Re: devmatch error message

2019-03-24 Thread Brett Glass
/2019, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brett Glass <<mailto:br...@lariat.net>br...@lariat.net> wrote: Everyone: I've been building custom kernels for FreeBSD 12.0, and have noticed a message on the console, during boot, that I haven't seen from prior versions. It do

devmatch error message

2019-03-23 Thread Brett Glass
generate such a file? Or, if I don't really need to do so, is there a way to suppress the message? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: How's 11.0-RELEASE coming?

2016-09-08 Thread Brett Glass
So do I. However, there have been no updates from the person you mention in a week, so I believe it's quite reasonable to inquire as to the progress of the release. --Brett Glass At 09:50 PM 9/7/2016, you wrote: I find reading the freebsd-stable@freebsd.org list, particularly the messages

How's 11.0-RELEASE coming?

2016-09-07 Thread Brett Glass
All: How's the release coming? I have heard that there were some showstoppers involving file systems; have they been addressed? I am sticking with 10.3 for production machines, but have a customer who wants an 11.0 machine when it comes out. --Brett Glass

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-09-30 Thread Brett Glass
or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

How goes the 9.2 release?

2013-09-19 Thread Brett Glass
Building up some servers with 9.1 (latest patch level), but want to switch to 9.2 ASAP if it is solid. How goes the build? Remaining TODOs? Estimated release date? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-11 Thread Brett Glass
than it is of a collaborative open source project. And it is important to have targets. Transparency is vital. I do not mind justified schedule slippages, so long as I can track progress and plan appropriately. It is when I (and everyone else) are in the dark that things get difficult. --Brett

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-10 Thread Brett Glass
passed quietly through committers so as to avoid this. Maybe the situation is better now; I don't know. As for monetary donations: We are not a large corporation, and so could only make relatively small ones as opposed to more valuable in kind donations. --Brett Glass

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-10 Thread Brett Glass
. ;-) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Brett Glass
am glad that this is not the holdup. I just need to plan my time so that I get a vacation SOMETIME this season and also keep my commitments. Alas, there have been no updates to the projected schedule or to the To Do list to help me out. --Brett Glass

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Brett Glass
something for nothing. This isn't an attack at you Brett; this is more of a general observation. I hope it's not. In my previous message, I offered to donate a server. Along with some bandwidth, if that's useful. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-08 Thread Brett Glass
project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the release? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-04 Thread Brett Glass
of the most robust and stable releases ever, and I used it for many years. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Why is SU+J undesirable on SSDs?

2012-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
systems. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Why is SU+J undesirable on SSDs?

2012-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
At 04:32 PM 11/3/2012, Karl Denninger wrote: It is utter insanity to enable, by default, filesystem options that break the canonical backup solution in the handbook (dump, when used with -L, which it must be to dump a live filesystem SAFELY.) I have not used dump in many, many years. So, I

Re: Why is SU+J undesirable on SSDs?

2012-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=severity=priority=class=state=opensort=nonetext=responsible=multitext=originator=release= shows several open PRs mentioning panics, corruption, and reboots. Are they still open because problems exist? Or have the committers simply neglected to close them? --Brett

9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-01 Thread Brett Glass
I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. --Brett Glass

FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness?

2012-11-01 Thread Brett Glass
I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. --Brett Glass

Support for releases

2012-03-27 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -- on any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not be at least one release with extended support? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:34 PM 12/13/2011, Ben Kaduk wrote: If I remember correctly, your original message mentioned seeing this issue in emacs; have you tried reproducing it in a simpler test case? No; when we hit the bug, we moved to SSH with a VT100 emulator so that we could configure the system. But the

Re: Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-13 Thread Brett Glass
(Ctrl-D and Ctrl-K), etc. It's very obvious. Does it only happen on the console, or also when using a regular xterm? I do not use regular xterms, so I can't answer that, alas. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-11 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:36 AM 12/11/2011, Ben Kaduk wrote: Did you take the change to /etc/ttys going from cons25 to xterm 'type'? I didn't have to change it; it was that way when the OS was installed. Problem seems to be that the behavior (specifically, reverse video on the 25th line) doesn't quite match the

Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-09 Thread Brett Glass
networking problems I haven't observed yet), but both are probably worth looking into. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Two problems still present in RC3

2011-12-09 Thread Brett Glass
a procedural environment, because there are so many contingencies and possible combinations of parameters. But there doesn't seem to be any combination of variables I can assign in rc.conf that doesn't cause errors when I try to create VLANs. --Brett Glass

Building servers this weekend. Recommendations?

2011-11-13 Thread Brett Glass
like to avoid, as does 8.2-RELEASE. Recommendations? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Building servers this weekend. Recommendations?

2011-11-13 Thread Brett Glass
. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Timing of 9.0-RC1?

2011-10-16 Thread Brett Glass
Any word regarding timing of FreeBSD 9.0-RC1? Building machines, and would like to build with at least a release candidate rather than a beta. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Timing of 9.0-RC1?

2011-10-16 Thread Brett Glass
Thank you! Did not know to look for this in the source tree; now I know. --Brett Glass At 04:24 PM 10/16/2011, Andrew Thompson wrote: On 17 October 2011 11:22, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: Any word regarding timing of FreeBSD 9.0-RC1? Building machines, and would like to build

Error building kernel in 9.0-BETA3: use of uninitialized variable in ipfw

2011-10-15 Thread Brett Glass
Just tried to build a new kernel in 9.0-BETA3 with the IPFIREWALL option, and found that the build halts with a compiler error. The error occurs at netinet/ipfw/ip_fw_pfil.c, line 185, where the compiler complains that the variable len is used before intialization. Problem occurs on both i386

MFC request for 7.3-RELEASE: ASIX AX88172A USB Ethernet

2010-02-12 Thread Brett Glass
Please MFC support for ASIX AX88172A USB Ethernet to 7.3-RELEASE; see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140923 for information. Note that the AX88172 driver works with the newer AX88172A chip, which has replaced it; the system simply needs to be told that it does. --Brett Glass

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon

2010-01-06 Thread Brett Glass
-- or, if this is not practical, quickly release a FreeBSD 8.1 which will be supported for at least that long? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

8.0 kernel fails to build if some USB drivers are trimmed out; error in /sys/conf/files

2009-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US (and elsewhere as well)! I encountered a strange bug when I was trimming the GENERIC FreeBSD RELEASE-8.0 kernel to omit drivers for hardware that would not be used on one target platform. I removed all of the USB Ethernet drivers except for udav (Davicom

Please commit fixes to userland PPP before FreeBSD-7.2 RC1

2009-04-12 Thread Brett Glass
Please commit the fixes for PRs bin/130159 and bin/131250 prior to FreeBSD RC1. These are critical for the use of userland ppp as a server, especially if it is performing proxy ARP. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

FreeBSD 7.1 - Actual schedule?

2008-12-22 Thread Brett Glass
progress toward a release? There appears to be no to do list (as there was for previous releases), and therefore no way to easily keep abreast of progress, snags, etc. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-21 Thread Brett Glass
have to touch it once you get it configured. Of course, all solutions that randomize ports are really just security by obscurity, because by shuffling ports you're hiding the way to poison your cache... a little. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable

FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-19 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: Will FreeBSD 7.1 be released in time to use it as an upgrade to close the BIND cache poisoning hole? We'd like to upgrade affected servers to the latest FreeBSD at the same time that we upgrade BIND if possible. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-19 Thread Brett Glass
-RELEASE is scheduled for August. I'm sure that a lot of folks are in the same boat as I: they'd like to start with a complete release that doesn't need patching and recompiling. --Brett Glass At 09:02 PM 7/19/2008, Xin LI wrote: Yes. FreeBSD 7-STABLE and RELENG_7_0 errata branches are already

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-19 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:28 PM 7/19/2008, Subhro wrote: You need to understand the release engineering process of FreeeBSD. I've been watching it (and testing release candidates) since 2.x, so I think I may possibly have some understanding of it by now. ;-) The release edition is essential created from the

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Brett Glass
Scott, Adrian: Even more interesting would be a storage schema for caches that rests on top of FreeBSD's GEOM facility. One could bypass all filesystems but still take advantage of the driver architecture. --Brett Glass At 06:09 AM 12/26/2007, Scott Long wrote: Yes, Squid is the ideal

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:32 AM 12/26/2007, Adrian Chadd wrote: The biggest bonuses to gain high throughput with web caches, at least with small objects, is to apply temporal locality to them and do IO in $LARGE chunks. By temporal locality I assume you mean that you expect items that are fetched at the same time

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Brett Glass
At 07:14 AM 12/24/2007, Scott Long wrote: Brett, There could be several problems here: 1. WITNESS, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging. Are any of these turned on for you? I don't recall if malloc debugging got turned off yet for the 7.0 snapshots. I nuked debugging when I recompiled the kernel

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Brett Glass
COSS for small Web objects, but are not sure how it would interact with AUFS or how much it would impact stability by decreasing the size of Squid's CACHE_MEM memory pool (which is used for hot objects and objects in transit). Squid tends to crash horribly if this pool isn't kept quite big. --Brett

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:12 AM 12/24/2007, Scott Long wrote: It's not the same kind of hashing. The kind of hashing that squid does on the filesystem is sub optimal for UFS performance. Squid doesn't do any hashing on the file system, as far as I know. It does, of course, have a hashed directory of cached Web

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Brett Glass
mounting the volume -async, maintaining a similar advantage. And mounting the volume -async is a bit dangerous, because the cache can become very inconsistent during a crash SoftUpdates is generally what's recommended. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable

SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-21 Thread Brett Glass
on, the cache volume mounted with -noatime, and aufs (which uses kqueues -- a FreeBSD invention -- to optimize multithreaded disk access), the benchmark shows FreeBSD losing out. Why? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
of bridge(4) brought in. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:40 AM 10/31/2007, Alexander Motin wrote: Brett Glass wrote: ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there at all. It IS there: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
to communicate with the server. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
can guess from this and other requests, I'm looking to revise the configuration on some specialized networking boxen so that NAT, bandwidth control, and LAN isolation are handled in the kernel rather than in user space. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable

MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-28 Thread Brett Glass
code that was developed for it are there --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Likely release dates for 6.3, 7.0?

2007-10-23 Thread Brett Glass
in awhile and doesn't show the usual to do lists or schedules Can someone give us an estimated timeframe? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Best release or snapshot to install?

2007-07-13 Thread Brett Glass
Since I am not a FreeBSD developer (though I've fed folks snippets of code to incorporate from time to time), I don't have a full time build server. Where is the best way to download a daily/weekly snapshot? ftp.freebsd.org seems only to have one snapshot per month, and does not have one for this

Best release or snapshot to install?

2007-07-12 Thread Brett Glass
. This would be for a 386-architecture machine. Recommendations? Also, when is 6.3-RELEASE (which will hopefully incorporate a bunch of MFCed improvements from CURRENT) likely to happen? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Status of FreeBSD 6.2?

2006-12-26 Thread Brett Glass
likely to see an RC2? Given the many changes to the code since RC1, will there be an RC3? When will the calendar and to do list be updated? And will we see a release by, say, Valentine's Day? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.2?

2006-12-26 Thread Brett Glass
it have some idea of the RE team's plans going into the new year. Even if the release date is in February, that's fine -- just so it makes for a better product and we can anticipate and plan for it. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.2?

2006-12-26 Thread Brett Glass
since it normally errs on the side of expiring pages too quickly. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-13 Thread Brett Glass
and is of enough value to warrant a bit of developer time (though obviously different developers will take different amounts of interest in maintaining classic releases). --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 6.1 stability (Re: 4.11 snapshots?)

2006-05-22 Thread Brett Glass
, er, performance problems. ;-) Seriously: The problem is that in my tests 6.x does not surpass Linux in performance, while 4.11 does. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-21 Thread Brett Glass
Well, y'know, if they could release a FreeBSD 2.2.9 (as was done last month), it shouldn't be a problem to do a 4.12 release as a last gasp to tide us over until September. (Hopefully, Colin and the summer of code folks can work on performance enhancements to the network stack, UFS2, and the hard

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Brett Glass
vulnerable. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Brett Glass
all of the time when we're making production servers. In some cases, what we need is a tried-and-true version with bug fixes. --Brett Glass At 11:04 AM 5/16/2006, Colin Percival wrote: If you absolutely must run FreeBSD 4.11, install the RELEASE and then run FreeBSD Update. Personally, since

4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-15 Thread Brett Glass
as the one in 4.x, though I hope this will change). So, we'd like to upgrade them to a patch level that includes all recent security fixes. Are ISOs available? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-15 Thread Brett Glass
freebsd mirrors. True. But this requires assembling a system to do it, and then waiting hours while I build the world and make release. I was hoping that there was a snapshot server up, as there was in Japan a few years ago. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
never seen this behavior. By the way, the date command does report the correct time. It's cron that seems to be getting the time wrong. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:08 PM 11/25/2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: Just created a server using FreeBSD 6.0, and it's quite stable and fast. One glitch, though: Jobs scheduled to run at midnight via /etc/crontab are running at 6 PM (midnight GMT). I've double checked, and the CMOS clock is set to local time and

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:40 PM 11/26/2005, Jon Dama wrote: What is the output of date vs date -u on your system? What's the value of machdep.adjkerntz ? www# date Sat Nov 26 17:53:20 MST 2005 www# date -u Sun Nov 27 00:53:22 UTC 2005 www# sysctl -a | grep kerntz machdep.adjkerntz: 25200 Is /etc/localtime

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:14 PM 11/26/2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2005-Nov-26 15:07:26 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: By the way, the date command does report the correct time. It's cron that seems to be getting the time wrong. You haven't accidently created a line that looks like 'TZ=' in the crontab have you

FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-25 Thread Brett Glass
. What could be going on? Is this a known problem? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-04 Thread Brett Glass
this Thanks to the people who have pointed out that target in the Makefile. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
, is that the GENERIC kernel configuration should be very heavily commented and documented and that the DEFAULT file will then be completely unnecessary. Just my $0.02. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
), one has to remove dozens of lines from the configuration file. Sometimes a hundred or more. But this is simple enough; one just deletes the lines. Having to WRITE a line to disable each of the undesired ones is orders of magnitude more difficult -- unnecessarily so. --Brett Glass

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-17 Thread Brett Glass
to install PCI NICs for speed and stability. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-17 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s. Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we need to know if the nve driver works I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve. A board that works well

6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-15 Thread Brett Glass
, when is the likely release date? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:34 PM 10/15/2005, David Syphers wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html Linked to from the schedule page... Been there. Want to get folks' opinions, and also more detail than is likely to appear on th epage. --Brett ___

Re: Will 5.4 be an Extended Life release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available for download on the FreeBSD sites or rolling your own release for internal use. Perhaps. But

Re: Will 5.4 be an Extended Life release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:00 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes official releases and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. It would recognize it as 4.11. Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't say 4.11-RELEASE, the

Re: Will 5.4 be an Extended Life release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:20 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: Ah. Packages and /stand/sysinstall. Yeah. I haven't installed a package from sysinstall in YEARS so I probably wouldn't have noticed that. Getting security updates for packages using sysinstall is a total lose. cvsup and portupgrade are my tools of

Re: Will 5.4 be an Extended Life release?

2005-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:24 AM 4/18/2005, Colin Percival wrote: I usually choose to allow users to shoot their own feet if they want, but since I wrote FreeBSD Update primarily for the benefit of less experienced FreeBSD users I decided that some anti-foot-shooting mechanisms were a good idea. I understand.

Ready for dual core Opterons?

2005-04-11 Thread Brett Glass
) be in 5.4? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-21 Thread Brett Glass
It's the C language. While it's claimed to be portable, it really doesn't address integer size and endianism well enough. Oddly enough, even FORTRAN did a better job. You could declare a variable to be INTEGER*4 and that would be that, regardless of architecture. Which ports were causing you

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Brett Glass
to the many difficulties that this can cause. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-19 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:14 PM 12/19/2004, Colin Percival wrote: No, but quite a few people would like to see a 5.4 minor release sometime around, say, late February or early March. That would work too. It's a slightly shorter than usual time between point releases, but then, a lot of progress is being made

Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Brett Glass
else besides me like to see a 5.3.1 minor release sometime around, say, February? --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Panic during kernel rebuild; file system left inconsistent

2003-12-04 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:13 PM 12/4/2003, Igor Pokrovsky wrote: I've seen the same message about softupdates, but it appeared after unexpected power problems, when computer turned off without syncs and umounts. In this case, it occurred after a crash... which likewise occurred without a sync or umount. The machine

Re: Recap of stable/4.9 status, please?

2003-09-27 Thread Brett Glass
Glass At 09:54 AM 9/27/2003, Murray Stokely wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:35:55PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: I'm waiting for the release of 4.9 to do some system upgrades (I've patched the machines in the meantime, but really need to do fresh installs.) How stable and polished

GNU tar bug

2002-10-01 Thread Brett Glass
Any chance of slipping in a fix for the GNU tar malicious archive bug before 4.7 ships? --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

4.6.2 ETA?

2002-08-09 Thread Brett Glass
? --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: cvs commit: ports/www/apache2 Makefile ports/www/apache2/files patch-modules:ht (fwd)

2002-07-09 Thread Brett Glass
Thank you for pointing this out! It may indeed be what's wedging Apache 2.x. I may still downgrade to 1.3.26, though. The process size is smaller, and the only truly major difference between 1.3.x and 2.x is the new threading model, which FreeBSD can't use because pthreads are still a kludge.

Re: Could someone commit the change suggested in PR bin/32420?

2002-01-06 Thread Brett Glass
At 03:01 PM 1/6/2002, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: recently we setup msyslog-1.08a on a number of freebsd and solaris based boxes, syslogging to a mysql backend. I'd be concerned about the overhead of a full-fledged SQL database Seems like overkill to me. Also, I believe that msyslog

Re: Could someone commit the change suggested in PR bin/32420?

2002-01-06 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:10 PM 1/6/2002, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: msyslog is pretty cool, it's modular and has a bunch of different input modules for tcp, udp, streams and unix domain sockets also output modules for mysql, postgres, peo (hash protection) and regex. it is worth exploring and actually is BSD

Re: Could someone commit the change suggested in PR bin/32420?

2002-01-05 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:38 PM 1/5/2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Of course, collecting log data for analysis from syslog is pretty low-tech when it comes to detecting and/or stopping attacks in real-time and I'd hope this wouldn't be encouraged as a general practice. I can't see any reason not to use syslogd, or

Proposed changes to Makefile in /etc/mail

2001-04-02 Thread Brett Glass
In http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26299 I've proposed changes to the Makefile in /etc/mail that I think makes it easier to reconfigure sendmail. Right now, to change sendmail.cf, one edits "freebsd.mc" and rebuild sendmail.cf from it (unless one has changed /etc/make.conf, which

Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Glass
Hmmm. I haven't started at the stack to see if this is feasible, but can't the code that implements IPFW's "established" keyword be used to discard the ACK if it isn't associated with an active session? --Brett At 05:34 PM 1/20/2000 , Warner Losh wrote: It is a remote exploit. Warner To

Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Glass
That means that the code path that validates the ACK in the kernel must be long. Long enough so that you can hose the CPU over, say, a T1. How does one short-circuit this? --Brett At 05:34 PM 1/20/2000 , Warner Losh wrote: It is a remote exploit. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Glass
Darren: Glad to see you are in on this discussion. The code you use for the "keep state" option in IPFilters might be able to recognize that the ACK does not belong to an existing connection. Could a fast check be implemented as a rule under IPFilters? (If it could, it's probably a one-liner,

Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Glass
Oops I've answered my own question. IPFW's "established" keyword only checks the RST or ACK bits; it can't tell if a session is REALLY established or not. Only a firewall that can save state (such as IPFilters), or the kernel itself, can do this. It'd be neat if we could use IPFilters to do

Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:03 PM 1/20/2000 , Darren Reed wrote: If you're using "flags S keep state" or "flags S/SA keep state", then as far as I'm aware, having read the code, you are safe. This might be a workaround. What rule(s) would have to follow it to block the ACK? I'm intrigued to know what the bug is.