Re: OT: how do you write your tools /scripts for everyday tasks

2018-05-30 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
nding on the use case I might use python. Niels

Re: Autocompletion with pass in ksh

2018-05-28 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 18/05/28 16:53, justina colmena wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2018 06:33:13 +0200 Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: pass (www.password-store.org) is a password manager Did you mean https://www.passwordstore.org/ (no hyphen)? "the standard unix password manager" It depends on Gnu

Re: Autocompletion with pass in ksh

2018-05-24 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
> On 6. May 2018, at 06:33, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > Hi, > > I learned yesterday of ksh's cusom auto completion. Now I try to figure > out how to use it together with pass, but maybe someone already did the > work. I got a reply on twitter from Roman Zolltarif w

Autocompletion with pass in ksh

2018-05-24 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
ot;pass edit private/mybank". How would I realize the completion of password-names? Can I also complete the actions? I know that I should be able to complete the actions, but actions and password-names? Niels

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

2018-03-27 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
And it was > released in 2007. CentOS 5 is EOL since March 31st 2017 ;) CentOS 6 should be on extended support now which is going EOL in November 2020. Niels

Re: sudoedit for doas?

2018-02-27 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
or the "doas". > > Are there any? No Niels

Re: spamd and IPv6

2018-02-14 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 18/02/14 11:30, Denis Fondras wrote: does anyone can tell me what the state of spamd and IPv6 is? I would have expected it to work but I can't set for exampe ::1 or [::1] as a listening address (neither alone or together with 127.0.0.1). Unsupported yet. phessler@ has a diff for it. Thank

spamd and IPv6

2018-02-13 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
Hi, does anyone can tell me what the state of spamd and IPv6 is? I would have expected it to work but I can't set for exampe ::1 or [::1] as a listening address (neither alone or together with 127.0.0.1). Niels

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
l. So, you need to do "man ksh" or "man sh" or whatever shell you use. On Linux the man page for bash opens, on FreeBSD it is the man page for built-ins, when you do "man cd". Cheers, Niels

Re: Need an advice about DHCP IPv6 server software

2017-12-09 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
Do you block icmp by any chance? For SLAAC and NDP you need not to block ICMP6. Niels > On 9. Dec 2017, at 11:50, Denis wrote: > > Erik, > > Thank you for your support. > > Can you share IPv6 part of PF.conf you're using for local network SLAAC? > > Stil

Re: a pf question maybe asked a 1000 times

2017-10-20 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
is the server with the rules above, H3 some other machine: 1) H1 --ssh--> H2 and then you did H2 --ssh--> H1 Or 2) H2 --ssh--> H3? In case 1 I would expect that it works because the state should allow that. Only when the connection is terminated, it shouldn't be possible anymore to ssh from H2 to H1. Niels

Re: DMCA Free OpenBSD VPS Hosting, multiple payment methods

2017-10-20 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
enough to hand them the encrypted VPS-image, but that won't necessarily work. Niels On 20. Oct 2017, at 08:28, flipchan wrote: I want to c a system that Auto encrypts it vms (can "easily" be done with some lines of python/whateverulike) and just forward all abuses to the customer,

Re: DMCA Free OpenBSD VPS Hosting, multiple payment methods

2017-10-20 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
Depending on the country the ISP will see then the police coming to their datacenter and start to pull servers. And then they can close shop because a single customer was an asshole and did illegal stuff on their ip-range and hardware. That is self-protection. Niels > On 20. Oct 2017, at

Re: awk in OpenBSD

2017-10-18 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
2: a quick check shows that >> DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD all use this version. >> >> Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why OpenBSD uses the 2011 >> release? Niels

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 19:43, Cág wrote: Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Thanks a lot. But you are using sakura and not xterm for typing Japanese. I want to use xterm so that I can leave more dependencies behind :) You can build st (recommended) as it doesn't have any dependencies that aren't in t

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 15:20, Jens John wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > I do this because I prefer the default font in xterms for Latin > text, and the Japanese font is too big for my tastes. For > Japanese it's the other way around. A

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
> On 15. Oct 2017, at 20:24, Tuyosi T wrote: > > ps > > in case of roxterm > if the character encoding is set to UTF8 , input japanese is OK . > > i think xterm is poor at japanese . xfce4-Terminal works fine, too Niels

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 08:34, Tuyosi T wrote: hi Niels . i am a japenese , so i write down about japanese input method in http://openbsd-akita.blogspot.jp/2017/10/openbsd-62-lumina.html . i use ibus-anthy . scim-anthy is impossible for me . Thanks a lot. But you are using sakura and not xterm for

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 08:35, Bryan Linton wrote: On 2017-10-15 09:38:56, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On 17/10/15 07:12, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 17/10/15 06:41, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get Japanese input working in xterm but I just cannot get >

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 07:12, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On 17/10/15 06:41, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Hi, I am trying to get Japanese input working in xterm but I just cannot get it to work. It works in xfce4-terminal though. I have in my .profile and my .xsession: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export

Re: Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/15 06:41, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Hi, I am trying to get Japanese input working in xterm but I just cannot get it to work. It works in xfce4-terminal though. I have in my .profile and my .xsession: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 export LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

Japanese Input in xterm

2017-10-14 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
ugh. What I am missing? -- Cheers Niels

Re: Security question / idea

2017-10-14 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
scribe above? > > Thanks for any and all feedback. Isn’t that something like Anti Evil Maid? http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/09/anti-evil-maid.html?m=1 Niels

Thinkpad X260/T460 and Trackpoint-scrolling

2017-10-08 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
it up? Niels

Re: Resize partitions?

2017-10-05 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/04 23:21, Alexander Hall wrote: On October 4, 2017 6:58:52 PM GMT+02:00, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: /.../ And I don't know OpenBSD enough to know how "dangerous" it is to use "pkg_delete -a". I used similar functions with linux-distributions and they wan

Re: Resize partitions?

2017-10-04 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/04 01:48, Nick Holland wrote: On 10/03/17 10:10, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Hi, I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not have enough space left for installing packages and today even upgrading a snapshot failed

Re: Resize partitions?

2017-10-03 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Hi, I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not have enough space left for installing packages and today even upgrading a snapshot failed because I had not enough space left. Is there a way to resize partitions? I guess

Resize partitions?

2017-10-03 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
, right? I used originally the suggested layout by the installer. Any idea what could fill up the space on /? The partition is only 1GB in size and if I see it correctly only the base-system is installed there. Did base grew with the latest snapshots? Niels

Re: Serving multiple domains on one machine or IP address

2017-09-18 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
le so that they > could mask the server OS or could display an otherwise custom message I would > see value in that. Does this capability exist with without recompiling HTTPD? Being curious: Why do you want to mask the server-OS in the error message? Niels

Re: startx fails with (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect

2017-09-17 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
dev 0 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x190f rev 0x07 "Intel HD Graphics 530" rev 0x06 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured Any ideas? My Skylake-CPU has 520. And for getting that to work you need to use a snapshot and not 6.1. I don't know if 530 is then supported, too. Niels

cron and desktop-computers

2017-09-15 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
that mean anacron is not needed and for example @daily-jobs will be executed on boot if the machine was off or in standby. Or other jobs that are scheduled while the machine is in standby/turned off? Niels

Re: What decides which port becomes a package?

2017-09-09 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
> On 10. Sep 2017, at 08:01, Josh Grosse wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:09:37AM +0200, Niels Kobsch??tzki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to install tarsnap today but in the packages I could only find >> tarsnap-gui (and in the packages for 6.2-beta ta

What decides which port becomes a package?

2017-09-09 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
. Thus I am wondering now about two questions: 1) What decides which port becomes a packages? I somehow expected that pretty much any port gets packaged. 2) Why are there packages that depend on ports? Niels

Re: After updating to latest snapshot xession crashes

2017-09-08 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/08 09:51, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2017-09-08, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: On 17/09/08 08:42, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi, after I updated to the snapshot from September 7th, I cannot log into X anymore. xdm comes up but logging in brings me directly back to xdm. The xenodm.log say

Re: After updating to latest snapshot xession crashes

2017-09-07 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/08 08:42, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi, after I updated to the snapshot from September 7th, I cannot log into X anymore. xdm comes up but logging in brings me directly back to xdm. The xenodm.log say "XIO: fatail IO error 35" dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xenodm.log are attached. A

After updating to latest snapshot xession crashes

2017-09-07 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
Hi, after I updated to the snapshot from September 7th, I cannot log into X anymore. xdm comes up but logging in brings me directly back to xdm. The xenodm.log say "XIO: fatail IO error 35" dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xenodm.log are attached. Any help is appreciated. Niels xdm info

Re: What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/04 13:38, Fabio Scotoni wrote: On 09/04/2017 01:26 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: On 17/09/04 12:38, Theo Buehler wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:38:48AM +0200, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: [...] In the FAQ there is a link to "Report porblems" which just links to itself. [.

Re: What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/04 11:14, Nigel Taylor wrote: On 09/04/17 10:38, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi, I am using a snapshot which is now 6.2-beta and I wanted to install tor-browser. In the dependency-chain is libevent and that cannot be resolved. When I try to install libevent-2.0.22p0 directly I get the

Re: What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels
tainer. To see the maintainer of the port, type, for > example: > $ cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip > > $ > make show=MAINTAINER > Alternatively, if there is no maintainer, or you can't reach them, > send an email to the po...@openbsd.org mailing list. > Seems fine to m

Re: What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/04 12:38, Theo Buehler wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:38:48AM +0200, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: [...] In the FAQ there is a link to "Report porblems" which just links to itself. [...] Could you be more specific where this link is? I'd like to fix it, but couldn

Re: What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 17/09/04 11:14, Nigel Taylor wrote: On 09/04/17 10:38, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi, I am using a snapshot which is now 6.2-beta and I wanted to install tor-browser. In the dependency-chain is libevent and that cannot be resolved. When I try to install libevent-2.0.22p0 directly I get the

What to do when package does not work in snapshot?

2017-09-04 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
uld I send a mail to someone? Who? Do I need to install the ports-tree to figure that out? In the FAQ there is a link to "Report porblems" which just links to itself. The installation of libevent works fine on a server that runs 6.1 Cheers Niels

Re: gmail and hotmail blocking mail sent from my IP

2017-08-06 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
> On 6. Aug 2017, at 19:45, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > Hi Niels, > >> On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 07:19:04PM +0200, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: >> >>>> On 6. Aug 2017, at 18:40, Walter Alejandro Iglesias >>>> wrote: >>>> >&g

Re: gmail and hotmail blocking mail sent from my IP

2017-08-06 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
-, even better a DKIM-record. And if you ever send out mail, you maybe want a secondary IP for temporary failover-cases if you land temporarily on a black list. Niels

Brightness-keys on Thinkpad T460

2017-07-14 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
home/nik/bin/backlight.sh -10 with shift+super+j nothing happens. Why could that be? Niels

Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

2017-07-12 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
> On 13. Jul 2017, at 00:35, Rui Ribeiro wrote: > > "I dont do Windows!" works pretty well... Damn, they use MacOS ;) Niels

Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

2017-07-11 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
N-network and since there are nice GUIs available on the Mac for that, they should be able to connect (or I try to implement a launchd-service). I can give them always the same IP and do not even have to check for that then. And then I use VNC with the built-in VNC-server from MacOS. Thanks again, Niels

How do you do "family remote support"?

2017-07-11 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
any software that could do that? Asking them for their IP or iCloud-hostname would already be too complicated. What are you using in such cases? Is a QEMU-VM performant enough for such a thing (I have a Thinkpad T460 with a Skylake-i5) Niels

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-06 Thread Niels
This has been discussed repeatedly on the mailing lists. Drivers run in user oder kernel space and should interface with devices sanely (and safely). Whereas in the case of closed firmware, as you said yourself, it doesn’t really matter where it is loaded from. > On 06 Jan 2017, at 22:45, Martin

Re: Upgrade to 5.9 full disk encryption

2016-04-15 Thread Niels
As Bryan stated, bioctl will prompt for the (existing) passphrase and then bring up the (existing) crypto volume. Once mounted, it will be a standard upgrade installation. To clarify, bioctl should in this case NOT overwrite the existing encrypted data. As a beginner, I found bioctl’s -c and -d o

Re: Quick APU2 review

2016-04-15 Thread Niels
APU2 is quite a different product than APU1. Different processor(s), different network interfaces (using different drivers). > On 15 Apr 2016, at 21:49, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >> That's nice. I don't have a ferrari, I have a rather basic truck. >> >> You are off topic. > > Sorry Theo, > > He a

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my (server/router) purposes? (Total n00b)

2015-09-27 Thread Niels
On 27 Sep 2015, at 12:27, Adam wrote: > I have no background in IT security and operating systems other than > Windows (I hated it less than Ubuntu, actually). I have found in the > archives that in general you can recommend OpenBSD to anyone without > any background to start tinkering with. So,

Re: AMD64 Snapshot Issues

2015-06-17 Thread Niels
Using AMD64 snapshot taken 16-Jun-2015 17:07 SHA256 (install57.fs) = b0b72edf6544d98f11dabf14b3c052f8302f5c75332b1747ada95b7a1fe08acf I also could not get installer prompt / shell. The system was stuck at root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b I had success with the newest snapshot from ftp.ope

alipm timeout

2011-02-13 Thread Niels
t of energy the machine uses? I'm running this as a server/firewall for a small apt and so it will be on 24/7... Any known fixes or workarounds? Thanks Niels dmesg: OpenBSD 4.8-stable (GENERIC) #0: Wed Feb 9 21:25:55 EST 2011 r...@perry.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:02:43AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > > sd0 and sd2 are exactly identical correction: sd0 and sd1

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:39:27PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Are the partition sizes on sd0a/sd1a (I assume the are mirrored) the same? > What does disklabel show for the RAIDed disks? > sd0 and sd2 are exactly identical # disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: USB

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Niels Poppe [ni...@netbox.org] wrote: > > > > # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 > > bioctl: Target sd0a: target not specified > > > > I ran into this just the other day, > > bioctl -R sd0a sd2 didn&#

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
Just to be complete and honest, i think i should reveil as well that it is all built and installed from source, and kernel and userland have slightly different build dates: # ls -ld /bsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8916825 Oct 13 04:18 /bsd and userland is built just a bit later: # ls -ld /sbin/b

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 09:09:52PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > odd. does dmesg spit anything useful out? actually, no. for the usb stick pulling out the machine: sd0 detached scsibus0 detached umass0 detached after that, because i accessed the softraid filesystem: softraid0: retrying read

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Oct 24, 2010, at 17:54, Niels Poppe wrote: > > > I have (err, had) this working array: > > > > # bioctl softraid0 > > Volume Status Size Device > > softraid0 0 Online

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
> >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > >>> > >>> .. would have expected > >>> "bioctl -R sd1 softraid0" for the case below. > >> > >> What slice is being rebuilt onto? > > > > We

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:09:55AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > > > > .. would have expected > > "bioctl -R sd1 softraid0" for the case below. > > What slice is being rebuilt onto? Well...

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
n't be improved but that bit is IMO pretty > obvious. Obvious it probably is, yet adding the word 'final' for the device argument in the manpage description would perhaps make it even more obvious. :-) > > On Oct 23, 2010, at 23:07, Niels Poppe wrote: > > >

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-23 Thread Niels Poppe
. softraid0). Perhaps that last sentence could be "This command requires the final device argument to be the drive name (e.g. sd2) instead of the controller name (e.g. softraid0)." Regards, Niels > > On Oct 23, 2010, at 17:51, "Jean-Francois" wrote: > > >

Re: systrace insecure [was: Re: chroot browser]

2009-04-03 Thread Niels Provos
e, I find systrace quite helpful and the TOCTOU issues are hardly as black and white as some people make you believe. Niels.

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-23 Thread Niels Provos
on bufferevents ;-) The documentation has actually become much better over time: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/doxygen-1.4.3/ However, I'd be happy to see any patches to improve the documentation. Thanks, Niels.

Re: booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-02-02 Thread Niels de Vos
the 'boot too old' message > well known from the archives. > > it was worth a shot... is there another boot loader > that can boot bsd.rd wihout chainbooting? Well, you could probably use memdisk <http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php> to boot a bsd-floppy. Good luck, Niels

Re: systrace/sysjail wrappers security

2007-08-09 Thread Niels Provos
There is a straight forward solution for this problem. The initial prototype of Systrace had a look-aside buffer in the kernel for copyin. I told Robert about this, not sure if he mentioned that in his paper or not. There obviously would be some associated performance impacts. Niels. On 8/7