Re: How to track system changes?

On 4/4/22 11:32 AM, Eric Thomas wrote: I want to have a high degree of confidence in my system's state (packages that have been added, configs that have changed, permissions changed, etc). I've read about "read only filesystems" and the pro's/con's

Re: openbsd, softraid recovery (I have password)

On 4/3/22 9:44 AM, harold wrote: ... Hi everybody, good day everyone, ladies and gentlemen.. I’m looking for a way to retrieve back my data vanished accidentally .. I tell you more : a/ I had windows and linux mint 18 (gpt/efi) b/ I add openbsd to these double systems. Now three. Grub2 manages

Re: openbsd, softraid recovery (I have password)

On 4/2/22 12:56 PM, harold wrote: ... I tell you my little story in  the attached document, Just a thought, but you might want to reconsider your means of telling your story. For example, I am not in the habit of opening unsolicited PDF documents... Nick.

Re: How to determine if WiFi AP is compatible?

On 3/28/22 1:52 PM, Eric Thomas wrote: I'm trying to determine if a WiFi AP is compatible with OpenBSD. For example, checking the [Wireless FAQ's]( https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless), I don't see whether the chipset used by the [UniFi Access Point WiFe 6 Pro](

Re: Question how to delete somewhat encrypted partisions / softraid?

On 3/25/22 5:28 AM, soko.tica wrote: Hello list, ... But I have failed to proceed before the installation with # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV sd1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m count=1 So i ended up with unbootable install. I don't think that is cause and effect. If you want to start over

Re: growfs on an encrypted softraid0

On 3/24/22 8:38 AM, Leo Unglaub wrote: Hey friends, i have a 500GB drive that is fully encrypted using a softraid with raidlevel C. It works perfectly. But now the drive is getting full and i have to grow it. This server is running in the Hetzner Cloud and resizing the drive is supported to

Re: Question about RS232/USB hub device compatibility

On 3/17/22 3:18 PM, Allan Streib wrote: I have used the two-port version of this with Linux and it "just worked," wondering if anyone has used this (or something similar) successfully with OpenBSD? I am looking to manage a few switches via their console/RS232 interfaces.

Re: chroot for go webserver with pledge and unveil

On 3/15/22 6:32 PM, i...@tutanota.com wrote: ... $ doas chroot -u www -g www /var/www /bin/go-server But that wouldn't keep it running after a reboot. The "easy" and historic way: man 8 rc more specifically, rc.local The "better" way: man 8 rc.d (and read the "see also"s.) Probably

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

On 3/14/22 4:31 PM, the guy who couldn't solve a trivial problem without vi on the install media wrote: Billions of companies world wide use the Linux kernel and several of the major Linux distributions daily. It would stand to reason that that would make a lot more bugs be discovered. The

Re: Advice on catching up with current

On 3/13/22 11:06 AM, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: Hello I "had" been following -current since about 5.6. Unfortunately, due to events not at all related to anything here, I was unable to keep -current "current" for the last several months. I would guess my last update was about 8 months ago (6.9

Re: OpenBSD on WatchGuard devices

On 3/9/22 4:27 AM, Markus Rosjat wrote: Hi list, has someone out there ever attemted to reuse  WatchGuard devices? If so can he point out some hints on how to go about it? We have a few devices laying around here and i dont see the point in not trying to reuse them. Cheers I haven't used

Re: disk i/o test

On 3/3/22 7:59 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: Hello, I am trying to test some disk i/o speeds and I am stumbled on two questions: 1. Does it matter if I set in BIOS Legacy or AHCI for the drive, regarding the read/write performance? anywhere between "big difference" and "OH WOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE

Re: OpenBSD Networking questions request answers

On 2/28/22 8:49 PM, Haiyan, YanX wrote: Hi misc, I am installing OpenBSD, following the configuration wizard, I configured a static IP as follows: [...all real info not actually provided, so not useful...] But after the installation is complete, I can't access the Internet. When I

Re: 12-hour vs. 24-hour clock format

On 2/22/22 3:02 PM, Svyatoslav Mishyn wrote: Hi, just wondering why are some programs using 12-hour/24-hour clock format by default? For instance, 12-hour clock format: w(1)/uptime(1) Should it be fixed? 24-hour clock format: date(1) ls(1) stat(1) systat(1) top(1) Well... keep in mind, if

Re: no serial access anymore after upgrade

On 2/22/22 8:21 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, I have a bunch of firewall and router devices with serial ports only. No vga ports at all. After upgrading two of the devices to 7.0 I lose access to the console after the boot process has finished. Last thing that is printed on the screen is the date.

Re: Syncing users between two OpenBSD systems

On 2/21/22 7:10 PM, Dave Wilson wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a pair of OpenBSD jump boxes, to be a pair of bastion hosts of a large network. I would like to have a primary and backup, with the same set of users on each one. I do not want to use YP or any other form of authentication server,

Re: What happened to www/art on CVSWeb? Why is it empty?

On 2/10/22 6:34 AM, Kacper Wilgus wrote: I tried to download some artwork from these pages: https://www.openbsd.org/art1.html https://www.openbsd.org/art2.html https://www.openbsd.org/art3.html But only the first one has an image, the rest of them give me 404 errors and I swear they used to be

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

On 2/6/22 11:57 PM, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: My great and good friends, Like 20 years ago while trying to install OpenBSD for the first time I read a short passage in OpenBSD documentation that I really liked. Does anyone know where I can find it? The passage that said very directly that we

Re: arrayfire?

On 2/3/22 11:25 AM, Raul Miller wrote: Currently, openbsd has no arrayfire port (see: arrayfire.org). Arrayfire is a computational interface to gpu hardware. I am not looking for someone to port arrayfire to openbsd -- but I would like to know if such a port seems viable (are there obvious

Re: HW raid adapter - Adaptec 8405 SGL

On 1/13/22 5:58 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2022-01-13, Aleksander Dzierżanowski wrote: Hi, Is 'Adaptec 8405 SGL' hardware raid controller working under OpenBSD? I saw there is *some* Adaptec support, but the model is not listed explicitly. Please advise if I should try to rent a

Re: Nagios check_by_ssh

On 1/10/22 6:33 PM, F Bax wrote: nagios install creates user _nagios with login = /sbin/nologin I have some OpenBSD systems not configured to send email to external addresses; there is one system (host0) that is configured to send email outside. I wish to use nagios on host0 to monitor the other

Re: HP Probook audio only playing on left speaker

On 1/9/22 8:51 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hello, I have an HP Probook (dmesg below) that is only playing audio from the left headphone speaker. No matter how I try I cannot get any audio to play over the right side speaker. I have very little experience debugging audio issues on OpenBSD as

Re: disk lights on but top showed nothing!

On 1/1/22 3:08 PM, Luke Small wrote: 6 disk raid 10 15000 rpm array (2 mirroring x 3 striping) with a raid card which can handle a maximum of 8 disks. It didn’t last forever. mfii0 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS2208" rev 0x05: msi mfii0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i",

Re: /etc/bsd.re-config - change a device?

On 11/30/21 3:12 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: Thanks much for the info guys; something to look forward to in 7.1 :). hint: snapshots that do what you need beat releases that don't. Nick. On 11/30/2021 4:17 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2021-11-30, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2021

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

On 11/30/21 3:30 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive. Sorry for the noise. categorical nonsense. SSDs work. Cheap ones work, expensive ones work. Some work better

Re: dd: /dev/rsd1c: device not configured

On 11/30/21 8:36 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install 7.0 in a virtual box machine using full disk encryption, following . I've done it on real hardware without a problem, but I'm not understanding the error in the virtual box

Re: libdmx removal incomplete?

On 11/28/21 6:17 PM, Alexander wrote: ... Lastly: From your emails it seems to me that the use of sysclean after upgrading is very much encouraged if not necessary. Then why is it not included in base (especially when it's developed by OpenBSD developers)? Or am I misunderstanding the

openbsd.cs.toronto.edu mirror issue

Hiya. The OpenBSD.cs.toronto.edu mirror is having some issues, I'm hopefully taking care of those right now, but it will take a a number of hours while to be back up to a fully operational state. Services are off until it is fixed. Sorry for any inconveniences. Nick.

Re: proper way to grow softraid partition

On 10/27/21 1:11 PM, kasak wrote: Hello misc! I want to replace my two 2TB hdd, joined in raid1. I have two 4TB drives, and I want to replace smaller drives with them. it wouldn't be a problem, if i had some spare sata ports, but in my pc i have only one left. So, I can attach only one of

Re: athn AP

On 10/16/21 7:40 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > > o Worked around a problem with certain athn(4) hardware that caused > > problem when running in HostAP mode with clients that use Tx > > aggregation. About a year ago, a gave up on having an athn in an ALIX as may home AP, and just

Re: CARP Cold Spare

On 9/24/21 6:13 PM, Don Tek wrote: Would there be any ‘problem’ with configuring a 2-machine CARP setup and then just keeping one machine powered-off until needed? I realize this defeats live failover, but this is not a requirement for my customer. I just want them to be able to, in the

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

On 9/1/21 5:50 AM, Joel Carnat wrote: Hello, I would like to run a command on "the last day of each month". From what I understood reading the crontab(5) manpage, the simplest way would be setting day-of-month to "28-31". But this would mean running the command 4 times for months that have

Re: a man.openbsd.org oddity, and a cvsweb niggle

On 8/16/21 9:06 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: ... Speaking of backend code I don't know how to find, much less submit a diff for: For folders that are entirely in the Attic[0], could cvsweb.openbsd.org somehow be convinced to display these only in the actual Attic, and not list them in the

Re: Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

On 6/15/21 8:14 PM, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello everyone, I was looking to get a laptop to run OpenBSD. The one I am looking at in particular is the Thinkpad R51e (2005). I like this particular model because it does not come with any extra hardware that OpenBSD does not support in the first

Re: Backup OBSD router at 6.7, anyway to upgrade it to 6.9???

On 5/17/21 9:16 PM, Jay Hart wrote: Jay Hart writes: I lost internet access today for 4 hours due to a network problem. Trying to troubleshoot the problem I ended up placing my backup router in service. Its still at 6.7, it there anyway I can update it to 6.9 without doing a full

Re: Remote wipe software

On 4/27/21 5:41 AM, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: Hello misc@ I wonder if anyone could recommend remote wipe software for OpenBSD, should someone want to start using it in an enterprise setting where such features are a requirement? Thanks in advance, Remote wiping an openbsd system...depends

Re: The case of the phantom reboot

On 3/28/21 12:13 PM, David Newman wrote: On 3/28/21 4:58 AM, Kristjan Komloši wrote: On 3/27/21 10:27 PM, David Newman wrote: OpenBSD 6.8 GENERIC#5 i386 One of my systems rebooted at 03:01 local time today. I've seen kernel panics and bad hardware but I've never seen OpenBSD "just reboot"

Re: Installing across two SSDs, encrypted

On 1/29/21 9:37 PM, Joe Nelson wrote: I'd like to install obsd on a laptop that has one built-in 128GB SSD, and a 1TB SATA SSD added in a separate bay. Was thinking of putting the system files on the small drive, and /home, /var, /tmp, and /usr/local on the big one. I'd like to use full-disk

Re: Managed to mess up the system encrypted disk. I can no longer boot.

On 1/27/21 1:45 PM, Samarul Meu wrote: mie., 27 ian. 2021, 20:24 a scris: Ironically this is the same error I have been getting, and recently posted about in the thread "Bootloader on USB stick fails with "root device not found"" ... I read your thread just now. I will try the -a option.

Re: boot_config(8) man page issue; and possibly openbsd.org/report.html

On 1/24/21 4:02 PM, Andrew Easton wrote: ...> The boot_config(8) man page reads: The Ethernet card is not detected at boot because the kernel configuration does not match the physical hardware configuration, e.g. wrong IRQ in OpenBSD/i386. [...] UKC> find ne [...] 25 ne1 at isa0 port 0x300

Re: How to unlock a serial port

On 1/19/21 4:35 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: [Replying directly as well, as I believe my MTA is still blacklisted by the OpenBSD mail server. Guess we'll find out! -Adam] On 2021-01-17 20:09, Tilo Stritzky wrote: On 14/01/21 17:38 Andrew Grillet wrote: Hi I am running OpenBSD on a T2000

Re: How to unlock a serial port

On 1/14/21 12:38 PM, Andrew Grillet wrote: Hi I am running OpenBSD on a T2000 (Sparc64). I was trying to use the serial port from the primary domain, connected via ssh, and my network lost the connection. My tty00 is now locked: jay# stty -f /dev/tty00 stty: /dev/tty00: Device busy I do not

Re: RAID Question

On 1/12/21 9:41 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: Howdy all? I'm wondering if more than one RAID1 array is supported in 6.7++ I'm having problems that could be bios limitations, OS, or a bad SATA (Pwr?) cable. Currently I'm going with the latter and rebuilding the RAID (again) but was just

Re: Dissing Misks

On 2020-12-23 11:29, James Cook wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:21:08AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 2020-12-22 23:58, Allan Streib wrote: >> > Duncan Patton a Campbell writes: >> > >> >> fdisk seems unwilling to allow more than 2T in the part

Re: Dissing Misks

On 2020-12-22 23:58, Allan Streib wrote: > Duncan Patton a Campbell writes: > >> fdisk seems unwilling to allow more than 2T in the partition: > > Look at the b command for disklabel(8) to set the OpenBSD disk > boundaries. > > Allan > yep. fdisk can't do bigger than 2T because that's as big

Re: very slow scrolling in xterm

On 2020-12-19 14:00, Claus Assmann wrote: > On one machine the scrolling in an xterm is very slow since the upgrade > to 6.7 and also in 6.8. > Now that I want to use this machine a bit more I'm wondering what > settings can be used to avoid that problem. > dmesg and Xorg log are (hopefully)

Re: www.openbsd.org unreachable for a few days

well, someday I'll learn to send to the right target. :-/ Nick. On 2020-12-16 08:35, Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-12-15 15:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I've been told something was just fixed. >> >> Now is a good time to retry. >> >> Reply just to me, please

Re: www.openbsd.org unreachable for a few days

On 2020-12-15 15:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I've been told something was just fixed. > > Now is a good time to retry. > > Reply just to me, please. > > ONLY people who observed the problems. a POSSIBLY related data point -- we had problems between UofA and UofToronto from the end of November

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

On 2020-12-02 18:19, Ashton Fagg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in the process of provisioning a new NAS for home. It's > replacing an older Synology unit that ticks me off in so many ways. > > I am looking to hear other's experiences with using OpenBSD as a NAS - > specifically in terms of

Re: Large Filesystem

On 2020-11-27 16:03, Karel Gardas wrote: ,,, > To me this looks like too much pray for luck. With such amount of data, > I would stay with ZFS... I've heard that from a lot of people. And yet, those same people, when pressed, will tell you that a ZFS-equipped system will crash much more often

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

On 2020-11-25 17:10, Brogan Beard wrote: > In the enterprise context, there are often extensive security compliance > rules, which include but are not limited to anti-virus software > requirements. There are, of course, exceptions to these rules but generally > policies drive the technology in use

Re: softraid0 errors after 6.8 upgrade

On 2020-11-22 06:04, Leo Unglaub wrote: > Hi, > i upgraded my desktop to the latest 6.8 release. I uses sysupgrade to do > the upgrade and everything worked fine. But now i noticed in my dmesg > the following error messages: > >> softraid0: sd6: i/o error 5 @ CRYPTO block 475440376 >>

Re: Advice on using intrusion detection

On 2020-11-20 17:15, Erik Lauritsen wrote: > Is it recommended to run some kind of intrusion detection on an > OpenBSD router/firewall? > > I suspect that any kind of system like Snort or Suricata will give a > lot of false positives? MY philosophy is it is much easier to keep 'em out than to

Re: gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: no such file or directory

On 2020-11-19 08:36, Roderick wrote: > > broken gcc is the old gcc, the one of the package is installed as egcc. > > Do only I have a broken gcc? > > R. > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Roderick wrote: > >> >> After upgrading, I still have gcc, but no package gcc. >> >> I get the above error. I get

Re: suggestion for the installer

On 2020-10-29 08:00, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > do you think it would be possible for the installer to show > an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" > for the network port to configure? > > Just a suggestion, of course > Harri Why? What problem are you trying to

Re: Startx doesn't find screens

On 2020-10-25 10:35, d.verdi wrote: > Hi to everybody, > I'm facing this problem after the complete installation of OpenBSD 6.7: > if I try to launch startx, an error occur and tells that "no screens found". ... > The Xorg.0 log file content is the below: ... > Check that you have set

Re: Case of the missing softraid

On 2020-10-03 17:45, tera torn wrote: > Hello, > > I've been a happy user of OpenBSD softraid RAID 1 mirroring, and I'm > attemtping to migrate data off of a degraded RAID 1 mirror. > > I've booted before from the 6.7 install USB (amd64) and this degraded > chunk was detected and the volume was

Re: system slow down strangeness

On 2020-09-08 04:16, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Hello, > > from around two weeks ago I am observing the overall system slow down. > Everything work stable, > but nearly every X application takes forever to open a window. > also I am using tiling wm, and when workspace is switched, > it takes a

Re: mfs reported full, but empty

On 2020-08-19 17:47, Vincent wrote: > Hello, > > > After several days, I have to reboot my machine because of mfs full. This is > not the first time. > I have few mfs on this machine, but I observe that this is always a full > filesystem on /tmp after +40 days of uptime. > But on other mfs,

Re: nsd Will Not Start At Boot

On 2020-07-07 15:28, ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com wrote: ... > Unbound is still not working. > > I have a hunch, but cannot find it in the man pages, > that somehow they have to talk to each other. Is this true? depends on what you want them to do. A DNS resolver and an authoritative DNS

Re: Dual boot problem

On 2020-06-27 21:50, Greg Thomas wrote: > Hey folks, I'm trying to avoid buggin y'all, but I'm down to my last two > tasks, setting up dual boot with Windows 10 and setting up OpenVPN. I'm > currently trying to troubleshoot "Loading ERR M" while using Windows > BCD. I can boot no problem

Re: Suggestions re error: "USB read failed" accessing Infinite Noise TRNG?

On 2020-06-23 06:20, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > Hi All, > > Has anyone ever tried the Infinite Noise TRNG hardware random number generator > with OpenBSD? Actually...no. Never felt any reason to. > It's a USB stick that contains hardware to generate random numbers. See: >

Re: OpenBSD Readonly File System

On 2020-06-13 12:56, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:12:05 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > >> On 2020-06-11 12:07, Strahil Nikolov wrote: >> > I always thought that 'sync' mount option is enough to avoid >> > corruption of the FS. Am I just &quo

Re: OpenBSD Readonly File System

On 2020-06-11 12:07, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > I always thought that 'sync' mount option is enough to avoid > corruption of the FS. Am I just "fooling" myself ? As "sync" is the default...yes, I think you are. File systems are complicated. Making them work robustly is even more complicated.

Re: Mounting encrypted drive on boot

On 2020-06-02 19:27, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: > My setup consist of OpenBSD 6.7 with full drive encryption using > softraid, configured as described in FAQ: > > /dev/sd0a - encrypted volume > /dev/sd1 - decrypted > > I have additional need to mount an encrypted /var volume on boot. > This volume

Re: EFI boot on Dell PowerEdge R610

On 2020-05-28 05:15, Johan Hattne wrote: > On 2020-05-28 00:56, Johan Hattne wrote: >> On 2020-05-28 00:43, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 22:32:58 -0700 >>> Johan Hattne wrote: I've been trying to boot the 6.7 installation media from USB via EFI on a Dell

Re: sysupgrade confused by additional disk?

On 2020-05-25 10:21, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: ,,, > At some point I added a second (larger) disk to hold my user data (i.e. > home). It seems that this new disk took over the name sd0 and the OpenBSD > system disk itself became known as sd1. yep. Things like that are where the duids

Re: Kernel relinking on old boxen at every boot

On 2020-05-25 11:35, ULF wrote: ... > My question is: > > considering that an opt out option has been already turned down, could at > least old architectures be benefited of a "delay" option e.g. like tune2fs > sets a fsck every n-th boot, could KARL, just for very old machines be > tuned, say,

Re: fw_update verify firmware?

On 2020-05-14 11:08, i...@aulix.com wrote: >> If that binary code was on a ROM, would it be less malicious? > > Cannot more recent and up to date binary code be more malicious than > old one in the ROM? This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. That can be true for any kind of code update, whether

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

On 2020-05-07 10:00, i...@aulix.com wrote: > Dear OpenBSD fans, > > Can you please comment negative appraisal from the following > website: > > https://isopenbsdsecu.re/quotes/ > > I did not want to hurt anyone, just looking for a secure OS and > OpenBSD looked very nice to me before I have

Re: dynamic dns updates for clients in my home network?

On 2020-04-25 15:00, bofh wrote: > Hi, > I searched through the archives and saw a couple of discussions about using > Dnsmasq from a long time ago. > > Is that the best way to let the stuff in my home to have valid dns entries > in my home network? > > How difficult is it to get the OpenBSD

Maintenance: (man|cvsweb).openbsd.org, (openbsd|obsdacvs).cs.toronto.edu

hi. The following servers will likely be inaccessible at times or completely, April 14, from 7am to 8pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) (yes -- 13 hour window) for site network maintenance. * man.openbsd.org * cvsweb.openbsd.org * obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu * openbsd.cs.toronto.edu Nick.

Re: i386 kernel relinking

On 2020-04-10 10:10, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:35:16AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> Question about kernel randomization and relinking... >> >> It seems to take a fair amount of RAM, at least for systems that >> are forced to run i386.

i386 kernel relinking

Question about kernel randomization and relinking... It seems to take a fair amount of RAM, at least for systems that are forced to run i386. And I mean real RAM -- swap doesn't seem to cut it. I discovered that several machines I was intending on using for minimal purposes just couldn't

i386/amd64 boot (and pxeboot) compatibility

Hi, For a long time, the /boot and pxeboot of i386 would boot amd64's kernel and amd64's would boot i386's kernel. My tftp server had both amd64 and i386 bsd.rd files named "bsdamd64.rd" and "bsdi386.rd", snapshots downloaded daily. But recently, I discovered I could not PXE boot i386's bsd.rd

Re: upgrade i386 kernel to amd64

On 2020-03-02 18:14, Justin Muir wrote: > Hello all, > > Running GENERIC i386 kernel on on a 64-bit amd machine. Just wondering > whether an upgrade amd64 is warranted. Any opinions? yes. At this point, most OpenBSD development starts on amd64 systems, then moves to other platforms. Plus, the

Re: openbsd.org - certain https URLs downgraded to http in redirection

Sorry, took a look at this a while back when I didn't have time to fully work through it...and then forgot about it. ;-/ On 2020-02-12 04:34, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: > Namaste misc, > > Overview: > Certain https URLs on openbsd.org get downgraded to http in redirection. > > Steps: > When

Re: Server 5 SSD/best practice

On 2020-02-20 11:22, Oliver Marugg wrote: > Hi > > I’ve got a Supermicro 5028D desktop server with 5 identical SATA SSDs, > there is no HBA no RAID card in. The purpose of the server is intended > as web/smtp and some vmm vms (os plus /home & /var storage). > What are your suggestions or best

Re: automounter (amd) local file system issue

On 2020-01-15 11:05, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > On January 13, 2020 5:40:06 AM GMT+02:00, Nick Holland > wrote: >>On 2020-01-12 15:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: >>> Sounds like something is keeping your fs busy. Could be gio-kqueue, >>do you have glib2 installed? >&g

Re: automounter (amd) local file system issue

t that something couldn't camp out on the empty file system, but not much reason for something to do so. Thanks for looking! Nick. > — > Antoine > >> On 13 Jan 2020, at 06:01, Nick Holland wrote: >> >> Hiya. >> >> I'd like to use amd(8) to automatica

automounter (amd) local file system issue

Hiya. I'd like to use amd(8) to automatically mount and dismount local file systems. The file systems in question are big, lots of complicated links, lots of files, and take a while to fsck if the power goes out unexpectedly, and are used relatively rarely (maybe an hour a day). Sounds like a

Re: Odd /tmp behavior

On 2020-01-07 14:06, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > On 1/7/20 7:38 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: >> > Using softdep on /tmp is a silly idea. > > Why? To naive eyes it may look like a natural solution: e.g. before temp > file is even created (on drive), it may be deleted which means there is > no

Re: Boot fail using internal SATA port, success using USB port.

On 2020-01-05 12:29, hkew...@cock.li wrote: > summary: OpenBSD installs to internal HDD from external USB but fails > to load after the first reboot. If the HDD is removed from the internal > port and is connected via a "SATA to USB" cable it boots succesfully. > > I am a new and inexperienced

Re: Hardware for Access Point on OpenBSD

On 2020-01-01 13:42, Zé Loff wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:54:46AM -0700, List wrote: >> Hi *, >> I am currently building a home router based upon OpenBSD. >> I therefore need some kind of WIFI Hardware. This piece of hardware >> needs to be connected over usb. >> Do you have any

Re: Hyperbola Gnu Linux changing to Bsd

On 2019-12-30 14:31, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: ... > What are the opinions of the OpenBSD developers about Hiperbola GNU/Linux? Just my opinion... A linux distribution (repacking other people's stuff) that I never heard of is going to abandon their old work and users in favor of actually making a

Re: cvs checkout of src,ports and xenocara gives duplicate key msg

On 2019-12-15 09:42, putridsou...@gmail.com wrote: > I recently did a checkout of the src,ports and xenocara > repositories and was greeted by the following message on > each checkout. After this the command proceeds smoothly. > Also doing "echo $?" gives "0" so it's not a error. > > cvs server:

Re: Third server now locked up after reboot due to no keyboard attached

On 2019-12-14 14:28, Alfred Morgan wrote: > I have now another machine running OpenBSD not recover from a reboot. I > thought I was having hardware issues with my two other servers (both zbox) > and now this third one (Dell) with totally different hardware is having the > same problem getting

Re: Softdep and noatime

On 2019-11-30 08:12, Raymond, David wrote: > I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the > use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of > systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks. > > Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding file access,

Re: Installing OpenBSD -current snapshots

uot;top-posting". That's the only way my darn google mail > does reply's. Kind of irritating, to me and the reader too. Bottom posting was invented for those who can't write in complete thoughts with context. You know, like most of the computer world. :-/ Nick. > Clay >

Re: Installing OpenBSD -current snapshots

On 2019-11-27 21:29, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 08:05:30PM -0600, Clay Daniels wrote: >> I have successfully installed OpenBSD 6.6 release and would like to give >> the Current Snapshots a try. I went to a mirror, and to: >> >> Index of /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ >> >> I

Re: Deleting softraid Devices Fujitsu Sparc

On 2019-11-27 11:23, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > Hi, > > An error while deleting softraid device follows > > -- > Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2. > Which disk is the root disk?

Re: Home NAS

On 2019-11-17 11:39, Jean-François Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I found it, there exist glastree which is available from ports. > > Nice small "poor man's" backup as the author qualifies, > though makes incremental backup through hard links: > > # if yesterday does not exist or today is newer,

Re: OpenBSD and solid state disks

On 2019-11-02 16:10, Raymond, David wrote: > I recently installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a solid state > drive and it works great. yep. > My question is whether OpenBSD addresses the special characteristics > of solid state drives, especially those having to do with longevity > and

Re: Will Theo de Raadt and other OpenBSD developer answer this topic (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=157234932505571=2)?

On 2019-10-29 23:50, Clark Block wrote: > Will Theo de Raadt and other OpenBSD developer answer this topic ( [...link to drivel deleted...] What, are you looking for someone to provide comments on your term paper? Ok, You did cite a reference, not proper bibliography format. It's been a long

Re: Misc i386 questions

On 10/13/19 12:39 AM, Sean Kamath wrote: > Doh! > > set tty com0 > > Alix is coming along OK now. Still have questions about i386 and > SCSI. . . > > Sean > > >> On Oct 12, 2019, at 23:13, Sean Kamath >> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> In my odyssey to get larger disks on my Alix machines, I

Re: BACK TO BASICS

On 10/9/19 11:19 AM, openbsd.s...@0sg.net wrote: > Here's what I think. ...[bla bla bla]... > Amirite ? ;) I don't know. Let's see your work. I don't care what your theoretical arguments are, I want to see results. Nick.

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

On 10/4/19 8:37 AM, sven falempin wrote: ... > How [do I] check the state of the MIRROR raid array , to detect large > amount of failures on one of the two disk ? > > Best. > fsck has NOTHING to do with the status of your drives. It's a File System ChecKer. Your disk can be covered with

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

On 10/3/19 10:01 AM, sven falempin wrote: > Dear readers, > > I was running a OpenBSD (6.4) device, with a raid mirror array. > One of the disk failed, so the system ask me to fsck, Probably not quite that simple. More likely, the disk failed, that took the system down hard, and it needed an

Re: How can I contribute code to openbsd

subject fixed, hopefully. :) On 9/28/19 7:05 PM, cc wrote: > > Hello, > > > I recently started to study openbsd. I am a computer major student. How can I > contribute to openbsd? > while ! dead; do DoSomething. submission="sucks" # Accept this. It's probably true. while [[

Re: How can I remove sets installed by sysupgrade?

On 9/17/19 12:23 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 02:31:59PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> (To be clear, I think installing a restricted subset of the OS for >> security reasons is pointless here, but can be really helpful when you >> have to deal with limited space in

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