According to Ben Williams:
wd0s1a") and it immediately complains about "panic: MFS image is
invalid!!" and forces me to reboot. This happens if I use kernel,
Don't use the option MFS_ROOT_SIZE...
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Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So making DDB 'secure-level friendly' would be a useful thing
tgo do, I think. The idea is not to disable DDB, but to simply
limit the actions that can be performed within it if the securelevel
has been raised. The sysadmin would
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:00:18 +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be
consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement
the functions and import all variable data from rc.conf...
Careful. As pointed out to me by
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Somers writes:
: Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
: a good idea :-]
No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld.
It would spam
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:12:23 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Possibly installing it as /etc/defaults/rc.sysctl?
No. Sysctl.conf might belong in defaults, rc.sysctl doesn't.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's an excellent idea - it shouldn't be too hard to add a kernel
option (say, DDB_RESTRICTED) and #ifndef the "dangerous" commands.
To achieve both higher security and kenel hackers convenience, I'd
submit following idea:
- If securelevel 1,
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA and EISA attachments.
Well, it
Wilko Bulte wrote:
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
Mike Smith:
| Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE
|
|You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the
|-stable branch, but you
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Somers writes:
: Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
: a good idea :-]
No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld.
It would spam changes that others make to them.
I wasn't suggesting we should
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
Well, it seems Bruce objects to this.. I don't know why though. If
he's concerned about loosing the tightly integrated sio-isa stuff
then I guess there could be an "osio" (old sio) or "isasio" or
something driver that remains isa-specific. I could well
This is indeed a good idea. If nobody else has stepped up to the
challenge, I will try to have such a site up by the end of the week (Well,
let's make it Sunday...gives me the weekend to work on it too :) ). I'll
keep everyone posted.
Kelly
~[EMAIL PROTECTED]~
FreeBSD - The Power To
On Sep 5, 9:18pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
} Subject: Re: mbuf shortage situations
} : The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in
} :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the
} :point where we're losing packets because some script kid
: generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on.
: securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security,
: at least to a degree. These two items do not clash.
:
:
:Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway,
:independent
: I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI
: devices...
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
But, they should be
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nate Williams writes:
: But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we
: shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci.
Just the attachment...
Warner
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA and EISA attachments.
Nate Williams wrote:
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Somers writes:
: I wasn't suggesting we should do it from installworld - just from
: src/etc/Makefile (used by ``make release'').
Yes. IT should be, but isn't right now.
Warner
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote:
Hi everyone,
I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that
currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely
and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting
As Peter Wemm wrote ...
Wilko Bulte wrote:
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
...
corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe.
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway:
'should be disabled', does that mean
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:24:53AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
So I think my patch for simply wrapping the "Probing PCI bus" message
with an "if (bootverbose)" is the right solution/workaround for systems
like mine running STABLE. Not that it's a big deal - it's easy enough
for me to patch by
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
* does the problem affect anything else? I'm not at the console, so I
can't be sure, but the machine appears to be very sluggish over the net.
It seems the sluggishness was caused by two Midnight commanders spinning
like crazy and eating 200% of
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:48:59 BST, David Malone wrote:
The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine
probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain
that it isn't harful for the SMP case.
Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP works
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:11:24 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The SiS 900 only has one combined status/control word in its
descriptor structure (some of the bits mean different things depending
on whether the descriptors are in the RX ring or TX ring) instead of a
Mike Smith writes:
| USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think
| that sio would have a USB attachment.
|
| So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers
| to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like
|
Nick Hibma writes:
| And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a
| laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected
| only by USB...
|
|
| PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant,
| please let me know.
I thought I saw a PCMCIA -
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes:
: | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant,
: | please let me know.
:
: I thought I saw a PCMCIA - USB at Fry's.
Mobile Planet has PC Card - USB cards that are not CardBus cards.
Warner
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
Wilko (confused...)
No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will
investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time.
No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs
until
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe
had to walk into mine and say:
[ snip ... all the quirks ]
...I'm well aware of all of these :-)
Amusingly, these are the same kinds of quirks you have to deal with for
a unified *genuine DEC Tulip* driver. E.g.
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:13:22 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the older chipsets make it even harder on you: you have to know
just the right way to twiddle the bits in the GPIO register in order to
program the media settings, and to figure that out you're supposed to
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
How do OpenBSD do it?
They use arc4random(), to add a random increment.
And you do ISN = C + f(state) where C is a 250KHz counter and f is your
cut-down MD5? And state = {random secret, src addr, src port, dst addr,
dst port, ?}
I haven't had time to
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing
PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives
like SHA-1 (for
yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for
network performance.
If it is
this is a test to see, please ignore
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I have only recently begun to use FreeBSD but I consider myself
competent with Linux and I have had FreeBSD installed on my PC for
over a week now and I decided to build a kernel for my machine and get
rid of all the unnecessary drivers and whatnot (like everything SCSI,
the Qcam
I disagree quite strongly. DDB provides a mechanism to allow a
sysadmin to obtain a greater amount of information from a panic
situation then he could get otherwise. Being able to obtain this
information does not run counter to running with a raised securelevel.
If
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway,
independent of whether you can go into DDB to do things. You can reboot,
boot a floppy. Yes you can do something about those things, but only to
a limited extent.
Not without someone
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe
had to walk into mine and say:
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:23:00 -0600
Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote:
See, for instance, the al, ax, mx, pn, vr, and wb drivers. ;^)
^^
According to Ben Williams:
wd0s1a) and it immediately complains about panic: MFS image is
invalid!! and forces me to reboot. This happens if I use kernel,
Don't use the option MFS_ROOT_SIZE...
--
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FreeBSD
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com writes:
So making DDB 'secure-level friendly' would be a useful thing
tgo do, I think. The idea is not to disable DDB, but to simply
limit the actions that can be performed within it if the securelevel
has been raised. The sysadmin
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:00:18 +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be
consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement
the functions and import all variable data from rc.conf...
Careful. As pointed out to me by
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:31:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message 199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes:
: Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
: a good idea :-]
No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:12:23 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Possibly installing it as /etc/defaults/rc.sysctl?
No. Sysctl.conf might belong in defaults, rc.sysctl doesn't.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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Following through on something that Doug mentioned, I ran into this
very worthwhile discussion of the BSD and BSD-like licenses. I would
commend this to anyone that's ever been even vaguely interested in
licenses, as it puts a number of issues very well.
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote:
That's an excellent idea - it shouldn't be too hard to add a kernel
option (say, DDB_RESTRICTED) and #ifndef the dangerous commands.
To achieve both higher security and kenel hackers convenience, I'd
submit following idea:
- If securelevel
Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA and EISA attachments.
Well, it
Wilko Bulte wrote:
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
Mike Smith:
| Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE
|
|You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the
|-stable branch, but you
In message 199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes:
: Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
: a good idea :-]
No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld.
It would spam changes that others make to them.
I
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
Well, it seems Bruce objects to this.. I don't know why though. If
he's concerned about loosing the tightly integrated sio-isa stuff
then I guess there could be an osio (old sio) or isasio or
something driver that remains isa-specific. I could well
This is indeed a good idea. If nobody else has stepped up to the
challenge, I will try to have such a site up by the end of the week (Well,
let's make it Sunday...gives me the weekend to work on it too :) ). I'll
keep everyone posted.
Kelly
~kby...@posi.net~
FreeBSD - The Power To Serve -
On Sep 5, 9:18pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
} Subject: Re: mbuf shortage situations
} : The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in
} :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the
} :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts
: generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on.
: securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security,
: at least to a degree. These two items do not clash.
:
:
:Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway,
:independent
: I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI
: devices...
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
But, they should be
In message 199909071558.jaa21...@mt.sri.com Nate Williams writes:
: But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we
: shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci.
Just the attachment...
Warner
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Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA and EISA attachments.
: But, they should be PCI/non-Winmodem, as Kevin pointed out, so we
: shouldn't need cardbus seperately from pci.
Just the attachment...
Ahh, OK. I'm not familiar enough with the new code to know how exactly
it's organized. :)
Nate
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But, unfortunately, putting the console on a serial port creates
vulnerabilities when DDB is enabled. You are, essentially, creating
an unintentional backdoor into the system. Hence the problem.
ports/*/conserver is your friend!
--
Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam
Nate Williams wrote:
Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA
Hello. I recently submitted this kernel PR (13546) against STABLE, and
Sheldon Hearn suggested forwarding this note to freebsd-hackers to ask
for opinions.
The PCI probe code is much too verbose when it probes for PCI busses
that do not exist. On this (4xPPro) system, I get this message:
Hi everyone,
I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that
currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely
and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting
it to work on FBSD. It also uses shadow passwords so hacking
In message 199909071105.maa71...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes:
: I wasn't suggesting we should do it from installworld - just from
: src/etc/Makefile (used by ``make release'').
Yes. IT should be, but isn't right now.
Warner
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote:
Hi everyone,
I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that
currently works in linux and solaris. It seems to be laid out very nicely
and I would like to know if anyone would care to take a crack at getting
it
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
here is the url:
ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote:
Hi everyone,
I found a very nice web enable password changing script written in c that
currently works
So everyone can take a look:
here is the url, I meant to put it in the original:
ftp://win.co.nz/web-pwd/v0.3/
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher T. Griffiths wrote:
Hi everyone,
I found a very nice web enable password changing script
Hi,
ASUS SMP motherboard (if it matters) with two Pentium IIIs, running SMP
kernel 3.3-RC. Running an UP kernel instead is not an option (i.e. I can
try it out, but I need both CPUs eventually).
Any ideas? I looked in the archives, and found Tor Egge's fix. So, here
are my questions:
* does the
As Peter Wemm wrote ...
Wilko Bulte wrote:
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
...
corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe.
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway:
'should be disabled', does that mean
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:24:53AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote:
So I think my patch for simply wrapping the Probing PCI bus message
with an if (bootverbose) is the right solution/workaround for systems
like mine running STABLE. Not that it's a big deal - it's easy enough
for me to patch by hand
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
* does the problem affect anything else? I'm not at the console, so I
can't be sure, but the machine appears to be very sluggish over the net.
It seems the sluggishness was caused by two Midnight commanders spinning
like crazy and eating 200% of CPU.
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:48:59 BST, David Malone wrote:
The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine
probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain
that it isn't harful for the SMP case.
Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP works
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:11:24 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Paul wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu wrote:
The SiS 900 only has one combined status/control word in its
descriptor structure (some of the bits mean different things depending
on whether the descriptors are in the RX ring or TX ring) instead of
Mike Smith writes:
| USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think
| that sio would have a USB attachment.
|
| So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers
| to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like
| the
Nick Hibma writes:
| And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a
| laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected
| only by USB...
|
|
| PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant,
| please let me know.
I thought I saw a PCMCIA -
In message 199909072255.paa10...@whistle.com Doug Ambrisko writes:
: | PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant,
: | please let me know.
:
: I thought I saw a PCMCIA - USB at Fry's.
Mobile Planet has PC Card - USB cards that are not CardBus cards.
Warner
To
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
Wilko (confused...)
No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will
investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time.
No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs
until
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jason Thorpe
had to walk into mine and say:
[ snip ... all the quirks ]
...I'm well aware of all of these :-)
Amusingly, these are the same kinds of quirks you have to deal with for
a unified *genuine DEC Tulip* driver. E.g.
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:13:22 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Paul wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu wrote:
Well, the older chipsets make it even harder on you: you have to know
just the right way to twiddle the bits in the GPIO register in order to
program the media settings, and to figure that out you're
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
How do OpenBSD do it?
They use arc4random(), to add a random increment.
And you do ISN = C + f(state) where C is a 250KHz counter and f is your
cut-down MD5? And state = {random secret, src addr, src port, dst addr,
dst port, ?}
I haven't had time to
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing
PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives
like SHA-1 (for
yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for
network performance.
If it is
this is a test to see, please ignore
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The i82559 (fxp) hardware supports it. I imagine most previous
versions of the chipset are also capable. For the software,
add an ioctl to fxp_ether_ioctl that changes the
sc-arpcom.ac_enaddr to your new MAC address and calls
fxp_init(sc). Add your new ioctl to ifconfig and you should be
:
:cvsuped 18 aug 1999 00:35 MSD
:
I would definitely update it, but that may not be your problem.
If you could email your mount setup (df output) and your kernel
configuration (dmesg output) I would appreciate it.
If you are running softupdates, try turning it off
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