Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-30 Thread Havard Eidnes
> I think I may have struck a nerve. I'm not sure I understand what that's getting at. It's not a particularly "sensitive topic" to me or us in general, I would think. The fact that english is a second language for me may prevent me from interpreting this comment appropriately. > The consensus

Re: netbsd crashes when using fat filesys

2024-04-30 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 10:25:09PM +, xuser wrote: > Netbsd crashes when using fat that solaris 10 has modified. Can you give any details (e.g. the exact kernel output from the crash), provide a copy of the "modified" filesystem, or the kernel crash dump? Martin

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-30 Thread Lucifer
OpenBSD is NetBSD Lite On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:57 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Ciao Liam! > > Liam Proven wrote: > > I really wish there were more technology sharing between the BSDs. > > There is actually, but it is never easy. I have seen good transfer > between NetBSD and OpenBSD in the years

netbsd crashes when using fat filesys

2024-04-30 Thread xuser
Netbsd crashes when using fat that solaris 10 has modified.

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-30 Thread Don Lee
I think I may have struck a nerve. The consensus is that 8.2 is very old and I should upgrade. As a software developer, I understand completely. As a lowly user, I never want to upgrade *anything* that is working - ever. (You _never_ trade non-working for working, you trade the old bugs for a n

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Ciao Liam! Liam Proven wrote: I really wish there were more technology sharing between the BSDs. There is actually, but it is never easy. I have seen good transfer between NetBSD and OpenBSD in the years, including drivers and such. Dragonfly has the best installer, IMHO, but of course it

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-30 Thread Havard Eidnes
>> I *believe* I could fix this by upgrading NetBSD to >> 9.0+. Unfortunately, that would be hard for me, at least now. > > Whether there are binary package sets for various versions is a > question you might want to answer, but in general, you are now > overdue for an upgrade. Yep. > This query

Re: Pkgsrc issue

2024-04-30 Thread Havard Eidnes
> I have a PPC Mac Mini running NetBSD 8.2. It's stable and > functional. It serves me well. Yes, but it's now running an OS which is becoming old and which is about to be "de-supported" wrt. pkgsrc updates (to the extent we "support" it). The basic problem is that the supplied compiler is quite

NetBSD and IP host models

2024-04-30 Thread Sad Clouds
Hi, I have some niche use cases that need support for "strong end system model" which can perform symmetric IP routing. As far as I can see, there are some obstacles with NetBSD: 1. NetBSD uses "weak end system model", so a multihomed host is prone to ARP flux when multiple IP addresses are confi

Re: NetBSD 10 RFE (ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg)

2024-04-30 Thread Arvind
Thank you Martin. Just to provide the larger context of what I am trying to do: Root Filesystem Encryption (unlock using passphrase) during boot - I want to achieve this without using a custom kernel. This seems to be possible since the fs ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg(5) obviates the need for a

Re: $squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Greg Troxel
> Greg Troxel wrote: >> Almost certainly, you have squid installed via pkgsrc, or you have a >> leftover /etc/rc.d/squid because you used to. > > oh, got you! Squid was there. Actually, I really had the package > installed and left unused. Possibly some testing. The logs indicated > it did some r

Re: $squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Greg Troxel wrote: Almost certainly, you have squid installed via pkgsrc, or you have a leftover /etc/rc.d/squid because you used to. oh, got you! Squid was there. Actually, I really had the package installed and left unused. Possibly some testing. The logs indicated it did some runs in

Re: NetBSD 10 RFE (ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg)

2024-04-30 Thread Arvind
Yes, this is not relevant to what I’m asking. -Arvind > On Apr 30, 2024, at 12:06 AM, Lucifer wrote: > > I've seen documentation for this somewhere. > > Have you seen this?https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cgd.html > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 8:26 PM Arvind wrote: > >> Yes. The man pages

Re: $squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola writes: > Hello, > > on boot, I see this message: > /etc/rc: WARNING: $squid is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). > > > but I have no squid related lines in my /etc/rc.conf and I don't use > squid, so I don't think I need it (or does the system need it?). Almost certainly, you

Re: NetBSD 10 RFE (ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg)

2024-04-30 Thread adr
arvind wrote: Hi friends, hoping someone might be able to help or point in the right direction. We have a NetBSD 10 machine that requires Root Filesystem Encryption (unlock using passphrase) during boot. The man pages are out of date and unfortunately not helpful (https://wiki.netbsd.org/security

$squid is not set properly

2024-04-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, on boot, I see this message: /etc/rc: WARNING: $squid is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). but I have no squid related lines in my /etc/rc.conf and I don't use squid, so I don't think I need it (or does the system need it?). Riccardo

Re: NetBSD 10 RFE (ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg)

2024-04-30 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 07:12:16PM +, Arvind wrote: > Sure, was just using the linux remote unlock as an example of what > we're trying to get configured (after encrypting the root partition > with passphrase unlock). Any help from the group would be much > appreciated. It should be relatively