Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > >This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint: > >{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 2>/dev/null | file - > >standard input: MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU >

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Stephen McKay
On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: >This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint: >{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 2>/dev/null | file - >standard input: MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU Don't ya just hate it when your mail is slow! Sigh...

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Stephen McKay
On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> doing a 'file cd9660_bmap.o' on laptop (NFS client) gives me a >> cd9660_bmap.o: MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU >> >> An MS Windows binary? Do you have any msdos mounts on >> the client or

Re: EGCS

1999-04-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: : I forgot the particular error, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Is : there something that I have to do before I do a make world? Thanks. Read src/UPDATING for a start. If the error isn't there, then please post the error. We can't do anything with

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> corruption is occuring on the client. But if the make procedure is not :> accessing (much of) the client's hard drive, where on the client could :> the corruption be coming from? : :This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint: :{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :> I ran your program. malloc() appears to work properly -- returns NULL when :> the datasize limit is reached. In my case, I set the datasize limit :> to 64MB and ran the program. : :Unset the datasize limit. Now what happens? It used to return NULL, now :it gets SIGKILLed. Ser

Re: EGCS

1999-04-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I forgot the particular error, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Is The actual error would be most helpful, otherwise this is sort of a waste of email. :( > there something that I have to do before I do a make world? Thanks. A make world, assuming that you're already ELF, should do it. -

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :/usr/obj isn't mounted, i'm just compiling a kernel. > : > :no i have no msdos mounted filesystems, i do however have an > :unmounted win98 partition and a cdrom with joliet extentions mounted > :however the cdrom only contains mp3s. > : > :After doing

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :-current as of tuesday night. although the laptop is now moved > :to -current as of today. > : > :i have 192.168.1.44:/usr/src on /usr/src > : > :this is only building the kernel in /usr/src/sys/compile/laptop > : > :server: > :FreeBSD myname.my.domain

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I use the memory as soon as it's malloced. If it reserves a page, then > :pagefaults it into existence, the VM system knows that that page is now > :allocated. When I malloc the last available page for user use, the VM > :system knows that it's the las

EGCS

1999-04-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I still can't get the EGCS make world to work properly I just cvsupped like 20 minutes ago, and I typed make -DNOGAMES world. I forgot the particular error, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Is there something that I have to do before I do a ma

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:/usr/obj isn't mounted, i'm just compiling a kernel. : :no i have no msdos mounted filesystems, i do however have an :unmounted win98 partition and a cdrom with joliet extentions mounted :however the cdrom only contains mp3s. : :After doing more data manipulation (copying files around to flush :th

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :-current as of tuesday night. although the laptop is now moved > :to -current as of today. > : > :i have 192.168.1.44:/usr/src on /usr/src > : > :this is only building the kernel in /usr/src/sys/compile/laptop > : > :server: > :FreeBSD myname.my.domain

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:-current as of tuesday night. although the laptop is now moved :to -current as of today. : :i have 192.168.1.44:/usr/src on /usr/src : :this is only building the kernel in /usr/src/sys/compile/laptop : :server: :FreeBSD myname.my.domain 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Apr 9 11:34:01 PDT

Re: showing full host names in output from who/finger/last

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Somers
> For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show > full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last' > commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16 > characters.) > > I have been thinking of patching FreeBSD programs to do the same, but >

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hey, i was just doing a kernel compile over NFS and i have a weird > :situtation. After compiling everything the linker barfs on linking. > : > :gensetdefs: cd9660_bmap.o: not an ELF file > > What exact release of the kernel is running on the cli

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I use the memory as soon as it's malloced. If it reserves a page, then :pagefaults it into existence, the VM system knows that that page is now :allocated. When I malloc the last available page for user use, the VM :system knows that it's the last page. I dirty it, and there are none :free. If I m

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
Mikhail Teterin wrote: > What about a new login-class capability specifying the maximum > percentage of CPU time a class of users can utilize? With standard > class having 90% (or 95%)? The machine would appear (to most of > the users) as if it had 10% slower CPU, with the remaining usable > by th

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :It seems that something has broken the good ol' swap behavior. For instance, > :I have my user-limits set to unlimited and I run something which uses up > :all RAM. Mallocing never FAILS in the program, as brk() doesn't fail, as etc > :etc etc. But mal

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hey, i was just doing a kernel compile over NFS and i have a weird :situtation. After compiling everything the linker barfs on linking. : :gensetdefs: cd9660_bmap.o: not an ELF file What exact release of the kernel is running on the client and on the server? What is being NFS mounte

have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey, i was just doing a kernel compile over NFS and i have a weird situtation. After compiling everything the linker barfs on linking. gensetdefs: cd9660_bmap.o: not an ELF file for about 12 files... the compile is being done on a laptop that has my desktop's src dir NFS mounted. the card in

Re: CTM problem(?)

1999-04-11 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I wrote: > >I haven't received anything from CTM for cvs-cur since around 0110 PDT > >yesterday (11th April). > > Two minutes after posting this, the CTM backlog started appearing. It > looks like it Chi.Alameda.net was sitting on it (possibly because >

Re: colour 'ls'

1999-04-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Oleg Ogurok writes: > I put ls as a symbolic link to gnuls, but every time I make world, the old > 'ls' puts back ;-) Don't do that. Instead, do: # cd /usr/local/bin # ln -s gnuls ls and fix your PATH so /usr/local/bin comes before /bin. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no T

Re: CTM problem(?)

1999-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
I wrote: >I haven't received anything from CTM for cvs-cur since around 0110 PDT >yesterday (11th April). Two minutes after posting this, the CTM backlog started appearing. It looks like it Chi.Alameda.net was sitting on it (possibly because hub.freebsd.org wouldn't accept it). Peter To Unsubs

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It seems that something has broken the good ol' swap behavior. For instance, :I have my user-limits set to unlimited and I run something which uses up :all RAM. Mallocing never FAILS in the program, as brk() doesn't fail, as etc :etc etc. But mallocing continues, all swap space gets used, and both

CTM problem(?)

1999-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
I haven't received anything from CTM for cvs-cur since around 0110 PDT yesterday (11th April). The last thing I got was "ctm-mail cvs-cur.5226.gz 29/39" and the ftp server shows that up to 5230 (at least) have been generated. Is anyone else having problems? Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to m

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > In message <199904102057.paa27...@home.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: > > : i.e. uid 1001 starts 40 processes eating as much cpu as they can. Then uid > > : 1002 starts up one process. Uid 1002's process gets 50% cpu, and uid > > 1001's > > : 40 proces

Re: colour 'ls'

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi there. : :Have you ever thought about putting colour listing in 'ls' command? First :I saw it in linux and then there's a program called 'gnuls' in ports. It :looks really cool when you do: :gnuls --color=yes :Files print as usual and directories print in colour ;-) :I put ls as a symbolic link

Re: Panic from today's current

1999-04-11 Thread Steven P. Donegan
Well, a kernel built today results in an infinite boot/re-boot cycle on my system (SMP, Tomcat IV). Never gets to a point where a proper dump/tombstone happens. Sorry, no definitive trace here... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body o

Re: colour 'ls'

1999-04-11 Thread Travis Cole
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:04:15AM -0400, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > Files print as usual and directories print in colour ;-) > I put ls as a symbolic link to gnuls, but every time I make world, the old > 'ls' puts back ;-) Instead of the symlink just try using a shell alias for it. alias ls="gnuls -

Re: showing full host names in output from who/finger/last

1999-04-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show > full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last' > commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16 > characters.) > > I have been thinking of patchin

swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
It seems that something has broken the good ol' swap behavior. For instance, I have my user-limits set to unlimited and I run something which uses up all RAM. Mallocing never FAILS in the program, as brk() doesn't fail, as etc etc etc. But mallocing continues, all swap space gets used, and both the

Re: AIC

1999-04-11 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > The aic driver will likely oneday be ported. However, no one has come > > forward to do it. It is a highly desirable driver to have (even if > > Umm, I'm still working on the aic drive

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message <37106b7d.50b2f...@rcc.on.ca> Rod Taylor writes: : I like this, but the problem with that fork bomb program still exists. : It was afterall system cpu that was doing all the work, not the users : cpu. System CPU still gets charged to the user, so this is a non-issue. Warner To Unsubs

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199904102057.paa27...@home.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: : i.e. uid 1001 starts 40 processes eating as much cpu as they can. Then uid : 1002 starts up one process. Uid 1002's process gets 50% cpu, and uid 1001's : 40 processes get 50% cpu shared between them. I've seen some experi

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Kevin Day
> In message <199904102057.paa27...@home.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: > : i.e. uid 1001 starts 40 processes eating as much cpu as they can. Then uid > : 1002 starts up one process. Uid 1002's process gets 50% cpu, and uid 1001's > : 40 processes get 50% cpu shared between them. > > I've seen

Panic from today's current

1999-04-11 Thread Martin Blapp
While running a make 'buildworld -j 10', my SMP box crashed. I had a running nfs-server and softupdates enabled when it happened. The kernel-configfile and dmesg-output is available from: http://www.attic.ch/fuchur_kernel.html panic at: generic_bcopy+0x1arepe movsl (%esi), %es:(%edi) db> t

colour 'ls'

1999-04-11 Thread Oleg Ogurok
Hi there. Have you ever thought about putting colour listing in 'ls' command? First I saw it in linux and then there's a program called 'gnuls' in ports. It looks really cool when you do: gnuls --color=yes Files print as usual and directories print in colour ;-) I put ls as a symbolic link to gnul

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Amancio Hasty wrote: > > It should be possible to prevent a user from hogging a system if the system's > naive scheduler is improved. I think the problem is not related to the scheduler, but to the code path involved in running and reading the file at the same time, multiple times. -- Daniel C.

Re: msdosfs problems?

1999-04-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
adr...@freebsd.org wrote in list.freebsd-current: > >> mpg123 is an ancient player. It won't play most newer MP3s. Use a newer > >> player, like x11amp or xaudio. > > > >In its defense, mpg123 is not ancient, and is the _BEST_ MP3 player. I have > >no idea what kinda of b0rked up MP3s there

RE: DoS from local users

1999-04-11 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 09-Apr-99 Dmitry Valdov wrote: > cat > qqq > echo $$ > echo ~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq > > Ctrl-D > > ./qqq > > Is there Any way to fix it? Give your users process limits. ie change the login class they use so it restricts the maximum number of processes they can run. --- Dani

RE: thread-safe libgcc

1999-04-11 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 11-Apr-99 Luoqi Chen wrote: > For threaded applications to work correctly, we need a thread-safe > version of libgcc. It is straight forward to build: define _PTHREADS in > CFLAGS. We can have both versions just like libc and libc_r, and use the > thread-safe version when linking threaded applic

RE: WORLD fails at rpcsvc

1999-04-11 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 11-Apr-99 S. Akmentins-Teilors wrote: > I've repeatedly cleared obj, clobbered, and whatnot. This has been a > problem > here for the last two days. > Last cvsup was midnight PST on 11 Apr. > > ===> rpcsvc > rpcgen -C -h -DWANT_NFS3 /usr/src/include/rpcsvc/key_prot.x -o key_prot.h > /usr/src/g

WORLD fails at rpcsvc

1999-04-11 Thread S. Akmentins-Teilors
I've repeatedly cleared obj, clobbered, and whatnot. This has been a problem here for the last two days. Last cvsup was midnight PST on 11 Apr. ===> rpcsvc rpcgen -C -h -DWANT_NFS3 /usr/src/include/rpcsvc/key_prot.x -o key_prot.h /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/cccp.c:188