Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I could accept this as an alternative implementation, no problem. All I care about is the functionality, and I'd personally be happier not to have to document a new flag. :) I'll see what setting it in login.conf does - that *should* solve the problem swiftly and easily. - Jordan > On 26 May 99

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 May 99, at 23:50, Adam wrote: > > > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > > > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > > > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > > If they already examine FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, why no

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Adam
> > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. If they already examine FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, why not just set it to YES by default somewhere? >

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa ida.c

1999-05-26 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm moving this to -current from -cvs which I beleive is more appropriate... >> Is this a driver for a RAID controller or something else? I'm just >> curious because on the Compaq servers I have there are some disk >> status lights (disk OK/online/failure, etc) on each individual >> hot-s

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> > > > > do any apps check for FTP_ACTIVE_MODE? > > are we going to apply patches to each app to check for this > > and maintains those patches over the course of time? > > > > seems to be a change without commensurate benefit.it will > > confuse some, suprise others and

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:54:03AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE wi

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the

Re: PPP problem + mailing list archive problem

1999-05-26 Thread Richard J Kuhns
Brian Somers writes: > > Well, I'd hoped I'd be able to do a little more before bothering the list, > > but... > > > > I'd last built world around the end of April, with no problems. I then > > grew a fairly heavy workload, and so didn't get a chance to build world > > again until 2 days ag

Re: More compiler option comparisons

1999-05-26 Thread Scott Michel
I don't recall that the FreeBSD version of egcs is built with Haifa turned on, which is supposed to improve optimizations as the level is increased (more aggressive instruction scheduling.) > With egcs, the '-O' flag doesn't specify the optimization level like it > does in GCC. It specifies

Re: kvm_getswapinfo is broken

1999-05-26 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > Just check 'swapinfo' in recent -current, it shows "/dev/(null)" as swap > device, it means that devinfo() call in kvm_getswapinfo() returns NULL, > i.e. called with wrong argument which is swinfo.sw_dev This is a known problem. It is because dev_t in kernel and dev_t

moused broken?

1999-05-26 Thread David Scheidt
My -CURRENT box is having problems with the mouse pointer freezing. Killing moused and restarting it seems to solve the problem, until it happens again, of course. It seems to happen after about 8 or nine hours of use. This hadn't been a problem with the previous -CURRENT, which was a month or s

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Dan Langille
On 26 May 99, at 3:50, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling t

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Nate Williams
> Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the previous > behavior. > > Given the state of t

Re: PPP problem + mailing list archive problem

1999-05-26 Thread Brian Somers
> Well, I'd hoped I'd be able to do a little more before bothering the list, > but... > > I'd last built world around the end of April, with no problems. I then > grew a fairly heavy workload, and so didn't get a chance to build world > again until 2 days ago (May 24). During that time, somethin

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the previous > behavior. > > Given the state o

PPP problem + mailing list archive problem

1999-05-26 Thread Richard J Kuhns
Well, I'd hoped I'd be able to do a little more before bothering the list, but... I'd last built world around the end of April, with no problems. I then grew a fairly heavy workload, and so didn't get a chance to build world again until 2 days ago (May 24). During that time, something changed wi

process did not exit properly after kill signal

1999-05-26 Thread Eric Haug
Hi, I have a pr440fx dual PPro system with 132Mb. I replaced memory and was testing memory with a short program (included below) and decided to try to kill it keyboard signals did change what the system was doing in that the swapping that was occurring stopped. kill -9 PID did not have the usual ef

RE: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Ladavac Marino
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Hibma [SMTP:nick.hi...@jrc.it] > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 1:38 PM > To: Jordan K. Hubbard > Cc: curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? > > > Is there a list of pro-/cons- available? > > - it is slower, but by h

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-May-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > Is there a list of pro-/cons- available? > > - it is slower, but by how much and on which types of lines (low/high > latency, low/high bandwidth)? > > - any (windows) tools not supporting it? Well funnily enough some servers won't allow passive mode, and I

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Nick Hibma
Is there a list of pro-/cons- available? - it is slower, but by how much and on which types of lines (low/high latency, low/high bandwidth)? - any (windows) tools not supporting it? Nick > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE ob

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Dom Mitchell
On 26 May 1999, "Jordan K. Hubbard" proclaimed: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling th

FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the previous behavior. Given the state of the Internet to

Re: More compiler option comparisons

1999-05-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Garrett Wollman wrote: > Just for completeness, I did one final run of HINT with just `-O' > specified (our usual default).? `-O' results in significantly better > integer performance than `-O4'.? (Floating-point performance is just > the opposite.) > > This suggests that compiling the world with

Re: More compiler option comparisons

1999-05-26 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Garrett Wollman wrote: > Just for completeness, I did one final run of HINT with just `-O' > specified (our usual default).? `-O' results in significantly better > integer performance than `-O4'.? (Floating-point performance is just > the opposite.) > > This suggests that compiling the world with

Re: Hacking objcopy

1999-05-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > Would anyone have any objections to me hacking objcopy so that it could do > the > following - > > a) Change symbol names from one thing to another > > b) Add/remove dependencies on other shared objects. > > I

Re: kvm_getswapinfo is broken

1999-05-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 11:38:38PM -0600, a little birdie told me that Kenneth D. Merry remarked > > {panzer:/usr/home/ken:2:0} pstat -s > Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type > /dev/(null)3275520 327552 0%Interleaved > /dev/(null)3930880 39308

Re: CCD and the new ATA/ATAPI subsystem?

1999-05-26 Thread NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa
> Without getting into the ccd/vinum comparisons, is there a reason you > want to use ad? and not wd? ? AFAIK, wd? works fine with Soren's new > driver (well, it's working for me, at any rate). Soren's driver is alpha level, and danger with some chipset. For example, it cause file system crash wit