when there's already a

Re: Updated acpi_cpu patch

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote: I'm gonna try some buildkernelstones with the different settings. If you have some special benchmarks in mind I'd be happy to run them. That's probably ok. It has a lot of IO. Now I've tried running make buildkernel and tarring /usr/src to a

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover ... I could have used the ftp client (or fetch) in /rescue :-) Yes, fetch would be useful. I imagine a lot of people in emergency situations will need to pull things over a network connection.

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Alex Deiter
Is this an SMP box? If so, please do: This Intel® Server Board SE7501BR2 with one CPU and enabled Hyper-Threading. x/xl cpu_softc x/xl cpu_softc+4 x/xl cpu_softc+8 panic: NULL softc for 0 cpuid = 0; Debugger(panic) Stopped at Debugger+0x55: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 db x/xl

Re: grub on -current?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi Nate, On Friday 21 November 2003 21:11, Nate Lawson wrote: Is anyone using this successfully? I had to install it from Linux. The grub.conf below works when installed by the Linux grub-install but FreeBSD's port always fails with the below messages. Package: grub-0.92 Yes, I'm using

Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

2003-11-21 Thread Jimmy Selgen
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:22:49PM +0100, Jimmy Selgen wrote: I saw this with some of sam's locking changes that (temporarily) broke DUMMYNET. I see you're using ipfilter - it's possible that this configuration has not been well-tested. Are

Re: Updated acpi_cpu patch

2003-11-21 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote: I'm gonna try some buildkernelstones with the different settings. If you have some special benchmarks in mind I'd be happy to run them. That's probably ok. It has a lot of IO. Now I've tried

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Alex Deiter wrote: Is this an SMP box? If so, please do: This Intel® Server Board SE7501BR2 with one CPU and enabled Hyper-Threading. x/xl cpu_softc x/xl cpu_softc+4 x/xl cpu_softc+8 panic: NULL softc for 0 cpuid = 0; Debugger(panic) Stopped at

Re: IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel config option gone?

2003-11-21 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:12:44AM -0800, Wade Klaver wrote: Hello all, When trying to bring a box up to date, we noticed that the IPFIREWALL_FORWARD kernel option has been removed somewhere between the 2'nd of this month and now. Has it been obsoleted by other options? I saw nothing

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Alex Deiter wrote: Is this an SMP box? If so, please do: This Intel® Server Board SE7501BR2 with one CPU and enabled Hyper-Threading. x/xl cpu_softc x/xl cpu_softc+4 x/xl cpu_softc+8 panic: NULL softc for 0 cpuid = 0; Debugger(panic) Stopped at

Re: panic: NULL softc for 0

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Alex Deiter wrote: Sorry to reply to myself. Are you loading acpi as a module and have an SMP box? If so, please try this patch, recompile the module, and go again: i applay this patch, comment device acpi in GENERIC and rebuild kernel. After reboot it work, does

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Leo Bicknell wrote: To boot a machine into single user mode you need a kernel, init, and /bin/sh (minimally). It would seem to me that alone is a good argument for those three things to be static. You need a static shell, yes. That does not have to be /bin/sh. init does prompt, and /rescue/sh is

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Leo Bicknell wrote: The more I think about init the more I don't like dynamic linking for it. init needs to have as few failure modes as possible. I do still think it's fine for all the other /bin and /sbin things. Right now, /sbin/init is statically linked. Tim Kientzle

Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Marcus Reid
Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I would be in pretty sad shape. Should UPDATING make note of this breakage? It would have saved me some embarassment, and I'm sure others are about to

Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Smith
Jimmy Selgen wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:22:49PM +0100, Jimmy Selgen wrote: I saw this with some of sam's locking changes that (temporarily) broke DUMMYNET. I see you're using ipfilter - it's possible that this configuration has not been

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:38:49 -0800, Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There have been a lot of proposed solutions: * Rewrite NSS to not require dlopen(). * Rewrite dlopen() to not require dynamic linking. * Don't support NSS in /bin/sh. * Change the default script interpreter

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Bruce Evans wrote: It obviously uses NSS. How else could it be so bloated? : $ ls -l /sbin/init -r-x-- 1 root wheel 453348 Nov 18 10:30 /sbin/init I believe it's actually DNS, not NSS. Pre-5.0, the resolver ballooned significantly. A lot of the bloat in /bin and /sbin came from the NIS

Re: spin lock sched lock held by 0xc25a8640 for 5 seconds

2003-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:08:13PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: Since both of these happen in irq handlers, you might want to look at the new random entropy gathering use of locking. I'm running a kernel with dev/random backed out to the day before mark's commits, because at the time I needed to

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
Garrett Wollman wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:38:49 -0800, Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There have been a lot of proposed solutions: * Rewrite NSS to not require dlopen(). * Rewrite dlopen() to not require dynamic linking. * Don't support NSS in /bin/sh. * Change the default script

Re: Updated acpi_cpu patch

2003-11-21 Thread Nate Lawson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: Those are what is more interesting. Also, can you send me your sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_history after you've used it for a while with the maximum cx_lowest setting? hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/85

Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

2003-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:40:37PM +0100, Jimmy Selgen wrote: The box in question is my workstation, so I guess i'm not passing that much traffic through ipfilter. Also, when I said that the NIC still worked, I might have mislead you a bit. I had about 5-10 timeouts while scp'ing the dmesg

Re: Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 15:42:12 -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I would be in pretty sad shape. Should UPDATING make note of this breakage? No.

Re: Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi Greg, On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:05:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 15:42:12 -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I

Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded' when trying toupgrade kdelibs-3.1.4 port

2003-11-21 Thread Guillaume EGLES
Hi, It has been almost a month that my system fails to upgrade the kdelibs-3.1.4 port on my FreeBSD-current box. I have synchronized my OS with -current many times, but the problem seems to persist. Here is the error message: ../dcop/dcopidl/dcopidl ./ksycoca.h ksycoca.kidl || ( rm -f

Re: Updated acpi_cpu patch

2003-11-21 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: Those are what is more interesting. Also, can you send me your sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_history after you've used it for a while with the maximum cx_lowest setting?

Re: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-21 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Don Bowman wrote: So i have a machine freshly installed from 5.1 mini iso. I did a cvs co of latest current sources, and accidentally did a 'make world' instead of 'make buildworld'. Now i just get 'Bad system call' when i try to do anything. i need to get the correct

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: Bruce Evans wrote: It obviously uses NSS. How else could it be so bloated? : $ ls -l /sbin/init -r-x-- 1 root wheel 453348 Nov 18 10:30 /sbin/init I believe it's actually DNS, not NSS. Pre-5.0, the resolver ballooned significantly. A

Re: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-21 Thread Barney Wolff
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Don Bowman wrote: So i have a machine freshly installed from 5.1 mini iso. I did a cvs co of latest current sources, and accidentally did a 'make world' instead of 'make buildworld'. Now i just get 'Bad

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread boyd, rounin
From: William Josephson [EMAIL PROTECTED] People at Berkeley (and elsewhere) have done user studies to try to quantify this sort of thing. It is pretty clear that with modern hardware, most failures are due to human error. That's not to say that hardware and software faults aren't real

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Shouldn't that be 'chmod +t /bin/sh' ??? b) I thought that you might want to have this an admin-only command, so nefarious users couldn't abuse it on a shared system. I would make one change to your proposal: Instead of

Re: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded' when trying toupgrade kdelibs-3.1.4 port

2003-11-21 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Guillaume EGLES wrote: Hi, It has been almost a month that my system fails to upgrade the kdelibs-3.1.4 port on my FreeBSD-current box. I have synchronized my OS with -current many times, but the problem seems to persist. Here is the error message:

Re: Help request: problems with a 5.1 server and large numbers of ssh users.

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:26:10PM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote: It is my intuition from this behavior that the sshd master process listening for connections is unable to spawn a new process to complete the authentication step, and thus the connection is being dropped. There is no information of