whereis broken?

1999-07-25 Thread Dan Moschuk
whereis anything yields.. Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! Warning: couldn't

Re: Overflow in banner(1)

1999-11-24 Thread Dan Moschuk
| sizeof() is an operator whose value is determined at compile time. | sizeof(*buf) gives the size of what buf points to. This would be `1' if | buf were a char*, or `4' if buf were an int* [on the i386]. Ahh, so I've probably seen this concept used only on structures then. -- Dan Moschuk

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-15 Thread Dan Moschuk
| install. Those bits are already gzip'ed for you. Of course, you can always be good little FreeBSD users and order the CD. -Dan -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: emu10k1 (SB Live!) support under FreeBSD?

2000-03-19 Thread Dan Moschuk
or http://www.alsa-project.org | (my preference). One is on the way... -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: emu10k1 (SB Live!) support under FreeBSD?

2000-03-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
-weighed my initiative. 8) http://www.freebsd.org/~cg/current.diff.gz contains a partial emu10k1 driver (minus recording) which is need of debugging. Give it a try! -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: emu10k1 (SB Live!) support under FreeBSD?

2000-03-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
| http://www.freebsd.org/~cg/current.diff.gz contains a partial emu10k1 | driver (minus recording) which is need of debugging. Give it a try! | | How current is this? Will it work against 4.0-STABLE? I haven't tested it, but I believe so. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "

-current, ep and fragment problems.

2000-03-23 Thread Dan Moschuk
Is anyone else seeing odd behaviour with a fairly recent -current, an ep driver nic card and fragmented packets? -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: -current, ep and fragment problems.

2000-03-24 Thread Dan Moschuk
. Different problems, I think. I downgraded if_ep.c to revision 1.95 and the problem went away. Matthew Dodd believes he knows where the problem is, so it should be fixed soon. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: NOUUCP knob and /etc/uucp

2000-03-24 Thread Dan Moschuk
committed the fix. It probably should be NO_UUCP, but no one seems to want to make a final decision on the NOFOO vs. NO_FOO argument, so I left it at NOUUCP for now. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Moschuk
I'm sure would make a few people happy. The downfall, for being memory backed, is it's wiped on a reboot (some people, however, consider this to be A Good Thing). -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Don't get even -- get odd!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Dan Moschuk
rs to keep documentation up to date? Warner is the gatekeeper for UPDATING, and it seems to work rather well. If there is no one explicitly on the doc project that you'd like doing this, I'd take on the responsibility. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Don't get even -- get odd!" To Un

Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT

2000-06-28 Thread Dan Moschuk
an entry in UPDATING is needed) it's even easier. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Don't get even -- get odd!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-18 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and | use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time. What about saving the state of the RNG and re-reading it on bootup? That will allow Yarrow to continue right where it left off. :-) -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-18 Thread Dan Moschuk
| In fact, it would be rather interesting to have a configuration flag which | always forces something like an fsck on a file system in order to provide | some entropy to the random device. Or some other user-exposed way of | providing entropy. I might have some data on disk, or some network |

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-18 Thread Dan Moschuk
| DuH! | | NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! | | Predicting the clock's offset from reality and the two way path to | the server of choice is impossible, plus if people enable authentication | later on the packets will be choke full of high-quality entropy. | | We need an

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-18 Thread Dan Moschuk
| I think there are other practical issues too. Unless the new libfetch | fetch supports https this won't work. More to the point, I'd | guess https needs a working /dev/random to set up the secure | connection, but we're running fetch to set up /dev/random. | | How much entropy can we get

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-21 Thread Dan Moschuk
| | Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and | | use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time. | | What about saving the state of the RNG and re-reading it on bootup? That | will allow Yarrow to continue right where it left off. :-) | | That's a bad thing.

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-04 Thread Dan Moschuk
| You want to say me that there is an ATI graphics card that is more powerful | than NVidia GeForce? | | Sorry, but FreeBSD is really good operating system. Good enough for use it | on servers. As a system programmer, I wish to have a copy of it on my home | desktop. And my son/daughter wish to

Re: PNPBIOS + Dell PowerEdge = panic()

2000-01-17 Thread Dan Moschuk
). | | Commentary? Should I just commit the change and see what happens? 8) Commit and see what happens. I'll keep the pointy had warm for you. 8) -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: cdrom mounting issue

2000-02-15 Thread Dan Moschuk
| in my kernel config file i have: | | options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem | options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 | required Do you have device atapicd0 In your configuration as well? -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete main.c src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info main.c

2000-02-17 Thread Dan Moschuk
jive-1.1/ spirit# Just you. :) -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Hardware for 4.0

2000-02-22 Thread Dan Moschuk
are good, but I usually use the 3Com 905[BC] cards. -- Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

aic

1999-03-21 Thread Dan Moschuk
Any hope of the aic driver gracing -current anytime soon? I'm really itching to port my burning software over. Cheers, -- Dan Moschuk (tfreak...@globalserve.net) Senior Systems/Network Administrator Globalserve Communications Inc., a Primus Canada Company If at first you don't succeed

Berkeley DB 1.85 -- 2.0

1999-05-13 Thread Dan Moschuk
Out of curiosity, is there a reason we are still using Berkeley DB v1.85 as apposed to v2? --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message