On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 07:17:59PM +, Cord wrote:
Go buy an ethernet cable. No WiFi.
Use someone's phone hotspot.
Use a fixed PKG_PATH instead of /etc/installurl
Read a LOT of man pages and misc@ tech@ ports@ bugs@
Maybe even tell us which version of VAX your laptop runs on?
Is it OpenBSD
s.
Personally, I have found doing general searches about OpenBSD to not be
very helpful. The information is often very old or not useful. Your
reults may vary.
You can do everything with any port except install it. Play around with
building and testing and all the different make clean variations.
When you hit a dependency that insn't installed, then you would need to
use doas manually.
Have fun!
Chris Bennett
for clearing that up. I learned a lot using it. I would also
like to use multiple domains, but I don't see any reason to ask you to
do any more work than you want to.
Thanks for your work. I appreciate it. And trying to use multiple
domains was a good lesson in strange results. :-}
Chris Bennett
along
changes to other boxes so easily.
I didn't think it was a bug, just something I wasn't understanding.
I appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
size and date.
What has happened here? I thought that cvs up was the correct procedure.
cvs -qd$CVSROOT checkout -P src inside of /usr or
cvs -qd$CVSROOT up -Pd inside of /usr/src.
Updating only changed some of the file dates and did not work correctly.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
A lot of people are mentioning the need to deal with the new lpr tools
being at /usr/local/bin.
I found that adding a symmlink from /usr/bin/lpr to /usr/local/bin/lpr,
etc. to help with programs that expect to find lpr at that exact
location.
Using a symlink will make life much easier with a few
ke the way it tastes".
That, sadly is the way the real world works.
It's nonsense. But that's just the way it is.
Good luck, hopefully you can make it work. Please don't put any serious
money into it before trying my two above suggestions.
--
Chris Bennett
up
BIOS settings to make you love Windows even more.
Do you get to the boot> prompt?
Then try booting the different hard drives listed above it manually.
Good Luck,
Chris Bennett
n be used is relevant to
both misc@ and ports@
Bye Y'all,
Chris Bennett
browsers, script snippets to read pages,
etc., too much is lost.
I'm genuinely only interested in content, not appearance.
I frequently need a text browser over SSH. As in many times a month.
Please just patch content, not good looks.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
i386 and amd64. But I do make quite a few mistakes before
getting things correct.
Chris Bennett
After digging through logs on laptop for the same time as errors, I
found that the two errors did indeed match.
Sorry for the noise. Rebooting the server and reconnecting with a new IP
left me perplexed.
Chris Bennett
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 06:16:06PM +, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 04:41:27PM GMT, Chris Bennett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > Dec 2 22:36:28 freedomforlife smtpd[78001]: cd3e9bc4ab696630 smtp
> > connected address=172.58.46.253 host=
> > Dec
I've got to leave where I'm at right now, I'll respond more later. In a
rush now.
Thanks,
Chris
;outbound"
table /etc/mail/addrnames (for problem server) is:
172.107.202.139 no-seas-necio.ninja
172.107.202.141 strengthcouragewisdom.rocks
172.107.202.142 capuchado.com
I can also send maillogs for here and there.
Also smtpd.conf for here too. Which I also have been fiddling with.
Obviously I need to get git on this to keep track of my changes
properly. My mistake.
Chris Bennett
lv.conf has:
lookup file bind
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
on this server.
What is going on here? How could this possibly be happening?
Chris Bennett
never used teco or sos.
I'm neutral overall on this, but the number of screen lines used does
matter to me.
Forgive me if the date is wrong, I can't find the cause. Going to do a
new snapshot right now.
Chris Bennett
eeded.
But to each their own. Overall, this thread has been very enlightening
for me. I do need to learn some other methods. TeX and LaTeX keep coming
up everywhere I look.
Have fun,
Chris Bennett
.
Overall the pkg_ tools have been great and always improving.
Thank you for the hard work!
Overall, following -current locally and remotely has become so
incredibly easy now that I am running -current everywhere and really
happy! (and resuming work on porting because of it)
Thanks again!
Chris Bennett
erent. For me, multitasking
sucks.
But, please, what is good for formatting? I don't have an answer for
that myself. I am considering writing as a new direction for myself.
Getting old sucks.
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:24:05AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019-11-01, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > NO. You need to use pkg_add -u -Dsnap.
>
> Normally when pkg_add doesn't have a full path to the package directory
> (e.g. PKG_PATH=http://mirror/pub/OpenBSD/
eaders and then
recompiles the packages. The packages are the same but C, etc. has
changed. Thus the packages have changed on that level. Thus they keep
the same Makefiles, but the resulting package binaries are different.
Chris Bennett
> It seems like this should be safe to do, but it's not someth
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> P.S. Are there any urgent areas where the OpenBSD operating system
> project is short-handed?
>
Yes! Just look under /usr/src, /usr/xenocara and /usr/ports
Can't go wrong with that plan. :-)
Chris Bennett
the xorg project to go back on their choice
> to change the licence, which is going to be more or less impossible.
Yes, it is old!
Would finding work say on web archive from the time of writing the
current code and earlier from the FVWM group be something useable?
Just nothing dated later than that?
Chris Bennett
e too.
Is there already a thread talking about this?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
cs, etc. are an always moving target.
I have a hunch that things are not going to end up where we are guessing
they will. We have "phasers", we don't have transporters. We do have the
Internet. Nobody saw that one coming except as a vague sorta weak idea.
For now, no hardware = no software = no developers.
Tomorrow, who knows? Could be pretty cool.
Today, genuine work needs to get done. Please help.
Best regards,
Chris Bennett
__
> Always exit with 42 to return the answer.
42 bytes makes up some badass quotes or script! :D
Chris Bennett
This topic has already been extensively and frustratingly dealt with on
the list. Please don't ask for changes to sysupgrade.
The questions about the documentation are relevant however.
Chris Bennett
. Problems are very very rare!
And fixed really really fast!
Thanks for giving me a fantastic system and the chance to laugh at the
other OS's that think security and bug fixing is an optional concern!
Chris Bennett
I am using the Logitech wireless with the trackball on the LEFT side.
I would really like to use a second mouse at the same time for my left
hand with a trackball on the RIGHT side. I don't like center ball mice.
Anyone know of one of these? I like using a mouse for each hand.
Chris Bennett
Thanks, that had me confused when I read it, so I just ignored it.
Glad to know I did, as in didn't, do what it suggested except once.
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 02:14:12PM -0400, Jacob Adams wrote:
>
> rukey# ps | grep authmail
> 17035 p0 Ip 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail
> 25162 p0 R+p 0:00.01 grep authmail
> rukey#
>
ps | grep authmail | grep -v grep ??
Chris Bennett
this topic has come up and it's personally useful to me to reply
elsewhere about security elsewhere right now, could someone reply to
both of us off-list about this topic?
Otherwise, we are getting into other OS junk that IMHO is not
appropriate here.
Chris Bennett
I've avoided anything with Nvidia like the plague.
But it just occurred to me to ask, ignoring X completely and never
running it, are the rest of the Nvidia parts supported or is Nvidia
anything a total no-go?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
ne!
Does gtar have that problem too?
I get that error frequently, sometimes because I use -p, or not.
I've yet to see it as anything more than an annoyance with having
current time used. When that matters I just rm the files and use -p.
Enough of me rambling on.
Chris Bennett
off the bridge without learning a lot more first.
That would be stupid on my part!
Chris Bennett
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:38:12 -0800 Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have had problems with setting up DNS for myself and I need it to be
> > authoritative.
>
> Configure NSD.
&g
to find a complete example of all DNS records for a site.
Would anyone care to share one with me?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
ng httpd and
pf in order to make them more secure. And releasing broken versions.
Is upstream doing this sort of thing as they develop?
I also agree, no browser war. I have to use both. Each one fails at
something important I do.
Chris Bennett
-Otto
>
Sorry I didn't get back to you. Some things came up ... and out.
Ate the wrong thing at a party.
I will update -current and try to get something out. Pun intended.
Could you actually name some applications that are right for what you
need. Or explain how to get that out of ports?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
be the greatest change in the history of mankind. But that
doesn't guarantee it will be accepted. In other words, don't take it
personally. You did. Get over it. And keep working and submit more and
different diff's. Diff's are ALWAYS welcome. They aren't always
feasible.
Chris Bennett
e
management this idiotic, you will see problems later.
Using Vultr has cost me two domains that are now blacklisted even after
dropping Vultr. They lie and say that they will try to unblacklist the
IP address that is in an un-blacklistable list.
I rate them negative 5 stars and get a lawyer.
P
o use it. We don't want
GUI interfaces for this stuff because we expect you to truly learn what
to do and why.
Have a good day,
Chris Bennett
for running
something like lynx, etc.
Not terribly important, but at least interesting question for me.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
flow chart
to plan out each step that needs to be taken. I'm getting good advice
now to help me start that. It's tough to pull this off.
But then, when is easy ever any real fun! :-}
Chris Bennett
ormation now. Hadn't even occurred to me.
But exactly how does that work from our servers to theirs and back?
Thank you,
Chris Bennett
e most important objective right now.
It's what the public sees. And if (which means when, not if) I make a
mistake, the world won't come tumbling down.
Thanks all,
Chris Bennett
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:50:38AM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On 11/20/18 4:43 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > AMD? I have read about problems with non-CPU chips being compromised.
> > Another architecture? I have never used anything other than Intel/AMD.
>
> I can't commen
or no renewing members
equals no organization. That's bad.
Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't think other architectures would be
suitable, but it was worth asking.
Chris Bennett
>
> Virtually what you want to do is a good firewall protecting everything.
> OpenBSD excels at security
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:24:55PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 11/20/18 11:43, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an
> > organization I am a member of.
> > With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure moth
,
Chris Bennett
Thanks!
I use spectrwm too.
Now I know exactly what man pages to read, which I will do first, before
any copy/paste crap.
I have found the sheer size of X everything to be a bit intimidating. I
think this whole xenodm thing will fill in crucial gaps for me.
Happier,
Chris Bennett
cross the board is terribly slow. Happy to reinstall from scratch.
I'm happy to find the answers reading man pages, but man fvwm wasn't
helpful for me. Which ones should I read?
Running 6.4 stable amd64
Thank you,
Chris Bennett
partition, for me, that I
can sacrifice and use to grow the preceding partition.
Buy a bigger disk is not always a practical answer.
If you haven't already done it, taking a picture of disklabel, fstab and
df never hurt. Easier than writing it down.
Well, I've been in your position pulling out
ding that color on a black background.
These will make directories white, if that is helpful.
I don't remember any of the details. I think I saw this on a website
somewhere. Not sure.
Good Luck,
Chris Bennett
My apologies for the noise. You are absolutely right.
Chris Bennett
some
languages with some very unusual sounds.
As far as music, I can definitely hear that European played classical
music tends to sound better than American played (Same piece).
I have no idea what is different, but I can hear it.
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:04:44PM +1100, Alexis wrote:
>
> Chris Bennett writes:
>
> > Is there any information out there to help actually learn the sounds?
> > I couldn't find anything and I don't want to take classes.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:I
to correct your pronunciation years later to sound normal"
or
"How to make sure you are really choosing the right words every time"
Chris Bennett
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:54:07PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 9/20/18, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I started manually to include Perl files one at a time to learn how
> > things work at home on -current. Then I copied everything in.
> > But why risk security for unus
?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:59:42PM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote:
> OK, I think I have this right now
>
> Files in /etc/mtree show proper owner:group mode everywhere.
> Files inside of httpd chroot have same as outside.
> Added an sftp chroot directory inside of httpd chroot fo
now, these directories for individual websites have ownership
of root:daemon, is that correct?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
to the public.
Chris Bennett
ng any further about anyone's phone.
Chris Bennett
> Chris Bennett wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 06:08:19PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:03:56 -0700
> > >
> > >
> > > > This is the thread that I wished to start
hering to
> an OpenBSD laptop?
>
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. Using phone WiFi and ssh on
laptop. My concerns mean that I will restrict using my phone's apps with
anything that isn't fit to be spread anywhere. Oh well, I still like my
phone but I have to just look at it like any hardware/software flaw.
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:14:47PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have not opened up my server before for full usage of email, web,
> > database, etc. before. So I'm a total noob on really good security
> > practices.
> >
> > Prop
hey become more competent.
Which is exactly my own problem. I am not competent enough to judge my
own competence. I have not worked in IT. I do not know anyone who has,
except over this list. I will ask stupid questions and not know it.
Any help welcome,
Chris Bennett
,
Chris Bennett
I has the same problem on a release version
achihpet0
fixed the keyboard problem
I am now running an earlier current and not specifying that.
My time clock is way off. I'm going to need to re-add to my sysctl.conf
So this is a common problem.
Chris Bennett
to learn all this. I don't get or send
much email. But I'm planning on trying to make a real living wage
online. If that works, I better have this all figured out by then.
Turns out that right hip problems are genetic from my father's side of
the family. All I can say is Ouch! I need to figure this out.
Hey, thanks for any help and a special thanks for those clever OpenSMTPD
people. Wow, sendmail was a real bitch!
Chris Bennett
heard, this discussion is over on my part. Let's free
up the list for other's needs
Chris Bennett
wrong.
And don't despair if you don't get responses on the mailing lists.
Sometimes people don't have the time, or are on vacation or your
question could involve something that is being changed right at that
time so that there really isn't an answer just yet.
Chris Bennett
back.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
after some testing for a few days and locations. If I get a wham-bam
huge difference, then I'll report back right away!
Thanks everyone for the help. I'm already moving forward!
Chris Bennett
reading my email.
Is autossh the right choice or is there a better way?
The flow of data seems to be the problem. A static page disconnects.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
toring for IT safety and secrecy issues.
And that IS an important topic every day!
Chris Bennett
Funky connection so I skipped this on purpose.
dmesg:
OpenBSD 6.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #285: Sat Sep 1 12:51:52 MDT 2018
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4077236224 (3888MB)
avail mem = 3944423424 (3761MB)
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:10:51AM +, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> Chris Bennett writes:
>
> > I know that PostgreSQL can be accessed via a socket or through
> > 127.0.0.1.
> I read your mail and I still don't know what you are trying to accomplish.
> Could you give a mo
ent me a spam set of comments. T-Mobile blocked it with
their spam filters. So I dropped getting the texts. I am annoyed by
this, but that's just the way it is.
Chris Bennett
the bunch.
:-}
Chris Bennett
that for perl, since I wanted a full and clean startup.pl
for mod_perl, I already know what modules I need to add from studying
each module back a while ago.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
i.e in from user joe, forwarded to joe2 and then scanning is done.
IMHO, I would skip using partially insecure OS's like Linux. These are
your kids!
Chris Bennett
will number three turn out to be? Could be serious or still unknown
right now. So, no OS is perfect and no hardware is perfect either.
IMHO, I'm very happy with my choice, but you don't need to follow my
choices at all.
Good luck and have good success,
Chris Bennett
.
Windows 10 sticks it's fingers into changing BIOS settings, especially
after a big update.
And now I go searching for lot's of stuff on Gurgle.com.
Which really get's me pretty worthless crap for about 2 years now.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
Hi,
I've gotten tired and paranoid about having Windows 10 on my hard drive
in a laptop, but I'm not sure what partitions to keep or ditch.
I am running off of USB flash drives, which are pesky to keep in and
slow.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
Here are some outputs:
disklabel
# /dev/rsd0c:
type
owed in /etc/fstab.
Basically, this is going to be really easy or really challenging.
growfs works well. There is no such command as shrinkfs, but it can be
done if well planned, usually. Or maybe not.
Others may have different advice, but put up your disklabel sd0 here
for sure.
Just be glad you don't need to move /var. I've done it but ugh!
Chris Bennett
y wants (expects?) to be able to do this.
Welcome to OpenBSD! It's a tight ship and those ships usually don't
sink! ;>)
Chris Bennett
tremendous amount of useful info.
Perhaps reading the source code, which is freely available, deals with
all of these issues. If you can't program C, learn it.
Chris Bennett
OK, that all makes sense.
I probably made a poor subject line for this too.
I was busy with other things when nginx was discarded from base and
httpd was substituted in. I really didn't like a few things I read about
nginx, but the whole discussion about httpd I missed out on reading up
on.
This
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:08:46AM +, jungle Boogie wrote:
> Chris,
>
> What are httpd add-ons?
Umm, base http did not have rewrites before, now it does.
That could have been does as an addon instead.
Chris
of curiosity if this might be a good idea or not.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
s to let all
through safely but make the data rate "spamd slow".
After all the years he has used OpenBSD, he still hasn't read the FAQ.
Things work, dad happy. :-}
Chris Bennett
choice"?
RTFM and read the FAQ are not what new users are expecting.
They learn or leave.
Nothing about any OS or set of programs is simple.
But that is also the fun part, so much to learn and so much power once
you know it.
Chris Bennett
You should note that spectrwm is keyboard driven.
Not the programs you add, just spectrwm.
If you like using the keyboard as much as the mouse or dont even want to
use a mouse at all, it will work for you.
But you do have to learn to use it,but that's not hard.
Chris Bennett
and just use startx
on
software they own and are still in the process of getting completely
working. They are using nginx and wordpress. I don't know any more than that.
Thanks for any response.
I do consider this on topic for OpenBSD since things are concerning here
in the USA.
Chris Bennett
I very carefully and surely tested which flash drive to use and then
pulled out the wrong one.
I stopped the install with halt and done nothing else.
Should I have yanked it, halted it or just said goodbye?
ddrescue or something else or nothing else?
Thanks, I hope,
Chris Bennett
I'll figure this out for myself anyway, but seems like it might be good
to have an answer to on the list archives.
Chris Bennett
al supported model numbers
that had been replaced with new chipsets.
I'm having the same problem and I am going to order one online today.
Pretty frustrating buying one after the next only to fail.
Chris Bennett
P.S.
I'm installing a snapshot first to see if that solves the problem since
I have o
hardware, expertise and probably
money too.
I think Theo's comment about hitting 'd' on many bug reports is
realistic reality.
It's a shame, but I occasionally (always?) see 'submit a diff' more
often than I see diff's submitted.
One new talented developer is worth more than trying to create a
are you measuring
speeds?
Chris Bennett
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