Vince Vielhaber wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Hi all
I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
used
5 by pressing F8 and selecting `Boot previous version of MS-DOS').
I still think it would be a good thing to port LILO to FreeBSD (and/or
DOS/Windoze for that matter), but I'll leave that for another time (or
another person!)
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was in an ext2fs FS on a Linux partition
rather than in your DOS filesystem. In my case I had Linux running
off a DOS filesystem, and wanted to boot DOS off the D: drive, so
I had lilo.conf pointing to the any_d.b file that was in C:\LINUX\BOOT.
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from working.
Is there a way around this (other than using a second drive?)
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from about 1996).
I assume that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures,
that I will lose the other half of the disk?
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and refuse to make the root
file system.
Thanks for the help, Robert. Hopefully the summary above will be useful
to others as well.
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to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date?
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hardware may be the problem, but the machine
runs fine the rest of the week. The OS is FreeBSD 2.2.7 (upgrading the
OS is *not* an option at this stage).
I checked the GNATS database, and saw a report of this problem, but
there was no follow up. Any help will be appreciated.
TIA
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manipulation from within
the signal handler (that may have changed now that there is thread support, but
certainly in older systems these routines are no re-entrant). So that will
limit your options considerably...
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specific bug that is fiixed in 3.3?
And on a final note - are any of the FreeBSD hackers going to the IETF meet in
November? It would be good to meet some of the crew...
ta
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one soon.
Okay - I don't know what other peoples plans are at this stage, but how about
the Tuesday night?
ALternatively, we could start a list of who is available when, and try work out
the best time from that. I can do any night other than Sunday the 7th.
Anyone else?
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be a better choice.
How about Wednesday for dinner (1730-1930 EST) before the open plenary?
That's fine by me...
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Hi all
Is it possible to assign an IP alias to a point to point interface (in my case,
a sync PPP interface)? It doesn't seem to be possible, but perhaps I'm
missing something...
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:50:07PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Hi all
Is it possible to assign an IP alias to a point to point interface (in my case,
a sync PPP interface)? It doesn't seem to be possible, but perhaps I'm
missing something
: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.108/0.162/0.208/0.041 ms
I still get no echo replies after doing this.
My sequence:
ifconfig ar0 inet myaddr remaddr up
ifconfig ar0 inet myalias myalias alias
route delete -host myalias
route add -host myalias 127.1
ping myalias
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0 ar0
I'm not running any routing daemons; all routes are static.
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to connect to the aliased addresses).
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? Unfortunately
I don't have immediate access to any other releases to see if it is
release-specific.
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:06:14AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Hi all
We've just noticed something strange here, that probably has a mundane
explanation but we can't figure it out. On a 2.2.8 FreeBSD system, if anyone
creates a file in /tmp, the group
to avoid ipfw tricks,
as ipfw is being used for other purposes on this host and I would like to
keep the problems separate.
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are above :-).
Okay, and presumably the meeting time then is 1730EST?
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the behaviour will be unchanged under 3.x)
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Ignore my last message; having trolled through the kernel source I see that if
setgid/setuid are called at all (even if there is no actual change as a result),
then no core files will be created. Seems Stevens was wrong on this one...
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seem to remember booting live filesystem CDs before using boot -C.
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I doubt anyone would be interested in this, but we still have lots
of clients using 2.2.8 and have backported the xl driver from 3.3
to support the 3c905c card. If anyone is interested in this code let
me know.
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break if the server needs to be able to do getsockname()
and getpeername() calls. So the real solution would (I imagine) involve
some kind of kernel querying.
Any ideas, anyone?
TIA
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of the TCP control block for that socket from the kernel?
If it isn't possible, I guess I can add an ioctl that will allow me to
query the information, but I would prefer to not have to modify the
kernel if possible.
TIA
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:30:47 +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
What about trpt(8)?
Looks useful, but when I run it I just get: "/kernel: no namelist"
Are you bypassing the loader when you boot (i.e. loading the kernel
directly)? This is a known prob
I've managed to write a program to do what I want, which works fine on
2.2.8 but doesn't work with elf kernels it appears. Is there an
equivalent interface for elf kernels to the kvm interface for a.out
kernels?
If anyone is interested, I've attached the program.
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Graham Wheeler wrote:
I've managed to write a program to do what I want, which works fine on
2.2.8 but doesn't work with elf kernels it appears. Is there an
equivalent interface for elf kernels to the kvm interface for a.out
kernels?
I've answered my own question - the sysctl interface can
the downside of this is that programs like netstat would have
to be setuid).
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you might find something.
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James Housley wrote:
Graham Wheeler wrote:
Much more distressing: if I switch out of X to a text mode console with
Ctrl-Alt-Fn, and then switch back to X, the machine freezes up
completely and has to be power-cycled. It does first switch back into
graphics mode, and I can see the top
James Housley wrote:
Graham Wheeler wrote:
James Housley wrote:
Graham Wheeler wrote:
Much more distressing: if I switch out of X to a text mode console with
Ctrl-Alt-Fn, and then switch back to X, the machine freezes up
completely and has to be power-cycled. It does
distressing: if I switch out of X to a text mode console with
Ctrl-Alt-Fn, and then switch back to X, the machine freezes up
completely and has to be power-cycled.
Does the machine respond to ping from another machine on the network?
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the
n_value returned by kvm_nlist as the offset field).
Is there a different mechanism in 4.2 to do the kind of stuff I'm
trying to do? Should the code still work?
I've attached the code in case anyone wants to look at it.
TIA
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Stefan Esser wrote:
On 2000-06-19 11:05 +0200, Graham Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I was under time pressure, I pulled the card out and put it in a
different machine, this one a P166 which works fine (with the same IRQ).
These are the settings:
Slot n IRQ Line
throughput
(there are the odd silo overflow log messages, but they don't seem to be
a real problem). In fact this ancient 486 with 16Mb RAM is doing a fine
job as a web cache, print and mail server.
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scrn_saver_t switch_module = {
"switch_saver", switch_init, switch_term, switch_saver, NULL,
};
SAVER_MODULE(switch_saver, switch_module);
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. Thanks for
the help guys!
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Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Nov 07), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said:
Graham Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in,
will switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed,
will switch back to the one
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Nov 07), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said:
Graham Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in,
will switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed,
will switch back to the one
that the
initial vm86 BIOS call to get the APM BIOS version fail.
Is this really exceptional, or are there lots of unsupported APM BIOSes?
I believe that APM is a WinTel `standard'; just how standard is it
really?
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have "device apm0" in my config file).
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Mike Smith wrote:
How new is this laptop? It may be ACPI-only.
I believe it is quite new ("designed for Windows Me").
I have to admit my ignorance - I've never heard of ACPI.
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nsupported in -stable, I gather). Fortunately I
have a 3Com PCMCIA EtherNIC, so I have enough working to make it quite
usable with FreeBSD anyway.
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Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graham Wheeler writes:
: Nope - as I said, I added log messages to apm.c to log the BIOS probe
: and they log a failure (I have "device apm0" in my config file).
What's the failure mode? Is it enabled in the BIOS (I assume it is,
on this?
Another interesting aspect is that the returned buffer under FreeBSD
does have 36-byte elements, but the name of every second entry is empty.
It would be interesting to know why this is the case too.
regards
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ifreq's, or an array of struct ifreq's at 36 byte intervals?
Just to add to my confusion, the value returned in ifc_len is 784 -
which is neither a multiple of 36, nor a multiple of sizeof(struct
ifreq). Weirdfull.
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David Malone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:21:11PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
I am attempting to port the cheops network mapping/diagnostic program
from Linux to FreeBSD (see www.marko.net/cheops). One of the first snags
I have hit comes in using SIOCGIFCONF to queries
to a struct ifreq. I'll try
fix that and get Mark to test under Linux and hopefully get a portable
solution.
Thanks Dave.
regards
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) whether it is reasonable to assume the
ifr_name if the struct ifreq will be NUL terminated? I know that the
name in a struct sockaddr_dl is not necessarily so terminated, but for
the ifr_name field, if it isn't NUL terminated this could get really
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to support
this. If you want to look at source code, try nmap (I think it uses
a modified libpcap on top of BPF, but it will still show you how to
do this kind of stuff).
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is ok, but I have no keyboard control. Replugging
the keyboard does not help.
Are you sure you haven't omitted the syscons device?
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Karl Denninger wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:37:40PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Karl Denninger wrote:
Hi folks,
I built a new kernel last night and started a buildworld before going to
bed. Just a tracking type of thing to see what the state of the world
is on FreeBSD
the BIOS to switch
disks that will work purely from DOS or FreeBSD), please let me know...
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Vince Vielhaber wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Hi all
I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
used
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from
Win 95 by pressing F8 and selecting `Boot previous version of MS-DOS').
I still think it would be a good thing to port LILO to FreeBSD (and/or
DOS/Windoze for that matter), but I'll leave that for another time (or
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, probably adopted by LILO, is to install a
wrapper around the BIOS int 0x13 services and just change drive
numbers as they go by.
That's exactly what LILO does, I believe.
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was in an ext2fs FS on a Linux partition
rather than in your DOS filesystem. In my case I had Linux running
off a DOS filesystem, and wanted to boot DOS off the D: drive, so
I had lilo.conf pointing to the any_d.b file that was in C:\LINUX\BOOT.
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from working.
Is there a way around this (other than using a second drive?)
TIA
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as far as a BSD boot. I then have to
quickly hit a key and enter:
0:wd(0,c)/kernel
to boot 2.2.8 (3.2 will boot by default).
I have only a couple of seconds to hit a key to get this right, and
no way (that I know of) to change the default. So it works, but not like
I'd like it to.
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3.2 into the second partition
* I change the type of the first partition back to FreeBSD
* I install os-bs or some other boot selector
* And now, hopefully, I can simply boot either from the boot
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Graham Wheeler wrote:
Robert Nordier wrote:
It's usually best to temporarily change fdisk partition types,
so that sysinstall sees no existing FreeBSD slice on the drive.
However, there may be other problems involved here as well.
Hmmm. This sounds a good plan. Would the following
that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures,
that I will lose the other half of the disk?
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and refuse to make the root
file system.
Thanks for the help, Robert. Hopefully the summary above will be useful
to others as well.
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shell commands is no guarantee of portability, as a shell
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hardware may be the problem, but the machine
runs fine the rest of the week. The OS is FreeBSD 2.2.7 (upgrading the
OS is *not* an option at this stage).
I checked the GNATS database, and saw a report of this problem, but
there was no follow up. Any help will be appreciated.
TIA
gram
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