Re: 8-ports serial card compatible with OpenBSD

2012-06-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/17/12 18:24, Jiri B wrote: Hello, could anybody recommend OpenBSD compatible 8-ports serial card? I'd like to build a small console server. Thank you. jirib So cheap, it's worth a try: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124099 I bought a few of these cards a

Re: let user can only run one command (passwd)?

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/14/12 06:00, f5b wrote: I have setup OpenSMTPD + dovecot + roundcube simple mail server. People can ssh log in to the OpenBSD box, change their password using command passwd, the system account password is also the mail account password. So, for security reason, how to let the user

Re: let user can only run one command (passwd)?

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/14/2012 08:55 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: sshd_config ChrootDirectory not suit our needs. Why doesn't it suit your needs (time to work out how to do it?), you could just use a locked down file permission system perhaps even including secondary groups. Force command might come in handy

Re: Solid state disk geometry

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/11/12 19:25, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: Dear Mailing Listeners, Let me know, please, whether it makes sense to modify disk geometry for solid state disks? no Which meaning have the default values of cylinders, heads, and sectors for these devices? roughly the exact same thing it

Re: OT: bitrig relation to OpenBSD

2012-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/09/12 14:01, Jiri B wrote: Hi, is bitrig fork just because of license, goals issue or is this also because some disagreements between developers? I think you ask the wrong people. Not sure why you would ask here, rather than the people who actually DID the fork. ... Anyway, people can

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/05/2012 07:40 AM, David Diggles wrote: ... What a bummer, the Dell Precision 690 I am currently trying does not support 2TB on its SAS or SATA controller. Oddly, the SATA controller presents it correctly as 2.8T, but it will not mount. The SAS controller on the other hand, presents it

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
Otto gave you a good answer here, but I had already provided lots of detail, so I'm sending anyway. :) On 06/01/2012 01:04 PM, Scott McEachern wrote: Hello everyone, I'm hoping that I'm missing something simple (like usual) and maybe someone could straighten me out. I'm trying to add a pair

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/01/2012 03:26 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2012/6/1 Tyler Morgantyl...@tradetech.net: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive That doesn't mention GPT, which is the problem with drives2TB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Can OpenBSD already boot from a 4TB

Re: spamd 250 messages

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/30/12 06:56, Jan Stary wrote: On May 30 10:34:31, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:25:01AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: On May 29 22:22:35, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:53:40PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: It seems that during the SMTP dialogue, spamd

Re: unbound

2012-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/20/12 17:49, David Diggles wrote: Ok, I am interested in opinions on why one should migrate from BIND to unbound? 1) It is unlikely there will be any more updates to BIND9 in OpenBSD base install. 2) It is even more unlikely that the comedyfest that BIND10 appears to be added to OpenBSD

Re: a live cd/dvd?

2012-05-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/12/12 14:16, Tyler Morgan wrote: On 5/11/2012 8:48 PM, Nick Holland wrote: I suspect the interest in [an OpenBSD Live CD] is rapidly approaching zero. Its a concept who's time has come...and gone, I think. Five or six years ago, yeah...cool. Today...why?. A live CD gives you a very

Re: 4.4 m68k packages?

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/10/12 17:56, David Diggles wrote: Were there ever 4.4 m68k packages? I can only find 4.3 packages for m68k on ftp sites. Or, is it possible to cross compile for m68k arch on i386? Or if I can't compile 4.4 packages either cross compile, or on the SE/30 itself, I will downgrade the

Re: a live cd/dvd?

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/11/12 21:46, Eric Oyen wrote: hello everyone. I was thinking that if we had a live image (A full running system) with an installer, we could have easier installations for the blind (and others as well). Now, some systems have the ability to port the screen to a local serial port

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/2012 01:29 PM, Dimitry T wrote: Thank you all for the detailed answers. Is there any changes in compiling if recompile kernel with option machine i686, now uname shows i386? Sure. Big change. You hurt yourself. Usually badly. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#WhySrc

Re: Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.1 is now available

2012-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/12 00:52, Johan Ryberg wrote: Hi. Not stupid at all. Flashboot is not intended to replace a standard OpenBSD installation and if you want to use a normal installation on a USB stick then you are probably best off with the installation process that you described. Flashboot is

Re: Can't install rrdtool on OpenBSD 5.0

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/02/12 16:47, Nicolas Pence wrote: Hi, if you upgrade to 5.1 you'll have the same problem (but for libfreetype.so.18.1). You don't really need to install the complete xbase, oh, please don't. just that specific library, you can do it like this (change the values for your release and

Re: Hi-Five OpenBSD World - New installation - Power management questions

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/11/12 17:13, Michael Davies wrote: ... I attach at the bottom of this e-mail my dmesg output for my relatively simple platform for the NAS (I knoww, it's a waste of an excellent OS! But I am after the security): not at all. Its a fine general purpose OS, too. :) ... However, I

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/06/12 07:35, Dan Shechter wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? Best regards, Dan First of all, OpenBSD is completely free software. we can not, nor do we want to stop anyone from making their own project (or product) based on OpenBSD. That

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/18/12 10:10, fullmoon wrote: I've downloaded the /install50.iso (x86) and verified the sha-256. Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox 4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric from the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install process and learn how not to shoot

Re: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - WTF?

2012-03-09 Thread Nick Holland
oh good, people DID notice this. I was starting to wonder. Note: any return to the old, boring FAQ title for 5.1 is purely due to lack of creativity on my part, not dullards like this guy. Though, I do admit his posting is prompting me to try again to come up with something. pitch

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/08/12 06:48, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:50:15 +0100 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Furthermore, the more chatty installer is, the less amount of newcomers would be reading the messages. I had a thought last night, how worrying that my mind jumped to OpenBSD in front

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/07/2012 07:26 AM, Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: Hi, I want to tell you about my experience with OpenBSD. I'm a Linux user, but have always wanted to try OpenBSD. The last time I'd tried installing it was version 4.6 and I didn't get very far. That version wouldn't install on my

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/07/2012 12:55 PM, David Vasek wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Amit Kulkarni wrote: ... Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [edit] while the OP did make a mistake, he could modify the default to be edit the MBR. so he would be forced to pay attention while staring at the partition table. i

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Trusting the Installation

2012-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/28/12 21:43, Nathan Stiles wrote: Hello, I've recently installed 5.0 and based upon my experience I expected a checksum to be posted for the ISO. And it is. Imagine that. Also I've noticed that HTTPS isn't implemented on openbsd.org. I was also expecting the checksum to be served

Re: 5.0 Stable (amd64) build appears broken.

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/21/2012 01:28 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: ... There's a minor error in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html such that it specifies that to follow stable you can pull the whole tree with cvs and run as such. This is not the case. The 5.0-Stable tree will not build without the tree

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

2012-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/20/12 05:03, Francesco Cardi wrote: Unfortunately there is no way forward is blocked at that time, in moemnto where there is loading and the first phase of installation. 16 mb ram does not go well with OpenBSD? well, you don't describe what you want to do with the machine, but if the

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

2012-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/20/12 14:07, Francesco Cardi wrote: I upgraded the ram is 32m now, I want to use OpenBSD on this machine. So should I change the little watch battery? this is not really an OpenBSD issue, but rather, PC 101. First, the very basic troubleshooting part: does the additional RAM permit an

Re: WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! [not installation]

2012-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/19/12 20:41, Francesco Cardi wrote: Hello, I want to install OpenBSD 5.0 on a very old laptop with 16 mb ram and a 500mhz celeron processor. I start the boot from the cd starts to load but then appears on the screen a writing that is repeated ad infinitum WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

2012-02-15 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/09/12 12:54, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:15:50PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: Replying to myself, [snip] Things might change if (1) the cvsroot is remote (2) it is not the same for all files. I will try that next. Jan That last case (remote repo's and

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

2012-02-07 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: The use of DUID

2012-01-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/30/2012 11:10 AM, Wesley M. wrote: Hi, I have a question, i read faq 14 - Disk Setup (DiskLabel Unique Identifiers) . It is a pretty feature. We can start OpenBSD OS from the disk put anywhere(order). But what's about after a dump/restore Boot in single user : backup the disk using 'dump

Re: Long delay updating xenocara source tree?

2012-01-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/28/12 09:12, Dave Anderson wrote: Thanks for the info. I've been using -Pd because http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html says to use them; I haven't yet had a chance to look into how cvs works beyond reading the man page, faq, etc. and please continue to use them. -Pd is the RIGHT way.

Re: softraid setup

2012-01-27 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Softraid

2012-01-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/23/2012 10:04 AM, sc...@web.de wrote: Hello World! Perhaps a trivial question. Let us suppose, I follow the instructions of SOFTRAID(4) for bulding a Raid 1 device sd0 from wd1, wd2, wd3. Let us suppose that I make a ufs file system in sd0. As I see, there are fdisc and disklabel

Re: OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC) #65: Thu Nov 3 00:58:36 MDT 2011

2012-01-20 Thread Nick Holland
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.

Re: mailserv project

2012-01-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/17/2012 09:17 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: ... Be nice to tne newbs! sometimes being nice involves saying, DON'T DO THIS. This is one of those times. When you see someone with the barrel of a gun pointed at their foot, you are proposing helping them aim higher, making it easier to cock

Re: mailserv project

2012-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/16/12 02:09, Wesley M. wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:40:57 +0100, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: There's sendmail in base system and there's ongoing work on smtpd by OpenBDS devs (other components are in ports). Anyway you're welcome to start port see

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/13/2012 09:55 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / b: 1.2G 2097215 swap c: 37.3G 0 unused d: 2.6G 4683375 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp e: 4.0G 10052439 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var f: 2.0G 18541648 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 #

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

2012-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: CARP health check ?

2012-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
ok, let's try this idea... Your systems have ONE external address, but they can have as many internal addresses as desired, right? SO...let's say you have two CARP'd firewalls, FW1 and FW2. They share external address of x.x.x.x. FW1: FW2: Externalx.x.x.x

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: HTTPS and the opinion of the Great OpenBSD team

2012-01-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/08/12 05:01, Rumoseh, Loros wrote: Good morning Everybody. Q1: Correct me If I'm wrong, but AFAIK the OpenBSD team is not trusting the CA/HTTPS modell on security side. That's why www.openbsd.org isn't available over HTTPS [?]. Dude, it's an OPEN SOURCE project. We got no secrets.

OpenBSD mirror obsd.cec.mtu.edu shutting down

2012-01-05 Thread Nick Holland
A heads-up to those that care... Due to local support issues, I will soon have to shut down the OpenBSD mirror, obsd.cec.mtu.edu, which has served as a second-level mirror for the last almost four years. To discourage its use as a feeder for third-level mirrors, I'll be shutting down rsync for

Re: create a backup of an online server

2011-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
As always...you design your backup for your application. Mail servers are particularly tricky, as the data the contain tends to change minute-by-minute, and they are prone to both hardware failure, administrator error AND user error. A user who nukes their mail store will want their data

Re: create a backup of an online server

2011-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/28/2011 11:30 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote: This sounds like a job for rsnapshot: essentailly point-in-time snapshots on top of rsync, using hard links of unchanged files for space and speed. With some additional shell scripting + cron you could have a really nice scheme to keep 15

Re: ftpd change?

2011-12-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/25/11 20:12, STeve Andre' wrote: [apologies if you see this twice--having mail loss problems] I have an old FTP machine (3.6!) that a horde of people are suckling from at the moment. I'm making a new one remotely, but found that an 'mget *' on the new machine fails, with no such

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
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.

Re: CF Card setup

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/11 17:41, Jannik Pruitt wrote: Hi everyone. i am brand new purchased my open bsd 5.0 on 11 Nov 2011. we like to hear that. :) You put me in a good mood, so I'm giving you something other than just a pointer at faq6 :) I booted the CD on another computer installed every thing on a

Re: upgrade OpenBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/11 15:55, Lars Kotthoff wrote: Hi list, the OpenBSD upgrade pages carry a warning at the top Note: Upgrades are only supported from one release to the release immediately following it. Do not skip releases. What's the reason for this warning? I've had a look at the upgrade

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: Do a simple clean 5.0 install. One would assume any browser package in the packages folder would install. None do for me on sparc, but with a clean 4.9 install all 4.9 packages

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

2011-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/13/11 12:02, Jeff Ross wrote: 5.0 release on the same Imation Nano Pro also throws ERR M. I used the identical disk layout for the install. To eliminate the chance that there was something wrong with that specific Imation flash drive, I got a SanDisk Cruzer and installed 5.0

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/12/11 11:02, sc...@web.de wrote: Peter Kay syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk wrote: Wikipedia says 'AMD64 supported by: all models with an OPN ending in BX and CV' and 'E6 stepping or later' It seems I have a BO: SSE3, but not AMD64 according to dmesg. Henning Brauer

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/12/11 16:11, Jeff Ross wrote: On 12/12/11 13:18, Diana Eichert wrote: what is the output of fdisk when booted from bsd.rd? !DSPAM:4ee663138802030512579! Hi Diana! Thanks for the thought. Disk: sd0 geometry: 487/255/63 [7827456 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature:

Re: obsd.cec.mtu.edu rsync 'ftp' target doesn't have 5.0

2011-12-05 Thread Nick Holland
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.

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/03/11 16:47, Sime Ramov wrote: * Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-12-03 20:36+0100]: As discussed with Antoine, sysmerge should be run *after* the update, not before, even though you may have to reboot an extra time. I am not sure about one more thing. Do I select etc.tgz and xetc.tgz

Re: how much last entries should exist?

2011-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/01/2011 03:23 AM, [BG-Consulting] Elmar Bschorer wrote: Hi list, my server just had a little crash. Currently running: OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC#477 amd64 After reset I checked last and I found only 5 entries. I am wondering I this is normal? Shouldn't there be more entries? The last one is

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/29/11 04:04, T. Valent wrote: ... This is what I do: edit /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC ... edit /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC welcome to the ignore list of many developers. You aren't even following directions on how to hurt yourself properly without wasting people's time. ... I

Re: cd boot panic on 5.0 but not 4.9 or earlier

2011-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/26/11 00:21, quartz wrote: how safe are those two images? would it be ok to run on a production system or should I wait for the official 5.0 stable branch? different version of the same question: if I'm lazy, can I cheat by booting off a new install50 or cd50 snapshot, but actually

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/11 02:50, Manuel Ravasio wrote: Chris, why would you suggest unbound instead of bind? Which advantages do you see? Thanks, Manuel My answer, Chris's may vary... Long term, BIND is done. Long term, unbound will probably be replacing it in OpenBSD. IF you are doing anything beyond

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/21/2011 12:35 PM, hvom .org wrote: Hi DNS Google NS 1 : 8.8.8.8NS 2 : 8.8.4.4 Good alternative or Bad alternative ? Best regards It's a Good Thing to remember when setting up a system, as they are easy-to-remember emergency DNS resolvers, though I wouldn't recommend that for

Re: How to destroy softraid partition

2011-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/19/11 07:07, Ivo Chutkin wrote: ... Hi guys, Unfortunately both solutions does not help. I booted bsd.rd and disklabel reports the same errors. If I issue bioctl -d sd2 (which is the softraid disk made from sd0 and sd2) it does not find it. In dmesg there is sd2 and softraid on it.

Re: wd0 timeout at boot

2011-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/11 04:45, ML mail wrote: Hi, I have a Nexcom NSA-1083 network appliance as firewall which I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 5.0 amd64 and am still having some delays during booting because of wd0 timeout. As I was running OpenBSD 4.4 I was told this somehow might disappear in later

Re: similar lvm tool on openbsd??

2011-11-11 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: similar lvm tool on openbsd??

2011-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/10/11 14:49, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, is it possible to work under OpenBSD with disk volumes?? Like in linux world does LVM... If not, how can I expand/resize a disk partition?? In the way LVM or Veritas products or some other systems do, no. However, most use of resizing

Re: how to disable fsck when power failure

2011-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/08/11 04:41, co...@tetrachina.com wrote: misc#,Dz:C#! when the box with OpenBSD had a power failure and the system did not unmount properly. it sometimes gets stuck.The system is asking me to RUN fsck MANUALLY. as a gateway ,so i can't go to fix it manually everytime.How do I

Re: Has any one had any problem with install50.iso?

2011-11-05 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Has any one had any problem with install50.iso?

2011-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
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 with corrupt packages like xetc50.tgz and others and I wanted to debug what happened but today every things works perfectly. _corrupt_, or

Re: /dev/srandom vs. /dev/arandom

2011-10-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/18/11 16:47, James Hozier wrote: I'm doing dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/wd0c and your bottleneck was anything but uh...(/dev/)random. :) Doing it that way, you can't even push zeros out rapidly. Add a block size flag. Long ago, someone who should know assured me (or maybe the mail list?)

Re: UEFI BIOS

2011-10-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/02/11 11:32, Matt S wrote: That was my concern exactly. That I would be unable to put the OS of my choice on hardware that I bought. This is precisely why I don't own an iPad or iPhone - I want ownership of what I bought. And that there is the answer. Complain all you want, if you

Re: UEFI BIOS

2011-10-02 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Why I uninstalled OpenBSD???

2011-10-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/01/11 23:08, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Not again people, please. Stop feeding. Yes. Yet another never-heard-from-before-or-again loser (and *always* using a gmail account...isn't that interesting?) posting a link to that loser's site (which is hosted on google, and MX records point

Re: routing problem

2011-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/28/11 03:13, Wesley M. wrote: Hi, I have at work: TS Server : 10.100.1.100 his gateway is 10.100.1.254 (router for private network) bzzt. Bad. (I'm guessing that's a windows terminal server) Firewall : 10.100.1.250 (OpenBSD 4.9, ADSL : sis0, Lan (10.100.1.0/24) :sis2 On the

Re: -current userland not building

2011-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/28/2011 03:42 PM, Chris Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Amit Kulkarniamitk...@gmail.com wrote: The site at http://nowww.openbsd.org is not in sync with http://www.openbsd.org/. yes they are different. its addressed already in the archives multiple times. Found a thread

Re: no packages for amd64 snapshot

2011-09-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/23/2011 11:32 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: man dpb While I appreciate the dubious humour of these questions repeating near *every friggin release*, I also award you this badge for your reply: http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776ff992970c-pi dpb is not in base, there

Re: audit openbsd.org!

2011-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/14/2011 01:38 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote: ... Has the OpenBSD site ever been hacked? Are there any good audit processes to check the servers? OpenBSD team, please be aware, there are many script-kiddies OR pro's who wants the most secure OS website :\ I love OBSD, and I don't want it to

Re: Installing Gnome on OpenBSD 4.9

2011-09-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/12/2011 02:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: ... Otherwise, if pkg_add is the 'installer', then the tool or process is broken. In the later case - as a dumb user - I don't consider required configuration changes 'knob turning'. Its kind of like buying a new car, but being expected to fill the

Re: DNS lookups for hostnames in PF tables

2011-09-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/09/11 20:08, ropers wrote: On 9 September 2011 08:54, Holger Glaess gla...@glaessixs.de wrote: hi i wrote a perl daemon to handle all these situations. he resolv the servername and add or delete the ip(s) to an spezific table. maybe it's time to work on a package for ports. holger

Re: Security over wireless.

2011-09-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/09/11 05:33, David Walker wrote: Hi. I'm using some old gear that doesn't support WPA or better (WEP only). Until I get around to that what are my options security wise? define security :) Here's the machines: inet - OpenBSD - CPE AP - USB - OpenBSD - desktops The AP is some

Re: Why aren't you running -current?

2011-09-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/08/11 06:18, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:01:06 +0200 (CEST) HSL GmbH - wrote: New bugs are caught by snapshots and if you need the latest package then current is good once you know your way around. It's supported. I believe that's the main reason given in the

Re: httpd wouldn't start from rc script by default

2011-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/07/11 18:37, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Hello! When I start httpd with rc.d script, it silently fails to start. Manual command sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd start also fails. I have no httpd_flags specified and I start httpd as the last of rc_scripts. At the same time sudo apachectl start

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/01/2011 11:40 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: sent to Amit and Antoine... On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.comwrote: So any changes, including documentation, need to be checked against -current ? yes. Development work is done on -current. Do NOT waste

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

2011-08-27 Thread Nick Holland
Is it just me, or is there a certain irony between the statement: And less chest thumping we are the greatest rah rah rah idjits would be good too and this auto-sig: Sent from my iPhone did anyone else here the *thump* *thump* *thump*? Or is that just a left-over ringing in my ears from

Re: linking

2011-08-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/25/2011 12:56 PM, igor denisov wrote: Hi there, I am confused about ln. I need to link /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so to /etc/xorg.conf and cannot understand how. May you help me? no. Whatever you are trying to accomplish, I think you are going about it wrong. I presume

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

2011-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/23/11 12:17, Tomas Bodzar wrote: ... OpenBSD is really clear about its policy, but do you think that it's really possible to port stuff this way and made it available as module without need for change of license or worrying about shark suits? porting stuff isn't the issue, usually.

Re: amd64 snapshot kqemu hangs

2011-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/07/11 21:46, ropers wrote: On 7 August 2011 01:06, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: You see that ddb{1} prompt that I'm quoting from *your* original email? That's the prompt of the built-in kernel debugger. It even has a manpage: try man ddb on a running system. Is there a

Re: installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot

2011-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/07/11 07:30, Michael Treibton wrote: hi, On 7 August 2011 12:19, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: hi, all, This should be an hardware issue, I've used an usb external drive with success. whith a dell A6 or A7 version of Dell bios, boot usb enabled, with a

Re: i386 or amd64?

2011-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/05/11 20:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-08-05, System Administrator ad...@bitwise.net wrote: Looking to build a firewall for a fairly busy (25+mb) site. Hardware is Dell PE2850, 2 Xeon 64-bit CPUs, 4GB RAM, 6 em(4) interfaces. Software is primarily pf(4) and relayd(8). Not so

Re: Building kernel outside /usr/src/sys -- from the FAQ

2011-07-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/29/2011 11:18 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Gilles Chehadegil...@poolp.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43:52AM +0200, David Vasek wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Amarendra Godbole wrote: Hi, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel has a

Re: Problem running a second nic

2011-07-27 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: build from source vs. rc.d files

2011-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/24/11 09:49, Alexander Krek wrote: Hello, may be this is something I simply overlooked, but I found out (hard way) that my way of building/updating -current system from source (FAQ 5.3 + Already wrong, in that you don't update your system from source, you update from nearest available

Re: PC for assembly learning purposes

2011-07-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/24/11 07:27, Tomas Vavrys wrote: Hello, I am looking for a new cheap PC for assembly learning purposes, because I don't want to break my current workstation. I was thinking about http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/nl_NL/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-006 but I am

Re: snapshot upgrade defaults to fetching sets from http i.o. cd

2011-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/11 14:34, Remco wrote: A snapshot upgrade for both i386 and amd64 OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #10: Mon Jul 11 12:31:05 MDT 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #19: Mon Jul 11 12:20:24 MDT 2011

Re: SMP machine, run a program on a single CPU?

2011-07-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/09/11 03:57, Maurice Janssen wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow force a program to run on a single CPU in an SMP system? The reason I ask that on some SMP-capable architectures, I'm having some problems with ntpd. On hppa and sgi, the clock won't sync because ntpd sees replies

Re: How to switch consoles with CTRL+ALT+Fn on powerbook G4?

2011-07-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/08/11 19:33, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:56:33AM +0300, Pekka Niiranen wrote: ... How can I switch between consoles; none of the CTRL+ALT+Fn work in X nor in console mode (before startx). I have not found the proper wsconsctl -commands. -pekka- I

Re: RTL8169SC OpenBSD 4.8 to 4.9 issue

2011-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/07/2011 02:01 PM, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: ... you can upload your dmesg to pastebin and provide link in email. Just put it in-line. Rule #1 of getting free help: don't make it annoying to the people giving you the free help. I'm not going to third party sites for something that

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