Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-09 Thread Brian Somers
[.] Revisiting security now... A provision for public-key encryption of the data held on the disk (as well as the id itself) would be useful. Just encrypting the ID alone would not be useful. The distinction would then shift away from whether the media is

Re: New command for cdcontrol(1)

1999-10-09 Thread Brian Somers
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:02:48PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote: cdidDisplay the serial number of the cd using the method used by the cddb (http://www.cddb.org) project. pedantic URLs end with a trailing slash.

Re: KLDs

1999-10-09 Thread W Gerald Hicks
On Slashdot, ... Under QNX, if your driver crashes, the kernel just restarts it. That's not in the least bit how QNX works... oh well, it's slashdot. Cheers, Jerry Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: vis(3), unvis(3), HTTP-URIs and libfetch

1999-10-09 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Alexander Langer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): int strunvisx(char *dst, const char *src, int flag); ok. I'll use a function like this. Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: KLDs

1999-10-09 Thread James Howard
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: On Slashdot, ... Under QNX, if your driver crashes, the kernel just restarts it. That's not in the least bit how QNX works... oh well, it's slashdot. I've noticed Slashdotters tend to be clueless. It doesn't matter in this case, it is

Re: file system full

1999-10-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with | the file system. | | Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server | that will spontaneously do this then crash. | | Jamie If you're csh'ish, you can use the ``limit'' command to see what your

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-09 Thread Randell Jesup
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make uids randomly assigned. This solves the problem of collision between uids on an introduced medium and the ones on the local system by making it statistical (if the uid space is large enough). In order to manage this among multiple machines, you'd

Re: CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-09 Thread Randell Jesup
This discussion should probably move to the freebsd-scsi list... "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nick Hibma wrote... Especially some help on the topic of polling would be appreciated. Otherwise I'll have to resort to figuring out how to do things in interrupt context, and

Re: file system full

1999-10-09 Thread Kip Macy
Assuming its descriptor usage is bounded, i.e. it is not leaking descriptors, you can solve the problem by using sysctl to raise the max files and max files per process. -Kip On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, James Howard wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Too

Re: CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Randell Jesup wrote... This discussion should probably move to the freebsd-scsi list... "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nick Hibma wrote... Especially some help on the topic of polling would be appreciated. Otherwise I'll have to resort to figuring out how to do things

Re: Surplus 3.2-RELEASE cds

1999-10-09 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
bill, please send me one box. i can give them out at the Washington Area FreeBSD User's Group...as well as to people at work. After a year of quiet work a number of die hard Linux folks are coming around to see the light. ;) jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Surplus 3.2-RELEASE cds

1999-10-09 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
bill, i should have said that i can pick these up from you next week at the FreeBSDcon. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New command for cdcontrol(1)

1999-10-09 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
In agreement. Now if someone will give me commit priviledges I'll commit it :) I think the correct procedure is to ply the right people with lots of beers at FreeBSDCon 8*) me! me! ply me! jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Surplus 3.2-RELEASE cds

1999-10-09 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: bill, please send me one box. i can give them out at the Washington Area FreeBSD User's Group...as well as to people at work. After a year of quiet work a number of die hard Linux folks are coming around to see the light. ;) Could