Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 22:27, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: It will not replace the current text menu (beastie.4th), so you can still use it on your Hercules monochrome or CGA machine or with serial console, of course.

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: It will not replace the current text menu (beastie.4th), so you can still use it on your Hercules monochrome or CGA machine or with serial console, of course. We can probably forget about those configurations. OK, maybe not Hercules

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread Thiago Damas
And if you make a wrapper, and execute like a shell script: #!/usr/local/bin/mysecyritywrapper ...encryted code goes where... In this way. it'll be hard to use truss, ktrace, strace etc... []s On Feb 19, 2008 1:09 AM, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-18 19:54,

new syslogd option for adding local timestamp

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi list I ported the -T option from netbsd syslogd.c to freebsd syslog. Add a -T flag to syslogd, which causes it to use local time for messages received from the network. Useful for collecting logs from devices which do not have correct time or if you need localtime anyway. It does not replace

Re: [trouble] restart network vlan`s interface

2008-02-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:41:22AM +0300, sam wrote: hello description of my trouble: part of /etc/rc.conf -- |cloned_interfaces=vlan0 ifconfig_vlan0=inet 10.25.6.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 11 vlandev rl0 |--

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:51:23 -0300 Thiago Damas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if you make a wrapper, and execute like a shell script: #!/usr/local/bin/mysecyritywrapper ...encryted code goes where... In this way. it'll be hard to use truss, ktrace, strace etc... Depends on how

Re: [trouble] restart network vlan`s interface

2008-02-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0300, sam wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:41:22AM +0300, sam wrote: please help me for writing /etc/rc.conf with vlan`s interfaces (without problem network sub-system restart) We don't really support running

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: It will not replace the current text menu (beastie.4th), so you can still use it on your Hercules monochrome or CGA machine or with serial console, of course. We can probably forget about those

Re: [trouble] restart network vlan`s interface

2008-02-20 Thread sam
Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:41:22AM +0300, sam wrote: please help me for writing /etc/rc.conf with vlan`s interfaces (without problem network sub-system restart) We don't really support running /etc/rc.d/netif restart without an interface argument at this time.

Re: [trouble] restart network vlan`s interface

2008-02-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Feb 20, 2008 12:08 PM, Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0300, sam wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:41:22AM +0300, sam wrote: please help me for writing /etc/rc.conf with vlan`s interfaces (without problem network

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I understand the yes part, but I do not understand the see (a)/(b) part. :-) What does the recursive reference mean? It means that they can be treated the same: Ah, OK. It's clear to me now. Just out of curiosity, what would be

Re: new syslogd option for adding local timestamp

2008-02-20 Thread David Malone
Hi Thomas, The -T option looks reasonable to me - can you submit a PR and let me know what number it is. I'll have a look at making the change. David. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: By the way: Will the standard i386 /boot/loader work on an EFI machine, or does it require a different loader binary? It needs a different loader. If you want to support EFI the right way, it also needs a different kernel -- one that

Re: new syslogd option for adding local timestamp

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi David Am 20.02.2008 um 22:12 schrieb David Malone: Hi Thomas, The -T option looks reasonable to me - can you submit a PR and let me know what number it is. I'll have a look at making the change. Thank you. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120891 Regards, Thomas

Re: Help debugging kernel dump?

2008-02-20 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carey Jones wrote: I have been getting occasional reboots on my FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine. I haven't figured out a pattern on it yet, but the most recent crash was during some pretty heavy NFS usage, and I see nfsd in the dump, so perhaps that has

PIIX4 chipset: (non-)exit from CPU states C2, C3 on interrupt

2008-02-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
This is a report on an issue that I had with using C2 CPU power state on a system based on PIIX4E chipset. I think that other users of the chipsets from PIIX4 family might be affected as well. Also, this might be an informative reading for hackers chasing similar problems. Reference material:

Re: Synaptics

2008-02-20 Thread Cristian KLEIN
Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: Cristian, good day. Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Cristian KLEIN wrote: Thank you very much for 'pinging'. :) As the driver synaptics driver din not change for month, I speculate there might have been a change in the Xorg API, especially related to sucking

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thiago Damas wrote: And if you make a wrapper, and execute like a shell script: #!/usr/local/bin/mysecyritywrapper ...encryted code goes where... In this way. it'll be hard to use truss, ktrace, strace etc... No, not really. All of those tools can trace through to sub-processes, so

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread ari edelkind
#!/usr/local/bin/mysecyritywrapper ...encryted code goes where... In this way. it'll be hard to use truss, ktrace, strace etc... No, not really. All of those tools can trace through to sub-processes, so whenever the code gets decrypted and starts executing (whether it's in the main

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:39:03PM -0500, ari edelkind wrote: Mind you, it's true that disabling core dumps with a resource limit doesn't keep one from creating a core image using gcore, but since gcore generally must either attach to a process using ptrace() or access mapped code segments in

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Feb 20, 2008, at 20:18 , Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:39:03PM -0500, ari edelkind wrote: Mind you, it's true that disabling core dumps with a resource limit doesn't keep one from creating a core image using gcore, but since gcore generally must either attach to a

Re: encrypted executables

2008-02-20 Thread ari edelkind
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What prevents me from patching the kernel (!) to just ignore the resource limit? Nothing. Exactly! I mean, it won't help that much if you have pages that haven't been loaded or decrypted. But if you're patching the kernel anyway, you can always have it log the

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

2008-02-20 Thread Joshua Isom
On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: That would be possible. But then there will be other problems. For example, lets say that the i386 loader decides to use 640x480 @4bit, and the sparc64 loader decides that 1152x900 @8bit is best. The Forth code clearly needs a way to