Re: [Patch] : adduser - new functionality

2003-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
Hey there! I have included a patch to adduser that allows a user to change the permissions with which adduser sets a new home directory. I made this change because I ALWAYS forget to set up a default permission since most variants of Unix already set it to 0751 for me. I also included a diff of

[Patch] : adduser - one other thing

2003-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
I forgot to mention the adduer patch was for FreebSD 5.x; I'm very sorry for the extra posting. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

5.1 - 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives that are mirrored. Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3. I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doing make installkernel and rebooting into

5.1 - 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives that are mirrored. Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3. I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doing make installkernel and rebooting into

Re: 5.1 - 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?

2003-12-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives that are mirrored. Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3. I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doing

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Richard Coleman
I think the FreeBSD is dying crowd from slashdot have found the FreeBSD mailing lists. They must be mad because they got a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pull-Henning Kunt wrote: Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice operating

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Lucas Holt
Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've converted quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. Most people think of FreeBSD as the new linux. You have to think to use it, as opposed to the redhat idiot wizards. That guy who quit reminded me of Theo

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've converted quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. Most people think of FreeBSD as the new linux. You have to think to use it, as opposed to

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2003-12-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: : Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've : converted quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. : :

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Per Engelbrecht
Hi everyone Let's drop this thread and try to hush up these ignorant self-centred kids. They're presumably just misplaced windows-users anyway.. but frankly, I don't care. This leads nowhere. Best regards /per [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote:

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Josef Grosch
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Per Engelbrecht wrote: Hi everyone Let's drop this thread and try to hush up these ignorant self-centred kids. They're presumably just misplaced windows-users anyway.. but frankly, I don't care. This leads nowhere. Hear, Hear. This guy is just some

[PATCH] /sys/isa/psm.c Toshiba Sattelite P10

2003-12-27 Thread Vahe Khachikyan
I had a problem on my new Toshiba Satellite P10 laptop. -CURRENT system kernel didn't recognize the touchpad. Adding the patch below to /sys/isa/psm.c helps. I just found a similar patch for another toshiba model and found out that on my model the return code from test_aux_port is 3 instead of 2

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Lucas Holt wrote: Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've converted quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. Most people think of FreeBSD as the new linux. You have to think to use it, as opposed to the redhat idiot wizards. Personally I just

Re: TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL

2003-12-27 Thread Colin Percival
At 11:22 27/12/2003 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: Yes. It is our friend the troll stirring up trouble again. Bad Troll. No biscuit. No, you misunderstand. The troll is resigning from FreeBSD. He's going to stop trolling our lists and find something else to do. :) Colin Percival

dev_mkdb coredumps under -stable with a different root disk...

2003-12-27 Thread Barry Bouwsma
[bla bla drop address to reply bla bla archives bla bla IPv6 bla] Howdy, This probably isn't the right place to ask, but here goes anyway... Is there a good reason why `dev_mkdb' should coredump when encountering selected devices in a /dev directory on a different filesystem than that

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far less cooling fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA Epia motherboards and systems.