MAC Biba policy. High marked process can't write to high marked file.

2005-08-21 Thread Michael
Hello, hackers. First of all have to apologize for english, sorry. I was playing with Mandatory Access Control, all have been done like it described in handbook: I have added 'insecure' class with "label=partition/13,mls/5,biba/low". Then created 'mactest' user and placed it there. I have turned

Re: MAC Biba policy. High marked process can't write to high marked file.

2005-08-22 Thread Michael
Robert Watson wrote: >> test: Permission denied. > > %setpmac biba/high echo 1 >> test # bah! > > Remember that the '>>' is evaluated in the parent shell context, not > the execution context set up by setpmac. Try doing "setpmac biba/high > csh" and see how that changes the results when you

Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Proto
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > Le Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:41:35 +0200, > Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Hello, > >> I'm trying to port the glxsb driver from OpenBSD to FreeBSD 7-STABLE >> (via the NetBSD port). >> " The glxsb driver supports the security block of the Geode LX >> ser

experimantal question about md's

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Schuh
panics? thanks a lot. greetings from sunny Germany michael -- === m i c h a e l - s c h u h . n e t === Michael Schuh Postfach 10 21 52 66021 Saarbrücken phone: 0681/8319664 mobil: 0177/9738644 @: m i c h a e l . s c h u h @ g m a i l . c o m === Ust-ID: DE251072318

Re: experimantal question about md's

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Schuh
buffering on this rambased Diskdevice or we shoot us in our kneesas i think thank you michael 2008/9/29 Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael Schuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hallo @list, >> &

Re: experimantal question about md's

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Schuh
processes and in-memory data. I think my question is answered good enough. Thanks for all. greetings Michael 2008/9/29 Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael Schuh wrote: > > Clearly the Writeprocess of writeing data to an mirror is totally ended, > as > > all m

Re: WANTED! board models with Marvell 61XX chips

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Reifenberger
estion are: Marvell 6111, 6121, 6141 or 6145 I have an ASUS M2N32 WS Professional which has an 6141 onboard. Both SATA and PATA are accessable. Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger mich...@reifenberger.com http://www.Reifenberger.com ___ freebsd-hackers@f

R. Stevens select() Collisions Scenario

2000-08-10 Thread Michael Owens
Purpose: I am trying to write a non-blocking, preforked server, specifically to run on FreeBSD, and have a general question as to whether or not my strategy is sound. Problem: In Unix Network Programming Vol. 1 (section 27.6, p.741), Stevens mentions a scenario under a preforked server design

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Harnois
I'm not quite sure what it does, but it seems to work fine here on my ASUS CUSL2, at least the shutdown part. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the stomach is satisfied, and lust is spent, man s

Re: psmintr

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Lucas
There was a bug that caused this not too long ago. Try resupping & rebuilding. > > Forgot to mention, it's a 4.1-stable box (PIII-450, 256MB ram, 1024MB > swap) > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, FengYue wrote: > > > > > Hi, what does "psmintr: out of sync ( != 0008)." mean? > > I got tons of this

Re: MIB's for FreeBSD?

2000-08-29 Thread Michael Lucas
Just log into th machine in question and type % snmpwalk localhost private .1 This spills out pretty much everything you've got. You can add a few things as described in man snmpd.conf, such as disk capacity, but it's pretty conclusive. If you have trouble with .1, or if the ucd-snmp mibs don'

Re: Booting Linux with FreeBSD booter (hack needed)

2000-08-31 Thread Michael Bacarella
> I have a notebook PC with Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD on it. > I installed the FreeBSD booter into the Master Boot Record (MBR). > Using that, I can boot Windows or FreeBSD. But Linux doesn't > show up as a boot choice, because I installed it into a "dos > extended" partition (slice), to keep

dlopen()

2000-09-04 Thread Michael Owens
I am trying an example I got from a magazine originally written for Linux which dynamically loads shared libraries and instantiates C++ classes within them. Being a recent FreeBSD convert, I intended to run this example on it. However, I am having a problem. I did read the man page for dlopen(),

Re: ftp transfers

2000-09-28 Thread Michael Kiernan
> I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put > this in the crontab if possible. There is also the "mirror" port in /usr/ports/ftp. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

When do you want to see panics?

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Lucas
anics & debugger dumps something people want to see, or is the general attitude "then don't *do* that!" ? If you folks want 'em, I'll send them. (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?&

Re: When do you want to see panics?

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Lucas
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:49:15PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001005 13:15] wrote: > > (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics > > normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?" ;) &

Re: MFS

2000-10-10 Thread Michael Lucas
me know how it works for you... If you want a memory-backed filesystem in FreeBSD, use md(4). You'll be happier with the results. MFS is good if you want a memory-backed filesystem that runs on all 4.4BSD-based stuff. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.black

Re: Kernel calls, are they documented somewhere?

2000-11-01 Thread Michael Bacarella
for.) This isn't such a daunting task with grep. Source code cross referencers can also help, but I don't use them nearly as often as I thought I would. -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;finger address for public key GPG Key Fingerprint: B4E4 82F5 BCAC AB83 E6F7 B5AA 933

Re: sfork() ??

2000-11-22 Thread Michael Bacarella
hat someone out there swears by threads and kicks butt with them and has no problems whatsoever, but they put me through too much trouble to ever be worth it. I've reached the point where I re-evaluate my design if I ever find myself saying "..and then I can spawn a thread to.." --

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Bacarella
lieve. > > Will a replacement be added to the base distro? When? If you play with BIND v9, 'nslookup' itself tells you that it's deprecated and that 'host' should be used instead. I'm not a fan either. -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;finger a

No Subject

2000-12-06 Thread Michael Chong
I have a question about FreeBSD...is it possible to set acl's on commands? (eg..giving one specific user the abiltity to execute a command w/o putting them in a group) I'm talking about something like this: http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1998/swol-06-insidesolaris.html. Can we do something like

FIN_WAIT_2 / TIME_WAIT Confusion

2001-01-08 Thread Michael Owens
If this is not proper place to ask this, let me know and I'll go elsewhere as it is a TCP question. . . but I specifically use (and prefer) FreeBSD. I wrote a simple little I/O multiplexing thing that can act as a client or server as a personal project in network programming. Everything seems f

Permissions on crontab..

2001-01-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
Why is crontab suid root? I say to myself "To update /var/cron/tabs/ and to signal cron". Could crontab run suid 'cron'? If those are the only two things it needs to do, run cron as gid 'cron' and make /var/cron/tabs/ group writable by 'cron'.

Re: Permissions on crontab..

2001-01-17 Thread Michael Bacarella
ther uses of setgid. Ideally, crontab wouldn't be suid/gid _anything_ and users own their own crontab file, but perhaps I've said too much. :) -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Staff / New York Connect.Net, Ltd Daytime Phone: (212) 581-2831 To Unsubscribe: send

Re: stray irq 7

2001-01-18 Thread Michael Raff
y put FreeBSD on it and my logs were full of hardware errors. After correcting the hardware the box ran like a dream. Under NT I had no idea what was wrong as it didn't bother reporting the condition. Michael On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > > > > > > What ex

libkvm and DB

2001-01-26 Thread Michael Solan
Hi there, I'm porting some stuff from FreeBSD 3.3 to 4.2 which uses libkvm. The old one had a DB *db member in struct __kvm (for dbopen(...) calls), but in 4.2 it's missing, so do you have to use slow nlist calls or am I missing something here? Thx in advance Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail

request for review: send-pr article

2001-02-04 Thread Michael Lucas
t for me. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: MRTG like graphs without SNMP: howto.

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Lyngbøl
> http://phk.freebsd.dk/IfTraf/ In addition I've hacked up this perl script to generate graphs from selected data sources from an rrdtool archive: http://tigerdyr.lyngbol.dk/~lyngbol/misc/rrdtool-graph.pl /Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

dummynet as modules

2001-02-23 Thread Michael Solan
27; but no 'options IPFIREWALL', even defined DUMMYNET in the modules/ipfw/Makefile but it all resulted in undefined symbols when either building or kldloading... Any ideas? Michael Solan -- New to FreeBSD and less confused than a hamster on FreeBase -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E

Re: dummynet as modules

2001-02-27 Thread Michael Solan
Julian Elischer wrote: > Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > > > Michael, > > > > I hope I am not barking up the wrong tree here, but my understanding is that > > ipfw selects packets to forward to dummynet. This would make it illogical > > (and hence probabl

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-28 Thread michael schuster
ou're out of swapable memory" to be practical (that's the way Solaris implements it). I haven't thought this out in detail, but I also imagine it easier to handle ENOMEM than SIGDANGER, because of the synchronous nature of the first versus the asynchronous nature of the second.

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Sinz
f 20 cycles due to the pipeline plus whatever cache/fetch/decode hits you may get on the actual target. This may be why you get lower values than a PIII or Athelon. (Both have significantly lower penalty for branch mis-prediction) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTE

context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Michael Lucas
tches with PRs. I've had several people claim that unified diffs are the way to go, and that the handbook is just wrong. Is the Handbook correct, or are unified diffs preferred? I'll be happy to fix my article and submit a PR to correct the Handbook if this is the case. Thanks, Michae

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-12 Thread Michael Lucas
oc team will pick it up. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: OP make import?

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Lucas
I think people might be waiting for us go get to the point where our work > is actually usable. Also, I believe that Will Andrews has expressed a firm desire to do this. IIRC, his fingers have been in make lately. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwluc

Upgrade gone BAD!

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Aronsen
Hey not sure this is the right list but here we go: bladerunner:~ $ftp ftp.freebsd.org Bad system call (core dumped) keeps comming with most commands after i used the 4.1-REL -> 4.x-STABLE upgrade kit - any ideas how to salvage this system ? Michael Aronsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Vince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello; DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in FreeBSD too, but AFAICT no one has started. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ cheers, Pedro. --- Since this is a project that would benefit

Scope of Variables in sh

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Schuh
give me an ligthshed on this problem? Please answer me directly, i be out of freebsd-hackers. thanks michael ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Scope of Variables in sh

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Schuh
it is clearly logical that the 2 variables have the same name, but are not identical :-) thanks for all michael 2006/6/1, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:28:39PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > Hello, > > i have a little problem with the > scope of sh

VIA padlock performance

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Reifenberger
not too bad, isn't it? :-) Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis, Plaut Consulting Comp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plaut.de | http://www.Reifenberger.com ___ fr

Re: VIA padlock performance

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
for example. "cryptodev" will enable access by userland applications (e.g. scp) and libraries (OpenSSL) through /dev/crypto. With OpenSSL you have two choices: engine cryptodev : uses /dev/crypto engine padlock : uses the xcrypt commands directly engine padlock should be the fastest of

Re: VIA padlock performance

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: ... Nice, could you update padlock(4) with information about supported C7 processors? Something like the attached patch? Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis, Plaut Consulting Comp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Priv

Re: VIA padlock performance

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: ... Something like the attached patch? I'd prefer a more compact version. How about the attached patch? Also applies some more word smithing. commited. Thanks! Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis,

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Vince
Yes I agree with "The Power To Serve!" change, its less controversial and helps diminish arguments. If you like arguments how about the idea of having both in the base system and let users choose which one they prefer via rc.conf. I think I might actually put that motd on some of my servers. Th

WINE vs. FreeBSD

2006-07-22 Thread Michael Nottebrock
just random gibberish could take a look. Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org pgpQaBka5y88h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WINE vs. FreeBSD

2006-07-22 Thread Michael Nottebrock
ashes in roughly the same spot. This is however with a libthr on FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p2, which is nothing short of disastrous (with a global lib mapping from libpthread to libthr, about 1/3 of all the programs in my default KDE session start at all - the rest hangs in state sbwait). Cheers, --

Re: WINE vs. FreeBSD

2006-07-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
ocal DNS cache for more than an hour or so with a global mapping from libpthread to libthr active is usually enough to expose the problem (i.e. name resolution will stop working). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | htt

Re: WINE vs. FreeBSD

2006-07-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 23. July 2006 01:15, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Saturday, 22. July 2006 21:20, Kip Macy wrote: > I think it is because WINE stomps on or TLS. Nothing we can > do about that except patch wine so it doesn't. L

FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
bout 2 seconds per hour!) Also, 5.4 also showed alternating -2 and +2 second time resets, about once an hour, but it didn't seem to affect nanosleep(). ntpd using strata 2 ntp server, with 2 other backups. ntpdc -c peers shows drift when using -x option. (no different then 5.4 did) -- Mi

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Michael Scheidell wrote: I had a 200ms software timer running in FBSD 5.4 that isn't working in 5.5 now. This software timer was resetting a 1 second hardware watchdog timer. Every 200ms, I sent a reset to the hardware WDT. Everything worked on 5.4, but I am getting failures on 5.5 It ap

RE: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:00 AM > To: Michael Scheidell > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers > > > Basically, when you ask for a 200msec delay,

RE: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Watt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 6:28 PM > To: Michael Scheidell > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers > It sounds like ntpd isn't really synchronizing. If you keep &g

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
Tim Kientzle wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > I presume the servers are all stable (ie not stepping) and : > have a reasonably low delay. If so, I suspect your ntpd PLL :

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
-lc_r setting clock back 'hangs' during usleep (500*1000) didn't hang on 5.4. I will be writing up a bug report shortly. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO SECNAP Network Security / www.secnap.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 1+561-999-5000, x 1131 ___ freeb

FBSD 5.5 broke nanosleep in libc_r

2006-07-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator:Michael Scheidel >Organization: SECNAP Network Security >Confidential: >Synopsis: FBSD 5.5 broke nanosleep in libc_r >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Category: threads >Class: sw-bug

RE: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 PM > To: Michael Scheidell > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers > libc_r depends on absolute system time to do its s

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
just what and why this happens and post : that. : (reminder: even if this change happened in 3.4, it didn't affect me till : 5.5) It might be useful to find the change. Warner -- Michael Scheidell, CTO SECNAP Network Security / www.secnap.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 1+561-999-50

Re: Geli questions

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Vince
Jeff Palmer wrote: Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the b

Re: numbers don't lie ...

2006-09-19 Thread Michael Vince
Danny Braniss wrote: Im testing these 2 boxes, Sun X4100 and Dell-2950, and: SUN X4100: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2393.19-MHz K8-class CPU) one 70g sata disk DELL 2950: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.98-MHz K8-class CPU)

Re: Tracing binaries statically linked against vulnerable libs

2006-10-14 Thread Michael Johnson
fmpeg in their source and don't link to multimedia/ffmpeg. Patching these ports to use a shared version of ffmpeg is pretty much out of the question since we would lose support from the authors. With that said I do see the point you're making and I do agree if at all possible make a shar

PIC questions

2006-10-31 Thread Michael Bushkov
citly setting this variable in these libraries? I mean - as they are static, do we need to explicitly set NO_PIC there? 2. And theoretical question. Does every object that will be linked into the shared library should be built with PIC enabled? -- With best regards, Michael Bu

[PATCH] make_libdeps.sh in -CURRENT

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Bushkov
r, fixes the problem. -- With best regards, Michael Bushkov Rostov State University --- make_libdeps.sh.orig Fri Nov 24 10:11:07 2006 +++ make_libdeps.sh Fri Nov 24 10:08:13 2006 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ libdir=$(dirname ${makefile}) deps=$( cd ${libdir} -make -V LDADD +make -m $

Re: nss_ldap without nscd or cached ?

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Bushkov
.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- With best regards, Michael Bushkov Southern Federal University ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE && apache 2.2.4 = bad performance. Help!

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Vaughn
Hello everyone, I am contacting -performance, -questions, and -hackers in the hope someone helps me troubleshoot a problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and apache 2.2.4 uname: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE Fri Jun 22 12:17:03 UTC 2007 amd64 installed php modules: php5-5.2.3 PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and

Re: kern.ngroups question

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Vince
Julian Elischer wrote: Reuben A. Popp wrote: Hello all, Can someone explain to me the rationale behind having ngroups_max set to 16 by default? NFS only supports this much by default (from memory). Samba (in the guise of Jeremy Allison) has asked us to follow Linux's lead and support an a

Re: iSCSI Target and raw devices

2007-09-26 Thread Michael Reifenberger
clear that it doesn't > actually use that value for anything and instead is hardcoded to use > whatever is in /etc/services. > That issue is fixed. -- Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Reifenberger.com ___ freebsd-h

large file aware utilities

1999-12-10 Thread Michael Beckmann
Greetings, it appears that tail is not functioning properly with a file > 2 GB. What can I do to tail such a file (actually to make it smaller than 2 GB) ? Is there a large file capable tail for FreeBSD ? I have also found that 'less' is unable to display that file, but more is.

pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Hello All, I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 titled: Massive pccard disruptions to continue So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with pccard support in the kernel? I've noticed that a few files still contain the PCCARD_

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Warner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Kennett writes: > : I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 > : titled: > : Massive pccard disruptions to continue > : > : So, have these disruptions continued? And wh

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-16 Thread Michael Kennett
Hi Warner, Thanks for your detailed writeup of the direction that you want to go in. > > What can you do to help? > Well, firstly I'd like to get the xe driver under FreeBSD. But before I even get to that stage, I'll have to learn about the pccard subsystem, and more about the FreeBSD kernel

mlockall() not implemented?

1999-12-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
, Michael -- QUI ME AMET, CANEM MEUM ETIAM AMET To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Temperature

1999-12-30 Thread Michael Oski
ld think that a professional such as yourself, with 28 years of experience, would understand this and make every effort to post clear and concise reports. Please don't flame the developers of FreeBSD for taking so long to determine what it is you are reporting, when it was up to you to specif

Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Widenius
> "Scott" == Scott Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running Scott> MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, Scott> and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only

rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Bacarella
7;m sorry I missed the discussion on rfork()... but I say this only because I want to understand. What were you thinking? rfork()? Why is it a system call? Almost all of the flags it accepts seem like functionality that can easily be implemented in userspace around fork() (and maybe vfork()).

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-11 Thread Michael Bacarella
> > Almost all of the flags it accepts seem like functionality that can easily > > be implemented in userspace around fork() (and maybe vfork()). > > nope. This whole issue is about (let me check :-) ) 4.5 years old. I did > the first rfork for freebsd ca. 9/1994, and I can tell you that you can

Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Lucas
I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up with the tedium. So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no log

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Bacarella
> I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > with the tedium. Wow, how does one come across such a contract? -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Lucas
[various offers to take my place deleted] Geez, you people are a lot of help. ;^) So, I have just as much chance of getting it worked out if I just go into netinet as anywhere? Will do. Thanks, ==ml > * Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000112 14:35] wrote: > > I find mysel

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread Michael Lucas
Wes Peters wrote: > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > > with the tedium. > > > > So, if I was to sit down

NT life spans [was: UDF]

2000-01-14 Thread Michael Bacarella
g Windows NT across your enterprise. Michael Bacarella To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Hello All, I have a question on the sys/pci/pci.c code, and its use of the newbus architecture. An example of the code in question is: static struct resource * pci_alloc_resource(device_t dev, device_t child, int type, int *rid, u_long start, u_long end, u_long count, u_int fl

Re: Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Kennett
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Michael Kennett wrote: > > I don't understand the line that extracts the ivars from the child > > device. Isn't it the case that the ivars are a property of the bus > > device (dev)? > > No since the parent may not be a PCI device

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
> I'm kind of puzzled. > Program, when killed with SIGINT, prints all counters and exits. > Depending on the phase of the moon (it seems) sometimes my > program gives (after ^C): > This result is obtained for approximately the same runtime of the > program. The same picture from 'ps'. I'm star

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
> Program, when killed with SIGINT, prints all counters and exits. > > Now, as I understand, userspace threads in FreeBSD are preemptive. > So, though my 11 threads are all computational and do not do > any syscalls, sleeps, sched_yield, whatever -- newertheless, > the program should not be stuc

Re: RLIMIT_NPROC can be exceeded via setuid/exec

2000-01-21 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > > Background: in an attempt to manage our webserver to keep too many CGIs > > from taking down the machine, I've been experimenting with RLIMIT_NPROC. > > This appears to work fine when forking new processes,

Re: Using spinning time efficiently?

2000-01-21 Thread Michael Bacarella
> I once thought something might be wrong, and then found > (ALT)SYSCALL_LOCK spinning to wait for the lock to be released. Now I > am wondering if we can contribute spinning time to anything else, say > running another process, before the lock gets released. Is is possible > to do so? I'm the l

Great FICL Hacks

2000-01-22 Thread Michael Kennett
I've been playing around with the boot loader(8), which seems to be a very powerful piece of software. However I'm really only using the 'load', 'unload', and 'boot' functions. I'd be interested in hearing about more powerful uses of this software. Are there any great hacks of FICL that people ha

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few > years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, > due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have > implemented. Not to start a flame-fest or anything (but who doesn'

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where > do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports? > Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are > their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What > mechanism creates their re

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Bacarella
> It's release structure means FreeBSD is a complete operating system (as > opposed to a kernel and one of several distributions) and machines are > maintainable and upgradable in production over long periods of time via > the STABLE branch. I can agree with you here, as our organization has

General lameness regarding exec()

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Bacarella
t and what their credentials were. This is in contrast to process accounting, which only records information on processes which have terminated. /* ------ Michael Bacarella( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) | (212) 293-2620 Administration / Development / Support | http://nyct.net/ [ N e w

Re: Loadable Code Modules?

2000-02-14 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Marc Wandschneider wrote: ... > i was wondering if FreeBSD had a kind of like DLL capability? Yes. man dlopen(3) Bye! ---- Michael Reifenberger Plaut Software GmbH, R/3 Basis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Shell Code...

2000-02-24 Thread Michael Kyle
Hi does anyone have shellcode for freebsd. If not, I'll disassemble execve, but I'd rather just pick it up from the group. Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Shell Code...

2000-02-24 Thread Michael Bacarella
> > I'll disassemble execve, but I'd rather just pick > > it up from the group. > > Yeah, the shellcode is > > >0xb238fb23b238gub2348b223bdfz23a89230934897a324987287bd8970d8997893981deadbeef21398778787aaa9797bb8979878d87f87 Hah. Do you use 0xDEADBEEF in practice too, or merely as a novelty? :

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake emup!

2000-02-27 Thread Michael Bacarella
I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Recommended addition to FAQ (Troubleshooting)

2000-02-18 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Gingery wrote: > I can't praise highly enough, two software packages: > > http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/ > > and > > http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/ Sweet! I never knew that I've wanted one for all of these years unti

Re: Shell Code... (fwd)

2000-02-28 Thread Michael Kyle
Doug suggested that I send a message similar to this to the group, instead of my original. So, here is what I'd re'd to Doug. Information or other approaches is appreciated. Mike. Yahoo! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:39:26 -0800 (PST) From: Mi

Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Michael Bacarella
n't take up any blocks at all unless users edit their files, which, if you're an ISP, you know that 95% of users don't do anyway. There's probably a stockpile of drawbacks to this as well. Fire away. /* -- Michael Bacarella( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) | (212) 293-2620 Adm

VFS Change? (was: Re: Copy-on-write filesystem)

2000-03-03 Thread Michael Bacarella
> Sounds very intriquing. The biggest problem I see, right away is fitting > it's use into a UNIX environment, were, file copies are made with the > write system call, making it impossible to implement for the general case. > You could certainly rewrite the "cp" command and that would get a ma

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Michael Bacarella
> > It wouldn't be. This is how NetApp do their .snapshot direcotries. I think > > they have some white papers on it on their website. It's very handy. > > Kirk McKusick is implementing a Copy-on write functionality > for UFS. It is used in conjunction with Soft updates to produce > snapshots

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