Re: Wake via serial port?

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/13 20:05, patrick keshishian wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: Thomas What you are asking only makes sense, unfortunately Craig appears to be like a lot of malling list subscribers. They are takers not givers. Nick already explained

Re: IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/13 19:11, Alexander Hall wrote: On 07/12/13 23:50, Nathan Goings wrote: ... However, when I run `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=1M' After 3-4 use the raw device, /dev/rwd0c, not the block device. I have found close to no speed improvements with bs 64k. A few years ago, after

Re: new topic: blind support for OpenBSD.

2013-07-06 Thread Nick Holland
Keeping in mind that that those of us who have not had the opportunity to work with computer tools used by the blind or visually challenged know very little about them, so naming names of products by themselves doesn't help us understand the process well...what would the ideal solution look like

Re: softraid: adding volumes, CPU requirements, RAID5

2013-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/04/13 09:46, Boris Goldberg wrote: Hello guys, ... If the softraid is so raw yet, why the old good RAIDFrame was removed starting the 5.2? It works just fine for me. Big volumes rebuilds take a long while, but it's something working. That's quite a leap from RAID 5 is not ready for

Re: OpenBSD Doesn't Support 64-Bit Intel

2013-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/03/2013 01:15 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote: On 07/02/2013 11:44 AM, noah pugsley wrote: More wrong? Maybe so. My point was that both are and either way it's inconsistent. not anymore. new text, as of last night: Processors All CPUs

Re: OpenBSD Doesn't Support 64-Bit Intel

2013-07-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/02/2013 11:44 AM, noah pugsley wrote: More wrong? Maybe so. My point was that both are and either way it's inconsistent. not anymore. new text, as of last night: Processors All CPUs compatible with the Intel 80486 or better, with Intel-compatible hardware floating point support

Re: softraid: adding volumes, CPU requirements, RAID5

2013-07-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/02/13 17:07, Jean-Francois Simon wrote: Le 20/05/2013 13:46, Nick Holland a écrit : On 05/20/13 00:52, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: ... 3) The man pages report RAID5 as experimental. I'm curious, why is this so? Is it just not-very-thoroughly tested, or is there some missing feature? I

Re: OpenBSD Doesn't Support 64-Bit Intel

2013-07-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/01/2013 09:27 AM, noah pugsley wrote: ... At first I thought this was a wonderful troll. Guy's got a point though. Look at the i386 page. http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html: Supported hardware: The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from

Re: www.openbsd.org down?

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/25/13 07:12, Killman BOFH wrote: Apparently a problem with DNS A record www.openbsd.org is down but openbsd.org is up! congrats, you just rediscovered that those are two different machines. Nick.

Re: Non-intel desktop/laptop

2013-06-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/24/13 16:33, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for advice on what the best bet for well supported non-intel hardware would be. AMD. Doesn't have to be lightning fast, but being able to run a modern browser at reasonable rate is a must. i.e., must be lighting fast. What

Re: max RAM

2013-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
I had a chance to briefly play with a monster amd64 system. 511GB worked, 520GB didn't. Machine had 1.5TB RAM in it and took over five minutes to initialize memory, before even starting the POST, so that's as far as I got. It is entirely possible that this was HW dependent. Nick. On 06/15/13

Re: Compiler error building 5.3

2013-06-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/07/13 03:58, John Tate wrote: Just curious would have going into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils and doing make and make install have made it possible to build 5.3 on 5.2? Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html again, starting at the very top. Nick.

Re: Header files for C/C++ development [SOLVED]

2013-06-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/03/13 03:39, eatg75 wrote: Thank you guys for time and attention, I have just tried the solution @Tito presented and It works! Again thank you all. eatg75 This is one of many reasons we recommend new users just install the entire system, not pick and chose the things they think they

Re: softraid: adding volumes, CPU requirements, RAID5

2013-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/20/13 00:52, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: Hi, I'm building myself an openbsd-based fileserver, which will initially have three disks with softraid in RAID5 mode. I've three questions regarding softraid: 1) I intend on using a single-core 1.8Ghz Atom processor I have lying around.

Re: remote management

2013-05-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/13/2013 03:24 PM, Tony Berth wrote: Dear Group, I would like to know what kind of environment you use for remote management of one or more openbsd servers. Which KVM over IP solution would you recomend. Oh, I remember those. Last IP KVM switch I used worked BETTER for OpenBSD than it

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/29/13 00:00, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-04-20 23:32, Nick Holland wrote: On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: Hi, first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or not better than X - it's just a question. If you say, we use it because

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: Hi, first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or not better than X - it's just a question. If you say, we use it because it just works - it's okay. :) Good, 'cause it does. :) So why does OpenBSD still uses CVS and

Re: Important: following -current update!

2013-04-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/16/13 06:13, Michał Markowski wrote: $ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/config cd: no such file or directory: /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/config $ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/conf $ --- /cvs/www/faq/current.html Tue Apr 16 11:54:22 2013 +++ /tmp/current.html Tue Apr 16 12:10:27

Re:

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/13/13 07:52, Jan Stary wrote: Going over the X FAQ, I see 11.1.1 - How much computer do I need to run X? While How much computer is slightly amusing, was it meant to be how much computer power or something? Jan It was meant to be

Re: FAQ - Disk Imaging

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/13/13 19:27, Kevin Chadwick wrote: 4.15 of the faq says Unfortunately, there are no known disk imaging packages which are FFS-aware. I haven't tested ... Get back with me when you have. I'll be happy to find out that statement is now wrong, but I've been doing this about 20 years

Re: SDHC cards under OpenBSD.

2013-04-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/05/2013 08:53 AM, Luis Suzuki wrote: I used dmesg to discover if my SDHC card is recognized but I see things like sdhc0 and sdmmc0 and no one works when I do : disklabel sdhc0 or disklabel sdmmc0.So,Is there a more common,usual device name for SDHC cards? Thanks. the device you want is

Re: Announce: OpenSMTPD 5.3 released

2013-04-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/23/13 15:12, Evan Root wrote: Gilles, How would you recommend a new unix admin learn OpenSMTPD? -Evan Same way you learn most things in this business... sit down and do it. In my case, I just recently had my local Internet provider start blocking outbound port 25 traffic, so all

Re: Openbsd openrisc opencores arm

2013-03-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/24/13 21:36, max.stalna...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know anything but I lurk here for most of the millennia or more. Openbsd arm seems to lack a frame buffer. you mean like the one on the Zaurus? If I try to ssh in thenci do not need a frame buffer? Openrisc has a MMU or three

Re: Base Packages

2013-03-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/19/2013 12:00 PM, Steve Pribyl wrote: Is there a way to determine which base packages are installed during the initial install. Thanks Steve Pribyl if the machine boots, baseXX.tgz, etcXX.tgz, bsd* if man man works, manXX.tgz if gcc works, compXX.tgz if tetris works, gameXX.tgz if

Re: This is my first time to use OpenBSD

2013-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/17/13 22:10, ¿àÄյıý×Ð wrote: Yesterday£¬I just install OpenBSD 5.2 in my little server. I found that OpenBSD 5.2 seem no support for TRIM, it's terrible to our ssd user. How can I run just like 'fstrim' in Linux in OpenBSD? How is this terrible? If you want things just like Linux,

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/14/2013 11:31 AM, Jiri B wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: just for curiosity, is it planned for future? I can't just now think about real usability... Me neither. For most use cases I

Re: OpenBSD 5.2 AHCI problems with IBM x3250 M4

2013-03-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/09/13 19:26, Roger Wiklund wrote: If I enable AHCI mode in UEFI/BIOS and boot from the cd52.iso, the installation finds the disk (sd0) and I can setup everything in fdisk and complete the installation. However when I reboot, the system can't find any operation system. It works if I

Re: Intel hyperthreading w/ Atom E6xx OpenBSD 5.2?

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/07/13 23:24, David Ruggiero wrote: I've been using OpenBsd for 8+ years on my main router/firewall (4 NICs). Time to upgrade (I'm back on v3.8, yikes). Past time, really. Solots to learn / re-learn here. Have patience. First question: I'll be loading 5.2 on a low-power, Atom

Re: SSH public key auth vs OTP auth

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/05/13 15:36, Lars Noodén wrote: On 03/05/2013 10:29 PM, Peter Bisroev wrote: [snip] 100% agree. Having unencrypted private keys was one of the reasons that I have started looking into OTP/TOTP. At this point, I think it is probably better to force untrusted users (those who cannot be

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/13 00:34, Joel Sing wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: ... OpenBSD area: 64-5860533168; size: 2.7T; free: 0.0T #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2.7T 64RAID c: 2.7T0 unused

Re: rsync too slow between two disks with softraid crypto

2013-03-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/01/13 19:16, Luis P. Mendes wrote: Hi, I installed a new disk to my small home server in order to have a backup of the previous disk. The backup is intended to run during late night hours using rsync. First time, I rsynced some system directories to the second disk and it worked

Re: Softraid 1 Help

2013-02-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/22/2013 01:00 PM, Brandon Tanner wrote: Hello, This is my first time posting to this list. I am wanting to setup a softraid 1 array, with two 3TB drives. Every guide or howto I can find though is about installing onto such an array. My case however, the boot drive is on its own, a

Re: Millions of files in /var/www inode / out of space issue.

2013-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/19/13 05:47, MJ wrote: Which app are you running that is generating millions of tiny files in a single directory? Regardless, in this case OpenBSD is not the right tool for the job. You need either FreeBSD or a Solaris variant to handle this problem because you need ZFS. What

Re: [obsd] Re: Assigning an IP address to a bridge

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 06:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2013/02/14 12:19, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: One minor comment: you don't *need* to reboot. Although it's a good practice to reboot after you're done setting things up to make sure you don't have any ephemeral configurations (that you will

Re: need help --reboot of newly installed OpenBSD 4.7 on Toshiba Libretto 70 neds in integet divide

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 03:41, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 17:07:53, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: Hello all, following situation: I installed OpenBSD 4.7 on Toshiba Libretto 70 4.7 using hard drive donor installation

Re: Constant attacks and ISP's are ignoring them

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 18:24, Daniel Bertrand wrote: Hello, Thanks for providing such great software. It really is much appreciated. I was wondering what your stance is about the constant hack attempts on machines on our ISP networks.. It happens. You can't stop the attack attempts. You can stop

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/10/13 08:33, Crookedmaze wrote: ... Thanks for replying guys, I have looked into using snapshots but it looks like the snapshots are based off of current and I had a look at the FAQ and in section 5.1 of the FAQ it says. Between formal releases of OpenBSD, /snapshots/ are made

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/09/13 21:23, Crookedmaze wrote: Dear OpenBSD Community, Hello I am wondering if there is a tool similar to FreeBSD-update on OpenBSD? If not are there any reasons for why a tool like this hasn't been developed? Also if there isn't a tool like this (I am pretty sure there isn't one as

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/05/13 06:03, Bogdan Andu wrote: Hello, A few questions related to openbsd and vmware. What are the best practices to run OpenBSD in vmware? Just Do It? I haven't found any problems running OpenBSD in VMware ESXi or whatever they call it this week. I usually just tell the

Re: Still possible to get OpenBSD onto Soekris net5501 via qemu install to flashcard?.

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/14/2013 10:15 AM, Sarah Caswell wrote: Hi all, I'm having a frustrating problem getting OpenBSD-current (or snapshot) to run on my Soekris net5501. With previous versions of OBSD I was able to use qemu to install to a compact flashcard directly, by connecting the flashcard to my laptop

Re: OT using absolute paths in scripts

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/13/13 12:03, Maximo Pech wrote: At work, we have an information security area for IT. They mandate that on all shell scripts we have to use absolute paths for every single command. I feel that this does not provide real security and only makes scripts somewhat more painful to write.

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/12/13 06:22, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: So guys, I perfectly understand (and respect) how much many of you use and value ed. As much as others have a repulsion for it, but this is not my point: no, it's like the scissor jack and lug wrench in my Jeep. If I get a flat tire on the side of the

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/11/13 16:38, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: ... Btw, how many are really using ed everyday, now in 2013? I believe I'm not the only one who thinks this. My guess is that vi could be more appreciated by most of the user base more than ed. If you claim to be a unix administrator, learn ed. If you

Re: growfs on bsd.rd

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/08/13 23:38, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-01-04 00:41, Aaron Mason wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: Hi all, I'm curious as to why growfs is not included in bsd.rd. Is there any particular reason for this? I belive it

Re: 3k machines

2013-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/01/2013 05:15 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: Hi folks, i am managing some openbsd machines. There are a company, here, in the city a live that holds about 3k machines and i not including servers hardware; only desktop. I was wondering: How do you manage such a volume of nodes, i mean, in an

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2012-12-31 Thread Nick Holland
If you think you can implement OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi machine, shut up and hack. Then, make the result fit with the OpenBSD policy statements in http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html THEN talk about it. If you can't do it, no point talking about it. OpenBSD

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/12 17:25, Jiri B wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:26:43PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: Probably thinking of this thread: http://marc.info/?t=117689108200011r=1w=2 and my two contributions to it. A number of other people provided some good (and some bad) comments, too...read through

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from scratch. But I need to save all data in /home without moving it out of box. As I

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/2012 07:48 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 02:24 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from

Re: Request improvement for faq 15.2

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/2012 10:10 AM, Live user wrote: I think 15.2.2 should go before 15.1.1, since if there's no point in running pkg_* when the PKG_PATH is empty, which is after installing using the interactive method. there is no 15.1.1. 15.1 is an introduction, no commands where PKG_PATH would be

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/25/12 19:50, Eric Furman wrote: Not long ago Nick did go into some detail about this very thing. I don't remember how long ago or what the thread was about, but you might find it in the archives. Just search for Nick Holland. Anything you find will be worth reading in any case

Re: Nginx log rotation

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 17:02, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: ... Btw, as apache is still present in faq, is any man nginx.conf / faq entry planned or the only nginx.org is THE doc resource? Thanks The reason for FAQ entries about things like Apache/httpd being chrooted is that it isn't standard in the main

Re: Compression is broken on (S)hell booting install52.iso

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 19:38, Live user wrote: When using (S)hell from live cd installer, the what? the /install CD/ produced by the OpenBSD project? or a live cd that someone else produces? I'm going to assume you mean the install CD...which is in no way to be confused with what people traditionally call

Re: Broken link on faq14

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 19:30, Live user wrote: On this page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html at see the Setting up disks part of the Installation Guide The link redirects to faq4.html#Disks which no longer exists. yes, thanks. I just committed a fix, it is on the main site already. Nick.

Re: openbsd live cd installable?

2012-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/23/12 17:24, Francesco Cardi wrote: Hello, for the longest time I try to read more material useful for openbsd to learn as much as possible, I bought the book :) I always follow the project carefully because it is my preferred system, I have done many tests with the system but i never

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/22/12 07:54, Friedrich Locke wrote: ... But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: i need a file system that must expand by adding more machine in the network in a simple way. in plain English: I'm not thinking out the design carefully, so I'm going to rely on

Re: Help with the board H77-D3H

2012-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/2012 11:01 AM, What you get is Not what you see wrote: I try to install OpenBSD 5.2 i386 to a box with this board. It has an Intel G645 Pentium processor with 4GB of ram and a 500G of Sata3 hard drive. It has an onboard AR8151 ethernet which I understand is not supported by the generic

Re: How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/12 22:17, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: HI, I would like to know How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD ? If I run below 2 commands, it will give an output. dmesg |grep wd0 fdisk wd0 If you want USEFUL, you might use: dmesg |grep ^[sw]d if you care about floppies

Re: Plausible deniable encryption

2012-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/12 00:50, Robert Connolly wrote: Assuming you have read what is out there, I have a technigur and the margin was too small...

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/15/12 11:45, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: Hi misc Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card like hifn when using

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

2012-12-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/10/12 21:45, Maximo Pech wrote: ... Well, with the information you have given me so far, I think the answer is something like nobody has written it because we have more important things to do and nobody believes there is a real need for that. Am I right? I have lived a long time and

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

2012-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/09/12 06:50, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: ,,, OpenSSH and OpenBSD IPsec represent the OpenBSD solutions to the quality and licensing problems in those areas. OpenSSH is still the gold standard, OCF/IPsec, maybe not.

Re: Installing 5.2 with PXE

2012-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/09/12 11:17, ML mail wrote: Hi, I want to install OpenBSD 5.2 amd64 with PXE so I downloaded the latest bsd.rd and pxeboot file from: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/amd64/ and put it on my TFTP/DHCP server but when I boot this specific files I get the installer for OpenBSD

Re: PRIMERGY RX200 S2 installation problems

2012-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/29/12 06:42, Tony Berth wrote: Thanks Both i386 and amd64 fail! But, are that many differences between stable and current? You caught us, nothing has changed in OpenBSD since 1995, we just drink beer and increment the version number every six months. /sarcasm The most significant

Re: openbsd 5.2 i38 migrate to amd64

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/24/12 08:26, bofh wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 11/22/12 09:58, bofh wrote: Can I just run install - upgrade and install everything but etc.tgz and xetc.tgz? Any post installation stuff I have to worry about

Re: openbsd 5.2 i38 migrate to amd64

2012-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/12 09:58, bofh wrote: Can I just run install - upgrade and install everything but etc.tgz and xetc.tgz? Any post installation stuff I have to worry about? No. Reinstall completely. Do not try to migrate without a complete wipe/reload. Let's phrase this differently... Pretend you

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/12/12 15:37, Robin Björklin wrote: Hi! First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive junior sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see the bigger picture and the good of the cause. compromise. That is almost always an evil word. In

Re: *** Error 1 in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP (Makefile:816 'copy.o')

2012-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/03/12 10:29, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: Hello, last few days I want to update the lastest current from cvs um. no. You compile for giggles, you update from binary. (ftp5.eu.openbsd.org or anoncvs.spacehopper.org) and I allways had this error. ... # dmesg OpenBSD 5.2-current

Re: Upgrade to 5.2?

2012-10-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/31/12 00:13, Daniel Melameth wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Matt M. cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I upgraded from 5.1-release to -current. Is there any need to upgrade to 5.2-release? Could this cause issues since -current is really newer than what's on the 5.2 media?

Re: Upgrade to 5.2?

2012-10-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/31/2012 07:17 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: / Nick Holland wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 7:03:48 -0400 / On 10/31/12 00:13, Daniel Melameth wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Matt M. cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I upgraded from 5.1-release to -current. Is there any need

Re: OpenBSD upgrade guide 5.2?

2012-10-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/21/12 07:29, Rares Aioanei wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:05:20 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 10/19/12 23:25, Matt Morrow wrote: Does anyone know when the upgrade guides are usually posted? I know we're a couple of weeks away from the release, but I also

Re: OpenBSD upgrade guide 5.2?

2012-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/19/12 23:25, Matt Morrow wrote: Does anyone know when the upgrade guides are usually posted? I know we're a couple of weeks away from the release, but I also thought I read that 5.2 cds had already been shipped to some locations, which would imply that it's pretty much ready for release?

Re: Upgrading 3.8 to current

2012-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/13/12 13:18, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Matt Morrow wrote: After dealing with a number of issues due to an old 3.8 install which have been resolved in current releases, I think I'm going to do the individual release upgrades (3.8-3.9-4.0, etc etc) ... Do

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
... I'm struggling with 7Tb filesystems, it takes about 30 minutes to check them in case of cold reset. Too much. Very too much. and currently, no journals or anything else which could speed up 7Tb filesystems check ? Almost always (in my mind/experience), file systems that big are bad

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/11/2012 01:15 PM, Илья Шипицин wrote: 2012/10/11 Jiri B ji...@devio.us On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:29:50PM +0600, Ð?лÑ?Ñ? ШипиÑ?ин wrote: there are http access logs for half an year. this is a trivial case where using multiple file systems works wonderfully. it's easier

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/09/2012 12:55 PM, Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! I'm investigating /etc/rc script. And I found the following there: if [ -e /fastboot ]; then echo Fast boot: skipping disk checks. elif [ X$1 = Xautoboot ]; then echo Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.

Re: fix for faq ?

2012-10-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/05/2012 09:14 AM, Frans Haarman wrote: The line mentioning running tftpd from inetd is no longer valid! Its now started via /etc/rc.d/tftpd. this is true post 5.1, the FAQ follows the current release, which is 5.1. So, it is correct as it is now for what it is documenting. Nov 1,

Re: forgot to fdisk -i sd2

2012-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/28/12 04:15, Jean-François SIMON wrote: Hello, Yesterday, I have asked someone to install, disklabel, newfs and mount a disk on a small local server machine. I have forgotten to fdisk -i in the first place, it does however apparently work well. Please could you let me know which

Re: Compiling from the source on -current Failed

2012-09-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/24/2012 01:52 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:29:25AM +0700, Insan Praja SW wrote: Hi Misc@, I was just trying to upgrade to -current by compiling from the source, on an old (6 years) server. I updated make(1) first to the latest (compiling from the source, of

Re: How to PROVE your system is up to date?

2012-09-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/18/2012 12:36 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: I have State and Federal regulators that want me to PROVE (since their only used to looking at Micro$oft servers) my OBSD 5.1 server is up to date, and there are no outstanding patches that need to be applied. *I* know that's the case, because I follow

Re: Building a single driver in the source tree

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/14/12 20:16, jordon wrote: I am having trouble getting a Hifn7751 to work in an old Soekris box. I want to dig in and see if I can figure out what is going on but I am very new to this. From /usr/src/sys/dev/pci, I typed make hifn7751, but that leads to a lot of compiler errors. Is

Re: OpenBSD hangs hard on a flashrd system with either 5.2 current or 5.1 stable with athn(4) patches

2012-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/07/12 03:58, Peter Kay wrote: I have a Pentium III system running 5.1 current with athn(4) hostap power saving patches or 5.2 current. It has the slightly unusual configuration of an ISA video card (X not used) and a 64 bit PCI NIC hacked to run in a 32 bit slot, but is otherwise a bog

Re: Apache on OpenBSD 5.2 ?

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/05/12 06:15, Mik J wrote: Hello, The web page http://www.openbsd.org/52.htmlsays Added nginx(8), an HTTP server, reverse proxy server and mail proxy server. Does it mean that Apache 1.3 will be removed from the default install ? Thank you someday, perhaps. Maybe even probably.

Re: /etc/rc.d/httpd script : how to use it ?

2012-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/28/12 06:34, Wesley wrote: Hi, I use OpenBSD 5.1 RELEASE. To start Apache, i usually use this command : '/usr/sbin/apachectl start' This, works good. Therefore, i tried to do the same using : '/etc/rc.d/httpd start' Nothing happens. What is the use of this last one ? Thank you

Re: /etc/rc.d/httpd script : how to use it ?

2012-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
it won't work on reboot, too. Nick. Have a good day. Regards, Wesley. Le 2012-08-28 15:04, Nick Holland a écrit : On 08/28/12 06:34, Wesley wrote: # echo 'httpd_flags=' /etc/rc.conf.local and try again: # /etc/rc.d/httpd start httpd(ok) # ta-da! Curiously, this exact example

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/12/12 06:32, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: On 2012-08-11 18:43:56, Miod Vallat miod () online ! fr wrote: You will find idiots on @misc. It's one of the few things not in the FAQ. We'd rather not have idiots in the FAQ (-: Miod Alfred E. Neumann was in FAQ until May; the precedent is

Re: softraid 5 current state?

2012-08-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/06/12 17:22, Geoff Steckel wrote: Does anyone know what the current state of softraid 5 is? The man page says rebuild and scrub are not supported. The last checkin was about 6 months ago. sounds like your question is answered. Scrub and rebuild are critical for RAID5, if that wasn't

Re: getty

2012-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/05/12 07:14, Friedrich Locke wrote: I would like to change /etc/ttys to get, for instance: ttyC3 /usr/libexec/getty std.192600 vt220 on secure instead of : ttyC3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt220 on secure Why? This is not a serial console. (for those that missed

Re: That 'C.......org' website

2012-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/26/12 06:04, Peter Laufenberg wrote: ... That's bullshit; Google's pagerank means more people are linking to C.l, period. yeah... and by providing another almost 50 pages in every e-mail archive with that website in the topic, we've just perpetuated the problem. Big time. Oops.

Re: is it legal?

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/23/2012 12:01 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://www.gwebtools.com/ns-spy/put your primary or secondary server here Anyone know from what data does it get such an info? By scanning every possible registered domain ? Could be by recording the info used by a dns resolver they manage. I

Re: is it legal?

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/23/2012 12:53 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Could be by recording the info used by a dns resolver they manage. I suspect exactly what i thing they do. Actually, they give a pretty good idea how they do what they do on the website: How it works? We have a system running in

Re: cvsync - creating empty dir 'cvsync'

2012-07-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/13/12 19:38, Jiri B wrote: Hello, does anybody know why does cvsync create empty 'cvsync' dir inside the prefix for repositories? The config is same style as on OpenBSD page with refuse file excluding 'X11' and 'XF4'. (here localhost is ftp5.eu.openbsd.org via http proxy) #

Re: Running OpenBSD on an Acer Aspire One 110L netbook

2012-07-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/06/12 06:17, David Coppa wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: ... N.B. you would need a MiniPCIE card, not MiniPCI. This card, for example, works beautifully with OpenBSD:

Re: Running OpenBSD on an Acer Aspire One 110L netbook

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/04/12 12:33, mlambda wrote: Before installing OpenBSD on my Acer Aspire One 110L netbook, I've tried to run it from a USB flash drive and have noticed the following problems (I have also tried the 5.1 release and an earlier snapshot, they showed the same problems): I've been running my

Re: Invallid signature in the boot block 2700

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/03/2012 02:23 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I messed up my wife's USB (FAT16) by accidentally pulling it from my OpenBSD box before it was completely umounted. Running fsck_msdos is producing message Invalid signature in the boot block 2700 Windows 7 is reporting USB drive as

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/2012 10:19 AM, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Really? Can we do that? Seems, by this thread and previous about this subject, that nobody is waiting for any diffs regarding this - Alvaro Of course, you can do anything you wish. No one is EXPECTING quality diffs, for our

Re: DHCPD give lease to specific machine brand

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/2012 11:58 AM, sven falempin wrote: only way ? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/packages/i386/isc-dhcp-server-4.2.3.2.tgz OpenBSD's dhcpd is based on ISC's DHCP server, stripped down to the simplest standard needs. This was done to keep the code clean, auditable and

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/12 17:58, Peter Laufenberg wrote: Speaking personally, I wouldn't mind if OpenBSD's website were updated. Just no one has volunteered yet to do the dirty work of actually coming up with a functional design and then updating the HTML. Talk is cheap. I'm willing to indirectly

Re: daily.local ROOTBACKUP, disklabel problem?

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/26/2012 03:00 PM, Darrel wrote: On OpenBSD50: 14:25:44 # cat /etc/fstab bb128e900f20094a.b none swap sw bb128e900f20094a.a / ffs rw 1 1 #bb128e900f20094a.d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 bb128e900f20094a.k /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 bb128e900f20094a.e /tmp ffs

Re: macppc will it survive?

2012-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/21/2012 01:27 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, Since deraadt mentioned the names of people who left to bitrig and I'm wondering what will happen to the macppc port? Is it going to go the route of the mac68k port too? I saw some commits earlier on it so that got my hopes up... I have a

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