Re: virtual console 'snapshot'?

2000-09-26 Thread Philipp Mergenthaler
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Is there anything like Linux's /dev/vcs* in FreeBSD? That is, some way to obtain the complete view of a virtual console - characters, attributes, everything? I've written a module which implements something like this - for every console, there's

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Zhiui Zhang
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Do you mean as long as I can boot it, the kernel itself has no problem with being

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
I guess what Doug meant was (at least as far as I've seen in other postings) the current FreeBSD boot loader does not support booting from extended partitions. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Zhiui Zhang wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep

SIGCHLD and sigwait

2000-09-26 Thread Jack Tavares
all - I am attempting to use sigwait to wait for SIGCHLD from children of my process The following does not work (assumint that testchild just sleeps and then exits) I never get the signal. on solaris 2.7 to make this work, i have to call signal( SIGCHLD, sigHndlr ). The sigHndlr never gets

AW: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-26 Thread Alexander Maret
-Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Keith Kemp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Freitag, 22. September 2000 00:29 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: Frustration with SCSI system On the topic of Vinum, what do you guys do about the / partion since it appears

Re: What's the difference between the ncr0 and sym0 drivers?

2000-09-26 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:16:55PM -0700, Joe McGuckin wrote: Is one preferable? sym. Gerard did an excellent job in this driver. Sym is the most activily maintained driver as well. ncr always worked fine for me as well, don't misunderstand, but the future belongs to sym ;-) -- Wilko Bulte

Announcement: Two new FreeBSD-related mailing-lists

2000-09-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
Apologies in advance for the cross-posting. (Hopefully you have a mail system with duplicate suppression.) I've created two new FreeBSD-related mailing-lists which people may wish to subscribe to. FreeBSD's postmaster did not think there would be sufficient interest in these lists to justify

Re: What's the difference between the ncr0 and sym0 drivers?

2000-09-26 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote: Is one preferable? Here's the history: BSD ncr - Linux ncr53c8xx - Linux sym53c8xx - FreeBSD sym The ncr is minimally maintained mainly against O/S changes since the latest real improvement that has been the support of 875/895/896 Ultra chips: -

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Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Do you mean as long as I can

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Do you mean as long as I can boot it, the kernel itself has no problem with being putting into a DOS extended partition? Loader(8) can't grok it and the kernel

natd bug with pptp, hack fix, question

2000-09-26 Thread David G. Andersen
With natd+ipfw, I was setting up a front-end firewall for a client. The firewall has several real IP addresses (we'll call them 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2) and two MS PPTP servers behind it. 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 World- | firewall | - PPTP-1 192.168.1.1

Alpha testers wanted; SHELLINIT/DIRLIST

2000-09-26 Thread Duane H. Hesser
This is a request for alpha testers for SHELLINIT/DIRLIST. SHELLINIT is a shell initialization package intended for use with any shell; DIRLIST is a component of SHELLINIT which implements directory lists. Brief explanations are included below. All inputs are welcome, but for this initial alpha