Re: login problem:

1999-07-04 Thread Doug
wanna. I have a user that belong to shell shell login classes, but he is not disconnected after 1 minute of idle time? Not all of the login class items work the way they are supposed to. You should probably look at 'idled' in the ports collection. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Doug
I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? Feeling a little dense, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Doug
not looked at the motd, because if they had they wouldn't need the script. Honestly, while this is one of those things that sounds good when you first start talking about it, in practice I don't see what we gain from it. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we

FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
to be able to put some of these !*#@$* Cobalt Raqs we have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install would be a lot of fun with no floppy disk Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !*#@$* Cobalt Raqs we have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install would

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-11 Thread Doug
t with anything that had known exploits. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS

Re: more amd hangs

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-12 Thread Doug
that _start() is the culprit. (Please everyone, stop laughing, thanks. :) Comments or suggestions welcome. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: more amd hangs: in _start()

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: I don't know if your diagnosis was in jest, Yes it was, but thank you for asking. :) I should have known better than to attempt subtle humor at the end of a long, tiring day. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run

Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
osix in this respect. Someone more familiar with the spec than I could tell you for sure, however I can say with relative security that subshell processes should not taint parent shell variables. Exercising my firm grasp of the obvious, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the peo

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
to a regular file, and that also worked like a charm. After :turning syslog style logging back on, it locked up cold, with a very :similar traceback. : : If anyone wants to work on this, let me know. : :Doug Are you syslogging to the console by any chance? Here is syslog.conf

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-13 Thread Doug
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to the MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like this: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-14 Thread Doug
e current ident options all suck, so it would be nice to have a freebsd version that we know will work, and once we have that then people won't need the port, but they can install it if they want to." Frankly I don't see why we're still discussing this, but then again, I do. Ho

Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?

1999-07-15 Thread Doug
it, the linux box had no free cpu and a load average of 8. :) I also (finally) got the approval to install freebsd on the fourth box (there are already two linux machines up) so A) I'm making progress in the office, and B) I should have a chance to pound on the syslog stuff tomorrow. Happy, Doug

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-18 Thread Doug
Soaking it in, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
output (like boot/bios messages, etc.) to a serial console. It comes with a built in Etherexpress Pro 100+ as well. I have an Asus P2B at home that I've run my Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 since the first of the year with no problems (and BIG fans). HTH, Doug -- On account of being

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
you reach a point of stability? Assuming you have enough physical ram you could do 15k mbufs on -Stable without a problem. Check LINT for the nmbclusters option if you need help with it. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: [Fwd: wd0 DMA errors]

1999-07-25 Thread Doug
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:59:26 MST, Doug wrote: No answer on -current, any help appreciated. We're probably all sitting here thinking "I'm sure this was asked and answered recently. He can read his CURRENT mail like the rest of us." I have i

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-25 Thread Doug
Vincent Poy wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: Greetings everyone, What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the PII/PIII

Re: [Fwd: wd0 DMA errors]

1999-07-26 Thread Doug
if the error resurfaces. Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-26 Thread Doug
it is on wcarchive, so I just pulled down all the bits and installed it the "hard" way, however I know I'm going to run into trouble down the road when ports start looking for the X stuff in /var/db/pkg. Any comments or suggestions welcome, Doug -- On account of being a democra

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-26 Thread Doug
t properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the existence of /var/db/pkg/X* is actually an error I'll report what I find to the -ports list. Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org?

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall problem. Okey dokey. As long as y'all are aware of it I'm happy, I just hadn't seen it mentioned. Thanks for clarifying, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep

Re: VMWare plug/quickie tests.

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
uot;Hmmm.. I wasn't aware of that, I'll have to pass that on." So perhaps there is hope, but I'm still not holding my breath. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
this a try. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
multiple patterns and it never occured to me that anyone would want to do this. Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine, how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better off we are for my money. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Doug
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, James Howard wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine, how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better off we are for my money. You misinterpretted, I didn't know you

Re: securelevel and ipfw zero

1999-07-28 Thread Doug
of the code, I am one, have been for years, and deploy it in many different environments (including natd, basic security, etc.). These would be very welcome additions assuming that the performance hit is negligible. Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-28 Thread Doug
format back when I was playing around with it. This is not something to be tampered with lightly. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-29 Thread Doug
because the IANA specifies them that way. I think that they try to keep both UDP and TCP ports the same, "just in case". There might be a better explanation in rfc1700 (assigned numbers) Nope, that is the official reason. Cheesy-poofs for you. :) Doug To Unsubscribe:

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
, but IIRC it boils down to dealing properly with an address of 255.255.255.255. Whoever it was that mentioned it recently on this list clearly had the right idea. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years,

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
to :place this kind of information in the man page that you suggest below? As :often as /etc/services gets read, do we really want to bloat it with :non-functional information? :... :Doug I kinda like the idea of putting the RFC numbers in comments in /etc/services. It makes

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
entries for /etc/services that make more sense than the defaults, especially for the ports 1023. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers

readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
reading of the man pages and other documentation, and a lot of experimentation. Any comments or suggestions for improvements would be welcome. Thanks, Doug amd.conf: [ global ] map_type = file search_path =/etc auto_dir = /usr/amd/realmounts

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-07-30 Thread Doug
is that there are so MANY options, and my knowledged about potential side effects is very limited. Thanks for your response, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-31 Thread Doug
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:14 MST, Doug wrote: I still haven't heard anyone answer the two key (IMO) questions. Your questions are easier answered in reverse order: and how do you justify the additional cost to parse the file for every single system call

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-31 Thread Doug
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:18 MST, Doug wrote: On some of the machines I administer I have some custom entries for /etc/services that make more sense than the defaults, especially for the ports 1023. Would you need these entries if inetd let you specify port

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Doug
Hrrmmm... I'm not sure where the concern about loopback stuff comes from. Does amd use the loopback interface to communicate with anything? Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years

Re: login.conf restrictions for suid processes possible? (fwd)

1999-08-05 Thread Doug
appreciate the confirmation. We have a pretty good relationship with the vendor so I'll take that route first. Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter wh

Re: login.conf restrictions for suid processes possible? (fwd)

1999-08-05 Thread Doug
ss doesn't want to mess with it. Thanks, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Doug
.) But seriously folks, this kind of thing happens all the time in the computer business. The best way to handle it is to keep smiling and talk to the ones who will listen, and report accurately. The word is getting out slowly. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-06 Thread Doug
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is kinda different from what the original poster received. Keep badgering! But ONLY if you ARE willing to pay for it if they make one. We don't need a repeat of the CDE debacle. Doug Hi John, Thank you for the interest in our

Please review: New 'make upgrade' web page

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
these instructions and both have been successful. I cobbled together the information from various posts to the lists over the last year and my experience doing the two upgrades. Some of the recommendations may seem overly paranoid, but please keep the target audience in mind. TIA, Doug http://home.san.rr.com

Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use. thanks, Doug

Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-09 Thread Doug
is what I'm using now. All of the web :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use. : :thanks, : :Doug Well, NFS buffers are usually sent over the network the moment they are full. If you are not running any nfsiod's I should have mentioned, I

Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-09 Thread Doug
Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing :most of the web processing. Overall

Re: ignoretime in login.conf??

1999-08-11 Thread Doug
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, the 'boolean' option is essentially undocumented in the login.conf man page. It's mentioned once, but there is no example of how it works or the fact that the @ sign is the symbol for it. The info is in login_cap(3

Re:(2) hey

1999-08-12 Thread Doug
on the global internet are letters, numbers and the dash character, "-". Underscores are not valid, at all, period. I realize that the RFC's don't seem to be clear on this point, however you can rest assured that such is the case. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: (2) hey

1999-08-12 Thread Doug
What do I know; I was just the first chair of the domain name working group in the IETF so many years ago before it got fashionable. Well, things change. :) Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government f

Re: (2) hey

1999-08-13 Thread Doug
Tony Finch wrote: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louis A. Mamakos wrote: [lost attribution] That IS a violation of the standard, since A records are not valid for hosts in in-addr.arpa. And next I suppose you'll tell me that PTR records are not valid outsize of the IN-ADDR.ARPA

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Doug
ultra-paranoid environment you could set an option that requires that the uid matchup is for the actual person, similar to the way an ssh public key/private key pair works. Hope this is useful, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in th

Re: (forw) Re: ndc(8)

1999-08-26 Thread Doug
is fundamentally different in BIND 8.2.x. This is not to say that fixing this now is not a good thing, just that it's not worth a whole LOT of time since things will be changing whenever the new BIND is imported. HTH, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' 'She said you're too young

Re: How bullet-proof should the /etc/rc* scripts be?

1999-08-26 Thread Doug
answer to the question in your subject line, I would say "More so than they are now." Comments and suggestions are welcome, preferably accompanied by unified diffs. :) Good luck with your project, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-26 Thread Doug
seem to remember it being one of those "religious" issues... 3. Anything else I should be looking at in this phase of the game? Thanks, Doug --- /etc/rc Thu Aug 26 21:02:19 1999 +++ rc Thu Aug 26 22:57:06 1999 @@ -8,24 +8,25 @@ # and the console is the controlling terminal.

Splash screen problem after being interrupted

1999-08-26 Thread Doug
to a different value, and I couldn't even C-A-D to reboot clean, I had to do a soft reset. Obviously this is a "... well don't do that" case, but I'm not sure it should be fatal. Hopefully this is of use to someone. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-26 Thread Doug
Chris Costello wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999, Doug wrote: Greetings, As previously discussed, here is a first draft of the rc* script mods. I consider the first step in this process to be Jordan's cleanup of the variable syntax. This is step 2, which most notably converts test's

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Doug
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Chris Costello wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999, Doug wrote: 2. value ) instead of value) for case statements Why? What's wrong with `value)'? Nothing functionally, but I find case statements much easier to read with the extra whitespace. Would

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Doug
Doug wrote: Greetings, As previously discussed, here is a first draft of the rc* script mods. I consider the first step in this process to be Jordan's cleanup of the variable syntax. This is step 2, which most notably converts test's dealing with variables to case wherever

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Doug
concerned about getting _my_ way on a lot of these things, so long as we get a style that is consistent and that everyone can live with. Doug--- /usr/src/etc/rc Thu Aug 26 20:56:36 1999 +++ rc Fri Aug 27 09:52:39 1999 @@ -8,24 +8,25 @@ # and the console is the controllin

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Nik Clayton wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next sentence. Well, that was definitely the old typographical convention, but in the digital

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Matthew Dillon wrote: I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-) Actually I took that class in Jr. High School, way back in '77. It was the only good advice my Jr. High guidance counselor gave me. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
I see this as step 3. of the project, and will go ahead with it after step 2. is done if there is no objection. 3. Anything else I should be looking at in this phase of the game? Doug --- /usr/src/etc/rc Sat Aug 28 13:51:10 1999 +++ rc Sat Aug 28 14:08:25 1999 @@ -8,24 +8,25 @@ # and the consol

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
Ben Smithurst wrote: Doug wrote: Okey dokey, I can take a hint. :) Can you take another one, regarding the unnecessary spaces after the values in your "case"s? i.e., that they should be taken out and shot? :-) *sigh* I am constantly flabbergasted by what pe

/usr/src/etc files without $FreeBSD tags

1999-08-28 Thread Doug
/etc/motd /usr/src/etc/namedb/named.root /usr/src/etc/rc.diskless1 /usr/src/etc/rc.diskless2 /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc /usr/src/etc/termcap.small Having the tags in the files helps mergemaster, if nothing else. :) Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make upgrade' target recently? Doug "Andy V. Oleynik" wrote: Crist, I had latly same sort of things. Fix is to define in ur /etc

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, John Birrell wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Doug wrote: I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make upgrade' target recently? `make' has

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-30 Thread Doug
m. Maybe I'm missing something though... Also, keep in mind that it's not just case sensitivity that we're working with here. It's also the fact that case is a sh builtin, as opposed to test which is not. If you want to see what I've got so far check out http://gorean.org/rcfiles/ Doug -- "

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread Doug
John Birrell wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:55:42PM -0700, Doug wrote: `make' has changed. Ok, that's the cause then, so what's the solution? :) And meanwhile is it going to hurt anything if I put a suggestion on my 'make upgrade' web page that users do 'make -DMACHINE_ARCH

Re: Minor patches to pwd_mkdb

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
add a vote for this since we have multiple machines with 16k user password files. I had intended to start looking at the code and offer a solution instead of a me too, but it sounds like others are already on the right track, so I'll be glad to test something if someone comes up with patches. Doug -- &qu

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
of the port itself, ala majordomo? That works just fine and is completely non-controversial because you don't get it unless you ask for it. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Doug
is the responsibility of the port maintainers. There is no point in adding something to the base system that will only benefit a few people when a mechanism to solve the problem which does not affect people who don't want the port(s) is already available. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, '

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Doug
why it's a bad idea. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
freebsd-hacking time tomorrow if there are any more nits to be picked. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

sysinstall nit

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
Present in -Stable and -Current. If you go to Configure | Distributions | src and attempt to choose All, the src distribution never gets selected and nothing gets installed. I can send a PR if needed, but it's such a small thing I didn't think it would be worth it. Doug To Unsubscribe

Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
than just panic(). Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Doug
of reasons. Completely beyond me to code, but very nice from the design standpoint. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: Thereis no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug
ombo, just wondering if it's duplicating existing technology. Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'"

TSC vs. I8254 (Was: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 mp_clock.c)

1999-09-20 Thread Doug
ations I tried. Well, I'm finally in a position where I have a third computer to try, and lo and behold my workstation machine can run a serial console just fine, but the server machine was all scrambled. So, last night I bought a serial port card and voila, FINALLY I have a serial console. TIA for

Re: TSC vs. I8254 (Was: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 mp_clock.c)

1999-09-20 Thread Doug
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: I know that someone will be tempted to warn me about the evils of overclocking, but please don't. :) However, just in case anyone is interested either the overclocking or the overdrive chip seems to have fried the on-board serial ports on this machine

Re: The -o port=xxx option in NFS

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
. Why do you want to specify the port? If you have no need to do that, just leave the option out. Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Doug
like : pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/netscape-communicator-4.61/ A hearty "Me too" for this option. It's something I've often wished for. I can 'cd /var/db/pkg' a lot easier than I can reprogram zsh, but it'd still be nice to have this option. Thanks, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm

Re: here to help

1999-09-27 Thread Doug
will see in there are instructions for new users who want to contribute to the project. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-29 Thread Doug
Doug wrote: Takanori Watanabe wrote: Not necessary. The mainboards of the ASUS P2B series have everything onboard that you need. We have it working with the intpm0 driver and a tool called "lm" that I donwloaded from somewhere in Japan (forgot the URL, sorry).

Re: zalloci/pv_entry problem (Was: Weird sockname errors with-current and apache)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug
dumps when the machine comes back. Thanks, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

New crash, NFS/multiple frees related. (Was: zalloci/pv_entry problem)

1999-10-06 Thread Doug
it's just bad luck. In any case, here is the latest data. Any input would be appreciated. I can resend the pertinent details to anyone who needs them. Thanks, Doug Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode mp_lock = 0005; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 0100 fault virtual address

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread Doug
lp mail me and let me know. Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

How to determine data/text/stack sizes of running proccesses?

1999-10-14 Thread Doug
now and haven't found anything that will give me this information on a running process. Any pointers would be welcome. Thanks, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: how mkdir without .. ?

1999-10-16 Thread Doug
need to do is remove the world rx permissions on the parent directory, and make sure that they don't have access via the group permissions. You might also want to look at chroot. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Un

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-16 Thread Doug
n some IBM DeskStar drives on us, and they've been no end of trouble. He _may_ live to regret his "mistake." The good news is that the first machine rebuilt with the SCSI drives and using ncr0 + fxp0 is not showing any signs of trouble. Crossing fingers, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Heavily loaded nfs/amd gets stuck

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
to look at just about anything at this point. Just thought you might have missed the obvious. *Nod* That's always a possibility, NFS is definitely not my thing, although I'm learning more and more about it as I go along. :-/ Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-21 Thread Doug
, and then disable one service with a -d for don't wrap, and vv. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

[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 d

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

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 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 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: Inetd and wrapping.

1999-06-24 Thread Doug
should ship with per service toggles, and all of them toggled off, with a hosts.allow with nothing but ALL : ALL in it. But then again I've been called overcautious. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-24 Thread Doug
and more common (and they will be, fast and furious) multi-processor and NFS are for all practical purposes already the reality now, and will only be more so in the future. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-24 Thread Doug
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:54:37AM -0700, Doug wrote: In short, increasing SMP efficiency should really be a priority for N2 systems. Agreed. But this is a BIG job, because to do that you have to solve the one big kernel lock problem

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