Re: cron limit

2005-03-14 Thread Pieter de Boer
The script thats being ran by cron does a 'ps x |grep test.pl'. and prases the output from test.pl, but since cron is limiting the char length, its not parsing the output right. ps -xw ? -- Pieter ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD?

2005-03-14 Thread Ryan Sommers
Sean Kelly wrote: Hope this helps. I'd like to see FreeBSD get much better AFS and general clustering/internetworking support. For example, easier to configure LDAP and Kerberos. Must.. compete.. with.. Active.. Directory... This is something else I've been wanting to look at as well. In general

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail

2005-03-14 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:24, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 01:23 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: Not a bad 'idea' at all, although I won't comment on semantics. I had something implemented using fs stacking (in a very hackish way, and I believe it's

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail

2005-03-14 Thread Anish Mistry
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:15 am, Samuel J. Greear wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:24, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 01:23 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: Not a bad 'idea' at all, although I won't comment on semantics. I had something implemented

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anish Mistry wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 10:15 am, Samuel J. Greear wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:24, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 01:23 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: Not a bad 'idea' at all, although I won't comment on semantics. I had something

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
Anish Mistry wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 10:15 am, Samuel J. Greear wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:24, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 01:23 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: Not a bad 'idea' at all, although I won't comment on semantics. I had something

memory leak in inflate.c

2005-03-14 Thread Vijay.Singh
Hi, I am trying to debug a memory leak in executing gzipped binaries when the parameter list is too long. The function in question is inflate_dynamic(). /* decompress until an end-of-block code */ if (inflate_codes(glbl, tl, td, bl, bd)) return 1; /*

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Amandeep Pannu
HI all, I am running FreeBSd 5.3-REL Today my system simply locked up. There was no error sent to console, to any logs, nor the monitor screen. It was totally unresponsive to network, serial console, or keyboard. After 4 power-cycles, we were unable to get past the BIOS as it was reporting

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: HI all, I am running FreeBSd 5.3-REL Today my system simply locked up. There was no error sent to console, to any logs, nor the monitor screen. It was totally unresponsive to network, serial console, or keyboard. After 4

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Amandeep Pannu
Hi Kris, I had this problem before and I changed the MB and the memory and today it did the same thing it did before. memtest doesnt give any errors. Thanks A On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: HI all, I am running FreeBSd 5.3-REL Today my system simply

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:34:59PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi Kris, I had this problem before and I changed the MB and the memory and today it did the same thing it did before. Continue to check power supply, CPU cooling, cabling, etc. memtest doesnt give any errors. OK, that doesn't

Re: memory leak in inflate.c

2005-03-14 Thread Marco Molteni
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to debug a memory leak in executing gzipped binaries when the parameter list is too long. The function in question is inflate_dynamic(). /* decompress until an end-of-block code */ if (inflate_codes(glbl, tl, td,

Re: Idea about 'skeleton jail

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Hodgins
Not sure if this has already made it to the mailing list or not. My uni email account has started blocking email inbound and outbound to the freebsd servers. If I have missed anything since the post I am replying to I would appreciate if it could be forwarded on to me at this address...thanks :)

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Jason Henson
On 03/14/05 15:34:59, Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi Kris, I had this problem before and I changed the MB and the memory and today it did the same thing it did before. memtest doesnt give any errors. Thanks A Memtest86 right? There is another that you run in an os like any other program. Did you

cvsup can't work

2005-03-14 Thread wanakahalugi
hi all, I installed FreeBSD5.3REL on my PC, and I want to update the source tree and ports collection using cvsup. To do that I copy the stable-supfile to /etc directory and set its default host tag to the nearest mirror, and also set only the ports that I want to update to save bandwith.

Re: cvsup can't work

2005-03-14 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 14 March 2005 06:33 pm, wanakahalugi wrote: hi all, I installed FreeBSD5.3REL on my PC, and I want to update the source tree and ports collection using cvsup. To do that I copy the stable-supfile to /etc directory and set its default host tag to the nearest mirror, and also set

poll or select for ppi?

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Kory
Is it possible to use poll or select to detect a change in the status bits of the parallel port? I tried something like this, and took bits 5 and 6 of the status register low and nothing seemed to happen. Is what I am trying to do even possible, or I am supposed to take a certain bit low to

Re: poll or select for ppi?

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:35, Matt Kory wrote: Is it possible to use poll or select to detect a change in the status bits of the parallel port? I tried something like this, and took bits 5 and 6 of the status register low and nothing seemed to happen. Is what I am trying to do even possible, or

Re: poll or select for ppi?

2005-03-14 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:05:34PM -0500, Matt Kory wrote: Is it possible to use poll or select to detect a change in the status bits of the parallel port? I tried something like this, and took bits 5 and 6 of the status register low and nothing seemed to happen. Is what I am trying to do

threads question

2005-03-14 Thread Michael C. Shultz
Hi, I've just reached a point in a program I'm writing where I'd like to do threading. When I try to start a thread like this: pthread_create(thread, attr, MGPMrUpgrade, property ); where property is a structure of many variables it doesn't get passed to the function. If I do this:

Re: threads question

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: Hi, I've just reached a point in a program I'm writing where I'd like to do threading. When I try to start a thread like this: pthread_create(thread, attr, MGPMrUpgrade, property );

Re: threads question

2005-03-14 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 14 March 2005 08:57 pm, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: Hi, I've just reached a point in a program I'm writing where I'd like to do threading. When I try to start a thread like this: pthread_create(thread, attr, MGPMrUpgrade, property );