Reading /etc/shells - Check /etc/master.passwd - Password file busy

Hello, new issue I haven't ever had and no idea how to fix it either - rebooting does not help. What the $%%! is going on, anyone help? Here it is: # id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest) # adduser Derek Use option ``-silent''

Re: upgrade OpenBSD 5.8 to 5.9 daemon: unknown class

he file some time ago, if you had rebooted without an upgrade, you would have seen the same problem). sysmerge may help. Nick.

OwnCloud - security/setup warnings etc.. Any help/advice would be massively appreciated.

## I think this error can be safely ignored, is that correct? OpenBSD changed the way environment variables are handled.. (?) 1. php does not seem to be setup properly to query system environment variables. The test with getenv("PATH") only returns an empty response. ## This I'm not sure of, is

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

Just a couple added memories. Punched cards were my first experience with "copy/paste" - there was a "duplicate card" key on the card machine which would create a duplicate of the card you queued up in the input slot. Of course you could also cut/paste just by moving the card :-). Above the card

Re: Project: Creating an "immutable" OpenBSD disk image with Packer and Ansible

less than that...and with only a couple minutes of downtime where packets don't get through. Nick.

Re: faq12.html

but "power" might be a more understood word. Nick.

Mouse click problems with firefox and firefox-esr

Hello, I have tried both firefox and firefox-esr in both OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 and can say that there are issues with the mouse not picking up 10-15% of my clicks, sometimes having to click a good 3 times or more for it to actually work correctly! When I select and drag text, it can randomly

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

commands are so short, imagine typing on this...) * Tektronix 4010 (In case you thought terminals were dull and graphics free...and I suspect a LOT of people who have been rolling their eyes at everything I've said up to now will have their eyes bug out a bit when they figure out how these things work) Anything more than that (and probably a lot less than that), probably best to ask me off list. :) (and yes, I've glossed over and simplified a few things here) Nick.

Re: RS232 Mini PCI Express Serial Card

can know what it is before booting. And almost certainly, your system BIOS would not redirect to it, either. Nick.

Re: Trying to move my httpd chroot

OT be in /. Your /usr should not have 129G free. Your web server should not be in /usr. You really need to be reloading that system with a less insane partitioning plan. Then you don't have to worry about moving the chroot. It can be done. But don't. Just don't. Not for this reason. You need to upgrade soon anyway. Good time to rebuild properly. Nick.

Re: root partition is 105%, what will happen if I just leave it?

. Original Message Subject: Re: root partition is 105%, what will happen if I just leave it? Local Time: March 6, 2016 11:47 AM UTC Time: March 6, 2016 11:47 AM From: es...@nerim.net To: s...@protonmail.com CC: misc@openbsd.org On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 11:49:37AM -0500, Nick wrote: > He

Re: root partition is 105%, what will happen if I just leave it?

On 03/05/16 11:49, Nick wrote: > Hello, > > I used the default partition layout when I set up this system (5.8 - > CD release) a few weeks ago.. > > Just realised after a 'du -h' that the root partition is at 105%.. > Now, I know that OpenBSD has a safeguard in pla

root partition is 105%, what will happen if I just leave it?

Hello, I used the default partition layout when I set up this system (5.8 - CD release) a few weeks ago.. Just realised after a 'du -h' that the root partition is at 105%.. Now, I know that OpenBSD has a safeguard in place of 5% of partition capacity for scenarios like these and I of course

Re: BlackBerry Classic to use OpenBSD

ty and life span once the embedded batteries die), I'd be surprised if anyone was jumping for joy over the idea of spending time on it. Feel free to prove me wrong. Nick.

Re: FAQ - Add a link

On 02/17/16 09:17, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: > Hi, > > Can you add a link to "http://www.openbsd.org; on the OpenBSD logo > (smalltitle.gif) located at http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ ? > It will be better for browsing, to come back. Good idea. Done. Nick.

Re: how to send email via Mail

f creating mail to be delivered somewhere (not it's problem!) from scripts and such in a Unix-y way. Nick.

Re: how to send email via Mail

http://www.openbsd.org/opensmtpd/faq/example1.html Original Message Subject: how to send email via Mail Local Time: February 25, 2016 10:02 pm UTC Time: February 25, 2016 10:02 PM From: j...@xs4all.nl To: misc@openbsd.org Hallo, I would like to use mail(1) for email client. In

Re: How full can a ffs filesystem be?

er the 95% point and are happy about it, you have entered Special Case Land, rules of thumb don't apply and you are responsible for your own situation. Nick.

Re: FAQ: 14.21.5 - Softraid notes

es -- if the old boot drive can't boot, but still shows up as sd0, But bootable SR is still probably the way to go. Oververbose, over documentation. Nuke it. Nick.

Re: XFCE / activating greyed-out power button / anyone help?

Right enough, meant to say 5.8 stable! Thanks a lot for your advice, I now have everything set up the way I want it - thanks! ..really gotta remember to read the pkg_readme's next time! ha Regards Hi. On 02/20/16 16:20, Nick wrote: > I'm on 5.9-stable, > 5.9 isn't re

XFCE / activating greyed-out power button / anyone help?

I'm on 5.9-stable, got XFCE on here and just wondering about getting the power and shutdown buttons working as they are greyed out for root and non-root. Here's the old instructions for when 'sudo' was the standard: %users ALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/local/lib/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper Then add

Re: Will Softraid RAID1 read from the fastest mirror/-s / supports user-specified device read priority order, nowadays? Takes broken disk out of use?

On 02/15/16 16:02, Karel Gardas wrote: >> ..And therefore you need enterprise disks because they behave "cleanly", as >> when using those only, essentially full softraid QoS is maintained at all >> times. > > Interesting! I've understand Nick excellent email

Re: Will Softraid RAID1 read from the fastest mirror/-s / supports user-specified device read priority order, nowadays? Takes broken disk out of use?

s for a looong time, and seen the problems from both rapid-failure and "try and try" disks, I'll take the "try and try" problem any day. Happens a lot less often, and tends to be less catastrophic when it happens (hint: you WILL be quickly fixing a disk system which gets to be 100x slower than normal. You may not notice the first disk that fails and causes an array to be non-redundant until the disk fails that takes the array down completely). Nick.

Re: how to break /etc/weekly and your locate.database

he disabling the root password, something I've been doing for well over ten years on OpenBSD turned out to have some risks when doas replaced sudo, as the upgrade would break sudo, but doas wasn't configured yet. Nick.

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

On 01/26/16 05:36, Karel Gardas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Nick Holland > <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: >> Meanwhile, there ARE platforms that are still borderline useful. >> MacPPC, Sparc64 need people to RUN them for real life work, and impro

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

enjoy! Don't slow down OpenBSD's security work on relevant platforms for relics. Meanwhile, there ARE platforms that are still borderline useful. MacPPC, Sparc64 need people to RUN them for real life work, and improve them for relevancy, as naddy@ said. Nick.

important change: anoncvs (and cvsync) service at openbsd.cs.toronto.edu

obsdacvs as a motivator to move. :) Install files *will not* be changing URLs, just anoncvs and cvsync. Nick.

Wifi on Acer Aspire One ZG5 doesn't work

groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect status: no network ieee80211: nwid test And dmesg output is: ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3223349734 No wireless network with ssid "test" could be found by my other devices. I hope this helps! :) - Nick OpenBSD

Re: Wifi on Acer Aspire One ZG5 doesn't work

I didn't because I thought ath and athn are different drivers? Now I did "fw_update -a" and rebooted but that didn't seem to change anything at all. On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 03:36:31PM +, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > You have installed >

Re: the location of openbsd.pbr

cord (first 512 bytes of the OpenBSD partition). The AA55 signature is on the MBR. See the "How OpenBSD Boots" section of FAQ 14. Nick.

Re: 5.8: Cannot communicate with iDrac6 once OpenBSD boots (Broadcom BCM5709 via bnx)

e response is about as far from that as you can imagine. Doesn't matter what OS you are running, just doesn't pass the "let's think about this a moment" test. Nick.

Re: file(1) - install.iso is 44.1kHz, stereo

and put it in a plain ol' CD player, it will play. In stereo. Sounds kinda like Justin Bieber(*). Nick. * Replace with whomever's music/existence you dislike this week

Re: no mail/reports following power failure

ong: not only are you running out of date software, but your most recent changes may not be taking effect as you think they will on next boot. Nick.

Re: text-mode gui

. In fact, I'm hoping this whole concept is a bad dream I'm having due to eating raw cookie dough, a contaminated a gyro and overly potent onions. Nick.

University of Toronto Mirror upcoming outages

16 11:00p EST to Thursday December 17, 7:00am EST The mirror will be unavailable during these periods. Thanks! Nick.

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

oked at me puzzled. I tap the URL on his screen. I tap the lock graphic. His look goes from "What silly crap has Nick got for me this time?" to pure panic. "oh. my. God. We are going to have to do a password roll" (a change of pw for EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the company -- as he

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 on VMware 5.5

rst write of an fsck just mysteriously not happen kinda creeps me out. I'm not a FS guy, but it seems to me that skipping the occasional write, or even just the first write, isn't going to improve data integrity. :) Nick.

Re: can't boot from USB3.0 flash memory

BIOS until the kernel is loaded. So, if there is no attempt to boot, you have a BIOS issue. I've certainly seen this. The answer is a BIOS upgrade that probably doesn't exist, because many manufacturers barely test this feature. Nothing OpenBSD can do to fix it if the HW won't grab and run the boot code. Nick.

Re: NSD/Unbound clarifications

e body of a zone file directly?). Nick.

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

On 11/13/15 18:05, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:13:34 PM -0500 Nick Holland > <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > >> And if you deploy a lot of SSDs, [...] Some models are good, >> some are crap, you can't say which is whi

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

o fret about. If the fear of an SSD failing causes you to manage your systems better, it's all good. If failures aren't part of your system design, try again. Nothing different here. Nick.

Re: pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf fails on boot when DNS-resolved symbolic names are used

nf file a "stub" with enough to let the system come up, then a post boot and periodic (re)load of the "real" rules in a separate file. Nick.

Re: Firewall rules and features

I keep ending up on the My Little Pony website??"). Again, just because you CAN do something doesn't make it a good idea. Nick.

Re: installboot with amd64 root on softraid crypto, NOT 'a' partition

..just reinstall the old version that worked and all associated packages (list is at /var/db/pkg on your backup). Nick.

no connectiion to phone's AP

I can't connect my Thinkpad x220 to my phone's hotspot (WPA2-PSK). I'm using OpenBSD 5.8/amd64. Before everything, i did a fw_update. Then i created a hostname.iwn0 file: nwid myid wpakey mykey dhcp and then # ifconfig iwn0 up # ifconfig ... iwn0:

Re: no connectiion to phone's AP

> > # ifconfig > > ... > > iwn0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > lladdr 00:20:17:76:98:54 > > priority: 4 > > groups: wlan > > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g) > > status: active > > ieee80211: nwid "SOME

Re: Firefox Worked Slowly...

faster than before, that's on a processor that's twice as fast. That's a cynical exaggeration, but not as big an exaggeration as I wish it was. I'm really stunned at how much processor memory the modern browser leaks, considering we once used browsers on 486s with 16M RAM. Nick.

Re: Downgrade from 5.8-current to 5.8 release

be your next opportunity to test. Really, if you have good backups and good notes (or good understanding of the products you are using), this should not be difficult at all. If it is difficult, you have problems far bigger than -current. This is a wonderful time to fix those problems. Nick.

Re: does src include sys ?

stick to the documented process anyway. :) When you start inventing your own process, there's an almost infinite number of ways to go wrong. Nick.

Re: Question about core dumps and swap space.

On 10/20/15 07:09, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Nick Holland > <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: >> [...] >> and thus, I'll suggest you just don't worry about it. IF you manage to >> find a way to panic

Re: Remove removed utilities?

rom scratch." If OCD is causing you to twitch at seeing the old files, reinstall...or use this as a therapy. Nick.

Re: Question about core dumps and swap space.

ays what they ask for FIRST. Nick.

Re: Install on compact flash

t;improving" your system as you propose, you will almost certainly create far more downtime and work on your part. Nick.

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

riting clearly, even if that involves a few more words (oh the horror). Nick.

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

ng files around between Windows or other FFS-challenged systems. Nick. > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Mohammad BadieZadegan said: >> > How put OpenBSD image on it that don't curropt its file system or bootin

Re: update/upgrade

Upgrades? Do as usual from binary releases. Nick.

Re: update/upgrade

n mirror. You can then install a new -stable release on your slow hw as fast as you can copy it over and unpack the tar files, and your downtime is limited to the time of a reboot. You can also install these releases on blank hardware as well. Nick.

Re: openbsd.cs.toronto.edu seems to be down for me

On 09/08/15 20:18, Bryan C. Everly wrote: > I'm trying to get to http://openbsd.cs.toronto.edu/pub/OpenBSD/ and > failing. I can get to other mirrors (i.e. > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ ) just fine. > > Is it just me? Not just you, it's been restarted. Thanks! Nick.

Re: 5.7 installer: 'tar: Unable to remove directory'

/tmp /var/tmp Nick.

Re: ceill(0.9) returns 0 instead of 1 ?

should read else if((i0|i1)!=0) { se=0x3fff;i0=0x8000;i1=0;} or simpler still else if((i0|i1)!=0) { return 1.0L; } Best regards, Nick Permyakov

Re: Repartitioning

300G. Don't allocate all of the 300G, just what you actually need. Leave the rest unallocated. Decide you need more /usr space? Make a new partition, copy the existing /usr to the new one, change your /etc/fstab, reboot, delete your old /usr. Nick.

Re: Typo in Upgrade Guide: 5.6 to 5.7

reboot it. Nick.

Re: /etc/daily warning

of the platforms this matters on (most, but not all). I am curious how you made this configuration, as I thought the tools made this difficult to do these days. Nick.

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

your own process, and blamed the documentation. The documentation is correct, and the first paragraph of this section is written for people like you. Bye. Don't let the CDROM drawer smack you on the butt on the way out. Nick.

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

makes me sure of that. Nick. Facebook logo = Email or Phone Password Keep me logged in Forgot your password? [IMAGE] Sign Up Log In Messenger Facebook Lite Mobile Find Friends Badges People Pages Places Games Locations About Create Ad Create Page Developers

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

On 06/27/15 18:52, Nick Holland wrote: ... Nick. Facebook logo = ... (wtf? and it's even weirder looking in my outmail box. sorry for the noise)

Re: httpd feature request: auto index.txt

script when you try to fetch index.txt...but again, this is (in my opinion) the wrong way to do THIS task) Nick.

Re: Extend RAID 5

space, and you will activate the encrypted space post-boot. Maybe that's useful to you, maybe not. In general, I don't like systems that don't boot to a fully-functional state on their own. Nick.

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

On 06/19/15 13:38, andrew fabbro wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: been meaningless for some time). When the disk runs out of places to write the good data, it throws a permanent write error back to the OS and you have a really bad day

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

job just slower is still quite effectively down). Nick.

Re: Backup of OpenBSD to Linux box

over an ssh link. All the OS specific issues are managed on the machine being backed up, all that ends up on your Linux machine is a big file that can be pumped back over ssh to do a restore. Downside: those dump files are not very useful for anything other than restores. Nick.

Re: Backup of OpenBSD to Linux box

On 06/15/15 12:54, Liviu Daia wrote: On 15 June 2015, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: [...] In the first case, an rsync-based backup is probably almost impossible to beat. Combine with the --link-dest option (google for it. the man page is accurate, but you won't probably

Re: AnonCVS and -rHEAD

On 06/07/15 22:57, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:27:05 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: ... Where did you get these source files? Just checked the ones on the mirrors, they do not have such a tag on them. I'll check the CDs..um...not tonight

Re: AnonCVS and -rHEAD

this be mentioned in the documentation or is it just me? 5.1, under Snapshots kinda covers this, I think. Nick.

Re: Artwork link on the website

for the project. Today, that art consists of stories, music, and written commentary, which is perhaps better represented on the Lyrics page. (that, and the art*.html pages haven't seen much maintenance in a while. If you are looking for current stuff, lyrics.html is much better) Nick.

httpd authenticate option usage

-- never seems to prompt for the uid/pw. I'm sure whatever I'm missing is stupidly simple, but not sure what it is ... Nick.

Re: httpd authenticate option usage

it just silently fails. Should be at least a warning. send diff. :D But yeah, I found lots of ways to make errors and get unexpected results from those errors. On the other hand, the apache config file and I never were best of buddies, either. Thanks! Nick.

Re: Router performance amd64 vs i386

. 20% idle, you have the wrong hardware and are having (or soon will have) problems. Nick.

Re: FAQ 2: don't mention GNATS

-bin/man.cgi?query=sendbugamp;sektion=1;sendbug(1)/a when your system won't boot, but you should use it whenever possible. yep, thanks! Nick.

Re: soekris install error

(wd0 bn 80; cn 0 tn 1 sn 17), retrying I think you will find this applies: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386flash Nick.

Re: offtopic: political correctness

about OpenBSD is ... a couple target platforms. :) Nick. (making note to offend more in the future)

Re: report:intranet PXE network install (by nginx...)

. Unfortunately, he's been posting a lot of his experiences which involve reinventing wheels with some really oddly shapes and making some simple things complicated. That's not helpful. Nick. Il 07/mag/2015 10:43, Jiri B ji...@devio.us ha scritto: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 05:24:14PM +0900

Re: OpenBSD 5.7 Released

are sorry guys. Bummer! thanks for the heads up I'll light a candle in the window and wait in the rocking chair for the Prodigal Puffy The Blues Fish will be at the leading edge of the most amazing car chase you have ever seen! :) Nick.

Re: a few question about sftp

understanding why, I'd think unpleasant things about the administrator. :) Nick. Am 01.05.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Nick Holland: On 05/01/15 07:07, Markus Rosjat wrote: hi there, I just do some testing with sftp access and I stumbled about some things I dont get. if I use the chroot I would

Re: a few question about sftp

a /etc and /dev et al. directories which could be influencing other chroot'ed applications. Nick.

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

dmesg ... oh wait, you haven't provided us one. Nick.

httpd file types

download)? Nick. (waiting for a well-deserved rtfm ...) (and grumpy about this CP/M-MSDOS concept of extension on Unix ...)

Re: httpd file types

of globbing or (IFF it could be done safely and efficiently) RegEx, or even significantly subsetted regex. Nick.

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

can certainly insert them). In fact, about five seconds after someone says Firewire has DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS, I think you should say, oh. baad idea (those five seconds were spent wondering if there was a use of DMA that applies here that you weren't thinking of). Nick.

Re: [patch] Consistency in FAQ

to checkout and update a useful tree. Other commands can cause a broken tree. Yep, I'd agree with that. Committed, thanks! Nick.

Re: install openbsd to the area made by LINUX's fdisk

a place to install. back to the topic at hand: changing the install process does not impact this one bit. If your BIOS has a problem, it has a problem. I have several machines which multiboot with OpenBSD loaded after 128GB. Nick.

Re: install openbsd to the area made by LINUX's fdisk

will only use the OpenBSD fdisk partition by default unless you push it elsewhere. But from that point onwards, no, I do not recommend people follow your process. Nick.

Re: Getting errors during security(8) maintenance

434. Use of uninitialized value $home in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/libexec/security line 434. Stunning lack of information, but sounds like you botched an upgrade somewhere. Nick.

Re: Fund raising

. Really. I've been buying CDs since 2.6, and I look forward to getting every single one. And this is from someone who works with the project and pays the same price everyone else does (and historically, usually got it AFTER many of you guys are bragging about getting yours). Nick.

Re: Server screen does not wake up

work with /any/ known monitor. Same fix, but as I've run around and plugged some pretty capable and tolerant monitors into these dead video ports, I wouldn't spend a lot of time looking for a better monitor. Nick.

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

this machine does not like Linux. ... *looking around* As this is an OpenBSD list, I think it sounds like it is working just fine. ;) Nick.

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

Debian devs who thought the same thing once ... Crypto is hard, have some trust in the professionals, or you will probably create far bigger security problems. Nick.

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

On 03/11/15 18:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-03-11, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: As for the general premise of thinking you know more than the OpenSSH developers...I just have memories of certain Debian devs who thought the same thing once ... Crypto is hard

Re: Home server rack recommendations?

be doable. Nick.

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

did it wrong. Most likely, that's not your nwid or wpakey. And you probably don't have a .if interface. Based on the information you provided, that's all I can or will say. Nick.

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