Re: Softupdates not syncing

2001-06-08 Thread Doug Barton
was improved by the many changes in RELENG_4 in the last 4 months. Thanks, Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: newbussifying drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
ines, and it looks like they are just > > using different macros with hard-coded (#defined) port addresses. > > > > So, how do you CORRECTLY use the newbus calls to probe these ports? I am > > not running -current, so i do not have 'hints'. > > As Doug Rabson s

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
David Xu wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there any plan to import NetBSD rc system, > I am willing to see it appears in FreeBSD 5.0. Yes. Several of us have started work on it. Personally, the last two times I carved time out to work on it I got bombed by unstable -current.

Re: oct() doesn't handle binary strings

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
Peter Pentchev wrote: > (btw, FreeBSD developers, FreeBSD Perl gurus, > when/if shall Perl 5.6 be MFC'd? :) First perl 5.6.1 has to be imported to -current, then shaken out, then _possibly_ it will be MFC'ed, but it's also quite possible that it won't be MFC&#x

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
he other reason is that when you say "System V" anything, people have immediate negative reactions that are based purely on emotion. Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

802.11 sniffing with Cisco/Aironet card

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
In my latest set of patches for -stable the Aironet driver with a few patches to FreeBSD's bpf & libpcap to support 802.11 packets permits sniffing of raw 802.11 packets. The patches are at: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/ The latest version is an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+

Re: NFS swap?

2001-06-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
o specify nfs based swap? Try this first define the option near the top: option swap-path code 128 = string; then use it as: option swap-path "/path/to/swap"; It's actually kind of nice to bad it doesn't totally work for dhclient when you want to request and opt

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
ke advantage both of the hard work and experience of the netbsd team, and our own unique abilities and experience. I would hate to see that opportunity wasted. Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > : > :On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > : > :>My advise: First make it work. THEN make it work better. > : > : Excellent advice, as long as you don't skip the steps of > :appropriately defining the problem domain and evaluating all of t

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
n what we have now, and is less platform-specific than NetBSD's current code, precisely because I'm committed to the idea of minimizing needless platform-specific items whenever we can. Take a look at some of the changes mergemaster has gone through over the past year as a result of my wor

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: >My advise: First make it work. THEN make it work better. Excellent advice, as long as you don't skip the steps of appropriately defining the problem domain and evaluating all of the possible solutions for it. -- If you're never wrong,

Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
ers do differently knowing what they know now?" conversation with some intelligent points of our own. Just a thought, Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
[Prelude, Warner and I discussed this off line... ] Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Barton writes: > : A) Examine what we have (most of us understand that pretty well) > : B) Figure out what we need (in progress, nowhere near done yet) > : C

Re: libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Doug Rabson
ke the (possible misnamed?) configure.in.in file. This is from 4.3-stable with autoconf-2.13_1. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: bridging with pcmcia cards

2001-06-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Joesh Juphland writes: | | Great. | | Can I already bridge with an* ? And does this mean that bridging in | general with pc cards is a-ok ? This has been reported to work with the "an" driver with netgraph bridging. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: processes private data

2001-06-28 Thread Doug Rabson
() in sys/dev/streams/streams.c. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: processes private data

2001-06-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I have a char driver that must be opened by more than one process. T

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Richard Hodges wrote: > I'm not sure how much of a difference the "certificate" would make, as far > as import duties goes. I live in Canada (Toronto, Ontario), and accoriding ... > duty, 7% GST, 8% provincial tax, plus a $5.00 handling charge by

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > customer service. Who knows, we might even get a few local shops to pre- > install FreeBSD on a machine or two, with their own FreeBSD discs thrown > in. It could happen. Heh.. We already do. :) I'm getting quite good at convincing small shops that

Updated Aironet Sniffing patches for -stable

2001-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I have new patches for the Aironet sniffing and some major code clean-up of duplicated structures and defines it requires the latest -stable. http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+ifconfig5 Applies to /usr/src if you don't have the linux ioctl patch from:

Re: Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Doug White
s static nat). You can specify an IP and rc.network autodetects to use -n or -a. natd_interface="a.b.c.d" is ok (at least on 4.2) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: how to share include files between kernel and userland?

2001-07-27 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Marco Molteni writes: | I am writing a program to parse frames dumped to bpf by an, the | aironet driver. | | I am using the latest patches by Doug Ambrisko, that allow the driver | to dump not only the 802.11 frame but also the special Aironet header | that the device prepends to the 802.11

Re: Collecting System Statistics Programatically

2001-07-27 Thread Doug White
n get memory utilization stats from sysctl; look in the 'vm' group. CPU usage still has to come from kmem I think. Check the vmstat / top code. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Newbus

2001-08-09 Thread Doug Rabson
erface definitions are scattered around the tree - the core interfaces DEVICE and BUS are in kern/device_if.m and kern/bus_if.m respectively. The 5.x version of newbus is based on the kobj system with api in sys/kobj.h and implementation in kern/subr_kobj.c. -- Doug

Re: cvsup RELENG_4 = 4.4-RC1 ?

2001-08-25 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:10:25 +0200, Chojin wrote: >I want to know if RELENG_4 will download 4.4-RC1 or lastest 4.3-STABLE files >Because I don't want to be in 4.4-RC1, too many problems. you'd want the RELENG_4_3 it just includes the security fixes. --- doug reynolds | the m

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
e in boot0 that: a21p% nm boot0.o | grep flags 01bb t flags a21p% but I'm not seeing how it gets over to boot1 for this test? read.7: testb $FL_PACKET,%cs:MEM_REL+flags-start # LBA support e Doug A. PS. dhw ... could you try to set packet mode on

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
basically how I read the code. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Your theory sounds quite possible. Thanks, Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 20:19, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > [1] has core@ considered subversion (devel/subversion)? > > Everyone has their eyes wide open looking for a revision control > alternative, but last time it was discussed in detail (a few mont

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:05, Munish Chopra wrote: > On 2004-01-08 17:29 +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > [...] > > > > > The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: > > > > 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using

Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-11 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:01:13PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >At 9:35 PM + 1/10/04, Andrew Boothman wrote: > >>Peter Schuller wrote: > >> > >>>Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed > >>>on the project front page: > >>

Re: 4.9 kernel panics on a poweredge 2650

2004-02-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
loader.conf can be a challenge to derive. Doug A. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
ker output out of the ICH has a pull up resistor on it then the TCO reset is disabled and will not reset the system. I ran into this on a motherboard at a prior company. You cannot via SW disable this feature :-( I have code for the SIS 630 chipset that I can give to anyon

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
interested. | | More support it wonderful! I don't have any hardware to test it on, though. I don't have direct access to HW anymore but have working code. I've been watching the HW watchdog stuff and can add it once some of these issues have been resolved. All of my cu

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
to be only one shot so it de-bounced it. I could get multiple on a CPU NMI pin. How hard is to setup and trap SMI via a FreeBSD only solution? I haven't really looked much at that area but sounds useful. Doug A. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?

2004-04-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:17, Lev Walkin wrote: > Brandon Erhart wrote: > > For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as > > several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and > > Parasoft's INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular > > reason for thi

Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:39, zera holladay wrote: > Under a kind suggestion, I am re-submitting this > e-mail with a different subject. The old message was: > > Hello, I am looking for a very quiet ATX mid-tower and > I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion or > recommendation. My hard disks

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:15, Ivan Voras wrote: > Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > IV> How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The > > linux code IV> does this: > > IV> retval = ioctl(thisint->sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr); > > IV

Re: The continued remote debugging saga...

2004-09-01 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 18:15, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Rob Deker wrote this message on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:38 -0400: > > So, after a lot of work and help from folks here, I've gotten > > remote gdb functioning (thanks again to those who helped. In the > > end there was a bad cable in t

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > I have a new replacement 4Gb disk. With a FreeBSD boot CD I did a dd > and was able to get the new disk setup with all of the old disks > partition maps, boot data, etc.,. The new disk actually boots into SCO > but fails because it only has 100Mb or so

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Russell
Oh, I love replying to my own posts :) On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Doug Russell wrote: > Try addingconv=sync,noerrorto your dd line. If most of the data > after the defect(s) can be read, you'll end up with an almost complete > partition which will likely run. You can

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
r (vmstat -z) in -stable it is gone from the system even if that bucket isn't fully used or needed :-( Ironically the more memory you put in a system the less you can do with the system! A lot of people are starting to run into this problem since large

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jim Durham writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On Friday 01 October 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Jim Durham writes: | > | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period | > | of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardwar

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Max Laier wrote: > I am not a fan of providing seat belts like this. People concerned about Neither am I. One of the best features of UNIX has always been that you can shoot yourself in the foot if you want to. If someone really wants seatbelts, they must be optional. Late

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Sean Farley wrote: > I had sudden reboots over a period of two years. Recently, they started > happening more often. It turned out that the capacitors had gone bad. > > Capacitors from about two to three years ago used a poor formula. This > site has information about it:

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Of course, your work is commendable, but isn't is much simpler to just > not type commands like that? I mean, "rm -rf /etc" or "rm -rf /bin" > are just as bad, but do you really want to be checking for all > possible `bad' deletions? That way, we'll s

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I see a lot of people don't like the change, even though I made it > default to off and controlled by an environment variable. There's > no reason to keep pushing for it, then. There's significant support for it, too. As long as it can be disabled

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to > do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that > else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately > (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell This would

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-04 Thread Doug Russell
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jim Durham wrote: > The reboots started out happening at 5.15 pm or so. I had them unplug the > server completely from AC and restart it and now it's happening withing a few > minutes of 12:40pm every day. > > The 'last' command output is the only thing showing anything log-wi

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-07 Thread Doug Russell
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors > appeared: > > 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev – 1/42 > cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0 > Block 6578 > medium error unrecovered read error > HTFS i/o failure occurred whil

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Try to use the "Verify" menu from the Adaptec BIOS. It finds and tries > to re-map the bad sectors (it tries to preserve data during this too, > unless the sector is completely unreadable). The verify commands issued by the BIOS are virtually useless co

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote: > The SCSI card is an old Adaptec, AIC-7880 and I believe it does not > support automatic bad block detection/redirection. If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there... All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each se

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-09 Thread Doug Russell
Gotta love when you reply to your own posts... :) On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Doug Russell wrote: > If it has a BIOS it should have the verify tool in there... > > All the verify tool does, though, is issue a verify command to each > sector. You can do this yourself, even on a running

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
option, | > it cannot syn with another HDD. Any better suggestion? | | This is the best that you can get under FreeBSD 4.x. If you need access | to both IDE channels and SATA at the same time, you'll have to use FreeBSD | 5.x. There is: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: | | DM> DA> There is: | DM> DA> http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch | DM> DA> for 4.10. That deals with Intel and Promise SATA stuff and | DM> DA> ata-raid fixes/enha

Re: Two keyboards

2005-01-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
9600 baud serial stream. The PS/2 and USB versions I've used appear as a keyboard and just "key in" the data like a keyboard. To get data from the USB I just did a "cat /dev/ukbd0" for scans. They've had built-in wdges. Makes it really easy to integrate into syste

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA) RELENG_4

2005-01-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Julian Elischer writes: | Doug, could you comit your patchsets to RELENG_4? I could but have not been given an okay from RE. What I've proposed to do before is commit the base HW support without my RAID and other enhancements. This is essentially taking the stuff from 5-current HW only bi

Re: bug in calcru() in kernel: integer overflow computing user time

2005-01-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
if (uu < p->p_uu || su < p->p_su || iu < p->p_iu) { If people like it I can commit it. It works for us. We had problems with this as well. It's pretty simple fix. I used 1k since usage of this tends to be % so rounding should effect that much. Doug A. ___

Re: bug in calcru()

2005-01-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
cally increasing you can get "wacky" results so IMHO it will never be right but "good enough" Atleast that is what I recall when I tested this stuff out a long time ago. The assumption with this calculation is that st & it tend to be small compared to tt so the 1024 X shouldn&

NO_TCSH leaves crud in /usr/src

2005-03-17 Thread Doug Barton
this fixed. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: EFI network boot loader for ia32?

2005-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On 27 Apr 2005, at 20:10, Fred Clift wrote: This might better belong on -questions, this isn't the most technical question, but it is obscure... I've recently been loaned an eval server indirectly from intel. It is an SR-2400. We've been using SR-2300s for a while now and have been doing cust

Re: how to set dumpdev

2005-04-30 Thread Doug White
zation. > > But I don't find 'dumpdev' referenced anywhere under /usr/src/sys/boot/. Is > the documentation wrong? It wouldn't be there, but it alos loks like that tunable has gone away when GEOM took over definign the dump device. Now it needs a struct to specify the tar

Re: A question about /sys/kern/link_elf.c

2005-05-03 Thread Doug Rabson
On Monday 02 May 2005 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >There is a "#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING" at line 701,and again a "#ifdef > >SPARSE_MAPPING" at line 713.I just can't understand the second > >one.Does it have any special mean ? > > > >thanks . > > It's just conditional compiling construct...howeve

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-19 Thread Doug White
gt; >#9 0xc05b21a6 in tcp_close (tp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:783 > > > > There's something wrong here: If tcp_close() is passed NULL it will panic > > at this point when it tries to dereference tp. > > Starting to stretch m

FreeBSD-* files in non-HEAD branches

2005-08-05 Thread Doug Barton
Howdy, I'm wondering what the utility of files like FREEBSD-Upgrade and FREEBSD-Xlist which describe how to import stuff in src/contrib in branches other than HEAD. It makes sense to me to remove these files in other brakes, opinions? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for

Re: FreeBSD-* files in non-HEAD branches

2005-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:53:12PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >>I'm wondering what the utility of files like FREEBSD-Upgrade and >>FREEBSD-Xlist which describe how to import stuff in src/contrib in branches >>other than H

Re: Checking sysctl values from within the kernel.

2005-08-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
alled it several times every few seconds. Over time the system would wedge on a setjmp or something like that. We changed it to a function call since in a static kernel then the problem went away. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one! Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [PATCH] caching daemon release and nsswitch patches

2005-08-28 Thread Doug Barton
on this already and I missed it, please accept my apologies, and send along a reference. If not, I'm very interested to hear what your plans are. Regards, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@free

ip6.int deprecated

2005-08-30 Thread Doug Barton
ote is useful however as a more general source of information, and of course if there is anything I've missed, I welcome others to take appropriate action. Regards, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@

Fixing an error condition for 'rm -P'

2005-09-23 Thread Doug Barton
bad on an objective level, but it definitely leads to annoying problems for the user when you hit this condition. I therefore propose the attached patch. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection Index: rm.c ==

Fixing an error condition for 'rm -P'

2005-09-23 Thread Doug Barton
bad on an objective level, but it definitely leads to annoying problems for the user when you hit this condition. I therefore propose the attached patch. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection Index: rm.c === RCS

Re: anyone using security/dropbear?

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Barton
Brian Reichert wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: Check the source.. is it using /dev/urandom (which never blocks), or /dev/random (which I still don't think blocks, but may return short reads). Either way, it sounds like some level of application bug...it pr

Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Barton
seems to me to make sense that the right way to tune the fs would be to find the median file size and make the block size large enough to handle files of that size. That should give you the right tradeoff between speed and efficiency. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for

Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Barton
e important premise. UFS doesn't do "more than one file per frag" until the file system gets close to filling up, and the optimization switches from time to space. Therefore, in your example you're actually wasting more space than you would with 8k blocks, and as a side effect maki

Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Barton
Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: XFS fits incredibly well with Maildir, however this I did not test practically I am curious as to what the defaults are for frag, inode, and block sizes on XFS, and whether that is one of the factors that make it work well with maildir. Doug -- This

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-29 Thread Doug Barton
gemaster! I can't be responsible for its | loss due to bugs in my code or whatever. While on the one hand I certainly appreciate and agree with this sentiment, not introducing changes that violate POLA, or are very dangerous to unsophisticated users, is one of the reason I request pre-commit ap

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-10-01 Thread Doug Barton
Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:41:57 -0700 >>From: Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>One of the design decisions that you need to be aware of for this project >>since day one was to try and balance intell

Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

2005-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
For future reference, you should not cross post to FreeBSD lists. If you are unsure what the best list will be, start with freebsd-questions. Good luck, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: copy directory structure

2005-12-21 Thread Doug Barton
Ashok Shrestha wrote: Do you know how to copy just a directory structure (not the files inside it)? This is better suited for freebsd-questions@, but I'll give you a hint, the answer should probably involve find. :) Good luck, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your prote

Re: Preserve date when cp over smbfs

2005-12-30 Thread Doug Barton
Gilbert Cao wrote: > Hi, the list. > > I have recently notice a problem when I copy a file to a SMB mount > directory : Thanks for the good detective work. Can you send-pr this so that it does not get lost? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for you

Re: Preserve date when cp over smbfs

2005-12-30 Thread Doug Barton
Gilbert Cao wrote: > Hi, the list. > > I have recently notice a problem when I copy a file to a SMB mount > directory : Good detective work! Please send-pr this so it does not get lost. Doug ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org maili

Small patch to sh.1

2006-01-06 Thread Doug Barton
Does the attached patch look reasonable? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection Index: sh.1 === RCS file: /usr/local/ncvs/src/bin/sh/sh.1,v retrieving revision 1.118 diff -u -r1.118 sh.1 --- sh.11 Jan

Re: Small patch to sh.1

2006-01-06 Thread Doug Barton
Sam Lawrance wrote: It's already mentioned at the end of the list of formats. Hrrm, so it is. Arguably it should be mentioned at the start, since it's easy to miss where it is (I certainly missed it, as did others). Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: tuning to run large (1000+) numbers of null_mounts

2006-01-18 Thread Doug Barton
Ensel Sharon wrote: > hmmm...the cut and paste of that loud warning was from a 6.0-RELEASE man > page ... if I need to be CURRENT to get the updated man page, do I also > need to be CURRENT to get the safe null_mount code itself ? > > Or is 6.0-RELEASE safe ? (re: null_mount) It probably wouldn'

Re: Comtrol Rocketport UNIVERSAL PCI 32-port

2006-01-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Vitaliy Skakun writes: | Hi everybody! | | One problem arised: | | when doing in the shell | echo "~WS" > /dev/cuaR00 | | for several times as quick as I can, I get panic with the following message: | panic: device_unbusy: called for non-busy device rp0 | | same thing when trying to send data t

Re: CPU/case/disk temperature sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-01-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
;s not all done but good enough to do a bunch of stuff and Tom Rhodes started a man page for it. I work on it as I get time or have new needs for it. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Comtrol Rocketport UNIVERSAL PCI 32-port

2006-01-27 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Vitaliy Skakun writes: | thanks, but I see this patch is against recent HEAD | | I've got the yesterdays RELENG_6 sources and can't simply update to HEAD ( | it is a server ) Give this a shot against RELENG_6: Index: rp.c === RCS fi

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Doug Barton
that you're ready for a wider review on, please submit it first to freebsd-rc@, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: if_sf bug

2001-10-03 Thread Doug White
figure it with IP 0.0.0.0. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 64bit Ethernet Card (if_sf driver)

2001-10-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
daptec was selling a DEC based 4 port card that they got when they bought Cogent. I find it hard to believe that they would replace that with a poorer performance card that probably cost them more to make. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: FYI

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Hass
st in object-only format. Doug On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Tim Wiess wrote: > > If anyone has an interest in adding support for the SBS WAN cards to > > FreeBSD, feel free to contact me. I'll be glad to help. > > I'm actually working on a driver for the SBS WANic 600 and 800

Re: more on Re: Please review: bugfix for vinvalbuf()

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Swarin
atch. Debugging information is below. If I can provide any additional information, let me know. Thanks for any help, Doug -- panic message -- SMP 2 cpus IdlePTD 3555328 initial pcb at 2cf300 panicstr: vinvalbuf: flush failed panic messages: --- panic: vinvalbuf: flush failed mp_lock = 0100

Re: more on Re: Please review: bugfix for vinvalbuf()

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Swarin
?pr=7028 > : panic in vinvalbuf when appending/looking at tail of NFS file > : > :The system is running 4.4-RELEASE with the vinvalbuf() patch. Debugging > :information is below. If I can provide any additional information, > :let me know. > : > :Thanks for any help, > :D

Re: Read only file FSTAB after error config???

2001-10-21 Thread Doug Barton
delete or rename the error file Fstab and the > system shown the file is read only. This is covered in the documentation at http://www.freebsd.org/ I believe in the FAQ, if not there, it's in the handbook. Good luck, Doug -- "We will not tire, we will not falter, a

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Rabson
27;t matter in this case. Function arguments which are passed in registers are all promoted to 64bits. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Doug White
#x27;s a bit dated, but I've used the same system with PXE netbooting to install tons of machines. It can NFS mount just about anything, so you can rig your own autoconfig scheme so you don't need to set the machine name & IP manually :) Doug White

Re: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
s/CHANGES.txt > > for full details. This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which we had while trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether Intel will accept our 64bit patches? -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > From: Doug Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which > > we had while > > trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether > > Intel will accept

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Doug White
Sen that they will not tolerate DD disks. Put proper partition tables on them and they should behave. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-17 Thread Doug White
m. Happens to me on L440GX+ boards. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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