From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 20 07:43:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02756 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 07:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanuata (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02480 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:42:46 GMT (envelope-from simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk) Received: from solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (actually host solander) by vanuata with SMTP DCS (MMTA) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:42:17 +0100 Received: (from simonm@localhost) by solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA26593; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:42:14 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6353: How about upgrading from amd to am-utils? References: <199804200018.UAA02857@brown.pfcs.com> From: Simon Marlow Date: 20 Apr 1998 15:42:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: Harlan Stenn's message of Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:18:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Harlan Stenn writes: > In message <3513F83C.59E2B600@asme.org>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > > Hello; > > Are the new amd features available in the FreeBSD distribution? I'm sure > > someone in the freebsd-fs list would be interested in including them. > > > > cheers, > > Pedro. > > AFAIK, freebsd is still distributed with the older amd which is probably a > variant of the one from 4.4bsd and upl102. Other groups such as NetBSD and > Debian found out about am-utils and have included it in their official > distributions. I was hoping that the FreeBSD folks would do the same. If > someone on amd-dev is involved w/ the FreeBSD project, you may want to > inform someone that am-utils has MANY features useful for FreeBSD (and it > works on both 2.x and 3.x). > > Erez. I'll second that: I just tried am-utils on 2.2.6, and it fixes at least one problem that I'd been having with mounting filesystems from Linux boxes. I could mount the filesystem manually with no problems, but when amd mounted it I always got 'permission denied' when I tried to read any files off it. No idea at all why this happened, but it seems to be fixed in am-utils. Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message