Re: Request for info from SiS chipset owners

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
:3:0: class=0x02 card=0x0a141019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 ed0@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x802910ec chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 none0@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x03001039 chip=0x03001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 -- Chris Costello<[EM

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
I've got work that's a lot like the patch you attached to this message; when I can merge some of the latest changes, I'll have a diff at least to KSE_PRE_MILESTONE_2. Give me more time and I'll have a diff to HEAD. -- +---+----

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
und, or no * matching VFS is loaded */ } -- +---+-------+ | Chris Costello| You depend too much on computers for information. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | +---+---

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
d be closed across exec() calls (this is all setugidsafety() and its hackish is_unsafe() companion are used for as far as I can tell). -- +---+--------+ | Chris Costello| Let the machine do the dirty work. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
, or a copy thereof? -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| Why do we want intelligent terminals | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when there are so many stupid users? | +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, September 07, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: >But is it necessary that you really use those defines? The > idea is not to use them globally. Perhaps getnewvnode() should > get the string from `mp->mnt_stat.f_mntfromna

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
ewvnode() should get the string from `mp->mnt_stat.f_mntfromname', instead... -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| As far as we know, our computer has never | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | had an undetected error.- Weisert | +---

Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Costello
available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc-dtype.patch, Documentation for it is available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ all in one page: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/article.html |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: official devfs patch for review

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
vfs, since that was the point of my work on fdescfs. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |All new: The software is not compatible with previous versions. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

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

2000-08-09 Thread Chris Costello
n the kernel is. Look at src/sys/compile/[yourkernel]/vers.c (or /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/[yourkernel]/vers.c). -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. `- To Unsubscribe:

Re: sendmail 8.11.0 trouble

2000-07-29 Thread Chris Costello
> mail. > > Howtofixitplease? If you mean when running it as non-root, then you should have g+r on /etc/pwd.db, since it carries the same information as /etc/passwd anyway. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Computer and car salesmen differ

Re: nic cards

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Costello
gt; > The fxp0 way is too hardware and implementation dependant. ``eth0'' is no more portable than ``fxp0''. Just because Linux does it doesn't mean it's standard or portable. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
x27;t already, be enhanced to include > a ${MACHINE_ARCH} component. It does already, but how do you propose the user build and install the kernel? ``cd /usr/obj ...'' is inconsistent with any current procedures. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If a progr

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
o do this. Everything else is source only, all the object files end up inside compile/ so there's only one place to clean up. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |My reality check just bounced. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: /sys hierarchy

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
; " Can this really be separated to such a degree? Since TCP and UDP are inet protocols, do they _need_ to be separated this way? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |You can't make a program without broken egos. `- To U

Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, June 16, 2000, Chris Costello wrote: > while (defined($arguments[0])) { > system("ls -l " . $arguments[0]); > shift @arguments; > } Actually, just for style purposes: for (; defined($arguments

Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
system("ls -l " . $arguments[0]); shift @arguments; } -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |You buttered your bread, now lie in it. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: make install of new kernel fails (bad /modules)

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
test -f ${DESTDIR}/modules/* && \ cp -p ${DESTDIR}/modules/* ${DESTDIR}/modules.old I haven't tested it, but it should work. > .endif > cd $S/modules && env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=${.OBJDIR}/modules ${MAKE} > install -- |Chris Costello &l

Re: question regarding current

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
just the way current is arrange and it will grow to be more like > 3.0 & 4.0? I'm not sure what you mean here. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |QUASIMOTO - 4 wheeled hard-top moped made in France. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ports /work/ directory.

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
t > those directories on all servers as required via amd. See this answer from the FreeBSD-Hackers archives. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=395447+398377+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991226.freebsd-hackers -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To it

Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Costello
have hurt to ask. while (defined($ARGV[0])) { # ... parse ... shift; } It'd work as perl script.pl arg1 arg2 ... or as ./script.pl arg1 arg2 ... (if +x). -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. `

RFC: Patches for mounting fdesc on /dev/fd and general cleanup

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Costello
ion: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ The patch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc.patch -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Make input easy to proofread. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: So, AGAIN, why was tcpdump moved?

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
ems that don't have tcpdump because they didn't install crypto. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Managing programmers is like herding cats. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: kernel trap 9

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > Fatal trap 9: general protection fault in kernel mode > Why did you remove the vital information needed to track down and fix the problem? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A paperless office has about as much chance as

Re: Warnings when linking against libc_r

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Bush Doctor wrote: > I'm seeing the following diagnostics with applications linked against libc_r ... Do not directly link with libc_r. Instead, use the -pthread gcc flag. It will properly compile and link your program with the correct thread bits. --

Re: /etc/rc.firewall not reading /etc/rc.conf

2000-03-20 Thread Chris Costello
c/rc.conf is read in by /etc/defaults/rc.conf. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Costello
root wheel 512 Mar 18 04:38 6 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 18 04:38 7 crw--- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 9 Compared to our 63 device nodes, I think this is much nicer. Any of you folks have feedback? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Usi

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Costello
; `uname -srm` or something like that. Please see the compat.linux sysctls for how to do this yourself. You could have something like this if you want to show off FreeBSD to your Linux programs: compat.linux.osname: FreeBSD compat.linux.osrelease: 3.4-STABLE compat.linux.oss_

Re: which(1), rewritten in C?

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
whence pwd pwd $ whence -f pwd pwd $ whence -p pwd /bin/pwd $ whence -v pwd pwd is a shell builtin $ whence -a pwd pwd is a shell builtin pwd is a tracked alias for /bin/pwd -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A paperless

Re: Printer fiascos.

2000-01-29 Thread Chris Costello
iven port ppi0: on ppbus 0 -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail friends. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Any Wine or Mozilla hackers here?

2000-01-12 Thread Chris Costello
ow it seems to be these days). -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Sound and -current.

1999-12-20 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > So is there any chance that my Vibra16 Soundblaster will ever be > recognised again? Did you add the sbc0 bridge driver to your kernel configuration file? (I managed to miss that heads-up the first time around too.) -- |Chris Costello &

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Chris Costello
floods to port XXX" I'll do my best to make it as featureful as what we have in our commands here. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Stan Masor ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Chris Costello
h Microsoft is using. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Chris Costello
_use_ the thing. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your child processes are? `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Chris Costello
st to be like Linux? Who says we can't be inventive on our own? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Drive defensively -- buy a tank. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Chris Costello
nt (or whatever name I decide on), the 'SAM Done The FreeBSD Way' project. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Managing programmers is like herding cats. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Chris Costello
t that point), and a small Xt frontend linked with the installer somehow (depending on what Jordan has in mind), for those with size concerns. Hopefully this won't be the default for things like CDs, however. :) -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Eunuchs, the non-gender-specific OS

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Chris Costello
terface unification, of course, most of them in the realm of > security. So is all of this (TCL, Qt, et. al.) going into the base system to facilitate this work? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken. `--

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Chris Costello
hard at all, but I wondered what the experienced FreeBSD > users thought of this idea? Just me. I'm not working with anyone on this. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |No program done by a hacker will work unless he is on the system. `-

Re: I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE MAILING LIST

1999-12-01 Thread Chris Costello
SMOOTH.PLEASE >USE THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. Did you even BOTHER to read the FAQ or ANYTHING at http://www.FreeBSD.org? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Maintenance-free: When it br

Re: MAKEDEV & newpcm driver

1999-11-29 Thread Chris Costello
gt; effect with the newpcm driver. It's a SB compatible card. If you read -current, you'd see the HEADS UP about the bridge drivers. Please pay more attention. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Programming is an unnatural act. `-- To

Re: -current build fails

1999-11-01 Thread Chris Costello
ich Quite the reverse. You _should_ anticipate an unbootable system at each upgrade of -CURRENT. We're not trying to make another -STABLE here. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |May the force be... your umbrella! - Plucky Duck `-

Re: -current build fails

1999-11-01 Thread Chris Costello
nt of the machines. All > my machines are over 500 miles away. That's the perfect example of how and where not to use -CURRENT. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted it! `

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Costello
se -STABLE and I'll give you 10 reasons to use -STABLE. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Performance is easier to add than clarity. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: duplicate filenames under Linux emulation

1999-10-17 Thread Chris Costello
You seem to have the GNU version of ls(1) installed for the Linux emulation listing. I would say that it is that ls(1) or perhaps the Linux libc's fts(3) that is broken. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |It is easier to write an incorrect program than u

Re: SB128PCI problem under -current...

1999-10-09 Thread Chris Costello
oldpcm had), so you should give it time. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether |submarines can swim. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: CVSup core dumps

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Costello
le format: File format not >recognized Try ``gdb cvsup cvsup.core'' -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem! `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: bounced mail

1999-09-22 Thread Chris Costello
to use Netcom's SMTP relay as your smart-relay. And this is, indeed, an off-topic thread. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Avoid temporary variables and strange women. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: top and w breakage

1999-09-21 Thread Chris Costello
id you just update src/lib/libkvm and src/sys? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |You forgot to do your backup 16 days ago. Tomorrow you'll |need that version. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

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

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > Did it work before September? Yes. And rev 1.160 works fine. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Press any key to continue or any other key to quit `--- To Unsubscribe: send

Re: mount: ufs filesystem not available

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Costello
rade.html. You will have to reinstall > your 2.2.6, then follow ALL of the instructions on that page. You should Why do that when he could just install 3.3? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |One if by LAN, 2 if by C, 3 if by ERR. `

Re: mount: ufs filesystem not available

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999, gramond lamoureux wrote: > Any ideas before I go back to my 2.2.6 cd and start over? You should probably back up your important data and install 3.3 directly. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |New: It comes in different colors from the previou

Re: real audio crash

1999-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >As is the case with mine. (PCI NE2000 type card -- Kingston > KNE20BT) KNE30BT. Typo. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |MIPS: Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. `-

Re: real audio crash

1999-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
t io 0x530 irq 5 drq 0:1 (1/1 channels duplex) FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Sep 12 1999 18:08:28 Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 (1/1 channels duplex) > My crashes are over an ADSL line from home. As is the case with mine. (PCI NE2000 type card -- Kingston KNE20

Re: real audio crash

1999-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > Is user mode ppp involved here with any one else? RealVideo stuff from http://www.broadcast.com/events/nasa (IIRC) caused my system to crash, and I'm not using PPP at all. I believe it's got something to do with newpcm. -- |C

Re: locale-list missing on today's -Current

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
ut either program to offer a fix. > Me Too. Copying it to /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/locale/locale-list seems to be a workaround; having make installworld put it there would be a fix. > Hope this helps, > > Doug -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |MOP AND GLOW - Floor wa

Re: more

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > : > :> On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > :> > Not with me, and I am sure Warner and a few other die hard ``more'' users > :> > are going to be chim

Re: World breaks (~12:00 noon, CST)

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >I get the following world breakage in -CURRENT as of ~12:00 > CST, September 12: Solved: PEBKAC. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Reality's the only obstacle to happiness. `-

World breaks (~12:00 noon, CST)

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
* Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Design: The activity of preparing for a design review. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: more

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Not with me, and I am sure Warner and a few other die hard ``more'' users > are going to be chimming in here as soon as they get to this... Down with "n"! Up with "/"! -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be too hard (TM) to finish off the > /proc/pid/cmdline stuff so that ps didn't need to access /mem and didn't > need setgid at all. What about the `e' flag? -- |Chris Costello &

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
fbfc954,0xbfbfc940,0,0) 8290 ps RET __sysctl 0 8290 ps CALL open(0xbfbfc878,0,0) 8290 ps NAMI "/proc/7997/mem" 8290 ps RET open -1 errno 13 Permission denied 8290 ps CALL close(0x) 8290 ps RET close -1 errno 9 Bad file descri

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > What am I missing? How is a totally unprivileged process able to display a > list of processes? Please give me the output of ``ls -l /dev/kmem'' and ``id'' -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Foolproof operation

Re: Sh still is not working for MAKEDEV

1999-08-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi folks, > > Does anybody investigating what wrong with the sh in the -current? As I > reported earlier it still fails to correctly process MAKEDEV script. Are you sure you are not running bash instead of sh? -- |Chris Cost

Re: make world croaks in perl ??

1999-05-13 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, May 13, 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl > make: don't know how to make writemain.sh. Stop > *** Error code 2 "Me Too." Last night, probably around 11:30 PM CST, I found that error message waiting

Re: ppp is totally broken

1999-05-10 Thread Chris Costello
he actual problem-causing code to at least find out what the problem was, if not fix it. > > MBUF_CTOP is now more robust, as are all the fsm functions and > mbuf_Prepend() (which would have died when doing protocol rejects). > > > -- > > Chris Costello

Re: KDE problems with -current.

1999-05-09 Thread Chris Costello
t file. -- Chris Costello If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ppp is totally broken

1999-05-08 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, May 8, 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > >Somewhere in the mbuf code, either mbuf_Alloc or mbuf_Prepend, > > there is code that causes ppp to assign a particular mbuf > > structure pointer to a null poi

ppp is totally broken

1999-05-08 Thread Chris Costello
ethod. -- Chris Costello Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: latest ppp with PAP/CHAP coredumps

1999-05-08 Thread Chris Costello
hould point to something that checks for a null pointer, or make FsmRecvConfigRej check something like... if (!bp || (bp && !*bp)) { return -1; } or something to that effect. -- Chris Costello Avoid temporary variables and strange women. To Unsubscrib

Re: just pulled the egcs-switch

1999-05-07 Thread Chris Costello
++ (and lately, objective C) with the default egcs shipped with FreeBSD. > > > -- > > Amancio Hasty > ha...@star-gate.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Confusing location of md5 program

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Costello
send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Chris Costello How was Thomas J. Watson buried? 9 edge down. pgpA1chQY2p6G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: config & NO_F00F_HACK

1999-04-25 Thread Chris Costello
^^^^^ You made a typo. -- Chris Costello Make sure all variables are initialized before use. pgpyX4tJId8X8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Heads up! config(8) changes..

1999-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
SIX_FOO=12345L" -> options _KPOSIX_FOO=12345L > etc. Excellent! Why wasn't this done before? -- Chris Costello And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode. pgpGhVciU4sm2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-13 Thread Chris Costello
quot;solution" for shell systems, at least out of the box and with an unexperienced administrator. Does this clear it up? > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > d...@newsguy.com > d...@freebsd.org > > "nothing better than the ability to perfo

Re: kernel size over the last week

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > I just built a kernel, from sources cvsupped last night. It's over 2 > > > megs in size, compared to 1.3 me

Re: ftp hangs on -current

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Costello
articular system. I'm not sure if it works, but I'll investigate into it: Perhaps a test to see if read/write failed with errno = EINTR - if it is EINTR, close() the socket and sit at the prompt, or perhaps just exit. Any opinions? -- Chris Costello

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Costello
dea. In my opinion, you should trust someone before you allow them to have an account on your system. > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > -- Chris Costello

Re: kernel size over the last week

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Costello
nt from about 1.1-1.3 MB to about 1.7 MB. > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." -- Chris Costello It's redundant! It's redundant!-R. E. Dundant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote: > >You typically want to set a restriction as to how many > > processes a user can spawn. This is done by editing > > /etc/login.conf and changing the user's login class, see the man > > page for 'login.conf'. > > > > I'm about CPU usage, not about

Re: DoS from local users

1999-04-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Apr 9, 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote: > Hi! > > Try it: > > cat > qqq > echo $$ > echo ~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq > > Ctrl-D > > ./qqq > > Is there Any way to fix it? You typically want to set a restriction as to how many processes a user can spawn. This is done by editing /etc/log

Re: building world

1999-04-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Apr 9, 1999, Dana Huggard wrote: > I see there has been some discussions around building world. I may have > missed or forgotten something, or even not read the right README. Also > seen some captured text of builds and where they fail. In > gnu/usr.bin/cc mine fails as well, but complain

Re: EGCS

1999-04-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Wed, Apr 7, 1999, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > I can't get a make world to work with egcs. I deleted the whole obj > directory, and recvsuppped the entire source tree, and it still doesn't > work. Every time I cvsup I get a different error while compiling. CVSup now, and build world. Do _

libstdc++ is broken

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Costello
Best described in gnu/10956, libstdc++ has strange undefined reference errors when compiling anything C++. These are the errors: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `filebuf virtual table' /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `stdiobuf virtual table' Please consult t

4.0-CURRENT world broken

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Costello
The FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT world appears to be broken. The file that appears to be causing the problem is pthread_private.h, included by isatty.c. I can't find anything as to what's causing the breakage _yet_, but I hope to produce a patch today. I CVSup'd only minutes ago. -Chris To Un

Re: new fetch? where i get?

1999-03-08 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Mar 8, 1999, Marcello Mezzanotti put this into my mailbox: > im using freebsd rel 3.1 and i cvsup ports-all everyday, now when i try > any make fetch, it complains about -A NEW OPTION, whats the probs?? > i instaled 31upgrade from misc, but nothing happens!!! :/ > > i edited bsd.port.mk an

Re: Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid

1999-03-04 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Mar 4, 1999, Mike Tancsa put this into my mailbox: > > Is there any way to stop what is below ? Yep. Don't do it! Seriously, though, that puts a major load on the system. You have 10 process all telling the drivers to keep seeking about through the disks. Add /etc/login.

Re: ata1: unwanted interrupt

1999-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Wed, Mar 3, 1999, oZZ!!! put this into my mailbox: > i think it tell you about not used 2nd IDE controller... Nope, my CD ROM is on the second IDE controller ... -Chris -- Powered by FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT. "The Power to Serve!" int main(int m){main(!main(0));} To Un

Re: ata1: unwanted interrupt

1999-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Wed, Mar 3, 1999, Sheldon Hearn put this into my mailbox: > > > On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:06:19 CST, Chris Costello wrote: > > >After having CVSupped to the latest 4.0-CURRENT tree > > (just now), I noticed the amazing speed of the new ATA driver. > > Th

ata1: unwanted interrupt

1999-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
After having CVSupped to the latest 4.0-CURRENT tree (just now), I noticed the amazing speed of the new ATA driver. BUT I noticed something in dmesg... ata1: unwanted interrupt ad0: ATA-3 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 3090MB (6330240 sectors), 6280 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/

Re: /usr/bin/lock is broken in 3.0

1999-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Wed, Mar 3, 1999, Jan B. Koum put this into my mailbox: > Sorry, but I just could not track down the problem myself :( > > With 2.2 box you get: > > shell6: {104} lock -np > lock: /dev/ttyp8 on shell6.ba.best.com. no timeout > time now is Wed Mar 3 08:52:55 PST 1999 > Key: > >

Re: Really! strange uid value

1999-02-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999, John W. DeBoskey put this into my mailbox: > Hi, > >I have some machines running 3.0-19981209-SNAP. I have seen > some core dumps from pdksh (which I haven't figured out yet) > that have some really strange uid values. > > -rw-r--r--1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14

Re: uptime weirdness

1999-02-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999, Erik Funkenbusch put this into my mailbox: > I'm seeing a problem with uptime in recent -currents which doesn't make any > sense to me. I've had that with 3.0-STABLE, as well. I'm not sure why, but it kept saying: uptime: /dev//chris: No such file or directory ... uptim

Re: Suggestion for elf upgrade

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999, Stephen Montgomery-Smith put this into my mailbox: > My issue is not with the final product, which is fantastic. Rather I am > making some suggested changes to the way the information is being put out. > Really, they are only suggestions. I think that the FreeBSD team do a

Re: Suggestion for elf upgrade

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999, Stephen Montgomery-Smith put this into my mailbox: > Yesterday I did an upgrade from 3.0-Release to 3.1-beta. I did > make world, then I made the kernel. At the end of the make kernel, > I got a message about the kernel being elf!!! Bad timing to find > out about this - I w

Re: Booting ELF kernel

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999, Donn Miller put this into my mailbox: > I put the line "/boot/loader" in /boot.conf just like the docs said > (http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html). However, I couldn't enter > "-c" to enter userconfig to configure the kernel. When I entered -c at > the "boot: " prompt

Re: stuck with ~year old current

1999-01-03 Thread Chris Costello
t; > >From where should I start ? Read all of the -current mailing list starting in 17 November 1998 all the way up to today, and then read /usr/src/UPDATING. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |MOP AND GLOW - Floor wax

Re: reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Chris Costello
in my main mailbox and in the mailbox where I keep messages for that list. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Last one out, turn off the computer! ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message