Mylex DAC960 driver (early version), call for testers.

1999-09-25 Thread Mike Smith
I'm adjective to announce the availability of a driver for certain members of the Mylex DAC960 PCI:SCSI RAID controller family, available from http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/mylex. This driver supports the DAC960P/PD/PU/PL adapters at firmware revision 3.51 _ONLY_, under -current _ONLY_.

Re: style question

1999-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Neil Blakey-Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri 1999-09-17 (18:21), Gregory Bond wrote: I'm looking at cleaning up a few compile nits and I'm wondering what the officially approved way of silencing "may not be used" warnings: int foo(int flag) { int j; j = 0;

about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Alexander Bezroutchko
Hello, I am looking for a way to use jail feature (when it will be back ported to -STABLE) for providing virtual servers with root access (something like www.servetheweb.com). Therefore I am investigating this feature more closely. For now I have encountered following problems: * ping,

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Bezroutchko writes: * ping, traceroute doesn't work due to lack of permissionis to create icmp socket. I think it is simple to make workaround for such problems: create a daemon listening on a unix domain socket for request from a jail. Daemon will take

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Harold Gutch
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 05:17:12PM +0400, Alexander Bezroutchko wrote: * it is possible to escape from jail Following program escapes from jail (tested under 4.0-19990918-CURRENT): /* --- start of example - */ #include unistd.h #include assert.h const char

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 25 September 1999 at 15:38, Harold Gutch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't run -CURRENT, so I can't test this - but this is the standard chroot()-breakout, and you're saying that using it you can break out of a _jail_ aswell ? Or are you simply mixing up jail() and chroot() ? bye,

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: Boy, we're having fun asking you to rewrite your program. It's good training for you, though, this is what it's like to be a programmer in "The Real World". ;^) You bet! And we haven't even gotten to the topic of the interactive package selection menu

running single freq monitors (fwd)

1999-09-25 Thread Chuck Robey
I recently had a really good experience getting a single frequency monitor working, so I thought I'd write up my experiences, and perhaps help others. I guess you could consider this a usage report on the Silicon Integrators Saturn GL video card, and the monitor of the week. You know what I

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: 4. The number of times that I've had a random bug in the {pre|post}{install|remove} scripts essentially render the system unupgradeable is not funny. I have had to go and physically remove some files and edit the package

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Sep-99 Nik Clayton wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: 4. The number of times that I've had a random bug in the {pre|post}{install|remove} scripts essentially render the system unupgradeable is not funny. I have had to go and physically

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread TrouBle
there is a simplistic way to create chrooted/jailed virtual servers for many clients domains... without getting into the nasty of bsd code i do it daily with one small program.. and have all services available to many virtual customers/domains on a box. that to the customer looks like 1

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[CC: trimmied to -hackers, long lines wrapped, and much content deleted] there is a simplistic way to create chrooted/jailed virtual servers for many clients domains... without getting into the nasty of bsd code i do it daily with one small program.. and have all services available to

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Just to confirm...I've had similar problems, but *only* after moving to INN-CURRENT, which makes *very* heavy use of MMAP() :( What version of INN are you running? On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Powell wrote: I have INN v2.2 running happily

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: PS: I could have filed a PR but I can't figure any way of reproducing this -- just a double panic caught by my co-worker, details posted on -stable on 19th Sep with "3.2-STABLE hangs

-stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Powell wrote: I have INN v2.2 running happily on a 3.1-STABLE machine, with all mmap options turned on. I read of mmap problems with 3.2-stable. Maybe my server just isn't loaded enough to grok on these problmes, but when I set up a new news server should I

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Alexander Bezroutchko
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 03:51:54PM -0500, TrouBle wrote: there is a simplistic way to create chrooted/jailed virtual servers for many clients domains... without getting into the nasty of bsd code i do it daily with one small program.. and have all services available to many virtual

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Alexander Bezroutchko
127.0.0.1 is mapped to the jail address. telnet localhost does what you'd expect it to. but bind() to 127.0.0.1 fails ;( It's called "p_prison-pr_host" and it was there from day #1. And /proc/PID/status must show this value. It already does.

Re: running single freq monitors (fwd)

1999-09-25 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
I've got a similar problem, not with a particular monitor, but with an application where the VGA console is connected to a cheapo VGA-to-NTSC base-band video converter. These things usually come with a windows driver which from what I can tell, simply causes the horizontal and vertical refresh

updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Christian Carstensen
hi *, i'm thinking about writing a perl script that updates installed packages automatically, if there's a newer version in the ports directory. unfortunately, the package name, as in /var/db/pkg, in some cases does not correspond to the ports directory name at all. for example, the port in

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Jaakko Salomaa
Hi, I'm back and boy, this has became a long thread. Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and some enviromental variables. I don't see the huge benefit. That's because you are not a loser. Losers want plug-and-play. This pkg_get is plug and play, pkg_add

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999, Christian Carstensen wrote: hi *, i'm thinking about writing a perl script that updates installed packages automatically, if there's a newer version in the ports directory. unfortunately, the package name, as in /var/db/pkg, in some cases does not correspond to the

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Christian Carstensen
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using apache from ports! that's right. i thought about having some kind of exclude

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
While we're talking about making package handling easier for newbies, I'd like to present two simple shell scripts that I wrote quite some time ago. Yeah, I know I could send-pr this, but I'm not sure if they're really worth it (if someone thinks they are, then I'll send-pr them). The first one

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 12:32:16PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Re-read the first para of his message: - I completely agree!! Debian's package manager is one of the most - infuriatingly buggy piece of software that I've ever used. He's complaining about Debian's stuff, not the Ports

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using apache from ports! that's right. i thought about having some kind of

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Christian Carstensen
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: However, I think that an /etc/periodic/weekly script that reports on which packages are outdated in the weekly report would be a much more welcome utility ;) very good idea. i'm already half way done with it ;) -- christian To

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
David Scheidt wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sergey Babkin wrote: There is no worm or wormlike support in the SCSI system anymore. Do I need to configure the SCSI target driver for cdrecord or does it just use the CD-ROM driver ? Thank you! It uses either the cd driver, or the

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Kevin Day wrote: Hi, I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the Posix real-time thread support and linked the additional libraries to the Linux compatibility

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Josef Karthauser wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:46:42PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote: Hi, I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the Posix real-time

Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?

1999-09-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel Eischen wrote: We've got a similar problem. Instals fine as root, runs fine a 'joe', but if anyone else tries to run it they get the setup screen! My hunch is that it's something to do with permissions on Sys5 IPC queues or something. A Ktrace of both showed that different

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
And - to add to this - I still can freeze up my pentium laptop rather quickly (3.2-RELEASE, 40meg memory, P90) running setiathome. And - I've got DDB in the kernel, and ensured it's not overheating (it will freeze up in less than a minute from a _very_ cold start.) I don't get a panic, ddb

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: I don't see the huge benefit. That's because you are not a loser. Losers want plug-and-play. This pkg_get is plug and play, pkg_add isn't. It doesn't, for instance, automatically retrives a list of the packages available fromt he net and show

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: Well, I for one would like a command that fetches a package without installing it. I don't see any option to pkg_add for that. Patches to do this would be trivial. It would have to be a flag you'd use with '-r' otherwise we'd have to call the program

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: Patches to do this would be trivial. It would have to be a flag you'd use with '-r' otherwise we'd have to call the program 'fetch'. What about the graphical interface and Java versions? Any plans for that in pkg_install? -- |Chris Costello

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999, Nate Williams wrote: Unfortunately, as with all 'slick' products we've talked about, it still requires a working X setup in order to run. You could do one as a CUI, but doing it in Java would be just as hard as anything else at this point. :( There's nothing keeping

Corrupt File System

1999-09-25 Thread andrew
Hi, I have an 8GB IDE HD with FreeBSD on the last (4th) partition. I tried to install Rhapsody (MacOS X) DR2 the other day and now I cant find FreeBSD (No bootmanager sees it)...If I boot FReeBSD from a seperate HD and try and mount the partions I get: incorrect super block I have tried the dd

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jaakko Salomaa wrote: Well, I wouldn't use the word 'loser'. A 'newbie' would be more I meant luser, actually. :-) politically correct. And what's wrong with it if it's easy to use? That depends on your definition of "easy". I can use pkg_add faster, not having to go through menus, thus I

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-25 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably mean the death of the worm stuff as is