6.5 stable 'make build' fails in cvs doc

2019-06-16 Thread Allen Smith
Error 2 in . (Makefile:95 'do-build') *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:74 'build') Thanks, -Allen

Re: ext2 or usb problem

2017-07-02 Thread Donald Allen
On 2 July 2017 at 14:02, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I >> >> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2 >> >> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower tha

Re: ext2 or usb problem

2017-07-02 Thread Donald Allen
On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I >> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2 >> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower than to an ffs filesystem on >> an internal sata drive mounted

Re: ext2 or usb problem

2017-07-02 Thread Donald Allen
On 1 July 2017 at 18:55, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 03:43:48PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> On 1 July 2017 at 12:06, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado >> wrote: >> >> > The USB disks and ext2 are both quite slow on OpenBSD. Tr

Re: ext2 or usb problem

2017-07-01 Thread Donald Allen
On 1 July 2017 at 12:06, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > The USB disks and ext2 are both quite slow on OpenBSD. Try with FFS but > you're not going to see better numbers. > > On Linux, the kernel uses UAS for your USB disks. We only supports > bulk-only. If you are implying that if I had

ext2 or usb problem

2017-07-01 Thread Donald Allen
I have three Toshiba 1TB USB drives that I use for backups and archives of my various systems. These disks pre-date my predominant use of OpenBSD, and have ext2 file-systems. One of the disks is the primary, to which new backups and archives are written. Another is the secondary. When the primary c

Re: zzz issue

2017-06-28 Thread Donald Allen
On 28 June 2017 at 03:13, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:31:24AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > > I am running current (though not up-to-date) on the machine described > > by the dmesg below. > > > > If I suspend the system with 'zzz' having s

zzz issue

2017-06-25 Thread Donald Allen
rwise, the system runs absolutely fine on this machine. Don Allen OpenBSD 6.1-current (GENERIC.MP) #69: Fri May 19 09:08:02 MDT 2017 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8458735616 (8066MB) avail mem = 8196587520 (7816MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at m

Re: Boot issue 6.1

2017-06-12 Thread Donald Allen
On 12 June 2017 at 01:14, Davor Balder wrote: > Hello Martin, > > It may be worth upgrading from USB just in case... Adding to this (good) suggestion. I would download the install61.fs image and check it with sha256 against the 6.1 sha256 file to be sure the bits arrived intact. Possible explana

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-12 Thread Donald Allen
On 12 June 2017 at 03:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 Jun 2017, Donald Allen wrote: >> On 11 June 2017 at 19:16, Davor Balder wrote: >> >> They are not everyone's cup of tea, but I use a tiling window manager >> with OpenBSD (I like xmonad, but there are ot

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-11 Thread Donald Allen
On 11 June 2017 at 19:16, Davor Balder wrote: > > > On 06/12/17 06:06, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >> >> I spent yesterday and today installing 6.1 from scratch on a Dell Optiplex >> gx620. The machine has a pentium 4 @3.0GHz with 4GB non ECC RAM, returning a >> passmark of 354*. The aim is to replace

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-10 Thread Donald Allen
On 10 June 2017 at 06:55, Nicolas Schmidt wrote: > >>> On 06/09/17 15:39, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: >>> Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system? >> >> You? No, I doubt it. > ... >> But, you are welcome, and invited > ... >> Nick. > > Nick, I don't think you were being either welcoming or inviting ther

Re: font face in fvwm vs cwm

2017-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On 30 May 2017 at 11:22, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I installed a snapshot of amd64 recently and I was using fvwm from > Openbsd base to install some packages. I even started Firefox to look > for some documentation. > > Later, I was going back to cwm since I use it daily. I have a feeling

Re: Version skew?

2017-05-06 Thread Donald Allen
I won't clutter the list with the output of the commands you suggested or the dmesg, because I figured out what happened, based on your suggestions. Pilot error. The installed kernel was from mid April, but /bsd has creation date-time from yesterday. I used a USB key that I had last prepared corr

Re: Version skew?

2017-05-05 Thread Donald Allen
.1-RELEASE. > > Use /etc/installurl instead. > > https://man.openbsd.org/installurl > > > Freundliche Grüße / Regards > -stefan kapfhammer > Originalnachricht > Von: Donald Allen > Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Mai 2017 20:16 > An: OpenBSD general usage list > Betreff: Version ske

Version skew?

2017-05-05 Thread Donald Allen
could explain this I'd appreciate it. /Don Allen

Re: Opinion about Rust and Go

2017-03-28 Thread Donald Allen
On 28 March 2017 at 17:59, wrote: > Hello, > > I just want to know the opinion of OpenBSD developpers about Rust and Go, > I already know Ted's opinion. > http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/thoughts-on-replacement-languages > > As they are both touted as memory safe, what do you think about them

Re: [amd64] install60.fs will not boot

2017-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote: > I have tried both release and the snapshot version of the > install60.fs, same results. > I used the anycast CDN mirror: > http://mirrors.evowise.com/pub/OpenBSD/ Transferring from that mirror is unbelievably slow, at least from where I

Re: [amd64] install60.fs will not boot

2017-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote: > Yes, the same USB key, tried both FreeBSD and OpenBSD images with the > same exact procedure roughly 4-5 times by now with the same results. > Are you using the release image or current? At this point, they are both called install60.fs, b

Re: [amd64] install60.fs will not boot

2017-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
When you successfully booted the FreeBSD installer from a USB key, was it the same key? Did you prepare it the same way (using dd in cygwin)? On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote: > Thanks for the reply and apologies for the lack of information -- I > will provide more detail. >

Re: [amd64] install60.fs will not boot

2017-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote: > The computer I want to install on does not have a CD/DVD drive, but > has USB 2.0 ports. > To get much help here, you need to describe the computer. Normally, you would do that with the output of dmesg, but since you can even boot the inst

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread Donald Allen
ackdoors, then either you should have thought about that before buying it, or you should remove the device, if possible, from your system, and replace it with something that makes you happy. Theo is right -- this is an issue created by the end-user by her/his choice of hardware." Didn't w

Re: iwn problem on Thinkpad T410

2017-01-06 Thread Donald Allen
Well, a little more experimenting with this machine and a couple of Linux live cds leads me to conclude that the wifi hardware in this machine is sick. The symptoms I reported are not an OpenBSD problem. /Don Allen On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > I just installed rele

Re: iwn problem on Thinkpad T410

2017-01-06 Thread Donald Allen
I just installed release 6.0 on this machine, and I get the same error. /Don Allen On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > I just installed current from the most recent snapshot on a Thinkpad T410. > Wireless networking doesn't work. During the install, I had an ether

iwn problem on Thinkpad T410

2017-01-06 Thread Donald Allen
I just installed current from the most recent snapshot on a Thinkpad T410. Wireless networking doesn't work. During the install, I had an ethernet cable plugged in and configured the em0 interface (I use static ip addresses), so I could download the firmware. The firmware got loaded during the inst

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2016-11-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Folks, pay attention, please! The OP asked about a laptop. > Pansonic Thoughbook is not a laptop! It's a real desktop. > I think the folks *are* paying attention. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Toughbook-Notebook-Silver-CF-5

Re: Slow wifi

2016-11-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:43 PM, George Pediaditis < g.pediaditis1...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the reply. I will try it next week when i have more time. > If that doesnt work im thinking if its possible to go from current > back to stable. If i try current and i have problems. It looks > pos

Re: Slow wifi

2016-11-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >> (FreeBSD doesn't seem to know about iwm yet). After waiting a bit, I >> will again try installing -current on a USB drive to see if the >> package p

Re: Slow wifi

2016-11-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 09:17:38PM +0200, George Pediaditis wrote: >> hello >> Im having trouble with wifi. I cant download faster than 523.94kBit/s >> Im using the iwm0 driver. > > Please try -current. This problem should be fixed there.

Re: can't find fstab entry ?

2016-09-10 Thread Don Allen
On 09/10/2016 08:04 AM, Bob Jones wrote: Theo said absolutely nothing useful , and as I said in my prior reply, I removed the config item he was moaning about and it had zero effect. Thanks a bunch guys. The openBSD community really sucks. It does tend to get testy when someone like you doesn'

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Don Allen
On 08/26/16 15:32, Pedro Tender wrote: "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." - PEP 20 "Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups!" - Steven Seagal You've assumed many things and you've made a mistake. Don't blame other people's work for it. Don't test on production/daily u

Re: donations

2016-08-21 Thread Donald Allen
56 -0400 > From: t...@parlementum.net > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: donations > > That works very differently as far as taxes go. Theo would have to start reporting > it as income if Canada works like the US, and things are interesting from there. > > On Sun, Aug 21, 20

Re: donations

2016-08-21 Thread Donald Allen
But isn't it still better to send the money directly to you, since the Foundation doesn't support you financially? If I understand the different pots of money correctly, this gives you maximum flexibility to use what you need for your own support and if there is any excess, you can send it to the F

Re: github

2016-08-07 Thread Donald Allen
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:59:07 +0300 > From: con...@gmx.com > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: github > > On 16:43 Sun 07 Aug, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >>> Do you have any plans to move the OpenBSD source code repository >>> to github? >> >> Absolutely not. The OpenBSD repository will remain sec

Re: Sleep, Thinkpad x250

2016-07-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:50:33PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system >> will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power button -- >> it just c

Sleep, Thinkpad x250

2016-07-12 Thread Donald Allen
I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power button -- it just continues to sit there slowly blinking and does not respond to pings. Power cycling is the only way I've found to recover. dmesg below. I believe this is

Re: Xenocara :: enabling mouse instead of trackpad

2016-05-19 Thread Donald Allen
I am runnning 5.9 >> with Xfce4. If your objective is to be able to disable the touchpad when using a mouse (to avoid the annoying random behavior when you accidentally touch the touchpad with your palms while typing), running "synclient TouchpadOff=1" will do it. Obviously, "synclient

Re: I am thankful for OpenBSD quality docs

2016-05-17 Thread Donald Allen
p;R that explain their subject so concisely and yet completely take tremendous skill. I myself am in the process of writing a document for a suite of personal financial management tools that I will release on github and I said to my wife the other day that writing the documentation is more difficult than writing the software. /Don Allen > > You are welcome, > Ingo

Re: Short maximum interpreter length

2016-05-03 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Aioi Yuuko wrote: >> Why is MAXINTERP in only 128? I can think of a few: >> >> 1. It's been that way a while and nobody's complained >> 2. If someone's shebangs are longer than that, they're probably doing >> whatever they're doing horribly, h

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

2016-05-01 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: > > That is simply not true in general. If your application is > > processor-limited and written in an interpreted language, do you think it > > would get faster

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

2016-05-01 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Wait, what is the best guess now, did the recent scheduler patches that > were posted >here recently, remedy the speed issue altogether? > > Try and see for youself. I was doing that at almost each snapshot and > chromium was the winner all

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

2016-04-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Maximilian Pichler wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading to 5.9 (and thus Chromium 48 and Firefox 44) browser > performance seems degraded. Opening three different tabs with e.g. > newspaper websites results in a noticeable lag (up to several seconds) > when switching

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I was OK with the performance in Firefox (though it was pretty slow). What > was *really* bothering me was the crashing. Does 'noscript' solve that as > well? Firefox has been quite stable, with or without the 'noscript' plug-in, since I inc

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Federico Carrone wrote: > After migrating from Linux to OpenBSD on my desktop performance was really > bad inside Firefox and Chromium in 5.9 specially on big websites like gmail. > It was not usable, on an 4 core machine and with 16GB of RAM. After > migrating to

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-19 Thread Donald Allen
I have also had problems with Firefox performance with OpenBSD (it's not a speed demon with Linux or FreeBSD, but it is faster on those systems). And I haven't found Chromium to be a good alternative -- too many crashes and "Oh, snap"s. But my experience with Firefox is that the problem is easily

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Donald Allen
hers by > 'staff?' ulimit -a > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince, >> > Firefox crashes --

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince, > Firefox crashes -- like pretty regularly. I switched from using Calc to > Gnumeric and that has helped some, but having my browser crash 10-15 times > a day is not good for

Re: faq12.html

2016-03-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Rob Pierce wrote: > For your consideration. Looks to me like the original was talking about current, as in amperes; as evidenced by the subsequent sentence about the need for a powered USB hub to run devices that don't work when directly attached. I don't think yo

Re: Silly typo in docs

2016-03-14 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Murk Fletcher wrote: > Hi! > > Is it just me or should http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhyUse have > "other free UNIX-like operating system" in plural? The sentence describes users who ask "Is OpenBSD better than X?", where X is a specific Unix-like system. Y

Re: GUI Designer

2016-02-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Mariano Baragiola wrote: > On 02/22/16 11:21, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> >> Quick question for you guys.  I recentlydecided to see if I could get >> away >> with runningOpenBSD on my office workstation.  I gotthe idea after >> playing >> around with xfreerdp's 'rail'

Re: How extensive OpenBSD's write caching (for softdep or async-mounted UFS, as long as I never fsync() )?

2016-02-14 Thread Donald Allen
g, but if I'm right, your test doesn't prove anything about file-system write caching because your writes didn't go through the file-system. /Don Allen > > It took 12 and 15 seconds respectively, which is the harddrive's write > speed - the buffer cache of course would h

Re: Kernel panic during installation

2016-02-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:03:46PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > I just used this exchange as an example to a friend who buys everything > > Apple and then complains when their software is buggy. This is a perfect >

Re: Kernel panic during installation

2016-02-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio > wrote: > > > > > Donald Allen [donaldcal...@gmail.com] wrote: > > > > On Feb 1

Re: Kernel panic during installation

2016-02-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Donald Allen [donaldcal...@gmail.com] wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > > >

Re: Kernel panic during installation

2016-02-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > > When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I chose > > to configure the wireless network interface (iwm). This resulted in the

Kernel panic during installation

2016-02-11 Thread Donald Allen
When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I chose to configure the wireless network interface (iwm). This resulted in the following: iwm0: could not read firmware iwm-7265-9 (error 2) panic: attempt to execute user address 0x0 in supervisor mode Problem in the iwm driver?

doas

2016-01-13 Thread Donald Allen
My compliments to Ted Unangst and whoever else was involved in the creation of doas. sudo configuration is such an incredible hairball that I'll wager that few attempt to wade through the documentation to get things set up so that innocuous things are convenient and the rest is secure. I know I did

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-12-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> But if we lose the project leader due to lack of exercise and food, >> that's not good for the project. You made it very clear in a previous >> message to this thread that no Foundation money comes to you. So while >> the Foundation may be d

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-12-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the >>foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive." >> >>I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice >>can send checks or Paypal money directly to Theo, as descri

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-12-01 Thread Donald Allen
"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive." I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice can send checks or Paypal money directly to Theo, as described on the Donations page. I think checks are preferable, becaus

Re: kernel panic - panic: ehci_device_clear_toggle: queue active

2015-12-01 Thread Donald Allen
The crash I reported a few days ago is the same: ehci_device_clear_toggle: queue active

Current kernel panic

2015-11-28 Thread Donald Allen
I recently reported a 5.8 Stable kernel panic associated with use of a USB drive on a particular machine I have (a desktop, Asus motherboad, AMD processor). That report turned out to be my error, brought about a mis-config-ed kernel. After restoring the vanilla 5.8 Stable kernel, the easily reprodu

diff man page typo

2015-11-24 Thread Donald Allen
In the 'Output Style' section, the diff man page says "XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which line the change would bring file1 in line with file1." I think what is meant is "XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

2015-11-12 Thread Donald Allen
r your help and sorry for the false alarm. /Don Allen On 11/12/15, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:53:06PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >> fdisk and disklabel output below. >> >> I should note that the panic is reproducible. I rebooted the problem >> sy

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

2015-11-12 Thread Donald Allen
One more thing: it just occurred to me to try a different USB drive, to see if the issue was specific to the Toshiba drive. I have a 1TB Seagate USB drive. I tried plugging it in and unplugging -- same thing, kernel panic.

Re: 5.8 Stable kernel panic

2015-11-12 Thread Donald Allen
n Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with > the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not > provide a device address; the line that mentioned the device said 'not > configu

5.8 Stable kernel panic

2015-11-12 Thread Donald Allen
I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not provide a device address; the line that mentioned the device said 'not configured'. Without a device address, I couldn't mount the root partition. So I remove

Re: git crashes on clone

2015-05-29 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2015-05-29 15:04:41, Riccardo Mottola wrote: | > How do you manage PKG_PATH? just export it in .profile and be more careful > when updating? PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname

Re: Failed cron jobs are silent

2015-01-03 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2015-01-03 14:02:15, Matthew Weigel wrote: | > No, the behavior he described is accurate: cron(8) sends email if a job > produced output, irrespective of its exit status. > > Google is littered with people trying

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

2014-02-09 Thread Donald Allen
You may have been trained (badly) by documentation for other operating environments that is either inaccurate or incomplete, and so did not read carefully. OpenBSD is different in this respect -- the people who develop it take unusual care in making sure it is well-documented, so the documentation is w

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Donald Allen
t is reliable. To have it go away rather than trim its sails in way that acknowledges reality would really be a shame. /Don Allen > > > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Theo de Raadt > wrote: >> I am resending this request for funding our electricity bills because >&

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2014-01-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Evan Root [cellarr...@gmail.com] wrote: >> Just so you all know, >> This thread makes me want to try out Ext on Openbsd reeeaalll bad. > > It receives virtually no effort, and its performance sucks. Although, > linux ext2fs is very fast beca

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2014-01-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, wrote: > On 1/2/14, Geoff Steckel wrote: >> In return, of course, that Linux wouldn't mount an OpenBSD FFS. > > I used to have /home shared between OpenBSD and Linux a couple of > years ago when I was migrating. It was FFS for the reason discussed in > this thread

Re: [OpenBSD-5.4/amd64] Lenovo T430 hangs in X

2013-12-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Alexei Malinin wrote: > On 12/23/13 21:14, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin >> wrote: >>> On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote: >>>> Alexei Malinin wrote: >>>> >>>&

Re: [OpenBSD-5.4/amd64] Lenovo T430 hangs in X

2013-12-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin wrote: > On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote: >> Alexei Malinin wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> My notebook hangs while working in X >>> (at random times, several times per day). >>> >>> I could not find any information related >>> to the above problemin sy

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-17 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013, at 05:26 PM, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk wrote: >> > I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is >> > it that files will

Re: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?

2013-12-16 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk wrote: > I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is > it that files will get clobbered if I use the same /home under a dual > boot with openbsd? > Your subject asks about the stability of the ext2 support in OpenBSD, but your mess

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Donald Allen
I can't see the whole history of this conversation because the gmane site is down for maintenance at the moment. But I don't recall cygwin being mentioned and it's certainly another good alternative to samba, as it includes openssh. In theory, you can set up an sshd with cygwin. I say "in theory" b

Re: Single process needing a lot of memory

2013-12-13 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Simmons wrote: > On Friday, December 13, 2013 01:23:15 pm Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:33, Jeff Simmons wrote: >> > "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 >> >> I realize this is often quoted in jest, but I've taken

Re: OpenBSD and Compute Engine

2013-12-03 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2013-12-03 16:35:45, Jiri B wrote: | | Have you tried OpenBSD on SmartOS? Some people say it would need | some love (some storage issue). I used OpenBSD on SmartOS a couple years ago. There was a bug in KVM that

Re: System freeze after zzz

2013-11-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Don Allen wrote: >> I'm running current (as of the 11/14 snapshot) on a micro-itx box I >> built around an Intel Atom d510mo motherboard. When I try to wake >> the system aft

System freeze after zzz

2013-11-24 Thread Don Allen
I'm running current (as of the 11/14 snapshot) on a micro-itx box I built around an Intel Atom d510mo motherboard. When I try to wake the system after zzz, my X session comes alive and I can change workspaces with the window manager (xmonad; no desktop system), but firefox is hung (won't repain

Re: Patch to remove "adult" content from spamd(8) man page

2013-11-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > On 11/22/13 11:17 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: >> If it's offensive for you, compile your own spamd man page with >> the diff you so happily provided, and live the rest of your life >> happy. Remember to always take this pill again on 1st o

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, wrote: > Hi > > I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many > posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users > are high-end IT professionals. > I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so adva

Re: How-to: dualboot Windows 8.1 and OpenBSD 5.4

2013-11-17 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 11/17/13 12:53, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: >> Le 2013-11-17 20:27, dmitry.sensei a écrit : >>> What about 1Tb disk? Is CHS mode correct for this disks? >> >> I done the test using Virtualization. >> Not tried with a physical hard drive

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Douglas Allen
On 7/4/2013 10:56 PM, Thomas Jennings wrote: Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a good date to do so since my reasons address national security implications. As a group of people who take development,

Re: Precisions on ZFS (was: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.)

2013-02-21 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
I apologize this is off-topic, but I'm somewhat close to the illumos project and would like to correct a few things. +-- | On 2013-02-21 22:12:45, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: | | > So, long story short, I do not see any option

Building foxtrotgps from source on 5.1

2012-08-11 Thread Donald Allen
ined(__NOVELL_LIBC__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || \ --- > #if defined(_AIX) || defined(__NOVELL_LIBC__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || \ # With this change, this package builds and works. Hopefully this will save someone else some time. /Don Allen

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM, David Vasek wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Donald Allen wrote: > >> "While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears >> at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is >> tempted to think that su

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Donald Allen
taller (what part of "Use whole disk" was difficult to understand?) can only add to a false sense of safety. I think it makes a lot more sense that limited development resources be devoted to real issues, as opposed to protecting people from their own carelessness. /Don Allen

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Donald Allen
y. Did you do a full backup before starting this exercise? Did you read the FAQs on installation and multi-booting? The latter warns you, in no uncertain terms, that what happened to you can happen to you if you aren't careful. /Don Allen

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2011-07-21 Thread Allen Altland
hi my name is allen altland i was wondering there coming out with a roller coaster tycoon 4

Re: OpenBSD as a laptop OS

2010-06-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
ink of the last time I had a browser crash that didn't involve Flash... -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
from this list". It seems to work well enough for my needs though, sorry for not seeing that before. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
ede to my inbox. Filtering by To or CC breaks this, hence why proper mailing list filtering is never done using To, CC, or Subject. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
that to be the case. But in the interest of those of us who use it, could they please be added? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-10 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
GPL-licensed! Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-10 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
y that you find something you feel rewarding to work on. There is absolutely no reason to try to drag others along with you. For someone critical of Theo running other developers off, you sure seem to be trying to do the same thing with your post and by sharing it here. Think before you r

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade (source of problem found)

2010-05-30 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > I also upgraded my home machine (on a public IP) from 4.6 to 4.7 and did > not run into the same problems. I can also try a fresh install of 4.7 on > the work network - it won't take long. I'll also do a fresh i

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade (source of problem found)

2010-05-30 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
surprise that's not very fun to dig around at. Also, it's not really a bug per se, but if FTP times out after 60 seconds for any reason in general, shouldn't pkg_add say something nicer about it than "No packages in PKG_PATH"? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

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