Re: I would like to know more about VFS and VM

2000-06-26 Thread Doug White
://www.daemonnews.org/ I'm requiring unionfs/nullfs to be working to use in jails. I'm ready to give some time to make changes in implementation to be working. If you're starting from nothing you have a lot to learn. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sysinstall script disklabel problems -- help

2000-06-29 Thread Doug White
also perhaps post some examples that do work? Hint: don't. :-) I suggest looking at the PicoBSD install disk for a tried-and-true way of doing this. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Sticky Keys ?

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
Pascal Hofstee wrote: Hi, A co-worker of mine who is mobilly handicapped, uses a Windows "Accessibillity option" called "Sticky Keys" I vaguely remember a discussion about this have you searched the mail archives? Doug -- "Live free or die

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
to be accused of fostering a debate Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
l be happy to submit a patch if needed. If it isn't expected behavior, where could I be going wrong? I don't do anything unusual with termcap. Thanks, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!?

Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
John Baldwin wrote: XTerm*termName: xterm-color Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle the update of the ls man page, or do you want me to PR a patch? Umm, honestly, this

Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
John Baldwin wrote: On 04-Jul-00 Doug Barton wrote: John Baldwin wrote: XTerm*termName: xterm-color Ok, that's a good solution, I was just using .bashrc. My point is not so much why, but that it be properly documented. Do you want to handle the update of the ls man

Re: NATD errors on 5.0

2000-07-05 Thread Doug White
with then restrict as needed. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

[Fwd: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable?]

2000-07-06 Thread Doug Barton
Reports about this are getting more frequent, FYI. Original Message Subject: Re: Cant build 3.5-stable? Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:36:16 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Magpage Internet Services To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL

Re: driver

2000-07-07 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Sergio Faustino wrote: To make the QuickCam (grayscale) work with Windows NT machines you must install an NT driver. I'd like to know as to get this driver. Ask in a NT forum, then. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
something. I assume the loader didn't set this so people changing the baud rate wouldn't have to do it all over the place. If someone provides more insight then I should be able to make the required changes and submit them. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
you would be okay. Current FreeBSD does this in the boot blocks and not the loader. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

2000-07-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Paul Saab writes: | Doug Ambrisko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | Paul Saab writes: | | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc | | Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts | using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, i

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

2000-07-13 Thread Doug Barton
e sensible. Thanks for your suggestion, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Boot loader problem workaround

2000-07-15 Thread Doug White
ad0 (maybe in rc). What I cant find is whether or not there is a non-interactive way of doing so. I looked into using a configfile, but that nukes the partition tables. Anyone wanna play with this or have any input? It would be nice if a command like fdisk -a -1 ad0 would just set it instead of ask

Re: config and config -r

2000-07-15 Thread Doug Barton
(which it does most of the time) it works, and it's safe to use. If it doesn't work, you should go back and use config -r. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

suprising mount root behavior

2000-07-21 Thread Doug White
(and subsequently fail)? Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-27 Thread Doug White
threadsafe, you'll have to bug [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. Patches gladly accepted :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?

2000-07-28 Thread Doug Barton
? CW on this is varied, but the current trend is that /tmp on a md is just a waste of ram, since (basically) everything in /tmp is in ram twice. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?

2000-07-30 Thread Doug Barton
Adam wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: Ted Sikora wrote: A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with 4.1-STABLE with softupdates. I'm really happy with the performance. What

Re: CRACK - Dreamweaver

2000-07-31 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Richard Stoodley wrote: Hi Can you tell me where I can get Crack www.virtualcrack.com Go send yourself some. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-05 Thread Doug White
other data structure. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd and non-preemtive threads

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
aren't too difficult to set up in C, you could use http://www.nightmare.com/medusa, a Python implementation, as a starting point. Also most NNTP servers have been using techniques like this for years. The key to these types of systems is that they don't spend much time per

Re: fam and fmon?

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Does anyone have fam working with fmon yet? The sgi page has a few mentions of it but they're a few months old. man kqueue Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send

RE: freebsd and non-preemtive threads

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
ivial port of it to kqueue and are working on a better integration module. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Testers wanted: nsswitch

2000-08-22 Thread Doug White
sion about a year ago that NetBSD's nsswitch is serializing, which for heavy DNS use is a major performance hit. I don't recall if a design ever came out of it. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Auto DMA vs. Manual DMA Settings... FBSD 3.51

2000-08-25 Thread Doug White
upgrading to a proper DMA66 cable and see if that helps. My question ... can I use the ad driver from 4.x with 3.51-RELEASE? This problem doesn't occur under 4.0 or 4.1-RELEASE/STABLE. If this is possible ... how? No, the ata driver is not available on 3.X. Doug White

Re: Cyclades Cyclom Ze (64 serialportboard)

2000-08-31 Thread Doug White
to use but the card wouldn't init. We put it in a standard pentium box and it worked. We still have that card with a 16 port box that I've been tempted to play with. We ended up using good ol' cisco 2511s. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cyclades Cyclom Ze (64 serialportboard)

2000-09-02 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Arjan Knepper wrote: Doug White wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Arjan Knepper wrote: Anyone experience with this board? Any comments? Recomandations? I have a ze card that we bought for use as a cheap term server, but found that the card is particular about

Re: Need quick help.

2000-09-05 Thread Doug White
network. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: my crummy diskless howto page

2000-09-15 Thread Doug White
-RELEASE comes out. http://www.cs.McGill.CA/~mat/diskless/ If you find any problems, esp. ones that reveal inside info about us, please let me know. It's already out of date -- loader can mount NFS natively now and no longer requires the mfsroot image. Mike Smith can elaborate. Doug

mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-16 Thread Doug Barton
t away! If you have some additional suggestions of your own, don't hesitate to add those on as well. I finally have some time to work with this, and I'd really like to get something that's ready to MFC by the 9/22 deadline for the 4.1.1 release. Keep those cards and letters coming, Doug --

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Doug Barton
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: Doug Barton writes: .. And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal p

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-25 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Do you mean as long as I can

Re: writing to disk

2000-09-29 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk? Sequentially. Disks run an order of magnitude faster if they have sequential data. Don't get too fancy with the ordering since the disk driver will just reorder it for you. Doug White

Re: IDE drives doing BBR?

2000-10-04 Thread Doug White
disk. Run until clean. Running it right now in fact. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Making /etc/defaults/rc.conf a configuration file.

2000-10-04 Thread Doug Barton
e to the work that's happening on the rc files in netbsd that some here have discussed bringing over, in whole or in part. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: WEP keys for an driver

2000-10-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
does not include a way to set WEP keys If you look at http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an.patch.wep. It includes the changes to both sides to enable WEP in the various modes and the various keys. I've been to busy to submit this, but I finally did today. Some people have been using this code

Re: WEP keys for an driver

2000-10-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
. | | You need to add ancontrol support or the patch is basicaly useless. I'm | looking forward to some sort of working crypto support for the aironet | cards. Well if you just download mine for now again at www.ambrisko.com/doug/an.patch.wep That will get you going. Some people other

Re: Where to post...

2000-10-18 Thread Doug Barton
you for taking to time to offer yours. It helps make the work we do worthwhile. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mfsroot over nfs and optional install.cfg ??

2000-10-19 Thread Doug White
all.cfg for sysinstall to run instead of having to point at differnt install.cfg's via dhcpd.conf ... You're in the 'hack sysinstall' arena. You can recompile it to use a different path for the install.cfg. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PRO

Re: can't build custom kernel

2000-10-21 Thread Doug Barton
might want to delete them and install a fresh set with cvsup. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/isa/Attic/isa_compat.h?rev=1.27.2.6content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup for the current version of this file in RELENG_4. Good luck, Doug -- "The dead c

Re: irq status

2000-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jamie Heckford wrote: Is their a tool out their or does anyone have a quick bit of code / hack that will "probe" all of the irqs on my box and tell me which ones are used / available?? dmesg | grep irq Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Se

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
-128 "192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot"; You then have to make the swap file in that directory of format swap.IP of client Use dd to create the file by copying /dev/zero for the size you want. Note during boot up the kernel will tell you what it is using for swap via this requ

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
me/ambrisko/netboot"; Then in boot messages you should see: rootfs is 192.168.2.254:/usr/home/ambrisko/netboot swapfs is 192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
ig of a file and then mount that as swap. I think the vnconfig man pages describes this. Hopefully it works over NFS. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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

2000-11-08 Thread Doug White
. Small processes. On the postfix list, it seems someone has heard from several FreeBSD "experts" that FreeBSD should not be run at above maxusers = 128, while somebody else said they were running with 256 happily. Depends on the release... I would not go above 256.

Re: daemon()

2000-11-09 Thread Doug Barton
be reported to the maintainer, who actively responds to and fixes reported problems. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kqueue()/kevent(), select() and poll()

2000-11-19 Thread Doug White
thread. Do you think it's possible and that it won't cause some portability problems ? Also, select() works on more descriptors than kqueue/kevent() does currently (i.e. NFS). Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe

Re: Really odd BTX halted problem booting FreeBSD on VALinuxhardware

2000-10-29 Thread Doug White
tables on the disks. It does it if ANY of the disks are done 'dangerously dedicated.' The easy solution: always put proper partitions on your disks. The hard solution: figure out what nastiness Adaptec is doing and slap their hand. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: PXE boot problem.

2000-11-30 Thread Doug White
integer 8; Problem #2: This is not required, and is in fact wrong. tftp != mtftp. Unless you have an MTFTP server around ... I highly suggest doing it the old fashioned way with boot-file. PXE will fault over to RPL/'normal' mode very quickly and works perfectly. Doug White

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-08 Thread Doug Barton
then some. If you are doing serious DNS debugging, you have to learn dig, period. HTH, Doug -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: SCTP implementation and pccard.conf change for Cisco 802.11B 340series cards

2000-12-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I Well you are sort-of right ... look at -current and it's there. Patches for stable are at http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an.patch.wep3 for the latest greatest stuff. Several people have this code in use for a while. I've been collecting patches and posting diff's at my website and sending announces to

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-17 Thread Doug Barton
of client side NFS locks, so I'm highly motivated to test this out if it can be ported to either -stable or -current. Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodor

National Semiconductor 82c168/82c169 driver

2000-12-18 Thread Doug Luce
i0 instead of fxp0 (for an Intel card)... Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

National Semiconductor DP83815

2000-12-18 Thread Doug Luce
On my previous message, please ignore the designation I gave for the card. The card I'm messing with is a Bay Netgear FA311, based on the National Semiconductor DP83815. My pasting ability was somewhat hampered during the last composition. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: diskless/pxe boot

2000-12-18 Thread Doug White
. For newer PXE revs (2.X), you want build 082 or later. Everything before is broken in some way. The 0.99c version of the Boot Agent (on older fxp cards) is fine, however. The Intel 810 firmware is quite broken; a fixed one will be available shortly. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-01 Thread Doug Barton
your proposed changes are a good idea, which is why I refrained from offering any suggestions on how you can test them. Just so you wouldn't think you were being ignored, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
oadcasting ARPs on all interfaces. For this reason multihomed Linux boxes should be banned. We got tired of it at my previous job and patched around it on the linux machine. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe:

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
)? kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have to calculate the appropriate offset to get to the KLD code in gdb. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-04 Thread Doug White
, otherwise if you were running as root and loaded a linux lib into a freebsd binary, then that lib called fcntl(), your system would reboot :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-05 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find out which code

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-05 Thread Doug Barton
Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ this message is no personal affront against you, Doug, but an expression of what feeling this kind of behaviour causes for those who want to share and find themselves ignored ] Actually, I wouldn't care if it were, but thanks for the clarification. FYI, you

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
. This is an issue in current as well. The patch looks good to me. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director, Qube Software Ltd. Phone: +44 20 7431 9995 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-09 Thread Doug Barton
Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ citing from Doug's message in the "OT: silence ..." subthread to keep the technical discussion in the "how to test" subthread ] On Tue, Jan 05, 2001 at 14:45 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: You stated in another post that you wished I had

Re: kobj, makedevops.pl etc.

2001-01-09 Thread Doug Rabson
the driver, using makeobjops.pl instead of makedevops.pl. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-09 Thread Doug Barton
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Tue 2001-01-09 (02:14), Doug Barton wrote: Gerhard Sittig wrote: You're blowing the significance of this part of your argument WAY out of proportion. After long discussion we've picked times for the periodic jobs that are the best overall choices

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
nd shouldn't be running FreeBSD anyway!" with an option. Well, this paragraph is obviously an attempted dig at me, but you're dramatically misrepresenting my position, as explained above. Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: Hello again. On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Tue 2001-01-09 (02:14), Doug Barton wrote: The point I'm trying (obviously in vain) to make is having cron do what amounts to "slewing its int

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
which has been explained. What you are seeing is opposition to the idea itself. I'm not going to waste time analyzing the implementation of what I think is a bad idea. :) Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do i

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's much smarter than it really is. When I try to use the mouse through it with FreeBSD (-current from around Christmas, but I also

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-11 Thread Doug Barton
Gerhard Sittig wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:14 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Gerhard Sittig wrote: It's not that I want to talk you into something you don't want. But that's exactly what you're trying to do. Honestly -- no! :) Alright, I give up. Your post just

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-13 Thread Doug Barton
Could you guys remove my name from the Cc: list on this thread please? I've already made my position quite clear. Thanks, Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without co

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
premature and indefensable. Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "The Replacements" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: This needs to be backed out immediately. This isn't even close to what was discussed in -hackers. After LONG, often pointless discussion, the following points were agreed to there. Could you please look

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
of the ICH has a pull up resistor on it then the TCO reset is disabled and will not reset the system. I ran into this on a motherboard at a prior company. You cannot via SW disable this feature :-( I have code for the SIS 630 chipset that I can give to anyone interested. Doug

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
it on, though. I don't have direct access to HW anymore but have working code. I've been watching the HW watchdog stuff and can add it once some of these issues have been resolved. All of my current code is quick hacks to get around immediate issues but it is in production. Doug

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
shot so it de-bounced it. I could get multiple on a CPU NMI pin. How hard is to setup and trap SMI via a FreeBSD only solution? I haven't really looked much at that area but sounds useful. Doug A. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?

2004-04-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:17, Lev Walkin wrote: Brandon Erhart wrote: For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and Parasoft's INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular reason for this?

Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:39, zera holladay wrote: Under a kind suggestion, I am re-submitting this e-mail with a different subject. The old message was: Hello, I am looking for a very quiet ATX mid-tower and I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion or recommendation. My hard disks

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:15, Ivan Voras wrote: Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: IV How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The linux code IV does this: IV retval = ioctl(thisint-sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr); IV IV After some

Re: The continued remote debugging saga...

2004-09-01 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 18:15, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Rob Deker wrote this message on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:38 -0400: So, after a lot of work and help from folks here, I've gotten remote gdb functioning (thanks again to those who helped. In the end there was a bad cable in the mix

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
Oh, I love replying to my own posts :) On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Doug Russell wrote: Try addingconv=sync,noerrorto your dd line. If most of the data after the defect(s) can be read, you'll end up with an almost complete partition which will likely run. You can then fsck and restore

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
it is gone from the system even if that bucket isn't fully used or needed :-( Ironically the more memory you put in a system the less you can do with the system! A lot of people are starting to run into this problem since large memory machines are cheap. Doug

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jim Durham writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On Friday 01 October 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Jim Durham writes: | | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period | | of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem

Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
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Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
many, many times. Having an ESR tester is handy, also. Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
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Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
, I don't mind it at all. Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
be a much, much better approach. Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-04 Thread Doug Russell
is that machine doing at that time? Does it start a backup job, or any kind of maintenance at that time? Anything at all? I'd monitor what the heck the machine is doing to some remote machine and see what goes on when it dies. Later...Doug

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-07 Thread Doug Russell
do the full 14 pattern tests before I put a SCSI disk in service. Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
instead of 42.whatever it was. :) Later.. Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
that I've never had to go back and write my own. (Wrote a MUCH less advanced one back in the day for my MFM drives on the perstor to watch for ECC errors, even correctible ones, and make a real 'map') Long live SCSI disks! :) Later.. Doug

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
Gotta love when you reply to your own posts... :) On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Doug Russell wrote: If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there... All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each sector. You can do this yourself, even on a running system, also. I

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
syn with another HDD. Any better suggestion? | | This is the best that you can get under FreeBSD 4.x. If you need access | to both IDE channels and SATA at the same time, you'll have to use FreeBSD | 5.x. There is: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch for 4.10

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: | | DM DA There is: | DM DA http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch | DM DA for 4.10. That deals with Intel and Promise SATA stuff and | DM DA ata-raid fixes/enhancements. It deals with legacy

Re: Two keyboards

2005-01-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
a keyboard. To get data from the USB I just did a cat /dev/ukbd0 for scans. They've had built-in wdges. Makes it really easy to integrate into systems. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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