Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:57:26AM +1000, a little birdie told me that Peter Jeremy remarked How detailed should the man page be? Exactly my query in writing this ; If it stated "all file data will be written synchronously, but inodes where the only update is atime and free block

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
The Hermit Hacker wrote: Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ...

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),

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew Thyer
Maybe the best solution is the following: - leave "sync" with its current behaviour - create a sysctl to make it truely synchronous (I was thinking of a new mount option but thats overkill) and have the documentation for that sysctl state the performance hit and recommend that the filesystem be

shell script trouble

1999-10-07 Thread Pascal Hofstee
Hi, I have for a while now (couple of weeks now I think) noticed that certain shell scripts all of a sudden don't work any longer (even though they did just fine earlier) ... the only thing that actually changed has been more recent updates of FreeBSD-current. The scripts I am having problems

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.

CVSup work again!

1999-10-07 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Hi, Before I completely forget: CVSup should work as before. The workaround is not needed anymore. Thanks for your patience, -- Marcel Moolenaarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SCC Internetworking Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project

Re: CVSup work again!

1999-10-07 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I completely forget: CVSup should work as before. The workaround is not needed anymore. Thanks for your patience, Thanks for healing my problem child, Marcel. It's kind of, er, sensitive ... just like me. :-)

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
The network ones, for instance. No more need to put in the device lines in the kernel configuration file, it will be automagically loaded by ifconfig. I don't know if this is working already or not, though. It works in -CURRENT for most PCI network devices (`de' is one notable exception).

i386 wierd one...... kernel stack frame pointer corruption(?)

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew Jacob
This just started happening over the last day... It's blowing up during probing because the frame pointer is getting nuked... this is a 2xPPro machine. The code in question is: static u_int64_t isp_get_portname(isp, loopid, nodename) struct ispsoftc *isp; int loopid;

Re: i386 wierd one...... kernel stack frame pointer corruption(?)

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
One thing that is possible is that it's a very deep callstack... It's during probing and it may have called completion on a completing command while down at the bottom of the stack starting another command. If you run out of kernel stack, don't you get some other kind of fault? That kinda

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Darryl Okahata
The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... [ Going off on a slight tangent ... ] You may have gone beyond this, but a good introduction to klds is an article called,

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: The Hermit Hacker wrote: Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove "options PROCFS" from

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 07-Oct-99 Greg Lehey wrote: Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Well I would assume (aha) that when mount cannot find procfs in the list of FS's

HEADS UP!! New telnet on the block

1999-10-07 Thread Mark Murray
Hello all I have just committed Nick Sayer's SRA'ed telnet; this means that if you have the secure dist, and maybe Kerberos, you will have a telnet that attempts to do some encryption apart from the Kerberos stuff. Initial reports are that this encryption is weak, but it may be better than

new PnP code and pcm and kernel userconfig

1999-10-07 Thread Valentin S. Chopov
The sound card is: ... unknown0: 4232 on isa0 pcm0: CS4232 at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1,0 on isa0 unknown1: GAME PORT at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 unknown2: MPU-401 at port 0x330-0x331 irq 9 on isa0 ... Everything looks fine but in my case the CS4232 is a buggy and it

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
There should be fairly few writes to the root partition, so having An opionion. I use the HP workstation model where my / is 1800M. I have no use for /var and /usr and find them simply stupid in today's world. (except for ISP's where there is cause for a septerate /var). Lets stick to facts.

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
mount(8): syncAll I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. How detailed should the man page be? If it stated "all file data will be written synchronously, but inodes where the only update is atime and free block bitmaps are written asynchronously", would that be any

Re: shell script trouble

1999-10-07 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Pascal Hofstee wrote: The scripts I am having problems with are: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc5des.sh /usr/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script Both of these scripts still are as they were installed by their respective ports. And I know both have worked just fine for months

RE: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread David Schwartz
There should be fairly few writes to the root partition, so having An opionion. I use the HP workstation model where my / is 1800M. I have no use for /var and /usr and find them simply stupid in today's world. (except for ISP's where there is cause for a septerate /var). Lets stick to

Re: make install trick

1999-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
It was my understanding that it was standard recommended practice practice pretty much across the board to create the following separate filesystems: / /tmp (perhaps an mfs, perhaps softupdates, or whatever) /usr /var

Re: shell script trouble

1999-10-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Pascal Hofstee wrote: su-2.03# /usr/local/sbin/postfix reload postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running I Know the mail system IS running on Postfix though: su-2.03# ps -aux | egrep postfix postfix 205 0.0 0.7 928 612 ?? I 5:01PM

Re: ahc panics and (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25.

1999-10-07 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm getting this with a recent current (6. october): (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 0. NumSGs = 1. Someone is telling us to transmit data, but has not

Re: ahc panics and (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25.

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm getting this with a recent current (6. october): (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 0. NumSGs = 1. Someone is telling us to transmit data, but has

Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick)

1999-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Oct-08 08:13:12 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: mount(8): syncAll I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. How detailed should the man page be? If it stated "all file data will be written synchronously, but inodes where the only update is atime and free block

Re: ahc panics and (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25.

1999-10-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:56:27PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'm getting this with a recent current (6. october): (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-Out phase. Tag == 0x25. (da2:ahc2:0:2:0): Have seen Data Phase. Length = 0.

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? Yes.. That should work fine.. In fact you can have all

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? Yes.. That should work fine.. In fact you can

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote: Yes.. That should work fine.. In fact you can have all your FS's as modules except what / is.. You can have / too, as long as you load it with the loader. 8) And providing / is UFS because thats all the loader understands (?) --- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
On 08-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote: Yes.. That should work fine.. In fact you can have all your FS's as modules except what / is.. You can have / too, as long as you load it with the loader. 8) And providing / is UFS because thats all the loader understands (?) No, it could be a DOS

How do I get a PCCARD modem to work?

1999-10-07 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
It looks like both nsio and sio have PCCARD support disabled at the moment. Is there any other way I can get the system to recognize my modem? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

My status with upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0

1999-10-07 Thread Bill A. K.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I was finally able to upgrade to 4.0-current from 3.2-release. I cvsuped the 4.0 code, i compiled the 4.0 config command, i compiled the 4.0 kernel, installed the kernel, rebooted, and build and installed the world and it worked. Then i just made my

Email Acc. Only !

1999-10-07 Thread Hector Colmenares
What will be the best way to create an email acc. only ? without have to create a shell acc. ? Like virtual table or something like that ? Any Idea ? Thank You. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

RE: Email Acc. Only !

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-Oct-99 Hector Colmenares wrote: What will be the best way to create an email acc. only ? without have to create a shell acc. ? Like virtual table or something like that ? Use cyrus IMAPD (which does POP3 too). Its in the ports collection. --- Daniel O'Connor software and

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Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi again, : : Whoops: a few hours after downgrading to 3.1-STABLE I had a double fault :error (strange, it didn't look like a normal panic screen, just the :message and the content of three registers, then the syncing disks :message). It seems that I might be wrong about hardware not being the

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi again, On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: hi again, On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : The problem is that the machine is completely locked, I can't get into :the debugger with CTR-ALT-ESC; no panics so there are no coredumps :catched. Any advise ? Could you

Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-10-07 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
:Hi again, : : Whoops: a few hours after downgrading to 3.1-STABLE I had a double fault :error (strange, it didn't look like a normal panic screen, just the :message and the content of three registers, then the syncing disks :message). It seems that I might be wrong about hardware not being

Re: How do I get a PCCARD modem to work?

1999-10-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Justin T. Gibbs wrote: It looks like both nsio and sio have PCCARD support disabled at the moment. Is there any other way I can get the system to recognize my modem? Fix the broken sio, it might be KNF and all but it doesn't work... -Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL