Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:33:56 CST, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: What are *you* doing to address the problem? Are you stepping up as a maintainer? Yes. If you read the list archives you will see I've done so twice in the past already. This looks good. I can think of several people who must

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-05 Thread Thyer, Matthew
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Thyer, Matthew writes: So the answer is a name service caching daemon ala nscd on Solaris. Or linux. Apparently, there is an nscd in glibc. Perhaps somebody with motivation could determine if its any good. If so, they could chop it out of glibc, make it

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-05 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
You know, I have been using and NSD, at work on IRIX. I had trouble with it, it sometimes wouldn't sync with the nameserver, or would cease to serve any names until I HUPed it. And, seriously, I don't really understand what it's good for. Bind has been responsible for resolving host names as

Re: current install failure

2001-10-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Jordan Hubbard wrote: As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to make the device nodes in this

Re: named pid file in /var/run/named/pid?

2001-10-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:03:02AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: [snip] It is not that big of a deal to hack this support for named into the rc scripts. It is a hassle when considering the correct way to handle this to make

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-05 Thread Vladimir Egorin
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:53:22AM +0200, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: You know, I have been using and NSD, at work on IRIX. I had trouble with it, it sometimes wouldn't sync with the nameserver, or would cease to serve any names until I HUPed it. And,

RE: Panic at vlan_input()

2001-10-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Oct-01 Jun Kuriyama wrote: I got another panic on my yesterday's -current. At this time, I made a kernel with device vlan. db t vlan_input(c0e73800,..) at vlan_input+0x42 ether_demux(c156b000,...) at ether_demux+0x12a ether_input(c156b000,...) at ether_input+0x5a

Re: named pid file in /var/run/named/pid?

2001-10-05 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:33:35PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:03:02AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: [snip] It is not that big of a deal to hack this support for named into the rc scripts. It is

HELP needed for a outstanding commits

2001-10-05 Thread Martin Blapp
In late april I made some patches for tirpc, to fix outstanding issues with unix domain sockets. Since then, I'm trying to get these patches comitted. But all interested people have either no time or no interest. There exists also several PR's: bin/29171 [PATCH] keyserv and rpc.yppasswd

Re: KSE settling in (smbfs broken) again

2001-10-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:48:55 MST, Julian Elischer wrote: I need to look at it again.. (I figured I just didn't have the time to try understand it all AND do the rest of the kernel.) Of course the best woudl be if Mr. Popov did the conversion but I believe he's incredibly busy at the

kernel panic after start named

2001-10-05 Thread Adam
after last cvsup update I have problem to use named, after start named proces kernel panic To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Panic at vlan_input()

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Fenner
I think this is a bug in the loadable VLAN code; there's a != which should be an ==, which results in packets with known tags being discarded and would result in packets with unknown tags causing a null pointer dereference. I'll commit a fix soon as soon as I've tested it more. Bill To

Re: Panic at vlan_input()

2001-10-05 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:27:50 + (UTC), John Baldwin wrote: Erm, what is the panic message? :) Oops, sorry. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x2a fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0207652 stack

Re: Panic at vlan_input()

2001-10-05 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At Sat, 6 Oct 2001 03:48:55 + (UTC), Bill Fenner wrote: I think this is a bug in the loadable VLAN code; there's a != which should be an ==, which results in packets with known tags being discarded and would result in packets with unknown tags causing a null pointer dereference. I'll

variables in device.hints and loader.conf

2001-10-05 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
I am writing a man page for the /boot/device.hints file. My understanding is that /boot/device.hints is for describing resources for devices, and /boot/loader.conf is for loader variables and kernel tunable parameters. (The loader.conf file, the loader variables, and the kernel tunable

Is there a script for updating sources for KSE?

2001-10-05 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
Is there a script for updating sources from pre-kse to post-kse status? Both the vmware ports, and drm ports all need some work done to bring them up to scratch with the KSE changes. So is there a tool, or does it all have to be done manually? -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet|

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Bristow wrote: I support it's removal, because I think that software that is used by a tiny fraction of the userbase (and I suspect that uucp fits into that catagory) should be removed from the core distribution, and made into a seperate package; provided that obtaining the package and

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Nate Williams wrote: Umm, how did you get FreeBSD installed in the first place, if you didn't have IP connectivity and no CDROM? Start with 386BSD 0.1 floppies and upgrade your way to -current via uuencoded email... Oh yeah, baby! IP connectivity is necessary to get the OS installed, so

KSE settling in (smbfs broken)

2001-10-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi Julian, I didn't realize that smbfs was a KSE casualty, but it's nice that you made this obvious with the following in sys/modules/Makefile: #removed while KSE settles in: # smbfs \ So at least it didn't take me long to figure out what was going on. My question is what sort of

Re: Is there a script for updating sources for KSE?

2001-10-05 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Andrew Kenneth Milton ]-- | Is there a script for updating sources from pre-kse to post-kse status? | | Both the vmware ports, and drm ports all need some work done to bring them up | to scratch with the KSE changes. | | So is there a tool, or does it all have to

Re: S.M.A.R.T.?

2001-10-05 Thread Sean Kelly
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:00:44PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: ... What is it more precisely you want support for ? please keep in mind that lots of the usefull stuff in SMART is vendor specific... IBM 60GXP, 75GXP (ick) Maxtor DiamondMax Western Digital WD1000BB Caviar So basically, all the

Re: S.M.A.R.T.?

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'd ask for some SCSI support too, but Im just one of those poor student types that can't afford SCSI (or so I tell myself). What specific SCSI support are you referring to? I'd be delighted to add it to the SES/SAFTE driver if it makes sense. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
. o O ( Why am I bothering to answer these questions again? Terry is just talking to hear his own voice. ) On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:54:49AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Who commists the patches to the port? A FreeBSD ports committer. Me, if the maintainer (Lyndon) can't find anyone

lots of Linux zombies (mtvp)

2001-10-05 Thread Mikhail Teterin
(Scary title, is not it?) After watching some MPGs with the Linux binary-only mtvp (graphics/mtv port) I noticed 40 zomby processes: 68278 p1 Z 0:00,00 (mtvp) 68279 p1 Z 0:00,00 (mtvp) 68280 p1 Z 0:00,00 (mtvp) 68281 p1 Z 0:00,00 (mtvp) 68283 p1 Z 0:00,00

-CURRENT snapshot question

2001-10-05 Thread Vincent Poy
Greetings: I have a question about the -CURRENT snapshots on current.FreeBSD.ORG. When they were built, which kerberos options were enabled in the make.conf? Is this just 4 or 5? and does the same go for -RELEASE binaries? Thanks. Cheers, Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vice President

S.M.A.R.T.?

2001-10-05 Thread Sean Kelly
Since nobody answered me on -questions, I thought I'd try here since this is the active bed of development. Does anybody know if there is planend or active development for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of IDE/SCSI hard drives? I would think this would be a desirable feature for small server

Re: S.M.A.R.T.?

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
There was some talk about it. There was some notion of trying to incorporate it with the existing SES/SAFTE driver, for example. But then that foundered on the issue of CAM not supporting ATAPI yet. I believe Soren has a more definitive answer than this tho. Actually, hackers is where more of

Re: S.M.A.R.T.?

2001-10-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: I have experimented a bit with it for ATA disks, and have some very rough code to deal with simple SMART commands, but nothing official yet. However it is on my TODO list for items to support in the not too distant future, its more a question of me having time to