On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, the wise Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
I'm attempting to login to OpenVMS and it's breaking the screen with
vt100 sequences. Command line mostly works, but editors and other
programs aren't usable.
I'm having the same problem. Login in with ssh into my OpenVMS machine
with
Hi,
I'd like to change the mouse cursor in NetBSD (7.1 i386). I don't use a
desktop environment, just X11 with TWM. The only mouse cursor available is
the standard one, but this can't be resized or is available in white. In
pkgsrc there are no mouse cursors to install. I like the "dmz-theme",
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, the wise co...@sdf.org wrote:
Mozilla maintains an 'Extended Support Release' which has security fixes
backported to it, so it will be a better choice for such cases.
Currently, it is www/firefox45 - it is updated whenever www/firefox is,
containing fixes for the same
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, the wise Martin Husemann wrote:
If anyone has receipes to easily make it crash, please send-pr!
Debugging often is simple, if you can reproduce it.
I'll fire off an i386 build with debug info tonight...
I'm unable to pinpoint the problem because FF crashes on every site
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, the wise Martin Husemann wrote:
On what architecture is that?
It's on NetBSD/i386 7.0.2.
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, the wise Martin Husemann wrote:
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
I'm rebuilding it as we speak with the suggested option so I'm hoping
that it's a bit more than just a logo thing.
No, it is just the logo.
Unfortunately just as crashy
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, the wise co...@sdf.org wrote:
To add to what jak said, it is the stable version. It just lacks the
trademarked Mozilla stuff like their logo.
There was some drama in the past which resulted in this being a build
option, you can read about it here:
Hi,
Installing FF from /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox always results in the "nightly"
version of FF. But I want the regular stable/release version. How do I do
that?
Even installing the esr version results in a nightly version.
Regards,
Marco
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, the wise Al Zick wrote:
I am trying to get NetBSD installed at a data center. They say the
installer always fails in the same spot. Here is a screenshot:
http://datazap.net/sites/14/hang.jpg
Does anyone have any ideas as to why?
In the dmesg of my NetBSD machine,
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Robert Elz wrote:
/etc/profile and .profile are read only in login shells. By default an xterm
won't start its shell that way - you need the -ls option to the xterm, or
have "xterm*loginShell: true" in your X resources.
...
How are you actually
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Christos Zoulas wrote:
That's good, it is the standard ansi sequence for right arrow.
In shell type:
$ set -o emacs
$ xbind
Do you see the arrow key bindings?
It seems that the users .shrc and .profile are not being read at
login because after entering "set -o
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Robert Elz wrote:
As long as that was from the right arrow key, that's fine (up arrow, the
most relevant for getting started with cmd line editing should have A
instead of C)
Yes indeed it was the right arrow key :).
I got your off-list message, not terribly
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Christos Zoulas wrote:
See what the arrow key prints:
$ hexdump -C
^D
This gives:
^[[C
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Cág wrote:
It is strange because it works here and is what the man page recommends.
Did you log out of all sessions?
Yes, did log out all sessions. Even after a reboot no change.
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Stephen Borrill wrote:
What's your terminal type?
echo $TERM
Both root and user are xterm.
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, the wise Cág wrote:
Try "set -o vi" or "set -o emacs" and "export ENV="$HOME/.shrc" in
.profile.
Unfortunately these didn't make any difference.
Regards,
Marco
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Hi,
I recently installed NetBSD 7.0.2 on an old laptop (i386). Both root and
the user have /bin/sh as the (default) shell, but only root has a command
history, using the arrow keys. I've also installed NetBSD on a DEC/Alpha
but there is no problem and history works out of the box for the
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, the wise D'Arcy Cain wrote:
Christos' suggestion is a good idea anyway. I struggled for a long time
with an install on a drive that previously had Linux on it. I can't
remember why I suddenly had the idea to zero the drive (I just did the
whole thing) but installation
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, the wise Christos Zoulas wrote:
Can you try zeroing out the beginning of the disk manually from the
shell?
like:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=10
christos
I decided to write the complete failed command on a piece of paper and
added the -f option, and entered
Hi,
I'm trying to install NetBSD/i386 on an old laptop (entire disk for
NetBSD). After partitioning the installboot command fails with:
installboot: Old BPB too big, use -f (may invalidate filesystem)
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
How to go from here? Installation is possible
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, the wise Michael wrote:
X in -current should work on (some?) PCI alphas, I don't know to what
extent or which drivers have been tested though. The glint driver should
work ( I assisted in making that happen a while ago ), possibly the
radeon driver, but that's about it,
Hi,
I have a Digital PWS600au which currently runs NetBSD 7.0.1. The version
of X included does not run on my alpha. Building Xorg from pkgsrc fails
because of missing patches.
If I follow the NetBSD Stable branch, are the latest patches then included
in X? Or do I need to follow the
Hi,
It seems that in order to run X11, securelevel needs to be 0. But by
default NetBSD runs at level 1. How can I lower the securelevel to 0? Once
the securelevel has been set to 1, setting it in /etc/rc.conf back to 0
has no effect.
Regards,
Marco
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, the wise J. Lewis Muir wrote:
On 3/1/16 2:34 PM, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Does anyone know where to look for things like this?
Just a guess, but maybe it tries IPv6 first and fails and prints that
error, but then tries IPv4 and succeeds?
Could be I don't know
Hi,
I use Alpine as mailclient on a Digital PWS600au with NetBSD 7.0. When
accessing my mailboxes (a couple of IMAP mailboxes, including my own
ISP, and at Yahoo and Google), I always get an error of which I can't get
rid of: "Can't connect to imap.isp.com,993: No route to host". But after
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, the wise Lucius Rizzo wrote:
You have a few options. All involve the use of openssl to generate key
or csr
See https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/
1. Create a self signed cert and point Postfix to use ssl key and pem
which was self generated 2. Use letsencrypt (HIGHLY
Hi,
I'm trying to make Postfix work with TLS enabled. Looks like I need some
certificates and keys. How do create them on NetBSD 7.0?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, the wise Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
Hmm... do you have wscons=YES in your rc.conf, and additional ttys
enabled in /etc/ttys?
Eric
With this I can switch to multiple "consoles", but these have a blue
background (like the SRM console, not black) and don't have a login
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, the wise Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Hmm... do you have wscons=YES in your rc.conf, and additional ttys enabled
in /etc/ttys?
With this I can switch to multiple "consoles", but these have a blue
background (like the SRM console, not black) and don't have a log
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Bert Kiers wrote:
I recently installed NetBSD 7 on an old Digital PWS600au and build and
installed Midnight Commander via pkgsrc.
I also have such a box, so I could try.
My problem is is that a lot of keyboard keys do not work, and that makes
mc quite unusable.
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Bob Bernstein wrote:
Can you take advantage of mc's "Learn keys" under its "Options" menu?
I can't get to the options because I then need F9, which doesn't work.
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Martin Husemann wrote:
If it is console: make sure that your $TERM environment variable matches
the settings for ttyE0 (or all ttyE*) in /etc/ttys.
If you use X, use TERM=xterm (or something similar).
For now I'm using console only. Will try X later with the
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Swift Griggs wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Can you take advantage of mc's "Learn keys" under its "Options" menu?
I can't get to the options because I then need F9, which doesn't work.
Sometimes escape-9 will do the
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Bob Bernstein wrote:
No.
You only went half way through the "Learn Keys" process. The keys which
did not spawn an "OK" are the very ones you must _return_ to and
"teach."
There are instructions on the Learn Keys screen.
Yes, sorry should have read that
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, the wise Bob Bernstein wrote:
Once you get some key bindings you like via "Learn Keys," don't forget
to save those settings..,also via an mc Options menu choice == "Save
setup" -- before you exit mc.
Yes did that :)
Still got the feeling that the default console in
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, the wise Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
The hot key for switching consoles is *Control*-Alt-Fx
Eric
Ok thanks, but that doesn't work either.
Regards,
Marco
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Hi,
I recently installed NetBSD 7 on an old Digital PWS600au and build and
installed Midnight Commander via pkgsrc.
My problem is is that a lot of keyboard keys do not work, and that makes
mc quite unusable. I think it has something to do with the console
settings but I don't know how to
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