.html
(this will probably answer the questions you are about to ask in
response to the above...)
Nick.
trying to do what I know needed to be done. Mistakes
result in unbootable disks to corrupt file systems (big lesson: boot
from bsd.rd, don't try to use fdisk to change the ID of a running
system. That's the corrupted FS).
Nick.
all people wanted to know.
Is it PC compatible? Does it run Flight Simulator? Does it run Lotus
123? (FS and 123 were the benchmarks of PC compatibility. In the
earlier days, there were a few machines which were built to the
benchmarks, ran Lotus 123 and Flight Simulator and little else).
Nick
much overkill
it would be. Will the Soekris or Alix be enough CPU to add QoS and squid
with ad and content filtering to a basic NAT box?
I'm familiar with PXE installations, so no worries there for installing
on either the Soekris or Alix boards.
Have a great day!
Nick
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:59:45 -0400
Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Nick Coleman
ncole...@internode.on.net wrote:
I would like to get a USB webcam working on my PowerPC OpenBSD 4.9
install. I'm an OpenBSD newbie.
When I plug it in, the kernel
with -- more similar, the better, but even just a computer will help a
lot.
Nick.
any ideas.
Thanks,
Nick
...@zimbu.xxx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
OpenBSD_49$
am i missing something?
Probably.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldBinary
Did you start from the most recent snapshot?
Nick.
you used, but that's quite an assumption.
Still, the Write failed: Broken pipe probably means something broke
your ssh connection, probably an ISP or firewall issue. What you got
and how usable it is, I can't answer based on the info provided.
Nick.
Perhaps OT:
I came across a pewter puffy by Royal Selangor at my sister's
birthday dinner party last night. She was given a pewter sea horse
wine aerator. The small brochure enclosed in the gift box also
showed this pewter puffy:
minutes + file
copying/downloading time upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 was complete, ditto for
4.8. to 4.9.
That's what we all like to hear. :)
Nick.
probably a 66MHz proc)
So, IF there was a problem...I don't see it as-reported on -current.
Nick.
On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Joel Carnat wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to tell ldapd(8) to write it's PID in /var/run ?
why?
OpenBSD isn't too fond of PID files...
Nick.
fine means, but today, we use a program called
tmux, which is part of base OpenBSD.
n...@fluffy.in.nickh.org
/home/nick $ ssh backup tmux -c 'ls -la /'
nick@backup's password:
total 65500
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 May 23 20:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 May 23 20:14 ..
-rw-r--r
-install machines for experimentation
* mini-FTP/SFTP/SCP servers for file distribution
* Machine for doing things that might expose yourself to a security
issue, keep it contained to a non-critical system.
Nick.
Get the distribution at http://hiqu.biz/redux.
This has been lightly tested with 4.8 and 4.9 - some things will
not to work :-)
Comments/bugs/suggestions/pleas for help should be directed to
the redux Google Group at:
http://groups.google.com/group/obsd-redux
-N
Here is the Readme file:
.html 5.2, last paragraph
is there for a reason.
-Otto
as is the rest of FAQ 5.2, questioning why you are building the system
from source, and 5.3.2, which is install the closest snapshot.
So yes, there are good ways to avoid this problem -- follow the
instructions.
Nick.
rc.conf
weekly /etc
as instructed in the Upgrade Guide, root:wheel is the outcome.
did you run the mtree step?
if so... does the _nsd group exist? (that was from upgrade47.html)
Nick.
that I put the wrong kind of RAM in, I *knew* it was the
wrong kind of RAM, the machine wouldn't boot any OS I tossed at
it...except for memtest86, which told me all was 100% fine after several
days of running.
Nick.
was the remaining disk
had an unreadable section on it, and THAT caused the remirror failure.
At least you quickly understood what happened, we lost a couple evenings
working on that one.
Nick.
On 05/03/11 15:09, David Steiner wrote:
On Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:25 -0400
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
...
sounds dangerous. Perhaps you would like to explain what magic bit
of knowledge you have that the rest of us lack?
it says so in the FAQ: http://openbsd.org/faq
On 05/01/11 07:13, David Steiner wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
um...
bsd.rd assumes console.
which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd should
assume: accepts commands from a file/stdin to be automated
On 05/01/11 12:30, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Nick,
I have always assumed that you don't run X, i.e you kill X and then
you upgrade from a root console.
I do run X on a lot of systems. I'm writing to you on a machine with
two 24 1920x1200 flat panels running a lot of xterms, Firefox, Chrome
SURE you are very wrong.
Nick.
and automating then a
roll-your-own custom kernel. Keep in mind, most of the steps in that
document have to be followed with a bsd.rd upgrade, too.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade49.html
Nick.
the OpenBSD boot code (of all flavors) is invoked
to get it to load the MBR of the desired device.
Please read the FAQ section on multibooting (FAQ 4) over and over until
you realize this isn't trivial stuff.
Nick.
the first disk be the one that
fails (yes, bootable softraid will change that, but ... then you lose
the benefit of /altroot). Meanwhile, DUID makes the REST of the system
much cleaner after a disk failure event.
Nick.
I've a VPS OpenBSD server at www.arpnetworks.com [1] - they're a
good price and I've had no problems with them if it helps.
I know it's
a VPS rather than a dedicated server but it might be worth a look.
Regards - Nick
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:20:26 +, Nigel Horne
wrote:
Hello the list
two off-board, since nothing numbered the way we wished. Would have
been nice to have had this feature then.
Nick.
in line for the latest one that just came out?
(multiply by your hourly wage). Send it in as a donation with your CD
purchase, and make the world a better place, not just with more damned
stuffed toys.
Nick.
of=/dev/rwd1d bs=1m count=1
Then run your bioctl command, and I suspect things will work.
Nick.
softraid devices are now places you can install to.
done.
Nick.
wd0a.
Make a small boot partition (wd0a), make an identical sized wd1a as an
altroot (man daily). Use some of the rest of each drive as your RAID
partitions, and softraid those.
Nick.
On 04/07/2011 12:37 AM, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
On 4/6/2011 8:57 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Is this in the FAQ? Never thought I would read such a question.
Don't see that one too often, no. :)
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Nick Holland
n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
On 04/06/11 18:46
do I preserve the softraid
parameters etc.?
Same way as any other disk. The install kernel will see, recognize and
configure any existing softraid disks, and treat them as the other
disks on the system. You do the same. :)
Nick.
On 04/07/2011 02:08 PM, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
Nick,
Thanks for the clue, but I still don't get it (me dummy?).
**
NOTE for re-installers: The new installer will not clear your old
disklabel if you chose (C)ustom Layout, but you will need
with this, but one left over library
or binary will really ruin your day at some point.
Nick.
with the RAM (or processors) is
irrelevant, it's what shows up in the dmesg that matters!
(oops. Need to upgrade that machine! Hm. I thought this machine only
had 2G in it...)
(the memory lesson is appreciated, at least here, though)
Nick.
On 04/04/11 15:29, Patrick Hemmen wrote:
Am 03.04.2011 um 17:30 schrieb Nick Holland:
HOWEVER, if your users were doing something with the currently active
states, for example downloading a large file via http, the state that
permits the incoming file WOULD be sync'd to the standby system
users get kicked off and their
special rules are yanked, it will be because their (or your) Internet
connection burped (AGAIN). If you can't tolerate people being kicked
off like this, ssh/authpf may not be the right choice, and has nothing
to do with CARP.
Nick.
Is it missing?
|
it's not there, nor should it be. sparc* does not use fdisk.
Nick.
documentation written by
someone who assumes all the world is an Intel platform system.
(I do believe fdisk is referenced in the man page for softraid,
too...but doesn't seem to be needed on non-fdisk platforms).
Nick.
).
Read up on licensing. open source code by the Linux definition can
not be used in a system following the BSD/ISC/MIT license.
http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
Nick.
thought was intermittently on sparc64, but
didn't link it to softraid...but now that you mention it, it MIGHT have
been on softraid-ed machines.
Nick.
then.
The bad news is the prize is just some saved hair at some point in the
future, and worse, you will be the only one who knows. No melodrama.
Good work...
Nick.
I have a similar setup and I add each of the interfaces to a bridge
group in their hostname.if(5) files then I do my filtering on that
group in pf.conf.
-Nick
-Original Message-
From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Christiano F. Haesbaert
Sent
you provided above was interpretations, which were probably at
least partly incorrect.
Nick.
... unfortunately, now
it's Alix. Stick to standard computers until you are really comfortable
with OpenBSD (or ANY OS you are planning on using).
Nick.
mention -rHEAD
for checkout, you will note) until you can debug these things yourself.
Some of the tools are a bit...strange.
Nick.
On 02/24/11 20:15, Ron McDowell wrote:
System installed from a 4.8-amd64 CD today, then cvs-update to HEAD less
than an hour ago...
No, your process is broke.
Please read FAQ5.
The part you definitely violated is 5.3.2
Nick.
stable, you are not following instructions.
Nick.
On 02/13/2011 10:30 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
[bla bla bla, Nick doesn't think plug computers are going anywhere]
I should probably make it clear: those were MY opinions, not any kind of
official OpenBSD policy statement. All it takes is a developer (or
someone else) to say, I want this device
we REALLY want to run
more wires to the wall wart? I actually kinda like the NAS box format
systems -- a lot more practical for my uses, but which all suffered the
above problems, too)
Nick.
are getting, so, I suspect
you have both issues going on.
There are about 10,000 files in that file, so that's a lot of file
creations, that's the stuff that Softdeps shines on.
Nick.
Dmesgs:
...
OpenBSD 4.9-beta (GENERIC) #457: Mon Feb 7 11:56:10 MST 2011
t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys
on, I miss a few. I
missed you. I wish I was a perfect enough teacher that I COULD avoid
boring the brilliant and still not miss the slow, but I'm not, no
teacher or writer I've met is, and I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
I do recognize I may drift into Americanisms (and occasional Nick
the snapshot, but
if you REALLY want 4.8, install 4.7, then do a remote upgrade to 4.8,
all will be fine. Of course, the reason that bug snuck out is that no
one installed a snapshot on their older computer before 4.8-release.
Nick.
(guilty as anyone...)
) of small file systems.
However, if you are looking at writing lots of small files, make sure
you you are using softdeps, you will get a very large performance gain
(I'm not talking 10% -- more like 10x!). You may find you get much
better real performance than many logging systems give.
Nick.
the sd(4) namespace.
Christopher
man diskmap
man mount (search for UID)
Nick.
On 02/03/11 14:14, frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:24:55PM -0500, Nick Holland said that
problems which are easy to fix. Having worked with similar problems
(and their recovery) on other OSs...ick.
talking about other OS's and risking making a fool of myself,
what do
to replace the failed re0, in which case you
would have NOTHING to change, ANY screwdriver literate tech could fix
your system and bring it back up without any reconfiguration, and no
sharing of an admin PW (or walking someone through vi over the phone).
Nick.
apply it.
Nick.
mention of gcc4?
from 4.8 release notes...
amd64, i386, hppa, sparc64, socppc and macppc platforms were switched
over to gcc4
no, I never should have put that section in in the first place. See
commit message for more details. :)
Nick.
to the different one, and if i do that with /etc/hostname.vr0 - only
lladdr setting is read from that file on boot.
ditto.
Nick.
dump and restore here.
Hmm ... you mean on a softraid CRYPTO only or would this apply to a
softraid volume with RAID 1?
What new feature are you after?
Does that feature apply to crypto softraid?
There's the answer. :)
(i.e., don't sweat it)
Nick.
that implies that, I can correct or clarify...
Multi-core is basically just cheap multiprocessor. It works. May not
be the fastest system in the world, but probably does more than what you
need...
Nick.
(though some things are more precise now)
So...the basics:
What did you do?
What did you expect to happen?
What did you see happen?
Nick.
let you do that anymore.
Nick.
On 12/20/10 10:45, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
Hi guys, yesterday I was adding a new virtual disk (in vmware
workstation) to my 4.8
virtual but I can't do it because the procedure to format and make a new
partition
seems diferent for 4.6 or 4.3 compared to 4.8, any help
http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bsdcan-openbsdupdate/mgp2.html
FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's
running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for
reference.
Kernel is generic otherwise, just renamed.
--
-Nick
OpenBSD 4.8-current
the FAQ, reboot, and cross your fingers.
Report your success (or failure) here.
--
-Nick
, 'specially in the learning
phase (create, change...ashes left behind). Did you zero the start of
your wd0j partition? is wd0j of fstype RAID in disklabel?
Nick.
is cheap and on sale. And if it fails, I
test my tolerance and recovery plans :) Do this right, your system will
be back up faster than you can digest dozens of people's opinions about
the best drives and pick one (which may turn out to be a stinker anyway).
Nick.
on the device when you
are updating its flash, and that's hard to promise under Windows).
Nick.
On 11/29/10 18:42, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Nick Holland
n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
Assuming your firmware update utility works through the USB interface (I
suspect it would, they have to be doing some kind of command abstraction,
since they probably don't
products have proven their attitude towards
security and correctness. If something changed, it is theirs to
prove...and then, you still have the complexity issue. A more complex
system is unlikely to be more secure or more reliable than a simple system.
Nick.
On 11/15/10 23:53, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade
from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs --
Where should I go from here?
try a snapshot, or do a remote
?
try a snapshot, or do a remote upgrade (which doesn't use bsd.rd).
As I recall, 4.8 bsd works just fine on Pentium I machines, but bsd.rd
does not. Only impacts Pentium I machines, not 486 (unless you put a
Pentium Overdrive chip in it), not PII.
Nick.
Thanks.
The 4.8 bsd.rd serial port
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, OpenBSD Geek open...@e-solutions.re wrote:
Hi,
I read OpenBSD FAQ at
[url]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/fr/faq4.html#site[/url]
I understood well, that install.site/ Upgrade.site and of course
SiteXX.tgz is enabled at the end of the installation.
My question,
)
Adaptec: another way of saying my data is not important
Adaptec: unsafe on any platform.
Nick.
and use someone else's automatic install script that makes
assumptions that don't quite match yours.
OpenBSD is really simple, no magic takes place in the install process
that you can't easily replicate. The magic is making it work off one
floppy disk on any platform that takes floppies.
Nick
StdinReader
],
sepChar = %,
alignSep = }{,
template = %cpu% } %StdinReader% { fc=#ee9a00%date%/fc
}
works on Debian 'squeeze' but on OpenBSD 4.8 i386 produces
xmobar: /home/nick/.xmobarrc: configuration file contains errors at:
Config (line 11, column 6):
error
On 2010-11-13 23:39, Jona Joachim wrote:
Hi,
the CPU module is disabled on OpenBSD since the implementation is Linux
specific. Actually among the Monitor modules only Battery works at the
moment.
OK - thanks.
--
Nick
. As the CD and the disk system share the same
interface, I wonder if your disk is going to be recognized at this point.
Nick.
On 11/09/10 13:02, Leslie Jensen wrote:
On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote:
...
Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64
installation CD.
...
Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp
http
Aspire One is like mine. One of these days, I
should memorize the model of mine. :)
Nick.
the story on softraid for 4.6-4.7
and 4.7-4.8.
However, you have the perfect config for testing...grab an old, small
disk, load 4.8 on it, see if it sees your RAID set (it will).
Nick.
of old junk that we have spare parts for which is less scary when things
break. Now, if only I could convince management to keep my junk pile
deep and wide).
Nick.
platform
in another and read the data.
Nick.
. But
orders without good diffs attached (er..inlined. :) don't help.
Nick.
.
And I just made it a bit more difficult to do very wrong by removing
upgrade-old.html
Nick.
sure never know from this...
Nick.,
. No,
better idea, don't. Save your breath. All I will believe at this point
is you haven't seen a problem...yet. Maybe this card doesn't suck as
bad as the ones we got in these four machines. Maybe it just sucks
differently.
Nick.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:44 PM, S H shbulkm...@gmail.com
for it to be removed or redefined to issue a
preprocessor error?
--
Nick
in the system BIOS, you can probably fix this). And I'd not be
surprised in the least if BOTH were problems for you...
Nick.
files to local hd or USB flash drive first, whatever), and
investigate then if the problem exists with the GENERIC kernel or if it
is just a bsd.rd issue.
Nick.
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote:
Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org wrote:
Some more details would be helpful. E.g
And WebOS phones too:
http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/OpenVPN_for_Palm_Pre
-Nick
On Oct 5, 2010 3:40 AM, David Coppa lt;dco...@gmail.comgt; wrote:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Jussi Peltola lt;pe...@pelzi.netgt; wrote:
gt; The n900 most certainly can run openvpn.
Android phones can
between local subnets, this machine is big overkill for you, and
if you are, like I do...probably just fine.
Nick.
, single OS systems, they are all solutions
looking for a problem.
Nick.
that in the openBSD doc before.
http://www.openbsd.org/o/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting
Nick.
Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm running two HPDL360 G5 servers with OpenBSD 4.6+carp+pf+pfsync as
an active/passive firewall pair.
Both are running: (full dmesg at bottom, along with edited pf.conf, in
case it's relevant)
j...@f2:/home/joe uname -a
OpenBSD f2 4.6 GENERIC.MP#81 amd64
on boot. :-/ )
Nick.
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