Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

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 9. make installworld 10. mergemaster 11. reboot Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

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. During boot, the kernel probes several time counters and assigns

Re: timecounter and Hz quality in kern RELENG_6

, which does not count time at all. :-) It exists for debugging purposes only, AFAIK, and has a negative quality value, so it is never selected automatically. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD

Re: make.conf for 6.0

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 Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

: 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 Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing

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

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, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

headings links. That's a good idea. 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 personal to the author and may not necessarily

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

in motd Of course, as always: YMMV. 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 personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: Jail to jail network performance?

up in another jail's file space, can I use a symlink instead? Can a jailed process see the target of the symlink? I read that using such a symlinks has security impacts. Symlinks within a jail cannot point to targets outside of that jail. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

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 the easiest way to implement it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

WITNESS warning output from 6.0-BETA3

) 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 --- -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

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

, cpdup or similar tools. 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. C++ is over-complicated nonsense

Re: badblocks

, 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any

Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6

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, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author

Re: Apache2 just listening to https?

tricks), but nobody was talking about that. Try the telnet trick mentioned by others, but simply type GET / HTTP/ 1.0 ENTERENTERENTER Actually, ENTER twice is sufficient. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions

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 headers, it just can't be done. You can configure SSL

Re: Apache2 just listening to https?

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 message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

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

), 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 may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way

Re: reducing shutdown time

-- 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=c,c-=14;i=printf(%04d,e+d/a),e

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

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 kein Editor. Für mich ist das genau das gleiche, als wenn ich nach

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

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, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed

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 left after a certain number of intervals

Re: Possible exploit in 5.4-STABLE

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 regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

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 message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

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 the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix

Re: Proliant 380 G4

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 observation we can make here is that Python makes an excellent

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

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 and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. IRIX is about as stable

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted [OT]

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 personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. I invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made

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 mature and balanced approach, rather than my

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted

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, Linux is Luke Skywalker -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

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 opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

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 reliable. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may

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? Yes, the connection is accepted first, because there is no information

Highpoint HPT371 support (kern/59624)

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 opinions expressed

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=noerror,sync The noerror,sync part is important so

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

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 KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: Headsup: USB MFCs to 4.x

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 secnetix in any way. Python tricks is a tough one, cuz

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot increase directory list

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 beforehand (swapon -a) if your physical RAM is not sufficient. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH

Re: internal modem / pnp0 / FAQ error ?

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. Emacs ist für mich kein Editor. Für mich ist das genau das gleiche, als wenn

Re: Strange disk problems make the system lock up

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 0%/mnt Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed

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 necessarily

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

and RAM gets free again, those pages stay in swap until they're actually used. For those reasons (and others) it is normal that swap space is being used even though there is free RAM available. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions

Re: Save the Demon!

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, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538

Re: Save the Demon!

. 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. To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing

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 be completely inappropriate. (Why

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 then there are people who are offended by it because

Re: ULE status

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 may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. If you aim the gun at your foot

Re: ULE status

.) 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 Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

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. C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. -- Dennis M. Ritchie

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

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 secnetix in any way. Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very

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 date -f %s $(( `date +%s

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

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. Clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes close

Re: Very large directory

in that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc.). 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. If Java had

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 that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc.). why

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

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 GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538

Re: backporting tail from HEAD to RELENG_5

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 this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: dual cpu and top in 5.3

0 3056K 936K select 1 94:35 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 79 root 2 0 1312K 364K select 1 35:56 0.00% 0.00% ntpd .. and so on. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal

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

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 personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. UNIX

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

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, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

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 regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

(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 KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may

Re: Configuring a DVD burner on 4.10

/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, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538

Re: ALi M5451 Sound Card.

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. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Broadcom BCM5703X causing reboot? 4.8-RC2

approximately 232 GB a month Thanks, that's very encouraging ... 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

Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)

, 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 message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix

Re: Invalid ps start time values for kernel processes ?

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 personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

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 Fromme, secnetix GmbH

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 author and may not necessarily

Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels

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 may not necessarily reflect

Re: Some Changes to Mergemaster

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 author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: /dev/acd0c bug

read .bin/.cue files directly, without the need to make the .iso detour? I use it successfully on FreeBSD 4.6 with a 24x ATAPI CD-RW drive (Benq, formerly known as Acer). ftp://ftp.freebsd.dk/pub/ATA/ (I don't think the ATA-enabled cdrdao is in the ports yet.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: wi0+ata

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 data gets written. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix

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

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 #, of course). :-} Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG

Re: pathname length over NFS

) 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, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2

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

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=viewonetitnr=210084150 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

, 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, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

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 be personal to the author and may not necessarily

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/telnet/telnetd which doesn't behave the same

pkg_add doesn't work in jail

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 pretty non-trivial to fix. Regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: IPFirewall again

(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 FreeBSD's ftpd and wuftpd. ;-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG

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

. 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 dream within a dream (E. A. Poe

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? --- CWD /roo? 250 CWD command successful. ftp pwd

Re: tail

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). http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/scripts/vils Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG

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

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 Mnchen Any opinions expressed in this message may b

Re: ISA cards with the same ports and adresses problem

set ``PnP-aware OS = 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 Mnchen Any opinions expressed in this message

Re: make release broken with too many ports/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 Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG

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. I would also vote for ``uname -r'' saying ``4

Re: 4.3 Release candidate #2 now ready

_ 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 Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 Mnche

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 available this weekend

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 Mnchen Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions

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.freebsd.org, if I can. No promises, though, 'cause I'm extremely

Re: Applying -STABLE source

. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 Mnchen 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 dream within a dream" (E.

Re: making a RELEASE

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 backup of your disk? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

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 stuff. Regards Oliver -- Oliver

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 :-) And what is the advantage over simply making a backup

Re: SSH in 4.1 RELEASE for NonUS users

lso a Live Filesystem / "Fixit" CD ISO image. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein

Re: FreeBSD Console

oinfo" and added it to the terminfo database. Works as expected. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant a

Re: How to force remote reboot of 3.4-Release?

unknown ICMP packets. If someone is interested, I've put the hack online here: http://www.fromme.com/icmpreboot.tar.gz Please read the README file. Use at your own risk. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) &

Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf?

(but as I said before: docs don't exist until someone writes them). But the specific sysctl in question (see the subject line) is very well documented. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück

Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD

, but they seem to ignore it. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD

. Well, when I added 3DNow support to the Seti@home client, I assembled the 3DNow instructions "manually", i.e. I created small gas macros for that purpose. It's ugly, but it works. The 3DNow specification (with instruction codes) is available from www.amd.com. Regards Oliver -- Oli

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