producing SHA256 & release(8)?

2016-07-12 Thread James Hartley
Before proposing a diff, I need clarification. The release(8) manpage states: "xenocara uses DESTDIR and RELEASEDIR as described above. While they may be set to the values used to build the rest of the system, be aware that the existing contents of DESTDIR will be removed as part of the xenocara

Re: Regarding the default /usr partitioning

2015-06-28 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Chris Bennett chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us wrote: Why only up to p? It is a historical limitation. Could this be easily changed... No, it would break a number of things. ...or would that be a major project? Yes. I would really like to newfs

Re: Regarding the default /usr partitioning

2015-06-28 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Carlos Fenollosa carlos.fenoll...@gmail.com wrote: I installed a new box using the default partitioning (2GB for /usr) and I found that it’s a bit insufficient since /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara and /usr/src hang from there on the same partition, and eat up

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread James Hartley
Read the FAQ. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Mohammad BadieZadegan mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to dual booting OpenBSD with Windows7 and read many more pages about customizing windows *bcdedit* tools to booting dual OS like

Re: Alternative way to get sources, CVS slow

2015-02-21 Thread James Hartley
On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@opmbx.org wrote: once I get the tarballs and unpack them, to update the code, I should run cvs checkout or updtate? Update. Reading the cvs manpage will help other questions as well.

Re: Alternative way to get sources, CVS slow

2015-02-21 Thread James Hartley
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@opmbx.org wrote: So I ran this command: cvs -d anon...@anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs -q up -rOPENBSD_5_6 -Pd And it is stoped, for more than a hour. Downloading from the main server is a poor choice as this is the motivation for

Re: Alternative way to get sources, CVS slow

2015-02-21 Thread James Hartley
On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@opmbx.org wrote: I'm trying to keep and maintain a copy of -stable source code in my system. The problem is that I can't work with CVS. It is too slow to download. Another alternative is to set up a server which has gone through

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf not found when building release from 24 Aug amd64 snapshot

2014-08-26 Thread James Hartley
Beginning with the installation of the 24 August amd64 snapshot, I received the following error when building a release: 8--- ... install -C -o root -g bin -m 0444 /usr/src/usr.sbin/nginx/html/50x.html /usr/dest/var/www/htdocs/ cd ../usr.sbin/npppd exec make distribution install -C

cvsweb link on site down?

2014-07-19 Thread James Hartley
I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error when trying to access http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb. Is this a known problem?

Re: current/macppc on a Powerbook6,1

2014-03-17 Thread James Hartley
Has the information in FAQ7.4 changed? That indicates that virtual terminals are only supported on amd64, i386, Alpha. Zaurus has limited support, but with a different keystroke patterns. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Martin Pieuchot mpieuc...@nolizard.orgwrote: On 15/03/14(Sat) 14:07,

Re: Is Soekris OpenBSD friendly?

2013-11-15 Thread James Hartley
Learning to search the archives is a very useful skill: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=soekrisq=b On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:03 PM, SmithS smit...@hush.ai wrote: Greetings misc@. After coming across a link[1] to make an OpenBSD router using a Soekris device, I think I will make one.

Re: RJ11 on Alix 2d13 with OpenBSD

2013-11-05 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.orgwrote: On 2013-11-05, Loïc BLOT loic.b...@unix-experience.fr wrote: I would test to plug RJ11 cable (from my ADSL line, behind the ADSL filter) to the RJ45 plug but it seems this doesn't work (no carrier). Is this

Re: python GraphViz in ports ?

2013-03-05 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Илья Шипицин chipits...@gmail.com wrote: math/p5-GraphViz http://openports.se/math/p5-GraphViz is for Perl. math/graphviz neither contains subpackage nor flavor for Python. http://openports.se/graphics/py-dot how can I use information provided by

Re: Any T410/T420 with suspend/resume fully working in 5.1 or current?

2012-08-10 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: While we're on the subject, the T430 and T430s (ivy bridge update) do not work at present, or at least my T430s didn't. ahci times out initializing, so there's no hard drive. The wireless didn't seem to be detected either,

Re: Help neede for 'pkgin'

2012-07-10 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:00 AM, srimanta kundu srimanta_ku...@polarisnetworks.net wrote: Please tell how can get that command in my netBSD? 0. http://www.netbsd.org/mailinglists/ 1. http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add++NetBSD-current

Re: authpf bug and solution

2012-07-07 Thread James Hartley
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Bahador NazariFard bahador.nazarif...@gmail.com wrote: If you commited the fix how can I access fixed authpf. Im using OpenBSD 5.1. You will need to install -current.

Re: Lemote Fuloong

2012-07-05 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Code Blue codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I was running fine on 5.1 but based on the comment from the previous poster I reinstalled the snapshot (5.2). I was then unable to install any packages from snapshots because of library errors. What is the value of PKG_PATH?

Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-22 Thread James Hartley
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.us wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:33:31AM +0200, ropers wrote: There is an answers book? Yes there is an official answers book, but it is written by other authors. I believe that the KR book refers to it

Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM, cody chandler cody.a.chand...@gmail.comwrote: Is this the book? http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628 Yes.

Re: Can someone describe these possible long term effects and provide an explicit description of these kernel parameters?

2012-06-15 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Tristin Davis tristin.co...@gmail.comwrote: Upgrading is simply not an option. It all comes down to having the engineering staff, money, and downtime available. Unfortunatly, we have none of the above right now. I realize we *need* to upgrade, but right now,

Re: DLINK DUB-E100

2012-01-08 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: I would buy an Ethernet card usb, and I've found the Dlink dub-e100. It is supported on OpenBSD 5.0? Someone has ever used it? See the axe(4) manpage. I have seen several work, but one didn't. I

Re: Proper way to update system + ports?

2011-12-19 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:25 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 12/19/11, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas jca+m...@wxcvbn.org wrote: So -current Ports are not compatible with -stable Ports, right? Or am I wrong in presuming this? Per FAQ 15.4.1: Do NOT check out a -current

Re: Proper way to update system + ports?

2011-12-19 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:19 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 12/19/11, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas jca+m...@wxcvbn.org wrote: So -current Ports are not compatible with -stable Ports, right? Or am I wrong in presuming this? Per FAQ 15.4.1: Do NOT

Re: Proper way to update system + ports?

2011-12-19 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:17 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 12/20/11, James Hartley jjhart...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Hartley jjhart...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Proper way to update system + ports? To: James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com Cc: misc@openbsd.org

Re: C question

2011-11-09 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Doug Brewer brewer.d...@gmail.com wrote: If I want to clear out that structure, should I use memset(bar, 0, sizeof(bar)); or memset(bar, 0, sizeof(*bar)); The purpose of this list is not to focus on remedial programming support. You can help answer your own

Re: Firefox 6

2011-09-06 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: In 5 I routinely hit the 2G data limit. FF6 is better in this regard it seems, but freezes the system in fits of reallocing memory, freezing OpenBSD for seconds at a time. Ditto on both counts. FF6 doesn't run out of

Re: Time interval based pf rule

2011-09-02 Thread James Hartley
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Stefan N stefanbsd...@yahoo.com wrote: Does OpenBSD PF engine have the feature to create time interval based rule? See how to dynamically add rules via anchors: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/anchors.html ... scheduling scripts via crontab(5). Jim

Re: obtaining openbsd.pbr from windows 7

2011-03-09 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:01 AM, marc li...@drwx.org wrote: I think it would be nice to add a little note in the docs explaining what 'r' stands for and that you should add it in front of your device name to access it while being used. See Section 14.1 of the FAQ.

Re: obtaining openbsd.pbr from windows 7

2011-03-08 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:22 AM, marc li...@drwx.org wrote: * If I do it from the existing openbsd in my drive, /dev/sd0a, I get device busy. It is not clear from your narrative what is the device node for your hard drive. The FAQ boldly warns following the dd(1) command: Note: this is a

Re: ports not detecting packages in PKG_PATH

2010-11-10 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Ersin Akinci ersin.aki...@gmail.comwrote: Do the packages in current normally find themselves in the next release? Yes.

Re: 2-3 General Question

2010-09-22 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/9/22 Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com PS: my boot.ini when I used to dual boot my X41 Laptop: [boot loader] timeout=5 default c:\openbsd40.pbr=OpenBSD - a real OS ;~) [operating systems]

Re: windows 7 multiboot

2010-04-27 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 02:34:44PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: One pleasant surprise is... windows7. Apparently, it includes tools that allow it to shrink the NTFS partition on the fly (yes, I'm keeping a windows partition

Re: can't load library 'libc.so.51.0' on -current

2010-04-19 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Bryan bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:18, Markus Lude markus.l...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:45:45AM -0500, Bryan wrote: I am running the latest snapshot from ftp.openbsd.org. B Install appears fine, and I've had no issues

Re: can't load library 'libc.so.51.0' on -current

2010-04-19 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nicholas Marriott nicholas.marri...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is the libc your cvs binary is looking for, not the libraries you have. Either you installed the wrong base tarball or aren't running the cvs binary you expect. Try upgrading to the same

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: Develop the most wonderful kernel and userspace in the world but if no one uses it what is the point? It appears you haven't read the project's goals: http://openbsd.org/goals.html Quote: Focus on being

Re: OT - C compiler, assignement on double-declared variable with different types

2010-04-11 Thread James Hartley
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesus Sanchez zexe...@gmail.com wrote: This is not really OpenBSD related but since it's a UNIX-like OS and here are really experienced people coding in C I thought this was a good place to ask. Actually, not. Your questions are general C programming

Re: recent hardware with older OpenBSD versions

2010-03-20 Thread James Hartley
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, T. Valent tmp...@4ss.de wrote: (For us there is no reason to update to newer versions of OpenBSD yet. Quoting Section 5.1 of the FAQ: ...old releases are typically supported up to two releases back. It takes resources and time to support older versions, while

Re: softdeps enabled = poor concurrent access?

2010-02-23 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Noah McNallie n...@n0ah.org wrote: if by -current snapshot you mean openbsd 4.6 then yes, that's what i'm using. By looking at the head of dmesg(8) output or by the following command: $ sysctl kern.version ...you will get information pertaining to the

SHA256 mismatch on base46.tgz in 20 Jan i386 snapshot

2010-01-22 Thread James Hartley
A quick search in the misc@ archives PR database didn't reveal that anyone has mentioned this before. In installing the 20 January (#511) i386 snapshot, I received a SHA256 mismatch on base46.tgz. Otherwise, the snapshot installs as expected. FYI FWIW. Jim

Re: trac on OpenBSD current

2010-01-21 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Sebastiano Pomata sebastianopom...@tiscali.it wrote: I installed from a plain install46.iso, but then I thought I could have choosen which ports tree to choose, -stable or -current. No. FAQ 15.4.1 states that mixing the -current ports tree with a -release

Re: building sbin/route on -current?

2009-12-07 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.dewrote: ... You appear to be building with DESTDIR set. Don't do that. Thanks, both Christian Philip for pointing out the error of my ways. I appreciate both of you for taking the time for to point out where I strayed.

Re: building sbin/route on -current?

2009-12-06 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: And that describes using -nostdinc and -idirafter where? I had not altered any Makefile or added any options. The output provided was from Tuesday after having updated source via AnonCVS as discussed in Section 5.3.3

building sbin/route on -current?

2009-12-05 Thread James Hartley
I updated my local source tree Tuesday. Rebuilding the kernel went fine, but building userland failed at sbin/route with the following messages: === sbin/route cc -02 -pipe -nostdinc -idirafter /usr/dest/usr/include -c /usr/src/sbin/route/route.c cc -02 -pipe -nostdinc -idirafter

Re: building sbin/route on -current?

2009-12-05 Thread James Hartley
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, James Hartley jjhart...@gmail.com wrote: I updated my local source tree Tuesday. Rebuilding the kernel went fine, but building userland failed at sbin/route with the following

Re: Partitioning an external USB drive through OpenBSD -- disklabel

2009-10-30 Thread James Hartley
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: I want the USB disk to be also used on Windows XP, so the MSDOS partition. The problem isn't with disklabel (8). The problem *will* be Windows XP not being able to recognize the DOS partition. For Windows XP to recognize a DOS

Re: automating 'fsck -y' after a power failure

2009-10-04 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: What does fsck mean? Filesystem check.

Re: gcc4.2.20070307p11 fails to build

2009-07-23 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Jamie Griffin jg+open...@panix.comjg%2bopen...@panix.com wrote: i installed openoffice3 using pkg_add. After trying to update the package using ports the build fails when it tries to install gcc4.2.2 as a dependency, and the error I'm getting is this:

Re: fonts in NetBeans

2009-07-21 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Fred Crowson open...@crowsons.net wrote: The problem I've got is the output window of netbeans is displaying small squares instead of fonts suggesting that it cannot find one of the font libraries, and fontconfig seems to have been removed - can any one

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread James Hartley
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:38 AM, MANI mm.m...@gmail.com wrote: How can I make openbsd.pbr. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting You should also read the following if you want to use Vista's boot manager: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=23676

Re: weird wscons behavior

2008-10-06 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jesus Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not experience sending bugs with sendbug, so to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong, It should take so much time to appear on the query list?? Unless you have the sendmail(8) mail agent configured to send/receive

Re: Weird pkg_info behavior?

2008-09-30 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Slim Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get package info for a file not already downloaded or installed without such heavy bandwidth (just the package info). Look at the -Q option on the pkg_info(1) manpage.

contact info for PC Weasel?

2008-07-16 Thread James Hartley
Does anyone have any information on contacting/ordering a PC Weasel? Their Website: http://www.realweasel.com/ ...is still up, but an inquiry sent to info@ last week is still unanswered. According to a Calgary operator, the number listed on the Website is no longer in service, searching

Re: Can't install using pkg_add from FTP mirror and from Local Mirror

2008-07-09 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:45 PM, my mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your reply, but i have download OpenBSD 4.3 from this address ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/ and all packages i download from this ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/packages/ You should study Section

Re: booting a different kernel

2008-06-23 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:07 AM, annne annnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had windows installed first, then I installed openbsd, what would I type to boot into windows? Read FAQ 4.8 FAQ 14.6.

Re: Failing to install packages with $PKG_PATH

2008-06-23 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've updated to the today -current and I can't install packages as I usually do. # export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386 Note the FAQ 15.2.2 requires a final directory delimiter which the

Re: nmeaattach(8) removed in -current, superseeded by ldattach(8)

2008-06-09 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a GPS device with nmeaattach(8), please switch to ldattach(8) now. Thanks Marc for passing on this information. Can you describe in short why this change was made?

Re: nmeaattach(8) removed in -current, superseeded by ldattach(8)

2008-06-09 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:53 PM, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a GPS device with nmeaattach(8), please switch to ldattach(8) now. Thanks Marc for passing on this information. Can you describe

Re: Ethernet on ASUS EEE PC?

2008-04-04 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Joel Sing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem has been tracked down and is fixed in r1.10 of if_lii.c. On Wednesday 02 April 2008, James Hartley wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 31 March snapshot works

Re: Ethernet on ASUS EEE PC?

2008-04-01 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have recently been some changes that make that driver work much better, try again with a newer snapshot in a few days. Thanks for pointing this out! The 31 March snapshot works; dmesg follows: OpenBSD 4.3-current

Re: Ethernet on ASUS EEE PC?

2008-04-01 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 31 March snapshot works; I'm now seeing multiple messages: lii0: mismatched status and packet ...when checking out the CVS tree. If anyone can point out what information would be pertinent for including in a PR, I

Re: 4.2 still has X tree dependency?

2008-03-30 Thread James Hartley
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Mikel Lindsaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 4.1 on several servers, one thing I found was the surprise on needing the X package to install some of the non x-windows ports due to dependencies within that tree.

Ethernet on ASUS EEE PC?

2008-03-29 Thread James Hartley
As opposed to previous mention that the Ethernet interface is correctly identified on a 28 Jan -current snapshot: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=120177549104133w=2 ...the behaviour I'm seeing from the 25 Mar snapshot is similar to the following:

Re: xenocara CVS out of memory

2008-03-25 Thread James Hartley
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jan Niemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or maybe he is trying to checkout xenocara/font/misc-misc/18x18ja.bdf and running on amd64. that does not work for me either and shows the same error message (can not reallocate 5242880 bytes). on i386 everything should

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-24 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A system using GRUB may also need to have a root partition of under 512MB in size. A GRUB is a bug after all... Do you have more information regarding this comment? Thanks.

Re: zombies - solved

2008-03-12 Thread James Hartley
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or what are the major reasons 4.3 is going to still use 1.3x? Licensing.

multiple connections to GPS device?

2008-03-06 Thread James Hartley
Is it possible to watch the NMEA traffic originating from a USB GPS device *while* attached via nmeaattach(8)? Once nmeaattach(8) has attached to the device, any subsequent connection attempted via cu(1) fails with an all ports busy message. The manpage for cu(1) states that connections are

Re: multiple connections to GPS device?

2008-03-06 Thread James Hartley
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:01 PM, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some other manner in which I can tap into this connection? ports/misc/gpsd This looks really cool! Am I correct to assume that I can run

Re: /usr/include/ headers in the kernel source

2008-02-07 Thread James Hartley
On Feb 6, 2008 12:36 PM, Pierre Riteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should upgrade to a snapshot before. This is in the FAQ... Pierre is right. See Section 5.3.

Re: WAP setup problems

2008-02-06 Thread James Hartley
On Feb 6, 2008 1:10 PM, Stefan Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some other questions: why a bridge and why not simple router with pf? PF can be used to filter on a bridge. See Section 6.9 of the FAQ for an example.

Re: Marry Christmas!

2007-12-24 Thread James Hartley
On 23 Dec 2007 15:54:56 -0800, Unix Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically one spells it Merry, not Marry. You never know. Perhaps he was really wanting to be married to Christmas or have someone here marry Christmas. Even though it isn't clear on who is intended to be marrying Christmas, it

Re: USB Disk problems

2007-10-18 Thread James Hartley
On 10/17/07, Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edwards, David (JTS) wrote: I'm using 250G laptop disks powered from the USB cable. Maybe you're hitting the limit of the USB power output? Anecdotally, I have a laptop IDE drive enclosure with a USB interface, the supplied cable has

Re: SOLVED [was: firewall is very slow, something's wrong]

2007-10-16 Thread James Hartley
On 10/16/07, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - flooding the firewall with small UDP packets, random source IPs, generated as fast as my workstation (AMD64 X2 6400, Intel Pro/1000 PCI Express card, Linux Fedora 7, running the kernel-level pktgen packet generator which is very fast) can

configuring ntpd to use GPS

2007-10-04 Thread James Hartley
After reading the manpages for ntpd(8), ntpd.conf(5), nmeaattach(8), I thought I had enough information to use a USB GPS device as a time source. In /etc/ntpd.conf, the only line left enabled is: sensor cuaU0 In /etc/rc.conf.local, the only lines are: nmeaattach cuaU0

Re: configuring ntpd to use GPS

2007-10-04 Thread James Hartley
On 10/4/07, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/ntpd.conf, the only line left enabled is: sensor cuaU0 nope sensor nmea0 Noted changed to the above. In /etc/rc.conf.local, the only lines

Re: sudo wheel group

2007-09-17 Thread James Hartley
On 9/17/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I have these in /etc/sudoers for joeuser. joeuser is also in the wheel group. Why are you adding wheel group membership? Root access through sudo(8) does not require the user to be a member of wheel, but su(8) does. Jim

scp batch mode?

2007-08-15 Thread James Hartley
The manpage for scp(1) mentions the -B option for running scp in batch mode, but no further details. How can scp be run without prompting for a password? Thanks.

iwi configuration?

2007-07-07 Thread James Hartley
I've installed iwi-firmware-3.0.tgz per the iwi manpage, adjusted the group associated with the four installed files to match that of everything else in the directory: $ ls -al /etc/firmware/iwi* -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 191142 Mar 26 2006 /etc/firmware/iwi-bss -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 185660

Re: following stable, extra file sets?

2007-06-30 Thread James Hartley
On 6/30/07, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What i found strange is now it seems as if i have gained the misc41 and game41 file sets as a result of following stable. Does this sound correct? The following link from the FAQ describes what the roles of each file set. Perhaps this will provide

Re: ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-06-11 Thread James Hartley
On 6/11/07, Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My basic question is, has anyone gotten suspend-to-RAM to work while X is running on a T41p, and if so, how did you do it? You might look at tphdisk.

accessing the MBR in multibooted systems?

2007-05-31 Thread James Hartley
Section 4.8 of the FAQ discusses how to capture the PBR for multibooting with dd: # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 Two questions. * For stand-alone installations, is the PBR the same thing as the MBR? * More importantly, how can I use dd to access the MBR in a multibooted

Re: tpb and tphdisk assistance

2007-05-28 Thread James Hartley
I guess I missed this in conversation; does tphdisk work with ACPI? Thanks. Jim

Re: Absolute OpenBSD out-of-print?

2007-05-10 Thread James Hartley
On 5/10/07, Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if there are plans for another printing? Or maybe even a second edition? According to Lucas' Website, he still intends on writing an _Absolute_ book for NetBSD. I may be wrong, but I don't suspect we will see second

Re: Instaling openbsd Y windows

2007-05-02 Thread James Hartley
On 5/2/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva wrote: hi for all, i have a Hard disk of 80 GB, I like to user 20 GB for OpenBSD and 60 GB for Windows XP, it is posible? becase I read in the FAQ openbsd that say: its necessary to installa the openbsd in the

Re: verifying ntp via GPS configuration?

2007-04-12 Thread James Hartley
On 4/11/07, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you use cu or tip directly on the serial line, do you see any NMEA 0183 sentences? Thanks to both you Marc Otto. Your comments have helped with a number of questions. I'm currently questioning the power supplied to the Garmin which I

verifying ntp via GPS configuration?

2007-04-11 Thread James Hartley
I have questionable ntp foo, searching through the misc@ archives along with reading the FAQ has only gotten me so far. I have a Garmin 18 GPS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000196BW6/104-8542380-5084714 ...which is connected to the serial port of a Sun Ultra 10. I am unable to determine

Re: verifying ntp via GPS configuration?

2007-04-11 Thread James Hartley
On 4/11/07, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very likely you Sun uses different serial ports than cua00. Check your dmesg to see which driver is uses, then use the driver man page to determine the /dev node to use. I'm must be blind for I'm not seeing anything. dmesg below: console

Re: verifying ntp via GPS configuration?

2007-04-11 Thread James Hartley
On 4/11/07, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sab0 at ebus0 addr 40-40007f ipl 43: rev 3.2 sabtty0 at sab0 port 0 sabtty1 at sab0 port 1 man sab gives: /dev/ttyh[0-1] No separate callout device, it looks like. Thanks for getting back to me. Specifying /dev/ttyh0 (or /dev/ttyh1)

configuring APM on Thinkpad T43?

2007-04-06 Thread James Hartley
Upon booting, I have always seen APM connect errors, but assumed that this was because I had never configured it. After looking at the manpages for APM(4) APM(8) on OpenBSD 4.0, it looked like all I needed to do is enable apmd through /etc/rc.conf. I wasn't seeing any entry in dmesg before

FAQ section numbering?

2006-05-16 Thread James Hartley
The numbering of the FAQ sections proceeds through 1 - 15 excluding 11. Is there a historical reason for skipping section 11? Jim

Re: X11 Issue - Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 Graphics (Intel 915GM)

2006-04-09 Thread James Hartley
I ran into this on a Thinkpad T43 with a GMA900 adapter. I simply used the xorg.conf created when installing 3.7 which simply specifies a generic VGA/VESA adapter. As I remember when researching this matter, the GMA900 driver is new and problematic. Given that I run 3.8 too, I don't know if the

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread James Hartley
On Sunday, October 09, 2005, Alexander Hall wrote: 8 $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/rsd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/rsd0c on /mnt: Block device required 8 Hmmm maybe try /dev/sd0c? This gives a different error: $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/sd0c on /mnt:

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread James Hartley
On Sunday, October 09, 2005, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: ... $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/sd0c on /mnt: inappropriate file type on format ... RTFM! MSDOS is ALWAYS ALWAYS 'i' in disklabel even if the whole drive is formated as FAT! Thus try with /dev/sd0i

mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-08 Thread James Hartley
I'm unable to mount a MS-DOS disk within a USB floppy drive on OpenBSD 3.7/i386. The following is both displayed and written to dmesg: 8 umass0 at uhub1 port2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: CITIZEN XIDE-USB, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 umass0: using UFI over CBI with CCI scsibus1 at