Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller

1999-09-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jonathan Lemon wrote: For now, you could remove the IDE devices from the config file, until this gets fixed. Ideally, the boot blocks/loader should be taught to boot from something other than wd() or da(). Alas, the loader uses BIOS to read the disk. Anything the BIOS can read, so can the

Re: Problem with Compaq SMART-2SL array controller

1999-09-24 Thread Mike Smith
After doing a cvsup yesterday evening i can't seem to boot on my raid cotroller using the same kernel config. Is -current probing hardware i a different way now or ?? This is a consequence of a defect in the way that the ida driver works, and new code which resorts the disk drivers (so

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The gcc optimizer is traditionally buggy. I wouldn't trust a system compiled with anything more than -O (especially on production servers). The higher optimization levels don't provide much of a speed improvement anyway, sometimes they make the

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:08:10PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: The point is that it _does_ hurt. Anything above -O3 is _likely_ to have bugs. I am forced to agree about the fact that optimisation is traditionally buggy :) I tried to optimize my system with -O3 and -pipe. So I build myself a

Re: freebsd-uthread.c

1999-09-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: In three places in your code you do the following or something similar: ptr = (CORE_ADDR) cached_pthread.nxt; struct pthread has no member nxt in either -current or -stable and your patch did not add it to pthread_private.h What did you mean for

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Murray
Do you know about the RBL? How do you feel about it? We are using it via DNS and BGP on a test basis right now.I have had legitimate important mail blocked at Freebsd.org due to the source being on the RBL, but that is a price I am willing to pay. The RBL is great! There is a teensy

RBL, DUL + other acronymns [was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups]

1999-09-24 Thread Michael Kennett
For those who don't know the acronymns RBL, DUL, etc... (like me a few minutes ago :-), they are: RBL Realtime Blackhole List TSI Transport Security Initiative DUL Dial-up User List RSS Relay Spam Stopper. More information can be found at the site: http://maps.vix.com/.

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread David Wolfskill
From: "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 03:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Another thing that ISP coulds start doing (we are in process with this now, but on a monitoring only basis, instead of a deny we just log them) is to block all outbound from AS tcp 25 setup packets. Not quite

Re: FreeBSD-specific denial of service

1999-09-24 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
The following is from BUGTRAQ. There's a fix for -stable, though there is none for -current. Is -current vulnerable? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITSD

Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference?

1999-09-24 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 09:22:05AM -0500, Bruce Albrecht wrote: I know this is not -current related, but then, neither is the thread on hub.freebsd.org refusing DUL origin messages. I have a DSL line with static IP, and all my FreeBSD mailing lists are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are

Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups)

1999-09-24 Thread Jacques Vidrine
[This thread is off topic, but ... ] On 24 September 1999 at 3:00, "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that ISP coulds start doing (we are in process with this now, but on a monitoring only basis, instead of a deny we just log them) is to block all outbound from AS tcp 25

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Zach N. Heilig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application for the tests is mpg123. test mp3 playing time: 373 seconds. [ ... ] 1) No Optimization 225.08 real 224.30 user 0.23 sys [ ... ] 2) -O3 -mcpu=i486 -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fschedule-insns

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-24 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: : OK: : #!/bin/sh : (cvs status | grep '^File:' | grep -v 'Status: Up-to-date$') 2 /dev/null ^^ -q Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Murray
These days the RBL is more of a preventative measure than a blocking measure. It has already forced most open relays to tighten up. I'll go with that. The DUL stops _huge_ amounts of "drive-by" spam, though... M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:08:10 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The point is that it _does_ hurt. Anything above -O3 is _likely_ to have bugs. And more to the point: the FreeBSD Project will not support those who compile their kernel or world with anything other than the

Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference?

1999-09-24 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
Non-authoritative answer: zuhause.mn.org preference = 150, mail exchanger = minuet.skypoint.net zuhause.mn.org preference = 100, mail exchanger = 205.215.217.178 postfix does not like your numeric MX record Sep 24 01:35:46 hub postfix/smtp[77991]: warning: valid_hostname: numeric

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
From: "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 03:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Another thing that ISP coulds start doing (we are in process with this now, but on a monitoring only basis, instead of a deny we just log them) is to block all outbound from AS tcp 25 setup packets.

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
would immediately unsubscribe to any isp that decided this was acceptable behavior on their part. I agree. Your work also has a serious security concern if it allows this you to directly attatch to it's port 25. No it doesn't, but you do bring up another good point why not to

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
Strange. I use the RBL on my mail server here, but it really doesn't accomplish much. In the past 8 days it has blocked only 3 distinct spam e-mails, and that's typical. Yet I still receive an average of 5-10 spam mails in my mailbox every day. (*Must* *stop* *fist* *of* *death*!) A

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
At 03:00 AM 9/24/1999 -0700, you wrote: Another thing that ISP coulds start doing (we are in process with this now, but on a monitoring only basis, instead of a deny we just log them) is to block all outbound from AS tcp 25 setup packets. Hmm, maybe I'm interpreting this wrong (I hope so),

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Nate Williams
I agree. Your work also has a serious security concern if it allows this you to directly attatch to it's port 25. No it doesn't, but you do bring up another good point why not to use the ISP's mail server. Security. I don't want email to bounce on your box and potentially

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
One of us, at least, evidently. How much mail does the use of the MAPS DUL reject? varies sharply from day to day. since 8/31 dul has rejected 93 connection attempts. map has rejected 361 connection attempts. How much of that do you think is worth rejecting?

Re: Experimental ACPI driver.

1999-09-24 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, there. We wrote experimental ACPI driver for 4.0-CURRENT. This was just one week work so its functionallity is very very poor :-) but I think it is good idea to start with this for developping ACPI driver for FreeBSD because it is enough small to understand it. If someone already started

rtc?

1999-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I reinstalled -current today, and for some reason there is an extra device generating interrupts. When I do a systat -vm 1 I find that there is a device called rtc at irq8 generating 128 interrupts. What is it? I didn't configure it, and it wasn't there before. Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe:

Re: rtc?

1999-09-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth Culver writes: I reinstalled -current today, and for some reason there is an extra device generating interrupts. When I do a systat -vm 1 I find that there is a device called rtc at irq8 generating 128 interrupts. What is it? I didn't configure it, and it

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I agree. Your work also has a serious security concern if it allows this you to directly attatch to it's port 25. No it doesn't, but you do bring up another good point why not to use the ISP's mail server. Security. I don't want email to bounce on your box and

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Anthony Kimball
: I would immediately unsubscribe to any isp that decided this was acceptable : behavior on their part. I use the mail server at work for all my outgoing : mail. Why? Because the machine is lightly loaded and I don't have to : worry about my mail getting lost in the depths of my isp's mail

Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference?

1999-09-24 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Bruce Albrecht: zuhause.mn.org preference = 150, mail exchanger = minuet.skypoint.net zuhause.mn.org preference = 100, mail exchanger = 205.215.217.178 ^^^ This is plainly wrong. You're not allowed to put IP

System crash on vinum start

1999-09-24 Thread Brad Chisholm
, it works properly with no crash. I'm currently running on a snap built this morning (0924), but it was also happening on a snap from 0914. Crash info, vinum config, and disk info are below. Let me know if I can provide any additional information. Thanks, Brad # uname -a FreeBSD 4.0-19990924-SN

Re: Automating filesystem check at boot time

1999-09-24 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: You need to find and fix what ever it is that is not dieing when being told to die. Your work around is a bandaid that only hides the real problem, which is probably a bug some place in something. amd and NFS are good first conidates. Just what

Re: rtc?

1999-09-24 Thread Luoqi Chen
Kenneth Culver writes: I reinstalled -current today, and for some reason there is an extra device generating interrupts. When I do a systat -vm 1 I find that there is a device called rtc at irq8 generating 128 interrupts. What is it? I didn't configure it, and it wasn't there before. It

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Darryl Okahata wrote in list.freebsd-current: "Zach N. Heilig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application for the tests is mpg123. test mp3 playing time: 373 seconds. [ ... ] 1) No Optimization 225.08 real 224.30 user 0.23 sys [ ... ] 2) -O3

Re: Why do FreeBSD mailing lists ignore MX preference?

1999-09-24 Thread Bruce Albrecht
Ben Smithurst writes: Bruce Albrecht wrote: Non-authoritative answer: zuhause.mn.org preference = 150, mail exchanger = minuet.skypoint.net zuhause.mn.org preference = 100, mail exchanger = 205.215.217.178 "205.215.217.178." almost certainly does not have an address (A)

DDB SMP?

1999-09-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
I just ran across this: Debugger("isp_attach") Stopped at Debugger+0x37: movl$0,in_Debugger db cont whoa, other_cpus: 0x0002, stopped_cpus: 0x panic: stop_cpus() failed mp_lock = 0002; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Gary Schrock wrote ... At 03:00 AM 9/24/1999 -0700, you wrote: Another thing that ISP coulds start doing (we are in process with this now, but on a monitoring only basis, instead of a deny we just log them) is to block all outbound from AS tcp 25 setup packets. Hmm, maybe I'm

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Warner Losh wrote in list.freebsd-current: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: : OK: : #!/bin/sh : (cvs status | grep '^File:' | grep -v 'Status: Up-to-date$') 2 /dev/null ^^ -q Hm, that variant does not display the directory names at all. I'd like to propose

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Pat Lynch
I totally agree with this, while it doesn;t stop all spam (and some has to be added manually to my own lists) I've dramatically cut down on spam to my machines. DUL, while I'm not sure whether we should take this to -chat or not since we are now getting into noise on the -current list, is also

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Pat Lynch
If you use sendmail, this is pretty trivial, its a slight modification to the original RBL check : # DNS based IP address spam lists R$* $: ${client_addr} R$-.$-.$-.$-$: $(host $4.$3.$2.$1.rbl.maps.vix.com. $: $1.$2.$3.$4 $) R$-.$-.$-.$-$: $(host

Re: DDB SMP?

1999-09-24 Thread Tor . Egge
I just ran across this: Debugger("isp_attach") Stopped at Debugger+0x37: movl$0,in_Debugger db cont whoa, other_cpus: 0x0002, stopped_cpus: 0x panic: stop_cpus() failed mp_lock = 0002; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a

XFree86-3.3.5/kde-1.1.2/Current today.

1999-09-24 Thread Edwin Culp
This morning I made world, updated XFree86 and kde, which didnĀ“t seem to be a problem until I started X and nowI get revers Icon's - silhouettes on the kde background. I get no text but a block where the text is and the mouse will often change to a block. I have never seen anything like it. I

Re: System crash on vinum start

1999-09-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 24 September 1999 at 16:36:54 -0400, Brad Chisholm wrote: I'm having a problem where the "vinum start" command crashes my system. This happens regardless of whether it's being issued during bootup via /etc/rc or from the command line on a running system. Interestingly, however, if

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pat Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use sendmail, this is pretty trivial, its a slight modification to the original RBL check : There's a nice patch for the sendmail 8.9.3 that allows you to specify multiple blacklists easily (e.g., both RBL and DUL).

Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talkto dialups)

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Rosengart
I understand the ISP's POV here, but I have legitimate reasons to telnet to port 25 on various machines (most of them administered by me), and I'd never dream of using an ISP that would stop me from doing so. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To

pcm oddity

1999-09-24 Thread Wes Morgan
I noticed a little quirk in the pcm driver -- it is reversing the channels in my sb16! The first couple times I play a certain mp3 that starts out (normally) in the left channel, it plays correctly in the left channel. Then suddenly it will switch, and start out in the right channel. The mixer

Quick 'n' Dirty CVS Status

1999-09-24 Thread John Baldwin
[subject updated] On 24-Sep-99 Oliver Fromme wrote: Hm, that variant does not display the directory names at all. I'd like to propose the following variant. It's a bit longer than my first proposal, but just as efficient (maybe even more efficient, because it doesn't have to fork two

Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups

1999-09-24 Thread Gary Schrock
At 10:59 PM 9/24/99 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: As Gary Schrock wrote ... all mail would still have to go through the local isp's. Personally, I would immediately unsubscribe to any isp that decided this was acceptable behavior on their part. I use the mail server at work for all my