Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch

2000-08-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whilst the environment is somewhat safer than the command line, I'd > still prefer not to have passwords embedded in environment variables. Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes' environment, I don't think it's a very big issu

Re: Latest kernel won't boot

2000-08-03 Thread Michael Lucas
> Just recently build a kernel from cvsup, and the kernel won't boot. It > gets to the point where you see > > booting [kernel] > \ > > And it just hangs right there. There's a lot of disk activity, and after > about 2 minutes (and no boot messages), I see a login prompt, but the > machine is

Re: Latest kernel won't boot

2000-08-03 Thread Michael Lucas
Sorry for the last try, not enough caffiene yet... Anyway, I had this problem as well. The problem was that /boot/loader wasn't working properly. Without it, the system runs, but you can't talk to the console. You can either boot from fixit cdrom and install a new /boot/loader or, as I did, us

Re: Latest kernel won't boot

2000-08-03 Thread Donn Miller
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > Sorry for the last try, not enough caffiene yet... > > Anyway, I had this problem as well. The problem was that /boot/loader > wasn't working properly. Without it, the system runs, but you can't > talk to the console. It seems like the problem was wi

ntpdate bug(?)

2000-08-03 Thread Mathew KANNER
Hi, I posted something similar on -questions but had no reponse. Could someone tell me if this is a bug? Ntpdate won't set the date when the current date is ahead but will set the date when it's behind. I've noticed this on 4.1 and -current from this past weekend. (I'm not talking about

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-03 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems j mckitrick wrote: > > > > A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming > > along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? > > ATA66 has been working for quite some t

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems j mckitrick wrote: > > > > > > A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming > > > along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? > >

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-03 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:56:55PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > I can confirm, that for example the Tyan Titan Pro has chipsets > > builtin that doesn't grok ATA66. > > Ehm, you mean because the

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > > I bought a separate ATA PCI controller which is capable of ATA 66. > But using an ATA-66 capable cable causes the system to hang during > boot. Strange.. > atapci0: at device 7.1 on pci0 > atapci0: Busmastering DMA not enabled Funny, what have you done to dis

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-03 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:44:57PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > ad4: 39082MB [79406/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 > > AHA! try swap that with a known good drive (ie non Maxtor/WD) if you can Too bad... have to live with that now ;-) -- Andreas Klemm Songs from our band

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Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch

2000-08-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Whilst the environment is somewhat safer than the command line, I'd > > still prefer not to have passwords embedded in environment variables. > > Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' proce

Re: Request for review (LPDEST vs PRINTER)

2000-08-03 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:35:23PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > The other printing-system alternative is LPRng (which people > can install from ports). LPRng does add the 'lpstat' command, > in addition to replacing lpr/lpq/lprm. And if I am reading > this code right, it does check LPDEST f

Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch

2000-08-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes' > > environment, I don't think it's a very big issue anymore. > This behavious is configurable - we shouldn't start relying on it at the > ap