Re: Port to IBM RS/6000?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:54:12PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: if there's anyone interested in doing a port to RS/6000, I'd like to donate some hardware for this, e.g. a 7044-170 (Power3-II) machine, or RAM for some 7028 server. I can't do a port but I wish there were one. I have a

Re: Port to IBM RS/6000?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:55:32PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: Well, at the moment I have AIX 5.3 on that machine (before that, it was 5.1 with which it was delivered to me). I also tried G*ntoo, but well, *cough* ;) AIX isn't free in any sense. I would be happy if IBM wanted to keep me in

print filter?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian box but everyone there seems to use CUPS. I could just as easily connect the printer to my OBSD box. The last time I used this printer to print

Re: print filter?

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Adriaan wrote: On 7/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering. I have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian box but everyone there seems to use

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:45:10PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: On 6/27/07, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this time, I cannot recommend purchase of any machines based on the Intel Core 2 until these issues are dealt with (which I suspect will take more than a year). Intel

How get IMPS/2 mouse to work with X

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, I'm running OBSD on my IBM 486-DX4-100, 32MB ram. It has S3 video so is using the XFree86 version 3 driver, configured with xf86config. All is mostly well, except that I have a microsoft trackball (I think its called a MS Intellimouse Explorer) mouse with a wheel attached to the standard

Re: How get IMPS/2 mouse to work with X

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:46:10AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: You probably need ZAxisMapping to use the scroll wheel Here's what I do (wsmouse abstracts usb/ps2/etc types): Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol wsmouse

alternatives to sendmail

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, I'm totally new to OBSD and have it installed on my 486 which acts basically like a slim client allowing me to ssh in to my main box. OBSD comes with sendmail which I have never knowingly used before and while it works as-is for local mail delivery, I thought I'd set it up to send

Re: alternatives to sendmail

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:28:50PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: Thus [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter N. M. Hansteen) spake on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:17:26 +0200: Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, sendmail is a very steep and tall learning curve. I'm coming from Debian

Re: alternatives to sendmail

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:02:08AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: However, sendmail is a very steep and tall learning curve. I'm coming from Debian (which no longer installes with 32 MB ram) so I'm used to exim. I know that exim is GPL. I'm

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:14:53AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I draw like a crab :-) Also, I suppose I have become spoiled by Visio's ability to quickly draw, redraw and move shapes easily. It is hardly painful at all to make major changes to a flowchart in Visio. Compare that

Re: OT: flowcharts

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:01:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an OT question for you guys. Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio

Re: Bottleneck in httpd. I need help to address capacity issues on max parallel and rate connections

2007-05-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:30:41AM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: No swapping is happening, even with 1000 httpd running. load averages: 123.63, 39.74, 63.3285 01:26:47 1064 processes:1063 idle, 1 on processor CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 3.1% system, 0.8%

Re: [OT] language tricks (was: creating menu's)

2007-05-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:34:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: I need a fairly simple menu, and have thought about just simple selects but figured now

Re: creating menu's

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: I need a fairly simple menu, and have thought about just simple selects but figured now would also be a good time to learn something new as well. It's nothing so complex that I need to go ncurses to do. Just a basic option 1 then

Re: Bottleneck in httpd. I need help to address capacity issues on max parallel and rate connections

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:13:27PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Nope. I sent updates on that too with a more powerful server. And I am doing tests now with three clients at once to see and I can get a bit more process running on the server side, but still no more output of that server.

Re: Equivalent to linux disk delete?

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:49:18PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:51:14PM +0200, Sebastian Rother wrote: doesn`t know about a delete Command and disklabel so far shows just the OpenBSD (4th) partition. Set their type to 0 with fdisk (fdisk -e, e #part, 0 to

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: This is a public mailing list. Trim your message at 72 columns. Meaning? The

Re: a question kinda pff topic

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:38:12AM -0400, Dave wrote: I have a question not about the software but where you put your network stuff has any one built there own rack out of wood I am looking at building my own. Another option is solid used commercial wire racking. The units take a lot of

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:52:25PM +0200, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote: On 4/5/07, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure

Re: firewall stopped working unexpectedly

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hi Steve, I've interspersed my comments, but first a preface: I've never used (although read a bit on) DHCP. I use Debian (looking at switching to BSD). I run old hardware boxes so can troubleshoot. I'm not expecting this to be a definitive answer but I hope its more help than noise. Doug.

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:44:46PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:56:32AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I've got

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:07:54AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release to the next take? Minutes on a fast machine. I have seen a HPPA B180 take

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:56:32AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. Assuming you don't

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:16:24PM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: * Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-21 22:37:01]: I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. *snip* Is there any reason

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Ben Calvert wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:58:31 +0530, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201 From the article: Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:09:04PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: * Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-22 10:32]: Kamil Monticolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.7M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a -r--r--r-- 1 root bin

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:42:57PM -0500, David Terrell wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:29:33PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 3/22/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is it that strip -s removes all symbols and it was only intended to remove the debug symbols. The libs

Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, I'm considering moving my 486 from Debian to OpenBSD. I haven't the money to spend on a new e.g. UNIX System Administration. 4.4 BSD System Manager's Manual is out of print. I haven't been able to google anything freely available on the internet. My local library has had their only

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:00:01PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:30:06PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm considering moving my 486 from Debian to OpenBSD. I haven't the money to spend on a new e.g. UNIX System Administration. 4.4 BSD System Manager's

Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. Box has two uses: under normal cirumstance, as a thin client to my athlon box elsewhere in the house. As a toolbox incase anything