id used by sysinstall when enabling anonymous FTP.
Change the default group used by sysinstall for setting up anonymous FTP
from operator to ftp; there is no reason to use operator and there are
potential security issues when doing so.
PR: 93284
Approved by: ru (mentor)
Reviewed by: simon
Not because I admit they are technically wrong and not because of bug
reports (I receive nothing). But because I surprisingly meets so
strong opposition and resistance so lost any desire to continue that.
Anyone who interested in POSIX can dig out what changes and how
through cvs diffs.
complete the boot and enter into sysinstall, and only then inserts
a CD into the CDROM drive and tries to select that as the install
media the first call to mount(2) generates EIO but the second call
to mount(2) will succeed. This was 100% reproducible on 6.2-RELEASE,
RELENG_6, and HEAD. If the user inserts the disc into the CDROM
while the machine is booting off the floppies the first call to mount(2)
succeeds with no problems. The problem was originally reported in
PR #56952 against 5.1-CURRENT so it's been there for a while now.
PR: bin/56952
MFC after: 2 weeks
/boot/kernel can fail. Try to remove /boot/kernel.prev and cope the
best we can if that fails.
PR: bin/106376
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru
Approved by: ru
MFC after: 2 weeks
default distribution (user) will be installed, however, no kernel
will be installed. Fix this by installing a sensible default kernel,
SMP/GENERIC, depending on WITH_SMP and number of CPUS found.
Reviewed by: jhb
fails, suggest setting kern.geom.debugflags to 16.
PR: bin/94409
Submitted by: Markus Oestreicher <m punkt oe at x dash trader dot de>
MFC after: 10 days
termed ERI and GEM rather than GMAC.
- Bring the description of le(4) in line with the current le(4); it
was still refering to the old i386 ISA-only le(4) which was nuked
along with ISA_COMPAT while HEAD was FreeBSD 5.
- Add an entry for hme(4).
- Remove the obsolete entry for lnc(4).
MFC after: 1 day
localhost.domain so that naive users of gethost* think 1:: and 127.0.0.1
are "localhost" which is what the user expects. This also matches the
sample hosts file in src/etc/hosts.
see which release you are installing (really which FreeBSD version the
installer is running, but that shouldn't matter in all normal cases).
PR: bin/100309
Submitted by: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> (original version)
Idea from: FreeBSD ideas page
MFC after: 1 week
I considered leaving /boot/kernel out of the chflags noschg line, but I
seem to remember that there was a period where /boot/kernel was schg, so
have left it in for safety's sake.
Approved by: jhb
MFC after: 1 month
