Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 13:08:04 -0400: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Now, saying "don't do it" is nice, but I'd like to know why. > > Why doesn't this work? Also, what documentation (besides the > > source) is there that covers variable scopes? See the s

Re: Which archiver handles the ICE format?

2002-09-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 23), Stephen Hocking said: > I'm wanting to extract data files off the original Quake 1 CD. Lets just take a look see... All deice does is join the numbered files together, then execute the result. quake101.1 and quake101.2 are in self-extracting LHA format; ports/a

Which archiver handles the ICE format?

2002-09-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
I'm wanting to extract data files off the original Quake 1 CD. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, w

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-23 Thread MichaƂ Belczyk
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:14:53PM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > I've been playing with jails for over 2 years now. I really like > them but we often use them to run a process as root with reduced > power only to get access to TCP and UDP ports below 1024. > > For many applications however, f

Re: Practical limit for pre-loaded md_image size?

2002-09-23 Thread Nicholas Esborn
I'm copying this to -hackers as well. I tried setting the MD_NSECT to 307200 to accomodate my RAM disk, but according to md(4): At boot time the md driver will search for pre-loaded modules of type `md_image' and instantiate a md device for each of these modules. The type `mfs_ro

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-23 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Lamont Granquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-09-23 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Just a wild idea ] > > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > > Maybe just replace all suser(9) uses with MAC credential checks, and > > install MAC_UNIX by default, which would be set up to behave like >

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 10:06:12 -0400: > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > I'm not a C programmer (thus not really familiar with make), and I'm I am a C programmer, and one of my strengths is that I know make pretty well

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
[sent only to Chad by mistake] # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 10:35:54 -0600: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:35:16PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > unless you explicitly export things as environment variables, > > > or set them on a command line when re-invoking Make. > > > > i'm not su

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 16:08:11 +0100: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:35:23PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > thanks a lot for your reply. You're right: I'm viewing Makefiles > > as sequential programs, which obviously (even to me) is not quite > > true, but I'm having diffic

Re: periodic(8)-produced diffs

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [... re periodic diffs] > And, what would the preferred interface be? Most of periodic.conf knobs > are bools, but I'm not sure > diff_{context,traditional,unified}_format="{YES,NO}" > is better than > diff_format="{context,tradition

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:35:23PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > thanks a lot for your reply. You're right: I'm viewing Makefiles > as sequential programs, which obviously (even to me) is not quite > true, but I'm having difficulty getting rid of this. Yeah, it takes a bit of gettin

periodic(8)-produced diffs

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
[repost from questions@; no replies received since 2002-09-17] Hi there, various /etc/periodic scripts mail root diffs of a few config files etc. grep on my (quite fresh) STABLE box shows that except for /etc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases, all the diff invocations use the old format. I have

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 10:06:12 -0400: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I'm not a C programmer (thus not really familiar with make), and I'm > > trying to use it for project management (we write apps in php). I've > > stumbled across a few variable related issues where

Re: two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Hi, > > I've sent two messages about (p)make to questions@ but have not received > any replies, so I ask here. > > I'm not a C programmer (thus not really familiar with make), and I'm > trying to use it for project management (we write apps in php). I

Re: Problems catching SIGPIPE when writing to a broken stream

2002-09-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:42:25PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:34:18PM +0300, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > > > > Hi hackers, > > > > I'm implementing a programmme, which writes a big amount of data (using >write(2)) to a socket. > > When the communication

two make questions

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hi, I've sent two messages about (p)make to questions@ but have not received any replies, so I ask here. I'm not a C programmer (thus not really familiar with make), and I'm trying to use it for project management (we write apps in php). I've stumbled across a few variable related issues where t

Re: Problems catching SIGPIPE when writing to a broken stream

2002-09-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:34:18PM +0300, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > > Hi hackers, > > I'm implementing a programmme, which writes a big amount of data (using >write(2)) to a socket. > When the communication stream has been closed by some reason, during the >write(2) call, my

Problems catching SIGPIPE when writing to a broken stream

2002-09-23 Thread Vladimir Terziev
Hi hackers, I'm implementing a programmme, which writes a big amount of data (using write(2)) to a socket. When the communication stream has been closed by some reason, during the write(2) call, my process receives SIGPIPE. I tryed to catch it with signal(3) and change

fifo kqfilter change in rev. 1.54?

2002-09-23 Thread Jaromir Dolecek
Hi, I'm currently testing stuff on NetBSD kqueue branch, and came over FreeBSD change in rev. 1.54 of src/sys/fs/fifofs/fifo_vnops.c . I can't figure out what this change exactly fixes, since things seem to work fine without the change - the code on NetBSD kqueue branch uses still fi_readsock alw

subscription required?

2002-09-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hi, does this list require subscription to allow posts? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL doesn't say so, but neither of my two attempts (before I subscribed) has shown up in the archives. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 1:55PM

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-23 Thread Lamont Granquist
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > Maybe just replace all suser(9) uses with MAC credential checks, and > install MAC_UNIX by default, which would be set up to behave like > ye olden UNIX... Who knows. Something like that sounds like a really good idea. I'd like to see this not only fo

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:29:15AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > better to have a definition of what are restricted ports for each jail > > than to redefine what root is > > > > (1024 numbers is only 32 words of bitmask) > > Sometimes I think the below 1024 check is outdated. What about a flag