From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 14 21:16:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27359 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 21:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au (falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au [147.109.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27348 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 21:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carey.pacit.tas.gov.au (carey.pacit.tas.gov.AU [147.109.2.69]) by falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA02791; Thu, 15 May 1997 14:15:35 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970515141417.0070624c@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> X-Sender: cpn@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:14:17 +1000 To: Parker Brown , support@FreeBSD.ORG From: Carey Nairn Subject: Re: NEW PARAMETERS FOR REBUILDING THE KERNEL, plus ...[Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have always used the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT file as a reference for kernel configuration. This pretty much documents all of the options, devices etc. cheers, Carey Nairn At 20:51 14/05/97 -0700, Parker Brown wrote: >There seem to be a lot of new parameters to describe the computer >hardware when reconfiguring the kernel. You guys provide a lot of >documentation on the distribution CD's (Walnut Creek subscription in >this case) but I have not been successful in finding anything that >describes these new ones. Where can I find descriptions? Up to rel >2.1.6 everything was covered in Walnut Creek's "The Complete FreeBSD", >but there seem to be new parameters in 2.2.1 > >Please. >Return-Path: <> >Received: from sm3.gte.net ([207.115.153.24]) by sm2.gte.net > (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release "2" ID# 0-32582L10S150000) > with ESMTP id AAA15978 for ; > Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:43 -0500 >Received: from smtp.gte.net ([207.115.153.29]) by sm3.gte.net > (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release "2" ID# 0-32582L10S150000) > with ESMTP id AAA16152 for ; > Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:43 -0500 >Received: from localhost (localhost) > by smtp.gte.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) with internal id TAA14200; > Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:43 -0500 (CDT) >Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:43 -0500 (CDT) >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem >Message-Id: <199705110042.TAA14200@smtp.gte.net> >To: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; > boundary="TAA14200.863311363/smtp.gte.net" >Subject: Returned mail: User unknown >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > >The original message was received at Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:10 -0500 (CDT) >from 1Cust49.Max56.Los-Angeles.CA.MS.UU.NET [153.34.98.49] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >... while talking to hub.freebsd.org.: >>>> RCPT To: ><<< 550 ... User unknown >550 ... User unknown >Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.gte.net >Received-From-MTA: DNS; 1Cust49.Max56.Los-Angeles.CA.MS.UU.NET >Arrival-Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:10 -0500 (CDT) > >Final-Recipient: RFC822; questions-support@freebsd.org >Action: failed >Status: 5.1.1 >Remote-MTA: DNS; hub.freebsd.org >Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 ... User unknown >Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:43 -0500 (CDT) >Return-Path: >Received: from pb486 (1Cust49.Max56.Los-Angeles.CA.MS.UU.NET [153.34.98.49]) > by smtp.gte.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) with SMTP id TAA14192 > for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:42:10 -0500 (CDT) >Message-ID: <33751647.3828@gte.net> >Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:43:51 -0700 >From: Parker Brown >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: questions-support@freebsd.org >Subject: A Peculiar Problem Using FTP on 2.2.1 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Have not encountered this problem with released 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, or >2.1.6 > >Trying to download Netscape Navigator from ftp.netscape.com (successsful >before installing 2.2.0). I can open ftp.netscape.com and login as >anonymous, and then use the ls and cd commands to access >pub/navigator/3.01 and even ls to see that there is a unix directory. >But when I cd to unix my session just locks up. No problem with my >previous resease (2.1.6). I've searched handbook and faq with no help. >also checked man to see if I overlooked a parameter. Using Windows 95 >and NT versions of ftp allowed me to access that unix directory, just >like FreeBSD 2.1.6 did. > >I've gotten some pretty sarcastic answers from you guys in the past, so >I've really tried to solve it myself, but I'm stumped. PLEASE HELP. >Thanks. >