On 06/03/14 04:29, Oliver Peter wrote:
Links in FAQ seem to be dead:
yep, thanks!
Nick.
Index: faq8.html
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RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq8.html,v
retrieving revision 1.252
diff -u -r1.252 faq8.html
--- faq8.html 3 May 2014 13
firefox coming up that fast in quite some time. Guess I need to
replace my desktop now.
Nick.
Thank you.
OpenBSD 5.5-current (GENERIC) #63: Tue Apr 29 02:37:44 MDT 2014
t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (GenuineIntel 686
changed the
TOTAL system power draw at all.
Nick.
. Not EXACTLY where I'd expect
that error, but ...
IF you are using a serial console, you would want to add a
/etc/boot.conf file to your CD with the serial redirection command on it
(set tty com0).
Nick.
are basically just special purpose PCs. Again, not as
low power as the ARM systems, but again, starting price of near free
is hard to beat.
Nick.
it that way.
Nick.
On 04/08/14 16:35, Remy wrote:
Hi guys,
here is a simple patch to replace /etc/crontab by /etc/cron.d/.
You need to manually mkdir /etc/cron.d.
um. eight days late. I look forward to your contribution next year, but
try to hit the right date next time.
Nick.
with their data ARE responsible for
the security of that data, and not quite willing to accept the same old
crap excuses anymore.
Nick.
would write something I was very
proud of...then get a correction of my basic English from someone for
whom English is a fourth or fifth language, it's hard to get an inflated
ego. :)
Nick.
more complicated, you can have lots of
localhosts. (127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3 ...) and attach different services to
each.
Nick.
to be educated on
this...or is it just a reluctance to change?
Nick.
(and at least
some Linux kernels, I've seen) won't touch the drive if it was in the
unsupported RAID configuration mode.
Nick.
reinstalling. Is possible?
Thanks,
Matias.-
depends...if you left unallocated disk space sufficient to build a new
RAID partition and copy your data over, sure.
Otherwise, it is rebuild from scratch.
Nick.
On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2014-03-17, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
(Exception: when you make a partition small enough to be ffs, but plan
to growfs it later to a bigger size -- growfs works on ffs and ffs2, but
doesn't convert from one to the other. Oh
), you just rebuild the second (standby) one the way
you want it, copy your data back to it, promote it to master, and do the
same for the other machine.
Nick.
On March 17, 2014 8:40:34 PM CDT, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net
wrote:
On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2014-03-17
.
(Exception: when you make a partition small enough to be ffs, but plan
to growfs it later to a bigger size -- growfs works on ffs and ffs2, but
doesn't convert from one to the other. Oh poo. Just realized I forgot
to do this recently... )
Nick.
by by changing 404 errors to 402. Yeah, I had to look it up,
too. So I expect everyone who participates in this thread WILL be
buying a CD set soon. :)
Nick.
adjust button,
tweek if needed with the manual adjustments.
Nick.
OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC.MP) #315: Wed Mar 5 09:37:46 MST 2014
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 6156910592 (5871MB)
avail mem = 5984403456 (5707MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0
On 03/08/14 09:26, Chris Bennett wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:06:54AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
On 03/08/14 08:51, Chris Bennett wrote:
As of this update, I have had these two portions of the screen move off
of visible area.
this update ... from what?
I'm going to assume from a pre
there aren't places where OpenBSD's performance could be
increased, but the idea of taking an OS oriented to security and
claiming you want to make it the fastest is quite missing the point)
Nick.
, there are limits to how much (if at
all) the OS can help. The best OpenBSD can do is give you a good
starting foundation.
Nick.
.
Nevertheless, please forgive me for my foolish assumptions and for
taking your time. And thanks for clearing things up.
There's an art to getting people to read what is on the page and not
what is in their mind. I may be better than some at this, but
obviously, I have a long way to go. :)
Nick.
systems. The rest is Linux based and not of much
interest to you.
First section of faq5.html is also very important to understand, and it
sounds like you need to read through faq15.html as well.
Nick.
the disks out of the old machine with
these newly configured disks.
This way, you never lose your functioning system...and you can freshen
your hardware, too.
Nick.
,d02004fe,0,0,0) at main+0x3dd
Here is the ps output:
PID PPIDPGRPUID S FLAGS WAITCOMMAND
* 0 -1 0 0 7 0x200 swapper
-- nick
* Nick H. wrote on Jan 26, 2014 [21:23, +0800]
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:23:03
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Simon Perreault
simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote:
Le 2014-01-25 14:40, Richard Procter a écrit :
I'm not saying the calculation is bad. I'm saying it's being
calculated from the wrong copy of the data and by the wrong
device. And it's not just me saying
5.3. I
then tried to install OpenBSD 5.2, which worked like a charm. The dmesg
of the running OpenBSD 5.2 under VMWare Server 2 follows at the end.
I am wondering if you could give me pointers as to why the install fails.
-- nick
+++dmesg of OpenBSD 5.2
OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC) #278
mfs (see
mount_tmpfs(8)).
Second, a reference in the FAQ to the man page would be good (for 5.5 or
later), but beyond that, as the concept is pretty simple, any
deficiencies should be addressed in the man page.
Nick.
a service, you are under CONSTANT
attack, if you have any kind of vulnerability, it WILL be exploited, and
rather soon.
Nick.
bloated
excessively, find the oldest files, rm them.
Files in the /etc directory are usually too small to worry about.
/usr/lib are usually the ones I go after.
Nick.
the most logical next step that may fix the problem, or at
least get you closer to where the fix will happen. Any fixes you help
develop will be applied to -current first, and probably only.
Nick.
Jul 30 12:13:32 MDT 2013
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
...[snip. Thanks for providing... lots of nvidia hw]
Would be interesting to try your test on a non-nvidia machine.
Nick.
-- you are given the choice of keeping the old,
installing the new, or merging for some combination of the two.
Nick.
slower
than a direct RAM access),
Nick.
you are trying to use some other model on OpenBSD.
Nick.
trivial to see where the machine is hung, but this machine's
manufacturer doesn't feel that disk activity lights are useful (idiots.
Blame Sun this time).
Nick.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Kenneth R Westerback
kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:04:44PM -0600
I boot other
kinds of OpenBSD kernels using PXE ...
Nick.
, trust me, you will lose all the
time you think you saved, many times over)
Nick.
seconds to do. Just do it.
Nick.
blame it on, a little unprofessionalism is a relief.
Nick.
to be updated (oops).
Nick.
Il 21/nov/2013 13:43 Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org ha scritto:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:05:34PM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
Hi all,
since installing 5.4 release on my amd64 laptop I am enjoying really nice
(sun like!) fonts due to the implemented
a laptop
or desktop pre-loaded with Windows 8, and wants to install OpenBSD with
as little disruption to the existing system as possible.
I appreciate the efforts, but we need something more comprehensive.
Sounds like I need to go buy a modern Windows system. :-/
Nick.
17.11.2013 20:20 поÐ
it over and and run pwd_mkdb. If the
starting and ending machines are supposed to be identical, no fixing
should be needed.
Nick.
be /var/log/messages.
Senthil
yep, that's an oldie, too, I think (I'm not bothering to look just in
case I introduced the error a couple weeks ago)
Fixed, thanks!
Nick.
mount that partition any more than you mount an entire disk.
You want the partitions INSIDE that virtual disk, which should have come
up in your dmesg at boot as probably sd2 (or later, if there were other
sd-ish devices)
Nick.
On 11/02/13 20:38, mia wrote:
On 11/02/13 22:35, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/02/13 14:18, mia wrote:
Hi All,
I have a system with a sata disk or the OS and a areca pcie raid card
with 4 1.5 Tb drives in a raid5 configuration. The raid has data on it
and the OS drive was blank.
I was doing
back from the not-quite-dead. If you
aren't sure about your starting partition, try both 64 and 63, see which
one brings back your disklabel.
A few more tips here:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#OhBugger
Good luck.
Nick.
Thanks in advance,
Aaron
# dmesg
OpenBSD 5.4 (GENERIC.MP) #41
,
Nayden Markatchev, Nicholas Marriott, Nick Holland, Nigel Taylor,
Okan Demirmen, Otto Moerbeek, Pascal Stumpf, Patrick Wildt,
Paul de Weerd, Paul Irofti, Peter Hessler, Peter Valchev,
Philip Guenther, Pierre-Emmanuel Andre, Raphael Graf, Remi Pointel,
Renato Westphal, Reyk Floeter
drive for the parity,
hence my 18TB non-RAID = 15TB RAID5 math. Is this correct in
practise with softraid?
other than a 3TB disk is closer to 2.75TB than 3TB, yeah the math works
the same with softraid as it does with hw raid.
Nick.
On 10/17/13 21:34, Scott McEachern wrote:
On 10/17/13 20:57, Nick Holland wrote:
with the exception of the fact there's no code to rebuild a failed
disk, works great. that's a pretty big exception for most people. :)
Hmm. That would present a problem.
Let me make sure I'm absolutely
losing its network when it
is using YP, but seemingly no problem when NOT using YP. I wouldn't be
surprised if this proves to be a power problem, but haven't got around
to improving the power supply yet.
Nick.
a bug. Google for Apache large
files for more details, some of which may be applicable.
I'd use nginx for any new implementation at this point (when applicable).
BTW: I have no idea what your picture is, I'm not clicking on it.
Nick.
Black...but once that is done, then yes, a whole lot
of USB devices should Just Work. Until then, none of them will work.
Nick.
On 10/09/13 16:47, Jeff Ross wrote:
...
Hi Nick!
Just the person I was hoping to hear chime in!
yeah, you got my attention. and got me nervous. :)
Standard ksh shell, as root, although I got there via sudo.
I for sure thought it was odd, but actually on 4 separate systems I've
had
/*reboot, I think your /sbin/oreboot isn't what you are
thinking it is.
Nick.
). Kinda silly to be bolting tiny
things to a big block like that, 'cept it keeps them and their wires
under control...
Nick.
is accomplished.
Nick.
it. My $1 is on five
hours. I hope I lose.
Nick.
- is
there any way/other tool which can do that?
how about man ksh, then search for HISTFILE ? Is that what you are after?
This is not on by default. For a very reasons.
Nick.
.
There is a reason there are options -- there is no one right answer for
all uses. Look at your realistic threats, and decide what measure of
risks and benefits you want. su wins in simplicity, but does mandate a
shared password. If you are the only admin, that's not an issue.
Nick.
of that is hanging out of my hw raid box on this computer right
now -- two identical drives, purchased on the same date from the same
store. one is a few sectors larger than the other. Smaller drive can
be mirrored to larger, larger can not be mirrored to smaller.
Nick.
for the previous two
jobs I had, and it just isn't fun anymore.
Nick.
.
Nick.
, and have settled on sufficiently
good. But there is still a lot of crap I hate (i.e., this laptop I'm
working on now with a useless trackpad, backed up by a stick mouse that
makes the trackpad look almost usable. There's an external mouse
plugged into it. So much for portability).
Nick.
specific stuff as needed.
Nick.
references to this problem
elsewhere, which seems an odd combination
Anyone else experiencing this?
Nick.
, and the marginal time savings per
machine are going to be small.
Nick.
see the
implicit advice to do a fresh install of the entire system over an
upgrade.
Nick.
and we could work together.
I'm looking at the diffs originally from Nick Bender (links are earlier
in the thread), and will try to review and work this in. I and some
other developers want this for our own projects as well.
Wouldn't be better to work on install.sub[1] and also maybe to
move
-e sd2' to set 'c' to 'unused'.
Ken
This makes things much better.
ok nick@ on the general idea and the results, but I won't pass judgement
on the implementation.
Nick.
Index: subr_disk.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern
learned something, but I'm not quite sure
what yet. I think there's a bug in there somewhere.
Nick.
of
adding any kind of attack against any kind of user, as it could be used
to go after ALL kinds of users. The track record of those kind of
things is bad -- usually, they end up causing as much trouble for the
innocent as the target ... see Stuxnet.
Nick.
is revealed within a few minutes
of being done. :)
Nick.
of other
issues...but never forget what you hope to gain.
Nick.
On 07/19/13 18:37, Martin Schröder wrote:
2013/7/19 openda...@hushmail.com:
% df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 985M 50.8M885M 5%/
/dev/wd0k 9.2G434M8.3G 5%/home
/dev/wd0d 1.5G 12.0K1.5G 0%/tmp
on Linux to accomplish task
_. What does a similar task, but works better on OpenBSD?
Running crappy code on a good OS is still running crappy code.
Nick.
the cvs level?
something like a .ssh/config:
host MyFavMirror.com
Compression yes
Be forewarned, I've seen /some/ systems do a horrible slow-down with
compression, but since your concern is bandwidth, probably not your issue.
Nick.
devices, it is probably a non-event, but if you have
physical SCSI-like devices hard-attached to your system, you probably
have had an event, like a drive failure or removal. Softraid adjusts
quite well, but YOU may wish to think about if there is a larger issue
or not.
Nick.
back up (the capacitor was still charged!), you will have to
experiment with this. The bleeder resistor should be as low in
resistance as doesn't cause the machine to think the button is pushed,
maybe try 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M values.
Nick.
On 07/12/13 20:05, patrick keshishian wrote:
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote:
Thomas
What you are asking only makes sense, unfortunately
Craig appears to be like a lot of malling list
subscribers. They are takers not givers.
Nick already explained
it at least?
well, maybe they SHOULD be (philosophically), but they WILL be whatever
your controller hardware supports. If your controller is ahci(4)
compliant, it will be sd(4) devices, if it isn't, it ends up being
pciide(4) and wd(4).
Nick.
.
Nick.
On 07/06/13 23:54, eric oyen wrote:
I have tried windows XP with NVDA on that laptop. I have also tried
Vinux on there as well. Windows did to me the same thing that OpenBSD
does. I had to have someone else install it (ugh!). Vinux was a bit
better as it allowed me to install using orca
it was fresh and current.
Your assumptions are wrong.
Nick.
On 07/03/2013 01:15 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote:
On 07/02/2013 11:44 AM, noah pugsley wrote:
More wrong? Maybe so. My point was that both are and either way it's
inconsistent.
not anymore. new text, as of last night:
Processors
All CPUs
should work.
Nick.
On 07/02/13 17:07, Jean-Francois Simon wrote:
Le 20/05/2013 13:46, Nick Holland a écrit :
On 05/20/13 00:52, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
...
3) The man pages report RAID5 as experimental. I'm curious, why
is this so? Is it just not-very-thoroughly tested, or is there
some missing feature? I
, it is not likely a processor issue. amd64...well, some of the
Intel chips, you just need (or it is easier) to test to find out if you
got the right bit of magic.
Nick.
On 06/25/13 07:12, Killman BOFH wrote:
Apparently a problem with DNS A record
www.openbsd.org is down but openbsd.org is up!
congrats, you just rediscovered that those are two different machines.
Nick.
-year old slow. Apple hasn't built a G5 in
many years (2006). Sun kept (started?) building the U25/U45 long after
they were being whooped in performance by very cheap consumer stuff, and
the power consumption and noise levels on some of this stuff is stunning.
Nick.
I had a chance to briefly play with a monster amd64 system.
511GB worked, 520GB didn't.
Machine had 1.5TB RAM in it and took over five minutes to initialize
memory, before even starting the POST, so that's as far as I got.
It is entirely possible that this was HW dependent.
Nick.
On 06/15/13 14
On 06/07/13 03:58, John Tate wrote:
Just curious would have going into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils and doing
make and make install have made it possible to build 5.3 on 5.2?
Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html again, starting at the very top.
Nick.
they will need.
Nick.
going this route.
However, a nice little RAID1 system to start, hopefully leaving you two
SATA ports for the next generation/upgrade disks.
Nick.
with a bad remote console.
Nick.
On 04/29/13 00:00, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
On 2013-04-20 23:32, Nick Holland wrote:
On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote:
Hi,
first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or
not better than X - it's just a question.
If you say, we use it because
-brief.pdf)
if that's helpful at all.
Below is my dmesg with an external (eSATA) drive connected.
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
-Nick
OpenBSD 5.3-current (GENERIC) #121: Thu Apr 4 09:42:08 MDT 2013
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 1022230528 (974MB
development model.
Obviously, it is possible to build a quality-focused product of
Operating System magnitude using CVS. I don't think one can quite say
CVS is the REASON for OpenBSD's quality, but it obviously hasn't hurt.
Nick.
cd ../compile/GENERIC # or GENERIC.MP or ...
make clean
--
Michał Markowski
yep, fixed, thanks!
Nick.
that was DESIGNED for X, and clip along
pretty well once X is running, and X configuration Just Works...even if
just as a bunch of Xterms. Don't run firefox on it, though...
Nick.
with OpenBSD solution here.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
If it's true, this would be way-cool, but I'm not selling my air
conditioners yet.
Prove me wrong, I'll thank you.
Nick.
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