Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

Marwan Burelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:13:26PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Under some circumstances it can also be useful to have > > an "emergency user" which is not dependant on anything > > outside the base system (i.e

Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

> CDROM is an LG GCR-8523B, on secondary slave. That's not a supported configuration. You cannot have a slave without a master. (It _might_ work if you're lucky, but it's not reliable.) However, it should at least detect the master on the first channel, so that's not

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

useful to have an "emergency user" which is not dependant on anything outside the base system (i.e. doesn't use anything from /usr/local, doesn't have its home on an NFS volume, doesn't has its account information on NIS etc.). It should be a member of the wheel group so i

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

hg *; rm -rf * > > 2. cd /usr/src > > 3. make buildworld > > 4. make buildkernel > > 5. make installkernel > > 6. mergemaster -p > > 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works 7.1 fsck -p 7.2 mount -u -o rw / > > 8. mount -a > >

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

rf /usr/obj, otherwise the build- world broke. Of course you should do take the usual precautions, i.e. have a reliable backup, read UPDATING, don't forget to run mergemaster etc. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Diens

Re: timecounter and Hz quality in kern RELENG_6

martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After digging in the source i have found that timec.c have an routine for > > > computing the so called "Hz quality". > > &

Re: timecounter and Hz quality in kern RELENG_6

iable as ACPI, so usually the ACPI timecounter has higher quality (although it takes more clock cycles to query it). Oh, there's also a timecounter called "dummy", which does not count time at all. :-) It exists for debugging purposes only, AFAIK, and has a negative quality value, so

Re: make.conf for 6.0

ot;-march=xxx" options will be added to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS automatically, so you don't have to care for that either. As the saying goes: "Less is more" ... ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstlei

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

ling is that 6.0 will be a _lot_ better than 5.0. A _lot_. About performance: It seems to be a little slower than RELENG_4 on my test machines (which are UP). It's not much slower, but noticeable. (Yes, I know about INVARIANTS, WITNESS and malloc.conf, those are not the cause.) Best regards O

Re: harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed.

b of=/dev/ad0s1d seek=16 count=16 fsck /dev/ad0s1d Those commands are just off the top of my head -- I haven't tested it, no guarantees, you're doing it at your own risk and you should have a backup. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Mark

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

r links to it. The longer the old front page is available, the bigger the problem will grow. > Here's another: Make all headings links. That's a good idea. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

# Hide changes in whitespace DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]' # Ignores CVS Id tags IGNORE_MOTD=yes # Ignores changes in motd Of course, as always: YMMV. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt Fr

Re: Jail to jail network performance?

ity impacts. Symlinks within a jail cannot point to targets outside of that jail. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be per

WITNESS warning output from 6.0-BETA3

8040691a,c2627540,c225bd00,c235b180) at soo_ioctl+0x2db ioctl(c235b180,e4f46d04,3,1,286) at ioctl+0x370 syscall(3b,3b,3b,8056da0,0) at syscall+0x22f Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f --- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF32, ioctl), eip = 0x280d0a97, esp = 0xbfbfe99c, ebp = 0xbfbfe9c8 --- --

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

option in sysinstall: If the user doesn't create a separate partiton for /tmp in the partition editor, ask him whether he would like to make /tmp a memory-based file system. Or implement a special hotkey in the partition editor for creating a memory-based file system -- I guess this would be t

Re: Install from USB flash drive? Sort of...

s is almost always a bad idea, because you will get duplicates of all hardlinked files. That's why your copy grew to 1.1GB. For recursive copies, use cpio, tar, pax, cpdup or similar tools. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafin

Re: badblocks

you do. In any case: If the drive is used to store important or valuable data, then it should be replaced when read errors occur, no matter whether remapping the bad sectors works or not, because it is quite possible that further sectors will be damaged. Just my 2 Euro cents. Best regards Oliver

Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6

s that's not what the release notes really mean. For the mentioned update from 4.x to 6.x, I would go via a binary upgrade, which has probably fewer pitfalls and is finished a lot faster than a source upgrade. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85

Re: Apache2 just listening to https?

Also, i activated > > > > NameVirtualHost *:80 Which does exactly nothing unless there actually are multiple virtual hosts for the same IP and port. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this

Re: Apache2 just listening to https?

Uzi Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Uzi Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, SSL can not be configured per name vhost. (or at least can not > > > work) > > > Because SSL handshake is used before http he

Re: Apache2 just listening to https?

the port numbers). It's correct that SSL doesn't work for pure name-based virtual hosts (not using "special tricks"), but nobody was talking about that. > > Try the telnet trick mentioned by others, but simply type "GET / HTTP/ > > 1.0" Actually, twice

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

ns saying that "cua" is related to UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter), which is the basic function description of a serial controller. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > buffers to disk. While it is doing that, it displays the > > number of remaining buffers, with increasing time intervals > > between them. If there are still buffers le

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

ctively; see the boot() function in src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c. That means that the timeout will happen after 10 seconds. Doubling the number of intervals (i.e. 40 instead of 20) will make the timeout happen after 40 seconds, which should be sufficient. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme,

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

not save to modify it in FreeBSD.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Emacs ist für mich

Re: reducing shutdown time

Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. PI: int f[9814],b,c=9814,g,i;long a=1e4,d,e,h; main(){for(;b

Re: Possible exploit in 5.4-STABLE

b, unless you also modify find(1) and/or other utilities. This is a very good reason to actually _read_ the nightly cron output instead of deleting it immediately or forwar- ding it to /dev/null. ;-) (Also, local IDS tools like tripwire or mtree might be useful for such cases, too.) Best reg

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

t with serial IO related to database-performance have i > understand, but i quests me have the others understand > my meanings? That I don't know. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this mes

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

d transactional databases like PostgreSQL are written in a sequential way), so the usefulness of this "benchmark" is very debatable. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to

Re: Proliant 380 G4

y not an option for that customer). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "[...] one obse

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

Yuval Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I do look carefully every day, because it's my job. I work > > with various operating systems every day, including FreeBSD > > and Linux. > > From a professional I would expect a more ma

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

and why. I don't agree, but I won't tell you why, because it is probably a waste of time. I've had this a thousand times before. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be perso

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

icular.) > Linux has its _really_ good points. Well, I don't see any. But everybody is free to have his own opinion. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author a

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted

hey don't even know what "ext2" is. :-) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "FreeBSD is Yoda

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I understand it, sshd actually accepts connections > > > prior to checking hosts.allow? > > > >

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

dentification, so you don't have to rely on DNS. However, in your case I think it's OK to use TCP wrapper, because you want to use that in _addition_ to the usual SSH authentication (for pre-filtering, so to speak), but not to replace it. Just keep in mind that DNS results might not be re

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

and_ on the directory ("chflags schg ..."). (Note that chmod and chown will not be sufficient, because the use can still rename the ~/.ssh directory and create a new one.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinion

Highpoint HPT371 support (kern/59624)

corder, several UDMA harddisks using hot-swap via atacontrol detach/attach). Zero problems so far, except that I have to merge the patch each time I update my world. :-) Thank you very much. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any op

Re: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

Uwe Doering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > If they're really identical (i.e. the same size and same > > geometry), then you can use dd(1) for duplication, like > > this: > > > > # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k conv=noe

Re: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

ode density (newfs -i). > Any help/comments would be appreciated. Please CC me, as I am not a > subscriber of this list. Thanks!!! In that case you should set the "Reply-To" header in your mail appropriately. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot increase directory list

and fsck will need a lot of memory (and probably run for a long time). First you should check if you hit a (soft or hard) resource limit with the "ulimit" command. See sh(1) for details on the ulimit usage. If you ran fsck in single user mode, you might have to enable swapping beforehan

Re: Headsup: USB MFCs to 4.x

d report the results. Thanks again for your work, it's really appreciated! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of

Re: internal modem / pnp0 / FAQ error ?

, then it's pretty much a dead horse. I would rather recommend to buy a real modem. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinion

Re: Strange disk problems make the system lock up

40960 sectors in 10 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 20.0MB in 1 cyl groups (105 c/g, 210.00MB/g, 2560 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32 -ROOT-# mount /dev/vn0c /mnt -ROOT-# df -k /mnt Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/vn0c 201102 18500

Re: UDMA ICRC error

I remember having the same problem on a machine once. Replacing the IDE cable with a known good one helped. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessa

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

esses aren't needed normally, so keeping them in RAM would be a waste of memory. If they're used one day, they're paged back into RAM pretty quickly. Also, when RAM begins to get full, FreeBSD starts paging more aggressively. If the situation clears up and RAM gets free again, those p

Logo competition (was: Re: Save the Demon!)

Mike Jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme said: > > [...] > > > I'm not seeing a problem here. Beastie is not a religious icon, > > > not is it intended to be one. > > > > Right -- but it looks like one. And every now and

Re: Save the Demon!

Dan Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAIK, one of the main points of that logo competition is > > to do away with anything that could be interpreted in an > > religious way. Therefore an image of an Angel would

Re: Save the Demon!

the newly designed logo would make matters worse -- _That_ would qualify as foot shooting. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opini

Re: Save the Demon!

way or the other.) Also take into account that a logo is not a mascot and should not be designed in a way that it could be confused with the mascot (Beastie will still exist), so the logo should not contain a person or creature. Just my 2 cents, YMMV. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme,

Re: ULE status

be found. (I think it's not even mentioned in NOTES.) If you're looking for a generic description of URL and all the technical details, have a look at this paper: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/roberson.html Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: ULE status

n't really stable in general (except under very limited, controlled conditions). (Note that I'm not saying anything about the stability of ULE.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message m

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

Sorry for replying to myself ... Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding to that, the following /bin/sh snippet should do > (untested!). You have to kill ntpd before. > > STEP=100# number of seconds to step forward > while [ $STEP -gt 0 ]; do

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

sufficiently (i.e. within a few seconds), restart ntpd with the -x option. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secne

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

ption to ntpd, so it does not try to step the clock by more than 1 second. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. &quo

Re: Use loader to load kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in ext2 filesystem?

ot the installation from CD in the first place. Since you use a CD anyway ... Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions

ciss(4) adapter not recognized (Compaq/HP Smart Array 6i/64xx)

) Any hints and advice would be greatly appreciated! Best regards Oliver PS: I'm using 4-stable, but I checked the CVS repository and verified that the device ID is neither in 5-stable nor HEAD. Searching for this device in the list archives gave zero hits. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix Gmb

Re: Very large directory

David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I would suggest trying this simple hack: > > > > cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f > > > > It's a dirty hack, but might work, if the file names in >

Re: Very large directory

ing this simple hack: cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f It's a dirty hack, but might work, if the file names in that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc.). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München

Re: backporting tail from HEAD to RELENG_5

at's one of the big advantages of FreeBSD and its ports collection: You have enough things to chose from, so go and try them to find the one which suits you best. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in th

Re: dual cpu and top in 5.3

CPU COMMAND 77 bind 2 0 12512K 9820K select 0 394:50 0.00% 0.00% named 22723 root 2 0 2200K 264K poll 0 190:52 0.00% 0.00% dovecot 111 root 2 0 3056K 936K select 1 94:35 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 79 root 2 0 1312K 364K sele

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

ly (using "mount -ufo ro ..."), then press the power button. That way no harm will be done to the filesystems if it doesn't work. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be p

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

lt« or »power-down« functions, using kbdcontrol, so it's very easy and intuitive to shut down the machine properly. See the kbdmap(5) manpage for details. Apart from that, I suggest you simply disable background fsck. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, O

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

And last but not least, the XFree86/Xorg drivers are rock-stable. I'm using Matrox MGA cards for many years, starting with the Matrox Millenium. Unfortunately, Matrox has gotten stingy of drivers and specs lately, so I'd advise against buying their newer cards (Parhelia). Best re

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

i386 option in your kernel. Note that you will need a hardware FPU (i387 math co-pro). FreeBSD 4.x supports math emulation, so you don't need a hardware FPU there, but apparently that support has been removed in FreeBSD 5.x. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co

Re: Configuring a DVD burner on 4.10

riate ioctl. Driving me nuts. > Thoughts/pointers/questions are greatly appreciated. I would recommend using the dvd+rw-tools port instead of cdrecord (/usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools). Despite the name, it supports all types of DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnet

Re: ALi M5451 Sound Card.

t's worth a try. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.

Re: Broadcom BCM5703X causing reboot? 4.8-RC2

. however ... My machine has a network traffic of 540 Gbyte a *DAY*. That's about 16 Tbyte a month, if my /usr/bin/bc isn't failing. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be per

Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)

ses. That has been very handy in that environment. But in DNS, anything except letters, digits and dashes is not allowed (apart from the separating dots, of course). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this messa

Re: Invalid ps start time values for kernel processes ?

Of course, you can also just ignore the wrong start values. They should not cause any harm. I don't think there is an easy way to fix the problem. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be

Re: 5.0-STABLE ???

Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A branch or a tag? I don't believe it was branched. A branch. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the

Re: 5.0-STABLE ???

Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem I see with this is that anybody following this particular > RELEASE has to follow CURRENT, which is almost a contradiction of terms. Not necessarily. There's a RELENG_5_0 branch. Regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: Some Changes to Mergemaster

on to always use $PAGER? I prefer that mode of operation (and I guess it would take some time to get my fingers used to anything else). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the

Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels

, I think it might be a good idea to make those files schg by default, and teach mergemaster to noschg/schg them if required. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and ma

Re: XFree86 faster!?

freshing my memory, and now there's no reason to send me any more reminders. I certainly won't forget it again. :) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and ma

Re: /dev/acd0c bug

7;t think the ATA-enabled cdrdao is in the ports yet.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "A

Re: wi0+ata

t; I don't know about the average data rate but I was having peeks of 8.x > sometimes even 9 MBytes/s and know the maximum is 7.x Mbytes/s Well, the speed changes on the area of the disk. On the outer cylinders, a disk is much faster than on the inside. So it depends very much where the

Re: how to tell if 'make buildworld' finished?

command. When executed, a new shell will > begin and all output to terminal is stored in a file which can be checked > after the fact. I know about script, but I don't like it that much. It tends to destroy my carefully crafted zsh prompt (which is not simply a "#&quo

Re: pathname length over NFS

mail-related tools use sysexits(3) values, too, to further classify the result beyond the traditional 0/ok and 1/failure, so that scripts and other programs have a better chance to do sensible things when something went wrong. This is a good thing, IMO. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, sec

Re: FreeBSD CD 4.4 CDROM subscriptions - who's doing what?

elp texts (optional, of course -- you can still run the original English sysinstall if you want). Regards Oliver PS: This is the URL: http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/work/outputexpert?mode=viewone&titnr=210084150 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

page. If it has the -g and -h options, then you've got dirprefs in the kernel. They were introduced at the same time as the kernel dirprefs code. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may b

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

f the filesystem is 90% used, the dirprefs code doesn't have much room to use disk blocks for new directories in an efficient way. But it's probably better than nothing. It's very difficult to say in advance, so I'd suggest you just try it. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, sec

pkg_add doesn't work in jail

wd() function in libc traverses the directories back to "/" itself to build the path. pkg_add works fine now. Can someone confirm my above analysis? Should I submit a PR? Unfortunately, I don't have a real fix. I didn't have a closer look at the __getcwd() code, but it seems pr

Re: Where did /etc/issue go from telnetd? (fwd)

Alexander Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > But the strange thing is, it still doesn't work. I have > > no idea why. > > Ack, but: the telnetd you have installed (probably) is > crypto/

Re: IPFirewall again

ory listing data is transferred through the control connection (it doesn't require a data connction like "ls"). Unfortunately, some FTP servers don't support it correctly. Most servers whose authors have read and understood RFC959 usually get it right, though, which includes Fr

Re: ftpd weirdness; CWD/RETR/... handles {} specially?

Eugene M. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 05:33:23PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Note that shell globbing is only performed on LIST. > > I just tried -- CWD and RETR don't expand them. > [...] > ftp> cd /roo? > --->

Re: ftpd weirdness; CWD/RETR/... handles {} specially?

Send to the list, not to myself. Thanks. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dre

Re: tail

a bunch of "mv" commands). This doesn't work with vi, of course (you can read a directory, but you can't write it), so I wrote a small shell script that loads the directory (that is, the filenames) into your $EDITOR and writes them back afterwards (i.e. renames the files). ht

Re: The RELENG_4 (aka -stable) branch is now unfrozen

g like that In that case I think I could take over the job. ;-) I'm doing the release for the Lehmanns Edition of FreeBSD right now ... Regards Oliver PS: We have 5 (five) CD-ROMs in our set now. :-P -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any o

Re: ISA cards with the same ports and adresses problem

S = no'' in your BIOS setup? Then the BIOS should assign non-conflicting ports and IRQs to the PnP-capable cards (both of those cards are PnP-capable). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be

Re: make release broken with too many ports/distfiles...

' fetch the distfiles that it needs itself. That's what I do, kind of. ;-) So I never have to think about what distfiles it needs. (Requires a small hack to the release Makefile so that there's an appropriate setting for the MASTER_SITE in the chroot's make.conf.) Regards Oliv

Re: Releases

jonathan michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:45:41PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Maybe it would reduce confusion somewhat if people would > > just stop saying ``4.1-stable'' etc. Those simply do not > > exist. >

Re: 4.3 Release candidate #2 now ready

k (but no distfiles nor packages), XFree86, _and_ this CD also contains a Live Filesystem, so you can use it as a "fixit" CD, too! I haven't tested either of these (due to lack of CD-Rs right now), but I'm pretty confident that the ISOs work fine. Regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: end of 3-stable support

a to cause such incompatibilities (apparently) intentionally. The uppercase/lowercase mixture and usage of the "U" modifier in the above Makefile is completely superfluous, IMO. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions ex

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 available this weekend

my old notebook, too, since it can't run any 3.x or 4.x. Regards Oliver PS: Please regard my Reply-To's and don't Cc me. This is annoying. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal

Re: Applying -STABLE source

it -- read it first!). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just

Re: Revised schedule for 4.3-RELEASE

Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Which mirrors will carry the -RC ISO images? I've been trying to > > > >I'll _try_ to put 'em up at ftp7.de.

Re: making a RELEASE

In list.freebsd-stable Nora Etukudo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:21:24PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > have MY snapshot on a bootable CD, just in case. The price is > > > reasonable - a night of my life :-) > > > >

Re: Irda support

In list.freebsd-stable Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or give them a real business card.. > > Still, hotsync'ing via IR is neat :) If I'm not mistaken, the IR feature of the Palm (at least the Palm III) isn't even Irda, but some proprietary st

Re: making a RELEASE

it away from the 'standard' release/snap making > procedure, but as i said in my prev messages - I do this for me only, to > have MY snapshot on a bootable CD, just in case. The price is reasonable - > a night of my life :-) And what is the advantage over simply making a back

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