Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop

2005-08-22 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
And here I thought you were talking about a desktop for us vt220 fans. There is already screen or emacs on that front. A GUI has more than what emacs provides. What about twin for example? close to what they are doing. What exactly is meant by a console desktop anyway other than

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hans Petter Selasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:12, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Hans Petter Selasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : On Saturday 20 August 2005 10:18, Mike Silbersack

Re: MAC Biba policy. High marked process can't write to high marked file.

2005-08-22 Thread Michael
Robert Watson wrote: test: Permission denied. %setpmac biba/high echo 1 test # bah! Remember that the '' is evaluated in the parent shell context, not the execution context set up by setpmac. Try doing setpmac biba/high csh and see how that changes the results when you run the

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christophe Yayon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_atfork.html : : It is suggested that programs that use fork() call an exec function : very soon afterwards in the child process, thus

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christophe Yayon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_atfork.html : : It is suggested that programs that use fork() call an exec function : very

Re: Locating obsolete ports distfiles

2005-08-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Peter Jeremy wrote: I currently have just over 8GB is /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of these files are more than 10 years old and long obsolete. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to identify which files are no longer referenced by current ports? Doing a 'make checksum' on every

Re: number of simultanously opened files

2005-08-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Divacky Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: witten ~# sysctl kern.maxfiles=10 kern.maxfiles: 10 - 10 witten ~# sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc=10 kern.maxfilesperproc: 10 - 10 witten ~# but I still cannot open more than 7319 files simultaneously. pls can you tell me why?

IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread m . ehinger
Hi, what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? I got an Accelerometer driver which will deliver data. First Version is available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138242package_id=160977 We have to poll the device for information quiet often to detect

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? I got an Accelerometer driver which will deliver data. First Version is available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138242package_id=160977 We have to poll the device for

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
So there's something in the list, I've gone through and done a call tree analysis to show the extensive and pervastive nature of the functions that nagios calls after fork. I don't know if these are all problems or not, since I don't know if some of these functions might be called before the

Re: Locating obsolete ports distfiles

2005-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 22 August 2005 12:43 am, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I currently have just over 8GB is /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of these files are more than 10 years old and long obsolete. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to identify

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread Christophe Yayon
Very good analysis ! In conclusion, it's clear that there bad functions calls in Nagios, i think i will copy/paste some lines from these mails and resume them to nagios-devel mailling list, i hope it will help nagios developper... Are you all ok for this ? So there's something in the list,

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 22/08/2005, at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? I got an Accelerometer driver which will deliver data. First Version is available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=138242package_id=160977 We have to

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christophe Yayon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Very good analysis ! : In conclusion, it's clear that there bad functions calls in Nagios, : i think i will copy/paste some lines from these mails and resume them to : nagios-devel mailling list, i hope it will

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : So there's something in the list, I've gone through and done a call : tree analysis to show the extensive and pervastive nature of the : functions that nagios

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Borja Marcos
I think this will need to be tailored to the exact type of mishap one wants to protect against. I think that the main purpose of the shock detection system is to allow data to be recovered from the disk in case the laptop is broken. By parking the heads asap you can avoid damaging the

Re: nagios and freebsd threads issue : help please ...

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: So there's something in the list, I've gone through and done a call tree analysis to show the extensive and pervastive nature of the functions that nagios calls after fork. I don't know if these are all problems or not, since I don't know if some of

Re: xl driver proplem.

2005-08-22 Thread Thordur I. Bjornsson
*snip* Hello list. I had this proplem with the xl driver: *snip* Hello list (again). I'm sorry for the noize last night. I was way to sleepy ;) Now I had this proplem with a non-sleepable lock in if_xl.c (As explained in the previous post. Now, I did not provide alot of info in my last mail

6.0 BETA2: SATA HDD not detected

2005-08-22 Thread victor cruceru
Hi all, I've just tried to install 6.0 BETA2 on a PC with a SATA HDD. I have no issue installing and running 5.4 - RELEASE on the same hardware. Here it is what is detected by the 5.4 installation:

Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop

2005-08-22 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:39:20AM -0700, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: It will be running on a virtual console in text or graphics mode like TurboVision used to, but we are focusing on text mode for now. As I just wrote to someone else, the main idea is to enable BSD programs to have a

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 22.08.2005 um 17:26 schrieb Søren Schmidt: On 22/08/2005, at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? I got an Accelerometer driver which will deliver data. First Version is available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Borja Marcos wrote: I think this will need to be tailored to the exact type of mishap one wants to protect against. I think that the main purpose of the shock detection system is to allow data to be recovered from the disk in case the laptop is broken. By parking the heads asap you

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : You have about 1/4 a second to get the heads in once you detect that : you are falling. Yes. For a 4' fall, we know it takes 1/2 a second to reach the ground: s = 1/2 a t^2 + v0 t + s0 s0 = 0, a = 32

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? Go as deep as possible into the disk driver. The reason is pretty simple. Just stop any write access to the disk as soon as the machine starts moving above a given limit. If the movement is above a