Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 12:00 , D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using > it, > and what the ramifications of turning it off are? http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+new+reno To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 12:23 , Paul Halliday wrote: > [00:12am]-root@dissent~# pstat -t | grep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | grep OCc | > wc -l Oh, and pstat -t | egrep -ic 'tty[pqrs].* OCc ' saves two forks. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hack

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 12:23 , Paul Halliday wrote: > Your not very bright are you? Hey, at least I can spell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:51:22PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 05:49 , Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > > In the last episode (Mar 02), Daniel O'Connor said: > > >>

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 05:49 , Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 02), Daniel O'Connor said: >> On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 21:19, Danny Braniss wrote: >>> fstat | awk '{print $8}' | egrep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | sort -u | wc -l >>> >>> is IMHO correct, ;-) >> >> Ach, of course :) >> I hope

Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port

2002-02-13 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:49:18AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > In rev 1.20 of sys/kern/vnode_if.pl Eivind converted this from a > Bourne+AWK script into a Perl script. Well that just makes porting to > new architectures VERY difficult as the boot strapping of Perl 5 is quite > difficult. > > A

Re: serial ports

2001-10-05 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:25:47AM -0400, Benjamin Gross wrote: > what device file represents port 1 on a pc ? Assuming you mean "the lowest-numbered port on a PC" (the one commonly found at IRQ4 on the ISA bus): /dev/ttyd0 for callin ports /dev/ttyid0 corresponding callin initial-state

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-22 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:44:56PM +, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the > > files then rerun mkisofs? > > > > This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is n

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:23:43PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:39:05 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > > whois -c ru freebsd.org.ru (use -- whois.ripn.net) > > > > whois -Q freebsd.org.ru > > > > > whois -c ua fre

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:08:21PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > It adds new command line modifier "-c" to declare server code. > Originally it was supposed to point to country's whois > server, but with no modifications can be used for other areas. > > For example you can have following string i

Re: services...

2001-04-19 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:30:37PM -0300, leal wrote: > thanks, > but what the point of this forum??? See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: IL0VEY0U worm (fwd)

2000-05-04 Thread Joe Abley
In the interests of putting the ILOVEYOU thread to death, here's a concise description of the worm from bugtraq. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:09:32 -0700 From: Elias Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IL0VEY0U worm A quick update with

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-12 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:44:04AM -0500, Dennis wrote: > At 07:32 PM 3/12/00 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >That's also why I am wasting my time slowly documenting the FreeBSD > >internals in my spare time. > > "slowly" is the key word here. Real products are documented before they are

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-11 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Not realistically. First of all, most "scruffy unshaven hackers" are not > qualified to make serious changes to important drivers. they might be able > to find a stray pointer, but not to make structural improvement. This is just silly. >

Re: Tuning TCP/IP Performance

2000-03-04 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:21:20PM +, Paul Robinson wrote: > I've been trying to get TCP/IP performance as fast as possible by playing > around with sysctl (playing in the net.inet area) and so on, and was > wondering if there were any comprehensive resources on this that I've > missed. I hav

Eclipse/BSD

2000-02-09 Thread Joe Abley
This may be old news, but I follow -hackers, -arch and -current and I hadn't seen it before: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/ Would be interested to hear informed opinion as to whether these changes might find a permanent home in FreeBSD at some point in the future. ...

Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy

2000-01-29 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +, Tony Finch wrote: > I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD > network stack. I started to look at this a while back, but started to flounder when I looked for an existing interface to allow me to source frames on a local eth

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:01:01AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >People posting ``open source'' programs would be required >to send the code, or a Web site address where the code was >displayed, to the government. > > Basically, does this mean something like > tar cf - /usr/src/crypto

Re: Upgrading rdist to v6.1.5 in -CURRENT?

1999-12-08 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:13:34PM -0500, C. Stephen Gunn wrote: > Since rdist 6.1.5 is back under a BSD Style license, should we work > towards updating it in -CURRENT, and perhaps -STABLE. It has several > bug fixes and enhancements to the current supplied rdist. Yaay. That's a good thing.

NFS server bound to specific local address

1999-12-05 Thread Joe Abley
Hi, I've just noticed that (on STABLE, at least) it doesn't seem possible to run an NFS server on a machine, and have it service requests from clients talking to anything other than the base address. For example, if I ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.0.11 ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.0.16 alias an

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:22:20PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:29:54AM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > > To put it slightly more strongly: as far as I'm concerned ext2 is not a > > >

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:29:54AM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > To put it slightly more strongly: as far as I'm concerned ext2 is not a > serious fs if you really care about handling power failures and other such > fun things. I'm not sure I've ever really understood this position. In cases

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-06 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:18:59PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > One would better assume that files available over NFS will be read > by anyone who wants, and, likewise, that files available on > removable media will be read by anyone who wants. That side of the > problem does not belong to thi

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:44:00PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > [common courtesy] > > This is and has been common courtesy on Usenet newsgroups and Usenet, > later Internet mailing lists, since I've had Usenet access - about 1985. > If you don't know that, you don't even belong on the net, let a

Cosmetic changes to whois(1)

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Abley
I've just made two very minor (cosmetic) modifications to whois(1): 1. Added -m option, which selects whois.ra.net as the whois server. This server publishes routing policy for a large number of network operators, and is currently run by Merit (see www.ra.net for more details). 2. Added -q optio

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-20 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:00:26PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > I agree. In solaris (and linux by the way) all you do is set > passwdldap files > in /etc/nsswitch.conf > and that's it. In Solaris, it's passwd: ldap files ^ nsswitch.conf(4), SunOS 5.5.1: ... There is an

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-20 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:00:26PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > I agree. In solaris (and linux by the way) all you do is set > passwdldap files > in /etc/nsswitch.conf > and that's it. In Solaris, it's passwd: ldap files ^ nsswitch.conf(4), SunOS 5.5.1: ... There is an

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-05 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:11:57AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: >I've been encountering people recently who, for one reason or > another, are unable to find information for themselves when they > have a question on FreeBSD. > >I propose an rtfm(1) command, and I've got some Perl code that

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-05 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:11:57AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: >I've been encountering people recently who, for one reason or > another, are unable to find information for themselves when they > have a question on FreeBSD. > >I propose an rtfm(1) command, and I've got some Perl code that

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ? > This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n < gotchas). > > I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the > functionality should be there.

Re: GPS receivers for xntpd (off-topic)

1999-05-19 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:30:38PM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote: > [ML] Back to my olden telco days some 10+ years ago when SDH > was on paper only and ATM was on benches, this sounds like 2MHz H1* > clock synchronized to GPS. Since transmission does not need the time of > day info (at least

GPS receivers for xntpd (off-topic)

1999-05-19 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:02:38PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > [various GPS chat] I have been meaning to do some research on this kind of stuff for a while. We have GPS receivers in the machine room that supply clock for some of the transmission network, but when I ask the telco guys about the

Re: VMware--anyone playing with it?

1999-05-17 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 03:22:31PM -0600, Charles Randall wrote: > http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html But this only runs on the Mac, right? > -Original Message- > From: Jacques Vidrine [mailto:n...@nectar.cc] > Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:12 PM > To: Jason Thorpe > Cc

3.1 binaries, 3.2 binaries...?

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
My stable machine now calls itself: FreeBSD buddha.clear.net.nz 3.2-BETA FreeBSD 3.2-BETA #11: Fri May 14 19:24:02 NZST 1999 jab...@buddha.clear.net.nz:/usr/src/sys/compile/TIMELORD i386 In other words, the release version number has wrapped to 3.2 from 3.1 following a sup and build the oth

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > So do I. I would like them to make the source available. I have *lots* of > machines available that are sitting doing nothing. But they don't run > FreeBSD (yet). I have at least 3 alpha 8200s and 4 Alpha 4100s that are > running N

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:56:05PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :>http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > : > : Now available at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/ > : > :-DG > : > :David Greenman > :Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > :Creator of h

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:42:35AM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > You want a sort of 'virtual' interface that allows the attachment of other > real (or maybe other 'virtual' interfaces) beneath it. This interface > implements a number of policies regarding how it routes packets addressed > to it.

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-11 Thread Joe Abley
ight be helpful. Here's a start, anyway: Joe Abley , 4.0-CURRENT, 2.2.8, 3.1 Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message