Re: Printer recommendations

2013-02-25 Thread Greg Troxel
Richard L. Dery dickd...@centurylink.net writes: On 02/24/2013 04:01 PM, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: I'm in the market for a new printer but need some guidance from this group. What current models are supported? Ideally, I want a multifunction station for scanning and printing, but from my

Re: wd0 dos error

2013-03-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Philip Miller sigh...@gmail.com writes: (redirected; this is appropriate for the users list) When my netsd system is booting it will show a message about wd0: wd0 at atabus3 drive 0 wd0: WDC WD5000AAJS-00A8B0 wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 465 GB,

Re: Postfix-dovecot-squirrelmail in NetBSD 6.1 RC2 Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n)

2013-03-24 Thread Greg Troxel
Edgar Rodolfo rodolfo...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I am testing the rc2 i386, i am learning to use basic mail server on NetBSD, currently i am doing a basic mail server with postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail. The warning that i see: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required

systat % busy and raidframe

2013-03-25 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a netbsd-5 system with a RAID1 array (wd0, wd1). Under load (cvs update of pkgsrc) it becomes not particularly responsive. I have in sysctl.conf: vm.filemin=5 vm.filemax=10 vm.anonmin=5 vm.anonmax=80 vm.execmin=5 vm.execmax=50 to try to avoid program pages being paged out

Re: Security implications of large CGD?

2013-05-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Taylor R Campbell campbell+netbsd-us...@mumble.net writes: Cryptographers recommend[*] avoiding using a 128-bit block cipher with a single key to encrypt more than 2^32 blocks = 2^40 bytes = 1 TB. This is to render negligible an attacker's probability of success at using the birthday paradox

PaX bad tags error?

2013-05-13 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a binary from 2004 (that works fine under -6; ldd says: -lm.0 = /usr/lib/libm.so.0 -lgcc_s.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 -lc.12 = /usr/lib/libc.so.12 ) but on running it I get: /home/gdt/bin/i386-NetBSD/[foo]: bad tag 1: [8 4, 0 4, 01.0 PaX] Is this a clue that pax

Re: Question about nmbclusters

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Niels Dettenbach n...@syndicat.com writes: Is anyone her who culd bring some light into this topic? Why this low limit is still fixed in the kernel? Why it did not could be changed at i.e. runtime (as on other systems and NetBSD within a small window) or - at least - on boot time and a

Re: Question about nmbclusters

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Peter Eisch pei...@gmail.com writes: Greg, would you mind reading my tea leaves? How should I read the mcl stats from the following systems? You should figure out how to not miswrap log/diag output :-) A quick look shows 0 Fail, which means none of the machines ran out, which means you had

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
quick question - should I be able to use /usr/bin/cpp -E without having installed the compiler binary set? So far on this 5.1.2 host I've got the base and etc sets installed and when trying to use cpp as a pre-processor only, I get the following: Without the compiler set, you should not

Re: addressing 2 TB storage

2013-06-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Jeff Rizzo r...@tastylime.net writes: There is some boot-from-gpt support; I'm successfully doing it on one machine where all the disks are GPT. See the biosboot option for gpt(8), and this (very terse) wiki page: http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jakllsch/gptboot/ Cool - glad I was confused.

Re: Frustrating network latency issue on NetBSD 6.1

2013-06-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Use ping, not ssh, to be able to have a more isolated test case and get quantitative data. In particular, separate loss from delay; both present as delay over TCP. Run tcpdump on both ends, and compare timestamps of packets seen in both places, taking care to synchronize clocks (hard with

Re: How (and wherther) to set pkg wpa_supplicant

2013-06-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org writes: I have been using wpa_supplicant from base and did not realize it has pkg version as well, which is newer. Particularly, how to set up /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant when using pkg version? (I just manually changed all the paths from /usr/sbin to /usr/pkg/sbin/

Re: postfix smtp AUTH SASL Aug 2013

2013-08-12 Thread Greg Troxel
A few hints: smtpd listens for incoming messages (port 25 or 587) inbound to your box. It's possible your local MUA will connect to 127.0.0.1:25 or 127.0.0.1:587 to send mail, or it may invoke /usr/libexec/sendmail. This service is somewhat confusingly listed as smtp in master.cf.

Re: Enabling VerifyHostKeyDNS option in /etc/ssh/ssh_config

2013-09-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr writes: +# Some NetBSD's hosts provide SSHFP records - try checking them +Host *.netbsd.org + VerifyHostKeyDNS ask Not really objecting, but: Why only for netbsd.org? Does upstream OpenSSH enable this by default? Why or why not?

Re: dovecot again/still

2013-10-23 Thread Greg Troxel
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: This is still a live issue - apologies, I missed your post last week. Here are the file specs from my /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/myname.pem smtpd_tls_key=/etc/ssl/private/myname.key It's clear from the runtime

Re: Stupid question about startup script.

2013-10-30 Thread Greg Troxel
ASV a...@inhio.eu writes: I've a stupid question: I've used pkgsrc for the first time and after compiling and installing everything (successfully) I see that startup scripts of the installed services are somehow stuck into /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d which looks a bit odd to me. As in

Re: Import sysupgrade or sysupdate into NetBSD

2014-01-20 Thread Greg Troxel
Fredrik Pettai pet...@nordu.net writes: Right, It's easy to confuse them. I was originally referring to pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade which jmmv@ made over a year ago... http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/introducing_sysbuild_and_sysupgrade And now I learned about Julian Fagir's sysupdate

Re: Soekris Net6501 install from USB stick newbie issues

2014-01-27 Thread Greg Troxel
g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com writes: OK I installed minicom and changed the baud rate to 9600 and remove the hardware flow control so no hardware or software flow control. Copied the image again as every time I go into the blank screen the soekris cannot read the USB stick after and tried

Re: Emacsen segfaulting on startup

2014-01-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com writes: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:23:38PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: Yes, should... But we don't rename symbols in 3rd party libraries that are not included in the base system. And, given how pkgsrc works, we can't really bump their major version

Re: Does my processor support 64bit kernel?

2014-02-11 Thread Greg Troxel
The easiest and most reliable thing to is to get an amd64 install image and to boot the CD and see if it runs. But if EM64T isn't set it almost certainly won't work. 2. Which sets shall I use for an Intel 64 bit processor - amd64? A bit worried since wikipedia page below says there are

Re: 6.1.3 - computer resets!

2014-02-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it writes: error: [drm:pid334:via_initialize] *ERROR* called again without calling cleanup uvm_fault(0xc0c736c0, 0xf7fdf000, 1) - 0xe fatal page fault in supervisor mode trap type 6 code 0 eip c08996d8 cs 8 eflags 210246 cr2 f7fd ilevel 0 panic:

Re: dynamic authenticated tunnel set-up

2014-02-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Another thing to consider: Find a v6 tunnel broker, and get a dynamic v6 tunnel for home semi-locally, and then just use v6 from your backup MX server to your primary server. I have tunnels from sixxs.net, and my user account and one tunnel go back five years. The only problem has been that

Re: Building emacs

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it writes: no one has a suggestion on how to build a gtk2 version of emacs (that doesn't try to pull in and build gtk3 too?) You can build emacs24-nox11. But that may be less than what you want. As I read /usr/pkgsrc/editors/emacs24/options.mk, it

Re: m17n-lib unpleasantness

2014-03-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com writes: In good old i386-land I am trying to build emacs23 and 24 from a current cvs co of the pkgsrc tree. Both builds fail in trying to meet the m17n-lib dependency. It looks something like this: draw.c: In function 'analyse_bidi_level':

Re: PMCIA card, different behaviour in different slot

2014-03-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it writes: On my old and faithful thinkpad 600, running 6.1.2, I have a strange behaviour. If I insert a well known and working ethernet card in the lower PCMCIA slot, I get: pcmcia1: card appears to have bogus CIS if I insert it in the upper

Re: m17n-lib unpleasantness

2014-03-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com writes: On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote: It builds for me under NetBSD 6 with X11_TYPE=modular. I have 6.1.3 here with stock off-the-shelf X. Have you verified that all your packages are up to date vs the pkgsrc tree? The output

Re: Building emacs

2014-03-17 Thread Greg Troxel
I set PKG_OPTIONS.emacs=gtk2 and built emacs24 all the way to a package. = Bootstrap dependency digest=20010302: found digest-20121220 = Checksum SHA1 OK for emacs-24.3.tar.gz = Checksum RMD160 OK for emacs-24.3.tar.gz === Installing dependencies for emacs24-24.3nb9

Re: m17n-lib unpleasantness

2014-03-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com writes: On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote: But I stand by my comment that basically updating everything is good practice, and avoids lots of trouble. Without meaning any impertinence, please allow me to respond. I would never gainsay your

Re: nss dependency problem, seamonkey

2014-03-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it writes: Hi, Greg Troxel wrote: So, the basic rule is that all your packages have to be built consistently from the same sources, with consistent options. So if you have checked out pkgsrc sources -r pkgsrc-2013Q3 and all your installed packages

Re: IPV6 issues

2014-04-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Bob Nestor rnes...@mac.com writes: However my connection to my ISP doesn't support IPV6 so I'd like to disable it at least for the time being. So I would ask: why do you think you need to disable it? By default, the system will have no v6 addresses configured and should not incur delays due

Re: IPV6 issues

2014-04-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com writes: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:29:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: So I would ask: why do you think you need to disable it? By default, the system will have no v6 addresses configured and should not incur delays due to this. Are you having a problem

Re: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-20 Thread Greg Troxel
I have been using an old 1ghz 1 or 2Mb PC to run netbsd 5 and act as a firewall for a number of years. It is not used for anything but this and Probably your CPU is adequate, and either there's something wrong unexpected, or those interfaces are too crufty for 100 Mbps. If you have PCI slots

Re: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-21 Thread Greg Troxel
[netstat -s diff] That looks mostly ok. I ask for netstat -s diffs because there are a lot of useful counters for error cases, and if some of those are incrementing it really helps to notice. In your case the only value that jumped out at me was that there were 30 more out-of-order packets

Re: Cross-compiler

2014-04-22 Thread Greg Troxel
IT geek 31 itgee...@googlemail.com writes: Hi, I'm running NetBSD 5.2.2 on a few Cobalt Qubes and I think they're fantastic. However, when it comes to building packages from pkgsrc, they're not so great... mainly due to their 200MHz processor. Would it be possible to cross-compile for

Re: Motherboard recommendations?

2014-04-26 Thread Greg Troxel
I am about to buy a new motherboard (preferably Intel) for a desktop computer and would like to check NetBSD compatibility before buying. I am about to ask the same question. I think the best bet is to see reports from others who are happy. 1) Since spring/summer/fall 2010, I have had a

proper way to run /usr/tests?

2014-05-05 Thread Greg Troxel
I'd like to run our atf-based tests (on netbsd-6) from a script, to hook into a larger regression test system for other code. I have a few questions, not answered by the tests(7) man page on the netbsd-6 branch. I ran tests two ways. Once was a myself, and once as root. The results were

Re: installboot fails - (un)safe to reboot?

2014-05-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Jan Danielsson jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com writes: I'm trying to remotely upgrade a NetBSD system, and I've encountered a problem. I've built userland and kernel, and I've copied the new kernel in place, I copied the new usr/mdec/boot to /boot, and I was going to update the updated

Re: releng: how to follow NetBSD-6 STABLE branch

2014-05-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Helge Mühlmeier h_muehlme...@gmx.de writes: If I understand the terminology right there are maintenance branches like netbsd-6.1 which will be forked from netbsd-6 if the releng-team think it is time for it... netbsd-6 should be the same on that time stamp (tag) but will differ in future

Re: Fwd: NPF: boot time dlopen error

2014-06-15 Thread Greg Troxel
g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com writes: I am running 6.1.4 stable on an i386 I have loaded the modules required via boot.cfg: # modstat | grep npf npf driver boot 2 34883- npf_ext_log misc boot 0 1091 npf,

Re: naviserver on NetBSD: is Linux emulation possible?

2014-06-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Gerard Lally lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie writes: However, I have been unable to install naviserver from source on NetBSD 6 or current. I do not have the errors at hand but as far as I remember they related to pthreads. There is no pkgsrc entry available. Could naviserver perhaps run under

Re: Create a file with history in sh

2014-06-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Rocky Hotas rockyho...@post.com writes: I am quite new with this mailing-list. I've redirected followups to netbsd-users. tech-userlevel is for arguing about complicated bugs or proposed changes ;-) During the installation of NetBSD, I choose /bin/sh as the default root and user shell.

Re: Create a file with history in sh

2014-06-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com writes: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Rocky Hotas rockyho...@post.com wrote: - do you suggest to seldom use the root account in order to prevent some system damages, like in the other *nix systems, or for other reasons? Yes, it is just the

Re: specs for a netbsd build system?

2014-06-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in writes: i have no idea about what kind of hardware would be required for performing an entire netbsd build within acceptable time-frames, say 1 hour (without x win). may i please get advice on rough specifications for the same? stuff like; 1. preferable

Re: LD_PRELOAD and mixed architectures

2014-06-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Gary Duzan g...@duzan.org writes: Just a thought, but have you tried putting a 32-bit version of the library under /emul/netbsd32 ? Great idea. Binaries running under emulation will look in /emul/netbsd32 first (prepended to the file path), so that should work.

Re: LD_PRELOAD and mixed architectures

2014-06-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Dave Vitek dvi...@grammatech.com writes: Looks like things loaded due to LD_PRELOAD don't search /emul. Here is a short experiment: $ echo int main(){ return 0; } nop.c $ gcc -m32 nop.c -o nop $ LD_PRELOAD=app/lib64/libhook.so ./nop app/lib64/libhook.so: unrecognized file format2 [2 !=

Re: cgd 2T

2014-06-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Patrick Welche pr...@cam.ac.uk writes: I set up a cgd with: # gpt show cgd1 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 30

Re: Switching user and environment variables to root to install packages

2014-07-02 Thread Greg Troxel
Rocky Hotas rockyho...@post.com writes: Hi everybody! In order to install new pagkages with pkgsrc it is necessary to set the environment variables PATH and PKG_PATH. This can be done for root, which have the needed permissions to install new packages. With a common user and the command

Re: i386 install kernel doesn't detect SATA disks

2014-08-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Andy Ruhl acr...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Eric Haszlakiewicz e...@nimenees.com wrote: Netbsd-5? Maybe try using 6 or a daily snapshot instead. It was a daily snapshot from netbsd-5, dated 201408050740Z. I'm not quite ready to upgrade to netbsd-6 yet. The point

Re: problem with mount_psshfs

2014-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Carsten Kunze carsten.ku...@arcor.de writes: I'm using NetBSD 6.1.4 amd64 with qemu as a guest on Linux. I access my Linux home dir with mount_psshfs user@IP:/ /mnt/linux On Linux I have a dir with permission 700 owned by user. If the same user (id) on NetBSD copies a file with

Re: Aw: Re: problem with mount_psshfs

2014-08-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Carsten Kunze carsten.ku...@arcor.de writes: What is strange is that cp(1) does not work when the target file is not present (in a 700 dir). It does only work if a writeable file is present. That does not sound so odd to me. cp likely has different code paths to open an existing file for

Re: releng: how to follow NetBSD-6 STABLE branch

2014-08-25 Thread Greg Troxel
J. Lewis Muir jlm...@imca-cat.org writes: On 5/14/14, 5:22 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: Almost. netbsd-6-1 is rooted at the place on netbsd-6 where the 6.1 formal release is. It gets only security fixes. netbsd-6 gets a larger category of fixes. The real question is the degree of safety

Re: Binary solution for security advisory 2014-009..012?

2014-09-19 Thread Greg Troxel
For me, the normal thing is to build from source with BUILD-NetBSD and do an overlay install with INSTALL-NetBSD from pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage, following netbsd-6 (or -5 or -7). Once you get etcmanage set up, this is nearly trivial, and updates lots of fixes, not just security patches. Note

Re: netbsd-6 CVS branch amd64 build fails with gcc internal error

2014-09-23 Thread Greg Troxel
Try -j1 (just edit the script) and give the VM 1024MB. 256MB can run a lot of things, but seems small to build. pgpzedTXVWL7K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netbsd-6 CVS branch amd64 install fails in installsets target

2014-09-24 Thread Greg Troxel
I stopped using 'BUILD-NetBSD install' a long time ago, in favor of INSTALL-NetBSD, which basically just unpacks the sets, plus unpacks {,x}etc.tgz to /usr/netbsd-etc to use with etcmanage. But, you may be running into an actual issue in build.sh. It does look like probably your installation

Re: postinstall needed after etcmanage?

2014-09-24 Thread Greg Troxel
J. Lewis Muir jlm...@imca-cat.org writes: In the NetBSD Guide, section 33.4.3, Using etcmanage instead of etcupdate [1], it says that to use etcmanage instead of etcupdate, one should run postinstall after running etcmanage. Is this still true? INSTALL-NetBSD from (pkgsrc)

Re: Mom I hosed pkgsrc!

2014-09-27 Thread Greg Troxel
# pkg_admin check # pkg_admin rebuild-tree probably not your issues, but easy to do. pgpbm6gOtSKxB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pkgin Binaries

2014-11-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Will Dignazio wdigna...@gmail.com writes: Strange, is that symlink intermittent? I had used the 6.1.5 url previously without any problems. I really doubt it's intermittent. I read the message, misremembered, and went to the i386 directory, and 6.1.5 was missing, and I added it and assumed I

Re: ngroups

2014-11-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Jukka Marin jma...@embedtronics.fi writes: On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:33:22PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: You can try to change NGROUPS_MAX in sys/featuretest.h and rebuild the system. It's a compile time constant in many places (not just the kernel) which is also used for stack objects.

Re: nd6_setmtu0: new link MTU on iwn0 (576) is too small for IPv6 which needs 1280

2014-12-03 Thread Greg Troxel
Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-net...@yahoo.com writes: On 3 December 2014 at 21:02, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Have you run tcpdump to see what's provoking this? No. I haven't. Actually I haven't run tcpdump for a while. What paramaters should I use? before starting wpa_gui

Re: nd6_setmtu0: new link MTU on iwn0 (576) is too small for IPv6 which needs 1280

2014-12-04 Thread Greg Troxel
Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-net...@yahoo.com writes: On 4 December 2014 at 11:54, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:21:58PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I have a problem with wireless connection and Netbsd that I don't have with Windows 7 and

Re: reliability of COMPAT_* support

2014-12-06 Thread Greg Troxel
I just ran a binary from 2002-06 on -6, and from 2001-12 on -5 (both i386). I know that's a long way from 0.8. I am pretty sure there is no test infrastructure for this. We could add uuencoded binaries to the sources for some arches, but it's generally awkward to test things that aren't built.

Re: Activate usb wifi adapter success or not ?

2014-12-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Run tcpdump and look at 'netstat -i' counters. It seems likely there is some bug in the driver, but given how much is working it seems likely that it is fixable (with code changes). In particular, it seems there is some mishandling of short packets. You might also get a USB/wifi adaptor that

Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-27 Thread Greg Troxel
John Nemeth jnem...@cue.bc.ca writes: On Dec 27, 10:56am, Greg Troxel wrote: } On Dec 26, 11:32pm, Gerard Lally wrote: } } } As a sidenote, if there's a way of eliminating the grub cruft and using } } NetBSD's boot manager instead I'd be glad to hear it. } } No, there isn't

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Having these (commented out) in amd64 and i386 GENERIC would have simplified this enormously. With a suitable comment ofc. Something like # Uncomment if pcmcia cards do not attach #options RBUS_IO_BASE=0xa00 #options RBUS_IO_SIZE=0x0ff I can see your point, but if every workaround

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
David Brownlee a...@absd.org writes: Would it make sense to have a known set of overrides for RBUS_IO_BASE and PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE? Even if it is keyed by something like machdep.dmi.system-{vendor,product,version} or similar, it would be nice to be able to get it right automatically in a

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Björn Johannesson rherdw...@yahoo.com writes: Also, see cardbus(4) and pcmcia(4). Similar issues are documented (based on Thinkpad 600 and 600E!). Yes. However RBUS_IO_BASE and RBUS_IO_SIZE are not documented anywhere as far as I can see. Only RBUS_MIN_START. So it should go in

Re: Booting from raid0g?

2015-02-19 Thread Greg Troxel
If you want to have a fallback partition/kernel, I think you'll need a separate RAID set. But, if this is really for rescue, you can also boot off cd, and that's easier than changing your layout. pgpybBJOy2RKb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems configuring jabber server

2015-02-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Ezequiel Reyes Aragon ezequ...@ecaribe.co.cu writes: I am trying to setup a jabber server. I first tried prosody, since I was looking for a server with few binary dependencies and this depends only on lua packages. It installed ok, but fails while booting. I searched the net and found that

Re: ntpd not correcting system time, offset keeps increasing

2015-01-14 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: s...@drigon.com (scar) writes: # ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == +Maggie.Telcom.A 132.163.4.1022 u6 64

Re: SCP file transfer speed

2015-03-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Stephan stephan...@googlemail.com writes: When I copy large files through scp to a NetBSD box, I get transfer speeds of only 7 MB/s on a 100 MBit connection. This should be around 11 MB/s. I´ve seen this on different x86/amd64 hardware with NetBSD 5, 6 and 7-BETA. The NICs are largely wm,

Re: Making pf block DomU - DomU traffic

2015-03-07 Thread Greg Troxel
The way I understand NetBSD bridges is that they act as level 2 switches. The DomU systems I wish to isolate from eachother are attached to the same bridge, bridge0. Packet to the rest of the world go through tap0 as it is also attached to bridge0. This view explains why the 'block

Re: dual stack hostside IPv6 config

2015-03-13 Thread Greg Troxel
It would help to explain what you're actually trying to achieve. - Are you trying to configure a v6 host or a v6 router? - If a host, do you want stateless autoconfiguration or to configure a static address? - Is your gateway really a static v6 address, or should you be getting

Re: dual stack hostside IPv6 config

2015-03-13 Thread Greg Troxel
My experience with v6 gateways is really only with netbsd-6 and older. I do not use ifconfig_foo in rc.conf; only /etc/ifconfig.foo And anybody know where i can configure the second gateway for IPv6 (if not by hand in any own script)? Are you trying to make a host or a router? If a host,

Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

2015-03-31 Thread Greg Troxel
Gerard Lally lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie writes: While reading the INSTALL notes for amd64 today, I learned that groff(1) is to be phased out in a future release, since man pages are handled with mandoc(1), and groff(1) can still be found in pkgsrc as textproc/groff. As someone who uses

scsi tape drive issues on netbsd-5?

2015-02-24 Thread Greg Troxel
I have a large number of systems, some -5, some -6, and (leaving ancient/flaky hardware aside) except for 1 all are completely stable. The problem machine is running recent netbsd-5, amd64. It has a SCSI tape drive, which basically works fine. ahc0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Adaptec 29160

Re: SCP file transfer speed

2015-03-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Stephan stephan...@googlemail.com writes: I performed a quick benchmark with netio and it showed up the best possible speed on TCP. NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26 (C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel TCP connection established. Packet size 1k bytes: 11506 KByte/s Tx, 6

RAID and GPT

2015-04-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Right now most of my systems have disks = 2T, and disklabel, except for data-only external drives that are GPT. I realize that booting off gpt and gpt/raid is perhaps too hard, so all of this is asked in the context of loading a kernel from a USB stick that will then have root on a parition on a

Re: simple routing protocols and openvpn

2015-05-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Brook Milligan br...@nmsu.edu writes: I have a handful of routers running NetBSD and need to get them to share their routing tables via a (simple?) routing protocol. There's no such thing... But more seriously, I am pretty sure the difficulties you are having are not about the routing

Re: simple routing protocols and openvpn

2015-05-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Brook Milligan br...@nmsu.edu writes: As I was preparing additional information to clarify the problem, I noticed that routed uses RIPv1 by default. Switching on RIPv2 makes everything work as expected. Why would one want to use RIPv1 anyway? Is there a reason it is the default? Probably

Re: Prepping to install

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Robert Elz k...@munnari.oz.au writes: Date:Mon, 11 May 2015 19:16:42 -0453 From:William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net Message-ID: 555144f3.6020...@hiwaay.net | I concur on the observation about OS recovery, I want the box to be | failsafe w/ 1 HDD going

Re: Problem with cgdconfig

2015-04-11 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: carsten.ku...@arcor.de writes: if I encrypt a device with cgdconfig -V re-enter cgd1 /dev/wd0e then unconfigure it: cgdconfig -u cgd1 and then try to decrypt it: cgdconfig cgd1 /dev/wd0e The password is not excepted. What can be the reason? There

Re: SMP in dom0

2015-04-08 Thread Greg Troxel
I think it means that the xen-specific dom0-specific driver code in the kernel doesn't have adequate locking. The drivers used by domUs must, because running a domU with multiple cpus is stable :-) pgpXw4RM6manF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

2015-06-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Rhialto rhia...@falu.nl writes: On Fri 19 Jun 2015 at 01:27:09 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: Of course, if a drive develops bad spots, the single raidframe approach will fail that drive, and none of the filesystems will be mirrored until the drive is replaced or the bad spots corrected - the

Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install

2015-06-18 Thread Greg Troxel
William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net writes: Only partly joking, more to indicate 'no offense intended'. The man pages are quite useful accurate, but mute on the interaction between installer commands invoked from the shell under the installer (for example). I apparently got in trouble

Re: USB keyboard recognized during boot menu, not later

2015-06-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org writes: ACPI Error: No handler for region [RCM0] ... (20131218/evregion-181) snip 3 more ACPI Errors acpiec0: GPE query method _Q42 failed: AE_NOT_EXIST uhub0 at usb0: vendor 0x8086 EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 snip ahcisata0 messages

Re: USB keyboard recognized during boot menu, not later

2015-06-13 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org writes: I bought a new laptop with following page describing the hardware details: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-15-r200-Notebook-PC-series/7486447/model/7748035/document/c04576750/ Installed NetBSD 6.1.5 amd64 on it. I find that, at initial stage of the

Re: Losing alias

2015-06-15 Thread Greg Troxel
Konrad Neuwirth kon...@fimsch.net writes: we are running a NetBSD/amd64 system on NetBSD 6.1.1. There is a strange phenomenon with a wm network card. For a particular set of reasons, that interface is configured to ten aliases. Sporadically, it loses one of them — the one with the highest IP

Re: NetBSD7 RC1 rpi image : Incorrect super block

2015-07-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org writes: #ls -l /dev/rld0* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 62914560 Jun 30 21:04 /dev/rld0 crw-r- 1 root operator 69, 0 Jun 30 20:50 /dev/rld0a rld0 is a regular file. Which means (probably) that it didn't exist, and you just put the bits in it. You

leap second success

2015-06-30 Thread Greg Troxel
All my NetBSD systems correctly handled the leap second, and are now showing leap indicator 01. analog xclock nicely held the second hand at 59 for 2s and ticked to 0 in time with the beep on WWV (US national time standard broadcast on HF). macs, on the other hand, do not seem to be doing so

install report of netbsd-7, some trouble

2015-07-04 Thread Greg Troxel
I have an old (2008) macbook pro, which I think is ok hardware wise. I am 99% sure I have previously successfully installed NetBSD on this, but in the meantime I had OS X. I tried to install netbsd-7 amd64 from an iso made in April. I know that's old, but it's the CD I had handy. Everything

Re: Raid1/LVM layout via installer

2015-07-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: I see there are options to create *both* LVM Volume Group *and* Software RAID, but I do not have a clue how to do *both*? I don't know, but you can surely do it by hand. Basically LVG will make logical disks of some size, and raidframe will let you group them.

Re: Necessity of rebuilding pkgsrc after updating the system

2015-08-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com writes: Thank you very much, Eric. pkg_chk -g to create the list (/usr/pkgsrc/pkgchk.conf). pkg_delete \* to remove everything. Rebuild pkg_chk itself pkg_chk -a -s Those work pretty fine. I would add: pkg_admin check before you start after

Re: termcap issue

2015-08-23 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: FreeBSD removed the tset call from login in 1995, replaced it first with a fixed 'stty erase ^H' and then dropped it altogether. I am not sure if that is the best approach, but it surely avoids the ssh-login problem. An alternative would be to

Re: Necessity of rebuilding pkgsrc after updating the system

2015-08-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de writes: The basic idea is: you can upgrade the base system and keep using the old pkgs just fine. To expand: this is true because the NetBSD 7 system (installed on top of 6, so it has the 6 libraries also) will run NetBSD 6 binaries, because the libs are

Re: termcap issue

2015-07-30 Thread Greg Troxel
John Klos j...@ziaspace.com writes: Sometime between RC1 and RC2, something happened to termcap. I often ssh from a Mac (TERM is xterm-256color) and nothing has changed on that end for ages. However, now on any NetBSD-7.0_RC2 system, the shell shows ^? whenever a backspace is entered and the

Re: Please advise usb wifi device for raspberry pi 2, NetBSD 7

2015-08-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org writes: I am looking to purchase a new USB wifi dongle for Raspberry Pi 2 for NetBSD 7.0. What is the best way to ascertain what would work on NetBSD before buying one? Three suggestions: Read the man pages in 7.0, which often list model numbers. See athn and

Re: Where to install user stuff

2015-07-16 Thread Greg Troxel
William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net writes: On various SGI, Linux FreeBSD boxen, I have always installed in-house software under /usr/local. I notice no such directory on my NetBSD 6.1.5 box. I did notice that pkg_add installed sudo under /usr/pkg. Is that the

Re: pkg questions

2015-07-16 Thread Greg Troxel
William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net writes: 6.1.5 server, 2 questions pop up: Where is my pkg_install.conf file ? I.e., man page entry, but no file Not a bug, because empty files aren't needed, more or less. It's /usr/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf. To figure that out: $ ktrace pkg_add $

Re: Minor setup issues

2015-07-15 Thread Greg Troxel
William A. Mahaffey III w...@hiwaay.net writes: Following recommendations I now login to root by su, rather than directly at the console. When I do, none of my aliases get set filename completion using the tab key doesn't work. man su, see -m install and then man sudo, see -E I use sudo

Re: more pilot error

2015-07-15 Thread Greg Troxel
rpcbind is used to translate service names to ports. Why do you not want to run it? Before anything else, turn it on and reboot and only when it works with try without. pgpFG5HvOqJQ0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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