Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:00:50 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > just curious, but what is the max setting that can be used to compile the > kernel? -O Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:23:09 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > well, I just did -O3 -mpentium, and it both compiled cleanly, and appears > to be running okay, so is -O the max that makes a difference, or...? Or... Try build world with that kernel running. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe:

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:24:50 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > well, I just did -O3 -mpentium, and it both compiled cleanly, and appears > > Try build world with that kernel running. :-) I should have mentioned that I'm speaking from fairly stale experience. I got bitten by t

Re: make world, attempt 5

1999-09-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:00:50 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've been trying for the last 24 hours solid to make a new world. The > latest problem is: :-( > /src/PANIC/src/lib/libwrap/../../contrib/tcp_wrappers/hosts_access.c:245: > syntax error before `<' Hi Greg, I was the last person to tou

Re: my repository is broken

1999-09-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:20:25 GMT, Bob Bishop wrote: > ===> usr.sbin/lpr/filters.ru > ===> usr.sbin/lpr/filters.ru/koi2alt > make: don't know how to make koi2alt.c. Stop Looks like you haven't updated in a while. > Apparently because... > moved to koi2alt > ...never m

Re: system freezes with today's kernel

1999-10-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:00:28 GMT, Bob Bishop wrote: > With today's kernel (cvsup at Thu Sep 30 04:04:55 BST 1999), this system > freezes (no DDB, nothing) as soon as any load is put on it (eg very early > in buildworld). >From the discussions I see which followed the recent changes to our sign

Re: Issues with xl0

1999-10-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999 08:09:49 -0300, Bryan Bursey wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there are known issues with the xl0 driver in 4.0, > or if it has been superceded by another driver which works with 3Com > 3C900B. That's a pretty broad question. I know that lots of people use the xl0 driver in C

Re: 4.0-CURRENT from 3.2-RELEASE

1999-10-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 09:39:05 -0400, "Bill A. K." wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my system from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT You're venturing into some virgin territory, but some old advice in the FreeBSD Handbook still applies -- if you intend to run CURRENT, subscribe to the freebsd-current mai

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 03:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be > appropriate... You should have checked the SEE ALSO secion of the manpage (I wonder whether Ruslan Ermilov is reading?) *grin* SEE ALSO kldfind(2), kldfirstmod(2

Re: shell script trouble

1999-10-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 17:09:16 +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > Is there anybody here that happens to know why these previously perfectly > working shell-scripts all of a sudden are broken now ? You'll greatly increase the chances of getting a useful answer if you show us _how_ they're breaking. :

Timeframe on XFree86 signal fix

1999-10-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, A sequence of silly mistakes and circumstances have conspired against me to make it impossible for me to run XFree86. I understand that the XFree86 build is broken in the face of recent signal-related changes. I want to know how long I can expect to wait for XFree86 to build on CURREN

Re: still broken?

1999-10-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Yech, malformed patch. This one applies. :-) Thanks, Marcel. Ciao, Sheldon. Index: signal.h === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/signal.h,v retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -d -r1.21 signal.h --- signal.h1999/10/12 13:58:15

Re: Is it just me or is sys/signal.h just completely screwed up now?

1999-10-18 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 01:52:57 MST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > See the mails from October 15th, esp. the ones from Marcel Moolenaar > > and Sheldon Hearn. > > I did, but they don't fix the XFree86 3.3.5 build problem. Hmmm, that's odd, because the pa

Re: lsof broken

1999-10-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:32:42 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > It's broken trying to work with the name cache, and dies because it can't > find the name NCACHE. Where is this guy? I use the following patch to patches/patch-aa for CURRENT. I've no idea what this does to STABLE. Ciao, Sheldon. Inde

Re: make buildworld problem...

1999-11-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:46:29 -0400, "Chris D. Faulhaber" wrote: > As an interim hack, would the following patch, which verifies > kern.osreldate >= 400011, suffice? I'd be in favour of this if all the changes were associated with comments containing ``XXX required for sigset_t migration''. Ci

Re: snd0

1999-11-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:37:16 EST, relapz wrote: > have you tried using the pcm0 sound drivers instead? I used them for the > crystal -based on-board sound that comes with Dell Optiplex > machines... Have a look at LINT for the setup instructions. I get the same behaviour with pcm0 using a Crea

Re: egcs -O breaks ping.c:in_cksum()

1999-11-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:48:31 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > I've discovered the following problem, either due to egcs or the > source code for in_cksum in ping, I'm not sure. Alas, you're not in virgin territory, Columbus. :-) See PR 13292. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: egcs -O breaks ping.c:in_cksum()

1999-11-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:01:45 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > Maybe I can at least commit the addition of "volatile" to the source > code. That will work around that particular bug until egcs is > fixed... FWIW, the newly committed gcc-2.95.2 doesn't "fix" the problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsub

Re: egcs -O breaks ping.c:in_cksum()

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:45:36 +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > > - volatile u_short answer = 0; > > + union { > > + u_int16_t us; > > + u_int8_t uc[2]; > > + } answer; > Uh, which one(s) do you mean exactly? The 4-space indented union > (I just followed style(9)) The word ``un

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:19:52 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we are at it > >considering how much of a security hole it is. > > Hmm, well, I like to have it around for root at least... Exactly. In a perfect world, the -e option w

Re: ps -e

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:27:12 PST, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I shudder to think that people might actually start depending on this > non-feature. Your shuddering comes too late. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:22:23 PST, Manfred Antar wrote: > I did the same and everything works. > But XFree86 from the ports collection will not build. That's not a very useful description of the problem. :-) Did you answer "YES" or "NO" to the following question? Do you want to compil

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:22:23 PST, Manfred Antar wrote: > I did the same and everything works. > But XFree86 from the ports collection will not build. By the way, I just tested the build using gcc-2.95.2 both with and without the threads support. So you really are going to need to provide more

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 06:46:12 PST, Manfred Antar wrote: > Did it build for you ? Yes. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:15:17 PST, "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > Something weird is going on... I can confirm Manfred's claim, I also > just build XFree86 just before the compiler change. I'm certainly not > going to cvs update right now... :-) Gentlemen, would you please use the right terminolo

Re: gdb trouble in 4.0-current

1999-11-22 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:24:47 EST, Wes Morgan wrote: > (gdb) r > Starting program: /usr/home/by-tor/mms-0.90/./mms > warning: find_solib: Can't read pathname for load map: Bad address > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) You're not alone. The work-around is to compile with --static. Ciao, Sh

Re: minor bug in ee?

1999-12-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 00:54:11 CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently noticed that ^v (the scroll down a page command in ee) must be > entered twice to scroll down once (i.e. if you hit ^v once it won't do > anything, you must hit it again) on a 4.0-CURRENT system. Sounds like ncurses takes

Re: Old Libs...?

1999-12-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:22:35 +0100, Dieter Rothacker wrote: > I have just installed 4.0-SNAP-19991203. I noticed that some packages (e.g. > samba, bash2) complain about missing shared libs (e.g. libreadline.so.3 > needed and .4 is installed). [...] > I assume that I have to install the old lib

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 18:42:56 +0600, Max Khon wrote: > it is not possible to make short equivalent for old grep -a option > (as in grep 2.3 -a is used for other purposes). Que? I've used grep -a since the update to grep 2.3 and haven't noticed any strange behaviour from the -a option. You wan

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:56:53 EST, James Howard wrote: > I submitted a PR yesterday for my newest version. It is a faster, but > most of the options are broken. Unfortunetly with exams and all, I > will not be able to fix it until Christmas or so. Then I suggest sending PR follow-up requestin

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:48:08 +0600, Max Khon wrote: > in -current both 'grep -al' and 'grep -l' print names of binary files > and there is no way to tell grep to skip them Ah, so this isn't about -a, it's about -a in conjunction with -l. Thanks for the clarification. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsu

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 07:14:41 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > You are in for a *BIG* surprise next time you hit a binary file. You > really should read what "-a" is now about in the man page. Lets just say > "-a" now does the opposite of what you think it does. Ah wunnerful. So this is why we

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 12:55:35 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs > i386 architecture. I know there are issues that make it awkward to support both drivers, but it's probably a good idea to keep the wd driver available for those who n

Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/*

1999-12-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:16:45 EST, Donn Miller wrote: > In the course of development of -current, a bunch of directories are > added and taken away from /usr/src. So, about every month or so, I > like to clean out /usr/src/* and start from scratch. (Well, you know, > sometimes you have so much

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

1999-12-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:00:50 +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > I think we don't need "a.out world" any more, but a.out support > (a.out lib/shared lib, etc.) is still needed. Some commercial > programs such as Netscape are in a.out only, so we still have to > make a.out binaries. Are you sure?

Re: make world broken building fortunes

1999-12-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
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 preceded the

Re: RELEASE timelines

1999-12-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:34:28 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote: > What is the big rush to 4.0-RELEASE ? We are relying on public awareness of the fact that .0 releases (in just about any project) are _going_ to have issues. We need the 4 branch out out there in the hands of the masses. Ciao, Sheldo

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:40:34 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > By the way, is there interest in giving the "Print Screen" > key an appropriate meaning, i.e. capturing a screenshot? YES! This comes up at least once a month on the -questions mailing list. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:56:45 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > YES! This comes up at least once a month on the -questions mailing > list. :-) I should have been more specific. People are dead keen on these two features: 1) dump an ascii capture of the screen to a file. 2

Re: Broken sh(1): A more specific example

1999-12-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:48:51 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > #!/bin/sh > PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:\ > /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:\ > /usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/marcel/bin ls > ls What do you think the s

Re: Broken sh(1)?

1999-12-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:30:59 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > #!/bin/sh -ev > cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386 \ > PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:\ > /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:\ > /usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:13:17 GMT, Nik Clayton wrote: > We need more than just an ASCII capture. Grabbing the colour information > is also very useful. This lets you make full colour pictures of things > like sysinstall. Sure, I was just explaining what lots of users have asked for. I'm not

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:26:04 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > I'm not yet 100% convinced that it would make sense to separate > the propellers code into a module. Is 5 Kbyte of kernel code > really that much of a problem? No, but think ahead, into a future where we use a teeny tiny kernel into w

Re: make world broken building fortunes

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:21:48 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > @@ -344,7 +352,7 @@ > tools:: > .for _tool in ${_strfile} ${_aout_tools} usr.bin/gensetdefs \ > gnu/usr.bin/binutils usr.bin/objformat usr.bin/yacc usr.bin/colldef \ > -gnu/usr.bin/bison gnu/usr.bin/cc > +gnu/usr.bin/bison

Re: Upgrading from a not-very-current current

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:24:40 CST, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > Would it be simpler to install from the latest -current snap? Wait a few days. We're almost at the point where current CURRENT can be built on pre-sigset_t-changes CURRENT. Watch your cvs-all mail. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe

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

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:56 +0100, "Thomas Runge" wrote: > So, we have a very good server OS, let's focus a little bit > more on the desktop. Most developers are more concerned with improving the operating system itself than providing an inviting desktop experience. The problem is that it's

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:26:29 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Sure, in that case, syscons itself should be a module, > shouldn't it? I would have thought so, yes. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

questions asked in CURRENT, answered in UPDATING

2000-03-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi Warner, I notice you often copy back to the list your "see UPDATING" replies to "current breakage" questions. I'd like to propose that everyone confine such answers to private mail. There are two advantages to doing it that way: 1) Folks who _do_ read UPDATING aren't further inconvenienced

Re: questions asked in CURRENT, answered in UPDATING

2000-03-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:22:42 MST, Warner Losh wrote: > It also tends to self regulate the UPDATING usage. As usage falls, > more messages are likely to appear on the list, to which the see > updating replies happen, which causes usage to rise again. Two good arguments. Idea sumamrily dismiss

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:50:12 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > I wasn't complaining, on the contrary! > > I was happily surprised it was way faster than the SCSI dump. =) So now the only question is whether our existing bootstrapping infrastructure already has some way to use your

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:02:06 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > I can then dump when typing: > > db> panic Damnit. So I've just committed bogus advice in dumpon(8). :-( Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:51:54 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > I think savecore will find the dump provided dumplo is consistently > initialized, so the only problem with starting dumps at the start of > the device is that this will clobber the label if the device contains > the label. Given that th

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:33:30 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > Yes it is worth documenting, and I thought that Sheldon was already on > the right way with his dumpon(8) patches. As soon as I've seen how you do it and have tried it out successfully for myself, I'll try again. :-) T

Re: periodic daily output (passwd diffs)

2000-03-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:48:13 EST, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > my guess is that's easier said than done, but still it would be > nice if it WERE done... :-) I don't think it's that difficult, and I like your idea. I'll have a look at the sed/awk magic. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: FreeBSD random I/O performance issues

2000-04-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 17:03:24 PST, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I've committed it into -current and will MFC it into > -stable in a week if there aren't any problems. I > do not intend to MFC it into 3.x. Hi Matt, I'd like to suggest that a week is not enough. Given that we seem to be

Re: Perl 5.6.0?

2000-04-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:52:13 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first > place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we > have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good > enough in 99% of th

Re: Perl 5.6.0?

2000-04-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:56:22 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > Hmm. What with the nightmarish build structure of perl, I'm sure that > reading this is just going to wreck Mark's day. I doubt it. Not for a while, anyway. Mark and I chatted about the state of the mailing lists over drinks last Frid

Re: Perl 5.6.0?

2000-04-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
We want to update our system perl5. It'll take some work. If you want to do the work, your patches will be greatly appreciated by our perl5 maintainer, Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Since nobody here has offered to do any _work_ on incorporating perl 5.6.0 into FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, please w

Re: asm_pci.h,v Holy cow!

2000-04-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:52:20 MST, Matthew Jacob wrote: > But this isn't the point. The point is to cause less cvsup turbulence > for all and sundry. I think I can do enough of this by just splitting > the file apart to keep everyone happy. Or happy enough. If that's the _only_ point, then Garr

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

2000-05-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 May 2000 17:14:31 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Sleepycats license is not FreeBSD compatible :-/ > > I don't understand. Reading > , it seems to me that FreeBSD > meets all the necessary requirements. Can someone who understands the > d

Re: Small MAKEDEV bug

2000-05-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 08 May 2000 18:56:03 -0400, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: > Now it's a question of "the UNIX way" vs. convenience/userfriendlyness > :-) I don't agree. I think this is an issue of avoiding changes that unnecessarily astonish existing users. If you can find ways to improve MAKEDEV t

Re: Small MAKEDEV bug

2000-05-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 09 May 2000 10:26:05 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I don't agree. I think this is an issue of avoiding changes that > unnecessarily astonish existing users. If you can find ways to improve > MAKEDEV that don't inconvenience those already familiar with i

Re: MAKEDEV warning with sysinstall ?

2000-05-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 08 May 2000 15:41:55 EST, Erik de Zeeuw wrote: > I ran MAKEDEV all, but the message still appear. The messages I found > about this on the archives says to do a 'ls -l /dev | grep ^b', and > to remake all devices listed, but there's no device listed when I'm > doing the 'ls -l /dev | gr

Re: rc.d startup scripts

2000-05-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 08 May 2000 23:53:16 MST, Doug Barton wrote: > > Eivind Eklund made a prototype some time back which addressed this issue - > > you'd do well to take a look at that one first before reinventing the > > wheel :) > > Point well taken. If anyone has references to this work, or an ea

Re: One more question (different now)

2000-05-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 11 May 2000 03:58:57 +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: > The Standard itself is a book and can be bought as such in bookstores. Can you give us details? Do I just hunt Amazon.com for "C99", or does it have a proper title? I need this one. Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Motif is now Open Source 8)

2000-05-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 15 May 2000 23:08:23 -0400, Donn Miller wrote: > > Check it out at: > > http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ > > Yes, that is great news! I tried compiling it, but I had trouble with > lib/Xm/Scale.c. It wanted to include , which FreeBSD > doesn't have. I've integrated NetBSD's langi

Re: modules

2000-05-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 17 May 2000 18:41:29 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > 1. To update things, I was under the impression that ``make buildworld >buildkernel'' then ``make installworld installkernel'' was the idea. >This doesn't build modules, but building from sys/compile/whatever >builds anot

Re: error making world: stage 1

2000-05-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 19 May 2000 13:28:21 MST, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade from 3.2 Release to -current > > but the build fails in the bootstrap stage. > > You can't do that in one step. You need to upgrade to 3.4-STABLE first. > Then follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING to upgr

Re: OpenSSH 2.1

2000-05-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 14 May 2000 22:52:11 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote: > * Kerberos support is also limited to SSH1. Presumably this is still Heimdal Kerberos support, without MIT interoperability? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: Wrong permissions on /dev ?

2000-05-24 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 24 May 2000 14:59:40 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > specs if they doesn't match with the specs. I've stuck in this feature > several times when making installworld on machine with /tmp from other > machine mounted over NFS into /mnt - as a result /tmp on the other > machine lost its magi

Re: Scheduler changes?

2000-05-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 26 May 2000 13:19:49 +1000, "Jacob A. Hart" wrote: > For the past couple of weeks I've noticed rc5des isn't playing friendly with > the other processes on my system. When running a CPU intensive task (such > as a buildworld, MP3 encoder, or xmame) rc5des hogs around 20-30% CPU even > t

Re: Problems with source_rc_confs

2000-06-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:46:04 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > after the update of my rc scripts (~a month ago if I remember correctly) > to use source_rc_conf it didn't boots as expected. E.g. it didn't starts > anything from rc.i386. I had to source rc.conf* manually in rc.i386. Could you

Re: Problems with source_rc_confs

2000-06-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 12:07:13 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > At the moment my /etc/rc contains: > ---snip--- > # If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in. > # > if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then > . /etc/defaults/rc.conf > . /etc/rc.conf > . /et

Re: inetd with -R -1 patch?

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:37:00 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > What about that patch to let one use unlimited numbers of connections? > The standard is still 256, but if one really wants that... Personally, I'd prefer it if zero implied an unlimited number of invokations per service per minute.

Re: -current kernel broken?

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:34:06 -0400, Donn Miller wrote: > I saw this as well. It turns out the optimizations I was using when > building my kernel was causing it. I was using -march=pentium -Os > -pipe. Falling back to -O -pipe solved this. Clearly, the new warning about optimization in make

Re: Missing openssl/idea.h?

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:36:32 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > Building world failed on my machine... (with USA_RESIDENT=NO) > > > > Does IDEA stuff compiled by default? > > I messed this up. Fix coming. Current sources as of 10H40 on 23 June 2000 build and install without problems (provided one

Re: Missing dependancies after config changes (atapi)

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:34:13 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Unfortunally I haven't seen someone else complain about this. Can some > reproduce this? Nope, I built an ata + atadisk + atapicd kernel today from sources dated 10H40 on 23 June 2000 without a problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsub

Re: Missing openssl/idea.h?

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:46:34 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > Do you have "WITH_IDEA" set? I had to manually set CFLAGS+= -DNO_IDEA > in secure/libssh, secure/ssh, secure/ssh-keygen, and secure/sshd's > Makefile from about 6 hours ago or so. I don't think so... $ grep IDEA /etc/mak

Re: Missing dependancies after config changes (atapi)

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:34:12 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Nope, I built an ata + atadisk + atapicd kernel today from sources dated > 10H40 on 23 June 2000 without a problem. GMT Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

Re: Missing openssl/idea.h?

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:31:51 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Current sources as of 10H40 on 23 June 2000 build and install without > problems [...] GMT Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Missing dependancies after config changes (atapi)

2000-06-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:21:48 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Strange... I haven't anything modified in my local tree which could > result in such behavior: Too much is going on right now for any one success datapoint to convince you that everything's fine. :-) Check all the usual culprits

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:27:28 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > This definitely needs some work. I'm not sure the hints syntax will > change much, if at all. OTOH, I don't know how to approach this. In > other words, suggestions (and specially patches) are welcome. Actually, I think that this

Re: Extend "test" and "expr" to 64 bit integers

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:05:14 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > 1) I choose "quad_t" for long integers. Is this a good choice ? >In the kernel I'd use int64_t, but I'm not sure what is most >appropriate here. I'd use the new C standard's int64_t, since you're specifically looking for 64-bit

Re: Call for review: pkg_which.

2000-06-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:57:00 MST, Jeremy Lea wrote: > I've placed the source for a new command, pkg_which, on > http://people.freebsd.org/~reg/. Argh, yet another pkg_* command that looks (at first glance anyway) like it should have been implemented as a feature enhancement to the existing pkg

Re: Make World is hosed...

2000-06-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:04:47 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Who knows the cure for this ? Mark's busy working on it. You shouldn't have to wait too much longer now. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messag

Re: RSA support..

2000-06-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:25:50 CDT, Chris Csanady wrote: > I have been trying to get ssh working in current, but with no luck. > Since I updated recently, all I get is: > > ssh: no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto. See ssl(8). This is the system's way of punishing you for neglecting your cv

Re: RSA support..

2000-06-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 05:37:35 CDT, Chris Csanady wrote: > Hmm, I read through UPDATING, but didn't find much about this.. Hmm, you're right; it doesn't explicitly say you need option RANDOMDEV in your kernel config. It just warns you about the state of the entropy harvesting. The exact "HowTo

Re: Strange make buildworld problem...

2000-06-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:54:17 -0400, Donn Miller wrote: > Again, this is after re-making buildworld with -DNOCLEAN after a > successful first make buildworld. Any chance the sources changed between buildworlds? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe f

Re: What's going on with crypto all of a sudden ?

2000-06-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:25:05 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Hrmm, I think I just read somewhere (/usr/src/UPDATING?) that crypto is > required to get a make world to work, and I guess certain other things > won't work as well until you rebuild (?) :-) (:-P) You're grasping at straws, si

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does

2000-07-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 21:21:52 -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > Does anyone else here think this is a good idea? If so, I'd like to > merge this in -CURRENT and MFC before 4.1-RELEASE. It seems like a > fairly nice addition to df(1), and can be useful for system accounting. My only objection is th

Re: perl 5.006 upgrade issues

2000-07-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:23:50 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > I've just noticed that parts of perl (current, cvsup'ed several hours ago) > built on system with old perl version still depend on libperl.so.3: Hi Maxim, I'm posting this for the benefit of everyone, so please don't feel that I'm sin

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does

2000-07-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:47:25 -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:06:46PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > My only objection is that it seems to produce useless values. Can you > > think of a use for these grand totals? > > They are helpful for moni

Re: fetch is strange

2000-07-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 05 Jul 2000 12:46:11 +0900, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > The problem is that the report of '/usr/bin/fetch' is strange. For > example, > > $ fetch http://www.samba.gr.jp/project/samba-ja/index.html.en > Receiving index.html.en > -1 bytes transferred in 0.4 seconds (-2.28 Bps) Please be sure to

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does

2000-07-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
As a side issue, can anyone explain these peculiar results from df(1)'s huamn-readable (-h) output: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on mfs:26 87M11K80M 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 1.2G 934M 241M80%/usr /dev/ad0s1e

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does

2000-07-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:48:46 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > Those are block available to non-superuser I think, not "just available" > There's some amount reserved (10% ?). Duh. Classic mistake in disguise. :-) Sorry to trouble. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does

2000-07-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 10:26:00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: > beancounters don't understand that computers can have more than one disk let > alone multiple slices. so it gives a nice total number to slap into a pie > chart so that you can requisition more hard drives for your machines. This ar

Re: Perl 5.6.0 & pod2man & ports

2000-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:51:46 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > after the messages about the perl update have settled I decided to > update my perl-ports (p5-*), but I get a warning (the "echo $(PATH)" > below is inserted into the port Makefile by me). But you didn't update /usr/ports/Mk, did

Re: Perl 5.6.0 & pod2man & ports

2000-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:44:08 EST, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > But you didn't update /usr/ports/Mk, did you? :-) > > This is nothing to do with parts of /usr/ports being out of date > and has already been menti

Re: KAME integration and plans

2000-07-11 Thread Sheldon Hearn
eact to our chucking out the pseudo-device keyword from config(8). :-) > > Sheldon Hearn will be taking care of passing the manpage diffs back to > > KAME. > > ah... right. I guess that answers my question. :-) Sheldon - you can > commit this yourself if you want, or shall I

Re: syscons hangs with -current

2000-07-11 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:14:16 MST, Eric Anholt wrote: > I am getting freezes on -current as of my last two updates, Jul. 9 > and today, Jul. 10. My previous update was around Jun 14. I can > boot the kernel from the last update just fine, though ppp doesn't > work due to net changes. Just

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