ing exactly what you asked it to do. This isn't a linux
list so I won't bother explaining why but it just goes to show if you
play with things you don't understand you can end up shooting yourself
in the foot and then amplify the effect by telling everyone.
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don't use
> emulators, stepping in to tell we should use emulators.
>
maybe doing a google search for "netbsd anita" will provide some hints
on what can be done with emulators. They are valuable for some things
even if it isn't as a build environment.
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n put standard
grub commands in there including setting up a grub boot menu if you have
more than one OS to boot.
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still doesn't seem to work..." - me: "did you try on one of
> our OpenBSD hosts?" - user: "yes, it does work fine there."
>
> See the problem?
>
Yup, lack of nscd -i by the sysadmin...
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t;
in the muttrc? No need for fmt.
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in touch with me.
I really don't care if you do this or not. If you want help/guidance
contact me off list - I have done GSoC as a mentor before though I have
not been the admin for a project, I can/will not do the machinations for
you - perhaps someone who is interested in making this
rom google and
hand it on. Just ask on the GSoC mentors mailing list.
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h the
right guidance can produce some very good results - OTOH there are some
that even with the best mentoring produce crap. The project gets money
for taking on a student, the student gets paid to work full time and the
mentor gets a t-shirt for their efforts. It can be very rewarding when
it al
space. It would be handy to be able to mount /tmp on mfs.
>
> I think it would be better it restore didn't write to /tmp, though.
>
restore honours TMPDIR.
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Show us the code for this one,
I would like to understand it. Certainly, ever since I have been
a system admin the recommended way of running dump was in single user mode
if you could to ensure a consistent backup. Maybe I have misunderstood
what Pass III and Pass IV of the dump messages me
e bug.
> > thanks.
>
> You are a pathetic loser.
And it is this sort of nasty backchannel sniping that ensures it won't
be on OpenBSD. I don't care about your opinion Theo. Not one bit.
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:25:50PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:47:54PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Instead of helping a person who might have found a bug, I think you
> > are talking out of your ass.
> >
>
> If you say so Theo. Oddly,
actively changed while
dump was doing its work.
I am sure both myself and Jeff will be thrilled when you find the bug.
thanks.
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:28:31AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
> On 03/08/11 16:20, Brett Lymn wrote:
> >
> >Unlikely to be a bug more likely that you did a dump of a file system
> >that was changing while the dump was in progress. This breaks the
> >backup and produces t
ugh...
>
When I have seen this situation myself it has resulted in data loss.
The backup is bad.
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ore they can perform this task. It will be interesting to see how
you go about handling files appearing and disappearing during the
backup.
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the sort of symptoms you are seeing when trying to
do a restore.
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:24:49PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>
> Imagine I turned it around: Randal L. Schwartz, I believe you are
> involved in illegal activity.
>
Too late - that has already been done to him in the past...
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nto the kernel.
> still, if some developer were interested enough to write a diff, there's
> nothing stopping them.
>
Go look for "openbsd stephanie", it existed but was never integrated.
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; 0x60, should be "p" 0x70
> ")" 0x29, should be "i" 0x69
> "4" 0x34, should be "t" 0x74
>
more likely a screwed up parity setting on a serial line.
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was a little too aggressive for some
of the people I was using this with - just turning this off on the
client side fixed the problem.
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tor connected to a transistor - the
charge in the capacitor in the dram cell determines the 1 or 0. How
long the cell can retain that charge depends a lot on the particular
cell - some hold the charge better than others.
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irmware got around to forcing a
clear on the display ram (yes, the display ram was DRAM) you could
clearly see parts of the display. To be honest it surprised the hell
out of me the first time I saw it too.
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not 100% reliable but DRAM can show a surprising amount of remanence
even without power/refresh. We used to see parts of the display come
up even after the machine had been down for hours.
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote:
>
> Pose the question again. You are, among other things, unclear.
>
No. Look in the archives if you want it - I know you don't have any
answers apart from some tired rhetoric.
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:42:38AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Brett Lymn wrote:
>
I did not.
> > So, regarding these claims of interoperability, can you put
> > LDAP+Kerberos+DNS services on an OpenBSD in a network of Windows clients
> > and removed the
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:42:02PM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote:
> Brett Lymn wrote:
>
> >Oddly this non-standard AD seems to interoperate with the Solaris ldap
> >client, an openldap client and with MIT kerberos just fine.
>
> Seems to, or actually does? Or can be be poun
is non-standard AD seems to interoperate with the Solaris ldap
client, an openldap client and with MIT kerberos just fine.
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AD but, big picture wise, it does have some attributes
that would be good to adopt (attributes, not implimentation). Bagging
it without offering a solid alternative is just pointless rhetoric.
But given the domain you appear to be posting from I guess there is
already somewhat of a mindset goin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote:
>
> does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
> sequence) from text files?
>
Try col -b
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:56:38PM -0400, Kevin Stam wrote:
>
> Or perhaps you're being quite legitimate here. I just haven't heard of that
> problem before, it's always been about 3d acceleration.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension
It makes a big
ore sense when the sources were
under the BSD umbrella but now it's just silly having to list a cast
of thousands in any advertising.
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hen tar will tell you the file:
tar cf /dev/null /bad_blocks_mount
on a read error tar will print out the affected file name.
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there is black and white. you can promote open source and demand open
> documentation, or even open hardware (which would be best; projects of
> this character do exist).
>
Timo, if you just would shut up and hack you would fit in even better.
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thing different to what you want.
You'll probably be happier here.
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fy
the source and remove the static from the function but that this point
they are lining a gun up on their foot with their finger on the
trigger - if they happen to put a bullet through their foot they have
noone to blame but themselves.
Again, it's not a security issue - it's a usuability/api issue.
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rflow to run code
(certainly veriexec won't stop that trick) but I do wonder if it would
be possible to enforce a restriction that any executable page must be
backed by an on-disk object and how much pain/lossage that would
entail.
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;file executable"
fi
works in /bin/sh?
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nverts the AUI into either 10base-2 or 10base-T depending on the
unit you get. They may be rare beasties now as most were probably
thrown out as "old junk" years ago.
>with
> a common 100BaseT switch?
>
The network interface in a 1+ is 10Mbit/s only. Make sure your switch
can handle that.
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s. One also wonders
why, if you are determined to do this, you don't just compile a
hello_world.c and disassemble the output (or just make the compiler
output the .s file for you...)
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not happen when a native
build is done which is used as justification for avoiding a cross
build system. I seriously doubt the problems are that endemic in the
cross build code as being stated.
I reiterate... whatever... the lack of cross build capability affects
developers more than anyone else.
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h it may be a lot faster due to the
faster iteration times.
> We've seen what cross-building means for other projects. We've seen
> what native building does for OpenBSD. We rather like our choice. We
> have seen what it does for quality.
>
Sure, fine. As I said before, this really impacts the developers more
than the user community - your choice, you live with it.
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time and effort to perform an install from scratch - that is
where the user community comes in, to help out with the testing. It
benefits the developers getting more timely feedback and it benefits
the users because they can get access to a more current version of the
software.
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boot blocks for the architectures they
> "support".
>
tsk... others are not allowed to make errors? How is that related to
cross building anyway? Are you saying the boot blocks get reinstalled
on the build servers every time? And _all_ supported boot methods
including network booting are tested?
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o be
a benign change that fixes a bug causes an architecture specific build
error. In a cross build environment the impact could be as little as
a hour or two instead of days. It means developers can do more stuff
because they are not waiting for the slower processors to grind
through a compile.
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lt on a foreign
operating system and/or can cross build to most of the architectures
that NetBSD supports.
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keypad that changes the locations of the numbers/letters (to prevent a
replay attack working), pick out a PIN or password on the screen,
maybe even combining it with a typed password.
This will fall to a determined attack (video surveillance) but just
about anything would.
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em. IPSO is a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, that is well
known within the IPSO user community.
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s as to if they work or not in a particular machine.
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rs to work with (amongst other
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f grille at the back of the
machine on the ELC) and use the board for something, it's not exactly
the smallest SBC you can get but everything is on the board. The form
factor is a standard 6U board so if you have a 6U card cage you could
possibly mount it ... or just mount it in some other case.
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ldom $month
else
year=`expr $year - 1`
month=12
day=31
fi
fi
}
#
# This is just for testing...
#
while read day month year
do
yesterday $day $month $year
echo "Yesterday was $day/$month/$year"
done
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