Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. : Any connection that doesn't respond after 8 $^! tries spaced FAR apart does : NOT deserve to stay. : :If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly :legitimate connections to get shot down as a

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly : legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external : periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If : so, better hope no keepalives are scheduled for then!) : :But remember that the idea is the

Re: KDE programs won't compile

1999-06-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
Most KDE programs, including the configure scripts, look for the KDEDIR environment variable. I believe that the correct thing to do with FreeBSD's KDE install is to set KDEDIR to /usr/local. I do this in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here. (I have KDE in /usr/local/kde here, too, so I

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: wouldn't notice... nobody would notice. : :I would. I have several long-lived connections, with a few of them :are sometimes unreachable for quote some time. I like that they survive, :and would hate it, if some brain-dead default would ruin my perfectly :set up connections. : :Even more,

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 20:13:56 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org said: : : If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly : legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external : periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If : so, better

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : 4. It would be desirable to have per socket timeouts, but would : require application changes which are unlikely to happen. : :Huh? I was just considering writing the patch for this. What :application problems would this create? : :The worst thing I can see is that it would mean that

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:37:57AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: : QED: The following patch. :[...] : +tcp_keepalive=YES # Kill dead TCP connections (or NO). : :I still don't understand why you insist on making it YES by default. It :works fine like it is for most of the people right

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
From: Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: 199906060620.xaa17...@apollo.backplane.com dillon As far as dial-on-demand goes, that also makes no real difference. dillon

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread sthaug
:Huh? I was just considering writing the patch for this. What :application problems would this create? : :The worst thing I can see is that it would mean that changing the :timeout value on a running system wouldn't affect already opened :sockets. Even that may be changable by an external

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread sthaug
The poor sod in this situation deserves something untoward, IMNSHO. Protocols like ssh do send something periodically whereas telnet doesn't. Telnet is a well-known security problem. As others have pointed out, this is an endemic problem in applications generally speaking, where a long-term

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1999-06-06 Thread Tomer Weller
made cvsupworld last night, when i config the GENERIC kernel : options.i386: Duplicate option FDC_DEBUG. .== Tomer Weller s...@i.am well...@netvision.net.il Drugs are good, and if you do'em pepole think that you're cool, NoFX To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Mmap problem in -current?

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Feldman
On 6 Jun 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: I just noticed (kernelworld from friday) that locate always cores dump: $ locate xxx Segmentation fault (core dumped) The problem disappears if I recompile locate without the -DMMAP option. Running on the very latest

panic: bus_dmamem_free: Invalid map freed - with recent current

1999-06-06 Thread Bernd Walter
Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS drive D: is disk2 FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 636/65472kB (ti...@cicely5.cicely.de, Sun Jun 6 11:28:23 CEST 1999) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /kernel text=0x15111d data=0x1b70c+0x240e0

options.i386: Duplicate option FDC_DEBUG.

1999-06-06 Thread Manfred Antar
New kernel won't build on current. when I do a config kernelname I get : options.i386: Duplicate option FDC_DEBUG. If i comment out the following from options.i386 everything builds. #FDC_DEBUG opt_fdc.h #FDC_YE opt_fdc.h Manfred = ||

How do i implement an Application firewall (like an transparent ftp-proxy) (smtp verifier etc.)

1999-06-06 Thread Nicolai Petri
Subject says it all.. Almost.. Is it natd or is it the kernel ?? Maybe a plug-in system for natd could do it ? --- Nicolai Petri n...@swamp.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

weird crash

1999-06-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Hi, just today I got this error, never had it before in all those months I have been tracking CURRENT now. Jun 6 17:15:26 daemon /kernel: sio0: 65 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 65) Jun 6 17:15:28 daemon /kernel: sio0: 131 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 196) Jun 6 17:15:29

I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, -- elf make world started on Sun Jun 6 19:55:14 BST 1999 elf make world completed on Sun Jun 6 19:55:15 BST 1999 -- Given that this is just cosmetic sugar (and IMHO

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 11:26:28PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: If the poor sod hasn't touched his xterm for 8 days, he's either dead or he doesn't care if it goes away. Thanks for your concern. Matt, poor sod. -- Matthew Hunt m...@astro.caltech.edu * UNIX is a lever for the

Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I don't get you. We did get it right and it works fine. If you change your date in the middle then it can't help you, nor can it help you if the world build completely fails in the middle or something. :) - Jordan -- elf make world

International Business Opportunities

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Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Julian Elischer
fixed.. I originally used STARTTIME!=date and someone confused me into using STARTTIME?=`date` but I forgot that they get evaluated at different times. On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I don't get you. We did get it right and it works fine. If you change your date in the middle

Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Julian Elischer
fixeed (My braino) On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, -- elf make world started on Sun Jun 6 19:55:14 BST 1999 elf make world completed on Sun Jun 6 19:55:15 BST 1999

Re: How do i implement an Application firewall (like an transparent ftp-proxy) (smtp verifier etc.)

1999-06-06 Thread kip
Lookup natd on the freebsd page. On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Nicolai Petri wrote: Subject says it all.. Almost.. Is it natd or is it the kernel ?? Maybe a plug-in system for natd could do it ? --- Nicolai Petri n...@swamp.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Bob Bishop
At 12:49 pm -0700 6/6/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I don't get you. We did get it right and it works fine. If you change your date in the middle then it can't help you, nor can it help you if the world build completely fails in the middle or something. :) No, really, only the subject line is in

Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Sorry, I wasn't aware of the fact that Julian had broken this since my last make world. :) - Jordan At 12:49 pm -0700 6/6/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I don't get you. We did get it right and it works fine. If you change your date in the middle then it can't help you, nor can it help you

config is broken?

1999-06-06 Thread Alex Zepeda
redwood201:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf#config -g DUSTER options.i386: Duplicate option FDC_DEBUG. redwood201:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf#grep FDC_DEBUG * LINT:# FDC_DEBUG enables floppy debugging. Since the debug output is huge, you LINT:optionsFDC_DEBUG options.i386:FDC_DEBUG

Re: config is broken?

1999-06-06 Thread D. Rock
This option is in /sys/conf/options and /sys/i386/conf/options.i386 According to the cvs log, the floppy driver has moved out of the i386 architecture directory. It seems the options.i386 has been forgotten (options.pc98 has been corrected). Daniel Alex Zepeda schrieb:

Re: I claim the all-time worldstone record :-) :-)

1999-06-06 Thread Bob Bishop
At 1:28 pm -0700 6/6/99, Julian Elischer wrote: it's there because it removes a whole step in finding out how long the compile took. (for example if you forget to redirect your output to a log file (like I did yesterday :-)) I use a wrapper script which backgrounds the build and redirects the

wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread Chuck Robey
Is there anything in current that provides wide character support? I'm messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with wide character things. One example: wcscat(). It's not the only one, I just need to know if it's in *any* library, and declared in any include file.

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread David E. Cross
Is there anything in current that provides wide character support? I'm messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with wide character things. One example: wcscat(). It's not the only one, I just need to know if it's in *any* library, and declared in any include

Re: KDE programs won't compile

1999-06-06 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 09:08:54PM +0300, Tomer Weller wrote: every small kde program i try to install (right now i tried Knewmail and Kover) i get : checking for kde headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! Check, if you installed

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Is there anything in current that provides wide character support? I'm messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with wide character things. One example: wcscat(). It's not the only one, I just need to know if it's in *any* library, and declared in any include

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread David E. Cross
There are several Japanese people working on stateful multibyte char support. Existing codebase like glibc only supports stateless multibyte char. People using iso-2022 variants (Japan, Korea, China, you name it) need stateful multibyte char support. We have

Panic on boot

1999-06-06 Thread Chuck Robey
I was wondering, I've been spending all my time recently on a research task, and I might have missed this: I just rebuilt world, then reinstalled a new kernel, and it won't mount root. Luckily, my old kernel is just fine, and uses my new modules fine, but it won't mount root. I noticed in the

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
But remember that the idea is the keepalive would keep trying for a certain amount of time, and this would be finely configureable. Adjusting the keepalive's retry period after activation is also irrelevant. As they currently stand, keepalives operate in virtually [snip] I don't see why

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
Joel Ray Holveck jo...@gnu.org wrote: I don't see why this is a point of discussion. The keepalive timers are all configurable via sysctl. Not quite all. The variables tcp_keepcnt and tcp_maxpersistidle are not accessible via sysctl (the latter is not directly related to the current keepalives

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: Is there anything in current that provides wide character support? I'm messing around with document formatting, and I have to be involved with wide character things. One example: wcscat(). It's not the only one, I just need to know

About the panic

1999-06-06 Thread Chuck Robey
Don't wory. I guess with my dual controllers, that's likely what did it. I only had ahc0, not ahc1, in my config file. For some reason, it didn't like that anymore. Anyhow, it's fixed. +--- Chuck Robey |

Re: How do i implement an Application firewall (like an transparentftp-proxy) (smtp verifier etc.)

1999-06-06 Thread Thomas Seidmann
k...@lyris.com wrote: Lookup natd on the freebsd page. Yes, and take a look at the ipfw 'forward' rule. It is your friend. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread David E. Cross
The latest snapshot can be grabbed from: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/wcs-19990606.tar.gz New in this release... 1) Man pages (I don't think I included them prior to this) 2) Makefile that sorta works (makes a dynamic library.. I don't recommend people use the dynamic

Re: wide char support

1999-06-06 Thread itojun
Do you guys have any testable, even if it's not ready for prime time? I need wchar.h and the wcs* functions for a project for FreeBSD. You want me to have this, I think. David said he had something ready to play with (I think) but I haven't heard from him yet. We have some code