Re: No slip anymore?

2016-06-08 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Theo de Raadt wrote: now please go back to minix. Small memory footprint (kernel is 600 kB; full OS is 25 MB). If you have a very old laptop with a comfortable keyboard, then minix is a good alternative to use the laptop for example as a typewriter (and much more

Re: No slip anymore?

2016-06-08 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016, Chris Cappuccio wrote: I think modern computers, even on sticks, generally come with wireless and/or ethernet interfaces? The Lenovo Stick has Wlan (and Bluetooth). But it is an exageration to use it to comunicate with a very old laptop (without wlan) immediately near it.

Re: No slip anymore?

2016-06-11 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Kamil Cholewiñski wrote: > Does your typewriter with 32 MB of RAM have Ethernet? > I remember occasionally browsing the interwebs on one, > as late as 2006. The typewriter I am using now has 64 MB Ram and a normal installation of OpenBSD 4.8. I suspect also a normal

No slip anymore?

2016-06-04 Thread Roderick
I note that slattach disappered, ldattach do not support slip. Is it not anymore possible? Slip was, as I remember, the easiest way to connect two computers in a network. I used it for example to transfer files from old computers with serial ports (instead for example of xmodem). I was just

Re: OpenBSD on SBC?

2016-06-13 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Dan Lüdtke wrote: > is there an OpenBSD-compatible SBC (Singe Board Computer) that comes close to > raspberryPi size-wise? The interesting question is: OpenBSD on modern SoC (System on a Chip). OpenBSD seems to work fine on Geode LX800 (I run it on Siemens Futro A220 thin

hostname | /etc/hosts

2016-02-24 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs! Should the name in /etc/myname include a domain name? Even when I do not have a static IP registered in a public DNS? In "man 5 myname" I read: "The file should contain a single line specifying the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the system" Does FQDN mean, that anyone in the

Re: how to send email via Mail

2016-02-26 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |client I feel like. mail(1) was a bit too tedious and limited for typical |use. Unfortunately i (as the maintainer of the source) have to agree. So it is. Especially regarding interactive use: no way to access message MIME parts directly, and no

Re: hostname | /etc/hosts

2016-02-25 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Janne Johansson wrote: Since "dk." resolves to an A-record, I guess that works as an FQDN. We tend to suppose that a FQDN is a hostname plus a domain, but this is obviously not the case. Any string as described at the end of hosts (5) should serve as a host name. We

Re: hostname | /etc/hosts

2016-02-26 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Craig Skinner wrote: You could have a monthly email to remind you to check if it is registered. If that _EVER_ happens, you can easily change a small network to .priv (or something else) on a lazy wet afternoon. No drama. For a hobbyist network, it doesn't matter too

Re: how to send email via Mail

2016-02-26 Thread Roderick
I wrote: What is not clear to me, is, if mail (1) for sending emails always do smptp to localhost:25 (or :587?) , if one can change this. Perhaps there is something to do. It was a lapsus. I knew the solution. mail (1) uses sendmail. And I did configure sendmail to use gmail smtp. There is

Re: how to send email via Mail

2016-02-27 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: But it's shit [pipes in mail(1)]. You cannot say "rawpipe" etc. It is not flexible, not configurable, it is dumb and cannot really be used for anything real, It is very flexible. The inflated programs with cool features do not allow you to use the

Re: hostname | /etc/hosts

2016-02-25 Thread Roderick
Hello anyone and thanks for the clarifications! On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Craig Skinner wrote: Here's the full public domain name root list (which changes): http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db There is an inflation of TLD Names. I hope that registering a domain name become cheaper due to this

Re: GUI Designer

2016-02-22 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Daniel Boyd wrote: ??What do youguys use for a simple GUI with a visualdesigner? Tcl/Tk. Many people holds it for a toy language, but I like it very much. Tcl is a scripting language, on one side like scripting languages (sh, perl), on the other side like LISP. It is

Re: Industrial use of line printers, does/would your company/organization use them with our lpd?

2016-02-18 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Tobias Ulmer wrote: No really, it is outdated beyond rescue. If you want to write a new print job queueing system, sure, have fun. Maybe you can come up with a 'cups' that doesn't suck? Well, let me say my opinion. I think BSD and Unix is also "outdated beyond rescue",

Re: Industrial use of line printers, does/would your company/organization use them with our lpd?

2016-02-19 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, li...@wrant.com wrote: Well, let me say my opinion. Why ?! I think, you missed the context of my two postings of yesterday. I do not see any problem with lpr/lpd, the only reason given here to change it is: * lpd(8)/lpc(8)/lpr(1) is very old and suffering from

Re: Industrial use of line printers, does/would your company/organization use them with our lpd?

2016-02-19 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Chris Bennett wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 06:52:43PM +0200, li...@wrant.com wrote: Maybe you should pull your head out of the sand (asshole) and understand [...] That previous request was not to include trolling me privately. By the way, I only expressed my

Re: Raspberrypi 3 was released

2016-03-14 Thread Roderick
What about AMD Opteron A-Series? Does OpenBSD run on it? http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron-a-series Rodrigo.

Re: SIP Client

2016-03-07 Thread Roderick
Is there a SIP client working on OpenBSD ? I used with OpenBSD 4.8: http://www.pjsip.org/pjsua.htm Perhaps still works. Rodrigo

Re: your mail

2016-05-17 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 16 May 2016, 1 9 wrote: What editor? vim or emacs? what is the reason? What editor? ed Why? Ed is the standard text editor. Every other decision is a personal choice, a matter of taste. Some years ago this was clear with "man ed": -- ED(1) NAME

Re: vi vs emacs, which one makes me look more smart in front of my friends?

2016-05-18 Thread Roderick
It seems, the troll was successfull by generating a discussion. :) You cannot compare sam with ed. The first is not a line editor. Plan9 has a lot of conceptual improvements over Unix/BSD. See: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ Rodrigo. On Wed, 18 May 2016, Joel Wirāmu

Re: light browsers

2016-05-15 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 13 May 2016, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: There is no safe bet here. Pick whatever you want, and you'll loose eventually. Or maybe you won't, but only if you are lucky enough. Parsing HTML manually is probably the safest option, albeit ugly. You will still suffer from bugs in your

Re: tmpfs

2016-08-02 Thread Roderick
That is why I wanted that the openbsd related USENET groups do not be deleted. In USENET there is more tolerance toward "stupid" questions, toward more off-topic. USENET is there just for dialog, not for archiving important postings. But no one was interested here on the groups. Rodrigo. On

LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-12 Thread Roderick
I know, you will complain, because I mention here that I still use OpenBSD 4.8 in a machine. But my question is more general. I was unable to install LibreSSL-2.4.2, but installing openssl-1.0.2h was possible without problems. Trying to build LibreSSL-2.4.2 I got: # make Making all in

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-12 Thread Roderick
Then why do you ask? If you read, perhaps you get it. Do you think people will happily take time to help you debug problems on a system that has been *explicitly* unsupported for the past five years? If a simple question irritates so much and takes time, then believe me, it is time to take

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-12 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Stuart Henderson wrote: OpenBSD is developed as a whole; kernel, system source, ports. Changes made in one place often require changes to the other parts; if you're not tracking development that is a whole lot of work you're going to need to replicate. But the question

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-12 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: I hope you can see what is wrong with that attitude. Perhaps you are very good understanding technical things. But: (1) I never wanted confrontation, I just asked something. And even if my question was "stupid", there is no reason for

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-13 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Theo de Raadt wrote: We prefer creating a world that is simpler. That is the practice we follow with our bodies of code. You prefer backwards compat. Fine, that is your choice. You can apply that principle in your own code. Are we finished here? It is not so simple.

Re: LibreSSL on old OpenBSD

2016-08-13 Thread Roderick
I thank you, you got what I wanted to know. I also thank Peter Hansteen, Stuart Henderson, Ted Unangst and Alex Bochmann for their polite and serious answers. Also Theo for his polite recomendation for my happyness: I will think about it. On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Philip Guenther wrote: Yes, the

Re: OpenBSD 6.0 release and errata60.html

2016-09-02 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > I think it's the use of the word "doubt" ("a feeling of uncertainty or > lack of conviction"). > > I have noticed that some people tend to use "I have a doubt" with the > meaning "I have a question/issue/problem". This is different from

Re: Forget mod_perl. I'm going to try to move to FastCGI and base http

2016-10-04 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Chris Bennett wrote: Thanks to stu@, he's informed me that mod_perl is a big problem for OpenBSD modernising its Perl forward. So I'm going to try and move to FastCGI. [...] I'm going to go study FastCGI myself now. I think perhaps there is a much better and simpler

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: The above policy applies to the base system code. It does not apply to ports and packages of third party software, i.e. anything listed by pkg_info. Perhaps the whole only a misunderstanding of the original poster that could have been clarified with

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-10 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Karel Gardas wrote: I ask this because I want to know if I will make me dependent of todays stand of OpenBSD. Mounting ffs partitions of OpenBSD in FreeBSD and the opposite is possible without big problems. Will this change with Raid? Yes, as FreeBSD does not know

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-09 Thread Roderick
nge with Raid? Thanks Rodrigo. On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Roderick wrote: Few questions: (1) Where are the checksums written? (2) Where are the metadata of Raid 1 / Raid 1 with Checksum written? (3) Can I take a disc from the Raid array and mount it somewhere else as a normal ufs single disk?

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-08 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Karel Gardas wrote: Well, as a ZFS replacement I've added checksumming support into SR-RAID1. It was really basic and as simple as possible design and even compatible with plain SR-RAID1, but still was able to detect and self-heal corrupted block too. So if data correctness

File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-07 Thread Roderick
Before I make a decision, I want to ask you for suggestions. I want to make a small file server, just to separate important files from my working system. Two disks as Raid 1. Files are to be read with NFS. Emphasis: (1) Data Integrity (not security :). (2) some degree of indepencence from

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-07 Thread Roderick
I can read till now very old SCSI disks, also 3 1/2'' floppies, but not always 5 1/4'' (because of the low level formatting). Of course, And even much older magnetic tapes are easier to read than floppies.

Re: File Server with OpenBSD?

2017-03-07 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2017-03-07, Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: Disk are to be readable for many decades. Standard File System readable after moving the Disks to another computer, different hardware, perhaps with different OS. *uncontro

OpenBSD 6.1 on Toshiba Satellite SM30-612

2017-06-30 Thread Roderick
Hallo! I just installed OpenBSD in the above old Laptop. I get a console with text mode, and very unsharp fonts in Xorg. Does this mean no KMS? Does someone perhaps have a tip to fix the unsharp fonts? Below is Xorg.0.log and dmesg. Thanks in advance Rodrigo.

Re: OpenBSD 6.1 on Toshiba Satellite SM30-612

2017-07-01 Thread Roderick
For the records, I get something more usable with the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "nv" Driver "vesa" EndSection Perhaps have someone a better solution? Rodrigo. On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Roderick wrote: Hallo! I just inst

"iwi0: fatal firmware error"

2017-07-01 Thread Roderick
Wlan works, but I continously get the above message in the Toshiba Satellite mentioned in my previous posting. Rodrigo.

Re: OpenBSD 6.1 on Toshiba Satellite SM30-612

2017-07-03 Thread Roderick
Well, with old manual configuration of X11 and guessing some parameters I get sharper fonts with nv driver. But with nv and vesa driver there is other problem: If I type a little fast for example in xterm, vi or emacs, characters get repeated many times like thiiis. I have never

Atheros A5424 still not supported?

2017-11-15 Thread Roderick
I get in dmesg: ath0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 16 ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 10.2 eeprom 5.3, EU1W, address 00:24:2b:e3:03:40 [...] ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3523714312 ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 1 I thank for any hint.

Unmounting encrypted virtual filesystem

2017-11-28 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs, I buld an encrypted virtual filesystem, that I can mount with: vnconfig vnd0 /homedir/file bioctl -c C -l /dev/vnd0a softraid0 mount xx.a /mnt And unmount with: umount /mnt bioctl -d xx.a vnconfig -u vnd0 But if I shutdown without unmounting as above, I get the

Re: kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-24 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, Kevin Chadwick wrote: [...] It is not like systemd that is replacing an existing system in a more complex way. I think, initialisation got always more complex. BSD init is simpler than Sys V init, systemd went to the extrem. But rc scripts seem also got always more

Re: kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-23 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you do it manually you are unlikely to do it when you should. From time to time I type: sync. I am more afraid of hardware failure, electricity blackout, my own errors, than of hacker attacks. Even on an 366mhz i386 it does not take very

Re: obligatory leaving letter

2017-11-29 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, leo_...@volny.cz wrote: As dmr often pointed out (though perhaps not quite in the terms that I will use here), UNIX is about community. Or about simplicity? UNIX as the opposite to MULTICS? And this is the impression I get when I read Ritchies and Thompson paper "The

Re: kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-22 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I would preffer to run the script for relinking kernel from time to time manually, and not run it at boot time. The same for reordering libraries. Why exactly? A laptop that does not go to the internet is rebooted more than a home PC with internet

pppd and DNS

2017-11-16 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs! How it is supposed that I get the DNS servers from a PPP connection? Should I guess the servers and put them manually in resolv.conf? Something like dhclient ppp0 does not work. I think this is an old thema: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/pppd-usepeerdns-td261633.html

Re: kernel reordering and config -e

2017-11-20 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Sebastien Marie wrote: config -e and KARL (kernel reordering) are mutually incompatibles. [...] So currently, you have to choose between: - modifying /bsd with config(8) and don't benefice of KARL Commenting out the line "/usr/libexec/reorder_kernel &" at the end of rc?

kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-18 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs, At about every second shutdown I get at the end the message: --- reorder_kernel: kernel relinking failed; see /usr/share/compile/GENERIC.MP/relink.org --- The contents of last file is at the end of this Email. It is a just installed OpenBSD 6.2 (no upgrade). What does this error

Re: kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-21 Thread Roderick
Can you show us the relink.log when it fails? It does not fail since a while. I think, the problem is the following: I booted and rebooted immediately, and tested doing that again, but the script for relinking kernel runs in underground and takes a lot of time. I wondered why I got the

Re: pppd and DNS

2017-11-16 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: For WAN devices supported by umsm(4), the situation is a bit better. The umsm(4) driver shows DNS resolver IPs in ifconfig output so scripts can grab them from there. Thanks. How do I get the DNS with ifconfig? This is what I get:

Re: pppd and DNS

2017-11-16 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: You could try running unbound(8) and make resolv.conf point to 127.0.0.1. That should give you working DNS in any case. That works and was very simple. In oposition to BIND, it was ready to be consulted. But still I want to get the DNS from the

Re: Huawei E372 UMTS Stick

2017-11-16 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, I asked: Does anyone know if the above device ist supported by OpenBSD? It works. It could be mentioned in man 4 umsm. As said, it seems to be Quadband and someone may be interessted on it. Rodrigo.

Re: OpenBSD Puffy Stickers

2017-12-01 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, x9p wrote: ego is a bitch. lets have a beer and live in peace. its friday. بالصحة و العافية

Huawei E372 UMTS Stick

2017-10-30 Thread Roderick
Does anyone know if the above device ist supported by OpenBSD? The special feature of it: it seems to support UMTS frequecies used in Europe and America (includig U.S.A.) Thanks for any hint Rodrigo.

Re: frequent SeaMonkey crashes

2018-05-07 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 6 May 2018, Riccardo Mottola wrote: after 6.3 upgade (with associated packages) I experience very frequent crashes of the SeaMonkey browser. I think, the problem is the upgrade of seamonkey, not of OpenBSD. I had and have the same problem with firefox, I did a lot of things that I

Re: 4G modems for OpenBSD?

2018-01-09 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Israel Brewster wrote: > Yep, that's the page. Not sure why I would want to write a script using > expect to talk to the modem directly though, unless smstools doesn't work > for some reason. Using smstools, all you have to do is call the command-line > "sendsms" with the

Re: 4G modems for OpenBSD?

2018-01-09 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Israel Brewster wrote: > Well, as I said I'm using SMSTools - it's in ports - comms/smstools. > No special program or extended AT commands, at least not on my end. > I just call the command line "sendsms" that smstools provides. > Easy peasy. I haven't looked at the

ucom not attached to umsm at boot

2018-01-08 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs, I found the following strange behaviour. My Nettop has an internal Samsung umodem, but I need a umsm. If the second modem (and hence both) is pluged and I boot, then umsm is not attached to a com, I need to unplug and plug again. Perhaps someone has an Idea of a non-mechanical way of

Re: ucom not attached to umsm at boot

2018-01-09 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Dmesg is _fully_ displayed at boot time with a reason. Can you guess it? Thanks that you want to examine thoroughly the whole dmesg. I put it at the end of the post. I am eager to hear your oppinion. I didnt want to disturb the list and post whole

Re: 4G modems for OpenBSD?

2018-01-09 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Israel Brewster wrote: > Could anyone suggest a USB 4G cell modem model that will work well with > OpenBSD, specifically SMSTools? I've looked over most of the list in "man > umsm", but those all appear to be 3G. That said, I haven't checked every > model on the list, so

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-26 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, meg...@r53sound.com wrote: > Have you tried increasing  datasize-cur and -max under "default:\" > in /etc/login.conf ? I have mine set to 2048M I have 512 MB there. My computer has 1024MB Ram. For what does firefox need so much memory?! And seemonkey seems to be more

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-26 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Allan Streib wrote: > Mine is set to 2048M also. I almost never have Firefox crashes > esp. on newer builds from Landry Breuil as described here: > > https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article=20170425173917 (1) "even *running* firefox on an i386 netbook with 1Gb of memory

Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-25 Thread Roderick
I get continously this and other errors. In OpenBSD, in FreeBSD. I think it is time to change browser, but I distrust chrome as comming from data collector google. The problem is that those that make WEB pages decide more or less what browser I must use. What is the real alternative?

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-27 Thread Roderick
# iridium& [2] 14714 # *** autoupdate was enabled, overriding with false iridium(14714) in free(): use after free 0x7e51b6a0 [2]Abort iridium (core dumped)

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-27 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, meg...@r53sound.com wrote: > It will be slow, but you can increase datasize > beyond physical RAM. I have twice swap as memory. But that is not a solution. A program that needs so much memory for nothing should leave my computer. I suspect, it is a bug in firefox 56.0.

WLAN disconnects after a while

2018-01-02 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs, After connecting with the AP (Cisco DPQ3925) I lose after a while the link. All works again after issuing again: # ifconfig run0 nwid .. wpakey .. bssid .. Bellow are the relevant messages after doing "ifconfig run0 debug". I do not find anything suspicious. The AP is not mine and

Re: WLAN disconnects after a while

2018-01-03 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Is it perhaps a bug? Or perhaps only misconfiguration? > > There is no error in the logs you provided. > It's hard to guess what the problem is unless you can describe > the problem a bit better and show more data. I hope the following helps: #

Re: WLAN disconnects after a while

2018-01-03 Thread Roderick
On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > # netstat netstat -n -I run0 >> tmp-netstat1 > > netstat: interval is invalid > > The above is bogus. Please read what you wrote before sending. It is not bogus and I read it before sending. I only forgot to write: I got that stderr and no stdout.

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: There is a specific piece of software that turned out to be available only on Windows and MacOS, Linux was not an option, neither (of course) was OpenBSD. Or, for example, only in Windoze, because it is a very specific software delivered with

Re: OpenBSD + 3G/4G USB modem

2018-04-20 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, MS wrote: I forgot to mention it but the modem doesn't respond on any of the /dev/cuaUX? Yes, OpenBSD does not attach your modem to ucom. Can you try with othe modem? Rodrigo.

Re: NFS keeps crashing

2018-04-22 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 22 Apr 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: Bloatware is a luxury I cannot afford on embedded systems with limited resources where every KB and CPU cycle is accounted for. I would rather submit my recipe for a proper samba source configuration and have the maintainer do the compiling of a

Problem Upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3

2018-04-15 Thread Roderick
Dear Sirs! I have the distribution sets locally in http://10.0.0.1/obsd/6.3/i386/ I did put there SHA256.sig and index.txt (got with "ls -nlT"). I get the message: "Unable to get a verified list of distribution sets" Do someone has a clue? Thanks Rodrigo.

Re: Problem Upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3 [Solved]

2018-04-15 Thread Roderick
For the record, for anyone having the same problem: Select shell, configure interface, then run "upgrade" in the shell. How does the installer should configure the interface remains a question. :) Rodrigo.

Re: Problem Upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3

2018-04-15 Thread Roderick
Now I note something. I tried to do the upgrade using remote sets. The bsd.rd prompts do not ask me anything for configuring the interfaces and I get the same answer: > Unable to connect using https. Use http instead [no] yes Unable to get a verified list of distribution sets. ... << I

Re: OpenBSD + 3G/4G USB modem

2018-04-15 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, MS wrote: Is there a successful story with OpenBSD and a 3G USB modem? I use it since years. I've read the manuals, but can't really glue the whole thing together to make it work. Yes, the manuals and the files/examples in /etc/ppp should be enough. It should be like

Re: Beg for Atheros wifi driver

2018-04-15 Thread Roderick
I suspect, he needs to plug his atheros device, connect the computer with *other* interface to the internet, and then run "fw_update". Rodrigo.

Re: OpenBSD + 3G/4G USB modem

2018-04-16 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, MS wrote: I will try it and let you know about the problems/results. I am curious to see your tutorial at the end. :) One more thing though, how do I know which USB port is which cuaXX? Just plug the modem in a USB Port and see dmesg. You can also see "man ucom".

Re: OpenBSD + 3G/4G USB modem

2018-04-20 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, MS wrote: ok, so I ejected the cd1 and OBSD started seeing ZTE as a umodem, but umodem0, 1 and 2 at the same time. Is it normal? That some modems attach to many devs is normal. You must try with any of them until you find the one that responds to AT commands. Is the

Re: kernel relink segfaults on ALIX

2018-04-19 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, IL Ka wrote: We can disable library_aslr, but there is no same option for kernel.. I disabled library_aslr and commented out the call to reorder_kernel in rc. I can manually reorder kernel by calling reorder_kernel when I consider it necessary, unfortunately I cannot

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-03 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, John M wrote: This may be a bit off-topic but the feature responsible for this is 'electric-indent-mode', which is enabled by default in 24.4 or later. It is not enough to prevent indentation in Tcl mode. (setq tcl-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap)) is not anymore

Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Roderick
I see, openbsd 6.3 offers Emacs 21.4 as port. May I ask, what is special in this old version of Emacs? Thanks Rodrigo

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Solene Rapenne wrote: emacs 25 has a X11 flavour -athena which do not use gtk, but you need to build it from ports, there is no package for it. And indeed I do that. I thought that perhaps 21.4 is more stable, or less bloated ... Interessting remains to know, what the

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-03 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, Christopher Turkel wrote: It always depends on your needs. I use LibreOffice for my work so I'm ste. I am happy that TeX is enough for my needs and do not need strange OS. And in extreme cases he will have to use Windows / MacOS / Linux. It is a reality: there is not a

libGL error: ...

2018-12-09 Thread Roderick
libGL error: Version 4 or later of flush extension not found libGL error: failed to load driver i915 I got the above when calling glxgears with OpenBSD 6.4 on Samsung nc10 nettop. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see no errors except at the gebinning, se below. Any hint? Thanks, Rodrigo.

Re: "bioctl -d" before shutdown

2019-02-25 Thread Roderick
to fsck the device, next time you attach it. -Stefan Origineel bericht Van: Roderick Verzonden: zondag 24 februari 2019 21:53 Aan: misc@openbsd.org Onderwerp: "bioctl -d" before shutdown Excuseme that I ask instead of inspecting rc files. :) I do manually bioctl -c C -l /dev/XXX

Re: "bioctl -d" before shutdown

2019-02-26 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: [...] What is anyone afraid might happen after that(*)? You are right, there should be nothing to fear, that is why answered Stefan. I though, as obvoiusly also Stefan, it should be good to do "bioctl -d". [*] RAID and other hardware magic

"bioctl -d" before shutdown

2019-02-24 Thread Roderick
Excuseme that I ask instead of inspecting rc files. :) I do manually bioctl -c C -l /dev/XXX softraid0 and mount the resulting device. Should I manually unmount and do "bioctl -d " before shutdown? Or just shutdown? The umount will sure be done, but also the bioctl -d? Thanks Rodrigo

How to make X listen tcp again?

2019-03-09 Thread Roderick
The default changed, X does not receive Tcp connections. In FreeBSD I solved the problem with a file .xserverrc in my home directory with exec /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -listen tcp But this does not work with OpenBSD 6.4 (X does not even execute .xinitrc, I start X with xinit). Any hint? Thanks

Re: How to make X listen tcp again?

2019-03-09 Thread Roderick
erm: Xt error: Can't open display: 192.168.178.47:0.0 Is there another new security measure I do not know? BTW: I did "xhost +" in the server. Rodrigo On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Roderick wrote: The default changed, X does not receive Tcp connections. In FreeBSD I solved the problem wit

Re: How to make X listen tcp again?

2019-03-09 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Robert Paschedag wrote: I think you also need the "-Y" option in ssh. Thanks, but perhaps I did not express myself correct. I do not want to use ssh. No encription of X11. Just to do as I always did: call an x client specifying a remote display (OpenBSD) either with

Re: How to make X listen tcp again?

2019-03-09 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Any hint? Yes: [...] Did you try it? BTW, I started xenodm, logged in, did "xhost +", tried to run an X client on another compiter with this display, and got the same error. Rodrigo

Re: How to make X listen tcp again?

2019-03-10 Thread Roderick
Thanks for the short and helpful answer. It was my error. I shouuld have read pf.conf Anyway: It is a very reasonable security measure. Rodrigo On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2019-03-09, Roderick wrote: In addition, the default /etc/pf.conf blocks connections

What forwarders use standard unbound installation?

2019-04-18 Thread Roderick
I configured long ago a computer to use unbound for caching. The standard way. But I did not give it a forwarder and I do not find a list of the ones being used. In /var/unbound.conf I see a commented list of DNS servers. But where is the list it is really using? Any hint? Rodrigo

Re: single user question

2019-05-16 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 16 May 2019, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Wow. Some might feel offended when somebody, in 2019, asks them to read a text written in 1975 in order to improve their understanding of computer security. Or perhaps he should read this to get an idea of how to write an init program:

Re: single user question

2019-05-17 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 17 May 2019, gwes wrote: You are correct on the surface and very misled as to the underlying concept. You gave him an excellent answer. I hope many people read it. He should just read the Unix paper I mentioned in other post. Not the multiusersystem is a burden, bloat in modern

Re: Filesystem corruption on OpenBSD routers after power outage?

2019-06-04 Thread Roderick
What also would be practical is a "mount -o union" like in FreeBSD, but unfortunately I do not see it in OpenBSD. Then one could mount a mfs system over a normal one, only to be read. Rodrigo

Re: Filesystem corruption on OpenBSD routers after power outage?

2019-06-04 Thread Roderick
Look at -P option in mount_mfs. Rodrigo

Re: Filesystem corruption on OpenBSD routers after power outage?

2019-06-04 Thread Roderick
"-o union" was last in 3.7, disappeared in 3.8. Was there a reason? https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-3.7/mount Rodrigo What also would be practical is a "mount -o union" like in FreeBSD, but unfortunately I do not see it in OpenBSD. Then one could mount a mfs system over a normal one, only

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