Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:35:14AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: UUCP still gets used. It's one of the few sane ways to handle email in a laptop environment when you're always connecting through different dialups/ISPs. It has mostly fallen out of favour due to ignorance and FUD. Which

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-03 Thread Thyer, Matthew
Brandon D. Valentine wrote: do intend to work on this. At the moment I sit daily in front of an SGI Indigo2 running IRIX because it's better than Linux and integrates quite well with our environment. I really want a FreeBSD workstation on my desk, so I'll likely end up writing the patches

Re: ACPI: problem with fdc resource allocation

2001-10-03 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Mike Smith wrote: This just isn't going to work. The _CRS data stream stops at byte 0x17, and these extra items are simply mis-aimed. The 0x19 should really be 0x11, and the 0x1c should really be 0x14, ie. this is a BIOS bug, and should be reported to the vendor. (It should also have

newcard options and WL100

2001-10-03 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Hi Warner, I hope you can point me in the right direction or directly answer the question I have. I'm an active -CURRENT user and have aquired a Compaq WL100 wireless nic which does not work with the 'NEWCARD' options defined. In order to get my 3Com card to work, I need these options since

/dev/cuaa broken ?

2001-10-03 Thread Dmitry Karasik
Hello! After upgrade to 3.5 to 4.3-stable we encoutered a problem with our custom device connected to com-port. The device accepts command strings and returns strings in response, but under 4.3 it strangely does not respond to commands that are longer than 15 bytes ( 16 with \r). The device is

current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread $B>.Ln42@8(B
I tried to install current snapshot as of October 2, 2001 from current.jp.FreeBSD.org, but it seems to fail at sysinstall.c:installFilesystems(). The function installFilesystems() calls MakeDevChunk() of lib/libdisk/create_chunk.c, which then calls mknod(2) via MakeDev(). The error message I see

Staroffice6.0 Linux beta with FreeBSD

2001-10-03 Thread Martin Blapp
While Openoffice for BSD is still milestones away from compiling, I tried to port the linux version of SO6.0 beta to FreeBSD. I got it extracted, and could run setup.bin, which fails miserably: 79358 setup.bin RET read 4096/0x1000 79358 setup.bin CALL linux_mmap(0xbfbfcfac) 79358

Re: Different host behaviour

2001-10-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:23:50PM +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote: Different behaviour from 4.4 to 5.0 of host command. Why? Yes, I got finally delegation for reverse (with RFC 2317). Yes, my -CURRENT is really old, but I'm reading this list... ;) That's your problem. You see that this has

Re: Weird PCI BIOS - long

2001-10-03 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
You lose. Until someone writes a fallback for machines that don't have the BIOS32 entry point for PCIBIOS, you are stuck. Warner No I don't. I knew I will get bitten by putting my comments at the end of the long message, but I did it nonetheless :(. Anyway, here is shorter and hopefully

Re: Different host behaviour

2001-10-03 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 03-Oct-2001 (14:14:57/GMT) Bernd Walter wrote: Yes, my -CURRENT is really old, but I'm reading this list... ;) That's your problem. Pilot error :-( Ok, sorry for that. You see that this has been fixed at least since a month: ticso@cicely9 uname -v FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Sep

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
All these solutions assume that everyone is wired up with IP connectivity. The original questions was who uses UUCP? Correct. One answer is: those without IP connectivity. Do you mean 'full-time IP connectivity', because if you can setup a UUCP connection, you can just as easily setup a PPP

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to make the device nodes in this way. Fortunately, the person

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011003 15:33] wrote: As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
sysinstall, by design, knows very little about devices. It uses libdisk(3) as the abstraction for dealing with all disks in particular. * Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011003 15:33] wrote: As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011003 15:33] wrote: As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update libdisk so that it doesn't

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Well, since I don't own libdisk(3) and had no idea why you'd be addressing this to me unless you were still confused, I presumed you were confused. In any case, you need to be talking to phk about this. - Jordan From: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: current install failure

Re: Staroffice6.0 Linux beta with FreeBSD

2001-10-03 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:58:06PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: 79358 setup.bin RET close 0 79358 setup.bin PSIG SIGSEGV SIG_DFL 79358 setup.bin NAMI setup.bin.core BTW: This is CURRENT from today with a old linux base installed. What if you try it with linux_base-7? --

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-03 Thread Thyer, Matthew
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Thyer, Matthew writes: Now xterm 1 has the message yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out as its first line and xterm 2 has two of these messages. The problem is that there is no global caching of NIS maps. Each app maintains its own cache.. Since these are

Re: lpd: Host name for your address (fe80:....%xl0) unknown

2001-10-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:52 AM +0900 10/3/01, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:30:33 -0400 Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: drosih The print queue for 'lp' on oink refers to a remote machine that drosih is named neutron. That hostname maps to an IPv6 address. Thus, drosih lpq/lpr/lprm

Re: HEADS UP kernel burncd change..

2001-10-03 Thread Jim Bryant
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:56:11PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: This may sounds strange, but as I don't actually recall seeing any actual changes to burncd unless i missed something in my cvsup early this morning CDT... I just decided to give it another try before booting

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Thyer, Matthew writes: Now xterm 1 has the message yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out as its first line and xterm 2 has two of these messages. What's really fun is when you've got a rack or two of machines which are NIS clients and their switch blows out overnight. As soon as they

Re: How to distinguish the SMP kernel and the UP kernel

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Is there any way for the loadable module to detect if the kernel is configured for SMP or UP? There is a global variable, ncpu. Its name may have changed recently, so you will want to look at the SYSCTL() stuff in /sys/i386/i386 to be sure. -- Terry To Unsubscribe:

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
All these solutions assume that everyone is wired up with IP connectivity. The original questions was who uses UUCP? One answer is: those without IP connectivity. Part of the problem here I suspect is that the people who develop and maintain FreeBSD live a life where a T-3 into your livingroom

reinstatement of MSDOSFS on boot floppy fails

2001-10-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh /R/stage/floppies/kern.flp /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/image.kern 8 fd1440 disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 6. Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Williams wrote: POP and IMAP (I think) will lose all the envelope information, You've been listening to Terry too long. It's certainly not the case, although I've decided to quit arguing with Terry, since it's an excercise in futility. No matter what you say, he'll either change the

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
POP and IMAP (I think) will lose all the envelope information, You've been listening to Terry too long. It's certainly not the case, although I've decided to quit arguing with Terry, since it's an excercise in futility. No matter what you say, he'll either change the subject or

Re: HEADS UP kernel burncd change..

2001-10-03 Thread Jim Bryant
This may sounds strange, but as I don't actually recall seeing any actual changes to burncd unless i missed something in my cvsup early this morning CDT... I just decided to give it another try before booting into the kernel built this morning, and it seems that it was a world issue, and not

Re: reinstatement of MSDOSFS on boot floppy fails

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
D'ya think it might be time for a 3rd floppy? On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh /R/stage/floppies/kern.flp /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/image.kern 8 fd1440 disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Warning: Block

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: See above. fetchmail + pop works fine. I've been get all of my envelope information, and there is no worries. This has noty been the case where I have seen.. This requires that you have a mailbox set up on the server which can 'encode' all of the envelope

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Nate Williams
Interestingly, Microsoft Exchange is one of the few commercial SMTP servers that can handle more than a few hundred ETRN based virtual domain instances. Go figure... Any Q-Mail based solution using the commonly available ETRN patch also scales well, although you have to 'roll your own'

SIOCGIFDATA

2001-10-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:42:57 -0400, Kenneth Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was wondering if anyone had thought of implementing the above ioctl. Right now from what I can tell, (from wmnet, and netstat) all stats for a network device are kvm_read out of the kernel. These applications

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:34:51PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Do you mean 'full-time IP connectivity', because if you can setup a UUCP connection, you can just as easily setup a PPP connection over the same medium, giving you IP connectivity. True, but there's a lot more

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Do you mean 'full-time IP connectivity', because if you can setup a UUCP connection, you can just as easily setup a PPP connection over the same medium, giving you IP connectivity. True, but there's a lot more infrastructure overhead involved in setting up a group of disconnected machines via

Re: reinstatement of MSDOSFS on boot floppy fails

2001-10-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Sure, I just don't have time to work on this right now. - jordan D'ya think it might be time for a 3rd floppy? On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh /R/stage/floppies/kern.flp /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/image.kern 8 fd1440

Re: HEADS UP kernel burncd change..

2001-10-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:56:11PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: This may sounds strange, but as I don't actually recall seeing any actual changes to burncd unless i missed something in my cvsup early this morning CDT... I just decided to give it another try before booting into the kernel built

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:55:08PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: Tell me, is your mail compliant with the non-disclosure of Bcc: recipients requirement? If fetchmail doesn't strip the tunneling headers (it doesn't), then the headers disclose Bcc:'ed recipients to anyone who chooses to