NTP daemon and Y2K issues

I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the same (although I can't check at the moment). The following was sent to a sysadmin mailing list (SAGE-AU). --++ . | John Saunders - mailto:

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, John Saunders wrote: > I noticed that -stable is running xntpd 3.4e and possible -current is the I y2k-fixed xntpd in FreeBSD in January. Have a look at CVS log for src/usr.sbin/xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c 1.6 Tue Jan 12 19:37:30 1999 UTC

whither readline.h?

Dear currenters, /usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and 3-stable snaps for awhile. Does anyone know why? Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the b

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

Kevin Day wrote: > ... > If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is > say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could > become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough. > > This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Kevin Day wrote: > > > ... > > If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is > > say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could > > become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough. >

Linux compat: Lotus Notes Server 5 for linux ?

I tried subject but got only coredumps in return.. Anybody who was luckier ??   Nicolai Petri  

Re: Softupdates reliability?

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: > I was extracting from the Exabyte to the DDRS disk while applying a CTM > update from that disk against one of the DCAS disks when it crashed. The > Exabyte went wonky (took about 6 goes to get the tape ejected) and the > rest of the disk system locked

Re: whither readline.h?

Check under: /usr/src/gnu/lib/libreadline/readline -Ayan George [ Quoted message from Satoshi Asami, received Aug 23, 5:19am.] > Dear currenters, > > /usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to > be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and 3

re: Linux compat: Lotus Notes Server 5 for linux ?

> > I tried subject but got only coredumps in return.. Anybody who was > luckier ?? > > I've gotten notes for solaris worling. Version 4.6 Nice... How well does it run ?? And did you install it on FreeBSD or Solaris ?? (I don't have a solaris so I prefer not to do it that way :) --- Nicola

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

> Kevin Day wrote: > > > ... > > If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is > > say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could > > become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough. > > > > This is just my opinion though, and no

Re: whither readline.h?

> /usr/include/readline/readline.h (and whatever else that's supposed to > be in that directory) has been missing from 4-current and 3-stable > snaps for awhile. Does anyone know why? I just checked that cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/libreadline ; make obj all install does the right thing. Ideas where to

Monday strikes again

Must... control... fist of death... I just tried to boot the latest -current snapshot (Aug 23) on my little 486/66 machine. The kern.flp kernel panics right after saying "Probing for PnP devices:". Now, this machine has a PCI bus but it doesn't support ISA plug and play, so before any of you lot

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and > > my memory played tricks on me. It was a different letter effect. :-) > > > > Andrzej, can you somehow turn it into a p

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

As Mike Smith wrote ... > > Kevin Day wrote: > > > This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal advice for > > > anyone. I just don't want FreeBSD to become a ball of intellectual property > > > infringements. :) > > > > Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just chec

Re: Monday strikes again

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Paul writes: >Anybody have any bright ideas where I can start looking for the problem? Sprinkle liberally with printf() and bake until done... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current

Re: Monday strikes again

:... :some MI console routines in /sys/kern. My gut tells me that console :initialization is failing because it can't find the ISA graphics :adapter for some reason. : :Anybody have any bright ideas where I can start looking for the problem? : :-Bill : :-- :==

Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable

Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:11:33 MST, Doug wrote: > > > I have a 3.2-Stable and a 4.0-Current system at home, both > > running rc5des. On both systems I set the priority in the rc5 options > > menu to '0', indicating lowest possible priority. On the -Stable > > system

Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable

: How does that PR explain why rc5des with the same ini file is running at :nice 20 on -current, seemingly without idprio and running at nice 0 on :-stable, seemingly with it? I'm aware of the discussion related to that PR, :an both systems were built after Bruce committed that fix. : :Doug

PCI interrupt routing in -Current/newbus

How are PCI interrupts routed in CURRENT/NewBus? For example almost all of my PCI devices are mapped to IRQ11. I understand this is "normal" in the PCI world, but how does the interrupt dispatch routine decide which ints to route where? I recently put a panic() in a intr routine of mine just t

Re: Monday strikes again

Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following code: #if NPNP > 0 /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */ pnp_configure(); #endif /* * Explicitly probe and attach ISA last. The isa bus saves * it's device

Re: problem with the ata driver

Oh well. First of all I now feel a little more comfortable to see that I'm not alone. :-) I had same problem, and have tracked the problem down to some weird behavior of the CD-ROM drive that I have (which is also a LG one). And FYI, I have an Intel 82371FB-based PIIX controller (which supports

Floppy/diskless booting problem with -current

I'm attempting to boot a -current system (from 4 days ago) off of a modified GENERIC kernel floppy disk, and it is failing in kern/vfs_conf.c's vfs_mountrootfs routine, with a message: rootdev=0x error=6, panic: cannot mount root(2) rootdev is NODEV, and err is ENXIO. The isc-dhcp

Re: Monday strikes again

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > Okay, further investigation shows that configure() has the following > code: > > #if NPNP > 0 > /* Activate PNP. If no drivers are found, let ISA probe them.. */ > pnp_configure(); > #endif > > /* > * Explicitly probe and

Re: PCI interrupt routing in -Current/newbus

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > How are PCI interrupts routed in CURRENT/NewBus? For example almost all of > my PCI devices are mapped to IRQ11. I understand this is "normal" in the PCI > world, but how does the interrupt dispatch routine decide which ints to > route where? I rec

Any chances to solve bin/7973?

Is anybody capable to solve or fix bin/7973 in lpd? I have found the problem is still there (FreeBSD-3.2). Or am I anything missing/doing wrong? bin/7973: Bad control file owner in case of remote printing. The problem is that print filters ("if" in printcap) cannot read control files cf* in case

Re: PCI interrupt routing in -Current/newbus

> > How are PCI interrupts routed in CURRENT/NewBus? For example almost all of > > my PCI devices are mapped to IRQ11. I understand this is "normal" in the PCI > > world, but how does the interrupt dispatch routine decide which ints to > > route where? I recently put a panic() in a intr routin

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

At 10:37 PM +0200 8/23/99, Cejka Rudolf wrote: >Is anybody capable to solve or fix bin/7973 in lpd? I have found the >problem is still there (FreeBSD-3.2). Or am I anything missing/doing wrong? > >bin/7973: Bad control file owner in case of remote printing. The problem >is that print filters ("if"

NFSv3 on freebsd<-->solaris

I'm forwarding this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I know many people are on the list that live in multi-platform worlds. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Solaris 7 machines cannot use NFSv3 mounts from a FreeBSD NFS server. When using NFSv2 the decrease in performance was very notic

Re: problem with the ata driver

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > >It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: >> acd0: CDROM drive at ata0 as master >> acd0: drive speed 0KB/sec >> acd0: supported read types: >> acd0: Mechanism: caddy >> acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown medium >> >> Any clue? >> >> The drive wa

Re: Softupdates reliability?

Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was extracting from the Exabyte to the DDRS disk while applying a CTM >update from that disk against one of the DCAS disks when it crashed. The >Exabyte went wonky (took about 6 goes to get the tape ejected) and the >rest of the disk system locked up.

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > Just make it a port, for crap's sake, and distribute it from Poland. > By the time WB's American lawyers work out where you are on the map, > the statute of limitations will have expired and you'll be fine. > > But it's not going into the tree, no. I

Re: Softupdates reliability?

What revision of the K6-2 did this happen on? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!\-- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsu

Re: Monday strikes again

Anything the change to nexus.c that Peter Wemm made would change? 1.15 Mon Aug 23 19:23:33 1999 UTC by peter CVS Tags: HEAD Diffs to 1.14 The nexus_attach() code works a lot better if it's actually connected to the device methods... Also, don't fail to add eisa/isa because a previous device

RE: Floppy/diskless booting problem with -current: FIX

It seems that the problem is in kern/vfs_conf.c: When performing BOOTP configuration, nfs/bootp_subr:bootpc_init() is called before the root-mount attempts. This routine finds the first non-loopback and non-point- to-point interface, and does the bootp request. If it gets all of its needed data

Re: Monday strikes again

Nick Hibma wrote: > Anything the change to nexus.c that Peter Wemm made would change? Yes, 1.14 broke non-PCI systems, and 1.15 fixed it. I forgot to change: DEVICE_METHOD(device_attach, bus_generic_attach); to: DEVICE_METHOD(device_attach, nexus_attach); .. which would explain why nexus_attach(

followup to apm problems.

Ive been following the apm problems and changes in apm threads in hope that I would fix the problems that I too am having. I am using the latest sources for apm, apmconf and apmd, as well as the kernel. (as of 23/8/99, NZST, which is yesterday evening) dmesg is: apm0: on motherboard apm: APM B

SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

I've done a quick scan of the lists and GNATS db, and see some evidence that in the last 1-2 years there has been a thread of people who see bad sio performance, coupled to any of X, Audio and APM (including bios APM setting). The PRs most relevant (but only marginally IMHO) are: http://www.fr

Re: SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

> I'm actually pretty sure it happens even without X11 live. This worries me! > changing the modem serial speed down from 57600 through 33600 to 19200 made > no difference. This also worries me. If the speed isn't being set down, then somehow interrupts are being turned off for a very long time,

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd<-->solaris

:... :am not implying that the problem might be on the FreeBSD side, it might :as well be a bug in solaris NFS implementation). : :I would greatly appreciate any help with the following problem. I have :a FreeBSD NFS server (3.2-STABLE, built on Aug 3), and a Solaris 2.7 :client. I run into p

Re: NFSv3 on freebsd<-->solaris

>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 24 03:44:09 1999 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:44:39 -0700 (PDT) >From: Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

panics in m_copym in kern/uipc_mbuf.c

I started noticed this a couple of days ago, especially when when I'm doing a cvsup. I was originally running with -current from the end of July, but updated my -current box to late 8/22. What else should I be looking at? There are no error messages in /var/log/messages before the panic. #0

Introducing the Digital Brochure

HAVE YOU HEARD about Digital Brochure, the powerful new media tool which is helping Real Estate Agents throughout Europe sell properties more efficiently and more quickly? Digital Brochure is a highly compressed, e-mailable, electronic product which utilizes pictures, text, and sound. It is sim

Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:47:05 MST, Doug wrote: > How does that PR explain why rc5des with the same ini file is > running at nice 20 on -current, seemingly without idprio and running > at nice 0 on -stable, seemingly with it? Um, different nice levels. I didn't see that. Trigger happy. :-(

Teergrubes [was Re: Dropping connections without RST]

> process normally if the HELO and MAIL From/RCPT To look all right; > otherwise continue to read small gulps of the DATA at slow intervals, > then answer the final "." with a *temporary* failure code. I'd rather have spammers consume less of my CPU time and bandwidth, not have them keep coming

Re: cd writer recommendation?

> For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400. > 5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2 > disks. No reason to buy double-sided media; just buy single-sided and punch a hole along the edge. :-) joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of progra

SIGBUS [was Re: gdb]

> (gdb) run > Starting program: /tmp/./sieve > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors. What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86? Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of programming: Anything that

bootparamd changed for use with inetd

Hi, I've dug through the archives and found no mention of this subject. Are there any political/technical reasons why bootparamd was not set up to work with inetd? If the answer is no, I've included a patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/bootparamd/bootparamd/main.c that allows it to work this way.

CD writer : Baby Hacker II

1. Modify cdrecord so that if a device is not specified it will do a -scanbus . Present the user with a choice of cd recorders from which to chose from . Ideally there should be a generic device query interface to the system so other similar utilities can do the same thing . 2. Cr

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Remember that at least for the Yamaha you can set the speed to 6 if > you are burning CD-R's. 4 is the max for CD-RW's. When I last used cdrecord (on Solaris) I remember finding that if I tried to write with a speed that was too high for the

Re: problem with the ata driver

It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > >It seems Nicolas Souchu wrote: > >> acd0: CDROM drive at ata0 as master > >> acd0: drive speed 0KB/sec > >> acd0: supported read types: > >> acd0: Mechanism: caddy > >> acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unkn

Re: Any chances to solve bin/7973?

Garance A Drosihn wrote (1999/08/23): > Why would the filter be reading the control file? It is just a > filter, supposedly reading from stdin and writing to stdout... Yes and not. You can look into apsfilter for example. It gets from control file JOB, USER and HOST items in case of ASCII inp

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

< said: > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > open("pci0:10:0", .) Don't be silly. > On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration > to an actual major , minor device. No, it knows nothing about special files, nor s

Re: SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

> I'm actually pretty sure it happens even without X11 live. This worries m e! > changing the modem serial speed down from 57600 through 33600 to 19200 ma de > no difference. This also worries me. If the speed isn't being set down, then somehow interrupts are being turned off for

Re: cd writer recommendation?

Kevin S. Brackett writes: | Oh, well then, :) I'm glad I said something before I actually bought one | (I saw the atapi RW drives were rather cheap now (~US$125)) I think that most IDE CD-R/CD-RW will just work using Soren's ata driver in current. I'm doing that on my laptop right now with a hac

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > about? > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > > a program such a cdrecord can a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > > about? > > > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration fr

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

Amancio Hasty wrote... > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the CAM and P

Re: cd writer recommendation?

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > I think that most IDE CD-R/CD-RW will just work using Soren's ata driver > in current. I'm doing that on my laptop right now with a hacked pccard and > hacked ata driver. Also I have an external IDE hard disk as well. I do have > a problem with buf

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

Ahhh.. did we just experience a major time warp some place? I just received about 15 messages I know I have read before, all dated 18 Aug 1999. > < said: > > > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > > open("pci0:10:0", .) > > Don't be silly. > >

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

Amancio Hasty wrote... > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking about? > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so > a program such a cdrecord can attempt to make a

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

Amancio Hasty wrote... > > Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide . > > > > What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking > > about? > > > > > Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so

Re: followup to apm problems.

Are you running CURRENT? Could you check whether you have at least rev. 101 of src/sys/i386/apm/apm.c Nick 1.101 Sun Aug 22 14:48:00 1999 UTC by iwasaki Diffs to 1.100 Fix `key release event prevent suspend' problem. We don't need `sleep 1; zzz' trick now. - APM BIOS Call for suspend/stan

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

> Amancio Hasty wrote... > > > There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There > > > isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system, > > > though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two > > > enumerator APIs already (I wrote the

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

Rodney W. Grimes scribbled this message on Aug 24: > Ahhh.. did we just experience a major time warp some place? I just > received about 15 messages I know I have read before, all dated > 18 Aug 1999. if you notice that the bottoms have TWO unsubscribe messages attached.. looks like someone a

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

For your information: the patch supplied was not in xntpd-3.5f-3. So you might want to repatch after importing. Nick > According to Harlan Stenn: > > Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP > > code since xntp3.4anything. > > I plan to upgrade CURRENT up t

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from ntp4, please submit them to UDel. Don't bother sending patches that only fix problems with ntp3; ntp3 is no longer supported. ntp-4.1.0 should be available in a few weeks. I'm waiting for some portability patches to settle

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

I've submitted patches for 3, but the patch applies to the GPS input filters, so I assume they can be ported. If not, pitty. Nick On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Harlan Stenn wrote: > If you are saying that FreeBSD has patches to ntp that are missing from > ntp4, please submit them to UDel. > > Don't

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

dcfd is only used for some parse clock applications. There were a number of other Y2K-type changes made by the AT&T patch. Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP code since xntp3.4anything. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: NTP daemon and Y2K issues

According to Harlan Stenn: > Also, a *huge* number of bugfixes and improvements have been made to the NTP > code since xntp3.4anything. I plan to upgrade CURRENT up to 4.0.97 soon. I don't run STABLE at all and we're too close to 3.3 to change anything in it. Maybe for 3.4. -- Ollivier ROBERT -