RE: mac_mls mac_biba mac_lomac patches to fix ptys_equal mib support for new /dev/pts in FreeBSD 8

2010-03-06 Thread Selphie Keller
Robert, I have security.mac.mls.revocation_enabled set to 0, sshd was running as mls/equal(equal-equal) and my staff user was running as mls/2(low-high) and sshd gave the error message: Feb 25 21:46:14 labyrinth sshd[90850]: error: /dev/pts/5: Permission denied Feb 25 21:46:14 labyrinth sshd[908

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/05/10 20:14, Kevin Day wrote: > > Recently I bumped into something very weird. In some CPU heavy workloads, > FreeBSD ran faster inside VMware's ESX hypervisor than it did running > natively on bare metal. Simple pure CPU applications (such as "openssl > speed") would run 10-30% faster on

RE: mac_mls mac_biba mac_lomac patches to fix ptys_equal mib support for new /dev/pts in FreeBSD 8

2010-03-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Selphie Keller wrote: - (2) Could you let me know how your login.conf + user labels are configured, and show me the output of "ps -axZ | grep sshd"? /etc/login.conf label configurations I use Staff users: label=mls/2(low-high) Deamons: label=mls/equal(equal-equal) Insecure

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:41:30 Garrett Cooper wrote: > (Attempts to avoid shoe flying in his direction from randi@ :/), > > FWIW, sysinstall(8) is a good starter tool and it has a lot of the > information that you need in order to complete an install (especially > if you're doing it from scra

Re: tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Best
Ulrich Spörlein schrieb am 2010-03-06: > On Fri, 05.03.2010 at 12:38:40 -0800, Xin LI wrote: > > On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote: > > > Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05: > > > On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there. does this look right? > > > Not to me, the value is no

Re: namei() returns EISDIR for "/" (Re: svn commit: r203990 - head/lib/libc/sys)

2010-03-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > On 2010-02-28, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: >> > >   http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/lookup-root.diff > > I have updated the patch taking some of bde's comments into account. The > new version also includes updates for namei(9) manual page.

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 07:01:00 John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday 04 March 2010 4:33:29 pm David Wolfskill wrote: >> > For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD >> > machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e

Re: tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

2010-03-06 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 05.03.2010 at 12:38:40 -0800, Xin LI wrote: > On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote: > > Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05: > > On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there. does this look right? > > > > Not to me, the value is not to be used this way and the comments > > abov