Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-24 Thread Paul M
On 25/05/2011, at 4:48 AM, Dave Anderson wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-05-21, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote: On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which

Asus acpi panic on boot ( was: dmesg for notebooks useful?)

2011-05-21 Thread Paul M
On 21/05/2011, at 8:01 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: I've tried such a laptop, booting from usb stick does indeed fail as you describe, however booting from the install cd (4.9 release) works just fine. Disabling acpi will allow the system to boot from the usb stick. Thanks for the info. I'll

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-20 Thread Paul M
On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic during boot (in aml_parse or parse_aml, I can't remember which is correct); since aml_xparse these are store demo machines I don't have any good way to capture the detailed information

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-22 Thread Paul M
On 22/04/2011, at 7:01 PM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: Just order as many as you want and bin the excess. What really is being wasted?, A wee bit of plastic, traces of other materials and a small amount of energy used to produce

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-22 Thread Paul M
On 23/04/2011, at 8:23 AM, Paul M wrote: On 22/04/2011, at 7:01 PM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: Just order as many as you want and bin the excess. What really is being wasted?, A wee bit of plastic, traces of other materials and a small

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-22 Thread Paul M
On 23/04/2011, at 8:43 AM, Miod Vallat wrote: I'm sorry to hear about your refusal to purchase a CD. However, I'm sure your regular donations are very much appreciated. Landry's donations can be seen there: http://www.oxide.org/cvs/landry.html For some reason

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-21 Thread Paul M
On 21/04/2011, at 12:07 PM, Benny Lofgren wrote: I'm sure this has been brought up before, but is there a way to buy licenses without actually getting the CD:s? There is a fundamental underlying problem with this. The OpenBSD code is free. That is one of the principles of the project (as

laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread Paul M
Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note that I dont want to spend money on performance I dont need, but I do want to spend money on a decent quality machine. First, finding quality machines in the backwoods where I live is really hard. The shops

Re: syslog - log program output to its own file

2011-03-14 Thread Paul M
would have had it :) As demonstrated in the EXAMPLES section in syslog.conf(5), first use !!myprog, then !*, then the standard ones. On 2011-03-14, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: I have a program who's output I want to log exclusively to it's own file. Which is to say I dont want any of it's

syslog - log program output to its own file

2011-03-13 Thread Paul M
I have a program who's output I want to log exclusively to it's own file. Which is to say I dont want any of it's output appearing in the system logs. Reading the syslog man pages this doesn't seem possible: If I put !!myprog *.* /path/to/logfile after the initial block (which has

Re: simple pf match question

2011-01-31 Thread Paul M
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:28:13AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: then i change my mind and we should add a note that the default pass behaviour (NOT rule, even tho there kinda is a default rule internally...) doesn't lead to state creation. Perhaps it could be worded in terms of what one

Re: Please help me decide: OpenWrt vs. OpenBSD

2011-01-20 Thread Paul M
On 21/01/2011, at 10:32 AM, Aaron Glenn wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2011-01-19, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a RouterBoard 450G [680 Mhz cpu, 256 MB ram, 512 MB flash]. I just can't decide what to put on it:

Re: An OpenBSD smartphone

2010-11-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2010/11/17 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: Compared to the hardware available today, the openmoko is ridiculously obsolete. And the supplier in question is known to hate Theo and OpenBSD. Best Martin ... And is a fraudster and a

Re: Wireless Network GUI

2010-10-07 Thread Paul M
On 8/10/2010, at 1:44 AM, Guillaume Duali wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:33:44 -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: Why not make a curses GUI ? I find it much more useful than gtk/qt (IMHO). In my opinion, the aim of this project is to provide a graphical tool, which

Re: Recommendations for a SATA controller ?

2010-08-28 Thread Paul M
AFAICT most (or all, if it's a PCI limitation) PCI SATA cards do not run at full speed. Perhaps you already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning. paulm On 28/08/2010, at 2:19 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Hi there, I'm willing to buy a SATA controller (PCI) with at least 4

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-16 Thread Paul M
On 16/06/2010, at 6:45 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:06:40AM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 11:18 PM, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered cards don't get noise, including pci ones. It seems the best I can

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 11:18 PM, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered cards don't get noise

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 14/06/2010, at 12:49 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:37:52AM +1200, Paul M wrote: I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 14/06/2010, at 6:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote: On Jun 14 11:37:52, Paul M wrote: I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible without clipping. It is good

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 2:20 AM, Ted Roby wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: On 14/06/2010, at 6:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote: It would be my guess that this is the audio chip that's integrated with the Asus P5QPL-AM motherboard. If you are really after best

audio recording levels

2010-06-13 Thread Paul M
I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible without clipping. Ideally, I'll get the workstation hardware set to certin defaults, then adjust the incomming

Re: Free PF ruleset 4.7

2010-06-10 Thread Paul M
Please, please let this thread die. It's degenerated into banal wittering. paulm On 10/06/2010, at 1:09 PM, Edho P Arief wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:24 PM, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br wrote: If i chose web hosting using iis, it is not your problem but mine. So keep

Re: Toshiba L505D-S5983 ACPI

2010-05-25 Thread Paul M
On 25/05/2010, at 10:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: unlikely. your systems should regulate the fan on its own when needed, even without an acpi enabled os. if it is doin that, don't worry. Usually if anything the fan will just run at full speed, which may be a little noisy but may also make

Re: OT - Resilient RAID

2010-05-21 Thread Paul M
Water by itself is pretty harmless to most electronic components - as long as there is no power present. If it is thoroughly and completely dried before power is applied, there's unlikely to be any issues. Even the heat of the drier is unlikely to be a problem. Consumer electronic components

Re: Printing schemas

2010-04-28 Thread Paul M
On 29/04/2010, at 2:38 AM, Steve Williams wrote: Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: On 2010-04-24 20:00:32, bofh goodb0fh () gmail ! com wrote: Parallel port printers I want the printouts this minute!!! :). I heart printers with lpd (especially with postscript) Specifically, I heart my Brother

Re: licensing

2010-04-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/04/2010, at 8:16 AM, Ted Roby wrote: I had googled all of this before my first post. In fact, I have been in contact with the current maintainers of the project. They have explicit permission, but that doesn't give me explicit permission. Ok, now I'm confused. You've been ranting for a

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/04/2010, at 12:15 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: Zachary Uram wrote: As a long time Linux user I will soon try out OpenBSD, I have been reading the list emails and contacted 1 OpenBSD top person who was very rude. There is some of the RTFM or get lost attitude in Linux, but if a questioner

softraid

2010-03-27 Thread Paul M
Is softraid(4) now concidered suitable for use in production environments? I know that many people have used it for a long time with no problems, but that is not my question. I see that the bioctl man page lists the RAID 4 5 disciplines as 'experimental' - I'm specificly interested in RAID0.

Re: customize CFLAG with /etc/mk.conf

2010-03-26 Thread Paul M
On 27/03/2010, at 5:11 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:05:02AM +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, Is that possible to modify CFLAG for port installed software ? I read `man mk.conf' found there's no CFLAGS or CXXFLAG entries , even though i tried to put `CFLAG += -O3

Re: Backup and monitoring

2010-03-24 Thread Paul M
I use restore -t on the dump just created to get the listing of backed up files. I'm not sure just what your question is though - what you want seems clear enough, you just need to write the script now. paulm On 24/03/2010, at 10:15 PM, axl melkhov wrote: Hello Community I'm new to

Re: Easy money with OpenBSD OpenBGPd?

2010-03-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/03/2010, at 3:09 AM, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: On 13 Mar 2010, at 10:00 PM, Graeme Lee gra...@omni.net.au wrote: FreeBSD and Linux The routing is done on FreeBSD. UI on Linux It's hardly rocket science either. It could easily be done on OpenBSD, but we would need to add a strip

Re: Opteron 250 Overheating

2010-03-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/03/2010, at 10:10 AM, Steve Shockley wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:11 PM, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Seriously, 40s should feel hot. 80s should burn. 100s should leave a blister. True, but even with 100C core temps the heat sink will probably be nowhere close to that. My apologies if following

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-19 Thread Paul M
On 20/02/2010, at 10:14 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: ... but that's way too much detail for the level of the question I was asking. Lee I couldn't dissagree more! I too have been following this thread, and I'm confused. Many people have jumped in and slammed various concepts -

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-19 Thread Paul M
if they don't have access to the machine then **why are you looking for alternatives to crontab**? Changes to the actual machines will be pushed via ssh, .. but that's way too much detail for the level of the question I was asking. Lee Actually, this is not too much info at all -

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-19 Thread Paul M
On 20/02/2010, at 11:14 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Paul M wrote: it's **Not clear whatproblem you're actualy trying to solve.** What's so difficult about need a way to edit crontab with something like an nCurses interface? That seems to be, by definition, simple, point

Re: routing and pf at 10Gbps

2010-02-11 Thread Paul M
On 12/02/2010, at 11:24 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 03:07:28PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: On 2/11/10 2:46 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: disk i/o is irrelevant. you will need a very very very fast opengl capable graphics card with loads of memory of course. ??? I am sure

Re: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots

2010-02-03 Thread Paul M
If you are smart enough to write support for umodem for the MF626, then learning vi should be a breeze. Alternatively: If learning vi is so hard for you, then you havn't a hope in hell of writing support for umodem for the MF626. paulm On 4/02/2010, at 12:52 PM, Giridhari wrote: Hare

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-02-02 Thread Paul M
On 3/02/2010, at 9:40 AM, Robert wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:48:35 -0500 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sitting around feeling bored because you don't know how to help out OpenBSD? Did your requests for info on where to start come back with unhelpful responses? I've got

Re: USB voltmeter or DAQ module, small, inexpensive, with OpenBSD support

2010-01-28 Thread Paul M
OpenBSD has a driver for the Dallas OneWire protocol. man(4) onewire Dallas make adapters for USB and RS232, such as the DS9490R - google can find you a supplier, for example: http://www.hobby-boards.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1503 There are all manner of 1wire chips avalable -

Re: raidctl and reconstruction failure

2010-01-19 Thread Paul M
what have you tried? All the info you need is in the raidctl(8) man page. paulm On 20/01/2010, at 3:32 AM, Sebastiano wrote: Hi list, I've setup my homeserver for a RAID 1 software configuration, mostly following instructions of this guide (http://www.argon18.com/raid_openbsd.html) that

Re: Parental filter

2010-01-18 Thread Paul M
But you probably werent going to the nastiest porn sites when you were 4 years old. Or did you? paulm On 19/01/2010, at 3:58 AM, James Hozier wrote: I would cry if I grew up with a dad who was an OpenBSD developer (or just more network-proficient than me in general). I feel so privileged

Re: OpenSMTPd actual development and integration

2010-01-15 Thread Paul M
On 16/01/2010, at 11:27 AM, nixlists wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Gilles Chehade gil...@openbsd.org wrote: qmail's queue, except for bounce message contents, is crashproof on the BSD FFS and most of its variants. smtp ensures reliability by working on a temporary queue during

Re: Insecurity Output about httpd.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Paul M
On 6/01/2010, at 8:42 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:25:59AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: | I don't use a lot of conf files in conf/modules, but yesterday I | edited my php.conf and httpd.conf. | The two changes were tied to each other for a specific change. | | I just got

Re: Insecurity Output about httpd.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Paul M
On 6/01/2010, at 10:16 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:23:52PM +1300, Paul M wrote: | You may want to read up on security(8), especially the part that talks | about using mtree... | | Cheers, | | Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd | | Have I missed something? Nobody's mentioned /etc

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Paul M
I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very irritating from a performance point of view though. I would think that bouncing the head round doing frequent reads/writes would be much more destructive. If one were to

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Paul M
. paulm On 25/12/2009, at 12:17 PM, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:16:28AM +1300, Paul M said that I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very irritating from a performance point of view though

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/12/2009, at 4:28 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files and the like after an upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this process I intend to create two directories in my home directory to keep copies of all

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Paul M
On 18/12/2009, at 7:09 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: Brad Tilley wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: stuff Just out of curiosity, my emergencies usually involve having to edit /etc/fstab that has entries that no longer apply after moving disks

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Paul M
On 19/12/2009, at 12:27 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Everything I used to know about sed, I've forgotten once learning Perl. There's really no excuse for not knowing Perl and Python these days. And if you need to learn Perl, I can recommend a good book (or two :). You can do anything in

Re: WAY OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-12-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/12/2009, at 7:10 AM, Bob Beck wrote: | People are at the core motivated by their own self-interest. Anyone | who says they aren't is selling something. Yes, they're selling hilarity. It's The Onion, after all. Yes, but it's funny because it's true. Even OpenBSD developers are

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-12 Thread Paul M
On 12/12/2009, at 4:22 PM, Frank Bax wrote: STeve Andre' wrote: but am trying to come up with a reasonable way of spotting duplicates, etc. You mean like this... $ cp /etc/firmware/zd1211-license /tmp/XX1 $ cp /var/www/icons/dir.gif /tmp/XX2 $ fdupes /etc/firmware/ /var/www/icons/ /tmp/

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-11 Thread Paul M
Diff (1), if you want to compare specific files or dirs, or fdupes for searching for arbitrary files in arbitrary locations. paulm On 12/12/2009, at 12:24 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: I am wondering if there is a port or otherwise available code which is good at comparing large numbers of

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-28 Thread Paul M
On 29/11/2009, at 4:24 PM, Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:58:22AM +1300, Paul M wrote: It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same. No. The book Managing Projects With GNU Make http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596006101 by Robert Mecklenburg and published

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-26 Thread Paul M
I found it to be a great book when I wanted an in depth understanding. It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same. paulm On 27/11/2009, at 10:29 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, Could you kindly point me to the documentation about OpenBSD make utility and

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/11/2009, at 2:55 AM, Jan Stary wrote: Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the supported cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to verify. ... Seems I am experiencing

Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul M
On 20/11/2009, at 11:17 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Rodolfo Gouveia wrote on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:10PM -0500: It seems the 'r' flag isn't mentioned on the man page. schwa...@gini $ man cp | tail -n 9 Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This implementation

Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul M
On 20/11/2009, at 12:09 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: ... This always confused me - Presumably there is some reason why the implimentation of the -r flag could not be fixed to copy symlinks, FIFOs, etc correctly. Anybody have any

Re: Error trying to use pkg_add with ftp

2009-10-23 Thread Paul M
On 24/10/2009, at 2:37 AM, Marcio David wrote: Hey Steve Shockley and Joachim Schipper, thanks for your help! On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net wrote: Marcio, try just issuing: ftp

Re: Security script in OpenBSD

2009-10-21 Thread Paul M
I'll admit to not being an expert here, so I may just be showing my own ignorance. /etc/changelist lists files to be monitored for changes. I'm not aware of any tools which will revert changes automaticaly based on this list. Certainly, I have never seen this behaviour - when a listed file is

Re: Forum engine

2009-10-15 Thread Paul M
On 16/10/2009, at 11:39 AM, Aaron Mason wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:08:11PM +1000, Aaron Mason wrote: Something that really bugs me about web software is how they limit themselves to MySQL. I chose PunBB because

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Paul M
As far as I'm aware, you wont get lossless jpeg rotation. There does appear to be an orientation tag of some sort in the jpeg header, so rewriting that could cause a jpeg to be displayed with a different orientation. I'm not aware of any software that will do this however. All editors that I've

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Paul M
I should have checked first - Google tells me there are quite a few lossless jpeg rotators. A quick ckeck showed qite a few hits for windows apps, 'lossless jpeg open source' turned up lots of hits too, perhaps there's something there ... sorry for the noise. paulm On 8/10/2009, at 10:38 AM,

Re: slip cable

2009-09-21 Thread Paul M
On 21/09/2009, at 10:12 PM, sonjaya wrote: hi ... i want using slip as my network interface, for cable layout what kind recomended and working in openbsd. i search null modem cable rs232 a have some type: - null modem without handshaking - null modem with loop back handshaking - null

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-20 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 3:23 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Paul M wrote: On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Now, I try to reconstruct /dev/wd1d (the failed drive): # raidctl -v -R /dev/wd1d raid0 raidctl: /dev/wd1d is not a component of this device Still no luck. Any more ideas

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 17/09/2009, at 4:27 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Paul M wrote: On 16/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I am trying to add a new drive to replace a failed drive on my RAID1 OpenBSD system. I have read the available documentation but can't get the drive added permanently. Here's

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 11:59 AM, 4625 wrote: I like fluidsynth. Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? Are you serious? the way the manual says to. What make you think that I did not saw the manual? You should probably stop posting about now, you're starting to make

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Now, I try to reconstruct /dev/wd1d (the failed drive): # raidctl -v -R /dev/wd1d raid0 raidctl: /dev/wd1d is not a component of this device Still no luck. Any more ideas??? Thanks, Jeff Has your raid0.conf file changed? The one you posted

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-18 Thread Paul M
On 19/08/2009, at 12:41 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:49:22PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:48 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skatajesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: I need to transfer some old VHS tapes into (any) digital video format. On OpenBSD of course. I understand I

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-08-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/08/2009, at 3:48 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:08PM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 18/08/2009, at 3:15 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan-Erik Skatajesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: I

Re: 1W OpenBSD machine for 29 GBP?

2009-07-12 Thread Paul M
On 11/07/2009, at 7:56 PM, David Vasek wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Steve Fairhead wrote: http://bifferos.bizhat.com/ What do you reckon? ;) Can't be used, as the FPU emulation has been removed some time ago. Regards, David Also, as I understand, OpenBSD requires a MMU. I was unable to

Re: About the OpenBSD repository

2009-06-22 Thread Paul M
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

Re: List of old forked or frozen code like apache that needs cleanup?

2009-06-03 Thread Paul M
Gosh, when was vi obsoleted. I must have missed that. paulm On 4/06/2009, at 4:33 AM, Mic J wrote: Discussed many times. :) check archives for many interesting repsonses. But some of the developers has some work wishlist of what the want to do have done. Or some used to have. Otherwise

Re: OpenBSD server with samba and openldap

2009-05-14 Thread Paul M
I recall seeing in the samba docs that setting the account info in samba could optionally also add the entries on the unix side - meaning you only need to set set it once. I'm hazy on the details, perhaps look into alternatives to using LDAP. When I've done this I've always entered them

OpenBSD samba performance

2009-05-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/05/2009, at 11:05 AM, richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Quoting Paul M l...@no-tek.com: One unrelated point I'd like to make is performance - I've found really annoying connection delays, particularly with word and excel. Transfer rates are ok, it's opening and saving files that's

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Paul M
You need to understand that you're asking questions for which there is no specific answer. I think Nick's first response to your question answered it best - OpenBSD would be better than anything else. If you were to ask specific, detailed questions about specific attack vectors, then specific

Re: Mount directories of unmounted disks/partitions

2009-01-15 Thread Paul M
On 16/01/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jon Sjvstedt wrote: Hello, On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jon Sjvstedt d00...@dtek.chalmers.se wrote: Hello all! I have an issue with mount. The problem is that i would like to create a directory with subdirs. On the subdirs I would mount directories of not yet

Re: disable sound

2009-01-14 Thread Paul M
On 14/01/2009, at 7:28 PM, Jon wrote: I have a remote server which keeps beeping - every so often. I have checked the console messages etc - but can't figure out why. any idea ? - Also - I am mostly now happy if some one can tell me how (command) to disable sound ? the node is headless and

vid input hardware recomendation

2008-12-11 Thread Paul M
I need a video capture card for a research project, and would welcome any recomendations. I need about 4 inputs, and would prefer a well designed device that simply does it's core task well. I grabbed this list of cards from the bktr man page, if anybody has any comments - for or against,

Corrupted RAIDFrame device

2008-10-29 Thread Paul M
Hi all I have a simple 2 disk RAID 1 array which has become corrupted by a faulty memory module. If I repeatedly generate an MD5 hash on the same file, I consistantly get 1 of 2 values back, roughly alternating, so I assume that the 2 disks have different versions of the same file and they

file encrypyion

2008-10-28 Thread Paul M
I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage. Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not something liable to break, obviously. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. paulm

Re: file encrypyion

2008-10-28 Thread Paul M
On 29/10/2008, at 4:42 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Paul M wrote: I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage. Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though

Copying large files between machines - was: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver blah-blah

2008-10-26 Thread Paul M
Various people wrote: Transfering 2Gb files using a thumb drive is too hard ... There's always split/cat It may be inconvienient or unfeasable for very big files, but is simple enough to do. molly:/molly1 du -sh bigfile1 4.3Gbigfile1 molly:/molly1 split -b 1000m bigfile1 molly:/molly1

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-20 Thread Paul M
I agree entirely. While man(1) is great, which(1) is also an essential tool. Learn to love it. paul On 20/09/2008, at 7:27 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:51:45PM +, ropers wrote: | 2008/9/20 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and

cd drive error

2008-09-17 Thread Paul M
Hi all, I find I'm unable to coerce my mitsumi cd drive into writing a track. I've been using it for years to read, which it does just fine, but it's the first time I've attempted to write with this particular drive (I can write just fine using other drives). Checking the 'Supported HW'

3.4-release random freeze

2008-07-31 Thread Paul M
Hi all I'm attempting to install 4.3-release on an old compac but I'm getting random freezes shortly after boot. The most it has stayed up is about 1/2 hour, usually it'll die within a few minutes, sometimes it'll die during boot - once it even failed during the install process. The only way to

Re: Digital IO - Phidgets support? alternatives?

2008-07-10 Thread Paul M
There is also the Tini from Dallas. This is a more low level approach, but it comes with a lightweight unix-like shell, and supports a variety of interface busses and protocols, http, ppp, ftp and others, and can be programmed in c, java or assembly. I've used it extensively, and while there's

Re: File upload/download to https server

2008-01-30 Thread Paul M. Hirsch
the HTTPS work, cookielib any cookie needs, and MultipartPostHandler will take care of building out the proper multipart form with file data. -Paul -- // Paul M. Hirsch // // paul at voltagenoir.org // // PGPkeyID 0x92205DEF //

Re: bnx tcp offload

2007-09-05 Thread Paul M. Hirsch
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:45:04AM +0200, Renaud Allard wrote: Hello, I just have two Dell servers having broadcom netXtreme NICs with tcp offload engine activated (and locked on on) in the bios. I tried to use these servers to do an smtp gateway with spamd. When I activated spamd,