Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-17 Thread Danny Braniss
On 16.03.2007, at 16:59, John Nielsen wrote: A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE card, which to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if any such cards are currently supported in FreeBSD, but that's a tangential question.)

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: David S. Madole wrote: From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the

Re: Moving applications from sgtty.h to termios.h

2007-03-17 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello, * Ed Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year Kris made a list of applications that still make use of sgtty.h: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-June/064010.html I took a look at all the ports in the list, except the internationalized ones (Japanese,

nve: ethernet address reversal code

2007-03-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
I am wondering what is the purpose of the following pieces of code in if_nve.c: /* ... nve_attach ... */ /* MAC is loaded backwards into h/w reg */ sc-hwapi-pfnGetNodeAddress(sc-hwapi-pADCX, sc-original_mac_addr); for (i = 0; i 6; i++) { eaddr[i] =

Re: nve: ethernet address reversal code

2007-03-17 Thread Danny Braniss
I am wondering what is the purpose of the following pieces of code in if_nve.c: /* ... nve_attach ... */ /* MAC is loaded backwards into h/w reg */ sc-hwapi-pfnGetNodeAddress(sc-hwapi-pADCX, sc-original_mac_addr); for (i = 0; i 6; i++) { eaddr[i] =

Re: pkgupgrade

2007-03-17 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Dear Michel, On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:59:25PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: this is to announce version 1.2 of pkgupgrade, a python tool aimed at upgrading freebsd ports installations mainly using binary packages. It has a companion program pkg_save.py by Cyrille Szymanski which performs

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

2007-03-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
I was recently grepping a directory and outputting to a file located in the same directory as follows: grep -ri {key} * {key}.found The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found file and eventually ate up all the free space on the device (~12GB). Thankfully it wasn't one of

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

2007-03-17 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Garret, Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: I was recently grepping a directory and outputting to a file located in the same directory as follows: grep -ri {key} * {key}.found The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found file and eventually

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

2007-03-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: Garret, Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: I was recently grepping a directory and outputting to a file located in the same directory as follows: grep -ri {key} * {key}.found The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found

Re: One method to recover a lost root password

2007-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote: now edit the master password file vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc It automaticly updates the right

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

2007-03-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
James Bailie wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: grep -ri {key} * {key}.found The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found file and eventually ate up all the free space on the device (~12GB). The shell is redirecting stdout onto the found file before it is expanding the glob

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
... A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE card, which to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if any such cards are currently supported in FreeBSD, but that's a tangential question.) I really doubt this. TOE iSCSI cards are quite