Re: Ordering CDs in Europe becoming increasingly difficult

2010-07-08 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:56:38AM +, Jona Joachim wrote: Hi, I've been buying every CD release over the last couple of years. I purchased 4.6 from openbsdeurope.com and it was just as comfortable as with Wim the years before. However I haven't purchased 4.7 yet because the ordering

Re: Mac mini G4

2010-07-01 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 06:15:16AM -0700, Fred Snurd wrote: fu...@safe-mail.net fu...@safe-mail.net wrote: I have one question: Is the any way to put the mini in server mode (make it boot automatically after Power Loss)? While asking about server mode, is it also possible to run a PPC

Re: low httpd performance. Apache 2.2 as default? never? *sighs

2010-05-08 Thread John Wright
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:22:20AM +0300, Pekka Niiranen wrote: These all great additions. I just wish Subversion would someday be compatible with those. Subversion is awful. Try git, it supports http without having to install fancy apache modules.

Re: apache DOS tool

2009-06-22 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:36:58PM +0200, Jonas Thambert wrote: Aiko Barz wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:32:56PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: The solution, like the problem, lies in the network layer. See iptables and similar network stack filters to provide protection against this

Re: httpdump?

2008-11-20 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:18:00PM -0800, Jeff Simmons wrote: I need, at a minimum, which virtual server at a particular IP address is being accessed, and the contents of any GET commands (methods). If there's a way to get this via tcpdump I haven't found it yet. Just increase the snaplen.

Re: suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec

2008-09-01 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:17:34AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: Jeremy Huiskamp wrote: suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec Did you read suexec(8)? I expect you mean this? Because this program is only used internally by httpd(8), there are no other ways to

Re: keyboard encoding [not worth reading sorry]

2008-07-28 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:24:10PM +0200, Tony Berth wrote: I have to say that I'm via ssh/xterm to the box. I don't know if this makes a difference? hehe. (-:

Funding wording change on www.openbsd.org

2008-04-04 Thread John Wright
Oh. I thought t-shirts helped to fund OpenBSD. :( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/index.html

Re: Default Posix thread stack size

2007-09-07 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:47:28AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: We just discovered that it appears the default Posix thread stack size is 64KByte for OpenBSD (4.1). That seems a bit slim. To compare I recall Solaris8 has got 2MByte as default. Can I assume all C library routines in OpenBSD

Re: searching packages? pkg_grep?

2007-08-10 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:24:45AM -0700, John N. Brahy wrote: I use alias pkg_search=echo ls | ftp -a \$PKG_PATH | sed 's/.*\ //g' | grep -i. That's exactly what I was looking for. Note that you should be able to find an index.txt file in the packages directory which I've found to be

Re: dylan language

2006-12-22 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:42:44AM -0800, Joe wrote: Today I saw a blog post about a wireshark alternative called networtnightvision that claims to be more secure than wireshark. I'm very interested in this because wireshark is just too dangerous to run, IMO. Anyways, the sniffer is written

Re: % stdout?

2006-11-09 Thread John Wright
On Nov 9, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Cassio B. Caporal wrote: Hey, I have problems to print '%' in stdout... Suppose code below: #include stdio.h main() { char foo[] = bar=30%\n; fprintf(stdout, bar);

Re: rc.local command for postgres

2006-10-20 Thread John Wright
If you've installed postgres from the package you can find what to add to rc.local in /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql/README.OpenBSD

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

2006-05-29 Thread John Wright
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:52:49PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 installation? I'd prefer to not have to change to bash if I don't have to... Just for a bit of variety (since you've had lots of replies) I use this: bind -m

Re: Can't believe I'm asking this... What's a serial port on an OpenBSD system?

2006-02-13 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:04:23AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: [...] pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo [...] These in the dmesg. man pccom lists the /dev files as tty00, tty01, cua00, cua01.

Re: boot.conf timeout ignored on amd64?

2006-01-27 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: - /etc/boot.conf --- set timeout 30 boot /bsd.mpr - /etc/boot.conf --- The boot commands instructs it to boot there and then.

Re: netcat man page: -e emulation

2006-01-06 Thread John Wright
How about #!/bin/ksh nc -l localhost 1234 | exec 0p 1p # Rest of the script here. This syntax is pretty new to me so I'm not sure of pros and cons.

Gosh! What a lot of unwrapping!

2005-10-20 Thread John Wright
http://dryfish.org.uk/~john/openbsd38/ Hope I'm not spoiling the sticker art for anyone.

Re: 3.7, wrong dependecies for package pear-DB-1.6.8?

2005-09-27 Thread John Wright
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:23:41PM +0300, Dimitar Kodjabachev wrote: I am trying to install the package pear-DB-1.6.8 on a 3.7 box (i386). According to pear.php.net, PEAR DB 1.6.8 requires PHP version 4.2.0 or newer, but the OpenBSD package has a @depend

Re: How to patch a physically weak system recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:03:27PM +0200, Tim wrote: Hello 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the compiled

Re: pf stops URLs without a trailing slash

2005-08-15 Thread John Wright
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:00:26AM +1000, Zoong PHAM wrote: [...] I know that a correct URL is the one with trailing slash if the last part is a directory name. So apart from teaching users to use correct URLs or investigate to use Apache rewrite module, is there any thing I can do with pf to

Re: login_ldap

2005-08-04 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:43:28AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: Also, does anybody know, how to run /usr/local/libexec/auth/login_-ldap on a command line, to see if it works at all? I try following: blowfish# /usr/local/libexec/auth/login_-ldap afarber blowfish# echo $?

Re: no sound on Dell4550 (soundblaster live, emu)

2005-07-28 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:36:29AM +0200, Juan J. Martmnez wrote: Woh! I think you're another unhappy user of a SB Live! *5.1* (from DELL). Welcome to the club. Absolutely ages ago I found http://www.opensound.com/ and was able to use one of their drivers under OpenBSD 2.x. They're still going

Re: keyboard.bell.pitch=0 is invalid on Openbsd 3.7 Current

2005-07-20 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:16:22AM -0600, edgar mortiz wrote: i tried disabling beep on my laptop via sysctl -w keyboard.bell.pitch=0 and i got an error saying sysctl: top level name keyboard in keyboard.bell.pitch is invalid I'm using OpenBSD 3.7-current GENERIC #239 wsconsctl.

Re: sleep patterns...

2005-07-04 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:00:18AM +0100, unixadmin99 wrote: Oops! Accidently emptied half the contents of src.tar.gz into /usr/bin while undergoing an install under the intoxication of sleep. What's the most efficient way of rectifying this? src.tar.gz is mostly directories and /usr/bin

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-16 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:19:26PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: BTW: one other reason RAIDframe isn't in GENERIC is you have to customize your kernel in other ways, not just turning it on. From raid(4): It is important that drives be hard-coded at their respective addresses (i.e., not left

Re: Getting Yesterday's Date (Repost due to error)

2005-05-31 Thread John Wright
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:55:22AM +0200, Stoyan Genov wrote: Does this work for you? shell$ TZ=GMT+24 date Wow! /me reads tzset(3) with interest.