Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darryl Okahata wrote: ... however, how the H*LL are the clueless newbie hordes supposed to know or learn this? As much as we'd like them to be, they're not exactly born with this knowledge, and I somehow doubt there's an "XXX for Dummies"

Release build

1999-10-05 Thread Johan Kruger
Last week the releases built fine, now i get the following error : --- cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libsl ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/krb SHARED=copies === lib/libacl cd /usr/src/kerberosIV/lib/libacl ; make install

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Darryl Okahata wrote: The "old-fashioned way"? While the "look before you leap" philosophy, which is excellent advice, has been around Usenet since time immemorial, I've yet to meet or hear about anyone that's actually done it (when they were a newbie, that is), although people here

Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread mwlucas
Might the following be helpful? Or, does it exist somewhere on the net now? http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt If it is of any use, I'll clean it up for general consumption. ==ml (who prefers to curse the candle, as opposed to light the darkness) To

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why the hell does the clueless newbie hordes expects any answer when posting a message to a list without reading the list charter and without a single clue of how the list works is beyond me. No one's disputing this. In fact, I agree with

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Martin Blapp
If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. A complaint such as: WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path would be sufficient. A good idea, but how can one make a difference

ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Dennis
Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP network rather than send a redirect? The situation occurs with segmented bridges where customers on the same logical IP network are on separate bridge groups. When trying to reach one another, they are getting redirects

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Dennis
what kind of broken bridges do you have in mind which do not pass broadcast traffic ? (and if the answer is FreeBSD 3.2R, yest this is a known bug with some cards, and i have a fix ready for commit as soon as i get a chance to breath). this is not your bridge code, btw, this is our

Re: zalloci/pv_entry problem (Was: Weird sockname errors with-current and apache)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: If you have a crash dump, could you look at the 4 longwords starting at address 0xc02698c0? It seemed to be an accouting problem. Do you by any chance use any kld module? zalloc() calls from within a module do not lock the vm_zone data structure, which

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. A complaint such as: WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path would be sufficient.

RE: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Oct-99 Martin Blapp wrote: Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) support the following NFS-URL-syntax: mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix or any other Operating

Re: ARPs on a bridge

1999-10-05 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:21:36AM -0400, Dennis wrote: Is there a way to force a Freebsd system to route to the same logican IP network rather than send a redirect? Uhm, did you try this? sysctl -w net.inet.ip.redirect=0 BTW, whether or not sending redirects, the original packet is

Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: * should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? * is it safe to run

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) :support the following NFS-URL-syntax: : :mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint : :This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix :... : :I propose to remove the '@' feature because of the

Re: Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might the following be helpful? Or, does it exist somewhere on the net now? http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt If it is of any use, I'll clean it up for general consumption. This is a very interesting

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:19:22 -0700 From: Pat Dirks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Lots of interesting, useful stuff elided -- dhw] ADOPTING "FOREIGN" FILESYSTEMS ... Note that one interesting option might be to provide a one-time-only "adoption" which has no permanent effect; when the disk is

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: Hi, I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: the problem is that

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Alec Wolman
Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1 supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it supports, IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it. You are not correct when you state that this is the only syntax it supports. Digital Unix does support the

3.3-R: if_lnc driver problems

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Borowiec
Greetings - I have installed FBSD 3.3-R on an HP Kayak XU, and have run into some interesting problems with the AMD PCNet-Fast (if_lnc) driver. This machine has an HP combo card (PN #5183-2725 or #5064-3616) with NCR SCSI and AMD PCNet-Fast chipsets. While booting up, I get the following kernel

Re: Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Kevin Day
Hi, The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: * should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? * is it safe

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: as "local". As part of this "adoption" process the users is prompted to choose one of two ways to handle the existing permissions on the disk: * Retain them as-is (useful for cases where you have external reasons to believe the numeric

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-10-05 Thread David G Andersen
It most likely is. I've found a pretty reliable way to crash Netscape 4.6 and 4.7-freebsd (either us or export): Open two windows, and visit slashdot in both of them. Don't ask me _why_ it works, but it does. :) It causes the BSDI version to hang and chew CPU. The linux and windoze versions

Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at AtlantaLinux Showcase]

1999-10-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
What do you all think about http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/OpenBSD.libc_r.cancel.patch ? I isolated the set of commits that added cancelling to OpenBSD's libc_r, and it seems (since they took it from us originally :) it should be relatively simple to port :/ -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Request for hardware (drivers for Mylex, AMI, DELL, HP RAID controllers)

1999-10-05 Thread Mike Smith
In brief: I'm developing drivers for the Mylex DAC960/1100 and AMI MegaRAID/Dell PERC/HP whatever families of RAID controllers, and I need some more hardware to test with. Details below. Current status: - Mylex DAC960 driver works with P/PL/PD/PU controllers. Support

Re: Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :The system in question (3.3-stable) needs to use a large FS (ca. 40GB). :The defaults for such filesystem are ridiculous, given that it will hold :at most couple of hundred big data files. So, my question is: : :* should I change the cpg (default 16) to some bigger value? No, let

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Darryl Okahata wrote: That's actually a good idea. Tell you what, you read the previous threads and prepare a good FAQ entry in docbook, send me the patches and I'll commit it. I'll take you up on this, if you can guarantee that it'll show up on the FreeBSD web page FAQ in a