Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-21:02.extattr

2021-01-29 Thread Gordon Tetlow via freebsd-stable
On Jan 29, 2021, at 4:09 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:34:06 + (UTC), FreeBSD Errata Notices said: >> >> 2) To update your system via a source code patch: >> >> The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable >> FreeBSD release branches. >>

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Hi. Your friendly neighborhood Security Officer here. I published the 5 advisories and 3 errata yesterday. On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 07:15:04PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Thanks Will, > You make some good points, but all depend on variant circustances. > > I prefer to be informed ASAP, to

Re: svn.FreeBSD.org upgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@nitro.dk wrote: PPS. this now means that one of the last system having it's FreeBSD base source controlled by CVS is switched to using SVN... I think that's ironic or something. Gordon ___

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 forgets some of my users

2005-05-26 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello there, there is a strange thing FreeBSD 5.3 randomly frogets some of my users. Sometimes I see in the first column of the ps aux output the uid number instead of the login name, but next when I run it, there is the login name. Besides, I tried to chown a

Re: Panic on 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 with a Crusoe processors

2002-09-25 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:09:16PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: I have a *very* reproducable panic from my RLX Transmeta Blade when I try to do a sysctl -a. It hits hw.crusoe.longrun and crashes the box. Since this is in production I didn't get a core dump (I don't have a debug kernel around

Re: PANIC in FFS -- Please HELP!

2001-07-18 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Stewart Morgan wrote: CPUTYPE=i686 CFLAGS=-O -pipe -felide-constructors -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast-math -felide-constructors -fexpensive-optimizations -funroll-loops -funroll-all-loops -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized -fno-strength-reduce CXXFLAGS+=-O

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Hmm, I just went through all of the mlx related files and none of them changed between 4.2-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE. So it looks like there is something more sinister going on. -gordon On Mon, 7 May 2001, Matt Groener wrote: I have been trying to get anyone to respond to this issue as well. I

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mike Smith wrote: This is a known problem. I don't know what's up, and I can't reproduce it (as I don't have any of these cards). I suspect that it may be an issue with non-page-aligned I/O and the very limited scatter-gather that these cards support. On Mon, 7 May

Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
I have an N440BX motherboard that, when using console redirection (so the BIOS messages and such come over the serial port), displays the following: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 635kB/523200kB available

Re: Strange BTX halted error

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
No, we don't use dangerously dedicated since the word dangerous was in it. Figured it might not be a good thing =) Thanks though. -gordon On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: I was getting BTX halted failures due to BIOS confusion related to dangerously dedicated partitions. It's

Re: hacking installation...

2001-03-23 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Did you alter /boot/loader.conf as well? On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: I added MD_ROOT and get the same thing... it prompts me for a root device... You actually need MD_ROOT, not MFS_ROOT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable"

Re: UK Keymap? moused? (fwd)

2001-03-22 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Did you run mergemaster after you booted with the new world? I don't know if anything went in about this, but it's conceivable. -gordon On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Tim Joseph wrote: This worked with the GENERIC kernel with my original FreeBSD 4.2-release installation. Since then, I've cvsup'd to

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Actually, from what I've been told, TCP allows for much larger requests than what UDP does, afaik UDP maxes out at 8k while tcp should be able to go to 32k (maybe 64k) and give possibly better performance. This is true. I'm used to working with

Re: Apache 1.3.19 does not work in a jail

2001-03-16 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Or even a backtrace would be useful, but the problem is that it wasn't able to do a reverse lookup on itself. This is a problem with apache, not with jail. I don't know if this is FreeBSD specific or not, as it is trivially fixed. Maybe I'll get around to install a debug version of apache and

Re: strange pcm0 errors

2001-03-11 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jeffrey J. Lee wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I think that it has something to do with the kernel. After building and installing kde2 on my 4.3-beta system, I configured my soundcard using settings that worked great on 4.2-stable of late February under

Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE?

2001-03-09 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Nope. When XFree86 4.x: a) Supports a reasonable superset of all cards supported by 3.3.6 b) Doesn't halve OpenGL performance on cards like Matrox and nVidia (3dfx sucks so much on both that it's not an issue). c)

Re: Can't Telnet but can SSH?

2001-01-17 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Trevin Chow wrote: I think I'm having some problems with my firewall rules regarding telnet and it may have to do with my NS setup. 1) Whenever I try to telnet to 2 external hosts (my university and another host), I connect, and right before it displays the "login:"

Re: REMINDER: 4.2 code freeze starts tomorrow!

2000-11-01 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Hello there... On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: There's one "bad" default that might like to get changed. That is the time that cron runs the daily scripts. The current setting in /etc/crontab is 1:59 in the morning. Well, last Sunday that time occurred twice as we switched from