Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Try changing the value for the sysctl variable kern.timecounter.hardware? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320.

OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread John Merriam
Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The clock doesn't move: # date; sleep 55; date Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 I see the same behavior with 5.6-release amd64 and -current amd64. The clock works fine in Windows and Linux on this

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Barry
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:44:36 +0100 Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: Hi Brian, Brian Empson wrote on Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:52:40AM -0500: I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password

Re: typo in calendar.ushistory

2015-01-02 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 11:40:11PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 05:45:11PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote: On 01/01/15 17:20, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 06:44:50AM -0600, Carson Chittom wrote: This is minor, but when I received my Reminder

interpreting ACPI bat values

2015-01-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I want to give batmon.app ACPI support on OpenBSD. This is what I get on my Thinkpad T60: $ sysctl | grep acpibat hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt0=10.80 VDC (voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt1=12.41 VDC (current voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.power0=0.00 W (rate)

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Carson Chittom wrote: There is ldapd(8) in base, though I've never used it myself. ldapd from the base is fine peace of software for small deployments. I have to OpenBSD LDAP servers with about 50-60 users each. Client machines besides of course OpenBSD machines consist of mixture Red Hat

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
Interesting, looks fine on cvs web view. Yet the file on my box does not have the change. I will give it another go next week and instead of pulling in changes start fresh. Regards Jorge On 02/01/2015 20:59, James A. Peltier wrote: This was fixed in one of the snapshots and was working so

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Barry
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:36:38 + skin...@britvault.co.uk (Craig Skinner) wrote: On 2015-01-02 Fri 13:06 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: #!/bin/bash OpenBSD has much better ksh(1) A simple rdist(1) cronjob might do it. e.g: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/rdist-intro_en.html Hi Craig,

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-01-02 Fri 13:06 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: #!/bin/bash OpenBSD has much better ksh(1) A simple rdist(1) cronjob might do it. e.g: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/rdist-intro_en.html

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4-5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:10:58PM EST, Damon Getsman wrote: Hello everyone. Hi Damon, I posted that information regarding the 5.4-5.5 upgrade breaking (and subsequent break when following someone's advice just to take it up to 5.6 since it was already horked like that) a few days back

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myserver.domain.com TheServer Like I say the hosts file should do its work without the resolv.conf file (which I

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4-5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Damon Getsman
Hello everyone. I posted that information regarding the 5.4-5.5 upgrade breaking (and subsequent break when following someone's advice just to take it up to 5.6 since it was already horked like that) a few days back here. I was going to post some google groups and/or openbsd.org links to the

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myserver.domain.com TheServer Like I say the hosts file should do its work without the resolv.conf file (which I

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:16:47PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off to the

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:16:47PM +, Richard Brooks wrote: As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off to

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
This was fixed in one of the snapshots and was working so it likely got broken again somehow http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm=141770981219927w=2 - Original Message - | | | On 17/11/2014 04:51, James A. Peltier wrote: | Was a fix for this applied to current or -STABLE? | | | Just

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off to the remote DNS server when the info it needs is in the hosts file.

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Interesting, looks fine on cvs web view. | Yet the file on my box does not have the change. | | I will give it another go next week and instead of pulling in changes | start fresh. | | Regards | | Jorge I just had a look and it does seem to be working fine for

Re: Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the stack. That said I don't see them being used. The promise of them seems to be

setting WiFi txpower with ifconfig

2015-01-02 Thread Alan Corey
I'm trying to do some antenna work so I want a weak signal from the other side of the basement. So I try stuff like ifconfig athn0 txpower 1 and get ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Invalid argument. Any number I've tried gives the same thing. If I leave out the number it tells me I need one.

Spanish discussion list

2015-01-02 Thread agrquinonez
Hello Is there someone interested having a discussion list in Spanish? I have a OBSD server running current (httpd, smtpd, ftp), and i would like having a discussion list in Spanish, it could have blogs, foro, or any other related things. For now i have it at home, but i might pay for a

MEDION S4222 UMTS stick not recognized

2015-01-02 Thread Ingo Feinerer
Hello, a MEDION S4222 UMTS (https://www.hot.at/images/medion_usb_stick.png) stick port 2 addr 4: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, Product(0x0002), MediaTek Inc(0x0e8d), rev 3.00, iSerialNumber 683694200024400 attaches as CDROM umass0 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 MediaTek Inc

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Brian, Brian Empson wrote on Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:52:40AM -0500: I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's built right into

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Carson Chittom
Brian Empson br...@teamhandbanana.com writes: I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's built right into the base install, are

Re: MEDION S4222 UMTS stick not recognized

2015-01-02 Thread Koko Wijatmoko
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:26:53 +0100 Ingo Feinerer feine...@logic.at wrote: The manual of the stick claims that Linux 2.6 (or newer) is supported (if this is of any help). this need usb mode switch under linux, searching on google there no solution yet even compiling from source for openbsd.

YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Brian Empson
I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's built right into the base install, are there better ways to handle synchronizing login

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
On 17/11/2014 04:51, James A. Peltier wrote: Was a fix for this applied to current or -STABLE? Just ran into this problem again on a testing box using -CURRENT, Seems this has not been fixed :( Any idea who I should talk to get this into before 5.7 hits -STABLE? Regards -- ~ sjorge

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4-5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Damon Getsman damo.g...@gmail.com: Hello everyone. Regardless, I just wanted to find out... I usually get people willing to give some advice, or at least willing to laugh and tell me the lesson that I needed to know on here. I was really kind of surprised that I haven't heard

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Brian Empson
Thanks for all the ideas. It's given me avenues for testing. On 1/2/2015 5:32 PM, Craig Skinner wrote: On 2015-01-02 Fri 14:02 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: I can't speak to ksh being 'better', but it may well be. Aye, not subject to bash's many security problems, such as #ShellShock

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4-5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread trondd
Damon Getsman damo.g...@gmail.com wrote: So, can anybody tell me, is my situation just so hosed that it's helpless? I mean, should I stop waiting for potential ways to fix this dependency hosed box and reinstall and try to find a way to re-inject all of my data into it, or are the gurus just

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-01-02 Fri 14:02 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: I can't speak to ksh being 'better', but it may well be. Aye, not subject to bash's many security problems, such as #ShellShock #BashBug that brought loonix to it's knees a couple of months ago. Who wants to be patching boxes at work at

Re: CardBus Support

2015-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Hi, any idea on how to enable CardBus Support on 5.6 ? i'm getting this message on boot related to the PCMCIA card that i'm trying to use on my old toshiba lapto, the card works just fine under pfsense/freebsd Dmesg: cbb0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 ENE CB-1410 CardBus rev 0x01: apic 1 int 16,

Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-02 Thread Ted Bullock
Hey Folks, So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the stack. That said I don't see them being used. The promise of them

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf, It's all been sorted. Should have used getent to check my tweaks. On Friday, 2 January 2015, Raf r...@devio.us wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:53:32PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: Hi Raf Hi Richard, Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:53:32PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: Hi Raf Hi Richard, Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: Content of 'resolv.conf' might be crucial here - otherwise you may be

CardBus Support

2015-01-02 Thread Andres Chavez
Hi, any idea on how to enable CardBus Support on 5.6 ? i'm getting this message on boot related to the PCMCIA card that i'm trying to use on my old toshiba lapto, the card works just fine under pfsense/freebsd Dmesg: cbb0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 ENE CB-1410 CardBus rev 0x01: apic 1 int 16,