Re: A question of lock usage in OpenBSD kernel code

2017-06-24 Thread Joel Rees
ointed to by rwl. The name argument specifies the name of the lock, which is used as the wait message if the thread needs to sleep. which seems to indicate to my naive reading that it might be possible. I note that my understanding of "busy lock" would lead me to think that wou

Re: piping stderr to tee log (so I can have my log and watch it, too)

2016-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
l; } \ > 2>&3 | tee /var/log/build/buildsys.out.log; } \ > 3>&1 | tee /var/log/build/buildsys.err.log 1>&2 Thanks, Delan (and Nigel, off list, for the parentheses example). -- Joel Rees

Re: piping stderr to tee log (so I can have my log and watch it, too)

2016-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
Well, after posting this On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Trying to put some scripts together so I can set an update going one > night, check it in the morning, reboot, and finish the update while > I'm at work. > > So I want to do something like > >

piping stderr to tee log (so I can have my log and watch it, too)

2016-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
ksh), but a simple test with ls /nonexisting > >(tee mylog) 2>&1 fails with ksh: syntax error: `> ' unexpected Any suggestions appreciated. Cluebats, too. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: bc says unimplemented on seemingly normal code

2016-01-11 Thread Joel Rees
erk. And Stuart reminded me, off list, that I had forgotten to mention that the code depends on calling bc with the "-l" option, for the "library" power of e function I'm using below. I'm just not with it today. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Joel Rees wrote:

Re: bc says unimplemented on seemingly normal code

2016-01-11 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, neverr mind. Sorry about the noise. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Given the following code, > > > define vc(vs,t,r,c) { > return vs * (1-e(-t/(r*c))); > } > > scale = 5; > vs = 120; > r = 60; > c = .0

bc says unimplemented on seemingly normal code

2016-01-10 Thread Joel Rees
ect answers mixed in with the messages about unimplemented (operations?). I get the messages whether I type it in by hand or copy/paste it from my blog. Is this known behavior? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: tsort: pledge: invalid agument (building -current)

2016-01-09 Thread Joel Rees
ad and install a snapshot. > Thanks. Glad I didn't need to do the snapshot upgrade this time. (And thanks to Dan for helping me remember what installing a snapshot means. My mind seems to be going south a lot lately.) -- Joel Rees Rants are free: http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/

tsort: pledge: invalid agument (building -current)

2016-01-09 Thread Joel Rees
; *** Error 2 in gnu/usr.bin (:48 'realinstall') > > *** Error 2 in gnu (:48 'realinstall') > > *** Error 2 in . (:48 'realinstall') > > *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:82 'build') Right now I'm doing a lot of guessing. Was the con

Re: segfault with stripped lib, works fine when non-stripped

2016-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
#18 0x1cc5a247d90e in _rthread_start (v=Variable "v" is not available. > ) at /usr/src/lib/librthread/rthread.c:145 > #19 0x1cc53e33649b in __tfork_thread () at /usr/src/lib/libc/arch/amd64/sys/tfork_thread.S:75 > #20 0x in ?? () > > > -- > Jeremie Le Hen > j...@freebsd.org > -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Is a gmail/text-flow dmesg better than no dmesg?

2015-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Alexey Suslikov > wrote: >> ropers gmail.com> writes: >> >>> It says here <http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg> that one >>> should not send dmesg

Re: Is a gmail/text-flow dmesg better than no dmesg?

2015-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
ached sd1 detached scsibus4 detached umass0 detached cdce0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "ZTE,Incorporated ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM" rev 2.10/f0.8b addr 3 cdce0: address 2a:cb:00:c3:27:00 umass0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 2 "ZTE,Incorporated ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM" rev 2.10/f0.8b addr 3 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct removable serial.19d21405A1ZTED00 -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Michael McConville wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: >> Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> > > Secondly, this whole thread should have ended long ago. >> > >> > So why you keep it going then. >> > >> > Let it die please &

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-13 Thread Joel Rees
nd there against multiple mirrors. You're going to have to be really valuable to the NSA or some other well-funded group in your area for them to be able to filter every mirror you can find. If you need to, go to a random netcafe or other place and check from there, too. -- Joel Rees Be ca

retrieving pkg_add messages afterwards?

2015-12-05 Thread Joel Rees
ppropriate long information lines just from the last pkg_add . -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: embarrassing problem with sysmerge

2015-12-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 05:40:00PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> About a week ago, I was trying to get cvs up to current, and I tried to do >> a sysmerge in my sleep after make build in src. >> >> When I realiz

embarrassing problem with sysmerge

2015-12-05 Thread Joel Rees
ssume that login.conf was the last thing it needed to do? (And maybe that I must have done something other than ctrl-c?) Or can I just cvs up current now and hope that anything that might not have gotten picked up last week gets picked up now, or do I need to do some digging with mtree and/or some other to

Re: Hitting the bootable cylinder limit?

2015-11-23 Thread Joel Rees
error from Lilo about the key file being corrupt and I suspect > it's related to this limit. The original position of the file was > probably OK, the new file got made in an unreachable position. > [...] Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is

Re: C Compiler, Clang and Software License

2015-10-25 Thread Joel Rees
stance http://marc.info/?t=14455900961&r=1&w=2 -- Joel Rees

Re: does src include sys ?

2015-10-24 Thread Joel Rees
be thorough until I learn more about things. And have the computer running all night to finish the builds. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Using fsync instead of ioctl(fd, DIOCGFLUSH); (Re: anybody besides me trying to compile gpt-fdisk?)

2015-10-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-10-21, Joel Rees wrote: > >> Is fsync an appropriate way to flush writes to the disk device? In the >> FreeBSD code, it is >> >> i = ioctl(fd, DIOCGFLUSH); > > Dunno, but I'd ch

Using fsync instead of ioctl(fd, DIOCGFLUSH); (Re: anybody besides me trying to compile gpt-fdisk?)

2015-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
or deleted partitions.\n" << "You should reboot or remove the drive.\n"; platformFound++; #endif On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Okay, here's my current set of diffs for gptfdisk: > - >

Re: anybody besides me trying to compile gpt-fdisk?

2015-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
(__FreeBSD_kernel__) || defined (__APPLE__) +#if defined (__FreeBSD__) || defined (__FreeBSD_kernel__) || (__OpenBSD__) || defined (__APPLE__) // Darwin (Mac OS) & FreeBSD: disk IOCTLs are different, and there is no lseek64 #include #define lseek64 lseek ----- Very lightly tested, but it seems to be functional, to some degree. -- Joel Rees

Re: anybody besides me trying to compile gpt-fdisk?

2015-10-20 Thread Joel Rees
y continue to use old or deleted partitions.\n" << "You should reboot or remove the drive.\n"; platformFound++; #endif I'm not seeing any equivalent to DIOCGFLUSH in the openbsd headers. grep FLUSH /usr/include/sys/* seems to mostly turn up tty stuff. -- Joel Rees I'm a newbie, such a newbie.

anybody besides me trying to compile gpt-fdisk?

2015-10-20 Thread Joel Rees
The project I took a fresh git pull from: http://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/code/ci/master/tree/ My clueless first post to their list: http://sourceforge.net/p/gptfdisk/mailman/message/34557302/ -- Joel Rees Sometimes being an old codger and an newb at the same time is fun. Sometimes, not

Re: 1of 3 -- paralel SCSI to USB adaptor, will it drive?

2015-10-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I have a 3 part problem. > > The first part is the parallel SCSI to USB adapter shown at the end of > this dmesg. Can I expect it to function under some set of appropriate > conditions? Well, I checked with hexdump -C /dev/

1of 3 -- paralel SCSI to USB adaptor, will it drive?

2015-10-20 Thread Joel Rees
dapter" rev 2.00/1.10 addr 3 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 sd1 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 7/optical removable umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 [repeats until unplugged] umass0: Invalid CSW: status 255 > 2 sd1 detached scsibus4 detached umass0 detached -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Question about core dumps and swap space.

2015-10-19 Thread Joel Rees
2015/10/20 6:29 "Christoph R. Murauer" : > > Hello ! > > I readed the FAQ 4.8 about partioning my drive but have a little problem > of understanding. > > The machine has 32 GB physical RAM, Wow. Way cool. > the disc is a 256 GB SSD That's not shabby, either. > (yes, I know, > I should not use s

Re: Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?

2015-10-09 Thread Joel Rees
th occurring in a statically declared function) I'd still want some sort of a pointer to the file it came from, and a pointer to the bug report filed for it and any discussion on the mailing lists that occured concerning the code in question. Otherwise, I'm judging the reporter more severely than whoever wrote the code. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: doas and home directory of target user

2015-09-24 Thread Joel Rees
arger purpose, providing a reliable sandbox, I'm going to see whether chroot would allow me to use a non-login user as proxy user for the stupid (pardon my French) bloated web browsers. On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Thank you, Dan, Ben, and Frank. I see that I have left out

HDMI on hp pavilion 10 10-f014au ?

2015-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
Is there anything that can be done to get HDMI video functioning on this HP Pavilion 10 10-f015au? (dmesg below) After switching several times between virtual consoles with X11 running, it will begin to mostly mirror the laptop display on the HDMI device (a Toshiba Regza TV). It will be missing te

Re: doas and home directory of target user

2015-09-22 Thread Joel Rees
Ahem. Dmesg below. (Sorry about that.) On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Thank you, Dan, Ben, and Frank. I see that I have left out some > important information: > > user2 is specified as a non-login class of user in /etc/login.conf, > auth=reject: shell=/sbin/n

Re: doas and home directory of target user

2015-09-22 Thread Joel Rees
Thank you, Dan, Ben, and Frank. I see that I have left out some important information: user2 is specified as a non-login class of user in /etc/login.conf, auth=reject: shell=/sbin/nologin, and has a default shell of /sbin/nologin in /etc/passwd . On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Joel Rees wrote

doas and home directory of target user

2015-09-22 Thread Joel Rees
"right" by setting up ssh with public-key authentication to do the user switch?) (Or go all out and set up chroot to run an instance of X11 and firefox? ;-/ ) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: speedup shutdown

2015-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
e log entry before the next one starts. And you may want to deliberately kill the process before the shutdown process does the final sync. And don't forget to remove things before you put the thing into production. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: Native EFI Bootloader Support

2015-09-13 Thread Joel Rees
expect everyone who is required to report certain things to be able to run a current version of the Adobe PDF viewer. Or, if there is a community supported pdf viewer that allows "filling out electronic pdf forms". I'm not yet aware of it.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Is lack of a prompt in shell after building the kernel bad news?

2015-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
nored by anyone who doesn't care about what I am sure was the result of trying to carry a non-GENERIC kernel forward. 2015/08/04 20:10 "Stuart Henderson" : > > On 2015-08-04, Joel Rees wrote: > > Thought login was freezing after the welcome message, beacause there wa

Re: /etc/pkg.conf when installing from snapshots

2015-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
It occurred to me just now to take a diff on the dmesgs: On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Is it unusual/unreasonable to install, not update, from a snapshot bsd.rd? > > If installing from a snapshot bsd.rd is not too unreasonable, does > everyone doing that edit /

/etc/pkg.conf when installing from snapshots

2015-08-10 Thread Joel Rees
play0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pms0: Elantech Touchpad, version 3, firmware 0x354f00 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "TOSHIBA External USB 3.0" rev 3.00/0.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI4 0/direct fixed serial.0480a20050121000929C sd1: 476940MB, 512 bytes/sector, 976773168 sectors uvideo0 at uhub1 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic HP Webcam-50" rev 2.00/5.26 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (c910159e72666593.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Repartitioning

2015-08-08 Thread Joel Rees
ke this. Reread the manual pages , just to get your creative juices flowing. du -S /var/* will tell you which subdirectories of /var are good candidates for moving off /var . Virtualizing the problem child is also good, if you don't need to test the old stuff on some actual piece of hardware, but playing with your partitions is good practice, too. -- Joel Rees

Re: Is lack of a prompt in shell after building the kernel bad news?

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
Thanks for the comments. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I did a cvs update yesterday (-rOPENBSD_5_7, previous update toward the end > of June) in the middle of network problems. > > Updated src and then ports and then xenocara. Took from about eight in the > m

Re: Is lack of a prompt in shell after building the kernel bad news?

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > On 04/08/15 11:43, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> I did a cvs update yesterday (-rOPENBSD_5_7, previous update toward the >> end >> of June) in the middle of network problems. >> >> Updated src and then p

Is lack of a prompt in shell after building the kernel bad news?

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
hings, but I thought I'd ask how unusual this kind of behavior between building the kernel and the userland is. I'll post the dmesg from the GPT kernel, at least, before I start the build. I erased the non-GPT kernel without getting a dmesg, but I can build it again if someone tells me I sho

Re: Any way to tell what the last cvs module checked before a broken pipe was?

2015-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
2015/08/04 6:24 "dan mclaughlin" : > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:17:12 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > > I try a cvs update on xenocara and it just sits there for over an hour > > and then tells me I have a broken pipe. > > > > cvs log seems to yield the same beh

Any way to tell what the last cvs module checked before a broken pipe was?

2015-08-03 Thread Joel Rees
ough all the modules? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Maintaining CAs not in cert.pem

2015-07-31 Thread Joel Rees
2015/07/31 15:33 : > > everyone on the carousel? why not rework the trust model. Okay, I'll play. What threat models do we want to address uhm, at the library level?

Re: Maintaining CAs not in cert.pem

2015-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
2015/07/31 9:15 "Joel Rees" : > > 2015/07/31 6:49 "Vadim Zhukov" : > > > > [...] > > > > > Well, I see four scenarios: > > > > 1. Using the defaults supplied with OpenBSD only. Typical for home/personal use. > > > >

Re: Maintaining CAs not in cert.pem

2015-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
s to do them right. Until the cash cow dies, anything we try now is likely to be wrong. With that caveat, try your ideas on your own system. You'll need to add some scripts of your own to extend what sysmerge and other tools do. Post to the list about how it works for you over the next year or s

Re: Maintaining CAs not in cert.pem

2015-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
2015/07/31 8:34 : > > Congrats to raising another time wasting topic for a public commentary. > Do you mean that CAs, certificates, and how they are handled are topics that don't need talking about? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a

newfs_ext2fs vs e2fsprogs package mke2fs

2015-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
Which is preferred, newfs_ext2fs or mke2fs from the e2fsprogs package? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: OpenBSD machine was hacked

2015-07-28 Thread Joel Rees
uspicion is free, but it doesn't help without understanding. > Please help. Very urgent. Get answers to the first questions first. The other questions don't make sense without answers to the first questions. If it's urgent, that's all the more reason to start with questi

Re: Firewall question: is using a NIC with multiple jacks considered insecure?

2015-07-27 Thread Joel Rees
ertised, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places nowadays.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-07-20, Joel Rees wrote: > >[...] > Being "willing to take a small hit on performance or > price" does not magically will such alternatives into existence; > it just makes you sound delusional.

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-20 Thread Joel Rees
nly a small hit on much of what I do. RAM and hard disk speed make up for quite a bit. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/10/conspiracy-theories.html

Re: Boot problem custom Kernel 5.7

2015-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
2015/07/10 22:12 "Oliver" : > > Hello, > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > > entry point at 0x1000160 [7205c766, 3404, 24448b12, 1080a304] > > > > > == At this point the system reboots. No further messages. > > > > > > > > Your kernel is probably too large. A limitation in th

Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

2015-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
I see, now, how my post was misinterpreted. 2015/07/09 9:26 "Joel Rees" : > > Hmm. Should have looked at the contributions page before I posted. I > was reading "Gold" and thinking "Iridium". A corporate contribution of between 25,000 and 50,000 (the Gold

Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

2015-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
Hmm. Should have looked at the contributions page before I posted. I was reading "Gold" and thinking "Iridium". On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Since Jorge broached the subject, I have a couple of armpits I'd like to > air.[1] > > I a

Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

2015-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
they interact from a very broad perspective. I sympathize with the board. There is no correct response that I can see from where I'm sitting. Beyond that, the board doesn't need armchair quarterbacks. I just wish Microsoft had given us (the community, as well as the project) more time. -

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

2015-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 04 07:21:48, joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 07:29:08PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: >> >> > One thing is to try 'ZZ

Re: GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
et stuck, I'll probably set GPT aside for several months and focus on getting the WIFI on this thing running. In fact, if someone would tell me that what I'm trying to do isn't supported yet, I'd be happy to work on the WIFI first. I'd like to be able to access the net from

GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
o not install boot menu to MBR > 5) Use BCDedit on Windows, add the OpenBSD partition > 6) (optional, Windows 8) set boot menu to classic mode > -- Joel Rees

Re: Regarding the default /usr partitioning

2015-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
do, including compiling the OS, etc. At least, it's not the bottleneck on this netbook, or any other hardware I currently have. I have fundamental disagreements with USB, but it works for now.) Joel Rees

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

2015-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
Not sure how much use posting the results of this will be at this point, but, for the record -- On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 07:29:08PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: >> > One th

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

2015-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 11:45:44AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> FWIW, I just tried shutting the lid on this netbook, to see what would >> happen. >> >> Disks went quiet quickly enough to assume it was sleep and no

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

2015-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
irst. Lots of unsupported fun on it. Hopefully, I'll be able to make some time for something useful next week. (I'd almost say that when I bought this box about a month and a half ago, I should have gone for an older box, but I need the motivation to dig in. :) -- Joel Rees

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

2015-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
FWIW, I just tried shutting the lid on this netbook, to see what would happen. Disks went quiet quickly enough to assume it was sleep and not hibernate. I waited maybe a minute, then opened the lid. No response. On keyboard activity, i could hear the disks spin up. Tried ssh from outside, but I

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Joel Rees
s more information about how and where things are not working for you -- error messages that you may have to copy into your mail by hand, etc. -- Joel Rees > > On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:51 PM, James Hartley wrote: > > > > Read the FAQ. > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-15 Thread Joel Rees
An idle mind is the devil's workshop. On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Mike Burns wrote: > On 2015-06-14 16.46.53 +0200, Max Power wrote: >> Only the group is changed. >> But why the owner is remained the same [root]? >> On OpenBSD, I can not get root:root ? > > No: > > $ grep ^root /etc/group >

What's up with updating tiff?

2015-06-15 Thread Joel Rees
I try pkg_add -u tiff and get this: Package tiff-4.0.3p2 found, matching insecure tiff-<4.0.4beta Does that mean there is an update, but that it's being held back because of an unfixed vulnerability? -- Joel Rees

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Joel Rees
My memories of Debiandora are fading slightly, but, ... 2015/06/15 8:53 "Rick Hanson" : > > From the linux su man page: > > > This version of su uses PAM for authentication, account and session > > management. Some configuration options found in other su > > implementations, such as support for a

enabling GPT (was Re: what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?)

2015-06-14 Thread Joel Rees
9:00 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> besides take it back to the store, I mean. >> >> I have it booted on a USB stick. The internal drive appears to be >> unpartitioned when I do a disklabel -- only c partition reported. fdisk >> does report it as EFI GPT. >> >>

Re: cannot install Padre (a Perl IDE) for first run on OpenBSD?

2015-06-12 Thread Joel Rees
2015/06/12 14:10 "ertetlen barmok" : > > as root I tried on OpenBSD 5.7: > > # cpan Padre > ... after many unneeded messages (I don't know why aren't they only shown in "verbose mode") > > MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz > ./Build install -- OK > PLAVEN/Padre-1.00.tar.gz > Has alr

Re: help setting up ralink rt3290 compatible wifi drivers?

2015-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Joel Rees gmail.com> writes: > >> Care to point me in a general direction in the source tree? ports or >> src, for instance? > > Well, I was hacking around src/sys/dev/pci/if_ral_pci.c and > friends. > &

Re: pms0: not in sync yet, discard input (state 0)

2015-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Alexey Suslikov > wrote: >> Joel Rees gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> When I touch the trackpad while running xfce4, the console and the >>> dmesg fill up with

Re: sudoers documentation bug?

2015-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
Okay, I took the bait. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I'm not sure what your question is, or even if you have one. > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 6:58 PM, ertetlen barmok > wrote: >> Hello! >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-c

Re: sudoers documentation bug?

2015-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
line with "\ " as the last two characters before the newline as a continued line? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: help setting up ralink rt3290 compatible wifi drivers?

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Joel Rees gmail.com> writes: > >> >> From my dmesg: >> >> "Ralink RT3290" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured >> "Ralink Bluetooth" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 0 function 1

Re: pms0: not in sync yet, discard input (state 0)

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Joel Rees gmail.com> writes: > >> >> When I touch the trackpad while running xfce4, the console and the >> dmesg fill up with >> >> pms0: not in sync yet, discard input (state n) > > It is

help setting up ralink rt3290 compatible wifi drivers?

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
>From my dmesg: "Ralink RT3290" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured "Ralink Bluetooth" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 not configured (I have no interest in bluetooth, but, ...) Full dmesg below -- Joel Rees OpenBSD 5.7-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu M

pms0: not in sync yet, discard input (state 0)

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
-- But I have no idea what variables to monkey with. Well, I can completely turn the touchpad off with synclient TouchPadOff=1 ;-) Any suggestions appreciated. -- Joel Rees OpenBSD 5.7-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu May 28 06:12:04 JST 2015 r...@phool.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arc

Re: Have sudo and login changed between 5.6 and 5.7?

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > Checked in openbsd 5.6. > > 2015/05/31 23:38 "Joel Rees" : >> >> I have a home directory buried one deep in a directory owned by a >> non-login user: >> >> /home >> /home/bubble >>

Re: Have sudo and login changed between 5.6 and 5.7?

2015-06-01 Thread Joel Rees
Checked in openbsd 5.6. 2015/05/31 23:38 "Joel Rees" : > > I have a home directory buried one deep in a directory owned by a > non-login user: > > /home > /home/bubble > /home/bubble/userA > > where /home/bubble is owned by user/group bubble, with read and s

Have sudo and login changed between 5.6 and 5.7?

2015-05-31 Thread Joel Rees
(zone temperature) hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0=On (power supply) hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt0=10.80 VDC (voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt1=12.41 VDC (current voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.current0=0.00 A (rate) hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour0=2.26 Ah (last full capacity) hw.sensors.acpibat0.amphour

building mp userland?

2015-05-27 Thread Joel Rees
I built the userland with a GENERIC kernel. Then I looked at the dmesg and realized I had wanted the GENERIC.MP kernel. I'm going to re-build userland anyway, but how different is the resulting userland? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stre

Re: Random PID implementation and security

2015-05-27 Thread Joel Rees
gh 16 and low sixteen randomized and the middle 32 backwards sequential, just to really throw the unwary attacker off the trail? ;-/ -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

cvs fingerprint for anonvs.jp.openbsd.org

2015-05-27 Thread Joel Rees
fingerprints. Is there a way? l sent an inquiry to professor Suzuki about the fingerprints, but have received no response yet -- Joel Rees

Re: what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?

2015-05-22 Thread Joel Rees
2015/05/20 17:28 "David Coppa" : > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > besides take it back to the store, I mean. > > > > I have it booted on a USB stick. The internal drive appears to be > > unpartitioned when I do a disklabel -- o

Re: what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?

2015-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
1 configuration 1 interface 0 "I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. Optical Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.18 addr 2 umass1: using ATAPI over Bulk-Only scsibus3 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 cd0 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: ATAPI 5/cdrom removable serial.04bb022601B049B5 uvideo0 at uhub1 port 4 configu

what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?

2015-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
disklabel by hand and copying the file system over by hand? (I have opened up an empty "simple" partition on the disk already.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
erk. I should keep my hands away from the keyboard when I have a head cold. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > FWIW, > > [...] > > in Japan and (IIRC) the US, there is wire transfer, which is more or > less as Jason describes, and electronic transfer,

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
ransfer, which is much more reasonably priced, particularly if you keep more than JPY 300,000 or so (USD 3000 or so) in the bank. > -- > Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. > (One of these days, I want to be so condemned, as long as someone is paying me

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
; > $ echo /usr/X11R6/bin/*wm* > /usr/X11R6/bin/cwm /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm /usr/X11R6/bin/twm > > --patrick > [...] Switch back to the virtual console you ran startx from after you try the menu items and read the messages waiting there for you. (Of course, I was confused until yesterday, too

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
ou encounter too many build issues you're not able to > deal with, you should give some trust to the people who know what they're > doing, and just use the stable packages from mtier (which, of course, > managed to build that firefox esr version afaict) > > Landry > >

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:19:57 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> I'm using XFCE4 okay. It's a bit heavy, but I can use it, with patience. >> >> (I need to check my X11 configuration.) >> >> But fvwm,

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
iguration.) But fvwm, the "default" window manager, is no lighter than XFCE4. I just looked for window managers with # cd /usr/ports #make search key="window manager" and got a lot of responses. I can't recommend any yet for Japanese. I need to try some of them first. :-) (

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Apr 4, 2015 7:26 PM, "Joel Rees" wrote: > > After about six hours More like eight hours. Just finished a re-compile without the room fan and got to the same error. (No overheating, either, with one less drive.) > with a room fan aimed at the computer to keep it from over

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
ves on the ITExpress on a single channel, master/slave. I've unplugged the western digital drive, and the system is much more stable. I haven't tried starting a new build of firefox that way yet. Should I post a dmesg without the WDC drive? On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >

Re: Can't install latest snapshot over http

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:54 PM, dan mclaughlin wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:08:35 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2015 8:33 AM, "Oriol Demaria" wrote: >> > >> > My problem got worse. So I tried finally to install the 2nd of April >> snapsh

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 Thread Joel Rees
be responsible about this kind of thing as a weak point to attack. And destroy. Yeah, it's sort of inconvenient that openbsd doesn't support firewire. Sort of, but, ... . Anybody interested in a project to start re-flashing BIOSses with openbsd? :-/ Joel Rees Computer memory is jus

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 Thread Joel Rees
this attack? I mean not tool themself, > I mean vector of attack. Are you talking about the "physical possession" vector or the software attack surface made obvious by certain virtualization/emulation projects? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All

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