Re: Fw: SAPDB FreeBSD Port Anouncement

2003-06-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
'K, I'm curious here ... is this a native port, or a linux port? the liblinuxthread.* mention here makes me think its more a linux binary running on a FreeBSD machine, but just want to clarify ... On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Pranas Baliuka wrote: fyi!!! - Original Message - From:

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Dave Kingsley wrote: Good Afternoon! We have been trying to set up a system of jails on FreeBSD 5.0 machines. Building a jail from scratch seems to be no problem. Everything seems to work just fine. Here is our problem. We would like to be able to replicate

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: Hello, The easiest way is to set the jail up as a file using vnconfig. there are various software packages that will not work in a vnconfig environment ... I tried using it, and one of the issues I hit was a distinct lack of inodes until you

Re: if_fxp status?

2001-03-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: I really dont care to ask this on the list, but DG doesnt answer my private emails, so I have little choice. has any progress been made on making the if_fxp driver work with the latest intel NICs? Its been over 3 months since the problems creeped up, and

Re: if_fxp status?

2001-03-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Seebach wrote: Yes, Dennis. We have it working. The code is in a special branch of the tree, which we normally don't discuss publically. I'm just bringing this up because I'm sick of living a lie. We are planning to release all the code as soon as you give up on

Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
well, I sent in my vote for a FreeBSD port ... if I can avoid having to reboot into Windows so that I can use some of the win business apps, and all for $100, I'd be happy ... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Too many open files (was Re: spinlock problemsreported earlier)

2000-08-28 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote: Brook Milligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, if this really follows the POSIX standard, perhaps PostgreSQL code should assume these semantics and work around other cases that don't follow the standard (instead of work around the POSIX

Re: Too many open files (was Re: spinlock problems reported earlier)

2000-08-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote: Hmm, this is interesting: on HPUX, man sysconf(2) says that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) returns the max number of open files per process --- which is what fd.c assumes it means. But I see that on your FreeBSD box, the sysconf man page defines it as

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

2000-02-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. right, and that is their perogative ... you can't create a "blacklist" and publicize it, it makes us look bad, not

Re: Why VMIO directory is a bad idea?

1999-12-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, David Malone wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 08:56:47AM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Can anyone give me an idea on how big a directory could be in some environment? Our inn's /news/spool/control/cancel directory is almost 300k. If we were a significantly larger news

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Just to confirm...I've had similar problems, but *only* after moving to INN-CURRENT, which makes *very* heavy use of MMAP() :( What version of INN are you running? On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Powell wrote: I have INN v2.2 running happily

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD Web

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka (wo...@cs.tu-berlin.de) said: I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD

Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code

1999-09-01 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: Where sun are involved, I wouldn't get your hopes up until you actually see source or something. And I wouldn't exactly call them quick, either. This is wise counsel. Also, don't discount the possibility that Sun

Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code

1999-09-01 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Where sun are involved, I wouldn't get your hopes up until you actually see source or something. And I wouldn't exactly call them quick, either. This is wise counsel. Also, don't discount the possibility that Sun

Re: Keyboard mappings ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Beautiful...thanks :) Infocmp doesn't exist under FreeBSD, but Solaris has it :) On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:50:33AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Attached is the output of 'tconv -b vt221' on our Solaris machine where this map'ng

keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Morning... Got a couple of suggestions, and have tried both, with the xkeycaps appearing to be the more practical for what I'm trying to get done, I think. From reading the xkeycaps man page, its a frontend for xmodmap, but reading *its* man page pretty much got me nowhere

Re: keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:04:43 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Hopefully this makes a bit more sense? What doesn't make sense is the fact that a FreeBSD developer, who should know better, is mailing this sort of thing to freebsd-hackers. You

Re: keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
for this? The neat thing is that the F5 one worked fine, its only the 'Shift F5' one so far that isn't... Thanks... On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Perfect, slowly putting it together. One thing that I didn't find in the man page, and am wondering if its just somethign I

Keyboard mappings ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Morning... Last week, at work, I talked one of the guys in IS into switching from using Win98 to using FreeBSD 3.2/X, and all has gone well so far, except that we've hit a snag that I'm not sure how to rectify... Under Win98, they use CRT, with a special set of keyboard map'ngs

Re: Keyboard mappings ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Beautiful...thanks :) Infocmp doesn't exist under FreeBSD, but Solaris has it :) On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:50:33AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Attached is the output of 'tconv -b vt221' on our Solaris machine where this map'ng

keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Morning... Got a couple of suggestions, and have tried both, with the xkeycaps appearing to be the more practical for what I'm trying to get done, I think. From reading the xkeycaps man page, its a frontend for xmodmap, but reading *its* man page pretty much got me nowhere fast,

Re: keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:04:43 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Hopefully this makes a bit more sense? What doesn't make sense is the fact that a FreeBSD developer, who should know better, is mailing this sort of thing to freebsd-hackers. You

Re: keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
answers... But, if I reverse it, it works as expected/hoped... Mistake on my part, or normal? thanks... On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.05.9907121449570.66634-100...@thelab.hub.org The Hermit Hacker writes: : I need to build a keyboard map

Re: keymapping continued ...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
is that the F5 one worked fine, its only the 'Shift F5' one so far that isn't... Thanks... On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Perfect, slowly putting it together. One thing that I didn't find in the man page, and am wondering if its just somethign I did wrong, but does ordering