Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more-less

2000-07-13 Thread Doug Barton
Max Khon wrote: hi, there! On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about it for 4.0-ST? Index: src/etc/root/dot.cshrc [trim] and what's about this? --- usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh.origTue Jul 11 21:34:20 2000 +++ usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Somers
Brian Somers wrote: Well, "periodic security" will work as long as /etc/periodic/security exists, so I guess you just mean the docs need updating? I'll get to that if someone is actually planning on committing this stuff. =20 Perhaps the best option is to do with the inline security

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Somers
Brian Somers wrote: Well, "periodic security" will work as long as /etc/periodic/security exists, so I guess you just mean the docs need updating? I'll get to that if someone is actually planning on committing this stuff. =20 Perhaps the best option is to do with the inline

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-13 Thread Ben Smithurst
Brian Somers wrote: Oops, sorry for the reply latency Don't worry, I've been side-tracked by docs stuff, committing things then thinking "am I allowed to do that?", etc. Fortunately I haven't been forced to wear the pointy hat yet. :-) I don't think it's appropriate to separate the

PR 10548: more userful ifconfig behaviour without args

2000-07-13 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
Hi, There are plenty of PRs languishing without comment in the PR database, and this is one that requires a "implement and close it" or "here's a good reason not to do this, and close it" response. Any takers? Reply-To set to myself. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL

Re: Why isn't localhost used by talk?

2000-07-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:01:59PM -0400, Joseph Jacobson wrote: Local to local talk doesn't work if the hostname for the box doesn't match any an ip on any interface. Although this sounds wierd, consider a non-dedicated ppp link. Although you can get around this problem with 'talk

Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?

2000-07-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:17:53PM +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? PolyServe? No URL, as I'm in the air at the moment, but try a general web search, or look at past announcements on DaemonNews, where it was mentioned a few weeks back. N

RELENG_4 build broken?

2000-07-13 Thread Rene de Vries
Hello, Today and yesterday I tried to build a freshly cvsup-ed RELENG_4 source tree, both builds failed. Did I forget/miss something, or did someone break the build? Rene (build was started with make buildworld) === usr.sbin/lptcontrol rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a

Re: RELENG_4 build broken?

2000-07-13 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rene de Vries wrote: Hello, Today and yesterday I tried to build a freshly cvsup-ed RELENG_4 source tree, both builds failed. Did I forget/miss something, or did someone break the build? You seem to have missed a couple dozen messages regarding this problem and the

Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-13 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: Thanks. I took advantage of it to commit a question to the FAQ which James (on the cc list) asked recently: "what is a repo-copy?", let me know if it answers your question well enough. (it's in the misc questions bit.) This is very nice. I

Re: PR 10548: more userful ifconfig behaviour without args

2000-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
There are plenty of PRs languishing without comment in the PR database, and this is one that requires a "implement and close it" or "here's a good reason not to do this, and close it" response. Well, I'm not real thrilled with this particular patch. It adds no functionality to ifconfig, yet

patch for openssh to work with pty-redir

2000-07-13 Thread Jim Mercer
i was using pty-redir (from netbsd) and ssh to do VPN (ppp over ssh). we prefer to use kernel mode ppp for religious reasons. (userland ppp and netgraph ppp are not options). under 3.x release, with the ports/ssh, this worked fine. however, starting with when openssh became part of the

Re: #include question: netinet/in.h requires sys/socket.h

2000-07-13 Thread Wilbert de Graaf
Alfred Perlstein wrote: somewhere in the top of netinet/in.h. I want to verify if this is indeed the best way to solve it ? No, the proper solution is to do a forward struct declaration like so: struct something; struct bigger_something { struct something foo; } As we

Re: #include question: netinet/in.h requires sys/socket.h

2000-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Wilbert de Graaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000713 15:59] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: somewhere in the top of netinet/in.h. I want to verify if this is indeed the best way to solve it ? No, the proper solution is to do a forward struct declaration like so: struct something;

Re: #include question: netinet/in.h requires sys/socket.h

2000-07-13 Thread Wilbert de Graaf
Hi Alfred, you might as well unconditionally include sys/socket.h and let it's internal #ifndef take care of that problem. you're right and i'll change it I'm not sure why you don't just make your own new header file for this struct unless you're adding to an existing structure in

Interrupt Handler?

2000-07-13 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Where/How does one implement a hardware interrupt handler? I haven't done this sort of thing since the days of DOS. I imagine its a lot different in *nix. :) -Brandon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not

Re: patch for openssh to work with pty-redir

2000-07-13 Thread Jim Mercer
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:35:25AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: Hmm, I was confused for a while there by your reversed patch, but I know where we are now :-) yeah, sorry, i should have verified i got the polarity right. I had a similar problem with user-ppp over ssh talking to an sshd on

Pittsburgh August IETF Meeting: FreeBSD dinner, et al?

2000-07-13 Thread Robert Watson
So it's coming up on that IETF time of year again, this time in beautiful (?) down-town Pittsburgh, in the first week of August. First, I'd like to encourage FreeBSD people to turn out for the event, as a strong showing in the standards community is great, and keeps the research projects coming

chapter about using the fixit floppy?

2000-07-13 Thread John Reynolds
[ cc'ing to -hackers because some content may be relavent outside -doc ] Hello all, Is there a chapter of the Handbook that details how to use the "fixit" floppy? I moved a disk from controller to controller yesterday and in doing so rendered my system unbootable (ad4 went to ad0, fstab is

Re: Pittsburgh August IETF Meeting: FreeBSD dinner, et al?

2000-07-13 Thread Matthew Jacob
So it's coming up on that IETF time of year again, this time in beautiful (?) down-town Pittsburgh, in the first week of August. ENOMONEY, ENOTIME, but for whoever goes, can you check out any of the SCSI over IP stuff and report back? I'm immensely interested, but have time/budget to go

Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel

2000-07-13 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:55:05PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: ... an idea would be to add some limit to limit the number of processes forked by a process (at one time in addition to the number of processes by user which may be relative to the system wide limit (maxprocperproc=nproc-10)...

Re: I know this isn't the right place to ask this, but...

2000-07-13 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:19:24PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: ...there are so many excessively bright and experienced minds on this list I can't imagine a _better_ place to ask it. My ISP (for whom I consult from time to time) is looking into Layer 4 Gigabit Ethernet; he needs some idea of