on Nov 1 on the FTP sites. As usual, we try to get
>CDs in people's hands slightly a few days before that.
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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2
Dial Center 112, Drake University
2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA
Tel: +1 515 271-4540
Fax: +1 515 271-1938
E-mail: daniel.rama...@drake.edu
On 2011-07-17 at 01:20:43, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>So far there hasn't been anything serious enough for an errata.
>
>That's a good thing, right?
That is simply amazing. Thanks to all the developers for such a fine
release!
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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2
Dia
e
process of researching my problem i found the answers i needed.
Occasionally the answers are in the list archive, but more commonly in
the man pages or the FAQ.
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Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2
Dial Center 118, Drake University
2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA
Tel: +1 515 271-454
Got mine in the USA yesterday. I agree, this release looks great.
Thank you to everyone involved in getting another release done!
On 2009-10-15 at 05:31:36, you wrote:
>my 4.6 arrived in the uk today from openbsd europe...
>
>thanks for the release to all developers. keep going!
>
>btw. my favou
On 2009-04-20 at 19:56:15, you wrote:
>We are working on changes to do this trick in a variety of our deamons
>and in our kernel; precognition means that we can identify an upcoming
>period when such packets will come in -- packets which would
>defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an
On 2009-04-05 at 13:26:54, Martin Schrvder wrote:
>2009/4/5, ropers :
>> - The printer should work with OpenBSD without a hitch, and by that
>> I don't mean "can sometimes be gotten to work by endlessly tweaking
>> CUPS", and I also don't mean "can be gotten to work with
>> compat_linux and a bina
On 2009-03-10 at 14:34:30, you wrote:
>I want to set up the web server to share file, but i know apache-1.3.x
>(which is openbsd default httpd) had the 4G file size limit, can i
> break this limit?
I don't know the correct answer to this question, but i thought of a
possible work-around in the ev
On 2009-03-02 at 16:45:00, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>Sorry, but I am not going to spend my time making coffee mugs.
Thank you.
I really like OpenBSD and contribute with money.
I already have enough coffee mugs.
Dan Ramaley
Firstly, don't panic.
I think if you recreate /dev with the appropriate permissions, add
the "MAKEDEV" script and run it, that everything will be fine. You
might have to do all this after booting from a CD though and mounting
the filesystem.
Here's what the permissions look like on my 4.4 syst
On Tuesday February 3 2009 21:16, you wrote:
>> rsync -aHESvv --delete \
>> --exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
>> --exclude '/mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
>> /home/jonathan/ /mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/
>> This works fine except that the --exclude options a
On Friday January 23 2009 08:07, you wrote:
>I am sure it's got something to do with the way I am quoting but it's
>not making a lot of sense at this point.
>
>Here is the actual command I am trying to run and it's error
>output.
>
>spider:/var/logtransfer/dc-fw1# find . -name pflog.*.gz -exec zcat
I've gotten a couple of off-list replies with suggestions to try. I
greatly appreciate any ideas, but still have not had any luck so far.
I've trimmed my ruleset and adjust some of it to be more permissive.
Any ideas as to why ftp-proxy still doesn't work?
ext_if = "vr0"
int_if = "fxp0"
icmp
Remove the quotes from "echo {}". The "No such file or directory" error
is because find cannot run a program named "echo ./daemon.2.gz". Remove
the quotes and it will try to run "echo" with an argument
of "daemon.2.gz".
On Thursday January 22 2009 13:54, you wrote:
>I know this is more of a gen
Hello. I haven't gotten much response on my ftp-proxy issue, but i
realized that i forgot to include the all-important dmesg. I don't know
that it would help any, but it is below. Has anyone else gotten
ftp-proxy on 4.4-stable to work?
OpenBSD 4.4-stable (GENERIC) #1: Mon Jan 12 12:36:24 CST 2
Hello. I'm setting up an OpenBSD (4.4-stable) NAT firewall (with a
couple servers behind it) for the first time. Everything seems to work
except for active ftp from machines behind the firewall. Active ftp
connections made from the firewall itself do work, though. I do have
net.inet.ip.forwardi
Thanks for the responses! I'll look into KVM and VMWare, and possibly
some of the others. From the variety of responses it sounds like
VirtualBox is the only virtualization software that *doesn't* work with
OpenBSD though.
Strangely enough, after asking my question, i reinstalled OpenBSD in
Vi
Hello. I have what is hopefully a quick question. Has anyone
successfully run OpenBSD 4.4 in a virtualized environment? If so, which
one? I've been trying to get it to run within VirtualBox 2.1 with
limited success. (OpenBSD will install, but trying to compile software
results in a crash.)
It
On Wednesday December 31 2008 13:34, you wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christoph Leser
wrote:
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> `cd /path-to-dir`:
>> `rm *`;
>
>You shouldn't be using backticks in a perl script. Backtick simply
>starts a new process/subshell and runs whatever you have in the
>bac
On Thursday December 4 2008 14:12, Gabri Mate wrote:
>I'm running 4.3 and installed p5-PerlMagick from packages. When i try
> to load this module with one of my perl scripts it says:
>
>Can't load
>'/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/auto/Image/Magick/Mag
>ick.so' for module Image::Mag
On Tuesday October 14 2008 12:19, you wrote:
>Today's mail delivered the 4.4 CDs near Boston, Mass.
Also to Des Moines, Iowa.
>Many thanks to the developers,
Agreed. Thank you developers!
Dan Ramaley
Given the $350 price tag of the PCI version, it might even be cheaper to
get a different motherboard. The PC Weasel site looks unmaintained; the
order page only lets you set a credit card expiration date from 2002 to
2008.
On Wednesday August 6 2008 15:58, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
>spend your mon
On Tuesday July 22 2008 09:04, you wrote:
>> for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
>> ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq0${i}.html
>> done
>> for i in 10 11 12 13 14 15; do
>> ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq${i}.html
>> done
>
>Wouldn't it be simpler to be done in one loop?
>
>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
On Wednesday July 9 2008 10:48, you wrote:
>Why haven't the developers posted a formal annoncement clearifing
>if the distributed BIND is vulnerable?
>
>If so, where the hell is the patch?
Just curious, how much did you pay for your support contract? Clearly if
you feel you are so entitled to a q
On Friday June 20 2008 18:09, you wrote:
>Oh god... Into my University it's almost the opposite, so much
>professors using MS Word(R) and still using the IEEE .doc template to
>write papers. ... Personally I dont understand why it's so fuckin
>difficult to understand that LaTeX it's great.
I once
On Friday June 20 2008 11:47, you wrote:
>There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and
>replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers
>have already made the transition. See, for example, the following
> link from Cambridge University Press
>
> https:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:24, you wrote:
>The old saying goes, "the only stupid question is the one that you
>don't ask." However, it should be modified for OpenBSD as, "the only
>stupid question is the one you don't research before you ask." It's a
>tough crowd but in time you start to under
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 18:07, you wrote:
>> As part of my move from GNU/Linux to OpenBSD on my server, I just
>> want to clarify what I need to do to ensure that I have performance
>> optimised.
>
>I imagine, if you run the standard OpenBSD system on your servers for
>some time, you'll be satisfi
On Monday 07 April 2008 14:00, you wrote:
>"We'll provide you with a secure system, but.. hell, once you get it..
> it won't be secure anymore, wait another 6 months, it'll be secure
> again. briefly."
The developers provide a secure system that can be downloaded completely
free of charge. If you
On Friday 08 February 2008 15:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> I'd like to avoid root access as OpenBSD disables it by default for
>> a good reason. But so far it seems the most maintainable solution.
>
>You could, with some work, do it differently. On the source box, make
> a tarball of what you wa
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:38, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>Since this will be for a low-MHz box, it's BIOS probably won't like
>large drives either. That means SCSI. If the boxes aren't great or
>have room or provide cooling for SCSI drives, that makes it external.
Could you use a small IDE b
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields.
>She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the
> higher the frequency, the worse her symptoms.
Rather than trying to find obsolete equipment that r
On Saturday 29 December 2007 00:34, Nick Holland wrote:
>And...just start at chapter 1 and start reading. :) Odds are, you
>didn't catch it all the first time, even things that didn't change
>will mean something to you now when it didn't the last time you
>looked.
Exactly. About once a year i go
On Friday 14 September 2007 10:36, you wrote:
>As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and
>changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my time
>between lock and release days.
Truly, thank you for your hard work.
One of the many things that keeps me buying
On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choices.
>> > You can get http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative
>>
>> Wow. Let's all go practice law
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:32, you wrote:
>There is a bill before Congress now to roll back patent protection,
>notably in the field of software. American users of OpenBSD might
>want to follow this struggle, which is running into massive opposition
>from non-comp-sci patent holders.
Software pa
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:50, you wrote:
>How can scp be run without prompting for a password?
Set up ssh shared keys.
Dan RamaleyDial Center 118, Drake University
Network Programmer/Analyst
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:13, you wrote:
>Why would any one use amd64 since it's not even a amd? Is it because
>it's a 64bit? Do both amd64 and i386/64bit share so much?
My understanding (and i'm sure someone else will correct me if i'm
wrong) is that AMD extended their processors with 64-bit
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 13:28, you wrote:
>Is there anyway to make ps format its output to not cut off lines at
>the edge of the screen?
ps(1) suggests -w for wide, or -ww for really wide. I don't have any
large process names running right now to test it, but i've used it in
the past.
-
On Thursday 14 June 2007 07:44, you wrote:
>I have a problem with regular expressions and can not solve it.
>I wants to egrep from a big text file all mail addresses.
The first edition of _Mastering Regular Expressions_ by Jeffrey E. F.
Friedl has a Perl script which generates a 6.5 kB regex whic
NUT = Network UPS Tools
http://www.networkupstools.org/
Check the compatibility list. Even better, check the compatibility list
for the version that is available in an OpenBSD package. The list will
be in /usr/local/share/ups/driver.list after the package is installed.
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 1
Try something like this:
rsync -avvHR /source/. /destination
The -vv is optional, but will print a line for each file as it is being
copied. If the copy is interrupted partway through, just run it again
and it'll pick up where it left off. If you don't have rsync installed,
look for it in pack
On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:26, you wrote:
>This problem is persistent over several releases of OpenBSD and on
>multiple i386 computers, both desktop and laptop:
What type of terminal are you using? If you are logging in directly from
the console, mc does not work quite right with the default
On Thursday 26 October 2006 08:16, you wrote:
>I admit that I am not the most up to date on the release process, but
>why is 4.0 not out on the FTP server yet if people are receiving it in
>their homes on CD?
>From https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order:
"Will release and ship November 1 2006
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 03:06, you wrote:
>There is no uniform way to ask the max file size of a given
>file system. ffs filestems do have that info in therir superblock,
>though, you can see it with dumpfs(8).
split also supports reading from standard input. Figuring out the
maximum size of s
On Thursday 12 October 2006 13:54, Falk Husemann wrote:
>Hello List!
>We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to
>know what's exactly the oldest machine running OpenBSD?
My home mail server was originally a 33 Mhz 486, but once 66 MHz CPUs
became free i acquired one and
On Friday 22 September 2006 00:39, you wrote:
>I have a machine running OpenBSD 3.6 on a remote location that I would
>like to upgrade. I only have ssh access unless I buy myself an
> expensive plane ticket. I wondered if there's a safe way to upgrade
> remotely or should I just wait until I get a
On Friday 22 September 2006 02:55, you wrote:
>> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060921164308
>> https://https.openbsd.org/images/pluffy.jpg
>
>damned. wanted to make a donation and ended up buying pluffies and
>shirts for me, my wife and the office. it's all your fault. ;)
Pluffy app
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:44, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, AndrC)s wrote:
>> egrep shouldn't find anything, you are searching for the string ""
>> in "some text here", clearly, it isn't there.
>
>Nah, an empty search pattern should match any line, as defined by SU
>and the man p
On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:13, you wrote:
>1) Any chassis or supplier recommendations? Comments on
> "Rackmountpro", since I have found this 2U chassis from rackmountpro
> (
>http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2421 ).
I have purchased rackmount chassis from them before and been
On Monday 07 August 2006 08:15, Gabriel George POPA wrote:
>Most questions on this mail list require me to provide a valid output
> of dmesg. But if old messages are erased, how am I
>supposed to do this?
Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot.
On Monday 31 July 2006 09:41, you wrote:
>The SMART thing isn't that smart at all. Even after the server crashed
>twice due faulty harddrive, SMART keeps teeling me everything is OK.
I think (someone with more knowledge may correct me if i'm wrontg) SMART
communicates with the drive and asks the
How accurate are the sensors on most computers? I ask because after
learning (thanks to a few kind individuals on this list) how to monitor
sensors with OpenBSD 3.9, i have been checking the values on one of my
computers (a VIA Epia machine with 533 MHz C3 processor) to get an idea
of what "nor
Thank you to those who responded! I can figure out sensorsd.conf now.
Also thank you to the developers who created such a simple way to
monitor the sensors. I've configured sensors on other operating systems
that have been a much greater hassle.
-
Hello. I have not used sensorsd on OpenBSD before, but am trying to
learn. I have read sensorsd(8) and sensorsd.conf(5) from OpenBSD 3.9
and the configuration looks very simple. However, i have a couple quick
questions:
The lines in sensorsd.conf start with "hw.sensors.N" (where N is a small
n
If anyone has been lamenting the loss of the bash-static package, this
evening i took the time to figure out how to create something that
works just as well. I peeked in the Makefile for bash on an older
version of OpenBSD to see how the static version differs. The
difference is when compiling
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:13, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
>It *is*. I've done so since a nearly uncountable number of years.
>
>Something like this in /etc/fstab helps.
>/dev/wd0b /tmpmfs rw,-m0,-s204800 0 0
In the past i've always symlinked /tmp to point to /var/tm
The file sets that are used to install OpenBSD are not packages even
though they end in the "tgz" extension. Thus, pkg_add doesn't know what
to do with it. Try a command like this instead:
# cd /
# tar -xvpzf /home/music/xbase39.tgz
The -v is optional, but make sure you include -p to pres
On Sunday 04 June 2006 21:43, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
>these machines need Socket A and Socket 370 heatsinks. it's a plus if
> they're low profile for 1U and 2U rackmount units. all suggestions
> appreciated.
What i've found works well is to buy a fan adapter that will allow you
to use a larger
When a user logs in, what would prevent them from accessing their files
in /var/www/home/wherever by just using the cd command to change to
that directory? Just make sure permissions on whatever they need to
access in /var/www/home/wherever are such that the users can change
files and Apache ca
On Saturday 15 April 2006 20:03, Steve B wrote:
> I've seen a number of posts on various OBSD
> related sites about these Via EPIA boards and their various benefits
> - low power, hardware crypto, etc. They look like a nice replacement
> for my old board so I've been looking around at logicsupply.c
On Friday 14 April 2006 22:17, you wrote:
>To increase the security level of my OpenBSD system I have defined at
>/etc/fstab that the root partition should be read only.
That won't increase your security level much, but if you really want to
make / read-only, there is more involved. (I recently d
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 08:19, you wrote:
>Hello.
>What are the thin-client options with OpenBSD ?
>Something similar to www.ltsp.org
>If anyone is using openbsd as a thin-client server. i would be
>interested in hearing their experiences.
I've actually used OpenBSD as an LTSP server. The cl
On Monday 20 February 2006 18:47, Marcus Barczak wrote:
>Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an
> external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller.
> The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with
> mt for instance:
I have an
On Thursday 16 February 2006 01:58, A Rossi wrote:
>My client didn't really like the idea of just making a windows
>partition and disallowing the users from accessing it with
> permissions, because then they'd know about something... And some
> might complain about it being "broken" - they have
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:43, you wrote:
>I know it isn't simple, one must first have a way to say: "hey, I'm a
>package who was added by a user, I wasn't added just to serve a
>package you deleted!!", and then check if the dependency is used by
>any package. Also, it should always ask if we
On Sunday 18 December 2005 03:05, you wrote:
>And my machine is old, it's Celeron 500 on Chaintech CT-6BTA3 with
> Intel 82440BX chipset, and my motherboard didn't provide any
> information about cpu/system temp...
I'd suggest opening the case and seeing if all cooling fans are running;
on older
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:36, you wrote:
>I'm trying to track down why /var is full, and df and du report major
>differences (or else I'm reading something wrong, in which case I
> submit to the verbal beatings). Pay attention to what it says for
> /var. Running OpenBSD 3.8 GENERIC as a firew
On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:59, Martin Schrvder wrote:
>On 2005-11-03 08:20:47 -0600, Jared Solomon wrote:
>> "The AOpen MiniPC measures 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches, is powered by an
>> Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processor"
>
>http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/65660
>
>A MacMini is cheaper and
On Thursday 20 October 2005 19:01, you wrote:
>Currently tracking 30+ pieces of hardware. However, I need help: I
>need people to email me supported hardware, or use the "Submit New
> Kit" link on the page to do it. It's pretty easy, and the only
> requirement is that you need to have personally
The last time i had to use a non-postscript printer with OpenBSD i used
foomatic. Since i was not familiar with the software, it was a bit of a
pain to set up. But like most other software on OpenBSD, once i had it
configured properly it worked without any problems. Just curious, why
don't you
On Monday 26 September 2005 20:10, you wrote:
>Try this one out for size, I can vouch that it's super
>http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html
>Brandon
Is there an LSI SATA card that doesn't have RAID and works with OpenBSD?
I don't want RAID support, so buying an expensive ($21
I have an i386 file server running OpenBSD 3.7-release. I want to add an
SATA drive to the system. Since the motherboard does not have SATA
built-in, i need to purchase a controller card. I notice on
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html that a number of SATA chips are
supported, though many will re
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