Re: man cp: -i versus -f

On 16 June 2011 04:32, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: Guideline 11: The order of different options relative to one another should not matter, unless the options are documented as mutually-exclusive and such an option is documented to override any incompatible options preceding it. IMHO

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

On 22 June 2011 11:48, Benny Lofgren bl-li...@lofgren.biz wrote: Linux is, in that regard, an abomination. It's the bastard child of someone not properly trained in the unix way, who made stuff up as he went without regard for history, continuity, elegance or, for that matter, backwards

Re: Unix source code (was Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?)

On 24 June 2011 04:57, Brett brett.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Sure. Not to mention it came with source code, which you only got from ATT if you had a source license, and those were*expensive*. I was fortunate enough to work for a company that had exactly that source license during the 1980:s, and

Re: Expected throughput in an OpenBSD virtual server

On 22 August 2011 23:45, Per-Olov Sjvholm p...@incedo.org wrote: As http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html states, there's little you can tweak to improve your numbers; just get a nice-clocked, good cache-sized CPU and give it some loving. The FAQ you refer to seems to be of no use at all and

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

On 27 August 2011 06:09, Rob Payne z...@cotse.net wrote: Chris, feel free to get out of the US. We do not need any apologists here. The free world would not be so without us. Discouraging expression of ideas that don't toe the Party line sounds rather like one of the USA's old enemies... One

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

On 01/09/2011, at 9:23 PM, Daniel Gracia lists.d...@electronicagracia.com wrote: Lambo, Ferrari, Maserati, Aprilia... As you are an owner, you should know their historic -let's call it- 'temperamental' behaviour ;-) I thought Aprilia used Rotax engines in some (all, maybe?) of their bikes Nein?

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

Hi, On 7 September 2011 01:34, Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, that's very interesting. Melkus Sportwagen GmbH is offering an RS 2000 for only 109.900 EUR. The RS 1000 had a 2-stroke engine. I bet that gets some attention. I was just studying production-line methods

Re: UEFI BIOS

On 2 October 2011 08:03, LeviaComm Networks n...@leviacomm.net wrote: First off, the UEFI boot will *not* prevent other OS's from booting, it will only pop up a message saying that the boot process was not secure, just like how you can run unsigned code and it will only pop up a box stating as

Re: equivalent of Linux mount -o bind

On 3 February 2011 03:13, travis+ml-openbsd-m...@subspacefield.org wrote: Update: I have it on fairly good authority that this behavior is considered a bug in the Linux kernel, which will be fixed as soon as someone gets around to it. If you are a kernel maintainer and know more about this

Re: Learning C Programming

On 22 June 2012 03:37, cody chandler cody.a.chand...@gmail.com wrote:  Talk about learning C Programming and the KR book being a good one.  Is this the book? http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628 I learned C from the first edition of this book:

Re: OpenBSD forked

On 22 June 2012 22:55, Gilles Chehade gil...@poolp.org wrote: Someone who really wants to understand things will look at the man pages and try to understand, someone who doesn't give a damn about getting things done right will produce crap with or without proper courses ... hear = forget see

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

TLDR: It's not your place to tell others what they like. On 28 June 2012 07:59, Peter Laufenberg open...@laufenberg.ch wrote: It took me _years_ to understand and respect that graphic design isn't all that subjective, that it's a craft, with harmonic rules similar to music Maybe it does, but

Re: Smtpd disposable addresses

On 31/08/2012, at 9:30, ml+helloke...@extensibl.com wrote: I think you can use '+' character instead (bob+canitrust...@bobszz.net, bob+groupedascompanyc...@bobszz.net), can't you? Tried it lately? Every other website incorrectly reinvents is this a valid email address logic. It's just a trivial

Re: OpenBSD Cloud Offerings

On 28/11/2012, at 11:31, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: Small price to pay, though - ARP is fantastic and I've had nothing but good experiences with them. +1. Also, a suggestion: if a VPS provider doesn't explicitly offer the OS you want, ask - even if they don't list the OS at all.

Re: greyscanner - sender with no MX or A

On 27 December 2012 23:59, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: I would be careful with that guy's work... you may suddenly find yourself in the bathroom with a backed up toilet gargling shitz out. I wouldn't use language quite that strong, not knowing anything about Bob, but it looks like he

Re: Strange ksh history behaviour

On 8 January 2013 03:56, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: e.g. mutt: EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages. If in vi mode and have set $VISUAL, it will be used when you press v to edit the commandline in an editor.

Re: new computer

On 10 January 2013 22:21, Matt Morrow cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? Poppycock. My FondletopPro battery still gives damn close to the performance it gave new in early 2011. The battery in my Fondleslab 3GS is near 4 years now and

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

Hi, On 26 August 2013 14:11, Denis Maros denisalima...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo Test /dev/lpt0 If it's one of the common

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

On 17 September 2013 20:37, Jes jjje...@gmail.com wrote: but if you want you can mount them in /etc/fstab. Simply read the documentation about permissions and syntax. It's very easy. For NFS the best way is mount them in /etc/fstab too. /Why/ is it the best way, though? Unlike

Re: ftp/sftp file size limit

On 21 September 2013 17:07, joso...@hush.com wrote: Is it possible to limit the accepted file size of any uploaded file by configuring the ftp or the sftp server (OpenBSD 5.3/amd64)? You can do this on a per-user basis with a login class (man login.conf, then man useradd) but the user

Re: xSSL stuff

On 13/06/2014, at 14:23, Christian Pedaschus open...@matt-schwarz.com wrote: One could have said the same about OpenSSH... or not? That doesn't even make any sense. What i was trying to say: if OpenBSD does it right, then (maybe) the others will follow... It would be totally ok if OpenSSH

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

On 20 October 2014 14:13, Worik Stanton worik.stan...@gmail.com wrote: Yes all traffic of a country can be analysed, fairly close to real time. With some basic statistics, smart sampling and a dedicated team crafting cleaver algorithms... That is what those big budgets are for! Can throw in

Re: videos in httpd

apologies, that was *supposed* to be off-list but I failed at mail :-/ John On 23 June 2016 at 21:37, john slee <indig...@oldcorollas.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Replying off-list because not an OpenBSD issue. > > On 22 June 2016 at 01:49, jsg <f...@speednet.com> wrot

Re: videos in httpd

Hi, Replying off-list because not an OpenBSD issue. On 22 June 2016 at 01:49, jsg wrote: >For those of you running http in support of your business, are any of > you providing > videos for your customers ? > If so what packages and set-up are you using? > Any advice

Re: Looking for a way to deal with unwanted HTTP requests using mod_perl

On 29 September 2016 at 03:20, Chris Bennett < chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > I am not sure what is appropriate, given netiqette and practicality for > my server. I am sick of thousands of identical requests in my error log, > plus I want to be able to look over my logs easily to

Re: Correct shebang for Python 3

Meta: this "how do I manage multiple Pythons?" thing has come up a couple of times lately; are people interested in a FAQ section? On 23 October 2016 at 03:54, Eugene Yunak wrote: > I'd set the shebang to `/usr/bin/env python3`, or `/usr/bin/env python` if you > do not care

Re: OpenBSD httpd and HTTP/2

I think it ends up neutral or slightly positive. If your site developers have got rid of the old HTTP/1.x antipatterns (separate FQDN for static resources, FQDN sharding, etc), turning on HTTP/2 will probably be a net win. Easily enough to cancel out the added cost of mandatory TLS? But just

Re: Config-/Dotfiles in CVS

I've not gone beyond a few thousand servers with Puppet but I can share a few things. * initially it feels like a *whole lot* of busy-work to get to a minimally-useful level * once there, knowing you can rapidly replace things is good for your stress levels! * in my experience the community

Re: gcc-4.9.4 package build signal 11 [Segmentation fault] on Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway

I also had a similar experience trying to build gcc6 on my Edgerouter Lite (same model as linked on tedu's blog page, which is how I discovered this little machine initially) on a snapshot from ~2 weeks ago. MP kernel, with the ERL's /usr/ports on an NFS volume hosted by an amd64 OpenBSD system.

Re: What is you motivational to use OpenBSD

User since ~2001 here, albeit intermittently. My first encounter with it was where it was used — mostly to run Postfix, Squid and BIND, if my hazy memory is trustworthy — by a private company who was effectively an ISP for many Australian Federal Government departments. I think the aspect I like

Re: IPv6 NDP not completing

Hi, I'm having very similar problems to this, I think. Syspatch'ed OpenBSD 6.5 on an apu4c4, with my ISP-supplied termination device (cable modem, effectively) directly attached to an ethernet interface. No switch. IPv4 works fine. DHCPv6 NA+PD seems to work OK — I get v6 NA & PD assignments —

Re: Tools for writers

I really like Markdown for actual writing, because its markup for logical structure is quite low-key and non-distracting, and (unlike *roff or LaTeX) it also reads pretty well in source form. Tables are fairly annoying, particularly if I later have to insert a column in mid table. Use whatever

Re: dynamic dns updates for clients in my home network?

I also encountered this requirement and created a tool to handle it. It runs as a non-privileged user and is independent of dhclient and the like. My DNS zones are hosted in AWS, so it uses their API. No other DNS providers are supported. https://github.com/jsleeio/ru1 I'm much more sysadmin

Re: Recommendations for USB Barcode Scanner and Thermal Receipt Printer

+1 for Symbol here. Have used them in factory environments and I can’t recall one ever failing. If buying used, be sure you can get the documentation for it, as these are often configurable (eg. continuous vs. triggered scanning) via scanning special barcodes. John On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at

Re: Go programs only using one CPU core

Hi, > On 2021-03-26, Richard Ulmer wrote: > > The `go` directive starts a new goroutine, which I would expect to be > > put into it's own process here. However, using htop(1) I can see, that > > only one of my two cores gets load. Running the same program on Linux, > > two cores are utilized.