Re: Mail delivery from Postfix to remote IMAP

2024-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
soever. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpXhX5pfLz6i.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Mail delivery from Postfix to remote IMAP

2024-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
MUA) I've encountered has been able to easily handle multiple IMAP accounts, and many of them have simple ways to aggregate all INBOXes, for example, into one meta INBOX. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc.

Re: Mail delivery from Postfix to remote IMAP

2024-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
rs, (e.g. mail/isync) but I think that's a different use case than yours. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpcIV51Rytvl.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Mail delivery from Postfix to remote IMAP

2024-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
th the milter mess!). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpmA9lRU9qc9.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: compile kernel

2024-04-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64 Some also have com ports on isa0 (here only one as Xen gets the other): com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, 1-byte FIFO -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 Rob

Re: Official cloud/live images ?

2024-03-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
onsole and change > sshd config. That's quite unpleasant - I'd rather directly use the > official release images instead. I would think it should be trivial to take a copy of the official image, modify it as desired, then use that modified copy for one's own uses. --

Re: x86_64 assembly Hello World

2024-02-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
alse(1) written in x86_64 assembler: https://github.com/robohack/experiments/blob/master/ttrue.s https://github.com/robohack/experiments/blob/master/tfalse.s -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix,

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
part as? "nobody" does not seem the > answer; "operator" neither. This opened a can of worm-questions ;-) Indeed, "nobody" has, or at least had, a very specific and singular purpose (though it seems some programs are misusing it now). Typically one creates a new user for each specific "unprivileged" operation or group of operations. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpTJ6O0YyZ1I.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Reverse of promoting to root: downgrade root to unprivileged

2024-01-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
, as does my NetBSD variant.) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpdoSaFqm2dD.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: groff issue after upgrade to NetBSD-9.2

2022-03-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
at you can much more easily customise (and test!) the tools and their configuration by applying local patches via pkgsrc. That said I've long argued for these heirloom-doctools to be used to replace the base system Groff, and I would still strongly suggest that be done. --

Re: Release

2021-12-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
oblem was exacerbated by software that had been designed and implemented by people who didn't understand (or maybe appreciate) RFC 822 clearly enough, which sadly included BSD mail and some mailing list software.) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: mount_union(8) vs. open(O_RDWR)

2021-12-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
he lower vnode making > this operation difficult to read. Indeed, that code is unnecessarily obtuse. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpM9Q5e9iHwc.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: mount_union(8) vs. open(O_RDWR)

2021-12-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
sufficient -- please give it a try. It works perfectly, thank you very much! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpUYQcLnc8ke.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: mount_union(8) vs. open(O_RDWR)

2021-12-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
utmpx: lower size now 0 [ 4.3502564] union: copied up utmpx [ 4.3502564] union_newsize: utmpx: upper size now 0 [ 4.3602577] union_newsize: utmpx: upper size now 520 [ 4.3602577] union_newsize: utmpx: upper size now 1040 [ 4.3602577] union_newsize: utmpx: upper size now 1560 [ 4.3742532] u

Re: mount_union(8) vs. open(O_RDWR)

2021-12-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
import with fresh FreeBSD sources. Such a re-import would still seem to be highly useful to more easily acquire the new features in FreeBSD's unionfs (which may include whiteout support for directories?), with the caveat that their manual page still warns of the seriously experimental nature of the

mount_union(8) vs. open(O_RDWR)

2021-12-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
"any other operation" and thus actually be failing! So are these things I find surprising actually bugs, or am I confused by what mount_union(8) is vaguely saying? For the record this is with a (slightly dated) 9.99.81 kernel on amd64. -- Greg A. Woo

Re: what is systems programming?

2021-11-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
pecially as used in computer networks. Systems programming covers data and program management, including operating systems, control programs, network software, and database management systems. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: Modern Cyrus IMAP and Apache Guacamole on NetBSD?

2021-09-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
common headers). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpAjzw8JMy41.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Compiling NetBSD-HEAD kernel sources

2021-07-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
ch/amd64/conf/GENERIC.local" > > So just create a GENERIC.local file with your tweaks to build > an "almost-GENERIC" kernel. Unfortunately that line is not at the end of the GENERIC file, so it can be a little less useful than it could be --

Re: Status of syspkg or similar

2021-05-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
re transparently handle hierarchy differences between /usr and /usr/pkg). These day's I'm happy enough with setting PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpwY34lMz7zk.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Status of syspkg or similar

2021-05-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
dequate and very usable alternative. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpUkn5knG8xw.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: toupper and warnings

2021-05-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
racter, but due to the default integer promotions for all function parameters the sign will be extended and the result will be (int) -1). This matters for iscntrl(), isalpha(), and potentially also toupper() and tolower() depending on exactly how the return value is used. > To answer Greg W

Re: toupper and warnings

2021-05-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
art using it nearly soon enough. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpzulPfCalY4.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Setting ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf

2021-04-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
apple-admin-license -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgphNo9C5jv6s.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

how do I mount a read-only filesystem from the "root device" prompt?

2021-04-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
root pointer). So I'm lost -- any hints? Is it from bounds_check_with_label()? How? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp7lVzPDrO_W.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: blocklistd: How to keep my dynamic IP from getting blocked

2021-04-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
e or list, etc., etc., etc. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpJi9w8rTU7Y.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: blocklistd: How to keep my dynamic IP from getting blocked

2021-04-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
ly overrides [local]? Yes, rules in the [remote] section should override anything in the [local] section, and in particular since the rule in the [remote] section can set a new "nfail" value, using "*" will mean "never block". --

Re: blocklistd: How to keep my dynamic IP from getting blocked

2021-04-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
nge, then just ask it not to do so in the first place! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgps9LyHlOhA8.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: blocklistd: How to keep my dynamic IP from getting blocked

2021-03-31 Thread Greg A. Woods
ote (client) side that has the changing address and you don't already have a pre-determined way to do these updates and actions based on a remote trigger or some other kind of locally initiated monitoring. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250

Re: kern/54969 (Disk cache is no longer flushed on shutdown)

2021-03-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
30 2021]/dev/dk2 on /var type ffs (local, fsid: 0xa802/0x78b, reads: sync 1 async 0, writes: sync 2 async 0) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpd4g7W5tdUY.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

a reminder: upgrade Xen in single-user mode, or with Xen disabled!

2021-03-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
this next reboot all the right versions of the right bits started! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpKwzMGQ5iLa.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: ispell-british (for 9.0/amd64) has broken hash files

2021-02-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
bug. Here's the PR with my fixes: pkg/55972 -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpPApJwQ9YCp.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

ispell-british (for 9.0/amd64) has broken hash files

2021-02-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
Requires: ispell>=3.3.02 Description: This package provides the British-spelling dictionaries for ispell. Homepage: http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html (BTW, the server for that homepage doesn't seem reachable any more.) -- Greg A. Woods

Re: Git pkgsrc - setting file locations

2020-07-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS = YES # install rc.d scripts immediately. .endif -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpfQNnaC3ghq.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: pkgsrc build server

2020-07-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:24:20 +0300, Denys Nykula wrote: Subject: Re: pkgsrc build server > > "Greg A. Woods"  4 July 2020, 23:58:24: > > > # use pkgtools/autoswc to cache some autoconf results > > # > > .sinclude "/usr/pkg/share/autoswc/autoswc.mk&quo

Re: pkgsrc build server

2020-07-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
use pkgtools/autoswc to cache some autoconf results # .sinclude "/usr/pkg/share/autoswc/autoswc.mk" .endif # BSD_PKG_MK As others have warned though, be careful about mixing packages from different pkgsrc trees. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC

Re: Use network printer from NetBSD

2020-07-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
-12345X@PJL\n@PJL EOJ NAME = "test job"\n'; printf '@PJL USTATUSOFF\n@PJL INFO PAGECOUNT\n@PJL INFO STATUS\n'; printf '\033%%-12345X'; sleep 30 } | telnet 10.0.1.19 9100 BTW, the PJL language is documented for my printer in the "Command Referenc

Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

2020-07-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 -lexecinfo.0 => /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.0 -lelf.2 => /usr/lib/libelf.so.2 -latspi.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libatspi.so.0 -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp1FfdANnqtv.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

2020-07-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
om /usr/lib/libc.so.12 #1 0x7a51fb5fec81 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so #2 0x7a520d2a5c10 in _opendir (name=) at /build/src-current/lib/libc/gen/opendir.c:72 #3 0x0001000b in ?? () #4 0x in ?? () (gdb) --

does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

2020-07-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
binaries are a curse) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpBClgjl3aHS.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work.....

2020-07-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:28:38 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work. > > At Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:52:37 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > Subject: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount"

Re: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work.....

2020-06-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:52:37 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work. > Curiously the kernel now does something I didn't quite expect when one tries to reboot a system with a stuck mount. I was able to see this as

So it seems "umount -f /nfs/mount" still doesn't work.....

2020-06-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
e crash(8) is unable to do a backtrace: # ktrace crash Crash version 9.99.64, image version 9.99.64. Kernel compiled without options LOCKDEBUG. Output from a running system is unreliable. crash> trace /t 0t4003 crash: kvm_read(0x4, 4): kvm_read: Bad address trace: pid 4003 lid 4003 crash> --

Re: How to configure npf to restrict nfs to localhost

2020-06-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:36:07 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: Subject: Re: How to configure npf to restrict nfs to localhost > > On 2020-06-29 23:24, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > Stopping rpcbind from revealing ports other RPC servers are listening on > > is the primary thing you need

Re: fork and COW

2020-06-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
text (code) segments (and of course that should include code pages for shared libraries too, iff the program is dynamically linked). Stack and heap pages cannot be shared between independently executed processes, of course. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, B

Re: How to configure npf to restrict nfs to localhost

2020-06-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
us ports might be a bit too strict though. Unfortunately rpcbind(8) doesn't have hooks to register filters for registered RPC services, though one could periodically run "rpcinfo -p" to get the list of actual RPC ports in use and use that to update the filters. --

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
osen to use some language far more esoteric and unwieldy and practically un-portable than they could have. Even Common Lisp would likely have been better. Monotone is one exception, though I personally still object to C++ with vehemence. -- Greg A.

Re: cvs better than git?

2020-06-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
s on that final commit). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp3Oz8QFxccu.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
this require that much memory in the first place? (c) modern change tracking tools try to track changes to whole sets of files at once, so if you have lots of files, and lots of history, this combinatorial problem can sometimes bite at a bad time for the user of a tool trying to manage it

Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

2020-06-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
, well, as I said, I would have a very hard time arguing against Go. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpo6CCmIfbCq.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

dealing with rewriting of history in Git repos (was: cvs better than git?)

2020-06-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
Requires: GitPython, colorama, termcolor, six, click Required-by: -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpwYx3XLTvc6.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

don't bother to use NetBSD Git repos for anything but testing (was: cvs better than git?)

2020-06-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
s either, until the conversion is 100% frozen with no possibility of any new change ever being introduced to the original CVS repo again. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpd3iGSGiuNF.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
for changes changeset: 931876:26c8f37631b6 branch: trunk user:maxv date:Sat May 02 11:12:49 2020 + summary: Remove unused. changeset: 931877:42596ac89b6e branch: trunk --

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 12 Jun 2020 07:34:55 -0400, matthew sporleder wrote: Subject: Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/; still aborts, but... > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:34 PM Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > Just a wee while ago it was again mentioned that 'hg clone' woul

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:26:26 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/; still aborts, but... > > I'll now fire up a new "git clone" next for a more up-to-date > comparison. There will be another rsync &&

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
activity, though ultimately what I've done this evening is probably a more fair test in an environment that might better mimic what other users will do. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpkaa7G9mBeN.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
will be another rsync && cvs start during this, just to be fair. :-) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpMP1GK6S4dV.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

"hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

2020-06-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
aster on the same platform, and direct from the network. Perhaps this slowness is because even the initial clone attempt is/was working from the one big complete bundle-format file? Does HG have any more efficient way to supply a clone? And also, why does the network clone fail, but a fetch+unb

Re: requesting support for persistent memory

2020-06-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
hat's exactly what I want to do. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpT33iXhOWyB.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Optional crunchgen base

2020-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 8 Jun 2020 15:09:47 +0100, David Brownlee wrote: Subject: Re: Optional crunchgen base (Was: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?) > > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > [...] > > To really make this useful for general NetBSD bui

shared libraries vs. static binaries (Was: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?)

2020-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 8 Jun 2020 08:58:51 +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: Subject: Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020? > > On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 15:12:56 -0700 > "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > > > However when you put _all_ the code for _all_ the system's programs >

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:19:59 +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: Subject: Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020? > > On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:35:09 -0700 > "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > > > Now ideally what I want to do for embedded systems is static-link > &g

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
s to email them to a central repository where they can be processed. This is probably more work for just one system, but as soon as you have more than one system, it becomes more and more appealing. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 7 Jun 2020 12:46:51 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: Subject: Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020? > > On 2020-06-07 07:32, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > At Sun, 7 Jun 2020 01:53:34 +0200, Johnny Billquist > > wrote: > > Is the slow

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
y small in comparison (at only 9k lines of code _total_), but ultimately it is _far_ less flexible and _far_ less featureful; and probably less scalable. For small machines though it would be a good basic MTA. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-76

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
r in my email, it means I want any reply to go there, unless I've pointed it to a public list and the reply is not to be public. I don't need to be personally CCed on replies that I've directed to a public list.) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7

Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

2020-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
y mail agent. The NetBSD mailing list archives contain long discussions about this very issue. I would suggest it is still very relevant to have a network capable MTA in the base system distribution, and for that purpose Postfix is a most excellent choice. -- G

Re: Securing DNS traffic

2020-05-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
machine for routing -- something with better gigabit-speed throughput, as keeping the old laptop to run the old AirPort Utility is not viable.) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Thu, 21 May 2020 00:17:27 -0400, "Aaron B." wrote: Subject: Re: NetBSD Jails > > On Wed, 20 May 2020 14:47:52 -0700 > "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > > > Well if all your chroot tree of processes runs as a single unique user > > then from what I understan

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 19 May 2020 10:21:52 +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Subject: Re: NetBSD Jails > > Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2020, 03:15:53 CEST schrieb Greg A. Woods: > > > > I still think the security and complexity issues with containers, are a > > very much bigger concern than th

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
equirements one has. If by "enterprise" one means: "it has a clicky-GUI driving console", well, no, of course not. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpvF_vCwj_cN.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
ernel subsystems. Both incur a huge amount of code complexity to the kernel. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpwoyQv47Yzf.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 17 May 2020 11:11:22 +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Subject: Re: NetBSD Jails > > Am 17.05.2020 um 06:01 schrieb Greg A. Woods : > > > > I know some people do allow human users to login to FreeBSD "jails", but > > I really have to wonder why. I thi

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
t probably is the only sane/safe/efficient way. Complexity breeds disaster. > The complexity will > exist somewhere, it's a question of where. I don't agree -- I think it's just a matter of seeing requirements in a different light so that the complexity can be cut away for good. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgphw9hh8Mvjd.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
shared read-only as a block device -- i.e. through xbdback(4) to xbd(4), or the equivalent for other kinds of VMs. (I say this because I abhor the use of NFS to share to VM domUs.) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgppMReEo1poV.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
urious about what this means to you -- what do you need/want in addition to the chroot environments you now have? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpS1Y_UNTDYZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: pkg and downloaded files

2020-05-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
the mapping with "ls" I would have noticed > immediately. Wow, that's an incredibly useful insight! I wish I would have thought of it. It seems so obvious in hindsight now! Now I wonder just how difficult it might be to implement, perhaps as an(other) option. --

Re: NetBSD install experiences

2020-05-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
a look at the dmesg output again is, well, painful) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpWWygdbHDbg.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

netbsd (i386 9.0) vs. USB Keyboard/Video/Mouse switches (and X11)

2020-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
r indeed if it's expected to work at all? Getting X stable with the built-in video card and the monitor I have doesn't seem worthwhile until the keyboard issue is fixed, but just for fun, as promised, the xdm, Xserver, and dmesg logs follow. -- Greg A.

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
1442574 pages swapped out and just: 15 faults with no memory 28 faults had to wait on pages all a tiny fraction of: 1271146431 total faults taken -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote F

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
swap compressed pages faster than it can write and read them from spinning rust). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpDlyF0KHhnc.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
another window during normal workloads to see how memory is being used. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp0fCCIE_PsZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
(as BUFCACHE cannot be set below 5%). # # note this value is given in bytes. # #vm.bufmem_hiwater= -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpgmDnDncIRl.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
y have neither a PTR, nor an SPF record (which are stupid), nor does my mailer do anything special to create DKIM headers, etc. Vice versa I can also send from my gmail account to my server A-OK. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: default search path for shared libraries

2020-03-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
words, what's shown by "readelf -d /bin/path | fgrep PATH", if anything, else the default path of "/usr/lib" (assuming LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set in the environment and /etc/ld.so.conf is empty or missing). See ld.elf_so(1). (which isn't perfectly clear on search order, unlike the lates

Re: Shared object "libintl.so.9" not found (but its there)

2020-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
doesn't look in /usr/local/lib by default). You could probably work around this by configuring /etc/ld.so.conf, or even by setting LD_RUN_PATH in the environment, but the best fix is to make sure the linker gets the required "-rpath=" options when building the "git-submodule" bina

Re: tcsh and accented characters (strange problem)

2020-03-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
tually now only a few hours work. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpRkRsdR5Qzn.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
uld work for any kind of "console" connection. Doesn't pressing already work to manually trigger a screen redraw in many instances, or am I mis-remembering? Maybe just a wee hint about using ^L in one of the earlier messages would suffice? -- Gre

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

2020-01-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
ever having used "useradd" except to test it. :-) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgptpALXByYyc.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU

2020-01-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 10 May 2019 13:02:05 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU > > During normal operation I see just over 8000/s (and with the console > spewing there are only about 200/s more

Re: csapp, really good?

2019-11-28 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:39:50 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: csapp, really good? > > If you want to learn to program for any Unix-like system the very best > book would probably be Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the UNIX > Environment", possibly al

Re: csapp, really good?

2019-06-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
If you want to learn to program for any Unix-like system the very best book would probably be Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", possibly along with Steven's 2-volume "UNIX Network Programming" set. -- Greg A. Woods

Re: BSDCan meets!

2019-05-14 Thread Greg A. Woods
arriving Thursday evening, see you there! -- Greg A. Woods +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp9omHZ399t9.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: "route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU

2019-05-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
irst few years of life of this system (from about 2015) when it (and its dom0) was running 7.99.various. -- Greg A. Woods +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpWS5wsy4cXw.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

"route_enqueue: queue full, dropped message" blast from a 8.99.32 amd64 domU

2019-05-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
anyone have any clues/suggestions/questions for me? -- Greg A. Woods +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp4HNA6PNhyb.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: mutt and gpg2

2019-05-07 Thread Greg A. Woods
self, except for when it is automatically used by some packages. It's been a part of pkgsrc since 2005, so seems stable and widely accepted. On my current system I see it is being used for Go and Python. -- Greg A. Woods +1 250 762-7675

Re: upgrade - what will happen?

2019-04-30 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:23:44 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: Subject: Re: upgrade - what will happen? > > "Greg A. Woods" writes: > > > Isn't there's one small caveat about old shared library versions? > > > > Postinstall(8), which will be run by sysinst during

Re: upgrade - what will happen?

2019-04-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
ding old system shared libraries. -- Greg A. Woods +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpCHjG1afCZ7.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: SSL_library_init not found in libssl in current

2019-04-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:38:30 +0530, Mayuresh wrote: Subject: Re: SSL_library_init not found in libssl in current > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:47:15AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > Checking to see if the symbol mentioned in the message is present in the > > library you

Re: uniq on open streams

2019-04-25 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:25:58 +0200, Andreas Krey wrote: Subject: Re: uniq on open streams > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:50:23 +, Greg A. Woods wrote: > ... > > > > Thinking "Oh, so it should work on FreeBSD too...", I opened a window to > > my recently inst

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