Re: ppp problems

1999-11-17 Thread Brian Somers
> everything is working fine as it used to after installing current but i get this >error message when ppp tries to connect > > "ppp[52]: tun0: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor" i'm not sure >how to fix this any ideas ? [.] You'll need to explain a bit more, and maybe sh

init runs with console as control terminal?

1999-11-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
Since sometime last month, rc5des failed to start from my rc.local. I did a little investigation and it turned out that rc5des was started but later terminated by a SIGHUP. During its brief lifetime, /dev/console was its control terminal. Does anyone know what was going on? -lq To Unsubscribe:

ppp problems

1999-11-17 Thread Gfriday
everything is working fine as it used to after installing current but i get this error message when ppp tries to connect   "ppp[52]: tun0: Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor"   i'm not sure how to fix this any ideas ?

Re: RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Months. :) > Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

rtc0

1999-11-17 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
This is the output of my systat -vm 1 after the upgrade to gcc 2.95.2: 2 usersLoad 0.13 0.58 0.63 Wed Nov 17 19:11 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Hibma
> > You mean along the lines of if_xx.ko? That might be an idea, apart > > from the fact that then the module name does not correspond in any > > way to the name used in the manpage. > > I'd love to see the various modules grouped logically. I'd vote in > favor of usb_* in case it counts... It

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Hibma
> > Yes. Boot system, kldload ums_mod, kldload umass_mod, plug in mouse and > > Zip drive and off you go. > > I assume "_mod" stands for module. Would you consider dropping that from > the name? Very view things in /modules have "_mod" in their names. That was done because of some problem in c

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver

1999-11-17 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Mayhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Bishop wrote: > > > BUT I have to say that on principle I'm with Rod on this one: EOF > > != EOT and mixing them up is a recipe for (inter alia) finding you > > can't read back dumps when you need them. > > Not to mentio

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Elischer wrote in list.freebsd-current: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > > x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I > > > x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
since the environment is supposed to be part of the address space it is ssupposed to be private.. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I > > x think that peter's fix seems t

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Adam Wight wrote in list.freebsd-current: > x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I > x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your > x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root. > > I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be

Re: RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <02d801bf3132$71f6f8c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David W. Chapman Jr. " writes: >Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? Feature freeze in this year. Release in Q1/2000. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding soundcards to newpcm

1999-11-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > > Well, I finally decided to try to get my sound card working again. > > > It is not detected as a PNP device, but rather as a motherboard > > > resource using PNPBIOS. It is supposed to be an ESS1869 and, indeed, > > > I

RELEASE

1999-11-17 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
Any idea of when 4.0-RELEASE will be out, in terms of months or years? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Bumping libstdc++ version number

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The core team has discussed the issue of bumping the libstdc++ version numer because of the compiler upgrade: Yes, we do have a rule saying ``only one bump per release'', and that rules still stands. But no rule without exception: Clearly what we're looking at here deserves a version number b

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TrouBle writes: : just a quick note, where do i find the information needed about the bind : problem i face in 3.3-RELEASE if any ?? You can find it at the BIND web site. FreeBSD has Bind 8.1.2. - From the chart at http

Re: gcc 2.95.2

1999-11-17 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > XFree86 makes it through the ports ``build'' target just fine. It > breaks in ``install''. That's why I told Manfred I wasn't seeing the > problem. I'd imagine the confusion is caused by the install target (improperly) building things. Yet another pr

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Rosengart writes: : I'd be happier if you said the message was *from* the security officer. :-) I am the security officer. :-) That's why I get the secuirty-officer's mail :-). I've not verified the information by inspecti

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Adam Wight
x I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I x think that peter's fix seems to be ideal. You can find out about your x own uid, but no one else's unless you are root. I agree, but anything that runs suid has to be excluded as well. -Adam Wight To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forrest Aldrich writes: > : So wouldn't be the impact if a server was compromized in the absence > : of an available fix :) > > A message to the security officer indicated that we don't have the > root hole in -current or -

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forrest Aldrich writes: : So wouldn't be the impact if a server was compromized in the absence : of an available fix :) A message to the security officer indicated that we don't have the root hole in -current or -stable, but are vulnerable to the DoS attacks. Warne

Re: PATCH for testing

1999-11-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Dillon writes: : Why don't we get rid of the 'e' option to ps while we are at it : considering how much of a security hole it is. I've never liked the : 'e' option. I like the -e option when I'm root and trying to debug things. I think that pe

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1999-11-17 Thread Carol Blevins
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Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf?

1999-11-17 Thread David Wolfskill
Other folks may also have expressed similar sentiments, but I'll quote a couple that I noted as I was blitzing through my >1900-message backlog (after being in class all last week): >Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:57:15 +0100 (CET) >From: Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Using command substitution

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: > I can now reproduce the problem. Please test the appended diff which > should fix this problem while still working for the > here-backquote-three-stage-pipeline case. > > My apology especially to Bruce, I managed to pass your test case by > not copy/

Re: bdevsw ??

1999-11-17 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -CURRENT] Repeat after me: If I am running -CURRENT, I should be subscribed to -CURRENT, and that's where I should send my messages about -CURRENT. On Wednesday, 17 November 1999 at 9:53:19 -0500, Christopher Stein wrote: > > Could someone please tell me why bdevsw has disa

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
> Martin Cracauer writes: >> Today I encountered again the problem when doing `man MIME::*' (you >> have to install /usr/ports/mail/p5-MIME-Tools). Curiously, I have no >> problem with `man \*' >> Again reverting to eval.c r1.22 solve the problem. > I can now reproduce the problem. Ple

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > Steve Price writes: > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > # > Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: > > # > > # > Try this in -current > > # > $ cat some_file | head > > # > > # > I have to use ^C to regain control. >

Re: sh bug

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
> Steve Price writes: > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > # > Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: > # > # > Try this in -current > # > $ cat some_file | head > # > # > I have to use ^C to regain control. > # > # ... and reverting to rev. 1.22 of eval.c fixes the problem.

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Switching to GCC 2.95.2 as base compiler

1999-11-17 Thread John Hay
> > I'll be pulling the switch to use GCC 2.95.2 as the base compiler in > > -CURRENT on Sunday evening (Freefall time). > > It seems that currently after introduction of 2.95.2 world could not be > compiled with -jN option (complains about not being able to locate genrtl.h). This patch make "ma

Re: Adding soundcards to newpcm

1999-11-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Well, I finally decided to try to get my sound card working again. > > It is not detected as a PNP device, but rather as a motherboard > > resource using PNPBIOS. It is supposed to be an ESS1869 and, indeed, > > I use ESS drivers on Windows. But Compaq obviously decided t

Re: ipfilter no longer in -CURRENT, whats the direction? (off to ipfw?)

1999-11-17 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:59:55PM -0500, spork wrote: > I noticed that ipfilter is still gone... Was there any resolution here, > or is ipfilter gone for good? > > All other concerns/features aside, I find the stateful inspection stuff > much easier to setup than the ipfw filtering... I only t