Re: Best ATA RAID controller

2002-02-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:29 AM 2/14/02 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >Some of the other IDE raid cards will allow you to use a master and slave >on the same channel. From what I understand the problem with this is that >if a slave dies, it could potentially take out the master or vice versa. Performance is the issue

Re: subscribe

2001-04-18 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 06:34 PM 4/17/01 -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >We're not going to let you. Resistance is futile. > >- Original Message - >From: "Ian Perrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:29 PM >Subject: subscribe > > > > > > subscribe > > And wh

Re: Why not stick with [STABLE] [Was: RE: Releases]

2001-04-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:18 PM 4/9/01 -0700, Yann Sommer wrote: >Heya all, > >I've been following this thread with some extra attention, since I remember >beeing new to FreeBSD and complaining about a dedicated Server I ordered, >running BETA. It is just, as has been mentioned a few times before on this >list, again

Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases)

2001-04-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:04 PM 4/9/01 -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >I like the idea of stable-supfile, so it should stay. standard-supfile >should *definitely* refer to the -REL in which it is a part of. In that >case, a novice user who doesn't change anything would end up cvsup'ing code >that they already have

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:31 PM 3/7/01 -0500, Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote: >Another datapoint. . . > >I changed make.conf on, I believe, Dec. 6: > ># CFLAGS= -O -pipe >CFLAGS= -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro > >(There's also: > >COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe) > >(I gather that -mcpu is redundant.) I r

Re: libc shlib version (consensus?)

2000-11-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:26 PM 11/13/00 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:06:41PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami >wrote: > > * I'm going to go ahead and bump -current's libc today in preparation of > > * doing in -stable if it comes down to it. I know Garret has been waiting > > * t

Re: ports collection

2000-11-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:35 PM 11/14/00 -0500, Evan S wrote: >I cvs'uppd my ports collection like the handbook and UPDATING file said >to, will that be enough so after I make installworld and merge master my >ports won't have to be recompiled? > >Thanks, > >Evan Sarmiento ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >http://sekt7.org/es Wh

Re: Two FreeBSD Server (and) CVSUP Refure File

2000-11-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:22 PM 11/14/00 +, G D McKee wrote: >Hi > >How can I get a second FreeBSD server to masquerade through another one >hooked up to the internet using ppp without enabling nat in ppp.conf >file. Everything else from other PC's goes through squid or socks5 proxies. > >Can I do anything wit

Re: /usr/src/Makefile question

2000-11-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:23 AM 11/13/00 -0500, jack wrote: >There're all kinds of ways around it, including a local patch >that puts it back in. I'm just curious about why a convenient, >IMO, feature was dropped. It was semi-broken and in some opinions, an easily replaced, minor feature that. Check the cvs-all

Re: IDE RAID?

2000-11-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:30 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >I dont have any direct experience with the controllers listed below on >FreeBSD, however I did try the Fasttrak a year or so ago on NT and was >less than impressed with it under even a medium load. The IDE RAID card I >have had good experience w

Re: named weirdness...

2000-11-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:54 AM 11/3/00 -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: --hedge trimmer-- > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > Larry > Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > > > > > > > > > > Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > US Mail: 1905 Steamb

Re: "Malloc type lacks magic" show-stopper solved

2000-10-25 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:32 AM 10/25/00 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: >In case it helps anyone else, the error in the subject line was due to >compiler optimisations. > >Going back to -O -pipe and rebuilding everything fixed it. Oddly >enough, -O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -ffast-math worked fine on 3.3, but not >on 4.1.

Re: make world

2000-10-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:36 PM 10/10/00 -0400, Nader Turki wrote: >OK guys, I understand all that, but the thing is. I already did "make >world" and >got disconnected and i did telnet to the box again and did "make world" again! >So, Is that going to be a problem? Possibly. Strongly suggest you start over and don

Re: ahc driver problem

2000-10-09 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:10 AM 10/10/00 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > I can report the same failure. My config dmesg is attached to this > > message. The ahc driver put on the 4.1 Release CD works and the system > > boots and operates with no problems detected. This problem occurs when > > the machine is booted f

installkernel targets

2000-10-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Hmmm... One thing I miss by using the "new" method is the install.debug target. "make installkernel.debug" is a big long, but would only take 3 lines in Makefile.inc1 plus documentation. Just a minor suggestion. Jeff Mountin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the powe

NO_TCSH issue

2000-09-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Hmmm... If you build with this option and remove /bin/(t)csh, buildworld will die when /usr/bin/vgrind is called like so: ===> share/doc/papers/kernmalloc touch _stamp.extraobjs (cd /usr/src/share/doc/papers/kernmalloc; soelim kernmalloc.t) > kernmalloc.ms vgrind -f < /usr/src/share/doc/papers/

RE: DoS attacks and FreeBSD.

2000-08-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:58 AM 8/22/00 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Noor Dawod wrote: > > > Yes, it can, and I've alreaedy done just that. But then again, all other > > legitimate visitors will be locked out... > >Depends how smart the rate-limiting is. If it's at the application level >you know

Re: SSH in 4.1 RELEASE for NonUS users

2000-07-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 07:33 PM 7/29/00 +0200, John Hay wrote: > > .if exists(${.CURDIR}/../../crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_eay.c) && \ > > (${USA_RESIDENT} != YES || defined(MAKE_RSAINTL)) > > SUBDIR+=librsaintl > > .endif > > > >No, you only need USA_RESIDENT=NO. It won't harm if you have MAKE_RSAINTL=YES, >b

Re: SSH in 4.1 RELEASE for NonUS users

2000-07-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 05:25 PM 7/29/00 +0200, John Hay wrote: >You have 2 options. If you have the crypto distribution with source, you >can go into /usr/src/secure/lib/librsaintl and build and install it. If >you don't want to build it, you can install the crypto distribution from >ftp.internat.freebsd.org, its cry

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 07:38 AM 5/6/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug > >> symbols by default. Th

Re: "dangerously dedicated"

2000-03-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 06:30 PM 3/22/00 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: >I guess I don't see how to use, eg, da0a without being "dangerously >dedicated". When I did my install of FBSD 3.3, the partitioning >process asked if I was sharing the disk or not. I said no, so it took >over the entire disk, but I still get the lo

Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?)

2000-03-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:07 AM 3/21/00 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: >I would have to agree with Jordan here. Of course with the plethora of PC >hardware combinations out there (with some of the marginally designed >components people pick up) it is impossible for the developers to make sure >100% of everything "works

Re: unusual cvsup message

2000-03-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 04:28 PM 3/19/00 -0800, Sameer R. Manek wrote: >I got this message on a cvsup performed today, at about Sun Mar 19 15:07:18 >PST 2000, anyone else get a similar message? and should i be concerned about >it? Not quite the same here: Should not be a problem, since the entire file is fetched.

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-21 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:20 AM 3/19/00 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandon Fosdick writes: >: I thought of that, but I didn't know what the devices w/o slice numbers >: did. Guess I should have just tried it. > >Devices w/o slice numbers are the "compatibility" devices. These map >to t

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:41 AM 3/17/00 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2000-Mar-17 08:19:36 +1100, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap > >must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partit

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >If possible, you should install a small NTFS partition and a small >FreeBSD slice (only ``/'') below the 1023rd cylinder and use the >remaining space as you see fit for both NTFS and FreeBSD. Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotch

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:03 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Also, I'd like to suggest modifying 'installkernel' to install the >kernel it builds as /kernel, rather than as /${KERNEL} (which usually >means /GENERIC). This bit me the first time, and even though it's harmless >not everyone is saavy enoug

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel >Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as >follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="i

trimming build/installworld

2000-02-10 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
Not to start off another thread on make.conf options such as NOUUCP, NOYP, NO a somewhat cryptic: Cy Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A previous posting of mine conveyed the idea of variables like > NOUUCP=true, NOSENDMAIL, NONAMED, NOYP, SUID_BINARIES_root='/usr/bin/su > ...' etc., in ma

Re: Anticipated release date for 3.4

1999-11-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 10:21 AM 11/17/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >Will be December 15th. The traditional code slush will go into effect >on the 1st. November would be an excellent month for merging your >changes, after which I'll be exercising my usual perogative of >inspecting all potential changes with a

Re: Resolver in FreeBSD-3.[12] is broken?

1999-10-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 06:47 PM 10/14/99 +0200, Vadim Chekan wrote: >Tom wrote: >> >> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote: >> > From FreeBSD-3.2 (I checked this on 4 machines) >> > = >> > bash-2.03$ host 212.109.34.132 >> > 132.34.109.212.IN-ADDR.ARPA is a

Re: X won't start

1999-10-12 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:37 AM 10/12/99 -0400, Daniel Tso wrote: >> A link doesn't have (used) permissions. You must look to the permissions >> of the file where the link points to. >> >> Think about it. If the permissions of the link matter, everybody can make >> a link to every program and give himself the permis

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 09:43 AM 9/16/99 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: >My biggest objection to vinum is that it will do what you tell it to, >and then complain afterwards, rather than complain about it at the time >you try to do it. Two good examples: > >1. You can add drives partitions that haven't yet been MAKEDE

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:30 AM 9/16/99 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > My apologies. I was under the impression that it was still >considered alpha code, but then I guess if it was it probably >wouldn't have migrated to the -STABLE tree, now would it? None needed, but we're not the only ones that assumed that

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:45 AM 9/16/99 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: >Also, keep in mind that vinum does very little in the way of sanity checking. >It's very happy to trash your data if you tell it to do something even a >little bit unusual. Like anything it will only do what you tell it, so in a way I'm of agree

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:09 PM 9/15/99 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >Perhaps we're seeing this differently, but "sworn off vinum" says to me >"never using it again", and that's the point I was trying to make. >People try something that's still under development, get bitten, and >then claim forever after that the pro

Re: Anticipated release date for 3.4

1999-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:25 PM 11/18/99 +0100, Sascha Blank wrote: >On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:54:05PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >> What happened to every 4 months? > >I wonder too. Is it really such a good idea to shorten the release >cycle even more so that we will have four releases a

Re: Anticipated release date for 3.4

1999-01-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:42 PM 11/18/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> My psychic powers are telling me that this information will find it's >> way on to the front page of Slashdot in the near future. > >Heh. Wow, I wonder how he does it folks! :) "Believe them. They're for real" - late night psyhic ads >> A