Re: file systems

2017-05-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/26/17 10:35, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Hi folks, > > does anybody here run OBSD with a file system bigger than 10TB ? > How much time boot takes to bring the system up (i mean fsck) ? > Are you using ffs2 ? With softdep ? > > Thanks. Error #1: assuming someone else's experience will have an

Re: Can I bind USB/other interface/device number (e.g. cdceX) to particular MAC, USB serial number or the like?

2017-05-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/28/17 22:13, Tinker wrote: > Hi misc@, > > For pluggable devices such as USB NIC:s, is there any way to make > OpenBSD bind a particular device based on its MAC or USB serial number > or the like variable, to a particular interface or device filename? no but ... ... > (For storage devices

Re: Can I bind USB/other interface/device number (e.g. cdceX) to particular MAC, USB serial number or the like?

2017-06-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/01/17 20:50, Tinker wrote: > On 2017-06-02 00:45, Joe Gidi wrote: >> Good news! You can have this already. > > Yay! > >> Go run Linux. > > Em - > > Nay! > > No yay. Hope to see a solid solution to this problem on a non-crappy OS > soon. > Linux's (and Windows and Solaris and ...) atte

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/09/17 15:39, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: > Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system? You? No, I doubt it. Me, it's pretty much all I use as a home desktop system. But you didn't seem to want to give it a try to find out for yourself, or define what you mean by a "desktop system", or do some basic

Re: Feeding DHCP leases into unbound

2017-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/22/17 05:47, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > Hi, > > I have unbound(8) and dhcpd(8) running on a router (OpenBSD 6.1-stable). > dhcpd currently hands out fixed addresses to my clients, but I'd like > these to be allocated dynamically from the common pool, while at the > same time being r

Re: Advice on partiotion scheme

2017-07-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/01/17 06:15, pipfsta...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Hello, dear misc > > I want to use openbsd for daily tasks on my laptop, I'm planning to > build ports by hand and I want to try some development of the system > itself. > > At the moment I'm just playing around and I faced a little problem

Re: Restoring /altroot

2017-07-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/14/17 09:00, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > Hi misc@. > > I wonder how to restore from an /altroot backup? > > (I missed that pax -r happily writes absolute paths and wrote over > /etc from a backup file of another machine) > > > Is it to dd(1) back all but the first 16 blocks - the reverse of

Re: Restoring /altroot

2017-07-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/17/17 05:50, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:46:14PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 07/14/17 09:00, Raimo Niskanen wrote: >> > Hi misc@. >> > >> > I wonder how to restore from an /altroot backup? >> > >> > (I miss

Re: Minium System Requirements

2017-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/22/17 13:45, Max Power wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm looking for on http://www.openbsd.org but... > Where Can I find the official documentation about the 'minimum system > requirements' about OpenBSD? > > Thanks. "less than your application needs". Really. You will have trouble finding an examp

Re: Need help securing SMTP (thunderbird says it's not encrypted)

2017-07-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/27/17 08:56, Paul Covello wrote: ... > I can send and receive mail ok using Apple Mail on my mac. > Thunderbird is another story… I am warned when I set up the > account that SMTP is NOT encrypted. Thunderbird is a mail CLIENT. It knows nothing about what encryption your mail TRANSPORT i

Re: OpenBSD Traning Docs / How Tos

2017-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/08/17 03:54, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello Tom, > > I am not an expert user of OpenBSD but I want to tell you the FAQ is > the first step. That is maintained by Nick Holland, ... I really hate to correct someone who says such nice things about my work, but ... I stepped aside

Re: how to know the state of the dd's progression

2017-08-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/09/17 17:09, Gregor Best wrote: > Send a SIGINFO to dd. which ever so nicely is IN THE MAN PAGE. Nick.

Re: Hot Spare in Softraid?

2017-08-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/12/17 15:02, Federico Giannici wrote: > On 08/12/17 20:48, noah pugsley wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Federico Giannici >> wrote: >>> Is it possible to set a "Hot Spare" chunk for a RAID1 Softraid? >>> From the "bioctl" man page seems that this functionality is available for >>

Re: current/i386 does not boot

2017-09-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/12/17 14:16, Jan Stary wrote: > On Sep 12 19:29:16, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> This is current/i386 from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD >> The upgrade went just fine as always, but the installed /bsd >> just goes to a black screen at some point during the boot sequence; >> the machine do

Re: current/i386 does not boot

2017-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/13/17 02:21, Jan Stary wrote: > On Sep 12 21:48:04, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: >> On 09/12/17 14:16, Jan Stary wrote: >> > On Sep 12 19:29:16, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> >> This is current/i386 from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD >> >> The upgrade went just fine as always, but th

Re: i386 or amd64 from small Cloud instance ?

2017-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/13/17 09:42, Joel Carnat wrote: > Hi, > > My Cloud instances are always small (1 ou 2 vCPU, far less than 4GB of > RAM). > > From what I saw, all the ports I need are available in i386 and amd64. > Every Cloud provider I checked are using KVM hypervisor. > > Regarding OS and ports perfor

Re: Serving multiple domains on one machine or IP address

2017-09-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/19/17 01:17, Greg Garrison wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested if I can serve multiple domains from one machine using > HTTPD and possibly VMM and RELAYD. I would prefer if there was a > solution just with HTTPD is order to KISS. If it is really painful I'll > just role more servers. > > I

Re: Increase swap size on a running instance

2017-09-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/26/17 14:13, Greg Garrison wrote: > Hello, > > > Looking for help. I am trying to run an application that requires 2 GB > of swap. My VPS instance has 256 by default. For some reason the > application will not accept a swap file. It is possible to resize > partitions live to get a bigger

Re: Crypto softraid is supported on GPT/UEFI boot and not just on BIOS/MBR boot, right?

2017-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/28/17 05:58, ti...@openmailbox.org wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 05:02:06PM -, ti...@openmailbox.org >> wrote: > .. >>> What am I doing wrong, are there actually any installboot >>> arguments that could help me make it work? >> >> It looks like you're using GPT on both the physical a

Re: Resize partitions?

2017-10-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/03/17 10:10, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not >> have enough space left for installing packages and today even >> upgrading a snapshot failed because I had not enough space l

Re: Automatically restarting services/daemons after crash

2017-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/13/17 05:01, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> That's sensible, but if money or lives were on the line, I think It'd >> be better to have a running but potentially vulnerable service. > > Not OpenBSD related, but I was truly amazed people like you still > exist and still set up computers for others! >

Re: chronium ports

2017-10-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/16/17 04:28, Tuyosi T wrote: > i build my openbsd snapshots machine from source > (kernel , userland and xenodm ) > > the PC complied from source works more correctly > as if ready made suite is not my just size , > tailered one is very fit , so i think . I think you think wrong. Just on y

Re: Install process: couple of comments

2017-10-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/16/17 18:38, Limaunion wrote: > On 10/16/2017 06:55 PM, Limaunion wrote: >> Hi! Last friday I upgraded my ALIX system from 6.0 to 6.2 using the PXE >> boot method. In previous years I used an internal FTP server to perform >> the upgrade, but for some reason this is not supported any more s

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/17/17 00:03, Justin Mayes wrote: > Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the > default console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? I > cannot login to set the default console back to use the keyboard and > monitor. Instead of the boot prompt where I ca

Re: "switching console to com0"

2017-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/17/17 08:02, Nick Holland wrote: ... > man boot has this: > > boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot > cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts. > ... > (I can rarely remember which key it is, so I often just hold > dow

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/23/17 17:41, Daniel Boyd wrote: > Is there a recommended configuration for virtual disks in Hyper-V? I > have a virtual machine that I set up recently running 6.2 that has > *very* slow disk performance. It took well over an hour to untar > ports.tar.gz. The host server is a few years old,

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/23/17 22:07, Daniel Boyd wrote: > On Oct 23, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Daniel Boyd > wrote: >>> But ... for unpacking ports, make sure that file system is >>> mounted (at the OpenBSD level) with softdeps. Yes, it's really a >>> huge difference for lots of tiny files, which is exactly what the >>>

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/23/17 21:57, Daniel Boyd wrote: ... > I have another vm running on my laptop under KVM that runs > substantially faster than the hyper-v vm. My laptop is far below the > hyper-v server in most respects performance-wise, but it does have an > SSD. I’d be curious to find out how much of tha

Re: Lenovo 110s Laptop - bug or unsupported hardware?

2017-10-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/27/17 23:33, J Vans wrote: > I decided to post this in misc because I am not sure if this a bug or > unsupported hardware. It is a Lenovo 110s laptop. > > Apm works on this machine. Suspend and resume work on this machine. > > When running X, and doing things that require a lot of memory (o

Re: cloning to smaller hard disk

2018-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/22/18 14:46, Tuyosi T wrote: > hi all . > i manage to clone bigger HDD(sd1) to smaller HDD(sd0) > > this is dangerous , so please test . > and there may be some errors , then please point them out . Ok, how do I put this nicely... PLEASE DON'T DO THIS KIND OF "documentation". Ok, you acco

Re: Raid offline when newfs

2018-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/29/18 20:23, Mimoza wrote: > > > Le 30/04/2018 à 00:01, Mimoza a écrit : >> Hi, >> I have a problem to create a second RAID 1 on my  router an Soekris >> 6501-70 (http://www.soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html) > […] >> I can rebuild the offline device but he still offline … >> >>

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/30/18 18:04, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 01/05/18 03:00, Solene Rapenne wrote: >> >> Stuart Longland writes: >> >>> On 29/04/18 18:08, Solene Rapenne wrote: Stuart Longland writes: > Hi all, > > I've got an Advantech UNO-1150G industrial PC running OpenBSD 6.1 act

Re: fdisk MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!

2018-05-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/09/18 05:06, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello misc, > > I wanted to use a MBR partition for backup purposes, > so I (almost) created (using fdisk) another OpenBSD MBR (A6) > partiotion, but then I got the message > > MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition! > Write MBR anyway? [n] > > So

Re: Is -current snapshot only used in current system?

2018-05-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/16/18 05:42, Nan Xiao wrote: > Hi Peter & Otto, > > Thanks very much for your response! > > My laptop is very old: Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 > (https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352819,00.asp) . > > During booting, it shows: > >>>OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.39 "very old" and "amd64" is the fi

Re: Snapshot upgrade to 6.2 -> 6.2 : kernel relink issue

2018-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/20/18 12:32, Rick Ballard wrote: > I can log to the console and have a functioning router/firewall. > > However, most commands fail: > > drmons0544w-142-166-18-133# vi test > 4▒▒: not found/vim[1]:ELF▒ > /usr/local/bin/vim[2]: syntax error: `(' unexpected third party package error. (/usr/l

Re: CVS Download: Timeout Error

2018-07-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/09/18 12:54, MonsieurFugu wrote: > Hi OpenBSD forum, > > I'm new to OpenBSD and I'm running into an issue downloading the CVS > libraries and I cannot figure out the problem. source code, not libraries...but whatever. > I've downloaded the libs before but the vm I was using got corrupted,

Re: Ratgod leadership?

2018-07-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/10/18 12:57, Email wrote: > [drivel snipped] Probably about 20 years ago, I had despaired of the "solution of the week!" of Linux, and figured, while it was cool that a bunch of people had put together a free Unix-like OS, the churn was too great to be practical for businesses expecting a lo

Re: Installed current on top of FAT32 flash, Recover old filesystem??

2018-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/14/18 15:16, Chris Bennett wrote: > I very carefully and surely tested which flash drive to use and then > pulled out the wrong one. > I stopped the install with halt and done nothing else. > Should I have yanked it, halted it or just said goodbye? > > ddrescue or something else or nothing e

Re: Moving a system disk from one server to another

2018-07-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/25/18 15:38, Jay Hart wrote: > Hello al, > > Just bought a new server and wanted to see what the practicality would be of > moving my disk from > one box to the other. Its a stock 6.3 install, fully patched, with a few > packages. The old > processor is a VIA based CPU running generic i38

Re: Equipment for OBSD based firewall

2018-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/04/18 00:57, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > But - The thing that isn't mentioned here is basically Power Cost and > Consumption vs PPS(Packet Processing Speed). > > IMNSHO running on anything that doesn't ; > > A) Have passive Cooling > B) Is older than a couple of years (in intel/amd terms a

Re: Problems with a quad Realtek NIC

2018-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/12/18 21:42, Martin Hanson wrote: >> It is preferable to just include the whole dmesg directly in the mail >> Better still, when it's a "sometimes works" problem, include a "diff -u" >> between the two (the context to show where the lines are added/removed). > > I have pasted a "diff -u" on

Re: migrate users from old system

2018-10-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/16/18 10:39, Markus Rosjat wrote: > hi all, > > > what is the right way to do a migration of users from one system to > another? I did the following but it seems to get some problems with > permissions on the files and directories. > > 1. copy passwd, group, master.passwd to new machine

Re: macppc - Booting with a SATA PCI drive

2018-10-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/25/18 14:51, Katherine Rohl wrote: > I’m trying to run OpenBSD and Tiger on one hard drive on a Mac G4 > tower. I’ve successfully installed 6.4 onto the drive and I can still > boot from Tiger, so that’s good. I then copied ofwboot to the Tiger > partition (since it’s the first HFS+ partition

Re: performance of intel multithreading

2018-11-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/05/18 23:51, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > Hi, > > From a security standpoint, > which platform will offer better performance huh? What's your priority, security or performance? > solution in web and database now that OpenBSD > multithreading is switched off for Intel? > > > (Fujitsu PRIMEP

Re: performance of intel multithreading

2018-11-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/07/18 11:34, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, Nick Holland > wrote: >> On 11/05/18 23:51, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> From a security standpoint, >>> which platform will offer better

Re: OpenBSD migration

2018-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/17/18 15:13, Martin Sukany wrote: > Hi, > > I want to migrate OpenBSD 6.4 (stable) from VM to bare metal. I see, as > usual, two options: > > 1) install everything from scratch > 2) create some flashimage (I did such thing on Solaris few years ago) > and apply the image on new hw. > > I'

Re: With all this CPU/hardware mess, any advice on what to use for an organization?

2018-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/20/18 11:43, Chris Bennett wrote: > I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an > organization I am a member of. > With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure motherboard > chips,etc. > I am pretty clueless on exactly what is going to be a secure set of > s

i386/amd64 boot (and pxeboot) compatibility

2020-04-06 Thread Nick Holland
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 f

i386 kernel relinking

2020-04-10 Thread Nick Holland
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 compl

Re: i386 kernel relinking

2020-04-10 Thread Nick Holland
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.

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

2020-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
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: dynamic dns updates for clients in my home network?

2020-04-25 Thread Nick Holland
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 prov

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
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 foun

Re: fw_update verify firmware?

2020-05-14 Thread Nick Holland
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 it

Re: Kernel relinking on old boxen at every boot

2020-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
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, to

Re: sysupgrade confused by additional disk?

2020-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
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 came

Re: EFI boot on Dell PowerEdge R610

2020-05-28 Thread Nick Holland
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 Po

Re: Mounting encrypted drive on boot

2020-06-02 Thread Nick Holland
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: OpenBSD Readonly File System

2020-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
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. A

Re: OpenBSD Readonly File System

2020-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
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 &q

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

2020-06-23 Thread Nick Holland
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: > https://gi

Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-28 Thread Nick Holland
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 whe

Re: nsd Will Not Start At Boot

2020-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
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 server

Re: mfs reported full, but empty

2020-08-19 Thread Nick Holland
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, I

Re: system slow down strangeness

2020-09-08 Thread Nick Holland
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 lon

Re: Case of the missing softraid

2020-10-04 Thread Nick Holland
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 b

Re: Startx doesn't find screens

2020-10-25 Thread Nick Holland
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 'machdep.all

Re: problem to copy a (possibly large) file over a network device

2019-08-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 7/31/19 3:45 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Dear list, [probably irrelevant stuff snipped] > I actually wanted to do a backup of the subtree with rsync over the > network, but that didn't work, spitting sth. like > > rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(820) [sender=3.1.3] > [sender]

Re: Multiple video cards in X?

2019-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
tart a new instance in the other screen. Not the end of the world, there are more browsers out there, I suspect I can run iridium or something similar in one "screen" and a cousin in the other. My "screens" are slightly dissimilar -- screen 0 is two 1920x1200 monitors, screen 1 i

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

2019-08-15 Thread Nick Holland
quirements for the database. > > As for the web server daemon itself, I think Reyk Floeter would be the > best placed to answer that question - also paging Nick Holland for > more hardware expertise. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Tito Mari Francis Escano > wrote: >>

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

2019-08-15 Thread Nick Holland
quirements for the database. > > As for the web server daemon itself, I think Reyk Floeter would be the > best placed to answer that question - also paging Nick Holland for > more hardware expertise. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Tito Mari Francis Escano > wrote: >>

Re: obsd web server

2019-09-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/1/19 5:49 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: > Hi folks, > > i would like to confgiure my obsd server as a web server. > > I would like to configure my web server to handle multiple domains > without having to set each domain one by one. > > I mean: > Every request for www.x.com is mapped into t

Re: handling snapshot installation in production environment

2019-09-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/2/19 6:48 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Hello Joerg, > > just passing on my user experience...: > > streckf...@dfn-cert.de (Joerg Streckfuss), 2019.09.02 (Mon) 10:15 (CEST): >> Furthermore I'm not sure which snapshot should I run. Almost every day >> there will be a fresh one. > > you seem

Re: authpf unable to exit ssh without control C

2019-09-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/15/19 7:31 AM, shadrock uhuru wrote: > hi everyone > i can login with authpf but unable to exit or control D out of the ssh > session > the only way out is to control C which also kills any other ordinary ssh > user connected to the server > my authpf user has authpf as its login shell and log

Re: How can I remove sets installed by sysupgrade?

2019-09-18 Thread Nick Holland
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 partitions

Re: How can I contribute code to openbsd

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Holland
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 [[ $submi

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-04 Thread Nick Holland
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 fsc

Re: A sad raid/fsck story

2019-10-05 Thread Nick Holland
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 unreada

Re: BACK TO BASICS

2019-10-09 Thread Nick Holland
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: Misc i386 questions

2019-10-14 Thread Nick Holland
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 bought

misc@openbsd.org

2019-10-30 Thread Nick Holland
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 tim

Re: OpenBSD and solid state disks

2019-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Home NAS

2019-11-18 Thread Nick Holland
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, c

Re: Deleting softraid Devices Fujitsu Sparc

2019-11-28 Thread Nick Holland
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: Installing OpenBSD -current snapshots

2019-11-28 Thread Nick Holland
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: Installing OpenBSD -current snapshots

2019-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
gt; > Please excuse the "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 wo

Re: Softdep and noatime

2019-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
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: Third server now locked up after reboot due to no keyboard attached

2019-12-15 Thread Nick Holland
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 stuck

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

2019-12-15 Thread Nick Holland
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: Hyperbola Gnu Linux changing to Bsd

2019-12-30 Thread Nick Holland
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 ne

Re: Hardware for Access Point on OpenBSD

2020-01-01 Thread Nick Holland
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 sugges

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

2020-01-07 Thread Nick Holland
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 use

Re: Odd /tmp behavior

2020-01-08 Thread Nick Holland
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 meta

automounter (amd) local file system issue

2020-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
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 per

Re: automounter (amd) local file system issue

2020-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
behaves the same way. Not 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'

Re: automounter (amd) local file system issue

2020-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
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: Server 5 SSD/best practice

2020-02-21 Thread Nick Holland
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: openbsd.org - certain https URLs downgraded to http in redirection

2020-02-24 Thread Nick Holland
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 navigatin

Re: upgrade i386 kernel to amd64

2020-03-02 Thread Nick Holland
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 AM

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

2015-10-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/05/15 06:47, Benny Lofgren wrote: ... Personally, I think it would be a good thing to bring back slices to the vocabulary. That would emphasize the distinction between physical disk partitions as they appear in the PC-centric hardware world and logical partitions/slices that are a subdivisi

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