Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There is really no need. The mcclock driver can't be detached since its required for normal system functioning (its the main clock source). OK. I agree. It was just the first driver I got, so far

Re: NFS problems on 4.0-stable.

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
,rdirplus,mntudp,noconn I've never seen the errors above, and the options I'm using are the result of lots of performance testing. HTH, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe:

NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
p file). I haven't been able to get a tcpdump yet, since it usually doesn't wedge itself long enough. In any case, if anyone is interested in this problem, let me know. If I don't hear from anyone by friday I'll likely go ahead and do the 4.0 upgrade. Doug -- "Live free or die"

eBones really dead?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
I read this weekend that eBones is dead, but I still see it in my src tree on -Current, so I'm curious as to what the status really is. Thanks, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
, but the problem has kind of snuck up on me) I have been :getting increasingly bad performance from the nfs mount. I get "nfs :... :Doug First, make sure the 5.x machine is up to date. I'm going to upgrade it today, I'm checking out a new source tree local to the workstation ma

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
s given me problems. I'm still learning the whole networking thing, so I appreciate the insight. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
at hand) was better than $100+ for a switch. I'm going to be adding another machine to that network though, so it's switch time now either way. Thanks for the input (and to the others who've mailed me as well), Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Tony Finch wrote: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrrrmm... I just took a look at the settings for each card. I did not specify full duplex in the fxp0 ifconfig line, since autoselect has always worked before. Autonegotiation is prone to problems. It only

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-23 Thread Doug Barton
and I feel like I'm definitely learning something. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-24 Thread Doug White
Or: /compat/linux/bin/bash rpm Running Linux-based installers directly in the FreeBSD environment can Cause Problems(tm), particularly if they're shells scripts that make assumptions. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org

Re: S5933 PCI Adapter..??

2000-05-27 Thread Doug Rabson
ses to map the pci space. however for that i need the physical map...what data structure holds that?? Can you check your BIOS and make sure it does *not* think you have a Plug-n-Play OS. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd.

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread Doug Rabson
the kernel with a build-time include. Very humorous indeed. Is this a temporary condition as was the deboggle in v3.0? Whatever. any docs on this junk? RTFM. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To U

Re: Generic config file parser?

2000-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
at you're describing is a windows style config format. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Generic config file parser?

2000-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
A G F Keahan wrote: It's possible, though unlikely, since what you're describing is a windows style config format. Which does not necessarily make it bad, of course And I didn't say it was bad. Just unlikely. -- "Live free or die" - State motto

Re: 4-STABLE - did you break /etc/defaults/rc.conf?

2000-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
mergemaster is irrelevant in that context, right? I thought mergemaster was only for upgrades. Yes... I figured it would be easier to just update /etc, before building your new release, but whatever works for you. :) Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-29 Thread Doug Rabson
are our LINUX and FreeBSD drivers) using memory-mapped registers. Using normal C pointers to memory-mapped registers is not portable. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: subr_bus.c | kldload | kldunload

2000-05-30 Thread Doug Rabson
effects and that preferably is an ISA device. If no one responds to this request I will repost with actual code and a laundry list of observed symptoms. Warner Losh might be able to help you out here. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd

Re: I will be in Japan and Korea from June 7th through June 15th

2000-06-02 Thread Doug Rabson
- I've already booked a flight to San Diego on the 17th. Meeting *at* Usenix would be good though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I will be in Japan and Korea from June 7th through June 15th

2000-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Does this mean we won't get the SMP stuff done next week? I'm back on the 15th (you gain 10 hours coming back) and the SMP meeting isn't until the 16th and 17th. Of course it will. :) So you are running this right

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
questions like this. Thanks, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: syslog do not want to remote log

2000-06-08 Thread Doug White
trouble figuring out which interface touse. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Doug Rabson
had to put some extra cooling on the motherboard chipset though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
on some archs atomic_t can be quite small, we'd have to watch for overflow, perhaps a spinlock is a better idea however only if the next thing I mention here is realized: You can use atomic_add_*() to do safe arithmetic on memory locations. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-24 Thread Doug White
on, though ... from the sounds of it, you can only have one concurrent connection to your authentication server via this library, which sounds extremely lame. Do the clients just sit around forever until the server returns? The serialization this library forces isn't too scalable.

Re: pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-26 Thread Doug White
probably block the whole process instead of the individual thread. Unless we figured out a way to fix that :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

RE: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame)

2001-01-29 Thread Doug Barton
such OpenBSD to pick all the good stuffs. I'm a happy 2.2.x user. I think Yahoo! is using still on 2.2.8. Don't let your imagination run away with you. :) Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "T

Re: FreeBSD specific strftime(3) format specifiers

2001-02-01 Thread Doug White
will get into our tree on next gcc source import? I believe there is a -fformat-extensions flag that gets around this problem. Check out the kernel build for the actual flag as it's used there. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org

Re: Suboptimal mmap of devices on i86

2001-02-01 Thread Doug White
(2) interface? They die horribly? That's not acceptable. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support

2001-02-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
motherboard. Also CMOS memory is increasing and that could be used for some configuration info to be used as non-flash persistant storage such as IP address and such. Also having a small BIOS image like General Software would help save space. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apache

2001-02-26 Thread Doug White
a Fatal error... Apache is exiting! httpd in free(): warning: page is already free. anyone seen this before? i do have some things on nfs apache accesses.. Don't put the scoreboard lock file on NFS. The Apache docs say this is a No-No unless you change the locking type. Doug White

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-03-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
and since the emulator is open source it should be easier to figure out how the machine works. Doug A. Standard disclaimer applies To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BIND 9.1.1 and FBSD 4.2-stable

2001-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
see if you get the same results. In any case, please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your answer. Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "The Replacements" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe:

Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD

2001-03-12 Thread Doug Barton
ormance. I never installed utah-glx with X 3. Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail

Needs some autoconf + pthread + etc. clue

2001-03-14 Thread Doug Barton
. Thanks, Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: DNS rules etc

2001-03-26 Thread Doug White
. You generally want to use a separate host for mail, etc. and just NAT it through. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-04 Thread Doug White
re out how to do it the right way. fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN PAGE FIRST!) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: your mail

2001-04-05 Thread Doug White
to make ufs run as a module on FreeBSD, which surely would require a lot of serious kernel code-entry points. It shouldn't be too bad as long as you force the loader to load the module, otherwise you run into a chicken egg problem. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

2001-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
he fix is in PR i386/26382: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26382 This would be great to get into 4.3 but probably won't make it. Thanks, Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

2001-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On 06-Apr-01 Doug Ambrisko wrote: | On on IBM PC desktops a FreeBSD bootable CDROM won't boot and it hangs. | This has been reported in several places. | | The problem is that some BIOSes namely IBM's writes to the boot sector | of the floppy to potentially update

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

2001-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
can find around here. I will revise the PR. Doug A. | Here is the updated structure in boot1.s: | /* From OpenBSD biosboot.S with tuned values from Doug Ambrisko so | ThinkPads can boot from CDROM. I think the critical part | is setting the media type. | */ | .org 0x03

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

2001-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
not that I can change it though. It looks like if we just do the first 25 bytes or so then we are safe. All I can do is make FreeBSD work nicely on IBM machines since there is an incentive to make that happen here. Also we can't change the X number of machines that are out there. Doug A. To U

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

2001-04-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Matthew N. Dodd writes: | On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | I have confirmed that this works. So now we should be able to boot a | FreeBSD CD on all IBM hardware that I can find around here. I will | revise the PR. | | I wonder if this solves the PS/2 booting problem... | | Guess

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-07 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN PAGE FIRST!) Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't work. : Well, I should

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-11 Thread Doug White
lect again, all the rest (499) have to wake up and reaffirm thier desire to select(). We haven't applied wakeup_one() to select() yet? (I think I've argued about this before.) Someone get cracking! :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.F

Re: problem with Aironet driver

2001-04-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
if it helps. Thanks, Doug A. *** *** 483,494 } else ifp-if_opackets++; ! if (id != sc-an_rdata.an_tx_ring[sc-an_rdata.an_tx_cons]) ! printf("an%d: id mismatch: expected %x, got %x\n", ! sc-an_unit, !

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm You just can't make this stuff up Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo

Re: Shoutcast, high cpu, threads

2001-04-18 Thread Doug White
loop? I've seen applications that use a zero timeout for select() and when they're idle the select() loop runs really fast. This certainly sucks for multiuser systems but for dedicated boxes it allows for great response time. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-04-18 Thread Doug White
even had one or two emulator boxes, software and hardware, supplied by AMD. Where did those go? (Yes I know the emulator is ass-slow and a gigantic beast, but it does work, right?) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe

Netboot FreeBSD on Apple Airport (port format)

2001-04-23 Thread Doug Ambrisko
a Wavelan card but I haven't integrated that or included it in the port. Instead it is in raw.tgz. Till Straumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) did most of the work and I made is support FreeBSD. The code is at: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/airport/ Please grab it and polish it. Thanks, Doug

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-04-24 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:51:17PM -0700, Doug White wrote: (Yes I know the emulator is ass-slow and a gigantic beast, but it does work, right?) The public simulator took 12 hours to get to the twirler of our boot loader. I guess it would have

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

2001-04-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
into Configure and enable IMAGE_FREEBSD ELF_IMAGE You can select serial, vga or both consoles. Then point vmware at the floppy image and boot. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

2001-04-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Andrew Gallatin writes: | | Doug Ambrisko writes: | | | | Grub doesn't support FreeBSD very well (eg, it can't set the root | | device, set hints, etc). I think he was hacking grub to add those | | features, but I don't know how far he got...BTW, grub has no spinner. | | Why

Re: VPN

2001-04-26 Thread Doug Young
I've just been going through this stuff for the past week. None of the things come with adequate documentation so you need to rely heavily on mailing list support. Thankfully a few people have been giving me some assistance but looks like at least few days more messing around will be involved

Re: VPN

2001-04-26 Thread Doug Young
Actually ppp shouldn't be that hard to set up as a vpn server. exactly where to find config information suitable for a non-expert ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: VPN

2001-04-26 Thread Doug Young
no vpn or sloop labels in my 4.1 system ... when were they introduced ?? - Original Message - From: Brian Somers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jesús Arnáiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: VPN

2001-04-26 Thread Doug Young
* Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010426 04:59] wrote: no vpn or sloop labels in my 4.1 system ... when were they introduced ?? you can use cvsweb to read the most recent versions: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/ppp OK thanks Alfred. I wasn't aware of that as I

Re: RV: VPN

2001-04-29 Thread Doug Young
vtund is fairly well documented, so I won't include a config file example, but I can supply one if asked. I would really appreciate any links etc you have to vtund documentation. After searching high low for over a week I'd come to the conclusion that apart from one solitary ( very basic)

Re: VPN

2001-04-29 Thread Doug Young
there after the next update of Pedantic FreeBSD in a week or two in the hope that someone is speaking english (rather than martian or whatever). - Original Message - From: Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jesús Arnáiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-05-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
several cards come and go over one boot cycle. Any generic PCMCIA IDE based thing should work. I might stop using an external CDRW things once combo DVD CDRW become more available/cheaper. Also internal bits are harder to share. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: new syscons screensaver

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Russell
it so the green_saver can kick in after x minutes of the regular screensaver? Users would be used to this type of control. later.. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: KEvent doesnt return and KEvent sample troubles

2001-05-02 Thread Doug White
registerted just a simple read() notification a la select(), which will trigger until you've read the entire file then stop. You might find this more interesting if you point it at a named pipe then use something to stuff data down it. Take a look at the EVFILT_VNODE type in the kqueue(2) manpage. Doug

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-05 Thread Doug Russell
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: i have never killed a keyboard with un / plugging. at linux it works. Well, it works, until your keyboard does actually break :) It can actually fry the entire motherboard. I doubt linux can prevent that. FreeBSD 4.3 allows hotswap

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-05 Thread Doug Russell
.. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Doug Russell
/organisations that have said thanks, which could be sent as a thank-you by someone in actual contact, such as yourself? We'd just need a mailbox somewhere to collect them. Comments? Later.. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-13 Thread Doug Barton
Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: is there a way to make the upgrade process easier by doing the thing mergemaster does but with an interface that does not kill the average ordinary user with a simple prompt without really useful help incantating strange phrases to summon the subprocesses that diff

Re: Should I worryy?

2001-05-19 Thread Doug White
: . hardlinks . sparse files Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD/powerpc work to date

2001-05-22 Thread Doug Rabson
converting the rest of the file. How far does the beast get when booting? -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-24 Thread Doug Barton
installing to. Doug -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-25 Thread Doug Barton
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote: The current mood (which I agree with) is to make softupdates the default after installation. The problem with the combo of write caching and softupdates is that if the power actually goes off the meta-data writes

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
Andrew Reilly wrote: It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP server could involve a header cache in a relational database of some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the individual files, which would then be accessed randomly. You might want to

Problem with find -fstype local ?

2001-05-30 Thread Doug Barton
about what this option really should be doing, for the record it'd be great to have an option for find that _does_ restrict paths to locally mounted directories. Doug -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: too many leases?

2001-05-30 Thread Doug Barton
David Gilbert wrote: May 29 22:32:22 arbiter /kernel: Nqnfs server, too many leases May 29 22:32:52 arbiter last message repeated 5 times ... what do I increase for this particular complaint? Don't use nqnfs. It sucks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Real technical comparison

2001-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: The intent of the test is obviously intended to show certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under strange load conditions which are patently unreal. I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_

Re: Problem with find -fstype local ?

2001-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
Dima Dorfman wrote: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gang, This may be my lack of understanding, but doing 'find / -fstype local' is definitely traversing nfs mounted directories for me in -current and -stable. The man page isn't 100% clear, but it seems to me

(Interesting?) malloc debugging project

2001-06-05 Thread Doug Barton
/malloc.conf'. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: newbussifying drivers

2001-06-07 Thread Doug Rabson
be autodetected. Relying on the user to wire down hints is silly. Probably they should provide an identify method to look for and create the non-PnP devices. The actual probe method should be dumb and just use the resources given to it (IMHO). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Softupdates not syncing

2001-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
in RELENG_4 in the last 4 months. Thanks, Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: newbussifying drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
using different macros with hard-coded (#defined) port addresses. So, how do you CORRECTLY use the newbus calls to probe these ports? I am not running -current, so i do not have 'hints'. As Doug Rabson said, write an 'identify' routine. Look at the ep driver for an example. And my artile

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
David Xu wrote: Hello, Is there any plan to import NetBSD rc system, I am willing to see it appears in FreeBSD 5.0. Yes. Several of us have started work on it. Personally, the last two times I carved time out to work on it I got bombed by unstable -current. Doug -- If you're

Re: oct() doesn't handle binary strings

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
Peter Pentchev wrote: (btw, FreeBSD developers, FreeBSD Perl gurus, when/if shall Perl 5.6 be MFC'd? :) First perl 5.6.1 has to be imported to -current, then shaken out, then _possibly_ it will be MFC'ed, but it's also quite possible that it won't be MFC'ed at all. Doug

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
reason is that when you say System V anything, people have immediate negative reactions that are based purely on emotion. Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

802.11 sniffing with Cisco/Aironet card

2001-06-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
In my latest set of patches for -stable the Aironet driver with a few patches to FreeBSD's bpf libpcap to support 802.11 packets permits sniffing of raw 802.11 packets. The patches are at: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/ The latest version is an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+ifconfig3

Re: NFS swap?

2001-06-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
this first define the option near the top: option swap-path code 128 = string; then use it as: option swap-path /path/to/swap; It's actually kind of nice to bad it doesn't totally work for dhclient when you want to request and option that is not standard. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
of the netbsd team, and our own unique abilities and experience. I would hate to see that opportunity wasted. Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :My advise: First make it work. THEN make it work better. : : Excellent advice, as long as you don't skip the steps of :appropriately defining the problem domain and evaluating all of the

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
, precisely because I'm committed to the idea of minimizing needless platform-specific items whenever we can. Take a look at some of the changes mergemaster has gone through over the past year as a result of my work with Naddy on making it OpenBSD friendly as an example. Doug -- If you're never

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: My advise: First make it work. THEN make it work better. Excellent advice, as long as you don't skip the steps of appropriately defining the problem domain and evaluating all of the possible solutions for it. -- If you're never wrong,

Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
intelligent points of our own. Just a thought, Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-19 Thread Doug Barton
[Prelude, Warner and I discussed this off line... ] Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Barton writes: : A) Examine what we have (most of us understand that pretty well) : B) Figure out what we need (in progress, nowhere near done yet) : C) Take a hard look at NetBSD's

Re: libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Doug Rabson
4.3-stable with autoconf-2.13_1. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: bridging with pcmcia cards

2001-06-26 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Joesh Juphland writes: | | Great. | | Can I already bridge with an* ? And does this mean that bridging in | general with pc cards is a-ok ? This has been reported to work with the an driver with netgraph bridging. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: processes private data

2001-06-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: Hi folks, I have a char driver that must be opened by more than one process. The minor index is not sufficient

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
still have to pay GST, but the $5 handling fee is the one that REALLY bothers me on small purchases from the US. I wonder what kind of lot size I'd have to be ready for for a 4.4-RELEASE? Later.. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Doug Russell
that they don't need their current operating system anymore. It is becoming quite popular. That's why I haven't have time to actually build websites and such. :) Later.. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Updated Aironet Sniffing patches for -stable

2001-07-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
I have new patches for the Aironet sniffing and some major code clean-up of duplicated structures and defines it requires the latest -stable. http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+ifconfig5 Applies to /usr/src if you don't have the linux ioctl patch from: http

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-16 Thread Doug White
Since they have worked with these issues in the thousands of machines. Sigh, it's not easy being #6. Even with 16 million confirmed members eGroups gets no respect :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: High Availability Freebsd?

2000-06-20 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Robert Withrow wrote: - Warm (or hot) standby. Put me on the 'interested' list for this, particularly for the network end. I have 'VRRPd for FreeBSD' on my very-long-range-todo but I doubt I have the skills right now to implement it decently. Doug White

Re: Problem with Adaptec scsi card

2000-06-22 Thread Doug White
be a device that just can't take the heat. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-25 Thread Doug Barton
e also had very good luck with a hashed directory structure, such as: /a/b/c/abcfile The level of hashing, and the number of characters per level can be determined by your expected number of files, naming schemes, etc. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die"

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