Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
is required for fixing some important bug. Is this a policy of the project? If so, is it documented anywhere? Or is it just a convention? I don't remember seeing it ever documented, just discussed. What I wrote above is also just my understanding of curreny defact policy. -- Simon L. Nielsen

Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT?

2009-08-20 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
=//depot/user/simon/gptboot/c=2qs@//depot/user/simon/gptboot/?ac=83 -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: freebsd-update missed?

2008-09-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
does not get's patches from CVS so $FreeBSD$ unfortunatly isn't updated. I just checked, for 6.3 the patch 'EN-08:01.libpthread' is on the freebsd-update build server. -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer (IE, one of the people making freebsd-update builds

Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

2008-06-07 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
/ get a patch which is OK'ed by the OpenSSL people I will be more than happy to commit it. BTW. I think phk@ already worked on a patch for AES in the AMD Geode LX, but I can't remember details or have time to look it up right now. -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD OpenSSL janitor

Re: openssl with zlib support

2008-06-07 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
if I enable it by tweaking the openssl Makefile? Probably not, but I'm not sure where it's enabled/disabled so I can't say for sure. I will try to look into this more, but it might not be until sometime next week. -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

2008-02-28 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2008.02.28 14:58:53 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the FreeBSD repository. I don't think he has any problems with it being distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright

Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

2008-02-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
a copyright statement i just want to ask before I distribute it... -- Simon L. Nielsen Hat: FreeBSD.org cvsmeister ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.2

2007-08-25 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
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Re: problem with apache bench

2006-12-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
apr_socket_connect(): Operation already in progress (37) Total of 8 requests completed I have had some problems with ab from apache 2.0/2.2, but ab from apache 1.3 it worked fine. I just had to get it to work so I didn't look more into why it broke on newer versions. -- Simon L. Nielsen

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
you had deleted, but in fact you haven't. That said, I wouldn't trust -P to _really_ remove the content of the files anyway, so personally I don't really care much. If you want the file to be gone, use encryption in the first place, or use apropriate tool (hammer, axe, C4, etc.). / -- Simon L

Re: pam_krb5 problems

2006-08-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.08.30 16:03:40 +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: has anyone successfully configured pam_krb5? It seems that the ticket Hey, It's being used in the FreeBSD.org cluster, but I never looked at how it's setup. For the parts I have messed with it just works... -- Simon L. Nielsen

Re: jails, cron and sendmail

2006-08-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
. (Might be useful for other people building jails.) -- Simon L. Nielsen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: [...] the above points to a filel that says 6.0 errata Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems? Don't tell me these will be shoved under the rug. Send patches. -- Simon L. Nielsen

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2006.05.11 20:53:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2006.05.09 01:00:14 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: [...] the above points to a filel that says 6.0 errata Indeed. Where is the mention of current quota/bge/em/ufs problems

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-03 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
programs can safely ignore. [1] Note I haven't checked if this opens new and interesting holes, but it doesn't matter too much on my laptop, since if somebody has access to simon that's just as bad as someone getting root. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpyE4Mezbwos.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
and nullfs. It works just fine for me. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgpwLjjCOoXyp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CFR] Specify the lock(1) timeout unit

2004-10-21 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
append the time-unit type to the argument given to -t, e.g. -t 10s or -t 10h. That just seem like the more intuitive way to handle it to me... Note: this is a suggestion, not an objection to the original patch. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgplLx6xiPz8q.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [PATCH] Re: Linksys PCM200

2004-10-21 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
list also. /usr/src/sys/pci/if_dc.c udiff: [...] Unless a src committer picks this up within the next couple of days I would suggest filing a PR with the patch so it does not get lost. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp6hW4GpGJZ3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
others, e.g. by doing rm -rf / foo/bar where rm -rf /foo/bar/ was meant. Therefor I really think keramidas _optional_ foot-shooting feature is a nice thing. I know I will enable it on my systems if it's committed, and probably keep it as a local patch if not. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Bikeshed Team

Re: make quickworld? (like in DragonFly)

2004-08-14 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.08.14 10:03:37 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2004.08.11 00:36:06 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the changes in world and kernel sources

Re: make quickworld? (like in DragonFly)

2004-08-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
: make buildworld buildkernel -DNOCLEAN -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgpdQMAuh4g5g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
project could not be somewhere on the main FreeBSD website. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status GBDE attach at boot

2004-01-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
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Re: Status GBDE attach at boot

2004-01-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.01.18 10:19:31 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:43:42PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2004.01.17 14:53:58 -0500, Allan Fields wrote: Hi, I'm interested to know what may be in the pipeline as far as GBDE boot time attach/automation support. Has

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
, Inc on the copyright page a few times, but I never really knew what to replace it with. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: optionally include file within a Makefile

2003-12-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
be typos): .if exists(${HOME}/.bacula-regress) .include ${HOME}/.bacula-regress .endif or something along those lines. The make(1) manual page contains a lot of useful information. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Archive for cvs-src

2003-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
/mail/ . The source commit logs can also be found in CVSROOT-src/commitlogs in the CVS repository. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
in hosts, and according to host.conf the hosts listing should be found first. Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description

Re: messing with CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM

2003-08-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM use, but unfortunatly there are only 24 hours in a day, so I have no idea when I will get around to finishing it. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Committing a driver to -stable

2003-07-18 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.07.18 13:28:27 +, Bosko Milekic wrote: [CUT] wait for someone from the TRB (is there a list of who's part of this group somewhere, anyway?) and/or -core to respond before you take There is a list with the TRB members at http://www.freebsd.org/internal/staff.html . -- Simon L

Re: gethostbyname_r

2003-07-02 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
ago : Msg-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=16837+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-threads/20! -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gethostbyname_r

2003-06-30 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
. I don't thin anybody is working on it at the moment. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TODO list?

2003-06-27 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Hope you find something interesting to spend some time on. -- Simon L. Nielsen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-11 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2003.02.10 17:41:47 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Wow, deja-vu! /me runs and hides for not checking the achieves first :-) -- Simon L. Nielsen

Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
Hello I have noticed that that several FreeBSD files (.c, .h and so on) have trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs after last charecter on a line). Should I send patches for this, or is it not important to fix? A random example is stdbool.h v. 1.6 on line 30 which has a trailing tab. -- Simon L

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-22 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2002.12.22 13:36:21 +, Leo Bicknell wrote: Perl 5.8 does not seem to be a part of 4.x, is it in 5.0 or -CURRENT? Perl 5.8 can be installed from ports (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/). FreeBSD 5/-CURRENT does not have perl in the base system at all. -- Simon L. Nielsen To Unsubscribe: send