Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread David Greenman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will add that this is the pattern that Kirk teaches in his kernel internals class. If that's true, Do you want me to fax you a copy of page 15 of his class notes from the course he gave at last year's FreeBSDCon, or

Re: mouse madness under X

2000-08-08 Thread Johann Hugo
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, you wrote: This is a problem I've had starting with the last couple of builds. If I switch from X to a virtual console, then back again, *sometimes* the mouse cursor will be stuck on the right hand side of the screen. I can move it up and down, but not side to side.

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000807 23:15] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously the waker-upper knows that the condition is true. Otherwise the existing code which doesn't check wouldn't work. In the expensive cases the waker-upper

inheriting certificate trust

2000-08-08 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 07:33:54 +0200 (CEST), Leif Neland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've used this certificate to sign a new certificate, and Microsoft recognizes it and the trust chain, and will use it for verifying the servers identity, but not for mail. My guess is that (regardless of the

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread Nate Williams
It's not just that, if you always have to cover your behind when doing tsleep you may wind up masking wakeup bugs. Places like "vfs_bio.c" line 586 of 3182: bp-b_xflags |= BX_BKGRDWAIT; tsleep(bp-b_xflags, PRIBIO, "biord", 0); if (bp-b_xflags

crypt(3) problems

2000-08-08 Thread Pete Carah
There are many cases (e.g. apache with external sources doing crypt) where it is necessary to have libscrypt the default crypt for logins, etc, and libdescrypt available for linking (e.g. apache). Since the realignment of crypt sources to the internat versions (which I generally like), this is

Re: crypt(3) problems

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
We should switch to using just libdescrypt and being allowed to switch crypt formats easily between md5 and des. My proposed solution using login.conf is at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~green/crypt_switching.patch, and it's going to be put into production usage relatively soon (that is, whether or

Request for review/comments - new option for uname(1)

2000-08-08 Thread Mark Ovens
The output of ``uname -a'' appears in hundreds of e-mails and PRs yet the output format is not ideal for this (especially e-mail in 80-column mail readers) as it is a single line. Attached is a patch for an enhancement I've made that adds a new option ``-A'' (rather than change ``-a'') that

Re: emu10k1 problems solved

2000-08-08 Thread Alexander Sanda
At 09:15 07.08.2000 +0200, Benedikt Schmidt wrote: Just wanted to say that with the recent changes in the emu10k1 driver all my problems with it have disappeared. There are no more "dodgy irq" messages and the sound quality has improved too (no more crackling). Just a quick question... Is it

hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Irwan Hadi
Sigh http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... Sigh http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com not on all the machines however. re-run the query, sometimes you get: www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD got both goin. just in case w2k didn't make

Re: hotmail now running win2000 (not all of it)

2000-08-08 Thread thomas
On 8 Aug, Irwan Hadi wrote: Sigh http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD at least on my query. Every 3rd query comes up with W2k. This time they approaching this a bit more careful

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 12:28 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... Sigh http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com not on all the machines however. re-run the query, sometimes you get: www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... But I guess soon they will change all their freeBSD servers ;( and I wonder, how many people should be employed by Microsoft, just to press the restart button at their 2000 servers for Hotmail, in case they got BSOD ? it's called the APC MasterSwitch (or

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 12:44 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... But I guess soon they will change all their freeBSD servers ;( and I wonder, how many people should be employed by Microsoft, just to press the restart button at their 2000 servers for Hotmail, in case they

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... But I guess soon they will change all their freeBSD servers ;( and I wonder, how many people should be employed by Microsoft, just to press the restart button at their 2000 servers for Hotmail, in case they

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... Including MCSE, MCP , etc ? ;) :) bingo. BTW how can the administrator of hotmail determine if a server is BSOD or not then ?, because they have 2000 servers and I think without enough employees to watch the system and how can APC master switch reboot the

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Irwan Hadi wrote: At 12:44 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... But I guess soon they will change all their freeBSD servers ;( and I wonder, how many people should be employed by Microsoft, just to press the restart button at

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Aug-00 The Hermit Hacker wrote: use something like netsaint to monitor those machines? and the APC master switch is web administered, so it would be too easy to build a quick perl script to trigger a power outlet correspondign to the partiular server that was n olonger responding

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
Daniel O'Connor drunkenly mumbled... Personally I would wire something up to the reset switch instead.. Much less potential for accidentally nuking your hardware if your script is broken and starts toggling machines on and off like mad.. (much less violent on disk etc too) but how

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
Take this to -chat or -advocacy, PLEASE. This is nowhere near a relevant topic for -current. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crypt(3) problems

2000-08-08 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: We should switch to using just libdescrypt and being allowed to switch crypt formats easily between md5 and des. My proposed solution using login.conf is at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~green/crypt_switching.patch, and it's

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-08 Thread Adam
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Irwan Hadi wrote: At 12:28 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... Sigh http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com not on all the machines however. re-run the query, sometimes you get: www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6