google there's results. In
the future, you can find out this sort of information by using `make
search` in the ports tree or, if you don't have an OpenBSD box handy,
from http://openports.se.
-Nick
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Peter Ericson
peter.eric...@bigpond.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote:
Funny you should ask. I have an R500 and it works fine, excepting the
lack of ACPI support of course. The Fn-Mute key combo even works right
away
mailto:o...@symacx.com
Hi again
@Nick: It seems that you're right. OpenBSD creates *.tgz package from source
and stores it in /usr/ports/packages/i386/all and after that the package is
automatically installed, but the problem is that package is not installed
in the end. Even tryied to install
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mateusz Gierblinski
mateusz.gierblin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I'm playing around with some security tools and I would like to test out the
dsniff package. I have tried to install dsniff using ports, db, libnet
dsniff had been compiled but on the end of the
on sd0b dump on sd0b
-Nick
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, peter.eric...@bigpond.com wrote:
Hi m...@i'm thinking of buying an R600 to run current on.Has anyone had
any
experience with these machines?From the spec sheet: Part Number
PPR61A-02200R
have I done
wrong?
I seem to recall that disabling AHCI (aka SATA) in your BIOS can solve
this. I've had a bunch of BIOSes hang on me like this.
-Nick
.
-Nick
with netbsd.
then depends on where it stopped. Read through how the OpenBSD
boot process works on i386/amd64 in FAQ14 and see what didn't happen
and give us more detail.
Nick.
Nick Holland wrote:
...
If you are using POST as a cool-sounding buzzword which means I
didn't get to a command prompt like I wanted to, and that POST
actually completed and the system has started the boot process,nes. I live in
a
group home. I play with netbsd.
wow, that was a fascinating
Nick Holland wrote:
Nick Holland wrote:
...
I don't work with OpenBSD,
gawd. I can't compose a simple e-mail today.
I don't work with NetBSD, I do work with OpenBSD. Sheesh. I'm
going to bed.
a USB key with NetBSD over
the USB key with OpenBSD, see if that makes a difference.
Also please don't top post.
-Nick
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote:
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam doug_mi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html
than 90% of the people out there setting up RAID
disasters in waiting... Many very smart people who seem to think
that Magic Happens (or that think they will have a job elsewhere)
when things go wrong.
Nick.
to
make sure your key is protected, of course).
-Nick
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:35 AM, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Nick Guenther wrote:
[ext3 data= / FFS]
journal ~= sync (ensures consistency of both metadata and file data)
ordered ~= softdep (ensures consistency of metadata both internally
and with file data
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote:
See, since it seems that BSD doesn't have this file-data consistency
guarantee, are Linus' worries about ext4's potential data loss just
being
rewrites the filesystem to be more efficient by not actually writing
the quantum-light-platter.
(and btw, why isn't http://openbsd.org/papers linked from the front page?)
-Nick
you want is to set
your snaplen to be equal to your MTU, which is what I guess you're
doing?
-Nick
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org
wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote:
So, as nicely summarized at
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4-740467.html
,
ext4 is kind of broken. It won't honor
would
have a much better (by OpenBSD standards) manufacturer for
the RAID systems...
Nick.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:49 AM, sonjaya sonj...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all
i try install clamav from packages but get error like this , how to solved
?
- i try another mirror still same
- try donwload to local pc still same
# export
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org
wrote:
the alsa driver looks to be a complete driver that has nothing to do
with any of the usb standards based drivers for audio or midi. one
, this time.
for the record, I philosophically like preparing file systems with
native tools (i.e., windows file systems with windows systems, OpenBSD
file systems with OpenBSD, etc.), but the disk layout must be done
properly...and that's often easier on OpenBSD than any other OS.
Nick.
and changing upgrade45.html and
upgrade44.html, I usually only do that for really severe errors,
I'd rather that the translators work on current stuff that matters,
not old stuff)
Nick.
Google 802.1x port authentication then see if your switch is capable of
doing it. (ebay might get you a switch that can)
It'd block the rogue machine at the switch connection.
NB. it's possible to change mac addresses on machines so it's not really
very secure. It's more of a inconvenience.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org
wrote:
the alsa driver looks to be a complete driver that has nothing to do
with any of the usb standards based drivers for audio or midi. one
of the copyright holders on the alsa driver has an @caiaq.de email
address.
about this area to judge that for myself, and I don't know
where I'd start researching it.
Thanks for any insight at all.
-Nick
.
If you are convinced there is (or will be) mysterious technology that
can recover zeroed disks and your data is that interesting to these
people, you don't know the abilities of it, so don't assume process X
will keep your data deleted and never recovered.
Nick.
Hello,
I noticed the release notes of 4.6 referred to ldpd, and label
switching functionality, but I haven't found any of the binaries or
man pages. Did this feature not make the release?
Thanks,
Nick
pkg_add that fails?
-Nick
Rod Whitworth wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:32:36 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote:
Hi Nick,
You may notice that I've made this public. Not to get a democratic
election started, just to get the info out to some who may find it
useful even if you don't reckon it's good enough for an FAQ entry.
8
On the bright side, because this list houses some of the best
brainpower anywhere I have all but two of the requirements
finished (yes, the easy ones) and one of the two left I'm sure
I can handle on my own.
Would you mind sharing any non-confidential OpenBSD-related
questions/answers of the
up to this point...no, it hasn't, you have potentially been
destroying things all over the place.
Nick.
John Cosimano wrote:
--- Brad Tilley [Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:52:10PM -0400]: ---
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, John Cosimano j...@cosmicnetworks.net
wrote:
i seem to remember a thread here on misc@ that was meant to be a tmux
guide for experienced screen users.
One thing that
is typically excellent, so you
can learn au besoin on the fly.
-wb
May I also suggest the FAQ article written by tmux author Nicholas
Marriott?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux
Nick.
operator will need to do that, but my mirror (obsd.cec.mtu.edu)
seems to have no cvsync problems itself, just my local copy was messed up.
Nick.
Nick Holland wrote:
Emilio Perea wrote:
There seems to be a problem with CVSync updates (at least
anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org and anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org
to how I might disable that?
How are you starting xfce? If it's with an exec line in .xinitrc then
I would try to find the xfce config files and see if xconsole is being
started there.
-Nick
, and has been happily cvsyncing before and after.
I'm still investigating what is going on...I'm guessing something
got partly synced, and may need to be fixed somewhere, but not sure
where yet. I'm doing some testing, but it will take a while to
give me any clues...
Nick.
- Forwarded message
and msn links? What if your users don't want to tie their
email to the community but don't want to be bothered finding some free
email provider to camp? For a lot of non-techie communities, forums
are much easier.
-Nick
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Samuel Baldwin
recursive.for...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/11 Mic J michael.cogn...@gmail.com:
Why is that better?
Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated
into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy
place
of your PBR for them to use,
instead of the one OpenBSD installs to boot the OS, and they rarely
know when to update it when you reinstall the system!) or the /boot
file got clobbered somehow.
Nick.
incident like this.
Just use cvs properly, and I think you will have no problems.
Nick.
With all the hot air spewed on this thread, if we could tap into this
theothermal energy there'd be practically unlimited funding available.
Then everyone could take a break from the trivial work of updating an
entire bloody operating system and tackle the real hard-core
near-impossible challenge
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frank Bax f...@sympatico.ca wrote:
I'm looking for basic image editor: crop, resize, lossless jpg rotation.
Something minimalistic would be nice, so GIMP is out.
This will force KDE libs on your system, but KolourPaint is actually
really really good. I'm not
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:18 AM, shweg...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question
myself.
If I use aucat -l and then play multiple sessions of, say, mplayer,
everything is fine, but if I start mpd while running aucat as server, mpd
has kept this
from being fixed in OpenBSD, as far as I am aware. other OSs usually
just rely on the HP provided binaries (as long as HP choses to
provide them...).
Nick.
ask yourself, what would YOU do
without OpenBSD?
Nick.
at
all.
Nick.
-less 1650 before -- it was an old,
slow, power-hungry pig three years ago when I did that!), but the point
is to do it without investing more money in the old pigs. Use the pigs
as they are (or strip them down), don't add perfume. :)
Nick.
). HP has at least one
interesting looking machine, as do a lot of others. Load OpenBSD on a
flash drive, take it with you and try a few out. :)
Speaking of... time to update the thing with the current version of
my working copy of 4.6 FAQ updates, and go to dinner. :)
Nick.
If there genuinely is something as easy as yum update bind, then
great. But if so, it doesn't seem to be documented, and this is the
reason I haven't rolled out more OpenBSD boxen in the real world. I
run OpenBSD on my own machines. But I'm with Cian here. Keeping up
to date really is its
ttw+...@cobbled.net wrote:
On 14.09-20:43, Nick Holland wrote:
[ ... ]
Speed matters. Almost as much as some things, and nowhere near as
much as others.
beautifully specific and vague, i'd challenge anyone to sum up
benchmarking better. if that's not a quote, it is now; i'm writing
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni
m...@dbolgheroni.eng.brwrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Nick Holland wrote:
Thanks to those that contribute money and buy CDs.
I would like to buy CDs, but in Brazil these kind of products have a
high tax fee applied
* Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net [090915 07:57]:
Don't get me wrong, pure cash donations work nicely to keep the lights on.
Well...briefly. Based on some numbers Theo showed me after my earlier note,
cash donations from the US and Europe are..uhmm... how do I put
this...PATHETIC
I don't think anyone understands.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote:
Got that finger fixed yet?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:44:40PM +0200, paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Today I faced a issue which blowed my mind because if left no traces at
busy to argue
benchmarks.
Nick.
flicker on the LCD screen, it is something OTHER than
the CRTC's refresh rate... unfortunately, some of them could be hardware
problems.
Nick.
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Nick Holland
n...@holland-consulting.netwrote:
* Commitment to doing it right in one way, not twenty different
ways (pick one, maybe you get lucky).
just one question - how do we determine this one right way? (like there
could
to need it working perfectly.
Watching my T22 or T23 (whatever it is) running on ACPI was amazing --
the hw sensors were rather comprehensive, and you could watch the temp
drop as you could feel the thing cooling off...it was obviously MUCH
happier.
Nick.
desktop calculator supports (find a fourth grader).
Nick.
(old enough to remember when eight digits was enough for anything,
though if so, why do 90 year old Comptometers sporting ten digit
addends and 11 digit results, and 80 year old Monroe calculators
that could multiply eight digits by eight
to say that you DON'T also have an acpi issue, but you
have to get the kernel loaded before we worry about that.
Nick.
to permit devices and setuid apps need to be
not writable by non-root users.
Nick.
enough I nearly
didn't respond. I did. My mistake.
Please accept my apology for not having ignored you as I
should have. I'll try to do better in the future.
Nick.
. You can now run installboot
from the running system.
Key thing, though: if you have to do anything fancy, practice
locally first.
Good luck...
Nick.
to
an individual than it is to reply to an individual when you meant
to reply to the list?
I completely disagree.
My very small sample size indicates that your most other is..not.
But even if it is, it is not the safe default, and OpenBSD has never
followed the masses when they are wrong. :)
Nick.
. :)
Nick.
(waiting for suspend/resume to work so I can say...
Wake up, little Suzy, wake up!
You were waiting for me to say that, weren't you?)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Chris Dukespak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote:
Noone in their right mind installs an operating system just to install
an operating system. For the matter, noone in their right mind uses
a computer to just use a computer.
There are rational human oriented end goals
us some details, and maybe we can help you out.
Quick first test, though: boot up OS of your choice, look on your CD,
what do you see?
Nick.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
It really pisses me off that everyone assumes that the poor sap who is
asking for help is too stupid to have done things right and they just
forget that maybe the problem is in the SOURCE !
I know
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
Once you've cleared that hurdle, It would help a lot with more details
about the hardware, what image file you are using and where it came
from (ie is it the i386 one, the amd64 one, off an official
Has anyone had experience of running OpenBSD on a Lenovo ThinkPad
X301? Thoughts, caveats, quirks?
Thanks all.
How to reach that server when in shell mode? Or is there another way to
do this?
NFS isn't available on the install media, and neither is ssh. If the
server has ftp or
http then you can use ftp like:
ftp -o - http://someserver/part.dump | restore ...
-N
to
spot the pin bent under the socket.)
memtest86 is a very impressive memory diagnostic program, it does
good things and does them well, but passing memtest86, as with any
diagnostic, just means no problem FOUND.
Nick.
(1) those thinking, hey, one pin can't select more than TWO pages
of RAM need
as a server),
with very little practice, you can do a version upgrade in two
reboots and 15 minutes (and downtime only during the reboots), and
system updates (patched same version) with one (or no) reboot.
Nick.
On 14 Jul 2009, at 18:27, Bob Beck wrote:
* Michiel van Baak mich...@vanbaak.info [2009-07-05 11:05]:
On 10:36, Sun 05 Jul 09, stan wrote:
I am trying to get OpenBSD 4.5 working as a guest OS using KVM on
Linux. I
have been able to get 4.4 to install and run fine, but 4.5 never
gives me a
because the NAT is full) and I would like to be able to run
OpenBSD on it so I could actually tweak things.
-Nick
, expect
to spend AT LEAST as much time (and more likely, many times as
much time) investigating and describing your problem as you
expect others to spend helping you for free.
This applies to your other thread you have started...and from
memory, the ones you have started in the past, too.
Nick.
Le
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Jason Beaudoinjasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote:
to clarify.. you are using Samba, or Samba Winbind?
~Jason
Not a user, but samba/winbind was discussed on ports last week:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=124653912620380w=2
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
It looks like the max bandwidth of ftp is somehow 350 Kb/s.
Is this normaland if so can it be increased ?
Thx
Bye.
I don't think FTP is rate limited by default. Wild guess is you need
to google tcp window
, and if that's the case, the floppy boot
trick may not work as well.
(you MAY be right, there may be something wrong with the HD, but
usually you get SOME kind of error message. Though sometimes you
don't... ('scuse me while I have an unpleasant flashback...)
Nick.
Eric d'Alibut wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Nick
Hollandn...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
If you look early on at the boot messages, you probably see something
like:
B disk: fd0 hd0*+ hd1+
Exactly that. (Only, since I am now booting from the install CD, there
is a 'cd0
you can't boot most Ultras from floppy, and in this case, the U5/U10
are part of most.
Use a CD-R, if that doesn't work, borrow a known good IDE CDROM.
U5/U10s Just Work (when they ain't busted)
Nick.
to something with no boot ROM (like
some Sun cards), or an invalid boot ROM (like a Mac SCSI card in a PC),
or a disabled boot ROM, this won't work, as there will be no BIOS
support for your system, and thus no way to boot OpenBSD to get
OpenBSD's support for your system.
Nick.
(private) HKS wrote:
Has anyone solved this problem on OpenBSD?
-HKS
I have not yet, but I've been meaning to look into systems such as
cfengine [1], puppet [2], chef [3], etc.
I'd be interested in any experiences folks have with these types of
systems and OpenBSD.
Nick
[1] http
to some degree) still work (for the first eight).
Even if you don't use them, all 16 partition table entries exist
and could be used later, if needed.
Nick.
this now: make an 'audio' user, at boot do
sudo -u audio aucat -l and also create links to the socket that made
for each user on the system. I don't know what's worse: recreating
links at each boot or having to have a config file.
-Nick
. If you aren't finding OTHER
errors while reading code, just keep reading, not changing.
(Devs: feel free to jump all over me if I'm wrong here, working on an
article in the FAQ along these lines... :)
Nick.
handy to not have this ticked if you want all your non work
traffic to go out via your normal connection, but in this case you
want it ticked.
Cheers - Nick
On 29 May 2009, at 22:08, Juan Miscaro wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to set up a PPTP tunnel for a Windows machine lying
behind my OBSD 4.0
into that.
Hope some of this helps.
On 30 May 2009, at 21:19, patrick keshishian wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Nick Ryan n...@njryan.com wrote:
There's a tickbox on the windows vpn client to tick.
It's quite well hidden.
To get to it, do properties on your VPN connection, then click
hardware specific. Now look at what you have done,
and realize you on your way to re-inventing X. Just keep going,
might as well see if you can do better...
Nick.
is EXACTLY what I'd expect to happen.
Nick.
handle a Windows partition that is not first on a flash
disk, so it wouldn't surprise me if the stripped-way-down-non-OS on an
MP3 player would have even more significant limitations.
Still, a cool thing to do. :)
Nick.
in the language
that most of the mainstream OS are written in (though I'm sure an
awful lot of them could correct my grammar *sigh*), so I can easily
imagine the benefit to a home grown OS with a little less of an
English bias.
Nick.
pile, you
may have difficulty expanding old machines to the useful minimum.
Nick.
MANI wrote:
and why I can not boot to
OpenBSD using bootable cd ? boot hd0a:/bsd not working for me.
That should work...
What happens?
Nick.
a different way because I
discovered the dhclient.conf:send host-name hostname; option. I'm
still curious about mDNS support in OpenBSD though (and this took me a
couple hours of searching, so the archives could probably use this
tip).
-Nick
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Antoine Jacoutot ajacou...@bsdfrog.org
wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Marco Peereboom wrote:
I need an mdns solution as well. If you have something working please
let me know.
I'm working on avahi which I intend to finish at c2k9.
Thank you!
-, wheras in linux
the goal is just to get things working, not necessarily working
reproducibly well without regard to platform and situations.
-Nick
On 13/05/2009, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:01:40 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org
said:
between FreeBSD
at exactly the resolution
and timing you are after.
Nick.
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