Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-12 Thread James Griffin
/ Adam Thompson wrote on Fri 11.Oct'13 at 11:10:46 -0500 / Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 For OpenBSD, I would never buy something at FutureShop or BestBuy; those are all

Re: Intel hd4000 - no Xvideo support

2013-10-10 Thread James Griffin
/ Otto Kurunczi wrote on Thu 10.Oct'13 at 14:37:24 +0200 / I am new with OpenBSD, installed 5.3. Modified xorg.conf too. Mplayer cannot play videos as there is no Xvideo support for my video card. Dmesg and xorg.conf attached. How can I get Xvideo support? Thank you. [demime 1.01d removed

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread James Griffin
* hru...@gmail.com hru...@gmail.com [2013-10-07 08:36:04 +]: dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Layers of hurt being thrown around. Why? This is a legitim question. Since I am here, I think I received twice an Email from you: I remember you as a polite person. But I did read a

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread James Griffin
* InterNetX - Robert Garrett robert.garr...@internetx.com [2013-10-07 11:04:56 +0200]: People who attack each, other with nothing but the defamation of the other individual, at heart are idiots. Sometimes, in the course of normal discussions.. things get out of hand, I really dont care about

Re: cwm rocks : but...

2013-10-05 Thread James Griffin
* Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us [2013-10-05 06:19:45 -0400]: have been using 'cwm' for over a week now. enjoying every moment of it. very well thought out and well executed from an openbsd perspective. questions; * is there any mailing list for keeping an eye on 'cwm' progress? * can the

gnome3 with Intel Q45 Chipset

2013-10-05 Thread James Griffin
Hi, I'm thinking of giving gnome3 a whirl but i'm wondering if my graphics card is too old/crappy to use it. I've got Intel Q45 Express chipset on this machine. Does anyone happen to know if it will be worth bothering with before I go an install all the packages? Cheers, Jamie.

Re: cwm rocks : but...

2013-10-05 Thread James Griffin
* Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us [2013-10-05 07:50:50 -0400]: thanks jmz. /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources is the file i tried to edit. what ever changes i did must've been bad, made my system freeze. luckily i had a backup of that file. i attempted to make the login screen be even more

Re: pure_ftpd other option(style) not work

2013-09-24 Thread James Griffin
* Brad Smith b...@comstyle.com [2013-09-24 00:43:44 -0400]: On 23/09/13 11:07 PM, Fung wrote: in current snapshots install pure_ftpd default /etc/rc.d/pure_ftpd is --- #!/bin/sh # # $OpenBSD: pure_ftpd.rc,v 1.1 2011/04/25 09:26:47 sthen Exp $ daemon=/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd

Re: IPSec endpoints won't talk to each other

2013-09-24 Thread James Griffin
* Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar [2013-09-24 03:53:46 -0300]: Hi, I've been experimenting a bit with IPSec and creating a VPN using it. I've been successful, but have encountered an odd issue. I've two hosts, linking two networks: Host A's /etc/iked.conf: ikev2 active

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread James Griffin
* Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com [2013-09-22 12:03:10 +]: Hello, Before I try OpenBSd I have two questions. 1) The manual says that I can use pkg -upgrade But how do I know which packages can be updated or which security patches there are avaible. 2) Is a new version

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread James Griffin
* James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net [2013-09-23 10:32:20 +0100]: * Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com [2013-09-22 12:03:10 +]: Hello, Before I try OpenBSd I have two questions. 1) The manual says that I can use pkg -upgrade But how do I know which packages can

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread James Griffin
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection flavors of pkg's and -u is for update). Must be run with privileges, i.e. sudo or root user

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread James Griffin
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2013-09-23 12:54:09 +0200]: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: * Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread James Griffin
* Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz [2013-09-23 23:11:17 +1200]: On 09/23/13 22:54, Marc Espie wrote: [ ... ] Lots of people don't follow the tools development too closely, and so they keep using options which are no longer needed. I use pkg_add -ui because that's what is in the

Re: python

2013-09-21 Thread James Griffin
* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas j...@wxcvbn.org [2013-09-20 23:31:25 +0200]: Stefan Wollny stefan.wol...@web.de writes: Hi there! Hi, As some of you might have noticed I had recently some issues with my ancient IBM/lenovo T60 (10 years young and still running; ye). Tonight I

Re: current vs. older binaries

2013-09-18 Thread James Griffin
* Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it [2013-09-18 08:58:22 +0200]: Hi, I have updated to a current snapshot (13 sept to be precise). The system starts up, but most of the application which I had installed from ports crash with a bad system call. wmaker, svn I thought we had

Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread James Griffin
I need to install a Dektop Environment for my partner. I thought about KDE or xfce, i've tried neither on OpenBSD before. Which of the 3 main main DE's (gnome, KDE, XFCE) do you feel work best on OpenBSD. I would need things like removable media mounting from within the graphical

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread James Griffin
* Luca Ferrari fluca1...@infinito.it [2013-09-16 14:05:12 +0200]: My favourite desktop is KDE, but I have to admit it has some concepts that can scary a new user, like the management of desktop icons and folders. Therefore KDE 3 is better than 4 for this kind of users, but I would not suggest

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread James Griffin
* Jes jjje...@gmail.com [2013-09-16 14:43:48 +0200]: Hi all: I use during so long time KDE3. Nowdays I prefer xfce4. Gnome3 is a bit ugly for me. I prefer WMs that integrate the file browser and other tools. Because of this I don't use WindowMaker or FVWM or Enlightenment If I'd only

Re: fvwm in base [was: X -configure segmentation fault]

2013-09-15 Thread James Griffin
* Thomas Adam tho...@xteddy.org [2013-09-12 10:17:56 +0100]: On 12 September 2013 06:10, Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs writes: In fact, fvwm is in base part. A while ago, there was a message to misc from the fvwm developer about relicensing fvwm to

Re: How does one use adduser in OpenBSD (stuck inEnter username[] loop)?

2013-09-15 Thread James Griffin
* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas j...@wxcvbn.org [2013-09-15 04:22:08 +0200]: Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: ... Yeah, I should

Re: easy-rsa script for OpenVPN issue

2013-09-14 Thread James Griffin
* Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com [2013-09-13 17:14:22 -0400]: Deal All, I am trying to set up OpenVPN server at my work on the freshly installed OpenBSD machine using a 5.4 snapshot from July 30 (i386) and the ports tree fetched the same day. We must use OpenVPN so I am not

Re: fvwm in base [was: X -configure segmentation fault]

2013-09-12 Thread James Griffin
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:10:36AM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs writes: In fact, fvwm is in base part. A while ago, there was a message to misc from the fvwm developer about relicensing fvwm to allow a more recent version into base. I wonder if there is any

Re: uaudio0: audio descriptors make no sense, with Schiit Bifrost USB DAC

2013-09-09 Thread James Griffin
for it. [ ... ] -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: user can not shutdown PC in xfce

2013-08-30 Thread James Griffin
. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: user can not shutdown PC in xfce

2013-08-30 Thread James Griffin
!-- On Fri 30.Aug'13 at 15:21:03 BST, Kirill Bychkov (ki...@linklevel.net), wrote: On Fri, August 30, 2013 13:58, James Griffin wrote: !-- On Fri 30.Aug'13 at 9:08:05 BST, Fung (fungm...@qq.com), wrote: -- Original -- From: Tomas Bodzartomas.bod

Re: current/macppc with the new radeondrm

2013-08-19 Thread James Griffin
that, right? ;-) -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

snapshot mirror t32 directory

2013-08-19 Thread James Griffin
/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ [2] = http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20130813 -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net [A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38]

Re: snapshot mirror t32 directory

2013-08-19 Thread James Griffin
to you for clarifying that. Much apreciated. The website is very clear. I just wanted to be sure. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: snapshot mirror t32 directory

2013-08-19 Thread James Griffin
!-- On Mon 19.Aug'13 at 13:21:43 BST, Peter Hessler (phess...@theapt.org), wrote: On 2013 Aug 19 (Mon) at 11:33:41 +0100 (+0100), James Griffin wrote: :Sorry for repeating the information on the website, I just like to be :absolutely clear. How can we make the website be absolutely more

Re: Aug 12 Snapshot - Upgrade clarification

2013-08-18 Thread James Griffin
hardware as before. -Otto Thanks Otto. I appreciate you taking the time to reply and clarify those points for me. Best wishes, Jamie. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Aug 12 Snapshot - Upgrade clarification

2013-08-17 Thread James Griffin
: connecting to wsdisplay0 vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (b8d1a7c7744e7b23.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net [A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38]

Re: remove entry from spamdb greylist

2013-08-14 Thread James Griffin
clearly. I personally use the -t switch as well as -d. spamdb -t -d ... so the address is trapped. I then usually add it to my blacklist database and/or my spam anchor using pfctl -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Sector offset values for softraid volumes

2013-08-03 Thread James Griffin
to digress - these fdisk/printf one-liners are very cool. Jamie -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Compilers in OpenBSD

2013-08-01 Thread James Griffin
working in a unified way would add more complexity than it's worth. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Default software in the base

2013-07-31 Thread James Griffin
are for. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: suspend/resume not working on thinkpad X41

2013-07-24 Thread James Griffin
the day ;-) -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: DVD Video Ripping Tools

2013-07-15 Thread James Griffin
Sun 14.Jul'13 at 13:31:40 +, Christian Weisgerber James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: I want to rip some DVD's to my hard disk for viewing later. I've searched and found some old threads going back a few years which have some good suggestions

Re: DVD Video Ripping Tools

2013-07-14 Thread James Griffin
Sat 13.Jul'13 at 13:17:53 +0200, Stefan Sperling On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:06:58AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: Hi I want to rip some DVD's to my hard disk for viewing later. I've searched and found some old threads going back a few years which have some

DVD Video Ripping Tools

2013-07-13 Thread James Griffin
? Cheers, any hints welcome. Jamie. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-05 Thread James Griffin
Thu 4.Jul'13 at 23:56:50 -0400, Thomas Jennings Dear OpenBSD developers and users: Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a good date to do so since my reasons

Re: dhcp devices getting the wrong default route on one subnet

2013-06-14 Thread James Griffin
, in the last sentence it states to use the routers option for the default route. Have you checked/tried this? -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Re : Tux cups

2013-05-14 Thread James Griffin
Tue 14.May'13 at 9:04:27 +0930, Brett Lymn On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:58:08AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: I just use the base vi(1) and then fmt(1) to format the text. Same for mail(1) if use the command to write in an external editor. Why

Re: Re : Tux cups

2013-05-13 Thread James Griffin
Sun 12.May'13 at 15:41:11 -0600, Evan Root So Stuart, I was looking at the OpenBSD mailing list rules because I wasn't sure about long links and I saw that lines over 72 characters are discouraged, that's were I decided to manually put in line breaks. :/

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-20 Thread James Griffin
uses CVS and don't migrate to SVN or something like git as other OSS projekts do? Regards, fritjof Does it really matter? -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: sendmail config

2013-04-12 Thread James Griffin
to hide it. Your domain information can be obtained by others means anyway if people want it, thus it's a pointless task. Configure your MUA to exclude bits if you really need to. It's not a MTA issue. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com

Re: Canon Pixma MP230 printer support

2013-04-09 Thread James Griffin
was free and it was all I had to work with sadly but I certainly will avoid Canon printers in the future, as Predrag suggests. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: mixerctl outputs.master.mute=on doesn't mute inputs.beep

2013-04-06 Thread James Griffin
not be wired up through your sound card. I had that problem with some older hardware I was using last year. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: preparing for installation with dual boot considerations

2013-04-06 Thread James Griffin
Windows 7 cd and go into the fix section to recreate the MBR, as you'll be using Windows' boot manager to select what OS you boot into. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: delete-old

2013-03-29 Thread James Griffin
many times and delete libc by mistake :-) If there is the possibility of that happening then it seems it's not very safe; there are plenty of idiots, like me, who might just do that my mistake lol. But it's a nice script in terms of being able to remove obsolete files, ... -- James Griffin

Re: Perl fails to build in -current

2013-03-29 Thread James Griffin
. Jamie. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Spamassassin fails to start after upgrade to latest snapshot

2013-03-28 Thread James Griffin
in require at /usr/local/bin/spamassassin line 80. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/spamassassin line 80. Not sure exactly what the problem is. Has anyone else seen this and does anyone know what I can do to fix it? Cheers, Jamie. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Re: Spamassassin fails to start after upgrade to latest snapshot

2013-03-28 Thread James Griffin
.. Thu 28.Mar'13 at 14:01:10 +0100 Remco ... James Griffin wrote: Hi Basically, as the subject says: I upgraded to the latest snapshot and now spamassassin fails start. This is the error out when I try to start it from the command-line: [snip] Cheers, Jamie

Re: dzen2 with cwm

2013-03-23 Thread James Griffin
[- Fri 22.Mar'13 at 21:06:43 + Stuart Henderson :-] On 2013-03-22, Alexander Polakov p...@sdf.org wrote: * James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net [130322 15:10]: I was wondering if anyone uses dzen2 with OpenBSD (-current). If so I'd be really interested to see some

dzen2 with cwm

2013-03-22 Thread James Griffin
Hi I was wondering if anyone uses dzen2 with OpenBSD (-current). If so I'd be really interested to see some examples of setups and scripts. I'd like to be able to see network activity, mailbox updates/status and a few other items of interest. Nothing too complex. Cheers, Jamie. -- James

Re: dzen2 with cwm

2013-03-22 Thread James Griffin
[- Fri 22.Mar'13 at 15:50:04 +0400 Alexander Polakov :-] * James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net [130322 15:10]: I was wondering if anyone uses dzen2 with OpenBSD (-current). If so I'd be really interested to see some examples of setups and scripts. I'd like to be able

Re: Client-side font rendering system - from FAQ

2013-03-18 Thread James Griffin
. I know that 99.9% of the time it's user config screw-ups, not the software. I've clearly missed something or done something wrong. Like I said, i'll just use urxvt. Cheers for replies and advice anyway. Jamie. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Client-side font rendering system - from FAQ

2013-03-16 Thread James Griffin
(1) or only when compiled from the ports tree? Because i've added fonts using pkg_add(1), i'm unsure if I need to register them or not. Could someone confirm this? Thanks for your time, Jamie -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net [A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38]

Re: Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition pre-orders are up.

2013-03-16 Thread James Griffin
://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. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Re: Why to use packages?

2013-03-16 Thread James Griffin
/packages/amd64/ . I've just looked at the snapshots packages on that mirror and the version of your package is lighttpd-1.4.32p1.tgz So by following current, and the current packages you will get the up-to-date versions. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Re: Client-side font rendering system - from FAQ

2013-03-16 Thread James Griffin
) would not. Just my dumb interpretation of that description I guess. Thanks for taking the time to reply -- to both of you. Jamie -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: make update not working

2013-03-15 Thread James Griffin
and the update command for cvs(1) is: cvs -q up -Pd Perhaps this might make a difference? -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
and able to offer some info about the steps, if any, I need to take? Thanks in advance for any help offered. Best wishes, James. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
[- Wed 13.Mar'13 at 14:10:30 +0100 Roger Wiklund :-] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
yeah just tried some of my iTunes purchases and it works perfectly. Sorry for asking what seems now to have been a pointless question. I just didn't want to go to the trouble of transferring 80+GB of data if it was going to be in vain. James -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
is a MINUS, i mean non-existent. I'll check it out - thanks mate -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38

pciide output in dmesg

2013-03-12 Thread James Griffin
Hi I wondered if someone would be kind enough to explain some dmesg output I do not understand. This is the output: pciide0 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 Intel Q45 PT IDER rev 0x03: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI pciide0: using apic 2 int 18 for

Re: pciide output in dmesg

2013-03-12 Thread James Griffin
[- Tue 12.Mar'13 at 9:24:55 + To misc@openbsd.org :-] Hi I wondered if someone would be kind enough to explain some dmesg output I do not understand. This is the output: pciide0 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 Intel Q45 PT IDER rev 0x03: DMA (unsupported), channel 0

X11 Fonts Configuration

2013-03-09 Thread James Griffin
Hi I've installed the Terminus font package obviously to use the font. I haven't needed to create an xorg.conf file as X just works without it but; do I need to create one and add the font path(s) to it to use the Terminus font? I know that probably seems like the most obvious choice but if I

Re: X11 Fonts Configuration

2013-03-09 Thread James Griffin
[- Sat 9.Mar'13 at 1:47:02 -0800 patrick keshishian :-] On Saturday, March 9, 2013, James Griffin wrote: Hi I've installed the Terminus font package obviously to use the font. I haven't needed to create an xorg.conf file as X just works without it but; do I need

Re: X11 Fonts Configuration

2013-03-09 Thread James Griffin
[- Sat 9.Mar'13 at 5:14:51 -0500 Jiri B :-] On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 09:35:06AM +, James Griffin wrote: Hi I've installed the Terminus font package obviously to use the font. I haven't needed to create an xorg.conf file as X just works without it but; do I need

Re: Logitech Webcam Support

2013-03-08 Thread James Griffin
[- Thu 7.Mar'13 at 15:47:12 +0100 Erwin Geerdink :-] On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:32:59 + James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi My desktop is a Lenovo Think centre, and i' stuck a logitech hd 720p webcam in it. I wondered if anyone has had success

Re: Logitech Webcam Support

2013-03-08 Thread James Griffin
[- Fri 8.Mar'13 at 8:16:33 + To misc@openbsd.org :-] Ok, cheers. It seems the microphone aspect of the webcam might be an issue: uvideo0 at uhub1 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 Logitech product 0x081b rev 2.00/0.10 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 uaudio0 at uhub1

Logitech Webcam Support

2013-03-07 Thread James Griffin
Hi My desktop is a Lenovo Think centre, and i' stuck a logitech hd 720p webcam in it. I wondered if anyone has had success with these - do they work on OpenBSD and what packages might I need/consider to use it. I ran sudo fw_update and it installed uvideo-firmware-1.2p0. The webcam has a

Re: python GraphViz in ports ?

2013-03-05 Thread James Griffin
[- Tue 5.Mar'13 at 13:11:56 +0200 Gregory Edigarov :-] On 03/05/2013 11:49 AM, Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! is there python GraphViz in ports ? if so, what is name of port (I couldn't find any) *type 'exceptions.ImportError'*: No module named gv Cheers, Ilya

Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
Hi I've got a machine which is dual-booting Windows 7 and OpenBSD current. I am currently downloading the latest snapshot ready to upgrade but I would like to know if this will affect the dual-boot set up. I put my openbsd.pbr file into Windows and followed the faq guide to get Windows boot

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
[- Mon 4.Mar'13 at 13:57:50 +0100 Janne Johansson :-] Everytime a new bootblock gets written one needs to repeat the dd stuff, but a normal upgrade usually doesn't make a new bootblock for you. Yeah, that's what I figured. So it should be alright then. Just thought I'd ask

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
[- Mon 4.Mar'13 at 17:26:32 + Stuart Henderson :-] If you upgrade via the installer's (U)pgrade option then this *does* write new boot blocks. You may get lucky if the old /boot doesn't get overwritten, but it's a good idea not to count on this.. Also note that if

Firefox 18 library link error

2013-03-03 Thread James Griffin
Hi I did a fresh install of the latest snapshot Feb 27. Installed Firefox 18 package. When it loads, I get an error I do not understand: firefox:/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.55.0: /usr/local/lib/libestdc++.so.14.0 : WARNING: symbol(_ZN11__gnu_debug17_S_debug_messagesE) size mismatch, relink your

Re: Firefox 18 library link error

2013-03-03 Thread James Griffin
[- Sun 3.Mar'13 at 13:35:15 +0100 Marc Espie :-] On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:58:40AM +, James Griffin wrote: Hi I did a fresh install of the latest snapshot Feb 27. Installed Firefox 18 package. When it loads, I get an error I do not understand: firefox:/usr

Re: enabling sendmail

2013-02-25 Thread James Griffin
- Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2013-02-24 13:21:09 +0100] - : On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:57:14AM +, James Griffin wrote: - rich...@thornton.net rich...@thornton.net [2013-02-21 00:29:45 +] - : Is sendmail enabled by default? If not, how do I do that? It's

Changing Architecture from amd64 to i386

2013-02-25 Thread James Griffin
Hi I have the latest snapshot amd64 arc. I would like to change to the i386 platform. I think if I delete/remove all packages then boot into the i386 bsd.rd and install all the i386 binaries, etc. and then reinstall all my packages this will be ok and will mean I don't have to reinstall from

Re: Changing Architecture from amd64 to i386

2013-02-25 Thread James Griffin
- Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net [2013-02-25 13:20:32 +0100] - : James Griffin jmz.grif...@kode5.net writes: I have the latest snapshot amd64 arc. I would like to change to the i386 platform. That will be a complete reinstall. I think if I delete/remove all packages

Re: enabling sendmail

2013-02-24 Thread James Griffin
- rich...@thornton.net rich...@thornton.net [2013-02-21 00:29:45 +] - : Is sendmail enabled by default? If not, how do I do that? It's not enabled by default. And you need to copy /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-proto.mc to your hostname.mc; edit it with your requirements, then use

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-12 Thread James Griffin
- Jack Woehr jwo...@softwoehr.com [2013-02-11 15:46:29 -0700] - : If you need OpenBSD you have the technical skills to install it or you know (and possibly pay) someone who does. OpenBSD, which is 20-ish years old now, was designed and is designed and apparently always will be

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-11 Thread James Griffin
- Crookedmaze themazed...@gmail.com [2013-02-10 07:33:34 -0600] - : This makes me a little nervous and I think I would rather just follow release with errata patches or just follow stable. OK, System Administrator I see what you mean by overhead now, now that I think about it I am

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread James Griffin
-- Jan Stary h...@stare.cz [2013-02-10 09:08:14 +0100]: On Feb 09 21:11:56, themazed...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/2013 08:42 PM, System Administrator wrote: OpenBSD is all about KISS (simplicity) -- have you tried running the bi- annual release update procedure? have you read (carefully)

Re: pf blocking active connections

2013-02-08 Thread James Griffin
-- patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com [2013-02-07 12:16:40 -0800]: look in 'man pfctl' and search for killing active sessions. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Martijn van Duren martijn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello misc, Today I watch the current connections on my small home server

Re: UNIX A to Z List RFC

2013-02-06 Thread James Griffin
-- William Boshuck bos...@math.mcgill.ca [2013-02-04 14:25:04 -0500]: On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:27:42AM +, James Griffin wrote: I think vi(1) - not vim - would be a great tool for him to learn. A real hardcore UNIX editor, ed(1) Yes, absolutely. There was a thread on this list

Re: UNIX A to Z List RFC

2013-02-04 Thread James Griffin
-- Chris Hettrick ch...@populatealltheresistors.com [2013-02-02 14:59:15 -0700]: Hi Misc, I made a list of the most classical UNIX commands / utilities from section one where there is only one per letter of the english alphabet (it's for my OpenBSD obsessed five year old son :) ). I know

Re: 5.2 amd64 php and apache problem

2013-02-04 Thread James Griffin
-- Matthias Appel appel.matth...@gmail.com [2013-02-04 18:40:48 +0100]: Hi List, I have a problem with apache and php and hope you guys (and gals!) can help me. ... Can anybody help me to get this php thing working, I dont want to write my web-scripts in C ;-) Regards, Matthias

using snapshots to stay current - 5.3 snapshot question

2013-02-03 Thread James Griffin
Hi For the last few months i've been following -current using snapshots. I see on the ftp mirrors that 5.3 is now there. This is probably a stupid question but is it the same process for upgrading to the 5.3 snapshot as it has been with the 5.2 snapshots? Is there anything extra/special that I

Re: using snapshots to stay current - 5.3 snapshot question

2013-02-03 Thread James Griffin
-- Brad Smith b...@comstyle.com [2013-02-03 07:14:14 -0500]: - Original message - Hi For the last few months i've been following -current using snapshots. I see on the ftp mirrors that 5.3 is now there. This is probably a stupid question but is it the same process for