Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer...

2000-08-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wes Peters wrote: > > Oliver Fehr wrote: > > Well, the book covers UNIX and DOS, at least on of which can be considered > > a modern operating system. You be the judge which on ... > > Neither. One is not an operating system, but merely a game loader, and > the other is over 30 years old and d

Re: Module parameters?

2000-07-11 Thread Sergey Babkin
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gary T. Corcoran" writes: > > >No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things > >like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and > >have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module > >

Re: Learning

2000-07-07 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wes Peters wrote: > > Commissionnaires wrote: > > > > I am interested in learning about the freebsd operating system, I dont have > My best advice for a complete novice would be to buy the book "The Complete > FreeBSD", by Greg Lehey, install the version of FreeBSD on the CD-ROM found By the wa

Re: SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-07-04 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > The tutorial in DaemonNews has this information, as well as information > > on minimal implementations of the reqired actions. Obviously the actions > > for SCSI negotiations don't need to be supported because these > > negotiations make no sense for an emulator or

Re: SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-07-04 Thread Sergey Babkin
Nat Lanza wrote: > > Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If this is meant to be an exercise in writing a CAM HBA driver, then you > > need to teach your disk-emulation code about the basic SCSI commands > > (INQUIRY, TEST UNIT READY, etc). The SCSI infrastructure will use these > > com

Re: style(9)

2000-07-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Chris Costello wrote: > > On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as > > it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the > > margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it u

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-16 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wes Peters wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > Eh ? I don't quite get how Sun could be associated with Open Firmware. > > Probably because they developed it? Ah, that was my ignorance. never knew that Open Firmware is a trademarked concept, like Open Source.

Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd))

2000-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil, > > nor does it promote the worship of devilry. > > > > In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The > > Of course, they don't translate daemon as "

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Parag Patel wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:29:53 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >By now, based on the timeframe I've watched you > >through, I'd say that you should have a board that looks like a plain VGA > >framebuffer and has a keyboard cable hung out the back, and software up > >and running.

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > Maybe I'm completely mistunderstanding the subject, but > > what about EFI (Extendable Firmware Interface) ? It's the > > We're looking at it. Do you really believe in referen

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three > > > months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly > > > well-documented board. Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his > > > results pretty representative of the issue.

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > > well linuxbios is what I started here, and I pinged some folks on this > > list about supporting freebsd as well as linux, and got a 'no interest' > > back from some folks. > > > > I'm still up for it. I think it's easy. > > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's j

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Ah, I should also have noted that undelete.exe (which I also fetched > from simtel) doesn't seem to work for me since it won't operate from > a DOS box and if I shut down to DOS, the pccard services go away and > I'm no longer able to mount the smartcard which I'd l

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and > > I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format > > Smartcard they were on. Wh! > > > > Way back in the Dark Ages I used to hac

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > > "Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > > > > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > > > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > > > be configured. :( > > > > That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. BAD ASUS Story

2000-06-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: > > Sad to say.. I have another bad experience with the NEW asus K7A MB. It will > not allow a Mylex AccellRaid 150 to break out of the bootup sequence to > be configured. :( That may be as well due to the bugs in Mylex soft. I have used different Mylex cards on a fe

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-08 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wes Peters wrote: > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Actually, there's still a *lot* of work that has to be done to make this > > work "right" - let me say two things only: > > > > "resource allocation" > > > > "interrupt routing" > > And that's just the start. When it comes to network interfaces, t

Re: I will be in Japan and Korea from June 7th through June 15th

2000-06-02 Thread Sergey Babkin
Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Does this mean we won't get the SMP stuff done next week? > > > > I'm back on the 15th (you gain 10 hours coming back) and the SMP > > meeting isn't until the 16th and 17th. Of course it will. :) > > So you are running

Re: Creating a system to boot 4 different OS types.

2000-05-30 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is > > that Windows wants to be in the very first tracks of the disk. This > > is legacy left from DOS which always had the same mania. >

Re: Creating a system to boot 4 different OS types.

2000-05-29 Thread Sergey Babkin
Steven Alexander wrote: > > I've had problems getting Windows NT to boot using bootloaders from other > OSes. I'd suggest installing NT last and putting it on the first partition. The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is that Windows wants to be in the very first trac

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
James Howard wrote: > > Since I mention it, does anyone know the major differences between SCO's > new SVR5 (Unixware 7) and traditional SVR4 implementations? Going to > SCO's website all I get is market-speak. As I've been told it was named SVR5 to mark inclusion of enterprise-level features (

Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-20 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Sergey Babkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > compiled in the kernel (as opposed to being loaded as a module) > > then it never gets unloaded. And many drivers were written before > > the loadable modules appeared. > > Yes.

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-20 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: > : # If a driver returns a success code which is less than zero, it must > : # not assume that it will be the same driver which is attached to the > : # device. In particular, it must not assume t

Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Alexander Langer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > If so, I'm going to write patches. > > ... for almost every driver in the tree. > > Hmm. EITHER almost all people never unloaded their driver, or I still > understood wide parts wrong. > > I grepped through /sy

Re: System management with large groups

2000-05-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD Hackers -- > > I've got a technically-straightfordward but nonetheless > business-critical problem with the groups structures in FreeBSD > which perhaps you kind souls can help me with. > We currently use FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE through 4.0-RELEASE via > Wa

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: > : The code seems to guarantee that if the probe routine returns 0 > : then the attach routine will be called right away. So if the probe > : routine returns 0 they don't have to be freed.

Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9)

2000-05-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > One should generally only call these functions in attach. If you must > call them in probe, one must release the resource before returning > from the probe. However, since they can affect bridge settings, it > may be unavoidable to call them from the probe routine. The c

de-GNUfication of Digiboard driver ?

2000-05-16 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi, I've been reading recently some stories about the licensing issues and that brought me to an interesting conclusion: apparently, we are able to change the license of the Digiboard driver from GPL to BSD ? It does not seem to be that much important any more as these cards are obsolete, but st

Re: Why this works?

2000-05-12 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Ville-Pertti Keinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000511 22:49] wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FengYue) writes: > > > > > loop. Now, the third program reads 4K of data from /tmp/pagetest > > > and exit if the 4K data does not contain all 'A's nor 'Z's. 3 programs > > >

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-11 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: > : Seems like most of the modern machines just don't have that > : pin on the PCI bus connected anywhere. But on most of them > : (though not all) the pin on ISA works. Some high-end machines

Re: Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

2000-05-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2000-May-11 07:10:27 +1000, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >And if you force the IOCHK* line on an AT slot to GND? Would that work > >on modern PCI machines? > > Grounding IOCHK* does cause an NMI on the only PCI machine I've tried > it on. It looks like thi

Re: Mouse Sync Problems with KVM

2000-04-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Dragos Ruiu wrote: > > I'll try asking here now > > I have a freebsd system(3.4S) on a KVM and every time the monitored > system is switched, the mouse driver gets fuxored, and when you switch > back to the system the driver starts outputting oodles of the following > messages to syslog

Re: 4.0-STABLE?

2000-04-05 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > The cvsupit package is now updated to deal with the current branch > state of affairs, the cvsup 16.1 upgrade AND it's linked-to properly > so that simply: By the way, a stupid question: I've received a 4-CDROM package today, saying 4.0-March 2000. The line on the sh

Re: Anybody have tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreebSD?

2000-03-30 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:59:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anybody know of tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreeBSD? > > I have a number of such tapes, and would prefer to read them on an (Intel) > > FreeBSD box instead of having to reinstall DU

Why StarOffice continuously restarted setup - the answer

2000-03-16 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi, A while ago I tried to install StarOffice and had a problem that every time I tried to start it it went into setup again and again. I've asked about this in -hackers and found that some people had the same problem but nobody has a solution. Well, I've found that solution today and in case any

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
Dennis wrote: > the people buying linux servers from VAR research and the like dont care > about source, they care about functinality. Thats why BSDI doesnt get it. > its not about the source, its about the price. People perceive that BSD/OS > and FreeBSD are substantially similar in functionalt

Re: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-02 Thread Sergey Babkin
Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > Hi David! > > I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As > developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was > introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that > the new boot

Re: recomendations for a msdos terminal program

2000-02-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Brian Beattie wrote: > > I have an old pen computer that runs msdos. It has a keyboard and a > floppy and I would like to use it to hook up a serial console. Dose > anybody have a recomendation for a terminal program that I can download, > or directions on using kermit to connect to com2. As f

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

2000-02-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Would be interesting to tell how you managed to produce a bootable floppy > > with the subsequent scripting that starts the OS and all that. > > The trick I used is that I have a custom `init` binary, which looks a

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-21 Thread Sergey Babkin
Peter Wemm wrote: > > I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you > see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) > > http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ > > Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. I can't help keepin

Re: scsi target mode

2000-02-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:00:28PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > > > > Generally speaking 'joining' machines into cluster(like) you want to > > > use differential SCSI buses. > > > > Yes. Of course, I think that you want to use differential SCSI for > > everything. Cable

Re: scsi target mode

2000-02-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > >a. settings on the controller card (e.g. scsi id, termination) > >b. freebsd configuration on the initiator and target PCs. > > (e.g. do we use scsi_pt.c, scsi_target.c, etc). > > > >here's a diagram depicting what we want to do. we're trying to setup > >a PC (PC2 below)

Re: Books

2000-02-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
Bill Maniatty wrote: > > Shanley and Anderson: PCI System Architecture (2nd Ed) > > ISBN 1-55860-069-8 small rip in paperback cover > > I teach operating systems, and would like to add a device driver writing > component to the curriculum. I could use this one. There was a good (though somewha

Re: scsiformat

2000-01-29 Thread Sergey Babkin
Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I have a block on a SCSI disk (Fujitsu M2954S-512 ) > which I cannot write to - fsck hangs eternally. > > Besides from trying the SCSICNTL utility from Adaptec > (which I had to boot off of a DOS floppy) is > there a way of formatting a drive from being > booted und

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > Writing documentation is a resource-sucking nuisance; supporting outdated > documentation even more so. The BSD driver model is sufficiently simple I think that there might be a compromise solution: when someone learns the interface from analysing the code he might as well

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second > without any complaints.. > > Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve this speed on an empty network. With two machines connected to a

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today > CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the > DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. > > It appears to operate quite nicely. I

Re: FreeBSD 3.3, DISKLESS, kernel format must be AOUT ?

1999-11-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > O! wise FreeBSD gurus! > I ask for your advice... > > I have a FreeBSD 3.3 system in a Pentium computer and an old 486 > computer that I want to make a diskless system. > > I found that in directory: /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot > there is a way of building

Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

1999-10-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> If you have a genuine need for 500Gig of news spool, > : > :This is roughly 10 days of newsfeed, btw. > > This is roughly 20 days of newsfeed if one take the porn, warez, and > binaries groups, which contain mostly junk, and try to hold onto them > fo

Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

1999-10-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
Michael Beckmann wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:34:53PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :OK, so I know now that I can have pretty large files in the Terabyte range. > > :Very nice. But I assume I cannot mmap anything like a 100 GB file ? > > : > > :Michael > > > > Intel cpu's only hav

Re: UFS ACLs

1999-10-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Chuck Youse wrote: > > I admittedly haven't done much homework on this topic, but I was wondering > if anyone has played with the idea of implementing ACLs on top of UFS. > > One of the weakest areas in UNIX is its lack of fine-grained access > control for resources - the biggest resource being,

Re: return to real mode

1999-10-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike Smith wrote: > > > anybody got some reliable, tested, known-good code for getting back to > > real mode? I'm to the point where I have a working GDT, and paging is > > turned off, but the last step -- turning off protection enable -- is not > > working for me. > > You want to be more explic

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Narvi wrote: > > See LINT on details of how to wire down scsi devices... > > Your proposal doesn't take adding a second scsi card into account. UnixWare has a kind od solution for this: when they create the VTOC table (an analog of the BSD disk label) on the disk they have a field in it that co

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Has anyone looked at netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD??? > > I just installed it. > the binary is 13234176 bytes long!! > yes folks, that's 13 MB! > > stripped! > With shared libraries! > > It runs but it's quite easy to make your xserver run out of memory (or >

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > We've got a similar problem. Instals fine as root, runs > > fine a 'joe', but if anyone else tries to run it they get > > the setup screen! My hunch is that it's something to do with > > permissions on Sys5 IPC queues or something. A Ktrace of both > > showed that d

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:46:42PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 > > > for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. > > > The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the > > >

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 > > for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. > > The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the > > Posix real-time thread support and linked the > > additional libraries to the Lin

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
David Scheidt wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > There is no worm or wormlike support in the SCSI system anymore. > > > > Do I need to configure the SCSI target driver for cdrecord or > > does it just use the CD-ROM driver ? Thank yo

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > > > > It seems Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with > > > > > to handl

StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi, I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the Posix real-time thread support and linked the additional libraries to the Linux compatibility directory and slightly corrected

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with > > > to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats > > > thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably mean the death of > > > the worm s

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:45:31PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > A funny thing is that Microsoft is porting essentially a > > 32-bit version of Windows to Merced. All the programs for > > Windows that want to use 64-bit support will have

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-28 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:45:31PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > A funny thing is that Microsoft is porting essentially a > > 32-bit version of Windows to Merced. All the programs for > > Windows that want to use 64-bit support will h

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Zuidam, Hans wrote: > > Hi, > > The IA64 (merced) is a kind of VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word) > processor. It is basically a complete new kind of systems architecture > with a i686 (and of course a i586, ..., 4004) slapped on the side. The > original processor design was done by HP. See: >

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jim Bryant wrote: > > I really don't know how people get started with this. HP has _never_ stated > > that the chip will handle it; all they have stated is that HPUX applications > > will continue to be supported. > > > > I suggest you people go read comp.arch for a while; there's a fair bit of >

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Microsoft needs a "business quality" version of Windows, > which it claims is Windows/2000. That version of Windows > could benefit from a 64-bit port, if for marketing only; but > I don't think it would result in the volume of sales Intel > is looking for. A

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Zuidam, Hans wrote: > > Hi, > > The IA64 (merced) is a kind of VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word) > processor. It is basically a complete new kind of systems architecture > with a i686 (and of course a i586, ..., 4004) slapped on the side. The > original processor design was done by HP. See:

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jim Bryant wrote: > > I really don't know how people get started with this. HP has _never_ stated > > that the chip will handle it; all they have stated is that HPUX applications > > will continue to be supported. > > > > I suggest you people go read comp.arch for a while; there's a fair bit of

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Sergey Babkin
Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Microsoft needs a "business quality" version of Windows, > which it claims is Windows/2000. That version of Windows > could benefit from a 64-bit port, if for marketing only; but > I don't think it would result in the volume of sales Intel > is looking for. A

Re: font edit tools

1999-08-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alexey M. Zelkin wrote: > > hi, > > Which tools can be used to edit syscons fonts ? Any of the tools you use to edit the DOS fonts. My favorite one it Evafont by Pete Kvitek. But there were a lot of tools floating around. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscrib

Re: font edit tools

1999-08-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alexey M. Zelkin wrote: > > hi, > > Which tools can be used to edit syscons fonts ? Any of the tools you use to edit the DOS fonts. My favorite one it Evafont by Pete Kvitek. But there were a lot of tools floating around. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe f

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-08-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <37a3b701.851df...@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > : Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man > : pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh? > > Yes. I'm also in a holding off pattern until we know t

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-08-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: > : Do we have a list of all services that use bpf? I'm willing to edit the man > : pages, given a list. I guess I could just grep-o-matic here, huh? > > Yes. I'm also in a holding off pattern until we know the exact imp

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > <37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.net>Sergey Babkin writes: > >> Any suggestions, anyone? > > > >Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ? > >That seems to be the easiest way that should not break

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sergey Babkin writes: > >> Any suggestions, anyone? > > > >Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ? > >That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else. >

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only > users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and > change password via (SSLed) web interface. > > So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd. > >

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <37a25361.34799...@bellatlantic.net> Sergey Babkin writes: > : Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less > : important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation. > > Not if they are started be

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only > users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and > change password via (SSLed) web interface. > > So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd. > >

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: > : Disabling bpf it will break rarpd (and also rbootd but it is less > : important). I think such a thing should be mentioned in documentation. > > Not if they are started before the secure lev

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message > "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : And how about having > : if (securelevel > 3) > : return (EPERM); > : in bpf_open()? > > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is > consistant with the meaning of "raw devices". Dis

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-30 Thread Sergey Babkin
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian F. >Feldman" writes: > : And how about having > : if (securelevel > 3) > : return (EPERM); > : in bpf_open()? > > There are no security levels > 3. I'd be happy with > 0. This is > consistant with the meaning of

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Mike Hoskins wrote: > > > > This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war > > (opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a > > sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can > > then hang themselves)

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-24 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Mike Hoskins wrote: > > > > This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war > > (opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a > > sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can > > then hang themselves

Re: Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here > > is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason > > why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. > >

Re: Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here > > is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason > > why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. > >

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-14 Thread Sergey Babkin
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed. > > The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one > > with most of it. > > But that isn't always the best process to have kil

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-14 Thread Sergey Babkin
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 12:20 AM +0900 7/15/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > In which case the program that consumed all memory will be killed. > > The program killed is +NOT+ the one demanding memory, it's the one > > with most of it. > > But that isn't always the best process to have ki

Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi! I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing, I suppose it will never get commited to the system.

Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi! I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. And if the Core Team decides that it's a Bad Thing, I suppose it will never get commited to the system.

boot troubles in 3.1

1999-05-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi! I have tried to install 3.1 on two machines but on both of them I was not able to boot it after installation. The 3.0-snapshot from May-98 worked fine on both of them. But 3.1 did not boot. First, the MBR boot manager was not able to boot any partition, nor FreeBSD nor UnixWare. After I repla

Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support

1999-01-02 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > >What gives? Why wasn't this committed to the NetBSD and FreeBSD trees, > >too? I mean, it's not like the version in the NetBSD tree works anymore > >since you removed the firmware (on-board firmware on most of the adapters > >I have is way too old, for example). > > >

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