BUILDINFO file included in system snapshot dirs...

I hadn't seen anything posted to misc@ or tech@ about this yet, but wanted to thank the person responsible for the relatively recent addition (looks like late Oct or early Nov 2015) of the BUILDINFO file included with the kernel/base snapshots. I only noticed it last week and it was a rather nice

Minor faq6.html updates...

Updated to use rcctl(8) where applicable. Thanks, --avj Index: faq6.html === RCS file: /home/cvsync/www/faq/faq6.html,v retrieving revision 1.343 diff -u -p -r1.343 faq6.html --- faq6.html 13 Jan 2016 21:55:55 -

Re: doas(1) -s argument; What's the benefit?

pachl wrote: > Other than compatibility with `sudo -s`, what are the benefits of > `doas -s`? According to the CVS log: "Add doas -s as a shorthand for doas $SHELL. ok tedu" (by nicm) ref: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/doas/doas.c?rev=1.8 ent-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Re: Soekris 4501 and OpenBSd 5.7

rosjat wrote: > stuck on the entry point msg. You need to create a boot.conf file with a couple of commands. Read this: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE The contents of the file will likely need to be as follows: stty com0 115200 set tty com0 The default baud rate is 9600 --

Re: doas(1) and $PATH inheritance...

tedu wrote: > If you'd like to try current, it should work better for you. Confirmed working as expected; thanks for the assistance. Hopefully someone else will benefit from this change as well. --avj

doas(1) and $PATH inheritance...

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, but I've been giving doas(1) a whirl and ran into something that's left be a bit puzzled. I have some scripts in ~/bin, and my user account has PATH set as desired. I can run things out of that dir as expected without invoking doas, but attempting to

Re: doas(1) and $PATH inheritance...

tedu wrote: > doas allows PATH to be inherited, but resets it for itself to a > limited set. this was so that e.g., "permit :wheel cmd ls" can't > be tricked by creating a symlink ls -> /bin/sh. however, if there > are no restrictions on the command, then the restriction probably > doesn't need to

Typo in current.html...

There's a minor typo in current.html -- diff below. Thanks, --avj Index: current.html === RCS file: /home/cvsync/www/faq/current.html,v retrieving revision 1.484 diff -u -p -r1.484 current.html --- current.html

Patch to fix /etc/rc.d/identd...

Below is a patch to fix the identd rc.d script, which currently doesn't allow you to stop the daemon because ${pexp} is passed incorrectly. Note the string identd: resolver is 16 chars long and at the limit of what OpenBSD cares about (according to the pgrep/pkill(1) man page), but it works