Re: Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed

2015-06-14 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:54:27PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-06-06, Артур Истомин art.is...@yandex.ru wrote: Your rant is cogent. But if so, why OpenBSD does not supply microcode updates from Intel/AMD? There are tons of security fixes. Isn't that the bios's area? (don't run

enabling GPT (was Re: what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?)

2015-06-14 Thread Joel Rees
David Coppa suggests a custom kernel with the GPT option turned on. I'm thinking along the lines of (1) compiling the custom kernels (GENERIC, GENERIC.MP, and RAMDISK with the option GPT turned on) and (2) making a bootable USB drive with that, (3) backing up the current installed openbsd

Re: Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed

2015-06-14 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 06:01:53PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: Артур Истомин wrote: Your rant is cogent. But if so, why OpenBSD does not supply microcode updates from Intel/AMD? There are tons of security fixes. Are they free? Send a patch. Don't be so lame before answering, open my next

Re: Major improvement in CPU temperatures for -current

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:06 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: I just did a build of the world after seeing Philip Guenther's post on better using C-states in ACPI for cooler CPU temperatures. This is a *significant* improvement. I'm using a new ThinkPad, a w541. During my first world

Re: Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed

2015-06-14 Thread Mihai Popescu
I got the idea of this post, finally: one guy lacking basic knowledge pops in and talks in confusion about some non-free parts inside OpenBSD's kernel. Few threads more and another one is posting a suggestion of liberation. Cheap ads. I am convinced now the free idea got distorted reaching the

Re: sh(1), ksh(1) - lack of information about default sourcefile.

2015-06-14 Thread Black Rider
El Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:19:58 +0100, Maurice McCarthy escribió: The file itself says it is for default for root. My bad, that is true. An user here had noticed that some shell variables existed in his shell even if no /etc/profile nor ~/.profile (nor other files listed in sh(1) and ksh(1))

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Max Power wrote: Thank You Gilles for Your reply. Only the group is changed. But why the owner is remained the same [root]? On OpenBSD, I can not get root:root ? Tradition. Note that the description of wheel characteristics in FSF's Linux used to

GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Max Power
Hi guys! I copied my files from Debian [ext4] to my new server OpenBSD [5.7 amd64], and I found that all files of 'ROOT' group were imported [in OpenBSD] in the 'Wheel' group. Why is this? [Owner is the same, there is no change.] Thank fro reply.

GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Max Power
Thank You Gilles for Your reply. Only the group is changed. But why the owner is remained the same [root]? On OpenBSD, I can not get root:root ? Thanks. On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:32:18PM +0200, Max Power wrote: Hi guys! I copied my files from Debian [ext4] to my new server OpenBSD [5.7

Re: sh(1), ksh(1) - lack of information about default sourcefile.

2015-06-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:48:17PM + or thereabouts, Black Rider wrote: Hello. I have noticed that the ksh and sh manpages don't make reference to the file /.profile, which I understand to hold the default shell variables if the other source files listed on the manuals don't exist.

Re: partition alignment and advanced format drives

2015-06-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
i got curious how visible this speed difference would be, so while i was setting up the disk anyway, i made this unscientific experiment. some modern linux distros (and win7) use 2048 sectors as offset for their first partition, an alignment of 1MB. openbsd's fdisk uses 64. one thing it

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Mike Burns
On 2015-06-14 16.46.53 +0200, Max Power wrote: Only the group is changed. But why the owner is remained the same [root]? On OpenBSD, I can not get root:root ? No: $ grep ^root /etc/group $ On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:32:18PM +0200, Max Power wrote: Hi guys! I copied my files from

sh(1), ksh(1) - lack of information about default sourcefile.

2015-06-14 Thread Black Rider
Hello. I have noticed that the ksh and sh manpages don't make reference to the file /.profile, which I understand to hold the default shell variables if the other source files listed on the manuals don't exist. The current FILES secion of SH(1): FILES ~/.profile User's login

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Bernte
Groups and users are actually just numbers, the mapping to names happens in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. On Linux, user 0 is 'root' and group 0 is 'root'. On BSDs, user 0 is 'root', but group 0 is 'wheel'. Check the /etc/group file on both systems, and you will see. Bernd On 14/06/15

Re: Major improvement in CPU temperatures for -current

2015-06-14 Thread Henrik Friedrichsen
Can confirm this. Quite a significant change on my Thinkpad X220. Thanks a lot!

partition alignment and advanced format drives

2015-06-14 Thread frantisek holop
i was putting a 2.5 500G WD disk into a usb enclosure and i noticed that instead of technical information they used to put there (chs, lba, etc) most of the space was taken up by a notice about this being advenced format drive, and how speed will suffer if used with windows xp, etc, without

Re: Major improvement in CPU temperatures for -current

2015-06-14 Thread frantisek holop
thinkpad x60s here, copying 130G from one encrypted softraid to another one: 86-89C down to 71-74C. now i need to buy an extra heater :( this is some great news for my testies, our great thanks in the name of the whole family :) -f -- one family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.

sogo, httpd(8) and the rewrite need

2015-06-14 Thread Joel Carnat
Hi, I was going to install SOGo on OpenBSD 5.7 using the native httpd(8). In the readme, there are configuration examples for nginx and apache-httpd-openbsd. Nothing for the new httpd. There are rewrite/redirect features that I can’t figure out how to setup with httpd(8). nginx example:

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread andrew fabbro
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: Note that the description of wheel characteristics in FSF's Linux used to be hilarious. Yes, it was on the su(1) man page...it's still in their docs:

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:32:18PM +0200, Max Power wrote: Hi guys! I copied my files from Debian [ext4] to my new server OpenBSD [5.7 amd64], and I found that all files of 'ROOT' group were imported [in OpenBSD] in the 'Wheel' group. Why is this? [Owner is the same, there is no change.]

Re: partition alignment and advanced format drives

2015-06-14 Thread frantisek holop
Theo de Raadt, 14 Jun 2015 12:15: some modern linux distros (and win7) use 2048 sectors as offset for their first partition, an alignment of 1MB. openbsd's fdisk uses 64. one thing it does not do is creating partition sizes divisble you have confused yourself. my mistake here, that

Re: sogo, httpd(8) and the rewrite need

2015-06-14 Thread Reyk Floeter
On 14.06.2015, at 18:08, Joel Carnat j...@carnat.net wrote: Hi, I was going to install SOGo on OpenBSD 5.7 using the native httpd(8). In the readme, there are configuration examples for nginx and apache-httpd-openbsd. Nothing for the new httpd. There are rewrite/redirect features that I

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Joel Rees
My memories of Debiandora are fading slightly, but, ... 2015/06/15 8:53 Rick Hanson r...@tamos.net: From the linux su man page: This version of su uses PAM for authentication, account and session management. Some configuration options found in other su implementations, such as support

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Rick Hanson
From the linux su man page: This version of su uses PAM for authentication, account and session management. Some configuration options found in other su implementations, such as support for a wheel group, have to be configured via PAM. So, you see, the jack-booted thug rulers have already

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015, at 06:14 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: Note that the description of wheel characteristics in FSF's Linux used to be hilarious. Yes, it was on the su(1) man page...it's still in their docs:

Re: GROUP CHANGED

2015-06-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
Yes, it was on the su(1) man page...it's still in their docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html#index-fascism-2365 So welcome to the oppressive, totalitarian regime of *BSD. If you've got root, be sure to claim your free pair of hobnailed