Re: tape (sa0) on sparc64 ?

2013-05-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 19:56:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2013, at 21:51, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I have to retrieve some very old backups. They were made on FreeBSD and are on tape... specifically DDS4.

Re: tape (sa0) on sparc64 ?

2013-05-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 20:56:53 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.orgwrote: On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 19:56:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk wrote: On 16 May

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-03-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 1 April 2013 at 0:48:08 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi, I am writing this email to discuss the i386 architecture in FreeBSD. Computers are getting faster, but also more memory intensive. I can not find a laptop with less than 4 or 8 GB of RAM. Modern browsers, such as Firefox,

Re: calendar(1) regressions

2012-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 16:27:39 +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: Hi! On 2012-12-10, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Unfortunately r205821 [1] has caused several regressions to calendar(1). Relevant PRs: bin/157718 bin/162211 bin/168785 bin/170930 I think we fix bugs rather than revert

Re: calendar(1) regressions

2012-12-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 3:52:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 16:27:39 +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: Hi! On 2012-12-10, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Unfortunately r205821 [1] has caused several regressions to calendar(1

Re: Giant lock gone? (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)

2012-01-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 19:58:19 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: The original goal for 5.0 was to completely remove the Giant lock (and do other cool SMP-related stuff). Eventually it was realized that this was too big a goal to fully accomplish in 5.0 (albeit too late in the process) and

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 21:05:54 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thursday,  3 November 2011 at 11:33:25 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Nate Dobbs misconfigurat...@gmail.com

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 16:16:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: If you must kick groff out, why not port plan9 troff which now does unicode, has 27 macro packages including ms, weighs in at about 10K lines of C code written by Joe Ossanna, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Jaap Akkerhuis others,

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 21:17:01 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: Is the thinking that groff has only been in base to support manpages? If so, this project makes sense. But even so, some clarification of the intent is needed.

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 22:43:37 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: I welcome this change, but groff is used for much more than manpages. What happens to pic, tbl,

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 1:21:20 +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: BSD has always  been ab;e to produce it's documentation as part of its build Please keep this true. This is what mdocml will be for. I never advocated removing the utilities

Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil

2010-02-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 February 2010 at 13:09:29 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote: Thanks for the pointer. As you note, the damage (or benefit :-) is done. Still I have sent an email to the editor at Spiegel notifying them of my copyright in the hopes that they will at least ask in the future. FWIW, much

Re: Remote kernel debugging in FreeBSD using serial communication

2009-01-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 17 January 2009 at 17:57:10 -0800, Kamlesh Patel wrote: Hi All, I am trying remote kernel debugging in FreeBSD using serial communication. I got the following link. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-debugfreebsd.html#list1 This article is inaccurate in a number

Why doesn't autoconf like zsh? (was: Why doesn't autoconf like our /bin/sh?)

2008-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2008 at 15:27:12 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on. The problem is that, on a FreeBSD

Re: Remote GDB howto

2007-09-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 3 September 2007 at 10:58:54 +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, I want to debug my kernel with modules through serial console. I have two machines with 7.0-CURRENT. What i do: ... What i've missed? You're a bit sketchy on the details that I've omitted here. What happens

Re: what happened to make world?

2007-08-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 30 August 2007 at 21:20:13 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: # make world WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD installation, kill your cat and burn your house down... Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with - root access - the knowledge

Can anybody terminate an IP-IP tunnel for me?

2007-06-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
In a few weeks' time I'll be moving house, and it looks as if the new address currently doesn't have ADSL, so I'll be forced to use satellite again. I've done some investigation, and the costs don't look too prohibitive, but almost nobody is prepared to route my /24 net block (192.109.197.0/24).

Re: Patch for Intel 5000X hardware (ata and ichsmb)

2006-08-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 August 2006 at 23:02:56 -0400, Reed A. Cartwright wrote: Freebsd wouldn't recognize my hard drive contoler, so I modified a patch I found on the stable list, adding all the device ids I found in Intel's documentation. Please add this to the stable or current branch. Below is

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 21 July 2006 at 14:32:04 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've been keeping a closer eye on my problem. I'm using fvwm1 with click-to-focus and lose-focus-on-screen-switch. If I move from one screen to another and quickly click

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 21 July 2006 at 23:38:00 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 23:02, Robert Watson wrote: I've occasionally also had weird focus problems with KDE. Among other things, it looks like occasionally the mouse release event is lost somewhere in the system (or something

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 20 July 2006 at 18:37:08 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: To resurrect a fairly old thread... On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 20 July 2006 at 6:31:08 -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To resurrect a fairly old thread... On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: My work system runs

Re: gdb able to debug both fbsd and linux binaries

2006-07-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 July 2006 at 7:52:32 -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:46:53 +0200 Divacky Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it able to somehow make gdb be able to debug fbsd and linux binaries at the same time? I mean.. alter somehow the way its built in buildworld or

Re: dump(8) performance

2006-05-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 at 8:05:21 -0700, Eugene M. Kim wrote: While watching the output of iostat -dxz -w10 -n100 to monitor the progress/performance of a dump(8) process straight to a tape, I found out something interesting and disappointing at the same time: The disk read throughput was

Re: Weight of an IRIS 4D/210GTX Box anyone ?

2006-04-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 April 2006 at 23:11:59 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: Hi all, I have been offered a IRIS 4D/210GTX SGI box, and I need to know the rough weight, thought as google did not turn up anything and SGI seem to disown all the old stuff these days, anyone got any idea on the weight of

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 March 2006 at 7:03:23 -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: Same here. As mentioned in the original message, I can use the mouse to open a new window under firefox. The new window will accept keyboard input, the old one won't. It's almost as if it's deadlocking on input. Reminder: my

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 March 2006 at 20:30:52 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: The focus management and the highlighting of the window manager decoration are not physically connected in any way, so a bug in the window manager might cause

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 17:50:09 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while (between hours and days

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 1:36:57 -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:50:09PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while (between hours and days

Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while (between hours and days). They still respond to the mouse. At first I thought it was hardware, but it happens on a number of different machines, and only with

Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-01-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by memory bandwidth). The

Daemon image with a beer mug?

2005-09-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I'm just putting the finishing touches on a paper that I'll present at the AUUG 2005 conference (see http://www.auug.org.au/ for details). The paper is about using FreeBSD to control the fermentation process. Normally I put a beastie image at the bottom right of the slides (see

Suurce code navigation tools with call graph?

2005-06-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I'm currently in the position of needing to cut a large program into two halves and insert a clean API between them. To do this I need to get a good understanding of how the control flow works, and I'm looking for tools that might help me. So far I've seen: - etags will follow the control flow

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[severely trimmed] On Friday, 13 May 2005 at 12:45:12 -0500, Sen C. Farley wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: Seán C. Farley a écrit : On Thu, 12 May 2005, Seán C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: 4) wait() API 2 problems, the first is a ECHILD

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[much irrelevant content removed] On Friday, 13 May 2005 at 12:45:12 -0500, Sen C. Farley wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: did you have any idea if the problem will be solve by the FreeBSD team or not ? I updated my bug report and tried to notify David Xu but the e-mail

Re: style(9) example :-)

2005-03-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 17 March 2005 at 19:33:50 +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote: Hi, I was unable to refrain from posting this :-) int i;main(){for(;i[]i;++i){--i;}];read('-'-'-',i+++hell\ o, world!\n,'/'/'/'));}read(j,i,p){write(j/p+p,i---j,i/i);} There used to be a whole culture of this sort of thing.

Setting maximum data size

2005-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've spent the last hour trying to raise the maximum process data size (ulimit -d). /etc/login.conf says unlimited, /boot/loader.conf has nothing, and I can't find a sysctl that looks like it's doing something nasty. I've RTFMd and found nothing. What am I missing? Greg -- See complete headers

Re: Setting maximum data size

2005-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 March 2005 at 17:40:35 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:06:22PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've spent the last hour trying to raise the maximum process data size (ulimit -d). /etc/login.conf says unlimited, /boot/loader.conf has nothing, and I can't

Re: Help about debugging FreeBSD kernel core dump file

2005-02-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line message. On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 11:41:08 +0800, River wrote: Hi, Everyone: How can I debug the core dump file created by kernel panic? I try to use gdb -core vmcore.0 (vmcore.0 is 4G file because I have 4G

Re: Above the law? (was: You gotta be kidding .... Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c)

2005-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 16 January 2005 at 17:30:51 +, Linus Caldwell wrote: On Sunday, 16 January 2005 at 11:46:35 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: I can't believe this. Poul has completely ignored the proposal, time table, sysctl, and the several major figures that supported it and has gone

Re: Printing from kernel

2004-10-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 0:31:33 +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote: Hi, I have some problems with printing from kernel. At first I think that my problems was cause I use printf, but changed all of them to log cause it safe to use from interrupt handlers. The situation become better

Re: remote debugging question

2004-09-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 September 2004 at 11:07:21 -0700, Jerry Toung wrote: Good morning list, I CAN connect to the target but the 'bt command return #0 0x in ?? () at the remote. That suggests that you're not connected. So this is what I am doing, hopefully somebody can tell me what I am

Re: add-symbol-file

2004-09-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Important output wrapped. On Friday, 17 September 2004 at 17:02:58 -0700, Jerry Toung wrote: Hello list, Could somebody tell me why I can't list the source code of this kld? I built the module with COPTS=-g, it is loaded in

Re: debugging kld panic

2004-09-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 September 2004 at 11:01:33 -0700, Jerry Toung wrote: Good morning Greg, I am trying to debug a kld that I wrote that keeps causing panics. I already did a search on the mailing list, and the only useful info I got was an email you replied to in 1999, Re: debugging a panic in a

Re: Serial consoles and remote GDB

2004-09-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 30 August 2004 at 14:11:49 -0400, Rob Deker wrote: Stephan Uphoff wrote: Are you sure that your serial line is configured with the right baud rate? This may seem a stupid question, but how do I set the baudrate on the port and in gdb? The default bit rate is 9600 bps. It would

Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)

2004-08-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 20:18:42 -0500, Sean Farley wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:13:17 -0500, Sean Farley wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one

What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)

2004-08-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:13:17 -0500, Sean Farley wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one on each side. I can't find a way to get the side buttons to work, and looking on the web hasn't shown anything

Samsung Cordless Mouse

2004-08-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
More by accident than by design, I find myself the owner of a Samsung PS/2 Cordless Mouse. To make identification easier, it doesn't have a model number, so I assume it's the only one they made. This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one on each side. I can't find a way to

Re: problem with gdb

2004-04-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 25 April 2004 at 20:42:07 +0200, GiZmen wrote: Hello, I have problem with gdb. When i start gdb as a regular user or even user i wheel group, i cant debug program that i want. I start gdb with my program and i set breakpoint and i run this program. And i do not stop i this

Re: Remote Debugging using GDB on Linux

2004-04-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 April 2004 at 3:17:56 -0500, William M. Grim wrote: Hi! Is it possible to do remote debugging of the FreeBSD kernel over a serial connection using Linux? FreeBSD has a special -k switch that Linux does not for GDB; so, I'm not even sure it's possible without a lot of work.

Re: Serious bug in vinum?

2004-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
if somebody tries to access the inaccessible part of the volume. That should happen, and I'm confused that it doesn't appear to be doing so in this case. On Tuesday, 30 March 2004 at 11:07:55 -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 30 March 2004 at 0:32:38 -0300

Re: Serious bug in vinum?

2004-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 March 2004 at 0:32:38 -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote: Sorry for the cross-posting, but nor the Author nor freebsd-bugs did acknowledge my message, and I think this is a very serious bug in vinum, leading to loss of data... If these are not the correct foruns for

Strange instructions in compiler output (was: A simple question)

2004-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 5 March 2004 at 13:43:04 -0500, Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Hello.. I am super new to this list, and I have a simple question that I don't know why it does that. I have a simple test program. I compile it, and gdb to disassemble main. I got the following.. 0x80481f8 main: push

Re: Strange instructions in compiler output

2004-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 5 March 2004 at 18:43:11 -0500, Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 5 March 2004 at 13:43:04 -0500, Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Hello.. I am super new to this list, and I have a simple question that I don't know why it does that. I have a simple test

Re: best choice for RAID1: vinum(8) or VIA VT8237

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 21 February 2004 at 22:43:21 +0100, Burkard Meyendriesch wrote: Hello Greg, for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard. Which solution would you recommend? Well, I'd use Vinum, of course. Your

Re: Kernel Debugging

2004-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 3 February 2004 at 11:55:42 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sridhar Chellappa wrote: How do we debug a freeBSD kernel ? Do we have something similar to KGDB that linux offers ? there is a whole chapter in the handbook about this.. Unfortunately, it's a little

Re: GEOM + Vinum

2004-01-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 12:35:52 +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to answer another message: yes, Vinum on FreeBSD *must* be adapted to GEOM. There's no other solution. shouldn't we add this as a task item to the releng schedule

Re: GEOM + Vinum

2004-01-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at 14:51:08 +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: following the recent discussion about GEOM and Vinum I wrote some proof-of-concept code, or rather, I copy'n'pasted the necessary stuff for a

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 14 January 2004 at 22:32:32 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lukas Ertl writes: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: I think the right strategy is to follow the minimalist approach now (adopt the disk(9) API, rather than having Vinum generate

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 11 January 2004 at 12:08:24 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:46:49 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [missing attribution to phk] I'd say lets kick them both into perforce and let whoever wants their hands have a go at them. For some

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 10 January 2004 at 18:12:28 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:12:57 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As much as I would hate to see RF and Vinum disappar from our source tree, maybe what we need to do is to kick them both

Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 11 January 2004 at 0:12:57 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long writes: All, I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a proven and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, while it was made to work pretty well on

Repeated messages (was: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c)

2003-10-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 6 October 2003 at 21:46:24 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 6 Oct 2003 at 19:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: Is your mailer screwed up? We're getting duplicates (a few days later). I don't think so. Could they have been moderated? What do the headers say? Somebody in France has set up

Re: nVidia nForce2 potential owners please read (take two)

2003-09-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 12:45:35 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote: Thanks for your effort to get the nVidia folks to pony up the documentation. I unfortunately purchased a system that has a motherboard that uses the MCP2 network adapter chip set. I now have to rethink how I am going to

Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-08-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. Running a dual-boot

nVIDIA nForece2, again

2003-08-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
My main machine has just fried a southbridge, and I'm looking for a replacement. From what I can see, in the AMD range, the current best performer is the nVIDIA nForece2. I've read Bill Paul's description of the problems with the onboard NIC, and if I buy one of these boards, I'll certainly

Re: Broadcom 440x

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 13 August 2003 at 10:36:01 +1000, Michael Day wrote: Hi all. A few months ago I saw that some people were having probs finding a driver for the 440x network card installed on some onboard motherboards. Has anyone had any luck in finding drivers for these cards as I now have a

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relatingtoBSDsettlement agreement

2003-06-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 June 2003 at 1:29:37 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 18 June 2003 at 2:38:34 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Yes, it reminded me of that thread, but wkt was actually referring to System III, not 32V. I am also

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relatingtoBSDsettlement agreement

2003-06-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 June 2003 at 2:38:34 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Yes, it reminded me of that thread, but wkt was actually referring to System III, not 32V. I am also pretty certain that it was widely stated at the time that the UCB's license was the older Western

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating toBSDsettlement agreement

2003-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 June 2003 at 6:08:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will the FreeBSD project issue an offical statement relating to these allegations? What will happen to FreeBSD if SCO aims at the BSD projects.

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating toBSDsettlement agreement

2003-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 June 2003 at 20:41:00 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of the Bell Telephone lines were indeed copyrights. Or did you mean something else? I was confused. I was recalling a thread

Unreachable web site (was: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCOand FUD relating to BSDsettlement agreement)

2003-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 June 2003 at 20:24:29 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Josef Grosch writes: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:01:38PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 17 June 2003 at 6:08:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Vinum / 4.8 / Referenced disk / Recovery

2003-05-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 30 May 2003 at 18:21:53 -0400, Michael G. Jung wrote: After a reboot on 4.8 I ended up with a degraded raid 5 partition... The only thing special about my setup is 4944 drives spread over 3 channels, running SMP kernel. That's a lot of drives. One sub disk was down and

Announcing a Vinum mailing list

2003-04-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've been neglecting Vinum for some time now: I have been very busy. Times are now changing, and I hope to have time to work on Vinum in the near future. To start off, I have created a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] I invite you to sign up: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text

Re: Kernel trace

2003-03-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 March 2003 at 22:27:42 -0500, Yaoping Ruan wrote: Does any one know the implementation of ktrace in FreeBSD? I would like to hack the source code and have a relatively easy way to copy the kernel stack image when a certain of thing happens, such as page fault. It should work

Re: arc4random() range

2003-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 19 February 2003 at 9:22:18 -0800, Wes Peters wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 22:36, Peter Jeremy wrote: I see this as a major advantage of arc4random() - if I want 32-bit random numbers I don't have to call random() twice and merge the results. I've never understood why

Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?)

2002-10-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 October 2002 at 2:03:50 +, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives are pretty unreliable though. Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 September 2002 at 16:31:10 -0600, Stacy Millions wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 6 September 2002 at 12:23:13 -0600, Stacy Millions wrote: Page fault while in kernel mode unfortunately, ddb hangs so I don't get a core file. That's obviously the first thing

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 September 2002 at 20:14:34 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: There will always be situations where the debugger can't catch the problem in time. Then it's up to you to guess and put a breakpoint just before it freezes; this can be an interative process

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 6 September 2002 at 12:23:13 -0600, Stacy Millions wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On 06-Sep-2002 Stacy Millions wrote: At the moment, the whole area of Bus Resources is causing me greif, my panic rate is about 4 or 5 panics/hour (but I'm sure, with some coaching, I could get that to

Remote kernel debugging over Ethernet (was: interrupting the remote kernel)

2002-09-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 7 September 2002 at 10:28:27 +0200, Christian Zander wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:56:12AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: What I found to work well is remote GDB debugging with the UDP wrapper (ip-gdb), it responds to CTRL-C as expected. huh? do we have that? (rushes of to

Re: Vinum crash

2002-08-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 23 August 2002 at 15:58:17 -0500, Doug Swarin wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:20:02PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote: Peter Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Urgh. Forget it, I was seeing references to rq that weren't there. Hi, Ok, I'm up to my neck in code I've never seen and

Re: It's dead Jim

2002-08-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 18 August 2002 at 7:23:31 -0700, Alfred Pythonstein wrote: Mad propz to Hiten 'imbecile' Pandya, btw... It is official -- Netcraft is now confirming: *BSD is dying Mike, is that you? You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on

Re: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))

2002-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 July 2002 at 21:31:56 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:58:23AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook. It's just *really* difficult to get good-looking results with. What did you think of the 2nd edition

troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))

2002-07-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 21 July 2002 at 17:42:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Willcox writes: On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my masters thesis which was in 1990!

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 8 July 2002 at 14:46:29 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-05-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 31 May 2002 at 2:31:32 +0200, Morsal Rodbay wrote: I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it wouldnt run XFree. Everything worked well besides X. Since a workstation without X is useless I was forced to switch to WinXP and it's very stable so there is

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 12:06:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:14:44PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: However you present the UI,

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 3:16:43 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: The X11 we are talking about here is not the default X11, which is a set of distfiles, but a ports X11, which is not, but which is likely to be the basis of future distfiles. Correct. So we are really talking about an

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 7:27:55 -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:06:55AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I think the issue here is that individuals make this kind of decision. We need a broader consensus for this kind of change. As Jochem points out, only

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 April 2002 at 10:09:51 +0200, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 22 April 2002 at 19:53:06 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: That fix relies on the extensive PAM updates in -CURRENT however; in -STABLE it can probably

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 April 2002 at 12:06:01 +0200, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2002 11:04, you wrote: [...] I've been noticing a continuing trend for more and more safe configurations the default. I spent half a day recently trying to find why I could no longer open windows on my X

Re: More about security, X, rc.conf and changing defaults.

2002-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 April 2002 at 16:35:55 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Frank Mayhar wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: FWIW: I wouldn't object to a firewall rule that disallowed remote TCP connections to the X server by default, if the firewall is enabled. I think we already have

Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 April 2002 at 21:38:38 -0400, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A more conservative default configuration results in a material improvement in system security. *snip* By snipping here, you removed reference to the fact

Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?)

2002-04-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 22 April 2002 at 19:53:06 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: That fix relies on the extensive PAM updates in -CURRENT however; in -STABLE it can probably be similarly replicated via appropriate tweaking of sshd (?). Why not fix it in stable by the very simple tweaking of the

Re: Entering DDB from X11

2002-04-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 April 2002 at 15:33:15 -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: I've been having problems with a machine locking up while running X11, and the usual console break sequence doesn't work. Is there a way to break to the kernel debugger from X11? No. Or am I stuck with wiring up a

Re: Is a debug kernel slower than a non-debug one ?

2002-04-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 6 April 2002 at 23:40:45 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Note that the kernel binary with debugging symbols is left in /sys/compile/MYKERNEL/kernel.debug while the actual kernel is stripped before installation into /kernel

Re: Is a debug kernel slower than a non-debug one ?

2002-04-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 5 April 2002 at 14:18:38 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:00:05PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Wow, thanks for the super-fast answer! :)) on my production servers' kernel so in the very rare case of crash