Re: finger/fingerd home directory permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yar Tikhiy writes: : The issue I'd like to submit to discussion is what way to choose: : a) Add a command-line option to finger(1) and fingerd(8) telling :them not to reveal user information if the user's homedir is :protected. : b) Similar to a), but hide

Re: finger/fingerd home directory permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:29:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yar Tikhiy writes: : The issue I'd like to submit to discussion is what way to choose: : a) Add a command-line option to finger(1) and fingerd(8) telling :them not to reveal user information if the

Re: timing question

2001-08-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Rolf Neugebauer wrote: NB. for achieving higher timer resolutions you might find it interesting to look at Soft-Timers at Rice [2]. Events are scheduled at the usual timer interrupt frequency but the time wheels are also checked at system-call and other interrupt times, thus, depending on

debug KLM

2001-08-09 Thread Fat Alloy
I try to use kgdb to debug a kld module, but always failed to set a breakpoint at the beginnig when the module is loaded. can you give me some advice please? thanks a lot! -- I am slim but they all call me fat alloy ^O^ Fat Alloy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Weiguang SHI wrote: I found an article on livelock at http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/people/mogul/mogulpubsextern.html Just go there and search for livelock. But I don't agree with Terry about the interrupt-thread-is-bad thing, because, if I read it correctly, the authors

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Greg Lehey wrote: Solaris hits the wall a little later, but it still hits the wall. Every SMP system experiences performance degradation at some point. The question is a matter of the extent. IMO, 16 processors is not unreasonable, even with standard APIC based SMP. 32 is out of the

Re: Newbus

2001-08-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would very much like to know, exaclty which files comprise the code for NEWBUS, excluding the drivers themselves.Can anyone help The external API is in sys/bus.h. The internal implementation is in sys/bus_private.h and kern/subr_bus.c. Interface

Re: timing question

2001-08-09 Thread Rolf Neugebauer
Jeff Behl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks to all for the help with the timing question. Increasing the hz to 400 (in param.c) allowed for granularity of 5ms, which is what we needed. For those as unknowing as I was about unix timing, I ran across the following url which explained why a

forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses are not forwarded. For instance, if I have a FreeBSD router with interfaces 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1, and I send packets from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.2.255, the packets are dropped to the floor. IMO, this is wrong... but I

Re: Ypbind malfunction on 4.x

2001-08-09 Thread Robert Withrow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: :- I think that there has been quite a lot of work on ypbind recently. :- Try updating to 4.3-STABLE (actually 4.4-PRERELEASE now), there were :- several patches in that area in the past week or two. :- Or alternatively, wait for 4.4-RELEASE about the end of August.

FreeBSD Status Report, July 2001

2001-08-09 Thread Robert Watson
FreeBSD Monthly Status Report, July 2001 Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduction Last month's status report was apparently a great success: I received countless e-mails with comments, questions, and suggestions. I've tried to incorporate any suggestions and address any problems from

need help

2001-08-09 Thread smail
Hello freebsd-hackers, i need some help. my problem is about memory limit in mmap function. i can't mmap files infinitely, after some number of file mmaped in memory i've got an error, probably causing memory limit of 2 or 4 Gb. can you help me? my platform is FreeBSD 4.3/i386 [128Mb RAM, 4Gb

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
I haven't consulted the RFCs either, but, ahem, I thought this was a major point of netmasks and routers and why multicast was invented- to keep broadcasts from clogging the world. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses are not forwarded. For instance, if I have a FreeBSD router with interfaces 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1, and I send packets from 192.168.1.2 to

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:20:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: I haven't consulted the RFCs either, but, ahem, I thought this was a major point of netmasks and routers and why multicast was invented- to keep broadcasts from clogging the world. It would be nice if all applications supported

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses are not forwarded. For instance, if I have a FreeBSD router with interfaces

Re: Ypbind malfunction on 4.x

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
BTW- the -m or not -m dance has come and gone with *BSD ypbind for the last 4 years. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Fenner
On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses are not forwarded. smurf attacks love using broadcast forwarders. RFC 2644 says: A router MAY have an option to enable receiving network-prefix- directed broadcasts on an interface and MAY have an option to

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
This is called a 'directed broadcast'. In the early days there was no talk of this sort of packet, leading to the assumption that it should work as you expect. Many network management packages did (and some still do) use directed broadcast pings to try and find all hosts on managed subnets.

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:30:56PM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses are not

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-09 Thread Mike Smith
I really can't buy the idea that interrupt threads are a good idea for anything that can flood your bus or interrupt bandwidth, or have tiny/non-existant FIFOs, relative to the speeds they are being pushed; right now that means might be OK for disks; not OK for really fast network

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:57:47PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:30:56PM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: On FreeBSD

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Hi, I think it's specified in RFC 2644. It might be useful to site it in the comments of the code. Regards, yushun. Yu-Shun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences

DSL connectivity ISDN backup

2001-08-09 Thread Eric Masson
Hello, Feel Free to redirect if -hackers isn't the most appropriate list. I'll soon get a DSL line for Internet connectivity but as stated in the following papers (Thanks to Ted Mittlestaedt), DSL hasn't been designed as a fully reliable media.

RE: mutex locking pgrp

2001-08-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 08-Aug-01 Evan Sarmiento wrote: Hello, I was looking through kern_proc.c, and I noticed that unlike pfind, pgfind does not lock the pointer to a structure being returned, further investigating showed that the definition fo the pgrp structure itself, in proc.h, doesn't have a mtx struct

Re: DSL connectivity ISDN backup

2001-08-09 Thread Nick Rogness
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Eric Masson wrote: Answered on -questions... Nick Rogness [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Keep on Routing in a Free World... FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Experiencing very slow raw write speeds on /dev/ad1

2001-08-09 Thread Kevin Hui
Hi all, I have installed 2 Maxtor UDMA100 drives in my system, sharing the channel ide0. /dev/ad0 contains all the FreeBSD partitions and ad1 is used as a scratch drive (there's nothing on it). Ide1 channel is used for the DVD drive (which doesn't support UDMA): ad0: 39083MB Maxtor 5T040H4

Re: gethostbyXXXX_r()

2001-08-09 Thread Alexander Litvin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Please complete it, let me know when you submit the PR i'll try to get it integrated. Ok, I submitted it: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29581 I tried to make as few changes as possible, but still diff is quite big IMHO. And changed only

mmap limits (was: need help)

2001-08-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 1 August 2001 at 0:17:42 +0700, smail wrote: Hello freebsd-hackers, i need some help. my problem is about memory limit in mmap function. i can't mmap files infinitely, after some number of file mmaped in memory i've got an error, probably causing memory limit of 2 or 4 Gb.

Re: forwarding broadcast

2001-08-09 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Hi, Sorry for not making it clear. I believe RFC 2644 actually suggested that routers MUST default to disabling directed broadcast except explicitly configured to do so. But I guess one can never be too careful. :-) yushun.

Re: FreeBSD Status Report, July 2001

2001-08-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: now out of date... 1.2MB pattches GENERIC compiles boots to almost single user without the scheduler changes.. (they happen later).. Project: KSE threading the kernel URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/kse/ Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm working on

How to increase the routing table size?

2001-08-09 Thread Xinwei Hu
Hi all: I'm using freebsd 4.4 and discovered that it is limited to contain 74447 host routing entries. But what should I do to increase the routing table for more entries? I've tried to increase the size of kernel space, but not effected. Thanks for your advices. To

Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The new ghostscript 6.51 has integrated the HPIJS backends for HP printers. HPIJS is written by HP and contains most of their weird colormunging technologies. I managed to compile a 6.51 yesterday and ran it on my HP1220C printer and I can only say WOW!. I beats the pants of all the other