boot problem - freeze after wskbd console keyboard

2017-05-25 Thread Alex Greif
I have the following problem with a current snapshot, but also with an older 5.9 snaphot, so it might be more a hardware issue. Installation from the install61.iso works fine The problem is that while booting (in normal and also in single user mode) the boot process halts at the line wskbd0

Re: signify: write to stdout: Broken pipe

2016-10-02 Thread Alex Greif
I experienced the same. what I did: - install todays snapshot - sysmerge - pkg_add -nu ---> reported the problems - pkg_add -u sudo ---> reported problems but installed correctly anyway - reboot - pkg_add -nu ---> reported no problems - pkg_add -u ---> reported no problems noc clue what the

Re: sshd Connection Failures - 2 June Snapshot (amd64)

2016-06-04 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, I have the same problem... Just installed current (amd64 install60.iso 2016-06-02 17:13 226M) on my Macbooc Pro 10.10.5 in a VirtualBox VM. SSH-ing into it brings the described error. $ uname -a Darwin my.fritz.box 14.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Mon Jan 11 18:48:35 PST 2016;

minor fix in faq4.html

2016-06-01 Thread Alex Greif
just found this one. thanks, Alex. Index: faq/faq4.html === RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq4.html,v retrieving revision 1.460 diff -u -p -u -r1.460 faq4.html --- faq/faq4.html 27 Apr 2016 22:53:06 - 1.460 +++

php-fpm package missing in snapshot

2016-02-11 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, few days ago I realized that the php-fpm packages are not in the ftp mirrors (in snapshot/packages). The packages are missing for amd64 and also i386. I searched in the web, but cannot find a reason for its absence. Does anybody have an idea why the package is not built, or when they will

Re: php-fpm package missing in snapshot

2016-02-11 Thread Alex Greif
thanks for the info and for fixing current.html This was the missing link. Alex.

passwd without argument in sudo

2015-07-15 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, with the current 5.8 snapshot I have a question on the following passwd(1) behaviour: when I 'sudo su - ' into a root shell and issue a 'passwd' without a username argument, then it does not try to change the passwd for the current user (in this case root) but for the user from which I

Re: httpd stops accepting connections after a few hours on current

2015-07-13 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, maybe this problem is related to this one? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=143091663725238w=2 thanks, Alex

Re: df(1) shows strange Avail and Capacity info

2015-05-20 Thread Alex Greif
thanks for the clarifictions. I will read the FAQs more throroughly in future. Alex. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:31:34PM -0400, Josh Grosse wrote: I believe FAQ 14.14 may clarify df(1) reporting. Here's a link for convenience: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#NegSpace

df(1) shows strange Avail and Capacity info

2015-05-19 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, I experienced a strange output of df(1) for the root partition. The Size is greater than Used but Avail and Capacity are miscalculated /root/snaps # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 494M488M -18.4M 104%/ /dev/sd0k 27.6G4.7G

Re: spamd - whitelist sender email addresses

2015-05-18 Thread Alex Greif
. On 2015-05-18 Mon 09:26 AM |, Alex Greif wrote: I am using spamd on a current installation in greylisting mode, and have have problems with large sites that have several SMTP servers but no SPF ip-address ranges. Hi Alex, Bumping up the spamd(8) greyexp time to 2-4 days works

Re: spamd - whitelist sender email addresses

2015-05-18 Thread Alex Greif
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:46:19AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:26:13AM +0200, Alex Greif wrote: I am using spamd on a current installation in greylisting mode, and have have problems with large sites that have several SMTP servers but no SPF ip-address

spamd - whitelist sender email addresses

2015-05-18 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, I am using spamd on a current installation in greylisting mode, and have have problems with large sites that have several SMTP servers but no SPF ip-address ranges. Sometimes I have more than 10 mail server IPs in the greylisted in spamdb, from the same (friend) email address, and the the

Re: spamd - whitelist sender email addresses

2015-05-18 Thread Alex Greif
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:52:52AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Alex Greif wrote: But in some cases, the sender mail server tried so often from different SMTP IPs, and finally gave up with an error to the sender. Then the sender

Re: httpd 500 error with php-fpm (only https)

2015-05-11 Thread Alex Greif
:44PM +0200, Alex Greif wrote: Hi, With the current snapshot on amd64 and have the following problem: I am running httpd and php-fpm with a custom joomla (php) installation, that crashes when I access the site with https. Http runs fine without any problems. FWIW I have

httpd 500 error with php-fpm (only https)

2015-05-06 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, With the current snapshot on amd64 and have the following problem: I am running httpd and php-fpm with a custom joomla (php) installation, that crashes when I access the site with https. Http runs fine without any problems. With https, php-fpm spawns the max number of max children, and then

relayd.conf man page question

2015-05-06 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, while reading the relayd.conf man page, I found the following unclear paragraph: ... RELAYS listen on address [port port] [tls] ... If the port option is not specified, the port from the listen on directive will be used. My question: which *other* listen on directive is meant here? Or

Re: httpd 500 error with php-fpm (only https)

2015-05-06 Thread Alex Greif
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 04:37:05PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:52:33PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:49:44PM +0200, Alex Greif wrote: Hi, With the current snapshot on amd64 and have the following problem: I am running httpd

cwm does not spawn 'ssh to' dialog when known_hosts is missing

2015-05-04 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, just installed the current snapshot and I am running cwm. M-. should spawn the 'ssh to' dialog. It works fine if the known_hosts file exists (with entries or blank does not matter), but the dialog is not spawned if the file is missing. IMO the dialog should be spawned also if the

building kernel and userland while normal operation or in single user mode?

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, I follow current and rebuild kernel and userland as described faq5.html but I wonder about the following, that I could not find in the docs: can I recompile and install everything while all the daemons are still running (eg pf, httpd, spamd, relayd, dovecot, postgresql, ...) or is it

Re: building kernel and userland while normal operation or in single user mode?

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Greif
-on-code.blogspot.de/2015/02/rolling-with-snapshots.html http://bsdly.blogspot.de/2012/07/keeping-your-openbsd-system-in-trim.html Thanks, Alex. Am 5/2/15 um 1:27 PM schrieb Ingo Schwarze: Hi Alex, Alex Greif wrote on Sat, May 02, 2015 at 12:27:07PM +0200: I follow current and rebuild kernel and userland

Re: bypass xlock/slock

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Greif
thanks for the tips/answers, I will use xdm in future Alex.

bypass xlock/slock

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Greif
Hi, I am currently trying to find a solution to lock my desktop system (openbsd 5.6, amd64), but with the following steps I can always bypass xlock or slock: - run X session with startx - lock it with xlock or slock - switch to text console 2 (with [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F2]) - switch to text console

Re: Hannover BSD meetup

2015-01-22 Thread Alex Greif
hi, ... same for me here in Berlin Alex. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:05:13PM +0100, Jan Lambertz wrote: Hey Reyk, that sounds great. Unfortunately the Way to Hannover is 600km from here. I hope something simliar is happening soon near Munich. I was not able to find any Meeting for OpenBSD