Re: About the OpenBSD repository
Paul M wrote: On 23/06/2009, at 6:44 AM, Fernando Quintero wrote: Hello list, I have a question: I was reading about version control systems and i found a lot of the distributed software with best performance, but really i don't know much about it. There are some technicals or philosophicals reasons why the OpenBSD repository does not change to something other than CVS? You seem to make the assumption that _everything_ else is better than CVS. This may be your opinion, but that's all it is. paulm Well, I suppose it is better than RCS or SCCS, and in some small ways, CVS even did things right that SVN gets wrong (namely, tags). But to imply that CVS is better than (or equal to) Mercurial or Git is a bit ridiculous :)
Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD
Jason Dixon wrote: As marco already stated, it could be a kernel module. But it won't. Why? Because nobody will write it. Who is nobody anyway? I see he has an account on quite a lot of computers, but I've never met the guy himself. He must be extremely lazy if you're already saying that it won't be done *because* nobody is writing it; this sounds like it should offend nobody very much, possibly to the degree that he will write ZFS support into OpenBSD simply to despite you. Where does nobody live? I'd love to buy him a beer!
Re: Vietnam Travel, Vietnam Tours to offer big discount !
Wow, are you really going to pay for the cost of sending all the OpenBSD-misc subscribers to Vietnam? How generous!
Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: Does QEMU work under OpenBSD? But even if it does, it's probably too slow to use it in production. Also, it might contain bugs and crash, decrease the security of the host or guest, etc. If I were you and decided on using virtualization, I'd go with a proven, mature solution. I don't think QEMU is that mature or that it got enough exposure. KQEMU has been ported to OpenBSD (see ports), it's rather fast though I'm not sure if it's stable enough to really put your services in it.
Re: bash for root?
Dieter wrote: Like many things in Unix, you are using power tools. If you change root's shell, you need to know what you are doing. Remember that you might find yourself in single user mode with nothing but the root partition mounted. Hence my comment previously about having a statically linked copy of bash in /bin if you want bash as your root shell. OpenBSD prompts you for a shell name when booting into single-user mode. There's no need for precautions when using a dynamically-linked shell, as you can always just type /bin/sh when you need to boot into single-user mode and find yourself without your precious libraries. OpenBSD makes it harder to burn yourself. :-)
Re: Samba printing, OpenBSD client to Windows server
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried to print other formats through gv and open-office. Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below. #$OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ #lp|local line printer:\ #:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: #rp|remote line printer:\ #:lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null: Personally, I've found it easier to just install an LPR daemon on Windows itself. I had a similar problem of trying to print to a printer connected to a Windows box, and I have yet to find any solution with, eg Samba or otherwise, to print to it over SMB. At least on Windows XP, there is a Add/Remove Windows Components in the control panel that allows you to install an LPR daemon (which is not installed by default), and pretty much anything can print to it after that. Maybe the situation will work better if you run Windows 2003 or 2008, but I'm not familiar with that case.
Re: 4.4 recently installed
Nick Holland wrote: As I recall, these Aptiva machines were quirky as heck, on a LOT of OSs. Ah yes... Aptiva isn't the only brand like this. I've encountered a few of them from time to time, and the experience usually varies. Heck I've seen machines that fail to run their shipped copy of MS Windows properly (I mean even to the limited extent that Windows is supposed to run anyway). In fact, I have one such box right here at home. It has a Windows XP sticker on the front, but WinXP from either the recovery discs or a non-OEM-infested disc fails epically, and most Linux distros can't even run X.Org on it (at least not automagically, I never bothered trying to see if I can manually fix it in xorg.conf). Right now it runs OpenBSD 4.4 headless, its only current purpose is a permanent IRC session (ssh+screen+irssi: wonderful!), though I've tried it out, and OpenBSD's Xenocara runs perfectly without any manual xorg.conf configuration, and all the other hardware works perfectly; beats all the Linux distros. :)
Re: Permission to Use Logos
Andres Genovez wrote: Hi!, can someone guide me, to use OpenBSD to redirect to the main page? My site is http://www.crice.org, and I will like to actively support opnbsd, Thanks The artwork can be had from here: http://www.openbsd.org/art1.html As long as you're not running an openbds sux0rz!!! site, you should be fine to use the logos.
Re: Longest Uptime?
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Guido Tschakert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, what about 180-190 days uptime max? Afaik you need to reboot your OpenBSD when you upgrade in May and November... guido Just hope an important kernel update doesn't come by within those six months. ;)
Re: Licensing Help
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Benjamin Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some clarification on Licensing. I'm looking to build a product using: OpenBSD Tomcat MySQL Java I know OpenBSD is do what you want. Anyone know what sun says for licensing? I'm looking to sell this product for profit which will help me give back to OpenBSD :) Anyone know what I would have to do for Sun to let me do this? or is they don't care just create and sell? I'm looking for any help I can get on this topic. Maybe someone at sun that I can talk to that would help me. Thanks!!! It's probably best to go to each product's web site, or their tarballs, and look for a license document. I believe MySQL and Java are GNU GPLv2, but I'm not sure, you're best to look for that as well. Also note that not *all* of OpenBSD is the BSD-spirit license. For example, GCC is under the GNU GPL (though depending on your product, you can get away with no compiler set); you will need to make sure that these components' licenses are obeyed as well.
Re: Instant Messenger (CLI-based multi-protocol)
Pidgin includes finch (command line client), it's a little awkard to use though (just my opinion). -- Mike
Re: filesystems?
Personally, ext2 should be an excellent choice; efficient disk usage and read/write support in all those OSes, including Windows, http://fs-driver.org/ I've been using that driver on Windows XP for a while now, so far no errors. It's not open source or anything unfortunately; but the open source ext2-on-Winodws projects seem to be riddled with errors, ironically.
Mouse difficulties in OpenBSD 4.0's X11
I am having problems with the mouse that I had no experienced in OpenBSD 3.9; same hardware. I have clean-installed OpenBSD 4.0, and I try to set up X like I always have (xorgconfig). When I run startx, I cannot move the mouse without causing all sorts of random behavior; the coursor jumps everywhere, and it seems that even keyboard input is somehow input (xterm has a whole bunch of Return characters sent to it). This behavior happens weather the mouse is plugged into PS/2 or USB. Curiously, this behavior doesn't exist when running startx without /etc/X11/xorg.conf (so it's all auto-detected), I can operate fine like this. (However it's not something I would like to keep, the DPI is all off and I can't load some nice fonts atm)
