Re: Heavily loaded nfs/amd gets stuck

1999-06-21 Thread Shaun Jurrens
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 11:07:39AM -0700, Studded wrote: # No action on this in -current for a few days, so let's try # hackers. In response to some suggestions I tried raising the number of # nfsiod's to 20 (the max) and increasing the sysctl cache value to 10, # still no joy. # Skipped

libss

1999-06-21 Thread David O'Brien
Does anybody know what /usr/src/lib/libss/ is? There isn't a manpage for it, and viewing the source I still can't figure out what it is other than it came from MIT (Athena). -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

[DISKLABEL FRAGGED] Clues requested... ;)

1999-06-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
Guess what... I've got a disk where the partition table and the disklabel has mysteriously disappeared! Oops. I've reconstructed the partition table, and now need to partition the disklabel. If I mount /dev/wd2s1c I get the root (/) partition back, although the size is obviously bogus in the

Re: inetd/tcpd...changing hosts.allow...plus a documentation issue

1999-06-21 Thread David O'Brien
on another note, LIBWRAP_INTERNAL looks like it must be defined for internal services to be wrapped, yet it is not defined during freebsd's compile -- only LIBWRAP is. yet freebsd's inetd man page says that internal services may be wrapped. since it is not currently so by default, perhaps

Re: inetd/tcpd...changing hosts.allow...plus a documentation issue

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:49:59 MST, Aaron Smith wrote: unfortunately incoming telnet was still denied. at first i tried HUPping inetd to reread the hosts.allow, but after looking at the source it appears to re-read its information each time hosts_access is called. has anyone else had problems

packet filter

1999-06-21 Thread Elise Guedin
Hi, I would like to set up a packet filter which could be dynamically updated if some special events occur. (like someone joining a multicast group) I tried bpf but I can't put variables in the filter, only constants. With a variable I get : initializer for insns[5].k is not constant Do you

Re: inetd/tcpd...changing hosts.allow...plus a documentation issue

1999-06-21 Thread David Malone
There was a bug in inetd in which ment that if you HUPed inetd it could get confuesed about the name of the services. This is probably what you are seeing. Sheldon has just committed a fix for this. The wrapping of internal services isn't quite working properly yet. Sheldon has committed a

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav -

Re: ipfilter (was: RE: Introduction)

1999-06-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
this might ease life to those who want to replace ipfw with ipfilter for dummynet or similar things, if nothing else. Thank you, Luigi. Could you please help me with some basics? ... what i do in dummynet is to queue the packet (wheter it comes from ip_input() or ip_output() makes no

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Folks, public feedback on the following portion of David's mail would be much appreciated. Since resolution of UDP wrapping would bring about the execution of the we want tcpd campaign, it's obviously something that both David and I would like to see finished off. It's just that we'd like it

Re: [DISKLABEL FRAGGED] Clues requested... ;)

1999-06-21 Thread Niall Smart
Josef Karthauser wrote: Guess what... I've got a disk where the partition table and the disklabel has mysteriously disappeared! Oops. I've reconstructed the partition table, and now need to partition the disklabel. Wow, you're probably the first person ever to do that, unlucky you.

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Thomas Good
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: Many conf tasks remain non-trivial as compared to BSD or Linux due to inexpertise on SCO's end...as the red Sytem Admin Handbook once stated (Neveth, Snyder et al.) SCO Unix* is `perverse'. Nemeth, Snyder,

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7...And Lysdexia?

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Thomas Good t...@nrnet.org writes: The part that compares system initialisation is especially useful. I use both getty and ttymon and the book does a good job comparing the two strategies...I wish they'd do a new edition. I like Aeleen Frisch (SP? ;-) You got that one right :)

Re: inetd/tcpd...changing hosts.allow...plus a documentation issue

1999-06-21 Thread David Malone
In message 19990621110303.a7...@walton.maths.tcd.ie, David Malone writes: wrapped (and it isn't possible to wrap tcp nowait services even with tcdp). Is that what you meant to say, or am I getting confused? Did you mean udp, or wait? Of course - I ment tcp wait services. David.

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread David Malone
Folks, public feedback on the following portion of David's mail would be much appreciated. Since resolution of UDP wrapping would bring about the execution of the we want tcpd campaign, it's obviously something that both David and I would like to see finished off. I got one person who

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:13:49 +0100, David Malone wrote: I got one person who suggested a flag in inetd.conf which could disable wrapping for a service. This seems like quite a good idea if we can come up with an acceptable syntax for the flag. What I have in mind is a -w option. Specified

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Dom Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 02:13:49PM +0100, David Malone wrote: Folks, public feedback on the following portion of David's mail would be much appreciated. Since resolution of UDP wrapping would bring about the execution of the we want tcpd campaign, it's obviously something that both David

Re: Changing Bootmgr display

1999-06-21 Thread Dennis
I notice that v1.10 is up in -current...does this patch still apply? Dennis At 06:58 PM 6/19/99 +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: Dennis wrote: F1: FreeBSD F2: LINUX F3: FreeBSD F3 is a non-bootable file system...is there a way to get the boot manager to only display F1 and F2? At the

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Jos Backus
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Dom Mitchell wrote: inetd.conf is one of those things, like newsyslog.conf which is long past due for an overhaul... Some would say the same for inetd. Without wanting to start a flame war, tcpserver (part of the sysutils/ucspi-tcp port) has some

Re: Changing Bootmgr display

1999-06-21 Thread Robert Nordier
I notice that v1.10 is up in -current...does this patch still apply? Dennis v1.10 is just a variation on this patch, with support for dynamic configuration using boot0cfg(8) rather than by way of a build option. For instance boot0cfg -m 0xd da0 will cause the second partition to be

Re: Heavily loaded nfs/amd gets stuck

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
Shaun Jurrens wrote: Studded, you might try to look at /usr/share/doc/handbook/nfs.html. It might help to use a high quality network card and maybe track the traffic between the boxes to see if the mentioned packet problems show up. It's an Intel motherboard with an Intel Pro 100

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:13:49 +0100, David Malone wrote: I got one person who suggested a flag in inetd.conf which could disable wrapping for a service. This seems like quite a good idea if we can come up with an acceptable syntax for the flag. What I have in mind

[Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
Since y'all are discussing inetd.conf, here is something else to consider. Doug Original Message Subject: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Studded stud...@gorean.org To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:58:58 MST, Doug wrote: When exactly was it made the default? Prior to 3.2-Release, or after? It's never (ok, rarely) too late to undo a bad decision. If the change happened after the latest -Release, by all means, back it out. Cvsweb says it happened

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the service name must be the official name of the service (that is, the first entry in /etc/services). Read the

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
A copy of my reply has been bounced to freebsd-gnats-submit, since the address in the forwarded headers was misspelled. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:02:14 MST, Doug wrote: The service-name entry is the name of a valid service in the file /etc/services. For ``internal'' services (discussed below), the service name must be the official name of the service (that is,

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it will work with services aliases? Certainly. From

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug d...@gorean.org writes: In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is* necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to change the

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:12:26 MST, Doug wrote: Can you point out exactly what part of the man page that you are referring to that contradicts what the inetd man page says? Have you checked the actual code for inetd to verify that it will work

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug d...@gorean.org writes: You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure that the man page is in error, change the man

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page. Doug, I'm annoyed that you ignored the most important

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Doug d...@gorean.org writes: You are really really missing my point here, so I will state it again. If you have carefully examined the code for *every* case of *every* internal service, and you have tested it thoroughly, and you are 100% sure

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Brian F. Feldman
By the way, I'd recommend all -CURRENT users, after making world, make a new copy of pidentd. The code to grovel through the kernel to find socket info is MUCH less sickening now, so identd is less of a performance hit and less likely to fail due to race conditions. Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:42:46 MST, Doug wrote: [...] there is an outstanding PR that shows it doesn't work for everybody, and there is absolutely no justification for leaving an example in the conf file that conflicts with the man page.

Re: libss

1999-06-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* David O'Brien (obr...@nuxi.com) [990621 10:38]: Does anybody know what /usr/src/lib/libss/ is? There isn't a manpage for it, and viewing the source I still can't figure out what it is other than it came from MIT (Athena). Apparantly David it came from the SIPB at MIT and more specifically

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Doug d...@gorean.org writes: It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation is pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include information on how to repeat the problem in a verifiable way,

Kernel crashes using FreeBSD 3.1 (reproduceable)

1999-06-21 Thread Kevin Quinlan (UK)
Hi, I asked this question on freebsd-questions a couple of weeks ago, got a couple of answers and then I was away from work for a couple of weeks. One answer that I got suggested that I ask this forum, so here goes: I have a standard Dell Poweredge 2300 running FreeBSD 3.1. When running cvsup

Re: Kernel crashes using FreeBSD 3.1 (reproduceable)

1999-06-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've heard about something similar (a consistent crash in crfree during cvsup), and don't know the reason, but an upgrade to 3.2 solved the problem. On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Kevin Quinlan (UK) wrote: Hi, I asked this question on freebsd-questions a couple of weeks ago, got a couple of answers

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Jun-99 David Malone wrote: Folks, public feedback on the following portion of David's mail would be much appreciated. Since resolution of UDP wrapping would bring about the execution of the we want tcpd campaign, it's obviously something that both David and I would like to see finished

Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]

1999-06-21 Thread Alex Charalabidis
On 21 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Doug d...@gorean.org writes: It doesn't work with the conf file that came with the system, but it does work if I change the conf file to match the documentation is pretty good content in my book. Obviously he doesn't include information on

dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
There are several sorts of messages that get logged by the kernel where it would be Really Nice if the messages were timestamped. If syslogd is up and running (and the data gets stored before the system dies) there is a good chance that syslogd will timestamp the messages. One way to do this

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Smith
If syslogd is up and running (and the data gets stored before the system dies) there is a good chance that syslogd will timestamp the messages. I don't think this would be a good idea. Syslogd does a fine job of adding timestamps; there aren't any really relevant cases in which having

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
Apparently there are places that log via dmesg instead of via syslog. The primary intention here is to have the messages that are in the dmesg output have timestamps. And I have had crashes/panics where the syslog information just didn't get out in time (but I might be mistaken on this one).

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Smith
Apparently there are places that log via dmesg instead of via syslog. No. The primary intention here is to have the messages that are in the dmesg output have timestamps. No. And I have had crashes/panics where the syslog information just didn't get out in time (but I might be mistaken

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Smith
Apparently there are places that log via dmesg instead of via syslog. No. I should have been clearer here; anything that writes to the kernel message buffer is also passed to syslog. The primary intention here is to have the messages that are in the dmesg output have timestamps.

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
Apparently there are places that log via dmesg instead of via syslog. No. Perhaps I'm missing something. I know that the messages I get via nfs_msg in nfs_socket.c I haven't been seeing in my syslogs, and when they show up in the dmesg output they are not timestamped. Somebody was

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
I just checked - I have kern.debug in my syslog.conf, so it's clear that these messages are either not being logged via syslog (either that or I have been missing them in my logs - possible, but I doubt it). H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: Oracle OCI code on FreeBSD

1999-06-21 Thread Chad David
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:14:47 EST, Dan Nelson wrote: Install the linux_devel port and resign yourself to building Linux executables whenever you have to talk to Oracle. We've _just_ been through this whole nightmare and resigned ourselves to using a Sparc for talking

Re: dmesg date/timestamps

1999-06-21 Thread Mike Smith
Apparently there are places that log via dmesg instead of via syslog. No. Perhaps I'm missing something. I know that the messages I get via nfs_msg in nfs_socket.c I haven't been seeing in my syslogs, and when they show up in the dmesg output they are not timestamped. Somebody