Re: Industrial use of line printers, does/would your company/organization use them with our lpd?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2016, Andy Bradford wrote: Anyway, just some musings. Is there anyone else out there using lpr/lpd/lprm from base? Maybe I'm the only one? I never used something else. And if I install a package that bloats my system with cups as dependency, I delete immediatly the package and its dependencies. Perhaps needs lpd some little, well thought improvements, as also many other tools, but I think, in many cases the best to do is to do nothing. Thank you very much for asking. Rodrigo.
USB mouse detached when moving wheel fast
Dear Sirs! When I move the mouse too fast / not slow enough, I get the following in dmesg, many times: wsmouse0 detached ums0 detached uhidev0 detached uhidev0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "MOON AND" rev 1.00/0.10 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 << This affects negatively the responsiveness of the mouse. It may also happen, that the mouse is not recognized again. I observed this behaviour with OpenBSD 4.8 and OpenBSD 5.8 in different machines, as also with FreeBSD. I have little experience with USB mouses and use till today a PS/2 mouse: the wheel is with PS/2 very responsive independent of the speed. Is this normal? Is it a problem of the mouse? Is it the (automatic) configuration of X11? Can I do something against it? Thanks Rodrigo.
Re: Missing files in etc
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Philip Guenther wrote: Unpacking base58.tgz with "tar xvzpf" is not enough to serve a diskless machine, the missing files are necessary. What can I do? You could USE THE INSTALLER, instead of creating problems for yourself and wasting other people's time. I thank Ingo very much for his time writing one line. The diskless machine is now running. Please, Guenther, tell me, how to use the installer to populate a directory to serve a diskless machine. Please! Perhaps you help a lot of people, that like me, want to ocassionally set up quickly a diskless machine only to make a test without risk for a working machine. Or do you think, one must read the installer script to do that? BTW, it seems, now is /etc/fstab necessary. And something like telnetd or sshd in the installers shell can be very helpfull for making the kernel panic and save the result of trace and ps. Regards Rodrigo.
Re: Missing files in etc
I wrote the following more or less nonsense: And something like telnetd or sshd in the installers shell can be very helpfull for making the kernel panic and save the result of trace and ps. It can be very helpfull, but not for that. The kernel in that state will not transmit to the machine that conected to it before the panic. Painful that I had to do the test with the diskless machine to recognize it. Tomorow I grab a 0 modem cable and try, unless I read here a better idea. Rodrigo.
Missing files in etc
Dear Sirs! I see, there is no set etc58.tgz, many of the files of the etc set are now in the base set, but I miss some files (login.conf, passwd, pwd.db, ssh/sshd_config, ...). Unpacking base58.tgz with "tar xvzpf" is not enough to serve a diskless machine, the missing files are necessary. What can I do? Thanks Rodrigo.
Re: Problems installing OpenBSD 5.8
I thank again Raf and Peter, and now Kurt!
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> That was Peter who mentioned it, not me - he's better at reading minds
> that I am, so it seems ;^)
>
> BTW, this might be useful - https://marc.info/?t=14320053791
It seems, it is worse than that.
I attached my old external drive in the just installed OpenBSD,
and it got panic. I got a "ddb{0}" prompt. I should report
the result of "trace" and "ps" given to that promp, but I do
not know how to save that with OpenBSD in that panic state,
and I dont want to get a panic again. :)
> The installer expects SHA256.sig as it uses signify to verify the sets -
> simply download it from your local mirror[0].
O.K. with the sets in install58.iso, the file
/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/i386/SHA256.sig in the mirror
and index.txt (obtained with "ls -nT > index.txt" in the directory)
it worked.
It would have been nice to have SHA256.sig and index.txt from
the beginning in istall58.iso. Then downloading, doing vnconfig
and mounting on htdocs would be enough.
> I'm still not following. *Which* files exactly do you have in mind?
Forget it. Perhaps unpacking with something like "tar xzpf" is enough.
In any case, to have a guide for manual installing would be nice.
When I have troubles with the installer (or an insaller of a OS),
then I have to begin from 0. I hate it. OpenBSD has a better installer,
because one have less troubles, because it is not so fat than others,
that is all.
Rodrigo.
