Re: Base packaging

2003-09-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 11:28 am, Paul Richards wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote: We have programs in the ports tree which use our bsd.*.mk infrastructure. Will there be a problem if such a program gets installed from ports (will it try to register itself

Re: Base packaging

2003-09-17 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:27 pm, Paul Richards wrote: I was thinking of adding an option to install so it registers the file in a plist rather than actually doing the install. A seperate "make plist" target could then be used as a helper target to automate the generation of plists. I

Re: devd/devctl

2003-09-15 Thread Nik Clayton
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:26 pm, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: I was wondering if it would be a good idea to modify devd and devctl for them to handle other events than attaching and detaching devices.. For example, they could be used to mark a network interface as down, when the network

Re: ipfw userland breaks again.

2002-12-15 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:08:01AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > ::This is complete BULLSHIT, Warner. > : > :Your attitude it totally unacceptible. Learn to play well with > :others, or get the fuck out of the project. > > Really? You think I should learn to play well with oth

Re: you broke current in some weird way... etc

2002-02-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:33:48AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I'm just going to use this opportunity to plug the concept of temporary > sysctl-instrumentation for a commit like this. Any thoughts on having a root oid for sysctl oids like this, so they're not forgotten, and aren't as

Re: BSDCON activities 2night?

2002-02-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:16:26PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Anyone making the usual plans or should I just look for the terminal room? I'd recommend getting on to the mailing list with details at: http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/bsdcon/ where we're trying to keep announcements and

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-04 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:30:53AM +1030, Mike Gratton wrote: > > However, I have previously thought that a system that used xml files to > > store application configs (that would then be used to generate valid conf > > files) would be useful. > > I was on the verge of doing so the other day. Bas

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

2002-02-02 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:29:50AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Miguel Mendez wrote: > > Are you really serious about this? :) I've thought about that many > > times, well, not with the registry paradigm, but some sort of graphical > > admin tool based on GTK. I'm doing exams this week but may ta

Re: Install Bash shell

2001-10-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:22:48PM +0800, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote: > I have install FreeBSD 4.4 release but the system does not has bash > shell installed .where can I get this shell from CVS ? please advise . Bash is not part of the base system. Either install it using the ports tree;

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:45:37PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > It was posted to -current (see above). > > > > man send-pr > > > > A search of the GNATS databases with "terry" and "lambert" > > returns zero hits. The freebsd-current mailing list is not > > the preferre

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:25:29AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > So while you are correct that there is an account there, I can't > log into it right now, and I don't know to whom I should send > the passwd file line now that I'm able to do that, since the > changeover was long enough ago that the

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-06 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:23:35PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:53:21 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:25:37AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > I know *you* have full-time IP connectivity to the internet and the

Re: HEADS UP!! S/Key is ancient, OPIE is new

2001-06-20 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:03:21PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > S/Key is old and decrepit; OPIE has taken over from it just about > completely except in FreeBSD; I intend to fix this. > > I want to remove S/Key from CURRENT completely, and replace it > with OPIE where necessary. For the most part,

HEADS UP: doc/ tree frozen (was Re: HEADS UP for /usr/src/release/doc & /usr/doc)

2001-06-11 Thread Nik Clayton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 11 June 2001 3:07 am, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:56:50 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Please don't commit anything in the areas of subj. until I finish > > rename to new locale names there. > > Done. Feel fre

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:58:43AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > This problem (which I agree is valid) is not so much a problem as to > where the release notes live, but the fact that one needs to actually > build human-readable renderings of them. If people can't be bothered > to install the d

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:10AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > There's a snapshot of RELNOTESng for -CURRENT, updated irregularly, > at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ Like it. My main concern is that this is in the src/ tree. As other people have said this is going to complica

Re: pkg_update

2001-02-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:23:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Leif Neland scribbled: > | It seems pkg_update is only usable when installing from packages, not from > | ports. > > Because it is a package update system. If you want to update > from the

Re: status of http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html

2000-11-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:28:57PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Unless I'm missing something, which is certainly possible, it > seems to me that > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html > > is missing some information that it used to have. Send patches. When I wrote that secti

Re: Submiting new code

2000-10-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:29:40AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > (copied to -doc for reasons which will become clear below) > > The FTP server no longer accepts uploads. Use uuencode and send-pr. > > Many people put code submissions up on a local web site and request > comments on -current or -

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > [redirected to just -current; I'm not sure what this has to do with -net] > > > I agree. I've been using them for a while on my dog slow Windows CE > > machine. There were some minor issues when they were first committed > > to N

Re: current.freebsd.org

2000-10-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:32:53PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > We've also been forced by the > silicon valley personnel crunch to hire a new system administrator > who's a little strange (he refers to himself as "Elvis Preston" and > makes odd little hip-thrusts at the system rack when he think

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Let me first ask ... do you use the "suspend/resume" option?? Yep. > This caused the same "lockup" every few seconds on my machine too - > a much slower 400 PII. As soon as I "shutdown" Win9X and rebooted > it worked fine.

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:48:20AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote: > You're running vmware sucsessfully in --current? Yes. -current from August 18th, and I'm running the vmware2-2.0.2.621 port. Installing Win98 took about 4 hours though -- most of that was wh

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:09:00AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on >pci0 > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > ad0: 17301MB [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > > > This is -current

VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi guys, For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to be? I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the following disk controller / disk atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 a

Re: CFR: acpi userland manpages

2000-09-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:58:26AM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > > Sheldon can probably render an opinion on their usage of the macros. > > OK, I'm looking forward to see it :-) If he doesn't in the next couple of days (no pressure, Sheldon :-) ) then go ahead and commit. N -- Internet conne

Re: CFR: acpi userland manpages

2000-09-08 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:09:31AM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Hi, I've just imported acpi userland tools and writing manpages for > them with contributers in Japan. > Please review them and send any comments (or diffs) for me > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in terms of English/roff or whatever. > > Th

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Tony, On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:31PM -0700, Tony Fleisher wrote: > I have been running cvsup nightly to grab -current and -ports, > and noticed some strangeness with awk that seemed to start last > week sometime. > > When building /usr/ports/lang/guile, the build exited with an > awk 'intern

Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-08-20 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > Summary: -current will be destabilized for an extended period (on the order > of months). A tag (not a branch) will be laid down before the initial > checkin, and non-developers should either stick closely to that tag until > the kern

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:24:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: > : On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:27:12AM -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > : > Warner Losh wrote: > : > > > : > > Any reason that the .c/.h file

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:27:12AM -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Any reason that the .c/.h files of the drivers couldn't be used to > > generate this information? > > Or perhaps the other way around. That's what I'd prefer. Any solution that relys on trying to

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:49:34PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [ That schema is not set in stone, and certainly requires more work. In > > particular, we probably need "lang" a

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:02:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: > : Another script would parse the above and generate HARDWARE.TXT. And another > : could parse the above and spit out DocBook for the Handbook and FAQ. > >

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:02:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: > : Another script would parse the above and generate HARDWARE.TXT. And another > : could parse the above and spit out DocBook for the Handbook and FAQ. > >

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: > : In my world, this XML file would be a replacement for many of the files > : in src/sys/conf/. Or, at the very least, those files would be generated > : from th

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: > : In my world, this XML file would be a replacement for many of the files > : in src/sys/conf/. Or, at the very least, those files would be generated > : from th

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:40:44PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jun Kuriyama wrote: > > > And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by > > hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers will *forget* > > to update that master text. :-) > > I'm not sure I would

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:27:39PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > So first of all, we (documentation project) should develop prototype > tool to achive that conversion. > > And we should keep that master text simple to ease modification by > hackers. If we force to write complex markups, hackers w

XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sent to -doc, for info, -current for some expert advice on the feasability of this approach with FreeBSD's migration to a kernel consisting only of aggregated devices. ] We have a problem with keeping our documentation up to date. One of the most glaring examples of this is the hardware c

Re: Check for ports updates

2000-06-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:25:02PM +0200, Thomas Schuerger wrote: > > > Is there already a tool that checks the installed ports for available > > > updates in /usr/ports? > > > > > > I've written such a tool, which seems to work fine already. Anyone > > > interested? > > > > pkg_version(1) > >

Re: a better idea for package dependencies

2000-05-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:29:12AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Hopefully some day, parts of the /usr/src bits will be installed with the > pkg_* utils, but today only things in /usr/ports are used with the pkg_* > utils. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/packages/ :-) [ For those that

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-15 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:41:55AM +0100, Ashley Penney wrote: > When booting up I noticed the block device warning message. I > did some investigation and discovered that some ad4/ad5 devices > were still block ones. It seems that the MAKEDEV script only > makes up to ad3, but my disks are on

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all > > struck dumb by the staggering simplicity and elegance of this approac

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:20:01AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > >> 5. Mount all the fixed disk partitions, and then (assuming they're all > >> mounted under /mnt/root) > >> > >> cd /mnt/root/usr/src &&am

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Nik Clayton
Quoting the whole thing deliberately: On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:24:35PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > I had an abortive -stable to -current upgrade late last week, despite > following the directions in UPGRADING, the two kernels I built (one > custom, one GENERIC) both froze on me d

Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-06 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi guys, I had an abortive -stable to -current upgrade late last week, despite following the directions in UPGRADING, the two kernels I built (one custom, one GENERIC) both froze on me during the reboot process. I'm a little wary of doing it again like that, because it does take some time to fix

Re: Kernel hangs booting fresh -current

2000-03-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:38:33AM -0500, Jim Bloom wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > On a related note, why does UPDATING say to build and install the kernel, > > and then reboot, before doing the "installworld"? That contradicts the > > advice in the Handbook

Kernel hangs booting fresh -current

2000-03-03 Thread Nik Clayton
How do, I just tried to go from -stable (built on Feb 24th) to -current, fresh yesterday (Thursday). "make buildworld" completed cleanly, and following /usr/src/UPDATING I made and installed a fresh kernel, and updated /dev (by running "MAKEDEV da0s1a" and "MAKEDEV da1s1a" with a -current mknod)

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I'm wondering if there might not be a way to streamline this install > process, such that a boot floopy and script could be created to take a > minimum amount of information, and then "do the right thing" as for the > install.

[PATCH]: Teach make.conf about FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS

2000-02-20 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sent to -current and -ports, followups set to -current ] Here's another trivial patch that people might like to comment on before I commit it. I'm doing more and more FreeBSD installs recently at various client sites, and adding "FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p" to make.conf is just one of those standard

REVIEW: Update passwd(1) to allow lower case passwords

2000-02-08 Thread Nik Clayton
How do [cc'd JKH: Assuming this passes review, can I put it in 4.0 and MFC? ] passwd(1) normally enforces mixed case passwords -- or at least it forces you to enter the lower case password several times before it will actually let you use it. This is a pain if you're using the Unix password fi

Review wanted: [peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au: docs/14530: Printed manual pages have extraneous blank first page]

2000-02-04 Thread Nik Clayton
-current, Peter Jeremy forwarded this to me. I'm happy to commit it, because it solves the problem. However, I don't understand the cause of the problem, so I don't know whether or not the fix is an appropriate one or not. N - Forwarded message from Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

PATCH: Documenting ASUSCOM_IPAC in LINT

2000-02-04 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi, Can I get approval for the attached patch to LINT (and MFC) before 4.0 rolls out of the door? It just documents the ASUSCOM_IPAC option for the Asus ISDNLink 128K ISDN card. This card is listed in the Handbook as being supported, but there aren't any entries in LINT for it. Grovelling t

Re: OpenSSL docs for FAQ

2000-01-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:49:04AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Can people please review this for style and content, for inclusion in > the FAQ? I'll also need someone to mark it up once it's ready since SGML > is currently not among my abilities :-) Is this FAQ material, or better off in the in

Re: Make world documentation

1999-12-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 09:31:50PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Recently someone posted a url that provided a quick run through on some > > important extra steps to take while doing a make world from -STABLE to > > -CURRENT, unfortunatly I lost the URL. I was wondering if someone could > > post

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:12:16AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a > > system that's been updated that way. > > Well, thanks for the pointe

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:42:52PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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: >

Re: syscons extension: "propellers"

1999-12-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:40:34PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > By the way, is there interest in giving the "Print Screen" > key an appropriate meaning, i.e. capturing a screenshot? > I have a few patches for this to implement that, I'd just > have to clean the code up and write a bit of document

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:59:38AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Poul, I'd like to know what's wrong with > > > > (1) Putting ata in GENERIC > > > > (2) Keeping wd in LINT, commented out > > This will not force CURRENT users to change their configs, a config > with wd in it will still wo

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long > time. That may be the case, but the vast majority of our users don't run -current, for good reason, and so are in no position to test it. 4.0 will be t

Re: gcc-2.95.2, jade and freebsd-sgml-documentation

1999-12-01 Thread Nik Clayton
[ I've cc'd FreeBSD-doc on this, in case there's someone there who's solved the problem you're having ] On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 05:38:57PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: > i tried to make me a new handbook, so i needed jade. > > But the newest C++ fashion (g++ under current) has changed to fas

Re: Threads and my new job.

1999-11-24 Thread Nik Clayton
Jason, On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:52:20PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > Walnut Creek has hired me as a full time employee to work primarily on > improving and expanding FreeBSD's threads support. This is very exciting > to me, and I hope my work will be of benefit the FreeBSD community. That's

Re: /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd ?

1999-10-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[Redirecting to -chat] On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 02:05:14AM -0700, fifi -- hamster of Satoshi wrote: > * From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Cool idea! Let's just limit it to the committer birthdays and not > * pets' birthdays too (sorry Asami's hamster and Jordan's cats,

/usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd ?

1999-10-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, Is there any interest in a /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd file (which would actually be in the CVS tree in src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars). Milestones in FreeBSD development (50 committers, 100 committers, the first 1000 ports), dates of releases, committer birthdays, that sort of

Re: Info needed re: new userconfig scripting and PnP

1999-10-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > I would be most honored, kind sir. :-) > > Just let me update it first, based on this recently acquired > information re: -current. Then, to whom should I submit it? send-pr, including a URL to the DocBook source is the best wa

Re: Info needed re: new userconfig scripting and PnP

1999-10-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:10:03PM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Someone just mailed me this heads up about my AWE soundcard setup > tutorial at http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html. > As this is the first I've heard about this, I'd greatly appreciate it Conrad (and anyone else w

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[ quoted section retained for context ] On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 08:53:00PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > -stable, -current, > > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:05:11AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > [ cc'd to -current ] > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:54:51PM -040

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-28 Thread Nik Clayton
Jordan, Satoshi, Just a reminder: I have *no* objection to the ports tree being used to build packages of the documentation, as long as the maintenance of those ports is assigned to individuals, and not the FDP (and, more specifically, me). However, I think that another mechanism, one that's w

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-26 Thread Nik Clayton
-stable, -current, On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:05:11AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > [ cc'd to -current ] > > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:54:51PM -0400, jack wrote: > > > > Will support for building release docs in English only be > > revived? > > > >

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
[ I've added Satoshi Asami to the cc: list -- I figure he's almost certainly on -current, but I wanted to make sure he sees this and can add his input as necessary. I've also added -doc, for information. ] On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:25:52PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-22 Thread Nik Clayton
[ cc'd to -current ] On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:54:51PM -0400, jack wrote: > > Will support for building release docs in English only be > revived? > For the immediate future, it looks like it will -- it seems as though we don't have the man power to make the necessary changes to sysinstall to

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Both versions are available at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz I knew I should have taken the blue pill. FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'

Re: cd writer recommendation?

1999-08-17 Thread Nik Clayton
Amancio, On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > I simply am trying to get information on which cd-recorder works > well on FreeBSD. It will help to avoid confusion and postings if > there was a cd-record handbook section explaining all the gory > details. When you get

HEADS UP: doc/ tree breakage on Sunday 15th August

1999-08-10 Thread Nik Clayton
Heads up, [ cc: to -doc, -current, -committers, reply-to: nik ] On Sunday 15th August the doc/ tree will break. John Polstra will be performing surgery on the CVS repository[1], and when he's completed that I will be going in to fix up the build system infrastructure (all the Makefiles, prima

Re: Sitting inside, looking out...

1999-08-04 Thread Nik Clayton
[Reply-to set to -chat] On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:22:55PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nik Clayton writes: > >Just for completeness; > > Yeah, sorry for leaving you gang out , but I didn't want to make > it too long, the importa

Re: Sitting inside, looking out...

1999-08-03 Thread Nik Clayton
Just for completeness; On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 09:42:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 2. Who are the committers anyway ? > -- > > All the noise about Matt Dillons commit bit have generated a lot > of questions about who gets to be committers, so here is a li

Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"

1999-08-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 04:19:52PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The following script seems to DTRT for me, and should really be > either integrated into a "fdisk -A" flag or maybe as a stand alone > script. Either way: manpage & handbook needs updated too. What, specifically, is wrong with

Re: make release doc failure

1999-07-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:16:16AM -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > ===> en/handbook > /usr/local/bin/jade -V html-manifest -ioutput.html -c /usr/doc/share/sgml/catalog >-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -c >/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/jad

Re: Moving ipf(1) to ipf(8)?

1999-07-22 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 04:58:49PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Assuming I did this, what's the approved method? > > > > Myself, I'd just > > > > # m

Re: Moving ipf(1) to ipf(8)?

1999-07-20 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:40:03AM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > docs/7791 is of the opinion that ipf(1) should be moved to ipf(8), to > > (among other things) be consistent with ipfw(8). > > > > Anyone care t

Moving ipf(1) to ipf(8)?

1999-07-19 Thread Nik Clayton
How do, docs/7791 is of the opinion that ipf(1) should be moved to ipf(8), to (among other things) be consistent with ipfw(8). Anyone care to comment one way or the other? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose

Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Satoshi. On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:31:52AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I really wish you would stop spreading FUD. Don't open your mouth if > you don't know what you are talking about. I do

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:41:32PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > > > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on > > programming loadable modules for FreeBSD. Granted, I'm not sure of it's > > accuracy, but it was a worthwhile read for so

Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:54:40PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > Um..er... I hope you were really just being sarcastic. All ports > should work on -stable as well as -current. In fact, more build > on -stable than -current according to http://bento.freebsd.org/. > If any ports work on one but not

Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.

1999-07-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:13:37PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: [snip] > "Q: Why shouldn't I just go ahead and run -current? That's got > all the latest stuff, right? [snip] > If you can live with that, and think you have any compelling reason > to run -current, read the handbook for fur

Re: Building www/en

1999-06-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 02:23:56PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Nik Clayton > > * On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:41:13AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > * > My question is: How do I create /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog? > * > It doesn't

Re: Building www/en

1999-06-08 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:41:13AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > My question is: How do I create /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog? > It doesn't exist in any of the ports. It's created by the post-install target of ports/textproc/docbook. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accom

Review: Having aio.h include sys/time.h

1999-06-04 Thread Nik Clayton
How do, -hackers was silent about this, so I'm resending it to -current. Any comments before I commit this (trivial) change? N == docs/11589 says that programs that include aio.h also need to include sys/time.h. I've had a chat with Terry Lambert, who wrote the aio_read.2 manual page, who sa

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:19:11PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > I would take issue with that. All of the regional registries require > extremely good justification for allocating static IP addresses to > transient network connections. Demon (a big ISP in .uk) allocate static IP addresses for *.demon.

Re: Someone blew up the handbook again.

1999-05-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:48:02PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > /usr/local/bin/jade -V html-manifest -ioutput.html -c > /usr/doc/share/sgml/catal > og -c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog -c > /usr/local/share/sg > ml/docbook/3.0/catalog -c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catal

Re: AIC

1999-04-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 11:29:09AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > The aic driver will likely oneday be ported. However, no one has come > > > forward to do it. It is a highly desirable dr

Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-03-27 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sent to -current, and -doc Reply-to not set. Please reply only to the list appropriate for your comments. Thanks. ] Almost a year ago I started the project to switch the Handbook over from LinuxDoc to DocBook. I've pulled the big shiny lever, and the switch has now happened. This has

LinuxDoc -> DocBook cutover

1999-03-24 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, [ sent to -doc and -current, reply-to points back to -doc ] I'm reasonably happy with the state of the DocBook handbook now, and am about ready to do the cutover. This involves changes to the website and to "make release". I'm waiting for feedback on patches that make these changes from

Re: "make release" testers wanted for Doc. Proj.

1999-03-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:17:10PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > This is done by make release in the chroot area. Ah. So it is. > > 2. Make sure /usr/doc/ is up to date (or wherever you store a > > This will have no effect on the chroot area - it's checked out > by make release. :) > >

Move doc. install to /usr/share/doc/en?

1999-03-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, Currently, the English versions of the FAQ and Handbook install in to /usr/doc/FAQ and /usr/doc/handbook respectively. The language specific versions install into /usr/doc/{language code}/FAQ and /usr/doc/{language code}/handbook respectively. If no one has any objections, I'd like to c

"make release" testers wanted for Doc. Proj.

1999-03-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, If you're used to running "make release" I'd appreciate you trying the following and letting me know what happens. This is so that I can check that the DocBook version of the Handbook is being installed correctly. After checking out the most recent version of doc-all, please do the follow