Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Ingo, On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be well aware that 99.% of the hardware in the world isn't big iron and never will be, so something approximating 99% of the effort

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Michael, On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: Christoph Rohland wrote: And then I don't see the value of Linux anymore. Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux over other OSes is the GPL. And you would loose exactly these two points for high end

Re: No tcp connection establishment with 2.4

2000-11-10 Thread Michele Iacobellis
Thanks, it seems to work ! -- # Eng. Michele Iacobellis # RD - Linux Impresa # [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: No tcp connection establishment with 2.4

2000-11-10 Thread Michele Iacobellis
Thanks, it seems to work ! -- # Eng. Michele Iacobellis # RD - Linux Impresa # [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 material. Alan, do you consider it as a bugfix if I tell you that we can't get anymore oops with the new bonding code, even in SMP ? I've had reports of it working very well, and faster, for a long time now and the link

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:28:46AM +0100, willy tarreau wrote: From the patch source: +CONFIG_BONDING + Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet + Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, + 'Trunking' by Sun, and 'Bonding' in Linux. I

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Matti Aarnio wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:28:46AM +0100, willy tarreau wrote: From the patch source: +CONFIG_BONDING + Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet + Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, + 'Trunking' by Sun, and

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: Cisco Trademark is EtherChannel -- there the capitalization is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it clean. ... Regards,

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
willy tarreau wrote: Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 material. Alan, do you consider it as a bugfix if I tell you that we can't get anymore oops with the new bonding code, even in SMP ? I've had reports of it working very well, and faster,

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Matti Aarnio wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: Cisco Trademark is EtherChannel -- there the capitalization is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it

Re: Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM)

2000-11-10 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:30:32PM +0100, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: BTW, I wanted to take a look at the frequently mentioned beancounter patch, here is the current state, http://www.asp-linux.com/en/products/ubpatch.shtml "Sorry, due to growing expenses for support of public

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
However, it has not been tested enough that I may bet by head on saying there are no known issues. I won't say there are no issues, but I'd say there are no KNOWN issues. This is because I did not have access to all hardware that was needed to complete the tests in time. I know that,

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it clean. ... /Matti Aarnio Anything but "EtherChannel" -- trademark people Ok, Matti. Let's keep "Etherchannel" as you proposed and as it was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: On 9 Nov 2000, Mike Coleman wrote: Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shrug RMS had repeatedly demonstrated what he's worth as a designer and programmer. Way below zero. You may like or dislike his ideology, but when it comes to technical stuff... Not

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: Gee, we do not call it EtherChannel, we say CISCO calls it EtherChannel. Where is the infringment here? Are people that paranoid or it is just me who is not getting it? You missed my original point. I don't

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Arnaud S . Launay
Le Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:21AM +, Alan Cox a écrit: Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 material. Compiling 2.2.18pre21 without sysctl gives an error at linkage: kernel/kernel.o(__ksymtab+0x608): undefined reference to `sysctl_jiffies' trivial patch

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Sean Hunter
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:31:24PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: It was posted to lkml, so no link (except if you want to dig through lkml mail archives). It booted but then it oops'ed before userland I belive. I tried

Re: Comming to Share??? (re: Subcribe)

2000-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:09:40 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scot Slager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Comming to Share??? (re: Subcribe) Hello Scot, Is Iomega ready

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly Spell "David Miller" correctly. 8). I believe that was a taste of Linus's good sense of humor there Jeff. ;o) I got a good kick out of it

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
I don't like to call it BONDING. "Bonding" is something where two (or more) channels carry data in between two participating systems. Like Multilink-PPP, and ISDN Channel Bonding. Often indeed data goes out somehow inter-leaved on the physical links. (Like ISDN Channel Bonding supplies a

[PATCH] NIC drivers check_region() removal continues

2000-11-10 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, new net drivers patchset (against 2.4.0-test11-pre1) attached. Modifications: check_region() removal, passing dev-name to request_region() request_irq() etc. Drivers affected: 3c501.c, 3c503.c, 3c505.c, 82596.c, eth16i.c, hp.c, hp-plus.c, ibmlana.c, ne2.c, seeq8005.c, smc-mca.c,

compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Corisen
hi, i'm currently running RH7, with 2.2.16-22 kernel, gcc 2.96 on a Sharp Actius 250 notebook. i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, upon startup there are some failed/error messages: 1. finding module dependencies: depmod *** Unresolved symbols in

[PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 : Megaraid

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
Alan, I've patched the megaraid driver with these 2 lines taken from RH7.0 2.2.16-22 kernel, and now my netraid no longer hangs at boot. I don't know if this can induce side effects, but it works again here. Regards, Willy ___ Do You

PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Ballabio_Dario
In order to have the xircom_tulip pcmcia cardbus working again with recent kernels, it is necessary to specify: ifconfig eth0 -multicast Moreover if the card is configured by itself into the kernel (i.e. with the default ne2000 pcmcia support removed), the enclosed patch is required as well.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
That being said, the real problem with the GKHI is that as Al said, it does expose internal kernel interfaces --- and the Linux kernel development community as a whole refuses to be bound by such interfaces, sometimes even during a stable kernel series. I'm not sure that GKHI exposes any

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
The problem with the hooks et.al. is very simple - they promote every bloody implementation detail to exposed API. Surely not, having the kernel source does that. The alternative to the hook is embed a patch in the kernel source. What proveds greater exposure to internals: hooks of

2.2.18pre20, VM messages

2000-11-10 Thread f5ibh
Hi ! VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for tail.. ^ ... or something else Randomly, I got this message on the console. When this appends, I'm flooded with this message and cannot do anything with the console. ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with the hooks et.al. is very simple - they promote every bloody implementation detail to exposed API. Surely not, having the kernel source does that. The alternative to the hook is embed a patch in the kernel source.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
Alexander "see figure 1" Viro wrote: Sorry. You don't "embed" the patch. You either get it accepted or not. Or you fork the tree and then it's officially None Of My Problems(tm). Sounds like a good idea. -M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread David Lang
how is that any different then a module? modules that are not included with the kernel source are not guarenteed to work with any other kernel version (including during the stable kernel series) David Lang On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand due to panic @ 0xc0163d7a eax = 0x001a ebx = 0xcf907d8c ecx = 0xcf906000 edx =

Re: [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
David Ford wrote: With kdb, after the panic happens, I can hit 'sr s' then 'g', it will OOPS (process sendmail) then continue. Without kdb, I am SOL and have to hit the power button. sysrq won't react. Debugger good. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] Re: [test11-pre2] rrunner.c compiler error

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Blah. Puke. Ug. Not your changes, Bart... which are ok, but incomplete. Here is the complete bugfix. There are two places where error conditions are not fully handled, and 'out_spin' can kfree(image), saving some code. The worst bug of the list... if the firmware copy_from_user failed

[PATCH] oom_nice

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Swiedler
Here's an updated version of the "oom_nice" patch. It allows a sysadmin to set the "oom niceness" for processes, either by PID or by process name. The oom niceness value factors into the badness() function called by Rik's OOM killer. Negative values decrease the chance that the process will be

threads

2000-11-10 Thread M.Kiran Babu
sir, i got some doubts in kernel programming. i am using linux 6.1 version. i want to use threads in kernel.is it possible to use pthreads in kernel. there is one more function kernel_thread. can i use that function. if i use that function how to get synchonization. inmany files it was used.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
Matti Aarnio wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a modular kernel. Really ? $ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by [...] soundcore 4336 4

Re: [reiserfs-list] [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs,2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, November 10, 2000 06:15:40 -0800 David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand due

[2.2.18pre17 OOPS Report] Linux' musical taste (ide-cdrom / autofs related) (Repost)

2000-11-10 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[ Ok, so my first mail seems to never have it made to the list. :-( ] Hi, the following situation: Intel Celeron 667, 128 MB RAM, 440BX-based board (ASUS CUBX) IBM 30 GB Disk and TEAC CDROM on ide0 LS120 Floppy and a Mitsumi CDROM on ide1 (see boot messages below for details) Once upon a

Re: threads

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:33:29PM +0530, M.Kiran Babu wrote: sir, i got some doubts in kernel programming. i am using linux 6.1 version. i want to use threads in Linux kernel versions are now running up to 2.4.0*, what is that 6.1 ? Some distribution ? Which ?

Re: PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to have the xircom_tulip pcmcia cardbus working again with recent kernels, it is necessary to specify: ifconfig eth0 -multicast Moreover if the card is configured by itself into the kernel (i.e. with the default ne2000 pcmcia support removed), the

Re: [2.2.18pre17 OOPS Report] Linux' musical taste (ide-cdrom / autofs related) (Repost)

2000-11-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Nov 10 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [snip] Running 2.2.18pre17 completely modular built + 20001027 IDE patch from kernel.org + Andreas' 2.2.18pre17aa1 patch + some more but I think not related patches. Complete Kernel SRPMS and RPMS on request. :-) The Mitsumi CDROM is used

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Georg Nikodym
"C" == Corisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: C hi, i'm currently running RH7, with 2.2.16-22 kernel, gcc 2.96 on C a Sharp Actius 250 notebook. C i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, C upon startup there are some failed/error messages: C 1. finding module

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:41:09 + It has the potential to to make patches easier to re-work for different kernel versions, and to enable development maintence and fixing of the patch to be done independently of a kernel build. And it also has the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Theodore, On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: P.S. There are some such RAS features which I wouldn't be surprised there being interest in having integrated into the kernel directly post-2.4, with no need to put in "kernel hooks" for that particular feature. A good example of

Re: [BUG] /proc/pid/stat access stalls badly for swapping process,2.4.0-test10

2000-11-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (This schenario, btw, is much harder to trigger on SMP than on UP. And it's completely separate from the issue of simple disk bandwidth issues which can obviously cause no end of stalls on anything that needs the disk,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
Right. So what you're saying is that GKHI is adding complexity to the kernel to make it easier for peopel to put in non-standard patches which exposes non-standard interfaces which will lead to kernels not supported by the Linux Kernel Development Community. Right? I don't think I

RE: PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Ballabio_Dario
I just tested test11-pre2 and there is no improvement. I still need to issue the ifconfig eth0 -multicast and just after it the xircom_tulip card begins to work. -db -Original Message- From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: test11-pre2 compile error undefined reference to `bust_spinlocks' WHAT?!

2000-11-10 Thread George Anzinger
The notion of releasing a spin lock by initializing it seems IMHO, on the face of it, way off. Firstly the protected area is no longer protected which could lead to undefined errors/ crashes and secondly, any future use of spinlocks to control preemption could have a lot of trouble with this,

2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Pawe Kot
Hello, I've following error with 2.4.0-test{9|10|pre11pre1-ac1|pre11pre2-ac1}: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: And then the machine hangs. No response at all. Always CPU3 is mentioned. The machine is: The latest Intel motherboard for 4xCPU (ISP4040) 4xPentium III 700 (Xeon)

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:23:29 -0500 (EST), "Georg Nikodym" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, C upon startup there are some failed/error messages: C 1. finding module dependencies: depmod *** Unresolved symbols in C

Re: 2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-2] Pawe³ Kot wrote: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: What can be wrong? You forgot to read the REPORTING-BUGS file. You told us everything except the really important information ... the backtrace from the info printed by the NMI Oopser...

Re: test11-pre2 compile error undefined reference to `bust_spinlocks' WHAT?!

2000-11-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:15:54 -0800, George Anzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The notion of releasing a spin lock by initializing it seems IMHO, on the face of it, way off. Normally it would be, but these are NMI and panic messages. The system is pretty dead at that point, getting the message

Re: 2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Pawe Kot
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-2] Pawe Kot wrote: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: What can be wrong? You forgot to read the REPORTING-BUGS file. You told us everything except the really important information ... the backtrace from the info printed by the NMI

intel etherpro100 on 2.2.18p21 vs 2.2.18p17

2000-11-10 Thread michael
We have several Supermicro 370DL3 boards (scsi, built into epro100, dual pentium iii) - which are giving the following ethernet card error on 2.2.18p21, but not on 2.2.18p17. This error has happened on 3 out of 4 boards with this configuration. Oct 18 12:17:34 db1 kernel: eth0: card reports no

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
Hi hpa, First test, the AMD K6-2. Before your patch.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 12 After.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 4 Line 1826 of setup.c c-x86_mask = tfms 7; Should

Re: patch: atapi dvd-ram support

2000-11-10 Thread Hisaaki Shibata
Or you could try the 2.4 version, as I said originally the 2.2 patch hasn't been tested at all. It would be nice to know if that works for you, as I may have screwed up the backport a bit. I tested on 2.4-test10 + dvd-ram-240t10p5.diff.bz2 + dvdram-ro_fix.diff env. It occured oops too :-(.

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi hpa, First test, the AMD K6-2. Before your patch.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 12 After.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 4 Line 1826 of

crash @ 64 day's of uptime

2000-11-10 Thread Robbert Muller
Hi one of the productions server has crashed about 62 day's ago. on a 2.2.16 kernel At that time i consider it a random thing. But the old test server running the same kernel has crashed a week ago. The weard part is there both sparc netra and both crashed at 64 day's uptime some inspections of

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Georg Nikodym
"KO" == Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KO On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:23:29 -0500 (EST), "Georg Nikodym" KO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, C upon startup there are some failed/error messages: C 1. finding module dependencies:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Matt D. Robinson
Christoph Rohland wrote: Hi Theodore, On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: P.S. There are some such RAS features which I wouldn't be surprised there being interest in having integrated into the kernel directly post-2.4, with no need to put in "kernel hooks" for that

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 18:25 10/11/2000, Georg Nikodym wrote: OK, but I guess my question wasn't very clear. I have a kernel tree, I add a printk to maestro.c and make modules. I cannot load the module until I rebuild and reinstall everything. Is there a way to avoid this headache, or, stated differently: What's

[Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, use qmail instead", perhaps we should look at this problem and refute these

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi hpa, First test, the AMD K6-2. Also, look at the feature flags: before: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow after: features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow Note, I lost MTRR sep. This

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, use qmail instead", perhaps we

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"William F. Maton" wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail,

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Richard A Nelson wrote: Any `real` reason you're still at 8.9.3? Current is 8.11.1 If you send me a note of the type that fails, (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), it'll get received on both a 2.2.18-21/8.11.1 and 2.4.0-test10/8.11.2.Beta0 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails and

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAID: "William F. Maton" wrote: [...] What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses encryption. I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over the

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Horst von Brand wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAID: "William F. Maton" wrote: [...] What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses encryption. I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Send me an email from it with an attachment 1MB, and I will forward back to you when (and if) It gets delivered before next week. :-) Jeff Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: "William F. Maton" wrote: What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org seems more motivated to track it down. (since it might appear on the front page of Linux today). I would love your assistance Richard. It could be a local problem since smrsh also seems to be f_cked up as well, but I am seeing the same

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: "William F. Maton" wrote: What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses encryption. Eh?!? TLS is an

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Thomas Davis
Matti Aarnio wrote: Beowulf systems have "bonding" in use for parallel Ethernet links in between two machines, however THAT is not EtherChannel compatible thing! Maybe we should adopt's sun naming then, and call it 'Trunking'. This is the same driver that Beowulf

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:52:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: - pre2: - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again Thanks for working on it but I am getting still: boot: 11.2 Uncompressing image... PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5 bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks,

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus is sloging into the box and we will be trying to track this down. If it is a problem in the Linux TCPIP stack, we'll post a report later this afternoon as to where it looks like the problem is. Jeff "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Horst von Brand wrote: [...] I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements 1MB and tell me if you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day or

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, William F. Maton wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] So first thing to do is to check that in /etc/sendmail.cf this line is commented out this way: #O HostStatusDirectory=... (if you build .cf

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea, All done. It's already setup this way. Jeff Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] So first thing to do is to check that in

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote: Hmmm... The PCI spec. says that Limit registers define the top addresses _inclusive_. Correct. The spec. does not seem to imagine that a Limit register lower than the

Re: Patch generation

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Aloni
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: 4 kernel trees, one after make dep ; make bzImage, and all taking together just 193MB, instead of about 400MB... hard links, gotta love'em. Ok, this is cool, but suppose I have the same file linked to all these and want to change it in all the

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Tim Walberg
On 11/10/2000 16:30 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Horst von Brand wrote: [...] I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements

[RFC] crapectomy: CTL_ANY

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
% find . -type f | xargs grep -nw CTL_ANY ./kernel/sysctl.c:370: if (n == table-ctl_name || table-ctl_name == CTL_ANY) { ./include/linux/sysctl.h:47:#define CTL_ANY -1 /* Matches any name */ And no, there is no ctl_table that would be getting explicit -1 as -ctl_name.

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: That is actually correct -- the K6-2 doesn't actually have mtrr and sep, but has syscall and k6_mtrr instead (the stepping bug causes k6_mtrr not to show up.) Part of the bugginess of the old system was using one flag for multiple purposes. This

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst others have

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Andrea, All done. It's already setup this way. Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we can see what's going wrong in the TCP connection to the smtp server: tcpdump port smtp Andrea - To

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Jan Harkes
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:27:47PM +0100, Rafal Maszkowski wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:52:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: - pre2: - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again Thanks for working on it but I am getting still: boot: 11.2 Uncompressing image...

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Andrea, All done. It's already setup this way. Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we can see what's going wrong in the TCP connection to

Re: Patch generation

2000-11-10 Thread George Anzinger
Dan Aloni wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: 4 kernel trees, one after make dep ; make bzImage, and all taking together just 193MB, instead of about 400MB... hard links, gotta love'em. Ok, this is cool, but suppose I have the same file linked to all these and want

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
Dick, have you tried a simple "strace -f -p pid" ? This often gives enough info. BTW, there's one version of sendmail that tests the capability security hole of a previous kernel version (2.2.15 ?), and refuses to launch if it discovers it. It may be possible that sendmail does other tests like

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: And where does sysenter/sysexit fit in? sysenter/sysexit is the "sep" feature. Ah, of course. *slaps head* regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
No, misunderstood. GKHI is not implemented using dynamic probes. GKHI places in the kernel calls to APIs in the DProbes code. Since we'ed rather have Dprobes out of the kernel then essentially it acts as a loader after the fact, i.e. it fixes up the DProbes API calls when the DProbe module

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andre, SSH is running on this system, so send me your IP address to add to the hosts.allow file and I'll send you an account so you can get into the box and see just what's happening with ssh. Andre Hedrick has root privileges on this machine, so if I'm ever not around, he can get into it. I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
Matti, Please educate me, what does "our RAS offerings" mean here ? (I didn't find "RAS" at your signature-URL site, but I didn't poke around very much..) RAS = Reliabilty, Availability Serviceability = those things that are are not mainline to an OS but add the qualities named

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst others have

[Fwd: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus, Richard appears to have found a problem while sending a 45MB file to me with 8.11.10. I guess it's time for you to join the thread. Please review attached. Jeff On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's why

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's why the file never gets sent! Sure

Re: Loadavg calculation

2000-11-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I'm working a project a work that is using Linux to run some very math-intensive calculations. One of the things we do is use the 1-minute loadavg to determine how busy the machine is and can we fire off another program to do more calculations.However, there's a problem with

PATCH: 8139too kernel thread

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
(note Linus, not for applying...) Here is a patch, against 2.4.0-test11-pre2, that I wanted to forward to the lists for comment. Many of the ethernet drivers have timer routines, which are called every three-five seconds or so. These timer routines typically do stuff related to media selection

Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status

2000-11-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Some options: 1) Split up the large patch and fix the things you didn't like, submit them with better discription. But then It's probably to late anyway for 2.4 (even if the 2.4-test series is not the most stable stuff I've tried). Is it to late for this? Probably not. Get tytso to

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