Re: More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:36:40PM -0400, I wrote: In addition, you might need machdep.allowaperture=2, per /etc/X11R6/README. A fairly obvious typo. It should be per /usr/X11R6/README.

Re: About soft updates

2006-07-05 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find out whether to enable soft updates or not, and I have not really seen any reason not to, other than that it is not enabled by default. In order not to spread (or consume) FUD, I would like to

6/30 i386 snapshot: panic on usb mount

2006-07-08 Thread Josh Grosse
I had a panic when I attempted to mount a usb stick today. This particular stick seems to work fine on Windows machines without error. A dmesg follows the ddb output. --- messages on insert: umass0 at uhub3 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev

Re: apply updates to kernel and userland without recompiling?

2006-07-10 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:04:24AM -0700, Joe wrote: I manage a few openbsd 3.9-release firewalls and I need to update the OS, but I don't want to cvsup and recompile on each system. Is there a documented/recommended way to do update a system by creating a tarball or package of what was

Re: Problem with x11/xfce4/xfce4-netload on i386, not on amd64

2006-07-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:40:50PM +0100, Andreas Kahari wrote: Hi list, Not terribly important, but I have a problem with the netload panel plugin for Xfce4. It shows the in/out rates for my interfaces (vr re) on my amd64 machine, but on my i386 Vaio laptop with an fxp interface it

opera-flashplugin, semaphores, and uvm_faults

2006-07-23 Thread Josh Grosse
to debug this on my own. Could this be a linux ABI issue? Redhat-base? linux_semget? sys_semget? Pointers to where to look to debug this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Josh Grosse- The failure and ddb trace: uvm_fault(0xd68dfcf0, 0xf0d, 0, 1) - e kernel: page fault trap

Re: questions about the ports tree and the stable branch

2006-08-18 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:40:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote: All this struggle because I must upgrade from dovecot-beta8 to beta9, In my initial reply (which hasn't yet come through the mailing list as I write this), I misspoke and said that both -release and -stable were at beta3. 3.9-stable is at

Re: Looking for general info on OpenBSD

2006-08-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:33:46AM -0700, Jon R H wrote: Hello Group. Need some help understanding 3.9 stable and what it means from a pkg stand point! I mean does stable give me more options then the release ver of 3.9! Dose OpenBSD have a printed manual like FreeBSD has The complete

Re: Looking for general info on OpenBSD

2006-08-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:51:48AM -0400, Dan Farrell wrote: I'm forced to use Outlook at work (don't get me started, I hate it), as I'm sure a few others here are... I've tried a few crappy add-ons that will reverse the top-posting nature of Outlook, and they have all failed. If anyone knows

Re: Kernel and drivers

2006-08-25 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:53:21PM +1100, Bertrand CHERRIER wrote: ...the generic kernel does not have the twe driver, while the i386 one has. Any special reason for this ? ... Previous thread regarding twe on amd64: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=112674319520417w=2 Previous

RAIDframe Root on RAID -- configuring dump device

2006-08-27 Thread Josh Grosse
Has anyone using Root on RAID managed to point their dumpdev at a swap space, either within a RAID array or on a standard swap partition? I have not, and a search of the archives only came up with one posting, with a similar question, but no answer:

Re: Inetd - ftpd

2006-08-28 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:47:31PM -0500, Der Engel wrote: HI, I'm having this issue when i activate ftpd through inetd. (OpenBSD 3.9) When I log in using a windows client i get the following: snip 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused. ftp But when i log in through an

Re: Unable to find startxfce under OpenBSD/i386 3.9

2006-08-29 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:21:28PM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: snip I can't find startxfce in /usr/local/bin or elsewhere. When X is started, I can run xffm and so on, but under fvwm ! :) Any idea ? What's the missing package ? I'm running -current: $ pkg_info -E

Re: RAIDframe Root on RAID -- configuring dump device

2006-08-29 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:28:50PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote: Josh Grosse writes: Has anyone using Root on RAID managed to point their dumpdev at a swap space, either within a RAID array or on a standard swap partition? Dumping to a standard swap partition on a RAID set is not supported

Re: RAIDframe Root on RAID -- configuring dump device

2006-08-31 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:51:00PM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: 2006/8/27, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone using Root on RAID managed to point their dumpdev at a swap space, either within a RAID array or on a standard swap partition? This is a powerfull hack that helped me

named failure, i386 current (Aug 1 snapshot)

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Grosse
Test, test, test! I hear the mantra, and I obey. -- I had this BIND failure just now, as reported in /var/log/daemon and /var/log/messages, wrapped here for readability: ...named[24100]: /usr/src/usr.sbin/bind/lib/isc/buffer.c:83: REQUIREb) != 0L) (((const isc__magic_t

Re: FreeBSD emulation

2006-09-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:46:31PM -0600, David B. wrote: hi, hate to bother, ... I'm running 3.8 on a sun E450 sparc64. I need to be able to enable freebsd binary emulation. [snip] Am I out of luck? or do I just recompile the kernel? The option COMPAT_FREEBSD is apparently in the

Re: boot: bad unit number

2006-09-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:26:49PM -0500, Benjamin Collins wrote: When I boot one of my boxen up, it fails to boot. As soon as it hits hd0, I see this: Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading... ERR M From biosboot(8): ERR MBad magic. The ELF ``magic number'' \7fELF in boot(8)'s

[correction] Re: boot: bad unit number

2006-09-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:06:23AM -0400, *I* wrote: Boot a cd image, enter shell. Issue: # fdisk wd0 # disklabel wd0 if the output of both fdisk and disklabel appear fine, then and only then would I assume the problem is a relocated /boot file. To fix: #

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-09-30 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:12:22PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I am reasonably new to OpenBSD, I searched the ports tree but I am unsure if there is a application that would somehow allow me to setup a PVR to record TV I was looking for something like MythTV Both fxtv and xawtv are in

Re: Question regarding -current

2006-10-04 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Tor Houghton wrote: I am running OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #1017: Mon Jul 24 19:57:12 MDT 2006 on one machine, but I have deleted the source tree for that release (that is, 3.9-current snapshot around July 20-24). I currently see 4.0

Re: System update trouble with ccd

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:36:53PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/10/16 15:16, Michael wrote: Anyone got an idea how I can upgrade the system anyway without having to compile the kernel and everything else from source while the system is running? untar (with the p flag) the

Re: Is there a deluser equivalent in OpenBSD?

2006-10-28 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:29:41PM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: The man page says rmuser only accepts an username as an argument... Thanks, but usermod (with -G arg) seems to only let me add users to a group or multiple groups, but not remove them . The man page, from what I could

Re: 4.0 errata

2006-11-03 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:06:25PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I just upgraded to 4.0 (without incident) and copied in the new source trees from the CD. A cvs update to the 4.0 patch branch brought in a number of changes that look suspiciously like some of the latest 3.9 errata

Re: Error with 002_openssl.patch

2006-11-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:25:29PM +0100, Federico Giannici wrote: I have written that I upgraded to -stable the KERNEL (src/sys) and compiled a new one. THEN I extracted the src.tar.gz archive, patched it with 002_openssl.patch, and note that the patch SUCCEDED. Then I tried to compile

Re: where is unarj-2.43?

2006-11-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:07:24PM -0600, Default User wrote: Okay, I give up. Where is unarj-2.43 in the OpenBSD 4.0 i386 packages? Clamav seems to need it, but pkg_add said it could not be found. Is it indeed missing? Both unarj and unrar are dependencies of ClamAV, but they are not

Re: java on openbsd

2006-11-14 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:07:50AM -0500, Marc Ravensbergen wrote: ...I am having a hard time getting java to work on openbsd. Java is a deal-breaker for me as I use it all day every day for work. What I've done is taken a tar of the linux version... snip ...I really don't want to download

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a production system and a development system. i need a stable system to work with

Re: FTP errors

2006-11-15 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:44:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..So 2 questions. First, can I shut of EPSV and use PASV instead for pkg_add? Doesn't look like our firewalls will support us turning on allowing EPSV. I looked through the man pages and didn't find anything. In the man for

Re: Why Sendmail?

2006-11-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:32:29PM +, Conrad Winchester wrote: ...why am I not given the option to turn off Sendmail at this point? I NEVER use sendmail... See afterboot(8) for a description of the sendmail configuration. See daily(8) for a discussion of system maintenance logs which are

Re: source upgrade to 4.0 - what to check?

2006-12-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:56:37AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Josh, On Tue, 05.12.2006 at 16:51:07 -0500, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. build a 4.0 RAIDFrame system locally, in a qemu or vmware virtual machine if necessary, on spare hardware if not. qemu could fill

Re: How to copy/pipe console buffert to file?

2008-05-08 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:37:47 +0200, rancor wrote Hi Is there any way of copy/pipe the information on the console to a file? I need the same information that I can see of I hold down Ctrl+Shift and using PageUp/Down when I'm on the console. I'm not using serial, that would be simple but

OLPC inks agreement with Microsoft

2008-05-16 Thread Josh Grosse
One Laptop Per Child has been discussed on misc@ before, including decisions made by the organization's technical leadership to sign NDAs for their particular hardware choices on the XO laptop. This slashdot posting: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/2320243 references a New

Re: Encrypted filesystems

2008-06-04 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:34:11 +, Alphons \Fonz\ van Werven wrote Are there any means of encrypting filesystems other than using cryptfs plus vnode? As far as I could find out, the latter imposes a size limit of roughly 8GB which is acceptable for most partitions but not all of them.

Re: bsdanywhere

2008-06-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:42:08 +0200, Pau wrote a nice thing to test hardware and get dmesg http://bsdanywhere.org/ Of course, I guess that booting the obsd installer cd is much faster and you get also dmesg but this is an interesting alternative Yes, I just discovered it this week and had

Re: bsdanywhere

2008-06-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:36:59PM -0600, Anathae Townsend wrote: On your web site, in your FAQ on your liveCD, you have recommendations that include disabling the hard drives in bios. I tried that with the OpenBSD install iso, and it still found my sata drive. jafyi Hmmm... if the drive

Re: use boot.conf boot into GENERIC.MP with the 5 second pause at boot-time

2008-06-16 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:19:16PM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote: I use a amd64 MP server, default boot into GENERIC, not GENERIC.MP. I can use boot.conf boot into GENERIC.MP, but this remove the 5 second pause at boot-time. How can I default boot into GENERIC.MP, and not remove the 5 second

Re: 4.3 transfered to new disk: floating point exceptions

2008-06-22 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:57:00AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: ...and then the obligatory newfs on /dev/sd1X, cd into it, and restore. Everything went fine. Then I rebooted with only the new disk plugged in, which gets recognized fine as sd0 (now), the system boots ok, and I get log in. BUT

Re: booting a different kernel

2008-06-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:07:27 -0700 (PDT), annne annnie wrote If I had windows installed first, then I installed openbsd, what would I type to boot into windows?B Don't you have to type the name of the kernel?B What is windows xp's kernel called?B I would also have to type the partition

Re: booting a different kernel [correction]

2008-06-23 Thread Josh Grosse
I'd written: FAQ 4.3 describes various ways... That should be FAQ 4.8. Sorry for the typo.

Re: tcpdump -X

2008-07-15 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:49:46PM +0200, GVG GVG wrote: Just out of curiosity what's this 'MTU' stands for? http://www.acronymfinder.com/MTU.html

Re: tcpdump -X

2008-07-17 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:04:17AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: ...but it's also long time users like Paul and Josh forgetting the end result of being overly helpful. Hey, JC, I pointed the OP to acronymfinder.com; one of the more useful sites I know of.

Re: OT: BSDanywhere mailing lists online

2008-07-17 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:08:51PM +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: - how is this different from the jggimi discs? I can't speak to Stephan's recent changes; he and I spoke via e-mail just before his Beta 1 was packaged. I did look at Beta 1, but not newer ISOs, I'll talk only to known

Re: Software for backing up files to DVD

2008-08-01 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:48:07AM +1000, Tim Hume wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a suggestion for software for backing up large directories to DVD? I have many Gigabtyes (more than 20) of digital photos on my OpenBSD machine, and would like a simple method of backing the files up to several

Re: openbsd web server failure

2008-08-04 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:59:47 -0300, John Nietzsche wrote Hi, i am migrating a web application from a linux server to an openbsd one. I am having a hard time trying to execute a cgi program... The default configuration of the Apache web server is chrooted. FAQ 10.16 describes the

Re: make build fails for OPENBSD_4_4 on i386

2008-08-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:55:49 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote Since the people building the release are building the release, it's pretty likely they'll find out all on their own. True. A couple of points which perhaps weren't articulated well at the beginning of this thread: First, -release is

Re: not a tty

2008-08-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:54:06 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote Likely /tmp is mounted nodev I don't think so. I can replicate Leo's exact sequence when /tmp is mounted dev. If it is mounted nodev, you get warning messages that there is no controlling tty when you start the shell. With dev, you get

Re: Pre-Order 4.4

2008-09-03 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:55:27 +0200, Christophe Rioux wrote Hi Do you know if the raid logic has being corrected in this new release... Yes. See: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/raidframe/rf_openbsdkintf.c

Re: Newbie some problem with OpenBSD

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:03:00 +0800, Ling Xiaoheng wrote Hello, I'm newbie in the OpenBSD,I use FreeBSD before.Today I read OpenBSD FAQ carefully and have some questions. In ... Keeping Things in Sync ... On this paragraph's mean,every release version always have a new version packages for

Re: Newbie some problem with OpenBSD

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:41:31 +0100, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote Trying to make sure attribution is clear, bear with this edit: I'd mentioned, in regards to -release: Upgrading by compiling source is unsupported. Edd had responded: I don't see why that wouldn't work, just so long as you

Re: Newbie some problem with OpenBSD

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:27:25 -0400, Josh Grosse neglected to check for typos: I'd written: ...Every -release cycle, I see people their pre-ordered - release systems into production prior to release by the Project. I meant to type: Every -release cycle, I see people put their pre-ordered

Re: Newbie some problem with OpenBSD

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:33:49AM +0200, Mic J wrote: There is offcourse the usual nagging of packages not being available instanly. That may be what I recall most clearly. :)

Re: pf http reporting tool

2006-12-21 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:04:54PM +0800, Edy wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is any tool which is able to show the attacks that has passed through PF and present it on a web based? Google for IDS or Intrusion Detection Systems -- the most popular free IDS is likely to be snort, which is

Re: System copy

2007-01-25 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:17:16PM +0100, klemen wrote: I make an image with cpio of working sistem on pc1. If I make an BSD partition on pc2 and copy image from pc1 on it will it work (boot)? Four things to consider: 1. They must be the same architecture. 2. On MBR architectures, you

Re: install image to computer

2007-01-26 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:28:29PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/01/26 07:12, smith wrote: Is there a way to install an image file from a server to a computer using a cd that was burned with OpenBSD's cd40.iso? put |dd if=/dev/rwd0c bs=64k imagefilename very similar: get

Re: spamd openbsd 4.0 query

2007-01-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:17:04PM +, John . wrote: ...It gets lots of mail, and it has about 30 users on it. It has one NIC. I want to use PF to control spam. Question is, the pf.conf seems to want 2 interfaces in order to do this.. Is it permissable to set int_if and ext_if to be the

Re: spamd openbsd 4.0 query

2007-01-28 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:17:15AM +, John . wrote: ...or maybe I've answered my own question :) Sometimes it helps to type it out. So, presumably spamd as actuated by PF takes care of the 100% certain spam, what is then accepted per user depends on invoking spamc/d via a procmail ruleset

spamd - SPEWS status

2007-02-01 Thread Josh Grosse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1) According to www.spews.org, the text files for SPEWS level 1 and 2 have not been updated since August, 2006. 2) There has been much discussion of this in both news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting, and in news.admin.net-abuse.email. 3) As of today,

Re: Passing rootdev to the openbsd kernel

2007-02-03 Thread Josh Grosse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:43:12PM +1100, Miki Shapiro wrote: Hi all, question neigher google nor the mailing list archive seems to answer - How can I pass a non-default rootdev to the kernel? In a custom kernel. See config(8), and look for

dump(8) - dvd: best practices?

2007-02-05 Thread Josh Grosse
I have a small network with a central backup server; backup has been to hard drive, compressed. I have begun experimenting with using dump(8) to split partitions in to manageable units for burning onto DVD+RW. I am posting to see if anyone else is using dump with optical media; I'm interested

Re: dump(8) - dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:02PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: ISTR that there was a piece of software called 'shunt' that would pipe a specified amount of data into certain commands, then close and re-open the pipe. This is basically what split does, but writing to a pipe instead of files.

Re: dump(8) - dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:21:52PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: ...It's not in the ports tree, but I will look into what it can do, if it works for me I will report back, and then port it. :) Always good! Yes, testing

Re: dump(8) - dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:24:38PM -0500, I wrote: I have completed tests with small files, and am now running a test w/ 8GB or so of data. It works, using shunt/flyisofs. I will be making offsite backups much much more than I will be restoring them, and this is fairly easy: shunt

Re: firefox compiling dependence

2007-02-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:38:02AM +0800, ronald jiang wrote: I want to compiling firefox in obsd4.0. I've installed obsd fully. What else do I need to compile firefox? Thanks. Firefox is available as a package, and as a port. See FAQ 15 to get started.

Re: ssh/sshd challenge-response seems to have stopped working in -current

2007-02-27 Thread Josh Grosse
Oops, forgot to add my dmesg. This kernel is GENERIC+RAIDFrame: OpenBSD 4.1-beta (JGGIMI) #14: Sun Feb 25 13:36:43 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JGGIMI cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+ (AuthenticAMD 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 1.84 GHz cpu0:

ssh/sshd challenge-response seems to have stopped working in -current

2007-02-27 Thread Josh Grosse
After building -current on Feb 25, I noticed when I attempted to use S/Key remotely, that it was not a permitted authentication style. (I use S/Key when publc key authentication is not available, so it may have nothing to do with recent changes to how sshd_config Match works, and may be

Re: ssh/sshd challenge-response seems to have stopped working in -current

2007-02-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:20:20PM -0700, Damien Miller wrote: Please send a Debug3 trace (sshd -dddp222), debug level 1 doesn't contain all the necessary information debug2: load_server_config: filename /etc/ssh/sshd_config debug2: load_server_config: done config len = 268 debug2:

Re: ssh/sshd challenge-response seems to have stopped working in -current

2007-02-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:00:59AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote: ...It works if you set KbdInteractiveAuthentication yes in sshd_config (and I suggest this as a workaround) rather than relying on ChallengeResponseAuthentication. It does, indeed, work with that added to my sshd_config file.

Re: ftpd problems

2007-03-13 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:20:37AM -0500, stuartv wrote: Once again the list is brilliant when I am dull... DNS looks like it was indeed the culprit. I didn't seem to have this problem with my OpenBSD 3.6 ftp server. Does anyone know off the top of their head if there has been a change?

Re: adding X11 libraries after the fact

2007-03-20 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:37:04AM -0400, Lars D. Nood??n wrote: I excluded X11 from an installation of OpenBSD 4.0 and now find that some packages I would use seem to depend on some of the X11 libraries. What is the best way to resolve package dependencies and/or install X11? I recall in

Re: Running virtualization Software on OpenBSD

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:32:44AM -0600, Beavis wrote: Greetings folks, Just want to ask if there is someone who has tried to run Software Virtualization (OpenVZ, etc) on OpenBSD. I know that on the ports tree qemu is available, but i want something that is a bit simpler to manage.

Re: RAIDFrame on root failure

2008-09-15 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:46:31PM -0400, Steven Surdock wrote: Greetings, I pooched an attempted upgrade of a 4.3 box to 4.4 which I remembered was running the modified RAIDFrame kernel after installing the -release kernel and rebooting -- whoops. I managed to recover the box, but it

Re: Use a USB flash drive to install a snapshot

2008-09-17 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:18:38 -0700, Joe S wrote Let me clarify what I'm trying to do. I'm not trying to install OpenBSD on a flash drive. I'm trying to install OpenBSD on a laptop, with the flash drive being the bootable source of the installation, much like a CD. I can't PXE and I'm

Re: net interface active yet no connection

2008-09-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:24 +0200 (CEST), Ernst Terhardt wrote Hello, Hi. bugs@ is probably the wrong mailing list to use for informal problem discussions and diagnostics -- misc@ is a better choice for this discussion, so I am routing my response there. installed obsd-4.3 from iso image.

Re: The correct way to use bsd.rd

2008-09-29 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:02:24PM +0900, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: I am using a virtual machine to try and follow -CURRENT.I have installed a snapshot, downloaded the cvs source, built it and run to see if it worked, up to there everything is okay. Reading the FAQ I found out that the

Re: burn a cd image on a dvd with growisofs

2008-10-20 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:54:39 +0200, Jesus Sanchez wrote Hi, using 4.3. there is any problem on burning a bootable iso (made with mkisofs - RJ) less than 700 MB on a DVD? I need to do some burning task and only have DVDs around here. Thanks for all. -Jesus. If the ISO is bootable by

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-02 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:28:54AM -0700, Michael wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: ... cd /mnt # /usr/mdec/installboot -v boot /mnt/biosboot wd0 It should not be /usr/mdec/biosboot. Definitely not. ... Thanks for your answer. If 4.4 doesn't

Re: failed to install openvpn

2008-11-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:41:26PM +0800, Linyin wrote: hey, i'm using openbsd4.3 and sync current ports.now in try to install openvpn and failed. Read OpenBSD FAQ 15.4.1. You *cannot* have your ports system out-of-sync with your OS and expect any support whatsoever.

atactl, secerase, and the ATA security features

2008-11-20 Thread Josh Grosse
While most modern PATA drives (circa 2000/2001) have the ATA security features included in their electronics, it is not clear to me how usable the atactl security commands are for the typical OpenBSD admin with PATA drives. 1. Many BIOSes issue a FREEZE LOCK on discovery, disabling security

Re: The New Secure Operating System

2008-12-09 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:14:34 +1100, Sunnz wrote The secure operating system standard will never be the same now... This was slashdotted almost a month ago: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1949232

Re: /usr/obj slice size

2008-12-15 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:24:18 +, Dave Wilson wrote ...I'm trying to create a 2G MFS for /usr/obj, but if I go much above 200 with mount_mfs I get an error... For /usr/obj on i386, my userland build script creates two MFS mounts, builds sparse files on them, assigns the sparse files

Re: Capturing kernel debugger output without serial console

2008-12-17 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:34:46 +, Matthew Szudzik wrote On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:17:44PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: What is a reasonable way to capture kernel debugger (ddb) output without a serial console? I'm able to consistently get ifconfig to crash on the Take a photograph of the

Re: Create a bootable usb key?

2009-01-09 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:46:04 +0100, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote ...Is it possible to run the installer from the openbsd that is on my usb key? Sure. Assuming you installed the bsd.rd kernel, all you need do is use that kernel instead: boot bsd.rd

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-15 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:21:19 +, Khalid Schofield wrote Dev's. What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved to

sys/arch/i386/pci/pci_machdep.c catches viaagp error

2011-10-14 Thread Josh Grosse
I think this patch from yesterday: revision 1.64 date: 2011/10/13 18:09:33; author: kettenis; state: Exp; lines: +5 -1 I'm sick and tired of people doing misalgned reads and writes to PCI config space and not noticing because they only test on amd64. So enforce

Re: root filesystem on softraid

2011-10-29 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:30:10PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: ...All seems to have went well, it is still rebuilding, but in checking status I see no serial in the status output. Should the serial number contain the duid? Is this expected or did I miss something? Maybe the serial relates

Re: Copy root partition to another machine

2011-11-04 Thread Josh Grosse
Bambero bambero at gmail.com writes: Hello I want to copy my root partition to another with dd without ssh. Is this correct: 1. On first machine: dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=root.img bs=16b skip=1 conv=noerror 2. On second machine: dd if=root.img of=/dev/rwd0a bs=16b seek=1 May/should I

Re: ccd(4) hangs system on two IDE disks concatenation attempt

2011-12-08 Thread Josh Grosse
Pavel Shvagirev pavel.shvagi...@gmail.com wrote: what can be used instead? softraid(4) will not go since it can not concatenate disks... only a kind of RAID0/1 or crypto... 08.12.2011 20:36, Amit Kulkarni P?P8QP5Q: nobody has worked on ccd for long time...In fact ccd has been removed post 5.0

Re: ccd(4) hangs system on two IDE disks concatenation attempt

2011-12-08 Thread Josh Grosse
Pavel Shvagirev pavel.shvagirev at gmail.com writes: Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately RAID0 is not exactly what I was looking for 'cause it does not really concatenate disks - it stripes as you've mentioned. And two disks, 80 and 120 Gb, that were to be concatenated will never give

Re: ccd(4) hangs system on two IDE disks concatenation attempt

2011-12-08 Thread Josh Grosse
Pavel Shvagirev pavel.shvagi...@gmail.com wrote: Very good idea! Why didn't I think of that before?.. Thank you very much! Will try. 08.12.2011 23:11, Josh Grosse P?P8QP5Q: Sure they will. Just factor the size. In your example, use 5 x 40GB partitions: -- Best regards, Pavel Shvagirev cell: +7

Re: ccd(4) hangs system on two IDE disks concatenation attempt

2011-12-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:36:04AM +0100, Benny Lofgren wrote: [snip] wd1 = 80 GB, two 40GB partitions wd2 = 120 GB, three 40GB partitions Something like this should work: # bioctl -c 0 -l /dev/wd1a,/dev/wd1d,/dev/wd2a,/dev/wd2d,/dev/wd2e softraid0 Out of curiosity, have you actually

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-21 Thread Josh Grosse
Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org writes: I've been running openbsd 4.6 for a couple years now with root on softraid, booting off a CF card with a kernel compiled to hardcode root/swap on sd0. I read about official support for root on softraid Anyway, just to clarify my

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-21 Thread Josh Grosse
Josh Grosse josh at jggimi.homeip.net writes: Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org writes: I've been running openbsd 4.6 for a couple years now with root on softraid, booting off a CF card with a kernel compiled to hardcode root/swap on sd0. I read about official support for root

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-24 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:26:26PM +0200, Ivo Chutkin wrote: Sorry for hijacking this tread. Can someone take time to clarify install process on softraid. I read the article on undeadly.org, preform the install on sd2, my softraid0, copy kernels on sd0a and sd1a, everything went well, and

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-26 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: running on -current and, similar to the example, having the following disklabel: /boot on both sd0a and sd1a / on sd2a which is the raid result of sd0d and sd1d For i386 and amd64, architectures which have a two-stage boot,

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-26 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: So this means that on sparc64 life would be way easier ;) Thanks! I never tested root-on-softraid on single-stage booting architectures. I don't have any handy. You'll have to test that yourself!

Re: error report when installing gnome on openbsd 5.0

2012-01-18 Thread Josh Grosse
lbvvbooo lbvvbooo lbvvb...@live.com wrote: Hi, I used to use an older version of bsd, and the gnome works quit well on that version. Now, I'm trying to install gnome on openbsd 5.0, but it report error when I try to install Can anybody help? Thanks. Please read FAQ 15.4.1. -- Sent

Re: error report when installing gnome on openbsd 5.0

2012-01-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote: so PKG_PATH = ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/ export PKG_PATH will that AUTOMATICALLY use correct psackages for sparc64 on a CLEAN (from the CDROM 11/2011) 5.0 install In combination with

Re: OpenBSD 4.4

2012-01-24 Thread Josh Grosse
R0me0 *** knight.neo at gmail.com writes: It is a GENERIC kernel, the name is only copy of GENERIC.MP :) . As I said, it is a complex setup and I'm planning an upgrade. OpenBSD 4.4 (TENMA.MP) #3: Tue Jan 24 00:46:50 BRST 2012 root at

Broadcom BCM43224 802.11 development?

2012-01-30 Thread Josh Grosse
I happen to have one of these, and am *considering* diving in to see if I can integrate this with bwi(4). If you're already working on this, or if you have worked on it in the the past, please let me know; I would hate to duplicate your efforts. While I have not yet begun scoping the technical

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