Re: checksums to detect/correct bit-rot

(b) handles "majority voting" among 3 or more checksum databases to automatically identify which backup(s) is/are likely corrupted Thanks again to everyone, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" on the west coast of Canada "The '

checksums to detect/correct bit-rot

ime/), look for differing checksums, and for any differences, majority-vote the checksums to identify which copy or copies is in error. But before I reinvent the wheel, can anyone point me to software which already does this? Bonus points if the software is already in ports. Thanks, -- -- "J

SOLVED: Re: Thinkpad function-key wierdness

ll who replied (both on- and off-list), -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" currently on the west coast of Canada "Dear everyone who says masks don't work: Please get your next surgery with no one wearing masks. Thank you for your cooperation. -- anon"

Thinkpad function-key wierdness

f.resize "forceMove Window" f.forcemove " Raise or Lower" f.raiselower " Magnify" !"xmag -source 128x128 &" " Dump >/tmp/bkis.xwd --> .pnm"!"(xwd -out /tmp/bkis.xwd; xwdtopnm /tmp/bkis.xwd >/tm

Re: recommendations for web hosting in Canada?

hose interface and "management console" don't require a proprietory Windows/Mac/Android client. Any recommendations? I'm sorry for confusing people with my original sloppily-worded query. thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" curre

recommendations for web hosting in Canada?

I'm looking for a web hosting provider based in Canada. Performance isn't critical (the websites will be relatively small, static, and low-traffic), but I'd like a firm whose customer support doesn't core-dump if I mention Perl or OpenBSD. Any recommendations? Thanks, -- --

SOLVED Re: PC Engines APU2 infinite loop rebooting immediate after kernel loads

(both here & by private email) for reminding me about boot.conf -- I knew about that but had brain-parity-error overlooked it. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" on the west coast of Canada "Now back when I worked in banking, if someone went to Barclay

SOLVED Re: any way to "redo" a botched upgrade?

e Term::ReadPassword;/) is gone. I did another full 'pkg_add -uvv' to be on the safe side, which found a few 'file already exists', but after overwriting those everything seems to be working now. Thanks again to everyone who helped! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remo

Re: any way to "redo" a botched upgrade?

cursive directory listings and/or file contents of the perl @INC directories between the working and broken systems would be informative. I'll try that. Thanks to both of you for your suggestions! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" on the west coast

any way to "redo" a botched upgrade?

LES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under openbsd @INC: /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/amd64-openbsd /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd /usr/libdata/perl5 # I presume that I someh

PC Engines APU2 infinite loop rebooting immediate after kernel loads

swapping power supplies, with no change in the outcome. Has anyone seen this sort of problem (infinite reboot loop, rebooting immediately after kernel entry point address is printed) before? Should I be looking at reflashing the BIOS with a newer (or older) version? Thanks for any insights, -- -- &q

Re: Disabling .core file generation

/jonathan/iridium.core@ -> /dev/null lrwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 9 Feb 16 2022 /home/jonathan/mutt.core@ -> /dev/null % This is a bit ugly, but it takes effect immediately and doesn't require root. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" currently on

how to get per-IP traffic statistics?

spfflow.html but it's from 2006. Thanks, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" currently on the west coast of Canada "Now back when I worked in banking, if someone went to Barclays, pretended to be me, borrowed UKP10,000 and legged it, that was `i

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

the actual unbound binary? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" on the west coast of Canada "Now back when I worked in banking, if someone went to Barclays, pretended to be me, borrowed UKP10,000 and legged it, that was `impersonation', and i

Re: 7.2: unbound(timeout) on startup

# ... hostname after the '#' is not a comment, it is used for TLS checks forward-addr: 1.1.1.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com forward-tls-upstream: yes forward-first: no # don't fallback to insecure DNS --- end /var/unbound/etc/unbound.c

Re: SOLVED: Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

> local computers, and to do secure DNS-over-TCP to an upstream DNSSEC > provider. (That way I don't need to trust the ISP box's DNS service.) Oops, /dev/brain parity error there -- that should have been "DNS-over-TLS". Sorry for any confusion, -- -- "Jonathan Thor

SOLVED: Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

\ proto udp \ to $subnet_voip\ port 49000:5 pass out $MAYBE_LOG_VOIP quick on $if_outside inet \ from $subnet_voip to !$subnet_internal

how to completely reset all networking configuration without rebooting?

ng media options/MTU/rdomain/VLAN > configuration, etc. So, is there a way to to completely reset all networking configuration without rebooting? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA cur

Re: 7.1/amd64 DejaVuSansMono fonts are much larger than 7.0/amd64

On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 07:07:36PM -0700, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > On a freshly installed 7.1/amd64 (Lenovo Thinkpad T530 laptop), the > DejaVuSansMono fonts are much larger (i.e., each character occupies > more screen pixels in both x and y) than on 7.0 and earlier. This is > t

7.1/amd64 DejaVuSansMono fonts are much larger than 7.0/amd64

On a freshly installed 7.1/amd64 (Lenovo Thinkpad T530 laptop), the DejaVuSansMono fonts are much larger (i.e., each character occupies more screen pixels in both x and y) than on 7.0 and earlier. This is true for both fvwm and twm. Empirically, I find that for 7.1, # xterm -fa DejaVuSansMono -

Re: laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: > Most likely this means it's a hardware or firmware problem. Thanks for the diagnosis. I guess I'll just have to live with the problem (and hope it doesn't become more frequent). -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg

Re: has the definition of 'nice' changed?

, but clearly that's not what's happening. Looking at 'iostat 5' I see that I/O is pretty low (around 0.5 MB/s or less). I wonder if NaN handling might be causing kernel traps which change the scheduling priority? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]"

Re: laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

:36 18:0 Is there any further information I should gather the next time this problem occurs? Thanks, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA currently on the west coast of Canada "T

has the definition of 'nice' changed?

24M onproc/0 - 5:57 49.66% smp-O3 95125 jonathan 84 10 21M 24M run/0 -11:53 49.32% smp-O3 64031 _firefox 280 959M 1057M run/2 -63:28 0.83% firefox-esr 77428 _firefox 2 0 1381M 1355M sleep/2 poll179:14 0.10% firefox-esr Am I missing somet

Re: laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

Hi Ulf, On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 10:52:20PM +0100, Ulf Brosziewski wrote: > When the touchpad stops working, you could enable wsmouse logging, make > one or two movements on the touchpad, and extract and post the relevant > part of /var/log/messages. It might help to determine where the problem >

laptop touchpad works fine for a while, then stops working

[ 38176.277] (II) modeset(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 38176.277] (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 138.60 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1083 1088 -hsync -vsync (66.6 kHz eP) [ 38176.277] (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 110.88 1920 1968

Re: type checking/signalling shell and utilities?

If you want to experiment in that direction, Tom Duff's 'rc' shell has 'list of words' as a primative, and avoids re-parsing strings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc for more information. There doesn't seem to be an OpenBSD port of rc (but there is 'es', which claims to be derived from rc).

anoncvs2.ca.openbsd.org ssh key fingerprint != OpenBSD website

tablished. ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:c9tOA7pOlwaGCRCkjqOn6ba0d7G6EAqJkwtXMCu5Hts. This key is not known by any other names Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" on the west coast of Canada, eh? "T

SOLVED Re: 6.9/amd64 runaway acpi process on Thinkpad T580

nd to jcs (I'm guessing that's Joshua Stein, https://jcs.org/) for the solution, and to Theo and Mike for their suggestions too! Thanks again, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" on the west coast of Canada, eh? "There was of course no way of knowing whe

Re: 6.9/amd64 runaway acpi process on Thinkpad T580

e800 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT dt: 445 probes uvideo0 at uhub0 port 8 configuration 1 interface 0 "Azurewave Integrated Camera" rev 2.01/17.11 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at so

Re: 6.9/amd64 runaway acpi process on Thinkpad T580

(even /pkill -9/) has no effect. I will try compiling a custom kernel with ACPITHINKPAD_DEBUG defined in /usr/src/sys/dev/acpi/acpithinkpad.c and see if that prints anything interesting. Are there any other particularly useful debugging things I should explore to help track down the problem? -- -- &quo

Re: 6.9/amd64 runaway acpi process on Thinkpad T580

x27; experience with a T480, this suggests that this is a generic problem with Thinkpad T[45]80. Does anyone have a T[45]80 who has *not* seen this problem? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" on the west coast of Canada, eh? "There was of course no way of kno

6.9/amd64 runaway acpi process on Thinkpad T580

cpi (?) runaway a known T580 problem? Neither google nor the nycbug.org dmesg archive show any OpenBSD T580 dmesg, but I do see occasional web posts mentioning OpenBSD on a T580. Below I give my dmesg (from the current boot, the one that produced the above runaway process). What other informat

Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

comes from Ooma's own IP addresses. I will try to run some experiments next week to see what the traffic actually looks like. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" on the west coast of Canada, eh? "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being

Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

hostile) outside world. Here there is some legitimate traffic (carrying phone calls and/or Ooma software updates), and the problem is how to best configure the the firewall so as to block as large a range of "nastygram" packets from the outside world as possible, while still passing the legi

how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

-fledged SIP proxy somewhere (either on the firewall or on a separate dedicated machine)? Overall, I would rather not have to re-invent the wheel here. What are other OpenBSD users doing to protect VOIP phone systems from incoming "nastygram" attacks? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove col

Re: Increase optical mouse/Synaptics touchpad speed in X11/spectrwm

In message <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=162125055304096&w=1>, Martin asks how people adjust pointer speed on touchpads/mice/etc. I use 'xset': my .xinitrc contains the line xset m 1/4 -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"

Re: How to set ThinkPad battery charge thresholds?

In message , Jan Stary asks for research/references supporting the claim that a lithium-ion battery will last longer if it's not fully charged or discharged. None of these qualify as original research, but some sources for this guideline inc

thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

ttings. Being able to copy the new (6.6) bsd.rd to an existing filesystem on the (running) old OpenBSD system, then boot that bsd.rd to install, was really really nice. Thank you! -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" "He wakes me up every morning meowing to death

Re: T430 power draw unexpectedly high

I see a power draw of ~20W/10W with the screen at max/min brightness, so overall very similar to what Dave Trudgian sees. I've never tried a non-OpenBSD OS on this hardware. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" "He wakes me up every morning meowing to death becau

how to configure directory in which X server logfile is written?

s fgrep share/xorg or grepping my (minimal) /etc/x11/xorg.conf have thus far yielded any relevant info. (The reason I'd like to change this directory is that in my setup $HOME/.local is a symlink to a different filesystem which may not yet be mounted at the time when 'startx' is run.

Re: syspatch says 6.5 patch #011 (libexpat) is malformed

For the archives: this was my silly mistake in putting a symlink to gnu tar in a directory that was in front of /bin in $PATH. Reverting to a new login shell with the standard root $PATH solved the problem. Thanks to Bryan Steele for unwedging my brain on this! -- Jonathan

syspatch says 6.5 patch #011 (libexpat) is malformed

@usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/.*@@g: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors # Is this a known issue with this patch? Is there an alternate way (besides updating from source) to track -stable ? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]"

intermittent TCP-connection failure, suspect resolv.conf and/or unbound mis-configuration

- Can anyone point out any problem with this configuration? Is it appropriate for the firewall's /etc/resolv.conf to list both 127.0.0.1 and the upstream ISP router/firewall's DNS address? thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy

SOLVED: Re: 6.5 pkg_add "Fatal error: Can't write session into tmp directory"

el 512 Jul 24 03:30 /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Jul 18 00:31 /usr/tmp/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel6 Jul 24 17:26 /var/tmp@ -> ../tmp sodium# My thanks to all who replied either on the list or in private email, and my apologies for the delayed followup (which was due to a hand inj

6.5 pkg_add "Fatal error: Can't write session into tmp directory"

/rm foo sodium# sodium# cd /usr/tmp sodium# touch foo sodium# ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 30 13:13 foo sodium# /bin/rm foo sodium# Thanks in advance for any assistance, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS

how to install bsd.sp on a multiprocessor machine?

he easiest way to get the right set of object files in the right directory post-install? Would building GENERIC from source on the Alix suffice? (I suspect the answer to this question is yes, but I'd like to confirm this.) thanks, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to rep

how to install perl modules w/ dependencies that mix packages & CPAN

What's the "OpenBSD way" to install Perl modules which don't exist as packages? The usual Perl idiom for "install module foo & all of its (recursive) dependencies" is "cpan install foo", but this fetches all dependencies from CPAN, ignoring any OpenBSD packages which may exist. What I'd like is s

Re: 6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

x27;t tell -- I physically removed the trackpoint "nipple" a long time ago. Thanks for all your efforts! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA currently vi

Re: 6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

mented with multitouch gestures yet.) Thanks to both of you (IL and Ulf) for pointing me to the solution! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA currently visiting Max-Pla

Re: 6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

t is a X problem or wmouse(4) problem With wsmoused(8) running the console mouse works fine. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA currently visiting Max-Plack-Institute fuer Gravitati

6.3/amd64 Thinkpad T530 touchpad problem (was ok in 6.2/amd64)

md64). Have other Thinkpad users encountered this behavior? Is there a known workaround? Is there additional information I could supply to help diagnose the problem? (I could run with a debugging kernel or X server for a while if that would help.) Thanks, ciao, -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remo

Re: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS

>From http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html : > Donations may be made by cheque in CAD/EUR/USD funds to: > > The OpenBSD Foundation > 8101 160 Street > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > T5R 2G9 Without https, how can one verify that that is the correct address?

Re: Lenovo T60p touchpad not working (6.2-stable/amd64)

= 0x0001UL) && !drm_modeset_is_locked(&mode_config->connection_mutex) failed at /sys/dev/pci/drm/drm_crtc.h:1577 Do other T60/T60p users see touchpad problems? -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, B

Re: Lenovo T60p touchpad not working (6.2-stable/amd64)

In a recent message to misc@ I wrote On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:14:43PM +0100, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > I have a Lenovo T60p laptop (amd64) currently running 6.2-stable (dmesg > below). [[...]] > > My problem is that the touchpad does not work: [[...]] > > As a temporary

Lenovo T60p touchpad not working (6.2-stable/amd64)

8366123ff65.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b radeondrm0: 1680x1050, 32bpp wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) sd2 at scsibus4 targ 2 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 674943MB, 512 bytes/

where are antialiased fonts now documented?

term(1) or any of the X server man pages. Interestingly, the example from the 5.8-stable FAQ, xterm -fa 'Mono' -fs 14 *does* work on my 6.0-stable system. But I'd still like to read more (e.g., about what font families are available). ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove

FFS parameters for SSD filesystem?

hese tradeoffs?" * Does or should using softraid crypto change the answers to any of the above questions? Thanks, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no

{file,directory} permissions within /usr/{src,xenocara,ports}

arious other groups)? Alternatively, is there a Fine Manual I've overlooked which documents this? Thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way o

Re: A couple of password pointers to avoid failed login(1) via cu(1)

In I just grep some binary and encode it as passwords Alas, this produces high-nonrandom (i.e., relatively easy-to-guess) passwords. A much safer -- and easier -- approach is to take da

6.0 thanks

andard system hacks). A big thank-you to all the team! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given

6.0 CDs arrived west coast of Canada

arrived in 2016-09-19 mail

how to setup multiboot with a shared /home?

r of these layouts is preferable? Or is there some other layout which would be better? Question: are there any unobvious obstacles to making any/all of the OpenBSD A OS partitions, the OpenBSD B OS partitions, and/or the shared /home partition, softraid-crypto? thanks, -- -- "Jonathan Thornbur

Re: Suggestion: new webpage for openbsd.org

ly the text description of it, despite this being a GUI X-windows browser). All the main text after the first sentence is moved down to below the menubar. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, In

installboot with amd64 root on softraid crypto, NOT 'a' partition

things right, and installboot(8) now works for softraid | crypto setups and non-softraid setups. Is this bug relevant to my situation? If so, then one route forward might be to grab the -current installboot(8) source, nuke any pledge(2), compile it on my 5.6-stable, and use that binary for my '

Re: swap on encrypted softraid, performance penalty?

argets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets sd1 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 45567MB, 512 bytes/sector, 93322736 sectors root on sd1a (c2255fc9af18d55e.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b drm: initializing kernel modesetting (RV530 0x1002:0x71D4 0x17AA:0x20A4). radeon

Re: vnconfig crypto alternative

ing to happen. Keep using what you are > using now. I grok that (the current implementation of) vnd crypto is weak. What's the current migration/fixing/transition plan for this? (I can't find any mention of "vnd" or "vnconfig" in http://www.openbsd.org/plus

Re: athn(4) WPA2-PSK software crypto CPU loading

as the bandwidth of that network? In my application there's no significant data traffic between different machines on the wifi network, i.e., all data is between wifi machines and the outside world. The link-to-the-outside-world offers at most 16 MBit/second, so I don't need to worry

Re: athn(4) WPA2-PSK software crypto CPU loading

ed down the cause but it seemed to occur when unfamiliar > nodes joined the network and then only in certain circumstances. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of

athn(4) WPA2-PSK software crypto CPU loading

the (relatively slow) ALIX Geode processor? That is, is the software crypto likely to limit the available wifi data rate? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was

Re: poor-man's sandbox (for web browser security, etc.)

#x27; I suspect that a slightly fancier script could then insert that text back into the regular outside-the-sandbox X cut buffer, but I haven't gotten around to trying that yet. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS,

Re: making firefox less insecure

between different ways of selecting is irrelevant here, so what I should have written was [For twm, 'cut-n-paste' means select the text to be cut in the source window, then middle-click in the destination window to paste.] Sorry for the confusion, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg

Re: making firefox less insecure

xploit-mitigate firefox (<http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141616701418506&w=1>), what other options are there for handling cut-n-paste? (Maybe xcutsel(1) and/or xclipboard(1) would be useful here?) ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept o

secure(er) image viewer?

d, sending back bitmaps/pixmaps over a constrained channel to a display process?) ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were b

Re: making firefox less insecure

sktop as a spooling area for saving things, so I've made ~_firefox/ and ~_firefox/Desktop/ both mode 755, so that I can copy files out of that easily. I don't see any security risk in this (given my context of a single-user desktop/laptop, with the "Desktop" directo

PF User's Guide still refers to 5.5; patch to s/5.5/5.6/g

g/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf.conf&sektion=5&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5"; +http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf.conf&sektion=5&manpath=OpenBSD+5.6"; >pf.conf or by using -http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD+5.5"; +

making firefox less insecure

fo/?l=openbsd-misc&m=135771660029742&w=1 So. Are there other practical ways of securing an OpenBSD web browser? [I'm afraid "just say no" fails the "practical" test. :( ] What unobvious gotchas are there in (d), (e), and (f)? Other tips-and-tricks? ciao, --

Re: strange behavior in disklabel partitioning of new disk

that I'd seen it somewhere, but I can't find it in either place. thanks again to everyone who contributed to this thread, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was o

strange behavior in disklabel partitioning of new disk

ot;Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at mainbus0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at

Re: Remove print/acroread

d the i386 compat_linux acroread port, and I didn't mean to imply anything about its usefulness or lack thereof. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of cou

Re: Remove print/acroread

out those.) Not to mention the new-member-application forms on a certain Credit Union I just joined There's still a place in the computing world for Windoze machines. :( -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bl

Re: openbsdstore: enable javascript and buy something or gtfo

-> Buy CDs/Shirts/Posters --> the OpenBSD Store -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

Re: does OpenMP work on 5.5/amd64?

misc&m=140423912429329&w=1>, you replied, quoting my message and adding the single word > No. Could you clarify which of the two different(-but-related) questions I asked you were answering? Have you gotten OpenMP to work on OpenBSD? If so, how? thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thorn

does OpenMP work on 5.5/amd64?

clang -fopenmp -o mt-hello mt-hello.c clang-3.3: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-fopenmp' mt-hello.c:2:10: fatal error: 'omp.h' file not found #include "omp.h" ^ 1 error generated. % exit Script done on Tue Jul 1 10:23:46 2014 ciao, -- -- "

running cvs update as root (was: Re: New install)

shell prompt), and I wouldn't expect any non-root user to have write permission to /usr/src anyway. So... why is doing the cvs-update as root a bad idea? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomingto

Re: encrypted vnd Fwd: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

hrase #3 What will be the "right" way to achieve such a nested-encryption setup once encrypted vnd goes away? Is/will it be safe (i.e., free from data corruption, deadlock, or other kernel badness) to nest softraid crypto volumes? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to

Re: OpenBSD on T61/T500

e whether this is a hardware, firmware, or software problem. Overall I'm happy, and would get another T60-series as a replacement if one of my current pair died. As always with laptops, YMMV.. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IU

Thinkpad T60/60p "sticky touchpad" problem

hour2=0.20 Wh (low capacity) hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour3=63.80 Wh (remaining capacity), OK hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0=0 (battery idle), OK hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0=On (power supply) hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp0=44.00 degC hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp1=31.00 degC hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.te

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

IBM sells refurbished ThinkPads: http://www.ibm.com/shop/used/pref http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/content/home/store_IBMPublicCanada/en_CA/icpepcs.html I have bought a couple of laptops from them in the past, with generally good experiences. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -a

multiple softraid-crypto filesystems

crypto filesystems? Question: Which Fine Manual should I have read to learn this? I can't find any mention of this situation in softraid(4) or bioctl(8). ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, In

Re: do we have a Perl interface to sysctl(3)?

ysctl on CPAN. * I'm well aware that OpenBSD 5.2 has been out for a while; I bought a CD. If and when 5.1 proves inadequate for my needs, I'll reinstall. If not, I'll wait for 5.3. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy &a

do we have a Perl interface to sysctl(3)?

ke it could work... but browsing the source code reveals that internally it just does `sysctl $string` and parses the result. What do OpenBSD people use for doing system-monitoring from Perl? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy, Ind

Thinkpad T60 "sticky touchpad" (amd64/5.1-stable)

ms0 mux 0 wsmouse1 at pms0 mux 0 pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 6.2 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support ugen0 at uhub4 port 2 "STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor" rev 1.00/0.01 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 2

problem SOLVED (was: Re: more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64))

figure-everything X works fine, with no crashes or hangs and full video acceleration. My thanks to all who contributed ideas in the thread (and to all the developers for a *great* 5.1)! ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, In

Re: undeadly (window managers)

d vtwm, ctwm, and tvtwm. What are the tradeoffs between them? ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the

Re: more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64)

I don't know if I'll have time for a snapshot before I leave -- otherwise it will have to wait until March. I've been using OpenBSD for 11+ years, but I've never tried snapshots. I'll RT a few FMs on how stable-->snapshot upgrades work. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan

more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64)

t" # [] #Option "ForceTVOut"# [] #Option "TVStandard"# #Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [] #Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [] #Option "Int10"

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

oser on this issue. Did you ever try * the i386 uniprocessor kernel? * using the generic VESA video driver? * AMD64, either uniprocessor or multiprocessor? thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University,

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

In an earlier message which apparently didn't make it to the mailing list due to being oversized, I wrote > I've just installed 5.0/amd64 (from the CD set) on a Lenovo > Thinkpad T60 laptop (dmesg below). I'm running GENERIC.mp. I > will probably move to -stable soon, but right now I'm running >

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

+sf -wf -cm & xterm -g 80x30-0+352 -iconic -xrm "*iconGeometry:${ICON_X2}+80" -bw 4 -fn 7x14 -fg white -bg black -j -rw +s -sl 2000 +sb -si -sk +sf -wf -cm & xterm -g 80x30-0+406 -iconic -xrm "*iconGeometry:${ICON_X2}+100" -bw 4 -fn 7x14 -fg white -bg black -j -rw +s

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