Re: error message, what does this mean?

1999-05-28 Thread Bruce Evans
May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: vnode_pager: *** WARNING *** stale FS getpages May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: No strategy for buffer at 0xc13637e0 May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: : 0xc35ffd80: type VREG, usecount 4, writecount 0, refcount 0, flags (VOBJBUF) May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: tag

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jan B. Koum
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:50:21AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com wrote: Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it.

Re: error message, what does this mean?

1999-05-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Bruce Evans wrote ... May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: vnode_pager: *** WARNING *** stale FS getpages May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: No strategy for buffer at 0xc13637e0 May 27 23:39:23 p100 /kernel: : 0xc35ffd80: type VREG, usecount 4, writecount 0, refcount 0, flags (VOBJBUF) May 27

Re: error message, what does this mean?

1999-05-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Matthew Dillon wrote ... :etc : :This was during a cp -R /* /mnt where /mnt is a SCSI disk I'm testing. :Both disks are on seperate SCSI buses. Is this because the cp -R :tries to copy /proc ?? : :| / o / / _Arnhem, The Netherlands- Powered by FreeBSD - :|/|/ / / /(

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com writes: Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug White dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu writes: I second the suggestion to 'autoprobe' PASV support, and revert to active mode (w/ an appropriate msg) if PASV is refused. No. Ncftp tries to do this, and provides adequate proof that it is not practical. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav -

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dan Langille junkm...@xtra.co.nz writes: For the argument that some ftp servers don't accept passive mode, I say it's a question of numbers: which default setting will satisfy the greatest number of people? which setting will reduce the number of questions how do I do X? FTP servers which

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jan B. Koum j...@best.com writes: Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE by doing '-P -' too). CVSup uses multiplexed

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Nick Hibma
On 28 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Jan B. Koum j...@best.com writes: Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Nick Hibma nick.hi...@jrc.it writes: On 28 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client. No. Yes, it

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dispatcher
CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client. No. $ /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/src-supfile -g -L 2 ... Establishing active-mode

Re: splash screen broken??

1999-05-28 Thread Mike Smith
Whenever I try to load the splash screen (300x200 256 colors) the modules seem to load right, however, when the kernel boots, it gives me an error about mod_register_init or something of that nature, I was just testing the config... I tried these commands at the boot loader. Here

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 28 May 1999 at 14:05, Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their loss. I'll second that opinion. Netscape and Microsoft browsers, at least, have been using passive FTP for years (1994 or earlier). One could argue

Re: -Current still leaking mbuf's

1999-05-28 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kevin Day wrote: I tried doubling whatever it was that putting maxusers at 256 set it at. (I can get the exact number later). I'm running with no NMBCLUSTERS setting, just with maxusers at 128 at the moment. Okay, you may want to bump NMBCLUSTERS. You might want to

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Dag-Erling Smorgrav: FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their They're broken with respect to RFC-959, not only to your opinion :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT

Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
A florida ISP recently donated a T3 connection and a beefy SMP box to us, so I took advantage of this to create another cvsup mirror which allows up to 32 connections. Folks are encouraged to use this site in preference to some of our more loaded cvsup servers (like cvsup1 and cvsup2) and it

Re: Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org

1999-05-28 Thread kip
Just a warning -- it does not appear to have reverse DNS set up on it. This could be a problem if you try to ever send mail from it. host cvsup6.freebsd.org cvsup6.freebsd.org is a nickname for hitter.freebsd.org hitter.freebsd.org has address 207.192.64.20 nslookup 207.192.64.20 Server:

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jan B. Koum
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:09:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: Jan B. Koum j...@best.com writes: Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall not so friendly things?

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jan B. Koum
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 03:13:55PM -0700, Jan B. Koum jkb wrote: On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:09:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote: Jan B. Koum j...@best.com writes: Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and libraries you talk about

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami
* From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no * FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their * loss. No. The losers will be our users who can't talk to them. I don't have a problem with changing the default as long as there are ways to turn them off easily

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jan B. Koum j...@best.com writes: I know how CVSup works. If you are behind firewall, you need to use -P - command line switch. [...] No. I use CVSup from behind a firewall daily (actually, 23 times a day on one box and 24 times a day on another) without any fancy switches. DES --

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
as...@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) writes: * From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no * FTP servers which do not accept passive mode are, IMHO, broken. Their * loss. No. The losers will be our users who can't talk to them. I don't have a problem with changing

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami
* From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no * I don't have a problem with changing the default as long as there are * ways to turn them off easily (read: on a per-port basis). Can we * cancel an environment variable set in /etc/login.conf from a Makefile? * * If we just set

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
as...@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) writes: No. This is from libftpio/ftpio.c: Libftpio will shortly be deprecated. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the

Anybody working on dset utility for ELF?

1999-05-28 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
Is there anybody out there working on making /sbin/dset recognize ELF kernel files? I need it, so if there is nobody, I'm going to work on it myself. If you are familiar with this, please give me pointers or hints as to how best to do this. Carlos C. Tapang http://www.genericwindows.com

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
If we just set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/login.conf or /etc/profile, all the user needs to do is set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO before trying to fetch the port. Heh, no. UTSL. All the code which checks this, checks to see if it's set to anything at all, not if it's set explicitly to YES. :) -

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com writes: If we just set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/login.conf or /etc/profile, all the user needs to do is set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=NO before trying to fetch the port. Heh, no. UTSL. All the code which checks this, checks to see if it's set to anything

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami
* From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no * Libftpio will shortly be deprecated. Fine. Just make sure /etc/login.conf is not updated too early then. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Well, if we're replacing it with libfetch then either fetch(1) or libfetch(3) need to check it too. At the moment, neither does - I just checked. :-) - Jordan as...@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) writes: No. This is from libftpio/ftpio.c: Libftpio will shortly be

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
No, you're the one who's wrong, the source is simply the source. :-) My only point was that you should make sure something is a certain way before you offer advice for dealing with its *current* behavior since, otherwise, that's just confusing to everyone. Either way, I don't think that *any*

Re: Anybody working on dset utility for ELF?

1999-05-28 Thread Jan B. Koum
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 06:12:33PM -0700, Carlos C. Tapang ctap...@easystreet.com wrote: Is there anybody out there working on making /sbin/dset recognize ELF kernel files? I need it, so if there is nobody, I'm going to work on it myself. If you are familiar with this, please give me

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com writes: Well, if we're replacing it with libfetch then either fetch(1) or libfetch(3) need to check it too. At the moment, neither does - I just checked. :-) Umm, I'm kinda embarassed. The 19990529 patchkit fixes that :)

Interesting bogons from last night's 4.0 snapshot.

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Bogon #1: Userconfig doesn't appear to work - change anything at all and you're looking at a kernel panic when you exit. Hmmm! Bogon #2: Correcting Natoma for non-SMP configuration message on SMP boxes is now printed twice (once for each CPU? :). Bogon #3: bt_isa_probe: Probe failed for

Anybody working on dset for ELF? (resend)

1999-05-28 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
Sorry I had to do this again. I sent the first one in html format, which most mail readers don't support. Is there anybody upgrading dset to work with ELF kernels? If not, I'd like to work on it myself. If you are familiar with this, please give me pointers or hints. Thanks. Carlos C. Tapang

Invocating as at gcc -pipe filename.s

1999-05-28 Thread Jun Kuriyama
On my 3.1-REL and 3.1-STABLE-19990331 systems, invocation of gas at gcc -pipe is not treated correctly. For example, on my 2.2.8-STABLE system says, - moon: {101} touch test.s moon: {102} gcc -v -pipe test.s gcc version 2.7.2.1 /usr/bin/as -o /var/tmp/ccsU37121.o test.s /usr/bin/ld -e

Announcing a new cvsup server - cvsup6.freebsd.org

1999-05-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 28 May 1999 14:44:58 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com said: [...] create another cvsup mirror which allows up to 32 connections. Folks are encouraged to use this site in preference to some of our more loaded cvsup servers (like cvsup1 and cvsup2) and it updates from

Re: Anybody working on dset for ELF? (resend)

1999-05-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
dset is no longer required for ELF kernels - see kget instead. - Jordan Sorry I had to do this again. I sent the first one in html format, which most mail readers don't support. Is there anybody upgrading dset to work with ELF kernels? If not, I'd like to work on it myself. If you are

savecore too (Re: kvm_getswapinfo is broken)

1999-05-28 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:09:14AM +0400, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: This is a known problem. It is because dev_t in kernel and dev_t and userland are now different things. This is worse on the alpha, where they also have different sizes. So, on the alpha, the numbers are broken too, not just

Re: Anybody working on dset utility for ELF?

1999-05-28 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 29-May-99 Jan B. Koum wrote: Uhm.. I thought that is what /sbin/kget does, no?! It would appear so (I didn't even know kget existed sigh :) But it isn't in any .rc files, so presumably it isn't automagic. Presumably it would be trivial to add though, ie have 'kget /boot/kernel.conf'

NFS diskless on -current

1999-05-28 Thread Mark Newton
I tried to upgrade my diskless router this afternoon to -current as cvsupped last night. I can't make it boot, though. The configuration it has been using since it was last rebuilt from Feb 24's -current (and which has been working for longer than I care to remember) is: - /etc/bootptab