On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:19:40AM -0700, Neel Chakraborty wrote:
> Hello everyone, hope you're having a great day. I am looking for
> resources to learn modern C, so that I can understand (and hopefully
> someday contribute) to the OpenBSD source code, in areas like device
> drivers, kernel and th
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:26:00PM +0200, Dan wrote:
> result [filename]
>
> And programmatically is really appreciable/ted :)
Have you tried 'sha256 -r'?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 06:06:46AM +, Martin wrote:
> Can anybody share some way how to increase VM quantity per host (more than
> four VMs running simultaneously)
You probably need to add more tap devices in /dev...
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV tap4
# ./MAKEDEV tap5
[...]
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 05:06:51AM +, dirk coetzee wrote:
> I have the azalia driver as well, on a Dell XPS 9315.
The dmesg you posted does not show the audio device connecting to the azalia
driver, it is unrecognised.
Since this is -current, the first question would be, did it _ever_ work be
Have you tried selecting the audio1 device rather than audio0?
I would expect that one to produce some output on this machine.
On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:12:35AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Other than wc, I think ls -l | awk is probably the most portable way.
That will break badly if you feed it the name of a directory or a device file
rather than a regular file.
If you're going to use ls -l | awk, then it should pr
On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 11:22:47AM +0200, Dan wrote:
> y=0
> arg[$y]="hello"
> y=$y+1
> arg[$y]="dan"
This piece of code doesn't do what you probably think it does.
Although it works here, y is a string variable and not a numeric variable.
If you add some extra echo statements you can se
On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 07:30:38PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:20:53 +0200,
> Dan wrote:
> >
> > Here I found a strange behavior of du:
> >
> > wiz$ ls -lsa index.php
> > 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 user www 7412 Oct 19 2024 index.php
> > wiz$ du index.php
> > 16 index.php
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 02:32:36PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote:
> record.enable=sysctl
Have you enabled kern.audio.record?
# sysctl kern.audio.record=1
On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 06:54:39AM +0200, Dan wrote:
> I'm finishing the upgrade of my Mac 2011 - Intel with some general slow
> performances with OpenBSD 7.7.
Are you still running the entire system from a usb flash drive?
> However I want to advise that launching
>
> wiz# /usr/sbin/rcctl -f s
On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 12:53:57PM +, Daniel Wilkins wrote:
> imo even git is too much SCM for most projects. I just rolled my own
> eventually.
+1
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 09:55:23AM -0700, Kevin Williams wrote:
> I certainly want to detect a failing drive for my source data and replace it
> before corrupted data is backed up from it.
No matter what techniques you use, this is more difficult than it might seem.
Copying data from one place to
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 10:30:59PM -0600, latin...@resist.ca wrote:
> > Quoth latin...@resist.ca:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> i found today these lines, is it something to be worry please?
> >>
> >> agroena.org 185.177.72.16 - - [09/Jul/2025:13:06:03 -0700] "GET
> >> /.well-known/security.txt HTTP/1.1" 40
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 12:49:49PM -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> What do people use for long term/archival storage?
BD-R.
But at least in my experience it's getting more difficult to find good quality
media.
Plus the ~46 Gb capacity of BD-R DL discs is a tedious limitation when backing
up volume
On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 03:09:38PM -0500, Brian Conway wrote:
> Essential files should be part of a regular backup.
Not necessarily - finished projects and stuff that won't change anymore can be
archived separately and taken out of the regular backup loop.
Then you just keep a copy of that unchan
On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 08:53:47PM +0200, Piotr K. Isajew wrote:
> Do you use OpenBSD for your home
> NAS? If yes, do you just rely on softraid to protect against data
> loss or do you supplement it with something?
This has been discussed on the lists several times in the past.
Fancy filesystems
On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 10:47:21AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> From the manual
>
>/etc/iked/private/ The directory where local private keys used for
> public key authentication are kept. The file
> local.key is used to store the loc
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 07:11:39PM +0200, open...@mailbox.org wrote:
> The currently implemented behavior is also totally undocumented.
The hard coded paths are mentioned in this guide:
https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/reckless_guide_to_openbsd/keys_and_certificates
You might find other
On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 06:18:18AM +0200, Mike Fischer wrote:
> BTW: The correct prefix for ULA is fc00::/7 (RFC 4193, RFC 8190).
Technically yes, the prefix is specified as fc00::/7, but bit 7 is supposed
to be set to 1 which effectively makes the prefix in practice fd00::/8.
I.E.
F C
110
On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 02:43:44PM -0600, David Raymond wrote:
> Crystal, thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work either.
> However, I found a simpler way of doing it: Add the line
>
> ${exec_prefix}/bin/xrandr --size 1600x900
>
> with whatever screen resolution you desire, to the file
>
On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 12:01:22PM -0600, David Raymond wrote:
> I used to be able to set my X11 screen resolution on boot by putting
> something like the file
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> SubSection "Display"
> Virtual 1600 900
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
You probably want so
Tired of having just 256 colours on your console instead of 4096?
Do you miss the blink attribute from the old VGA text mode days?
Want to learn how cool stuff like this is implemented?
Look no further:
https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/console_4096
On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 03:58:14PM +0100, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> I disabled Secure Boot but when I tried to install OpenBSD7.7 it failed to
> boot at all. In tiny text at the centre of the screen I get this:
>
> #
> probing: pc0 mem [636K 760M 217M 31424M]
> disk: hd0 hd
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 08:27:32PM -0400, Jason wrote:
> I have a few choices. To turn off acpicpi on the amd64, switch to i386
Out of these two choices you would definitely want to use amd64 with acpipci
disabled rather than i386. In fact, the i386 generic kernel doesn't include
acpipci which is
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 04:39:28PM -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> FWIW, nlink_t is uint32_t which gives you quite a bit of time
> before it runs out.
LINK_MAX is 32767 which gives you somewhat less ;-).
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 11:51:07AM -0400, Jason wrote:
> I have this laptop its an Acer aspire 7720 with an intel core 2 duo t5450.
> Trying to boot the amd64 installer gives me an error of
>
> maclloc: allocation large error
At the bootloader prompt, type:
boot -c
and when it enters UKC, do:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 04:26:05PM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 4:03 PM, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
> >> can ffs run out of inodes as ext2 can?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > But
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
> can ffs run out of inodes as ext2 can?
Yes.
But with default settings and typical use, it probably won't happen.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 08:24:10AM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
> What's a HBA
Host Bus Adaptor
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 04:40:22PM -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> I have a kernel patch which allows NetMos PCI serial/parallel chips.
> Post it here, tech, mail somewhere?
Patches are best sent to t...@openbsd.org for review.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 02:26:12PM -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> Recent C standards allow (a)
> for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
> which limits the scope of i to the loop
> instead of (b)
> int i;
> for (i = 0;
> which leaves i in scope
>
> Is it permissible to use (a) in kernel code
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 10:23:01AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/06/18 03:41, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:13:07AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2025-06-16, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > > > While trying to find a way t
On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:13:07AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025-06-16, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > While trying to find a way to get fw_update to work during autoinstall
> > without an internet connection, I noticed the use of the word
> > "setup" - maybe someone can take a look and decid
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 09:36:42AM -0400, Christopher Turkel wrote:
> Maintaining a fork would be a tremendous effort
As somebody who actually uses the networking parts of X11 on a daily basis,
(I.E. programs running on one machine and displaying their graphical output on
an X server running on a
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:37:43PM +0200, Manuel Kuklinski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a CC2652RB Zigbee stick, which I cannot access via /dev/cuaU*,
> despite attaching at ucom(4), at least according to dmesg. It is
> initially recognized as uslcom(4):
>
> - - - - - - - - - - %< - - - - - - - - - -
A couple of years ago I wrote some patches to make the framebuffer console a
bit more compatible with xterm:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167252984220096&w=2
Some of the more essential fixes found their way in to CVS, but a lot of the
more experimental code didn't. As a result, setting TE
On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 09:17:47AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jun 02 03:16:13, kolip...@exoticsilicon.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 08:04:22AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > > In retrospect, why did this USB keyboard ever attach via pckbc?
> >
> > It didn't. At least, not in the dmesgs th
On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 08:04:22AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> In retrospect, why did this USB keyboard ever attach via pckbc?
It didn't. At least, not in the dmesgs that you attached.
The pckbc and pckbd drivers are strictly PS/2.
The uhidev and ukbd drivers are USB.
Both pckbd and ukbd can be
On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 11:16:20AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is current/amd64 on an old PC.
> Everything works, this is just to say that
> the wskbd connects differently now (full dmesgs below).
> -isa0 at pcib0
> -isadma0 at isa0
> -pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12
> -pckbd0 at pckbc0
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On May 16 15:10:48, fischer+o...@lavielle.com wrote:
> > The sh(1) manage does not mention the RANDOM variable.
>
> But it mentions that sh(1) is ksh(1)
It also mentions that sh(1):
"describes only the parts relevant to a POSIX complia
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 05:09:17PM +0100, Bambero wrote:
> I've tried adjusting kern.bufcachepercent and kern.maxvnodes to limit cache
> growth, but the cache still occupies a large portion of memory.
The value of kern.bufcachepercent relates to the amount of DMA-accessible RAM
that is available f
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 09:56:13AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> imho you should really be looking for a 64 bit machine if you want to
> run a web browser.
Lynx runs just fine on my i386 ;-)
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 09:02:21AM -0300, Paulo Mafra wrote:
> Hello guys, i have a firewall (APU board) with limited traffic to 450mbps.
> I was wondering if is there some USB nic that deal with 1 gbps at least and
> works fine in openbsd ? Any sugestion ?
I've used a few USB-C NICs that are bas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 11:08:39AM +0200, Georg Bege wrote:
> The devices are being detected and igc0 is in an UP state.
> Igc0 is missing an IP, do you acquire one via DHCP?
> Did you try to set one up?
That's not the problem. In fact, igc0 is assigned an IP of 192.168.10.192 in
the ifconfig out
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 10:42:51PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to setup iked vpn as I did many times before by coping keys
> from
>
> /etc/iked/local.pub
>
> between systems and it doesn't work anymore.
>
> Looking at the keys, they are now a different type.
>
> On all
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 05:45:43PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> No, OpenBSD does not do "TRIM" (unless something was slipped in when I wasn't
> looking).
But as an alternative you can copy the data elsewhere and then do a SECERASE
on the original drive using atactl on OpenBSD. *
This can resolve
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 09:18:48AM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on a wireguard network.
>
> I have a setup like this:
>
> serverA (10.0.0.0) => serverB (10.0.0.1) => serverC (10.0.0.2)
>
> - serverA connects to serverB with AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
> - serv
On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 03:42:48AM +0200, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> > Why not just use a custom disklabel template that suits your needs? This
> is the -t option to /sbin/disklabel.
>
> How is it possible to use a custom template from the OpenBSD installer?
You'll need to drop to the shell and
On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 12:36:18AM +0900, WATANABE Takeo wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Would you be willing to discuss how to write pf.conf?
>
> I'm using OpenBSD 7.5 AMD.
> I want to limit the packets going in and out as follows
>
> 1. reject in principle : block all
> 2. when rejecting packets, do n
On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 09:16:52PM +0200, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> To address this limitation, I had to
> write a custom program that calculates partition sizes to maintain their
> initial proportions while occupying the entire storage device.
Why not just use a custom disklabel template that
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 11:39:39PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024-07-30, J Doe wrote:
> > As a result with continuing to experiment with my configuration, I ran
> > into a new issue. I followed the instructions in the OpenBSD FAQ[0] for
> > an X.509 configuration - in particular the fol
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 09:40:29AM -0400, openbsd_fr...@mail2tor.com wrote:
> Can OpenBSD write to exFAT and NTFS partitions?
Sure. You can write random data to any partition with dd.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 06:20:26PM -0400, J Doe wrote:
> My hypothesis is that iked does not name an identity because this is
> certificate based authentication vs. MSCHAPv2 for EAP authentication
> which would provide an identity (ie: a username).
>
> Is that correct ?
No.
The identity that wou
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:53:28AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024-07-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > The normal way to handle this and other boot-related problems is with a
> > serial
> > connection from another machine that is still accessible via the network.
>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:19:34PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> The problem persists with every USB stick,
> with each of miniroot75.img, install75.img
> and a full usb stick install, on every USB port.
Out of curiosity, does the machine successfully boot OpenBSD/i386 from a USB
stick?
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 09:04:17AM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote:
> Alternatively, is there a way to have ssh access in single user mode?
The normal way to handle this and other boot-related problems is with a serial
connection from another machine that is still accessible via the netwo
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 03:22:21PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> There, the rotating slash either stops and nothing else happens,
> or the machine reboots after the first number in
>
> booting hd0a:/bsd 12345678 + [reboot]
>
> This happens with both bsd and bsd.rd.
>
> The USB stick holds a fu
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:38:42PM +0200, Martin Schrder wrote:
> Am Mi., 17. Juli 2024 um 00:18 Uhr schrieb <04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com>:
> > Does this idea make sense?
>
> No.
> You'll have to keep both systems up-to-date.
Only if you expect the system to come up 100% automatically when the fi
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:05:05AM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote:
> Your point regarding no guarantee for the system to boot to disk 2 is well
> taken. It makes me question if it's worth doing at all. Do yo uhave a sense
> if there is a large enough probability of disk1 failing catastrop
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:59:01AM +0100, Mark Gary wrote:
> /etc/login.conf - yes I did run cap_mkdb.
Don't.
On a small personal system there is no point in using the db format for
login.conf. Remove the db version and stick to the plain text file.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 09:57:20PM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote:
> - Install OpenBSD on the 2 drives
> + drive1 : partition a to k for the OS
> + drive 2: partition a to k for the OS and partition m for data
> - In UEFI, set up boot priority drive1, then drive2
> - In the OS
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 08:48:56PM +1000, Paul W. Rankin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m trying to get a basic URL rewrite working with httpd but, alas, it
> seems broken.
It's not broken :-).
>
> My goal:
>
> /~USER -> /htdocs/u/USER
root "/htdocs/u"
location match "/~(.*)" {
request
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:12:35PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> It is my understanding that OpenBSD requires X for any practical, productive
> and meaningful terminal usage.
That is completely untrue.
> As for your question the FAQ briefly describes some trickery that may or may
> not be appl
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 06:34:00PM +0100, ropers wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 06:09, Crystal Kolipe
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 04:25:33AM +0100, ropers wrote:
> > > It's long been a secret wishlist item for me to solicit/reach agreement
> > on
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:16:12AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote:
> There is no security with those kind of setups and we
> all know it. I am just glad I can run OpenBSD there.
But if you want to run internet-facing servers without exposing access to them
to the VPS hosting provider, you can stil
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 01:04:10PM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> I have a non-mainstream laptop (company name: chuwi). Working great so far
> but not the webcam. I did a `dd if=/dev/video0 of=webcam_data.bin bs=1024
> count=10` and all i am getting is the stream of 0s.
Is sysctl kern.video.record
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 04:25:33AM +0100, ropers wrote:
> It's long been a secret wishlist item for me to solicit/reach agreement on
> which 256 (possibly 512) code points might merit inclusion in a minimal
There is already preliminary support for propper UTF-8 handling in the
framebuffer console
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 08:32:38PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024-07-10, Tom Smyth wrote:
> > I don't include a swap partition on the routers in the field as I
> > don't want them swapping to disk, we over specify the hardware so that
> > memory exhaustion is (should be anyway) not a c
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 03:29:47PM -0500, Brian Conway wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Tom Smyth wrote:
> > Hi Kirill,
> > I don't include a swap partition on the routers in the field as I
> > don't want them swapping to disk, we over specify the hardware so that
> > memory exhaustion i
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 10:30:28PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> 1. How can one verify they remember the passphrase before
> rebooting/shutting down?
If this is a fresh installation, you'll usually want to reboot and check that
everything
went smoothly anyway. If you've already lost the pas
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 08:26:06AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> What can I do to debug this?
usbdevs -vv
would be interesting.
> uhub4: device problem, disabling port 2
Is this error reported each time you connect the device, or was it just
co-incidence that it happened this time?
If it does appe
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 11:56:11AM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
> Thanks to all for the suggestions!
>
> >> How can one make "Creative Creative BT-W5" device always rsnd/1 and not
> > A -workaround- is:
> > Don't explicitly name an audio device in your commands.
> > Use the environment variab
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 10:51:38AM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:24:16 +0100,
> Dan wrote:
> >
> > What about permissions over /tmp?
> >
> > I really think you are talking of /tmp over mfs, mh.. in my own
> > flavour (different setup) I have to *very versatilly* adjus
at 12:35:56PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> In theory most of your data would be recoverable from that image, but it would
> require a lot of work and knowledge of ffs filesystem layout.
Saving an image of the, (decrypted), partition gives you the chance to recover
some of the data at
On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 07:03:36PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> Okay, I now have a fresh big chunky encrypted drive on another machine and can
> transfer the image/files from the corrupted sd3i to it, but when I tried to
> run
> `dd if=/dev/sd3i | ssh destination "dd of=/mnt/somewhere/ssdimage bs=1m"
On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 06:42:10PM +0200, Thomas Bohl wrote:
> (The log-output is indistinguishable from when it is working.) Yet I don't
> see them arriving with tcpdump:
>
> # tcpdump -n -i vio0 ip6
> tcpdump: listening on vio0, link-type EN10MB
> 18:29:38.703181 fe80::be24:11ff:fe10:5272.46404
On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 12:19:15PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 11:56:18AM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 03:28:37PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 06:03:06PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > >
On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 11:44:30AM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> Every time I tried it, be it 7.3 or 7.5 install*.img, or I now tried a CD/DVD
> 7.5 iso and got "cannot open cd0a.\n booting cd0a", I always went to SHELL
> and typed this:
> `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m` the sd0 or sd1 bei
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 06:03:06PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> If this is really important, I suggest going to buy another drive to
> plug in and dd to rather than trying to do anything complicated.
Definitely. If the only copy of the key is in RAM, then time is of the
essence.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 03:02:29PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 11:51:53AM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 01:02:04PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> > > Hello list
> > > So I was trying to resolve the problem that I just submitt
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 01:02:04PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> Hello list
> So I was trying to resolve the problem that I just submitted with the
> Installer, and I was putting a fresh install75 on my USB, the problem is that
> last DD/flash my USB was on sd2, and in meanwhile I attached my VERY IMPO
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 01:02:04PM +, Anon Loli wrote:
> So, guess who did a DD with "of=/dev/rsd2c" instead of "of=/dev/rsd4c"... ME
> Can this volume/drive still be recovered? I think the metadata and stuff is
> lost
> "77594624 bytes transferred", so about 74M...
First of all, STOP. Anythi
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 10:15:33AM +, dalton.c.russell wrote:
> I double checked with id and it does show that my user is in the wheel group
> but if i look at /etc/groups it isn’t listed next to wheel.
What arguments did you pass to usermod exactly?
> is usermod supposed to modify /etc/group
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Jo MacMahon wrote:
> I recently needed to restore the file `/var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf`, which
> is in the base system, to its original version, and assumed I could get it
> out of one of the file sets, most likely `base75.tgz`. However the file is
> not
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 09:01:51AM +, lafermedesanim...@posteo.net wrote:
> I have a dual boot Devuan/OpenBSD, I wrote random data on my
> drive and then install the OSes, both are encrypted.
> Now, I want to remove this dual boot to have only OpenBSD
> and use it as a daily driver.
> My plan f
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 10:41:33PM +, Martin wrote:
> But what useful methods exists that prevent spamming a HTML signup form
> from stuffing the database with useless signups?
>
> Naturally the accounts that haven't been validated one way or another
> gets deleted, but the initial signup is a
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:47:26AM +0400, shadrock uhuru wrote:
> i tried bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0a softraid0
> which returned the following errors
>
> softraid0: sd2 was not shutdown properly
> softraid0: sd2 was not shutdown properly
> bioctl: KDF hint has invalid size
You are getting this error
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 03:08:49AM +, Martin wrote:
> I am about to upgrade a network from 1G to 2.5G and a couple
> of boxes needs new NICs.
>
> Any recommendations for NICs with good driver support on OpenBSD?
We have quite a few NICs that are based on the RTL8125, which uses the
rge driver
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 08:33:59PM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote:
> Is there any way to use disk encryption without having physical access to
> the device?
Yes, it is possible.
But I think you are talking about full disk encryption and want to enter a
passphrase at the bootloader promp
On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 10:26:55PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> I am sure gdb has some merits but for whatever C programs I wrote so
> far, a much more useful debugging technique was putting printf in
> right places and isolate the problem, and after that doing some mental
> work to actually underst
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:03:06PM -0400, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> Note that you need a color-capable terminal to enable colorls. This
> means you should set your TERM to "wsvt25" on the wscons(4) console
For several releases now, you should be able to set TERM to "xterm" even when
using wscons.
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 04:50:01PM -, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote:
> hi list
> do you have any recommendation? internet can't find my answer
>
> drive is external usb and it has to be encrypted..
> something that can also supports freeBSD is what I need
> fast solution is fat32, but how do
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 11:26:31AM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote:
> Stuart is already testing listed mirrors.
And tests have indeed shown that Stuart locked in a room with a workstation
for 15 hours a day repeatedly and reliably outperforms an AI running on any of
the top 500 supercomputers for thi
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:25:35AM +, Pontus Stenetorp wrote:
> scripting together some sort of "mirror health" tool would be a fairly easy
> (yet probably valuable)
In principle it might sound 'fairly easy', but once you start to add code to
deal with things such as sites going down for plann
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:10:18PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
wrote:
> At work I manage a herd of a dozen OpenBSD machines. We "upgrade"
> by perforing a full network install.
+1
All of our servers are upgraded the same way - fresh install, and
restore the configuration and user da
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 10:34:52AM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> I can reproduce here. Laptop' print key works, the USB keyboard one
> doesn't.
On PS/2 keyboards the print screen key and the pause/break key have special
behaviour when operating in set 2. On USB keyboards print screen is basically
ju
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:56:39PM -, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote:
> wow that's unreadable on my browser
> is that 75M I'm seeing? and doesn't even work as a readable site
> Ill be reading that for the rest of life thanks
The linked page passes HTML and CSS validation:
https://validator.n
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 03:44:07PM +, Alex Frolkin wrote:
> All I get from pppd is "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests", after
> the "CONNECT".
>
> I've also discovered yet another mode of this device (using the patch
> below), to turn it into product ID 1001, which comes up as three ucom(4)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:01:23PM +, Alex Frolkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:03:00PM +, Alex Frolkin wrote:
> > In any case, I think the right answer is to make it work with umb(4).
> > I'll see if I can make any progress with this.
>
> Okay, I got this wrong. What I thought was
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:10:22PM +0900, SASANO Takayoshi wrote:
> I found history of w(1) is
>
> > HISTORY
> > The w command appeared in 2BSD.
>
> But man of OpenBSD-5.0 and previous describes
>
> > HISTORY
> > The w command appeared in 3.0BSD.
>
> NetBSD's w(1) comes from 3.0BSD.
>
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