Re: random woes (no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto)

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Murray
itself moan at you. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

HEADS UP!! New PAM functionaity in CURRENT!

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Murray
pam_unix.so try_first_pass sshdaccount requiredpam_unix.so sshdpassword required pam_permit.so sshdsession requiredpam_permit.so M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Whatever happened to CTM?

2001-03-24 Thread Mark Murray
in the ports. They may just work for you. It shouldn't be too difficult to set up the other side - after all, there is a need :-) M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Whatever happened to CTM?

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Murray
be able to do it with SSH (assuming that you can get out with ssh!) $ ssh -v -l yourname otherhost.example.com -L5559:cvsup.example.com:5559 Then doing a cvsup with the server set to 127.0.0.1 will work. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: cvsup/cvsupfile question

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Murray
; with a tag on it to indicate that it is going through the release engineering process to become 4.3-RELEASE (and then 4.3-STABLE). You have something that is stable, and is just close to the next release. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: random woes (no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto)

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Murray
It seems the compatibility with the previous minor of urandom has been silently removed (I assume this happened with the last update/cleanup of the random device). It took me two hours to figure it out. See src/UPDATING 2624 M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn

Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
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Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
.sys.burst is still available for those very slow, very high interrupt cases. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
R, "rndslp", hz/10); + if (harvestring.tail != harvestring.head) { /* Suck the harvested entropy out of the queue and hash * it into the appropriate pool. */ -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap

Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
. Matt, At it is very obvious to me that you have not even looked at the new code, let alone run it, I suggest that you do both before further engaging in this conversation. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
they can get, and this method gives them that while allowing others to throttle the harvester back. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Murray
code does that. Do a "cat /dev/zero /dev/random" to see it in action. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: New improved panic!

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Murray
if 97 98 for (pl = 0; pl 2; pl++) 99 yarrow_hash_init(random_state.pool[pl].hash, NULL, 0); 100 101 for (;;) { Is DEBUG defined? M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Entropy harvesting? Grim reaper is more like it...

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Murray
to tie down where this is happening. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Murray
maxusers to 128, and time a make world with interrupt harvesting on, and again with it off. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Murray
e not been keeping records, but an overnight build has not yet progressed into my breakfast). M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Murray
tweaking the "Computational intensity factor" ;-) by dropping the kern.random.yarrow.bins: # sysctl -w kern.random.yarrow.bins=2 And let me know how well that works. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Murray
, and any overflows are discarded. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: harvest_interrupt=YES slows down machine

2001-03-07 Thread Mark Murray
320 seeds per second. Still overkill, but at least not the massive overkill that its doing now. Event != seed. I'll juggle numbers and see if I can come up with any tweakables (sysctl's) that could give users more control here. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn

Re: Can't build 5-current world on 4-stable box (perl doesn't bootstrap properly)

2001-03-06 Thread Mark Murray
I reported it about a month ago, but the problem still persists. 5-current buildworld can't be performed on reasonably recent 4-stable system, hence source upgrade path from -stable to -current is broken. Please fix. I just did this on 4-STABLE with no problems at all. M -- Mark Murray

Re: Major bumping of libFOO

2001-02-14 Thread Mark Murray
Please review this patch as I'd like to commit it soon. Also, I'm not 100% sure what to do about libdes.so.3, so if you have commments on that please let me know. Other than that, the patches should be close to commitable. Now is the time to toss that into compat/ M -- Mark Murray

Re: Kernel Panic from Yesterday's CVSup

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Murray
of a kernel dating to sun 4th feb. The PPro is rock-stable. The PentiumMMX is very fragile, and will panic easily (often in vm_fault) with a sig9 (IIRC). M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Kernel hackers, please review.

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Murray
Hi Please review the patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~markm/no_lock_h.diff. the idea is to remove sys/*/include/lock.h. I tested it with the usual i386 stuff, and it is known to break the cy driver because of the COM_(UN)LOCK macros (which is another issue). M -- Mark Murray Warning

Re: kernel threading: the first steps [patch]

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Murray
known about this for a good couple of months. I can't remember specifically _how_ I know; suffice to say there has been a fair bit of dialogue on the lists and Jason's progress-page has a good overview. http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/ M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn

Re: buildworld failed and PERL_THREADED=true dead...

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Murray
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Re: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
(LocalHostName, '.')) != NULL) { + *p++ = '\0'; + LocalDomain = p; + } else + LocalDomain = ""; /* * Close all open log files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

Re: syslogd(8) does not update hostname

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: I don't agree with this change. hostname != name-that-IP-address-resolves-to. Dunno what you are talking about. That has nothing directly to do with this. No one is talking about forcing you to change your hostname

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by make -j 128 world Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same thing but without ccd involvement? M -- Mark Murray

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
kern.random.yarrow.bins=2 makes a difference for you. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: pcm status

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Murray
tell me if sysctl -w kern.random.yarrow.bins=2 makes a difference for you. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Mark Murr

Atomic breakage?

2001-01-14 Thread Mark Murray
Hi John There seems to be same breakage in the atomic stuff: link_elf: symbol atomic_load_acq_int undefined KLD file random.ko - could not finalize loading I back out the latest commit to sys/i386/include/atomic.h, and things work a bit better (on my laptop). M -- Mark Murray Warning

Re: entropy bikesheds

2001-01-12 Thread Mark Murray
device's readable oscillator, set to generate a noise waveform). Slight overkill, when the TSC register is already used and deliberately underestimated to improve randomness quality. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: entropy bikesheds

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Murray
I'm happy to accomodate folks, but the constant lack of concensus combined with extreme positions is wearing a bit thin. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: YES! laptop installing

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Murray
with a crazy MAC address, and then doesn't work. It doesn't even go UP. MAC=00:00:80:00:00:80, FWIW. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: buildworld Problems at NTP

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Murray
was recently added to -current and maybe it's had a strange effect on makedepend or something There was a make(1) problem a couple of weeks back. Resup, make-and-install make(1), and you should be OK. Dunno why, but ntp(d) tickled the bug. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn

Re: buildworld Problems at NTP

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Murray
to ensure a clean start there and started a buildworld. Six hours later, === usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd Killed Read what I said!! Make-and-install _make_ (not anything else) first. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NFS/VM panic in current with INVARIANTS

2000-12-27 Thread Mark Murray
ot; in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Unicode support in cd9660 [patch for review]

2000-12-27 Thread Mark Murray
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NFS/VM panic in current with INVARIANTS

2000-12-26 Thread Mark Murray
s) is: panic zerror zfreei NDFREE nfsrv_lookup nfs_nfsd nfssvc syscall(2f, 2f, 2f, 1, 0) xint0x80 NFS activity (not mounting) triggers it. The panic happens on the server box, which is a dual-cpu i386 class running an SMP kernel. What else do you need? M -- Mark Murray Warning: this

Re: NFS/VM panic in current with INVARIANTS

2000-12-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:00:54PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: I'm getting a reliable panic on CURRENT (2000/12/26) with INVARIANTS set. I suppose I could "fix" this by taking out INVARIANTS, but it seems to make more sense to try to get it fixed. Do you have NF

Re: No cable modems??

2000-12-19 Thread Mark Murray
to receive mail from all three of those user-classes, because of the "direct-to-MX" spam issue. The solution is to use your ISP's SMTP "smarthost" for your mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ /OFFTOPIC M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe:

Re: usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd make: Cannot allocate memory

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Murray
? Thanks, Pete... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ACPI and Sony laptop

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Murray
et written at shutdown. Are you fully up to date with your mergemaster(1)ing? Now I use "init 0" for shutdown and "init 6" for reboot. That is a bug if you are up to date. However, it is beyond my ken to fix. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.o

Re: atomic.h problem with compiling the kernel

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Murray
straight. Include the error message, and we may be able to help. Please also dont 1) Send our own files back to us, we know what/where they are. 2) Use such a _huge_ signature. 5 lines is usually considered the maximum size. :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http

Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse?

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Murray
t. There are lots of that kind of thing doing that in the kernel ATM, and they all need to be fixed. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse?

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Murray
to cripple a machine by moving the mouse, and I think its wrong that code with that large an impact doesn't have the option of being turned off. Its also wrong to fix problems the wrong way. I'm working on a correct fix, and you have a workaround. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http

Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse?

2000-11-26 Thread Mark Murray
hat if you want to use your sound card that you give up X, or you give up ssh. If you are function oriented, rather than development oriented, why are you useing CURRENT? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse?

2000-11-26 Thread Mark Murray
I think the yarrow stuff is probably somewhat more roubust than requiring the mouse - as long as there is some source of entropy. What other sources does the random device currently use? Currently - keyboard and mouse. RSN, also interrupts and network activity. M -- Mark Murray Join

Re: lpd panic

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Murray
seems to be going ok, but I pick up a kernel panic whilst printing. Ditto. Also on a dual-cpu machine, also a really recent CURRENT. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send

Re: CURRENT is freezing again ...

2000-11-20 Thread Mark Murray
(almost) cleared get_cyclecounter(9) out of my TODO, I can use it, and then go about getting rid of most malloc(9)s and all TAILQs in random.ko. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: -current hangs during boot

2000-11-06 Thread Mark Murray
time (dinner!). I am running a recent SMP system, uname and dmesg below. Are you _completely_ up to date with /etc/*? Dou you run mergemaster after each make world/make kernel? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /dev/random related mouse jerkiness is again here

2000-10-29 Thread Mark Murray
I had mouse jerkiness at the same time as I had the sound glitches. Those were explained as a result of SMPNG IRQ latency (IIRC). Could this be the same problem? Yes. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /dev/random related mouse jerkiness is again here

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Murray
went away with kthreads? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
mail them to me, put them somewhere where I can ftp of http them. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
+ cat /var/db/entropy + entropy_reseeded=yes + rm -f /var/db/entropy /var/db/entropy Could you please build the random.ko module with -DDEBUG and let me know at what stage the first reseed event happens? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
ems in physics and computer science and elsewhere. I just know enough to know that it'd be dangerous to trust me to do the job 100% correctly. 8-). But I also see this as getting more important as /dev/random gets more and more central to security and authentication policy and enforcement.

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
count user preferences in MAKEDEV.local). I believe that users are shootin their feet by not tracking /dev properly. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
. :-) I'd like your suggestion a lot more if you supplied some more concrete hints. I like KISS, and current evolution is looking a little wierd. I'd enjoy seeing a true/beautiful/simple solution - patches welcome. :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Murray
a true/beautiful/simple solution - patches welcome. :-) : :M See above. -Matt :-- :Mark Murray :Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Murray
, read the code; nanotime is all over the harvested entropy. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Murray
am unable to reproduce it. i terefore need better info than "it is so" to do anything about it. Please get a complete log of the boot process (put a set -x in /etc/rc while you are about it) and get that over to me. M On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mark Murray wrote: 2) Reseeding state may

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Murray
mness and the like, but surely this can't be very random. I'll be eating my words tonight, but I swear it wasn't working for me :) (and yes i had the latest rc files). On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mark Murray wrote: I am not seeing this, and I am unable to reproduce it. i terefore need bet

Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken

2000-10-20 Thread Mark Murray
_not_ make that commit. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: pam.conf and r(logind|shd)

2000-10-11 Thread Mark Murray
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Re: IPX requires 'device random'

2000-09-30 Thread Mark Murray
for anyone who wants it.) A simple 'device random' to compile the support in statically rectifies the problem. I'm aware of this, and I have an uncommitted fix. Please be patient :-). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'device random' required in conf file?

2000-09-25 Thread Mark Murray
Same with the IPX code. A 'read_random' stub should be supplied to allow kernels without 'device random' to compile and run. I'll fix this. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: 1131 unneeded includes in the kernel...

2000-09-21 Thread Mark Murray
sys/signalvar.h dev/randomdev/yarrow.c sys/linker.h sys/mbuf.h ... Thanks! Dealt with. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: SMPng feedback

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Murray
called "random" when you wiggle your mouse). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SMPng feedback

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Murray
IT's new as of last night. There is a random there, but it's not doing anything when I move the mouse. OK - its not my random driver, then :-). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: Question

2000-09-16 Thread Mark Murray
Second, on both my sn card and my aue cards are installed I get: WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("bpf0") AOL Me too, on my ep card. /AOL M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: SMPNG kernel on UP

2000-09-15 Thread Mark Murray
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Murray writ es: : I don't know either. However, it might be because of permission : problems. It will return EINVAL when it can't open the apm file for : write. Maybe a devfs related issue? : : I don't have devfs on this system yet. Odd

Re: SMPNG kernel on UP

2000-09-14 Thread Mark Murray
nc problem. Although I don't know why the ioctl argument would suddenly become invalid. Maybe it passes in a struct ucred, which changed in size just before the SMPng commit? Not a synchronization thing. I made sure of that. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www

Re: SMPNG kernel on UP

2000-09-14 Thread Mark Murray
I don't know either. However, it might be because of permission problems. It will return EINVAL when it can't open the apm file for write. Maybe a devfs related issue? I don't have devfs on this system yet. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org

Re: SMPNG kernel on UP

2000-09-14 Thread Mark Murray
Mark's system doesn't have group operator at gid 5. That's one bad thing about the new DEVFS: it appears to enshrine things like this in the kernel... Nope; no devfs, and the master.passwd is as close to standard as mergemaster can get. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http

Re: SMPNG kernel on UP

2000-09-13 Thread Mark Murray
for me (Libretto 110ct). zzz/apm -z gives me "apm: ioctl(APMIO_SUSPEND): Invalid argument" M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: New Fatal trap in Current SMP (random.dev changes ??)

2000-09-11 Thread Mark Murray
in just a sec.. Thanks, John! :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: PERL 5.6

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
Can anyoine give me an idea when Perl 5.6 will be merged from current into stable? Real Soon Now(tm). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: USA_RESIDENT variable is no longer needed ?

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
doing that. The only Crypto issue outstanding at the monent is IDEA, and as far as I can work out, the patent there expires in 2007. IDEA is well covered by WANT_IDEA (or whatever its called). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: XFree86

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Murray
yet. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Current jumpieness

2000-09-02 Thread Mark Murray
; however kthreads are currently cooperative, not preemptive, so the code "feels" similar[1]. I hold high hopes for the SMPng project fixing this (for UP and MP). [1] there are some hacks-and-kluges that can work around this, but they are gross. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM move

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Murray
a sound card, but being able to use one at the user's request is good; I'd need kernel-mode code to do some harvesting. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Murray
about how to use [this type of source] in FreeBSD are also usefulp; It's easy to "steal" a sound card; to use a sound card as an entropy source is more of a problem; ideas welcome. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: PERL broken during -CURRENT upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Mark Murray
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Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-08-27 Thread Mark Murray
xt.) We should encourage people to do these two things. I agree. we also need a device driver for Intel's harware RNG. I have some example code. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-08-27 Thread Mark Murray
t) reseeds. It shouldn't be a problem to tie it to a trickle-feed, and allow that to do fast-only reseeds after considerable lengths of time. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
repeatable output -- which is OK in use but not for testing. I'll fix that. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
m hardware such as the ubiquitous geiger-counter or zener noise generator. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: yarrow /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
eric PC hardware. There is real entropy in that mouse swirl and keyboard input. ...there may not be a suitable monkey at the keyboard. What about a server in an unattended colo? MHO - hardware RNG. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: perlcc in current - xs_init and boot_DynaLoader

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
If i do a perlcc test.pl i get the folllowing , in CURRENT ? Must i define something beforehand, or is it broken ? I'll take a look... Looks like perl brokenness. The missing boot_DynaLoader is in DynaLoader.a, but there is no way of linking it in. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM

Re: perlcc in current - xs_init and boot_DynaLoader

2000-08-25 Thread Mark Murray
If i do a perlcc test.pl i get the folllowing , in CURRENT ? Must i define something beforehand, or is it broken ? I'll take a look... M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Murray
However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular basis. That's not you. There is a non-trivial Perl5 LOCALBASE problem that I'm trying to get my head around. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http

Re: Review requested for /dev/random driver improvements!

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Murray
I just tried the patch, which completed successfully. But now, I'm getting these errors (see attached make.log). Clean out your tree and reapply the patches; they got applied twice to some files :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Review requested for /dev/random driver improvements!

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Murray
alts right there. There was no panic, just a dead hang. Please drop into the debugger and see if you can find out what it is doing. (Or just where the hang is happening). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Review requested for /dev/random driver improvements!

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Murray
So, at least I know the hang is occuring at random: entropy source. OK; please uncomment the #define DEBUG in yarrow.c and let me know what the output of that looks like? Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Review requested for /dev/random driver improvements!

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
Hi All Please could those of you with the time and computrons available please review the patches for the entropy (/dev/random) driver at http://people.freebsd.org/~markm/randomdev.patch. NOTES: This code may injure your cat, your computer and/or your bank account; be careful! The code puts

Re: PATCH: devfs mkIII test review please.

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
They can also be made by the driver using make_dev_alias(). Cool! Man page please? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
So, I think having the option to use encrypted swap on FreeBSD would be nice. Is anybody already working on this? If not, how do I get somebody to work on it? ;-) Ever since the Phoenecians invented money, there has been at least one guaranteed answer to that :-) M -- Mark Murray Join

Re: make buildworld br0ken in libutil

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
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Re: make buildworld br0ken in libutil

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
of applications need crypt? Goes for very many libc components. Quite a lot of userland needs libcrypt (not much as a proportion, but a non-insignificant number). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Review requested for /dev/random driver improvements!

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Murray
I'm getting some errors trying to build this. Attached is my make.log that shows the errors. The one that's there now should fix this (I forgot to include a 1-line patch to sys/conf/files). Thanks! M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send

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