Re: SCO going after BSD???

Gregory Sutter wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > > These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be > displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a > special handler to be displayed. Why Outlook Expr

Re: SCO going after BSD???

Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > > > I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and > > they said the issue came up a few years ago. According to them (one > > being my father), it has to do with security and virus pr

Re: Why is PCE not set in CR4?

Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:39:36AM +0200, Grumble wrote: > > >>However, I am not allowed to use the RDPMC instruction from ring 3 > > >>because the PCE (Performance-monitoring Counters Enable) bit is not set. > > > > > >You can do it with /dev/perfmon. man 4 perfmon. > > >

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

carmoda wrote: > ~sigh~ > > seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a > user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so > far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after > several times the time required for setup. [as a workstatio

Re: [resolution] Re: sendmail (Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: 90 sec sendmail delay)

"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Thanks. I tried that and some other things (eg service.switch). Even > read the book and help files some more. Terry's suggestion regarding > "expensive" seemed like the opposite of what I needed (I was trying to > keep the msg out of the queues) and I had no luck t

Re: bgcc, an idea

Not Brett Glass wrote: [ ... ] > People can try an early beta, currently builds on FreeBSD and NetBSD. Get > it from: http://www.brettglass.com/downloads/bgcc-0.0.tar.gz Besides being mildly humorous, as these things go, I think you have just provided the real Brett Glass with web server logs tha

Re: [PATCH] PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Please find attached patch that adds new option to the PPP. > > run-scripts-in-direct-mode > Default: Disabled. This allows to run chat scripts in > direct mode. > > did i miss anything? objections? comments? reviews? First comment: run it past Brian Som

Re: [PATCH2] PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > force-scripts >Default: Disabled. Forces execution of the configured chat >scripts in direct and dedicated modes. Outstanding! If Brian doesn't veto, I'd say it's gold, and someone should commit it; so I guess this fixes the last Bluetooth Cell phone PPP problem,

Re: [PATCH2] PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > seems like it :) just got report back from one of the testers. > he got connected to the internet over his T39m bluetooth enabled > cell phone. the cool thing is that you can make CSD, GPRS or HSCSD > calls. its just a matter of init string you send to the phone :) > still

Re: UNKNOWN IP OPTION emergency

soheil h wrote: > as in stevens' Tcp/Ip illustrated says when a router see an unknown option > it must silently ignore it but when i put an option by type 253 len 12 and > 10 byte of data > some router on my path drop it > how can i set an option an put 2 ip address in it that no router delete my

Re: UNKNOWN IP OPTION emergency

soheil h wrote: > Hi > but the tunnel_send() for multicast tunnel do this with LSRR option > is the tunnel_send() a standard tunnel ?? that anyone understand it ? or > not ??? Thanx Sorry; I couldn't find a tunnel_send() function to check this against in the FreeBSD kernel sources. So I can

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

"Nelson, Trent ." wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with deploying FreeBSD in > safety-critical environments? Has any work been done attempting to certify > FreeBSD to any particular SIL? Is there any intention to do such a thing? > > If not FreeBSD, I'd be interested to he

Re: Security certification (was FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments)

Steve Kudlak wrote: > Well I don't know if this belongs on questions or hackers but the > question has enough technical merit to be interesting. For example > to what level has BSD been certified. I remember doing this consulting > project and mucking with the "low grade" in my opinion C-2 securi

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

"Roman V. Mashak" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:07:43PM -0400, Steve Kudlak wrote: > > project and mucking with the "low grade" in my opinion C-2 security > > that Sun OSes had and finding bugs in things like FTP logging and > > the like. I now do other things so I don't worry about that. :

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

"Nelson, Trent ." wrote: > Oh, and Terry, I think you'd be astonished if I informed you of how > many rail control systems in the US and around the world use either Linux or > some of the commercial variants such as Tru64 UNIX or Solaris. I rather think they run Solaris. Earlier in my ca

Re: Unresolved reference compiling Objective-C ??

Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > I just compiled a 'hello world' in objective c on a box with gcc but no > GNUstep. I'm using the compile command as I found it in the tutorial. > > Any idea what I did wrong? > dogma:...files/programs/objc> gcc -lobjc main.m printer.m -o testme You used the

Re: Wierd message followed mem prob

Kenneth Culver wrote: > This is in addition to my last mail. Just to reiterate, I'm using > FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of a few days ago, and I've never seen this problem > before. The wierd message comes from /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c: > > "Too many holes in the physical address space,

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

"Paul A. Scott" wrote: > setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs" > cvs login > cvs co src/contrib > > When it gets to directory src/contrib/cvs, I get: > > cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write : No such

Re: List of big names ...

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > Other then that I know Yahoo! uses FreeBSD ... is there a list that anyone > is maintain about who is using it? I've been having discussions with a > partner for awhile now about whether we should launch a product with a > base OS of linux vs freebsd ... and its tiring

Re: List of big names ...

"Paul A. Scott" wrote: > > From: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > IBM bought Whistle Communications for it's product based on > > FreeBSD; can you name a company that IBM bought that had a > > product based on Linux? > > Unfor

Re: List of big names ...

Adam Weinberger wrote: > Please take this to advocacy. This banter doesn't belong on the > questions list. FWIW: If you examine the history of this thread, you will see that it was posted to -questions, and "Bcc:"'ed to -advocacy. If you need to assign blame, assign it to the original poster, whi

Re: List of big names ...

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > FWIW: If you examine the history of this thread, you will see that > > it was posted to -questions, and "Bcc:"'ed to -advocacy. > > > > If you need to assign blame, assign it to the original poster, > > which the headers claim is "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Can it be so that kernel maxusers=768 value being more than 512 leads to > spontaneous system freezes which can take up to several hours when the > system is just sleeping (only replying to ping) and doing nothing else, > not allowing to telnet or anything. The syste

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > With these settings, and that much physical RAM, you should set > > your KVA space to 3G (the default is 2G); have you? > > > > Most likely, you are running out of KVA space for mappings. > > No, I didn't do it, and I'm not sure how to perform it, can you please >

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Marc Recht wrote: > Every now and this I hear people saying (mostly you :)) that some problems > are KVA related or that the KVA must be increased. This makes me a bit > curious, since I've never seen problems like that on Linux. It sounds for > me, the not kernel hacker, a bit like something which

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > grep -B 7 KVA_ /sys/i386/conf/LINT > > Thanks a lot Terry, and will you please correct me if I'm wrong, so I > don't mess anything up on a production server? The kernel option in &

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > So: 2G might be OK, 3G would be more certain, given you are cranking > > some things up, in the config you posted, that make me think you will > > be eating more physical memory. > > Are you talking primarily about SHMMAXPGS=262144 option here? Then may be > it'll

Re: maxusers and random system freezes

Nate Lawson wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > useful documentation; otherwise, I would have published what I > > wrote in Pentad Embedded Systems Journal already (example: the >^^^ > > I appreciate some of the i

Re: Why is there no JFS?

northern snowfall wrote: > Just FYI, IBM's JFS is GPL'd, IIRC, according 2 the WWW site for JFS. > Hah, yay for acronyms. And the IBM JFS is actually the OS/2 JFS, not the AIX JFS. -- TRL To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messa

Re: Why is there no JFS?

Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Not really. A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no > writes to / (except for installworld/kernel). That removes the problem > that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is disabled > by default for /. For large, active filesystems, jou

Re: Why is there no JFS?

Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken > > and egg problem of runing tunefs on /. > > If that's the problem, then why doesn't sysinstall enable it by default > when partitioning for a new

Re: Why is there no JFS?

Michael Sierchio wrote: > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken > >> and egg problem of runing tunefs on /. > > > > If that's the problem, then why doesn't sysinstall enable it by default > > when partitioning for a new install? > > You can cert

Re: Why is there no JFS?

David Schultz wrote: > > There's no chicken and egg problem when you're booting off install > > media or for that matter from single user mode. The problem was that > > softupdates means you don't get space back from deleted files immediatly > > so previously / tended to fillup during installworld

Re: Why is there no JFS?

David Schultz wrote: > > The easy way to fix this is to insert a new dependency for the > > completion of the allocation. Basically, this would put in a > > stall barrier that would cause the outstanding I/O to drain before > > the new I/O was attempted. All other operations behind the one > > th

Re: Why is there no JFS?

David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In other words, if it would have worked with soft updates turned > > off, then it will work with soft updates turned on. > > My point was that a busy disk that is nearly 100% full will > p

Re: Why is there no JFS?

David Schultz wrote: > > I think softupdates is still (viewed as) riskier than synchronous > > writes, at least for large numbers of writes (like installworld) to a NB: An initial system install is done with async mounts. You can't use async mounts if you use soft updates, because the depende

Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems

Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > When I try installing it using the Floppy disk method it gives me a > different type of error message. This time it gives me an error message > like, > "unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0 Do you want to try to > retrieve it again? Yes No " If I press yes it

Re: the CPU interrupt handler

Kan Cai wrote: > I am trying to locate the CPU interrupt handler, but with no luck. I > guess it is somewhere in the "1386" folder, but not sure which file is > doing the job. Could someone there shed some lights on this? > > Since I am trying to capture the NIC interrupts, so it should not be

Re: problems with 4.8 release?

Aslak Evang wrote: > howdy. I upgraded from 4.7 to 4.8 release today and have had some > trouble afterwards. > > Firstly, MySQL suddenly started using huge amounts of memory, diskspace > and cpu resulting in kernel errors I suspect you are using the "Linux Threads" version of MySQL. The default

Re: maildir with softupdates

Bill Moran wrote: > Attila Nagyn wrote: > > Is this statement still valid? > > > > "ext3 is unsafe for maildir, and with softupdates, so is ffs." > > http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0202/0358.html > > Yes, I don't think this is true for Soft Updates, unless you take your next statement into

Re: PIII SMP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dear list, > > buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to > (besides the requirements of the M/B)? > aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? You want the stepping to be the same. You may not be happy with P III's. I'm not sure if the SMP cod

Re: PIII SMP

Jens Rehsack wrote: > On 29.07.2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to > > (besides the requirements of the M/B)? > > aka ... are all PIII SMP capable? > > > > thanks > > Maybe you want to take a look into >

Re: PIII SMP

John Baldwin wrote: > > You may not be happy with P III's. I'm not sure if the SMP code > > has been changed to handle only the xAPIC now, or not; there was > > a discussion a little while back about supporting more than 16 > > CPUs in a machine, which would require this change. > > Adding suppor

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

Denis Troshin wrote: > Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This > 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other > unix-systems) to an ugly monster. You're right. The authors of the offending software packages should not do that. It's going t

Re: 20TB Storage System

David Gilbert wrote: > > "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Poul-Henning> I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet. > Poul-Henning> I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself. > > That reminds me... has anyone thought of designing the system to have