Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/25/2013 1:37 PM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi Darren, On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:45:22PM -0400, Darren Pilgrim wrote: On 8/25/2013 7:05 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: And the following variables to control whether you want each check to run daily, weekly or directly from crontab (the default

Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/26/2013 5:09 PM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Darren Pilgrim wrote: The new framework would let me rely on the environment instead of $0, which, IMO, is more reliable. I'd need to be able to tell periodic to run that script with the daily, weekly

Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-25 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/25/2013 7:05 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: And the following variables to control whether you want each check to run daily, weekly or directly from crontab (the default, backward compatible values are shown): What do we do if we want to run a check both daily and weekly?

Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-23 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Thank you for this, but if I may make one suggestion: don't combine all the security report settings--keep both daily_* and weekly_*. This makes possible running some security tasks on a daily basis and others on a weekly basis. For example, daily pkg/portaudit checks, but weekly filesystem

Re: will 9.2 be called 'diehard'? or maybe Naktomi?

2013-08-15 Thread Darren Pilgrim
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/will-9-2-be-called-diehard-or-maybe-Naktomi-tp5562525p5836490.html Perhaps a creative type might do up McKusick's mascot a la Bruce Willis. Bonus points for weapon hosters made from Christmas gift wrap tape.

Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/9/2013 9:29 PM, Patrick Dung wrote: Yes, I can install lang/perl5.12. But in that case, I can't install other perl /p5 pre-build packages (which depends on Perl 5.14) provided by FreeBSD, due to dependency problem. Install them from ports and add the external dependencies from packages.

Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 8/9/2013 9:34 AM, Patrick Dung wrote: Let share an experience for my case. I have installed OTRS (a great ticketing system) in FreeBSD 9.0. The Perl version at that time is 5.12. For me, upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 take some time because the Perl version at that time is 5.14. OTRS depends on

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2012-07-08 02:31, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/07/2012 17:47, Darren Pilgrim wrote: On 2012-07-07 16:45, Doug Barton wrote: Also re DNSSEC integration in the base, I've stated before that I believe very strongly that any kind of hard-coding of trust anchors as part of the base resolver setup

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2012-07-07 16:45, Doug Barton wrote: Also re DNSSEC integration in the base, I've stated before that I believe very strongly that any kind of hard-coding of trust anchors as part of the base resolver setup is a bad idea, and should not be done. We need to leverage the ports system for this so

Re: /etc/resolv.conf getting over written with dhcp

2012-06-15 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2012-06-15 07:14, Eugene Grosbein wrote: 15.06.2012 19:09, Varuna пишет: About 2***, so what are the conditions to be true to figure out that /etc/resolv.conf has not changed? There is simple solution: create file /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks and override add_new_resolv_conf() there to do

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2012-06-13 14:18, Eitan Adler wrote: On 13 June 2012 14:16, claudiu vasadiclaudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: If you simplky do sysctl -d hw.usb.no_boot_wait you will see the explanation ;) No, you see a one liner that only explains things if you already understand what is going on: I

Is the FreeBSD clock UTC or TAI?

2009-01-01 Thread Darren Pilgrim
This came up during discussion of leap seconds and why UTC and TAI are different. My question is, does FreeBSD's internal clock use UTC or TAI for timekeeping? That is, is wallclock calculated from an exact count of the number of seconds since epoch (TAI), then adjusted with a leap seconds

Re: FYI: 3Ware 9650 can cause data corruption

2007-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Peter B wrote: 3ware 9650 in RAID6 mode with firmware version 3.08.00.004 seems to cause data corruption when rebuilding a single disc with raid6. http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f4t23551.html (Swedish) I thought this was serious enough for people to know. If another mailinglist is more

Re: A few questions...

2007-07-23 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: Hello, I need information about few things, I hope someone can help me and thanks in advance. a) Is there any function or variable that tells me which is the root user UID in the system, or root always have 0 and it's an elegant option to compare the

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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Re: Port/Package Management?

2007-03-12 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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Re: Options for boot program

2006-06-15 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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Re: How to disable a src.conf on command-line

2006-06-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
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Re: How to disable a src.conf on command-line

2006-06-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : M. Warner Losh wrote: : So if you make WITH_SSP off by default, then having WITH_SSP in the : src.conf can't be overridden. If you have it on by default, having : WITHOUT_SSP

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Eric Anderson wrote: Forgive me if I've missed this on a list somewhere, but My new laptop with a Core Duo doesn't seem to use both CPU's. It sees both, but I never see anything on cpu 1. Here's a top snippet: Your top output shows a single process eating the CPU. A single process can't

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you, that on laptops,

Re: Can kldload trigger pci bus rescan?

2006-04-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to use kldload to load our HBA driver. But the driver's pci probe function can not find the HBA card! By this do you mean that when you have the card in the system, FreeBSD booted and you kldload the driver, you don't see kernel messages showing the

Re: Can kldload trigger pci bus rescan?

2006-04-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: My situation is: (1) We are porting our HBA driver (Promise FastTrak TX4310 SoftRaid5) from Linux to FreeBSD(6.0). Our HBA driver can work normally under Linux. (2) At this time, I just wrote a sample driver code (see sr5.c in the attached file) to check the

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Eric Anderson wrote: If I could figure out how to make sh do colors, I'd do it. :) Please do not use colors in rc. Escape-sequenced colors make unacceptable assumptions about the user and syslogd strips escape sequences anyway, so it would be of no use to logged consoles. Serial consoles

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I think at this point it's been pretty well established that: - Device naming and unit numbering is not stable enough to avoid breakage across hardware changes. - There is a need for generic and/or descriptive interface naming independent of driver- and probe-order-based naming. - There are

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever (solution?)

2006-04-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: You could test two different drivers on the same hardware and you wouldn't have to duplicate or modify your ifconfig lines in /etc/rc.conf, just run: Yup, and this is an advantage. On the other hand, if you tie

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever (solution?)

2006-04-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
M. Warner Losh wrote: The device subsystem already exports a bus-dependent plug and play position. No need to make it specific to USB/PCI/whatever. Where is this information found? I can't find anything obvious that wouldn't change if you inserted a bus in the middle of the probe order.

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Mike Meyer wrote: If I do care - for instance, I want to distinguish between the ethernet interface that's on the internet and the one that's on my LAN, or I want root to be on the disk with the root file system on it - then this is a PITA, because every time I add hardware to the system, or

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever (solution?)

2006-04-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: That doesn't quite work, though. Unless you require everyone wanting to distinguish between LAN and WAN interfaces uses different types of hardware for each card, they'll still end up with xl0 and xl1 (or whatever),

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever (solution?)

2006-04-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: If you add something to /etc/rc.d so that a sh-ified version of this script runs after all interfaces have attached but before any numbering or cloning takes place you can have lines like this in /etc/rc.conf

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-04-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Khaled Hussain wrote: Thanks for the clarification...at the moment I am trying to set a boot manager on my disk but am unsure which slice to set as the default boot selection when using the boot0cfg command. boot0cfg -Bv -s? ad2 disklabel -r ad0 (on a different bsd system) gives: 8

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Stefan Sperling wrote: Why do GNOME/KDE rely on /etc/fstab on FreeBSD? GNOME/KDE could be patched to create mount points somewhere in the user's home directory, and issue a 'mount device mount_point' instead of 'mount mount_point' if the user clicks the device icon. Limiting GNOME/KDE to

Re: CVSup upgrading?

2006-03-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote: Hi, but, it erases all! I have a doubt if he downloads the beta kernel sources. do you have another solution? HEAD is not the correct tag. Before I go further, to avoid any confusion, there is no beta source code nor are the kernel sources

Why do we have the orm device?

2006-03-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I see it on all of my machines and have never seen it used by anything. The orm(4) man page says it's part of ISA bus support and is designed to claim ROMs sitting in the memory address space, but doesn't go into any detail why it's necessary to prevent other drivers from using ROM addresses.

RE: Ricoh PCI to SD device?

2006-01-12 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Clifton Royston If that NDA says some fairly typical things, and if the FreeBSD organization (or any individual developer) poneys up the money for the standard and signs the associated NDA, then either that developer or the FreeBSD group as a whole might then be permanently barred

RE: Ricoh PCI to SD device?

2006-01-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : From: Brooks Davis : On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:12:30AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: : Has anyone had a look at the following: : : [ Ricoh SD Bus Host Adapter, PCI ID

RE: Ricoh PCI to SD device?

2006-01-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Brooks Davis On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:12:30AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: Has anyone had a look at the following: [ Ricoh SD Bus Host Adapter, PCI ID 0x08221180 ] People are looking at it, but there are no docs available. Apparently, there is some work being done to reverse

RE: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG

2005-09-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Nick Strebkov Does anybody here work already on this piece of hardware? I'm very interested in getting it work under FreeBSD and ready to help. The iwi driver supports these cards. You'll want to get in touch with Sam Leffler[1] and Damien Bergamini[2] and probably help get the iwi

RE: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG

2005-09-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Nick Strebkov Thanks for your answers. I have 2915ABG and Belkin F5D8230-4 access point. Will it be enough to install RELENG_6 to play with iwi stuff? That depends. You'll need firmware before you can use the iwi driver. One of show-stopper problems with the iwi driver is that

RE: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG

2005-09-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Nick Strebkov On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:30:18PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Nick Strebkov Thanks for your answers. I have 2915ABG and Belkin F5D8230-4 access point. Will it be enough to install RELENG_6 to play with iwi stuff? That depends. You'll need firmware

How to disable at-boot configuration of a network interface but permit manual use of rc.d?

2005-06-27 Thread Darren Pilgrim
There are some conditions to the task given by the subject: 1: The interface must be present at boot. 2: Use of /etc/rc.d scripts to start and stop the interface is desirable. The first condition poses no problem, just don't include the relevant ifconfig_ifn line in /etc/rc.conf and the

RE: How to disable at-boot configuration of a network interface but permit manual use of rc.d?

2005-06-27 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Niki Denev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim wrote: There are some conditions to the task given by the subject: 1: The interface must be present at boot. 2: Use of /etc/rc.d scripts to start and stop the interface is desirable. The first condition poses no problem

RE: Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing automatic mounting of umass devices

2005-06-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GEOM doesn't automatically read the partition table and create the slice device [...] Yes, it does. When the umassX provider shows up, GEOM immediately tastes it and creates geoms

RE: Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing automatic mounting of umass devices

2005-06-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
-Original Message- From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:16 AM To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing automatic mounting of umass devices Darren Pilgrim

Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing automatic mounting of umass devices

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I want to have a devd entry that automatically mounts umass devices when they get attached. The problem is figuring out which device to mount and then getting the correct devices created. For example, the entry for my thumbdrive: attach 1000 { device-name umass[0-9]+; match

RE: Forcing static-linking on a port?

2005-05-24 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the last episode (May 23), Darren Pilgrim said: I need to make use of a port during start up, but it has library dependencies that aren't available, before the complete library path is established. I've tried the following: NO_SHARED

Forcing static-linking on a port?

2005-05-23 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I need to make use of a port during start up, but it has library dependencies that aren't available, before the complete library path is established. I've tried the following: NO_SHARED=true (added to /etc/make.conf) make -DNO_SHARED make LDFLAGS+=-static Every time, running file on the

RE: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)

2004-08-19 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are: - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button either heavy or easy to confuse with the roller. - Preferably

Re: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ?

2003-01-19 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote: DP There is sorting that you can do, like putting the highest-traffic rules DP near the top. ipfw terminates the search on the first matching rule except DP for count and skipto. Also, the fewer items that have to be checked

Re: USB hub detach causing panic in 4.7p3

2003-01-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Josef Karthauser wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:05:37PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub probes during boot and post-boot attach as follows: When the hub is disconnected, whether by unplugging it or turning off the monitor

Re: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ?

2003-01-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Josh Brooks wrote: Thank you for that advice - it is very well taken. Obviously, my goal is to mitigate as much as possible - I have accepted that I cannot stop all DDoS - my question is, do serious people ever attempt to do the mitigation/load shedding with a host-based firewall (in this case

Re: FreeBSD firewall for high profile hosts - waste of time ?

2003-01-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Josh Brooks wrote: Again, thank you very much for your advice and comments - they are very well taken. I will clarify and say that the fbsd system I am using / talking about is a _dedicated_ firewall. Only port 22 is open on it. The problem is, I have a few hundred ipfw rules (there are over

USB hub detach causing panic in 4.7p3

2003-01-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub probes during boot and post-boot attach as follows: uhub1: vendor 0x0543 product 0x00ff, class 9/0, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2 uhub1: 5 ports with 4 removable, self powered The hub is connected and disconnected with the

Re: USB hub detach causing panic in 4.7p3

2003-01-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I neglected to include from details: The USB drivers are kldloaded. The dmesg output and kernel config aren't included, but available upon request (as is any other config info or other needed data). Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub

Re: USB hub detach causing panic in 4.7p3

2003-01-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Anish Mistry wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:51 am, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub probes during boot and post-boot attach as follows: When the hub is disconnected, whether by unplugging it or turning off the monitor, I get

Re: USB hub detach causing panic in 4.7p3

2003-01-14 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Someone's requested these already, so I've made the dmesg output and kernel config for the panicing machine available at www.lokisheathens.org/speck. On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:51 am, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have a USB hub that's built into my Viewsonic PT775 monitor. The hub probes during

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Matt Dillon wrote: Thanks to my dear friend Warner Losh. I've decided to leave FreeBSD and flame in another project. Maybe I could join OpenBSD, the seem to share my views on how to deal with other people. I hereby give maintainership of all my code to Warner, or, whoever wants it, for that

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Matthew Dillon wrote: : :Matt Dillon wrote: : Thanks to my dear friend Warner Losh. I've decided to leave FreeBSD and : flame in another project. Maybe I could join OpenBSD, the seem to share : my views on how to deal with other people. : : I hereby give maintainership of all my code to

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Terry Lambert wrote: Dan Ellard wrote: What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no longer being sold.) The Tigon II has the best performances, but that's because software people rewrote the

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Thank you! It was fun to watch questions come up and get shot down while reading the same email. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go use the source, Terry. Terry Lambert wrote: Darren Pilgrim wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: Dan Ellard wrote: What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice

Re: FreeBSD Problems with dc(4) ADMtek AN985 chip

2002-09-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Martin Blapp wrote: Hi, The NIC is the external interface on my gateway. It was originally connected to an old HP 8-port 10bT hub and is now connected directly to a Westel DSL bridge. It has worked seemingly without problems handling the 768/128 DSL traffic. I say seemingly

Re: FreeBSD Problems with dc(4) ADMtek AN985 chip

2002-09-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Martin Blapp wrote: Hi, I have a 100mbit full-duplex connection, maybe this is the difference ? 10mbit half-duplex Since the issue seems to be the sort where high amounts of traffic would be a triggering factor, it's quite possible. Give me 20 minutes or so and I'll go swap the

Re: FreeBSD Problems with dc(4) ADMtek AN985 chip

2002-09-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Darren Pilgrim wrote: Martin Blapp wrote: I have a 100mbit full-duplex connection, maybe this is the difference ? 10mbit half-duplex Since the issue seems to be the sort where high amounts of traffic would be a triggering factor, it's quite possible. Give me 20 minutes or so

Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build

2002-08-03 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Terry Lambert wrote: Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: What are the drawbacks of building FreeBSD with -fomit-frame-pointer? The frame pointer is used for debugging, specifically for the stack traceback function to know arguments. Removing it means losing some debugging functionality. Next time

Re: Counting the clock cycles

2002-07-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Andrei Cojocaru wrote: doesn't fit my criteria since it changes, bah I'll just use gettimeofday since it's a portable API and hope the computers I run it on don't change their blocks by too much... If you're really worried about it, get a GPS device that can provide you with a PPS signal

Re: Counting the clock cycles

2002-07-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : If you're really worried about it, get a GPS device that can provide : you with a PPS signal for use with ntpd. Then I'd say you could safely : rely on the computer's clock being

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Chad David wrote: A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. Well they finally got tired of hearing FreeBSD this

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a single client, windows puts all share access (net use

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 05:58:15PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: If RAM + swap can be more than 4GB, how does FreeBSD address swap on a 32-bit machine? Does the kernel internally use a wider address space The same way it does on every partitition: using block numbers

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Bernd Walter wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 05:58:15PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: If RAM + swap can be more than 4GB, how does FreeBSD address swap on a 32-bit machine? Does the kernel internally

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Matthew Dillon wrote: The nominal limit for swap space is around 14 GB due to limitations in available KVM. There are three major limiting factors in the kernel: * The swap bitmap eats 2 bits per page of swap. The bitmap is sized to handle NSWAP (default 4) x

Re: How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-06 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Thanks guys, for explaining the swap system to me. I have a good understanding of how the system works now. I want to particularly thank Matthew Dillon for taking the time to lay down the technical details as he did. Being able to ask a question like this and get it answered so well is what

How does swap work address spacewise?

2002-07-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
If RAM + swap can be more than 4GB, how does FreeBSD address swap on a 32-bit machine? Does the kernel internally use a wider address space with some kind of translation to 32-bit space for programs and hardware that can't handle 64-bit addresses or does it not map swap into the address space at

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-21 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Terry Lambert wrote: Chris Dillon wrote: It's quite simple to integrate Cyrus IMAP with the local system. Cyrus will by default use the system password database for its authentication, While I appreciate the positive support of Cyrus, I guess I need to point out that this approach only

Re: I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Evan Dower wrote: I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at the University of Washington and I'll be applying to the Computer Science major in February. I'd like to get involved with the OS

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-05-30 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Jordan K Hubbard wrote: I'll bet you wouldn't have any trouble running -stable on it. There was a problem with MTRR support which still needs a little fixing in order to shut down properly but that's nowhere near as bad as X not running. Fix should be in FreeBSD 4.6 as well. The MTRR

Re: UID Limit

2002-05-23 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Peter Pentchev wrote: I believe you are thinking of pid's (process ID's), not uid's (user ID's). Yes, you're right. Serves me for trying to do email after a long night of hacking at perverse bit-twiddling scripts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: UID Limit

2002-05-22 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:12PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what the limit is on a UID? Ie what is the highest integer it can go up to. I suppose as well some applications have different values..

Re: Optimal UFS parameters

2000-12-07 Thread Darren Pilgrim
This is a interesting topic (to me, anyway), and is one of the things that often gets overlooked by those of us with less experience. Rather than getting into a long discussion about modifying the newfs defaults across the board, what if the newfs options used were based on the size of the FS?