Re: Support Update

Hello once more, Ingo Schwarze wrote on Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 03:16:49PM +0100: > Kihaguru Gathura wrote > on Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:53:21PM +0300: >> 0 >> C Kenya >> P >> T Nairobi >> Z P.O. Box 30164-00100 >> O IFINAX Ltd >> I Kihaguru Njenga

Re: Support Update

Hello, Kihaguru Gathura wrote on Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:53:21PM +0300: > 0 > C Kenya > P > T Nairobi > Z P.O. Box 30164-00100 > O IFINAX Ltd > I Kihaguru Njenga Gathura > A Bishops Road > M info@ifinax. net As far as i can see, this is the only line you want to change, but the new version of

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

Hi Mihai, Mihai Popescu wrote on Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 01:32:34AM +0200: > [ removed elaborate instruction about going html from almost txt with > man pages ] > > All this to jump in html boat? Or I got it wrong? > Are old man pages deprecated? Manual pages are not restricted to a specific

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

Hi Paul, Paul Pace wrote on Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 05:25:55AM -0800: > I have this vague memory of reading someone who posted a script, IIRC, > to convert the system's man pages to HTML, or similar, into somewhere > under /var/www and the pages worked just like the highly useful >

Re: Font size and character encoding.

Hi Michael, Michael Hekeler wrote on Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 08:18:41AM +0100: > Somebody asked: >> How to increase font size in console? >> How to set non-UTF character encoding for tty session on OpenBSD 7.4? > apropos font -a cons Heh. When kristaps@ introduced complex search expressions into

Re: Claws Mail and new call for eu locale

Hi, Daniele B. wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 06:17:21PM +0100: > I just came accross the last little problem regarding the locale of my > system: in Claws Mail the date in message pane is displayed in %x > format (result=mm/dd/year) to adapt to the current locale. > > I started to change

Re: Typo in faq4.html

Hi Robin, robin@tilde.institute wrote on Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 01:18:47PM +: > In faq4.html, the link to OpenBSD's firmware directory is not working. > Indeed it is http://firmware.openbsd.org instead of > http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ as shown in fw_update(8)'s > manpage. Thank

Re: Chinese Support

Hi, ykla wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 08:47:08PM +0800: > I've tested Chinese input methods and interfaces in Chinese > without any problems, and I've written some Chinese tutorials > about OpenBSD. If you're interested, check out book.bsdcn.org. Interesting - even though i must admit i cannot

Re: Default rdomain for CLI commands

Hi Claudio, if you received no feedback, i think you should just go ahead and commit your manual page diff, it seems like an improvement based on what is discussed in this thread (i did not test, nor inspect the code). There may be more potential defects in the manual page login.conf(5). For

Re: Chinese Support

Hi, Lucretia wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 08:48:59AM +: > I remember reading somewhere in the project statement that OpenBSD > aims to support as many platforms as possible. https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html Somewhere in the middle of the list of goals. The priority of that goal is

Re: Donations

Hi, Theo de Raadt wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:14:43PM -0600: > Joel Carnat wrote: >> Le 26 oct. 2023 à 16:38, Ingo Schwarze a écrit : >>> The advice is extremely simple: >>> >>> If you can, donate directly to the OpenBSD project because that means >

Re: Donations

Hi Maria, Maria Morisot wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 03:10:46PM +0600: > I see there are two types of donation receivers, the project and the > foundation. What is the difference between how the money is spent > between the two. How the money is *spent* is not not the main difference between

Re: my first patch

Hi Maria, Maria Morisot wrote on Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:44:17AM +0600: > because the compiler said to. Never trust a linter blindly. A linter is a tool to automate searching for some kinds of issues. For every candidate, you still need to engage your brains to figure out - whether it's an

Re: support new

Hi Wesley, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote on Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 02:06:47PM +0400: > 0 > C France > P REUNION > T Sainte Clotilde > Z 97490 > O Consultant > I Wesley Mouedine Assaby > M wes...@mouedine.net > U https://www.mouedine.net > N OpenBSD consulting, services

Re: job request

Hi, Magenta Octopus wrote on Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 04:57:11PM +: > Someone give me a job because I like your project. Round here, the following are considered critical skills: 1. Being able to decide yourself what interests you. 2. Finding tasks that are worth doing. 3. Judging yourself

Re: Understanding -current as 7.4 is released

Hi Ronald, Ronald Dahlgren wrote on Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 12:45:56PM -0400: > I’ve been running -current for several months now. Recently I started > using “-D snap” when updating packages with pkg_add. If you install a snapshot right now, what you actually get is extremely close to what will be

Re: Registration

Hi Matti, Matti Viljamaa wrote on Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 03:05:37PM +0300: > I mailed the MARC admins though. I would like to kindly ask you to not cause extra work for people who are providing a free public service. > That is extremely bad design, because it's > in essence a data mining

Re: Registration

Hi Matti, Matti Viljamaa wrote on Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 02:46:54PM +0300: > I got an answer to the query though in another mail. Ah, OK. > However, now I am concerned that I didn't want my email visible there. > How can I delete that message? You cannot. When you post information to a public

Re: Registration

Hi Matti, Matti Viljamaa wrote on Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 10:26:57AM +0300: > I think I sent an user group registration request some time ago. > I have not heard anything since. The following search makes it seem likely that maybe you only intended to send some information but actually didn't:

Re: Asked ChatGPT 4 about contributing to OpenBSD, this was its reply

Christoff Humphries wrote on Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 01:21:42PM +: > Asked ChatGPT 4 about contributing to OpenBSD, this was its reply That's both totally pointless and completely off topic here. Gimme a break, ChatGPT is a fucking language model, so it aims for very little except grammatical

Re: groups new

Hi Matti, Matti wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 04:14:55PM +0100: > 0 > C Finland > P Uusimaa > T Helsinki > F None > O Finnish OpenBSD Users Group > I None > M membership.f...@gmail.com > U None > N *BSD so far, i failed to find any evidence that such a group actually exists. Can anybody provide

Re: undocumented command switches -OR- fix documentation fully

I'm aware that i'm replying to an obvious troll. Just clarifying what's going on here for bystanders who might feel confused. > CVSROOT:/cvs > Module name:src > Changes by: mill...@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/09/20 10:57:12 > > Modified files: > usr.bin/awk: main.c > > Log message: >

Re: Does openBSD come with a web browser?

Hi, David wrote on Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 07:23:18AM +1000: > On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 23:21 -0700, Eric Demer wrote: >> whether there's one that comes _already_ installed. All the software that is part of the OpenBSD base system is documented on the site https://man.openbsd.org/ . Consequently,

Re: Netstat output

Updated diff based of feedback from jmc@: +conciseness -duplication Ingo Schwarze wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:36:07PM +0200: > David Gwynne wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:52:56AM +1000: >> On 7 Sep 2023, at 08:00, Steven Shockley wrote: >>> When running netstat -I [i

Re: Netstat output

Hi David, David Gwynne wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:52:56AM +1000: > On 7 Sep 2023, at 08:00, Steven Shockley wrote: >> When running netstat -I [interface], what do the "fails" and "errs" >> columns mean? When my firewall is under network load, the output >> interface fails and total errs

Re: "OpenBSD Doc" App idea

Hi Daniele, Daniele B. wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 10:47:47PM +0200: >> I don't know if Android has a similar feature, but at least on iOS you >> can save a particular website to your home as a webapp from Safari. > Thanks for the answer Shokara. My initiative was to call for the >

Re: "OpenBSD Doc" App idea

Hi Daniele, Daniele B. wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 06:08:06PM +0200: > I simply opened my Google Play and I tried to search Unix > and related terms, etc etc. I had to look up what "Google Play" means, but now your question is specific enough to allow an authoritative answer: Providing apps

Re: "OpenBSD Doc" App idea

Hi Daniele, Daniele B. wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 04:27:18PM +0200: > Just pushing myself over any device limit.. Huh? What does that mean? > I just searched the App Stores for "Unix" and related ones > and wondering if we can hope to have an "OpenBSD Doc" > app beside a "FreeBSD Doc" app

Re: Supporting the OpenBSD Project through a Registered Charity

Hello Katherine, Katherine Mcmillan wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:43:21AM +: > I'm wondering if there are any registered charities (in Canada, > or frankly, any country!) dedicated to promoting/supporting OpenBSD? I think you severely underestimate the complexity of charity law here. You

Re: Why does `pkg_info -m` show quirks?

Hi, Stuart Henderson wrote on Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 05:52:07PM -: > On 2023-08-18, l...@ena.re wrote: >> Also, what is the reason the quirks package does not have a man page? Usually, there is no manual page documenting a package as a whole. >> I believe it should have one, just like any

Re: My /usr cleaning campaign..

is abundantly clear you lack the basic skills you would need to deviate from the default OpenBSD configuration even in simple ways, let alone to identify problems in OpenBSD (which do exist). Yours, Ingo -- Ingo Schwarze http://www.openbsd.org/ http://mandoc.bsd.lv/

Re: Possible off-by-one bug in usr.sbin/rad/engine.c

Hi Alejandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 05:56:27PM +0100: > I've started auditing the OpenBSD source code after the discussion on > arc4random_uniform(3) and my suggestion of arc4random_range() on the glibc > mailing list. > > I found some cases where it seems like

Re: [RFC v1 1/2] Add arc4random_range(min, max)

Hi Alexandro, i fail to see the point. We do not usually add extra functions if the same effect can be be attained with one-liners. There is significant value in keeping the API as small as possible, it makes the API easier to learn and it makes programming mistakes less likely. On top of

Re: Geomant - Would you review my first C project ?

Hi Jason, jkinne...@yahoo.ca wrote on Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:04:20AM +: > As long as learning C came up, does anyone from the OpenBSD community > have an opinion on whether this training for writing secure C would be > worthwhile for someone with mid-level skills? >

Re: new group

Hello Ashish, ashish rai wrote on Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 08:27:43PM +0530: > 0 > C INDIA > P Uttar Pradesh > T Varanasi > F Irregular To list a new group, there should be at least some evidence that the group has been holding regular meetings lately. In this case, so far, i fail to see any

Re: support new

Hello Jiri, Jiri Navratil wrote on Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 07:54:53PM +0200: > could someone guide me please, what I have to improve in my request > and/or on my web page to be approved for > https://www.openbsd.org/support.html ? Your request is just fine. You provide all the relevant

Re: documentation

Hi, Tom Smyth wrote on Tue, May 24, 2022 at 05:02:42PM +0100: > On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 16:54, Gustavo Rios wrote: >> I would like to download a pdf version of the faq and pf guide >> for openbsd 7.1. I assume you are talking about https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html and

Re: How to Get the kernel-specific source or configuration of the distribution without installation

rent kernel versions without installation? OpenBSD does not support different kernel versions. The only officially supported version of the kernel is GENERIC{,MP}. All users are advised to run GENERIC or GENERIC.MP. The various RAMDISK* kernel configs you will find in the above directories are installat

Re: rc.daily missing diff markers

Hi Lyndon, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 02:31:55PM -0700: > Sure. It just caught my attention today because this is probably > the first time I've seen such a large batch of changes in one email > like that. Which has no doubt happened endless times in the

Re: rc.daily missing diff markers

Hi Lyndon, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:33:57AM -0700: > In the output from the daily insecurity report run, the sections on > setuid and block device changes are missing any diff markup. The > remaining sections are fine. > > From this morning's post-7.1-upgrade run: > >

Re: support update

Hi Duncan, Duncan Hart wrote on Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:28:38AM -0400: > 0 > C Australia > P Victoria > T South Yarra > Z 3141 > A PO Box 530 > O Applied OpenBSD > I Duncan Hart > M dun...@appliedopenbsd.com > U https://AppliedOpenBSD.com > B +61 3 7065 5840 > N Proactively secure application

Re: HW raid adapter - Adaptec 8405 SGL

Hi, Nick Holland wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:30:58AM -0500: > On 1/13/22 5:58 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2022-01-13, Aleksander Dzierżanowski wrote: >>> Is 'Adaptec 8405 SGL' hardware raid controller working under OpenBSD? >>> I saw there is *some* Adaptec support, but the model is

Re: Is fw_update documentation outdated?

Hi Alexander, Alexander wrote on Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:11:51PM +: > On 2021/12/25 18:02, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> The new fw_update shell script is not in CVS yet. >> >> This command provides a clue that could lead you to suspect the above: >> >>$ gr

Re: Is fw_update documentation outdated?

Hi Alexander, Alexander wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 04:07:07PM +: > I just wanted to check for new firmware versions: > > $ fw_update -n > fw_update: unknown option -- -n > usage: fw_update [-d | -D] [-av] [-p path] [driver | file ...] > > This used to work /usr/sbin/fw_update used to

Re: openbsd is shockingly good

Hi, tetrahe...@danwin1210.de wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 09:37:35PM +: > I have to say I am really impressed. This is how IT should be done. My > compliments to the developers. Heh, you are evoking pleasant old memories. That's exactly how i felt shortly after a SysOp colleague made the

Re: Missing action list in lesskey man page

Hi Jason and Richard, Jason McIntyre wrote on Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 09:18:56PM +: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 07:11:01PM +0100, Richard Ulmer wrote: >> jmc@ wrote: >>> the actions do indeed match those in the command list. whether there are >>> any undocumented ones, i don;t know. i suppose

Re: Default window manager

Hi, jwinnie@tilde.institute wrote on Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 04:34:48PM -0500: > I am wondering if there are plans to change the > default window manager in OpenBSD. No, i don't think there is any interest. Experience taught us that importing additional code into the base sytem is a bad idea

Re: MANPATH resets output paper setting

Hi Jan, Jan Stary wrote on Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 04:05:10PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Jan Stary wrote: >>> This is current/amd64 on a PC. >>> It seems that if MANPATH is set (to something nonempty), >>> the settings in /etc/man.conf get ignor

Re: MANPATH resets output paper setting

Hi Jan, Jan Stary wrote on Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 01:24:19PM +0100: > This is current/amd64 on a PC. > It seems that if MANPATH is set (to something nonempty), > the settings in /etc/man.conf get ignored: > > $ cat /etc/man.conf > output paper a4 > > $ man -Tps true | grep

Re: Spleen with russian (maybe more) cyrillic symbols

Hi Slava, Slava Voronzoff wrote on Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:01:26PM +0300: > I'm working right now on adding cyrillic to Spleen font. How can I later > add it to OpenBSD kernel and ports? Pull request to main font on github > (Hi, Frederic) or patch here? You cannot add it to the kernel because

Re: Are there any protection againts heisting the "shell builtin"s?

Hi Jim, jim hook wrote on Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:24:18AM +0200: > test$ cd > rmplayer > test$ > test$ type cd > cd is a function > test$ > test$ tail -4 .profile > cd() > { > echo rmplayer > } > test$ > test$ uname -mrs > OpenBSD 6.9 amd64 > test$ Those are useful features. I doubt you will

Re: Snapshot generation stalled?

Hi Karel, Karel Gardas wrote on Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 07:32:50PM +0200: > installed snapshot on amd64 week or so ago to see how it is working. > It's #195 from Aug 23. During the past few days I've checked from time > to time > with sysupgrade (with or without -s) but it always claimed I'm on

Re: Run a command on "last day of month"

Hi, Adam Paulukanis wrote on Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:39:54PM +0200: > if today is the last day of the month, tomorrow will be 1st. That is a non-portable assumption and a trap that many people seem to fall into. For example, in the shire calendar, 1 Afterlithe (~= July) is the fourth day after

Re: support update

Hi, Duncan Hart wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 05:31:09PM +1000: > 0 > C Australia > P Victoria > T Melbourne > Z 3000 > A PO Box 2530 > O Applied OpenBSD > I Duncan Hart > M dun...@appliedopenbsd.com > U https://AppliedOpenBSD.com/ > B +61 3 7065 5840 > N Proactively secure web application

Re: Submitting Patches

Hi Ben, b...@0x1bi.net wrote on Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 01:44:41PM -0400: > I've made a patch for the Xenocara project, > and would like to submit it. So, why didn't you? This is absolutely not specific to OpenBSD: Never ask what to with patches without including them in the first message, for no

Re: /var/log/failedlogin is a binary file with a lot of null bytes?!

Hi, podolica wrote on Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:36:05PM +: > Philip Guenther schrieb am 17. Juli 2021 um 11:09: >> That file is specific to the 'login' command, specifically the >> source file /usr/src/usr.bin/login/failedlogin.c and consists of >> an array of the 'badlogin' structure

Re: groups new

Hi Stefan, committed! While committing, i added the missing "P Baden" because it appears we sort the German groups alphabetically by Land. Some might regard the following as typical ;-) for Germany: This Group is not just an informal group (like, for example, the OpenBSD project itself is),

Re: groups new

Hi Stefan, Stefan Hagen wrote on Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:22:55PM +0200: > U https://uugrn.org i suspect that your web server is misconfigured; at least for me, it appears to redirect to itself: $ w3m -dump_source https://uugrn.org Redirection loop detected (https://uugrn.org/) 302 Found

Re: new support

Hi Robert, nice to have a service provider in Poland, too. :-) Committed; it will show up on the OpenBSD site with a short delay. Yours, Ingo bi...@apisoft.pl wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:26:56PM +0200: > 0 > C Poland > P mazowieckie > T Radom > Z 26-600 > O APISOFT Sp. z o.o. > I

Re: style.9 typos

Hi Claudio and Todd, Todd C. Miller wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0600: > You are expected to know that ^I (control-I) is the tab character. > Using ^I instead of a literal tab character in the manual was > supposed to make it clear that this is a tab and not a series of > spaces but

Re: displaying and typing czech letters

Hi Tomas, tomas rodr wrote on Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 06:58:07PM +0200: > I am currently tied by X to display the following [ latin letters with Czech accents] > Likewise the keyboard encoding is done by setxkbmap. What steps > would I have to take to achieve the same result without running X?

Re: support and consulting: new entry request

Hi Navan, Navan Carson wrote on Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 01:08:55PM -0600: > The TLS certificate is invalid for https://obsd.solutions/. > It's for some mcafee.com names. I'm sorry, but so far, i'm unable to reproduce. When i connect to obsd.solutions with HTTPs, the following certificate is

Re: Localization of date(1) and XFCE

Hi, Jan Stary wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:24:15AM +0200: > On Jun 20 18:58:31, ffuen...@texto-plano.xyz wrote: >> I speak Spanish and thus I use a locale called es_CL.UTF-8. XFCE is fine >> with it. However, my date is expressed directly as it comes from date(1). >> This is confirmed by

Re: mount(8) security and symlink(7)

Hi, Reuben ua Brig wrote: > when OpenBSD is happy to change even man.conf We change things when all of the following hold: 1. There is a significant problem to be solved, or a significant profit to be gained. Regarding man.conf: the old format was over-engineered, wordy, hard to use,

Re: MANPAGER

Hi Heinrich, Heinrich Rebehn wrote on Sun, May 30, 2021 at 10:02:41AM +0200: > I did see LESS_IS_MORE, but there were probably good reasons for > the OpenBSD devs to switch to less(1). Prosaic as it may seem, and featurism indeed feeling not too typical for OpenBSD, my reason for switching

Re: Updating user groups - deregistering Iran BSD User Group (IRBUG)

Hi Faraz, Faraz Vahedi wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:05:32AM +: > With a heavy heart, I am writing to hereby announce the end of the > IRBUG's activities, the user group that I have been running for about > two years. Because of the current situation in Iran, the pandemic era, > and

Re: Website - Missing kstat man page

Hi, Daniel Jakots wrote on Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:19:07PM -0500: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 22:57:06 -0500, wrote: >> I came across a broken link during some pre-install research. >> >> While browsing URL https://www.openbsd.org/68.html, >> I noticed URL link on the webpage for kstat(1) generates

Re: OpenSMTPD-extras manual

Hi Maksim & Edgar, Edgar Pettijohn wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 03:37:22PM -0600: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 08:02:19PM +0300, ?? wrote: >> Where can I find any manuals and examples regarding OpenSMTPD-extras? Try: $ man -k ^table- $ man table-passwd table-socketmap

Re: Making a portable version of imsg - where to find regression tests?

Hi Aisha, Aisha Tammy wrote on Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 05:40:14PM -0500: > I was trying to create a small standalone portable version of the > imsg utilities for linux and I managed to get it compiling (yea!!) > and have put it on github [1]. I freely admit i didn't look at that. > It is also

Re: support new

Hi Janne, Janne Johansson wrote on Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 01:23:23PM +0100: > There is some, > > "We offer the server management service. We work on the deployment and > management of servers with open source technologies such as CentOS, Debian, > FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Ubuntu Server." Fair

Re: support new

Hi, AMG Labs wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:55:52PM -0300: > 0 > C Brazil > P RS > T Santo Antonio da Patrulha > Z 95500-000 > O AMG Labs > I Angelito Monteiro Goulart > A Av. Cel Victor Villa Verde 126/301 > M cont...@amglabs.net > U https://www.amglabs.net/ > B +55 51 92000 7613 > X > N We

Re: support new

Hi, supo...@mdfsoftware.com.br wrote on Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 01:40:18PM -0300: > 0 > C Brazil > P Ceará > T FORTALEZA > Z 60410442 > O MDFSoftware > I Oliveira Filho, D. A. > A Av. Eduardo Girão 355 > M supo...@mdfsoftware.com.br > U http://www.mdfsoftware.com.br/ > B +55-85-9-89739017 > X

Re: development best practices

Hi Bjoern, bjoern gohla wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 12:27:47PM +: > i'm fairly new to openbsd. and i've run into the following problem, > where i want to hack a project (most recently trying to fix a possible > issue with i3status), but building the from the git source > tree fails. > >

Re: support new

Hi Emre, Emre Kal wrote on Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:55:55PM +0100: > If my request is rejected again, please provide me with the *objective* > reasons why I am not allowed to list my services as a OpenBSD consultant. That won't happen. > I believe I am entitled You are not entitled to

Re: support new

Hi, i don't care greatly if another developer wants to add this, but i advise against it. Talking to this person is a tedious job, he seems to not understand very well what you say or to not really listen. He is also quite bad at explaining stuff and it's hard to figure out what he is driving

Re: groups new

Hi, Computer Planet wrote on Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 11:20:03PM +0100: > 0 > C ITALY > P Cosenza > T San Marco Argentano > F Irregular > O OpenBSD CpnetServer > I Ernesto Bellomusto > M open...@cpnetserver.net > U node51.net > N OpenBSD | *BSD Is there any evidence that this group actually exists?

Re: support new

Hi, Computer Planet wrote on Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 12:07:00AM +0100: > 0 > C ITALY > P Cosenza > T San Marco Argentano > Z 87018 > O Computer Planet > I Ernesto Bellomusto > A P.zza Giuseppe Garibaldi, 7 > M open...@cpnetserver.net > U http://www.node51.net/ That line seems inappropriate to me

Re: mailing list management software

Hi, Craig Skinner wrote on Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:26:03PM +: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:12:42 +0300 Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> is there any mailing list software which naturally supports virtual >> domains? > I've found MLMMJ rather good for multiple non-canonical domains: > >

Re: du man page

Hi, a...@sdf.org wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:44:01AM +: > In du(1) it reads: > > [...] > EXAMPLES > Display a summary of files and folders in the current directory, > sorted by size: > >$ du -sh * .??* | sort -h > [...] > > This misses file names of the form .a,

Re: Using ports and updates to the release

Hi Ed, Ed Gray wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 07:21:32PM +0100: > I'm still fairly new to openbsd and the idea of using ports > in general rather than binary packages. You are usually better off using packages than using ports, especially as a new user. Even as an experienced user doing lots of

Re: time_t

Hi Peter, Peter J. Philipp wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:47:59PM +0200: > When time_t was made, I think, positive integers meant time forwards, and > negative integers meant time backwards from epoch so that people born in > 1938 for example could be processed.

Re: time_t

Hi Rodrick, Roderick wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:16:24PM +: > The result of time() has type time_t and we know what kind of number > goes there: seconds since 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, > 1970, Coordinated Universal Time. > > In my FreeBSD running on a 64 bit processor

Re: OpenBSD fakeroot

Hi Richard, Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:35:16PM +0200: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:14:07PM +0200: >>> I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, >> You are no

Re: OpenBSD fakeroot

Hi Richard, Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:14:07PM +0200: > I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, You are not really explaining what it is that you actually want to do... So i'm guessing a bit: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/fakeroot/fakeroot.1.en.html says:

Re: support new

Hi Ottavio, Ottavio Caruso wrote on Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:37:22AM +0100: > On 01/10/2020 09:41, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Mischa wrote on Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:10:27PM +0200: >>> U https://openbsd.amsterdam/ >>> N Hosting OpenBSD VMs on dedicated vmm(4)/vmd(8) s

Re: support new

Hi, Mischa wrote on Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:10:27PM +0200: > 0 > C Netherlands > P > T Amsterdam > Z 1083 HN > O OpenBSD Amsterdam > I > A Barbara Strozzilaan 251 > M service@openbsd.amsterdam > U https://openbsd.amsterdam/ > B > X > N Hosting OpenBSD VMs on dedicated vmm(4)/vmd(8) servers.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] pledge(1): an unprivileged sandboxing tool for OpenBSD

Hi Demi, Demi M. Obenour wrote on Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:51:34PM -0400: > The tool makes essential use of the execpromises argument > to pledge(2), so that it can sandbox the program it executes. This appears to conflict with the basic idea of pledge(2), which is for the *programmer* to first

Re: How do you get different $PS1 for /bin/sh and /bin/ksh?

Hi Ottavio, Ottavio Caruso wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:22:11AM +0100: > On a side note, there's no mention of startup files in sh(1) > and I wonder why. >From sh(1), second paragraph: This manual page describes only the parts relevant to a POSIX compliant sh. If portability is a

Re: home printer

Hi Carson, Carson Chittom wrote on Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:51:45AM -0500: > Jan Stary writes: >> Can people please recommend a home laser printer >> that is known to work well with OpenBSD? >> >> I would like to avoid cups, and possibly a2ps >> and foo* and if= and all that dance >> - a printer

Re: Must disable /usr/libexec/security on backup disks

Hi Theo, Theo de Raadt wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 07:27:23AM -0600: > I am happy enough with the diff, and also dislike having a flag. > Can we get it commited Done. > and revisit the situation in 10 years? I'm sorry, i cannot promise to keep my TODO list in order for ten years, it often

Re: Must disable /usr/libexec/security on backup disks

Hi Brian, Brian Brombacher wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 07:55:11AM -0400: > Love the idea; however, the only drawback is if some Bad Person > is twiddling around and leaves a suid or dev around on a file system > that is nosuid or nodev, you lose visibility. Doesn't look like a problem to me;

Re: Must disable /usr/libexec/security on backup disks

Hi Theo, Theo de Raadt wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:06:08AM -0600: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> are used for. Some such file systems may permit SUID and/or device >> files, so not checking them may be a dubious idea. > The script could identify mountpoints with s

Re: Must disable /usr/libexec/security on backup disks

Hi Todd, Todd C. Miller wrote on Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:13:04PM -0600: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:17:02 -, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >> Since /usr/libexec/security runs blindly on every attached storage >> media, it also runs on mounted tape and backup data volumes. > It might be best to only

Re: fido library

Hi Mihai, besides, while it is often useful to bear with newbies, a user who is no longer a bloody beginner at using computers can be expected to type simple commands without asking for help, e.g. $ cd /usr/src/ $ find . -name 'Makefile*' -exec grep lfido {} \; -print LDADD+= -lfido2

Re: exFAT support

Hi John, jo...@armadilloaerospace.com wrote on Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 04:28:53PM -0700: > I was considering making a kernel patch that reported it was > an exFATfilesystem Sounds like a layering violation. The table of file system IDs is in userland - /usr/src/sbin/fdisk/part.c - rather than in

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

Hi Ottavio, Ottavio Caruso wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:28:25PM +0100: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 13:44, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Martin wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +: >>> After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions >>> and poss

Re: Cleaning system's old ibraries/files after update to next -release or -current

Hi, Martin wrote on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:11:34AM +: > After system update I found lots of 'old' libraries versions > and possibly binaries from previous releases. > > Does anybody know an automated method to remove it after update? > For instance previous libs before update to -current.

Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

Hi, Eric Furman wrote on Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 07:12:33PM -0400: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Ottavio Caruso wrote: >>> Unless I've got it all wrong, will only >>> display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to >>>

Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

Hi Marc, Marc Espie wrote on Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:43:49PM +0200: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Ottavio Caruso wrote: >>> Unless I've got it all wrong, will only >>> display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there

Re: Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

Hi David, Dawid Czelu?niak wrote on Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:19:23PM +0200: > I am a huge fan of minimal and custom installations > as I mostly use OpenBSD to host simple HTTP servers. That's perfectly fine. These days, we consider the "minimal installation" the base file sets, including xbase.

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