Re: What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-13 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dave Hayes wrote: Kelly Yancey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you up PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, you increase the number of pv_entries created at boot time. However, I am not informed enough to say how high you can safely increase

Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Johan Kruger
Morning ... has broken ... Is it possible to tel machine B to remote log to machine A with all the logs coming from B specified with a tag. I want the normal messsages on B to be remotely logged to A (no problem) but on A all B's logs must have a specific tag ?? Can i start the syslogd on B in

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-13 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Actually, I have indeed dd'd the image off since I wasn't having any luck with the DOS utilities. :( - Jordan On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Ah, I should also have noted that undelete.exe (which I also fetched from simtel) doesn't seem to work for me

sigaction.2 manpage: mcontext_t or ucontext_t?

2000-06-13 Thread Alexander Langer
Hello! docs/17863 claims: The description of the third argument to signal handlers if SA_SIGINFO is supplied is wrong. It's a ucontext_t, not an mcontext_t. It wants to change: The context argument to a POSIX SA_SIGINFO handler points to an - instance of mcontext_t. to The context

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID". As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite that

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: Morning ... has broken ... Is it possible to tel machine B to remote log to machine A with all the logs coming from B specified with a tag. I want the normal messsages on B to be remotely logged to A (no problem) but on A all B's logs must

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-13 Thread Thomas M. Sommers
Sergey Babkin wrote: "Gary T. Corcoran" wrote: "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format Smartcard they were on. Wh! Way back in the Dark

Re: -STABLE (was: ncurses.h and #define trace _nc_trace)

2000-06-13 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
[ Jordan, I'm Cc:ing you as release engineer as -STABLE has been partially broken for nearly three weeks now. ] On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: This causes clear breakage in -STABLE and lots of wasted time for users of the Wine port and myself (answering support requests), for

X and mouse cursor

2000-06-13 Thread FENIX
I have this problem with X, i use a "Diamond Speedstar A55 AGP" adaptor with "S3 3D chip", whenewer i run X with it i can't get rid of an ugly huge square mouse cursos, it happends also with linux, does any one knows what i can do about it ? My adaptor works with SVGA x server ... Thanx. Gr.

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Johan Kruger
*:) I know they are tagged - but the following does not work: - Example -- Jun 13 16:41:51 4.5.6.1 root: package=etc 1.2.3.1:/etc/ - /etc/ Jun 13 16:41:51 4.5.6.1 root: package=etc 1.2.3.1:/etc/ - /etc/ Jun 13 16:41:51 4.5.6.1 root: Scanning local directory /etc/ Jun

Promise Fastrak

2000-06-13 Thread Gray, David W.
I'm surprised nobody pointed out -- there was an article on ARS technica a while back about using an Ultra as a Fastrak. Turns out, you need to flash the Fastrak BIOS, and change a jumper on the board *underneath* the BIOS chip (gotta unsolder, etc.) Then somebody noticed it was just a 1K pullup

Re: -STABLE (was: ncurses.h and #define trace _nc_trace)

2000-06-13 Thread Trevor Johnson
Gerald Pfeifer wrote: Is there a way to [...] b) mark a port to notify users not to try using it on -STABLE and -CURRENT? After a look at http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-versions.html and at src/sys/sys/param.h,v in the CVS tree, I made the appended patch. -- Trevor

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the date matches the program, the action specified in the action field will be taken ..." Now the program should the be !4.5.6.1 or one of the ones i previously

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the date matches the program, the action specified in the action field will be taken ..." Now the

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Matthew Dillon wrote: One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis of the output, is to check things like this. Don't look at me. After half an hour waiting, all I had managed to was

IA-64 simulator

2000-06-13 Thread Arun Sharma
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000613/09/chip-makers-cozy Starting Tuesday, Linux developers have been free to download from the Intel Web site or the HP site a copy of the IA-64 SDK. The kit includes an IA-64 simulator developed by HP labs that will allow application developers to begin writing

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-13 Thread Julian Elischer
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis of the output, is to check things like this. Don't look at me. After half an hour

Re: -STABLE (was: ncurses.h and #define trace _nc_trace)

2000-06-13 Thread Steve Kargl
Trevor Johnson wrote: Gerald Pfeifer wrote: Is there a way to [...] b) mark a port to notify users not to try using it on -STABLE and -CURRENT? After a look at http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-versions.html and at src/sys/sys/param.h,v in the CVS tree, I made

RE: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-13 Thread Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]
hi all does anyone know how can i remove my name off this mailing list ? please help. I did try to follow the email that send to me on how to unsubcribe the list but it does not work anyone please help Oliver -Original Message- From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-13 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Julian Elischer wrote: Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis of the output, is to check things like this. Don't look

Re: IA-64 simulator

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000613/09/chip-makers-cozy Starting Tuesday, Linux developers have been free to download from the Intel Web site or the HP site a copy of the IA-64 SDK. The kit includes an IA-64 simulator developed by HP labs that will allow application developers to begin

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon wrote: : : One of the reasons I would like to see an actual 'ps axl' output : during one of these heavy paging periods rather then someone's analysis : of the output, is to check things like this. : :Don't look at me. After half an hour waiting, all I had managed

Dell Dimension XPS T500

2000-06-13 Thread Kelly D. Lucas
I broke out a spare Dell Dimension XPS T500 today, and decided to throw FreeBSD 3.4 on it. It has the following major components: PIII 500mhz 128 mb Ram nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra VGA 48x CDRom 3Com 3c905c-TX The install seems to go along fine, but then, while probing devices,

Re: IA-64 simulator

2000-06-13 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:29:11AM -0700, Arun Sharma scribbled: http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000613/09/chip-makers-cozy Starting Tuesday, Linux developers have been free to download from the Intel Web site or the HP site a copy of the IA-64 SDK. The kit includes an IA-64 simulator

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:12:41PM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the date matches the program, the action

Re: IA-64 simulator

2000-06-13 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:23:15PM -0700, Brian O'Shea scribbled: ... I will give them contact informatin for Mike Smith and David Greenman per Mike's followup). ^^ Oops. I mean David O'Brien. -brian -- Brian O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

ether_output() : WIERD PROBLEM

2000-06-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hello, I've been doing some mbuf-related work on my -CURRENT machine lately. Particularily, I've re-written the allocator and free routines, amongst other things. However, I've encountered a peculiar problem that surfaces in ether_output(). What happens is that one of my daemons,

Has anybody looked at RAID-5 vinum performance on the whole system?

2000-06-13 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I was just curious what people's thoughts were on the potential "total system throughput" (whatever you choose it to be), wrt using software RAID. It would seem that software RAID would just kill big chunks of cache, especially CPU cache, moving lots of data throught it to calcuate CRC's.

Re: Passwording boot loader.

2000-06-13 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There appears to be some code in the /boot/support.4th file to force the user to enter a password at kernel load time. Does anyone know enough forth to tell me how to activate it? in /boot/loader.conf or /boot/loader.conf.local try the following

big patch: rlimits, accept filters and kblob.

2000-06-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey guys, I have some patches here which implement a number of things. 1) fixes dangerous races in per-uid limiting code 2) 2 accept filters which will not mark a socket as completed for accept() until either: 1) there is data available to be read 2) there is an http request in the

NVIDIA Drivers for XF4

2000-06-13 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Does anybody have the new nvidia drivers working yet? Aparently I'm not as smart as I thought. :) -Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: SVR4 Emulation [was Re: iBCS status?]

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: brandelf will really understand any brand at all; We just add special cases to suppress the need for -f for "known" brands. As it happens, though, there's no reason why you can't run "brandelf -f -t BOGUS-BOGUS foo" and

SVR4 Emulation and SCO OpenServer 5

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Emmerton
According to the lxrun (Linux Emulator for SCO) documentation and the Debian ibcs2/svr3 emulator package, OpenServer 5 is SVR3 (with extension for symbolic links and a few other goodies.) SCO documentation backs up the SVR3lineage for OSR5, and verifies that UnixWare 2 and 7 are SVR4 and

Re: ether_output() : WIERD PROBLEM

2000-06-13 Thread Bosko Milekic
Wow, a reply to myself. I feel kind of lame. :-) Anyway, this is just an update, with more info. I've checked the status of my new system's lists, once the fault occurs, and I can _guarantee_ that the management lists I wrote the code for are actually

Re: Has anybody looked at RAID-5 vinum performance on the whole system?

2000-06-13 Thread Wes Peters
Jaye Mathisen wrote: I was just curious what people's thoughts were on the potential "total system throughput" (whatever you choose it to be), wrt using software RAID. It would seem that software RAID would just kill big chunks of cache, especially CPU cache, moving lots of data throught

Re: ether_output() : WIERD PROBLEM

2000-06-13 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Bosko Milekic wrote: What happens is that one of my daemons, for example, natd, or httpd, etc., performs a system call, which eventually results in a call to ether_output (following tcp_output, ip_output, etc.). At the bottom of ether_output(), after an

Re: SVR4 Emulation [was Re: iBCS status?]

2000-06-13 Thread Mark Newton
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:45:28PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: Even more interesting is the SCO document on how ELFs are pseudo-branded. OpenServer 5: No brand, but have a 28-byte NOTE field. UnixWare 7: No brand, but have one of the flags set in the FLAG field. (I couldn't find