Re: Kernel programming

2001-01-23 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Yonny Cardenas B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there anybody knows some reference (URL), tools or some help to programming and debugging in the kernel FreeBSD? Try http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ Andrew W. Reiter has written a nice kernel mod tutorial. There recently (last week or

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
Thanks. I'll use that for starters. I still think that part of the handbook needs to be modified, along the lines of my original patch but excluding the different build patterns, just to stop the confusion. I won't be able to submit a PR for a few days. So if anyone wants to jump in, my old

Re: Kernel programming

2001-01-23 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There recently (last week or something) was a thread here or on another mailinglist on how to debug kernel moduls, which is a little bit tricky. It's also documented in the handbook. Well, actually debugging modules is a little bit more

Re: Kernel programming

2001-01-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There recently (last week or something) was a thread here or on another mailinglist on how to debug kernel moduls, which is a little bit tricky.

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-23 Thread Dennis
At 01:38 PM 12/19/2000, David Greenman wrote: Your stupidity is also is emphasized by the fact that no major manufacturer has supported drivers for freebsd. Intel wont even help by providing docs. Bravo. What a WIN for the freebsd community. You've done a tremendous job marketing your

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
I think he's refering to the 82559 manual. It is available from Intel to developers, but only with an NDA. For various reasons, I can't sign an NDA for that information without putting myself in legal jeopardy. That has always been true, but I was able to obtain the [now older] 82557

IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Dejvid Zaninovic
I could not find any non-commercial IP Address overtaking solution for FreeBSD so I wrote this simple shell script. If you find it useful you can use it. --- #!/usr/local/bin/ksh # # Node v0.01 # # purpose: # - very simple ip address overtaking for FreeBSD systems #

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
DZ wrote: I could not find any non-commercial IP Address overtaking solution for FreeBSD so I wrote this simple shell script. If you find it useful you can use it. What is "IP Address overtaking"? - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan.

RE: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Dejvid Zaninovic
What is "IP Address overtaking"? It is a way to move IP address from one host to another, it is used for redundancy purposes. If one host goes down the second take over. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Charles Randall
Server B takes over a virtual IP address of server A when server A fails. -Original Message- From: Dan Langille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP Address Overtaking DZ wrote: I could not

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
What is "IP Address overtaking"? It is a way to move IP address from one host to another, it is used for redundancy purposes. If one host goes down the second take over. Commonly referred to as "IP failover". -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, January 23, 2001, Dejvid Zaninovic wrote: I could not find any non-commercial IP Address overtaking solution for FreeBSD so I wrote this simple shell script. If you find it useful you can use it. Just a note: This script doesn't look like it implements anything that our own

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-23 Thread David Greenman
I guess they changed their policy on the part. I've tested the linux driver with the new part on the supermicro board and it works, so the driver is reasonably up to date. The source-available Intel driver does actually look pretty good. I don't know why David has failed to track it wrt.

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
Primarily for two reasons: 1) I didn't know that Intel had released Linux driver source, and 2) I don't have any boards that don't work correctly. I don't either, anymore, sorry. 8( I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the

driver help

2001-01-23 Thread David Rufino
I am currently trying to port the compatability layer of a linux kernel driver to FreeBSD 4.x. The bit I'm stuck on at the moment is, how do I map arbitrary physical address space to kernel virtual address space (ala ioremap() in linux) ? Thanks. -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Default users and the passwords

2001-01-23 Thread Guillermo Leandro
Hi everybody! FreeBSD, like almost all Unix OS, has other default users, like uucp, operator, etc. Since this users cames with the FreeBSD distribution, where can I find their passwords? Another thing, why is there another uid 0 called toor? Isn't it a potential security hole? Thank very

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-23 Thread void
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:11:15AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: I've committed this change, as threatened late last week, since no one said not to. Thank you. buildworld is still required acorss major releases, when binutils change, and when config's version changes. if buildkernel fails,

Re: Default users and the passwords

2001-01-23 Thread David G. Andersen
Lo and behold, Guillermo Leandro once said: Hi everybody! FreeBSD, like almost all Unix OS, has other default users, like uucp, operator, etc. Since this users cames with the FreeBSD distribution, where can I find their passwords? They don't have passwords. /etc/master.passwd

searching physical memory...

2001-01-23 Thread John Gregor
All, I'm doing hardware bringup and am suspecting that our adapter is dma-ing to the wrong physical address. We know we're getting a PCI bus transaction when we expect it, but we don't know where it's going. Until the bus analyzer arrives, what's the easiest way to go through physical memory

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] void writes: : I would suggest not trying to detect the condition but simply mentioning : that it is a possible cause of failure and letting the user figure it out : from there. I don't know how to generate a warning that isn't a false positive in most cases. Warner

Re: Kernel programming

2001-01-23 Thread Felix-Antoine Paradis
You can refer to the FreeBSD Handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook) On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Yonny Cardenas B. wrote: Hello I am adding a set the new system calls to FreeBSD kernel, but to compile and to test new source code within the kernel is a little hard when there is some problem. Is

Re: searching physical memory...

2001-01-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010123 13:41] wrote: All, I'm doing hardware bringup and am suspecting that our adapter is dma-ing to the wrong physical address. We know we're getting a PCI bus transaction when we expect it, but we don't know where it's going. Until the bus analyzer

FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boott ime.

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Simerson
OK, one of my biggest pet peeves of late is that unless you have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in at boot time, it's not recognized. In a world of workstations where every machine has a keyboard, this would never really be a problem but in our data center, where we have rows of racks full of

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boot t ime.

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:17:00PM -0700, Matt Simerson wrote: OK, one of my biggest pet peeves of late is that unless you have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in at boot time, it's not recognized. man atkbd (see Driver Flags) -- Chris D. Faulhaber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boot t ime.

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
OK, one of my biggest pet peeves of late is that unless you have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in at boot time, it's not recognized. Change the flags value for the 'atkbd' driver to 0. The default value, 0x1, is necessary for the correct functioning of systems with USB keyboards. -- ... every

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-23 Thread void
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: I don't know how to generate a warning that isn't a false positive in most cases. Hmm ... how about something like, "make buildkernel failed, please check /usr/src/UPDATING for relevant information" ? -- Ben "I told Paddy

Re: Patch to fix make buildkernel requires full obj directory mistake

2001-01-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] void writes: : On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : : I don't know how to generate a warning that isn't a false positive in : most cases. : : Hmm ... how about something like, : : "make buildkernel failed, please check /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-23 Thread Felix-Antoine Paradis
Well, i got a ADSL, and it's working very well with thoses settings. Post install administration is ok, and i don't have any problems with networking points. But, yeah, for sure, i am restricted to CD install, but, however, that's not that bad. Do you know if there's any way to get it to work to

Re: Biometric security?

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:14:54PM -0800, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: Has anyone gotten any biometric security devices to work with FreeBSD? I'm particularly interested in something like a fingerprint scanner that I could use to authenticate logins or disable my password protected screensaver

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Greg Black wrote: Sergey Babkin wrote: There are other things which may not allow a job to finish in a predefined time slot. For example, other operations going on and consuming CPU, disk or network bandwidth. So presuming that a job would finish by some time is inherently unsafe.

PRopose change or addition to periodic scripts....

2001-01-23 Thread Chuck Rock
I would like to add a message discard accounting to the daily script that displays rejected mail in the root mailbox. I have been using discard in my sendmail access file for SPAM as it keeps reject loops from happening, and also spares the poor S.O.B. whose domain was used in sending spam from

Digi Etherlite driver for Linux in sourcecode available

2001-01-23 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Hello Everyone. Digi is now providing a Linux module driver in source for their Etherlite devices. The source can be found at: http://support.digi.com/support/indexes/linux-els.html The file itself is a RPM file and basicly just contains a tar.gz file, which you can access at:

Re: PAM (was: Re: MAIL set by whom?)

2001-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:42:41AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: Grand gesture. Laudable even. Yeah, that PAM sure seems to've become popular. The Courier IMAP port also insisted upon its

need help with pthreads and memory corruption problem

2001-01-23 Thread Joe Albowicz
Hello, I'm porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD and I am having some problems with the program crashing in weird/random places because of memory corruption. For example the crash can happen in STL or free or in c++ code that we have written (note that our code works just fine on Linux

Re: need help with pthreads and memory corruption problem

2001-01-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joe Albowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010123 21:38] wrote: Hello, I'm porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD and I am having some problems with the program crashing in weird/random places because of memory corruption. For example the crash can happen in STL or free or in c++ code

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote: Well, i got a ADSL, and it's working very well with thoses settings. Post install administration is ok, and i don't have any problems with networking points. But, yeah, for sure, i am restricted to CD install, but, however, that's not that bad. Do you know if

Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard unless is plugged in at boot t ime.

2001-01-23 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Matt Simerson wrote: Oddly enough, this behavior is also manifested when said server is plugged into a Belkin OmniCube KVM switch unless the KVM is set to that machine. I have the same problem with a Win2k system and a FreeBSD system connected to an

Re: need help with pthreads and memory corruption problem

2001-01-23 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Joe Albowicz wrote: I'm porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD and I am having some problems with the program crashing in weird/random places because of memory corruption. For example the crash can happen in STL or free or in c++ code that we have