Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-28 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 02:24:33PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:31:36AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: ... I'll put the updated test program somewhere shortly. Test code and draft of revisions to function are at http://www.volcano.org/misc

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-27 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:53:07AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:00:01PM +, freebsd-hackers-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:52:09 -0500 From: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney j

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-27 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:31:36AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: ... I'll put the updated test program somewhere shortly. Test code and draft of revisions to function are at http://www.volcano.org/misc/humanize_number/ Man page update will follow later. -- Clifton -- Clifton

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-26 Thread Clifton Royston
cases included) Message-ID: caf6rxgkcodg2ep2pdxjkjcyqzbynre_tpt3cqeygwrtz6ak...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 25 December 2012 14:46, Clifton Royston clift...@volcano.org wrote: I correct myself: the function works fine, and there are no bugs I

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-25 Thread Clifton Royston
chronically oversubscribed but it's intrigued me and I'll take a look. Please cc me as I'm not subscribed to -hackers. Done. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@volcano.org President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 07:20:37AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00:01PM +, freebsd-hackers-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: From: John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com To: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:23:55AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 07:20:37AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00:01PM +, freebsd-hackers-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: From: John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com To: hack...@freebsd.org

Re: SMP question w.r.t. reading kernel variables

2011-04-19 Thread Clifton Royston
. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: Forward to abuse@ button for http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5965

2010-12-21 Thread Clifton Royston
. (They also have been known to firmly claim that a number of Yahoo's mail outbounds are not their servers.) AOL will actually process ARF messages and so will some other major providers, so it's still worth doing. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift

Re: ucred when euid/egid

2009-11-29 Thread Clifton Royston
, but that will require you to write a suid root utility which adds a lot of security risks. Hope this helps, -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network

Re: ucred when euid/egid

2009-11-28 Thread Clifton Royston
be: anyuser:filegroup or fuser:proggroup -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 310, Issue 6

2009-03-09 Thread Clifton Royston
() primarily of historic interest. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: jumbo packets on em card.

2008-04-30 Thread Clifton Royston
for 1000baseTX. I strongly suspect that that's your problem. Try replacing the cable or reterminating both ends and carefully checking the color/pin assignments against a reference. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-23 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:19:17PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:05:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. ... Is there any better

Re: Creating install CD with custom ports - how to massage INDEX file?

2007-10-16 Thread Clifton Royston
, or come after it. Someone pointed me at a particular .py script beneath /usr/src/release, so I need to go look at that, preferably after a bit more sleep and/or coffee. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http

Creating install CD with custom ports - how to massage INDEX file?

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
stage, after putting my copied ports tree and/or package tree in the right magic place, but I'm not getting it. I'd appreciate a hint from anybody who knows this step. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http

A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
but has almost no information on what it actually does.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
and embedded in the package files themselves. After posting before, I decided to explore pkg_replace, and it appears that it might be able to do what I want with the right options. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I

PCI Express graphics reliability/functionality in 6.1?

2006-06-08 Thread Clifton Royston
to this, I'd appreciate the pointer. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!

2006-02-23 Thread Clifton Royston
case, try starting from there first. If that is where you need to be, running the recovery tools while treating it as a raw drive might damage it further as per the warning from bsdlabel. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I

Re: Ricoh PCI to SD device?

2006-01-12 Thread Clifton Royston
the protocol, as a working implementation could disclose protocol information covered as a secret by the NDA. I'm sure that's *not* what you want to see. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http

Re: BGP reverse dns

2005-09-22 Thread Clifton Royston
space to them, and what name server is responsible for its rDNS. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We're hardly more than an eyeblink away

Re: Remote upgrade of 4.X-5.3-Stable

2005-02-24 Thread Clifton Royston
this puts you on a workable path. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide

Re: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports?

2005-01-27 Thread Clifton Royston
an inexplicable omission of a useful tool for hooking files, sockets, and ports together. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart

Re: pkg_add conflicts

2004-11-02 Thread Clifton Royston
installing pkg_install-devel from a package - which you shouldn't - update ports and install pkg_install-devel from ports before switching back to the packaging system. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect

Relative performance of swap-backed MFS vs. regular UFS?

2004-10-22 Thread Clifton Royston
, or wiser to just revert to a regular file system? -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow

Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

2004-06-17 Thread Clifton Royston
cache. Can anybody confirm for me that the suid, sgid, and sticky bit are in fact no-ops for FreeBSD on regular non-executable files, as it appears they should be? -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did

Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-29 Thread Clifton Royston
know its license and copyright status. It would be nice to add something like that into the FreeBSD base distribution - it's not like log rotation is a feature needed only on rare installations. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Clifton Royston
can really rack up the disk space with invisible files. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind

Re: File system full

2004-04-05 Thread Clifton Royston
are currently open by running processes, and look through the output for files in /tmp. man fstat, and look at the -f option. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did

Re: Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

2004-03-21 Thread Clifton Royston
code size. Again, differencing the symbol table should give you some idea. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever

Re: Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

2004-03-21 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 05:39:58PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 10:22 AM -1000 3/21/04, Clifton Royston wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 From: Garance A Drosihn So, by adding one call to strcmp() to check for a : string, I end up with /bin/ps (the stripped-object-file) which has

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-12 Thread Clifton Royston
this very very rarely in my career, but occasionally it's let me resuscitate a drive long enough to save some data. Good luck on getting your data back; the lady I was helping didn't have any. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead

Yes, send-pr results in virus emails

2004-01-27 Thread Clifton Royston
could track these folks down and unsubscribe them until they can get their machines cleaned up. Rather than harass all the readers with the list, I've compiled one and I'll send it to an appropriate administrator for the PR list when I find one. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: Default mfs/md fs on /tmp (Was: adding more ram

2003-12-12 Thread Clifton Royston
new FreeBSD user. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well we can do it. We know how

Re: Disillusioned with PAM

2003-12-12 Thread Clifton Royston
with thorough parameter and taint checking took care of that. Just recording the solution for the archives. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats

Disillusioned with PAM

2003-12-10 Thread Clifton Royston
it appears so far that no PAM method which implements local password changing actually exists on FreeBSD. What a mess. (Yeah, I know, I know - stop grumbling, code one, and contribute it.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead

Re: IPFW and the IP stack

2003-12-04 Thread Clifton Royston
and not going. I suppose it may be that this is too weird a configuration to be supported, but I had hoped it would work on FreeBSD since I had had it running fine under OpenBSD 2.6 for several years. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies

Re: getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

2003-11-27 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:10:01PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Clifton Royston wrote: If you will need to do authentication after your program drops privileges, your best course is probably to go through PAM, to install a separate daemon which implements a PAM-supported protocol and which

Re: getpwnam with md5 encrypted passwds

2003-11-26 Thread Clifton Royston
roundabout. (LDAP would be another PAM-supported option, but RADIUS seemed simpler to set up in a hurry.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-16 Thread Clifton Royston
try to put some doc updates together as a starter. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow

Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Clifton Royston
in the docs I could find. I'm hoping I can usefully lay a few of the pitfalls or issues out for future reference by others, and for correction by those who are more knowledgeable than I. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:48:13PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: Is this as good a list as any for observations on the FreeBSD make release process? I can't see any other list that fits the subject. Did you dig into http

Re: rsync vs installworld

2003-10-19 Thread Clifton Royston
experience with like systems would be welcomed. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well we

Re: VIA EPIA-M10000 board just works with FreeBSD 4.8

2003-09-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:55:53AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Clifton Royston writes: For anyone who's interested, I've been running FreeBSD 4.8 on the EPIA-1M mini-ITX for at least a couple months now; it's available Cool! Have you measured the power consumption? Sorry

VIA EPIA-M10000 board just works with FreeBSD 4.8

2003-09-24 Thread Clifton Royston
, not a VIA salesrep -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun

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

2003-09-24 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:09:22PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-09-16 16:58:06 -0400: At 10:23 AM -1000 9/16/03, 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

Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking?

2003-09-16 Thread Clifton Royston
loading it. Any ideas, either under djbdns or Bind 9? -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow

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

2003-09-16 Thread Clifton Royston
-- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should

Re: EMCsq/SAN

2003-09-15 Thread Clifton Royston
then. If you have money to burn that's another story. (In which case, you wanna hire a testing consultant? g) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats

Re: flush on close

2003-09-12 Thread Clifton Royston
of directory blocks even under softupdates. It's not the opens and closes, it's the creation and deletion which will get you. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever

Re: pkg_create

2003-08-19 Thread Clifton Royston
this tidbit out where it might reach someone who understands the FreeBSD ports make system better than I do. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Clifton Royston
systems, and then (for most protocols) you can run as many machines as you like on your LAN using that one cable company IP address. The freedom to do this kind of thing is one of the advantages of using free UNIXes, and one might as well take advantage of it. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston

Re: squid and datasize kernel problems

2002-07-30 Thread Clifton Royston
-on-FreeBSD experts; I'm far from either. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do we need to make our world come alive? What does it take to make us sing? While we're waiting for the next one to arrive... - Sisters of Mercy