nfs ick in -current

1999-07-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I just cvsup'd today hoping that all the NFS fixes that went in recently would have alleviated (sp?) the hangs I've been getting while building things in ports for the last couple of months. It used to be that just NFS would hang, now it seems to crash the entire box. server:/vol/extra/ports /

Re: nfs ick in -current

1999-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > I just cvsup'd today hoping that all the NFS fixes that went in > > recently would have alleviated (sp?) the hangs I've been getting > > while building things in ports for the last cou

Re: nfs ick in -current

1999-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > attempting to compile xscreensaver has triggered it twice in a row > > > > /usr/ports is mounted off "server" (a freebsd -curr

sorry, dead drive == Re: nfs ick in -current

1999-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > > > > I just cvsup'd today hoping that all the NFS fixes that went in > > > >

Re: An oddity after a panic

1999-07-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
than you really wanted. I've seen this happen with a DPT controller and regular scsi when under a lot of I/O load for long periods of time, you'll definetly want to use fsdb to ditch the dir, however if you root around in there it'd be great to see the values in the inodes

Re: mountpoint locking with fbsd-nfs

1999-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
other measures someone would be able to cons up a fake nfs handle for files he doesn't own. (I think) Here's two things that may work: exporting -alldirs to specific hosts using the -mapall option in /exports /home -mapall=robert roberts.machine /home -mapall=julian

Re: SIGBUS [was Re: gdb]

1999-08-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
source for SIGBUS should be generated when accessing a mmap'd region past the end of a file. -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] systems administrator and programmer Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to functions, yes i know it will be difficult, but there is so much forced inlining it just seems like it would reduce the codesize signifigantly and play nicer with the CPU cache. It would also make the code a lot more readable. Worthwhile exercise? -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAI

Re: fsck of /, related to last post.

1999-12-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, David Gilbert wrote: > > > Bill> Reboot. I don't know why it works, but it does. :-> > > > > Right... I already knew that, but it's a manual reboot... and this is > > "suboptimal" (ie. requiring operator intervention). > > Indeed

make world broken?

2000-01-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ile or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

fix for hangs with recent -current + vinum

2000-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
If you're getting hangs while running vinum please update sys/dev/vinum/vinumrequest.c to version 1.41. Only people running -current compilied with version 1.40 or 1.38-1.36 of vinumrequest.c should need this fix. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wint

Re: freezing...

2000-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
lk_interlock = { lock_data = 0x0 }, lk_flags = 0x200400, lk_sharecount = 0x0, lk_waitcount = 0x1, lk_exclusivecount = 0x1, lk_prio = 0x14, lk_wmesg = 0xc0292de1 "getblk", lk_timo = 0x0, lk_lockholder = 0xfffe } thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTE

Re: freezing... update to 1.45 of ffs_softdep.c

2000-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000110 14:09] wrote: > > :I've reproduced the softupdates ftruncate panic and have a core dump > :to play with. > : > : -Matt > > Ok, Kirk fixed the softupdates ftruncate panic last night. Make sure >

Re: freezing... update to 1.45 of ffs_softdep.c

2000-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000110 15:13] wrote: > ::still a problem, just got snagged a few moments ago, there's a traceback > ::already on the way. :) > :: > ::-Alfred > : > :Is this backed by the ata driver too? > : > :If so, if either you or Poul could backoff to the wd drive

Re: reported system freezes...

2000-01-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Christian Carstensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000111 02:03] wrote: > > so, ok, > > i've tried several checkout dates for sys and tested the compiled kernels. > as i cannot reproduce this freeze thing, this is quite vague, but kernels > up to 04 Jan 2000 worked fine, those from 05 Jan 2000 up to no

Re: wdm not responding

2000-01-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Edwin Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000111 03:37] wrote: > > Marc Solsona wrote: > > > > I'm using wdm o the 3-stable branch. Since I migrated to current wdm is > > > > not reponding to keyboard. Although when I start it manually it does. > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks > > > > To Unsubscribe: s

Re: Still system hangs, but different

2000-01-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000111 23:27] wrote: > :%:I have. > :% > :%Wait a sec. I've reviewed all the messages from you and I think something > :%got mixed together. I'm not convinced that your particular problems > :%are softupdates related. I recommend turning off so

softdep: panic: flush_pagedep_deps: flush 3 failed

2000-01-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ice in the same spot. *default host=postgresql.org *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default base=/home/pgcvs *default prefix=/home/pgcvs pgsql Also, the fix for running out of space, can that be backported to -stable? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL P

world broken using /usr/local/lib?

2000-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error ? do i need to rebuild a port, and why? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: Why not a default number of pings?

2000-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
he line open infinitely. > > How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? > > I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Please provide a reference to the PR you submitted and I'll have a look. I don't think this modification will go in unless it's ba

er... missing the point?

2000-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
c/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo/../libtxi/libtxi.a /usr/obj/home/src/i386/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 1 error :P thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

half-fix for stream.c

2000-01-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
you can find it at: http://www.freebsd.org/~alfred/tcp_fix.diff -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: half-fix for stream.c

2000-01-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jim Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000120 18:02] wrote: > In you fix below, shouldn't the second block of NTOHx actually be HTONx. I > realize that this works because the functions are the same, but it should be > coded correctly. > > Jim Bloom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > + NTOHL(th->th_seq); >

Re: sys/net/bridge.c IPFIREWALL & DUMMYNET? WTF?

2000-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew N. Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000124 18:11] wrote: > Any reason that the IPFIREWALL and DUMMYNET code is present in > sys/net/bridge.c? It appears that it makes a number of bad assumptions > and in general violates the semantics of 'bridging' vs. 'routing'. > > Should we even encourage

Re: Dell 2400 and APIC problem

2000-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Conrad Juleff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000201 04:13] wrote: > After much messing around I have found the point on current where it hangs. It > seems to hang during the PnP probe: > > isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices > > Is there anyway I can stop this probing of PnP devices? I have tried ad

Re: UPDATING

2000-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* I am not any sort of Fluffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000201 04:44] wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 19100, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > 2129: > > > {set,get}flags have been added to the tree for rather dubious > > > reasons. An unintended side effect of this is that you must > > >

Re: Some current kernel wizdom.

2000-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000201 17:41] wrote: > I'm looking at producing a netgraph node that is going to be > potentially very hard on kernel memory. The node may have to manage > as many as 10K netgraph hook connections (each one requires a small > amount of memory) and access to th

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kai Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000209 13:26] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just doing a cvsup update of my system and -as many times before- I > realize that /usr/ports/ takes a lot of time and also disk space to sync. > > # du -sk /usr/ports > 71118 /usr/ports > > Am I the only one being little

Re: rpc.lockd

2000-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David E. Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000211 16:50] wrote: > I realize that we are all very busy and the coming 4.0-RELEASE has also > compounded things, but I have heard nothing back on the rpc.lockd that > was released just a short time ago. I take it no news is good news and > we can start the

Re: rpc.lockd

2000-02-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
f VFS functionality, that although somewhat trivial, it would break third party filesystem KLDs and the work would touch every single filesystem. You can avoid it by hacking at the netexport stuff, but it gets kinda ugly afaik. It is a shame that no one who's begged for locks has come forward, I have no good test env for stressing the code, and I'd be nice to get some preliminary feedback on its stability. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: any change in fs block allocation between current and stable ?

2000-02-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
---+- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: yes, current is broke...

2000-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000224 13:45] wrote: > I'm guessing this is related to jkh's mention of OpenSSH coming into > the tree, but I'm posting it anyway. Just in case it helps. my cvsup is > less then 4 hours old. > > ===> libssl > rm -f .depend > mkdep -f .depend -a-DTERMIOS

Re: Is openssl/openssh working right yet for others?

2000-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000225 16:47] wrote: > I know that openssl and openssh were under heavy construction > (yesterday?), but since the commits have stopped (for now), I was > wondering is anyone else is able to build it. Going to > /usr/src/secure and running make produces a problem

Re: openssh: fatal: rsa_private_decrypt() failed

2000-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Chris Timmons wrote: > > > I find that if I start /usr/sbin/sshd manually everything works as > > expected. When I allow it to start via the rc scripts, I get upon > > connecting from my 1.2.27 ssh client > > > > sshd[190]: fatal: rsa_private_decrypt() failed Chris a

Re: openssh: fatal: rsa_private_decrypt() failed

2000-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000225 22:06] wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Can anyone working on the recent sshd black magic linkage stuff please > > step up and explain? > > > > Or shall i move it to network_pass4? >

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joao Pedras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000216 17:50] wrote: > Hello all > > While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. > Happens often if do other things while cpu and disk are very active. > > Happens quite often. > > Anyone else has noticed this ? Do you mean d

"Fixing" init.

2000-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I remeber being a newbie and getting burned by the need to explicitly turn a line 'off' in my /etc/ttys file instead of simply deleting it. This fixes it using a trivial mark then collect sweep. Can a couple people take a look? I'd like to get it into 4.0 because it seems to follow POLA better.

Re: "Fixing" init.

2000-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000219 02:22] wrote: > I remeber being a newbie and getting burned by the need to explicitly > turn a line 'off' in my /etc/ttys file instead of simply deleting it. > > This fixes it using a trivial mark then collect sweep. >

Re: freezing

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joao Pedras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000216 18:07] wrote: > eheh > > I mean dead frozen, like if I was watching at a screeshot of a X session ]:) > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Do you mean dead frozen, as in needs a reboot? or frozen for a second or > &g

Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list)

2000-02-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000217 17:55] wrote: > < said: > > > o I want to completely dekerberise userland, and only have kerberos > > via PAMs. A ton of work, and I have just started with this. > > Huh? PAM is Pluggable Authentication Modules, not Pluggable Protocol > Modules...

Re: Heads up, vm.max_proc_mmap sysctl added

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
p both our current threads model and the linux threads model a lot. > I can do it in a day and it should be trivial to test, the modifications > are actually quite minor. I'd love to see it happen for 4.0. Toss some diffs up and we'll see if Jordan gives it an ok. -- -Alf

Re: Very slow disk transfers (was: freezing)

2000-02-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000216 19:14] wrote: > On Wednesday, 16 February 2000 at 17:52:42 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Joao Pedras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000216 17:50] wrote: > >> Hello all > >> > >> While making -j 4 buildworld

Re: 4.0 hangs (fwd)

2000-02-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Andrew Maltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000216 22:00] wrote: > Hi, guys! > > Any comments? I had to downgrade back to 3.4 yesterday.. which works > absolutely without problems. If you're going to say ``it's hardware > problem'' -- this was my first thought too. I tried to change memory and > it did

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000217 12:45] wrote: > At 10:35 AM -0800 2000/2/17, Parag Patel wrote: > > > Hello. I have a friend's quad PPro box temporarily sitting in my garage > > that I've been using to play with 4.0-CURRENT and vinum. Since the last > > series of bug-fixes a few w

Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list)

2000-02-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000218 13:27] wrote: > > < said: > > > > > Why is this being discussed as if it is new? > > > > > This is what my tool _does_, for crying out loud!! > > > > Which so far nobody else has ever seen. > > Nor asked to see. > > Poul-Henning Kamp's "bike shed" arg

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alex Le Heux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000221 11:25] wrote: > Hi, > > Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on > Netscape? > > It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or > switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI version doesn't

Re: Upgrade from 3.4 to 4.0...

2000-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* William Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000222 21:19] wrote: > Hey, > > I have been following the disscussions here for a while, just trying to get a > feel of what the transition from 3.4-stable 4.0-release will be like. I am > running -current on my alpha, but that was a fresh install. I am debati

Re: Upgrade from 3.4 to 4.0...

2000-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
sion so that we may fix it so as to help other users? -Alfred > > On 23-Feb-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * William Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000222 21:19] wrote: > >> Hey, > >> > >> I have been following the disscussions here for a while, just tryin

softdep out of space should be fixed Re: Panic (pmap)

2000-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000223 09:55] wrote: > > :> : David. > :> > :> With softupdates turned on? Softupdates has known problems when a > :> disk runs out of space. > : > :didn't kirk just fix that? > : > : __--_|\ Julian Elischer > > I don't recall it be

Re: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block (was Re: Panic (pmap))

2000-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Er, shouldn't you guys let Kirk know, not only is he "MAINTAINER", but pretty much mostly "CREATOR" :) Kirk, another issue with running out of space in FFS seems to have come up: * Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000223 18:57] wrote: > :Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :I think I've fo

Re: ie0 and fe0 probes in 4.0-CURRENT GENERIC break ep0 probe

2000-02-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:53] wrote: > > I've posted about this previously, and am still hoping for a useful answer > :-). I have a box with an ISA 3Com 3C509 Etherlink III card in it, but > the ie0 and fe0 probes now come before the ep0 probe in the boot sequence. > If thos

Sysinstall won't install unless swap configured?

2000-02-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
It seems that sysinstall will completely refuse to install unless we have made a swap partition. Then for some reason it didn't allow us the option of partitioning our second disk after "committing". Why force swap? I swear we were going to configure it after the install.

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-02-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Cliff Rowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000229 01:59] wrote: > Just an update on this shared memory error. After running XFree86 for a > couple of hours, running various programs (I've not seen a pattern yet): > > [dozprompt@guru]# xchat > Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource

installworld broken?

2000-02-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/Makefile: No such file or directory *** Error code 71 Stop in /home/src/share/examples. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/src/share. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/src. -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
claim the > shared memory in 1 swoop. Then we'd be able to shut down XFree86 (and > obviously any other apps using shared memory), and get on with life :) > > (anyone listening?) er, yes this is entirely possible. If you want to clear SHM then use 'ipcs' to list and &

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000301 09:24] wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >I used to have a shell script to do this, but i don't know where it > >went. > > > >-- > >-Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL

Re: Getty/Init weirdness

2000-03-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Christopher Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000307 12:09] wrote: > After much perusing of source code, scouring of cvs log messages, and > searching the archives, I've determined I have no idea where else to > look for this problem I'm having. > > The problem is this: > > After booting, starting

Re: Getty/Init weirdness

2000-03-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Christopher Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000307 12:50] wrote: > >>>>> "Alfred" == Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alfred> When was the last time you've cvsup'd and built world > Alfred> before it brok

Re: problem of make release.

2000-03-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Idea Receiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000307 21:33] wrote: > > hi, > > I was tring to make release (just for interests) yesterday. Which > I receive an error "ln: /R/stage/kernels/GENERIC: No such file or > directory" in release.3. I go back to check Makefile, I see "_R" > been defined as "/R". W

Re: which(1), rewritten in C?

2000-03-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Papasian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000302 18:17] wrote: > While this may sound crazy, I was tired of 'which' taking a long > time to complete on my 486 dx4/100 when it was under extereme > pressure, so I rewrote it in C :) > ...snip > NOTE: > This version of which has exactly the same be

Re: which(1), rewritten in C?

2000-03-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Papasian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000303 04:39] wrote: > Can you please give an example of where multiple arguments > doesn't work as expected? > > It works fine over here. ~ % which ls ln sh /bin/ls /bin/ln /bin/sh ~ % ./a.out ls ln sh /bin/sh -- -Alfred Perlst

Re: Small bug in chown and chgrp ?

2000-03-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dave Boers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000306 12:08] wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been bitten by the following: > > 44 relativity ~ % chown -v djb:wheel test > chown: illegal option -- v > usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-h] [-v] owner[:group] file ... >chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f] [-

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
d. I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations

2000-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000317 08:48] wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > Another issue here, at least in our application of it, is about adding > > users and setting passwords.With well over 100 machines, we want to > > also have installed user

Re: kern/8324

2000-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
cntls and ioctls aren't being propogated enough to set the flags properly, but if they are then it should work sort of the way SIGIO does, basically generating a signal for /some condition/ on a descriptor. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PR

Re: 3 -> 4 when /usr is a vinum volume?

2000-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
es to let's say /modules3.x and install your new modules by just typing 'make install' in /usr/src/sys/modules/ Read the loader page carefully and you should be able to boot 3.x kernels with 3.x modules and 4.0 modules with a 4.0 kernel without too much voodoo. good luck, -- -Alf

Re: install problem with 4.0 (spec_getpages)

2000-03-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Marc van Kempen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000319 07:18] wrote: > > > Marc van Kempen wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > While trying to boot from the 4.0 installation disks, > > > I get the following error after the devices have been probed: > > > > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > root@localhost:/us

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd<-->solaris

1999-08-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 24 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Following advice from Cejka Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I have edited > /src/sys/nfs/nfs_syscalls.c (commented out the lines after the "Solaris 2.5" > comment). The "File exists" errors went away, everything seemed normal, > but then I ran into anot

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd<-->solaris

1999-08-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
or NLMv4 locking _yet_ :) > > I have deleted both checks. > Interesting... > Please let me know if you need more info or testing done. Soon enough. :) thank you, -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wi

Re: just found this

1999-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
tunable 'vfs.cache.maxaliases' This protects against a DoS via thousands of hardlinks to a file wiring down all kernel memory. Approved by:jkh ---- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.ne

Re: Repeatable panic in current, cause Netscape

1999-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
iables? A listing of the code at that location would also be great. ('list') thanks, -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Script started on Wed Sep 29 11:07:23

how to avoid bullets in the feet (was Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changescommitted)

1999-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
What's really needed is some warning sort of like what we did when the AOUT->ELF convertion happened, there has to be a simple way to test this as part of installworld. -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer

new signal stuff breaks libc_r?

1999-10-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
in(void){} with -pthread will barf for me, using -static I'm able to see which files are missing which inlines. thanks, -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe:

Re: new signal stuff breaks libc_r?

1999-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Since the signal changes... > > > > I'm finding that it _seems_ since libc_r isn't including something > > that properly defines __inline to inline that i'm gettin

Re: new signal stuff breaks libc_r?

1999-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
x27;t seem to work, but this did. *shrug* sorry for the noise, -Alfred On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > > Since the signal changes... > > > >

RE: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > > I have soft updates enabled on a fast machine at work. make > > installworld can fill up slash even though it has 15M free before the > > install. I think this is a bug in softupdates that it doesn't reclaim > > space quickly enough or in overfl

Re: make install trick

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used > >an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize > >a system worries me

Re: Can't make crashdump after panic

1999-10-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Alex Le Heux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 09:19:33AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Alex Le Heux wrote: > > > > > After configuring the system for making a crashdump, I get "panic: Timeout > > > table full" halfway through the dump. > > > [snip] >

(vinum?) lockups in strategy routines?

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Anyone running -current as of Oct 28, 1999 getting lockups in device strategy routines? I thought I'd be able to get a dump but it didn't work. Specifically I'm running vinum in striping mode and the new ata-drivers. 10 Aug 1999 14:27:51.389915 stripe /dev/da0e /dev/da1e A kernel from Wed Oc

RE: protecting from attacks

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Luke wrote: > I have been trying to figure out a sane method of stopping this one: > while(1) { > fork(); > } > > on a machine with no limits the load went to 290+ I tried fiddling with > limits and got it down to making the load 2-3 but the limits are ridiculous. > I didn't

Re: (vinum?) lockups in strategy routines?

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, #Michael Class wrote: > Hello, > > just another datapoint. I just installed two new IBM DPTA-343740 > discs into my System at home. They are configured with striping in vinum. > Within a day I got two solid lockups with the new ata-drivers. After > that I switchied to the

crashdump in re lockups.

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
s 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 16) cd0: cd present [213264 x 2048 byte records] changing root device to wd0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted vinum: loaded vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da0s1e vinum:

Re: -stable to -current

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > > > I still hate the way the signal change was handled. > > > > How would you have done it differently? As I understand it, the pain > > was more or less inev

Re: crashdump in re lockups.

1999-10-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > If you did a kldstat (in gdb. Use Greg Lehey's .gdbinit* from vinum) and > added the pertinent KLD as a symbol file correctly (also reference > the .gdbinit*), you would probably get more useful output. Try > that and let me know. FWIW, I

Re: TCP sockets stuck in the CLOSING state

1999-01-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Before I spend a lot of time hunting this down, I figured it might be worth > asking -- is there any particular reason why TCP sockets may be getting > stuck in the CLOSING state more often now? > > I upgraded a machine from -current as of about J

Re: new kernel.

1999-11-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Byung Yang wrote: > > I supped two days ago and compiled everything. Now, if I try to launch > netscape, the computer just freezes right up there. First, I thought it > was the netscape, but when I was searching for a file on my computer, but > took longer than I thought a

installing onto ami mega raid.

1999-11-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
DISK,"rwd%d","IDE/ESDI/MFM/ST506 disk device", 3, 65538, 8, 16, 'c'}, { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,"ad%d", "ATA/IDE disk device", 30, 65538, 8, 16, 'b' }, Any ideas? We're really depending

Re: installing onto ami mega raid.

1999-11-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and > getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the > 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in > sysinstall but had no luck. ...

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > I recently tried using dd to transfer a binary image to floppy. > It was the Linux root disk image, color.gz. Basically, dd works > ok with non-gzipped files, but with files in gzip format, it > chokes: > > root@lc186 floppies# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/r

Re: installing onto ami mega raid.

1999-11-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and > > getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the > > 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in > > sysinstall but had no luck. > > Bah. I knew

Re: Make world broken in libc_r

1999-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > Hi > > "make world" is broken in libc_r. Simple fix is to replace all > "socklen_t" with "int". libc_r likes to pull data from /usr/include instead of the source tree, "make includes" fixes this. I'm not sure if that's the correct way to fix it though

NO! Re: [PATCHES] Two fixes for lpd/lpc for review and test

1999-12-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > I've been reviewing this patch with someone and I think the last > version is ready to commit. I'll take a look at my tree to make > sure. please do not, the patch in PR 11997 introduces a major security flaw. someone can hardlink to any file and clobbe

Re: NO! Re: [PATCHES] Two fixes for lpd/lpc for review and test

1999-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Thu, 09-Dec-1999 at 15:02:41 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > For better reference, here is the current patch: > > > > >

Re: NO! Re: [PATCHES] Two fixes for lpd/lpc for review and test

1999-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:33 AM -0800 12/10/99, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >Can someone take a look at this? > > > >Basically, it makes the link to the file, if it can unlink the original > >it will then chown the spool file if it can&#x

Re: fsck successfull on checking root-fs but OS still can't mountit

1999-12-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ll the changes going on with devices wouldn't cause such problems. This makes running -current in somewhat production enviornments impossible. unless you hack /etc/rc. Of course I may have just not remade my /dev/ properly, please flame if appropriate. thanks, -Alfred > > > &g

Re: install problem with 4.0 (spec_getpages)

2000-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
pair, > these 3.5" things s*ck. Another fun one is dd'ing the 2.88MB images to a 1.44 diskette and being too tired to figure out what the #@$@#$@@# is going wrong while shivering your butt off in the colo facility. blech! :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTE

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
f page twiddling and also allow for massive IO clustering ( > 64k ) because we won't be limited by the size of the b_pages[] array for our upper bound on the amount of buffers we can issue effectively a scatter/gather on (since the drivers must VTOPHYS them anyway). To realize my &q

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000320 11:45] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > >Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were > >taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather >

I/O clustering, Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000320 12:03] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000320 11:45] wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > &g

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
le additional allocation for the b_pages if that gets implemented buffer lockdown (which although addressed above, is still something to avoid) other stuff to make sure the rest of the kernel only sees the pbuf. If anything perhaps a zone for b_pages to allow for easy use of GET/PUT_PAGES t

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