Re: My /usr cleaning campaign..

ed with the upgrade. > > Why potentially risk deleting something you don't understand? > > > > I would suggest either: > > - Proceed with the upgrade. > > - Reinstall the system from scratch with a larger /usr. > > > -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Simple PF Router/Firewall/NAT requirements: was Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm > > -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

ated nics never keep up with their vmx counterparts in my experience. -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

7 28247 58 36 - 28351 195 4 [ 453791744: 1679360 ] Win > Recovery > 3: A6 28351 227 37 - 60801 15 14 [ 455473152: 521295872 ] > OpenBSD > > Leonid Bobrov, Nice patch to the web site, where on earth are any of the logs from your session? Not only could

Re: network address in vm by kvm

tell me how to do? > > Thanks for reply. > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Can I accelerate my magnet HDD using a SSD in any way?? E.g. softraid patch/ARC, dedicated hardware e.g. Intel RCS25ZB040LX="Nytro MegaRAID", anything

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Tinker wrote: > Patrick, > > On 2016-02-01 07:10, Patrick Dohman wrote: > >> There is some hardware solution, e.g. Intel made the >>> >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/70029/Intel-RAID-SSD-Cache-Controller-RCS25ZB04 >> 0LX using the

Re: Upgrade from 5.7 to 5.8 : bsd.rd doesn't complete boot

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Jean-Philippe Provost < jphilippe.prov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have any CD. I just downloaded the bsd.rd for 5.8 and it wont boot > and ask what I want to do. > > Since I have 5.7 installed on it, the dmesg I got is the one from 5.7 boot > and not

Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Kevin Gerrard wrote: > > Im going to chime in here a second, even though it probably is not my > > place. > > > > I am not a network guru, or computer wizard. I have made a living for > > the last 5 years by networking. We use nothing but

Re: pf vs mp

Quartz, I'm sorry I'm not familiar with either of the processor's you're describing. In the vague terms you have given, I am 100% that the answer is use the multicore setup. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quartz wrote: > but the short answer is to use the >>

Re: pf vs mp

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em 01-09-2015 14:21, Quartz escreveu: > > Also, does a local DNS resolver really consume that much cpu that it > > would see any notable effect from having another core? I thought that > > was more a RAM thing. >

Re: boot-time NFS mount broken in latest snap?

Rerun with pf disabled. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Joe Gidi wrote: > With the latest snap of amd64, my NFS mount from fstab is now failing to > mount at boot with this line: > > mount_nfs: can't resolve address for host microserver > > Changing the fstab entry to

Re: redhat - openbsd tcpdump

What's file say when you run it against it? On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Frank Brodbeck frank.brodb...@to.com wrote: Hi, is it possible to convert a pcap done with tcpdump under redhat to a format I can read with tcpdump(8). At least I think the following error: tcpdump: unknown data

Re: Router performance amd64 vs i386

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Claudio Jeker cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 04:27:23PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: ..or, if it really is important for you, why not set up a test and benchmark it? I have no idea if or when amd64 would have surpassed i386 in

Re: lynx is gone?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: Hi Paolo, Paolo Aglialoro wrote on Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 05:20:51PM +0100: So it looks like that, till some months ago, everybody here was on the wrong OS and risking their lives, as lynx was in base! That's a fallacy

Re: Please help advertise DigitalOcean on OpenBSD Misc (again)

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Libertas liber...@mykolab.com wrote: On 01/20/2015 09:12 PM, Steve Shockley wrote: On 1/19/2015 9:06 AM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: So please stop by and give us your upvotes. So, is this advertising or SEO? Probably not. They're a cheap, common,

Re: Looking for version advice

Releases come out very predictably every six months, the next one will be November 1st, snapshots aren't releases, and releases aren't snapshots. In short, no, there is no snapshot that is going to be 5.6 release that you can get some time soon. Close-ish might be available with some work, but the

Re: openssh

Collisions become a much larger concern in this model. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Henning Brauer hb-open...@ml.bsws.de wrote: * Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com [2014-07-02 17:05]: Better buy a hardisk, copy your data and mail it abroad. Seriously. A truck full of harddisks is a

Dragonflybsd's pf concurrent instead of single-threaded

This seems relevant to a lot of interest. commit 3a0038bfb239dd522057809c52d7d23dd2134c38 Author: Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/commits Date: Thu Jun 26 20:40:32 2014 -0700 pf - make the bulk of PF concurrent under normal

Dumbing down the recent SSL stuff for users

Misc, So we knew that OpenSSL had some problems, indicated by the fact that they were blissfully unaware that Valgrind gave warnings when compiling their code, from the Debian debacle. Then Heartbleed came along, and people knew how bad things really were, and then members of the OpenBSD got

Re: NFS server export node

I keep mine in /var/samba, for historical reasons. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Kenneth Gober kgo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS just22@gmail.com wrote: Folks, still unclear after reading the hier man page where is the most

Re: Missing A DNS record for openbsd.org ?

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, nobody openbsd.as.a.desk...@gmail.comwrote: umm, but isn't a CNAME or redirect or whatever should be needed? So if people type in the browser: openbsd.org they can be redirected to www.openbsd.org ? Thanks. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ingo

Re: cheapest firewall?

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:12 PM, patric conant mirage.comput...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.ascendtech.us/amd-athlon-64-x2-4200-2-2ghz-desktop-pc_i_dtwm2npvmx24200.aspx?agent=pricewatchand another nic will do itt just fine. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Predrag Punosevac punoseva

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

How about we hold a bake sale? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.orgwrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsdfoundation.org wrote: Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to

OpenZFS announcement

http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Announcement It supposed to be open-er. I didn't find a license, thought it might be of mild interest.

Re: cvsync, rsync

This just in, all the data in the world successfully moved with rsync just a coincidence. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at

apropos

During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the makewhatis(8) utility, providing enhanced search capabilities for the apropos(1) manual

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.dewrote: * Leonardo Sabino dos Santos leonardo.sab...@gmail.com [2012-03-07 19:44]: That being said, I think Dave understands the problem very well. That is probably the most dangerous point in the installation. It's

Re: OpenBSD 4.4

I'm not trying to help you not upgrade but my 4.9 box says Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-01-24 15:13 CST Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: 10.20.0. Note that you can't use '/mask' AND '1-4,7,100-' style IP ranges WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned. Nmap

Re: UPGRADE DAMNIT

+1 remote upgrades are so clean and effective, and the directions are clear enough that I've not been able to drink enough beer to interfere with the process. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

Re: Narcicism?

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:39:24 +0100 David Coppa wrote: See the subject: Narcicism And, btw, the correct spelling is Narcissism: as a guru, this is something you should already have known ;) I prefer narsciscism

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

What could we ask you that would get you to post those messages from boot? On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using amd64. I'll try i386 later today to see if the issue occurs again. Another person replied to me saying i386 works fine for him in ESXi 5. I

Re: no packages for amd64 snapshot

One more reason to hate Gnome. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:25:40PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua wrote: Hello list, is this intentional, or

website down from here

$ ping www.openbsd.org PING www.openbsd.org (142.244.12.42): 56 data bytes --- www.openbsd.org ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss also cannot connect via browser.

Upgrade experience.

Had a 16 year-old jr. admin do an upgrade to the border router/firewall/content-filter/web-proxy/etc from the CD, entirely painless and clear process, could not have been more straight-forward, the upgrade guides were excellent, as an assurance, in 5 minutes + file copying/downloading time upgrade

Re: is SHA256 file used or not ?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, fqui nonez fquinon...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/8 Mihai Popescu mihai...@gmail.com: Hi Henning, It looks like you are in a bad mood. Please read my entire post and don't cut and paste out of context. Man, if you do not want to answer, please don't. You

Re: Security List

The last time someone brought up that there could be a bug in that the system did not work in the manner in which it was documented on the website, I believe something mature and well-thought-out like, Oh, yeah, shut up. was the response. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, woolsherpahat

Re: nat static-port option

Comcast has 15.930 million high-speed internet customers. According to the wikipedia article. 2^24=16,777.216 So they are close. How about the smartphone market, are they largely being natted? Or are we likely to see a doubling of the need for IP addresses in the next couple of years, as

Re: remove users from group

You may also try copying over a valid groups file from a different machine. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Dec 13 12:01:58, OpenBSD Geek wrote: I have 100 users in groups : clients, and ftp_group How can i remove these 100 users from ftp_group ? I have

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

From their services page: 5. Secure mail services (smtp-auth w/ TLS, IMAPs/POP3s) I don't actually make use of this, as the killer app for a shell account was a place where I could run (al)pine against local mail service (it is not all that nice as a pop3 client, in my experience). On Thu, Dec

Re: sha256 hash for /bsd

Free, or Net or any damn thing, and change your name while you're at it. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bryan Irvine sparcta...@gmail.com wrote: Get a new bsd. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, OpenBSD Geek open...@e-solutions.re wrote: So how can i proceed ? On Thu, 9 Dec 2010

Re: An OpenBSD smartphone

Yes, and we won't be supporting any obsolete platforms around here. On Nov 17, 2010 8:34 AM, Francesco Vollero ra...@lilik.it wrote: Il 17/11/10 15.17, Ted Unangst ha scritto: Compared to the hardware available today, the openmoko is ridiculously obsolete. I Agree. It's really really

Re: Dynamic web hosting and OpenBSD

I have been successfully trolled, I honestly believe this was written sincerely by someone stupid enough to believe these things. On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:12 PM, bsdmas...@hushmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, I am currently starting my very own hosting business, as I'm horribly tired of all

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin j...@gnix.co.uk wrote: Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, I feel like I'm watching gay porn. would someone please block this prick. it was funny to start with but now it's intensely annoying. -- Jamie Paul Griffin So

Re: -current is not really -current

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: On 10/28/10 01:59, bsdmas...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been conducting a series of tests and I can say that there is a problem with the build service for the -current snapshots. Here is

Re: It still doable to buy VIA padlock engine CPU?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.orgwrote: On 2010-10-19, Massimo Lusetti mass...@cedoc.mo.it wrote: Does it still doable nowadays to buy VIA padlock engine equipped CPU/motherboard just to take advantage of the hw crypto acceleration? I mean, to do

Re: ath5k case misinterpretation

Noise. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is wide spread misundestandig spread among GNU\Linux\BSD people on Reyk's ath5k licencing issue at least in some mailing lists. Posts like http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=121723197314484w=2

undeadly's been down for a while

just fyi, in case someone involved is on misc. -- /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ /Respect for low technology. X Keep e-mail messages readable by any computer system. / \Keep it ASCII.

Re: Same shit all over again

This appears to be none of my business, not sure how it got to misc, besides someone's deep enough interest to create a special gmail (in eu) account. Now I don't develop software, nor know anything, but this reads like the tree got locked because lots of testing was failing to occur, which

dhcpd knob

Is there a line to be added to dhcpd.conf to tell dhcpd to attempt to update bind9 with hostnames from dhcp client, BIND is configured to allow updates from the lan, and dhcpd and BIND are running on the same machine, I've seen other bind implementations that do this by default, and others still

Re: 4.7 pf: quick and rdr-to/nat-to

Wow, just wow. On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.dewrote: * Rene Maroufi i...@maroufi.net [2010-05-23 14:04]: Hi, i update my firewall to 4.7 and changed my rdr and nat rules. But there is one thing i don't understand: I use a transparent proxy (Squid)

Re: European orders

This doesn't seem reasonable to me, I understand there can be a variety of subtleties and points of view, but either the guy is in arrears on his payments to the project or he isn't, does he really have a story that involves him not having received any product for which he has not remitted

Re: Weird behavior of find on ntfs partition

Were you trolling? On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Paul Irofti bulib...@sdf.lonestar.orgwrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:14:51PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: I saw find behaving inconsistently while finding files on an ntfs partition. Is this GENERIC? -- /\ASCII Ribbon

OpenSSH release CDS

I've repeatedly been in a position where we weren't making direct use of OpenBSD, but were using OpenSSH, and if there were a recurring cost associated with it (like purchasing a semi-annual CD) it would have been relatively painless to get a rubber stamp approval of such a cost, whereas

Re: sftp chroot ?

That was the funniest thing I have ever seen. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Mike Erdely m...@erdelynet.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:19:07PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Hi All, As far as I understand, the sftp service is always running since it is the ssh daemon (maybe one

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

Lets not forget Debian maintainers who think entropy is optional in encryption. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.dewrote: * Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca [2008-12-23 05:45]: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:41:08AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: * Jussi

rtfm

Is /etc/group documented somewhere, specifically, there are several _groups and I am trying to discover if they are read, I thought I had read that _groups were ignored, but can't find reference to it one way or another. man -a group makes no mention of files, nor the file, apropos /etc/group also

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

I'm sorry but I am a little foggy, is kqemu a kernel module, is it fairly straightforward to get working, or do you really have to alter your openbsd installation a lot, and does it deliver the 8X- 10X performance increase over qemu on openbsd that it does on other platforms. I suppose what I am

Re: new home box for secure data storage

I'm confused, the encrypted volume cannot be backed up without a key? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:56:53PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that the data can

Re: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3

Are we really arguing whether or not its ever appropriate to call someone a bastard on public mailing list? Who cares? Suigesting that Theo becom less inflamatory didn't go so well for NetBSD, neither did pandering to hardware vendors so that their OS could run anywhere. Doesn't it seem reasonable

Re: PCI Compliant Vulnerability Scanner

Wow, in the interest of killing this before it balloons out of control, the original poster was referring to Payment Card Industry, whereas the response referred to the Peripheral Component Interconnect, hence the reference to Nessus, a network vulnerability scanner. On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:39

Re: Intel x86-64 using the amd64 platform

This is OT, but I am curious as to the application that makes no-execute a killer feature for you? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Brian Drain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello misc@ I've read through the FAQ and done some searching on the mailing lists + google, but I cannot find a definitive

Re: Hardware recommendation for firewalls (more than 4 NICs)

You strongly overestimate the value of your comments (3 cents), it seems like there are many places more appropriate than this one for you to suggest middle-of-the-road hardware running a proprietary OS that has among the worst security records in the industry. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM,

Re: pfctl

if answer exists in man page then don't ask here, can I have a Regular Expression for the answer structure, so I can grep and make sure it isn't there before I post ... On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/07/15 11:49, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: