Re: fsck: % done possible?

2004-05-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:44:08PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Cause I never knew about that? :) I take it that that is the SIGINFO refer'd in: If fsck receives a SIGINFO (see the ``status'' argument for stty(1)) sig- nal, a line will be written to the standard output

Re: handbook submissions

2004-03-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:44:36PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: what is the correct address to send handbook submissions (in text form, I'm not an SGML guru) to, so that they get picked up? I've send a submission several months ago to one of our committers, but he seems to be more involved with

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On 8 Jan 2004, at 14:39, Leo Bicknell wrote: Then, to replace the current floppy process, a new floppy installer is created. It may or may not be based on FreeBSD, but what it needs to be able to do is boot, load a network driver, configure the network, and ftp the above mentioned iso into ram,

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:28:37PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: I'd like to make my own distribution DVD's. I know how to make CD's, but looking at release(7) I see lots of documentation for CD's, and none for DVD's. Googling turns up nothing of interest in the first three pages. Can

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:37:21AM -0600, Stephen Hilton wrote: I really like this idea :-), and think that a database of all types of FreeBSD people from end-users to commiters who want to opt-in to this listing could spawn a lot of educational and fun opportunities for individuals who

Re: Mac iBook OS10 + BSD

2003-01-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:37:25AM -0500, void wrote: On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I think he means text-only syscons like vtys. MacOSX does not have them. I don't know about *multiple* text-only vtys, but it's easy enough to get the system into a

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

2002-07-24 Thread Nik Clayton
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 of the Handbook? That was Docbook toolchain all the way (with the possible

Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd, etc.)

2002-06-23 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:09:25AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been thinking for quite some time to add per-client-IP limiting to ftpd, I needed to do this. Then I discovered that ipfw's limit directive lets you limit the number of incoming connections, which proved much more

Re: USB: Anyone working on it?

2002-06-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:09:08PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there anyone out there working on USB stuff? Joe Karthauser -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I reported kern/37624 a while back, and have heard nothing on it. He's on holiday at the moment. Back in a few weeks, IIRC. N -- FreeBSD:

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:47:54PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: See the paper on porting NetBSD to hammer that was presented at some recent usenix convention for more info. (I think it was usenix, but I'm not sure.) BSDCon US 2002. It was presented by Frank van der Linden. From my notes

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-03-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:32:03PM -0800, Patrick Thomas wrote: thank you - I am glad to see that this is a good way of doing things Two quick items: 1 How do I give each jail a 'proc' filesystem in its /proc using this configuration ? mount -t procfs proc

Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ?

2002-02-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:03:11PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-02-27T20:49:18Z, Patrick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to put a large number of jails (16 or 20) on a server for testing purposes. I have two options so far: create 16 or 20 partitions OR just put

Re: stack alignment issues

2002-02-05 Thread Nik Clayton
Bruce, On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:01:29PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: My patch is not suitable for committing verbatim. It has 2 or 3 XXX's. Do you make these patches available anywhere, so that other people can look over them and maybe help you on the XXX'd sections? N -- FreeBSD: The Power

Re: how to mirror gnats db?

2001-12-22 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:54:43AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: I wanted to ask, how I could mirror the gnats database to my own system. I have cvsup. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/gnats.html N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve

Re: making /usr/share/mk apps PREFIX-independant???

2001-12-21 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:49:13AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:30:30 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: I'm against PREFIX in share/mk files. Instead, just setting DESTDIR=${PREFIX} should (almost) be enough. I agree. See ports/mail/popd/Makefile for an example of a

Re: making /usr/share/mk apps PREFIX-independant???

2001-12-21 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:16:41PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: You don't listen. :-) snip I don't pretend that this solution is ideal, as a port may need different BINDIR settings for its different parts. I have given a little thinking to this, just to demonstrate that the fixes should

Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux

2001-12-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:24:14PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: Doesn't mean that you need 100% coverage though. If you produce something that only gets in 80% of the patches that could be applied back that's still better than what we have now. And it makes it easier for someone else to

Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux

2001-12-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:17:03PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: Seems to me that were I to do this, and I would, it would only be as viable as the patches themselves. That is, I (and any contributors) would have to be able to stay abreast of those things going on in -STABLE that could get

Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux

2001-12-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:15:23AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: I could maintain a not-FreeBSD-sanctioned site for patches of -CURRENT and -STABLE code applyable to previous releases, but that would only muddy the FreeBSD maintenance and distribution waters that I think work well for what

Re: Mea Culpa on C++ and ISO Sockets

2001-11-13 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Note reply-to ] On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:45:20PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: All I want to know is if anyone else has had problems using C++ (in general) crashing the kernel during subsequent initialization of the same program or specifically with AF_ISO family (-liso) sockets. Nothing

Re: FINAL REMINDER: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report -- Request For Submissions

2001-09-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:34:29AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: Project: (name here -- required field) URL: (URL, if any, here -- omit field if none) Contact: (name and e-mail address of one or more contact points -- required field) Project: Documentation Project URL:

Re: Page Coloring

2001-08-05 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:20:36PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: It's a good description but it might be better to simplify it a bit. You don't need to go into that level of detail. There is a short page coloring explanation at the end of my VM article which might be more

Diagram / description of a packets path

2001-07-14 Thread Nik Clayton
How do, Something I've wanted for a while, and not found (and don't know enough to write myself) is a description of the path an IP packet takes through the kernel, and where things like ipfw, ipfilter, natd, ipdivert, and so on, take effect. Something like (and keep in mind I've got no idea

Re: getting rid of sysinstall

2001-07-13 Thread Nik Clayton
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines installed in about an hour: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ Or http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:51:15AM +, Terry Lambert wrote: ] I never said a CDROM must boot to sysinstall and I challenge you to ] find a quote to that effect. What both Nik and I said was that it ] must be an OPTION to do so, somehow, or you haven't provided a stock ] FreeBSD experience

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:26:43PM +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: We agreed to do something in Europe: - providing informational structure for BSD - providing a channel where people that want to do booths at exhibitions etc may contact and get some help, pre-financing (perhaps) and merchandise

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:10:37AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Nik Clayton wrote: The thorny question of What do they have to include and still call it FreeBSD? is resolved by saying that any FreeBSD distribution must include, as a minimum, the contents of the mini ISO (including

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:32:53AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Historically, you've always held that the CDROM must boot to sysinstall. As the software's daddy, I can see why you'd want that; but your baby is ugly. That's changed -- it's certainly what I was discussing with Jordan. You just

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-08 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:04:31PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Perhaps this labelling can be in the form of information on the FreeBSD.ORG web site that lists distributions that merit the official label. That seems to make a lot of sense. In this context,

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-06 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:55:25AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If WindRiver gets on the ball and keeps fulfilling CD orders, why then this name might continue to be worth something. Otherwise, it will go away and the FreeBSD CD distributions will simply take place

Re: strangeness in web interface of send-pr

2001-06-15 Thread Nik Clayton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 June 2001 8:57 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I have a few hours to spare tonight, and I was using the query-pr-summary.cgi script to view the open PRs. [snip] Looks like this has been resolved. However, if this is something you

Updating mmap(2) [nik@freebsd.org: Re: pipe]

2001-02-10 Thread Nik Clayton
There was no comment to these. Any objections if I commit my proposed changes? N - Forwarded message from Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:33:32 + From: Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav&qu

Re: documenting an ioctl interface

2001-02-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:18:22PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: I'm working one some code which among other things introduces a new ioctl interface for IEEE802.11 devices. Since there are a number of useful apps which might want to use this iterface and a number of drivers which will need to

Re: docs/24035: ptrace(2) PT_STEP incorrect documentation

2001-02-01 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:05:29PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Number: 24035 Category: docs Synopsis: ptrace(2) PT_STEP incorrect documentation snip Description: in the man pge PT_STEP The traced process is single stepped one instruction. The

Re: anyone want to learn XML / work on FreshPorts2?

2000-12-24 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:36:16AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: I plan to parse the cvs-all messages into an XML log. The first stage is to create an XML template. This template will be used by any source tree which wishes to input data into FreshPorts2. But for now, we'll concentrate on

Re: Thinkpad Partition Problem Solved?

2000-12-24 Thread Nik Clayton
x-posting to -hackers On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:18:05PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: qandaentry + question id="boot-on-thinkpad" + paraI have an IBM Thinkpad A20p that FreeBSD installs on, but then + the machine locks up on next boot. How can I solve this?/para +

Re: keeping lots of systems all the same...

2000-12-20 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: I'm planning on building a fairly big machine to do world builds on to keep these machines (30-ish) all synced to the same OS version, probably with weekly installworlds on them. Have you had a look at PXE? Basically, each time

Re: Need to edit VM tuning section in handbook, any special requirements?

2000-12-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:31:37PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: Is there anything special I need to do to edit a section in the handbook, or can I just commit it? A pass through -doc for review wouldn't be amiss. In general, this means that we make sure that none of the rules at

Re: pipe

2000-12-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:50:55AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: "G. Adam Stanislav" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:11:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The second and third sentences of the second paragraph (the one that starts on line 23), as well as the

Re: int80h.org

2000-11-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:16:49PM -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: Anyway, I decided to really write something serious about assembly language programming under FreeBSD. So much so that I secured a domain just for that purpose: int80h.org (mostly because I got the impression from

Re: Need dotfiles for various L10N groups

2000-10-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:04:38PM -0500, Michael C . Wu wrote: I am trying to collect various dotfiles (.cshrc, .profile, .Xresources, .Xdefaults, ~/.*) for various language localization groups. As I discussed with Nik Clayton, I hope to create /usr/share/skel/{chinese, japanese, french

Re: sysctl interface for apm?

2000-07-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:12:23PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick Sayer writes: : The "why bother" is easy -- one should not have to belong to group : operator to determine the current battery state. Too many things : already have to be sgid (at least) without

Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?

2000-07-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:17:53PM +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? PolyServe? No URL, as I'm in the air at the moment, but try a general web search, or look at past announcements on DaemonNews, where it was mentioned a few weeks back. N

Re: Documentation selection in sysinstall

2000-06-28 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:37:40AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: In theory, this is a doddle. sysinstall already lets the user choose from packages to install. In practice, I think it's a little more difficult, because: I'm still wondering why the docs bits can't be, at a minimum,

Documentation selection in sysinstall

2000-06-26 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Going to -doc where it's pertinent, -hackers where it might find someone who's prepared to do the work, and jkh for any expert commentary he feels like tossing in. And while I've got Jordan's attention -- did the last attempt at re-writing sysinstall generate any specification

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

2000-06-04 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:00:08PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Just following up on this - are there any plans to merge this work back into the mainstream so that we can generate "localized" installation floppies for the Japanese community in future releases? Thanks! (Yes, I'm really

Teaching sysinstall about the documentation packages

2000-05-22 Thread Nik Clayton
[ -doc, -hackers, and jkh.pl on the To: line. Watch those replies :-) ] For those that haven't been keeping up at the back, Doc. Project package generation is now pretty stable. What this means is that if you take yourself off to ftp.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/doc/packages/ and take a

/usr/share/examples/cvsup - /usr/local/share/examples/cvsup

2000-05-01 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, Would anyone object to pulling /usr/share/examples/cvsup out of the base system, and into /usr/local/share/examples/cvsup, to be installed by the CVSup port? There's no technical reason for the change, but it would be more consistent with our other ports. N -- Internet connection,

Re: Asus K7V boot failure

2000-04-30 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:13:32PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:15:55 +0200, Jeroen Hogeveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jeroen Hey Chris and Jordan, I've got one too, you should however Jeroen disable your boot virus protection in the bios setup! Jeroen This will fix the

Re: Maybe need to be corrected?

2000-04-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Stanislav, I'm replying to this and including the -hackers list, in the hope that someone can confirm this. Thanks for getting in touch. N On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:40:19PM +0200, Koschinsky Stanislav wrote: I've read the part of FreeBSD book 21.3 "DMA: What it is and how it works". I

Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?)

2000-04-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:28:32PM -0400, Joseph Jacobson wrote: See RFC1122, section 3.2.1.3, available at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1122.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1122.html Right. Assuming we're looking at the same section, it says: [...]

Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?)

2000-04-21 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: In the course of debugging why Samba was bringing my modem link up periodically, I discovered it was sending netbios packets to 127.255.255.255. Because the relevent entries from the routing table looked like Destination

Hardware crypto support

2000-04-13 Thread Nik Clayton
[ slashdot.org hat firmly on head, FU set to me ] Does FreeBSD support hardware crypto? There'll shortly be a story on /. about OpenBSD's hardware crypto support, in the form of the HiFn 7751 chip. OpenBSD recommend buying them from www.powercrypt.com. If you go there you'll see that FreeBSD

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: In otherwords, unplug your palm pilot and attach a console. I'm going to get my friend to get a traceback and whatever else is possible. He has a laptop and "null" serial

Structuring the Developer Handbook

2000-04-11 Thread Nik Clayton
[ -doc, -hackers, FU set to -doc ] Recent discussion on -doc has bought forth the suggestion that the Handbook could usefully be split in to a number of smaller books. Rough consensus is that chunks of the existing Handbook should form parts of a new "FreeBSD Developer Handbook", to cover

Task for -doc newbie / XML'ing LINT. . .

2000-04-06 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi, [ sent to -doc, where it's on topic. Sent to -stable, where there's been much discussion of the docs recently. If anyone's got any energy left from that they could usefully expend it on this. Sent to -hackers, where the last chunk about XML is on topic, and will probably get me

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:37:22AM -0700, Eugene M. Kim wrote: On 2 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: | I also think the creating of a freebsd-i18n list is long overdue. | I18N issues are largely lost among the traffic on -hackers and | -questions, and it has become something of a

Re: Mirror requirements

2000-03-31 Thread Nik Clayton
Lloyd, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:06:02AM +0100, Lloyd Rennie wrote: I was about to say. On ftp3.FreeBSD.org we use 3 9 Gb SCSI disks in a vinum stripe to hold just XFree86 and a partial mirror of FreeBSD and it runs at about 86% capacity. Right. Thanks to all who replied - will

No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?)

2000-03-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sigh. I had hoped to keep this to the uk mailing list, limiting the exposure of my ignorance. Sadly I now have to expose it to the whole world. This is on a 3.x-stable system. ] In the course of debugging why Samba was bringing my modem link up periodically, I discovered it was sending

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:25:33AM +0300, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: Yes, it's good. But it's better just mount partition on it's own place, no symlinks, I disagree. such as: /dev/sd1s1f 3942238 2151773 147508659%/usr /dev/sd0s1g98553538016 868677 4%

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-08 Thread Nik Clayton
This looks like as good a place as any to hang this; On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:14:34PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I'll tell ya, I *never* use the auto-defaults. They are way too tiny. A 50MB root barely fits the kernel and you can run it out of space doing an installworld. I

Re: Threads and my new job.

1999-11-24 Thread Nik Clayton
Jason, On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:52:20PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: Walnut Creek has hired me as a full time employee to work primarily on improving and expanding FreeBSD's threads support. This is very exciting to me, and I hope my work will be of benefit the FreeBSD community. That's

Re: netgraph into -stable.

1999-11-20 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:58:59PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: for info on what it is, see: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html or in an http form: http://www.elischer.org/netgraph/index.html Thanks a lot. Very interesting reading. N -- If you want to imagine the

docs/14112: replacement for diediedie() in docs

1999-11-01 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Could someone take a look at docs/14112 please. The online kernel debugging section in the Handbook mentions calling diediedie() or boot() to reboot the system. According to the PR, these don't exist in 3.3-R, and I don't know what calls / actions should replace the existing text.

Re: FreeBSDCon pictures

1999-10-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: I put a few pictures from FreeBSDCon here for your enjoyment: http://www.freebsd.org/~jdp/freebsdcon1999/ Ugh! That's a horrible picture of me on there. Similarly, http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/freebsdcon-1999/pictures/

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I "subscribe to" has changed, so that I can think about rebuilding it. ports/sysutils/pkg_version. Then

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:11:32AM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-26 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands you should run to update any out of date ports

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: 4. The number of times that I've had a random bug in the {pre|post}{install|remove} scripts essentially render the system unupgradeable is not funny. I have had to go and physically remove some files and edit the package

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:32:16PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Re-read the first para of his message: - I completely agree!! Debian's package manager is one of the most - infuriatingly buggy piece of software that I've ever used. He's complaining about Debian's stuff, not the Ports

Re: aio_*

1999-09-14 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:02:40PM -0700, Jayson Nordwick wrote: While reading through (at least trying to... I wish there was some sort of kernel documentation available, the entry fee is very high) What we need is people like yourself, who are having to go through the learning curve, to

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 11:45:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: You know how people can get sidetracked easily. :-) For that matter, if chapter.sgml still has a log of why the version changed, then I think it would be a good thing to insert the above comment in param.h. I don't recall

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 11:45:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: You know how people can get sidetracked easily. :-) For that matter, if chapter.sgml still has a log of why the version changed, then I think it would be a good thing to insert the above comment in param.h. I don't recall seeing

Re: Please review: rc file changes

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

Re: Please review: rc file changes

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

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:58:52PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: While going through old cvs commit log, I spotted this: snip + +/* Please update doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml when changing */ #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 48 /* Master, propagated to

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:58:52PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: While going through old cvs commit log, I spotted this: snip +/* Please update doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml when changing */ #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 48 /* Master, propagated to

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:58:52PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: While going through old cvs commit log, I spotted this: snip + +/* Please update doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml when changing */ #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 48 /* Master, propagated to

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:58:52PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: While going through old cvs commit log, I spotted this: snip +/* Please update doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml when changing */ #undef __FreeBSD_version #define __FreeBSD_version 48 /* Master, propagated to

Package creation without installation

1999-08-21 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, I'm playing around with the pkg_create(1) command at the moment, trying to get the creation of pre-built versions (HTML, PS, etc) of the FDP documentation working. One of the things I'm trying to do is *not* require that the doc that's being packaged up be installed first. For

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on your comments. Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low? The sound card on this box is a pcm2

Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)

1999-08-05 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). snip The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-04 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 07:52:26PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own

Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)

1999-08-04 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). snip The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain

no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)

1999-08-04 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, As docs/12220 points out; We want to extract routing information by specifying a particular destination IP address. The man page on Route and Rtentry mention that this information can be acquired using getkerninfo command. But there is no such man page. Is it

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-04 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 07:52:26PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev. I think the text stands as

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev. I think the text stands as it

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[ cc'd to -doc, reply-to points there ] On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 04:09:20PM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: I prefer to work in flat ASCII. Perhaps the doc project can HTMLize the final product. We can, it just takes longer, that's all. It would make life simpler if you can follow the general

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[ cc'd to -doc, reply-to points there ] On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 04:09:20PM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: I prefer to work in flat ASCII. Perhaps the doc project can HTMLize the final product. We can, it just takes longer, that's all. It would make life simpler if you can follow the general

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-31 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:48:47PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes

No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi folks, We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom

Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree over the past 6 months or so, but I don't know how much of that document is still appropriate for what we have

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:45:51AM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy

No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi folks, We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom

Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree over the past 6 months or so, but I don't know how much of that document is still appropriate for what we have now.

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:45:51AM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy

Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-07-28 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Could someone who knows write/writev(2) take a quick look at docs/10512. In essence, writev(2) can fail with ENOBUFS if (and I quote from the PR) if you "exhaust writev'able buffer space". This doesn't mean a great deal to me, and I'm hoping one of you can take a look at come up

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