Re: NewPCM and Quake :)

1999-09-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
I am having a few problems with newpcm. I often play a whole bunch of Sesame Street AVIs to keep the 1 and 3 year olds happy while I read email. I usually play them like so (straight from the CD-ROM): foreach blah ( /cdrom/letters/tv/*.avi ) xanim -Zr +Ze +Av`mixer | grep pcm | cut -d: -f2` $bl

ed0 driver for pcmcia card D-Link DE-660

1999-09-11 Thread Edwin Culp
Does anyone have the ed0 driver working with current of the last few days utilizing a pcmcia card like the de660? Thanks, ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Communicator 4 and LDAP

1999-09-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
We are forced to use Exchange at work and I use its LDAP server to look up addressing information. I do occasionally get the error 0x5B that others report but I just try again and it usually works. This is with Netscape 4.61 on 4.0-CURRENT On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Lars Fredriksen wrote: > Hi, >

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
YES please fix this ridiculous inefficiency pointed out by Rod! The current method of cleaning the build tree is to chflags -R and then rm -r which results in two full traversals of the entire /usr/obj tree which takes MUCH longer than attempting an rm -r first followed by a chflags -R and anothe

something wrong with new CVS on freefall

1999-09-11 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
I can't commit ee.c because CVS says ee.c - Does not contain a line with the keyword "$FreeBSD:". but the file ee.c _have_ "$FreeBSD: keyword, check by yourself. Please fix. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y To Unsubscri

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Jon Hamilton
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Costello wrote: } On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: } > Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be too hard (TM) to finish off the } > /proc/pid/cmdline stuff so that ps didn't need to access /mem and didn't } > need setgid at all. } }What about th

Re: Yamaha OPL-SA2 & newpcm: recognized but no sound

1999-09-11 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi, unfortunately, neither of those shows anything: mixer device seems to work perfectly all right (just as everything else 'cept for the sequencer, which shows " device not configured" when I try to play a midi), but I cannot test them, since there is no sound. I mean, mixer shows that everything

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be too hard (TM) to finish off the > > /proc/pid/cmdline stuff so that ps didn't need to access /mem and didn't > > need setgid at all. > >What about the `e' flag? I'm of the opinion t

halt/shutdown permissions

1999-09-11 Thread Garrett Wollman
< Isn't it inconsistent behavior that a non-root user can reboot or shutdown > the machine with 'shutdown', yet only root can use 'halt' and 'reboot'? No, not at all. Operators can shut the machine down gracefully, but only wheels can shut the machine down ungracefully. Makes perfect sense to m

halt/shutdown permissions

1999-09-11 Thread Adam Wight
Isn't it inconsistent behavior that a non-root user can reboot or shutdown the machine with 'shutdown', yet only root can use 'halt' and 'reboot'? -Adam Wight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Blaz Zupan
Ok, sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I found it. I should have read the commit logs more carefully. :( revision 1.25 date: 1998/06/30 21:34:14; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +10 -4 branches: 1.25.2; Pick up kernel variables/constants using sysctl rather than thro

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be too hard (TM) to finish off the > /proc/pid/cmdline stuff so that ps didn't need to access /mem and didn't > need setgid at all. What about the `e' flag? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Computers...

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Chris Costello wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > > /home/blaz> id > > uid=1000(blaz) gid=1000(users) groups=1000(users) > > /home/blaz> ls -l /dev/kmem > > crw-r- 1 root kmem2, 1 May 23 15:26 /dev/kmem > >Oh. ps doesn't use /dev/kmem. > >Look at a ktrace of

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > /home/blaz> id > uid=1000(blaz) gid=1000(users) groups=1000(users) > /home/blaz> ls -l /dev/kmem > crw-r- 1 root kmem2, 1 May 23 15:26 /dev/kmem Oh. ps doesn't use /dev/kmem. Look at a ktrace of it; it works just as it should. /tmp/ps

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Blaz Zupan
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >Please give me the output of ``ls -l /dev/kmem'' and ``id'' /home/blaz> id uid=1000(blaz) gid=1000(users) groups=1000(users) /home/blaz> ls -l /dev/kmem crw-r- 1 root kmem2, 1 May 23 15:26 /dev/kmem Blaz Zupan, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http:/

Re: ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > What am I missing? How is a totally unprivileged process able to display a > list of processes? Please give me the output of ``ls -l /dev/kmem'' and ``id'' -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Foolproof operation: All parameters are hard coded.

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
John W. DeBoskey wrote in list.freebsd-current: > Well, from the amount of mail I've received, I obviously do not > understand the numbers from my tests, or I've not optimized my > filesystems correctly. > > time rm -rf /snap > 3214.20s real 2.29s user51.53s system (53 minutes)

build stops

1999-09-11 Thread Dominik Rothert
Hello FreeBSD'lers, when I try to build latest CURRENT, it stops in /usr/src/lib/libc at: cc -pg -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTER FACE_PRIVATE -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/locale -DBROKEN_DES -DY P -c /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/db/hash/hash

ps doesn't need privileges?

1999-09-11 Thread Blaz Zupan
Please don't flame me if I'm asking something stupid, but I'm a bit confused. I always thought that /bin/ps needs to be setgid kmem to be able to display the process list. And this in fact seems to be the fact under 2.2.8: /home/blaz> uname -a FreeBSD server.amis.net 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-R

Re: Compupic - yes, it works.

1999-09-11 Thread Thomas Runge
Tom Embt wrote: > Now another question: Have you been able to get to /usr? When I try to > bring it up I get /compat/linux/usr instead. At least /home works.. :) I guess, thats the way our linux mode works. If the application asks for a special directory, it's prefixed with /usr/compat (or ev