taking the
interface down and back up, it makes no difference.
Is there a way of resetting the card altogether?
Have you tried pulling it out? That usually fixes my zyd(4) (though it
has other problems than yours).
-Nick
A purely informational follow up to
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2008-05/0824.html:
I got a zyd(4) as a Linksys WUSBF54G. It's neat, doubles as a
wifi-finder when you don't have it plugged in, seems to have good
range. Sadly, if I push it too hard not only do I get a bunch of
...or those that show a lack of actual
quality which causes me to doubt their real security.
Nick.
...
Nick.
are usually easier/more
successfully cleaned.
Nick.
on something
I found...don't ask me where or how. It is admittedly
imperfect, but it did the job.
/home/nick $ more .windowrc
close all
myrows = $nrow - 2
mycols = ( $ncol / 2 ) - 1
window ( 1, 1, $myrows, 80 )
# 80 in following command should be $mycols, but we'll just chop long lines
window ( 1
this person has to say.
See FAQ5 for the official line on this topic.
(alternate response: a few k here, a few k there, soon you are
still talking about nothing of significance...)
Nick.
for you, let me know so I can put it
in my notes (i.e., the FAQ :) properly)
Don't forget to kill that ssh session and restart sendmail
to bring the system back up to proper operation when done!
Nick.
suggested and install OpenBSD from that...
Nick.
of other options for bootstrapping the system, but none of the
rest are something the average PC user has ever done before.
But man, E450s are big. But I'm sure you have noticed that. :)
Nick.
in the FAQ being a errata sheet
for someone else's document, but an advisory that the typography is
hosed would not be bad (a better resource would be..uh..better).
Nick.
behavior.
Nick.
, with no processor or binary compatibility.
As for cross compiling..it is completely up to you to test the ability
of the (imperfect) compiler tools to do what you want.
Nick.
you are cool in a constructive way, run -current.
You will experience far less down time than you will running wacko
customized stuff you don't understand, and you will help make the next
release of OpenBSD better.
Nick.
your usr.sbin/dhcpd directory
in the source tree back a few days (or even to OPENBSD_4_3), and recompile
until the problem is fixed.
(I was wondering why you spotted the problem days ago, when I just spotted
it this evening. I forgot it took my 100MHz sparc a while to build. :)
Nick.
are
horrible about that... Hey, look a new hard disk. Hit F1 to
reward me for being so observant! Or don't if you like this pretty
message to stay on your screen)
General purpose? No.
For PARTICULAR purposes? Sure, why not?
Nick.
. Since you appear to have a serial console, I'd try to
do this by booting single user, mount -f / (to skip the fsck), start
the rest of the system, and copy over a 4.3 bsd.rd, then reboot off
it. If the fsck works, reboot, and upgrade the machine, please.
Nick.
ropers wrote:
2008/5/4 Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[vim] alters files in unexpected ways, which I consider a
major sin.
I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything
enlightening. Could you elaborate?
Thanks and regards,
--ropers
It might have been better if I
, not the video driver. :)
Nick.
replacement for FAQ
sections 14.1 and 14.2, do so...but improving it will be more than
simply replacing words. However, I doubt it will ever be a one
paragraph, one-read-through thing for new OpenBSD users. Or Linux
users. Or Windows users...
Nick.
will fix it eventually
model. That's not how OpenBSD is developed. People who break things are
beaten, and then the remains are expected to fix it immediately.
Nick.
consider a
major sin. Yes, I know, you can turn off all that crap, but if I'm
trying to configure or administer a system, my first goal is not to
spend an hour moving in...make the changes needed, and move on,
and NOT fix the editor.
Nick.
Nick.
files launch it, but if it is running, it will be mostly
those two files. dhcpd was replaced in the upgrade process, dhcpd.conf
/should/ be untouched. Looking at the dates on those files will tell
a few things, I suspect.
Nick.
Me too! I can't wait to play with this. Thanks guys!
N
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Insan Praja SW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Misc@,
Last weekend I took a peek at daily changelog. Suprising enough to see
that
in production here to try it, but I'd certainly start
with the obvious.
Nick.
list!
However, a much better way to this would be simply snag a copy of the
program. (one way, perhaps: honeypot machine, with a firewall that
cuts off all net connections after it makes, say, ten outgoing ssh
connections in a minute).
Nick.
on the screen. Put the
digicam down, I'm not looking.
Nick.
to take me a while to get used to having a kernel that I
don't HAVE to touch - not that I'm complaining!
wait until you get used to working on your projects rather than
tweaking your OS... It will raise your expectations on everything.
Nick.
=119750317632017w=2
You already know the reasons for this.
-Nick
Does it matter that the subnet mask is configured as a /30, or is it the
media type that controls this behavior? Is there any way to use this
mechanism on an ethernet interfaces?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
We're trying to use the :peer modifier to
that ok, as long as it is the
first partition on the disk.
Nick.
...
Nick.
a new kernel (even if compiled
on another machine). You just won't be adding much functionality to
the machine -- there won't be something major you will suddenly be
able to do that you couldn't do before.
Nick.
booted from
bsd.rd, this doesn't work. In that case, you need to look at
your disklabel or the etc/fstab file on your disk.
Nick.
remotely
is just not quite as error tolerant as using an install kernel
locally. We'd be nuts to try to tell you otherwise.
Nick.
stuff running and repaired quickly when it
breaks.
Nick.
your /var partition. You did have /var in a separate
partition, right?
Nick.
forgot something:
Nick Holland wrote:
...
You could also boot bsd.rd, and do something like:
mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
cd /mnt
tar xzpf /path/etc.tgz
er.. one potential problem with that: it will overwrite parts of
your /var partition, which may or may not be a problem for you
(i.e., if you have
with amd64, even though I'd probably forget and go with
i386 myself. :)
Nick.
,
and much of what I write would probably be best for me if spread
without attribution or buried and never seen again :).
Nick.
survive past you.
Nick.
someone tests a machine, it is pretty close to
impossible to find out.
Load OpenBSD on a USB flash drive, stick it in the thing, boot from
it and see what happens...
Nick.
RAID partition is just a partition of
the disk, if the system boots (indicating the partitioning is good),
RAID will usually just work, and it will almost always boot when
moving around on the same platform.
Nick.
the diff in your face and had it there while
you were making the change message, and I found the dated change
files much easier to grep through when looking for when something
changed and why.
Nick.
at.
Provide useful info, we can provide guidance.
Note: i386 machines I call old can't boot from CD. :)
Nick.
problem, don't
just change it. Remember, virtualized systems can need Disaster
Recovery, too...
(end Rant)
Nick.
Nick Holland wrote:
Don Jackson wrote:
I use serial consoles on all my OpenBSD servers for remote serial
access to the machines, both during initial install via pxeboot, and
later on in regular use after the install.
I'm currently running either 4.2 or 4.1 on all my machines.
The FAQ
Kasper Revsbech wrote:
I have attached to windows xp clients by crossed cable one to each if
(vr and vr2)
The fun begins here, when i turn on and off the windows machines a
couple of times one of the can't obtain a IP. It actually brings
down the whole interface. I can't attach another
, or it would have been
properly maintained and be running 4.2 now. So, why would
you want to blindly migrate a mess to new hardware?
Nick.
that supports console redirection.
Nick.
cool to turn the boot.conf knobs.
Sometimes the way to avoid one error opens the door to three
or four others.
Nick.
for free.
// nick
-retentive, pedantic, intolerant, fanatical, insistent,
demanding and relentless: in other words, the perfect people
to be crafting an operating system.
(possibly from Rich Kulawiec, but I've not had much luck confirming
that... and he's wrong: not some, ALL...)
Nick.
advanced license.
Installing openbsd through ilo2 virtual cd works just fine btw.
// nick
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r
does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long
and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be
done
enough to flood
your system with liquid hydrocarbons and liquid nitrogen...you
got bigger security problems than your memory not forgetting.
Nick.
it
proved. It's annoying to look through all the idiots-pretending-
to-be-experts, the idiots stirring shit because they can, and the
developers setting it straight to find people who have honest-to-
goodness questions or problems related to OpenBSD.
Nick.
the boot loader and the Compaq BIOS
(probably enough blame to share between the two), on a platform that can
handle the larger amounts of RAM.
The amd64 4G issue is a limitation of the platform...at the moment. It
is being worked on, slowly, but there be dragons, and they all have to
be slain.
Nick.
on
anything bigger than 3G, as I recall), and many other machines.
Nick.
a no way in hell, and the machine a couple
weeks later. :)
Nick.
not what you want. And I
doubt the extra cables between the chassis and the computer are going
to be your friends.
Nick.
system or is that a bad idea?
not only is it safe, sometimes it critical to add swap on the fly. :)
Nick.
I have an upcoming project where I need to be able to automate the upload and
download of files to/from an HTTPS server (not owned by me). The server says
it requires 128 bit encryption. I would like to be able to do this using
python because it is the language that I know the best and it is
speculate as to what
is going on as a lot of people here have been doing (and most are
obviously neither doctors NOR e-mags), but ultimately, you need to
do lots of tests yourself.
Good luck...
Nick.
(I'm not an e-mag, but I did take an e-mag class. One. Long ago.
Didn't do very well in it. Oh...e
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
So, back to the issue at hand. Anybody have fond memories of great 486
or Pentium-based servers (or other arch equivs)?
Doug.
Back in 1999, I picked up several used HP Vectra Pentium 100 desktops
for use as backup backup dial in administration machines at our
process
to pick it up using exclusively xandros on the eee...
thanks in advance.
-f
see recent thread, Install OpenBSD from USB.
Don't believe all of of what people said. :)
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
Nick.
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:45:27AM -0500, Nick Holland said that
(short version: just do a normal install to the flash disk)
how do i boot bsd.rd to make an install to the flash disk?
chicken egg. i dont have an usb cdrom, nor floppy disk.
only usb media. i need
all over the things people would be looking at,
and told me to make it clear it was an error, and would be fixed
for the next release. upgrade43.html will include a bit about
removing xbase42.tgz if you had to install it for 4.2)
Nick.
I'd win a race in doing that.
HOWEVER, having OpenBSD on a bootable USB flash disk is very handy at
times...assuming you hang around HW new enough to actually boot from
USB.
Nick.
. That
way, when you reinstall it, you don't forget to edit that parameter
and cause yourself problems.
Remember: the goal is NOT to get the thing running, the goal is to
KEEP it running (i.e., maintainable) throughout its life cycle.
Nick.
with subject:
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: acpicpu needs wide testing]
thx
// nick
trouble.
btw: at least in my case, the PE2800 with a 4/Di card has no beeper. If
the drive fails, you either need bioctl to tell you or notice the color
change on the display of the machine. bioctl ami0 makes a really good
line in your daily.local file...
Nick.
I'd just rather have the whole thing there.
Fully dmesg follows for the curious. Well, that, and I get my hands on a
cutting-edge three-year-old computer relatively rarely, so I gotta gloat,
even if your new laptop has more processor and RAM. :)
Nick.
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #1532: Tue
Lars NoodC)n wrote:
I suppose another option is to use pf to filter out all incoming traffic
to the servers originating from Windows computers maybe except to
relevant services like http port or https. If we could see a blanket
ban on connecting Windows machines to the net, things would
On Jan 9, 2008 5:05 AM, Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:00:31AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 1:22 AM, William Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear misc --
I'm attempting to get a root partition on raid 1 RaidFrame
configuration
Any suggestions?
Get a Netgear ISDN router - used one for a number of years with no problems.
They come in either single network connection or with 4 port hub.
-N
On Jan 8, 2008 11:40 AM, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/1/8, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
do you have a website that has pictures, the mail server stripped your
attachemnts
Sam Fourman Jr.
I second that, me want see pictures!!!
give me X.25 any day, instead of this new fangled ISDN technology.
Don't forget to run uucp over it ;-)
On Jan 7, 2008 7:22 AM, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/4/08, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would you verify the whole disk is readable? And if it's all
readable, how do you ensure the data is still the same pattern you put
on before?
the posting von hannah shows what
benchmark that matters is YOUR application, usually in
production.
Nick.
Make sure that the windows 2003 firewall isn't set up to block web
access. It's caught me out before in the past, although that was on
SBS2003.
See if you can telnet to port 80 from the OpenBSD firewall to the
external interface on the windows box.
On 8 Jan 2008, at 17:04, Sewan wrote:
-php one) it don't work
Can you get at the windows web server from inside the router itself?
-Nick
On Jan 8, 2008 8:53 PM, Kevin Stam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking at a response [2] on a message posted on Libtorrent-devel, I
believe it is not an OpenBSD-only situation:
/me marks another notch on the list of kernels and compilers
r/libtorrent has killed...
Either all of the various
.
When you build your new kernel you also need to change config(8) to
set root on raid0. fstab isn't read until *after* the root is
mounted, remember; how is it going to know to read from
raid0a:/etc/fstab if the file to tell it that is raid0a:/etc/fstab?
-Nick
, trust the people to do
what's right, c.
Though I wouldn't help in this case, since it's obvious the OP does
want to just steal wifi, and helping him do that without teaching him
is a waste of everyone's time.
-Nick
are running OpenBSD on your
banking computer, I suspect you have shifted the primary risk to the
other end of the wire...your bank is a bigger risk to your data than you
are.
Nick.
the same pattern you put
on before?
-Nick
rl1, it is OpenVPN traffic.
Any recommendations on how to handle this?
--
Nick Golder
you will have to take down your servers because of cutesie-crap bugs.
Nick.
Erik Wikstrvm wrote:
Hi
I am setting up a OpenBSD box to act as a router/file-server for my
parents, the box consists mostly of old parts and I try to not spend any
extra money on it. One of my biggest worries is, since it will act as a
file-server which will contain stuff with some
clobbers your MBR, which holds your (now hosed)
fdisk partitions.
see faq4.html.
Nick.
But as a stopgap, look into rm -P (on OpenBSD). Linux has shred too.
On Dec 31, 2007 1:25 PM, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grind them up. There is nothing else you can do to permanently wipe
disks. Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough
equipment. If your data
to the nearest 1W, so all those figures are
+/-1W on top of whatever the accuracy of the thing is.)
(the hard disk is installed on this thing so I can start imaging
and making additional flash cards on my dev system, not for
production.)
Nick.
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #607: Tue Dec 18 18:36
delete key for the rest.
IF you really have a problem, then get fancy. Don't make your life
difficult if you don't have a problem.
Nick.
good stuff, and not just things that changed.
(I have had people say to me, Hey, you are just looking at the
docs, I thought you knew this? I WROTE the docs. Doesn't mean
I remember anything more than 'where to look'.)
Nick.
still buy CDs as they are released to support
the project.
What you probably want is to go the upgrade-every-6-months route.
-Nick
to ... before I
ship it out fully detached? The good news is I'm pretty sure
there is at least one OpenBSD developer near-by, but that's just
all the more reason to make sure I don't screw it up, I'll never
live it down. :)
Nick.
ports.tar.gz, extract
it (into /usr/ports, canonically) and read the Makefile for the
program you want. It'll have the URL you want.
-Nick
). Easy
to see where conflicts would start to occur.
Nick.
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