Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Yes, to be consistent with the state of world WRT NFS. Or at least with > the leader -- Solaris. This has been the default in 3.0-C since the > am-utils import. Yeah, well, amd is a whole other ball of wax. That's clearly broken in both 3.0-stable and 4.0-current and we're going to have to re

Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically?

1999-01-30 Thread Chris Knight
At 04:03 PM 1/30/99 -0800, you wrote: >> > Any ideas why this isn't working? Is it working in -current but not >-stable? >> > >This led me to believe that he was running -stable and simply >posted to the wrong group. I am running -stable. I didn't 'exactly' post to the wrong group. I posted

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Bruce Evans
>> > sched_yield() is a stub that informs you nicely that it doesn't exist :) >> > Use the options: >> > options "P1003_1B" >> > options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" >> > options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" >> >> Peter: is there any harm in enabling these features permanentl

Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-30 Thread David O'Brien
> errors on "current" and checked the amd.conf file it was using. > Version 3 of NFS seemed to be the default (!) for amd Yes, to be consistent with the state of world WRT NFS. Or at least with the leader -- Solaris. This has been the default in 3.0-C since the am-utils import. > it to version

Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically?

1999-01-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I can't see any way that this could compromise the stability of > -STABLE, so I agree. Peter committed the change to -CURRENT, so I'll > leave it to him. I'd prefer it if you did it - Peter is probably too busy to even notice this request. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@fr

Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically?

1999-01-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:48 -0800, Jake wrote: >> In -CURRENT it is now: >> >> if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_slices" ]; then >> vinum read $vinum_slices >> fi > > Has this been fixed in -stable? No. > There was the problem of $vinum_slices not being initializ

Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically?

1999-01-30 Thread Jake
> In -CURRENT it is now: > > if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_slices" ]; then > vinum read $vinum_slices > fi Has this been fixed in -stable? There was the problem of $vinum_slices not being initialized because it was being used before rc.conf had been sourced. > > > Any

Re: file: table is full ?

1999-01-30 Thread N
Quoth Mike Tancsa: > Jan 29 21:37:05 ns3 /kernel: file: table is full > > I have maxusers set to 128 > ns3# sysctl -a | grep -i files > kern.maxfiles: 4136 > kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136 Try running `pstat -T' and see what number of file descriptors is generally in use. FYI, I've had to bump it u

Re: Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article <91639.917702...@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > As of the day before yesterday, I started getting all manner of NFS > errors on "current" and checked the amd.conf file it was using. > Version 3 of NFS seemed to be the default (!) for amd so I changed > it to version 2 a

Re: Tentitive fix for vn device

1999-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article , Kris Kennaway wrote: > > This fixes the problems I was having with vn devices - at least, I can once > again cvsup on a vn device, which was guaranteed to fail instantly before. That's my baby, the ultimate kernel test. I feel so proud. :-) John -- John Polstra

Re: Why doesn't Vinum start automatically?

1999-01-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 22:41:52 -0800, Chris Knight wrote: > There have been changes to rc and rc.conf lately to autostart Vinum. But > on my system it does not auto load at start and I wind up manually loading > the module, reading the config and mounting the volume. Any help if > figurin

file: table is full ?

1999-01-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
I have a 3.0 STABLE box that under heavy smtp activity is getting Jan 29 21:37:05 ns3 /kernel: file: table is f Jan 29 21:37:05 ns3 /kernel: ull Jan 29 21:37:05 ns3 /kernel: file: table is full I have maxusers set to 128 ns3# sysctl -a | grep -i files kern.maxfiles: 4136 kern.maxfilesperproc: 4

CAP port and non-IP multicast

1999-01-30 Thread Bill Paul
Somebody wrote me recently to tell me they were having trouble getting the Columbia Appletalk package to work with a PCI ethernet card. Looking through both the Columbia Appletalk code and the kernel, I think the problem is a general one not necessarily related to a given ethernet driver. I'm not s

Re: PPP (userland) troubles ?

1999-01-30 Thread Leif Neland
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > > Would it be possible to add an exponential delay when connecting fails for > > either reason? > > > > I just received my specified phone-bill. It filled 42 pages, with hundreds > > of calls with a duration of 17 seconds. (Because my modem needs to be

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1999-01-30 Thread andre
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Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Peter Dufault
> < said: > > > sched_yield() is a stub that informs you nicely that it doesn't exist :) > > Use the options: > > options "P1003_1B" > > options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" > > options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" > > Peter: is there any harm in enabling these features per

Re: c_caddr_t

1999-01-30 Thread Nate Williams
> > Matt, get over it. bde didn't slam *YOU* in the commit messages. You > > were never mentioned personally. Also, taking your complaint to > > -current is not proper proceedure for handling grievances. > > While this is true, I think the overall point he made was reasonable > considering how

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > sched_yield() is a stub that informs you nicely that it doesn't exist :) > Use the options: > options "P1003_1B" > options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" > options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" Peter: is there any harm in enabling these features permanently? -GAWoll

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 03:33:26PM -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.0 in my FBSD-3.0-STABLE (26Jan1999). > When setup is running the kernel reports: > > linux_clone(303): Not enabled > Jan 30 15:05:39 foker /kernel: cmd setup.bin pid 303 tried to use > non-

Re: LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.0 in my FBSD-3.0-STABLE (26Jan1999). > When setup is running the kernel reports: > > linux_clone(303): Not enabled > Jan 30 15:05:39 foker /kernel: cmd setup.bin pid 303 tried to use > non-present sched_yield

Re: *1 routines in /sys/kern

1999-01-30 Thread Mike Smith
> > If I split sigaction(), sigsuspend(), sigpending(), sigprocmask() and > sigaltstack() into front-end and back-end pieces a-la NetBSD so that > emulator-specific signal semantics can be imposed without totally > duplicating those routines inside the emulator (like I did with > sendit() and rec

LINUX clone? sched_yield?

1999-01-30 Thread Paulo Fragoso
Hi, I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.0 in my FBSD-3.0-STABLE (26Jan1999). When setup is running the kernel reports: linux_clone(303): Not enabled Jan 30 15:05:39 foker /kernel: cmd setup.bin pid 303 tried to use non-present sched_yield Jan 30 15:05:53 foker last message repeated 892 times What

sigpending with pthreads - bug or feature?

1999-01-30 Thread Anton Berezin
I don't know whether I should file a bug report on this issue. Consider the following little program: /* t.c */ #include #include int main( void) { sigset_t set; sigpending( &set); return 0; } Compiling

Re: nuts'n'bolts in vfs_bio

1999-01-30 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:23:05AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] > Please try this diff ( against RELENG_3 kern/vfs_bio.c ) and > tell me if it works. > > This is for STABLE only. Current already has this patch. Hello Matthew, thank you for reviewing vfs_bio.c. Your patch seem

Re: lkm not working

1999-01-30 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Daren Sefcik wrote: > I am now up to 4.0 and lkm is not working... > > rover# modstat > modstat: /dev/lkm: Device not configured > > I have not used it much but I know it worked with > my 3.0 system...any pointers would be great. The lkm system has been superceded by a new

Re: Reading a text file with BTX

1999-01-30 Thread Robert Nordier
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Robert Nordier wrote: > > > > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > > Y'know, in my computer that F5 is "Drive 0", and the system will not > > > boot unless I select it first. Selecting it, makes the OSes boot and > > > F5 disappear. > > > > Try the following patch. You can

*1 routines in /sys/kern

1999-01-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > If I split sigaction(), sigsuspend(), sigpending(), sigprocmask() and > sigaltstack() into front-end and back-end pieces a-la NetBSD so that > emulator-specific signal semantics can be imposed without totally > duplicating those routines inside the emulator (like I did with > sendit() a

Re: lkm not working

1999-01-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Daren Sefcik wrote: > > I am now up to 4.0 and lkm is not working... > > rover# modstat > modstat: /dev/lkm: Device not configured > > I have not used it much but I know it worked with > my 3.0 system...any pointers would be great. My guess: add "option lkm" to your kernel configuration file.

lkm not working

1999-01-30 Thread Daren Sefcik
I am now up to 4.0 and lkm is not working... rover# modstat modstat: /dev/lkm: Device not configured I have not used it much but I know it worked with my 3.0 system...any pointers would be great. thanks, Daren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: Reading a text file with BTX

1999-01-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Robert Nordier wrote: > > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > Y'know, in my computer that F5 is "Drive 0", and the system will not > > boot unless I select it first. Selecting it, makes the OSes boot and > > F5 disappear. > > Try the following patch. You can use the utility [...] Right on the mark.

Even more interesting NFS problems..

1999-01-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Scenario: Two machines, releng3.freebsd.org (running 3.0-stable) and current.freebsd.org (running 4.0-current). releng3 has all the disk space and is the NFS server. current is an NFS client and uses releng3 for its CVS repository, FTP snapshot stashing area, etc. As of the day before yesterday,

Re: Tentitive fix for vn device

1999-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This is a tentitive fix for the vn device problems reported earlier. This fixes the problems I was having with vn devices - at least, I can once again cvsup on a vn device, which was guaranteed to fail instantly before. THanks! Kris - (ASP) M

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-30 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 11:02:48 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > >> If I were working on this code written by someone else it'd leave my > >> editor looking like the top example, that's for sure. I think that > >> "How easy is it to edit a piece of code

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-30 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:26:53PM +1100, John Birrell wrote: > I can image a new subscriber to this list reading a few of these messages > and thinking: "why would I want to use an OS developed by these people?". > > We spend so much of our time looking up our own collective asses searching >

Re: Ne2000 PCI Card

1999-01-30 Thread Tim Preece
In message , Alfred Perlstein writes > >On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > >> I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset >> (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. > >...snip > >> Tried to get help in #freebsd in efnet, but no-one had suggestions tha

Re: Ne2000 PCI Card

1999-01-30 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:33:20PM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > performance at 10 Mbps, but it's a real dog at 100 Mbps. I'm only > able to achieve 45-50 Mbps throughput with a dual P6-200 machine, and > it uses nearly 30% of the CPU to do it. Hmm.. We tried the cards here and got ca 9MB/s o

Re: Reading a text file with BTX

1999-01-30 Thread Robert Nordier
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Robert Nordier wrote: > > > > The boot manager menu, for example > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F2 UNIX > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > Default: F1 > > Y'know, in my computer that F5 is "Drive 0", and the system will not > boot unless I select it first. Selecting

Tentitive fix for vn device

1999-01-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is a tentitive fix for the vn device problems reported earlier. It has not been well tested. Basically, the vn device tries to do something different for B_PAGING bp's to get around potential low-memory deadlocks. Previously this only applied to paging/swapping, and the s