Re: fdisk / disklabel issues...

2000-03-02 Thread Warren Welch
At 09:34 PM 3/1/00 -0700, Jason Seidel wrote: >I have had a machine that the bios picks up the drive as one thing, the >BSD probe picks it up as another, the sysinstall picks that as another. >But the one thing that was weird was that the geometry on the drive said >another size yet. MMmmm... Y

Re: locked accounts and adduser

2000-03-02 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Aaron Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with > > adduser. So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up > > with a patch. > > i like this. i hope it

Re: user-space filesystems

2000-03-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:hello, : :i've done some searching and i've seen discussion of userland fs :before. has there been any progress in the user-space filesystem area? i :have a nifty project and i would like to avoid using loopback NFS; have we :got anything akin to linux's userfs yet? : :if freebsd doesn't have thi

Re: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-02 Thread Sergey Babkin
Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > Hi David! > > I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As > developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was > introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that > the new boot

Re: Keeping using locally modified source

2000-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 07:59:39PM -0500, James Howard wrote: > At a site I am working at, we need to be able to limit which users can > bind a socket to an address under IPv4. Basically, bind() needs to check > the caller's groups and if you are one of several allowable groups, let it > pass, ot

Keeping using locally modified source

2000-03-02 Thread James Howard
At a site I am working at, we need to be able to limit which users can bind a socket to an address under IPv4. Basically, bind() needs to check the caller's groups and if you are one of several allowable groups, let it pass, otherwise, error out. Now, I glanced over the bind() code and it does n

user-space filesystems

2000-03-02 Thread Aaron Smith
hello, i've done some searching and i've seen discussion of userland fs before. has there been any progress in the user-space filesystem area? i have a nifty project and i would like to avoid using loopback NFS; have we got anything akin to linux's userfs yet? if freebsd doesn't have this capabi

Re: locked accounts and adduser

2000-03-02 Thread Aaron Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with > adduser. So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up > with a patch. > > Enter password []: > Use an empty password or lock the password? lock

Re: FreeBSD-boot

2000-03-02 Thread Christian Gusenbauer
Hi David! I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that the new boot loader and the kernel rely on the state of

Re: disk errors

2000-03-02 Thread Kim Shrier
Kelly Yancey wrote: > > I used to see these exact same messages when drives overheated. Since > you are only getting the errors on the one drive, check if it isn't as > well ventalated as the others (or maybe it is on top of the stack of > drives in your tower?). > Thanks for your prompt repl

Re: disk errors

2000-03-02 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Kim Shrier wrote: [snip common complaint about -questions lacking answers] > > I am having some trouble with one of my SCSI disks and I am trying to > figure out if the problem is the drive or the controller card. The > system in question has crashed 4 times in the past yea

disk errors

2000-03-02 Thread Kim Shrier
I appologize for cross posting this but I haven't recieved any response from freebsd-questions and I need to figure something out soon. --- I am having some trouble with one of my SCSI disks and I am trying to figure out if the problem is the drive or the controller card. The system in question

RE: Shell Code... (fwd)

2000-03-02 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
hello all, in case if still need it :) here is good skeleton for shell code :-) i DO NOT want to put REAL shell code here. just do ``x/32bx main'' and you will see what you want. :) i'm too lazy to write in assebmler and hate AT&T syntax :) <-- cut here ---

Re: Multipath routing

2000-03-02 Thread Chrisy Luke
zaph0d wrote (on Feb 21): > I would also be interested in knowing the same, if numbers of people > wanting it make a difference : ) Sorry. FTP site moved machines - someone forgot some files. It's well out of date now anyway, having not worked actively on it for about a year - usual story. Brin

RE: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-02 Thread Koster, K.J.
Oh, those Americans. :-) Let's see: $1 per gallon in the US. $1.2 per litre in the Netherlands, times 4.5 (or thereabouts) is $5.4 per gallon in the Netherlands. Everyone in the Netherlands drives cars; everyone thinks gas is expensive. This means that the gas prices in the US can go up 440% and

Re: Fix for quotas grace time when using chown and soft limits are hit again

2000-03-02 Thread Andre Albsmeier
[follow up to myself...] On Wed, 01-Mar-2000 at 22:19:56 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Here is a problem with FreeBSD's quotas that I have observed > for a long time now but finally found some time to track it down: > > Let's assume the following settings on a quota enabled system: > > soft l

Re: MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting?

2000-03-02 Thread Egervary Gergely
> i just wondered what the maximum MAXUSERS setting for a 3.4 kernel would > be on a smp system with 512mb ram... the impact on the system structures > seems to be very... errrhh... rather complex. > > any ideas? it gives me a warning if i got past 512, but what will happen > then? see conf/para

Re: Fix for quotas grace time when using chown and soft limits are hit again

2000-03-02 Thread Andre Albsmeier
Oops, I don't remember having sent this twice... -Andre On Wed, 01-Mar-2000 at 22:19:56 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Here is a problem with FreeBSD's quotas that I have observed > for a long time now but finally found some time to track it down: > > Let's assume the following setting