Re: Writing a (BSD like) Operating Systems From Scratch

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Reichert
://mikeos.berlios.de/write-your-own-os.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/254149/how-do-you-write-a-basic-operating-system -- Brian Reichert reich...@numachi.com BSD admin/developer at large ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: OT: getting named to answer differently based on requester's IP

2013-01-02 Thread Brian Reichert
clients get public IP replies I think the term of art is 'split horizon' DNS. (I'm likely dating myself there.) http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bind9-named-configure-views/ -- Brian Reichert reich...@numachi.com BSD admin/developer at large

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Brian Reichert
to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Brian Reichert reich...@numachi.com BSD admin/developer at large ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: Capsicum project: Ideas needed

2011-07-08 Thread Brian Reichert
with your focus on servers, though... -- Regards, Ilya Bakulin http://kibab.com xmpp://kibab...@jabber.ru -- Brian Reichert reich...@numachi.com BSD admin/developer at large ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Reichert
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Re: reverse of getchar() read() open() fopen() ?

2011-02-11 Thread Brian Reichert
, copying into a small buffer, then iterate over your buffer in reverse? Maybe I misunderstood you... Cheers, Julian -- Brian Reichert reich...@numachi.com 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large

Re: unversal watchdog

2006-03-02 Thread Brian Reichert
: It may have already been volunteered already; has the OP explored daemontools? I'll note that its master 'svscan' script is launched by an rc.d script (a decision of the port maintainer), not init directly, but that's not a hard change to affect... Warner -- Brian Reichert

Re: easy question about kill command

2005-12-16 Thread Brian Reichert
of those SQL connections tore down. kill(2), and anything built on top of that, would have no idea if the HUP signal was being processed at all... Roman Gorohov. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286

Does tcpdump2xplot work?

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Reichert
... -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Does tcpdump2xplot work?

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:00:57AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: This may be pilot error, but for the life of me, I can't get tcpdump2xplot to work as advertised. Every lick of documentation I can find say to first create a netdump libpcap file of TCP packets as such: I misenterpreted

Re: Does tcpdump2xplot work?

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:20:49AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: Other docs say I have to do this: tcpdump -tt -S -r tcpdump.out | tcpdump2xplot But, I get the same error... I've traced down the issue: tcpdump now creates lines like: id IP to from ... And tcpdump2xplot doesn't want

Re: Does tcpdump2xplot work?

2005-12-13 Thread Brian Reichert
into.. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large

Re: SSH From within a Jail

2005-11-12 Thread Brian Reichert
the ramifications of that, though... regards --- d c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large

Re: serial login to SBC

2005-09-30 Thread Brian Reichert
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anyone using security/dropbear?

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Reichert
yields essentially no info, so I don't know if there's something weird about my FBSD install (4.11-R). Has anyone seen this before, or have any advice on the matter? -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603) 434-6842

Re: anyone using security/dropbear?

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Reichert
be using the former source, but even if it's not, it shouldn't be blocking. ktrace shows /dev/random, and indeed, very short reads. Let me try another maunal build, pushing it to /dev/urandom. Thanks for the quick feedback... Kris -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55

Re: anyone using security/dropbear?

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Reichert
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Re: Enumerating devices and hardware conf from userland

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Reichert
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Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:50:52AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm looking at the impressive list of wireless network cards supported by FreeBSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN But, I have the specific interest of building an 802.11g WAP. I seem

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
before and after the active channel, you end up using at least 5 channels for turbo mode compared to three for normal, it's not worth the trouble. Ok, cool; thanks... Joerg -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts Another feature of some cards that I haven't found a clear picture of: Some cards have

which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Reichert
accept advice on that matter, too. :) Of course, any specific advice about good antenna, good driver/throughput, etc, would also be accepted gleefully... -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Crystal Ave. #286Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038

Re: FreeBSD on Bochs

2005-03-29 Thread Brian Reichert
did. Regards Jumbler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55

smartmontools vs HP Smart Array 642 controller

2005-02-23 Thread Brian Reichert
to de-Llinx the instal script.) -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large ___ freebsd

firewire not probing?

2005-01-10 Thread Brian Reichert
themselves, a showstopper. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can move forward on this? I can make available a full dmesg, if that woudl help anyone... -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH

Re: HD Mirroring

2004-11-24 Thread Brian Reichert
before-hand for any info, -- //| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // //|| - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ipad.com.br -- Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (603

Re: finding alternate superblocks in ffs

2004-10-31 Thread Brian Reichert
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Re: Programmatically test for a DVD drive

2003-12-19 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:33:41PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to programmatically test to see if a disc device is a DVD device. That is, how can I tell the difference between a CD-[ROM|R|RW] and a DVD-[ROM|R|RW]? Is there a set method for doing

Re: dhclient dynamic DNS updates

2003-11-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:34:12PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: Best I can tell from the config this should make dhclient send a dynamic DNS update to the server listed as primary in the zone section adding hostname.my.example.com. However, tcpdump shows no DNS update packets of any kind coming

Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland

2003-10-10 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:36:40AM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote: I'm looking for ways that a userland program can determine the CPU features available on an SMP machine -- processor model, stepping numbers, supported features,

NFS mounts and jails

2003-09-09 Thread Brian Reichert
I've successfully been exploring using NFS mounts within a jail. It's clear to me that a host box running multiple jails needs to expose that NFS mount to each jail. As far as I know, that means that NFS partition has to be mounted (redundantly?) for each jail, even in (in my case), they'll all

Re: NFS mounts and jails

2003-09-09 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:08:50AM +, Nielsen wrote: - is my assertion correct; that is, do I need to redundantly mount the same NFS partition for each jail for each jail to access it? As far as I know, yes that's the case. If you're mounting the same system however you may want to

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:26:10AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: One way to do this initially is to install a full FreeBSD system on one disk partition and use a second partition for a trial install. FreeBSD's boot manager will let you boot into each. As I'm pursuing these matters as well, I've

dd to floppies broken?

2003-08-21 Thread Brian Reichert
A quick question, haven't done enough research yet. Under 4.7-R and 5.1-R, I've found a file that won't copy to a floppy. In exploring a memory test available at: http://memtest86.com/ There are two distributions in question: 'Linux Memtest86 v3.0 Source and binary Package' 'Linux

Re: dd to floppies broken?

2003-08-21 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:42:57PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: You can only write full blocks to raw devices. The first file is 84480/512 = 165 disk blocks on the dot. The second file is 164.8828125 blocks, and that last fragment is why the dd is failing. Try adding conv=osync to your dd line

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-03 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:46:56PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: Did you really send a SIGABRT to init? This should cause init to exit after a while (IIRC 30sec), which should cause a Going nowhere without my init panic. I really did send a SIGABRT to init. Earlier, I explored a SIGSEGV

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-03 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:22:06PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html which makes use

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-03 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:17:42AM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:46:56PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: Did you really send a SIGABRT to init? This should cause init to exit after a while (IIRC 30sec), which should cause a Going nowhere without my init panic. I

network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm messing with a utility for performing network crash dumps: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/netdump/ and have currently applied his instructions (with some mods) to FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. I have two questions: - To test the functionability, I need to invoke a panic. I've

messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html which makes use of the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM evironment variable. This is all under 4.7-RELEASE. My general method is: setenv CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM 1000 setenv

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:49:00PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2003.08.02 15:35:48 -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm exploring the 'local repository' tactics as described in: http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html [snip] cvs ci src cvs commit

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:49:00PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: The problem is the file CVSROOT/nocommits.sh, which is used as a safeguard in the FreeBSD tree. I replace the file every time I run cvsup with the following

Re: network crash dumps

2003-08-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:11:32PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 11:56 -0400]: I seem to remember calling panic from ddb actually does something strange. Try call boot(1) or call boot instead. Does anyone have a grasp

cell phone syncing under freebsd?

2003-07-30 Thread Brian Reichert
This may not be the best list for this question; please redirect me if you have a better suggestion. My question: are there any cell phones for which there exists sync software that works under FreeBSD? I found a Linux page, but haven't had the time (yet) to go sifting though the ports

recent mplayer port spinning?

2003-07-25 Thread Brian Reichert
Dunno how much further I want to chase this, but I wanted to ask the world first: For FreeBSD 4.7-R, I just (as in two days ago) reinstalled all of my packages via ports (cvsupped nightly). Now, often, mplayer spins upon quitting. It does print Exiting... (End of file), then never actually

Re: seeking advice WRT maintaining private FreeBSD ports branch

2003-03-08 Thread Brian Reichert
[Trimming Terry from the Cc: list] On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:36:47PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: Um, some of these tweaks are _not_ going to be accepted, such as commenting out 'NO_PACKAGE' out of a makefile. Treating

seeking advice WRT maintaining private FreeBSD ports branch

2003-03-07 Thread Brian Reichert
I apologize for the odd subject line, and will fill in some details: I'm exploring tweaks to various ports, for my private use. Some of these tweaks can't be addressed via pkgtools.conf or abuse of environment variables, and instead required actual modifications to files. I maintain a local CVS

Re: seeking advice WRT maintaining private FreeBSD ports branch

2003-03-07 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:58:03PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote: From: Brian Reichert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I maintain a local CVS repository of FreeBSD via CVSup. ... http://www.scriptkiddie.org/freebsd/setting_up_local_repo.html has the details you need. It entails an env var like

3COM PCI FaxModem with shared IRQ causes FBSD to freeze

2002-12-17 Thread Brian Reichert
The subject line is the same subject line as kern/28856 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/28856 The above PR refers to an issue, with a workaround, for 5.0-CURRENT circa July 2001. I have nearly the identical issue under 4.7-RELEASE. I see an additional symptom, however, under

seeking clarification of makefile rules 'safe' with -j

2002-11-20 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm crunching out some complex 'make' rules , and am having a brain fart as to what sorts of rules are safe to use with '-j'. As a matter of example, I'm looking at /usr/share/mk/sys.mk under 4.5-RELEASE: # XXX not -j safe .y.out: ${YACC} ${YFLAGS} ${.IMPSRC} ${CC} ${CFLAGS}

Re: seeking clarification of makefile rules 'safe' with -j

2002-11-20 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:53:45PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: .y.out uses a constant filename (y.tab.c) as an intermediate file. If make -j decided to compile two .y files in the same directory at the same time, one's going to get overwritten. .l.out avoids this by using ${.PREFIX}, which

Re: NFS exports under 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-17 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:39:07PM +0100, Mattias Pantzare wrote: Only one filesystem can be WebNFS exported on a computer (that is how webnfs works). Remove -webnfs from one. Jeez - I had no idea that was a factor. You're right; removing '-webnfs' from the /annex entry allows both filesystems

Re: NFS exports under 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-17 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:36:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Brian Reichert wrote: Now, I have to go read up on webnfs to find out what webnfs really is... RFC2054, RFC2055, RFC2755 (not implemented by FreeBSD). Abstract, RFC2054: Gee, you beat me to it, by a mile. Thanks

NFS exports under 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-16 Thread Brian Reichert
I hope I'm completely misunderstanding the docs for exports(5) and kin, but here goes: The short form: I have two filesystems I want to export. They're both listed in /etc/exports. The first will be exported just fine, the second yields complaints from mountd about the device being busy.

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-25 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the system has booted. Devinfo is looking to be _far_ more encompassing that what I originally wanted/needed, and look forward to 5.x (-CURRENT or otherwise) to be

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:57:30PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: That's bogus. My /var/log/dmesg.today is full of crap saying that certain ports can't be connected to. I had intended this information to be extracted at boot time, and shoved into another format elsewhere for other purusal.

get monitor EDID without using X?

2002-10-15 Thread Brian Reichert
For academic reasons, I was poking around with the idea of getting information about my monitor (vendor, capabilites, etc.) and it looks like the magic buzzords for doing do (with compliant hardware) is via DDC (or is it EDID?) info. Current versions of XFree86 can do it on my hardware; I wanted

Re: forum for discussing 'make release' issues

2002-07-18 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:40:01AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: The normal way to do this, barring any gratuitous system call changes(*), is to take the DISC2 FS image, copy it into a directory, chroot into the directory, and do the build in the chroot'ed environment. I was considering

Re: forum for discussing 'make release' issues

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:09:15PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Brian Reichert wrote: Can someone suggest the be FreeBSD mailing list wherein I could explore issues I'm having with trying to build a 4.6-STABLE release on a 4.5-RELEASE box? I don't know if this is a -hackers question

forum for discussing 'make release' issues

2002-07-16 Thread Brian Reichert
Can someone suggest the be FreeBSD mailing list wherein I could explore issues I'm having with trying to build a 4.6-STABLE release on a 4.5-RELEASE box? I don't know if this is a -hackers question, or a -stable question, or what. (I've looked at the list of lists majordomo knows about, and I

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-10 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:25:52AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: reichert Unfortunately, I had to delve into other bits of mystery and wonder: reichert - The Makefile in usr/src/release; that's where KERNEL_FLAGS and reichert WORLD_FLAGS are mentioned. Ya, it should be documented in

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-09 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:45:08PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:18:55PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you? reichert 'make -j 10 release' didn't work. Again, WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-06 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:33:04AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: src/release/Makefile assumes that src/release directory is actually /usr/src/release. It seems that your source code location is /home/src. Woo-hoo! I finally got a 'make release' to work! Thanks for everyone's pointers...

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-06 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:41:28AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: reichert It was rather disappointing that I couldn't run 'make release' in reichert parallel via the '-j' option, though. :/ WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you? 'make -j 10 release' didn't work. reichert

'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-02 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm mucking with 'make release' under 4.5-RELEASE, and keep running into a stumbling block: When the documentation toolset is being built in the chrooted environment, at one point docbook-dsssl-doc is built, among other things, via ports. Regrettably, this is hosted on Sourceforge, who've

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:46:18PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: On 2 Jul, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm mucking with 'make release' under 4.5-RELEASE, and keep running into a stumbling block: When the documentation toolset is being built in the chrooted environment, at one point docbook-dsssl

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

2002-07-02 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:33:04AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: src/release/Makefile assumes that src/release directory is actually /usr/src/release. It seems that your source code location is /home/src. I hoped hoped that symlinks would solve that problem. :/ reichert /usr/bin/time

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images.

2002-06-23 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:19:43PM +, Jefferson Harlough wrote: Where might I find ISO images for the FreeBSD 2.2.x releases? Do such files exist? I have 2.1-RELEASE, on up, all on CD. Would those filesystems help? Thanks, Jefferson H. -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert

USB mouse probes, but I get uhci_timeout

2002-06-22 Thread Brian Reichert
Under FreeBSD-RELEASE, I'm messing with a USB mouse. I've compiled into the kernel the lot of USB devices, and the USB debug options. (More specifcally, the device is a Twiddler2, which acts as a keyboard and a mouse, and a keyboard/mouse - USB converter the vendor sold me.) I get as far as:

Is CDIOCCAPABILITY appropraite for ATAPI devices?

2002-06-14 Thread Brian Reichert
Is CDIOCCAPABILITY appropriate for ATAPI devices? The man page for cd(4) describes ioctl(2) calls which apply to SCSI CD-ROM drives, some of which can also apply to APAPI CD-ROM drives. I've tried to use CDIOCCAPABILITY on my ATAPI DVD drive, but I can't tell if the error I get:

Re: accessing data track of multimedia CD?

2002-06-07 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:34:43AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Brian Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-06-06 18:04 -0400]: I've been beating my head for hours against a wall trying to research this: Under FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE), with an ATAPI device (/dev/acd0c), how can I mount

accessing data track of multimedia CD?

2002-06-06 Thread Brian Reichert
I've been beating my head for hours against a wall trying to research this: Under FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE), with an ATAPI device (/dev/acd0c), how can I mount, or otherwise access the data in a 'data track' of a 'multimedia CD'? cdda2wav shows me: % /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -I

Re: MAC address

2002-02-07 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:45:01PM +0300, Vladislav V. Anikiev wrote: Hello everyone, I'm writing some license management software. It needs to be node-locked. I would like to use an ethernet MAC address. There are two addresses (default hardware address and current physical address).

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null How 'specific' are you trying to get? /dev/null is a pseudo-device to which writes never fail. What question are you _really_ trying to ask? -- Brian 'you

Re: Bug in FreeBSD 4.4 in su

2001-10-26 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:46:00PM +0100, Bri wrote: ok if you into your freebsd box from somewhere else and type su - root and then type the root password it just hangs there and you think I'm sure I typed the password correctly. Are you using a serial console? Or, a defferent question, are

got bad cookie vp 0xe2e5ef80 bp 0xcf317328

2001-09-25 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm starting to see errors in /var/log/messages under 4.2-RELEASE: Sep 23 00:31:17 bmdb1 /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xe2e5ef80 bp 0xcf317328 Not many, but more than one, and I've never seen this in my years of using FreeBSD. The code producing this message is in /usr/src/sys/nfs/nfs_bio.c,

Re: got bad cookie vp 0xe2e5ef80 bp 0xcf317328

2001-09-25 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: What OS is running on the NFS client and server? My client is the 4.2-RELEASE box in question. There are several servers, all of which (at this point) are Netapps. -- Matthew Emmerton || [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSI

auto-detect an inserted audio cd?

2001-06-24 Thread Brian Reichert
I poked though the archives, but didn't see anything that pointed to this: is there proscribed method for auto-detecting the insertion/ejection of an audio CD? I'm hoping for some daemon that provides notification events, rather than me having to write my on C code. :/ I'm looking for

Re: DVD IOCTLs on IDE?

2001-06-24 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:52:54PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: Has anyone looked at DVD ioctls on IDE? It took me some time to realize (even after reading the source a couple of times) that the current DVD ioctls only apply to SCSI. 'Looked at'? What do you mean? People have been making

panic in ata_intr() in 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-13 Thread Brian Reichert
So - I'm having a bad day. :) I'm messing with cdda2wav ( from cdrecord-0.92 ) under FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. I have this very body of software working on my laptop, but on another PC that I just installed from CD last night, I consistently get a panic whenver I try to get an audio CD's TOC, or try

Re: panic in ata_intr() in 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-13 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:23:15PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: So - I'm having a bad day. :) I'm messing with cdda2wav ( from cdrecord-0.92 ) under FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. I have this very body of software working on my laptop, but on another PC that I just installed from CD last night, I

Re: How to stop console messages to rlogin sessions?

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:59:34PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: I have just upgraded my debug/test systems here to 4.3-stable and I'm now getting all of my device driver printf's spewed to my root rlogin windows. When these two systems were 4.0 and 4.2 these messages weren't printed here (I am

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-30 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:46:04PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: Unfortunately, it sounds like you're not alone. If you check out various hardware message boards, there are people hopping mad about recent IBM drives having a high failure rate. :| But they support

availability of 'St.d - Server Tester (disk)'

2001-05-11 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm trying to get to http://www.simon-shapiro.org/st_d/index.html but the DNS for simon-shapiro.org is screwed. The name server seems to be hosting the ftp/web server as well, so I can use this: http://207.69.194.51/st_d/st_d.html Does anyone have any opinions (good/bad) about this

Re: FreeBSD on BookPC

2001-03-21 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:23:35PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: Really? DOes the davicom driver now work? What, the sound driver? I only got as far as playing mp3s, and listening to CDs. I really have tried recording, etc... BTW- I really haven't much liked my BooKPC. The NVRAM frotzed on

Re: FreeBSD on BookPC

2001-03-21 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:49:07PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Brian Reichert wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:23:35PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: Really? DOes the davicom driver now work? What, the sound driver? I only got as far as playing mp3s

Re: good book or other source about socket programming

2001-02-24 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:17:03PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Marco van de Voort ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After that you probably want to read some kqueue documents, which is FreeBSD specific, but shall be quite fast (faster than select/poll) Other than the manpage, what documents

Re: open PR WRT syslogd vs. serial consoles

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm chasing down a syslogd problem on a 3.4-R box, only to discover that I'm being bit (still!) by a PR I submitted two years ago: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8865 I'm responsible for a wad of machines

wicontrol: password - hex digits

2001-01-12 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm trying to debug my interactions with a WAP. Could someone quickly explain the algorithm in wicontrol for converting a text key to a hex key, and vice-versa? Yes, I could go scrounge though the source, but I have my hands full... And, while I'm at it, how does 'wicontrol -i wi0' know when

Re: wicontrol: password - hex digits

2001-01-12 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:34:21AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: It checks to see if all the characters are printable with isprint() and if they are it prints the string in ASCII, otherwise it prints it out in hex. I implemented this feature because it pretty much does what the user would

open PR WRT syslogd vs. serial consoles

2001-01-05 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm chasing down a syslogd problem on a 3.4-R box, only to discover that I'm being bit (still!) by a PR I submitted two years ago: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8865 I'm responsible for a wad of machines hanging off of a terminal server. - I wanted syslog messages reported to

Re: keeping lots of systems all the same...

2000-12-20 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: I recently made the decision to upgrade all of our net-booted X terminals to full-blown workstations. (Basically, adding a hard drive and some memory.) Having 19 people running Netscape remotely on our Alpha is sucking up a gig

Re: find, -delete, and relative paths

2000-11-22 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:08:56PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail list archives: Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: 15 3

Re: compiling X apps

2000-11-16 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:47:51PM +, Jamie Heckford wrote: Very sorry for posting such a dumb question, but since I cvs'upd something weird seems to have happened. I am using this to compile my X app (which just uses Xlib.h at the mo) gcc -L/usr/X11R6/include -o test test.cc

GNU auto* tools use bash

2000-10-08 Thread Brian Reichert
Just a heads-up: under FreeBSD 4.1; some of the GNU auto* tools (notably autoconf and autoheader) invoke /bin/sh, but presume that that is really bash. Autoconf is from the autoconf-2.13 package. For example, when I try to run 'autoconf --version', it hangs. % autoconf --version Start ...

Re: GNU auto* tools use bash

2000-10-08 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:34:22PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: That sounds like something which should be reported to the GNU maintainers. Oh, I agree, I was concerned that the package maintainers (whoever that is) might also care... Kris -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert[EMAIL

Re: Installation problem

2000-09-19 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:24:47PM +0100, robert smith wrote: hello, allow me to introduce myself. i regard myself to be a well experienced computer user using many platforms. yet, when i tried to install freebsd, i found that i cannot, since just past the setupx configuration, the cpu

ttys entry for palm pilot as dumb terminal

2000-06-23 Thread Brian Reichert
I have no idea why I'm seeing this symptom: Using the 'ptelnet' application on my Palm III, I can log into machines. Really cute to see a little 'top' running. :) Anyway, the suggested entry in /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup on secure does not work for me at all,

Stallion EasyConnection 8/64-PCI drivers

2000-02-28 Thread Brian Reichert
Howdy. I've been pawing through the archive, but can't seem to resolve a set of symtoms WRT getting the Stallion EasyConnection 8/64-PCI card (with XP module) to probe under FBSD 3.4-R. I have tried putting this line in my kernel config file: device stl0 I have tried both the

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