Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os

1999-04-08 Thread John Fieber
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > There's no mechanism for updating a package - and it's not clear (to > me anyway) how this can be done safely in a general way. Where the > update is only minor (and won't affect the dependent packages), you > can use something like: For an update to wor

Re: wchar.h?

1999-03-10 Thread John Fieber
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > wcslen() > wcscpy() > wcsncpy() > wcscat() > wcscmp() > wcsncmp() > > How come FreeBSD doesn't have these? Is there a complicated problem > preventing us from adding them? I have a start at all the wc functions in the NA1 of ANSI C which incl

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-16 Thread John Fieber
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Try reducing maxusers to 128. Another person reported similar behavior > to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back to a basic > distribution -- and everything started working again. > > It turned out that a maxusers value of

Re: lpt0

1999-02-14 Thread John Fieber
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:36:37PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > >FWIW, I would also like to see this happen. > > > > What's the deadline? I did it for -current this day. I'm waiting for > > some feedback before the 3.1 replica. > > A

Re: lpt0

1999-02-13 Thread John Fieber
On 13 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Nicolas Souchu writes: > > controller ppbus0 # The ppbus system > > device nlpt0 at ppbus? # The printer driver > > OBTW, when are you planning to rename nlpt0 to lpt0? Hopefully before 3.1 goes out...it would b

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-09 Thread John Fieber
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when > man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit > something_or_other_flags in /etc/rc.conf the entry won't be > there to edit. Why must it contain only changes? Is there any reason it couldn

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-09 Thread John Fieber
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I think it's a *BAD* idea to change rc.conf operation for the 3.1 > > distribution. Bad Bad Bad. > > I have to agree. Let's not forget that there are over 30 man > pages with references to /etc/rc.conf.

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread John Fieber
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:27:44AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > > PlatformHas DHCP > > > > Irix 6.5Yes > > Solaris 2.5.1 No > Solaris 2.6 Yes > > You should have used a mor

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread John Fieber
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: > What do you think ? Or what are your experiences ? It has caused a lot of grief with my recent install of 3.0-19990205, but I gather I'm supposed to install something later before complaining. The main annoyance has been that running /stand/sysinstall a

Re: 3.0 vs 4.0

1999-02-03 Thread John Fieber
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, HighWind Software Information wrote: > Can someone summarize the difference and locations between all these > things? Think of it as a tree where the trunk is -current and branches are -stable. There is only one -current but potentally many -stables. Each release with a new

Re: netd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.

1999-01-22 Thread John Fieber
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > I'm experiencing some strange errors with one of our workstations. I > recently moved all of our workstations to 3.0 current as of 1998-12-18. > Does any of this make any sense to anyone: > > trumpet:~>rlogin balalaika > netd in free(): warning: junk

Re: keymaps

1999-01-22 Thread John Fieber
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > Gentlemen, I don't intend to add yet another keymap to > /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. I am merely trying to define a reasonable > set of common, consistent key binding for existing keymaps. > > National keyboards have different layout of regular keys.

Re: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE & Apache 1.3.2 problem

1999-01-15 Thread John Fieber
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Igor Shulgin wrote: > What I have done wrong? > Is it possible to run Apache 1.3.x on FreeBSD 3.0 ? Yes but you need to install a more recent port or package. The conversion to ELF tripped up a few things like Apache that didn't know about ELF FreeBSD systems. That is all f

Re: Still safe to do a remote 'installworld'?

1999-01-15 Thread John Fieber
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Am I still safe to do the equivalent of a 'remote' install world? - I have 2 x > 3.0 boxes, one which is fresh 3.0-RELEASE, the other which is 3.0-CURRENT... > If I take the /usr/src & /usr/obj directories from sucsessful 'buildworld' on > the -current ma