Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

Marcel Moolenaar wrote: 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

Re: encrypted executables

the syscalls so they're a no-op when called from the binary. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

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: /boot/loader graphics support extensibility

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

/boot/loader graphics support extensibility

, the Forth code that produced the above screen shot only used the PCX functions to load the background image, and the text functions to print the menu. Comments appreciated. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: How to stop attached USB device / send IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE?

. Every hard disk parks its head when power is switched off. Last time I saw a hard disk which required a command to park its heads was about 20 years ago on a DOS machine. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: Problems with rpc.statd and PAE

that because it makes managing the state data easier. That's enough of a good reason, I think. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: Can anybody terminate an IP-IP tunnel for me?

friends, so I pay only 12,50 per month. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)?

in the expansion of the wildcard (unless it already existed before, of course). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

, the most common are probably CVS, cvsup or csup. I strongly recommend that you have a closer look at the documentation, because you can find all of your questions answered there. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

the configured interfaces and waits until they are up. It should have a configurable timeout so it won't hang forever. Then add it to the REQUIRE line of the /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote script. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

(and quite easy) with FreeBSD; I've done such setups in the past. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: Floating-point in kernel space

of such code, e.g. in ALTQ, DUMMYNET and in the NTP support code. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

Steven Hartland wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: For FreeBSD, I think a workable solution would be to write a new RC script (e.g. /etc/rc.d/port_up) that polls the configured interfaces and waits until they are up. It should have a configurable timeout so it won't hang forever

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

Ivan Voras wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I had FreeBSD 2.2-stable installed on an old notebook with 4 MB RAM (actually less, because ~ 0.5 MB was lost VGA mappings and registers etc.). It was very usable for simple things like text editing and as a terminal. High end Xeons

Re: FreeBSD available disk space

) which is 8 EB (exabyte), which is 8 million TB. Yeah, sure, I know 640 KB should be enough for everybody and so on, but I honestly doubt that a file system of 8 million TB will exist in the near future. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b

Re: 64-bits platform question

point during the installation did the problem occur? Without any details, our answer can only be as exact as your question. I.e. when simply asking Why can't I install, then the answer is simply Because you did something wrong. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

of small files and vice versa). There's a suitable port but I can't recall the name because I wrote my own. There are several. The most popular ones are probably misc/team and misc/buffer. However, I wrote my own, too. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

to the INDEX file. It might seem a little hackish, but it works. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: 4th loading a module.

for me. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions

Re: FreeSBIE DVD with KDE,Gnome,Java,OpenOffice.org et al?

or document it. I wonder why you haven't simply tried it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author

Re: unique hardware identification

on machines with DMI-compliant BIOS interface. If you don't get SMBIOS information, I very much doubt that it'll provide DMI information either. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: top delay value

Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by typing while :; do :; done. There are a thousand ways to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user from doing it. It is not the same effect. You describe

Re: top delay value

chmod 700 /usr/bin/top. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: installing fbsd from foreign system

support for UFS is weak, not to mention UFS2. Also as anything needs to run unattended, how do I set FreeBSD to try DHCP on any local interface the kernel can find? The FreeBSD Handbook covers that topic (chapter 25.5). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: Where to start?

reply-to to the freebsd-geom list. I think it is more appropriate than -hackers. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

to mention it anyhow. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: dump reads more than restore writes?

. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:27, Oliver Fromme wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: Also, kenv(KENV_GET, ... is used a lot. Maybe it makes sense to have a simple kenvget call. Would make a few lines a little shorter if nothing else. KENV_GET is used three

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

M. Warner Losh wrote: this patch looks good, however, one nit: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : + if (stat(/dev, stst) != 0) : + warning(Can't stat /dev: %m); : + else

Re: Reading in real time from a file without pipes

tail when more data is available. I've had a quick look at the socat sources; it doesn't seem to use the kqueue interface, so it probably polls at EOF. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

John Baldwin wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: John Baldwin wrote: just pass the string literal to the kenv() function, e.g. In fact that's what I tried first ... Alas: warning: passing arg 2 of `kenv' discards qualifiers from pointer target type It's fixed in HEAD, I'll

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

(%s on %s terminated abnormally, going to single user mode, - _PATH_BSHELL, _PATH_RUNCOM); + _PATH_BSHELL, runcom_script); return (state_func_t) single_user; } -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

John Baldwin wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I've created (and tested!) a new patch. I've tested on RELENG_6, but I think init(8) isn't very different on HEAD, so it should work there, too. Any comments are welcome. I particularly appreciate if others test this stuff. Some

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : 1- Why does the kernel try to mount /dev at all? Why not : simply let init mount it in all cases, with ot without : init_chroot? Would make things simpler. There doesn't

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

M. Warner Losh wrote: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Thanks for the new patch, I'll try it as soon as possible. I got a few minutes and tested it. I don't have the proper environment to easily test this out, but I think what I sent will work... It does work indeed

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

M. Warner Losh wrote: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Erik Udo wrote: : How can i make init chroot after executing /etc/rc, and executing : /etc/rc again in the chrooted enviroment? : : For this to work, i'd like to know at what point do i call chroot

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

) and a bootable live FS such as FreeSBIE at the same time. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

Thanks for the new patch, I'll try it as soon as possible. However, that might not be before Tuesday or Wednesday because of wedding anniversary, birthday and new year's eve (yup, all on one weekend), and it might take a day or two until I'm sober again. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: Init.c, making it chroot

directory, so it can easily be set by the loader(8), e.g. using a custom boot menu. Best regards Oliver PS: I see NetBSD has a similar feature, too. Maybe FreeBSD should join the crowd and adopt it. ;-) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen

Re: Properly controlling CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS

. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any

Re: vn_fullpath question.

made modifications to the kernel interfaces in order to support the fstat utility, so their improvements to that utility might not be applicable to FreeBSD. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD

Re: Ramdisk support

Aditya Godbole wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: You can also put the image of the root file system into the kernel itself, so it doesn't have to be loaded separately. The kernel option to allocate appropriate space is called MD_ROOT_SIZE. Thanks. I'm investigating this option. How do

Re: Ramdisk support

Aditya Godbole wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I don't know u-boot. What is that? u-boot is a bootloader popular in embedded systems. Its often used with Linux. I see. Is it PXE-compliant? If so, you can use FreeBSD's PXE bootloader (/boot/pxeboot) for loading the kernel. In that case

Re: Ramdisk support

hacker questions. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

canary yada-yada-yada ... In that case, simply use crc32 (available from libkern.h) and xor with a random key generated at boot time. crc32 is fast to calculate and has the properties that you need. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

Oliver Fromme wrote: Max Laier wrote: David Malone wrote: Assuming you don't want to use one of the standard cryptographic ones (which I can imagine being a bit slow for something done per-packet), then one option might be to use a simpler hash that is keyed. Choose the key

Re: Ramdisk support

Aditya Godbole wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Aditya Godbole wrote: Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? You mean a diskless setup? I think there's a detailed description

Re: bpf kernel module

wouldn't work. In fact, a kernel module requires a small amount of additional memory, compared to the same code compiled statically into the kernel. It's not a big deal, though. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit

Re: ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

) * (dst_port + pkey) [result is 4 bytes, using 32bit modulo arithmetics]. 3. Run crc32_raw on the resulting 20 bytes, using ckey as initialization vector. pkey and ckey are two different 32bit random values that are generated once at boot. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

Re: bpf kernel module

, so you have to put it statically in your kernel if you need it. ng_bpf is a netgraph node driver, it doesn't implement /dev/bpf* devices, so it's not what you're looking for. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit

Re: Hardening FreeBSD, does anyone have any documentation that may help?

is the security(7) manual page, and the security-related sections in the FreeBSD Handbook. Of course, pretty much any generic book on UNIX security applies to FreeBSD, too. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt

Re: Yet another magic symlinks implementation

in their kernel at all. But you have to set a sysctl anyway to enable it globally (it's disabled by default on DragonFly). Just my 2 cents. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

if you ask me. But consistent behaviour. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily

Re: Obtaining used pages on process exit?

file, let alone to build a binary that contains only those parts. You'll have to fight with the run-time linker. Uhm ... The more I think about the whole thing, the more potential problems come to my mind, so I better stop now. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: fsck

trivial. In /bin/sh syntax: # cd /home # awk -F: '$3999{print $1}' /etc/passwd | xargs mkdir # for i in *; do chown $i:$i $i; done That will create home directories for all users whose UID is greater than 999. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

, especially in shell scripts. echo is a shell- builtin, so the argument vector limit doesn't apply. xargs is your friend. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions

Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

Richard Coleman wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: The following is probably the most efficient solution. It doesn't run into all subdirectories (and works with an arbitrary numebr of subdirectories). cd /usr/ports; echo */*/work | xargs rm -rf So does this: find /usr/ports

Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

| xargs rm -rf Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions

Re: About loader(8) forth

Sorry, my mistake. :-( Oliver Fromme wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention that the word `` . '' cannot be used in interpret mode, but only in interpret mode (i.e. ^ Only in _compile_ mode, of course. Sorry for the confusion. Best regards Oliver

Re: Aqcuiring full path to running process from outside the ?kernel

might even be the _only_ way to access the executable file, because someone might have unliked the directory entry right after starting it, so you cannot access it anymore by path name, but only by descriptor. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: About loader(8) forth

Oliver Fromme wrote: Matteo Riondato wrote: Just to have a try, I replaced /boot/beastie.4th with file a containing only: . Welcome to FreeSBIE exit then I deleted the line mentioning beastie-start from /boot/loader.rc and rebooted my machine. [...] I think putting

Re: About loader(8) forth

Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. C

Re: SOCK_DGRAM optimization needed...

kqueue support on FreeBSD some time ago, and it's definitely a win. You can look at the squid sources to see how it's done; it's not difficult. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: make(1) is broken?

on that side effect. It isn't well documented and might change without notice in the future. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may

Re: make(1) is broken?

Stanislav Sedov wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I think it is better not to rely on that side effect. It isn't well documented and might change without notice in the future. Thanks for explanation. I suppose, however, that .for behavior could be used rather safely for it's well

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

Julian Elischer wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Bakul Shah wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: As a general comment (not addressed to Tim): There _is_ a downside to sparsifying files. If you take a sparse file and start filling in the holes, the net result will be very badly

Re: absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel

Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. We're

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

/from/ /to/ and it's fast too! You can do the same with existing tools in a portable (and thus preferable) way: cd /from; find -d . | cpio -dumpl /to Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: From your dmesg excerpt it seems that you have at least three USB controllers in that machine. Depending on your requirements, it might make sense to disable all of them _except_ one, and then connect your USB devices to that one

Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility

this thread might be inappropriate for the -hackers list. How about moving it to either -hardware or -chat? (I watch them all, so either is fine with me.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

hubs if necessary). Of course, the controller that you keep enabled should be the one that's causing the least problems (which seems to be uhci1 USB-B in your case, if I read your first email correctly). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: VIA padlock performance

as in the first test (of course), but the CPU was 50% idle and available for other tasks. The other side of the test was a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M which had the test file in a large RAM disk, so the bottleneck was clearly the EPIA system. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co

Re: VIA padlock performance

Andrzej Tobola wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: On my EPIA 1 (1GHz VIA Nehemia) I did some performance testing a few months ago under RELENG_6 (not sophisticated enough to call it benchmarking). For testing I used scp(1) of a large file (an ISO9660 image, 213 MBytes), because

Re: VIA padlock performance

Michael Reifenberger wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: ... You will also need cryptodev in addition to crypto. crypto manages only in-kernel access to the cryptographic facilities (including hardware acceleration through the padlock driver), which is used

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

point to consider. Just my 2 cents. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily

Re: Stop further socket() or connect() calls.

that doesn't exist and isn't routed. Then the program cannot perform any network access. For example: jail / foo 127.0.0.2 /your/program All attempts to access the network should result in an error no route to host (errno EHOSTUNREACH). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

that cut(1) resides in /usr/bin). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: how to find the physical memory allocated to the kernel

above is from the same machine.) Best regards Oliver PS: In case you're wondering, I'm using a sysctl wrapper script that allows wildcards: http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/scripts/sysctl.wrapper -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit

Re: CPU/case/disk temperature sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850

the port. I compiled the port with that patch file, but the symptom didn't change. Still hangs forever. Any further advice would be very welcome. Also, if I can provide any information, just tell me what you need. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: copy directory structure

regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way

Re: Problem booting FreeBSD from cboot FreeBSD from cdrom using grubdrom using grub

to forget about making the DVD bootable, and instead require the users to burn CDs or floppies from images contained on the DVD. :-( If anyone knows how to make such a multi-OS bootable DVD, I'm all ears ... I've tried both GRUB and GAG, but neither worked. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: easy question about kill command

to implement... I don't think so, as explained above. But if you think it is easy, you're certainly free to write a patch and submit it for discussion. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: easy question about kill command

Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: roma.a.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone who can explain me, why when i say 'kill -HUP id', and its failed to restart, kill say nothing? Because the kill command has no way to know about it. The kill command only instructs

Re: easy question about kill command

(or nothing if everything is OK). -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

. The number of snapshots in existence does not matter. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may

Re: bootable install CD - relocate to subdir

the following directories, relative to the media base: / /FreeBSD /releases /$RELNAME /releases/$RELNAME where $RELNAME is the release name (e.g. 5.3-RELEASE). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München

NFS + VM question

(i.e. share). But I really don't know. Any FreeBSD kernel hacker can enlighten me? If the memory isn't shared in this situation, is there a way to change the design so it can be shared? chroot and NFS are musts, though. Thanks in advance! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible filesystem snapshots and _leave them mounted_ to use at any time ? I don't think there is any danger, except that you

Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

without changes might be sufficient. if the editor doesn't overwrite the original inode, but creates a new one, then the file will be lost if the change hasn't been synced before the crash. (BTW, that's a softupdates-related question, and it's not UFS2-specific.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

into account). I would also suggest an option to display the nanoseconds in ls -l output. Maybe when -T is specified twice ...? (That way we wouldn't waste yet another letter.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

changes in whitespace. Works perfectly fine. Maybe someone should just add -b to the diff command in those periodic scripts? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may

Re: Status of unionfs in -STABLE

of the features of UNIONFS, but it can be used as a substitute in many common situations. I'm using it extensively, for example for shared read-only binaries across jails, and I've yet to see a panic. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions

Re: RFC: proposed new builtin for /bin/sh (associative arrays)

Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close

Re: Mount option nomtime?

that has been vnconfiged on the client. From the point of view of the Filer, it is still just a file that someone is writing to. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may

Mount option nomtime?

wasting time on something completely stupid. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. All that we see

Re: Mount option nomtime?

Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] For example, updating of mtimes is not neccessary on a file system that contains a news spool, or the content of a web cache, or similar transient data. Disabling those

Re: Mount option nomtime?

for NFS mounts? (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed

Re: Mount option nomtime?

that it'll be. Both have gigabit ethernet, so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm very curious how it will perform. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

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