Re: Reminder about the X Aperture

I think the slogan "Secure by default" is an excellent description of OpenBSD. It implies that it is secure out of the box, and can only be made less secure by the user. As soon as you deviate from the "default" you are obviously losing security points. Just my 2. Robert

Re: Reminder about the X Aperture

>Therefore, after 3.9, that default for the install script question is >being changed to "no". I am sure this will at least double the number of "I installed OpenBSD and X11 won't work" questions on this mailing list. But it sounds like a good change in the interest of security. Thanks, Robert

Re: Tyan S2885, 3 Video Cards Trouble

>Try this strategy... >Remove all but one video card. >Get X working on that one card, using an xorg.conf file. >Insert a second card, keep X working on the one card (this seems to be >an important step...and not quite as trivial as it sounds). >Get X working on the two cards. >Insert third card,

Tyan S2885, 3 Video Cards Trouble

Hello all, I got a Tyan S2885 motherboard and am trying to get Xorg to work with 3 PCI Radeon video cards. I have always had X work with this many or more video cards so I'm thinking that there might be something specific to this setup that is screwed up. First tried current then 3.8 Release. It w

Extend a partition onto another disk?

Hi, Please pardon my ignorance, I had difficulty finding an answer to this in the faqs/archives. How can I extend an FFS partition onto a second hard drive? Say I have /var on a dedicated 20ggb hard drive and it got filled up and I need to extend all of /var (not mount additional space inside of

Onboard and USB Sound Trouble

Hello I have installed and used sound successfully in the past. I reread the man and faq pages about sound but still no good. This is an amd64 setup so I dont know if that is the reason for my trouble. On motherboard is nForce4 AC97 and USB is Creative Technology SB Live! 24-bit External. Neith

Easiest way to include PHP in a release

Hello, I want to make an OpenBSD release that includes php right from install (like perl is included). I am not very good with makefiles and stuff, so I am seeking advice for the easiest way to do this. Is there a way to include the binary into the usr/src, the OpenBSD port of php, package, or si

Edquota alternative for setting quotas?

Hello, I have read man quota and edquota, and the faq page for quotas. So I have no trouble running quotas. I am seeking a way to automate edquota from a shell script. Is there an a way to pipe input into edquota and bypass vi. Or is there some way other than using edquota that I can use to have