Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
web page (http://www.forth.org/) if you want to search for reading material. And, yes, it's a love/hate kind of thing. :-) I think someone ported a userland version of Forth as lang/ficl. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-06 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
to verify the remote host name and check that the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the very same IP address. The default is ``no''. ? AFAIK, that means the reverse mapping result will not be held against you. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: 5 Advanced networking questions

2003-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
and logserver. Thank you for your reply, I'll go read a little :-) Err... contrary to what Terry says, there is an option that prevents FreeBSD from decreasing TTL, thereby making it stealth. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spellng

build-tools and sed

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
,!!TRAD_HEADER!!,hosts/i386bsd.h,g' ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET} .else sed -e 's,!!TRAD_HEADER!!,,g' ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET} .endif Which was rather annoying when I got caught in the sed bug. Updating sources did not fix the problem, because it kept using the install sed... -- Daniel C. Sobral

Request for Review: syslogd

2002-09-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
for now (for me, at least). The patch is at http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/syslogd.diff, and a patch for stable's present syslogd is at http://people.freebsd.org/~dcs/syslogd.diff.stable. (please cc me to any discussion on this, or I'll probably miss the message) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: CPU Temperature and MRTG

2002-06-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network FreeBSD - The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
is good. As a matter of fact, I'll change loader not to load a kernel by default, since this is a security hole in case the machine reboots. But don't worry, I'll document it in loader(8). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
have to be able to use it too. I'd suggest that we do the following: I think we need to make an ACPI call in the loader to power off the machine before it becomes dangerously functional. I hear that. I'll put it on my list too. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks

2002-03-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
:13 - 1.18 +++ src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c 15 Mar 2002 08:40:31 - @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ ext2fs_fsops, dosfs_fsops, cd9660_fsops, +splitfs_fsops, #ifdef LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT zipfs_fsops, #endif -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS

Re: BootFORTH language reference

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
with the loader(8) man page. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] They did what they could to help her, using human skills -- and then, when that failed, left it in the hands of the gods. In this case, he bowed slightly, myself

Re: loader.conf conditional assignment

2001-10-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. OTOH, that wouldn't be a trivial task to undertake, and I don't have time to do it. Add to that, being able to sh-process loader.conf files is of dubious usefulness. So I do not object to such a change, as long as more people weight in first on this matter. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argument

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
:) But if you do that, you'll get a single argument back, instead of a number of arguments, some of which have space in the middle, or not? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe

Re: Boot proccess

2001-09-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
them, load them in the RAM and make them running ? In short, which program gives enough knowledge to the microprocessor (?) and allow him to use kern.flp mfsroot.flp in order to boot and make the operating system running. apropos boot -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: Multiple kernels selector...

2001-09-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: [[ Please excuse me for replying to a one year old message, but I have a question or two ]] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel C. Sobral writes: : . Loading /boot/current.conf. Please wait... cr : s /boot/current.conf

Re: natd passes inconsistent addresses to ipfw?

2001-07-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
; nothing amiss. With less robust, non-dynamic rules, everything works fine. Can anyone spot what's going on here please? It's doing precisely what you told it to. Perhaps if you would move the check-state before the nat? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
It seems that rc.network requires an interface to be specified for natd for it to be started. Alas, I do not and cannot specify an interface for natd, using alias_address instead (and disliking even that, since what I really want is static nat). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS

Re: Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug White wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: It seems that rc.network requires an interface to be specified for natd for it to be started. Alas, I do not and cannot specify an interface for natd, using alias_address instead (and disliking even that, since what I

Re: not showing in ps

2001-07-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
have been hacked. 31337 = Elite. 31341 is too close to that. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-06 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
-like behavior like this. Louis Mamakos -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
to be kind of moot to check the same value twice, unless you suspect hardware problems. Aren't you talking about two different checks over the same data instead of checksum off-loading? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
distribution I'm aware of). ;)) AFAIK, ata write caching is enabled by default by the hardware manufacturers. This was not the case originally, but benchmarks spoke louder. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
, and Linux does not. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
on in real life. Uhhh, no. The original message was remarking about a software development team which repeatedly fail to deliver the product to the specs asked for, and that said team blamed FreeBSD and wanted Linux instead. So the comment applies. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
track seek needed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jason Andresen wrote: If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks. It can. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it _might_ have since been committed to stable. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Nadav Eiron wrote: I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS machines. ResierFS is much much faster than UFS+softupdates on these tests. For that matter, did you have vfs.vmiodirenable enabled? -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
tracks will be faster. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: wint_t

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
to do that (about the only place you will see it is in a translator-used application). Funny. I use it on e-mail. Perhaps if you lived in a country that used a language other than English you would have a different perception of this issue... -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
hat would work, fine. But otherwise, and I think otherwise is likely, please explain the above to this person. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a rewarding life, but hey, somebody has to have all the fun, right?

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. Either will do. Unified diffs are less verbose, but sometimes they are too confusing to be of any use. The point is to use _either_ of them instead of plain diff (because both of them have "context" -- lines indicating the point were the changes are to take place). -- Daniel

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
some don't). You think these garbage collection algorithms work by running the system out of VM and then backing off? That's pure nonsense. I don't "think" anything. I'm reporting facts. Many algorithms do work that way, whether you think they are non-sense or not.

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
in for tracing, and the rest can be outright discarded without ever swaping them in. On the gripping hand, FreeBSD on configurations without swap is not unheard of by any means either, and overcommitting is still a problem in these configurations. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
overcommit, code it and send the patches. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney e' que nao tem mais cavalo bobo por ai'. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e assuming that overcommit is some sort of magic bullet that will solve the memory pressure handling problem, and it is nothing of the sort. Some applications *do* handle memory pressure, but they depend on being _told_ one is out of memory. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
* that feature to sit down and code it. It won't happen otherwise. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney e' que nao tem mais cavalo bobo por ai'. To Unsubscribe

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
(excluding real-time and/or embedded OSes) that makes this guarantee. Solaris and AIX (on AIX this is optional on a global or per-application level). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasi

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
available memory, touching every page, and then some other application touches a pre-allocated page not backed by memory or swap, it is quite likely mine which will get killed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
, and if people would just stick with it the threads about this would die much sooner. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney e' que nao tem mais cavalo

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: postfix: No buffer space available

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
; instead of editing /boot/loader.rc directly. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Too bad sentience isn't a marketable commodity." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: specify a different kernel to boot

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
appropriate. Or just check /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Everyone else does. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
with non-standard ethernet frame types for the identification (?) phase. As a result, all my friends resorted to running Roaring Penguin PPP, but _I_ am not going that way. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
concentrators or know that you need a specific ser vice name. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
installs?). Anyway... what _are_ the kernel options? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: PPPoE

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
for that. The default frame type won't work. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

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

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
make installing PAM entries far easier for the ports. Ports shouldn't touch /etc. Does the existance of /etc/pam.conf precludes /usr/local/etc/pam.d from working? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mouss wrote: and you must make sure your kernel is compiled with options CD9660 Err... no. The kld gets autoloaded if the kernel doesn't have cd9660 compiled-in. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jordan Hubbard wrote: Go for it! We did a version of him here holding a smoking AK-47 and looking positively demented and it was one of the most popular renderings at the office. :-) And the reason it never circulated outside that office is...? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Protections on inetd (and /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* in general)

2001-01-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
/sbin/init already enforces this condition, how about expanding it? Setup jail instead. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD boot manager, where is latest version?

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
want to create partion for it...which seemed to be required). On the XOSL web site I found a refernence to the "Ranish Partition Manager" which I wound up installing and it worked for me. :-) FreeBSD boot manager is probably installable by boot0cfg. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: boot microsloth windoze 2000

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
that windoze should. If I disable HD0 in BIOS, windows uses its own boot manager and boots fine. Do I miss something? Windows is screwed and can't handle not being the first. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: forth/loader question..

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
emain scripts, and .conf files to be variable-setting files (like they are now :). Except, of course, that there are a couple of exceptions on the .conf files format to allow for the cases where it is absolutely necessary to execute code. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Xbox

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kobj, makedevops.pl etc.

2001-01-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
/boot/defaults/loader.conf. BTW, also check out /usr/share/examples/make_device_driver.sh. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Boot process robustness

2001-01-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
resets it at the end. Of course, loader doesn't have write capability. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." -- Kiki To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
d together in the same kernel. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
the depth by half. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
you can't one-line that. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : ported to every hardware platform under sun, and we do not go out of our : way to provide security. Thus, NetBSD and OpenBSD have the edge on us on What? I don't see how you can say that about secur

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How frequently do people fsck? Well, that depends on whether I'm attached atm or not. Oh, you mean filesystems? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things originated on BSD? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which cance

Re: vm_pageout_scan badness

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
for a later release. That sounds very, very clever. In fact, it sounds so clever I keep wondering what is the huge flaw with it. :-) Still, promising, to say the least. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The b

Re: vm_pageout_scan badness

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: int80h.org

2000-11-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ngly reminded of TeX. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anything stupid yet." "I've hard

Re: Couple of config questions...

2000-11-27 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
It should be a quick hack to implement, though. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anyt

Re: 2 pci , 1 isa, same type NIC makes freebsd seems to be confused

2000-11-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
-- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anything stupid yet." "I've hardly had time, sir.&qu

Re: porting a Linux app

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Andrew Otwell wrote: gcc -static -I /pathto/new/include -L /pathto/new/lib sourcefile.c -nostdlib -nostdinc -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Wha

Re: fclose vs ferror (from libc/getcap)

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
a standard, it means the behaviour is implementation-defined (which may be undefined or not). And notice that ferror() is not an access to the stream. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, l

Re: fclose vs ferror (from libc/getcap)

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
f the SUS wording? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All right, Lieutenant, let's see what you do know. Whatever it is, it's not enough, but at least you haven't done anything stupid yet." "

Re: RTP as system calls.

2000-11-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e not calling system calls from inside the kernel, and you are also not using errno like you would from userland. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with

Re: kernel stack size?

2000-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ld somehow do this in a different way, it would really help a lot. Don't do that during interrupt. Queue the data to be processed by a kernel thread later. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has been

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ian Dowse wrote: I think a few slots are reserved, so you can consider 1050 as being equal to 1064. Try putting set kern.ipc.maxsockets=4000 in /boot/loader.rc and rebooting. Eeee! kern.ipc.maxsockets="4000" in /boot/loader.conf instead, please! -- Daniel

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
ontinuous output use -- displaying a line of stats every N seconds. vmstat is also designed for that in its That's the objection I raised to Mike. :-) I suggested systat, though that has it's problems too. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: ... That's vmstat's problem, not a feature. :-) ... If it's not vm-related, it shouldn't be listed by vmstat. Interrupts aren't vm-related either, yet vmstat displays them. And it shouldn't do so. See my first comment. :-) -- Daniel

Re: granularity of gettimeofday()

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
it is *at the same time*, without interferring with each other. I belive those two features are unique to FreeBSD at this time. We need to write benchmarks that place heavy emphasis on these features, then. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is this how to use Freebsd?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. A couple of suggestions: 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete without even reading all html-formatted messages. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
e, but it _should_ be in the handbook. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look like me." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
mistake of overwriting my current FreeBSD fs in case I get the addresses wrong. He is incorrect. You can use /dev/wd0s2 any way you want, as long as you have nothing of value there. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device naming convention

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
re limited, though, to 6 partitions. c must always be the whole slice (minus the disklabel :), and d is better left unused for historical reasons. OTOH, using a partition (try to avoid using c -- if you want the whole slice, create a partition with the same data as c) would be cleaner, from the poin

Multiple kernels selector...

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
files names, kernel names and directory names, depending on what option you choose. Put this stuff in a file (asciimenu.4th, for example) and then replace the "start" on loader.rc with the following: s" /boot/asciimenu.4th" fopen dup fload fclose initialize drop main_menu -- Daniel

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
. u_int32_t **tcphash_haddr; From the code, it's a variable-sized array of fixed-sized arrays. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Satan was once an angel, Gates started by writing a BASIC interpreter. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
n the case of artificial limits. ps: Perhaps you could check the code, it is only 11K long. Sure, send it. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Satan was once an angel, Gates started by writing a BASIC i

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
of not being able to meet the previous commitments wrt to memory allocation, it will kill the application with the largest memory allocations. I'll bet you the fifth season of Babylon 5 this is what's happening. :-) Try limiting the maximum memory allocation to the total physical RAM. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true?

2000-07-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
in the handbook should I drop a note about it, besides FAQ (of course). Regards, Mario Ferreira To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-D

Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more-less

2000-07-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
+export HOME=/root +export TERM=${TERM:-cons25} +export PAGER=less That's not garanteed to work. Not all shells support export used in this way. So, again, no. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] jkh _DES: The Book

Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel

2000-07-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Please, this is not a topic for arch. While I appreciate the author's intent, it is indeed "old news", well known and for which we have a specific set of solutions. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why the RockRidge message?

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
(LOG_INFO or not). The right solution would be return this information upon request through some mean. If you can figure out a portable way of doing it, be my guest. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] jkh _DES: The Book of

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
again. Right now pccard insert/removal can be missed when you put a laptop to sleep... BTW, have you decided between NetBSD and BSD/OS cardbus code yet? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows works

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
advantages? If what you describe is accurate... imho, that's the diametrical oppositve of the right way. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Un

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
emoves all references to Jordan from www.freebsd.org. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
times, it should fail on SLEEP, effectively disabling hybernation on any setup with it (shoganai). -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe:

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
happened, do you? That's what hybernation does under Windows. shrug -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Parag Patel wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so he can load from that to. My mistake, as Ron p

less(1)

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Can we have ^L removing any "skipping" line? Since it's redrawing, anyway, I don't see the point of preserving that, and it's certainly annoying to have a split screen. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This door i

Re: BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
on syscons. For X... well... choose one of the dozens different programming frameworks available. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe:

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
whatever you have to access the data in the flash card. Anyway, booting straight to kernel is a bad idea nowadays for many reasons. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep require some hack in boot loader needs help. I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you need? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep require some hack in boot loader needs help. I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? W

Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd))

2000-06-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil, nor does it promote the worship of devilry. In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The Of course, they don't translate daemon as "akuma". :-) -- Daniel

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