Re: pw(8): $ (dollar sign) in username

2002-12-28 Thread Philip Reynolds
Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 57 lines of wisdom included: > Well, the $ is only required for machine accounts! In Samba 3.0, and > possibly in the latest 2.2.x releases, there is a separate 'add machine > script' parameters. I think it would be better to simply frob the entry in > the mast

Re: FEC on 5.x

2002-12-28 Thread Julian Elischer
you should post to -current for 5.x Can you try use tcpdump to comparte something that works with the code that doesn't. On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried the fixed ng_fec module on RELENG_5_0 and HEAD, but couldn't > get too far with it. The Cisco 3550 says the

make -C and ${.CURDIR}

2002-12-28 Thread Jos Backus
Consider: lizzy:/tmp% cat foo/Makefile bar: @echo curdir is ${.CURDIR} lizzy:/tmp% make -C foo bar curdir is /tmp lizzy:/tmp% Would it not make more sense for .CURDIR to be set to /tmp/foo? As it stands, /tmp# make -C /usr/src world fails because of this.

Re: Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote: Technical Question: is /dev/random sufficient for the cryptographic requirements of programs like dhclient, bind, etc? Yes. The only problem is that /dev/urandom and /dev/random might be too slow ... I've clocked /dev/ran

Re: Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-28 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kientzle writes: >I just noticed that dhclient's randomness package >uses, among other things, a variety of system >commands (ps, netstat, etc) to harvest entropy. >Unfortunately, dhclient is used in many situations >where these commands are not available: sysin

Re: Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Policy Question: is a fast, high-quality > /dev/random a gauranteed feature starting with 5.0? Yes. > Technical Question: is /dev/random sufficient > for the cryptographic requirements of programs > like dhclient, bind, etc? Yes. > I believe both of

Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
I just noticed that dhclient's randomness package uses, among other things, a variety of system commands (ps, netstat, etc) to harvest entropy. Unfortunately, dhclient is used in many situations where these commands are not available: sysinstall floppy, diskless client, /rescue, etc. The obvious

Re: Framebuffer howto?

2002-12-28 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Emiel Kollof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... > It might not be a framebuffer, but at least svgalib > has accelerated > modes, and libvgl just works. Of course you could > fall back to X, but > that's even more gross :) > > I know that if you use those, it could be considered > a gross ha

Re: Framebuffer howto?

2002-12-28 Thread Emiel Kollof
* Mayuresh Kathe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thats bad, we could have ported our desktop grade OS to BSD :( Well, since you're writing in hackers@, might I suggest svgalib? If you don't want to rely on svgalib, there's also libvgl, which comes with FreeBSD. Example code is in /usr/share/examples/

FEC on 5.x

2002-12-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I've tried the fixed ng_fec module on RELENG_5_0 and HEAD, but couldn't get too far with it. The Cisco 3550 says the port channel is up, and -according to the logs and ifconfig- this is the case with the PC too. But when I try to ping the gw's address I get no answer and when I tried to pi

kern.dumpdev missing and freezes

2002-12-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I got an ATA-RAID subsystem which can give me more than 1 TBs of disk space. Because I want to use that on FreeBSD I started to play with CURRENT (and RELENG_5_0). The machine is a HP tc4100 with a HP (AMI/LSI) NetRAID 1M (MegaRAID) which drives the system disks, a dual channel Symbios 101