Re: Cannot make buildworld

2000-11-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:58:14AM +0100, Jose Luis Arbona Orovay wrote: Is this documented ? If you kept up with this mailing list, you would have known this problem. That is why I just gave the "what to do" rather than give an explanation. Please review the recent archives when you have a

Re: Cannot make buildworld

2000-11-21 Thread Jose Luis Arbona Orovay
Hi David. David O'Brien wrote: If you kept up with this mailing list, you would have known this problem. That is why I just gave the "what to do" rather than give an explanation. Please review the recent archives when you have a problem. You're right, next time I will review the mailing

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-21 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi Chad, good summary. Only one remark and two additions: To summarize the summary: The problem comes from the fact that a PC-BIOS is permitted to insist on an MBR on each drive, and that the slices in that MBR align on certain boundries whereas FreeBSD doesn't care about such sillyness

4.2-STABLE cd9660: Input/output error

2000-11-21 Thread Cristian N. Bradiceanu
Dear Sirs, I am using 4.2-STABLE: FreeBSD bofh.lasting.ro 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 21 11:39:07 EET 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OOPS i386 cvsup'd last night. acd0: CDROM TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B at ata1-master using UDMA33 # mount /cdrom cd9660:

Java et al

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Hoskins
Hello, Excuse this if it's off-topic... I couldn't think of the best place to ask this, and I am running STABLE on all production machines, so... We have a lot of proprietary code written in Java running on Wintel boxes. There's been talk of migrating to Linux, and our initial tests show

Re: Java et al

2000-11-21 Thread Antony T Curtis
Mike Hoskins wrote: Hello, Excuse this if it's off-topic... I couldn't think of the best place to ask this, and I am running STABLE on all production machines, so... We have a lot of proprietary code written in Java running on Wintel boxes. There's been talk of migrating to Linux,

Re: Hmm..passwords.

2000-11-21 Thread Nevermind
Hello, Chris Byrnes! On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:33:21PM -0600, you wrote: I recently went 4.1.1-stable to 4.2-release and now lots of passwords...don't work. Any ideas? The same thing... Mabe the point is in DES/md5 passwords? -- Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/ NEVE-RIPE

Re: Hmm..passwords.

2000-11-21 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Nevermind wrote: ... : The same thing... : Mabe the point is in DES/md5 passwords? FreeBSD has actually defaulted to MD5 passwords for quite a long time to those of us not within the US. However, installing the US crypto has

Re: Removal of Disklabel

2000-11-21 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Chad R. Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001120 23:44]: Our Pyramids, running DC/OSx 1.1 have 16 partitions per hard drive. DC/OSx is/was the reference port of SysVr4 to the MIPS chipset, done under contract by Pyramid for Unix System Labs. UnixWare

Re: kernel breackage in machine/atomic.h

2000-11-21 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] the symptom is : cc -c -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../..

Re: Hmm..passwords.

2000-11-21 Thread Nevermind
Hello, Matt Heckaman! On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:09:57AM -0500, you wrote: FreeBSD has actually defaulted to MD5 passwords for quite a long time to those of us not within the US. However, installing the US crypto has always forced the usage of DES passwords by default. In order to switch

Re: Hmm..passwords.

2000-11-21 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Nevermind wrote: ... : And if I wanna manage both -- DES MD5? For example I have about 200 : users on one machine and I have no physical ability to make them : change their passwords. It seems to me it worked fine somewhere :

pam_ssh problems

2000-11-21 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Sometime between 4.1.1-STABLE and 4.2-BETA we started having difficulities with using pam_ssh and wdm. Here is a piece of our /etc/pam.conf: wdm authsufficient pam_ssh.so wdm authrequiredpam_unix.so wdm account requiredpam_unix.so

Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable

2000-11-21 Thread opentrax
On 20 Nov, Mike Smith wrote: "DO" == David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DO Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously DO dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough DO space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-21 Thread Helge Oldach
Chad R. Larson: I think earlier in this thread was a reference to a document somewhat later than the BIOS code shipped with an AT. Which probably makes some sense as FreeBSD won't run on a plain IBM AT box anyway... Do we want to start a new thread on what exactly =is= the authoritative

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Re: Removal of Disklabel

2000-11-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:33:11PM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: I'm on tangent mode this afternoon, so this is not a direct reply. [excellent explanation that makes perfect sense snipped for brevity] Even if there's nothing else gained by this discussion, can this

Release Information

2000-11-21 Thread Passki, Jonathan P
Hello All, When does the release information on the website usually get updated (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html)? I've been slightly following the list, but I was just looking for a summary of changes and enhancements from 4.1.1 to 4.2. Jon

Re: The code freeze in RELENG_4 for src is now over.

2000-11-21 Thread opentrax
On 20 Nov, Jordan Hubbard wrote: The 4.2 RELEASE has been rolled and you may now go back to your usual restrained hacking on -stable. That is all. Jordan, Sorry to bother, but when will the new Release be online. I'm not familiar with your procedure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

perl locale not set

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Steinfeld
I installed 4.1-release from a .ISO from ftp.freebsd.org I see that my locale is note set when ever I attempt to run my perl scripts... I keep getting ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE =

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-21 Thread opentrax
On 20 Nov, Chad R. Larson wrote: As I recall, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: The original IBM AT spec could give a rats ass about a partition table, all that it cares about is the boot block signature (magic 0xAA55). It is the MBR that knows what a partition table is and how to deal with it.

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-21 Thread opentrax
On 20 Nov, Mike Smith wrote: Let me state this one more time loudly for those calling themselves boot code experts. THE PARTITION TABLE IN THE MBR IS NOT DEALT WITH BY THE BIOS, BIOSES THAT TRY TO MAKE HEADS OR TALES OF PARTITION TABLES ARE TECHNICALLY BROKEN AND VIOLATE IBM AT

RELEASE vs. Snapshot (BETA) question

2000-11-21 Thread Nora Etukudo
Hello. What is ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.2-20001121-BETA (from Nov 21 13:49 GMT) related to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE (from Nov 20 17:49 GMT) The RELEASE seems older than the BETA. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- [EMAIL

Re: 4.2 Showstopper? Belkin KVM switch problems with FreeBSD 4.2

2000-11-21 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 18:52 -0600, Gerd Knops wrote: KVM users heads up: In order to support USB keyboards the generic kernel does not install an atkbd0 driver if no keyboard is detected. Some KVMs fail to sufficiently emulate a keyboard, causing the system to fail