Further it implements crontab -e.
I moved cron from /usr/libexec to /usr/sbin where most daemons are
that are run from rc. That also gets rid of the ugly path crond
used to have in ps(1) outputs. Further I renamed it to cron, as
Paul Vixie likes it and is done by NetBSD.
NOTE VERY WELL THE FOLLOWING:
1) Systems crontab changed. Every users crontab resides in /var/cron
*EXCEPT* root's. This is a special crontab as it resides in
/etc. Further it is the *ONLY* crontab file in which you specify
usernames. See /usr/src/etc/crontab. This is also done by BSDI's
BSD/386 as far as I know (they provided the patches for it anyway)
2) So you *must* delete root's crontab and reinstall the copy
in /etc from /usr/src/etc.
'Must' is to much: the old installed crontab will work but cron
will also try to 'run' /etc/crontab.
3) Last but not least: cron's logging is now done via syslog. Note
that logging by cron is done lowercase when it logs about itsself
and uppercase when it logs user events, like installing a new crontab.
The default logfile file is the same as before:
syslog.conf:cron.* /var/cron/log
-Guido
Subject: Re: daily insecurity output (fwd)
|From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
|
|This is from the new /etc/security script. I no longer get the segmentation
|violation, but now the arg list is too long, some /bin/sh program want to
|fix the current /etc/security ls command so that it is a pipe insteal of
|a back quoted arg?
|
|> checking setuid files and devices:
|> /etc/security: ls: argument list too long
This uses xargs instead. My slip line's down so I can't check it in
at the moment. Rich
added a note that you must decide what is appropriate for your system.
>From: borsburn@mcs.kent.edu (Bret Orsburn)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 01:09:43 -0500
I've finally figured out (one of the reasons) why I can't run MS-Windows
after running FreeBSD 1.0...*sometimes*.
Here's your first clue. This is what your MS-Windows video drivers are called
if you run a Number 9 GXE video card:
/dos/windows/system/#9gxetc.drv
/dos/windows/system/#9gxe.drv
Now minor looks like UU DDDDDD, UU - unit, DDDDDD - density.
If density == 0, CMOS-detect format assumed.
For old users/pgms use fake partitions now, i.e.
ln fd0 fd0[a-h]
No new floppy names added (expect fd? and rfd?),
because don't have agreement yet, so make devices
only for CMOS-detected formats.
E-mail: <sir@kiae.su>, <vak@zebub.msk.su>
added new /dev/wt entries for wt.c version 1.3
8) Some controllers support only 1024 block length.
Setting WT_BSIZE bit in device minor number turns on this mode.
Minor number structure:
0bfffuuu
Fields:
uuu - Unit number. It's possible to install
up to three tape controllers on the same machine,
using DRQs 1..3. Hence, unit number can lie
in range 0..2.
fff - Tape format number:
0 - /dev/rwt0 - default density (auto select)
1 - /dev/rwt0a - QIC 11 (obsolete)
2 - /dev/rwt0b - QIC 24 (60 megabytes)
3 - /dev/rwt0c - QIC 120 (120 megabytes)
4 - /dev/rwt0d - QIC 150 (150 megabytes)
5 - /dev/rwt0e - QIC 300 (300 megabytes?)
6 - /dev/rwt0f - QIC 600 (600 megabytes?)
b - Long block size flag. With this bit set,
the driver will perform all i/o operations
with the controller using 1024-byte
blocks, instead of 512 ones.
Some controllers need it (CMS for example).
If you Wangtek controller does not stream well,
you can try to use /dev/rWt0 device instead
of /dev/rwt0 (uncomment needed lines in /dev/MAKEDEV
to create it).
Block interface (writing blocks less than 2048 bytes) is not functioning
pwoperly. Use raw interface instead.
Thanks to all who helped to test it on the following hardware:
Controller Drive Volume Interface Thanks to
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archive SC-499 Archive 2150L 150 Meg QIC-02 KIAE
CMS? ? 150 Meg QIC-02 KIAE
Everex EV 831/833 ? ? QIC-36 Joergen Haegg
Wangtek ASSY Wangtek 60 Meg QIC-02 Ken Whedbee
Tecmar QT150i? Wangtek 5150EQ ? QIC-02? Marko Teiste
? Wangtek 5099EK 60 Meg QIC-36 Robert Shien
Archive SC400S ? 60 Meg ? Warren Toomey
Subject: Bug & Fix for etc/Makefile cpio-floppy: re /tmp creation.
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 11:35:04 +0100
Editors Note: tmp was listed in the CPIO_FILES section and thus the
entire contents of ${DESTDIR}/tmp would end up on the cpio floppy. This fix
moves tmp to CPIO_DIRS so that no longer happens.
determines when and how this file will be consulted. Added comment to
the effect that (1) zero is not a vaild network number and (2) please
get a valid network number assigned by your provider or by the Internet
Registry.
gives the flags to be passed to sendmail when it is started. (If it is
"NO", sendmail is not started.) Also, always start the portmapper regardless
of the value of $nfs_server; this should prevent the inetd complaints we
have seen from recurring.
that the errors from /etc/security are in the mail message from
/etc/security and not the /etc/daily mail message. Now just to fix
the bug in /etc/security
(see changes to getty which this patch is part of)
Basically, a few of the tty flags were changed to work better with
'CRT's, and the flags are better documented (documentation from Bruce
Evans).
Clean up some stuff so that it reads a little better (some one please
review this for me!)
Adaptec controllers are 154x and 174x series. Add Buslogic 545S.
the RELEASE NOTES.
Adaptec controllers are now 154x and 174x series, no more reference
to specific models. Revamp the CSI hard disk controller section in
general to be more user readable.
Add the fact that the Mitsumi CDROM controller and drive are now
supported.
Add a note that the Intel 82501 serial chip is NOT supported.
Floppy controller is fd0, not fdc0, same for wd disk controller.
running portmapper. These are site specific functionality and should only
be enabled for sites that want them, not by default.
These services REQUIRE portmapper to be running
with a Makefile override. The default is floppy5 since all distribution
floppies must be <= 1.2Mb so that every one can use them.
If you want to make 1.44MB floppies with more space on them do a
setenv FLOPPY floppy3
before running make.
>From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh%whisker.lotus.ie@dec4ie.ieunet.ie>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 05:11:51 -0700
I went to make myself some boot floppies straight off the dist
today and ran into the fact that I'm using a 3.5" floppy as my drive A,
so I did the following (you can still use floppy5 as your default -
I just have it set to floppy3 for my machine).
files from a MS-DOS partition.
Minor cleanup:
fixed spelling error in inst1.install
capitalized sentences in kc.profile
reworded initial load_fd options
partition of the boot disk. So we have yet another medium via
which to load the FreeBSD distribution files. load_fd() has
options for listing and (if reading from the C: drive) changing
directories.
load_fd's notation assumes that the first Primary partition on
disk is the DOS drive C: (since this and only this one is mounted
by install). Otherwise, the notation may be a bit confusing.
We'll know the assumption is bad if people complain about
not finding files on their "C:" drive...
Added a device file existence check to kc.profile.
first) Primary (un-Extended) DOS partition, providing /dev/xx0h
is available. It is mounted on /dos by default. The /etc/fstab
entry omits the dump and fsck fields, i.e.:
/dev/xx0h /dos pcfs rw
The Secondary DOS partition is not used (System ID 0xF2), because I don't
know what that is.
2) Fixed default sizes so that if someone attempts to install BSD on a 24 Mb
partition by accepting defaults, they don't end up with a 1 Mb /usr
partition (up to USRMIN Mb's). In this case, all space is split between
swap and root.
TODO:
1) Extend load_fd() to support loading distribution files directly from
the DOS partition of the hard disk.
2) Provide translated parameters to the install program (maybe
add an option to fdisk). Currently, the true geometry is used as
default, which is inappropriate for coexistence with DOS.
3) Support installing on multiple or secondary disks.
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:35:48 -0700 (PDT)
There is a typo in disktab in the NetBSD-0.9 distribution. This may be
already fixed in NetBSD-current, but it's not in any of the source that I've
sup'ed.
line 9 reads:
# sc #sectors/cylinder, nc*nt default
should read:
# sc #sectors/cylinder, ns*nt default
Before starting, it is important to know your hard disk's geometry
(i.e., number of cylinders, heads and sectors/track). If installing
FreeBSD on the same disk as another operating system, then the
two systems should use the same geometry. In particular, FreeBSD's
default geometry is inappropriate for MS-DOS. So in this case, the
DOS geometry should be used instead.
[This seems to be true for SCSI disks. What about IDE? With the new
boot blocks, can we ignore the disks true geometry??]
