his data can be retrieved.
An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not cover
the
entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any
help appreciated.
Some urgency!
Dave.
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grief and that's the one
i need!
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Hello,
Thank you for your suggestion i will do that though i like the
suggestion of using a vnode mounted image so i don't blow up the data i'm
trying to save.
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ines
to /etc/pam.conf and PersistentPasswd off to proftpd.conf, restarted
proftpd, however when a user tries to log in an error 530 occurs and in
/var/log/messages i get a message that the password is not valid.
Any pointers appreciated.
Thanks.
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As far as i know fbsd is exporting md5 passwords. The rh box is set up
to do md5, as well.
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#x27;t ask me why
but that did it. That also fixed proftpd as well.
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ANDERSON EDUARDO wrote:
someone could help me use the PT_SETREGS on FreeBSD?
I get the value of registers with PT_GETREGS normal, but when I make the modification and the use PT_SETREGS not working!
could show me an example?
_
available to me and it seems
to work well (I've used Aironet firmware 3.98 & an as yet unreleased
version).
If there's any interest and I can get permission to, I'm working on a
firmware upgrade program next...
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eally like to see a better way to specify
volatile vs. persistent keys.
dave c
Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Looking at the code I don't see this as a complete solution. Maybe that
> is what you mean by:
> The ioctl interface used to configure the card does not include
>
tely looks like
ata2 and ata3.
Is there support for 4 IDE channels (i.e. 8 devices) in 4.1.1?
(If not, take heart that the bios config does not even seem to
recognize that there are 4 channels. I'm going to try to find a BIOS
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lot of options in the bios, no dice. Anyone have any clues?
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He who has self-conceit in his head -
Do not imagine that he
flags:, packet size:3
psm0: syncmask:c0, syncbits:00
>From rc.conf:
moused_flags=""
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"
moused_enable="YES"
I'd greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me! If you need any more
info about my system setup
Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail:
===> objdump
...
../libiberty/libiberty.a(choose-temp.o): In function `make_temp_file':
choose-temp.o(.text+0x264): undefined reference to `mkstemps'
Is this a simple fix I hope?
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> Dave Hayes wrote:
>>
>> Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail:
> I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE.
> Could this be your problem.
No, I misreported the tag. If I h
ld very well be. I am following the instructions in UPGRADING
under "To update from 3.x to 4.x stable".
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There is no greater calamity for a nation or in
rnel is telling me:
acd0: READ_TOC - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 ascq=00 error=04
acd0: WRITE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04
acd0: SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=2c ascq=00 error=04
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something like this?
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"There is someone willing to argue about any point."
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WET.
Naturally, given this information, production systems with that
strategy are fairly out of the question.
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Possession of a system of knowledge,
Greetings...
I certainly hope I'm posting this to the right list -- if not, please redirect
me accordingly. Thanks. :)
I'm interested in taking FreeBSD and putting it on a bootable CD for use in
a so-called "appliance". Can anyone recommend a place to start? Specifically,
I'm unsure how to creat
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:16:17PM +1300, David Preece wrote:
> I started in the handbook, the section on backups and creating a bootable
> floppy was invaluable. It's also worth trawling the archives of
> freebsd-small, in particular look for "tinybsd" which (IIRC) is a
> configurable script
Well, my understand (limited) of *BSD's threading systems is that
they are not truly pre-emptive -- they use a scheme similar to PTH
for forcing a single process to jump around its process space. Given
this, it doesn't suprise me that a few system calls don't yield;
possibly because they aren't w
There are no block devices in FreeBSD, only character devices
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html
dave c
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX com
performance. If you're never going to update a file
> then making it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will
> get better performance by making it non-sparse.
Aha! Thanks for that, Peter.
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grp->pg_session->s_login;
if (p->p_ucred->cr_ruid == 1001) {
printf("%s %d %s\n", user, p->p_pid, uap->fname);
}
return (execve(td,uap));
}
Running 'ls -al' with the above, I get the username, pid, and absolute
filename printed su
If I'm not mistaken pjd@ has written similar module which is called
lrexec for RELENG_4 and RELENG_5. See his web site.
Also recently rwatson@ enabled audit support in RELENG_6 and CURRENT,
though I don't know yet whether it can log arguments.
Great, lrexec was exactly what I was looking for
feature, and an FCO was necessary to fix it.
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> Out of all the O'Reilly books I have, the LDAP one was the most useless.
I forgot to say, "and out of all the LDAP books I have *as well*".
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How would I go about debugging a LKM. I am currently working on a simple
kernel module that overwrites the open() syscall and sends the output
through a parsing routine.
I've read many articles talking about using the (gdb) add-symbol-file
lkm.ko and in fact that works but as far as I know I can
meone can eyeball this for correctness
and get it committed, or forward it on to the right people.
Thanks,
Dave
--- src/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c~ 2007-08-14 15:44:11.0 -0400
+++ src/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c 2007-08-14 15:44:27.0 -0400
@@ -6331,7 +6331,7
would this arrangement be likely to have the same problem as the
current one? For that matter, does anyone have better
suggestions how to proceed?
Thanks for your insight, and please CC: me on replies.
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Solaris Jumpstart.
I have heard rumors from a good source that a PXE boot for
FreeBSD is in the making. This can be made to mirror the
solaris jumpstart, or even better improve upon it. I believe
it will be committed in the near future.
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> > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:43:47PM +1100, David Nugent wrote:
> > > > I know that a fair amount of work has been done in building automated
> > > > installs for FreeBSD
http://www.google.com/bsd
I finished it, hope its helpful.
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can and does result in the corruption of the vnode_free_list. I'd
also recommend the addition of the VOP_ISLOCKED() check to getnewvnode()
even if it doesn't work for all file system types it will help in some
(most?) cases. A patch for CURRENT is attached.
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junk you have been
> sending.
>
Actually it's better to just tell AllAdvantage.com and they will cancell
his account and bar him for life.
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ort's and int's were stored most significant byte first. This impression
is further underscored by using >> 16 to fold the top 16 bits into the lower
16 bits. The pile of htons calls and ntohs calls I was expecting to see is
simply not there.
So, how come it works?
Dave :) (but a bit
, but can't seem to get much divert
socket specific stuff - pointers would be appreciated. Hmm, shall hit the
books and ip_fw.c some more.
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> also look at the natd program
Have been, it's been a huge help.
Thanks again,
Dave :)
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Just learning about this: I can see the advantages but does anything use it?
Dave :)
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instance).
Likewise natd would need to look at an incoming ICMP and if it's a "can't
fragment" message, address translate it and send it onwards back to the IP
that caused the error to happen.
Hm. I'll hit the books. Return to the temple of Mr Stevens.
Dave :)
BTW,
; 5) {
printf("pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest
increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC\n");
warningdone++;
}
The machine in question has 57 days of uptime. This code appears to
imply that I only get to see this 5 times during this period. :)
Was this intentional
the dangers in increasing
it too much?
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"What's so special about the Net? People -still- don't listen..."
just provide an API using extern "C"
and link it in (with some calling functions in ipfw.c, of course)? Would an
lkm be the best way to go?
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hese things were
> being used or not.
Due to the pain of not knowing if the overloaded new and delete were being
used?
--scrambles off for a copy of Stroustrup.
> Warner
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; (much as the early power vr 3d accelerators did).
Any comments? Anyone working on this? Maybe I had better learn to write
drivers ;)
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general. Hopefully I'll get there at some
time.
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> We're trying to create a high availability FreeBSD
> cluster with a standby machine being able to take over for a
> failed host
I'm about to be in a similar situation and was planning a gratuitous ARP. It
seems a lot easier than attempting to take over the MAC adddress.
Am I correct in assuming that:
$ cd /usr/src
$ make installworld DESTDIR=/vol1/FreeBSD
will install the entire OS into /vol1/FreeBSD?
Has anyone ever tried this? ;)
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>>> The opinions expressed above are entire
.
So this breaks the C++ compiler and any apps that were compiled with
this? Forgive me if I don't understand this...
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"They that can giv
weeks, and sometimes the /etc/pam.conf does -not- get
upgraded. I dunno why, nor am I likely to check, but I thought I'd
provide another datapoint.
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Well. Can anyone shed any light on the apparent inconsistencies
between the handbook, the man page, and what is -really- needed to
make a bootable CD?
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A
y as well. Not to mention
networking.
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ies a complete (and/or relevant) set of these tweaks when
comparing benchmarks. Does this already exist, and if not, how hard
would it be to catalog every single relavent tunable parameter in a
FreeBSD system?
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ield to zero *I deleted the /cdrom fstab entry from the file*
and it still tried to preen it. ;)
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There *is* no such thing as peer pressure, only
/sbin/fsck for it).
Does anyone have any clues or am I going to have to insert printf()
calls into it to see what is going on?
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"Challenges make y
David O'Brien -Hackers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real
> /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at?
There is none. No default fstab exists.
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BSDs, which is -hackers as well I'd think. I'll CC it.
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"I'll have you hanged, if you don't prove that you are a mystic." s
ux...a fact I've used to
convince people that FreeBSD administration is easier, faster,
better...etc.
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There is enough for all in th
ed times have I seen someone wondering why a service didn't start
on linux/solaris/hpux and it turned out that someone put a regular
file in a directory that was supposed to have links in it. Being
burned by this repeatedly (especially when it's not my originating
mistake) is not somethin
omments on something they haven't seen and such posts have
> contributed nothing.
Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the
operating system with well known religious implications should be
presented in a clearer fashion, with links pointed to the relevant
docu
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>> Alternatively speaking, perhaps topics that advocate additions to the
>> operating system with well known religious implications should be
>> presented in a clearer fas
explains the interactions between rc scripts.
For those who feel this is still too obscure, have a look at:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/etc/rc.subr
and pay attention to the run_rc_* subroutines. It's not much, but
it's a start.
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.
The bottom line to all this is that if there is any line in an
/etc/fstab that mounts on "/", fsck will use the device actually
mounted as root, and not the one in the file.
Back to the drawing board.
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>>&
revival. ;)
Finding out that they've been using BSD code all along only rubs salt
in the wounds.
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"Trying to control information in the ne
icrosoft is against the GPL. Prolly won't find too much Linux
code in Windows. The TCP/IP stacks (i've heard) are pretty close. Windows has
added a few things, but essentially they are the same. The BSD licence and the
GPL, as we all know, are very different. BSD good GPL bad.
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Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:46:08PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
>
> any success in using an Airport AP with non airport cards?
We have not had any problems using many different manufactures with
the Airport AP. The only gotcha is if you using WEP. Different
drivers using different methods of en
16/63] at ata4-master WDMA2
ad9: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata4-slave WDMA2
Yes, we know that the "WDMA2" is happening, this state proved to be
independant of a drive failing. It has to do with 10 drives in a tower
and cable lengths... =(
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he i915 is ported to FreeBSD but I've hadn't the time or FreeBSD skills
to actually get it working :-) (I'd suspect my pci_alloc_consistent port
isn't correct, ...)
porting the i810 driver probably isn't a huge amount of work but I doubt
I'll have any time to do it ..
rom ourselves? You
typed it, you suffer the consequences (and you'll think very carefully
before hitting RETURN next time). Or don't you trust those to whom you
have given root access?
I can't believe we're having this conversation.
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gher density drives will be more sensitive
> to both heat and dirty power.
A third possibility is that all disks came from the same batch (and I've
been bitten by that). After all, there's a reason why 250Gb can be
squeezed into such a p
Or, for that matter, the traditional use of sleep(2) before that :-)
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I have a Kingston StrataDrive Plus adaptor, which in conjunction with a
Windoze driver (and Kingston drives *only*) allow a 2nd ATA drive to be
connected to a laptop. Any chance that it can be used with FreeBSD?
5.3-STABLE says "ata2: "
nt
stinky# atacontrol mode 2
Master = BIOSPIO
Slave = BIOSPIO
Looks like I'm out of luck?
The full dmesg output (which I'd truncated) is:
ata2: at port
0x180-0x187,0x386-0x387 irq 11 function 0 config 37 on pccard0
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and disks (it was designed to
clone smaller disks to a bigger Kingston drive as an upgrade).
Kingston have verified the driver only works with their disks, so it's not
beyond the realms of possibility that the adaptor will as well. I should
dig out the old disk and try it (if it
troller working so that I can get back to my
work files. If you know of existing patches please point them out (and I'll
have to find instructions on how to apply them but c'est la vie). Thanks in
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hat I could verify that it's a
problem with the P-ATA part of this controller.
Any more ideas?
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e math by hand, but if I don't have
> to...
It wasn't all that long ago that there was such a tool; I think it was
"icheck -b" that went as far back as Edition 5?
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I remember some discussions a while ago about adding statefulness to
the character device driver layer. What's the consensus now ? Is it going
to be added, and if so, when ?
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011207 07:57] wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave R
> > ufino writes:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I remember some discussions a while ago about a
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >They are talking about "per-open", not "per-fd-instance" data,
> >which could easily exclude dup, dup2, and fcntl(f_DUPFD).
>
> If you don't include dup/dup2/fnctl in your accounting, you
> can only reliably tell "first open", "another open", "som
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> e Rufino writes:
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> >They are talking about "per-open", not "per-fd-instance" data,
> >> >which could easily exclude dup, dup2, and fcntl(f_DUPFD).
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011208 19:43] wrote:
> >
> > I had some patches to do this, but lost them ages ago. If I get really
> > bored next week, I'll redo them and stick them in a perforce branch. That
> > said, it requires a bit more
How about writing a new filesystem based on UFS? This would save all of the
hassle that JFS would bring: licensing, porting time, etc. Of course, it
would likely bust any compatibility desired.
What I'm thinking is a filesystem that takes the current UFS and improves
upon it. It could support lar
e hardware platform is on a IBM Netfinity 4000R. I have disabled any
PnP options in the bios and have also disabled floppy and com ports. I
am posting the output from the command "dmesg" and also the output of
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My current installation is this:
ad0s3a / 500MB
ad0s3e 500MB
ad0s3b 2000MB
ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB
ad0s3g /mountpoint2 1MB
ad0s3h /mountpoint3 4MB
I have -Current on ad0s3a an
At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console
and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to
change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g.
ad(0,e)/boot/loader.
At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current
of O
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> > >
> > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a
> > > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes:
> : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console
> : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you
The fixit.flp from the 5.0 DP2 cdrom appears to be unusable. When I
attempt to use it after booting from kern.flp it comes up with errors of
the form:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2528 of 2528-2530 (ST0 40 \
ST1 4 ST2 10 cyl 70 hd 0 sec 9)
accompanied by ominous clicking noises from the flo
REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through.
I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of
disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow
any keyboard input and does not proceed any further.
(*** don't try this unless you have a way of re
Further to this problem, I booted CURRENT- 20 October 2002 and mounted the
fixit floppy. Trying "tar cvf test /mnt" gave the usual errors as before.
Mounting the fixit.flp as a memory disk using
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fixit.flp -u 4
mount -oro /dev/md4 /mnt
and trying tar as before gave no erro
I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT
I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on
order. It has not arrived yet.
I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault.
To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if acce
and on others as well.
Creating a tar-ball, untarring in the new location, making necessary
tweaks,
seemed to work OK at first. But we can't reset passwords, etc. out side of
sysinstall!? What are we doing wrong? What are we missing?
Help!
Thanks,
-- Dave
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Dave Kingsley
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