Re: Panic with 5.4 -- kgdb output included

2005-05-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:45:16AM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: 5.4-STABLE from 5/27, repeated panics. Finally got a crashdump, fired up kgdb and: (is there any advantage to booting the kernel.debug instead of the regular kernel? Can't think of one, but possibley...). Unfortunately

Re: Strange make buildworld behaviour with 5.4-RELEASE ( amd64 )

2005-05-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:16:41PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Doing a make buildworld from a directory other than /usr/src results in the following: [log] /usr/obj/.usr/amd64/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libl.a - /usr/obj/.usr/amd64/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libln.a

Re: SSE in kernel?

2005-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:20:40PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Can SSE instructions be used in kernel / kernel modules? Can floating point code? This question is asked quite often..please see the mailing list archives for discussion. Kris pgpL9IHYv5HDr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now?

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:39:23PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: So sounds like this does need a bit of looking at. The key thing is both reboot and halt always leave the machine FS in a good state where as shutdown -p doesnt so is there something that -p skips? Or is it simply the fact that

Re: cleanup and diffs ?

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:38:37PM +, Thordur I. Bjornsson wrote: Hello. I was surfing the dragonflybsd wiki site the other day and found out that they are doing a base-cleanup. That is they are compiling the tools that come with the base system with WARNS?=6 ... Humm... This is

Re: 5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now?

2005-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Seems like doing a shutdown -p now on the current 5.4-STABLE branch is resulting in FS corruption. I've done this 4 times now and all but 1 time the machine has failed to boot with a panic: mod=0100600, inum=1271817, fs=/var

Re: Two password prompts with 'su'

2005-04-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:55:52PM -0700, Justin Bennett wrote: All, Recently my machine (FreeBSD) started showing 2 password prompts when using su. The first password seems to suffice, then hitting 'enter' on the second one lets me in. Any ideas what is going on? Check your pam

Re: Multithreaded program crashes on SMP (HT enabled) machine

2005-04-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:28:50PM +0300, Adi Pircalabu wrote: Hello, I have a multithreaded application ported on FreeBSD 5.3 which crashes in a minute or less if hyperthreading in enabled. Without HT there is no problem. How and where should I start to investigate the problem? If it's a

Re: Multithreaded program crashes on SMP (HT enabled) machine

2005-04-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:05:38PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:28:50PM +0300, Adi Pircalabu wrote: Hello, I have a multithreaded application ported on FreeBSD 5.3 which crashes in a minute or less if hyperthreading in enabled. Without HT there is no problem

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:59PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: HI all, I am running FreeBSd 5.3-REL Today my system simply locked up. There was no error sent to console, to any logs, nor the monitor screen. It was totally unresponsive to network, serial console, or keyboard. After 4

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:34:59PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi Kris, I had this problem before and I changed the MB and the memory and today it did the same thing it did before. Continue to check power supply, CPU cooling, cabling, etc. memtest doesnt give any errors. OK, that doesn't

Re: List of Maj-Min Devices

2005-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:24PM +0100, Jos? Nicol?s Castellano wrote: Hi!, I'm making mknod to some devices in new system like /dev/ttyp0 and so and i can't found a list of maj and min numbers. Where can i found it? On 4.x and older, the /dev/MAKEDEV script. On 5.x and newer, devfs

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:38:06PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! The respected manual contain dire warnings, but the Google search suggests, the situation is not *that* gloomy. For example, according to http://kerneltrap.org/node/652 , nullfs was used on Bento-cluster two years

Re: Help about debugging FreeBSD kernel core dump file

2005-02-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:41:08AM +0800, River wrote: Hi, Everyone: How can I debug the core dump file created by kernel panic? I try to use gdb -core vmcore.0 (vmcore.0 is 4G file because I have 4G memory) and the gdb said: this is not a vaild core file. Why? Read the chapter on kernel

Re: Makefile .for and .if expansion

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:10:33PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Am I missing an easier way to do this? May I suggest the following instead: %%% MANLANG?= foo bar all: .for i in ${MANLANG:N} @echo foo ${i} .endfor %%% Thanks for your analysis and helpful suggestion.

Makefile .for and .if expansion

2005-02-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
The following small makefile doesn't behave as one would naively expect: MANLANG?=foo all: .for i in ${MANLANG} .if empty(${i}) @echo foo ${i} .endif .endfor ports-i386%make foo foo foo I think this is because the .if evaluation is happening too early, and it's not being done after the

Re: Makefile .for and .if expansion

2005-02-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:32:01PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: The following small makefile doesn't behave as one would naively expect: MANLANG?=foo all: .for i in ${MANLANG} .if empty(${i}) @echo foo ${i} .endif .endfor ports-i386%make foo foo foo I think

Re: FW: Call for comments: CoxR, a CVS/mail-lists/BTS

2005-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:47:42PM -0800, ALeine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate that not everyone is a fan of mutex synchronization, but mutex hell is a bit of an odd description: most bugs I see getting reported (and fixed) aren't even locking-related. They're generally

Re: v5.3-release-amd64 installation problems

2005-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:39:50PM -, Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote: (3) at no time did i see any option for 32/64bit install ? FreeBSD/amd64 is the native, 64-bit version of FreeBSD. If you want to run FreeBSD in legacy i386 mode, install the i386 version of FreeBSD. Kris pgp16PvSjbRU1.pgp

Re: 5.x system trying to boot /kernel ?

2004-12-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:39:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, After adding KDB, KDB_UNATTENDED and DDB, two of my 5.3-STABLE servers never came back after a reboot. After talking to the datacenter, they informed me these servers are trying to boot of /kernel and not

Re: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE

2004-12-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:58:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Dual Xeon 2.4 and a Dual Xeon 2.8 servers running with HyperThreading, ACPI, and SMP enabled. The 2.8 server won't stand for more than 5 days without crashing, and the 2.4 server was up 30 days crashed, now

Re: OpenCVS

2004-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:58:27PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: Hi hackers, I've seen the OpenBSD guys have come up with a BSD-licensed CVS[1] that should be focused on security as well as features. Is there any chance that this could make it into FreeBSD's tree as well? Considering GNU's

Re: OpenCVS

2004-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:07:48PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: One might also ask the begged question, namely whether or not it makes any sense to invest time and effort into a transition to just another implementation of cvs vs investing it in moving to something else, like SVN. No, I'm

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage

Re: tcsh is not csh

2004-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:37:06PM -0600, Kevin Lyons wrote: I have (re)discovered that tcsh is not csh although the tcsh man page falsely asserts backward compatibility. Trying to do a simple read of multiword variables in tcsh fails yet works find on csh. The tcsh man page admits as much

Re: Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL

2004-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:35:29AM -0500, Rob Deker wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if anybody was working on porting the new open-source Atheros HAL from OpenBSD to FreeBSD yet. Why would you want to do this? Doesn't it provide a subset of what the FreeBSD driver already provides? Kris

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p27 (VKERN)

2004-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:22:13AM -0500, TWG Engineering wrote: Dear group, I am interested in setting up a server for my students at University of Indianapolis with a virtual OS configuration. I have used servers with the VKERN configuration. I have not been able to find information on

Re: pkg_add conflicts

2004-11-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:04:11AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:00:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:34:48 -0500 From: Robert Dormer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pkg_add conflicts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pb seeking with less on file more size 2Go

2004-10-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:19:23AM +0200, rmkml wrote: Hi, I running less with file more size 2Go on fbsd v4.10R and if execute 'G' on less cmd G not seek on end file ... Possible you have same pb/question ? You should try talking to the less developers, since this utility is

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: I had a problem like this only it was a weekly occurrence. I tracked it down to the network card driver. After swapping out the network card with a different brand/chipset, the problem was resolved. In my case, i had entries in

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing.

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:23:04PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: Actual spontaneous reboots are very rare These are very rare except they seem to happen about once a day for a while and then stop... very strange.. and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply,

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:37:34PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 06:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have ddb enabled? I just recompiled the kernel (4.10 patchlevel 3) and installed it. It's in use right now and I can't reboot it, but it may do so for me! 8

Re: STRIP in /usr/share/mk/

2004-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi, while playing around ifconfig.c, I needed to use gdb(1) on the generated binary : z6po:ifconfig# make clean ; make DEBUG_FLAGS=-ggdb make install [...] install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ifconfig /sbin

Re: ZFS

2004-09-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Sam wrote: CERN's LHC is expected to produce 10-15 PB/year. e-science (the grid) is capable of producing whopping huge data sets, and people already are. Many aspects of data custodianship are still open questions, but there's little doubt that what's

Re: ZFS

2004-09-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:22:33PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:18:37PM +, Kris Kennaway wrote.. On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Sam wrote: CERN's LHC is expected to produce 10-15 PB/year. e-science (the grid) is capable of producing whopping huge

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:50:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of points: 1) No-one from the FreeBSD core team has participated in this discussion so far. 2) Because you initially claimed that this was a security problem, you prejudiced people against you because it's quite

Re: Where is strnlen() ?

2004-08-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:32:54PM +, Thordur Ivar B. wrote: While porting software from a friend wich was developed under Linux, I stumbled upon an error: src/socket.c:236: warning: implicit declaration of function `strnlen' Now my programming experience is nothing to brag about but I

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:49:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: amd64 is approaching critical mass for tier-1. There are a number of developers that own amd64 hardware now, and a number of users who are asking about it on the mailing lists. Peter is finishing up the last blocking item for it

Re: [PATCH/RFC] *BSD kernel debugging

2004-05-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:17:03PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:45:39PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: I cannot prevent you from committing this, but if it doesn't address the items mentioned above, it may not be used on FreeBSD. Unless I'm being

Re: kmem_malloc crashes running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5

2004-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:19:43AM -0700, John Uhlig wrote: Well, Don Bowman was very helpful in suggesting some kernel parameters. Unfortunately, they did not work for us. If we had the time to experiment with more settings, perhaps we would have been able to find the right combination.

Re: Is this LOST??

2004-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:04:53AM +0800, Deng XueFeng wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:26 am, Deng XueFeng wrote: I found the htonl implemention in libc for i386 is not sync with the kern. sys use bswap for swaping the int. but libc still use xchg. IS THIS LOST? It's because

Re: kmem_malloc crashes running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5

2004-04-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:40:38PM -0700, John Uhlig wrote: Hi. We are running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 with a fairly generic kernel on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with 1/2TB of disk RAID arrays. It recently crashed at about 3AM while running the daily /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid

Re: panic: random.ko

2004-04-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:20:14AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-04-04 19:02:07 -0700: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:35:53AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: Booting a kernel with random compiled in, and load_random=YES in loader.conf causes a panic very similar to

Re: panic: random.ko

2004-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:35:53AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: Booting a kernel with random compiled in, and load_random=YES in loader.conf causes a panic very similar to the one described here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2003-August/000656.html Hi Mark, please fix

Re: Multi-Thread Ports Installation suggestion.

2004-04-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:55:38PM -0500, Nan Wang wrote: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=threadid=20611 There are some partial patches in the GNATS DB that attempted to do this, but no-one was able to fix them up so they work, and they seemed to have since disappeared from

Re: UT2004?

2004-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:31:22PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:44, Kris Kennaway wrote: I have ktrace'd it and when I click 'Yes' on the CDROM prompt it only seems to try and open fstab and mtab. It ends up with a FreeBSD fstab and /compat/linux/etc/mtab which

Re: UT2004?

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:26:27PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Has anyone got it installed under FreeBSD? I got the demo to run and install pretty well (for some reason I can't play it in KDE, I have to drop back to twm otherwise my system hangs), but the full game doesn't install :( I

Re: Mozilla sucking file descriptors

2004-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:32:15PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out the system.

Re: diff included in commit mail

2004-03-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:14:42AM +0100, Mark Santcroos wrote: Hi, I know it was discussed once somewhere, but I can't find the thread in question. What I would like to be able to do is see the actual commit included in the mail. I know it can't be done at the moment the message

Re: -stable needs rw obj dir for install?

2004-03-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:00:01PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: I have not checked this with 5.x but... /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local) 10.42.0.1:/usr/ports on /usr/ports (nfs, read-only) 10.42.0.1:/usr/src on /usr/src

Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses.

2004-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? getting really annoying.. Yeah, but what do you expect anyone to do about it? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses.

2004-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:50:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? getting really annoying.. Yeah, but what do you expect anyone to do about it? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel options

2004-02-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:36:56AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, is there a way of knowing with which kernel-options a particular kernel was compiled with (appart form the obvious config file)? In general, no. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/s gcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:16AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:46, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Alexandr Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please explain me this? Result is fully reproduceable. Please note, that the only difference is the output file

Re: need help on CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf please

2004-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:17:03PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: Hi y'all, I'm trying to find a way to do a CFLAGS+='-O' if and only if such a parm was not already provided before 'make' actually runs. I had this coded with the single = sign, i.e. without ?= or +=, but the process still

Re: need help on CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf please

2004-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
but the point seems to be the ports that set -O2 explicitly are likely to work correctly. On Thu 12 Feb 2004 17:13:25 -0800, Kris Kennaway replied: That's not a good assumption; many ports simply add -O2 (or -O3, or -O999) because the authors want their code to run fast. The set of ports

Re: network constipation?

2004-01-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:46:33AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, i have 2 amd64s (one dual opteron, one athlon64), which behave identicaly. Im trying to compile /usr/ports/x11-fonts, ports obj are nfs mounted (on the the same server). so things go nicely, but after a while

Re: Upgrade from 4.9 to 5.1

2004-01-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:55:41PM +0300, Dmitry A. Bondareff wrote: Hello hackers! Help to understand problem. I have FreeBSD 4.9 on my box. # uname -a FreeBSD wall.ru 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #24 I've tried to Upgrade it up to 5.1 # cvsup /etc/cvsupfile # cd /usr/src #

Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:05:50AM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: I think we must wait until a 1.0 version is available. SVN is meant to be a replacement to CVS. The projects repository is using perforce which happens to be a good tool, so moving it to svn is probably not a step forward

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:08:38PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: The ports freeze seems to last too long with recent releses. Or maybe it's just I've gotten more involved, but out of the last four months (2003/09/07-today), ports tree has been completely open for whopping 28

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:09:49AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ports freeze seems to last too long with recent releses. Or maybe it's just I've gotten more involved, but out of the last four months (2003/09/07-today), ports

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

2004-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:14:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:05:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: For 5.x we already have a 3rd floppy that is dedicated to modules. Unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it should

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-01-07 23:17:31 -0800: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:08:38PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: The ports freeze seems to last too long with recent releses. Or maybe it's just I've gotten more

Re: FBSD 5-CURRENT: Kernel Makefile.inc1 Error

2003-12-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:41:26PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake Garance A Drosihn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06/12/03 03:31]: From the above description, it sounds like you are running on a 5.1 system, and you are trying to compile a 5.2 kernel. Is this true? If the system you are

Re: A new order of idiots

2003-12-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:34:54AM -0800, Jesse Monroy wrote: Well should a rolling stone gather moss, I should be found right. I email the hackers about a solution for handling spam. Their response: hey don't tell us about it we're busy hacking. This message is in general for those idiots

Re: Problems with use of M_NOWWAIT in ATA

2003-12-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if this could possibly be related to a problem I was having with my 4.9-RELEASE box. Twice in two days it hung on me completely, and started spouting the following error messages: Well, the error condition

Re: Loading a shared Linux library from a FreeBSD program?

2003-11-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:55:30AM +0200, Markus Niemist? wrote: Hi, Is there any way to load a shared Linux library from a FreeBSD program? I don't think so. With a bit of effort, you can compile your source as a Linux binary on FreeBSD. This has been discussed a number of times in the

Re: Status of unionfs in -STABLE

2003-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:54:59PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: Hi there, Recently I've began to consider making some use of unionfs in (semi-)production environment. Can someone aware of its current status in -STABLE comment a bit on this subject? Probably any information would be

Re: spambouncer tags much freebsd list mail as spam

2003-11-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:59:29PM +0100, C. Kukulies wrote: I installed the spambouncer.org procmail script and before I was switching the behaviour from SILENT to COMPLAIN I took a look at my spam.incoming folder and found a lot of messages from freebsd-bugs and freebsd-mobile in there.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1-p10 reproducible crash with Apache2

2003-10-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:37:56AM +0100, Branko F. Gra?nar wrote: Hi. FreeBSD 5.1-p10 (and also possible other 5.1-pX version) can be remotely locked up if the following criteria is met: + apache2 has mod_ssl loaded and enabled + apache2 has the following configuration directives set to

Re: [4.8-RELEASE - Stable, 5.1-RELEASE] Panics when system loaded

2003-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:08:18PM +0200, Jaco van Tonder wrote: Can anybody perhaps give a hint in which direction to look or to make this go away? Do you have stale modules loaded? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:55:26PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: Those working in the DragonFly tree, all appreciate Hiten's hard work as a bottle-washer. We've benefited from the fact that members of the FreeBSD community, through racist remarks and endless flames, and a key member of core, through

Re: 5.1 mfsroot floppy broken?

2003-10-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:24:25AM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get an install of 5.1 using the floppies made off the 5.1 ISO, and it seems they are broken. Has anyone else successfully achieved an install using the boot disks? Regards - Jacob Further

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:22:35PM +1000, Q wrote: Can someone comment on whether this is something that has been done intentionally, or avoided in favour of some other yet to be implemented solution? Or is it still on someones todo list. You can consult the FreeBSD and OpenBSD CVS

Re: network lkm

2003-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:50AM +0300, maya Haddad wrote: Regards, would you provide me with an example of network module under linux kernel 2.4. No. Have a nice day! Kris P.S. Try a Linux list :-) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:38:45PM +0900, User Takawata wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:22:35PM +1000, Q wrote: Can someone comment on whether this is something that has been done intentionally, or avoided in favour of some other yet

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:51:28PM +1000, Q wrote: Thanks, I have already looked over the repositories to determine how they differed. I wasn't really asking about the history of these changes in the other projects, but rather the history of why FreeBSD HASN'T also gone down this road. There

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:52:07PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: Please note that there are *SEVERE* security issues with this module. The module is not loaded into the kernel by default and, when loaded, can only be used by users in the wheel group. Why the wheel group? Until now, the only special

Re: building sshd

2003-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:51:17PM -0400, Adil Katchi wrote: Has anyone tried making sshd? I ran src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd/Makefile and this is the error I got: auth1.o: In function `do_authloop': /d2/akatchi/src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd/../../../crypto/openssh/auth1.c:121: undefi ned

Re: building sshd

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:51:54PM -0400, Adil Katchi wrote: I'm trying to build sshd from src/crypto/openssh and I'm having problems. I've only modified auth2.c. I've followed the FREEBSD-upgrade instructions. Those aren't the instructions to build the code, they're instructions to the

Re: Current state of FreeBSD for AMD 64?

2003-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:33:11PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Does anyone have any details on the current state of AMD 64 support. There is a FreeBSD/amd64 mailingq list, you know :) Been doing some digging but details are few and far between. Key question is will the linux emulation

Re: sshd source code

2003-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:08:38PM -0400, Adil Katchi wrote: I'm looking for the sshd source code for freebsd 4.7. Any idea where I can find it in the CVS tree? whereis openssh openssh: /usr/src/crypto/openssh Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Compiling Perl on SMP 5.1-RELEASE box

2003-10-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:04:24AM -0700, Brendan Harris wrote: I figured this was more appropriate for freebsd-hackers than freebsd-questions. Here's the deal. I'm trying to compile Perl 5.8.1 on a FreeBSD 5.1 SMP box. The kernel is compiled with SMP, APIC and npx support. GCC is version

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: Hi I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example

Re: A new sort utility

2003-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:53:56PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: It's not quite as fast as the GNU or 4.4BSD sort implementations Why is this? I often need to sort huge files, so I'd be reluctant to use an implementation with a significant performance penalty. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Perl 5.8.1-RC4 release notes mention FreeBSD malloc upto 200 times slower than perl malloc

2003-09-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:00:17PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: Maybe the test case can assist FreeBSD kernel hackers to make malloc faster. This is a FAQ. For any algorithm one can come up with a workload that makes it perform badly. The trick is making it perform well for common

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:32:52AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Anyone else see this type of thing before? I did some research on the lists but all I ever saw was a problem with reading resolv.conf. That's not the case here, because it's definitely picking up the nameserver from that

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Sten Daniel S?rsdal wrote: Otherwise one needs to manually track dependencies (not a terribly difficult job) and make those as packages, and keep doing this until all dependencies are as packages (in my case, i have several light-weight

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: portinstall -r -p pkgname will build a package for pkgname and all of it's dependencies. So will 'make package-recursive', as already suggested :-) Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FYI - Just got a kernel panic - RELENG_4

2003-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:34:29PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: supped as of ~ 1:40pm EST today The panic: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode This is probably hardware-related, but it's possible it may be due to a kernel problem. As a first step, you need to try and get a gdb

Re: kernel 4.7 x filesystem 4.5

2003-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:37:38PM +, omestre wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD web server (diskless), running a 4.7 kernel and with a 4.5 filesystem. In Linux environment, the kernel and user-land programs do not fight. In FreeBSD you can't do this. FreeBSD is a complete system, not a

Re: /stand/sysinstall: Why do we always have to download /INDEX forany installation changes?

2003-08-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:00:36PM -0400, Constantine wrote: Hello, all! Why do we always have to download .../packages/INDEX file, when we want to browse the package list from /stand/sysinstall? Please send patches :-) kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD

2003-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: Hi, It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff families (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=105899089116252w=2). Wouldn't it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD?

Re: [future patch] dropping user privileges on demand

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:58:54AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: It does something similar, but uses a C-like language to control a processes actions. This lets you get extremely fine-grained control (allow httpd to bind to only port 80, once), but the rules run as root, so they can grant as well

Re: your mail

2003-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:14:27PM +0530, S.Gopinath wrote: Dear Sir, I'm required to run a.out binaries like foxplus in a recent Intel based hardware. I have chosen FreeBSD 5.1 and successfuly installed. But I could not run a.out binaries like Foxplus. I tried it by load ibcs

Re: root pwd

2003-07-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:14:24AM +, mouhammad sajjad wrote: hi how i can hack root password in freeBSD Download the following file: ftp://2130706433/pub/FreeBSD-hacks/root-hack.tar.gz (full instructions are included) The site is pretty busy, so if you can't get through at

Re: gcc segfault on -CURRENT (cvs yesterday)

2003-07-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Kai Mosebach wrote: Hi, Trying to compile sapdb fails on a -CURRENT system build yesterday. On a system from 22.July it compiled fine. Any ideas ? Do you have stale C++ headers in /usr/include? Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc segfault on -CURRENT (cvs yesterday)

2003-07-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:29:58PM +0200, Kai Mosebach wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Kai Mosebach wrote: Hi, Trying to compile sapdb fails on a -CURRENT system build yesterday. On a system from 22.July it compiled fine. Any ideas ? Do you have stale

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