Re: VMware X11 and -current

1999-08-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:08 PM -0400 8/3/99, Ayan George wrote: I've been wondering -- are there any plans for a FreeBSD version of VMware? The makers of VMware are probably wondering if they would sell enough copies of a FreeBSD-based version. If you would buy such a product, then let them know. Check

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

1999-08-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:37 PM +0200 8/23/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Is anybody capable to solve or fix bin/7973 in lpd? I have found the problem is still there (FreeBSD-3.2). Or am I anything missing/doing wrong? bin/7973: Bad control file owner in case of remote printing. The problem is that print filters ("if" in

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

1999-08-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:44 AM +0200 8/24/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote (1999/08/23): Why would the filter be reading the control file? It is just a filter, supposedly reading from stdin and writing to stdout... Yes and not. You can look into apsfilter for example. It gets from control file

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:17 PM -0700 11/3/99, Nate Williams wrote: BOOTP in the kernel will go _when_there_is_an_acceptable_alternative_. You've already stated *THERE IS AN ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE*, and it's PXE. (I can use all caps instead of underscores to make a point too :) I thought he was saying that

Re: Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC buildbroken)

1999-11-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:09 AM -0800 11/3/99, Mike Smith wrote: I can either spend more time trying to deal with what I see as FUD, or actually do the work, and I'm picking the latter. [...snip...]. We need to keep ourselves focussed on where we're going, and right now, in this context, it means that we need to

Re: ps -e

1999-11-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:48 PM -0700 11/15/99, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we Matthew are at it considering how much of a security hole it is. I wouldn't nuke it completely. Make -e a noop

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:22 PM -0800 11/15/99, Matthew Dillon wrote: Well, I think there is an issue in the proc struct bloat but I disagree strongly about modifying argv - any worthwhile code uses setproctitle() now simply because the argv space is highly dependant on the number of arguments passed

Fixes for lpd/lpc (printing), before 3.4?

1999-11-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
lso confirmed in bin/14975. Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:14:55 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Two fixes for lpd/lpc (printing) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed problem-report bin/9362, which reported that the 'lpc start' command no longer works. (it claim

Re: ps on 4.0-current

1999-11-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:03 AM + 11/24/99, Brian Somers wrote: This was discussed close to death before the changes were committed, and the current behaviour (restricted access) has been agreed by general consensus to be the most appropriate. My reading of the thread was ``I'm going to cache ps args to

Re: questions about the state of current

2002-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:40 AM -0700 10/29/02, Raymond Kohler wrote: I'm now a stable user, and I'm considering moving to current to get a jump on upgrading and help with the testing effort. Note that -current is a much wilder place than -stable. I have some questions about its performance: 1) How is the speed

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:13 PM -0500 11/8/02, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : All the ports are going to be rebuilt for the release anyways, : so this doesn't affect fresh installs, correct? It

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:13 PM + 11/8/02, Mark Murray wrote: I mean *all* the cruft -- old modules and config files, deprecated binaries and man pages, even old shlibs if it's safe. I agree with you, and I was giving an example that a lesser form of this is already required during the upgrade.

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:17 PM -0800 11/12/02, Doug Barton wrote: David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:58:44AM +, Mark Murray wrote: IMVHO, the perl wrapper should be removed altogether, and the perl port's use.port symlink-creating feature should be used instead. Do we have consensus on

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:01 AM -0800 11/14/02, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: Why can't someone with a fresh stable do an ls -R / And someone with a fresh current do the same? Because that's only part of the story. What about people updating from other supported source

Re: Lost disklabel

2002-11-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: I have a machine that is running -current from October 10, 2002. It had been running fine for about two weeks--up until I had to reboot it. When it came back up, one of my disks apparently lost its disklabel. Is there any

Re: Autodefaults in disklabel on 5.0dp2 install

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:57 AM -0800 11/23/02, Terry Lambert wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: This is something I noticed while installing 5.0-dp2. I'm not sure how much we'd want to change it. The default swap size calculation is done on the basis of a multiple of the physical memory size. Specifically

fsck's, current vs earlier releases

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on the same PC, and something came up which makes me a little uneasy. I understand why I am seeing what I'm seeing, I'm just uneasy about what it might mean for people who will pick up 5.0-release and start testing it on their own

Re: installworld and stale {include,lib} fun

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:43 PM -0700 11/23/02, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The one case (so far) where this seemed to make a difference : was libposix1e. It was disconnected from the build by revision : 1.119 of src/lib/Makefile but

Re: More info on blocked procs with make -j3 buildworld

2002-11-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:50 PM -0800 11/25/02, Nate Lawson wrote: More info. Someone should bite one of these times. So far I've got no takers so if interested, please help. I've got a box that was operational but no more procs (can't log in). It looks like the nightly 'make -j3 buildworld' hung it. I left it

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:34 PM -0600 11/27/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? Samba needs a user account for the domain machine account the machine

Re: pw_user.c change for samba ( perl scripts!)

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:24 PM +0900 11/28/02, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two adduser scripts. One is perl, and one was written to use pw and provide the same semantics, in a shell script, as part of the perl purge that happened recently.

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:06 PM -0800 11/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote: NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does not call pw command. It adds account to /etc/master.passwd and invokes 'pwd_mkdb'. See 'sub new_users' function in /usr/sbin/adduser. There are two

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:06 PM -0800 11/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote: NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does not call pw command. It adds account to /etc/master.passwd and invokes 'pwd_mkdb'. See 'sub new_users' function in /usr/sbin/adduser. There are two

Re: The great perl script rewrite - progress report

2002-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
[to follow-up on what I said in a different thread...] On my 5.0-dp2 system, if I ignore /usr/local and /usr/ports, it looks like the following files installed by -dp2 are perl scripts: /usr/bin/mmroff /usr/bin/afmtodit /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/rmuser

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:46 PM -0800 12/1/02, Terry Lambert wrote: [ ... Partition ID changes ... ] But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't feel it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is more widespread. partition magic does this too. isn't the correct failure mode just to

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:06 AM +0100 12/2/02, Riccardo Torrini wrote: WHY ARE WE NOT RESPECTING THE DECISION TO HIDE THE THINGS? A user installed the software doing the hiding on purpose. The software changed the ID hide it, on purpose. Windows ignores these partitions -- on purpose. I'm really sorry for

Re: ARLA 0.35.11 on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1

2002-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:15 PM +0100 12/15/02, Petr Holub wrote: Hi, I tried to compile arla 0.35.11 on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1. First I got following error: checking for memcpy in kernel... yes checking if vnode_if.h needs to be built... configure: error: unable to find any vnode_if script So I have linked -su-2.05b#

Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)

2002-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:58 AM +0100 12/17/02, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ? gcc is slower at compiling things. This is very noticeable when you're doing a buildworld. The code which gcc 3.2.1 produces does not seem any slower than the code produced by gcc

Re: mirrored root fs?

2003-01-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:54 AM -0800 1/6/03, Nate Lawson wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: I'd like to have a mirrored root partition. I tried ccd(4) but the boot blocks couldn't find the fs. Any idea how much work it would

Re: current.freebsd.org (FTP)

2000-02-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:53 PM +0100 2/29/00, Dave Boers wrote: It is rumoured that Forrest Aldrich had the courage to say: No, it allows you to log in, but will not accept anonymous logins. Login Incorrect This has been going on for nearly 20 hours now. About 20 hours ago the machine was briefly unreachable

Re: openssh question

2000-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:37 PM +0100 3/6/00, Christian Weisgerber wrote: William Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we update it, ie, when a updated version comes out. OpenSSH doesn't really have releases. The upstream version is straight out of the OpenBSD repository. I assume several of our developers

Re: Please review: fdisk -e - -I

2000-03-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:29 AM +1030 3/3/00, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 13:43:17 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: I hate to follow up my own post. It would appear that -e was added before 3.3R went out the door. Given that, I think the patch should look more like the following: I'm still in

Re: ssh strangeness in -current...

2000-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:23 PM -0500 3/5/00, John Baldwin wrote: On 06-Mar-00 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: the ports (yeah, stupid me), to no avail. It complained about some RSA library missing. Did you read the error message? Perhaps you should. Perhaps reporting it

Re: oddness in -current

2000-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:17 AM -0700 3/6/00, Chris Wasser wrote: I was just watching a buildworld happen when I noticed (specifically in gcc, and a few other places) the following warning several times: warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() I'm not sure if it's a big deal or not, but

Re: openssh question

2000-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:29 AM +0100 3/6/00, Edwin Kremer wrote: On a side note: last week, Tatu Ylonen, principal author of SSH, posted a message on the SSH mailing-list (in the thread about the new SSH2 license) saying that: " OpenSSH is based on my version from back in 1995 or 1996. The " OpenSSH folks

Re: Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch)

2000-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a designation before 'early alpha' this patch would get it. "Rough-draft proposal for early alpha

Re: periodic daily output (passwd diffs)

2000-03-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:33 PM -0500 3/28/00, Thimble Smith wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:49:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: At first glimpse, everything seems identical.. so, where is the difference? I realized that I had changed ONLY the password, and this was shown in the diffs in this strange

Re: Snapshot building machines back on line.

2000-04-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:13 AM -0700 4/6/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: For the latest 4.0-STABLE snapshots: ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD I can get to the above machine just fine, but it does not seem to let me use anonymous-ftp login's... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, usersbeware

2000-04-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:41 AM -0400 4/19/00, Robert Watson wrote: I hope not to change the format any further. I've been considering introducing a backing file header version number of some sort, but this is only necessary if we think the backing file format will change much more. Comments welcome. If you're

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:21 PM -0400 4/28/00, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:17:56 -0400 (EDT), Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've wanted to do this on occasion. Where are these pre-FreeBSD history records available? You can buy them on CD-ROM, IIRC. In order to do so, however, you must

Re: db 1.85 -- 2.x or 3.x?

2000-05-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:05 PM +0200 5/2/00, Brad Knowles wrote: A thread on news.software.nntp got me checking into this, and now I've gotten very curious. From what I can determine, it looks like what is integrated into FreeBSD is Berkeley db 1.85 (in /usr/src/libc/db), although there is a port for 2.7.7

Re: One more question (different now)

2000-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:08 PM -0400 5/9/00, Simon Shapiro wrote: Given: typedef struct junk { ... } junk_t volatile junk_t trash; What I want to do is zero out trash. bzero(trash, sizeof(junk_t)); produces a warning about loss of volatility. So, how do I make everyone happy? Write a 'bzerov' function,

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I think that you no longer have to include Motif with the JDK. Just let the distribution of Motif come from freebsd.org , i.e., a port or a package. Too much hassle IMO. I'd *much* rather distribute it as part of the package, and I'm looking into how feasible it would be to distribute

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:35 AM -0600 5/16/00, Nate Williams wrote: If this Open Motif can be distributed as a port or package for FreeBSD itself (and it seems to me that it can), then what hassle is that for JDK on FreeBSD? It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS requires multiple

Re: Wide-char support and libc

2000-05-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:41 AM -0400 5/17/00, Thimble Smith wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:52:32PM -0400, Donn Miller wrote: Anyone like the idea of adding wide char support to our libc? Maybe we could port it over from {Net,Open}BSD or BSDi. This would add the header file wctype.h, etc. There's a

Re: Wide-char support and libc

2000-05-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On May 21/2000, Clive Lin wrote to -current-i18n: The only way i found to link motif programs is by using http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/wcs-19990606.tar.gz This seems the solution of wc* routines in FreeBSD. Could any one tell us, is this project dead ? Last I knew, David Cross

Re: HEADS UP Re: cvs commit: ... Change to queue(3)

2000-05-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:25 PM -0700 5/23/00, Jake Burkholder wrote: jake2000/05/23 13:41:02 PDT Log: Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct. Suggested by: phk Reviewed by: phk

Re: Dual-booting: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

2000-05-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:34 AM -0600 5/28/00, Warner Losh wrote: I need to setup a machine that will boot FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Assume I have an insane amount of disk space. What's the best way to accomplish this? Last time I tried it, the partition ID numbers were all the same, making this difficult if

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:47 PM -0700 6/8/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Boris Popov wrote: Count both, nwfs and smbfs, because any program can attempt to create temporary file on these filesystems. Files with an invalid file name will be rejected, and this will cost an additional lookup

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:07 AM -0500 6/9/00, Dan Nelson wrote: I still suggest not using symbols at all, since I'd like to be able to quickly remove tempfiles by hand without worrying if I have to escape # or ^, etc. Uh, if I understand the update, the '#' is ALREADY used for this, in the current implementation.

Re: mktemp() patch

2000-06-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
It's probably better to just get rid of the PID and use randomness throughout the name than to use 72 characters. 64^6 vs. 2*(72^3) . I seem to be in the minority on this, but in general I *like* the idea that the tempfiles include the pid. It's bad because it makes it easier for an evil-person

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote: It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea. For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under linux,

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:00 PM -0400 6/23/00, Kelly Yancey wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Shawn Halpenny wrote: I have not had any of the problems he's describing. I have never modified my shared memory settings in my kernel config either. If the problem is indeed Xfree 4.0, then I guess it must be a driver

Re: bug: device ether no longer optional

2000-06-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:10 PM -0700 6/29/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote: Luckily I happened to have seen -current in the past couple of days. Trying to search -current on the web site for the appropriate keywords yeilded only articles from the years 1997 through 1999,

Re: subtle problem du jour....

2000-07-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:18 PM -0700 7/5/00, Mike Smith wrote: someone else wrote: The only time this showed up as problem was that when I reinstalled the loader (and related forth files), loader silently was not able to read /boot or /modules- the key word here is "silently". There ought to be a warning

Re: subtle problem du jour....

2000-07-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:50 AM -0600 7/6/00, John Galt wrote: Is there a quick and dirty way for the label editor to detect if a BIOS is using LBA? This actually sounds like a setup in which the error condition should be alerted on placing / on a cylinder higher than 1024 rather than long after you can do anything

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:39 PM -0400 7/14/00, Garrett Wollman wrote: Around here, we have a convention that each printer has a record in the DNS for printername.lpd-spooler which points to the print server for that printer. It occurred to me that, if there are no local printers, no additional information is needed

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:25 PM -0700 7/14/00, Thomas D. Dean wrote: How would this work with printers on local networks? Say, a print server 192.168.1.73? If you do not have a special DNS entry for that printer, then this new synthetic-printcap option would do nothing for you. In other words, you would continue

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER environment variable to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] louie For what it's worth, I think that feature is a

Seeing system-lockups on recent current

2003-10-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual Athlon system. It has been running -current just fine since December, with me updating the OS every week or two. I did not update it for most of September, and then went to update it

Re: Seeing system-lockups on recent current

2003-10-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:48 PM -0700 10/10/03, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual Athlon system. It has been running -current just fine since December, with me updating

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 stability

2003-10-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:28 PM -0700 10/14/03, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Valery V.Chikalov wrote: 10:21AM up 101 days, 17:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.33, 0.58, 0.44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uptime 8:22 up 112 days, 17:14, 1 user, load averages: 1,34 1,69 1,72 I can beat both of you :-) 11:07PM up

Re: Seeing system-lockups on recent current

2003-10-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:52 PM +0200 10/10/03, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual Athlon system. [...] It would

Re: [solved] buildworld error

2003-06-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:42 PM +0200 6/10/03, Gordon Bergling wrote: Hi all, Since I disable BDECFLAGS in /etc/make.conf this problem goes away. I don't know if this effects the build process in any other way. I had enable them around 4.5-RELEASE or so. ;) I'm not sure what you mean by that. Did you remove a line

Re: BDECFLAGS being added to CFLAGS and CWARNFLAGS ( was Re:[solved] buildworld error)

2003-06-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:29 PM -0500 6/11/03, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: From: Munehiro Matsuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was having the same compile error, until I commeted out the BDECFLAGS definition from /etc/make.conf. Looking into the problematic Makefiles, I've found that following Makefiles do references

Re: Overdone rescue cleaning as part of buildworld?

2003-07-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:09 AM -0700 7/14/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:40:42AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Gordon, 'make world' times have climbed up to over 1 hour on a machine that used to do it in 25 minutes. Can you please commit to understanding how /resuce is build and optimizing

Re: Annoucning DragonFly BSD!

2003-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:58 PM -0700 7/16/03, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :Is it real or another troll? : :-Maxim I stupidly misspelled 'announcing' in the subject line, Well, at least you didn't misspell your name... :-) but it's very real. Check the site out: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ The site looks

Re: Buildworld fails in 5.1

2003-07-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:48 PM -0400 7/20/03, Matt Loschert wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: Crunchgen writes out and runs a short makefile in order to grab build information from a particular program. Since /rescue has about 120 components, you should see 'crunchgen_objs' and 'loop' targets

Re: Buildworld fails in 5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:34 AM -0400 7/21/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: I do know that buildworld finishes OK if I define NORESCUE. Right now I am running a buildworld that does not specify -j, and I'll see if that completes OK. The buildworld without -j did successfully complete. I have added that logfile

Re: Buildworld fails in 5.1

2003-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:46 AM -0700 7/21/03, Tim Kientzle wrote: Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: Hmmm... Is that what .ORDER is for? To work around a parallel make that gratuitously rebuilds things? Right it serializes build dependencies. The problem with crunchgen ... I would argue

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I am not much of a makefile expert, but I have been trying various changes to see if I could fix the problem with building /rescue. On my system, a buildworld will always fail if I specify '-j'. It is time-consuming to try things, because it takes a while to do a whole buildworld. Today it

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:41 PM -0400 7/23/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Where that error is: make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/rescue/rescue//usr/src/sbin/dhclient/client/clparse.o. Stop *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error Well, that isn't always the error message, but it's always

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:44 PM -0700 7/23/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: The .depend file is apparently created by /usr/obj/usr/src/rescue/rescue/rescue.mk and that in turn says it is generated from rescue.conf by crunchgen 0.2. The rescue.mk file includes

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:44 PM -0700 7/23/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: I don't see how this construct cannot be parallel make safe. The requires that the third line check the result of the second before continuing. It doesn't make sense. Oops, my last reply got away from me before I was done... Anyway, I added some

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:14 PM -0400 7/23/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: So indeed, that 'make depend' had not finished before the 'make' for the object had started. I was going to do some debugging of what 'make' is doing, but it looks like crunchgen gets confused if make has any kind of debugging flags turned

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:44 AM -0700 7/24/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:13:20PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: I was going to do some debugging of what 'make' is doing, but it looks like crunchgen gets confused if make has any kind of debugging flags turned on. I just committed 1.14

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures in 5.1

2003-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:12 PM -0700 7/24/03, Tim Kientzle wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: So indeed, that 'make depend' had not finished before the 'make' for the object had started. There's another possibility here: suppose two copies of make are running simultaneously and both get to this sequence at about

Re: Buildworld /rescue failures - fixed...

2003-07-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:13 AM -0700 7/25/03, Christopher Johnson wrote: I should probably note that: -This was done with 'make -DNO_RESCUE buildworld' as per UPDATING Based on the results seen in another thread on this mailing list, I think it should be true that NO_RESCUE is no longer necessary. /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: make -U

2003-07-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:39 PM + 7/31/03, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Juli Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why go thru those contortions? I sometimes use make FOO= to define things. -U obviously has a place, if it not existing means I have to have all these contortions to do a fairly obvious thing,

Re: newsyslog problems with -C

2003-08-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:38 AM +0200 8/2/03, Riccardo Torrini wrote: Looking into sources I found two close(fd). Here is the patch: -8-[ patch ]-8- # diff -u newsyslog.c.orig newsyslog.c --- newsyslog.c.origSun May 25 18:46:13 2003 +++ newsyslog.c Sat Aug 2 02:28:50 2003 @@ -1764,7 +1764,6 @@

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:16 PM -0400 8/11/03, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. I run 5.x on a dual-Althon 2000 machine. I have no idea

Re: background fsck did not create lost+found

2003-01-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:53 AM +0600 1/23/03, Max Khon wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Jan Srzednicki wrote: Would that be a big problem to allow some fsck option not to erase all these softupdates-pending inodes, but to put them in lost+found as usual? It certainly couldn't be

Re: 5.0-RELEASE VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:56 AM -0800 1/23/03, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO of first i386 CD). It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is VERY low. I even

Re: pw

2003-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:25 AM +0600 1/24/03, Max Khon wrote: hi, there! Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? The patch is attached. Other variant is to enable using '$' only at end of user name. I'd prefer to go with only at the end of a user name, and I did have a patch which does that. Now I just have

Changes to pw/pw_user.c

2003-01-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I sent this message off about 12 hours ago, and I have not seen it appear anywhere. Since then I have received plenty of other messages on the mailing lists (including messages I sent after I sent this one). So, I'm resending this one... On Jan 24/2003, Max Khon wrote to freebsd-current: hi,

Panic copying many files from UFS to UFS2 partition

2003-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Hmm, well, I finally got my first actual system panic which wasn't obviously caused by my own screwing around. On the console I have: free inode /usr/cvs/net/64 had 0 blocks panic: Negative bio_offset (-19038208) on bio 0xce51be28 cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 0100 Debugger(panic) Stopped

Re: Panic#2 copying many files from UFS to UFS2 partition

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:49 PM -0500 1/28/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Hmm, well, I finally got my first actual system panic which wasn't obviously caused by my own screwing around. On the console I have: free inode /usr/cvs/net/64 had 0 blocks panic: Negative bio_offset (-19038208) on bio 0xce51be28 cpuid

Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:18 PM +0200 1/29/03, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Can anyone think of a good way to implement an installworld / installkernel seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current? What I'm looking for is a way for installworld and installkernel in the current source to look for some signature in

Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: How about requiring the user to touch some file in / or /boot which indicates the branch-tag that's acceptable for installworlds? Then you just need to propagate the tag from the 'cvs co' stage

Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:21:39PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: uname(1) works on both 4.7 and 5.0. This seems like a trivial problem to fix. If you use something fixed like uname, then what does

Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:59 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: You don't need a special file to indicate what version of FreeBSD you have. uname -r tells you. Actually, one thing I don't know is how this would work when it comes to RELENG_4 vs RELENG_4_0 (since I don't run RELENG_4_0). What does uname show

Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:55 PM -0800 1/29/03, Steve Kargl wrote: I don't run 4.x, so I do know. ;-) I suspect on a 4.x system, you'll get 4.x- where is either FreeBSD or STABLE. To distinguish between 4.x and 5.x, all we need the first character. So, uname -r shows 4.7-FreeBSD for the security branch?

LockOrderReversal in current

2003-02-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
From time-to-time I notice people reporting lock-order-reversal messages here. My system popped up with one sometime overnight, I have no idea what it might have been doing at the time. lock order reversal 1st 0xc0514fc0 arp mutex (arp mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/if_ether.c:151 2nd

Minor oddity with sysinstall/disklabel on -current

2003-02-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
So, I'm trying something on -current. I boot up, log into root. I have two hard disks on the system. All of my mounted partitions are on ad0, except for one partition on ad2. I 'umount' that partition. I run the Disklabel Editor via sysinstall. I delete that partition, and then re-create it as

Re: Panic#2 copying many files from UFS to UFS2 partition

2003-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:50 PM -0500 1/29/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:49 PM -0500 1/28/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Hmm, well, I finally got my first actual system panic which wasn't obviously caused by my own screwing around. On the console I have: free inode /usr/cvs/net/64 had 0 blocks panic

Re: Minor oddity with sysinstall/disklabel on -current

2003-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:04 AM +0100 2/4/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garance A Drosihn writes: I drop out of sysinstall, do some things with that partition, and then decide to redo the above sequence. Everything has been working fine, but I'm just testing some things and I end up in a position where it's

Re: Any chance of getting these OpenSSL warnings quieted?

2003-02-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:39 PM -0800 2/8/03, David O'Brien wrote: cc -pipe -O -march=athlon -D_IEEE_LIBM -D_ARCH_INDIRECT=i387_ -c /FBSD/src/lib/msun/src/e_gammaf_r.c -o e_gammaf_r.o In file included from /FBSD/obj/FBSD/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/openssl/e_os2.h:56, from

Re: Any chance of getting these OpenSSL warnings quieted?

2003-02-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:15 PM -0500 2/8/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: I'm also getting a number of syslog'ed error messages about sshd[14235]: in _openpam_check_error_code(): pam_sm_setcred(): unexpected return value 24 with the system I built on Feb 3rd. However, I do notice there have been

Re: GCC 3.2.2 import -- questions

2003-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:43 PM -0500 2/10/03, Craig Rodrigues wrote: There is a long thread on the GCC mailing list right now complaining about compile-time speed regressions from 2.95.x, with many complaints coming from Apple: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-02/msg00558.html Whether these complaints lead to actual

Re: C conformance.

2003-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:01 PM -0500 2/11/03, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 09 Feb 2003, Marcin Dalecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Trying to use a compiler different from GCC I have found the folowing error: /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h, line 42: Error: [ISO 6.8]: Unknown preprocessing directive,

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