Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-18 Thread Jan Stary
I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar to something like FreeBSD with ease to it. There is no _need_ for a nice curses setup - the current installer already has ease to itw, to put it mildly. In fact, OpenBSD's installer is the best I have met during my years-long

4.1 on ALIX.1C - recommendations?

2007-09-21 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, last night, I installed 4.1 on the new ALIX.1C: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom). The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP for my home network of about four computers (heterogeneous). Everything works fine (as usual with OpenBSD), but

Re: 4.1 on ALIX.1C - recommendations?

2007-09-21 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 21 09:49:20, Nick Holland wrote: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom). The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP for my home network of about four computers (heterogeneous). Firstly, swap (i don't really mind reinstalling). Install guide

altroot is not mentioned in FAQ

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, afterboot(8) mentions /altroot, which is a nice feature. But you only learn about /altroot when you read afterboot(8). By that time, you already have a system installed, in particular your disk is already partitioned, and typically you don't have the spare partition (of size at least

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 03 19:27:59, Brian Candler wrote: The reason nobody makes free OpenBSD ISO images, I presume, is because the user base is comparatively tiny, and it's not worth the effort. Do you mean the effort of running rsync mkisofs, or the effort of writing a trivial shell script wrapper around

Re: : expansion of FAQ# 1.10 re OpenBSD as a desktop system

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 15 19:34:38, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:57:19PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: On Oct 15 09:16:39, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, at least I know that I'm not alone in needing to use flash to get real work done (not for games or other time-wasters). Which means

Re: NFS exporting /usr/ports and -maproot=root

2007-10-19 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to myself, Again: set WRKOBJDIR on the client side and you don't need to be writing in the remotely mounted tree at all. the following is nonsense, of course: Another advantage of that is that when you build some port that requires e.g. the X11 to be installed, you only need it

Re: NFS exporting /usr/ports and -maproot=root

2007-10-19 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 18 20:04:18, Landry Breuil wrote: i'm struggling to make my ports-tree usable on all my machines, it seems that in my configuration -maproot=root in /etc/exports doesn't work: on the server (4.1 stable), /etc/exports contains : /usr/ports -maproot=root client perms : drwxrwxr-x 47

Re: NFS exporting /usr/ports and -maproot=root

2007-10-19 Thread Jan Stary
Again: set WRKOBJDIR on the client side and you don't need to be writing in the remotely mounted tree at all. I'm already setting WRKOBJDIR outside nfs-dir, the problem is more for /usr/ports/packages .. i'd like it to be shared too, to install the same package on various sparc64 for

Re: Performance problem with CF card on AMD CS5536 IDE

2007-10-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 22 16:28:49, Stefan Klein wrote: I have got an interesting problem here. When I use a CF card on Geode LX-800 board, the performance is extremely low (about 1MB/s for reading). I suppose it is not a hardware problem: Under windows, the performance of read/writes on the CF is fine.

OSS audio drivers

2007-10-23 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, this is to clarify (for me, anyway) the status of audio drivers present in the (recently GPLed) OSS. http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html What is the relation of OpenBSD's audio drivers to the OSS project? What, if anything, does opensourcing (GPL, I know) their code mean for our audio

Re: OSS audio drivers

2007-10-23 Thread Jan Stary
What is the relation of OpenBSD's audio drivers to the OSS project? What, if anything, does opensourcing (GPL, I know) their code mean for our audio drivers? In particular, does that mean (future) support for the high-end soundcards such as M-Audio Delta? OpenBSD uses an implementation

high-end audio drivers [was: OSS audio drivers]

2007-10-23 Thread Jan Stary
What is the relation of OpenBSD's audio drivers to the OSS project? What, if anything, does opensourcing (GPL, I know) their code mean for our audio drivers? In particular, does that mean (future) support for the high-end soundcards such as M-Audio Delta? There's work in progress on

fsck_msdos wants to repair what newfs_msdos created (4.1)

2007-10-26 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, this is what happens on my Dell Latitude LS / 4.1 (GENERIC). # uname -a OpenBSD dell.stare.cz 4.1 GENERIC#1 i386 # fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 41344/15/63 [39070080 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: idC H S -C

[SOLVED] Re: fsck_msdos wants to repair what newfs_msdos created (4.1)

2007-10-26 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 26 10:56:49, Matthew Szudzik wrote: Does this mean that the two (incorrect) fields Free space in FSInfo block (-1) not correct (134041) Next free cluster in FSInfo block (2) not free of a newly created 'msdos -F 32' are nothing to worry about? I encountered the

sharing swap in OpenBSD

2007-04-24 Thread Jan Stary
Hello list, I am trying to share swap between OpenBSD 4.0/i386 and FreeBSD, on a Dell laptop. I have sliced the disk as Disk: wd0 geometry: 41344/15/63 [39070080 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: idC H S -C H S [

Re: sharing swap in OpenBSD

2007-04-24 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 24 12:01:15, Nick Guenther wrote: On 4/24/07, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Stary wrote: Hello list, I am trying to share swap between OpenBSD 4.0/i386 and FreeBSD, on a Dell laptop. I have sliced the disk as Disk: wd0 geometry: 41344/15/63 [39070080 Sectors

ac97: codec not read on Dell Latitude LS (4.1)

2007-05-17 Thread Jan Stary
Hello, I am running 4.1 on a Dell Latitude LS laptop (full dmesg at bottom). The machine uses the (undocumented, man neo) Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV audio chip: neo0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV rev 0x20 1:0:1 10c8:8005 pin B clink 0x01 irq 10 stage 0 WARNING: preserving

VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, this comes form a verbose boot of 4.1 on a Dell Latitude LS laptop: [...] vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 2.0, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV vesabios0: VESA mode 0100: attributes 009f, 640x400 8bbp Packed pixel vesabios0: VESA mode 0101: attributes 009f, 640x480 8bbp Packed pixel vesabios0:

Re: VESA modes

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to myself, vesabios0 at mainbus0: version 2.0, NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV vesabios0: VESA mode 0118: attributes 009f, 1024x768 24bbp Direct Color vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Neomagic Magicgraph NM2200 rev 0x20, vesafb Do these messages mean that my graphic chip is actually

Re: VESA modes

2007-05-21 Thread Jan Stary
Thanks Mats, The VESA lines tell us which moded the graphics cards BIOSs thinks it can handle. It has nothing to do with what your monitor can handle. In your case it seems like it is the monitor that is setting the limit. But if you had a external 1280x1024 monitor it would be the graphics

neo0: unknown int / ac97: codec id not read on Dell Latitude LS

2007-06-12 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, I am running 4.1 on a Dell Latitude LS notebook. This machine uses the Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV audio chip: ... neo0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV rev 0x20 audio0 at neo0 ... Now, _sometimes_ the boot gets into an endless loop saying neo0: unknown int

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-12 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 12 17:00:52, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: Only commenting out the wdog_register() call, but leaving the call to bus_space_write_2() active makes boot still stop. So the problems appears to be with the call to bus_space_write_2(). Who is familiar with this function and the AMD5536? On Jan

Re: cwm: root window unavailable

2008-01-14 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 14 14:55:32, Martin Toft wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Martin Toft wrote: when starting X (and thereby cwm due to my .xinitrc), I get the following error: cwm: root window unavailable - perhaps another wm is running? cwm echoes the error message above and

Re: apm doesn't sleep/suspend desktop

2008-01-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 11 00:30:15, Chris Zakelj wrote: Curious problem here, though I'm probably missing something obvious. I have apm enabled through /etc/rc.conf.local (apmd_flags=), and when I issue 'shutdown -h -p now', the system powers off correctly. However, if I try to use sleep or suspend ('apm

APM at Dell Latuitude LS @ 4.2 [long]

2008-01-18 Thread Jan Stary
Dear Sally, I am running 4.2-stable on a Dell Latitude LS (dmesg bellow) with the BIOS upgraded to A09 (the latest available). It also dual-boots FreeBSD; I would like to get rid of that, and what stops me is power management support. I want to scale CPU frequency according to the load, I want

speedstep frequency scaling in 4.2

2008-01-18 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, http://openbsd.org/42.html#new says New piixpcib(4) driver for System Management Mode initiated speedstep frequency scaling on certain pairings of the Intel PIIX4 ISA bridges and Intel Pentium 3 processors. Now I wonder which certain pairings are supported. My HW

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 with ftp-proxy, named, spamd on Alix2c1 board (+dmesg)

2008-02-21 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 20 19:13:04, Klaus Botschen wrote: The Alix2c1 board is from PC Engines, 3 LAN, 1 miniPCI, a 433 MHz AMD Geode LX700 with 128 MB DDR DRAM, CompactFlash socket (see http://pcengines.ch/alix2c1.htm). I currently use ALIX.1C as my main router/fw/named/dhcpd (soon to be replaced by ALIX.2C1

Re: Watching the prgress of dd if=drive1 of=drive2

2008-02-25 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 23 12:15:21, Jon wrote: I'm using dd to clone a drive. How can I watch the progress of this or see the transfer rate in real time? You can use 'fstat -o' on the device file. Jan

Re: changing bash prompt escape sequences

2008-02-25 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 23 21:29:57, Jay Hart wrote: I use bash as my shell. I'm trying to set the bash prompt to display: ttyC1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've created a .bashrc in the users home directory (in this case root), and used the following line: PS1=\l [EMAIL PROTECTED] # When I login as root,

Re: Samba(SMB) or Netatalk(AFP)?

2008-03-10 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 11 01:01:45, Sunnz wrote: Basically I want to set up a network share on my OpenBSD box which my Mac laptops and Linux laptops can access to. Then use NFS, the standard UNIX technology for this. Smb seems kind of weird in a environment with no M$ systems... however this is probably

Re: iic at piixpm freeze

2008-04-01 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 01 12:45:13, Anton wrote: Some days ago I install 4.2 on IBM machine (not so new PIII hardware). At first booting system freeze on iic at piixpm. I do disable iic after boot -c. So I comment out #iic* at piixpm? in GENERIC and rebuild it. Once you disabled it with 'boot -c', just make

/etc/disklabels vs /var/backups/disklabel.*

2008-04-01 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, I wonder what /etc/disklabels is for - man hier(7) says disklabels/ Backup disklabels (see disklabel(8)) but actual backups of disklabels seem to be placed into /var/backups/disklabel.* (by security(8)). So what is /etc/disklabels really for? Thanks

/dev/random as (chrooted) named's entropy source [current]

2008-04-03 Thread Jan Stary
Hi list, I wonder how exactly the /dev/random of (chrooted) named works. If I just start named with named_flags=, the log says named[9291]: could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not found named[9291]: using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/arandom (But named runs just fine beside

chrooted /dev/log (named and postfix) [current]

2008-04-03 Thread Jan Stary
Hi list, this is a question about named and syslog and how they interplay. My named is instructed to log via a syslog channel (local0) and it works fine. The relevant flags of rc.conf.local are syslogd_flags= named_flags= In the output of ps I see that syslogd runs as

Re: /dev/random as (chrooted) named's entropy source [current]

2008-04-03 Thread Jan Stary
named[9291]: could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not found named[9291]: using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/arandom The above logs say to me can't so this, so doing this instead. Since it's using the pre-chroot /dev/arandom, it has a good random source and

Re: /dev/random as (chrooted) named's entropy source [current]

2008-04-04 Thread Jan Stary
Trying to give named its own random-source, I stopped named, did # cd /var/named/dev/ # /dev/MAKEDEV arandom # ls -l total 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 4 Apr 3 14:16 arandom srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 3 13:51 log crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 3 Apr 3 14:16

dump much larger than filesystem

2008-04-30 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 19 04:21:24 CET 2008 As anyone else, I use dump(8) for my backups. Now I experience this: I made a full dump a while ago with dump -0 -a -u -f /backup/dump.var.www /var/www Since then, /var/www got much smaller (you wouldn't believe

MySQL 5.0.22 @ OpenBSD 3.9 SIGSEGV's under certain queries

2006-09-07 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, this is the situation: on a 3.9 box (see dmesg at bottom) with 256MB RAM, I am running a MySQL server, version 5.0.22 as installed from the packages. Also, php5-core-5.0.5 and php5-mysql-5.0.5p0 are installed for apache to use. And on top of that, a user is running WordPress

/var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error i got just after i start it on command line: /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2) Note that when a new user is created via adduser(8), his mailbox (/var/mail/$USER)

Re: /var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 04 11:58:10, Okan Demirmen wrote: On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error i got just after i start it on command line: /var/mail/grios: No such file

[OT] US security

2006-10-10 Thread Jan Stary
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53928 :-)

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-15 Thread Jan Stary
We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to know what's exactly the oldest machine running OpenBSD? My home router/firewall/DNS: $ uname -a OpenBSD gw.stare.cz 3.9 COMPAQ#0 i386 $ dmesg OpenBSD 3.9-stable (COMPAQ) #0: Thu Sep 28 20:48:44 CEST 2006 [EMAIL

Re: WordPress support

2006-10-16 Thread Jan Stary
Wordpress ver 1.5 is in the package list for OpenBSD 3.9. The latest version of Wordpress is 2.0.4. There is not really anything to maintain in terms of OpenBSD; don't even bother pkg_adding the package, let the users untar under their UserDir and that's it. Jan

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Jan Stary
It is like a port knocking service but a little bit different: Normaly a port knocking service uses TCP/UDP, but openportd uses ICMP echo response packets because they are not so easy to send like echo requests or TCP/UDP port tests (kiddies could simply use ping or nmap for this job).

shell script (background ogg-stream dumping) - no such process

2006-10-27 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, I have this little sh script which saves an ogg audio stream, streamed by an internet radio. It's short enough to quote it: --- cut -- #!/bin/sh # $1 is length in seconds, $2 is the output filename. # The stream itself is prefixed by a HTTP header, which needs to be # trimmed off up

Re: ktrace interpretation

2006-11-23 Thread Jan Stary
Hi, $ cat foo.c int main() { return 0; } $ cc -static -o foo foo.c $ ktrace ./foo $ kdump 2153 ktrace RET ktrace 0 2153 ktrace CALL execve(0x7f7f910f,0x7f7f8c78,0x7f7f8c88) 2153 ktrace NAMI ./foo 2153 foo EMUL native 2153 foo RET execve 0

Re: Software License

2006-11-27 Thread Jan Stary
But, i would like to promote, some how, people usage of OpenBSD operating system, no one else. I agree that only people, no one else, should usage of OpenBSD.

mini router based on openbsd

2006-12-07 Thread Jan Stary
Hello, I decided to replace my home router. Currently I use Compaq Deskpro 2000 with OpenBSD 4.0. It's a P100/32MB with a 1G disk, which is all I need for my home pf+NAT, DNS, DHCP and SMTP. However, the machine itself is noisy and bigger than it should be. What I am looking for is a really

Re: mini router based on openbsd

2006-12-07 Thread Jan Stary
What I am looking for is a really miniature machine. I need to be able to install (some sort of) OpenBSD on it (say, via pxeboot), and run just the above-mentioned for my very small home network. It should be really small, silent, and low-power. I've got a Soekris 4801 running as DSL

4.3 transfered to new disk: floating point exceptions

2008-06-22 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, I am running 4.3 on an ALIX board, with filesystems laid out as Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 120M 49.1M 64.5M43%/ /dev/sd0a 3.9G3.1G623M84%/usr /dev/sd0d 1005M 28.0K955M 0%/tmp /dev/sd0e

Re: 4.3 transfered to new disk: floating point exceptions

2008-06-22 Thread Jan Stary
Hm ... compare files on the two USB disks and check they copied correctly. if they were mangled, you can fix system files by untarring from fresh sets, but you also need to look at /home etc and check your own files are ok. I did the same thing again, exactly. Really. Now everything works.

Re: 4.3 transfered to new disk: floating point exceptions

2008-06-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 22 06:22:35, Josh Grosse wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:57:00AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: ...and then the obligatory newfs on /dev/sd1X, cd into it, and restore. Everything went fine. Then I rebooted with only the new disk plugged in, which gets recognized fine as sd0 (now

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-09 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 02 20:55:56, Mark Smith wrote: So yes it is a memory issue, your 500G disk is too big for your Alix1c. To be precise: the 500G _filesystem_ is too big, not the disk, right? fsck'ing 10 separate 50g filesystems would be less of a problem, right? jan

Re: Need some guidance booting OpenBSD on an ALIX device

2008-08-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 12 19:15:46, Markus Hennecke wrote: If I remember correctly the alix bios use a baudrate different from 9600 baud. Are you by chance connecting to the board with another baud rate? If this is the case just restart the session with 9600 baud and you should be able to boot the system.

named starting slowly

2008-08-18 Thread Jan Stary
This is -current as of a few weeks back, running on ALIX2C3. Works smoothly as my home router/fw/dns, but when booting gets to starting named, there is a strange slowdown: Aug 18 19:48:40 gw /bsd: OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC) #1004: Thu Jul 31 00:42:16 MDT 2008 Aug 18 19:48:42 gw /bsd: [EMAIL

Re: named starting slowly

2008-08-20 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to myself, On Aug 18 20:51:26, Jan Stary wrote: This is -current as of a few weeks back, running on ALIX2C3. Works smoothly as my home router/fw/dns, but when booting gets to starting named, there is a strange slowdown: snip Aug 18 19:48:58 gw named[15560]: starting BIND 9.4.2-P1

Re: named starting slowly

2008-08-20 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 20 15:36:36, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Aug 18 20:51:26, Jan Stary wrote: This is -current as of a few weeks back, running on ALIX2C3. Works smoothly as my home router/fw/dns, but when booting gets to starting named, there is a strange slowdown: I expect it to be the extra

Re: NFS writing, v2 vs v3

2008-08-29 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 29 12:42:52, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I guess I must be one of the latest folks using amd to mount nfs shares but why is that NFSv2 is so slow at writing compared to NFSv3? I get the similar behavior on any kind of machines (I can provide dmesg and all but since it happens everywhere)

cdio(1)'s cdrip - why WAV?

2008-08-29 Thread Jan Stary
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Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Jan Stary
I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money). Better replace the disk tomorrow, then. Or, implement the software on a new system, and take the hit on some downtime while it's being replaced.

Re: ntpd can hang on boot

2008-09-06 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 06 13:08:33, Peter Fraser wrote: ntpd hangs and cannot be interrupted. The only way to continue is to do a hardware reset. Doesn't it time out eventually? As an aside, it was on my firewall. My firewall makes use of my dns which is on the inside of my network, but during the booting

Re: logging all blocked packets with PF

2008-09-08 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 08 00:27:37, Maxx Twayne wrote: I would like to know if there is way to log all blocked packets with. When i use block in log all, the parsing is OK, but i got nothing on the pflog0 interface, or in the pflog files. Is this normal or am i doing something wrong ? Is there a way to log

Re: [OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-08 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 07 18:23:38, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: My main desktop is an amd64 running Debian with 2GB RAM and 160GB disc, about to burst with all the stuff i have in /home. I can clean it up a bit but i'll just delay the issue. I can also repartition, since / is only taking up 25% of its space and i

Re: shell script (background ogg-stream dumping) - no such process

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 27 07:56:51, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: *Usually* (I know) it finishes OK, and the *ogg is a valid ogg stream. In this failing case, it *also* is a valid ogg stream, but much shorter than usual. So I suppose the background nc dies before I try to kill it myself (that is, after sleeping

cwm: why ~/.calmwm/keys/ instead of a text file?

2008-09-15 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, I am a happy user of calmwm, but one thing keeps puzzling me: what is the rationale to use symlinks in ~/.calmwm/keys/ to configure keyboard shortcuts, as opposed to, say, a plaitext file? Currently, this is how I start firefox: ln -s firefox ~/.calmwm/keys/M-f allows me to

WM-independent keyboard shortcuts within base

2008-09-15 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, currently, I am using x11/xbindkeys to have the same keyboard shortcuts in different environments/WMs. Is there a way to achieve the same with standard X tools from the base? Thanks Jan

Re: Build Packages Java 1.6 at OpenBSD 4.3

2008-09-17 Thread Jan Stary
Dear my mail, On Sep 16 18:25:08, my mail wrote: I have successfull build jdk 1.6 using ports, after run # make and the proces run sucessful, but why i can't found the packages at /usr/ports/packages/i386/all ? i try to run # make install and jdk 1.6 have install perfectly, but i

snapshots/i386/MD5 out of sync?

2008-09-22 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, it seems that the actual MD5 checksum of snapshots/i386/install44.iso differs from the one specified in snapshots/i386/MD5: MD5 (install44.iso) = 519daedda756537d5efbe8ad5fd4eb23 MD5 (install44.iso) = f87b839db833380f41f02bd7fffb2d27 (My tiny little script that downloads snapshots has

wd0 using Ultra-DMA mode 6

2008-09-25 Thread Jan Stary
Hi all, on 4.3 GENERIC.MP (dmesg bellow), this is my disk: wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 239371MB, 490232639 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 Now, atactl tells me that the disk can do ATA-7

Re: wd0 using Ultra-DMA mode 6

2008-09-25 Thread Jan Stary
Replying to myself, Hi all, on 4.3 GENERIC.MP (dmesg bellow), this is my disk: wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 239371MB, 490232639 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 Now, atactl tells me that

Re: The correct way to use bsd.rd

2008-09-29 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 28 09:40:54, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: I am NOT trying to boot my root partition using bsd.rd. Although I see that I can using the -a option. I was trying to get a bsd.rd image like the one from the CDs, with the Install Upgrade and Shell options. Is still don't get it. You already

Re: U-DMA mode problems with OpenBSD 4.3 and above + SATA controllers + CF card

2008-10-21 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 21 18:11:07, Stephane Lapie wrote: Hello, I am currently working with a Portwell NAR-5530 (network appliance running off Intel hardware, can use regular HDs or CF cards as boot device). We want to use this at work for network appliances, but end up bumping in the following

Re: dhclient, resolv.conf

2011-10-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 22 04:41:56, Philippe Meunier wrote: Kenneth R Westerback wrote: If you are using dhclient, then /etc/resolv.conf is not really a configuration file. Unless your machine runs its own DNS server. Just out of curiosity, what would be an example situation for using a machine that

Re: How to disable wireless card ath0

2011-10-24 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 24 12:42:10, ML mail wrote: Hello, I am running OpenBSD 4.9 i386 on an Apple Mac mini and these mac mini have one ethernet as well as one wireless card. I will only be using the ethernet card so I wanted to be sure that my ath0 is disabled and not all the time scanning. Basically I

Re: how to disable fsck when power failure

2011-11-08 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 08 12:03:33, Matteo Leccardi wrote: Quick and dirt: Edit /etc/fstab and change the last digit of the corrispondent mount point line form [1|2] to 0 Ex. default 515f3560ef6f35f5.a / ffs rw 1 1 to 515f3560ef6f35f5.a / ffs rw 1 0 and run with an unclean root filesystem. Way to go!

Re: NFS not working

2011-11-11 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 11 17:40:01, John Tate wrote: Fixed that now getting... # mount smass:/home /mhome/ Cannot MNT PRC: RPC: Program not registered is mountd even running? On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:38 PM, John Tate j...@johntate.org wrote: This is what I am getting... in /var/log/daemon Nov 11

Re: Burning DVDs

2011-11-14 Thread Jan Stary
First of all, you should have taken this to ports@, not to misc@. On Nov 14 16:13:34, John Tate wrote: Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for

Re: pppoe

2011-11-20 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 21 12:37:37, John Tate wrote: I am setting up an OpenBSD firewall, and have everything working but I am using userland pppoe. I am not sure if it ever became an official part of OpenBSD, but I've heard there might be kernel level pppoe support. Is there kernel level pppoe support? Or

Re: More burning issues...

2011-11-21 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 21 20:10:57, John Tate wrote: I am having troubles using cdio as described in the manual: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#burnCD I am using a DVD-RW. With dvd+rw-tools I had no troubles blanking the disk. Good. Because that's the first thing the DVD writing section of that FAQ

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 22 08:16:21, Nick Holland wrote: Long term, BIND is done. Long term, unbound will probably be replacing it in OpenBSD. IF you are doing anything beyond a simple resolver, I'd agree completely...take the time to learn unbound/nsd (or djbdns or ...) However, right now, unbound is a

Re: Audacity/Sound recording on a Mac Mini

2011-11-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 22 09:33:06, Russell Sutherland wrote: I have a G4 Mac Mini (PowerMac 10,1) and have successfully installed OpenBSD 5.0 on it. I have also successfully built audacity from the ports tree. My thought was to create a small footprint audio recording system for a small charitable

Re: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce

2011-11-23 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 23 12:54:32, sc...@web.de wrote: I cannot see any reason not to forward OpenBSD anouncements to comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce. So why didn't you forward them?

Re: Kernel without INET6 error on pipex.c

2011-11-23 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 23 15:49:42, Julien Crapovich wrote: I'm under OpenBSD 5.0, and I would like to compile a kernel without INET6. Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-29 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 29 13:55:45, sc...@web.de wrote: Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote to T. Valent: IF your hardware is so anemic that it can't run GENERIC, I think you will do much better getting more realistic hardware I differ. I have an old, very old laptop, running OpenBSD. The

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-29 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 29 14:03:31, Torsten Valentin wrote: welcome to the ignore list of many developers. You aren't even following directions on how to hurt yourself properly without wasting people's time. I always found that people waste my time when they write explanations and tons of bla bla that

Re: Which drivers are required for proper system functioning? (was: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel)

2011-11-29 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 29 14:48:47, Torsten Valentin wrote: So why don't you show us the dmesg of the most recent kernel that worked for you? Because I don't see what that has to do with the issue. If the issue still is to get OpenBSD running on that hardware, then here is what it has to do with the

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 30 18:15:30, Torsten Valentin wrote: dmesg is the lazy way to get this info, the same info is written to /var/log/messages during boot. Are you saying your system is so stripped down you don't even log anything? Yep. And because the only persistent memory is Flash (32MB, which

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-30 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 30 10:26:46, T. Valent wrote: sure will solve what you have understood to be my problem. But what really annoys me here is that I'm not taken seriously when I say this isn't an option. Why don't you just believe my words instead of permanently speaking about things that I explicitly

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 02 02:25:06, John Tate wrote: I'm 24 years old. I was a Linux hacker since I was 13. I am a bit of a guru and do my own Kerberos and such on an all BSD/Linux network. OpenBSD and Debian Linux. I love OpenBSD, I'm a bit weird because I use bash. I can put up with being made fun of. At 13

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-12-01 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 01 09:44:25, T. Valent wrote: Because if someone simply says this is impossible, it is only natural to ask why is that impossible?. Might be a question of culture. For me this doesn't sound natural. If I'm being asked a question and given (detailed?) circumstances, I'd try to

Re: NFS server not responding puzzler

2011-12-05 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 05 08:28:15, Michael Durket wrote: I'm running an old copy of OpenBSD (4.1) on a production server and it mounts a single NFS volume from another (Solaris) machine using NFS 3 tcp. This mount worked initially, but then for a short period of time the remote server had a problem, and

Re: NFS server not responding puzzler

2011-12-05 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Jan Stary wrote: On Dec 05 08:28:15, Michael Durket wrote: I'm running an old copy of OpenBSD (4.1) on a production server and it mounts a single NFS volume from another (Solaris) machine using NFS 3 tcp. This mount worked initially, but then for a short

Re: NFS server not responding puzzler

2011-12-05 Thread Jan Stary
Even 'umount -f' doesn't unmount it? On Dec 05 13:06:14, Michael Durket wrote: Yes - that fails as well. What kind of problem was there at the server? I don't remember at this point - it was a long time ago - our Solaris NFS servers are very flaky. (Could the connections to

Re: NFS server not responding puzzler

2011-12-05 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 05 14:23:08, Michael Durket wrote: Hm. Can you make a ktrace(1) of that 'umount -f'? 6267 ktrace RET ktrace 0 6267 ktrace CALL execve(0x7f7d5d0f,0x7f7d5858,0x7f7d5878) 6267 ktrace NAMI /sbin/umount 6267 umount EMUL native 6267 umount RET

MIDI over USB

2011-12-31 Thread Jan Stary
So I bought me a MIDI keyboard to enter the MIDI world. My sound card does not have a MIDI input, so before I buy one that does, I am connecting the keyboard via USB, which seems to work fine in Protools and MacOS's GarageBand. Now I'm trying to use it under OpenBSD. Reading fag13#midi, in

Re: MIDI over USB

2011-12-31 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 31 13:25:57, Jan Stary wrote: So I bought me a MIDI keyboard to enter the MIDI world. (It's a CME UF6) My sound card does not have a MIDI input, so before I buy one that does, I am connecting the keyboard via USB, which seems to work fine in Protools and MacOS's GarageBand. Now I'm

Re: MIDI over USB

2011-12-31 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 31 14:23:25, Robert wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:25:57 +0100 Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Reading fag13#midi, in particular the dmesg example, makes me think that USB-connected MIDI components should be recognized. Am I missing something? I just tested - works fine [1]; just

Re: MIDI over USB

2011-12-31 Thread Jan Stary
The manual of the MIDI keyboard says: When using USB cable to connect UF keyboard to computer music system, you must install the UF driver to the computer; otherwise the system will not accept the device. So, does Dec 31 15:11:04 box /bsd: ugen0 at uhub1 port 1 vendor

Re: MIDI over USB

2012-01-01 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 31 22:35:58, Bryan Linton wrote: On 2011-12-31 16:44:19, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: The manual of the MIDI keyboard says: When using USB cable to connect UF keyboard to computer music system, you must install the UF driver to the computer; otherwise

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