Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question]

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Bennett
in production. But I don't regret it. I say go for it on the Desktop. I use disk instead of CD or FTP for my upgrades, just add a directory to root for that. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write

Re: pf: blocklists

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Bennett
nixlists wrote: spamd is great, but I need to filter other traffic. I still wonder how people manage to download and convert blocklists for loading into pf in an automated way as a cron job. Has anyone attempted to do this? Often there are syntax errors in the lists, sometimes transfers fail.

Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question]

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Bennett
trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: --- On Thu, 4/3/10, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: From: Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com Subject: Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question] To: trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: misc@openbsd.org Date: Thursday, 4 March, 2010,

Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question]

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Bennett
nixlists wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: -current is typically safer by default since all those errata in release versions are already fixed in -current snapshots. No patches, no builds. just update to latest snapshots, other than

Re: selling bsd in cd for profit??

2010-02-28 Thread Chris Bennett
may bring in paying (to OpenBSD, not seller) users to OpenBSD. And , of course :) ::put on asbestos suit:: They could even advertise their product on this list. That wouldn't bother anyone, right? ::remove asbestos suit:: (In case anyone doesn't get it, that was a joke) Chris Bennett

Re: FWIW Current snapshot Apache/PHP buggy

2010-02-27 Thread Chris Bennett
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: I've just installed a server using current and have found that there are problems with session_destroy(); such that is just does not work. The Apache is the installed (1.3) version and PHP is from packages. I have tested the same software and setup on a 4.5

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: oh, please also keep /tmp/pkglist around in case anyone wants to see it.. On 2010-02-26, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-02-25, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010

Apache Seg faults children after latest upgrade

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Bennett
I just upgraded to latest -current trying to eliminate problem with PostgreSQL. Apache now starts but segmentation faults(11) for every child. -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010/02/26 07:47, Chris Bennett wrote: debug version still works clean I have now given myself a new problem Apache is now blown out: runs but I get [Fri Feb 26 07:44:14 2010] [notice] child pid 26552 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) for every access

Re: Apache Seg faults children after latest upgrade

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: I just upgraded to latest -current trying to eliminate problem with PostgreSQL. Apache now starts but segmentation faults(11) for every child. I already got answer to this, httpd DBI has changed -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-23, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: I just upgraded a production server to -current (needed latest PostgreSQL) Did you upgrade all packages? Specifically, any Perl XS modules must have been built with a version of Perl matching

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: oh, please also keep /tmp/pkglist around in case anyone wants to see it.. On 2010-02-26, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-02-25, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-23, Chris Bennett

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: oh, please also keep /tmp/pkglist around in case anyone wants to see it.. On 2010-02-26, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-02-25, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-23, Chris Bennett

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: oh, please also keep /tmp/pkglist around in case anyone wants to see it.. On 2010-02-26, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2010-02-25, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-23, Chris Bennett

PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bennett
I just upgraded a production server to -current (needed latest PostgreSQL) I also am using a forum and wanted to add a second forum using PostgreSQL (first has been using mysql) This software supports doing this. All is working fine, except one script called from crontab to send out

Re: PostgreSQL and perl script -perl.core

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-23, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: I just upgraded a production server to -current (needed latest PostgreSQL) Did you upgrade all packages? Specifically, any Perl XS modules must have been built with a version of Perl matching

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Bennett
Theo de Raadt wrote: I am very impressed by the oratary skills you have all shown in this discussion... but please... can this thread be terminated soon? I agree with Theo. Please take this troll-fest off the list. You can all flame each other privately. -- A human being should be able to

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Bennett
L. V. Lammert wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, bofh wrote: What kind of basic unix admin can't deal with % export EDITOR=vi % crontab -e ? Didn't say they were *unix* admins, .. no way I'd saddle some of these guys with vi, much less setting the cron time parameters correctly.

Voice Chat over IP?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Bennett
I want to set up voice chat with another computer in Guatemala from US. My ISP here blocks all incoming connections now so I need to ( I assume) use SSH Tunneling through my server to make this work. I looked at thread about voice chat with aucat, but I can't get aucat to run on my server. I

Re: Voice Chat over IP?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Bennett
nealHogan wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:51:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: I want to set up voice chat with another computer in Guatemala from US. My ISP here blocks all incoming connections now so I need to ( I assume) use SSH Tunneling through my server to make this work. I looked

Re: Voice Chat over IP?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Bennett
Ryan Flannery wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:51:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: [snip] Yes, that's the thread. Nice to know there is a page written up for it. The problem I see is how to make

Re: Refusal to mention OpenBSD in a MSc Advanced Networking course

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Bennett
would be a good choice, I kept running into stuff mentioning OpenBSD. It didn't take long for me to forget about Linux. I have no regrets. So don't worry. The right people don't need any prodding, they will make it here on their own! Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change

Firefox malware in add-ons

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Bennett
This article is about some add-ons that are not safe. Shockingly, :) they got by Mozilla's eyes http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5408tag=content;col1 I might not post this, except I suspect that there are other add-ons that are not secure. I recently had Firefox 3.5 open web pages

Re: Firefox malware in add-ons

2010-02-07 Thread Chris Bennett
ropers wrote: On 8 February 2010 00:45, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: This article is about some add-ons that are not safe. Shockingly, :) they got by Mozilla's eyes http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5408tag=content;col1 I might not post this, except I suspect

Re: Daily : forward mails from root to normal user

2010-02-06 Thread Chris Bennett
Jean-Francois wrote: hello, How to properly do the following ? Note: The scripts are all run as part of root's crontab(5). However, it is strongly suggested that the root mail account be an alias that for- wards messages to a real user or set of users. Otherwise, root's mail

Re: Fw: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Bennett
Giridhari wrote: Hare Krsna. From: Giridhari Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:37 AM To: dera...@cvs.openbsd.org ; dera...@openbsd.org Subject: Fw: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots ATTENTION Last night I saved a rat from certain death at the hands of a cat whose ovaries had

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Bennett
Lars Nooden wrote: Ingo Schwarze wrote: David Coppa wrote on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:19:07PM +0100: Maybe this can be an idea: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/manpages/cronwhip Citing from that page: :: DESCRIPTION :: Cronwhip runs cronjobs that would have been run in the time

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Antoine Jacoutot ajacou...@bsdfrog.org wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Ted Unangst wrote: Are you sitting around feeling bored because you don't know how to help out OpenBSD? Did your requests for info on where to start come back with

perl script-cron fails, at and command line work

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Bennett
I just re-installed fresh from 4.5 to 4.6. I now have a problem with a script that ran from cron for many months without problems. From cron I get: Logfile LWP_SupeRref.log failed to open at /home/user/LWP/LWP_ref.pl line 73. I have tried altering permissions, deleting file, touching

Re: perl script-cron fails, at and command line work

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Frank Bax wrote: Chris Bennett wrote: I just re-installed fresh from 4.5 to 4.6. I now have a problem with a script that ran from cron for many months without problems. From cron I get: Logfile LWP_SupeRref.log failed to open at /home/user/LWP/LWP_ref.pl line 73. I have tried altering

Re: The insecurity of OpenBSD

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Bennett
What a laugh. I hope all of you see that this article has to be a hoax. Oh well, I certainly learned a lot from this. find / -name .* -print /etc/changelist chmod -R / I feel so much safer! -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a

Re: Books on reverse engineering?

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Bennett
The booklist on the OpenBSD site is very good. I was concerned that a few items were old, but that is just not relevant. An excellent grasp of C is going to be necessary. It takes a long time to get good at programming. I have seen the phrase For good code examples, just look at OpenBSD source

Re: Sed and GNU-like

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Bennett
Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Marcello Cruz marcello.c...@globo.com wrote: $ s/(^[A_Z]{1})([a-z]+)\.sgml/\1\2\.html/g As I read I must prefix the '{', '}', '(' and ')' with backslashes. Even if I do so, the command does not work. The command should take a filename

Re: how do I do a rename(1) ?

2010-01-16 Thread Chris Bennett
Daniele Pilenga wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Han Boetes h...@mijncomputer.nl wrote: Christopher Zimmermann wrote: I'm missing the http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename command in OpenBSD. I found this some time ago, very handy:

Re: spamd okean blacklist not mirrored

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Bennett
Jan Dev wrote: Hi all The /etc/mail/spamd.conf shipped with OpenBSD 4.6 says that the china blacklist located at http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt is mirrored at http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/chinacidr.txt.gz. Currently, this does not seem to be the case. The OpenBSD's says #last updated

Re: scrotwm: anyone with a non-US keyboard ?

2010-01-10 Thread Chris Bennett
I had problems with this patch. I opened xterm setxkbmap es I opened emacs, using normal key sequences. In emacs, I was able to use keys such as Alt-x ok. Then I suddenly discovered I couldn't changes windows anymore. I had to Cntrl-Alt-Backsp to get out of scrotwm OpenBSD 4.6-current

Re: scrotwm: anyone with a non-US keyboard ?

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Bennett
Marco Peereboom wrote: I need some test reports for this on both US and non-US (aka silly) keyboards please. Silly?? Just try typing n-tilde and accents using all copy and paste! I've done that horror now and then. Ouch! :) I'll test it a little later and reply -- A human being should be

Re: Java for other than x86/amd64?

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Bennett
Adam Thompson wrote: In article col101-w59c542f4a7f6e856abdfe7e6...@phx.gbl, jay.kr...@cornell.edu says... Anyone working on this? I think the most definitive answer is found at: http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/BSDPort ...and the answer, unfortunately, appears to be not

Re: Insecurity Output about httpd.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Bennett
Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:25:59AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: | I don't use a lot of conf files in conf/modules, but yesterday I | edited my php.conf and httpd.conf. | The two changes were tied to each other for a specific change. | | I just got my insecurity output

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Bennett
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I know very little about Windows but I would swear that I have seen or read that Windows can speak LPD printing protocol. I also have no knowledge of Samba but I would swear that I read somewhere that supports LPD. Yes, windows speaks LPD. I just don't know

Insecurity Output about httpd.conf

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Bennett
I don't use a lot of conf files in conf/modules, but yesterday I edited my php.conf and httpd.conf. The two changes were tied to each other for a specific change. I just got my insecurity output. It only listed changes to httpd.conf. There was nothing about change to php.conf. For a while now,

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Bennett
I use scrotwm with dual monitors. I really like scrotwm since it works well on even really old hardware. I adjust to make home, end, delete=delete forward work in xterm I force keypad to work numbers only I use colorls I have aliases to swap between english and spanish I have emu card so I use

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Bennett
Josh Rickmar wrote: I tried out scrotwm, wasn't all that impressed. I really don't understand why the devs decided to remove dwm's tagging features. This may have changed in more recent version of scrotwm, but back when I last tried it, the statusbar also was not able to show you which

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Bennett
Ryan Flannery wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: On Jan 3, 2010, at 8:23, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz Josh Rickmar wrote: [snip] This may have changed in more recent version of scrotwm, but back when I last tried

Re: Another question about mod_perl in chroot

2009-12-30 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: A while back, I asked a question about running mod_perl in chroot. I got good answers and had good success running two of my virtual hosts on my laptop while traveling (with then -current). I was able to get a lot of important work done. However, my server has a few other

Re: Another question about mod_perl in chroot

2009-12-30 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: Chris Bennett wrote: A while back, I asked a question about running mod_perl in chroot. I got good answers and had good success running two of my virtual hosts on my laptop while traveling (with then -current). I was able to get a lot of important work done. However, my

Another question about mod_perl in chroot

2009-12-29 Thread Chris Bennett
runs recent -current I will try Registry:BB item next, but first, Do I just have my server files a mess or is there a bug in older mod_perl? If there is a bug, I will just upgrade or fresh re-install to -current Thanks Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan

Re: Dumb package questions

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Bennett
L. V. Lammert wrote: Trying to fix an old 4.3 machine, for some strange reason both versions of ImageMagick require X11 - i.e.: # pkg_add ImageMagick-6.3.6.10-no_x11.tgz Can't install libwmf-0.2.8.3p3: lib not found ICE.8.1 Dependencies for libwmf-0.2.8.3p3 resolve to: libxml-2.6.30,

Re: How to turn on the numlock?

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Bennett
xeagle linux wrote: *Hi,* ** *I would like to open the numeric keys automatically every time when OpenBSD starts !* *Who can help me?* ** *Mysorrow* You have several choices. I also do not ever use number pad except for numbers. I use the Xmodmap version on this page.

Re: How to turn on the numlock?

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Bennett
Dave Wilson wrote: On 27/12/2009 23:47, xeagle linux wrote: *Hi,* ** *I would like to open the numeric keys automatically every time when OpenBSD starts !* *Who can help me?* ** *Mysorrow* Easiest way is, most BIOSes these days have an option to have numlock default to on at boot.

Re: How to turn on the numlock?

2009-12-27 Thread Chris Bennett
Dave Wilson wrote: On 27/12/2009 23:47, xeagle linux wrote: *Hi,* ** *I would like to open the numeric keys automatically every time when OpenBSD starts !* *Who can help me?* ** *Mysorrow* Easiest way is, most BIOSes these days have an option to have numlock default to on at boot.

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Bennett
John O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server. I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to check the newly arrived files. The last file in

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:26:42PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:02:58PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Well, you are right about front jack sense not working. I didn't have the front jacks (only speaker and mic

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:02:58PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:28:22AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: are you saying outputs.line-in_sense doesn't change when you plug something

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:57:35PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, input-vr80. For what reason would I pick each of these? Is this used to reduce excessively loud inputs

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:28:22AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:57:35PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, input-vr80

Re: How often packages are recompile when lib changes

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, Just a quick question to know how often the current packages are recompile when there is a lib increase or if they are not unless the packages itself get an update too. Just wonder as I install current December 4, and install current package as well if MySQL no

Re: How often packages are recompile when lib changes

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Chris Bennett wrote: Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, Just a quick question to know how often the current packages are recompile when there is a lib increase or if they are not unless the packages itself get an update too. Just wonder as I install current December 4

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot softraid0 at root root on wd0a

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Daniel Ouellet wrote: I can get a large SATA disk pretty cheap, but this board doesn't accept SATA. Anyone have any thoughts on whether I should just pay more for a smaller PATA or get the SATA. If I get the SATA, I will need to buy either a SATA pci card or get a SATA to IDE adapter. Are

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:43:02AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:46:20AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Now how do I get these channels out? I find the mixerctl output for this one, rather confusing read azalia(4). you should

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, input-vr80. For what reason would I pick each of these? Is this used to reduce excessively loud inputs? to be able to use common consumer microphones, you usually need to have it's jack/pin set for 50%

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:03:28PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: I've just gotten a new setup with azalia Can I output ac3 with something like mplayer to spdif and then decode it externally? Or even better, decode it internally and output the channels? you can

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Bennett
David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files and the like after an upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this process I intend to create two directories in my home directory to keep copies of all my alterations to OpenBSD.

Disk errors

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Bennett
Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b

Re: viewing non-Youtube embedded video

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Bennett
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Let's consider all the critiques of embedded flash to be made. After all, they have been. The mplayer plug-in with HQTube works quite well on Youtube, I'll grant, but most of the video that interests me is news related stuff that I find on other sites. Mplayerplug-in +

Azalia and ac3

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Bennett
I've just gotten a new setup with azalia Can I output ac3 with something like mplayer to spdif and then decode it externally? Or even better, decode it internally and output the channels? OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #351: Mon Dec 14 00:42:17 MST 2009

Re: devede-3.15.0 problem

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Bennett
nealHogan wrote: Hello, The following is the output I get from starting devede and choosing any one of the disc type options on the initial screen. I just updated to the latest amd64 snaps and pkgs (17 Dec). montagueneal# devede DeVeDe 3.15.0 Using package-installed files /home/neal/

Re: devede-3.15.0 problem

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Bennett
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Chris Bennett wrote: I have yet to get devede to work on i386. It works for me, and it always did. How can I figure out what the problem is? I don't mind command line use. It looks to me that perhaps devede just uses a collection

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Bennett
Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:47:18PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping someone use ed remotely, who has never used ed, when I myself don't use

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Bennett
ropers wrote: Matthew Szudzik wrote: I would like to learn to use sed, however, I did not find that the man page was sufficient as a tutorial. I was not able to find any sed tutorials that were consistent with OpenBSD's variation. 2009/12/18 Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Bennett
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, nixlists wrote: Hi. People on this list are security-conscious. I wonder what browsers they use? What browsers do you consider more secure than others? Granted, they're all full of all kinds of holes, but what do you do to tighten their security?

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Bennett
Brad Tilley wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Brad == Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com writes: Brad I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more Brad comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live

Re: diff on running an application from xterm or graphical menu ?

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Bennett
Remco wrote: Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello all, I've run in some problem with gnome-mplayer. Basicaly, there is a difference in functioning if I run this application from xterm or graphical menu ( i use fbpanel menu). From xterm it works fine, it plays the movie. From graphical menu, it

sound problems with -current

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bennett
=65536 record.block_size=8192 record.errors=0 I have: pgrep -x aucat || aucat -l in .profile Thanks Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort

Re: sound problems with -current

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bennett
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: After upgrading to the latest -current as of Dec 9, I no longer have any control of sound output except within mplayer or cdio cdplay, etc. This makes it impossible to listen to a list of mp3s

Re: sound problems with -current

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: After upgrading to the latest -current as of Dec 9, I no longer have any control of sound output except within mplayer or cdio cdplay, etc. have you EVER had volume control with Audigy cards? I think

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Bennett
in *any* way. Again, what do you people not get?? I've been following this thread with great interest, both sides had a point, but language was ugly. This makes it all very clear. I thought Theo was right, but this puts the problem right and clear. I agree 100% with this. Chris Bennett

Replacing wrong and discontinued packages

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Bennett
-0.17p1-a4 when I want psutils-0.17p1-letter. Both of these involve many packages. Do I have to delete the whole bunch and re-add or will something like: pkg_add -r -F update -F updatedepends psutils-0.17p1-letter work then finish with normal pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends Chris Bennett

SATA CDRW/DVDRW

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Bennett
Do OpenBSD 4.6 and/or current support SATA for CD/DVD? I checked and chipset is supported I also turned of RAID mode, didn't stop crashes (which could be something else anyway) Thanks -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a

Re: Dual boot stable and current

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Bennett
be curious if when doing a one disk situation, would it be ok to use the same swap and tmp and home for both versions? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build

Re: x11 install

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
/X11R6 not found. How should be installed an insufficient thing? Which version of OpenBSD are you using? Did you install the X packages? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance

Re: x11 install

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
sophy life wrote: Thank you for the answer. 4.5 use of the version of OpenBSD. X packages is not installed from the beginning. You will need to install the X packages See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#AddFileSet Just don't choose to add anything other than the x* stuff and all

Re: Connect to wireless Access Point according to MAC address

2009-11-26 Thread Chris Bennett
, normally this is done automatically Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve

Re: Gnash

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Does anybody use it happily? I used in the past to read RIA novosti news web-site. It became useless about 6-7 months ago when they upgraded to newer version of Flash. Gnash is in my experience Flash 7 compatible at best. On the another hand I am really impressed

Re: Gnash

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Bennett
nix it if I don't like it after a few seconds. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate

Re: shutdown and reboot sometimes ignored?

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Bennett
after minutes, and on otherwise idle boxen. Ideas about what I can do to pinpoint the problem, are most welcome! If you are running PostgreSQL, and aren't running as root, you will need to use sudo shutdown -r now or /etc/rc.shutdown will hang Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Bennett
to maintain color signal. These can be bought, however and are cheap. Not sure this is relevant to your case, but could really help someone else having problems. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building

Re: Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Bennett
like that. Maybe the Mexican site has been recorded there? I will try and look for it. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying

Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Bennett
additional languages, but I don't see any signs of that. Was that just for non-OpenBSD versions? Thanks, Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone

Using all mod_perl in chrooted Apache, what needs to be inside?

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Bennett
at earliest. Thanks, Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations

Re: 4.6 arriving

2009-10-04 Thread Chris Bennett
! Things will be better with 4.6. Looking forward to it. But if someone simply MUST have a new feature, -current works just fine on my desktop. Thanks Theo and developers! Chris Bennett

Re: Shutdown problem.

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Buzzer wrote: /etc/rc.shutdown in progress... /etc/rc.shutdown complete. syncing disks... And thats all, folk. Once I was sitting 4 minutes near my PC and waiting for power off. Then I manually turned off the power. This problem may repeat from time to time on 'reboot' and 'halt -p' commands.

long running cron script, sendmail question

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Bennett
if it is script related or ISP related. Does having sendmail open for a few hours cause any problems? I was thinking that if it does, I could easily rewrite to print out details only at very end of script. Thanks, Chris Bennett

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Bennett
is still around $72 extra for OpenBSD. Anyone who has counted change to buy food knows that even a few extra bucks can make your day a whole lot better! Chris Bennett On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Rod Whitworthglis...@witworx.com wrote: Of course I try to be first to pre-order my CD

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Bennett
work. Contacting the manufacturer is the ONLY good way. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders

Apache logs wierdness

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Bennett
I've just noticed something odd happening in my access_log. I have a mod_perl script which I use regularly. When I access this script, my access doesn't show up! Script errors however, do show up. When I access an html page, I show up. What's going on here? Chris Bennett

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Bennett
, there is No Audio support for bktr, just video. I suppose audio could be recorded using another card, but that sounds hard to make work well. You can watch a video with mplayer AND listen to a separate audio stream with something like mplayer -audiofile VHS.mp3 VHS_video.mp4. Chris Bennett

Question about spamd

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Bennett
equal chance of getting through? If this is true, would it be reasonable to significantly reduce greylisting time after getting second try from a non-listed IP? (To get new IP good emails faster) Is this a silly idea or not? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan

Re: No audio : did I miss something basic ?

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Bennett
What are you trying to get sound from? Try turning off the mutes that are on. mixerctl inputs.cd.mute=off for example. also, try cdio cdplay, with a music cd (This is pure digital and gives better quality than cdio play) also, add to .profile: pgrep -x aucat || aucat -l (someone

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