ch is the only solution. Many years ago I
wrote a trivial Perl script wrong. It very slowly grabbed more and more
memory until it crashed the server about every two days. After very
carefully watching, I figured out it was my script and I fixed a rather
silly bug. I'll never forget that experience.
gt; I also wouldn't mind any other useful tips that might not be software.
> > Any help very appreciated.
>
> Perhaps this fuzzing guide helps a bit getting programs to run better?
> https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article=20150121093259
Thank you and to the others replying.
--
Regards,
C
, what other software is useful for working
with C?
I also wouldn't mind any other useful tips that might not be software.
Any help very appreciated.
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls
the past."
George Orwell - 1984
ts rot...
>
I saw a news bit yesterday that in one town, all of the school children
are buying old fashioned typewriters to break their link to computers
and do things the old fashioned way. +1 to them.
I prefer real text on paper myself. I learn things much better that way.
--
Regards,
Chri
download a lot of files with a hideous mess of characters. I wrote a
small script to substitute in acceptable characters. I can enter a
regex, select to just use a directory or go down recursively. Also I can
select to only change filenames or directories or both.
After reading this thread I see I
ith the time or desire to do it, no
problem.
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls
the past."
George Orwell - 1984
. I just use alias ls='colorls -Gla'. You can either have other
aliases or just type colorls with the same arguments as ls to get other
options.
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
"Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell - 1984
who is working in this kind of fashion?
>
> -Dan
>
I used a powered USB hub on a laptop that somehow solved a bunch of
connectivity problems to the laptop's USB3 port.
I needed a powered hub to run both the wifi dongle and a spinning USB
hard drive. No idea why it worked, but it did.
--
Re
and
> also dd'd to sd0a, rsd0 and anything i could think of, i also tried exiting
> to shell and done some fdisk -iy sd0 (suggested on reddit)
Following advice from the general Internet is rarely useful. Usually out
of date or just plain wrong.
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
"Who control
y and overworked developers.
Which is probably why I sleep well at night knowing I have an excellent
and secure OS. They do amazingly good work!
So even if your first ten tries at different things fail, by the time of
your eleventh, you will probably be getting it right by then.
Enjoy!
--
Chris Bennett
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 04:03:57PM +0300, kasak wrote:
> >
> Oh, thanks! I didn't know about that ctrl+v tab feature!
>
Just so you know, ctrl+ other stuff also works.
I'll let you experiment and discover those.
--
Chris Bennett
nside there. Yes, even with
the power off and power cable disconnected.
And it's tricky. I have a power supply cable for two hard drives. Two
connectors crimped across the same cable. One of the crimps is bad.
Recognizing that saved me a trip to hell after about an hour. Easy to
fix, damned hard t
Bruno
>
Thank you very much.
I just had to add for any and it works perfectly.
My dad and I ate some bad food at a restaurant, so this is a happy
moment.
--
Chris Bennett
.
It is called the *command* line because it is yours to issue clean and
powerful *commands* with.
Feel free to panic, scream, run in circles and collapse with exhaustion.
It's a good way to relieve stress. ;-}
--
Chris Bennett
It's the weekend. I will see if anyone has any advice later.
I will spend my time looking at perhaps solving the problem with a
filter and using tcpdump and the debug features of smtpd to follow what
I come up with.
--
Chris Bennett
opinion. I definitely do not get a vote, especially since I
have never even submitted a diff for the website.
Unless I am using my phone, I give it a 50% chance that I will be using
a text browser to view the site. I use lynx 100% to look at the packages
and installation files. It just works.
--
Chris Bennett
rsus 80ch.
I often adjust the width of the window my browser is in to control that
width, assuming the website doesn't fight me and force horizontal
scrolling. I have key bindings on fvwm2/3 to do that.
But definitely add the viewport to the head. Nothing bad can happen with
that and FWIW, it bumps up OpenBSD in many searching algorithms
(assuming that that is desirable).
--
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 03:49:12AM +, Philipp Buehler wrote:
> Am 12.08.2023 03:13 schrieb Chris Bennett:
> > I can't figure out how to match the outgoing mails to the correct IP/mx
> > they are coming from. Just one server, different A records for the mx
> > versus domain
On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 03:49:12AM +, Philipp Buehler wrote:
> Am 12.08.2023 03:13 schrieb Chris Bennett:
> > I can't figure out how to match the outgoing mails to the correct IP/mx
> > they are coming from. Just one server, different A records for the mx
> > versus domain
previously.
I've been reading a lot of other manpages lately, too.
Time well spent.
Any advice would be nice.
--
Chris Bennett
- Forwarded message from Chris Bennett
-
To: misc@openbsd.org
From: Chris Bennett
Subject: I would like help matching my outgoing domains to the right IP for
smtpd
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:13:59 -0700
Hello,
as I was updating to the new IP ranges, I changed ~all to -all
(My old IP's
in the browser.
I always grab a tablet for sites that really screw up text sizing.
My phone is just too small for sites with tiny text or huge text.
That's just my opinion and experience with bad eyesight.
--
Chris Bennett
ime
ago. Easy switch. But I wouldn't use something like it ever again.
xenodm is a good choice. The login screen can be easily customized and
you can add functions like shutdown, reboot and a choice of different
window managers to start.
--
Chris Bennett
h the whole pack.
These mailing lists reflect real life and real people.
IMHO, I think that that is a good thing.
OK I just woke up. Coffee will help greatly.
Then I myself have many manpages to read and cogitate.
Enjoy.
--
Chris Bennett
llowed are important.
Most important is to not get freaked out. Just do it and see what
happens. Screwing up is half the fun! Cleaning up isn't fun, but a good
way to learn. ;-}
--
Chris Bennett
antastic on USB
sticks. (Assuming that the BIOS allows it.)
Plus, you can put it in your pocket and boot other computers somewhere
else.
Plus, you can get USB SSD or spinning hard drives.
However, if you are doing disk intensive work, USB is slow.
--
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 07:41:18PM +, Philipp Buehler wrote:
> Am 29.07.2023 21:29 schrieb Chris Bennett:
> > The other IP's are randomly missing or give this:
> >
> > link#2 UHLc 0 450 - 3 em1
> >
Hi,
I'm happy. I practiced
e manpage. Next is netstart script and manpage.
Thanks. I really appreciate it.
Chris Bennett
>
> mygate and netstart has a manpage, as there is 'hostname.if' to read :)
>
> PS: pointless to use '-x'; just a lot of debug noise
>
> --
> pb
>
--
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 06:18:40PM +, Philipp Buehler wrote:
> Am 29.07.2023 20:04 schrieb Chris Bennett:
> > inet 103.103.103.168/29
>
> That's wrong, you put the "first" IP-address you want to
> use/have on em1. So that would be 170/29
>
Well, that
o eat and probably
go back to bed. I just wanted to try this out while I could.
I wanted to post about this and then RTFM's later with a clear head.
I did not change or remove what's in /etc/hostname which is at
103.103.103.170. Does that matter?
--
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 04:34:17AM +, Philipp Buehler wrote:
> Moin Chris,
>
> Am 29.07.2023 04:17 schrieb Chris Bennett:
> > The network is 108.181.26.176/28.
> >
> > Right now,the first IP is 108.181.26.178 and the last regular address is
> > 108.181.26.1
g to another in this thread.
--
Chris Bennett
address is
108.181.26.190, which might be wrong. I'm too tired to read any more
man pages or web pages. I needed more than 2hrs of sleep.
I'm super worn out, so forgive my mistakes.
Any help appreciated. I don't want the next syspatch reboot to fail.
Chris Bennett
cat /etc/hostname.em1
inet
er noise and
amplifying it?
Also, if you can, go unplug (not turn off) things around that could be
defective. For example, I have to throw away 3-4 USB chargers every
year. Nowadays, hardly anything is actually turned off anymore.
I used to hear noises like these too, but that was a long time ago...
ask
for any clarifications.
--
Chris Bennett
OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1125: Sat Mar 25 10:36:29 MDT 2023
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 34179473408 (32596MB)
avail mem = 33124184064 (31589MB)
random: good seed from bootblocks
mpath0 at root
scsib
nty of emails mentioning how the work started on during a
hackathon was later completed and then submitted.
Have fun!
--
Chris Bennett
?
--
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
I am assuming that mutt can use a debug file like neomutt.
That can be very helpful.
--
Chris Bennett
that recommending a browser from outside to a first
time user is appropriate. That really does require a lot of effort
better spent elsewhere.
My 2 cents.
--
Chris Bennett
with cvs up? Or is the increased data with checkout more
important to eliminate?
--
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
On January 20, 2022 4:10:28 PM PST, Stuart Henderson
wrote:
>On 2022-01-20, lumidify wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote:
>>> I had several accidental crashes which left lost+found in home folder.
>>> up arrow fails in term
consider?
I am using 6.6 amd64 and FVWM2 from ports.
I can't update past 6.6.
Any help really appreciated!
--
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
idea if they are true.
--
Chris Bennett
effort, it would be helpful to have this noted.
I mentioned my Samsung drive because my really quick search on the
mailing list only mentioned problems for this brand of drive having
interface problems. It was not a detailed search.
Happy to now have amd64 -current.
--
Thank all of you for the help,
Chris Bennett
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 03:25:30PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Chris Bennett wrote:
>
> > After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility
> > problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive.
>
> That is news to us.
>
I
After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility
problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive.
Sorry for the noise.
--
Chris Bennett
with a status of up. The new one has a status of
NA.
Any help deeply appreciated.
I will probably end up requesting a spinning 1TB drive.
But I have some doubts at this point if I am getting junk boxes.
This was with a Black Friday discount.
--
Chris Bennett
ds.
I install the fvwm2 version from ports, but base version works great.
fvwm3 is also available now, so it is an actively developed software.
Not sure when/if that will get ported in.
--
Chris Bennett
tion is not really mentioned
anywhere.
(Forgive the noise if that has changed)
My assumption years ago was that pf would update the files itself.
Obviously, I didn't realize that for a while. Neither did my files.
--
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 09:53:46PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> I am running amd64-current from snapshots. I am installing a lot of
> packages using pkg_add -vV pkg1 pkg2 ...
>
> I got some strange reports, see below. This is the third email about this,
> maybe isn't it a big deal.
>
pkg_add
On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 05:25:17PM +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
>
> I've nominated you for the "most helpful person around" award.
>
There just have to be clones! I don't see how he has enough time.
So +1 or +2 or +3..
Chris
-connect
mail.strengthcouragewisdom.rocks:https
However are not happy. I force updated my ssl certs, syspatch, pkg_add
-u and rebooted.
I didn't rebuild dh.pem for dovecot.
Is this just a DNS propagation issue?
Or should I do something further myself?
Thanks
Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:37:05PM -0400, Daniel Wilkins wrote:
> Hyperthreads are easy: they've been disabled for years (unless they got
> flipped on and I didn't notice.)
>
Does the setting in the BIOS need to be turned off also?
Or is it irrelevant? I had a server for a while where the
hers motivated to
doing medium sized projects with less confusion. Reviewers too.
As far as to leaving certain unmaintained src and broken ports in the
tree, I have no problem with that. Many broken ports eventually get
fixed. We all benefit from that.
Chris Bennett
Ha! Sorry for the noise.
I needed to check a file from etc with the latest -current.
I untarred base69.tgz in the _sysupgrade directory.
Script choked on the existing wrong files.
+1 for good work on sysupgrade!
-1/2 for me not cleaning up!
ROFL at myself,
Chris Bennett
and nothing unexpected from last.
After all of the "fun" about sysupgrade, I can almost believe this
is a joke. ROFL if it is!
Either way, I'll check out a fresh src.
Chris Bennett
OpenBSD 6.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #5: Thu May 6 02:53:29 MDT 2021
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/
a cheap USB stick and figure out how to break it and fix it every
possible way. I have little doubt that you can ask for help with that
process and get answers. After you make your best effort to figure
things out yourself.
$ man [lots and lots of commands]
Enjoy,
Chris Bennett
leave the politically correct responses for elsewhere.
Read the different lists. Everyone gets told on or off list when they do
something stupid. Learn from it. When you know a helpful answer to
someone's question, answer it. Port something. Submit a diff, even if
it's a bad one.
Chris Bennett
>
that.)
I would like to understand what is causing me to end up at ERR M.
I read what causes that error, but I don't know how to fix that.
Any advice appreciated.
Chris Bennett
y email addresses
for one user. I use Dovecot for IMAP and base smtpd.
This is assuming that I have understood your problem correctly.
Chris Bennett
ed in this. Fell in love with IPA once I saw it.
Nope, I don't have the skills. But I'd be happy to help.
Feel free to contact me off-list. I didn't know there were IPA
keyboards. My interests are personal and not professional.
Chris Bennett
ot.
For a good example, a small mistake in smtpd.conf will run just fine,
but with truly disastrous results.
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 09:04:30PM +, pipus wrote:
> Ah cool
>
> Yes I have seen it in action it is real and apparently coming out in less
> than a month.
>
> But I hope that those on this list realise what it means.
> A commercial revolution for OpenBSD.
> It should not be for only us.
>
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 08:45:53PM +, gil...@poolp.org wrote:
> You should probably look into the bypass keyword, it lets you create a
> filter rule that will bypass a phase (ie: in phase connect, if ip addr
> is X, then bypass the phase).
>
> Gilles
>
Thanks!
Chris
to receive emails from them.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
at the
>
> Or -current :-)
>
> > patches and decide not to. packages-stable may or may not have security
> > fixes you need. syspatch often, but not always, needs a reboot.
> >
> > But it's your system, do as you please. A security patch might not be
> > relevant to you.
> >
> > Chris Bennett
> >
> >
> >
>
d source not have one?
IMHO, you really should run stable. Although you might look at the
patches and decide not to. packages-stable may or may not have security
fixes you need. syspatch often, but not always, needs a reboot.
But it's your system, do as you please. A security patch might not be
relevant to you.
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 10:51:34PM -0800, Greg Thomas wrote:
> Nope, as mentioned it's the network address, for every subnet you're going
> to get a network address and a broadcast address, and your usable IPs in
> between.
>
OK, that's very clear the way you just said it. That explains really
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:26:15PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> Mike Coddington writes:
>
> > There was a useful tool that someone posted on misc a while back called
> > netcalc. I think this is its website:
> > https://jamsek.dev/posts/2019/Sep/21/ipv4-and-ipv6-cidr-subnet-calculator/
> > Check
tech support login.
I know, simple questions, but my search engine skills really don't work.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
eep.
>
You're right. Here be dragons!
I think you told me to use -c a good while back. But I
really did want to zap everything that time!
Chris Bennett
y once
in a while, it's a good choice.
Hope this is helpful. Others may give different or better advice.
sysupgrade is a tool of convenience. I like it, but never had any
problems doing things manually.
Useful advice: Learn to use ed. It will save your butt during disasters!
Chris Bennett
&
people to decide whether
they want to answer or not. Most likely you don't have any problem.
Have you read all of the relevant man pages? pkg_*
What is your PKG_PATH (if using). unset PKG_PATH is a quickie, temp fix
if it's wrong.
Have you changed /etc/installurl?
Look for relevant threads previously on the ports@ mailing list
especially.
Enjoy!
Chris Bennett
to match the -current
snapshot sometimes.
Chris Bennett
> quirks-3.458 signed on 2020-10-18T13:56:14Z
> Can't update spidermonkey-60.9.0v1->spidermonkey78-78.3.1v1: no update found
> for spidermonkey-60.9.0v1
> Can't install polkit-0.116p1->0.118: can't resolve spidermonkey78-78.
I think I know what filters
you are refering to. Super archaic.
>
> I am currently using cups but would like to get rid of it, because if
> their set of filters doesn't do the job, you are stuck. (Plus other
> hair-pulling frustrations.)
>
Can't agree more!
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
o OpenBSD.
But I rarely partition across only a single disk and always partition
some special partitions like /var/postgresql, /home/vip-user, /var/www,
etc. /usr/src, /usr/obj are not needed by every user now that we have
syspatch.
Have fun,
Chris Bennett
domain rcpt-to action a02
This works really well. I'm also using PostgreSQL for the users,
passwords and home folders for dovecot, which solves the upcoming
removal of bsdauth in dovecot.
However, unrelated I'm having trouble setting up auth for sending. There
are many conflicting examples whic
harder.
All IPs can get blacklisted. Bad IPs, change ISP's. One month to set
things up and transfer over to a new server. Once everything is working,
drop the crappy corporate email service. No big rush.
My thoughts, for whatever they are worth.
Chris Bennett
tachments work.
If they don't, why not change providers?
It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server
for next to nearly free.
Chris Bennett
>
>
> -
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>
> Midwest Internet Exchange
>
> Th
n't run such software as root, ever.
Especially on old code that isn't supported anymore.
If this is a disposable version for testing only, then nevermind.
Chris Bennett
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kihaguru.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:34 AM Kihaguru Gathura
t boot. unplugging
and reattaching it is often necessary after boot, but only sometimes.
Good luck,
Chris Bennett
all I need
==
Thinking about it, my servers are i386 running amd64. Would that be OK
to run a build off of and install on the laptop?
I have one that I could interrupt that way.
======
Chris Bennett
og/Xorg.0.log if
you manage to get to X. (Good luck with that :-{ )
I was given advice in the past to build with a certain change, but I was
unable to build that on my laptop due to very little memory.
There is newer firmware, X, etc.. Hopefully someone will chime in with
something to try for a buil
t have access to enough bandwidth
or data to download them to hopefully find the date that there was a
change that messed things up.
Try boot -c then disable amdgpu
Might help. Also try boot -s and wait. If it shuts down there too,
probably have the same problem. Or not. :-)
I'm stuck at 6.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:41:41PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
>
> A quick search on the net didn't show much, apart from a suggestion that
> a USB keyboard won't work at this point because the USB subsystem hasn't
> yet been discovered (that was back in 2015 though). I'm using both
rking for me either.
I'm in Austin, TX and not working from my server in Chicago either.
Chris Bennett
s problems in some places in the world. Usually just for hours.
Annoying, but sites like OpenBSD have stable IP's and knowing that
solves the problem quickly.
If the site has a problem, someone else can clarify that.
Chris Bennett
that
brought me a great relief and no longer feeling frustrated.
I found it a bit inspiring and more enthusiastic about the whole
project.
Read the code because you MUST versus because you ought to.
I find that as a path to follow, pridefully.
Chris Bennett
!
:-)
Chris Bennett
is impossible. Not even agencies such as the NSA, etc have it.
Remember Edward Snowden? All systems can be breached. Period.
My suggestion is to stop taking a confrontational attitude ( you may not
even realize you are doing it) and try to take a congenial attitude. It
will always produce more good
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:23:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have had this exact same problem before
> >
> > pkg_info -q > packages_installed
> > pkg_delete gettext.
> > pkg_add gettext-ru
filtering system in C/Lua
> vim-8.1.1048-no_x11 vi clone, many additional features
>
> $ cat
> /etc/installurl
>
>
> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD
I have had this exact same problem before
pkg_info -q > packages_installed
pkg_delete gettext.
pkg_add gettext-runtime
pkg_add -u
pkg_add -zl packages_installed
The gettext changeover always screwed up my pkg_add -u
pkg_delete gettext will uninstall quite a few packages
That will get fixed by using the packages_installed file.
Read man pkg_add first, of course.
Chris Bennett
/lib/ vs
/var/www/usr/local/lib/
Works just fine.
I know that this is the wrong solution, but I'm clueless where and how
to add the right search path.
Any clues would be extremely appreciated!
Chris Bennett
make things better, or impossible.
Good news is that you got it to work.
Chris Bennett
fer in your domain for DNSSEC.
Chris Bennett
do
take up space, disk space and bandwidth space.
Have fun, work hard and enjoy yourself.
There are some excellent threads about these topics in the mailing
lists.
Chris Bennett
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:29:01PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote:
> I agree ; Using more than 10 partitions is rare but in case of NFS or other
> network shares of course.
> 16 is really enough in my point of view.
>
I've got to disgree with this one. I'm doing porting work.
I yank out all of
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:23:20PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> > Hello Riccardo,
> >
> > startx(1) had it's setuid bit removed. I think in the timeframe you are
> > upgrading over. The canonical advice is to use xenodm(1).
> >
> > Marcus
> >
>
>
ome I almost always connect
over my phone's hotspot.
I will definitely be learning this!
Thanks!
Chris Bennett
-u.
Look at all of your logs in detail.
Use NoScript and Ghostery plugins for Firefox.
Assume that someone might be physically accessing your laptop.
The laws in the USA since 9/11 allow this to be done without you being
told.
Good luck, hopefully you are not having this problem, but paranoia is a
good thing in today's world.
Chris Bennett
1 - 100 of 664 matches
Mail list logo
