Re: how long should CD orders take?

2013-05-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi I'm brand new to OpenBSD and live in Swansea UK. I received my installation cds from Manchester over a weekend and Matt Lucas's book within about 10 days from the USA. Thanks for all the great documentation to get me started. Moss On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:53:59PM -0400 or thereabouts,

[Fwd: Coursera]

2013-10-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
OK here is the screen dump. Moss - Original Message - Subject: Coursera From:McCarthy, Maurice maurice.mccar...@maerskoil.com Date:Wed, October 30, 2013 12:47 am To: 'm...@mythic-beasts.com' m...@mythic-beasts.com

Coursera

2013-10-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
is on morality. That should be another fine place to raise the issue. As you say though I ought to raise it with Coursera themselves. Thanks Moss On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Maurice McCarthy wrote: OK here is the screen dump. Demime took those out. But this really isn't the place to discuss

Re: One thinkpad still wanted

2013-12-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
You might want to take a look here http://shop.gluglug.org.uk despite the fact that this is an FSF shop. The Gluglug X60 laptops are refurbished models of Lenovo's ThinkPadÂX60. Gluglug has updated the computer by adding a modern wifi chipset, replacing the proprietary BIOS with a free software

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013, at 02:09 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: Am 12/18/13 23:09, schrieb Evan Root: I have a perverted solution, use fat32. It's failures are very well understood. Inspired by 'perverted

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: I know for a fact that on GNU/Linux, NTFS performance is terrible, especially on larger files. True story: once I tried backing up something as a large .zip file to NTFS on a GNU/Linux system. The ETA would start

Broken links on faq

2014-03-12 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Just for info, many of the links on http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq1.html are broken Thanks Moss

Re: Broken links on faq

2014-03-12 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Thanks for all the responses. Well that was very curious to me. Suppose I learn something every day. On http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html all the links work. On the typo http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq1.html an extra faq/ is placed in _some links where it should not be. Such as

Re: Broken links on faq

2014-03-12 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 13 March 2014 00:23, Maurice McCarthy wrote: On the typo http://www.openbsd.org/faq//faq1.html an extra faq/ is placed ... where it should not be. It isn't really *placed*. If you look at the HTML source, you'll see that the links that (only) *seem* to be acting up in connection

Re: xfce terminal and zsh

2014-03-27 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:25:39AM -0300 or thereabouts, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: Hi, I'm using 5.4 with XFCE and ZSH shell. When I'm on the XFCE terminal, and type, for example cd and press tab key, I get cdcd. It is repeating the first two or three characters. Does anyone faced the same

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-07 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Another possible solution is to make a default 5.4 install to a raw qemu image in OSX or FreeBSD and dd that to a usb stick. Regards Moss

Re: SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Norman, Though I've only been using OpenBSD for about a year and, from reading your posts, I'm clearly no where as competent as yourself, may I ask if you have downloaded the necessary firmware for the athn ethernet card? I don't think the OpenBSD license call allow it in the core install.

Re: SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
PS When the firmware is installed try # sh /etc/netstart

Re: SUMMARY: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-16 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-04-16 09:57, Norman Gray wrote: Moss, hello. On 2014 Apr 14, at 08:05, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: Though I've only been using OpenBSD for about a year and, from reading your posts, I'm clearly no where as competent as yourself, may I ask if you have downloaded

Re: Routine network config. gone wrong

2014-04-18 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-04-18 01:23, Lubo Diakov wrote: I may be missing something very simple, so if anyone can offer some help I'd be grateful. Well I don't mean to sound dull but are the interfaces actually up? ifconfig r10 up A Rolls-Royce engineer I once met went from the UK to Australia to cure

Re: Weird disklabel problem

2014-05-01 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:06:49AM +0200 or thereabouts, Remco wrote: fdisk before Disk: /dev/rsd0cgeometry: 121601/255/63 [1953523055 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C

Re: 5.5 CDs arriving

2014-05-01 Thread Maurice McCarthy
5.5 arrived Swansea, UK.

hplip

2014-06-08 Thread Maurice McCarthy
I bought a new, cheap HP Deskjet 2540 printer (usb and wireless). The wireless setup was a touch button WPS first on the printer and then on the Virgin Superhub2 (some netgear job that I don't like - ought to have stayed with my old ISP). That worked but the router webpage did not show the

Re: hplip

2014-06-09 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:15:30PM + or thereabouts, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-06-08, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: I bought a new, cheap HP Deskjet 2540 printer (usb and wireless). snip /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/hplip* should help a lot (it also refers

Re: hplip

2014-06-10 Thread Maurice McCarthy
OK, I think I've got it licked. the dj2540 being alarmingly cheap was never intended for use over the usb. After hp-setup has run it does not even advertise itself as present. After a reboot, lsusb does not show up the printer. The usb connection is only there for the setup program. Did some

Re: hplip

2014-06-11 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:08:49PM -0700 or thereabouts, patrick keshishian wrote: On 6/10/14, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: What was confusing was that hp-setup said in was configured as hp:/usb/... whereas in fact it ends configured as hp:/net/... HP even say, somewhere

Re: Duplicating a disk

2014-06-12 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Just curious but is sdd any quicker than dd? Moss $ pkg_info sdd Information for inst:sdd-1.52p0 Comment: faster and improved version of dd Description: sdd is a replacement for dd(1). - Much faster than dd in cases where input block size (ibs) is not equal to the output block size (obs). -

Re: Printer (Canon MP620) attached via USB not working with CUPS

2014-06-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi Had similar trouble with an Epson. It was explained to me by the team that usb printing can go through ulpt or ugen. Though in principle both could be available, no one has been able to assume the responsibility to make this always happen. It needs someone with the skill and the will to

Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-07-05 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Rip the original DVD with dvdbackup or dvdcpy. (If you do not need to do any transcoding to do you could use dd to copy the raw iso.) Have you then tried installing dvdstyler to create and burn your new dvd? It pulls in all necessary dependencies. DvdStyler contains these commands: Create iso

Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-07-05 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Simplest $ sudo chown root:operator /dev/*cd* $ sudo user mod -G operator tuyosi Copy dvd to disk $ dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=dvd.iso bs=64k Burn dvd $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/rcd0c=dvd.iso Good Luck Mo

Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-07-06 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-07-06 03:15, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: owing to Maurice advice , i manage to succeed . 1) simple but beautiful dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=dvd.iso bs=64k growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/rcd0c=dvd.iso this image -rw-r--r-- 1 root tuyosi 3882747904 Jul 6 09:42 dvd.iso and is bigger than

Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-07-07 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-07-07 04:10, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: Hi ,all . i understand dd's limit . i am considring about growisofs -dvd-compat -Z $DEV=$FILE -use-the-force-luke=dao:$SIZE $SPEEDSTR , but clueless , ' man growisofs' give me no hint especially 'dao's usage' . i only guess growisofs

Re: [Bulk] Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-07-08 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-07-07 16:28, Kevin Chadwick wrote: previously on this list Maurice McCarthy contributed: OpenBSD has K3B from the KDE desktop. If I remember rightly I tried k3b on amd64 recently and it didn't work for me even when told which devices to use manually. The latest k3b has switched

Re: sshfs as non-root: fuse_mount: Permission denied

2014-08-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-08-03 20:05, Carsten Kunze wrote: Hello, I am using OpenBSD as guest on a Linux host. For accessing the host filesystems I've tried to use sshfs(1) as a non-root user. I've created a directory and typed: $ sshfs IP address:/ directory The output is: fuse_mount: Permission denied

Re: sshfs as non-root: fuse_mount: Permission denied

2014-08-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Me: All mount points must be owned by root I'm talking rubbish. Please delete the noise

Re: sshfs as non-root: fuse_mount: Permission d enied

2014-08-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
I'll regroup. I don't have access to an OpenBSD system at the moment but I'm trying to recall the readme and man page for ntfs-3g which also uses fuse. Using fuse which may lead to a privilege escalation, I think, ... and that is why ntfs-3g has to be run as root and pass uid and gid options.

Re: sshfs as non-root: fuse_mount: Permission d enied

2014-08-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-08-03 21:22, Carsten Kunze wrote: I'll regroup. I don't have access to an OpenBSD system at the moment but I'm trying to recall the readme and man page for ntfs-3g which also uses fuse. Using fuse which may lead to a privilege escalation, I think, ... and that is why ntfs-3g has to

Re: sshfs does not seem to work correctly

2014-08-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-08-03 22:12, Carsten Kunze wrote: I use sshfs to synchronize a filesystem of 15 GB between two machines. Read access seems to be ok but on writing the mount point does not seem to work anymore. Error message of cp(1) is No such file or directory ls(1) to the mount point gives the

Re: sshfs does not seem to work correctly

2014-08-04 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-08-04 09:17, Carsten Kunze wrote: Again I am guessing, but OpenBSD might disconnect if there is a sufficient period of inactivity on the sshfs file system. Usb drives disconnect if left long enough, for example. A running process, such as an open terminal on the usb prevents this. It

Re: Xrdp network times out

2014-08-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi I've never used it for rdp but Vinagre has some support for it. It is in ports. Documentation is all-but non-existent. Good Luck Moss

Port scan whole countries

2014-08-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Just for interest. Likely you've already heard of the HACIENDA program. It was news to me. http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/NSA-GCHQ-The-HACIENDA-Program-for-Internet-Colonization-2292681.html$ You too can be a cyber spy. Moss

sshvnc error

2014-08-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi I've got a small problem with vnc over an ssh tunnel. (sshvnc is a simplied form of ssvnc given in the ssvnc port.) I'm going to try to cure it myself, so I'm just reporting here. I have a virtual server with mythic-beasts, an openbsd-5.5-stable qemu image running on a physical debian

Re: sshvnc error

2014-08-22 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 05:06:07PM + or thereabouts, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-08-21, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: Hi I've got a small problem with vnc over an ssh tunnel. (sshvnc is a simplied form of ssvnc given in the ssvnc port.) I'm going to try to cure

Re: Cloning an OpenBSD system (and potential FAQ (4.15) error?)

2014-08-22 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi, /boot is found by block number and offset of its inode so I think the root partition should be copied using dd. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html sections 14.7 and 14.20 in particular. Can't help otherwise. Good Luck Moss

Lewman interview

2014-08-25 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project gave an interview to the BBC here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28886465 Regards Moss

Re: OpenBSD 5.5-STABLE: Full Disk Encryption (bioctl) and Smard Cards

2014-08-26 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:03:52AM + or thereabouts, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-08-23, Zach Leslie xaque...@gmail.com wrote: All yubikeys have the two slots, to my knowledge, which can be set either static or otp. Yes 2 slots - the gui and cli programming tools are in packages.

Re: SATA USB 3.0 PCI support

2014-09-19 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:31:13PM -0500 or thereabouts, repays95...@mypacks.net wrote: I've installed OpenBSD 5.5/amd64 on an HP workstation. I'd like to add additional SATA drives and add USB 3.0 (for backup to umass) to the HP but I'm having difficulty finding the OpenBSD supported

Goldman Sachs rescued(?) by Google

2014-09-22 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Goldman says Google has blocked email with leaked client data http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/us-google-goldman-leak-idUSKBN0F729I20140703

Re: OT: Goldman Sachs rescued(?) by Google

2014-09-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
OK I surrender! I get the message lol

Re: Thanks for ksh

2014-09-25 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:38:32PM +0200 or thereabouts, Benjamin Baier wrote: Is this because of the newest bash-shellshock (CVE-2014-6271)? Nevertheless. Thanks for doing things right. On 09/25/2014 01:48 PM, Craig R. Skinner wrote: All the highly skilled work invested in the project,

Re: ksh, csh same vulnerability as bash

2014-10-08 Thread Maurice McCarthy
mtier have had at least two updates of bash that I know of. Regards

5.6 arrived

2014-10-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
OpenBSD 5.6 arrived Swansea UK today, 24 Oct 2014.

Re: The Book of PF, 3rd ed: You own the first author signed copy and support OpenBSD!

2014-10-26 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:23:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael W. Lucas wrote: MY auction raised $1145. There is no way that BoPF3 can POSSIBLY raise more than that! Consider the gauntlet thrown. Nice one Michael! :-)

Re: Mac Mini

2014-11-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-11-20 18:37, Austin Gilbert wrote: I have an amd64 based Mac Mini which I would like to run OpenBSD on. With OpenBSD 5.6, the USB keyboard works at the “boot” prompt, but not after booting BSD.rd. The Mac Mini has USB 3 ports, I thought perhaps the newly minted USB 3 support in current

Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues

2014-12-09 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Check out http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkCD-ROM and faq13. It reads: # cdio tao cd56.iso Regards

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2014-12-22 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-23 05:22, Henrique Lengler wrote: On 2014-12-23 02:55, Eric Furman wrote: No. This is done by the BIOS. After the computer boots the BIOS then hands over control to the OS. So this it the time the OS is able to do whatfuck it wants with my HDD, and so the OS have control over

Re: Getting the right image, to install via USB

2014-12-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-23 19:16, John Merriam wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Henrique Lengler wrote: Hi, I want to install openbsd on my computer via a USB, since I don't have a unused CD. I'm in doubt about what image should I download and how can I record it to a USB using windows. Could someone please

Re: [solved] Re: Getting the right image, to install via USB

2014-12-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-23 22:34, Henrique Lengler wrote: Done with Win32 Disk Imager Regards, Excellent. Good Luck Moss

Re: bind: Permission denied

2014-12-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-24 02:49, Henrique Lengler wrote: Hi, When I try to run cmus in a normal user, I get $ cmus cmus: bind: Permission denied I never heard about bind before, so I can't imagine a way to solve this. Can someone help me? Regards, I don't use cmus but it is something to do with

Re: bind: Permission denied

2014-12-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-24 03:15, Maurice McCarthy wrote: I don't use cmus but it is something to do with keybindings https://github.com/cmus/cmus/blob/master/Doc/cmus.txt Have a look at the documentation installed with the port. $ pkg_info -L cmus will list all the files installed. There maybe

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 03:06:11PM -0200 or thereabouts, Henrique Lengler wrote: Hi, I would like to install a custom keymap on my system but I don`t know how since I cant find this information on the internet. I already used it on linux it is a kbd keymap. I get it here

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-24 17:31, Henrique Lengler wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 05:25:46PM +, Maurice McCarthy wrote: man setxkbmap man kbd So why does wsconsctl exist? Would not be better if I use it? Regards, Yes, it is likely better. Don't know if it changes X though. I'm not great

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
See also http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
It is really torturing. I can't find anything on the internet about how can I add a keymap to wscons. OpenBSD really lacks in its documentation. Regards, Always try the man pages first and the online faq. You will find the documentation 1000x better than anywhere else! That said it is still

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
$ man wsconsctl.conf WSCONSCTL.CONF(5) File Formats Manual WSCONSCTL.CONF(5) NAME wsconsctl.conf — wsconsctl variables to set at system startup DESCRIPTION wsconsctl.conf contains a list of wsconsctl(8) variable assignments that is read at system startup by rc(8) during the boot

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Many keymaps can be set during the installation: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstQuestions 4.5.2 - The Install Questions Now we start getting the questions that will define how the system is set up. You will note that in most cases, all the questions are asked up front, then the

Re: Adding a new keymap

2014-12-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Ah, I am misunderstanding the question. I don't have an OpenBSD system in front of me. (At work over Christmas.) But I'll see if I can work something out. Regards Moss man xkbcomp If you have the data to compile a new map.

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2015-01-01 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2014-12-30 16:38, Mark - Syminet wrote: On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote: Linux supports the UEFI boot loader. OpenBSD does not. ...and that is all we need to know. Shame on them! Shame Shame Shame! Maybe my knowledge is outdated but you've got

Re: httrack

2015-01-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-21 17:34, Maurice McCarthy wrote: Why not just $ sudo pkg_add httrack? Ah! Only added to ports 2014-10-03 so it won't be in 5.6-stable.

Re: httrack

2015-01-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Why not just $ sudo pkg_add httrack?

Re: tcp wrappers question

2015-01-27 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-27 14:19, Alexei Malinin wrote: Hello. I noticed that OpenBSD-5.6 does not include tcp wrappers (tcpd etc). What is recommended to use instead of tcp wrappers? PS. I used tcp wrappers to restrict access to sshd, sendmail, popa3d, tftpd, ... -- Alexei Malinin OpenBSD uses the

Re: how to follow libressl stable in openBSD 5.6?

2015-01-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-29 09:46, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, Following OpenBSD 5.6 stable, what is the recommended procedure to upgrade libressl to the most recent stable version? Regards Harri As the operating system and applications are tightly integrated that may be a bad idea. More likely it is

Re: how to follow libressl stable in openBSD 5.6?

2015-01-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-29 12:07, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 01/29/15 11:43, Maurice McCarthy wrote: As the operating system and applications are tightly integrated that may be a bad idea. More likely it is better to upgrade to current. I'd think you would be on your own if you compile from source

Re: how to follow libressl stable in openBSD 5.6?

2015-01-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Harald, Thinking about it Libressl is not in 5.6 at all. There is only Openssl. The easiest way to keep stable up to date is to install the openup script from mtier. https://stable.mtier.org/ Regards Moss

Re: Che Puffy t-shirt

2015-01-31 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-30 17:12, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: Hi guys, I'd really like see a Che Puffy t-shirt available for purchase there may hopefully be a possibility of it happening. Just wondering who'd like to see such a thing happen would purchase one or more? It would be worth an exception to my

Re: Install to USB 3.0 hard drive

2015-01-24 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-25 04:32, Sha'ul wrote: For installing to an external USB 3.0 hard drive, do I need to install -current for full xhci support or can I use 5.6 since it will be running off of USB 3.0 but I won't be connecting or plugging in any USB 3.0 devices? There is no xhci support in 5.6

Re: CUPS USB Madness

2015-01-26 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi, This one comes up a lot for new users. I had it too about a year or so ago when I started. Not on an OpenBSD machine just now but I'll rake the memory. First disable ulpt in the kernel config. In OpenBSD some printers just work with ulpt but for cups you will be on /dev/usb0 or

Re: Just a thank you.

2015-03-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:09:05PM -0700 or thereabouts, Benjamin Heath wrote: Hi, This seems non-sequitur somehow, but I would simply like thank all the developers of OpenBSD for continuing work on the only OS that I really trust. I learn plenty just by lurking on this list. I also

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

2015-03-03 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-03-03 23:21, Bob Eby wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect to a wireless network using OpenBSD 5.6. I see a couple FAQ questions talking about a wpa-psk command to convert plaintext to encrypted string, but still getting secure wireless working is about as clear as mud. Thanks, Bob

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

2015-03-04 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:39:05AM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Eby wrote: I had tried this link: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/hostname.if.5?query=hostname.ifsec=5 Which seemed to say this would work: nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey dhcp which doesn't work,

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

2015-03-04 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:05:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Nick Holland wrote: On 03/04/15 07:38, Bob Eby wrote: I had tried this link: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/hostname.if.5?query=hostname.ifsec=5 Which seemed to say this would work: nwid mynwid

Re: FSF Security Alert re: Lenovo and Superfish adware

2015-02-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 09:54:29AM +0100 or thereabouts, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 08:32:00AM +, Maurice McCarthy wrote: https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/ Regards While

FSF Security Alert re: Lenovo and Superfish adware

2015-02-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/ Regards

Re: how to follow libressl stable in openBSD 5.6?

2015-01-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-01-29 21:34, Ralph Siegler wrote: LibreSSL is indeed in 5.6 ziggy@arty /$ uname -v -s -r OpenBSD 5.6 GENERIC.MP#1 ziggy@arty /$ openssl version LibreSSL 2.0 Thanks, I stand corrected.

Re: 5.7 upgrade question

2015-04-23 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 09:51:13AM -0400 or thereabouts, Joseph Oficre wrote: Hi @misc! As i see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade57.html 5.7 upgrade guide is ready. So if i want to upgrade from my 5.6 release i should use bsd.rd from latest snapshot. It means that i need to change my

Re: Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-09 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:36:57AM +0100 or thereabouts, Richard Laysell wrote: Hello, My copy of 5.7 arrived yesterday, but I seem to have problems booting from the second CD (trying to boot an amd64 system) The system will not boot at all - it reports that it can't see a bootable disk.

Re: Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-15 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 04:05:16AM + or thereabouts, mark hellewell wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2015 at 01:36 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: It is possible that some bad cd's slipped trough, please contact the shop, -Otto I???m having the same issue. I???ve emailed them.

Re: OpenBSD 5.7 release -- CD2 issues

2015-05-15 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:02:28PM -0600 or thereabouts, Theo de Raadt wrote: This will be shipped out to everyone, and will be inserted into the orders not yet shipped. If shipping to everyone costs money to the project, I don't want to receive mine. I will burn a CD and keep my

Re: Mount point for ntfs_3g mounted drive missing after failed umount

2015-06-07 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:46:43PM -0500 or thereabouts, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: Hello I have been trying to use the ntfs_3g fuse package to get write access to an ntfs drive. While I have had no issues mounting the drive and writing to it, occasionally I have problems when trying

Re: how to restore partion order , openbsd's grub

2015-06-21 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi Tuyosi, Your set up is very complicated and therefore difficult to maintain. Some comments 1. If I remember rightly, grub's hd0 does always correspont to sd0/sda but is the disk from which grub loads. You seem to work around this by installing OpenBSD on both disks. 2. On the USB you

Re: how to restore partion order , openbsd's grub

2015-06-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:06:44PM +0900 or thereabouts, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: title ARCH root (hd0,1) - canNOT boot kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdb2 ro initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img Surely (hd0,1) should be /dev/sda2. No? Not sure if it makes any difference but Arch

Re: how to restore partion order , openbsd's grub

2015-06-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 02:26:18PM +0100 or thereabouts, Maurice McCarthy wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:06:44PM +0900 or thereabouts, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: title ARCH root (hd0,1) - canNOT boot kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdb2 ro initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Have you tried EasyBCD? https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

Re: sh(1), ksh(1) - lack of information about default sourcefile.

2015-06-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:48:17PM + or thereabouts, Black Rider wrote: Hello. I have noticed that the ksh and sh manpages don't make reference to the file /.profile, which I understand to hold the default shell variables if the other source files listed on the manuals don't exist.

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Order Acknowledgement from OpenBSD Store - Order No. 40393

2015-07-02 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 2015-07-02 18:10, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote: Hi all, I know this is not related to OpenBSD directly but hope someone might help; I ordered a CD set and a rucksack more than one month ago and I have not received them yet so I'm wondering what happened. I tried to write to the orders

Re: Sluggish/laggy browser behaviour

2015-07-28 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:48:41PM +0200 or thereabouts, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:58:54PM -0500, Yass Amed wrote: This problem is NOT specific to this model or any other machine (as far as I experienced). This issue was present on a few towers and still is on an

Re: no more sudo on openbsd 5.8

2015-08-07 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 05:06:03PM +0200 or thereabouts, John Naggets wrote: Hello, I just installed OpenBSD snapshot (5.8) through an automated install and was surprise to login with my normal user and to find out that there is no sudo command available. Is this normal? I have setup the

Re: adsuck: script missing?

2015-07-15 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:25:03PM +0200 or thereabouts, Stefan Wollny wrote: Hi misc@! [Running i386/current: OpenBSD 5.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #1026] I have been using adsuck for some time now - at least I thought so. Today I dared to read /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/adsuck-2.5.0p only

Re: Softraid crypto - howto mount partitions from multiple devices at boot?

2015-07-17 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:17:16PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jan Vlach wrote: Hello misc, I have a small netbook with two flash devices - 32G and 4G. I'm using softraid crypto discipline with passphrase on the 32G one. That works fine. I would also like to use softraid crypto on the second

ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Hi, Got 5.8-stable installed today. Many thanks for the commitment of all developers etc. All went well except for the USB 3.0 I've a feeling it may not work at all unless I find a blob for the pci-e usb 3.0 card. # usbdevs -vd Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: super speed, self powered, config

Re: ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-29 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:15:05PM + or thereabouts, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > Hi, > > Got 5.8-stable installed today. Many thanks for the commitment of all > developers etc. All went well except for the USB 3.0 I've a feeling it may > not work at all unless I find a blob fo

Re: ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-30 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Found the following at https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c 175 if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_ASMEDIA && 176 pdev->device == 0x1042) 177 xhci->quirks |= XHCI_BROKEN_STREAMS; Does this mean

Re: ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-30 Thread Maurice McCarthy
> > Hi, > > > > Got 5.8-stable installed today. Many thanks for the commitment of all > > developers etc. All went well except for the USB 3.0 I've a feeling it may > > not work at all unless I find a blob for the pci-e usb 3.0 card. > > > > # usbdevs -vd > > Controller /dev/usb0: > > addr 1:

Re: ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-30 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0100 or thereabouts, ludovic coues wrote: > > You might have a better time trying to read the output of pcidump :) > > I looked a bit at the code and from what I've found, this quirk only > disable a driver requiring stream. I might be wrong as I'm not >

Re: ASMedia USB 3.0

2015-10-30 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Sorry for the noise I've got bigger problems than a driver. Heigh ho.

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