Support slice numbers in device names. The syntax is `<driver name>
[<unit number>] ['s' <slice number>] [<partition letter>]'. Only
`['s' <slice number>]' is new here. The slice number defaults to 0
so that there is no change in the output from config if this new
feature is not used.
Replace some magic disk numbers by `dk' slice and label macros.
mkswapconf.c:
Improve the output formatting:
Generate <> style includes.
Print minor numbers in hex so that slice numbers are easy to see and edit.
Print the rootdev and dumpdev names in comments like the swapdev names.
The existing ypbind exhibits some truly anti-social behavior. After
initially establishing a binding with an NIS server, the following events
take place:
- ypbind waits for 60 seconds before trying to broadcast a ping again
- after the 60 seconds expires, ypbind sends out broadcasts every 5 seconds
come hell or high water.
These broadcasts travel far and wide, even to NIS servers in other domains
which dutifully log the packets even though they don't respond to them.
This leads to lots of unnecessary traffic and bloated log files.
This behavior has been fixed/changed. Here's what happens now:
- We still broadcast every 5 seconds at startup, just like before.
- Once bound, we send out packets once every 60 seconds to the server
we're bound to AND NO ONE ELSE.
- If we fail to receive a reply from our server within FAIL_THRESHOLD
seconds, we assume our server has croaked and go back to broadcasting
everywhere every 5 seconds again until somebody answers. FAIL_THRESHOLD
is currently set to 20 seconds.
Other fixes/improvements:
- ypbind now logs 'server not responding' and 'server OK' messages where
appropriate.
Thanks to Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> for
reporting the problem and guilt-tripping me into fixing it. :)
in the script. The result is the following :
203 [23:47] root@keltia:/build/cvs-1.4A2# manctl
/usr/sbin/manctl: 165: Syntax error: ";" unexpected
Here is the fix :
Submitted by: Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net>
in here that just made it a heck of a lot more confusing to maintain.
Somebody like Joerg can reality-check this at some point, when they have more
time. For now, it works.
Display update method changed, now allways write in memory buffer,
then periodically update physical display.
Speed improvements (now > 5 times faster than the old syscons).
History now circular buffer, with changeable size.
History scroll by up/down line, up/down page, home and end.
Backtab proberly implemented.
Now space for 96 function keys, 63 allocated standard, default now
SCO/SYSV compat again as in the old days.
New keyboard definition files ~share/syscons/keymaps/*
Misc fixes for old "hacks" that broke SCO/SYSV compat.
More that I forgot before writing this...
> So, the problem is hostnamebyanyaddr() assumes that _res is already
> initialized to proper values, but this is no longer true as of BIND
> 4.9.3. Here is a patch for sendmail 8.6.9 which changes
> hostnamebyanyaddr() to make sure res_init() has been called before using
> _res.retry.
Submitted by: Matt Day <mday@artisoft.com> via Terry Lambert
This command is required to exist in terms of compatibility with the
Posix 1003.2 specification. It actually invokes the lpr service with
the proper options.
