Re: Mirror requirements

2000-03-31 Thread Lloyd Rennie
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > On 30-Mar-00 Jesper Skriver wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:42AM -0500, Patrick Gardella wrote: > >> Lloyd Rennie wrote: > >> > > >> > I sent this to -questions, but have received no reply. Sorry to bug > >> > y'all, but... > >> > > >> > What

Chess

2000-03-31 Thread chess
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Re: NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-31 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:04:34 PST, Peter Wemm wrote: > man mailwrapper > man mailer.conf > > Then see /etc/mail/mailer.conf And for those who read the manual page and still don't want /usr/sbin/sendmail to be blown away by mailwrapper(8), there's now a NO_MAILWRAPPER knob. Ciao, Sheldon. To

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:29:50 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for > > this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? > > Ask Bruce. He used to have a completely dynamic system a while ago... Bruce Evans

Re: Mirror requirements

2000-03-31 Thread Nik Clayton
Lloyd, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:06:02AM +0100, Lloyd Rennie wrote: > > I was about to say. On ftp3.FreeBSD.org we use 3 9 Gb SCSI disks in a > > vinum stripe to hold just XFree86 and a partial mirror of FreeBSD and it > > runs at about 86% capacity. > > Right. Thanks to all who replied - wil

No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?)

2000-03-31 Thread Nik Clayton
[ Sigh. I had hoped to keep this to the uk mailing list, limiting the exposure of my ignorance. Sadly I now have to expose it to the whole world. This is on a 3.x-stable system. ] In the course of debugging why Samba was bringing my modem link up periodically, I discovered it was sending n

Re: zsh compdef collection for FreeBSD

2000-03-31 Thread Akinori -Aki- MUSHA
At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:33:58 +0900, Shigeyuki Fukushima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the present, may I add these nice compdefs to zsh-devel ports? Sure. I put a tarball in the following site: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~knu/ports/distfiles/zsh-functions-freebsd-2000.03.31.tar.gz so you cou

Re: USB Installation - Working Release!

2000-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Mar-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> Ok, I've been working on trying to build a release that can be >> installed onto machines that have USB keyboards as well as other >> USB foo. My current patch to src/ for this is at >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/usb.release.patch. You can >> use it to

Re: USB Installation - Working Release!

2000-03-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Mar-00 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Baldwin writes: >:until userconfig is moved out to the loader where it arguably >:belongs. > > It should be almost trivially easy to write the userconfig in the boot > loader now that I have my hint driver working. Al

Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?)

2000-03-31 Thread Tony Finch
Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that packets sent to any of >those addresses would go via the loopback interface. That seems to be >how Linux and Windows 98 do things (the only systems I can check this on >at the moment). Assuming that's t

Alpha & pc98 testers wanted

2000-03-31 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, The following patch to the 5.0-CURRENT sources allows the installkernel target to install multiple kernels. Given the following in /etc/make.conf: KERNEL= AXL AXLOPT GENERIC the installkernel target would install: AXL -> /kernel AXLOPT -> /ker

Re: NO_SENDMAIL in /etc/make.conf

2000-03-31 Thread Steve Ames
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:04:34PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Steve Ames wrote: > > > > I have NO_SENDMAIL= true in /etc/make.conf but sendmail got rebuilt > > on the last makeworld anyway... this is -CURRENT from this morning > > (3/30). > > > > -Steve > > man mailwrapper > man mailer.conf >

Re: Anybody have tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreebSD?

2000-03-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:45:26PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:59:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does anybody know of tools to read a Digital Unix "vdump" tape on FreeBSD? > > > I have a number of such tapes, and would prefer to

FTP server

2000-03-31 Thread sdf dsg
after i have looked arround i cant find where to restrict ftp users to their home dir only, pleas help me! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: FTP server

2000-03-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* sdf dsg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000331 08:33] wrote: > after i have looked arround i cant find where to restrict ftp users to their > home dir only, pleas help me! 5. If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftpchroot, or the user is a member of a group with a gr

Re: FTP server

2000-03-31 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, sdf dsg wrote: > after i have looked arround i cant find where to restrict ftp users to their > home dir only, pleas help me! The man pages are always good places to start. See ftpd(8), particularly the paragraph: If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftp

Re: USB Installation - Working Release!

2000-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Baldwin writes: : Cool. The only extra part is reading the current config out of a loaded : kernel. Now where did our Forth hackers go? :) Well, this would be pretty trivial if config has hacked to have similar hints and have those be loaded FIRST by the boot

JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD

2000-03-31 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any information greatly appriciated. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body o

RE: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?) - another use for loopback subnet?

2000-03-31 Thread Eric Peterson
Tony Finch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that >> packets sent to any of those addresses would go via >> the loopback interface. That seems to be how Linux >> and Windows 98 do things (the only syst

BOOTP kernel modification

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Zahorik
Hello! I have a problem where I'm trying to bootp an Alpha box. It works great over a hub, but through a switch it fails miserably. I tracked it down to a bad autoconfiguration. The switch is autonegotiating 100Mb/fdx and the client is autonegotiating 100Mb/hdx. Needless to say, this doesn

ssh timeouts & ipfw dyn_ack_lifetime

2000-03-31 Thread Keith Ray
I am having a problem with ssh sessions from my windows box to my freebsd box timing out after a number of idle minutes. SecureCRT still shows a valid connection until I try to type some keys, and then after a minute it says "connecton reset". I believe I have isolated the problem to the ipfw

Re: ssh timeouts & ipfw dyn_ack_lifetime

2000-03-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
As Larry Baird was suggesting in a private email, one way to handle this problem would be to have the firewall issue keepalives to refresh the state. Unfortunately the connection can be alive without any traffic flowing, and you cannot rely on keepalives on both sides of the connection. On the o

Re: BOOTP kernel modification

2000-03-31 Thread Mike Smith
> Hello! > > I have a problem where I'm trying to bootp an Alpha box. It works great > over a hub, but through a switch it fails miserably. > > I tracked it down to a bad autoconfiguration. The switch is > autonegotiating 100Mb/fdx and the client is autonegotiating 100Mb/hdx. > Needless to

Re: ssh timeouts & ipfw dyn_ack_lifetime

2000-03-31 Thread Keith Ray
At 01:16 PM 3/31/00 -0600, you wrote: >I am having a problem with ssh sessions from my windows box to my freebsd >box timing out after a number of idle minutes. SecureCRT still shows a >valid connection until I try to type some keys, and then after a minute it >says "connecton reset". I belie

I am having serious problems with ppi0, can anybody help?

2000-03-31 Thread Edward Gold
  I seem to be crashing my system every time I attempt to open /dev/ppi0!  I get a kernel panic, and it usually explains that nexus_setup_intr is unhappy.  I traced this all down to  /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/nexus.c  where it claims that somebody tried to setup an irq that failed to allocate.  I su

Re: ssh timeouts & ipfw dyn_ack_lifetime

2000-03-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I believe I may have found a solution. If I set net.inet.tcp.keepidle < > net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime, this appears to work. The defaults for yes, though this assumes thay you can set the keepalive interval on at least one end, and you know the lifetime of dynamic rules on the firewall,

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Doug Barton: > > export VAR=value > The problem with that option is that it's not portable. It's just as portable as "set -o" and "alias". None of them are available in the original Bourne shell, all of them in the POSIX shell. > > alias r='fc -s' > > Hrrmm... ok. I have no experience

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Doug Barton: > > > > export VAR=value > > The problem with that option is that it's not portable. > > It's just as portable as "set -o" and "alias". None of them are > available in the original Bourne shell, all of them in the POSIX > shell

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, March 31, 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > In my mind there is a difference between items that are > freebsd-exclusive (like set -o and alias) and items that we have unique > implementations of, like export. The latter are available on other > platforms, and therefore, IMO we should fol

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Wes Peters
Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Warner Losh: > > copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for > > this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? > > Ask Bruce. He used to have a completely dynamic system a while ago... Whatever happened t

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Doug Barton: > In my mind there is a difference between items that are > freebsd-exclusive (like set -o and alias) and items that we have unique > implementations of, like export. The latter are available on other > platforms, and therefore, IMO we should follow the more generally accepted

Re: BSDs

2000-03-31 Thread Wes Peters
Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > Hy folks! > > I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 1 year and some time ago i > decide to give openbsd a try. > > I have been loving Free! Now, playing with Open is no trouble. > Some questions came up: > > 1) What are the advantages/disadavantages of usi

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : Whatever happened to the idea of putting the shared libs for /bin and : /sbin in /lib? People are afraid that it would mean more disk space used on /, not less. They worry that shared libraries are not robust enough to cope and your system will

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Chris Costello wrote: > On Friday, March 31, 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > In my mind there is a difference between items that are > > freebsd-exclusive (like set -o and alias) and items that we have unique > > implementations of, like export. The latter are available on o

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:People are afraid that it would mean more disk space used on /, not :less. They worry that shared libraries are not robust enough to cope :and your system will be completely useless if one file (/lib/libc.so) :goes away. They also worry about duplicated disk usage between :/usr/lib/libc.so and

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, March 31, 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > I guess that's not the best term to use, so let me try and > rephrase my argument. All Bourne shells and derivatives have an export > command. On all Bourne shells and derivatives, you _can_ do: > > var=foo > export var > > It is not true how

Re: Question about PCI vendor 0x127a

2000-03-31 Thread Brian D. Moffet
At 02:33 PM 3/23/00 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >Yup. The 99.99% of all pci modems are winmodems of some flavor or >another. Yes, I spent a long time finding a PCI non-winmodem for my freeBSD box. Once I plugged in all the correct information, it works just fine, looking like a 16550A to the OS.

Re: Question about PCI vendor 0x127a

2000-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian D. Moffet" writes: : Yes, I spent a long time finding a PCI non-winmodem for my freeBSD : box. Once I plugged in all the correct information, it works just : fine, looking like a 16550A to the OS. It was quite a bit more : expensive than the winmodems that