junk in it.)
As far as YouTube, except for that brief period where they went with
Flash, I have had no trouble with watching videos for several years
Frankly, trying to get more people to start using OpenBSD is a waste of
time. I have tried repeatedly and failed. The correct users of OpenBSD
are going to bring themselves to using it. Just like I brought myself.
Crash!
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 05:28:33PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:21:25PM +0900, Bryan Linton wrote:
> > On 2017-04-29 15:48:51, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > >
> > > Chris Bennett wrote on Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 07:10:05AM -0500:
> > >
e bought several supported model numbers
that had been replaced with new chipsets.
I'm having the same problem and I am going to order one online today.
Pretty frustrating buying one after the next only to fail.
Chris Bennett
P.S.
I'm installing a snapshot first to see if that solves the p
elete it?
I'll figure this out for myself anyway, but seems like it might be good
to have an answer to on the list archives.
Chris Bennett
I very carefully and surely tested which flash drive to use and then
pulled out the wrong one.
I stopped the install with halt and done nothing else.
Should I have yanked it, halted it or just said goodbye?
ddrescue or something else or nothing else?
Thanks, I hope,
Chris Bennett
ut up a new website running on
software they own and are still in the process of getting completely
working. They are using nginx and wordpress. I don't know any more than that.
Thanks for any response.
I do consider this on topic for OpenBSD since things are concerning here
in the USA.
Chris Bennett
You should note that spectrwm is keyboard driven.
Not the programs you add, just spectrwm.
If you like using the keyboard as much as the mouse or dont even want to
use a mouse at all, it will work for you.
But you do have to learn to use it,but that's not hard.
Chris Bennett
and just use s
quot;choice"?
RTFM and read the FAQ are not what new users are expecting.
They learn or leave.
Nothing about any OS or set of programs is simple.
But that is also the fun part, so much to learn and so much power once
you know it.
Chris Bennett
Or perhaps to let all
through safely but make the data rate "spamd slow".
After all the years he has used OpenBSD, he still hasn't read the FAQ.
Things work, dad happy. :-}
Chris Bennett
t a bit of curiosity if this might be a good idea or not.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:08:46AM +, jungle Boogie wrote:
> Chris,
>
> What are httpd add-ons?
Umm, base http did not have rewrites before, now it does.
That could have been does as an addon instead.
Chris
OK, that all makes sense.
I probably made a poor subject line for this too.
I was busy with other things when nginx was discarded from base and
httpd was substituted in. I really didn't like a few things I read about
nginx, but the whole discussion about httpd I missed out on reading up
on.
This
so have a tremendous amount of useful info.
Perhaps reading the source code, which is freely available, deals with
all of these issues. If you can't program C, learn it.
Chris Bennett
ood question to ask and anyone coming from
another OS usually wants (expects?) to be able to do this.
Welcome to OpenBSD! It's a tight ship and those ships usually don't
sink! ;>)
Chris Bennett
hould use wxallowed in /etc/fstab.
Basically, this is going to be really easy or really challenging.
growfs works well. There is no such command as shrinkfs, but it can be
done if well planned, usually. Or maybe not.
Others may have different advice, but put up your disklabel sd0 here
for sure.
Just be glad you don't need to move /var. I've done it but ugh!
Chris Bennett
Hi,
I've gotten tired and paranoid about having Windows 10 on my hard drive
in a laptop, but I'm not sure what partitions to keep or ditch.
I am running off of USB flash drives, which are pesky to keep in and
slow.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
Here are some outputs:
disklabel
# /dev/r
drive.
Windows 10 sticks it's fingers into changing BIOS settings, especially
after a big update.
And now I go searching for lot's of stuff on Gurgle.com.
Which really get's me pretty worthless crap for about 2 years now.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
nBSD had two remote access bugs. What
will number three turn out to be? Could be serious or still unknown
right now. So, no OS is perfect and no hardware is perfect either.
IMHO, I'm very happy with my choice, but you don't need to follow my
choices at all.
Good luck and have good success,
Chris Bennett
ls.
i.e in from user joe, forwarded to joe2 and then scanning is done.
IMHO, I would skip using partially insecure OS's like Linux. These are
your kids!
Chris Bennett
suming that for perl, since I wanted a full and clean startup.pl
for mod_perl, I already know what modules I need to add from studying
each module back a while ago.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
ot that much money and keep what you like best of the bunch.
:-}
Chris Bennett
somebody sent me a spam set of comments. T-Mobile blocked it with
their spam filters. So I dropped getting the texts. I am annoyed by
this, but that's just the way it is.
Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:10:51AM +, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> Chris Bennett writes:
>
> > I know that PostgreSQL can be accessed via a socket or through
> > 127.0.0.1.
> I read your mail and I still don't know what you are trying to accomplish.
> Could you give a mo
Funky connection so I skipped this on purpose.
dmesg:
OpenBSD 6.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #285: Sat Sep 1 12:51:52 MDT 2018
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4077236224 (3888MB)
avail mem = 3944423424 (3761MB)
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 ta
g for IT safety and secrecy issues.
And that IS an important topic every day!
Chris Bennett
rough reading my email.
Is autossh the right choice or is there a better way?
The flow of data seems to be the problem. A static page disconnects.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
back
after some testing for a few days and locations. If I get a wham-bam
huge difference, then I'll report back right away!
Thanks everyone for the help. I'm already moving forward!
Chris Bennett
at out to me a good while
back.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
tally wrong.
And don't despair if you don't get responses on the mailing lists.
Sometimes people don't have the time, or are on vacation or your
question could involve something that is being changed right at that
time so that there really isn't an answer just yet.
Chris Bennett
at I've already heard, this discussion is over on my part. Let's free
up the list for other's needs
Chris Bennett
h a fork instead of a spatula in a pressure cooker.
Right now is a good time for me to learn all this. I don't get or send
much email. But I'm planning on trying to make a real living wage
online. If that works, I better have this all figured out by then.
Turns out that right hip problems are genetic from my father's side of
the family. All I can say is Ouch! I need to figure this out.
Hey, thanks for any help and a special thanks for those clever OpenSMTPD
people. Wow, sendmail was a real bitch!
Chris Bennett
I has the same problem on a release version
achihpet0
fixed the keyboard problem
I am now running an earlier current and not specifying that.
My time clock is way off. I'm going to need to re-add to my sysctl.conf
So this is a common problem.
Chris Bennett
spread over two threads.
Fahrenheit 451,
Chris Bennett
who are incompetent are unable to judge
their own incompetence until they become more competent.
Which is exactly my own problem. I am not competent enough to judge my
own competence. I have not worked in IT. I do not know anyone who has,
except over this list. I will ask stupid questions and not know it.
Any help welcome,
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:14:47PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have not opened up my server before for full usage of email, web,
> > database, etc. before. So I'm a total noob on really good security
> > practices.
> >
> > Prop
se usb/wifi tethering to
> an OpenBSD laptop?
>
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. Using phone WiFi and ssh on
laptop. My concerns mean that I will restrict using my phone's apps with
anything that isn't fit to be spread anywhere. Oh well, I still like my
phone but I have to just look at it like any hardware/software flaw.
Chris Bennett
peaking any further about anyone's phone.
Chris Bennett
> Chris Bennett wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 06:08:19PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:03:56 -0700
> > >
> > >
> > > > This is the thread that I wished t
served to the public.
Chris Bennett
now, these directories for individual websites have ownership
of root:daemon, is that correct?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:59:42PM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote:
> OK, I think I have this right now
>
> Files in /etc/mtree show proper owner:group mode everywhere.
> Files inside of httpd chroot have same as outside.
> Added an sftp chroot directory inside of httpd chroot fo
?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:54:07PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 9/20/18, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I started manually to include Perl files one at a time to learn how
> > things work at home on -current. Then I copied everything in.
> > But why risk security for unus
t seen a class offering:
"How to correct your pronunciation years later to sound normal"
or
"How to make sure you are really choosing the right words every time"
Chris Bennett
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:04:44PM +1100, Alexis wrote:
>
> Chris Bennett writes:
>
> > Is there any information out there to help actually learn the sounds?
> > I couldn't find anything and I don't want to take classes.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
some
languages with some very unusual sounds.
As far as music, I can definitely hear that European played classical
music tends to sound better than American played (Same piece).
I have no idea what is different, but I can hear it.
Chris Bennett
My apologies for the noise. You are absolutely right.
Chris Bennett
ad problems reading that color on a black background.
These will make directories white, if that is helpful.
I don't remember any of the details. I think I saw this on a website
somewhere. Not sure.
Good Luck,
Chris Bennett
er. This is a partition, for me, that I
can sacrifice and use to grow the preceding partition.
Buy a bigger disk is not always a practical answer.
If you haven't already done it, taking a picture of disklabel, fstab and
df never hurt. Easier than writing it down.
Well, I've been in y
ss the board is terribly slow. Happy to reinstall from scratch.
I'm happy to find the answers reading man pages, but man fvwm wasn't
helpful for me. Which ones should I read?
Running 6.4 stable amd64
Thank you,
Chris Bennett
Thanks!
I use spectrwm too.
Now I know exactly what man pages to read, which I will do first, before
any copy/paste crap.
I have found the sheer size of X everything to be a bit intimidating. I
think this whole xenodm thing will fill in crucial gaps for me.
Happier,
Chris Bennett
r any help,
Chris Bennett
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:24:55PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 11/20/18 11:43, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an
> > organization I am a member of.
> > With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure moth
l and secure, but no
donations, no volunteers and no new members or no renewing members
equals no organization. That's bad.
Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't think other architectures would be
suitable, but it was worth asking.
Chris Bennett
>
> Virtually what you want to do
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:50:38AM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On 11/20/18 4:43 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > AMD? I have read about problems with non-CPU chips being compromised.
> > Another architecture? I have never used anything other than Intel/AMD.
>
> I can't c
other suggestions?
The main website is probably the most important objective right now.
It's what the public sees. And if (which means when, not if) I make a
mistake, the world won't come tumbling down.
Thanks all,
Chris Bennett
7;ll start looking up information now. Hadn't even occurred to me.
But exactly how does that work from our servers to theirs and back?
Thank you,
Chris Bennett
Thanks.
This is helpful. Someone suggested off-list that I make up a flow chart
to plan out each step that needs to be taken. I'm getting good advice
now to help me start that. It's tough to pull this off.
But then, when is easy ever any real fun! :-}
Chris Bennett
same
size and date.
What has happened here? I thought that cvs up was the correct procedure.
cvs -qd$CVSROOT checkout -P src inside of /usr or
cvs -qd$CVSROOT up -Pd inside of /usr/src.
Updating only changed some of the file dates and did not work correctly.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
us git because I can pass along
changes to other boxes so easily.
I didn't think it was a bug, just something I wasn't understanding.
I appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
t;
OK, thanks for clearing that up. I learned a lot using it. I would also
like to use multiple domains, but I don't see any reason to ask you to
do any more work than you want to.
Thanks for your work. I appreciate it. And trying to use multiple
domains was a good lesson in strange results. :-}
Chris Bennett
all those links on the home page.
Search the mailing list history too. https://marc.info and many
other sites.
Personally, I have found doing general searches about OpenBSD to not be
very helpful. The information is often very old or not useful. Your
reults may vary.
You can do everything with any port except install it. Play around with
building and testing and all the different make clean variations.
When you hit a dependency that insn't installed, then you would need to
use doas manually.
Have fun!
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 07:17:59PM +, Cord wrote:
Go buy an ethernet cable. No WiFi.
Use someone's phone hotspot.
Use a fixed PKG_PATH instead of /etc/installurl
Read a LOT of man pages and misc@ tech@ ports@ bugs@
Maybe even tell us which version of VAX your laptop runs on?
Is it OpenBSD ve
syspatch and pkg_add -u.
Look at all of your logs in detail.
Use NoScript and Ghostery plugins for Firefox.
Assume that someone might be physically accessing your laptop.
The laws in the USA since 9/11 allow this to be done without you being
told.
Good luck, hopefully you are not having this problem, but paranoia is a
good thing in today's world.
Chris Bennett
ome I almost always connect
over my phone's hotspot.
I will definitely be learning this!
Thanks!
Chris Bennett
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:23:20PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> > Hello Riccardo,
> >
> > startx(1) had it's setuid bit removed. I think in the timeframe you are
> > upgrading over. The canonical advice is to use xenodm(1).
> >
> > Marcus
> >
>
> exactl
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:29:01PM +0200, Francois Pussault wrote:
> I agree ; Using more than 10 partitions is rare but in case of NFS or other
> network shares of course.
> 16 is really enough in my point of view.
>
I've got to disgree with this one. I'm doing porting work.
I yank out all of
r project. Comments don't get compiled, but they do
take up space, disk space and bandwidth space.
Have fun, work hard and enjoy yourself.
There are some excellent threads about these topics in the mailing
lists.
Chris Bennett
sfer in your domain for DNSSEC.
Chris Bennett
date might make things better, or impossible.
Good news is that you got it to work.
Chris Bennett
er /var/www/usr/lib/ vs
/var/www/usr/local/lib/
Works just fine.
I know that this is the wrong solution, but I'm clueless where and how
to add the right search path.
Any clues would be extremely appreciated!
Chris Bennett
or smtpd
> quirks-3.185 exceptions to pkg_add rules
> rspamd-1.9.0 event-driven spam filtering system in C/Lua
> vim-8.1.1048-no_x11 vi clone, many additional features
>
> $ cat
> /etc/installurl
>
>
> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD
I have had this exact same problem before
pkg_info -q > packages_installed
pkg_delete gettext.
pkg_add gettext-runtime
pkg_add -u
pkg_add -zl packages_installed
The gettext changeover always screwed up my pkg_add -u
pkg_delete gettext will uninstall quite a few packages
That will get fixed by using the packages_installed file.
Read man pkg_add first, of course.
Chris Bennett
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:23:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have had this exact same problem before
> >
> > pkg_info -q > packages_installed
> > pkg_delete gettext.
> > pkg_add gettext-ru
T!
It is impossible. Not even agencies such as the NSA, etc have it.
Remember Edward Snowden? All systems can be breached. Period.
My suggestion is to stop taking a confrontational attitude ( you may not
even realize you are doing it) and try to take a congenial attitude. It
will always produce more
ean it. Don't ask for features!
:-)
Chris Bennett
izing that
brought me a great relief and no longer feeling frustrated.
I found it a bit inspiring and more enthusiastic about the whole
project.
Read the code because you MUST versus because you ought to.
I find that as a path to follow, pridefully.
Chris Bennett
llent.
DNS has problems in some places in the world. Usually just for hours.
Annoying, but sites like OpenBSD have stable IP's and knowing that
solves the problem quickly.
If the site has a problem, someone else can clarify that.
Chris Bennett
t's not working for me either.
I'm in Austin, TX and not working from my server in Chicago either.
Chris Bennett
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:41:41PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
>
> A quick search on the net didn't show much, apart from a suggestion that
> a USB keyboard won't work at this point because the USB subsystem hasn't
> yet been discovered (that was back in 2015 though). I'm using both a
7;t have access to enough bandwidth
or data to download them to hopefully find the date that there was a
change that messed things up.
Try boot -c then disable amdgpu
Might help. Also try boot -s and wait. If it shuts down there too,
probably have the same problem. Or not. :-)
I'm s
lus /var/log/Xorg.0.log if
you manage to get to X. (Good luck with that :-{ )
I was given advice in the past to build with a certain change, but I was
unable to build that on my laptop due to very little memory.
There is newer firmware, X, etc.. Hopefully someone will chime in with
something to try
casionally are
all I need
==
Thinking about it, my servers are i386 running amd64. Would that be OK
to run a build off of and install on the laptop?
I have one that I could interrupt that way.
======
Chris Bennett
at boot. unplugging
and reattaching it is often necessary after boot, but only sometimes.
Good luck,
Chris Bennett
n't run such software as root, ever.
Especially on old code that isn't supported anymore.
If this is a disposable version for testing only, then nevermind.
Chris Bennett
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kihaguru.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:34 AM Kihagur
n text, attachments work.
If they don't, why not change providers?
It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server
for next to nearly free.
Chris Bennett
>
>
> -
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>
> Midwest Internet Exc
ig a
deal. For many users in a commercial setting, much harder.
All IPs can get blacklisted. Bad IPs, change ISP's. One month to set
things up and transfer over to a new server. Once everything is working,
drop the crappy corporate email service. No big rush.
My thoughts, for whatever they are worth.
Chris Bennett
are many conflicting examples which I can't sort out. I'll look over
what you've posted to see if that can work for me. I have four mail
domains on this server and I'm definitely missing some small piece of
the puzzle.
Regards,
Chris Bennett
someone new to OpenBSD.
But I rarely partition across only a single disk and always partition
some special partitions like /var/postgresql, /home/vip-user, /var/www,
etc. /usr/src, /usr/obj are not needed by every user now that we have
syspatch.
Have fun,
Chris Bennett
haven't looked at the code recently, but I think I know what filters
you are refering to. Super archaic.
>
> I am currently using cups but would like to get rid of it, because if
> their set of filters doesn't do the job, you are stuck. (Plus other
> hair-pulling frustrations.)
>
Can't agree more!
--
Regards,
Chris Bennett
to match the -current
snapshot sometimes.
Chris Bennett
> quirks-3.458 signed on 2020-10-18T13:56:14Z
> Can't update spidermonkey-60.9.0v1->spidermonkey78-78.3.1v1: no update found
> for spidermonkey-60.9.0v1
> Can't install polkit-0.116p1->0.118: can't resolve spi
Thanks, that had me confused when I read it, so I just ignored it.
Glad to know I did, as in didn't, do what it suggested except once.
Chris Bennett
I am using the Logitech wireless with the trackball on the LEFT side.
I would really like to use a second mouse at the same time for my left
hand with a trackball on the RIGHT side. I don't like center ball mice.
Anyone know of one of these? I like using a mouse for each hand.
Chris Bennett
. Problems are very very rare!
And fixed really really fast!
Thanks for giving me a fantastic system and the chance to laugh at the
other OS's that think security and bug fixing is an optional concern!
Chris Bennett
This topic has already been extensively and frustratingly dealt with on
the list. Please don't ask for changes to sysupgrade.
The questions about the documentation are relevant however.
Chris Bennett
___
> Always exit with 42 to return the answer.
42 bytes makes up some badass quotes or script! :D
Chris Bennett
tories.
Science, math, physics, etc. are an always moving target.
I have a hunch that things are not going to end up where we are guessing
they will. We have "phasers", we don't have transporters. We do have the
Internet. Nobody saw that one coming except as a vague sorta weak idea.
For now, no hardware = no software = no developers.
Tomorrow, who knows? Could be pretty cool.
Today, genuine work needs to get done. Please help.
Best regards,
Chris Bennett
se software too.
Is there already a thread talking about this?
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
xorg project to go back on their choice
> to change the licence, which is going to be more or less impossible.
Yes, it is old!
Would finding work say on web archive from the time of writing the
current code and earlier from the FVWM group be something useable?
Just nothing dated later than that?
Chris Bennett
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> P.S. Are there any urgent areas where the OpenBSD operating system
> project is short-handed?
>
Yes! Just look under /usr/src, /usr/xenocara and /usr/ports
Can't go wrong with that plan. :-)
Chris Bennett
headers and then
recompiles the packages. The packages are the same but C, etc. has
changed. Thus the packages have changed on that level. Thus they keep
the same Makefiles, but the resulting package binaries are different.
Chris Bennett
> It seems like this should be safe to do, but it's
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:24:05AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019-11-01, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > NO. You need to use pkg_add -u -Dsnap.
>
> Normally when pkg_add doesn't have a full path to the package directory
> (e.g. PKG_PATH=http://mirror/pub/OpenBSD/6.
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