to doing that. HOWEVER, if this bullshit
thread and nonsense suggestions go much further, I'd not be surprised to
see a note in my inbox saying remove it. now. And I will.
Nick.
On 03/07/12 18:32, Marc Espie wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:10:12AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
yes, scrollback is something that was sacrificed on the installer to
keep it able to fit on a floppy (contrary to another contribution to
this thread). Unfortunate, annoying, and unfortunately
This is no longer an issue for me. Not because I was able to track down the
issue and fix it, but because this machine has been repurposed and the
replacement machine (very different hardware) doesn't exhibit the symptoms.
Thanks to those that tried to help!
-Nick
On Feb 1, 2012 6:20 PM, Nick
in has flaws.
Nick.
being first primed with the 5.0-Release code.
Dhu
BULLSHIT.
Complete and total bullshit.
Nick.
onto
the junk for the last ten years. :)
32M would get you a small firewall, serial/SSH terminal in text mode.
If you want anything GUI, I'd guess 64M to bring up X and a bunch of
xterms, but if you want anything that people think of as
graphical...256M and more is where you need to start.
Nick.
need to answer your question.
Nick.
I use ConnectBot to SSH into servers on my Google/Samsung Nexus S 4G
running CyanogenMod with the Hacker's Keyboard. It works great in a
pinch, but I wouldn't want to spend all day using it to admin a
server.
-Nick
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Marcos Ariel Laufer
mar...@ipversion4.com wrote
the long file names *are* there because linux reads them. Is there any
way to make OpenBSD find the long names anyway?
Thanks to all you lovely misc@ers,
-Nick
has
stumbled into the proper solution.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:41:44 +0100, Remco wrote:
Nick Guenther wrote:
Here's what cd-info(1) (for the archives: this is from package
libcdio)
has to say about a DVD that OpenBSD shows LFNs for:
~$ cd-info --dvd
[snip]
Disc mode is listed as: DVD-R
a hey, your RTclock is hosed
and as time is pretty important to a unix machine, you might want to
know this type warning and move on.
Nick.
On 02/15/12 03:23, David Vasek wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an
i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to,
there are a lot of good reasons to do so. All the tools
thing...great.
I've thought about CHANGING all my Root files (as I'm going to have to
change my mirror soon...and I'm hoping, soon again after that), simply
deleting them and having them recreate is quite nifty, wish I had
thought of that. :)
Nick.
On 02/07/2012 04:11 AM, Alan Cheng wrote:
thanks Janne for the explanation.
I thought a fdisk partition on i386 is *required* after reading FAQ14/man
pages and I was a bit surprised to be able to create a disklabel partition
without doing fdisk -i. so I wrote to the list for help on what I
the machine, that's obviously not a real solution.
-Nick
OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #189: Thu Jan 26 16:06:17 MST 2012
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 11memory_size
real mem = 4216655872 (4021MB)
avail mem = 4090253312 (3900MB)
mainbus0
not fit
all. There are also places where you may wish to mix DUIDs with
conventional device names (for example, the root partition of a softraid
mirror).
Nick.
, and it
may be a problem with multiple mirrors.
I just checked out xenocara from that mirror, and then did an update on
my amd64 system, the update took less than one minute. Your results
will vary, but not to nine hours, unless you are using dialup. :)
Nick.
On 01/27/2012 07:02 AM, Ganguin Michel wrote:
Hi,
I have setup with software raid1:
1. Partitioning 2 disks with a a / partition, a b swap partition and
a d partition for the rest of the disk
2. Creating the softraid raid1 device for both d partition with bioctl
3. Partitioning
.
OpenBSD is among the easiest OSs to move its disks from one machine to
another around -- much easier than Windows or Linux, assuming the new
hardware is supported by the version of OpenBSD on your disks (yet
another reason to keep up to date).
Nick.
On 01/20/12 13:43, Richard Thornton wrote:
Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release..
You keep using words...that do not mean what you think they mean.
PLEASE read and understand FAQ5.1. Its really, really important.
Nick.
applications). I fail to see how
your statement is related to this thread.
There's a well known essay by Eric Raymond
...
personally, I find their works speaks more accurately than their words.
Nick.
the difference between real administrators and button-pushers).
Why do you use OpenBSD? Perhaps because it gives you better than Well,
it seems to work, ship it! construction. So..why do you settle for
that with your finished project?
Nick.
and 14 of the FAQ, and UNDERSTAND, not blindly follow other
people's steps. Then practice on a local computer.
Nick.
Complete lack of specifics.
I'm ignoring.
Nick.
On 01/13/2012 01:49 PM, Richard Thornton wrote:
I a clean 5.0 install on my sun blade today; I setup the ports folder as
the documentation says to do, and I setup my PKG_PATH variable using a
Chicago mirror; trying to add via the command
overall health issues.
Nick.
On 01/12/12 13:48, iLXQ {IPICIN wrote:
well, it's usually not possible.
we use OpenBSD, because it supports carpdev option (FreeBSD does not
support it)
most of our carp clusters run on single address. no spare IP space.
we could do ssh and ping carp peer (some
On 01/11/12 14:24, Barry Grumbine wrote:
Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0
...knew I forgot something.
There aren't many North American mirrors that go back to 4.2. I was
fortunate to find obsd.cec.mtu.edu which Nick Holland recently
notified us that he needs to take down
were really important to security. What
a beautiful day that would be.
Nick.
2k 33471699
lo0
em02k11 4 25611
em12k12 4 25612
em22k 8 4 256 8
enc0
pflog0
-Nick
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org
of
their bandwidth, power and air conditioning for the last four years!
(and with a little luck and a lot of begging, I *may* have a worthy
successor in the not too distant future).
Nick.
a desk could come back to haunt
you later.
And, it's all useless unless you know you can restore it, so practice...
odds are, you will learn something.
Nick.
On 12/28/2011 01:06 AM, Wesley M. wrote:
Hi,
I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
I read :
http://www.openbsd.org/faq
...
Nick.
), or a small difference in
some buffer is pushing you over some edge between 3.6 and 4.9?
Nick.
On 12/20/2011 07:49 AM, Richard Thornton wrote:
I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was
wrong. I am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose
on this old box.
What was deficient on the official documentation?
Nick.
I'll give it a shot.
On Dec 19, 2011 4:27 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
I just noticed the vether/tun/bridge in your systat output.
To try and narrow things down, are you able to disable these
to see if there's any improvement?
On 2011-12-08, Nick Templeton n
problem)
Nick.
had console on the machine, I'd have no trouble taking your
system directly from 4.6 to 5.0 (and the console would be just in case I
got cocky and screwed up :). But then, I understand the process pretty
well (we hope!). I understand it well enough that I suggest YOU take
the advice.
Nick.
that elsewhere.
Nick.
Wesley, I think once you've logged in with a user, you're stuck
with whatever was in the config file as has been previously said as it's
created the roundcube entries in the database.
What you'll need to do
now for that user is to log into roundcube, click Personal Settings at
the top, then
can modify manually this. But the goal is
to have this
automatically
for new users.
Wesley
On Wed,
14 Dec 2011 08:38:18 +, nick wrote:
Wesley, I think once
you've logged in with a user, you're stuck with whatever was in the
config file as has been previously said as it's created
a 5.0 rel install to wd0 and no problems
booting from the hard drive.
Jeff
Silly me...forgot how many screwed up (when it comes to booting from
USB) BIOSs I've seen...
First time I've seen that exact result, but sadly, not surprising.
Nick.
certainly
keep working.
BTW: the ethernet on the motherboard (Asus K8U-X) does not work.
yeah, looks like a stinker...
Acer Labs M5263 LAN rev 0x40...
Nick.
On 12/12/11 12:38, sc...@web.de wrote:
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
No idea what you are saying there. It works, it will almost certainly
keep working.
What does mean:
cpu0: [...] LONG, 3DNOW, ...?
Is this LONG perhaps the expected AMD64?
No idea, I'm
at is not.
Next step would be to try 5.0-rel to make sure it is not a recent
regression. The good thing about how OpenBSD handles flash disks is if
something is broke for flash disks, it is typically going to break
everywhere (I hope).
Nick.
5.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #133: Tue Nov 15 22:08:20 MST 2011
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
...I now have these warnings (and the network lockups):
WARNING: mclpools limit reached; increase kern.maxclusters
-Nick
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Stuart
On 12/05/2011 01:38 PM, jared r r spiegel wrote:
openbsd.mirror.frontiernet.net rsyncs from obsd.cec.mtu.edu and
thus the former doesn't have 5.0 either.
whoops.
Sorry 'bout that. set up fivezero, forgot ftp
Should be working now...
Nick.
client behind the firewall, maybe that could be the
culprit?
-Nick
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Erling Westenvik
erling.westen...@gmail.com wrote:
You should try upgrading BIOS. As far as I can tell, it would be version
2.4 as of 8/7/2007.
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19
on version jumpers, such as
4.9-release to 5.0-release, but I think most of your questions for
incremental upgrades are covered if you UNDERSTAND what is there, too.
Nick.
noticed in the dmesg:
...
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 11memory_size
...
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 8
...
Anybody have any ideas?
-Nick
OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #146: Mon Nov 28 16:07:10 MST 2011
dera
,
you can adjust the rotation schedule.
What you see is (potentially?) entirely normal.
Nick.
will do much better getting more realistic hardware than by mangling the
OS. On the other hand... I do have a lot of 4M RAM chips and 486
processors maybe I can sell you...
Nick.
, you'll likely
see the same problem on 5.1...
Nick.
want the easy way... so I'm
recommending OpenBSD's BIND. If you want a good DNS solution...anything
BUT BIND, and unbound/nsd would be a good call.
Nick.
On 11/22/11 10:31, Claer wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22 2011 at 13:16, Jan Stary wrote:
On Nov 22 08:16:21, Nick Holland wrote:
Long term, BIND is done.
Long term, unbound will probably be replacing it in OpenBSD.
IF you are doing anything beyond a simple resolver, I'd agree
completely...take
IP addresses for
many/most machines needing DNS services.
Really, the only place where OpenBSD enters this question is OpenBSD
does make it really easy and relatively safe to run a DNS Resolver, so
one (or several) less reason not to.
Nick.
completely devoid of hard info,
so its entirely possible you are doing things wrong.
Nick.
replacing the compact
flash card with another moderner one fix it? Or maybe does my BIOS need some
tweaking?
Regards,
ML
Does this work for you?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386flash
Certainly not a proper fix, but a way to avoid it...
Nick.
On 11/11/11 04:34, carlopmart wrote:
On 11/11/2011 03:48 AM, Nick Holland wrote:
[bla bla bla]
Thanks Nick. growfs suites my needs. Is this the correct procedure??
http://wiki.arpnetworks.com/wiki/ResizeOpenBSDRootFilesystem
the correct procedure is a big phrase. :)
It's _A_ procedure
people try to reassembly very complex systems
from bits and pieces when a few cables got confused...
Nick.
fsck over the phone.
Nick.
Seems I made some things quite unclear here...so, lemme put in a few
words I managed to leave out...
On 11/03/11 18:45, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/03/11 17:02, Johan Ryberg wrote:
Hi there
I has done some testing with install50.iso and USB stick installations
and yesterday I had problem
is either a big problem, or a non-issue.
Probably not both. Maybe a random network glitch.
Nick.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote:
* Janne Johansson icepic...@gmail.com [2011-10-20 15:11]:
What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say use 64
bits for time and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or
the
by accident ;)
Nick.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, mailing list l...@sprymed.com wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have a machine running OBSD 4.4 which as an APC Back-UPS ES 550.
Anyway to have OpenBSD detect when power is coming from Battery?
(Plan on sending the system sending me an sms if so)
I found the
prevent you from using disks
they didn't provide in their machines, or prevent you from buying their
proprietary disk carriers without their over-priced, under-performing
disks. Value of machine after warranty expiration: Near zero).
Nick.
On 10/02/11 17:27, ropers wrote:
On 2 October 2011 18:57, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
...
A lot of us in the open source world do a lot with recycled computers
-- computers that have lived out their first life cycle, and now being
used for less demanding applications (i.e
. Mission
accomplished.
IF you have to reply to someone posting a stupid link (even an
UNINTENTIONALLY stupid link...you know, the well-intended ones that
provide bddd advice), do the world a favor and remove the link from
your reply...
Nick.
, then
redirect 3389 to the TS Server. This way, your remote desktop session
is between the gateway and the firewall, which are both on the same subnet.
Nick.
is
updated manually for various reasons. It helps discourage you from
using it. :)
Nick.
the
ports tree installed and all the rest of stuff...
This needs a FAQ entry, what say Nick?
this is not a tool for the masses.
Even if it WERE in base and there were a man page for it, I do not
believe the developers would be interested in having people look at the
FAQ and say, ...cool, I
resources securely without
your help.
Once again, the project is saved by a misc@ posting!
Nick.
might have different usage situations (I like cwm for
my netbook and fluxbox for my multi-screen desktop), etc.
In short...installing a package doesn't imply one wants to live with it
24x7x365. Or even just when the computer is booted (hey, Windows,
Linux...you hear that?)
Nick.
the technically
superior solutions (which seem to have a higher real-life issue rate).
Nick.
devices and
all devices that are accessible via wireless are raw on the Internet.
As all your listed devices are OpenBSD, this is entirely possible.
Nick.
with cds and checksums.
There's a valid point. Buy a CD, get the most official release, keep
OpenBSD happening.
Nick.
* rc.conf.local controls daemons included with OpenBSD
Nick.
story. If you find a functional problem against 4.9-release, they may
want to make an addition to -stable based on it. But still, the process
is fix in -current first, then push back to -stable.
Nick.
having some
Mac-rabid coworkers?
Just Sayin'. :)
Nick.
facts and story together. Spend MORE time asking your question
carefully than you expect those of us who are providing you with free
assistance to spend figuring out what you are trying to do.
Nick.
effectively
FreeCDDL and NetCDDL. That's fine if that's what they want (obviously,
they do) and they go in eyes open (not so sure about that).
Nick.
.
Is there a particular reason why the ddb man page doesn't also exist
on the web?
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=+ddb
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ddb
No leading + char? Works for me...
Nick.
what happens and how the boot process
works. If you don't get the Using drive 0, partition 3. message, your
MBR is screwed up. If you don't get the Loading message, the PBR is
screwed up. In either case, the BIOS could be at fault (MBR can't say
hi if it isn't being loaded and run).
Nick.
to do it
Because You Can, but then, part of the fun is figuring it out
yourself...so you know you splatted yourself against his bumper harder
and faster than anyone else could have. But it just doesn't matter.
Nick.
Except the op is on 4.9, it's rc_scripts in rc.conf.local(8) in 4.9.
As Otto said, read the documentation on your machine.
-Nick
On Aug 2, 2011 4:16 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure. Sorry for misinformation. I'm installing current on new laptop
right now and I saw change
this is in the FAQ,
and this thread pretty well indicates he'll be right to do so.
Nick.
On 07/27/11 04:11, wp10596728-4 wrote:
I have a machine with OpenBSD 4.8 which Iwant to use as a gateway.
new use = upgrade to AT LEAST 4.9, if not -current.
(actually, you need to upgrade to at least 4.9 anyway, but new use is
certainly a time to go to current release, if not -current)
I am
update
this for you? I just verified on a system of mine that the Jul 19
snapshot's version of sysmerge had no difficulty updating the /etc
files, including /etc/rc and populating /etc/rc.d
Nick.
will assemble
code and run rapidly for you.
So, get yourself a PII or PIII for x86, a sparc and a sparc64, an amd64
system (this one you probably have to pay for), and a mac68k (we're
bringing that port back. I don't think I can fully answer why).
Nick.
know if this is intentional or an oversight, but it doesn't make much
sense to me.
Regards,
Remco
Actually, it defaults to the last thing done by your IP address. :)
Nick.
direction)
on these systems? Or is it just jittering around proper time? If it
is really drifting, you should probably put in a problem report on this.
Nick.
don't believe macppc supports virtual consoles.
Ken
Correct.
Console switching is a special feature of a very few OpenBSD platforms,
not a cross-platform general feature of OpenBSD.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SwitchConsole
Nick.
that should have just been in-line.
To the OP -- also explain in great detail what not work means. There
are a lot of ways something can fail to work as expected. I don't know
what you are seeing or not seeing.
Nick.
On 07/07/2011 02:39 PM, Zeb Packard wrote:
*Sorry about the direct response Nick. :0
These two lines make me think it's a configuration problem.
bge0 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 Broadcom BCM57788 rev 0x01, BCM57780
A1 (0x57780001): apic 0 int 17 (irq 10), address 00:22:4d:4c:40:ee
brgphy0 at bge0
zone. In general,
if you are optimizing your swap, you are Doing It Wrong. Special cases
exist, I'm sure, but it is very much like cleaning the gun and polishing
the bullets before putting a hole in your foot. The dirty gun and the
tarnished bullet were going to do just fine.
Nick.
, and not related to OpenBSD.
Nick.
this route.
Different platforms have different disk layouts and formatting, i386 and
macppc are NOT file-system compatible, unfortunately.
Nick.
On 07/02/11 12:05, sven falempin wrote:
...
What misc at openBSD think about multiple SSID ?
send code.
Developers don't care about what people think (which usually equates
more to talk than true think) about something, they care about code.
Nick.
that already).
Nick.
On 06/28/2011 01:56 PM, listmail wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:38:54 -0400, Nick Holland wrote
On 06/27/2011 02:03 PM, listmail wrote:
Hi,
At the end of May, there was discussion on the list regarding the panic
related to interdrm when installing 4.8 or 4.9 on Supermicro P8SCi mobos
On 06/27/2011 08:32 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
On 27 June 2011 04:46, Nick Hollandn...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
Hello Nick,
I then did a second installation, and setup OpenBSD 4.9 on wd0d, also with
a
single / partition.
bad.
Why is this bad? What's wrong with having 2 OpenBSD
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