Re: Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems?

2015-11-03 Thread Tati Chevron
to that task. They have decent antennas, too. Unlike DSL routers, most 3G routers don't have an option to run in bridge mode. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: 5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-05 Thread Tati Chevron
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:13:19AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-11-04, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: On a freshly installed 5.8-release, I am unable to build mutt from source using the ports tree. You could remove the USE_SYSTRACE line from mk.conf. I

Re: 5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-05 Thread Tati Chevron
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:18:23PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015/11/05 11:42, Tati Chevron wrote: >Is there some reason to not simply use the packages though? You'll end up >with a lot less junk installed on your system than building it yourself. I need to patch the mutt

Re: 5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-05 Thread Tati Chevron
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:13:48AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: On 2015/11/05 11:42, Tati Chevron wrote: >Is there some reason to not simply use the packages though? You'll end up >with a lot less ju

Re: 5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-04 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:21:39AM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Tati Chevron [chev...@swabsit.com] wrote: Hi, On a freshly installed 5.8-release, I am unable to build mutt from source using the ports tree. I've never had any difficulty building the mutt port since at least 5.0-release

Re: Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems?

2015-11-03 Thread Tati Chevron
. That was basically with various Huawaii dongles. Hopefully you'll have better luck than I did, if you go down that route. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: 5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-06 Thread Tati Chevron
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:35:01PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-11-05, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: Or to be more general - what is the best way to manage a local copy of the distfiles archive? dpb -F2; clean-old-distfiles Seems like dpb has come a long way

5.8-release building mutt from ports fails

2015-11-04 Thread Tati Chevron
Hi, On a freshly installed 5.8-release, I am unable to build mutt from source using the ports tree. I've never had any difficulty building the mutt port since at least 5.0-release. After the first failiure, I did a make distclean in /usr/ports, before trying to build mutt again, and seeing

Empty MFS on root

2015-12-08 Thread Tati Chevron
. Shouldn't we make mount_mfs error out in this case? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: Empty MFS on root

2015-12-08 Thread Tati Chevron
h an error. The behaviour of mount_mfs is inconsistent with that of mount, in that it allows the root directory to be used as a mount point, whereas mount does not. As otto points out, using with -P is potentially useful, but without there doesn't appear to be a use case. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-11-30 Thread Tati Chevron
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:31:54PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-11-30, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: in my case, a USB stick would be actually useful for installing machines -- unlike the CD sets (I haven't had a working optical drive in the last 5+ years). Any

Re: cdboot manpage

2015-12-03 Thread Tati Chevron
in the standard release directory, but /bsd exists in the root of the disc, the bootloader does not try to load it, and drops to a boot prompt. This appears to contradict the manpage. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

cdboot manpage

2015-12-03 Thread Tati Chevron
seem to match the observed behaviour - if /bsd.rd is not found, it drops to a boot prompt... -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-08 Thread Tati Chevron
and _increase_ the potential for DDOS against openbsd.org? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
, just as a way of obtaining the signify keys with a high degree of confidence. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: NOT POSSIBLE: Fully encrypted system with keydisk

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
the whole drive, I disagree. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: NOT POSSIBLE: Fully encrypted system with keydisk

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
the whole drive, I disagree. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
our mirror? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
gned by my PGP key. How would that help you at all? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
support was removed from FTP, the overall user experience of OpenBSD has really deteriorated... -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Thijs van Dijk wrote: On 11 December 2015 at 13:17, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: Would you really trust HTTPS more than a physical CD being mailed to you??? Yes. Both provide some level of accountability, however with P

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
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Re: NOT POSSIBLE: Fully encrypted system with keydisk

2015-12-11 Thread Tati Chevron
k is connected that doesn't contain a standard MBR and partition table. However, since you indicate that you can install and boot OpenBSD on a non-encrypted volume on the same disks, that doesn't seem like the problem. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
ports have a mass of unnecessary dependencies, and that tweaking this can reduce the build time substantially, especially if you are building the same packages repeatedly for some reason. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:00:10PM -0500, Michael McConville wrote: Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: > Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes > with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
4p3" to run. Much more sensible. Less bloat, and less GPL code :-). -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-16 Thread Tati Chevron
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:43:43PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-12-16, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: Our couple of build machines are both fairly standard core i5 boxes with 16 gb of RAM, and Corsair SSDs. The RAM seems to make more difference than anythin

Re: OpenBSD, software and hardware all free

2015-12-14 Thread Tati Chevron
o post questions asking about them, otherwise your learning experience might be compromised. If you can't find the answers, read them repeatedly from the very beginning again, and again. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 install; X clobbers virtual terminals

2015-12-14 Thread Tati Chevron
if there's an easy/obvious answer, please let me know, okay? I think the discussion must have been all off-list, because I certainly spoke to other people with the same problem at the time, but can't find anything in the archives now. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT d

Re: USB external floppy

2015-12-14 Thread Tati Chevron
reate a, 'normal', OpenBSD/VAX boot floppy, any supported USB drive will allow you to do this. If it's anything else, the answer will be more complicated. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: What happened with MySQL server on amd64 ?

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 03:33:41PM +0100, Dusan Sukovic wrote: Hvad happened with MySQL server ? Can't find port or install package on 5.8 amd64 As far as I can see it, it was in 5.6 amd64. Replaced with MariaDB. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration

Re: build an openbsd router/modem

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
, or whatever you want. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:35:39PM +, Tati Chevron wrote: So the average person installing OpenBSD with, 'full disk encryption', is gaining virtually nothing by doing that, that they couldn't do by installing the system on an unencrypted partition and using a softraid volume for their own

Re: build an openbsd router/modem

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
SL? Cable internet?), source to other machines on the LAN? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:20:16PM +0200, li...@wrant.com wrote: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:36:38 -0500 "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> Tati Chevron wrote: > I have never understood exactly why people have so much difficulty installing > a recent OpenBSD system on

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: Tati Chevron wrote: I have never understood exactly why people have so much difficulty installing a recent OpenBSD system on an encrypted partition. Assuming amd64 or i386: Basically, you boot bsd.rd as normal, and drop to a shell

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: HUAWEI dongle

2015-12-19 Thread Tati Chevron
ine will be something like: # tar -xf /dev/sda -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: HUAWEI dongle

2015-12-19 Thread Tati Chevron
of this with various Huawei dongles, until they blew up and stopped working due to low production quality, (in my opinion). Unfortunately, without more information on YOUR dongle, (which would come from a dmesg, and/or usbdevs output), I can't give you any specific advice. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN

Re: no mail/reports following power failure

2015-12-19 Thread Tati Chevron
, _other peoples' changes_ may not be taking effect as you think they will on next boot. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: HUAWEI dongle

2015-12-19 Thread Tati Chevron
worked. Again, nobody will be able to help you without the log messages. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: HUAWEI dongle

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
e made to work. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
ways to implement text-based menu systems than using HTML and JavaScript. Infact, it's difficult to think of a worse way of doing it. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: FAQ 3.3 - suggested copyright clarification diff

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
' different? Or is the fact that it's on a different type of optical media sufficient? Where is the line drawn? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: Bandwidth packet on interface from OpenSBD

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
(for wireless interfaces). -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: drops to ddb when disconnecting from serial line

2015-12-27 Thread Tati Chevron
n I *leave* the "serial session", the APU1D machine drops to ddb. Is your hardware sending a BREAK on the serial line? If so, this is expected behaviour. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: High interrupt load using 5.8 Release GENERIC i386 on Acer Aspire 3630 laptop

2015-12-27 Thread Tati Chevron
this high interrupt load. On the other hand, looking at your dmesg, there are differences in the vga chipset, the wireless chipset, the USB and PCMCIA controllers, so the machines are not as similar as might be hoped. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration

Re: Mg scroll-up issue in xterm

2015-12-27 Thread Tati Chevron
swallowed before reaching mg. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: drops to ddb when disconnecting from serial line

2015-12-27 Thread Tati Chevron
down. If that doesn't help then I'd try a different usb/rs232 adapter. Possibly a shorter or better quality cable may help as well, especially if it's a long cable run. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: Mg scroll-up issue in xterm

2015-12-28 Thread Tati Chevron
that didn't build before, and the terminfo file actually contains correctly working entries for the framebuffer console. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Binding ^T to status

2015-12-28 Thread Tati Chevron
features to reduce kernel site on the installation media, but that clearly doesn't apply in this case. Presumably consistency between terminal behaviour during install and the defaults for a newly installed system is a good thing? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
worth learning more about OpenBSD and UNIX in general before trying to setup an encrypted volume. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: BIOS call fallback

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
w BIOS project, or something??? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: BIOS call fallback

2015-12-22 Thread Tati Chevron
w BIOS project, or something??? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: Huawei Mobile E353 and umsm

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
(seen this several times before). Of course, a full dmesg, instead of selected extracts would help. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-20 Thread Tati Chevron
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:29:37PM +0200, li...@wrant.com wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 10:51:20 + Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >If installer GUIs are bad, maybe featu

Re: BIOS call fallback

2015-12-21 Thread Tati Chevron
years to get to this point is not very encouraging. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: dpb build box performance suggestions.

2015-12-17 Thread Tati Chevron
it from downloading additional source, and only using what is available in it's own distfiles directory. That way, it will stop with an error rather then pull more stuff in. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: Wireless PCI hardware

2015-11-27 Thread Tati Chevron
set the usable channels correctly, based on the regdomain. The only way to prevent usage of unavailable channels seems to be by modifying the source. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: can't boot from USB3.0 flash memory

2015-11-27 Thread Tati Chevron
h memory connect to USB3.0 boot: can't boot! anyone don't need boot from USB3.0? Hi, do you happen to have an HP machine? Didn't you read the attached dmesg? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: which in /dev/* for tethering to android?

2015-11-28 Thread Tati Chevron
using /usr/bin/tip? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

Re: can't boot from USB3.0 flash memory

2015-11-27 Thread Tati Chevron
Didn't you read the attached dmesg? On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:44:11PM +0200, Ville Valkonen wrote: gmail didn't show any attachment. That's funny, I didn't receive it either. It's almost as if there wasn't a dmesg attached, isn't it? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT

Re: WLAN Card AP feature

2015-11-25 Thread Tati Chevron
1g for now in general and rum(4) and ural(4) are 802.11a/b/g and 802.11b/g respectively. Work is ongoing to add 802.11n support to OpenBSD starting with iwm(4). I have tested ral, ath, and athn in Host AP modes. It works, but not very reliably. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT d

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-11-30 Thread Tati Chevron
anybody be interested in having the source code for the freely distributable parts of the ports tree available on BD-R? It just about fits on a single layer disc and is very convenient when you're a long way from a fast internet connection... -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT

Re: Wireless PCI hardware

2015-11-26 Thread Tati Chevron
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:08:37AM +0100, Alexander Salmin wrote: I want OpenBSD in hostap mode with PCI or PCIe ath / athn driver. Be aware that hostap mode is not particularly reliable, usable, or with good peformance at the moment. - TP-Link TL-WN851ND Works on OpenBSD. -- Tati Chevron

Re: httpd: Custom 404 page

2015-11-21 Thread Tati Chevron
and recompile a customised httpd. I'm actually working on a few patches to allow this, and also simple URL re-writing. For example calling a single script to handle all URLs under a specific path. E.G. http://www.example.com/foo/ All to call a specific script, and pass the URL to it, so that content can be generated dymanically based on the URL. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com

SSH ignores compression_level

2015-11-22 Thread Tati Chevron
Regardless of the setting for CompressionLevel in ssh_config, the debug output suggests that if compression is enabled at all, the link always uses compression level 6, the default. Is this a bug or a feature? -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration