Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Kris Kirby
:Will you be assigning the copyright to the FSF? (ie: you'll never be able :to change your mind? 50 years is a long time...) 70 now I believe. Changed to be compatible with the euros, who are all 70 years apparently. If I understand things correctly, there will soon be

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 20: POLA! if we have persisten permissions and ownership, and we allow renaming, then renaming should also be persistant... after the mount again, da0c either no longer exists, or is no longer ttyd1... which neither is an acceptable

IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread stefan parvu
Hello, Last night I worked to port some code to FreeBSD 3.2 Stable. I was curious about one fact: on netinet/in.h there is no any in6_addr support for IPv6. Am I wrong ? FreeBSD does not support IPv6 ? Regards, Stef To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread f.johan.beisser
well, i hate to tell ya, no, currently FBSD does not support IPv6/IPng. but, there are a couple packages where you can get it to support it. do a search for KAME, and download that. now, as to why it's not rolled in already? my guess is that it's due to IPng/IPv6 still being under

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread stefan parvu
Hi, Well, on Linux 2.2 IPv6/IPng it is already supported. I don't remember exactly starting with what version of Linux they have already support IPv6 but for instance BSDI also is supporting. So I think we must support quite soon IPv6/IPng for a lot of Client-Server application which will gonna

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread stefan parvu
Well and more details from mailing list is that there is no "standard" for IPv6 yet. Somebody could explain a little bit here what really means this when DEC, HP they have already on the TCP stack the newest IP ? Stef stefan parvu wrote: Hello, Last night I worked to port some code to

Re: L440GX+ Server Board

1999-09-21 Thread Luiz Morte da Costa Junior
Hi list, My problem is solved. Since I changed my SCSI to a Quantum, I haven't have more problem with performance. I recompiled the pwd_mkdb.c program using more RAM memory and the performance became better. Before compilation the "delete user" operation takes 3 minutes, and now the same

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: I think devfs is really cool. I don't think it needs to have fancy persistence in order to be useful. Likewise. I find myself never needing to change device permissions. I do wish however that there were some sort of "template" options for classes of names.

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Peter Wemm
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Jamie Bowden wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: :Will you be assigning the copyright to the FSF? (ie: you'll never be able :to change your mind? 50 years is a long time...) 70 now I believe. Changed to be compatible with the euros, who are

RE: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD

1999-09-21 Thread Richard Uren
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Soren Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 4:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Ward R Goodwin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD It

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Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Shigio Yamaguchi
Mats Lofkvist wrote: But bugfixes and/or developments needed by the core FreeBSD tools will have to be done on the BSD licensed version of global (since the core system isn't supposed to depend on ports), isn't this going to lead to the split of the global development in two? You are right.

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Shigio Yamaguchi
Peter Wemm wrote: Will you be assigning the copyright to the FSF? (ie: you'll never be able to change your mind? 50 years is a long time...) I will keep the right. Thank you for your advice. -- Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], WWW:

Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R

1999-09-21 Thread Ivan
Hi, I have a couple of questions about the way 'out of swap' situations are handled in FreeBSD. Not that my system often runs out of swap, I'm just being curious: When the system runs out of swap space, it is supposed to kill the 'biggest' process to regain some space. I wrote a little

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Beattie
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 20: POLA! if we have persisten permissions and ownership, and we allow renaming, then renaming should also be persistant... after the mount again, da0c either no longer exists, or is no longer

kernel config and sysctl

1999-09-21 Thread mwlucas
Well, I tried -questions, and met with a resounding silence. jkh tells me that you folks here are the only ones with the expertise to answer this sort of question, so here you go. I'm preparing a series of articles on FreeBSD's sysctl interface -- not the inner workings, merely "What is sysctl,

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: POLA! if we have persisten permissions and ownership, and we allow renaming, then renaming should also be persistant... after the mount again, da0c either no longer exists, or is no longer ttyd1... which neither is an acceptable solution...

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I think devfs is really cool. I don't think it needs to have fancy persistence in order to be useful. Likewise. I find myself never needing to change device permissions. I often change perms on the bpf device so that

The -o port=xxx option in NFS

1999-09-21 Thread Zhihui Zhang
The mount_nfs manual says I can use -o port=port_number to specify a port number for NFS requests. Which port number should I use: the port number of the portmapper (111), the port number of the mountd daemon, or the port number of the nfsd daemon? I also suppose I can use the following

Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R

1999-09-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:where SIZE was 4 MB in this case. I ran it on the console (I've got 64 MB :of RAM and 128 MB of swap) until the swap pager went out of space and :my huge process was eventually killed as expected. Fine. But when I ran :it under X Window, the system eventually killed the X server (SIZE ~20 MB,

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Finch writes: : Why not just do a one-off checkpoint at shutdown time? Why do you need : to track the changes as they happen? Power failures. Also, if the device is new, it might be nice to have commands that run when they arrive in the tree (think pccard).

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Chuck Robey
Can everybody please remember that the argument about whether persistence is good, or the devil's invention, has already been totally beaten to death, and it's in the mail archives. Most of you have been working towards defining an acceptable compromise, but if your post gives your opinion about

Re: missing files with NFSv3 and Solaris2.7 machine...

1999-09-21 Thread David E. Cross
We have a number of solaris 2.78 machines (I am in the process of installing them now), and I notice that if I ls a directory that is mounted NFSv3/UDP from a FreeBSD server to a Solaris 2.7 client there are a number of files that show up missing. This is most intreaging with a large

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I think devfs is really cool. I don't think it needs to have fancy persistence in order to be useful. Likewise. I find myself never needing to change device

PCweek article

1999-09-21 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
He everyone, PCweek is sponsoring another hacking contest against Linux and WinNT. Here is the URL: http://www.hackpcweek.com/ They have a post area and I have made the suggestion that they test freebsd against these two os's and see how we fair. I have to say the freebsd is by far a much

Re: Crunching pkg_add ?

1999-09-21 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Johan Kruger wrote: I've been playing with picobsd ( the router option ) and have been adding stuff to crunch - no problem, untile i wanted to add pkg_add to crunch. The problem is is that libinstall.a uses cleanup that is defined elsewhere. I get the following : look at

Re: Infrared trackball diffs available

1999-09-21 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Douglas Pokorny wrote: A few days ago I was at Office Max and bought an InterAct "Web.Remote professional". For those of you who don't know, its an infrared remote control which contains a trackball, two trackball buttons, and an 18-key keypad. It was a pretty good

Re: The -o port=xxx option in NFS

1999-09-21 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: The mount_nfs manual says I can use -o port=port_number to specify a port number for NFS requests. Which port number should I use: the port number of the portmapper (111), the port number of the mountd daemon, or the port number of the nfsd

Re: Mylex RAID controllers.

1999-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
I was wondering if anybody was currently working on support for any Mylex RAID controllers. We're unfortunately a generation behind on the DPTs and particular vendor that I work with only sells Mylex with their machines. I'm working on it at the moment. It doesn't help that Mylex have

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
Devices must failsafe from a security point of view in the absense of a devfsd. Otherwise there will extreme opposition from the security officer. This means 0600 or more restrictive permissions. While it doesn't happen often, it must be designed for. Otherwise you've replaced a secure,

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread Wes Peters
stefan parvu wrote: Well and more details from mailing list is that there is no "standard" for IPv6 yet. Somebody could explain a little bit here what really means this when DEC, HP they have already on the TCP stack the newest IP ? Search for ipv6 in the FreeBSD mailing list archives at

wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-21 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, I'm using one atapi-cdrw (CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E/1.36) and works fine but I don't know change speed to 4x, now I'm burning at double speed (I'm spending 37min to burn one full cd). I've got other unit (YAMAHA-SCSI) which spends 17min for a full cd but using cdrecord speed=4. Are there any

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Peter da Silva
Tradition counts. GLOBAL isn't quite sendmail. On the other hand, sendmail is easier to extract and isolate (there are no sendmail-specific patches to nvi, for example), and there are several alternative packages (postfix, exim, qmail, smail, etc) that one might want to *replace* sendmail with

How to get amd to use /sbin/mount_null for host=localhost ?

1999-09-21 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi all, I'm stuck trying to figure out an amd.map to invoke /sbin/mount_null by hand, (no problem with the normal nfs). I have a bunch of machines that use AMD to access one large pseudo-common tree containing, to give a simplified example: /usr/public/3.2/src -- /host/flip/usr/src

Re: kernel config and sysctl

1999-09-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:17:26 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always had the impression that the sysctls available on a system are dependent on the kernel configuration, but have never been able to verify this. This is true. They also depend on the KLDs (a KLD can add new sysctl

Re: The -o port=xxx option in NFS

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: The mount_nfs manual says I can use -o port=port_number to specify a port number for NFS requests. Which port number should I use: the port number of the portmapper (111), the port number of the

how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, I'm doing TCP development on a custom operating system that I've written and am using my FreeBSD box for testing my TCP stack. I'm in the early stages right now and I have a lot of bugs. One of my bugs is that I shut down a connection on my end but I'm doing something wrong and the

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to stefan parvu: I was curious about one fact: on netinet/in.h there is no any in6_addr support for IPv6. Am I wrong ? FreeBSD does not support IPv6 ? Our Japanese friends are working to integrate IPv6 into current. For -STABLE, you have at least 3 implementations that works fairly

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread Andy Doran
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: NetBSD OpenBSD has decided to use one of the last two for themselves (although I always forgot who took what -- I think NetBSD took INRIA and OpenBSD NRL but I could be wrong). FWIW, the KAME implementation was integrated into NetBSD-current

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: Devices must failsafe from a security point of view in the absense of a devfsd. Otherwise there will extreme opposition from the security officer. This means 0600 or more restrictive permissions. While it doesn't happen often, it must be designed for. Otherwise you've

Re: nawk vs gawk? (was Re: GNU GLOBAL)

1999-09-21 Thread token
Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote: Yes, I know that gawk is faster, but isn't nawk the one true (new) awk? From my experience, the awk downloadable from Kernighan's web page (should be "nawk", shouldn't it?) is a little bit faster on average than gawk. Probably not much that it would really matter

Re: how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :I'm doing TCP development on a custom operating system that I've :written and am using my FreeBSD box for testing my TCP stack. I'm in :the early stages right now and I have a lot of bugs. One of my bugs :is that I shut down a connection on my end but I'm doing something :wrong and the

Re: Infrared trackball diffs available

1999-09-21 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
A few days ago I was at Office Max and bought an InterAct "Web.Remote professional". For those of you who don't know, its an infrared remote control which contains a trackball, two trackball buttons, and an 18-key keypad. It was a pretty good deal for $17US. My ultimate goal is to use it to

Re: nawk vs gawk? (was Re: GNU GLOBAL)

1999-09-21 Thread Pedro Fernando Giffuni
The three of them are on the ports tree. mawk and gawk are GPL'd, nawk is not. I'm not sure if nawk is fully POSIX compliant but it is the "new" awk described in Kernighans' book. Yes mawk is the fastest of the three, but I'm not sure if speed is the most important feature in a scripting

Re: how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
:Does anyone know how I can manually shutdown the above connection on :'vger' short of waiting a really long time or rebooting? : :Thanks, :-Brian :-- :Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turn on keepalives and set the parameters really low so the connection times

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Is there any possibility of creating a database of devfs perms that gets : loaded into kernel-accessible data space by the loader before boot? Once : the system is up, devfsd could take over, monitoring and updating the : state of devfs and this

Re: missing files with NFSv3 and Solaris2.7 machine...

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"David E. Cross" wrote: Count me as one of the ones who do not accept this answer. I realize that It was not the "answer" which was not accepted. Someone actually argued it could not be an NFS protocol bug because the Solaris stack was the reference implementation, ergo it does not have

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Andy Doran: FWIW, the KAME implementation was integrated into NetBSD-current around the start of July. Thanks for the correction ! Nice to ehar that. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #74: Thu Sep 9

Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ?

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
stefan parvu wrote: Hello, Last night I worked to port some code to FreeBSD 3.2 Stable. I was curious about one fact: on netinet/in.h there is no any in6_addr support for IPv6. Am I wrong ? FreeBSD does not support IPv6 ? Sure it does. It just doesn't come out of the box with it because

SMP motherboards

1999-09-21 Thread Mark Newton
Has anyone had any problems running FreeBSD-SMP on Intel GX-chipset motherboards? Conversely, does anyone have any recommendations for other motherboards to buy? - mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: SMP motherboards

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 22-Sep-99 Mark Newton wrote: Has anyone had any problems running FreeBSD-SMP on Intel GX-chipset motherboards? I ran 3.2-RELEASE on a friends GX board. It was an Asus board, and had 5 PCI slots, an inbuilt 7896 and onboard 10/100 ethernet. (I can't remember the model number, I can find

Re: missing files with NFSv3 and Solaris2.7 machine...

1999-09-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:As I recall, we had two alternatives. First, knowingly not comply to :the spec, because Solaris doesn't handle it. Second, change the way :we read directories so we can avoid doing things in the way Solaris :can't handle. The latter is a very sore spot, and not trivial. : :I was under the