Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ??

1999-11-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ys been a far more rare happening than changing kernel to depend on new userland tools. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: boot stops after "Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a"

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
dmesg: > [...] > ad0: ATA-3 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 2014MB (4124736 sectors), 4092 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ^^ Is this the correct size of your hard disk? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: boot stops after "Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a"

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
dn't have ddb in previous kernel) > > I've also observed this problem and it is interesting that my HDD is Quantum FB ST >2.1 too. Does it report the correct size, btw? If not, does it report 4092 cylinders? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Julian Elischer wrote: > > please do not remove it.. > just make it non-default. Retire it to LINT if you must, but I'd also like to see it around until the last release on RELENG_3. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PRO

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
LENG_3 is dead, we can remove it from RELENG_4. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ng the legacy support is forcing people to switch. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?

1999-12-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
tem supported by volunteer effort, we are interested in driving the hardware to it's limits instead of being limited by the ways we once did things. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
sion of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd > go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting > valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course). X install => "user-friendly" install (perceived as) => more market share => more resources -- Daniel C. So

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
has installed FreeBSD dozens of times on various systems, I think I > should also stress that I have NEVER installed FreeBSD from CD :-) Me neither, but CD is still the most popular installation media these days, though we, Open Source OS, probably get more network installs than CD installs.

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
no CUI-style > dialog boxes or anything. Think about text-to-speach devices for > the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-) Sounds like CLI. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chris Costello wrote: > >So is all of this (TCL, Qt, et. al.) going into the base > system to facilitate this work? NOT AGAIN! Please! In particular TCL. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Un

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
y limited set of tasks. When I worked with AIX, even though I was very comfortable with SMIT, at any time when I wanted to do something fast, it was CLI all the way. Perhaps you mean "easy" instead of "quick"? Or maybe "quick" as in "flat learning curve"? -- Da

Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) )

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ore. The daemon solution is perfectly fine. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
7;ll complain loudly if that was the _only_ way of doing it, but neither of these tools precludes you from cli and file-editing, nor would we have to. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Whatever [CG]UI you throw at the problem at hand: there is *NO* programmer- > fixable way out from cluelessnes. What good would be a system that is > a snap to install but once it is installed it says # to you? It says /etc/motd to you, actually. :-) -- Dani

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neal Westfall >writes: > : "System Hoser and Mangling Utility" > > Shamu Helps Any Moronic User I need not hear a single more suggestion... brilliant! :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8

Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) )

1999-12-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Scheidt wrote: > > What's wrong with run with system V runlevels? Other than it's system V and > everything AT^HUSL did is evil, of course. They try to map graphs into a line. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas [EMAI

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
t; 5. Except for "/boot/defaults/loader.conf", are any of the installed > scripts architecture-specific? In theory, no. Support.4th code might need some changes to deal with alignment correctly. I don't recall being particularly careful with that, I'm afraid... That's

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Sobral was working on integrating a new version of Ficl which is meant to > be 64-bit clean. It's supposed to be ready. Testmain runs. Debugging the loader to find out why it doesn't has proven to be difficult... -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) who is as social as a wa

Re: HEADS UP; new options for -current!

2000-03-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
iling lists I (used to) subscribe to. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: 3 -> 4 when /usr is a vinum volume?

2000-03-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ead a report wrt to linux compatibility too, but with vinum the problem is way bigger. IIRC, the build/installkernel targets were first steps in getting modules and loader dependencies handled correctly. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. You might want to reverse src/sys/boot to RELENG_4_BP, and test that version, though. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
imeout finishes? > > Try putting just "set autoboot_delay=0" in /boot/loader.rc and see if > that gives you a prompt. Or just pressing space when the countdown message first appears... -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Good idea, terrible name. Can't you guys some up with something better? :) AFAIK, the idea is having the name keeping people away from that file. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Another current crash (cvs-cur.6183

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
pectable, that will tell you otherwise. Ignore them. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe:

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ly" loader commands, which the above is supposed to be. :-) That's in loader.rc. The loader.conf equivalent is 'autoboot_delay="0"'. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, O

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Daniel C. Sobral: > > Or just pressing space when the countdown message first appears... > > No time for that. MM... the countdown message is 10 seconds long. It crashes before going through the countdown??? Damn, I wish I could s

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ollivier Robert wrote: > > .( Here ) cr > > Will try, hope I'll be able to see them :) > > Is there a way to do a "sleep 5" ? 5000 ms Or, to wait for a keypress: key -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make > buildworld/installworld? No. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
der, to see if they work? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mith) to the effect that packet mode support might break things. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The size of the pizza is inversely proportional to the intensity of the hunger. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
it is now for people who want to get a dump but don't > have the ability to use loader(8) fully (Alpha?). All interaction with kernel is available on Alpha. It's only the "advanced" scripting ability (Forth) that isn't. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8

Re: make world left me with an unbootable system

2000-04-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
d system - "cp /boot/loader.old /boot/loader.good" ;-) Ah, my most significant contribution to FreeBSD yet: generating a loader.old! :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
r MFC right from the freebsd.org main page would have > returned this information. And me, all this time thinking it was Mitigate Freaking Cronies! ;-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL certainly doesn

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
in. On the other hand, if we can't garantee third party vendors a stable ABI, we won't get third party vendors. Alas... Dillon, how much of SMP improvements will be getting back-ported without further breaks in ABI, specially as BSDI code starts to trickle in? -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Breaking "build world" costs $5? (was: Can we please have a current that compiles?)

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
> > I'd go along with that. What do the other committers think? > > Isn't this the "FreeBSD" project ? There is no such thing as a "free beer". -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HEADS UP Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh/pam_ssh pam_ssh.c src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb freebsd-uthread.c src/include mpool.h src/lib/libc/net name6.c src/lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h uthread_file.c src/lib/libncp ncpl_rcfile.c src/lib/libstand if_ether.h ...

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
h argument to support > the massive breakage this otherwise entails. Last I knew, the only difference between "class" and "struct" was whether the default was "public:" or "private:". Of course, C++ has changed quite a bit since then, but... -- Daniel

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ment? [if] \ Get vmware version, magic 0x564d868 ( VMware magic ) = [if] .( VMware version ) . cr .( Loading /boot/vmware.conf...) cr s" /boot/vmware.conf" read-conf [else] drop [then] [then]

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
f. I try to keep it a secret. :-) While the exec="" stuff allows for arbitrary code execution (as do _after, _before and _error), this sort of thing is best avoided if possible on a configuration file. This particular case, though, is precisely the kind of exception to the rule I had

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
p() makes temp files in any directory including current one. > > Yes, but in practice it's not used that way since you can't write to most > directories on the system except ~ and /tmp and relatives. Tell that to vim. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
:'; for file in $filelist test. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm - I have to go check this. My reality assumptions are shattered. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
enables similar problems to be solved without having to change loader(8). 2) Add the VMware detecting to FICL, as originally suggested. While I have reservations about the latter, I'm not objecting to it. If you, Luoqi, prefer to go that way, go ahead. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
utility of it is _only_ passing it to the kernel environment, as loader(8) without FICL can do very little based on the content of an environment variable. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn&#

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ect" i386 and alpha. The code ought to do something similar to what the i386 and alpha words do. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
are trying to improve mktemp(). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
een read, it will process it recursively, an restore the original value afterwards. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
on isa0 > sc0: on isa0 I was just wondering what happens if no device.hints exists. It seems it isn't installed by installkernel target, and the above are all part of it. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > > - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep >require some hack in boot loader needs help. I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you need? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > > > > - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep > >require some hack in boot loader needs help. > > I thought hibernation was en

Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
> /usr/bin/perl > jkh@zippy-> /usr/bin/perl -v > > This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd Did you run this before or after stripping down the kernel of the "at ..." stuff? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ed as if nothing had happened, do you? That's what hybernation does under Windows. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscr

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
simply incapable for some reason, either always or at specific times, it should fail on SLEEP, effectively disabling hybernation on any setup with it (shoganai). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
And xyzzy will be read. Since device.hints is read right after /boot/defaults/loader.conf, anything later will override it's values. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows works, for sufficently smal

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 02:41:12AM +1000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >Mind you, shells don't have problems with any character at all in a > >filename if they are properly written, but if you are expecting the > >filenames generated by mktemp()

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
tops to sleep and then > wake them up again. Right now pccard insert/removal can be missed > when you put a laptop to sleep... BTW, have you decided between NetBSD and BSD/OS cardbus code yet? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
any probing starts... If you do not want to use loader, then use the "hints" option in the config file. What is going to get deprecated, though, is being able to userconfig without using /boot/loader. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using KLD's with modules that depend other modules in the same file

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mmon/load_elf.c. In any case, you shouldn't have much trouble locating the relevant files in that directory. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows works, for sufficently small values of "works&

Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Everyone talks about using bitkeeper but none of the people who > recommend it have ever actually tried to use it for anything. > Before such recommendations will bear weight, this needs to > change. :) OCVS? (Or was it OVCS? I can never

Re: kernel config format migration script

2000-06-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > well, at 4.x, FreeBSD sed doesn't support -E, is that GNU sed which support > this option or 5.x FreeBSD sed ? for instance, GNU sed port doesn't exists ! Really? Funny. I'm not sure our sed is GNU sed. IIRC, it uses regex(3) instead of gnurege

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
it works. This definitely needs some work. I'm not sure the hints syntax will change much, if at all. OTOH, I don't know how to approach this. In other words, suggestions (and specially patches) are welcome. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
you get forth this will help.) > > If you're not doing forth/obp... my apologies for the irrelevancy. > Mike Williams He is talking loader(8). Mm. Sifting looks cool. I may add it... -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PRO

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jun Kuriyama wrote: > And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by > hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will *forget* > to update that master text. :-) I'm not sure I would *forget* it, but I my indulge in "forget"ing it. :

regex(3) is leaking memory

2000-07-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
I forgot to free the additional memory allocated by regcomp() at regfree(). So, for now, regex(3) is leaking memory. I'll fix it in a short while (but not immediately, sorry). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROT

Re: Boot Oddities

2000-07-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
m you had. I'd rather bet the loader binary was above 1023 cylinders, and after playing a while you replaced it with one below that mark. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _DES: The Book of Bruce has only

Re: Suspicious warnings in -CURRENT

2000-07-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Does it happen to anyone else on this list? > > I see it in vi(1). > > Somebody enable the 'A' option of phkmalloc and examine the core. > > ln -sf A /etc/malloc.conf Ok, everyone, my fault. Fixed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PRO

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ake a > symlink to another place. Unless of course we get /usr/obj working for > kernel compiles Huh? All my kernels created with buildkernel are compiled in /usr/obj. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
sys/alpha/boot Don't touch boot. Nothing in the bootstrap is used by the kernel, and there's just a few kernel files included by the bootstrap (wrongly, IMHO). It's made by buildworld instead of buildkernel. Ideally, it should be taken out of sys/ altogether. -- Daniel C. So

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
m doing something very stupid here, but i tried hard to make > shure i'm doing not. Help I recall there were lots of problems with syscons after the hints change. *IF* people had the USERCONFIG option, things would work. Otherwise... I do not know if vt suffers from the same proble

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
p; cia. > But the effect is the same, it still panics after > > atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 Did you add options USERCONFIG to see if that helps? > Any hints from the more "hints-knowledged" would be highly appreciated .. ;-) Well, I'm definitely not the peopl

regex(3)

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
thus, to merge the changes. If anyone have objections, please raise them now. :-) People wanting to test it, both sed and more use regex(3), and grep doesn't. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worst Vegetable of the Year:

Re: regex(3)

2000-07-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Daniel C. Sobral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000709 12:46] wrote: > > I think all bugs with the performance improvements to regex(3) have all > > been solved now. I haven't heard of any problems for over a week about > > the first impr

Re: etc/rc.d & things...

2000-07-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ome/work). Thing is, SysV does it in a very ugly way, and not flexible enough either. This has been talked to death. Look at these: http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/devices.html http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/newrc.html and my favorite substitute proposal: http://www.roguetrader.com/~brandon/sas/. --

Re: etc/rc.d & things...

2000-07-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
the time he decided to have a take on it, I traded many messages with him about it. I know he had part of it working, and could boot with it. After that, though, I never heard from him again. Like you, I really like his proposal. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTE

Re: etc/rc.d & things...

2000-07-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ing. a major problem w/ this one is the > use of "perl" which is not available a boot time since it is located in /usr. I'm sure it can be easily done as a C program. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etc/rc.d & things...

2000-07-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
not so difficult if a command do that for you. (show, change, start and stop) Commands limit you in awkward ways. Hell, AIX has commands to do anything with the configuration you might want, but that has not prevented people from hating it... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: phkmalloc & pam_ssh & xdm

2000-07-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ages: > ---snip--- > Jul 30 00:54:04 Magelan -:0: unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_chauthtok > Jul 30 00:54:05 Magelan -:0: pam_ssh: could not connect to agent > ---snip--- > > Is someone else able to reproduce this? If that's the case, you have a bug. Not one easy to trace, th

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

2001-09-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ore popular language with a freely available interpreter that would fit in as small a space as FICL did. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to

Re: 3Com HomeConnect ADSL Modem Dual Link

2001-09-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
I almost wish I had one so I could debug it, but I have been fortunate enough to get a version 2, which works as a router/dhcp/nat/firewall. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsub

Re: loader from Nov 13 reboots instantly

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
inally introduced when compiling FICL so that boot wouldn't depend on that Evil Thing (Perl). But standard FICL distribution uses a perl script instead of a awk one. OTOH, our awk script removes more white space than the perl one, but that can easily be corrected. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ike -regex, but the match is case insensitive. You forgot -E (use extended regexp syntax), and the example you show above is extended regexp syntax, not basic regexp syntax. > I'd like to commit it after reviews if there is no convincing > objection against it. Any suggestion is w

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
find(1)'s use. It won't. GNU find certainly uses GNU regexp library, which has lots of extra stuff. Naturally, our find will be using our library instead. Nothing we can do about it. It is the way of the Gnu to extend and embrace. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DC

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
or the "extended regexp" ;P For that matter, anyone talking about "standard" regexp of any kind I invite to take a look at the include file for gnu regexp, to see just how many slightly different variants of regexp there are out there in various utilities. -- Daniel C

Re: What goes at the boot prompt

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
rnel and modules. /boot/kernel.old/kernel would do, but why skip the loader phase? Let loader proceed, interrupt the ten second count and then type: boot kernel.old (or boot-conf kernel.old, if you are using loader to get some modules loaded) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-D

Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
nexpensively many times over. > > > > Indeed. I'll do it soon, thanks. > > Updated. > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~knu/misc/find_regex.diff You might have done it, but the version above is not it. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL P

kernfs

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ome/src/sys/DCS/opt_ff s.h -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately, they're not all recommended. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: kernfs

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Malone wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:39:47AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > It seems the error for kernfs is activating a couple of other warnings: > > I think Des retired kernfs in -current in a commit on 2000/12/28. Let me follow up on this. Kernfs i

Re: dirty buffers on reboot again?

2001-02-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
#x27;m seeing a lot of this again. Anyone else? > > Yep. ahc controller also. By chance is that the commonality to this > problem? MMm... I have an aic, though I'm fairly certain I got unsynced buffers on ide. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: dirty buffers on reboot again?

2001-02-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
#x27;t have softupdates on root (but I do have elsewhere... which reminds me I need to turn it on on a recently created partition :). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileir

midi panics

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ldren+0x143 configure+0x39 mi_statup+0x68 begin+0x29 The problem DOES NOT HAPPEN when I have acpica in the kernel. With apm instead, though, it panics each and every time. Removing midi/seq from the kernel removes the problem. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROT

acpi and invisible pnpbios?

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
When using acpica some of my pnpbios entries do not get probed. In particular, I never see reports on non-identified PNP IDs (even boot verbose), nor does my ess 1869 gets identified or shown. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: acpi and invisible pnpbios?

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" さんいわく: > >When using acpica some of my pnpbios entries do not get probed. In > > Please send me DSDT block. What a DSDT block? (looks down) Oh. Mmmm. Ok, l

Re: acpi and invisible pnpbios?

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" さんいわく: > >When using acpica some of my pnpbios entries do not get probed. In > > Please send me DSDT block. > > >particular, I never see reports on non-identifi

Re: tape device names and devfs

2001-03-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Steve Kargl wrote: > > The "r" in tape device names has traditionally meant "r"ewind. Nope. When this was discussed a while ago we got some authoritative information to the effect that "r" has always meant raw for tapes too. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: swap-backed md-based /tmp to replace mfs-based one

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ting rc.conf(5) with a host of new options, and avoids the mount_mdfs criticism leveled by phk that md is not an fs (which is true enough). It doesn't look even much difficult to implement either. I bet the most annoying part would be writing md.conf(5). Moreover, this solution seemed, at the

Re: /etc/exports: 192.168.5 = 192.168.0.5

2001-03-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mission > denied. > > showmount -e showed 192.168.5 was being interpreted as 192.168.0.5 This is the correct interpretation. > > Changing -network to 192.168.5.0 fixed it, naturally, but the 192.168.5 > used to work. It was broken, then. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: /etc/exports: 192.168.5 = 192.168.0.5

2001-03-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
sed to work. > > > > It was broken, then. :-) > > > So an unlisted bug was fixed :-) Quick! Open a PR about -stable! :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] all your kernels arpanic: blockable sleep lock

Re: loader question

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ng as simples as that. Of course, since you _are_ that far from the machine, I'd recommend testing anything locally first. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] all your kernels arpanic: blockable sleep lock (sleep

Re: kernel core

2001-04-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
L_HERE > make installworld > mergemaster > > fsck all partitions, answering yes to all prompts > tunefs -A -s all partitions, where N > 0 This is not optimal because userland may depend on a new kernel, so things may go awry during that installworld step. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm

2001-05-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
graceful termination. Regardless, the machine should recover once all (trouble) programs have been killed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ge.net (except that someone has > helpfully stripped all the CR's off ficl205.tar before it was gzip'd - > which upsets tar quite a bit). Ugh! I wasn't aware of this, and I can guarantee this will be fixed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED

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