Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: 1/ Command logging. We're thinking that a hacked version of the shell that logs commands may do what they want, but personally I think that if you are going to log things then you really want to PROPERLY do it, and log the EXEC commands along with

RE: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Do we have a format utility, similar to format in Solaris. This makes it easier to ident the C code. Regards, Abhay -Original Message- From: Peter Wemm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:32 AM To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Simon L. Nielsen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't understand why these companies don't just include sources for their X drivers, it would make life so much easier. Usually it's because they (wrongly) think it will protect their trade secrets from competitors. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our client wants the following 'features' and we'd LIKE to be able to at least say yes we can do that, even if we can also say but we don't think it's a good idea. 1/ Command logging. We're thinking that a hacked version of the shell that

Re: mdoc(7) question

2003-02-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-10 12:17:44 -0600: In the last episode (Feb 10), Roman Neuhauser said: I'm writing a man page for a utility I'm writing, and I want the option listing look like this: OPTIONS -h, --help Print a brief help message. -n, --dry-run

Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.02.10 17:41:47 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Wow, deja-vu! /me runs and hides for not checking the achieves first :-) -- Simon L. Nielsen

Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...

2003-02-11 Thread clemens fischer
Yury Tarasievich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...then, Tim Kientzle wrote: A better approach might be to simply fob it off on the user, i.e., # pkg_install foo-1.5 Warning: foo-1.5 requires bar-2.3, you have bar-1.7 installed. Proceed? [Y/n] i think this is the best approach. In my opinion, user

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performanceresults (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Fresco
The video chip is a Castle Rock with mpeg2 decoder. The Linux driver of the epia-m is made of 2 piece, a kernel module and a X module. Both are only binary, and the installation is a pain because you can't recompile the kernel, you must use the original kernel. For example you can't patch the

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 11), David Schultz said: Thus spake Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our client wants the following 'features' and we'd LIKE to be able to at least say yes we can do that, even if we can also say but we don't think it's a good idea. 2/ they want to disable a

Re: mdoc(7) question

2003-02-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 11), Roman Neuhauser said: Thanks guys. Is there a clean way to make sure that the description will always begin on the line below the tag line? IOW, with .Bl -tag, if the actual tag width is less than that of -width's argument, these two items will

Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...

2003-02-11 Thread Yury Tarasievich
clemens fischer wrote: Yury Tarasievich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...then, Tim Kientzle wrote: A better approach might be to simply fob it off on the user, i.e., # pkg_install foo-1.5 Warning: foo-1.5 requires bar-2.3, you have bar-1.7 installed. Proceed? [Y/n] i think this is the best

Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Nate Williams
Heh, bet you didn't know that bento's predecessor was called thud. And we had a 'ripcord' for a while too. I just dont remember exactly which machine it became. I think it was a temporary name for the machine that became hub. Don't forget gndrsh, which was freefall's replacement (and later

Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Nate Williams
Wow, deja-vu! Hey! I've got a GREAT idea! I whipped up this nifty perl script and I can run it over the src tree to delete all the trailing whitespace! And even better, I can collapse tabs at the beginning of lines! What a great deal! That should be good for a few hundred commits! Gofer

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Feb 11), David Schultz said: Thus spake Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our client wants the following 'features' and we'd LIKE to be able to at least say yes we can do that, even if we can also say but we don't think

Re: mdoc(7) question

2003-02-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-11 08:29:54 -0600: In the last episode (Feb 11), Roman Neuhauser said: Thanks guys. Is there a clean way to make sure that the description will always begin on the line below the tag line? IOW, with .Bl -tag, if the actual tag width is less than

I need help

2003-02-11 Thread rmkml
Hi, Im a process pb on freebsd47R, and I start truss over, I view : ... gettimeofday(0x28126dec,0x0) = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday(0x28126dec,0x0) = 0 (0x0) accept(0x6,0xbfadcfa4,0xbfadcfa0)ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavailable'

Re: I need help

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0100, rmkml wrote: Im a process pb on freebsd47R, ... gettimeofday(0x28126dec,0x0) = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday(0x28126dec,0x0) = 0 (0x0) accept(0x6,0xbfadcfa4,0xbfadcfa0)ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavailable'

Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Kingsley
Good Afternoon! We have been trying to set up a system of jails on FreeBSD 5.0 machines. Building a jail from scratch seems to be no problem. Everything seems to work just fine. Here is our problem. We would like to be able to replicate jails quickly, both on the original host machine

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Dave Kingsley wrote: Good Afternoon! We have been trying to set up a system of jails on FreeBSD 5.0 machines. Building a jail from scratch seems to be no problem. Everything seems to work just fine. Here is our problem. We would like to be able to replicate

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread Stefanos Kiakas
Hello, The easiest way is to set the jail up as a file using vnconfig. Then you just copy the file like any file, transfer it by FTP etc. Therefore by coping the original jail to a new file it has the default passwords which can then be changed as needed. Stefanos

dynamic hints

2003-02-11 Thread Nicolas Souchu
Is that possible to change hints once booted? I noticed in the archive it was planned but none of the man pages refer to such a feature. Any patch around? Nicholas -- Nicholas Souchu - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: mdoc(7) question

2003-02-11 Thread Terry Lambert
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Thanks guys. Is there a clean way to make sure that the description will always begin on the line below the tag line? IOW, with .Bl -tag, if the actual tag width is less than that of -width's argument, these two items will fold, and description will begin

Re: Got X working with via driver ( Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update ) results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 10 February 2003 17:57, Matthew Dillon wrote: Very nasty but I got X working with the via driver by dummying up libddmpeg (which is supplied along with via_drv.o on the VIA EPIA M 9000 CD). Basically I linked libddmpeg.a with a dummy program to pull in the required symbols and

Re: dynamic hints

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Nicolas Souchu wrote: Is that possible to change hints once booted? I noticed in the archive it was planned but none of the man pages refer to such a feature. Any patch around? Yes, sort-of. kenv(8) can change the strings. But I suspect it is too late for something like isa since I

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: Hello, The easiest way is to set the jail up as a file using vnconfig. there are various software packages that will not work in a vnconfig environment ... I tried using it, and one of the issues I hit was a distinct lack of inodes until you

Re: cd9660 and fcntl (shared locks)

2003-02-11 Thread Clark C. Evans
This patch which Terry gave a while back works beautyfully for my needs and hasn't given me any problems. I was wondering if it could be applied to the main trunk? I'm asking beacause maintaining the patch (and a separate build) isn't ideal. Below is an updated patch which seems to work well

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread Wesley Peters
On Monday 10 February 2003 23:59, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1/ Command logging. We're thinking that a hacked version of the shell that logs commands may do what they want, but personally I think that if you are going to log things then you really

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:32:28PM -0800, Wesley Peters wrote: On Monday 10 February 2003 23:59, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1/ Command logging. We're thinking that a hacked version of the shell that logs commands may do what they want, but

Re: Some security questions.

2003-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Wesley Peters wrote: On Monday 10 February 2003 23:59, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Did we somehow break acct(2), or is that somehow inadequate to the task? It should be ideal for what Julian's customer wants, I would think. See also acct(5), sa(8) and accton(8).

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performanceresults (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread David Cuthbert
David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't understand why these companies don't just include sources for their X drivers, it would make life so much easier. Usually it's because they (wrongly) think it will protect their trade secrets from competitors.