{I'm currently still using release version of 7.4}
{This may be of interest mainly to residents of Alberta, Canada}
ATB.COM -- (i.e. Alberta Treasury Branch) is a provincially owned bank in
Alberta, Canada. In general it is nicer, and friendlier to use than most
big commercial banks. Not so,
I take it back, maxima seem to be there in packages still. It was just
something I saw, watching pkg_add -u do it's thing, that gave men the
impression that it was deprecated.
A.
for you now, or in the future, or not.
>
> I would be curios anyway to know for sure if your resize of partition and the
> use of newfs, if your system was using FFS1 created them as the new default as
> FFS2?
>
> May be if it was a continuous upgrade from before 6.7, you
Just finished the series of incremental upgrades of my farmhouse "home
office" system from 6.8 to 7.4.
Finally am current for the first time in years! And I am amazed and
grateful for the all the incredible work the developers and leadership
have done. The sysupgrade process got smoother
> >above,
> >and the dates of these all correspond with other important files of the
> >
> >last upgrade or install. So at least most of those, have apparently
> >not
> >been touched.
> >
> >2) There seems to be a progression of date changing events in t
I noticed recently that some if my /bsd files are changing dates:
First the data, then below, I note my guess as to what's happening...
An Internet facing server:
ls -lT /bsd*
-rwx-- 1 rootwheel 20956100 Aug 14 09:54:46 2022 bsd
-rwx-- 1 rootwheel 20954372 Jul 31
Anyone out there managing even simple user side javascripts in this
context? Even just a "Hello World"... Can we discuss either here or off
list a bit?
Much appreciated.
Austin
em or not.? But I have quite a large .procmailrc
> file (200 lines) that makes? a historical archive of every incoming email,
> filtering maillist emails, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve W.
>
>
> On 26/01/2021 10:43 a.m., Austin Hook wrote:
> > Wonder if anyone is still using
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Gabriel Garcia wrote:
> > Used to be able to put .forward files in the home
> > directory of certain users and re-send their mail to a gmail or other
> > address.
> >
> > Doesn't seem to work now. Is that feature available somehow with smtpd?
>
> This should still work,
Good, that means we can encourage attention to the principle of the
matter, and not have to worry about all the practical considerations.
The principle of the matter is that it is a corrupt practice, if not
specifically admited in the documentation and sales material.
Each principle we
When you look at the full headers of the email received, having sent it
without the -r option, double check what the originating domain info
looks like.
Then try with -r set to the same full qualified originating email
address. That way mail doesn't have to figure out what domain to add to
moot details for most folks now.
Thanks again, for the comments all!
Austin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> Most use fdm from ports
> Best
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> aus...@computershop.ca (Austin Hook), 2021.01.26 (Tue) 18:43 (CET):
> > Wo
, regardless of advantages?
I also use whitelisting extensively, and any such "From: emailaddresses"
get priority. Does anyone else?
Myself: Having problems with Procmail/formail, after upgrading from 5.3 to
a new server running 6.8. Would like to hear of anyone else's experience.
Thank
Can't seem to parse the instructions in
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade67.html
for how to re-enable an ordinary non root user of Firefox or mplayer to
output audio.
mplayer works fine as root, but what command lines are necessary to allow
a non root user get sound output?
let's username
Just noticed your post about, among other things, the old big puffy
wireframe stickers. Nice story about getting back into OpenBSD.
There are quite a few of those stickers left over from the old days, when
we ran the first version of the OpenBSD store. Lifetime warrantee on
anything we
I have a similar problem with the 6.7 release which I just installed today
on an 8Tb drive I'm using with my older ASUS laptop.
athn0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9285" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17
athn0: AR9285 rev 2 (1T1R), ROM rev 13, address 74:f0:6d:7a:42:7f
Can't seem to shake it with
I don't write many CD's these days but wanted to put some mp3's on a CDR
to play in my truck, since it plays a CD with *.mp3 files just as well as
WAV files on an regular audio CD, and, of course has room for a lot more.
Going back to the FAQ on multimedia... What I noticed, was that after
On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Thomas Bohl wrote:
> > But the second (far more important) point I want to make is please *THINK
> > TWICE* if "running your own mail server" is something you are planning to
> > do on your home internet connection.
>
> For all intents and purposes, sending emails from a
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Allan Streib wrote:
> That suggestion of aoubt:config prompted me to look, there are several
> print.print_paper_* settings, have you tried those?
>
> This post indicates that print.print_paper_name may be the way...
>
>
>
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, elo morio wrote:
> Thank you guys for you responses, they have really been very helpful. Mr.
> Austin I Would really appreciate a copy of the book. What would be needed
> then?
Great! Will reply off list.
tand OpenBSD better.
I found it fascinating.
Austin Hook
I have for a long time set my /etc/papersize to "letter". In my
experience Firefox ignores it. At some point the default setup for the
Firefox package became A4 and I have to manually re-set it to letter,
manually in the pop-up, whenever I print. Can't make it default to
letter. Can't
check off pre-arranged and make mention of this in the
comments of the order. We'll come back with the arrangements.
Probably best not to encumber the list with lots of cross talk unless you
feel it is in the public interest. Just email me with questions or
suggestions.
Regards,
Austin
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Bryce Chidester wrote:
I'm using https://openexchangerates.org/ https://openexchangerates.org/# for
a project of mine. They even provide historical data.
Regards,
Bryce Chidester
Thanks for the tip. That would probably good although it seems a bit
overkill to work
://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/10-year-converter/
and just do it as part of the order processing scripts.
Austin Hook
OpenBSD Distribution
exchange rates more accurate would be one
small step.
Austin
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, patrick keshishian wrote:
On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Austin Hook wrote:
Anyone care to code a snippet for the OpenBSD orders processing?
I could be a bit more efficient here if I didn't have
The main OpenBSD orders website is pleased to announce that the digital
version of The Book of PF will now be made available for free whenever the
physical version is ordered.
We are grateful to Peter Hansteen and No Starch Press for this additional
feature.
Our view is that it is nice to
nothing, right? Just a tiny
handful would do wonders!
Enjoy the fun!
Austin Hook
Pre-orders for the 2nd Edition of Michael Lucas' Absolute OpenBSD are now
up on the main order website. Expected to arrive about the same time we
start shipping pre-orders for OpenBSD 5.3. Pre-orders for the latter will
show up pretty soon as well. No special early discount, but the
http://www.openbsd.org/books.html#B10
And follow the links.
That link did not work when I tried it just now. How much would this
book cost? Any chance of a student discount ;-) ? I like to buy a copy
but if it's going to be more 20 quid, I wouldn't be able to.
Sorry, should be
Thanks guys!
I used the:
ffmpeg -s 640x480 -r 15 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video -b 800k out.avi
from David to capture some security video, leaving an OpenBSD 5.1 $200
ACER laptop running it, screen turned off, and tell tale lights taped over
with black tape.
Caught a thief (ex-employee),
Anyone have an example command ffmpeg or otherwise, to convert the output
from the video(1) utility to something I can watch with mplayer?
Here's the entry I just finished adding to OpenBSD's books.html page
clip
SSH Mastery
by Michael Lucas
ISBN-13: 978-1470069711
ISBN-10: 1470069717
February 2012, 145 pp.
A guide to what you need to know about SSH. This book will help you
eliminate passwords on your network,
Has anyone in OpenBSD land successfully used the onewire and owtemp
drivers? How does one set up those drivers in rc.securelevel? Or must a
custom kernel be created?
Austin Hook
=
When emailing to me for the first
Does anyone know if the bookstore Tempo Real still exists and if they have
a physical mailing address? Or does anyone know of a potential reseller
of OpenBSD in Brazil?
Austin Hook
OpenBSD Distribution
. Unless this situation is ever
resolved, please do not be misled by these references.
Austin Hook
Computer Shop of Calgary LTD
OpenBSD central distribution
Milk River, Alberta, Canada
I see that there exists a reference to an earlier mkisofs man page within
the mkhybrid(1) man page, whereas no such man page seems to exist. There
is a mkisofs.c which seems to be incorporated into mkhybrid nowadays, but
I don't think there is any intention to support a man page for it.
Would
According to the man pages for at (or batch):
The working directory, the environment (except for the variables
TERM, TERMCAP, DISPLAY, and _), and the umask are retained from the
time of invocation.
But, oddly enough, at the time of actual invocation it seems not to know
this
Hi Matthew,
I confirm both effects with my Acer Aspire One. I was wondering what
made the pckbcintr messages happen. I didn't get to the point of
realizing that it was the touch pad.
One more problem I notice is that something when switching back to X
(F5) from a text terminal (say F1)
Wondering if I am missing a point. Having added the package fedora_base
and looking in /emul/linux/usr/bin I can find what I presume is the linux
version of ldd.
I can't seem to get that version of ldd to report any dependencies from
any linux file I can find on the net. Perhaps I am just
, sbin directories of the linux shadow tree so that you get a
linux sh where needed.
Many thanks for the tip off.
Austin
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2009-05-11, Austin Hook aus...@computershop.ca wrote:
Wondering if I am missing a point. Having added the package fedora_base
Hook
OpenBSD Distribution
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Victor Camacho wrote:
Austin Hook wrote:
I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in
the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. There are cases
where the same CD works with a newer machine, but fails
.
I am not tracking misc@
We would like to send out replacement CD's for anyone with those problems
so that we can see if the problem is with all CDs of the current release,
or only with some of them.
Please contact me if you have seen this problem.
Austin Hook
OpenBSD distribution
Milk River, AB
Dear PayPal'ers --
My apologies, our anti-phishing filter still catches emails mentioning
Paypal, and some of us are forgetting to check the special folder often
enough.
Time for us to update the ordering instructions on orders.html
Paypal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One quick answer is if you
before others got the
simple CD orders.
We are pretty well up to date on shipping this release, so new pre
orders are being turned around in a few days already.
Thanks for the patience -- and for those who weren't -- well I admire
the enthusiasm!
Regards,
Austin Hook
Computer Shop - Milk River
image to get started with. And no previous release works with this
machine.
Austin
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Chris Kuethe wrote:
On 7/3/07, Austin Hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Chris,
Thanks!
What kind of an issue was it? You just had to increase the
VM_PHYSSEG_MAX definition
Thanks for the pointer to some stable binaries, however it's too old for
me. I guess I will try with current snapshot and build stable 4.1 if I
need it.
Austin
Hi Ryan,
Intriging thinking there! Thanks!
A.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Ryan McBride wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:03:20AM -0700, Austin Hook wrote:
Thanks for the pointer to some stable binaries, however it's too old for
me. I guess I will try with current snapshot and build stable 4.1
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Chris Kuethe wrote:
On 6/29/07, Austin Hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to set up a fairly heavy duty web server I encountered boot
problems with this fairly new machine using the release CD ROM. Using the
-c command at the boot prompt I already see error messages
Trying to set up a fairly heavy duty web server I encountered boot
problems with this fairly new machine using the release CD ROM. Using the
-c command at the boot prompt I already see error messages, before it
gives me the UKC ...
UVM_PAGE_PHYSLOAD: unable to load physical memory segment
5
We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect
to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and
voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered
wifi repeater tower.
Any suggestions on the lowest powered OpenBSD runnable box
Shipments of the OpenBSD Command-Line Companion Book have been delayed and
ETA is unknown at this time. According to the author's blog:
http://devguide.net
there was a problem with the UPS shipment, but we are unable to contact
Jacek Artymiak directly, and we have no tracking number for the
ERRATA
The instruction booklet with the OpenBSD 4.0 CD set contains a layout
error that confuses the disklabel process. There are 12 (unnumbered)
pages in the booklet, including the front and back covers. To avoid
confusion, please put a note at the bottom of page 6, the one with the
heading
numbers work and so on. It's probably better to
make sure you are fully backed up in any case.
BTW, questions like yours, posted to www@ are better posted to
misc@openbsd.org, since www@ is mainly for issues related to the specific
contents of the web pages on the OpenBSD site.
Regards,
Austin Hook
I wanted to fetch a remote ssh port into my home computer which is behind
the cable modem and the NAT that the cable system is doing on the address
it's DHCP gave out to me. That way I could, from any third location, say
from my laptop on the road, ssh into my home computer through the tunnel
After buying a used Dell 2850 PowerEdge rack mount server I tried to
install 3.8 but I found that the CDROM seemed to be giving me bad data.
The tar/unzip process during install seemed to have trouble with larger
data files, complaining something about having to search for header data
after
Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can
recommend a Euro zone bank with Internet banking service which does a good
job with OpenBSD and Mozilla-Firefox?
North American banks generally work fine with Firefox and OpenBSD, but our
current account with Bank of Ireland
We had some test prints of Wireframe Daemon T-shirts made a few years ago
using some weird colours. They may as well find a home, so I have added
a few of them temporarily to the order site -- look for extra colours
under the Daemon Wireframe colour selector. These are mostly only in XXL
or as
soon. I know a lot have received theirs already.
Please let us know of any damage in transit, or packing errors -- we'll be
happy to fix up any such problems pronto.
Enjoy!
Austin Hook
OpenBSD Shipping
PS: Thanks to a couple of you who told me that the older OpenBSD 3.6
poster was not selecting
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