Re: tcp_wrapper in contrib and ports?

1999-06-08 Thread Dom Mitchell
at it's convenient to redirect all logging to a spare VT: [ /etc/syslogd.conf ]--- ... *.* /dev/ttyv7 -------- That always lets you see what's going on. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLa

Re: tcp_wrapper in contrib and ports?

1999-06-07 Thread Dom Mitchell
On 7 June 1999, Ben Rosengart proclaimed: > I am curious as to why tcp_wrappers are present in /usr/src/contrib as > well as in the ports collection. Can someone please enlighten me? TIA. To support 2.2.x users? -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Adm

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Dom Mitchell
e the new flag for toggling the previous > behavior. > > Given the state of the Internet today, I think this is purely a > sensible change in defaults. Comments? Please do. However, a suitable notice must be plastered somewhere suitable (RELNOTES?). It might also be worth noting

Re: nice little kernel task for somebody

1999-04-23 Thread Dom Mitchell
On 23 April 1999, adr...@freebsd.org proclaimed: > Dom Mitchell writes: > >What we really need are some tools similiar to solaris' /usr/proc/bin > >stuff. http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1999/swol-04-supersys.html > >Sadly, the ability to do this lies well outside my

Re: nice little kernel task for somebody

1999-04-23 Thread Dom Mitchell
ability to do this lies well outside my meagre coding knowledge. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- F

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-03-31 Thread Dom Mitchell
ile breaks pkg_info. I've appended a simple patch below; somebody ought to do something better for the version in the src tree. Whilst I'm here, a tip. If you use the zsh, here's command completion for the some of the pkg commands: compctl -g '/var/db/pkg/*(/:t)' pkg_

Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Dom Mitchell
y been committed to 4.0. Look through -current in the last week for mail from myself, matt dillon and a couple of others about "negative ref cnt". It's a simple one line patch to fix. I'm not sure if Matt has committed the fix to -stable yet. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer &

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-10 Thread Dom Mitchell
Mike Smith writes: > > You will get "no route to host" type messages. > > Yup. That's just the way it is - I can't imagine what alternative the > original poster thought they could have, steal an address? Ignore your > least? Get real. Nope, just curious as to what would would happen. I kind

Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-10 Thread Dom Mitchell
hat this also halts my crashes with nmh's spost command. I'll leave it up to an NFS guru to tell whether it's the *right* fix, but it's certainly something that needs looking at, quickly. Thanks for your help. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer &am

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Dom Mitchell
"David O'Brien" writes: > I am planning on adding the Wide-DHCP client to src/contrib/ and > src/sbin/ in a few days. > > I have it bmaked and ready go to. I have choosen the WIDE client because > it is much smaller space-wise than the ISC client and its configuration > is simplier. > > The pla

Re: Lots of "panic: vrele: negative ref cnt"

1999-02-06 Thread Dom Mitchell
David Malone writes: > We're getting lots of negative reference counts for 3.0-STABLE. We've been > getting them since long before Christmas. We have 3 SMP machines, all heavy > NFS clients, which are dieing about 1 per day with this panic. > > Several of these hangs have been provoked by me logg

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-21 Thread Dom Mitchell
Mike Nguyen writes: > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the > analogous file for hostname lookups was /e