Re: Where was that iSCSI initiator?

2006-10-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:14:41AM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 00:35, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Could anyone please let me know the status of the iSCSI initiator that > > was floated here some time ago? Is it in a commitable state and, if > > not, ca

Where was that iSCSI initiator?

2006-10-18 Thread Ceri Davies
Could anyone please let me know the status of the iSCSI initiator that was floated here some time ago? Is it in a commitable state and, if not, can I help with testing (we have some Netware targets)? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:42:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:34:30AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > >>>>On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > >>&

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:34:30AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >>On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > >>>For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but > >>>I'd > >>>also like to have i

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:57:42PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situations > > and on various (mostly unknown) hardware. > >

Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-07 Thread Ceri Davies
I'm trying to configure a bootable image to be used in various situations and on various (mostly unknown) hardware. For the filesystem I can use geom_label and /dev/ufs/UnlikelyString, but I'd also like to have it try to configure whatever interfaces the machine happens to have via DHCP. Other t

Re: bafug Freebsd 6.1 meeting

2006-04-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On 4/4/06 02:04, "Julian Elischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> The topic is "6.1... your questions answered" >> >> Is there any call for it to be streamed out? > > > I ask because we usually stream the meetings when there is a speaker, > but this is more round tabl

Re: Exposing a file's creation time via find(1)

2006-03-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:40:58AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2006 08:55, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > > While perusing my Daemon book I noticed that it mentioned the existence > &g

Re: Exposing a file's creation time via find(1)

2006-03-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:18PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > > While perusing my Daemon book I noticed that it mentioned the existence > of the st_birthtime field in struct stat. I then also noticed that not > many utilities expose this: the Daemon mentions dump(8), restore(8) an

Exposing a file's creation time via find(1)

2006-03-24 Thread Ceri Davies
While perusing my Daemon book I noticed that it mentioned the existence of the st_birthtime field in struct stat. I then also noticed that not many utilities expose this: the Daemon mentions dump(8), restore(8) and the only other one I could find was stat(1). The attached patch adds st_birthtime

Re: Using pkg_add fetch only

2006-01-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:13:12AM +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: > > >I don't see your point. I thought you just wanted to download the > >packages and dependencies. > > Yes. pkg_add on the other hand leaves me with load

Re: Using pkg_add fetch only

2006-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 6 Jan 2006, at 23:30, Dirk Engling wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: The package cluster uses chroot() for this. Sure, but some post install scripts better run inside the running jail, those script will do stuff like creating users and installing files with user ids

Re: Using pkg_add fetch only

2006-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 6 Jan 2006, at 20:59, Dirk Engling wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Matt Emmerton wrote: What about pkg_fetch -R? This command is not in the base system. Since there is some logic in pkg_add for resolving dependencies and fetching packages I hoped, there might be some easy way not involvi

Re: setfacl file modification time

2006-01-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On 5 Jan 2006, at 18:43, Ahnjoan Amous wrote: In 5.2.1-RELEASE, setfacl updates the modification time of the file when acls are changed. I haven't been able to find any complaints about this behavior, is this something folks on the list would expect when using setfacl? If so, does anyone know

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 21 Dec 2005, at 16:01, Juhana Tahvanainen wrote: how about: FreeBSD-Handbook-General (guaranteed to work with all FreeBSD systems, doesn't include stuff in FreeBSD-Handbook-BRANCH.x) FreeBSD-Handbook-4.x (guaranteed to work with 4.x branch, doesn't include stuff in FreeBSD-Handbook-G

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:56:44AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 23 December 2005 05:43 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:18:26AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Sounds good (you could just go back to using -static in that case, but > >

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:18:26AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > Sounds good (you could just go back to using -static in that case, but that's > a minor detail). Still have TORTUOUS change in your diff. :) No harm done :) New version fixing both issues at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ceri/crunchg

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:41:01PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:31 pm, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > On Tue, De

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > The other concern is does this force the entire crunch to require a > > > wor

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:22 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > This is exactly the idea that I have been pimping to anyone who will > > listen for the last three months or so. I also think that it is > > advantageous fo

Re: Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 06:41 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Adrian Steinmann's talk at EuroBSDcon regarding a single user SSH daemon > > for rescue purposes highlighted an interesting point regarding some >

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > 3. Full review and update of the install docs, handbook, FAQ, etc. > > There are sections that are embarrassingly out of date (one section of > > the handbook apparently states that we only support a single brand of > > wifi car

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:37:20AM -0500, Allen wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:55, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +, Allen wrote: > > > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you > > > could run from the CLI or the GUI that w

Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

2005-12-20 Thread Ceri Davies
+.Ic libs_so +keyword was added in 2005 by +.An Adrian Steinmann Aq [EMAIL PROTECTED] +and +.An Ceri Davies Aq [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Index: crunchgen.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.c,v retrieving revision

Re: nsswitch reviewer wanted

2005-11-03 Thread Ceri Davies
Hi Michael, On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:11:15PM +0300, Michael Bushkov wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > > >I realise that you weren't asking for comments, but I took a quick look > >at http://www.rsu.ru/~bushman/nsswitch_cached/nss_cached.patch and have > >some. I

Re: nsswitch reviewer wanted

2005-11-03 Thread Ceri Davies
In the list that shall not be cc'd to, on Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > Michael Bushkov disk some interesting work for use under the Google > Summer of Code and I'd like to see the appropriate parts committed. > Unfortunately, this isn't an area I have great depths o

Re: Serious braindamage in the send-pr web interface

2005-06-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:52:02PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: > The security code of the web interface seems to really screw people > over (the image displaying a text that you have to enter). > > It goes like this: > - open web page > - enter PR > - enter security code but get anything wrong (

Re: How many developers?

2005-02-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:42:51PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:53:11PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote.. > > For statistical purposes, where can I get information such as the number > > of developers (with commit bit?) active on the FreeBSD project? > > I don't think there is a

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My > > only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD. &g

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:10:04AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > the benchmark you cited is for uniprocessor systems > > only. > > It says nothing about multiprocessor performance, > > which is what FreeBSD > > is aiming for. > Doesn't the (ULE) scheduler have a switch t

Re: Oracle 9/10g under FreeBSD

2004-12-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:19:02AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Anyone having one of the Oracle linux dists running under FreeBSD? I have 9i running. It turned out to be easier doing it that way than finding a Linux dist that would work. I followed the instructions at http://ezine.daemonne

Re: tcsh is not csh

2004-11-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:09:06PM -0600, Kevin Lyons wrote: > you missed the rest of the thread. /bin/csh is not /bin/tcsh. i have > run into a fairly important compatibility problem brought on by this. later. As you've been told, calling tcsh as csh should activate csh compatibility mode. If

Re: tcsh is not csh

2004-11-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 06:59:32PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:00:25PM -0600, Kevin Lyons wrote: > Thus, if there is a bug in tcsh's csh compatibility mode, you really > might do better to report it to the tcsh maintainers - on the several > occassions when I've neede

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:27:45PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > > > I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)? > > Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, and > > use it instead of rm. > > Preci

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:22:50PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 8:57 PM +0300 10/2/04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2004-10-02 21:23, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog > > > > yesterday about "rm -fr /" protection, wh

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Adding protection that prevents foot-shooting is not something without > precedent to FreeBSD either: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 Is that the correct reference?

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > [ Sorry to be so negative ... ] > > At very least you should consider to error out silently as POSIX requires "-f" > to be silent. Other than that you should really look into the standards and > what they way about rm and friends. Are

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 08:26:53PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the controller on these boards doesn't detect a drive attached, then > > the BIOS for the controller doesn't get installed, so make sure that >

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:28:24PM +, Mark wrote: > Vladim?r Benc wrote: > > > If a BSD box doesn't "see" the third IDE, this seems to be in the > > BIOS is Enabled only Primary IDE Controller. You must enable both > > Channels on the controller. > > All three IDE controllers are enabled in t

Re: the new send-pr web interface

2004-02-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:14:46PM +0100, Friedemann Becker wrote: > hello, > > I sent a new bugreport via the web interface and noticed two things I > wondered about: > > - in the multiline forms it seems like there would be linebreaking > when typing in the report, but on the website it show

Re: Yes, send-pr results in virus emails

2004-01-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:12:02AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Leo Bicknell wrote: > >In a message written on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Brandon D. > >Valentine wrote: > > > >>I'm afraid there's not much that FreeBSD can do about this. All PRs are > >>forwarded to the public freebsd-

Re: A way to clean up PRs?

2004-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:51:53PM +, Paul Robinson wrote: > Just a thought: > > How about everything that hasn't been touched in 3 years gets put into a > special state of "closed-believed-dead", everything over 12 months (or > 6?) gets the same AFTER an e-mail has been sent out to the orig

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:36:47PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > All, > > > > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install > > floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:35:01AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > All, > > Every FreeBSD release cycle in the past year has hit bumps due to install > floppy problems. This is becoming more and more of a burden on the > Release Engineering Team, as we simply do not have the resources to > constantly

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:45:25PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 20:29, Nick Rogness wrote: > > 1) Allow for paid development for a specific bug/feature > > > > - Setup some program that allows users like myself to pay for a > > developers time to fix a specific

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've > "converted" quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. > > Most people think of FreeBSD as the "new" linux. You have to think to > use it, as opp

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:31:32PM -0800, Rayson Ho wrote: > I am wondering if it is useful to have a "secure" file flag?? > > The secure file flag will be set for files that contain sensitive data. > Then the OS will take special care when operating on those "secure" > files. > > e.g. when delet

Re: interrupt statistics

2003-11-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:46:02AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > ISTR there is a tool (other than systat -vmstat) that shows interrupt > statistics for all interrupts, but I can't find anything except the > hw.intrnames and hw.intrcnt sysctls, which aren't directly human- > readable. Does an

Re: Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking?

2003-09-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > In the meantime I'm trying to figure out if there's some simple hack > to disregard these wildcard A records, short of requesting zone > transfers of the root nameservers (e.g. via peering with > f.root-servers.net) and purging t

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > maybe we should make some sort of geographical registration > web page so that people can find each other? ports/astro/xearth/files/freebsd.committers.markers ? Ceri -- The power of the heroic dwarves has come! To Unsubscribe:

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > If you don't have the machine-power to run make release yourself, > I hope the japanese snapshot server is producing good snapshots, > if that fails, I would appreciate if somebody will produce and put up > good releases and/or I

Re: Another panic in -STABLE, yesterday's tree

2002-05-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:30:24PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:48:12PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: > > > I had this problem. To get good backtraces I do the following. I don't >

Re: Another panic in -STABLE, yesterday's tree

2002-05-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:48:12PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:26:41PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > I've had another kernel panic, this time from a cold boot (the machine had > > been powered off overnight), with a new world

Another panic in -STABLE, yesterday's tree

2002-05-26 Thread Ceri Davies
I've had another kernel panic, this time from a cold boot (the machine had been powered off overnight), with a new world and kernel built yesterday: FreeBSD rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #0: Wed May 1 21:59:38 BST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/us

Re: Kernel panic on boot with 4.6-PRERELEASE

2002-05-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:59:26PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Any further information can be provided if you give me instructions on how to > get it. Bugger, scratch that; I just deleted the vmcore (no, I have no idea why either). Aargh. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Un

Kernel panic on boot with 4.6-PRERELEASE

2002-05-24 Thread Ceri Davies
Hi all, Earlier today I suffered a kernel panic while the system was coming back up from "shutdown -r now". This is an SMP system running 4.6-PRERELEASE from May 1st. Here's uname -a : FreeBSD rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #0: Wed May 1 21:59:38 BST