RE: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-15 Thread Koster, K.J.
The fsck was operating on and reporting on the hard disk; the floppy was not even mounted while I was booting. Since fsck in all the variations with which I am familiar didn't fix the disk, I am trying to find another variation or another program to run which will complete the

Re: /dev/cuaa0 locks my system up..Help!

2000-09-15 Thread Julian Stacey
A while back, while trying to get my APC Smart-UPS 1000 to talk to my FreeBSD 3.4 system, I encountered a problem with the serial port. This problem inspired my to write an article that was published at this months edition of daemonnews. The only thing I haven't tried is using a different

Re: looking for microuptime went backwards victims...

2000-09-15 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I get it on my newsserver pretty much every night when expire runs. 12 IDE drives on 3 Promise controllers. I was just actually about to replace the MB, thinking it was just something freaky or unstable. I will try the patch. On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I'm looking for

init(8) and securelevel

2000-09-15 Thread Paul Herman
After some thought about init(8) and securelevel (and a suggestion from Sheldon Hearn) I believe a good compromise is to have the whole "init(8) being able to lower the securelevel in single-user mode" behaviour a boot variable in /boot/loader.conf. This has the advantage of giving people who

Re: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Koster, K.J. writes: I also think that the find program should be checked to see why it crashed and fix it to keep it from doing similarly in the future; I don't know whom to contact as yet. No matter how broken, a program is unable to crash the OS (well, very, very unlikely

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Hao Zhang writes: I am doing some testing on FreeBSD 3.3 platform by sending some UDP packets thru FreeBSD routers. It's found that the duplications happened in FreeBSD router. Now The FreeBSD 3.3 is running on Pentium III, and NIC is 3C905B-Tx. To

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Pedro J. Lobo
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Intell EtherExpress fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-cost ethernet card for FreeBSD now. As far as I know EtherExpress has hardware bug. The easy way to trigger it is connect 2 EtherExpress

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Pedro J. Lobo writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Intell EtherExpress fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-cost ethernet card for FreeBSD now. As far as I know

RE: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread Janick.Taillandier
Thank you John! Linking the library with -lgcc solved the problem. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are trying to create a dynamic library of extensions to PHP 4.02. This library implements a C++ class and has a C interface using the "Extern C" declaration. This

Sound Yamaha YmF 724F

2000-09-15 Thread Joseph Wright
I recently heard that in release 4.1 of FreeBSD the Yamaha 724F would be supported. I just finished installing FreeBSD 4.1 (intel) I was wondering what I would have to do to get the sound card to work. thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Diskless boot - almost there now I think

2000-09-15 Thread Paul Jansen
I am having problems with diskless booting. I'm using the frreebsd etherboot port. Here's my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf file for the ISC v2 DHCP server: # dhcpd.conf # option definitions common to all supported networks... option domain-name "jansen.org"; option domain-name-servers

Re: Getting all the IP address for a machine from code...

2000-09-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Malone wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:12:47PM -0700, Chris Ptacek wrote: I am looking for a way to get all the IP addresses that are configured a machine. I need to do this in c source code, and without using DNS services (ie: gethostname/gethostbyname won't

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: I've never thought of a use for fdescfs... I used /dev/fd/1 just yesterday for a third-party precompiled binary that insists on outputting to a file specified on the command line. Slapping in /dev/fd/1 lets me stuff the command in a pipe chain. Same

Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Vadim Belman
It seem like I got a NFS-related bug here where a httpd process hung in a uninterruptable wait (a disk operation, most likely). In order to locate the problem I need the process' stack trace first. gdb doesn't attach to the process for obvious reasons. Making a crashdump doesn't

Re: rcp -x

2000-09-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Steve Ames wrote: Thanks for the explanation. That wasn't clear from the manpage. SSH sounds like the better path for me. As was also pointed out in a private e-mail, this probably ought to be cleaned up so that either (a) a different man page is installed for the

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: there were some problems with pthreads initialization (but David will not like the way I did it -- some files in contrib/gcc should be changed). this happened because we initialize pthreads from static object constructor (which is not

RE: Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Duane H. Hesser
"The Coroner's Toolkit" from Venema and Farmer includes a tool which paws through /proc and writes process memory for all processes running on the system to record files (intended for post-mortem analysis after a breakin). Sounds like this tool would do what you want. The toolkit can be found

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread Patrick Gardella
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: Pedro J. Lobo writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: Vladimir B. Grebenschikov writes: Intell EtherExpress fxp driver in FreeBSD, I think it best low-cost ethernet card

my crummy diskless howto page

2000-09-15 Thread Mathew KANNER
Hi All, I was whipping something up for in-house use. Maybe other would like to take a look at it. It describes how to set-up diskless workstations with PXE but without BOOTP. I'm sure it's relevance will quickly diminish once 4.2-RELEASE comes out.

Re: need a recommendation of NIC

2000-09-15 Thread void
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:17:25AM -0400, Hao Zhang wrote: Thanks for your info. I'm using FreeBSD v3.3 which suppports The PRO/100B with chipset 82558. If I want to use Intel Pro/100+ with the 82559 chipset, what driver should I use? fxp? Yes. -- Ben 220 go.ahead.make.my.day ESMTP

Re: Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Vadim Belman said: It seem like I got a NFS-related bug here where a httpd process hung in a uninterruptable wait (a disk operation, most likely). In order to locate the problem I need the process' stack trace first. gdb doesn't attach to the

Re: my crummy diskless howto page

2000-09-15 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Mathew KANNER wrote: Hi All, I was whipping something up for in-house use. Maybe other would like to take a look at it. It describes how to set-up diskless workstations with PXE but without BOOTP. I'm sure it's relevance will quickly diminish once

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2000-09-15 Thread Joseph Wright
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Re: SYM driver for Compaq 5500 Xeon?

2000-09-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jaye Mathisen wrote: Compaq Proliant 5500, with the on-board NCR SCSI: I get: pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x0e11, dev=0xa0f0) sym0: 875 port blahblah sym0: no NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity-checking And the same for sym1. What's the magic incantation to

Re: SYM driver for Compaq 5500 Xeon?

2000-09-15 Thread Jaye Mathisen
This is with the 4.1 boot floppies. But the drives don't show. I'm booting -v now to see. Just did, still no drives. Nothing extraordinary in the -v output. it's a compaq PROLIANT, 5500, quad xeon, 1.25GB of RAM, 2 9GB scsi disks on ID's 0 and 1 of the only controller. bootloader sees them

Re: SYM driver for Compaq 5500 Xeon?

2000-09-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jaye Mathisen wrote: This is with the 4.1 boot floppies. But the drives don't show. I'm booting -v now to see. Just did, still no drives. Nothing extraordinary in the -v output. it's a compaq PROLIANT, 5500, quad xeon, 1.25GB of RAM, 2 9GB scsi disks on ID's 0

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max Khon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: `__register_frame_info' should be called from `do_ctors' in src/lib/csu/common/crtbegin.c to load frame information from .eh_frame sections before any constructors are executed because try/catch can be used in constructors of

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-15 Thread Brian Somers
The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3). [.] I would argue that the programs and the scripts that call them are already broken, but hey... So (just to add fuel to the mass opposition), do this without temporary files: