Re: OT: hardware war with manufacturers (espionage claims)

2019-07-02 Thread John Long
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 10:07:59 +0300 Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I keep finding articles about some government bans against some > hardware manufacturers related to some backdoor for espionage. I know > this is an old talk. Most China manufacturers are under the search: > Huawei, ZTE,

Fujitsu Xeon box running 6.4 + all sypatches doesn't power off for halt -p

2019-06-19 Thread John Long
I am not sure when this changed since I don't reboot the box often but halt -p no longer powers off this box. It used to work, now it doesn't. Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks, /jl

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread John Long
On Tue, 7 May 2019 19:02:57 + Kent Watsen wrote: > Probably not what the OP is looking for, but `tmux` is my current > "window manager" of choice ;) Along those lines I find i3 is the perfect wm companion to tmux :) /jl

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread John Long
On Tue, 7 May 2019 08:47:18 +0200 Denis Fondras wrote: > > user-friendly and easy-to-use > > > > Sounds like the exact description of current OpenBSD... +100 This is exactly why I like and use it.

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-15 Thread John Long
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:37:05 +0300 li...@wrant.com wrote: > Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:50:36 +0000 John Long > > [...] > > but they can be slow. They also have a card based on the Silicon > > Image SiI3114 chipset. I didn't find much info on this one except > > for Windows vi

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-14 Thread John Long
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 15:35:22 -0400 gwes wrote: > >> I'll second the LSI Logic/Avago/Broadcom? SAS/SATA controllers. > >> They run as many disks as I want at full speed. As previously > >> mentioned they can be quite inexpensive if you buy one relabelled > >> as (for instance) an IBM card. > >> >

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-14 Thread John Long
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:53:34 -0400 gwes wrote: > >> > >>>>> On 2019-04-11, John Long wrote: > >>>>>> I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 + > >>>>>> 2x2.5 drives but when I popped it open I found there

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-14 Thread John Long
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:13:55 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-04-13, John Long wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:05:29 - (UTC) > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > >> On 2019-04-11, John Long wrote: > >> > I have a Dell server th

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-13 Thread John Long
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:05:29 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-04-11, John Long wrote: > > I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 + 2x2.5 > > drives but when I popped it open I found there are only 4 SATA > > ports on the motherboard total

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-13 Thread John Long
Thank you Paul and Johann! /jl

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-12 Thread John Long
Thank you! /jl On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:22:14 +0200 Marco Nuessgen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:50:36AM +0000, John Long wrote: > [...] > > Can anybody recommend some good 2 or 4 port SATA (internal) > > expansion cards or a SAS HBA that works well with OpenBSD?

Re: Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-12 Thread John Long
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:00:15 +0200 Robert wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:50:36 + > John Long wrote: > > Speaking with Dell, they are recommending their part number PEXSAT32 > > which is a rebadged StarTech product based on the Marvell 88SE9123 > > chipset. From

Good options for SAS HBA or SATA expansion cards?

2019-04-11 Thread John Long
Hi, I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 + 2x2.5 drives but when I popped it open I found there are only 4 SATA ports on the motherboard total. So of the 6 claimed drives, I can actually only install 3 drives because the stock DVD drive consumes a mobo port. Speaking with

Possible to create softraid device from existing disk(s)?

2019-03-10 Thread John Long
Hi, I have a server running OpenBSD. It has slots for 4 drives. I have the OS and web content on one drive and media files on another drive. I have been running rsync to backup these drives to identically-sized drives in the same box. Basically 2 drives are used to run the services (dlna, Samba,

Re: Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-24 Thread John Long
Hello Nick, Thanks for your reply. I figured everyone was busy so I played around trying a few things. I was able to copy /var to a new directory, unmount -f /var and rename the new directory to /var. So far so good... Changed my fstab to not mount the filesystems I wanted to delete, and

Best way to change disk layout?

2018-12-23 Thread John Long
I'm running release instead of stable like I did years ago. Syspatch is a better solution for me than building from source. I want to change my disk layout because when I set up this box I was thinking of building from source like the old days. I want to eliminate some filesystems and move /var

Re: Persistent flags for disabled daemons?

2018-11-05 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 11:55 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-11-04, John Long wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 10:46 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:57:30AM +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:

Re: Persistent flags for disabled daemons?

2018-11-04 Thread John Long
On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 03:57 +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:41:17AM +0000, John Long wrote: > > If I use rcctl set to set minidlna's flags to -R it seems it will > > only > > allow me to do it when minidlna is enabled. I would like the flags > >

Re: Persistent flags for disabled daemons?

2018-11-04 Thread John Long
On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 10:46 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:57:30AM +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:41:17AM +0000, John Long wrote: > > > If I use rcctl set to set minidlna's flags to -R it seems it will > > > only &

Persistent flags for disabled daemons?

2018-11-03 Thread John Long
Hi, I am not understanding how to get rcctl to use the flags in /etc/rc.conf.local for minidlna rcctl get minidlna shows minidlna_flags=NO even though rc.conf.local has minidlna_flags=-R If I use rcctl set to set minidlna's flags to -R it seems it will only allow me to do it when minidlna is

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread John Long
On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 21:55 -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD > called > 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing > and > also has an HTML5 media player. Thanks for the info. I have been

Re: Q: Systems with Skylake based XEON silver CPUs supported by OpenBSD 6.3 amd64

2018-07-18 Thread John Long
Hello Peter, On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 12:40 +, Steiner Peter wrote: > Hello folks, > > we are currently looking for new server hardware compatible with > OpenBSD 6.3 amd64. > I couldn't find a compatibility list for current systems. > > We'd like to use Skylake based XEONs (e.g. Xeon Silver

[OT] Roon discussion

2018-07-18 Thread John Long
Hi Marcus, On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 18:19 +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > codeb...@inbox.lv (John Long), 2018.07.18 (Wed) 13:51 (CEST): > > I have minidlna working fine on OpenBSD. However this doens't help > > with > > Roon media software since they don't have

[Now OT] Re: Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-18 Thread John Long
On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 16:57 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi John, > > I would just follow the SAMBA documentation in setting up the share, > /shared folders, > > then on the windows clients you may have to tweak the security > settings > in the local security policy manager, (but windows out

Re: Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-18 Thread John Long
@tom @solene Thanks guys. I'll look into Samba. I hope it won't turn out to be a typical Windows nightmare. Are there any reliable setup guides on the net? I will basically want to just make a couple of directory trees available read-only. Thanks, /jl

Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-18 Thread John Long
Hi, I have minidlna working fine on OpenBSD. However this doens't help with Roon media software since they don't have anything for OpenBSD, unsurprisingly. Roon doesn't want to support dlna. I have my Windows foobar2000 appliance roped-off from my LAN because I don't trust Windows boxes on my

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 08:10 -0700, Scott Vanderbilt wrote: > On 7/2/2018 8:03 AM, John Long wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 17:18 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > > > > What's the appropriate way to let the browser > > > > > know it should open it in Acrobat > &

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 08:11 -0700, Scott Vanderbilt wrote: > On 7/2/2018 8:05 AM, John Long wrote: > > What userid does httpd run under? > > > > I have some kind of permission problem, httpd can't serve some of > > the > > content. > > ps aux|grep httpd Thanks again. /jl

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
What userid does httpd run under? I have some kind of permission problem, httpd can't serve some of the content. Thank you. /jl

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 17:18 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > >>What's the appropriate way to let the browser > >> know it should open it in Acrobat > See "Content-Disposition" header. > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Dis > position > > It tells client to download document

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 06:27 -0500, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > chroot "/var/content" > server "example.com" { > listen on * port 80 > listen on :: port 80 > root "/webserver/htdocs" > directory auto index > } Thanks, this works. Actually I pushed things down one level and used chroot

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 06:38 -0500, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On Jul 2, 2018 6:30 AM, John Long wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 06:27 -0500, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > > > On Jul 2, 2018 5:58 AM, John Long wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-07-02 at 06:27 -0500, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On Jul 2, 2018 5:58 AM, John Long wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I read the man pages for httpd and httpd.conf but I remain > > clueless. > > > > I would like to serve static content (d

httpd setup info?

2018-07-02 Thread John Long
Hi, I read the man pages for httpd and httpd.conf but I remain clueless. I would like to serve static content (directory listings and contents). Must I use a chroot for httpd? If so, how do I set it up? I have my content in /var/content/webserver/.. I would like httpd to automatically index the

dmesg for Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX1310 M3

2018-06-29 Thread John Long
OpenBSD 6.3 (GENERIC.MP) #107: Sat Mar 24 14:21:59 MDT 2018 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8389017600 (8000MB) avail mem = 8127692800 (7751MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 3.0 @

Re: Is Intel PRO/1000 CT Desktop Adapter supported on amd64?

2018-06-28 Thread John Long
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 09:32 +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > On Wed (27/06/18), Vijay Sankar wrote: > > > > Quoting John Long : > > > I found a lot of PRO/1000 adapters listed in the em driver man > > > page but > > > CT version is not included. &g

Is Intel PRO/1000 CT Desktop Adapter supported on amd64?

2018-06-27 Thread John Long
I found a lot of PRO/1000 adapters listed in the em driver man page but CT version is not included. Does anybody know? Thanks /jl

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-26 Thread John Long
> > Seems to me, after trying to install OpenBSD on a new box, a lot of > > the helpful in the FAQ is totally AWOL now and I find it hard to > > get all the info together. > > Hi John, > > Person came from somewhere and cut out a lot of the useful hardware > info. > At least now it's

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
Thanks @bryanharris and @bruno Thanks guys, I will check out the links. /jl

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 10:15 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Here is my df -h output -- Just as an FYI I was testing some > workarounds for the samba virusfilter issue and then made some > mistakes that screwed up KDE etc. So decided to build it from > scratch > and have about 5000 packages

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 09:25 -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Quoting John Long : > > > Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. > > > > What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for > > people > > who want to track stable and

Re: Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
WOL now and I find it hard to get all the info together. /jl > > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM, John Long wrote: > > Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. > > > > What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for &

Partitioning recommendations for 6.3?

2018-06-25 Thread John Long
Been a while and don't have my other OpenBSD boxes accessible. What are the recommended partitions and appropriate sizes for people who want to track stable and possibly build the whole ports tree? Thanks, /jl

Anybody have any experience with Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX1310 M3?

2018-06-24 Thread John Long
There are two variants of the Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX1310 M3 available here for about the same price I was paying for the Lenovo m710q. Does anybody have any comments about these Fujitsu boxes running OpenBSD? Also, I remember there was a section in the FAQ about setting up an ftp server on OpenBSD.

Re: OpenBSD on Lenovo m710q running minidlna?

2018-06-06 Thread John Long
On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 12:10 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-06-05, John Long wrote: > > I have a Lenovo m710q foobar2000 appliance under Windows 10. I like > > the > > box, it's about 1 1/2 as wide as a Lemote Fuloong Mini and about as > > deep and tall, but

OpenBSD on Lenovo m710q running minidlna?

2018-06-05 Thread John Long
I have a Lenovo m710q foobar2000 appliance under Windows 10. I like the box, it's about 1 1/2 as wide as a Lemote Fuloong Mini and about as deep and tall, but has slots for two, 2.5 inch drives. I thought about buying another one to use as a minidlna host under OpenBSD. Does anybody on the list

Re: CVE-2018-8897

2018-05-11 Thread John Long
On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 18:54 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Dare I ask what lead to OpenBSD not being affected. > > > > Sorry if it is a dumb question but since this hit FreeBSD as well I > > am > > wondering > > what OpenBSD did differently. > > > > Was this caught in an audit? > > > > I am

Re: [OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:05:42PM -0400, Brian B wrote: > Run an ??ber cheap VM (or a pair for HA) in AWS or Azure and use their > underlying cloud storage, albeit at a cost premium. > > That way you can setup any number of protocols to access the storage. Thanks, that's actually a _really_

Re: [OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:31:16PM +, Sam Hays wrote: > 2016-07-20 11:27 GMT+02:00 John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv>: > > Can anybody recommend a good cloud storage provider that has access > > via sftp or rsync tunneled through ssh? Everything I have found seems > >

Re: [OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 04:01:21PM +0200, matteo filippetto wrote: > 2016-07-20 11:27 GMT+02:00 John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv>: > > Can anybody recommend a good cloud storage provider that has access via sftp > > or rsync tunneled through ssh? Everything I have found seems ta

Re: [OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > Check rsync.net. That's the type of thing I'm looking for but their prices are totally out of line with anything I've seen. I can pay 100 bucks a year for 1T of storage. I can't pay 1,100 bucks a year for 300G of storage. I'm

Re: [OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 01:53:20PM +0200, Sol??ne wrote: > Le 2016-07-20 11:27, John Long a ??crit??: > >Can anybody recommend a good cloud storage provider that has > >access via sftp > >or rsync tunneled through ssh? Everything I have found seems > >targeted at &g

[OT] Cloud storage accessible via sftp or rsync/ssh?

2016-07-20 Thread John Long
Can anybody recommend a good cloud storage provider that has access via sftp or rsync tunneled through ssh? Everything I have found seems targeted at Windows, Linux, phones etc. with no platform-agnostic interface. Thanks. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-04-05 Thread John Long
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:40:20PM -0600, Nick Bender wrote: > I wonder if any FORTRAN programmers out there remember the trick of putting > line numbers after column 72 so the card sort could sort your program back > into order when you dropped your card deck? This was not limited to FORTRAN.

Re: How full can a ffs filesystem be?

2016-02-24 Thread John Long
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:50:41AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 05:43:06AM +0000, John Long wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:48:44PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > > > On 02/23/16 14:42, John Long wrote: > > > > Is there any ru

Re: How full can a ffs filesystem be?

2016-02-23 Thread John Long
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:48:44PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 02/23/16 14:42, John Long wrote: > > Is there any rule of thumb as to how full an ffs filesystem can be without > > impacting performance or integrity issues? > > The people who wrote the code set the lim

How full can a ffs filesystem be?

2016-02-23 Thread John Long
Is there any rule of thumb as to how full an ffs filesystem can be without impacting performance or integrity issues? Thanks, /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org

Re: How to tune network on Qemu-system-i386

2016-02-11 Thread John Long
Dmitry, On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:06:34AM +0500, dmitry.sensei wrote: > Can you give generic guide to setting up a network in Qemu (OpenBSD)? > I have one physical re0 interface, which looks to the Internet. #!/bin/ksh ifconfig tun0 create ifconfig tun0 link0 ifconfig tun0 up ifconfig bridge0

Re: Paris..

2015-11-14 Thread John Long
Miod, are you ok? Condolences and hoping for the best for you guys. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-20 Thread John Long
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 05:59:17PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-07-19, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: OpenBSD mips64el runs oustandingly well on the Lemote boxes. See here: http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html Given that only about 2/3 of the ports tree can be built

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-20 Thread John Long
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:03 AM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: Sun Fire servers are cheap to buy but not to run. A V210 is a 1U box and with dual 1.35 CPUs it is fast enough for desktop use. It's not something most people

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-20 Thread John Long
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 09:09:56PM +0200, ludovic coues wrote: 2015-07-19 17:03 GMT+02:00 John Long codeb...@inbox.lv: OpenBSD mips64el runs oustandingly well on the Lemote boxes. See here: http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html I don't think anybody will be happy with a Loongson

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-20 Thread John Long
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:53:13AM +0100, Graham Stephens wrote: Another thing to bear in mind is the pitch of the noise; I find that loudish but low-frequency sound (like from 4-inch+ fans) isn't that uncomfortable, but the whine from 1U 1 inch fans get unbearable REALLY quickly. I agree

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-19 Thread John Long
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:15:14AM -0500, BSD wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:09:30 +0300 Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I never used a SPARC machine but I recall there are some people on the list doing this. What are the minimum requirements for a decent SPARC

Re: Whooda thunkit?

2015-06-03 Thread John Long
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:31:26AM +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH Seen on /. this morning (Australia EST) I hope the contributations are generous.. I hope the contributions are money rather than code... /jl

Re: Phone suggestion.

2015-05-25 Thread John Long
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:51:39PM +0530, Jay Patel wrote: Blackberry for security? or something else. BlackBerry has notably fewer exploits than other platforms, especially Android-anything. I haven't bought a new one recently but the older ones were actually good phones as in they don't drop

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-13 Thread John Long
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:27:03PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-12, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: By setting PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes accordingly in sshd_config. Thanks, I looked and looked and could not find it in the man page. It appears to be only in -current

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-13 Thread John Long
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:19:25PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-03-12, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:20:47PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-12, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: You can simply configure HostKey in /etc/ssh

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-13 Thread John Long
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:00:30PM -0400, Josh Grosse wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:19:25PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: By looking with cvs blame sshd_config.5 | grep PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and examine the cvs log, you can see that it was added on 2015/01/13. Blame? Blame? When

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-12 Thread John Long
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:13:20PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-10, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: But /etc/rc appears to generate all missing key types every startup. Only if you delete them! Yes, that's what I said. You can simply configure HostKey in /etc/ssh

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-12 Thread John Long
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:20:47PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-12, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: You can simply configure HostKey in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. With that done a client can still do pubkey auth with a DSA key. (How) can I stop sshd from accepting client

Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
Hi, I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines are displayed. For example top loses all the lines until about the 4th task line. All the CPU, mem stuff etc. rolls off. vi is also unusable

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:12:46AM -0600, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: Hi, I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 05:45:48PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-11, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines are displayed

Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
Hi, What's the reason for generating all the various SSH key types every startup? Given the source of all the new elliptical crypto I don't want to use it so I changed the cipher list in sshd_config. But /etc/rc appears to generate all missing key types every startup. What problems do I cause by

Re: Anybody replace the disk drive in a Lemote Fuloong?

2015-02-16 Thread John Long
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:28:35PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: Unscrew the four screws on the side VGA connector side. Slide the logic board out. Unscrew the three black screws that hold the disk bracket. The screws are unmarked but they are near R164, C174 and U32. You can then slide the disk

Anybody replace the disk drive in a Lemote Fuloong?

2015-01-26 Thread John Long
One of my little friends has a dead drive. Unfortunately it is shoehorned in there pretty good. Has anybody on the list replaced the disk drive on one of these and if so would you explain how you did it? Is anybody using a regular USB stick as a primary disk drive for OpenBSD and if so how well

Does portable NTPD use a drift file?

2015-01-20 Thread John Long
Does portable NTPD use a drift file? I didn't see one in the previous version and a new install of 5.7p1 doesn't seem to have one either. I didn't see any discussion of a drift file in the manpage for ntpd nor for ntpd.conf in the portable version, though it is mentioned in the man pages for the

Re: Does portable NTPD use a drift file?

2015-01-20 Thread John Long
Hi, On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:21:32AM -0600, Brent Cook wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:46 AM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: Does portable NTPD use a drift file? I didn't see one in the previous version and a new install of 5.7p1 doesn't seem to have one either. I didn't see any

Re: Does portable NTPD use a drift file? [fixed]

2015-01-20 Thread John Long
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:26:35PM -0600, Brent Cook wrote: Note that a new drift file is not written immediately on start, only after the proper frequency adjustment has been determined. That might take a long time depending on the stability of your systems's clock (e.g. VMs) and how

Re: Does portable NTPD use a drift file?

2015-01-20 Thread John Long
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:26:35PM -0600, Brent Cook wrote: On Jan 20, 2015, at 9:59 AM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: LOCALSTATEDIR /db/ntpd.drift Thanks, this helps. It was there, just not where I wanted since I install addons in /usr/local. Unfortunately now that I fixed

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:10:00PM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Plonk.

Re: missing packages for SPARC

2014-12-04 Thread John Long
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:36:43PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-12-02, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: I was pkg_add'ing some essential packages on a freshly installed SPARC machine. I noticed that several packages are missing. I thought it was the

Re: missing packages for SPARC

2014-12-04 Thread John Long
I had forgotten OpenBSD has SPARC and SPARC64 ports. I don't have any SPARC boxes, sorry for missing the point here. If SPARC64 builds become an issue I hope I can help in some way. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD

Re: missing packages for SPARC

2014-12-04 Thread John Long
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:43:29AM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2014 Dec 04 (Thu) at 07:11:48 + (+), John Long wrote: :How much time is necessary to build packages during and for a release? How :much time for snapshots? And how often does this need to be done? I'm trying :to get

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-24 Thread John Long
Jonathan, this looks promising. David Coppa had said It should expose a ucom*, e.g.: ucom0 at uftdi0 portno 1 The dmesg now shows: moscom0 at uhub1 port 3 HP Company HPx9G+ Device rev 1.10/1.00 addr 2 ucom0 at moscom0 portno 0 How do I relate this to a filename? Thanks, /jl

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-24 Thread John Long
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:23:32PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: See ucom(4) man page. Short answer: /dev/ttyU0 (ucom? should match up with /dev/ttyU?) -Adam Thank you! /jl

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-24 Thread John Long
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:08:31AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: It seems this needs a new driver, here is a quick test that modifies an existing one that might work: snip Your patch works great. Kermit is talking to the device. Thank you so much for the help! /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign (

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-21 Thread John Long
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:50:17PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:33:01PM +, John Long wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:08:31AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: Thanks. How do I build this? You need to build and install a new kernel. After checking out the src

Where is this device attached?

2014-03-20 Thread John Long
Hi, I am trying to use a USB device with a Loongson 5.3 stable box. The line from dmesg for the device is ugen0 at uhub1 port 3 HP Company HPx9G+ Device rev 1.10/1.00 addr 2 and the usbdevs -vd output is Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x),

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-20 Thread John Long
David- sorry, I meant to reply to the list, here it is again for public consumption with the topic threading borked, probably. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:14:13PM +0100, David Coppa wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:31 PM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: Hi, I am trying to use a USB

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-20 Thread John Long
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:08:31AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: Thanks. How do I build this? /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or

Re: Where is this device attached?

2014-03-20 Thread John Long
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:45:12PM +, Fred wrote: On 03/20/14 16:33, John Long wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:08:31AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: Thanks. How do I build this? /jl http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html should answer most of your questions. Nah, most of my

Anybody using Kermit on loongson?

2014-03-09 Thread John Long
This is my first try with Kermit and with this hardware on the other end so I don't know where the problem is. Kermit does not want to talk to my device either by kermit -l /dev/cua00 # /dev/cua00 works on this port for cu # but not for Kermit kermit -l

Re: Anybody using Kermit on loongson?

2014-03-09 Thread John Long
Replying to myself: I found the .kermrc file below in a websearch and modified it to use /dev/tty00 ; ; kermit settings ; set modem type direct set port /dev/tty00 set speed 9600 set carrier-watch off set flow none set parity none set block 3 set protocol kermit ; End Although it connected

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread John Long
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:37:25PM +0100, za...@gmx.com wrote: Are there any significant drawbacks to my adoption of OpenBSD (such as OpenBSD being too technical and too difficult, as compared, say, to Linux distros)? One of the things that makes code good and secure is simplicity. That focus

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread John Long
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 12:41:07PM +0100, sbienddr...@googlemail.com wrote: Am I being monitored for receiving these emails? No, you're being monitored for using google, stupid. Did anybody consider the possibility Theo didn't start this thread? The email headers looked ok at a quick glance but

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread John Long
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:49:46AM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2013/9/11 Marc Espie es...@nerim.net: Second, low hanging fruit. There's so much crappy software and hardware out there that you have to be REALLY paranoid to think the NSA would target us. I mean, come on, there You

Re: Modern C++ Compiler for OpenBSD

2013-09-11 Thread John Long
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 06:21:56PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: On 10/09/13 6:10 PM, Gregor Best wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:40:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] Does anyone have a C++ compiler recommendation for OpenBSD? [...] What about GCC? Clang++'s C++11 support is spotty at

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

2013-07-05 Thread John Long
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:56:50PM -0400, Thomas Jennings wrote: [drug / alcohol withdrawal-induced rant elided] I don't know where you get the idea OpenBSD is involved. I heard a few interviews including the one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXYITh09TA and she clearly said she has an

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