Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-02 Thread Chris
David Scheidt wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > > Does anyone have any inside information on subj? > > The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in > > June 1999" > > > > I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. > > Heh. It now says early jul

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-02 Thread Chris
David Scheidt wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > > Does anyone have any inside information on subj? > > The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in > > June 1999" > > > > I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. > > Heh. It now says early july

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > In article >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >you write: > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really one > >of usage. Why would one us poll() over select()? Is select eventually going > >to go away for some reason? > > select()

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > In article > > you write: > >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really one > >of usage. Why would one us poll() over select()? Is select eventually going > >to go away for some reason? > > select() as a user-level

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: : THANKS man . A hunch. I just tried to bring up my 1542CF with the bios disabled in -current and it blew chunks like you described. Is your BIOS disabled? If so, can you enable it and see if that works? It should work with the bios disab

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990702184559.e25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: : THANKS man . A hunch. I just tried to bring up my 1542CF with the bios disabled in -current and it blew chunks like you described. Is your BIOS disabled? If so, can you enable it and see if that works? It shou

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really one >of usage. Why would one us poll() over select()? Is select eventually going >to go away for some reason? select() as a user-level call will never go away; there is a larg

Re: poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article you write: >now supports the select() and poll() system calls. My question is really one >of usage. Why would one us poll() over select()? Is select eventually going >to go away for some reason? select() as a user-level call will never go away; there is a large base of code that

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Four. :) > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:15:14PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosense values since that is all that was > > > required before. Now what are these poor souls to do when they upgrade

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Four. :) > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:15:14PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosense values since that is all that was > > > required before. Now what are these poor souls to do when they upgrade >

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > Now THAT is cool. > It's a better idea to not have people waiting for a long time. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ __

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > Now THAT is cool. > It's a better idea to not have people waiting for a long time. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org _ __ _

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Anthony Kimball
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Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Anthony Kimball
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Sv: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:15 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c ut

Sv: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Leif Neland
- Original Message - From: David O'Brien To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav ; Ruslan Ermilov ; Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:15 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c > > ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal seman

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
THANKS man . Quoting Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:34:30PM -0600 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: > : since this is the only device on the aha card experimental aha drivers > : are wel

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
THANKS man . Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:34:30PM -0600 > In message <19990702183058.d25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: > : since this is the only device on the aha card exp

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:15:14PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosense values since that is all that was > > required before. Now what are these poor souls to do when they upgrade > > to 3.3-R and t

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:15:14PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosense values since that is all that was > > required before. Now what are these poor souls to do when they upgrade > > to 3.3-R and th

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: : since this is the only device on the aha card experimental aha drivers : are welcome . (remember though that the target is RELENG_3 not current) OK. I'll make sure that justin's changes are included in the -stable driver and if not send y

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990702183058.d25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: : since this is the only device on the aha card experimental aha drivers : are welcome . (remember though that the target is RELENG_3 not current) OK. I'll make sure that justin's changes are included in the -stab

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
since this is the only device on the aha card experimental aha drivers are welcome . (remember though that the target is RELENG_3 not current) Quoting Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:22:07PM -0600 > In me

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
since this is the only device on the aha card experimental aha drivers are welcome . (remember though that the target is RELENG_3 not current) Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:22:07PM -0600 >

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: : Yup 2.2.8-Release probed it That tells me that something that I did to the driver busted this. OK. I'll see if I can recreate it later tonight. Are you willing to run experimental code? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990702181826.c25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: : Yup 2.2.8-Release probed it That tells me that something that I did to the driver busted this. OK. I'll see if I can recreate it later tonight. Are you willing to run experimental code? Warner To Unsubscribe: se

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> > ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal semantic > > difference from the way it worked before the change (which was that if > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE existed, ftp used passive mode). > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defin

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Yup 2.2.8-Release probed it uk device UMAX 2600S V1.1 type 6 fixed scsi2 Quoting Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:22:23PM -0600 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: > : Nope I'm say

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> > ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal semantic > > difference from the way it worked before the change (which was that if > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE existed, ftp used passive mode). > > I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE define

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Yup 2.2.8-Release probed it uk device UMAX 2600S V1.1 type 6 fixed scsi2 Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:22:23PM -0600 > In message <19990702170206.b25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg S

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread David O'Brien
> ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal semantic > difference from the way it worked before the change (which was that if > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE existed, ftp used passive mode). I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosens

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-02 Thread David O'Brien
> ... compared to the sources as of today. This gives minimal semantic > difference from the way it worked before the change (which was that if > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE existed, ftp used passive mode). I have to agree with Eivind, I know of people in my lab that have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE defined to nosense

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: : Nope I'm saying that its not working now, don't know about the : previous history. I do know that amancio (sp) has a scsi umax : working (freebsd-hacker ~April 19 when jordon was having probs with : an HP) : :

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990702170206.b25...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: : Nope I'm saying that its not working now, don't know about the : previous history. I do know that amancio (sp) has a scsi umax : working (freebsd-hacker ~April 19 when jordon was having probs with

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Quoting Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:52:12PM -0600 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: > : nope 3.2-stable cvsuped yesterday > > OK. Are you saying that this used to work, but th

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:52:12PM -0600 > In message <19990702110341.a24...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: > : nope 3.2-stable cvsuped yesterday > > OK. Are you say

Re: Usage of 'gdb' command in DDB

1999-07-02 Thread Steve Kiernan
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 18:47:27 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Well, I entered 'gdb', then 'continue' and now I can debug the kernel > > remotely. How do I switch DDB back? Ctrl-Alt-Esc now causes DDB to > > contact the remote GDB

Re: Usage of 'gdb' command in DDB

1999-07-02 Thread Steve Kiernan
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 18:47:27 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Well, I entered 'gdb', then 'continue' and now I can debug the kernel > > remotely. How do I switch DDB back? Ctrl-Alt-Esc now causes DDB to > > contact the remote GDB i

Re: mbufs question/problem

1999-07-02 Thread Stan Shkolnyy
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > > I have a customer who has been experiencing "slow downs" with a freebsd > routerthey have substantially increased performance by reducing > MINCLSIZE. I havent tracked the source, but im trying to hypothesize what > it might be. On the surface I c

Re: mbufs question/problem

1999-07-02 Thread Stan Shkolnyy
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > > I have a customer who has been experiencing "slow downs" with a freebsd > routerthey have substantially increased performance by reducing > MINCLSIZE. I havent tracked the source, but im trying to hypothesize what > it might be. On the surface I ca

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: : nope 3.2-stable cvsuped yesterday OK. Are you saying that this used to work, but that it doesn't now? Justin did make some changes to the aha driver in -current which would keep it from losing a race, but I don't know if that was

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990702110341.a24...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: : nope 3.2-stable cvsuped yesterday OK. Are you saying that this used to work, but that it doesn't now? Justin did make some changes to the aha driver in -current which would keep it from losing a race, b

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Duchscher
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the > space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it > allows me to swap my C

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Duchscher
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the > space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it > allows me to swap my C:

poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I am struggling through understanding device drivers under freebsd. I have nice book and linux device drivers and some older ones on the UNIX device drivers but nothing seems to match perfectly with freebsd... So stay tuned for more questions Correct me if I am wrong... After reading the in

poll() vs select()

1999-07-02 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I am struggling through understanding device drivers under freebsd. I have nice book and linux device drivers and some older ones on the UNIX device drivers but nothing seems to match perfectly with freebsd... So stay tuned for more questions Correct me if I am wrong... After reading the ins

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Robert Nordier
> > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's > > > the only thing that MS doesn't do correctly whe inst

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Robert Nordier
> > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the > > > "disk > > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. > > > That's > > > the only thing that MS doesn't do corre

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Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c

1999-07-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Remember, the question was, "Do we need to spend the effort making all > of our programs support the use of - to denote std{in,out}?" No, because most of them (for which such an option might be relevant) already do, or else don't need it (because they default to stdin). -GAWollman -

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c

1999-07-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Remember, the question was, "Do we need to spend the effort making all > of our programs support the use of - to denote std{in,out}?" No, because most of them (for which such an option might be relevant) already do, or else don't need it (because they default to stdin). -GAWollman --

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Quoting Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:04:54PM -0600 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Skafte writes: > : I've got an adaptec 1542 card using aha driver and RELENG_3 detects it no > : problems. > > OK. >

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Skafte
Quoting Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) On Subject: Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card Date: Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:04:54PM -0600 > In message <19990701163631.a20...@gras-varg.worldgate.com> Greg Skafte writes: > : I've got an adaptec 1542 card using aha driver and RELENG_3 detects

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your s

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your se

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > how to become a hacker? > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > can teach you. Th

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > how to become a hacker? > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > can teach you.

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > how to become a hacker? You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else can teach you. Do you have the innate curiosity to take things apart just t

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > how to become a hacker? You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else can teach you. Do you have the innate curiosity to take things apart ju

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's > the only thing that MS doesn't do

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's > the only thing that MS doesn't do c

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Wes Peters
Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > how to become a hacker? > > Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.html

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Wes Peters
Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > how to become a hacker? > > Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.ht

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I c

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I ca

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Matt Curtin
> On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 08:17:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: haodongpan> I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c how to haodongpan> become a hacker? How to become a hacker in general: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Of course, not everyone has the personality,

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Matt Curtin
> On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 08:17:59 -0700, haodong...@netease.com said: haodongpan> I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c how to haodongpan> become a hacker? How to become a hacker in general: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Of course, not everyone has the personal

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Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
If you're doing this kind of thing you really should spend $5K for a vmetro PCI analyzer and learn how to use it. It will answer your questions. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
If you're doing this kind of thing you really should spend $5K for a vmetro PCI analyzer and learn how to use it. It will answer your questions. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the s

Re: rmail

1999-07-02 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
[Redirected to -hackers] On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Why rmail is sitting in /bin, while it is useful only with uuxqt & sendmail? > Historically, I think. NetBSD and OpenBSD install it to /bin as well. > Why it is linked statically? > It is linked dyna

Re: rmail

1999-07-02 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
[Redirected to -hackers] On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Why rmail is sitting in /bin, while it is useful only with uuxqt & sendmail? > Historically, I think. NetBSD and OpenBSD install it to /bin as well. > Why it is linked statically? > It is linked dynam

IETF 45

1999-07-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[Bcc: to hackers, Cc: to ofug-chat] As you may be aware of, IETF 45 will be held in Oslo, Norway the week after next. If any of you are going, or know of FreeBSD people who are going, and are interested in getting together with norwegian FreeBSD users and developers in a social context, don't hes

IETF 45

1999-07-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[Bcc: to hackers, Cc: to ofug-chat] As you may be aware of, IETF 45 will be held in Oslo, Norway the week after next. If any of you are going, or know of FreeBSD people who are going, and are interested in getting together with norwegian FreeBSD users and developers in a social context, don't hesi

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Hi all > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space > used up by Linux. The reason I

Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Hi all > > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space > used up by Linux. The reason I w

Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows me to swap my C:

Porting LILO to FreeBSD

1999-07-02 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows me to swap my C: a

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > how to become a hacker? Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.html -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodong...@netease.com wrote: > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > how to become a hacker? Not everyone will agree with this, but you may want to look at: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/index.html -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey Mc

how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread haodongpan
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how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-02 Thread haodongpan
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HEADS UP: Changes in Vinum

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Lehey
I've been following up on a suggestion Jordan made earlier this week, and I've now introduced some simplified configuration commands for Vinum, in -CURRENT only. I think they cover a fair number of the situations you're likely to need, but they're not intended to be comprehensive. Still, I'd like

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 2 July 1999 at 0:10:28 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Yes. Somebody else told me that. I tried it (and confirmed that show >> displayed it, and that it was spelt right), and it still grabbed irq >> 5. Just to make sure it wasn't lying, I pulled the Ethernet board. >> No message, and w

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 2 July 1999 at 0:10:28 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Yes. Somebody else told me that. I tried it (and confirmed that show >> displayed it, and that it was spelt right), and it still grabbed irq >> 5. Just to make sure it wasn't lying, I pulled the Ethernet board. >> No message, and wh

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> Yes. Somebody else told me that. I tried it (and confirmed that show > displayed it, and that it was spelt right), and it still grabbed irq > 5. Just to make sure it wasn't lying, I pulled the Ethernet board. > No message, and when I tried a ping, the machine locked up solid. > This is 3.2-RE

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> Yes. Somebody else told me that. I tried it (and confirmed that show > displayed it, and that it was spelt right), and it still grabbed irq > 5. Just to make sure it wasn't lying, I pulled the Ethernet board. > No message, and when I tried a ping, the machine locked up solid. > This is 3.2-REL

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> # PCCARD (PCMCIA) support > controllercard0 > devicepcic0 at card? irq 0 > devicepcic1 at card? irq 0 > > Is that what you meant? No, it's a loader tunable. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAI

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Smith
> # PCCARD (PCMCIA) support > controllercard0 > devicepcic0 at card? irq 0 > devicepcic1 at card? irq 0 > > Is that what you meant? No, it's a loader tunable. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...