On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Clint Pachl pa...@ecentryx.com wrote:
Would dd'ing to the drive all 1s then all 0s be effective?
Yes, and a complete waste of time. 'atactl drive secerase' will do the job
for you.
hdparm in linux has a similar command. But dd-ing twice is just idiotic. If
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Pau vim.u...@gmail.com wrote:
on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific work?
please contact me off list. Thanks
I'm not sure if there will be some official readings available (you can try
BSDmag and similar resources), but it's
On 13/05/2013, at 22:12, Pau vim.u...@gmail.com wrote:
on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific work?
please contact me off list. Thanks
Doing statistical consulting for the pharma industry using 99% OpenBSD. Basic
toolkit is LaTeX+R, both edited with vim, and
I'm not using for scientific work but for all daily, as servers but also as
workstation, graphical station sometimes only for scientific work like
calculations of astronomical trajectories...that's all.
From: Zé Loff zel...@zeloff.org
Sent: Tue May
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 09:15:17PM -0700, Marco S Hyman wrote:
This is probably something stupid I'm doing, but I can't see it right this
second.
Trying to build xenocara from sources pulled from
anon...@anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs
as of about 60 minutes before sending this email message gives
Anyone have any ideas about how to improve TCP performance with huge
numbers of out-of-order packets?
62653661 packets received
25373283 acks (for 43239433893 bytes)
2225419 duplicate acks
20139430 packets (21139432159 bytes) received
Hi,
I have added a second hard drive in my virtual machine, as my root
partition is full. My idea was to add a new disk to the system, then
migrate the root partition to the new disk.
What I did so far :
- In recovery, add the second hard drive, fdisk to initialize it, then
disklabel to add a
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Adrien wrote:
Hi,
I have added a second hard drive in my virtual machine, as my root
partition is full. My idea was to add a new disk to the system, then
migrate the root partition to the new disk.
What I did so far :
- In recovery, add the
Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 um 08:31 Uhr
Von: Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com
on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific work?
please contact me off list. Thanks
I'm not sure if there will be some official readings available (you can try
BSDmag and similar
Tue 14.May'13 at 9:04:27 +0930, Brett Lymn
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:58:08AM +0100, James Griffin wrote:
I just use the base vi(1)
and then fmt(1) to format the text. Same for mail(1) if use the command
to write in an external editor.
Why not:
On 14/05/2013 10:15, Stefan Wollny wrote:
Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 um 08:31 Uhr Von: Tomas Bodzar
tomas.bod...@gmail.com
on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific
work? please contact me off list. Thanks
I'm not sure if there will be some official readings
Hi All,
usage of an OS for desktop purposes is quite a broad term.
Few cases for obsd not suitable as desktop:
- At home, the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for obsd on desktop is negative
due lack of skype, and flash player.
- At work, need for virtual machines on laptop is a must, not very well
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:18:07AM +0100, Mark Duller wrote:
Unless s.o. has to use some proprietary software that is tighly
linked to internals of an other OS there is no technical reason to
use any other OS as a basis for a desktop system
except for resume from suspend not working and
Thanks.
I have mounted my new hard drive to /mnt.
Then I ran :
/usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd2
Telling me that /boot will be written at sector 64.
But I'm still booting with my old hdd :(
Tried to enter boot hd1k:/bsd at boot prompt but it's telling me that no
such
My impression is that most people who pretend that OpenBSD is not
suited as a desktop system are either ingnorant or just outright
lazy: - Ignorant on the fine work the developers and countless
porters did and/or - lazy to read the documentation (or if of
non-english mothertongue: too lazy to
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Adrien wrote:
Thanks.
I have mounted my new hard drive to /mnt.
You don't mount hard drives, you mount partititons.
Tell us exactly what you did and show command output of fdisk and disklabel.
Without that info, we can only guess.
-Otto
Few cases for obsd not suitable as desktop:
- At home, the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for obsd on desktop is negative
due lack of skype, and flash player.
WAF: Good point! Hard to tackle ... :-)
Skype: Valid argument - I have to agree that nowadays this is a requirement for
a general-purpose
Scott,
I'll be sure not to give up my day job at DUKE Medical Center. We have
over 20,000 employees in this medical institution and we know what works
for desktops and we know what works for enterprise server environments.
Be sure to keep your job.
On 05/13/2013 06:59 PM, Scott McEachern
Skype: Valid argument - I have to agree that nowadays this is a requirement
for a general-purpose desktop system (let's not discuss 'confidentiality'
for now...)
Sorry - I couldn't resist:
The German IT-news site http://www.heise.de reported a few minutes ago that
Microsoft reads along
On May 13 21:04:00, pa...@ecentryx.com wrote:
I would like to reinstall a fresh system on an SSD that contains an
existing installation. From my limited knowledge of SSDs, I wonder
if the drive controller may retain data from the old filesystem,
unaware that there is a new filesystem put in
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:34:27AM -0400, Salim Shaw wrote:
Scott,
I'll be sure not to give up my day job at DUKE Medical Center. We
have over 20,000 employees in this medical institution and we know
what works for desktops and we know what works for enterprise server
environments.
OK, so :
1. Added new hdd within my virtual machine.
2. Started virtual machine, initialized the disk with fdisk :
root@bsd:~# fdisk -i sd2
Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
3. Added new slice with Disklabel
root@bsd:~# disklabel -E sd2
Label
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Adrien wrote:
OK, so :
1. Added new hdd within my virtual machine.
2. Started virtual machine, initialized the disk with fdisk :
root@bsd:~# fdisk -i sd2
Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
3.
I agree with your practicalities. We as IT professionals have to be
careful when thrashing people. You never know who you're impacting and I
personally would love to see OpenBSD take over the dominance of Cisco. I
hate closed source with a vengeance, unfortunately we have to support it
due to
I usually add a bunch of packages in a row, and when it wants me to
interact, I don't understand why the packages act differently:
pkg_add subversion mtr arping rsync
Ambiguous: choose dependency for subversion-1.7.8:
a 0: apr-util-1.4.1p0
1: apr-util-1.4.1p0-ldap
Your choice: 0
On 14/05/2013 12:09, Stefan Wollny wrote:
My impression is that most people who pretend that OpenBSD is
not suited as a desktop system are either ingnorant or just
outright lazy: - Ignorant on the fine work the developers and
countless porters did and/or - lazy to read the documentation (or
I'm really ashamed about that, I told it the wrong diskMy bad
All is working correctly now, a big thanks for your hints.
Here the final steps I did, for anyone else who might be interested :
- I forgot to edit my /etc/fstab before rebooting. So my system was mounted
as read-only,
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Mark Duller mark.dul...@it.ox.ac.uk wrote:
The OP was talking about laptops... Ideally one would buy a laptop that
works well with OpenBSD, but sometimes choice is limited due to
workplace requirements etc.
For a desktop computer I totally agree. I wouldn't
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:08:30PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote:
I usually add a bunch of packages in a row, and when it wants me to
interact, I don't understand why the packages act differently:
pkg_add subversion mtr arping rsync
Ambiguous: choose dependency for subversion-1.7.8:
a
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
alv...@alvaromantilla.com wrote:
2013/5/13 Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net
Salim Shaw [salims...@vfemail.net] wrote:
OpenBSD is a server/router/network service OS, it's not designed for
desktops. OpenBSD is the pre-eminent
2013/5/14 Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Pau vim.u...@gmail.com wrote:
on his/her laptop as *only* OS and uses it daily for scientific work?
please contact me off list. Thanks
I'm not sure if there will be some official readings available (you can
The OP stated he was asking about laptops, and went to the trouble of
sending a second email specifying he was talking about scientific
research. I know this is misc@, but can we try and stay on-topic? And
even if sometimes we learn something from 'what-do-you-use-it-for'
discussions, I believe we
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 08:34:27AM -0400, Salim Shaw wrote:
Scott,
I'll be sure not to give up my day job at DUKE Medical Center. We
have over 20,000 employees in this medical institution and we know
what works for desktops and we know what works for enterprise server
environments.
As an
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 15:01, Jan Stary wrote:
If so, how does one reset a used SSD for
optimal operation with a fresh install?
Just treat it as any other disk - which it is.
Almost, but not entirely.
On May 13 22:50:08, pa...@ecentryx.com wrote:
Scott McEachern wrote:
2) Do you
Hello Everyone,
I am currently an avid gentoo user for various server related services
(i.e., dns, web, exim, voip).
And was looking towards transitioning to OpenBSD for the packet
intensive services, namely:
Router: OpenBGPD
SIP Proxy: OpenSIPS
Media Server: Asterisk/Free Switcfh
And was
On May 13, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote:
*** Error 1 in /usr/xenocara (Makefile:35 'build')
Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?
Are you using make in parallel (-j) mode? If so, please try without -j
I'm doing a simple make build (after a make bootstrap make
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:13:58AM -0700, Marco S Hyman wrote:
On May 13, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote:
*** Error 1 in /usr/xenocara (Makefile:35 'build')
Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?
Are you using make in parallel (-j) mode? If so, please try
What is the revision of the file? Any sticky tags/dates?
rev should be 1.1.1.2
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It didn't.
When I moved t1load.h out of the way and re-updated I got a different version.
Grumble... I think it's time to refresh all my sources
Does anyone know how to use CBC streaming music for music on hold for Asterisk.
I tried the obvious in musiconhold.conf (after installing mpg123)
[mp3stream]
mode=custom
format=SLIN
directory=/usr/local/share/asterisk/moh-empty
application=/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q -r 8000 -f 8192 -s --mono
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:04 +, Peter Fraser wrote:
Does anyone know how to use CBC streaming music for music on hold for
Asterisk.
I tried the obvious in musiconhold.conf (after installing mpg123)
[mp3stream]
mode=custom
format=SLIN
directory=/usr/local/share/asterisk/moh-empty
Hi misc,
I have 1.5 - 2 min. pause after syncing disk before power down by
`shutdown -hp now` or `halt -p`. How can I watch what system doing at
this time?
I think that problem caused by some ACPI error.
dmesg log:
OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #62: Tue Mar 12 18:21:20 MDT 2013
Hello,
I'm using a OpenBSD 5.3 (release) machine as my router connecting to Comcast.
Comcast provides native IPv6 access, however it does so a little bit
differently than what is probably best practice. I use wide-dhcpv6-20080615p2
from ports to get an address on my outside interface, as
Hello,
I can't figure out what causes this panic. Second time
I see this. I think I have to replace the NIC or the disk.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Sebastian
OpenBSD 5.3-current (GENERIC) #149: Tue May 7 12:44:38 MDT 2013
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:38, Marco S Hyman wrote:
What is the revision of the file? Any sticky tags/dates?
rev should be 1.1.1.2
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It
didn't.
When I moved t1load.h out of the way and re-updated I got a different
version.
Sebastian Neuper [pha...@gmx.de] wrote:
Hello,
I can't figure out what causes this panic. Second time
I see this. I think I have to replace the NIC or the disk.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
uvm_fault(0xd6c73184, 0xb5cbd000, 0, 3) - e
kernel: page fault trap, code=0
On May 14, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It
didn't.
Yes, it should. No, it doesn't. There's a bug somewhere in cvs.
*nod* Trashing the source and fetching from scratch showed a few things
stuck
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Marco S Hyman m...@snafu.org wrote:
On May 14, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It
didn't.
Yes, it should. No, it doesn't. There's a bug somewhere in cvs.
*nod*
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 02:02:27PM -0700, Marco S Hyman wrote:
On May 14, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It
didn't.
Yes, it should. No, it doesn't. There's a bug somewhere in cvs.
*nod*
On May 14, 2013, at 2:07 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
and none of those files were locally modified? Do you have the output
of cvs up -PAd in regard to those specific files?
There was no output. I have exactly one modified file in my xenocara tree.
It's not in the lib
On 2013-05-14, Mattias Lindgren mlindg...@runelind.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm using a OpenBSD 5.3 (release) machine as my router connecting
to Comcast. Comcast provides native IPv6 access, however it does
so a little bit differently than what is probably best practice.
I use
On 2013-05-14, Marco S Hyman m...@snafu.org wrote:
What is the revision of the file? Any sticky tags/dates?
rev should be 1.1.1.2
You are on to something... cvs up -PAd should remove all tags, no? It
didn't.
I have significantly fewer problems if I explicitly set the root on
the command
On 2013-05-13, Tony Berth tonybe...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I would like to know what kind of environment you use for remote management
of one or more openbsd servers.
serial console servers and remote controllable power bars.
Which KVM over IP solution would you recomend.
I
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
On 2013-05-14, Mattias Lindgren mlindg...@runelind.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm using a OpenBSD 5.3 (release) machine as my router connecting
to Comcast. Comcast provides native IPv6 access, however it does
so a little
On 5/14/2013 3:23 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013-05-13, Tony Berth tonybe...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I would like to know what kind of environment you use for remote management
of one or more openbsd servers.
N.B. shared IPMI/LAN ports generally do *not* work on OpenBSD
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Marco S Hyman m...@snafu.org wrote:
On May 14, 2013, at 2:07 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
and none of those files were locally modified? Do you have the output
of cvs up -PAd in regard to those specific files?
There was no output. I have
Hi,
On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:28:38 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
On Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:16 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013 22:38:46 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
2013-05-07 22:29:03:INFO:
--On Monday, May 13, 2013 09:24:13 PM +0200 Tony Berth
tonybe...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would like to know what kind of environment you use for remote
management of one or more openbsd servers. Which KVM over IP solution
would you recomend.
For OpenBSD I usually try to have hardware with a
YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:28:38 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
On Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:16 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013 22:38:46 +0100
Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote:
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