Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:06:18AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: Early reports from Mac enthusiast sites (and I believe similar reports from IBM users) indicate that the hysteresis is so small that gently pounding the table the notebook is sitting on will make the drive park the heads,

Re: 5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now?

2005-05-01 Thread David Scheidt
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Why would FS's be being corrupted by shutdown -p now where as reboot doesnt seem to? Maybe the machine is being powered down before your disks have finished writing their data to disk. My ThinkPad has done

/etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored

2005-02-01 Thread David Scheidt
If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not the vehavior I expected. It looks like it's the usage of strpbrk() in the gethostent() function of src/lib/libc/net/gethostbyht.c. It wouldn't be hard

Re: Two keyboards

2005-01-21 Thread David Scheidt
Julian Elischer wrote: Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: Hi For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards (actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)). you can already do this.. what makes you call the scanner a keyboard? Proabably, because it acts like one? I don't know

Re: nfs within jail

2004-12-16 Thread David Scheidt
Matt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, there's nfsshell, an FTP-like client. just google for nfsshell. Won't help in case of NFS4, I guess :-( Stefan Thanks. I'd like to try the nfsshell, but I can't get it to build. It doesn't appear to be a port either. I'm an amateur C coder at

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Jim Durham wrote: These are very rare except they seem to happen about once a day for a while and then stop... very strange.. and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply, overheating CPU, bad RAM). Possible, but if so, the hardware fixed

Re: general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?)

2004-06-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Jun 5, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote: Now the question of course is: where can I find it? It is somewhere in a CVS repository (that would be nicest), or are it raw sourcefiles only? Edwin, now owning a Mac so not really familiar with things

Re: ALT-sp (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a singleargumen)

2001-10-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Greg Shenaut wrote: Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with 0xa0 instead of 0x20? All the times my file names have actual information in them? If I want to create a file with a

Re: memory + apache

2001-08-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dan wrote: : :i am seeing problems where apache is running into swap at times. :When all is said and done...i see alot of available memory from top :and alot still stuck in swap. Restarting apache at that point clears the :swap space right out and memory is used properly

Re: if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Devin Butterfield wrote: :Hi folks, : :I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for the :metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes in a WLAN). :Before I do this, I thought I should first check to see if anyone else had

Re: crash dump output

2001-08-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: : Maybe it's offtopic a bit, but can you please give exact instructions of how : to compile debug kernel ? My machine crashes sometimes too, I tried to compile : debug kernel, but it seemed not so easy and I gave up due to lack of time. Or : is

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: : :- Original Message - :From: Alex Zepeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:34:43PM -0400, Joseph Gleason wrote: : : In FreeBSD, how can I determine the size of a file in C++ when the file :is : greater than 4gb? : : Currently,

Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, James Howard wrote: :On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lars Kühl wrote: : : Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes. : Use dump instead. : :A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that :great either. There is no way to exlude

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: :Max Khon wrote: : : hi, there! : :what is arcnet? : It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: :Wes Peters wrote: : Just because you don't see it doesn't make it a bad idea. Network admins : begged for years for a centralized IP address space management server; : now that they've been given one (that works, and is FREE) people like you : bitch about

Re: find and quota find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Mark Stosberg wrote: : :Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some :missing files. Using find and quota to find the same files, I get :different results. For example: : : :root@nollie vector1 find /usr -user evan -print | wc -l :

Re: brainstorm: intermediate disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 28 May 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote: : :Of course, with 36 GB drives readily available, maybe I shouldn't worry :until I have a database larger than 72 GB. ;-) If you're really interested in database performance, remember Spindles is good. Spreading your IO load over as many seperate disks,

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: : :Point taken, but the yank power, see who survives test is illogical :and dangerous thinking. Depends on the enviornment. I've had lots of machines just lose power. People will pull power cords out, the back-up generators won't start before the

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: : I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to : recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point : in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. : : The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-size

Re: Anyone managed to get microns ClientPro's X going

2001-04-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :* Alwyn Goodloe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010415 19:54] wrote: : : We have several systems like our Micron ClientPros running FreeBSD. : : These machines have the Intel 82810E chip in it and what seems forever : there has only been XFree86 drivers for

Re: pmap bomb on 4.0-STABLE

2001-04-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: :A friend of mine swears by this memory testing utility: : :http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/ : :Apparently it tries a bunch of diffrent test patters that are likely to find :memory problems that a simple test wouldn't find. It is cool

Re: Locking and Mail spool Files

2001-03-25 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote: : :Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on :older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct? : You don't want to put mail spools on NFS filesystems. If you must, use the maildir format, ala qmail. David Scheidt

Re: Fw: Debugging kernel crashes

2001-03-21 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Gurpratap Virdi wrote: :Hi, : : :I have the following questions related to the above instructions though. :I understand we can use dumpon(8) to tell the kernel to dump the core file :to a swap partition. If our system is only configured with one swap :partition, can we

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: : :This box is rather a FreeBSD advocacate itself, as you will see why. Indeed. : :It runs an self-wrote PERL SMTP daemon. (Sendmail and Postfix croaks) How do sendmail and postfix croak? How much mail are you transporting? If you really can't

Re: Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)

2001-03-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following :stats: : :free physical mem (avail ram) This is going to be quite small on any busy machine, or machine that has a reasonable uptime. The VM system will cache things unless

Re: changing a running process's credentials

2000-11-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, void wrote: :Does anyone remember the article in Phrack, issue 53 I think, about :speaking Forth to a Sun's boot-prom in order to write a '0' into the UID :member of one's shell's struct proc? Yes. It works a treat. Similar steps let you do the same thing with DDB or

Re: Time to close the list?

2000-11-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Keith Jones wrote: :On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: : At 3:08 PM + 11/2/00, Terry Lambert wrote: : 3. Automatically delete all MIME parts with: : : Content-Type: application/* : : Which are ever sent via the list

Re: 16 port 10/100 hubs/switches.

2000-10-31 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: :I just went out bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port :10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established :that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I :current have connected

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: :We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD :shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad :term (no doubt coined by the linux camp). : It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 12 Oct 1988, Dennis wrote: :At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: :On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: : ::We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD ::shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad ::term (no doubt coined

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: : :Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of :a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports :collection) you can allow different people access to the same server. I'd think that a monitor, a keyboard, and a

Re: Monitoring user activity

2000-09-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: :hi , : :I'm look for a way to monitor what happens on my servers :I need to know each command being executed? : :is there away to do that . System accounting should do most of what you want. See accton(8), sa(8), lastcomm(1) to start with. David

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: : I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from : NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. : : I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how : to work reliably with them. : : "man vinum" : :

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be. :I am wery glad that now mostly no need in SCSI drives at all.

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: :Plus different manufacturers have different reliability - :if you use Seagate SCSI disks and someone else's IDE then you most :certainly will see a lot more SCSI disk failures. : :-SB, Seagate Hater : I've had almost a thousand Seagates in service for

RE: 4.1 lockup at isa0: on reboot

2000-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
liar going on. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS

2000-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Daryl Chance wrote: :Hi, : :I know that in 4.0 Release that miibus was required, though :not marked. I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not :marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still :not marked? I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus

Re: PC compatibility cards.

2000-08-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Paul Halliday wrote: :Hi. : :Kinda off topic, but maybe not. : :I just aquired a few pc compatibility cards. From what I can ascertain :they have an onboard p166 processor, 16m ram, 2 meg ati video, 256k :cache, etc. Anyway, after a little reading i figured out what

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-27 Thread David Scheidt
On 26 Jun 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: :I was considering this for a project I developed: web up/download of :lots of large files. I was using MySQL and some of the folks on that :list recommended not storing large files in the DB: even though the :disk consumption is the same, if it's in a DB you

Re: NFS client locks.

2000-06-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: :Hi, : :I have a Linux box as an NFS server and a FreeBSD box which acts as an :NFS client. If I explicitly shutdown the NFS services in the Linux box, :actions like 'df', 'ls /mnt' (/mnt is the mount point of the remote :directory), or even

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread David Scheidt
nd I often don't notice, because I have to move my hand from the mouse back to hte keyboard. I'm probably not a typical user, of course. David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: :Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... : : Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more : than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response : and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory :

Re: Write-protected floppy crash

2000-06-06 Thread David Scheidt
a difference that this happens when you dd to the device, without going through a filesystem layer? I don't ever use filesystems on floppies, and have had this crash. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread David Scheidt
count then? This is a directory NFS-mounted from a NetApp. The .snapshot directory is a lifesaver, and support cost cutter. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: gmake pb's

2000-03-24 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Len Conrad wrote: Really axious to give Listar a whirl, please help me get through gmake. I don't have a 3.x development enviornment, so I can't see what happens on 3.4. I've built listar on 3.2 systems with no trouble. The changes you need to make are to define BSDMOD,

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Chris Costello wrote: On Monday, March 06, 2000, Max Khon wrote: However, under Solaris 2.6: clone$uname -a SunOS clone 5.6 Generic_105181-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine clone$/bin/ksh clone$for i in ; do echo $i; done /bin/ksh: syntax error: `;' unexpected

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: Upon reading of Microsoft's fabulous innovations in the filesystem arena, I started playing with some ideas of my own (not to be confused with ORIGINAL ideas) Can someone tell me why copy-on-write filesystems would be bad? It wouldn't be.

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: I don't know... I'm still to get it to boot on mine (NetBSD runs fine, but for some bizzare reason, FreeBSD insists on a serial console ;) Anyway, alphas are boring compared to Itanium. What else can you say about a chip with 3MB of L3 cache

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: Not with LVD. The whole point was to be able to have longer SCSI busses. LVD allows SCSI bus cable lengths up to 25 meters. With 16 devices the limit is 12 meters. That's 36 feet, folks! Which isn't really that much, once you

Re: scsi target mode

2000-02-15 Thread David Scheidt
breaking bus termination. Very handy if you need to do work on one system without disturbing the application running on the other. I advise against putting a SCSI controller in the middle, unless you use a Y cable. Regards, David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: scsi target mode

2000-02-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:39:24AM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: Maybe you can find Y-cables from DEC/Compaq. Or something we call a trilink, which has 2 female and 1 male connector. We tend to use trilinks on raid controllers. HP sells them, which

Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy?

2000-01-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jan Conrad wrote: I now resolved the problem by mounting the root dir of the other machine by nfs and copying directly from that. Doing this I found - to my great surprise - that FreeBSD's root filesystem neither contains rsh/rlogin nor tar!! dms@rally3 ~ 239$ which

Re: sppp behaviour

2000-01-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Mark Newton wrote: I have the problem that with FreeBSDs isdn (i4b) my rlogin (ssh) sessions die (are rendered unusable - lock o' city) regularly when the idle timer drops the connection. A subsequent awaking of the connection results in a different IP address

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-18 Thread David Scheidt
-mail from some SMTP client to some SMTP server. Think about it before you fire it up. You are essentially launching a DOS attack on somebody's mail server. In some jurisdictions, that's a felony. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-18 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, David Scheidt wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In a nutshell, teergrubing is the name that has been given to a simple technique that exploits a small but significant known weakness of most SMTP client implementations. This weakness

Re: tmpfs .. ?

1999-12-05 Thread David Scheidt
/README.softupdates, which tells you what you need to get them to work, and http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/CSE-TR-254-95/ David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: tmpfs .. ?

1999-12-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you P.S. The other reference you gave: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/CSE-TR-254-95/ seem to no longer be useful/functional. That is because it should be ~ganger/CSE-TR-254-95/ To Unsubscribe: send

Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

1999-12-04 Thread David Scheidt
he systems I have dealt with this is the perfectly correct way to describe them. If you are going to make totally ignorant statements at least try to get the semantics right. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Inverting a gdb -k mapping?

1999-12-03 Thread David Scheidt
related to it) is trashing the stack and trying to return to 0x0 is panic'ing the kernel (of course). Have you looked a t Greg Lehey's how to debug vinum pages at http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html ? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: tty level buffer overflows

1999-12-03 Thread David Scheidt
it is the number of characters that it failed to be copied from the linear buffer to clist chain. It should be possible to increase the size of the buffer a bit, but I haven't figured it out yet. sio.c has changed a lot since the last time I hacked at it. david scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS

1999-11-16 Thread David Scheidt
spools. Maildir solves this problem. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Severe problems with softupdates.

1999-11-12 Thread David Scheidt
touched weren't in use, but a couple I was editing at the time. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: (forw) Reversing 32Upgrade package

1999-11-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Mark Newton was heard blurting out: If it's a production system you will have had backups from immediately before your upgrade, and reversing the upgrade will be a simple matter of restoring your backups.

Re: Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread David Scheidt
systems. The Missed 'em V behavior was created for this. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread David Scheidt
do. I have lost cylinder groups in panics on systems with soft-updates. (I was using a very buggy kernel module, so things were *hosed*). The original poster hasn't really provided enough information to know what is going on, and what the performance problem is. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread David Scheidt
e my /home filesystem got fscked nearly every reboot. /usr would only be if the machine was up a really long time. DAvid Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joe Abley wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:29:54AM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: To put it slightly more strongly: as far as I'm concerned ext2 is not a serious fs if you really care about handling power failures and other such fun things. I'm not sure I've ever

Re: su-ing a user remotely

1999-10-27 Thread David Scheidt
pen? I do this on sparc boxes occaisonally using the nifty forth interperter in the boot ROM to change the UID of some process. Handy for recovering random lost passwords. I suspect that you could do the same with a debugger on FreeBSD, but haven't really thought about it. David scheidt To Unsubsc

RE: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-10-27 Thread David Scheidt
clear what else you would do, though. Most people don't know enough to fix things that fsck can't. If it hoses the box, restore from backup. It is what they are for! David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread David Scheidt
I would think you want this the default behavior. David Scheidt, waiting till Mac OS X to replace his Quadra 605. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-24 Thread David Scheidt
off hand. (I think it is pass0). David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R

1999-09-22 Thread David Scheidt
threshold, so that an operator has a chance to intervene and correct the problem. Clearly, this won't solve all problems. I think it could be made quite useful, thoguh. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which obviously isn't good for the caches

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which obviously isn't good for the caches

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme writes: : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use : two's-complement numbers... I'm not aware of any one's-complement

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message 199909151928.vaa26...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de Oliver Fromme writes: : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use : two's-complement numbers... I'm

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bios

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
this, over an ssh-forwarded local port, even. It all more less "Just worked". On a win98 box, even. shudder. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed me to

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bios

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
this, over an ssh-forwarded local port, even. It all more less Just worked. On a win98 box, even. shudder. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed me to

Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD

1999-09-08 Thread David Scheidt
, as it is difficult to run fsck, which lives on the root filesystem, without mounting the root filesystem. You shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem, except for this. The results are generally not fun. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD

1999-09-08 Thread David Scheidt
, as it is difficult to run fsck, which lives on the root filesystem, without mounting the root filesystem. You shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem, except for this. The results are generally not fun. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread David Scheidt
now. You can't buy non-winmodem's You can buy winmodems cheap because they are cheap crap. they force the host system to do everything useful. Network quake players will keep the real modem on a PCI card going for a while yet. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread David Scheidt
don't expect to see them as part of the base distribution anytime soon. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: nobody knows the answer?

1999-09-01 Thread David Scheidt
) tunables are not something that need to tuned by the user. If you are tuning them, you should have a full understand of what the tunables do, and what the side effects of fiddling with them are. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: nobody knows the answer?

1999-09-01 Thread David Scheidt
) tunables are not something that need to tuned by the user. If you are tuning them, you should have a full understand of what the tunables do, and what the side effects of fiddling with them are. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
out? Assuming I can find my 2.2.6 CDs, I will do this tonight. You don't even need to send me the patch. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
ild hasn't finished yet, but it makes it past the point where it fails due to machine_arch be ing undefined. Do I need to check if 2.2.6 to -CURRENT works? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
? Assuming I can find my 2.2.6 CDs, I will do this tonight. You don't even need to send me the patch. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
finished yet, but it makes it past the point where it fails due to machine_arch be ing undefined. Do I need to check if 2.2.6 to -CURRENT works? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-29 Thread David Scheidt
* jump ship for an expensive, slow chip, with unproven compilers. Yeah! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, revised diff attached. I made the case indentation change and some of sheldon's suggestions are incorporated. I also neglected to mention previously that I tuned up a few of the comments in the file, as well as error output. I also was more

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: Ok, revised diff attached. I made the case indentation change and some of sheldon's suggestions are incorporated. I also neglected to mention previously that I tuned up a few of the comments in the file, as well as error output. I also was more

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
on IA64. It is his understanding that this includes not only 10.x stuff, but also 9.x and 8.x stuff. We have stuff that runs on 11 that was originally compiled for 8.0. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Keeping records would be handy alright..but cutting out all the "everything is ok" msgs would reduce reading time..having an option for full report OR just the important results should satisfy everyone.. What I do run things through a filter that

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Keeping records would be handy alright..but cutting out all the everything is ok msgs would reduce reading time..having an option for full report OR just the important results should satisfy everyone.. What I do run things through a filter that

Re: lpd security check for changed-file vs NFS

1999-08-18 Thread David Scheidt
to avoid that. (note that the check isn't completely removed, it's "only" nullified for NFS-mounted files. We use AFS for most things here, so the vast Couldn't you turn it off only for NFS mounted files? David scheidt Any advice on how to kick AIX so the st_dev+st_ino check

Re: lpd security check for changed-file vs NFS

1999-08-18 Thread David Scheidt
for local files. For NFS mounted files, don't use the test, since it doesn't work, and don't allow the the -s option. (Better would be to accept, and ignore the -s, perhaps producing a warning?) David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

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