RaspberyPi 4 network boot from TFTP - does it work?

2025-03-24 Thread Chris Narkiewicz
Hi, I'm considering a netbootable device for a project and RPI 4 documentation claims to support network boot. Some posts suggest that booting over PXE is supported. Before I dump money on hardware, does anyone have experience with autoinstall on RPi 4 (or Compute Module 4) over network and could

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname

2025-03-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Hi otto, We're happy to see you have found OpenBSD and that you are exploring the system. Welcome! But please keep in mind that your assumptions about what is intuitive or proper were formed by whatever other systems you have encountered earlier (I suspect GNU/Linux). When you are exploring

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname

2025-03-24 Thread Matthew Ernisse
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:40:47PM +, otto.cooper said: [ snip ] Can we agree that /etc/myname can be safely and easily replaced with /etc/hostname? Assuming you ignore all the installed copies of OpenBSD and derivatives, perhaps, however I'd caution against such a cavalier attitude. I'

Re: OpenBSD openssl s_client

2025-03-24 Thread Diana Eichert
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM Theo Buehler wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 01:38:49PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > > I moved on to try to use "openssl s_client" with same ""route -T xx > > exec" , this didn't work because I discovered OpenBSD version > > of openssl s_client does not support

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname

2025-03-24 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 24 14:40:47, otto.coo...@proton.me wrote: > Suppose you want to change the host name. > You think of hostname ... and therefore run "man hostname" which tells you everyhing you need to know. > To understand where the host name is written in OpenBSD, > you need to read hostname(1). Yes. Yo

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname (edited)

2025-03-24 Thread jbranso
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM, "Emiel Kollof" mailto:em...@kollof.nl?to=%22Emiel%20Kollof%22%20%3Cemiel%40kollof.nl%3E > wrote: > > otto.cooper schreef op 2025-03-24 15:54: > > > > > Hello, > > > [snip] > > > > > This is not intuitive. > > > OpenBSD != Linux > > The only intuitive interfac

Re: bin group and blocking network executables

2025-03-24 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM Ibsen S Ripsbusker < ibs...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: > First, I would like to know why we have the bin group. Said differently, > how did we decide that some files should belong to bin group rather than > wheel group? As far as I know, this is historical. I fo

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname (edited)

2025-03-24 Thread Emiel Kollof
otto.cooper schreef op 2025-03-24 15:54: Hello, [snip] This is not intuitive. OpenBSD != Linux The only intuitive interface for mammalians (including humans) is the nipple. Everything else needs to be taught or learned through trial and error. Cheers, Emiel

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname (edited)

2025-03-24 Thread Brian Conway
> Can we agree that /etc/myname can be safely and easily replaced with > /etc/hostname? A breaking change for a design decision made 30 years ago in this source tree (I didn't take the time to search other trees that predate it) seems like a tall ask. So perhaps not "easily". https://github.co

Re: pair(4) question

2025-03-24 Thread Diana Eichert
inline On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM Philipp Buehler wrote: > > Am 24.03.2025 00:24 schrieb Diana Eichert: > > Am I missing something or is this the only way to automatically bring > > up a pair(4) patch? > > > > find /etc -name '*.pair*' -print -exec cat {} \; > > /etc/hostname.pair0 > > rdom

Re: Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname (edited)

2025-03-24 Thread otto.cooper
Hello, # Q1 Suppose you want to change the host name. You think of hostname, look for /etc/hostname, and find something unrelated. The file /etc/hostname does not exist. The files /etc/hostname.if do exist, but have nothing to do with the host name. By comparison, in linux /etc/hostname exist

Comment on /etc/myname vs /etc/hostname

2025-03-24 Thread otto.cooper
Hello, # Q1 Suppose you want to change the host name. You think of hostname, look for /etc/hostname, and file something unrelated. The file /etc/hostname does not exist. The files /etc/hostname.if do exist, but have nothing to do with the host name. By comparison, in linux /etc/hostname exis

Re: apcupsd - compiling new kernel and syspatch

2025-03-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2025-03-23, Chaz Kettleson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 08:14:56AM -0700, Steve Williams wrote: >> >> Following the pkg-readmes/apcupsd: >> >> >>     The option with fewest side-effects is to add the following entries to >>     the table in /sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c and build a new kerne