FIPS 140-2

2008-03-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Does OpenBSD's OpenSSL use the FIPS 140-2 certified bits where applicable?

Re: Optimising OpenBSD

2008-04-09 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-Original Message- From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:26 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: Gilles Chehade; Matthew Smith Subject: Re: Optimising OpenBSD On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:27:03PM +, Gilles Chehade wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at

Re: Optimising OpenBSD

2008-04-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
http://www.absoluteopenbsd.com -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Senior Network Engineer TYBRIN Corporation tybrin.com 850-337-2830 850-337-2885 (fax) This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of TYBRIN Corporation, are private, and are intended solely for the use of the individual

Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
When I was getting brute forced that way I just turned off remote password login and use keypairs exclusively. Which won't work for everybody, I guess. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Senior Network Engineer TYBRIN Corporation tybrin.com 850-337-2830 850-337-2885 (fax) -Original Message- From

gtk+2-2.12.7 on't upgrade after upgrade to 4.3

2008-05-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Has anyone encountered this? I'm at a point where the next thing I see to try entails uninstalling the present gtk+, but that will drag a fair amount of stuff along with it (mozilla-*, gimp, et al.). There isn't a man page that seems to apply to my beady little mind. [demime 1.01d removed an

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-Original Message- From: Steve Shockley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:56 AM To: misc Subject: Re: Editing C with... Nick Holland wrote: but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the base system tools first. More to the point, have a working knowledge of ed.

Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-% (snip) -- God is real, unless declared integer. I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard

developer laptop choices

2008-06-16 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I'm curious as to the 'modal' laptop that the developers use - that would probably be a good steer for what to buy. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0

2008-06-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I did not see original message on the list. Did Firefox 3 get ported successfully? -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard -Original Message- From: dermiste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 2:32 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0 Martynas Venckus

Re: USB disklabel trouble

2008-10-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Brynet wrote: Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: USBest, USB2FlashStorage, 0.00 SCSI2 0/direct removable sd1: drive offline That would appear to indicate the device is in some sort of disabled/standby mode, or more likely, it's a bug. Note, sometimes USB 2.0

Dim console after exiting X

2008-11-11 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On this Dell Optiplex GX1p, I upgraded from 4.3 and X would not start. Did a clean install, and while X starts now, when I exit the fonts on the console are dim. Starting and stopping X again makes them a little dimmer. Current dmesg below: OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55

Samba printing, OpenBSD client to Windows server

2008-11-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried to print other formats through gv and open-office. Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below. # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30

Re: Samba printing, OpenBSD client to Windows server

2008-11-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Alexander Hall wrote: Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried to print other formats through gv and open-office. Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below

/usr/obj slice size

2008-12-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I expected that eventually I would be tracking stable and/or current, and created a slice for /usr/obj to use the umount /usr/objnewfs /dev/wd[n][a] trick. 1. Is /usr/obj normally EMPTY? It is on all three of my OBSD boxes. 2. In any case, how big does that slice need to be? Ed Ahlsen

Re: /usr/obj slice size

2008-12-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Paul de Weerd wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:17:53AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Well, it's empty until you start using it (by building (parts of) the tree). That's why the newfs trick is a safe way to start from scratch. Mine is 2G, but the size depends on a lot of things. What arch

ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I'm trying to automate getting the sets and source for running -current. For some reason, this syntax: ftp -ia ftp://host.domain/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/architecture/*.tgz or this: ftp -ia ftp://host.domain/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/architecture/bsd.rd works great from the command line. But not

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Daniel == Daniel A Ramaley daniel.rama...@drake.edu writes: Daniel chdir /path-to-dir; You didn't check the success of the chdir. This will ruin your original current directory if that fails... Daniel unlink *; Oops! The proper solution

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: ... But my real problem was getting the download to work inside a script, and none of the presented ideas so far have helped that. Perhaps you should actually show the complete output

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Karl Karlsson wrote: 2009/1/3 eagir...@cox.net: johan beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: You're right. You're so right, in fact, that I'd already changed the code; even I noticed that my original was bad practice

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-04 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Thanks to all. The below worked. Grab the snapshots: #!/usr/bin/perl use Net::FTP; unlink /home/ed/snap/*; my $host = 'rt.fm'; my $ftp = Net::FTP-new($host, Debug =0) or die Cannot connect to $host: $0; $ftp-login(anonymous,'-anonymous@') or die Cannot login ,

iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-04 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
A Sony Vaio (VPCCA25FX) cannot configure its Intel WiFi Link 1000, complaining thusly: iwn0: could not read firmware iwn0: error, 2, could not read firmware iwn-1000 I have installed iwn-firmware-5.6. There is a /etc/firmware/iwn-1000 file present, 335056 bytes, dated Dec 31, permissions 400,

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu mihp...@gmail.com wrote: How did you install the firmware? I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu mihp...@gmail.com wrote: How did you install the firmware? I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to

xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I installed the May 11 snapshot, and now: Acroread complains that a plugin is missing. xxxterm closes when attempting to open any page other than :fav Firefox opens momentarily is started in safe mode, but closes almost immediately. Anybody who can tell me where the logs woul be (nothing in

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-14 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:43 -0400 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: xxxterm closes when attempting to open any page other than :fav Firefox opens momentarily is started in safe mode, but closes almost

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-14 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 15 May 2011 01:35:49 +0200 Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:43 -0400 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 15 May 2011 06:47:54 +0200 Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: -- Urspr. Mitt. -- Betreff: Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot Von: Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com Datum: 15.05.2011 01:38 On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net

claws-mail segfaults after updating to 29 May snapshot

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
dmesg below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC) #12: Sat May 28 17:41:19 MDT 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.66 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR

snapshots

2011-09-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Are the snapshot building machines on holiday? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net == Webmin is nice, but remember the passwords in clear text and all that. If you run it locally, that's one thing... Ed Ahlsen-GIrard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I ran OpenBSD on ESXi on a Dell 905 at my old job and it worked quite well. It wasn't really fast, but it didn't need to be. All it did was mail web forms. The security auditors didn't even mention it in their report. Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
? There are apps on Windows for which porting to OpenBSD would be roughly equivalent to porting to NetWare Virtual Loadable Module. Maybe he doesn't mind doing it all over from scratch, but that's about what it might turn out to be. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net mailto:eagir...@cox.net wrote: -(snip)- There are apps on Windows for which porting to OpenBSD would be roughly equivalent to porting to NetWare

Re: Printing to Windows

2009-05-25 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-current through a snapshot, and building the needed printing related ports yourself. -- J.C. Roberts I will check those out. Previous attempts with samba and cups would allow things like printing straight text only. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type

A Range Rover in FWB

2009-06-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Somebody in my town, in fact from my neighborhood, drives a white Range Rover with Puffy, OpenBSD and OpenSSH stickers. So, if you're on misc@, hey. Ed Ahlsen-Girard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of eagirard.15181DEFANGED-vcf]

A thesis at Naval Postgraduate School that discusses OpenBSD

2009-06-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Seven years old, but the abstract looks nice: http://cisr.nps.navy.mil/pubabstracts/02abstract_smith.html [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of eagirard.13040DEFANGED-vcf]

Re: Java plugin

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Bryan wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 19:48, eagir...@cox.net wrote: Well, I built and installed the JDK (1.7) from ports. The FAQ is correct about it's taking a long time, and it took so much space that I ended up mounting an additional partition for /usr/ports, because /usr ran out of

Re: SoundBlaster fails to configure in -current

2009-11-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:04:01, Jacob Meuser wrote: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:12:45PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: A SoundBlaster Live fails to configure. I have read man (4) emu and man (4) pci are admirable, but terse. Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live (Dell

Gnash

2009-11-22 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Does anybody use it happily? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: Gnash

2009-11-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Use and happily with a hamming distance of 2. I'll just laugh for a while... flash is such a cluster but I guess people really need their kids falling face first onto a slab of concrete videos pretty badly. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 02:04:42PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Does anybody

Re: Gnash

2009-11-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
are in Flash on pages so no need for this. Or games, but for games you really need original Flash. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Does anybody use it happily? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL Mplayer seems to play the files

Re: Used of dd for mirroring of quick disk replacement across servers, and second question for bigger disks

2009-12-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: Hi, I am pretty sure this is not possible at all, but again, may be something else is available that I haven't found/think yet. Two questions I have. (snip) 2. The second question again relate to this is I also

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-19 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Ingo Schwarze wrote on Sat., Dec. 19 at 17:51:19 Matthew Szudzik wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 05:34:23PM +: But if you're going to learn just one of them, then I vote for sed. Marc, rewrite pkg* in sed. Please... :) Herr Schwarze, please get help before you injure yourself or

viewing non-Youtube embedded video

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Let's consider all the critiques of embedded flash to be made. After all, they have been. The mplayer plug-in with HQTube works quite well on Youtube, I'll grant, but most of the video that interests me is news related stuff that I find on other sites. Mplayerplug-in + HQTube does not often

Re: viewing non-Youtube embedded video

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:35:29 + Edd Barrett vex...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: The mplayer plug-in with HQTube works quite well on Youtube, I'll grant, but most of the video that interests me is news related stuff that I

Re: viewing non-Youtube embedded video

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:35:29 + Edd Barrett vex...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: The mplayer plug-in with HQTube works quite well on Youtube, I'll grant, but most of the video that interests me is news related stuff that I

Re: 19' rack mini appliance for OpenBSD

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:29 -0700 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:44:01 -0400 Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:32:57PM +0100, FRLinux wrote: I use a variety of servers with OpenBSD mostly for DNS. Recently I have

Printing schemas

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
OpenBSD, the project, doesn't seem to have a preferred method of printing. What do OpenBSD, the developers individually, prefer? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: Is this a case of paranoia?

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
bofh goodb0fh () gmail ! com wrote: Hahahhaha. Try downloading psexec and similar tools from microsoft and get them to ban microsoft.com as a hacking site :) On 4/24/10, Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net wrote: On 4/24/2010 9:20 AM, Danny wrote: Here is a screenshot of what the

Re: Printing schemas

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
the yeti and sasquatch, never saw one myself. No issues printing from windows, osx, linux or openbsd... On 4/24/10, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: OpenBSD, the project, doesn't seem to have a preferred method of printing

Re: Printing schemas

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:19:23 -0500 Todd Alan Smith tas-misc-open...@puesnada.us wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: I'm looking specifically ay how to print to a USB printer that is hanging off an XP box. Then why didn't you mention

Re: Printing schemas

2010-04-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Subject:Re: Printing schemas On 2010-04-24 21:16:48 bofh goodb0fh () gmail ! com wrote: Actually, scratch that, shouldn't you read the faq and/or use google? The FAQ has nothing to say about printer setup, and certainly makes no recommendations. The Google-hit articles that address

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Noah Pugsley noah.p () bendtel ! com Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 Tony Abernethy wrote: Stas Miasnikou wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead of java in those fancy universities? Seconded. Do you seriously

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:38:02 -0700 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: From: Noah Pugsley noah.p () bendtel ! com Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 Tony Abernethy wrote: Stas Miasnikou

DISKLESS kernel for moving an install to a larger disk

2010-05-18 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
I'm looking at using pxeboot to move a Windows installation as-is to a larger disk (since I simply don't want to mess with jamming yet another disk in) and I have seen reference to the DISKLESS kernel as being the one that must be used for a diskless workstation. There isn't a DISKLESS kernel

Re: DISKLESS kernel for moving an install to a larger disk

2010-05-19 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:07:00 -0400 William Yodlowsky b...@openbsd.rutgers.edu wrote: On 18 May 2010 at 22:38, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: (snip) So, how do I cmopile such a kernel, and is it diskless because it doesn't *need* a local disk, or because it is *incapable

Re: DISKLESS kernel for moving an install to a larger disk

2010-05-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:40:07 +0200 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: From: Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: DISKLESS kernel for moving an install to a larger disk Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:40:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-26 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
At 2010-05-26 11:03:50 Gilles Chehade wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:18:03AM -0600, Julian Acosta wrote: Hello! I'm from the Postgraduate Departmen of the ITCC University from Mexico, Really we need to contact with Richard Stallman, just for give us his opinion and answer us

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-11 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists () yahoo ! co ! uk Date: 2010-06-10 15:00:54 Man, it's not me. Just wanted to share that with you all. Like a dick in a pudding. You may want to share it with us all but no-one else wants you to. Meaning of words is what's important and

Re: building jdk 1.7

2010-06-26 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Alicornio alicornio () ig ! com ! br Date: 2010-06-27 0:05:45 Hi How many space I need to build the jdk 1.7 port? I have the WRKOBJDIR pointing to a 2 GiB directory and it isn't enough. Thanks all. I went to 10G and that was fine. Probably unnecessary, but I did not

Re: mount ffs as msdos, system hangs

2010-07-26 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: STeve Andre' andres () msu ! edu Date: 2010-07-25 23:22:39 I think that is a fundamentally flawed assumption. Root can do *ANYTHING*. Anything at all. Sure, preventing crashes is good, but you can't get around the fact that root is omniscient.

Re: a minor correction to rc.conf comments

2010-07-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Marco Peereboom slash () peereboom ! us Date: 2010-07-29 23:25:14 On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:17:28AM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: On 30 July 2010 c. 00:37:23 Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:54:29AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Jason ==

Re: rename(2) man page (was: Re: OpenSMTPd actual development and integration)

2010-01-25 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 22:33:20 nixlists wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 04:35:48PM -0500, nixlists wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: You are positively ignorant. No need to regurgitate this all over again. Take your toy mail

Re: pkg_delete

2010-01-30 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
And I don't care about jumping from 3.9 to 4.6. pkg tools changed a lot between 4.6 and 4.7-beta. I won't tweak things based on your experience of 4.6, since 4.7-beta is vastly improved compared to 4.6. I'll second that. The pkg tools have gone from strength to strength IMAO. -current is

Re: recent hardware with older OpenBSD versions

2010-03-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
T. Valent tmp-ml () 4ss ! de at 2010-03-21 10:36:59 wrote: In the end it seems like I have to give up the idea of keeping all installations on the same level, it seems like I have create a complete new platform (new motherboard type and new OpenBSD version) for all new customers, just because I

Re: gnu grep -o flag

2010-03-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2010-03-24 21:13:40, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: ... Hmm, missing quote, and the expressions can be combined, but as a portable solution this is indeed the right answer. sed -n -e 's/.*\(PATTERN\).*/\1/p' Actually, there are two bug in that, an

X login screen

2010-07-31 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Dmesg says 4.8-beta. Login screen says 4.7 Is that how it's supposed to be for the time being? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: X login screen

2010-07-31 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:18:03 -0400 RD Thrush r...@thrush.com wrote: On 07/31/10 10:13, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Dmesg says 4.8-beta. Login screen says 4.7 Is that how it's supposed to be for the time being? /etc/motd is updated via /etc/rc to reflect the booted kernel. I'm

Re: X login screen

2010-08-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:51:16 -0700 Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Dmesg says 4.8-beta. Login screen says 4.7 Is that how it's supposed to be for the time being? Hmm, the summer commit dates

Re: undeadly's been down for a while

2010-08-25 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Paul de Weerd weerd () weirdnet ! nl Date: 2010-08-23 9:19:47 Hi Patric, others, On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:36:14PM -0500, patric conant wrote: | just fyi, in case someone involved is on misc. Hardware failure on the host. Being looked into, apologies for the service

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Alex Libman alibman () ssl-mail ! com Date: 2010-10-09 21:12:53 Message-ID: 1286658773.20699.1399228895 () webmail ! messagingengine ! com [Download message RAW] -- (snip) ...replacing things like gcc + toolchain, groff, lynx, etc. Apache,

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Marco Peereboom slash () peereboom ! us Date: 2010-10-30 2:49:53 On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 08:24:43PM -0500, Corey wrote: On 10/28/2010 06:42 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:30:25 +0200 Henning Brauerlists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Claudio

Re: Does ldapd work?

2010-11-02 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Tomas Bodzar tomas.bodzar () gmail ! com Date: 2010-11-02 5:14:31 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd Caveats says:

Re: help

2010-11-08 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Armando arma () lamortenera ! it Date: 2010-11-08 12:00:56 On 11/08/2010 12:49 PM, Scott McEachern wrote: On 11/08/10 06:40, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: On 8 Nov 2010, at 11:33, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On 8 November 2010 10:46, stevest...@crs.com wrote: help I need

Re: Building a Practical Penetration Test Lab

2010-11-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Michal michal () sharescope ! co ! uk Date: 2010-11-12 10:15:34 I can confirm that OpenBSD doesn't always work as a virtual machine. So I would focus on using OpenBSD as the host and using some other OS as a client in QEMU. If you insist and I don't know about the

Re: Building a Practical Penetration Test Lab

2010-11-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Chet Langin clangin () siu ! edu Date: 2010-11-12 14:50:59 -Original Message- snip I have run OpenBSD in production on both VMWare server and ESXi. It was the only machine facing the Internet that the auditors had no findings on. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard

OT: Disadvantages of using virtual firewalls like OpenBSd

2010-11-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: carlopmart carlopmart () gmail ! com Date: 2010-11-23 12:38:04 Hi all, First of all, I don't want to start a flame. I will to know your opinion about using virtual firewalls in virtual infraestructures like vmware, kvm ,xen, etc ... like OpenBSD. Advantages are

Re: easy snapshot updates

2010-12-13 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Ted Unangst ted.unangst () gmail ! com wrote: Date: 2010-12-11 22:19:29 My home internet connection, for various reasons, tends to alternate between the two quality levels of blows balls and blows giant balls. This makes downloading and installing new snapshots an exercise in

Re: Executing from crontab only does the job when I logged on.

2010-12-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Orestes Leal R. leal () cubacatering ! avianet ! cu, at 2010-12-27 16:40:12, substantially ignored: So, read the logs, describe your setup more completely such as by ^ ^^ including a full dmesg. ^ ^ ^ My experience has been that

printing

2011-01-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
First, Happy New Year! I resolved last week to stop using Windows to print from my OpenBSD machine, so I re-read man pages for and re-tried CUPS, lpd, foomatic, etc. As it stands now, here is my printcap: # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ #lp|local line

Re: printing

2011-01-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Jacob Meuser jakemsr () sdf ! lonestar ! org at 2011-01-02 0:26:38 wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:07:02PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Jacob Meuser jakemsr () sdf ! lonestar ! org wrote at 2011-01-01 19:34:40: On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote

Re: printing

2011-01-01 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Jacob Meuser jakemsr () sdf ! lonestar ! org wrote at 2011-01-02 1:24:20 wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:26:38AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:07:02PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Jacob Meuser jakemsr () sdf ! lonestar ! org wrote at 2011-01-01 19:34:40

failure to mount: invalid argument

2011-01-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
New disk for backups (1TB, first 250G NTFS for a Windows box, 500G ffs, remainder unpartitioned, so: # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: HDS721010CLA332 duid: 8f7cc589a5b8d0d1 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 121601

Re: failure to mount: invalid argument

2011-01-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:25:43 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Forgot dmesg: OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC) #614: Mon Jan 10 00:15:18 MST 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.66 GHz

Re: failure to mount: invalid argument

2011-01-15 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:25:43 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Disregard. Forgot to newfs. New disk for backups (1TB, first 250G NTFS for a Windows box, 500G ffs, remainder unpartitioned, so: # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: HDS721010CLA332 duid

.xsession never finishes

2011-01-26 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Recently .xsession began to take much longer to finish. Upgrading to the 25 Jan snapshot has not changed this. I don't know how long it takes anymore, because I can't wait 5+ minutes every time I log in. The selected background color does display, and the xconsole log displays in the top left

Re: Flash Video in Firefox

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On 2011-04-26 13:19:53 David Steiner davidsteiner2010 () gmail ! com wrote: 1) pkg_add gecko-mediaplayer 2) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/ works here on -current amd64. i tested youtube and blip.tv sofar without any trouble. HTH, David Which

Re: Gnash, mplayer, Firefox losing its mind in current 28 Feb

2009-03-08 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sun, Mar 08 2009, jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:03:15PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Running current from a Feb 28 snapshot, I have found that if either mplayer or gnash (from snapshots) are installed, and if embedded media gain focus in FireFox

snapshots

2009-03-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Have snapshots ceased now that 4.5 is in beta? Should I just be updating my source tree and compiling to follow -current? Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: European Orders

2009-03-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Donations and sales do not mix. Businesses cannot do that. It is either a sale, or it is a gift. Please don't confuse the two. Depends on your status. The type of transaction I described is common among nonprofits in the US; i.e., give $100 to public radio, get a tote bag ... might or

Re: German Government claims to be able to break PGP and SSH

2012-05-24 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
. Just the way US Naval Intelligence was so proud to get public credit for breaking Japanese codes in 1942 while the war was still going on. Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-12 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On 2012-08-11 18:43:56, Miod Vallat miod () online ! fr wrote: You will find idiots on @misc. It's one of the few things not in the FAQ. We'd rather not have idiots in the FAQ (-: Miod Alfred E. Neumann was in FAQ until May; the precedent is set. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach,

setting WOL for Realtek 8168

2012-08-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
While I can set wol for this interface, the setting does not survive shutdown. I have found no bios settings that seem to pertain. This system is not dual-boot. Is this a quirk of the 8168? Do I need to look for jumpers? ;-) -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 5.2-current

Re: setting WOL for Realtek 8168

2012-08-30 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:50:36 +0200 Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: While I can set wol for this interface, the setting does not survive shutdown. I have found no bios settings that seem to pertain. This system

Re: firefox crashes

2013-01-28 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:55:35 +0100 Eric Huiban gro...@grompf.net wrote: On 01/23/13 01:43, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: Hi, On my amd64 machine, firefox crashes regularly after some time. [...] $ uname -a OpenBSD passport.my.domain 5.2 GENERIC.MP#17 amd64 I am on OpenBSD current

Re: firefox crashes

2013-01-29 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:32:59 +0100 Eric Huiban gro...@grompf.net wrote: On 01/28/13 13:43, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:55:35 +0100 Eric Huiban gro...@grompf.net wrote: On 01/23/13 01:43, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: Hi, On my amd64 machine, firefox crashes regularly

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
But really, it's an extraordinary event for snapshots to be broken, and it is important that people test them. I have been running snapshots for years. I don't recall anything broken in base that I even noticed. There were some problems with ports, but they were fixed about as rapidly as

Re: font weirdness

2013-09-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:56:51 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net wrote: Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right character? Some substitutions, some blanks? Sorry that is from the 8/29 snapshots, and the two before. I did uninstall libreoffice and replace

font weirdness

2013-09-03 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right character? Some substitutions, some blanks? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: font weirdness

2013-09-14 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
From: Alexander Polakov plhk () sdf ! org Date: 2013-09-03 12:25:50 Message-ID: 20130903122550.GA27589 () watashi ! plhk ! ru * Ed Ahlsen-Girard eagir...@cox.net [130903 16:18]: Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right character? Some substitutions

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