Re: trouble with lists

2006-03-13 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Never mind all. As I sent this away, everyting suddenly came right. Who knows? Cheers > -Original Message- > From: Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu > Sent: 14 March 2006 08:07 AM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: trouble with lists > > > Anyone else having trouble reading lists or op

trouble with lists

2006-03-13 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Anyone else having trouble reading lists or opening www.openbsd.org? For some reason i cannot even open the web page no matter what pc i try, from home or work. If anyone has an idea please email me privately since i cannot see the list. Thanks Marius Van Deventer Computer Technician Byt

Re: Problem with -current

2006-03-13 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:30:46 -0500, "STeve Andre'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upated my src tree and built a new kernel. The system works >(I can ssh to my laptop), but X is dead and I can't switch to a text >console. I tried this twice with the same results. Reverting to my >previou

Problem with -current

2006-03-13 Thread STeve Andre'
I just upated my src tree and built a new kernel. The system works (I can ssh to my laptop), but X is dead and I can't switch to a text console. I tried this twice with the same results. Reverting to my previous kernel of the 7th returned the laptop to normal. So, heads up. --STeve Andre'

Re: multibooting X40 / lenovo load

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Paul
Nick Guenther wrote: > > Well, like was said, you lack fdisk and disklabel output. However, did > you remember to mark the partition active? Also, you might have just > messed up in disklabelling but I can't see how (unless you somehow put > wd0a onto a part of the disk that gets overwritten for so

Re: multibooting X40 / lenovo load

2006-03-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 3/13/06, Chris Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Misc, > > I want to leave the pre-loaded Windows XP on the X40, so I: > > a) didn't let it convert to NTFS > b) deleted the "IBM/Lenovo utility partition" > c) resized part 0 (C) > d) using OpenBSD install fdisk, created an OpenBSD partition

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-13 Thread Danilo Piazzalunga
Theo de Raadt wrote: > We've just finished building the 3.9 release, and will soon > start making -current snapshots available again. > > Hold on. All right. Many thanks, especially for the quick reply.

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-13 Thread Greg Thomas
On 3/13/06, Danilo Piazzalunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to install a snapshot of the upcoming 3.9 release, and I was > expecting to find the relevant files in the /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386 > directory, but that directory is empty (albeit present) on most mirrors > (ftp

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Danilo Piazzalunga wrote: Am I missing something? Are snapshot not available anymore? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#NoSnaps

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/03/14 00:01, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > When I first discover OpenBSD after some years using Linux, I got in > love with it, I liked its philosophy very much, its correctness, its > documentation, the way the kernel boots, Everything is where you spect > it to be. Follow the cvs-changes and po

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Am I missing something? Are snapshot not available anymore? We've just finished building the 3.9 release, and will soon start making -current snapshots available again. Hold on.

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
> > I have tested it in two very different machines and It fails as soon > > as you format a cell. > > no, my laptop runs -current. Oh great, it means that they have fixed it! > > > It is not "every possible combination of program and input", it is a > > failure that appears as soon as you format

Re: Slow SCSI HDD (HW RAID) on Dual Xeon

2006-03-13 Thread Jeff Quast
If you don't mind me chiming in, my disks arn't nearly as slow, but I expected them to be faster. Can anybody make a recommendation to improve my disk i/o, or confirm the speeds I get are about right? This is the first machine I've had thats U320 SCSI-capable. raid0 is a mirror of two scsi disks:

Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-13 Thread Danilo Piazzalunga
Hello, I would like to install a snapshot of the upcoming 3.9 release, and I was expecting to find the relevant files in the /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386 directory, but that directory is empty (albeit present) on most mirrors (ftp.openbsd.org, ftp.de.openbsd.org, ftp.unina.it, openbsd.mirrors.tds.n

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello > > Helping is done with cash donations and diffs. Being an buttplug is not. I do not have enough money to make donations, I have contributed buying a CD set. I think it is insignificant and not too much but it is the only thing I can afford. I am not capable of sending any diffs. Not eve

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
> I differ a bit. If the port were removed, there'd be even less incentive > to work to fix it in future. But, if testing shows it doesn't work, it > should be marked as BROKEN for releases, yes. Now, wrt testing, it > applies what others said: Everyone is asked to contribute, even if the > contrib

Re: multibooting X40 / lenovo load

2006-03-13 Thread Dimitry Andric
Chris Paul wrote: > Now, after creating slice a, the OpenBSD disklabel does not do the math > for me. It give me the same beginning offset as for wd0a. So I then: did > the math (added all the offsets & created the partitions), but now it > won't boot (it just goes ahead and boots XP). Show us

multibooting X40 / lenovo load

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Paul
Dear Misc, I want to leave the pre-loaded Windows XP on the X40, so I: a) didn't let it convert to NTFS b) deleted the "IBM/Lenovo utility partition" c) resized part 0 (C) d) using OpenBSD install fdisk, created an OpenBSD partition (above cylinder 1024). Now, after creating slice a, the OpenBS

DELL PERC 4/SC low performance

2006-03-13 Thread Diego Woitasen
I doing some performance test with openbsd 3.8 in a PowerEdge 830 with perc 4/sc board. 'dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/home/test1 count=4000 bs=256k' gives a transfer rate of 6MByte por second. This is really slow... other operating systems get a throughput of 45 mbyte por second. Setting Write-policy to W

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread Bryan Brake
I wanted to be able to access the web and surf without the Nazi admin checking the firewall logs to see what I am doing. Oh, nice. Figure out how to bypass company security policy and put them all at risk. Then call the guy who's job it is to keep it all working a Nazi. Mmm, impressive. Hope

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread steve szmidt
On Monday 13 March 2006 10:55, you wrote: > Joachim Schipper wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > >> Dear folks, > >> > >> i live in brazil, and it is a common practice for local > >> corporation/institutions to monitor our phone calls, internet access > >> and

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:55:47AM -0800, Bryan Brake wrote: > Joachim Schipper wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > >>Dear folks, > >> > >>i live in brazil, and it is a common practice for local > >>corporation/institutions to monitor our phone calls, internet

Re: Slow SCSI HDD (HW RAID) on Dual Xeon

2006-03-13 Thread edgarz
Raidframe works great, no problems (for me) :) Adam Papai wrote: Srebrenko Sehic said: You're lucky that your RAID1 array even works, since integrated mirroring (IM) is currently not supported by mpt(4) driver. If it works, it is slow like hell. If you want speed, remove the RAID1 array and r

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread Bryan Brake
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear folks, i live in brazil, and it is a common practice for local corporation/institutions to monitor our phone calls, internet access and personal email. I would like to be able to access Internet by means

Re: Slow SCSI HDD (HW RAID) on Dual Xeon

2006-03-13 Thread Adam Papai
Srebrenko Sehic said: > You're lucky that your RAID1 array even works, since integrated > mirroring (IM) is currently not supported by mpt(4) driver. If it > works, it is slow like hell. > > If you want speed, remove the RAID1 array and run with 2 normal disks. > > On 3/13/06, Adam Papai <[EMAIL PR

Re: Slow SCSI HDD (HW RAID) on Dual Xeon

2006-03-13 Thread Srebrenko Sehic
You're lucky that your RAID1 array even works, since integrated mirroring (IM) is currently not supported by mpt(4) driver. If it works, it is slow like hell. If you want speed, remove the RAID1 array and run with 2 normal disks. On 3/13/06, Adam Papai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi misc, > > I'

Slow SCSI HDD (HW RAID) on Dual Xeon

2006-03-13 Thread Adam Papai
Hi misc, I've got a problem with the SCSI read/write speed under 3.8. It has LSILOGIC HW raid adapter running raid1. The time dd test shows: astatine[wooh]> time dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/wooh/output bs=1m count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 411.637 sec

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-13 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > On 3/8/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any >> of our bigger plans. > > It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to > tell about them, maybe that will make the big companies interested

test

2006-03-13 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
test. ignore. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Nick Holland
Ramiro Aceves wrote: ... Yes, WM also works fine here. But again, it is not a solution. GNOME should not be released in such buggy state. I don't follow your logic here. Ok, let's say GNOME was removed from ports by your suggestion. In that case, you WOULD need to find another solution. In th

Saudades!

2006-03-13 Thread Saudades!
[IMAGE] Bem-vindo ao InCards! Vocj recebeu um cartco postal virtual de [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Poxa, como i difmcil ficar sozinha aqui, viajar pra um pams tco distante de vocjs, que sco meus amigos a tanto tempo, eu precisei enviar esse cartco para vocj, porque ss assim, eu vo me sentir melhor, e espe

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello, this is what I found about the gnome-panel issue on the bugs page: >Number: 4473 >Category: ports >Synopsis: gnome-panel freeze and quits on OpenBSD 3.8 current i386 >Confidential: yes >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible:bugs >State:

Re: libtool - pdflib - php-5.1.2 -openBSD38

2006-03-13 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:54:10PM +0800, Vladan Popovic wrote: > Yes I read it - many times - trust me. > But how do I get the shared library - I thought that when I > configure/make/ it would generate the shared library - apparently not - > or maybe it needs some special options. run ./configu

Re: libtool - pdflib - php-5.1.2 -openBSD38

2006-03-13 Thread Vladan Popovic
Yes I read it - many times - trust me. But how do I get the shared library - I thought that when I configure/make/ it would generate the shared library - apparently not - or maybe it needs some special options. That's the point I don't understand the message If you have an answer it would be grea