npppd advice

2014-08-03 Thread Scott McEachern
: 256 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 29180MB, 512 bytes/sector, 59761208 sectors root on sd0a (2463a9a61e811c48.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b - I hope I'm not forgetting anything... TIA! -- Scott McEachern http://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: npppd advice

2014-08-03 Thread Scott McEachern
On 08/03/14 14:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-08-03, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I'd really like to upgrade to 5.6/-current, but for my connection to work, I either have to abandon some features (MLPPP) with kernel-mode pppoe, or go with something completely new, like npppd

segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
Type Recv-Q Send-Q Inode Conn Refs Nextref Addr Segmentation fault No core file seems to be left behind. Anyone else seeing this? -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers

Re: segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/09/13 12:55, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca writes: Anyone else seeing this? Yup (fresh i386). Just to be clear, I was also using a clean install. Judging by the way it craps out at the unix domain sockets display, I'm guessing this commit

Re: segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/09/13 15:05, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I'd imagine it's being looked into. :) Yep. Just committed the fix. Thanks for the report! Philip Guenther Thanks very much for such a quick fix! I'll test it out when

Errors building system on i386-current

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
') *** Error 2 in . (bsd.subdir.mk:48 'depend') *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:89 'build') Just thought I'd let you know. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you

make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
/23/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9f400 (68 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version 2105 date 07/23/2010 bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A785TD-V EVO -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse

Re: make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/05/13 22:29, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 22:18, Scott McEachern wrote: Anyone else running into this when running make release with -current? vnconfig -v -c vnd0 /var/tmp/image.11200 vnconfig: VNDIOCSET: Device busy Are you already using vnd0? No, not intentionally

Re: make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/05/13 23:02, Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: On 11/05/13 22:29, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 22:18, Scott McEachern wrote: Anyone else running into this when running make release with -current? vnconfig -v

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-18 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/18/13 07:31, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2013-10-18, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: Circumstances change, and I might be able to redeploy those HDDs as a RAID5 array. This, at least in theory, would allow the 18TB total to be realized as 15TB as RAID5, gaining me 6TB. even

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-18 Thread Scott McEachern
to call it, doesn't quite work just yet... Fun experiment, too bad it didn't work out. I'm all ears if anyone has a suggestion that can turn that 1.4T into a 5.6T. :D -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug

Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-17 Thread Scott McEachern
for the parity, hence my 18TB non-RAID = 15TB RAID5 math. Is this correct in practise with softraid? All stories are welcome, including private emails. Thanks, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-17 Thread Scott McEachern
and RAID1 remains the only viable option on OpenBSD. Damn. Thanks Nick, as always you're a gem of a resource. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Scott McEachern
to/. Both of your last two posts, well said. Thanks for pointing out that it was the Netherlands that kept that data, and why. When I mentioned it earlier, I wasn't sure earlier if it was the Belgians or the Dutch, or why. Good to know, and remember. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
.. A question for Theo and those in the know: Do these IXs in any way deter or foil the NSA? Or do they just make for better connectivity? Just curious. @Kevin Chadwick: About your comment stopping kiddie porn, read my sig. I think he said that in 2006. -- Scott McEachern https

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
I said, he doesn't care and won't think about it. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
speculation to most likely status. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8u-5gsZdgc, amongst others) Hopefully, it will make you think about the direction the US is heading. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
, everyone. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. -- Bruce Schneier

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
enemy, and thanks to Snowden et al., we have seen the enemy, they are legion, and include the NSA. Now we know much more about them, their tactics and methods. Again, he is a hero. I'd laugh if his future leaks were titled To: NSA; Subject: From Russia with Love. :) -- Scott McEachern https

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
/ weak points in your hand. Anything HTTPS/TLS/SSL on your handheld is probably moot, but I'd still use crypto anyway. :) Convenience comes with a price. And Richard, thanks for sharing your thoughts. It adds to the balance. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
. They fight to kill. Meetings take place on a secret, members-only OpenBSD-powered web server. One word, and a problem can be solved, anywhere, any time. Or so I hear... So yes, he and his fellow devs are protected, while they protect the world. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
its good uses, like during the Arab Spring, but by and large it's a time sink to read fluff. I wrote to someone earlier sharing my one and only tweet from three years ago. (I plagiarized Marco Peereboom.) crap *Scott McEachern* ‏@*scott_mceachern* https://twitter.com/scott_mceachern 24 Nov 10

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Scott McEachern
, London's Heathrow is LHR, etc. I'd imagine they chose YYC to clearly indicate the IX location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Air_Transport_Association_airport_code -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug

Re: php sending mail via sendmail

2013-09-02 Thread Scott McEachern
avoid. (Or am I being too paranoid?) Tony, you might want to try using the pear-Mail package. It makes things more complicated, but it doesn't require a shell in the chroot. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

Re: Two questions.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
that are reading, please let my lame attempt at humour be the first and only response. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Two questions.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
of statis to continue to effort. The process is so transparent, that you won't even know if it has happened before... Sarcastic imposters like you really get on my nerves. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety

More /dev/sd* devices in default install.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
if it would be trivial and/or useful. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: OT: the term ``hackathon'' - even the U.N. does it

2013-07-24 Thread Scott McEachern
On 07/24/13 08:32, MERIGHI Marcus wrote: cyber-attack cyber espionage cyber attack cyber war games cyber warriors Cyber 9/12 Cyber Storm cyber preparedness cyber scenario Cyber Storm cyber threat cyber attacks Right now, there are a lot of drunk college students out there. -- Scott

Re: Compiler error building 5.3

2013-06-05 Thread Scott McEachern
...@elminster.blackstaff.ca:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Hackathon

2013-05-29 Thread Scott McEachern
the trolls.) Have fun, and thanks for the work you're putting in. Just out of curiosity, what is the focus of this hackathon? I don't know what t2k13 means. Cheers to all involved, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

Re: Hackathon

2013-05-29 Thread Scott McEachern
On 05/29/13 20:22, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:54:39PM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote: Have fun, and thanks for the work you're putting in. Just out of curiosity, what is the focus of this hackathon? I don't know what t2k13 means. t == toronto 2k == 2000 13 == 13

Re: Order request unfulfilled

2013-05-17 Thread Scott McEachern
. (To be honest, the only trouble, really, was my impatience.) Who knows, Austin might be on vacation or something, but there are others that will take care of business. Don't worry, you'll be fine. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: who is using obsd

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
a comedian. However, don't give up your day job. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Is fdisk, disklabel and newfs enough to reset an SSD

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
and instead of sending them back to the manufacturer for warranty repair/replacement, they just chuck them out and buy new ones. Why? Because there's no way to guarantee your private data has actually been erased. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential

Re: xenocara build failure

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: X (vesa) doesn't work with recent snapshot

2013-04-16 Thread Scott McEachern
, but I avoid this. I su to root and isue shutdown from that. Best regards Zoran Can you install a new snapshot to a USB stick, boot the stick and test it from there? -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: smtpd relay

2013-02-26 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/26/13 11:52, Gilles Chehade wrote: Here's a schema I did of the layout a while ago: Your diagram, with Charles, reminds me of a question I've always wondered: What's with the name Charlie in a default install? Just curious.. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Security and ignorance from the major ISPs

2013-02-14 Thread Scott McEachern
. After that it depends entirely on your _specific_ needs. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?

2013-02-13 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/13/13 13:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-02-12 10:17, Scott McEachern wrote: Oh for pete's sake, it's 2013. Go to your local computer store and spend (at most) $20 dollars on an optical drive. Install the damn thing on your Winbox, follow the many directions already posted here

Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?

2013-02-12 Thread Scott McEachern
people have suggested. Just end this stupid thread because you're talking in circles. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata -- WHEW

2013-02-10 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/10/13 14:17, Alexander Hall wrote: On 02/10/13 08:13, Scott McEachern wrote: I could have sworn the man page for fsck(8) said something about rule #1 being don't panic, but I couldn't find it in there. Must be somewhere else. So I didn't panic, watched a bit of TV and thought about

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-09 Thread Scott McEachern
/sector, 1365008 sectors sd11 at scsibus4 targ 4 lun 0: OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd11: 858476MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1758159312 sectors -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/09/13 15:06, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:52:12AM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote: On 02/09/13 03:09, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Joel Sing on Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:44:11 +1100: umount via DUID does not work currently - this will be fixed shortly after the next

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/09/13 15:06, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:52:12AM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote: On 02/09/13 03:09, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Joel Sing on Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:44:11 +1100: umount via DUID does not work currently - this will be fixed shortly after the next

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata -- WHEW

2013-02-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/09/13 22:16, Scott McEachern wrote: I didn't know what to wipe first, the sweat off my forehead or ... well, you get the idea. I'm tempted to try to use bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd0,/dev/sd1 softraid0 and bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd2,/dev/sd3 softraid0 to recreate the volumes (just like how I

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-08 Thread Scott McEachern
haven't tried full disk encryption yet, maybe on a test box one day, because I just don't need that overhead for every disk access. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/08/13 13:00, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote: Shit, I forgot to mention that I already gave that a whirl by putting: umount -f /st3 -- the mount point of the crypto volume in /etc/rc.shutdown. It makes no difference; I still get

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/08/13 13:32, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote: | Either way, it sounds fantastic and having smooth RAID (esp. | crypto) operations, l think, would be a huge feather in OpenBSD's | cap. I haven't tried full disk encryption yet, maybe

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-08 Thread Scott McEachern
. Not a lot of point in encrypting the OS for the sake of it, at least in my case. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-07 Thread Scott McEachern
CRYPTO, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd4: 1430793MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2930265808 sectors -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: pf blocking active connections

2013-02-07 Thread Scott McEachern
on the firewall that is allowing packets to continue. Use 'pfctl -k (host)' to kill off existing states. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: pf blocking active connections

2013-02-07 Thread Scott McEachern
the the ip to the table and killing the connection manually). Martijn Yes. But it's not like it's hard to type pfctl -ef /etc/pf.conf pfctl -k 192.168.1.1 either. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
to you) 4) #vi /etc/fstab (fix your mistake(s)) 5) #reboot and you should be good. Keep in mind, my workaround above won't always be there for you, so I'll say it again: Go play with ed(1) now on a dummy file when you aren't in panic mode to get a feel for it. -- Scott McEachern https

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
On 01/12/13 07:25, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:17:25AM -0500, Scott McEachern wrote: On 01/11/13 16:38, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: sparc64 machine, a neglected typo in fstab while changing a disk mountpoint and boom! - no boot :( ed(1) isn't hard to use, but if you haven't used

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
/. Oops. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
added, I'll probably forget it's there and continue using ed(1) like normal anyway. PS: Good analogy Nick. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: integrated graphics

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
sectors sd9 at scsibus4 targ 2 lun 0: OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd9: 2861588MB, 512 bytes/sector, 5860532576 sectors root on sd5a (6be798121798a5a7.a) swap on sd5b dump on sd5b -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: integrated graphics

2013-01-12 Thread Scott McEachern
On 01/12/13 11:12, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2013 Jan 12 (Sat) at 10:57:56 -0500 (-0500), Scott McEachern wrote: : :I also have an onboard Intel 4000: : :vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel HD Graphics 4000 rev 0x09 : Just works. I have no xorg.conf or any special configuration. vga1 at pci0

Diskset arrival today -- sort of (funny)

2012-11-14 Thread Scott McEachern
out, but until then I just had to share this story. A pencil? Seriously? Hilarious! I'm still laughing! -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Calomel.org

2012-07-26 Thread Scott McEachern
shit from my back yard. You're not the first person to mention a wiki for OpenBSD, and look how well that turned out. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Nitpick: typo in mv(1) man page

2012-06-18 Thread Scott McEachern
$ diff mv.1.new mv.1 79c79 when the respective destination path is a non-empty directory, --- when the respective destination path is a non-empy directory, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Nitpick: typo in mv(1) man page

2012-06-18 Thread Scott McEachern
On 06/18/12 14:44, Scott McEachern wrote: $ diff mv.1.new mv.1 79c79 when the respective destination path is a non-empty directory, --- when the respective destination path is a non-empy directory, Erm, sorry 'about that... $ diff -u mv.1 mv.1.new --- mv.1Wed Jun 6 14:22:11 2012

Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Scott McEachern
at uhidev2 reportid 32: input=14, output=14, feature=0 uhid6 at uhidev2 reportid 33: input=31, output=31, feature=0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (6992ea307afaad04.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b -- Scott McEachern https

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Scott McEachern
the last time, but it's pretty much read-only. So thanks again folks for the advice! -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Scott McEachern
? SATA2 or 3? -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Scott McEachern
$200.00 [DON] DONATION to the OpenBSD Project - Total: CDN $200.00 + Shipping. Danke, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: A neat twist on nginx + php-fpm = no input file selected

2012-02-29 Thread Scott McEachern
fine. Now, I can only hope it stays alive, unlike php-fastcgi... Thanks Remco! -- Scott McEachern

Re: A neat twist on nginx + php-fpm = no input file selected

2012-02-29 Thread Scott McEachern
is not set, chroot is not used. Bah. :/ -- Scott McEachern

A neat twist on nginx + php-fpm = no input file selected

2012-02-28 Thread Scott McEachern
/sector, 75745947 sectors root on wd0a (383cb6009c765d64.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b --- Scott McEachern

Radeon 4200 and azalia audio problems

2012-01-28 Thread Scott McEachern
I recently upgraded to the most recent (Jan. 26) snapshot from a system built from source on Jan. 24th, with mixed results: (dmesg follows) - Jan. 24th: using the xf86-video-ati-6.14.3.tar.gz driver from x.org, mplayer video output was jittery, like the driver couldn't keep up, but audio was

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Scott McEachern
not the first and it's old. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Scott McEachern
be called a hacker. This is a good start to your journey: $ man man Thanks for the laughs. No reply is necessary. Really. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Multi Link PPP support in Kernel

2011-11-17 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/17/11 19:43, Stuart Henderson wrote: wow, people really still use multilink? i remember it being a fair hassle on the lns side back when we did it with dialup... over here (UK) the few people doing this sort of thing use per-packet IP load-balancing these days. Over here (Canada;

Re: USB mouse

2011-10-26 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/26/11 18:52, Zantgo wrote: How I can run USB mouse? Zantgo Did you try formatting it first?

Re: USB mouse

2011-10-26 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/26/11 20:05, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: On 26 October 2011 20:52, Zantgozan...@gmail.com wrote: How I can run USB mouse? Zantgo It should work just by plugging it, have you tried ? Oh that's just pie-in-the-sky craziness. The next thing you'll be saying is that USB keyboards

Re: I can use snapshots packages in a release?

2011-10-24 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/24/11 17:29, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that usually we talk about unified and synchronized to the manual, but I have not seen anything about the packages, then my question is, I can use packet-release snapshots?, ie have my PKG_PATH =.../snapshots/packages. Zantgo If you're asking

xf86 driver won't compile

2011-07-20 Thread Scott McEachern
I think I'm missing something obvious here, so a clue-stick beating would be appreciated. In order to get applications like mplayer to work properly, I need to compile an ATI Radeon 4200 driver from x.org. (Thanks to brynet for that tip.) That used to work fine, but around mid-May it

Re: xf86 driver won't compile

2011-07-20 Thread Scott McEachern
On 07/20/11 11:06, David Coppa wrote: I think you need to pass --disable-kms to ./configure Thank-you David and Nigel! That works perfectly, and I'm now (very happily) back to running -current. (I'm currently compiling a bunch of ports, and waited until thunderbird finished before

Userland ppp stopped working between Mar24 and Apr8

2011-07-04 Thread Scott McEachern
I originally sent this message to misc@ on April 17/2011, but I never got a response and I can't find it in the archives. (I found this copy in my sent mail). I guess it never went through. Since I never heard anything back, I figured I'd wait a while and see if the problem got corrected

Re: Userland ppp stopped working between Mar24 and Apr8

2011-07-04 Thread Scott McEachern
On 07/04/11 10:56, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-07-04, Scott McEachernsc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I gave the most recent snapshot (June 29) a try, and the problem remains, so I'll try sending this again. I haven't seen anything about this on the list since; surely I can't be the only person

Userland ppp stopped working between Mar24 and Apr8

2011-04-17 Thread Scott McEachern
After some experimenting, I've discovered that userland ppp stopped working normally at some point between the March 24th and April 8th snapshots. I've been using the same ppp.{conf,linkup,linkdown} files for 6 months now with 4.8-stable without any problems. This weekend I decided to

Re: Is VPN initiation by traffic possible?

2011-04-13 Thread Scott McEachern
On 04/13/11 05:19, nemir nemirius wrote: Hi, One of my clients is a major bank. We need to exchange data a few times a day at different intervals, and they're insisting that we initiate the VPN on demand with relevent traffic. It works from their end. Tunnel is down, they send a ping,

Re: Is VPN initiation by traffic possible?

2011-04-13 Thread Scott McEachern
On 04/13/11 09:38, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Scott == Scott McEachernsc...@blackstaff.ca writes: Scott It's called port knocking. Google is your friend here. And if you recommend or use port knocking, you're an amateur at crypto. If adding 8 sniffable bits to your effective key length makes

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/30/11 19:18, Henning Brauer wrote: * Amit Kulkarniamitk...@gmail.com [2011-03-31 01:09]: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Henning Brauerlists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Amit Kulkarniamitk...@gmail.com [2011-03-31 00:45]: Nothing directly, just observing a comparison of default choice.

Re: kernel panic after install reboot

2011-03-27 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/27/11 19:21, Sha'ul wrote: At the boot prompt I put bsd.rd and it probes and gives me the install options (I)nstall (U)pgrade (S)hell, I went to shell and dmesg worked, but how can I supply a copy of it here without net connection and without OS login capabilities? FYI, trying to

Re: mplayer video sluggish with Radeon HD 4200

2011-03-26 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/26/11 12:11, Brynet wrote: Hi Scott, I have a Mobility Radeon HD 4200, indeed, xf86-video-ati in base lacks 2D/3D XVideo acceleration. Compiling a newer version of the radeon DDX driver works for me, trying the obsolete radeonhd driver is also an option (..I found it unstable). So far,

mplayer video sluggish with Radeon HD 4200

2011-03-25 Thread Scott McEachern
Hi, I'm having an issue where video playback in mplayer is sluggish in full-screen mode with Radeon HD 4200 onboard video. This applies only to -current, with either i386 or amd64. In 4.8-stable (amd64 or i386), Mplayer is perfectly fine in either normal or full-screen mode on the same

Re: mplayer video sluggish with Radeon HD 4200

2011-03-25 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/25/11 19:47, Scott McEachern wrote: dmesg: OpenBSD 4.9-current (BLACKSTAFF.MP) #1: Wed Mar 23 23:22:50 EDT 2011 sc...@blackstaff.blackstaff.ca:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BLACKSTAFF.MP Sorry, I posted the dmesg for a system with POOL_DEBUG disabled. There is no dmesg

Re: amd64/i386 kernel freezes on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mobo

2011-03-19 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/14/11 21:06, Scott McEachern wrote: The problem is that the kernel freezes when booting any of: bsd.rd, for either amd64 or i386, -current or 4.8-stable; any GENERIC kernel for amd64/i386 -current or 4.8-stable on an installed system. (partial dmesgs below). My apologies

Re: amd64/i386 kernel freezes on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mobo

2011-03-17 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/16/11 10:54, Tero Koskinen wrote: I have exactly same motherboard with Phenom II X4. For me, it helps when I disable acpi. (boot -c disable acpi during the boot) You know, I'd absolutely *swear* I tried that to no avail, but trying it again, I can get it to boot. I have a funny

Re: amd64/i386 kernel freezes on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mobo

2011-03-17 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/17/11 18:22, Stuart Henderson wrote: Modern machines *expect* to have the acpi code running, acpi controls many aspects of the system including some methods to maintain correct system temperature. Absolutely. Which is why this box, (once it has completed some build tasks for other

Re: amd64/i386 kernel freezes on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mobo

2011-03-17 Thread Scott McEachern
On 03/17/11 19:31, Jordan Hargrave wrote: It looks like there is a bug in the AML on that particular system (the code is being called in from the atk0110 driver). bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version 2105 date 07/23/2010 bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A785TD-V EVO Eventually the AML

amd64/i386 kernel freezes on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mobo

2011-03-14 Thread Scott McEachern
I bought some new hardware the other day, including an Asus M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard and an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T CPU. The problem is that the kernel freezes when booting any of: bsd.rd, for either amd64 or i386, -current or 4.8-stable; any GENERIC kernel for amd64/i386 -current or

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 12/09/10 10:01, lh wrote: Hi, what are the good available alternatives (security/privacy) for gmail you're using? Cheers! As many others suggested, using your own mail server that you control is the *best* way, but that doesn't answer your question. I know people that use Lavabit.com

OT - secondary DNS recommendations

2010-12-08 Thread Scott McEachern
It seems my free-as-in-beer secondary DNS service, EveryDNS.net, has abandoned WikiLeaks, so I'd like to return the favour. Given the (general) support of WikiLeaks here, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a free alternative to replace EveryDNS.net? I know how to use Google to find

Re: OT - secondary DNS recommendations

2010-12-08 Thread Scott McEachern
To the folks that replied on- and off-list with their _recommendations_ from personal experience, thank-you very much! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'm doing my due diligence and will investigate them all. For the folks that replied with alternatives but no actual

Re: help

2010-11-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/08/10 06:40, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: On 8 Nov 2010, at 11:33, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On 8 November 2010 10:46, stevest...@crs.com wrote: help I need somebody. help... Not just anybody.

Re: i386 and amd64 snapshots - kernel SHA256 mismatch

2010-10-15 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/15/10 20:29, Theo de Raadt wrote: Another alternative is that I only do snapshot builds about every 2 weeks. How's that idea? A little off-topic, but now's as good a time as any to ask: I sometimes see the snaps (or X) haven't been built for a few or more days, and I was just

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/06/10 12:50, Theo de Raadt wrote: Then you may be detained next time you attempt to travel internationally. You are free to stay at home, though. I'm not trying to be a wise-acre here, I agree with Theo 100%. I doubt anyone wants to be screwed by customs (anywhere) due to licencing

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