Re: Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2016-07-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 07/12/16 13:27, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:17:19AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> I just upgraded my main machine to 11-STABLE. Things are mostly working > >> fine -- however I did notice that the new iovctl rc script is apparently > >> enabled by default. That

Re: 'make includes' ownership patch

2001-05-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:06:00PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:59:22PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Shouldn't the includes/Makefile be installing headers using INCOWN/INCGRP instead of BINOWN/BINGRP? I ran into this when trying to do a 'make includes' as a

Re: 'make includes' ownership patch

2001-05-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:31:58AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:22:33AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: This was on my TODO. The only problem with INCOWN/INCGRP not being used here is that they were introduced long after include/Makefile

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I don't see a problem with adding an option to cp to treat the first argument as the target instead of the last argument. It's a simple solution, the code change is simple, and it produces the exact desired result. What's the problem? It's yet another non-portable option. I

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Folks, although there was much rejoicing, I think there's no need for a new option to cp. Just use the toolbox, it's not too hard: (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp I like this version of the patch!! It's much much cleaner than hacking up cp or xargs, it even follows the unix

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:26:18PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp I like this version of the patch!! It's much much cleaner than hacking up cp or xargs, it even follows the unix principle of using simple tools and glueing them togeather

Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind

2001-04-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Ok guys. I just had to fix a problem with portmap in -stable related to binding to specific IP addresses so replies to UDP packets come 'from' the proper IP address (for multi-homed hosts). This has been a problem with portmap for as long as I can remember (back to the SunOS 3.5

Re: tape device names and devfs

2001-03-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't heard any screaming yet. Besides, this is -CURRENT. devfs has also abandoned symlinks for 'r' disk devices. The "r" in tape device names has traditionally meant "r"ewind. The "r" in disk names (such as

Re: Core dumps on Current Make World this morning

2001-01-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jacob writes: : Same with me. This sounds like a job for Captain UPDATING: Don't you just need to rebuild vi/ex? Ie would not: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/vi; make cleandir make obj make depend make all install fix the problem? Two

Re: Core dumps on Current Make World this morning

2001-01-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Rodney W. Grimes" writes : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jacob writes: : Same with me. This sounds like a job for Captain UPDATING: Don't you just need to rebuild vi/ex? Ie would not: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/vi; make cleandir

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: Section 2.1, last paragraph: "If a system is shut down, and restarted, it is desirable to store some high-entropy data (such as the key) in non-volatile memory. This allows the PRNG to be restarted in an unguessable state at the next restart. We

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... As far as I can tell the fxp driver doesn't even use the tx_fifo in the 825xxx chips :-) The 82557-9 have a 2KB internal buffer for transmits. They don't start transmitting until a programmed threshold is reached - this is to insure that PCI bus latency doesn't result in the

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Friday, 14th July 2000, "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: I suspect an interaction between the ATA driver and VIA chipsets, because other than the network, that's all that is operating when I see the underruns. And my Celeron with a ZX chipset is immune. I've seen them on

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ohh... and a finally note, DEC blew the chip design by only including a 160byte threshold point given that PCI 2.0 spec says it should have been 500bytes!! It wouldn't be the first thi

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[cc: trimmed to -current] Does anyone here actually measure these latencies? I know for a fact that nothing I've ever done would or could be affected by extra latencies that are as small as the ones we are discussing. Does anybody at all depend on the

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: Guess it will show up if you measure latencies (or your application is doing lots of RPCs). But as soon as there is a cheap 100baseT switch in the path to the destination, there will be store-and-forward at work ;-) Does anyone here actually

Re: if_de as a module...

2000-07-10 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Umm- started okay: : and then died: rplookup 192.67.166.155 failed: could not allocate llinfo arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 192.67.166.155rt arplookup 192.67.166.155 failed: could not allocate llinfo arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 192.67.166.155rt arplookup

Re: if_de as a module...

2000-07-10 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
:f0'' to create a ``permanant'' entry and IT gets replaced!!! ARGHHH On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Umm- started okay: : and then died: rplookup 192.67.166.155 failed: could not allocate llinfo arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 192.67.166.155rt

Re: cvs-crypto unknown

2000-07-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
cvsup4.freebsd.org does not know about cvs-crypto. What is the correct collection? src-crypto -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cvs-crypto unknown

2000-07-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
cvsup4.freebsd.org does not know about cvs-crypto. What is the correct collection? src-crypto Oopsss... never mind. I think this has all been folded into the baseline cvs target. *-crypto is no more. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, John Baldwin wrote: Sounds good to me actually. Although, should it be ${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile instead in keeping with the mentioned goal of keeping all MD stuff under ${MACHINE_ARCH}? I think that compile/${MACHINE_ARCH} is the proper way to do this.

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... I feel masochistic at the moment, so here's a suggestion. Feel free to rip it all up to pieces, ya'll. And to start off: I like green bikesheds. (I.e. let's settle on something sensible and not get I prefer blue ones :-) ... Ok (/me dons the asbestos suit, climbs into the concrete

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Actually the whole src/sys/compile thing should go away, it is one of the last things that has to be dealt with for a totally read-only mounted /usr/src. IMHO it should be moved to /usr/obj, and /usr/obj should, if it hasn't already

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] It seems Arun Sharma wrote: I have the following disk: ad4: 9787MB WDC AC310200R [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. That exact disk model cant do UDMA66 reliably, even

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:27:04AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: On a released system, I may not have the sources to recompile the module. It might be a proprietary module that I got with the hardware, for example. How real is this? What modules are we talking about? The last time

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Gee, is that perhaps because FreeBSD keeps breaking the ABI to modules so every vendor that has ever tried to use them has been bitten by the fact that they have to maintain N version for each branch of FreeBSD??? Can you list some specific examples? I'm not trying to be a wise-ass,

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:02:28PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: That is also partly why you are also lacking the respect and support of a wider audience. If you act like FreeBSD is just a "developer's sandbox", that's what it will be. If you want it to be something greater than

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
{First one bounced by hub with ``out of memory'' error... second attempt} Are there any 3rd party NIC klds yet? NTMK. It's not quite a kld, but ET Inc's modules are distributed as a .o. Also I know of work underway to support some of the fancier SDL WanNic cards that would have to be kld's

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. The

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
: :In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes: : :There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... :that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that :is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be :

Re: missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:45:20 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: to include support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus machines in existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and AFAIK, the only MCA disk controller supported does SCSI. The

Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c

2000-04-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
The message in question can be extremely useful in case there is IP address clash on the local network. I suggest we just change the code in question to ignore clashes over 0.0.0.0 address only. No, don't do that, anyone arping 0.0.0.0 on any network around here I sure as heck want to know

Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c

2000-04-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
to be disabled? On 07-Apr-00 Rodney W. Grimes wrote: The message in question can be extremely useful in case there is IP address clash on the local network. I suggest we just change the code in question to ignore clashes over 0.0.0.0 address only. No, don't do that, anyone arping

Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c

2000-04-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
The message in question can be extremely useful in case there is IP address clash on the local network. I suggest we just change the code in question to ignore clashes over 0.0.0.0 address only. No, don't do that, anyone arping 0.0.0.0 on any network around here I sure as heck

Re: Overwhelming messages from /sys/netinet/if_ether.c

2000-04-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
No... Yes... that is just the type of thing the link local RFC reserved address space is for. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mathew Kanner writes: On Apr 07, Donn Miller wrote: Since I started using a cable modem and dhclient, my system has been literally overwhelmed with messages like:

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:29:56AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : I would think that track-caches and intelligent drives would gain : much if not more of what clustering was designed to do gain. : :Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger :I/Os is

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:14:45PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:29:56AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : I would think that track-caches and intelligent drives would gain : much if not more of what clustering was designed to do gain. : :Hm

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The theoretical maximum for 100BaseT-FDX (which is 200Mbps) is 25MB/s (megabytes per second), 100BaseT-TX is 12MB/s [FYI: Mbps-MB/s you divide by 8] I realize my punctuation may be off, but there you are.

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:07:40PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Assuming you mean ``100BASE-T (half duplex)'' here... This is not quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:25:59AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: There was a patch of DC21143 chips it seems that has a very strange thermal problem. Can you tell me what your hub link lite is doing when you see this major slow down? Nope ... as this machine is connected directly

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Perhaps this would be of interest in CURRENT issues: We have several servers that we plan on deploying across the US. Their purpose in life is network status and monitoring. The hardware profiles are exactly the same... Currently, we're using DD to mirror a disk image onto a new

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:13:51 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [I wrote:] quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the actual capacity of the link is always(*) somewhat less than 100%; the exact value depends on t

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:53:37 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I specifically excluded P(coll) by stating point to point or effectively point to point via switching. Rod, please bother to READ what people write before spewing nonsense. I did read i

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:08:24 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The maximum for full-duplex is utterly irrelevant, since the bounds on performance for half-duplex Ethernet networks come from CSMA/CD. I will say it one last time, duplex falls out of the

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rodney W. Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use dump | restore to populate the disk. Do you run newfs on the receiving disk

Re: Hardware for 4.0

2000-02-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:06:07 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IBM Hard drives... If you can actually get them Last time I bought a drive we weren't able to get IBM in any reasonable timeframe and ended up with a Seagate instead. (And that Chee

Re: openssl in -current

2000-02-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hmmm. I'm beginning to wonder if openssl shouldn't just be backed-out at this point. The situation with RSA makes this far more problematic than I think anyone first thought, and I've seen a lot of breakage so far for what appears to be comparatively little gain over what we had before

Re: Dummy ethernet interface.

2000-02-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Giorgos Keramidas writes: Is there some way to ifconfig up a dummy ethernet interface, one that will work like the loopback one (lo0) on FreeBSD? If you want an interface that loops back, you can have more than one loopback interface (lo0, lo1, lo2, ...). If you want an interface that

Re: make installworld broken???

2000-01-31 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Good analysis deleted... src/usr.bin/xinstall could probably have been named src/usr.bin/install, but PROG has to be xinstall regardless. I guess they kept the two as xinstall for consistancy and in case there were other gotcha's like this. But you forgot what happens if you have a ``file''

Re: make installworld broken???

2000-01-31 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: Good analysis deleted... src/usr.bin/xinstall could probably have been named src/usr.bin/install, but PROG has to be xinstall regardless. I guess they kept the two as xinstall for consistancy and in case there were other gotcha's like this.

Re: very silent, but heavy filesystem-crash

2000-01-28 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... Starting an 'fsck' results in: cage:[/] # fsck /scratch ** /dev/da1s1g ** Last Mounted on /scratch ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=16 SALVAGE? [yn] ^C * FILE SYSTEM MARKED DIRTY * Next step is run the ``save''

Re: (FWD) Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/daily 200.backup-passwd

2000-01-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:23:23 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: I think what you really want is: sed 's/^\([^:#@+-]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/' Eeek, I don't know why I sent you that. It should have been: sed 's/^\([ +-][^+-][^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:(password):/' IMNSO

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:28:10 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 3. On the first reboot after installing, the keyboard was in a funny state. Urk, can't reproduce it. I need a reproducible sequence of operations before we'll have any hope of tackling this one.

Re: (FWD) Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/daily 200.backup-pass

2000-01-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On 27-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote: I would appreciate it if those that want things changed would please try Sheldon's `sed' expression below and report back how it worked for you. That will expose passwords of users whose entries are commented out, My awk script does not have that

Re: Comments on this patch?

2000-01-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David O'Brien" writes: : BTW, I'm getting numbers that are 2x bigger than before :-(.I had : makebuildworld down to around 1:20 at one point, but now it is 2:40. : : Which compilers for both times? What ever was on -current as of 2.5 years ago. This

Re: FIC SD-11 not happy with ata

2000-01-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
% %It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: % % %It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: % % % % % % I swapped out my motherboard and am seeing this now: %... % % % )(*$#%$# stupid magazine benchmarkers never actually test % things like IO... gr % %We in the computer hardware business

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:17:54PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: At 11:34 PM +1300 2000/1/22, Joe Abley wrote: This should give you a relative performance metric between the servers you measured, hopefully with local network performance variations cancelled out by the fact that all

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hi David, John can implement a ping echo packet protocol for cvsup whose response can have "cool" information on the server. Steven's book on Networking already has the code for doing network latency calculations . It is more like if John has the time to implement such scheme You

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hi David, John can implement a ping echo packet protocol for cvsup whose response can have "cool" information on the server. Steven's book on Networking already has the code for doing network latency calculations . It is more like if John has the time to implement such

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:03:51PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: I don't know ... I think it might be a good idea for the cvsup client to make a connection to a cvsup master, get redirected from that master to the actual handler of the

Re: FIC SD-11 not happy with ata

2000-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
%It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: % %It seems Russell L. Carter wrote: % % % % I swapped out my motherboard and am seeing this now: ... )(*$#%$# stupid magazine benchmarkers never actually test things like IO... gr We in the computer hardware business have a better name for

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: ... Independent of order of export/mounting the dead lock occurs. Cross mounting via NFS is a verbotten thing in the sysadmin world of production systems. :-) I have had to fix it at several sites admin'd by newbies... I'm not sure you

Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files

2000-01-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Sorry, I will slow down my reading and stop flipping 2^10 into 10^3. From: Rodney W. Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 9:53 PM [in regards to a previous post preferring base-10 for K and M units...] I'm sorry but I would find it non-obvious and more

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
: Sometimes we just want to nfs-mount things on the same : machine. : :Sick, poor in performance and the wrong tool for the job. :See mount_null(8) for more details on how to do it right. : : : One more example: I don't like /var/news so I mount locally : /var/news : to /archive/news

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hi, I think we should move portmap(8) to /sbin for the following reason: portmap(8) and therefore mountd(8) should be started before the nfs filesystems get mounted. But because portmap(8) is in /usr/sbin , users with a nfs mounted /usr filesystem or with diskless filesystems will

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hi, should not have to run either, *even* for diskless boot. What's all this about loopback mounts in fstab about? What does that have to do with diskless startup? Ok. I just rethought everything. It seems that a move is unnecessary because: - Sharity light and

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:23:14AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Also moving them to pass1 would bring up nfs exports before we brought up nfs mounts. syslogd would not be running to catch Shouldn't nfs exports happen before nfs mounts, so that machines which have nfs

Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin

2000-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: [..] So no disk, so just what is it that you are exporting??? Just a comment: I've seen scenarios where a local disk is attached holding a kernel, bootblocks loader etc, but otherwise booting from a server over NFS. And it exported the rest of

Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files

2000-01-12 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] I'm sorry but I would find it non-obvious and more confusing. When ls or a similar disk/memory utility tells me xxxK or xxxM, I would expect it to be in 2^10 or 2^20 units. To appear otherwise would surprise me. I guess you get

Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files

2000-01-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I'm currently dealing with an increasing set of *very* large files, most of them in the order of gigabytes. It becomes impossible to figure the size of a file with ls -l with 9 or more digits displayed. I would propose a new flag to ls which will together with option -l change the unit to

Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files

2000-01-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...] Arghh... windblows... I'm currently dealing with an increasing set of *very* large files, most of them in the order of gigabytes. It becomes impossible to figure the size of a file with ls -l with 9 or more digits displayed. I would

Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files

2000-01-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
At 2:49 PM -0800 1/11/00, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Another thing that ``works for me''. Only make it ki, mi, and gi to fit with the new binary mode international appreviation standards, unless of cource you use base 10 divisors. Why not KB, MB or GB, since that's what you're

Re: 4.0 slower than 3.4?

2000-01-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's interesting though how i had no ipf rules whatsoever, yet it introduced so much latency, as Alexander has pointed out in another email. Why is ipf so slow? I was planning on switching from ipfw/natd to ipf/ipnat,

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... I strongly suggest to not release 4.0 till the IPv6 import has been finished. Beside the need for IPv6 it would be wrong to ship a release with a half- complete implementation. I expect every person that has made similiar statements here and bore all the developers with the additional

Re: ipfw optimizations

2000-01-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luigi Rizzo writes: One of the things I would do to optimize ipfw is: - instead of keeping one list with all the rules, split the list (the internal one) by interface and by direction (one list for ed1 incoming, one list for ed1 outgoing, etc.). one

Re: new man pages

2000-01-04 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Where do I look for new man pages? I would like to read those for the new ata driver and for ntpd. They were not created during a build world some 5 days ago. And I cannot find them in /usr/src/share/man/man4, where I would expect man ata/ad in any case. Sos already answered about ata/ad,

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Denninger writes: This is not a port, its part of the RELEASE! Its several YEARS old, and doesn't work right - you get lots of

Re: Woa! May have found something - 'rl' driver and small packets (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... I'm pretty sure that the box was getiting receive interrupts because every time I sent a packet to it from the outside systat -vm showed a PCI interrupt for the network device. However 'netstat -in 1' did not show the statistics for the received packets until 64 had

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... (200-300 MHz) clients. That's *with* packet loss (for some reason when my fxp ethernets pump data out that quickly they tend to cause packet loss in other parts of my HUBed network, which I find quite annoying). Interesting you should say that I've been playing with some

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:47:59AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It's very annoying, I have only fair experiences with dump/restore back to the 2.2.2 days until now. Sorry for the long post and partially? false alert. Something in my mind waked up and I

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

1999-12-15 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hm, if correct, Orca would make a good codename for a sysadm tool: Ordinary Ramblers Can [now] Admin [FreeBSD] Someone pointed out that Orca was already taken The question NOW is: Can you come up with a good acronym for "SHAMU"? Easy... Some Help for Another Misguided

Re: Speaking of moving files

1999-12-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Ben Rosengart wrote in list.freebsd-current: On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in /usr that wasn't in /. For example, disklabel -e doesn't

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

1999-12-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[.] On a related subject: don't you think it's high time to end up this madness with MAKEDEV being a shell script, and reimplement it in C? Today, [.] *cough*DEVFS*cough* Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is that it needs a persistent backing

Re: Speaking of moving files

1999-12-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
A person who really knew fsdb could do it /bin/fsdb, infact it's And for everyone else ;-) WARNING Use this tool with extreme caution--you can damage an FFS file system beyond what fsck(8) can repair. Yea.. well... fsdb /dev/rda0s1a cd /dev/ cd da0s1g chown root chgrp

Re: make world broken building fortunes

1999-12-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:42:36 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: I think the easiest solution would be (instead of your patches of course): -STRICTTMPPATH= ${WORLDTMP}/bin:${WORLDTMP}/usr/bin +STRICTTMPPATH= ${WORLDTMP}/bin:${WORLDTMP}/usr/bin:${WORLDTMP}/usr/games Only if you

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... The scsi system has always been dynamic with a wiring *option* right from as far back as 2.0. CAM didn't change this. as far back as 386BSD and the patchkit. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
We've been telling people for a long time that the wd driver would remain around even after ata went golden to support the ESDI systems still in service. That sounds like it is changing now. Real support for ESDI died with bad144... Error free ESDI disks are very rare, even the best in my

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be good too. The loader just uses the

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a normal 1.44M drive would be good too. The loader just uses the

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Hell, I've been seeing this for well over a year. The last time I mentioned it, everybody seemed to think I was nuts. :-) FreeBSD 3.0-19981015-BETA #1: Tue Jan 12 03:30:56 CST 1999 routetbl289178 40961K 40961K 40960K 4357410 0 16,32,64,128,256 Well, I havent seen

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Have any of you been seeing route table leaks in -current? I noticed this week that cvsup-master.freebsd.org is suffering from them. I actually had to reboot it because it couldn't allocate any more. From the "vmstat -m" output: Memory statistics by type

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Please use 'netstat -rna' to get a listing of *all* the routes, including the temporary ones, not just the non-temporary routes. FWIW, another datapoint: set$ netstat -ran | wc -l 15 set$ vmstat -m | grep routetbl|grep K Type InUse MemUse

Re: Intel 810?

1999-12-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following claim: All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip ^^ I can say with certain that statement is false, you can run a Socket 370

Re: Sv: mount(2) broken?

1999-12-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In message 003001bf3f5d$1ff01780$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Leif Neland" writes: Why isn't MAKEDEV installed by make (install)world? I'm actually starting to wonder about that too... Because the source is buried in src/etc, and src/etc is not run as a SUBDIR target. It had always been my intent

Re: modules/netgraph/bpf breaks world

1999-12-03 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
thanks, committed. For thise wondering this is a netgraph node that can do arbitrary filtering using the existing bpf engine. And just when is ipfw going to become a netgraph node 0.5 * :-) God I wish I had some free time to go play with this code!! On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Steven G. Kargl

Re: FreeBSD security auditing project.

1999-11-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
"Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not so much that they where ``allowed'' to do it, it is more the matter that they where never directly served with legal papers from USL/Novell to cease all use of Net/2. Nor did they ever enter into any agreement, that

Re: FreeBSD security auditing project.

1999-11-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
2) I propose that WE diff(1) FreeBSD with {Open|Net}BSD, This is not the easiest thing to do (I've tried). Rather one should look at what changes OpenBSD has done to a piece of code since they imported it from NetBSD and compare with FreeBSD code to see if the OpenBSD change is

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-11-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
I recently tried using dd to transfer a binary image to floppy. It was the Linux root disk image, color.gz. Basically, dd works ok with non-gzipped files, but with files in gzip format, it chokes: root@lc186 floppies# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/rfd0 dd: /dev/rfd0: Invalid

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver- Okay, Okay, you win....

1999-11-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Tuesday, 16 November 1999 at 8:04:05 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: Too many people have objected. I didn't make my case clearly enough, but because enough people of have raised issues, the default won't be changed. I think this is the correct decision in the short term. In the

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-16 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Manfred Antar wrote: I think this is all related to the compiler update as I did a good build Friday or Saturday before the change. If it is, then some thing wierd is going on. Something weird is going on... I can confirm Manfred's claim, I also just build

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