Re: www.openbsd.org unreachable for a few days
On 15/12/2020 11:57, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, I asked on Freenode#OpenBSD and apparently it's only me, but I haven't been able to access www.openbsd.org for a few days. There is nothing in my firewall/router that blocks OpenBSD.org. Ping, traceroute and telnet don't seem to access the site. Both browsing to the website and traceroute work for me (assuming obsd3.srv.ualberta.ca is actually where www.openbsd.org resides). Only just tried traceroute, but the website seems to have been up for me over the last several days, on both Manjaro Linux and Android. I'm in the UK (Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England), if that makes any difference. HTH Jeff.
Fwd: Fwd: PayPal pool for developer M1 Mac mini for OpenBSD port
Forwarded Message Subject:Fwd: PayPal pool for developer M1 Mac mini for OpenBSD port Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:56:51 + From: Jeff Joshua Rollin Oops, forgot to reply to the list. Sorry for the duplicate, Mihai. On 03/12/2020 01:18, Mihai Popescu wrote: I have only good wishes for the project, but I still don't get one thing: why do some people start to behave oddly whenever Apple comes into discussion. They are doing a proprietary thing, closed as hell, no documentation and so on. Why is this impulse to write code for such a thing. Just asking ... Apple make great products. My iMac, which is nearly ten years old, runs without problems even today (try that with Windows). iPads and iPhones have much better lifetimes than Android devices - we'll see if the increasing number of devices running "real Linux" make a dent in the market, but either way there are AFAIK no phones using any of the BSDs (unless you count macOS/iOS, which for these purposes I don't) anyway. Other than the fact that the platform is proprietary, the only other thing that annoys me about Macs, and always has, is their half-arsed attempt at a British keyboard, which unless it's changed since my iMac was manufactured still puts @ and " in the wrong places for Brits - exactly the opposite places on a US keyboard. (Even Commodore, infamous in its day for reliability problems and which bought the Amiga company in what no less august an institution than Amiga Format magazine called "a rare fit of insight," managed that one.) Fortunately, if you also use Linux/UNIX, the problem of switching between keyboards with @ and " in 'the wrong place' is easily solved for X11 by selecting a Mac UK keyboard in the software settings even on a PC. (They did stubbornly stick with that crap butterfly keyboard for four years, for reasons presumably best known to themselves, but luckily that era also seems to be over, and I didn't bother buying one during that time, for that and other reasons.) As for the proprietaryness, other than the fact that it's a nice new hardware architecture as other people have mentioned, pretty much every other architecture OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux has ever run on (Amiga, Sun and VAX, for example) is/was proprietary. And that's without considering the closed peripherals (without which OpenBSD wouldn't have to eschew NDAs) or the BMC on a Wintel - heaven knows what that thing really gets up to. My £0.02 Jeff.
Re: Sending Mail to misc
On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 15:00 -0400, J Doe wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2020, at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Joshua Rollin < > > j...@jeffjoshua.club> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I’m able to send mail from my iPad (sorry), but not from my OpenBSD > > machine (same address). Any ideas what could be causing this? > > > > In the meantime, thanks for 6.8 and happy anniversary. > > > > Jeff > > Hi, > > I sent two messages to misc yesterday from Thunderbird on Ubuntu > Linux 20.04 LTS and they also did not make it to the list. Perhaps > there is an issue on the mail server side ? > > Thanks, > > - J Well, I can't speak for your problem yesterday but if this message makes it then the problem was clearly on my side. Something was wrong with my smtp server settings but when I deleted my accounts and recreated them in Evolution, I was able to send a message to someone else. Maybe you could check your Ubuntu settings just in case you've done the same. Apologies to all as I should have checked this before sending anything. Jeff.
Re: Howto change login mechanism on OpenBSD
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 17:00 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:50:17PM +
> >
> > I believe /etc/ttys controls getty, which may or not help. Getty is
> > respawned too.
> > https://man.openbsd.org/man5/ttys.5
>
> I think you're right. Might just need to change a line in /etc/ttys
> to
> execute /bin/{my_program}.
>
> Edgar
>
Perhaps a better way would be just to change the user's login shell to
the name of your program: chpass -s $myprogram $user. That way you can
use OpenBSD's login authentication, and login automatically runs the
program when the user logs in; when the user quits the program they are
automatically logged out. Provided there's no way to execute a shell
from within the program, they therefore can't execute arbitrary code
once logged in. It's easy to add a user for this single purpose: just
add the user as normal, and specify $myprogram as the shell.
Jeff.
