Re: OpenBSD 4.9 pre-orders

2011-03-25 Thread Frank Bax
Here in Canada there is no standard for clothes that are sold in S,M,L,XL,XXL,etc sizes. Actual size/fit varies by manufacturer. Theo: Are hoodies and T-shirts made by same company? If yes, there is a better chance of knowing in advance if XXL hoodie is made in same size as XXL T-shirt. Wh

Re: Security List

2011-02-09 Thread Frank Bax
On 02/09/11 02:04, SJP Lists wrote: On 9 February 2011 12:37, woolsherpahat wrote: On 6 February 2011 05:23, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi List, i had registered me to the security list: security-annou...@openbsd.org since 9 Genuary 2011, but any email come on my account. Some that had security l

Re: syslog.conf(5) log a given facility only to a separate logfile, not /var/log/messages

2011-01-01 Thread Frank Bax
On 01/01/11 08:56, Damon McMahon wrote: Greetings, My Apple Airport Extreme wireless bridge forwards syslog messages of the following format using facility local0 to my OpenBSD syslogd(8) running in insecure -u mode thus: Jan 1 13:29:53 dadsairport dadsairport admin: Connection accepted from :

pop3 server looping?

2010-12-27 Thread Frank Bax
I see this message in /var/log/daemon about every 10 minutes or so (starting about an hour ago); what does this mean? Dec 27 10:30:01 bax inetd[28318]: pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated

Re: removing unneeded package dependencies

2010-12-27 Thread Frank Bax
On 12/27/10 09:35, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: I use a custom script to remove automaticly installed dependencies to the manually installed packages I deleted. If you had used "-D dependencies" when you manually deleted a package; the dependencies would also be deleted (unless they are requir

Re: qemu core dumped

2010-12-06 Thread Frank Bax
On 12/06/10 10:40, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-12-05, Frank Bax wrote: After my cdrom arrived; I upgraded to 4.8 -release soon after packages became available online. I don't use qemu often; but when I tried to run it after upgrade; I get core dump. I don't use kqemu. I invoke

Re: qemu core dumped

2010-12-05 Thread Frank Bax
On 12/05/10 15:58, Frank Bax wrote: After my cdrom arrived; I upgraded to 4.8 -release soon after packages became available online. I don't use qemu often; but when I tried to run it after upgrade; I get core dump. I don't use kqemu. I invoke qemu using same options (saved in file) as

qemu core dumped

2010-12-05 Thread Frank Bax
After my cdrom arrived; I upgraded to 4.8 -release soon after packages became available online. I don't use qemu often; but when I tried to run it after upgrade; I get core dump. I don't use kqemu. I invoke qemu using same options (saved in file) as worked in 4.7: $ pkg_info | grep qemu qemu-

Re: ALIX CF card

2010-11-19 Thread Frank Bax
stty com0 57600 to /etc/boot.conf On 07:31 Thu 18 Nov , Frank Bax wrote: I installed 4.7 to a CF card via usb connector on HP D530. I then inserted CF card into a new ALIX system with serial console. Boot process hangs with both bsd.sp and bsd.rd (see below). What is my next step in determinin

ALIX CF card

2010-11-18 Thread Frank Bax
I installed 4.7 to a CF card via usb connector on HP D530. I then inserted CF card into a new ALIX system with serial console. Boot process hangs with both bsd.sp and bsd.rd (see below). What is my next step in determining the problem here? PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h 640 KB Base Memory 261120

Re: i386 and amd64 snapshots - kernel SHA256 mismatch

2010-10-16 Thread Frank Bax
Marco Peereboom wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:08:25AM +, JC Choisy wrote: That being out of the way, you got me wondering what good is any integrity check which failure is OK. It is only meant to help uptight people having some sort of false sense of integrity/security. It really is f

Re: anyone tried the freebsd version of teamspeak3 with the freebsd emulation?

2010-08-15 Thread Frank Bax
Siju George wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-08-14, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: On 14 August 2010 10:46, Stuart Henderson wrote: no, but in general you want to use Linux emulation not FreeBSD emulation. also, if it's threaded software, use GENERIC not GEN

Re: pf.conf question & answer

2010-07-22 Thread Frank Bax
Frank Bax wrote: When I try to access the same Win2K system on port 11005; I get connection refused. match in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 2000 rdr-to $win2k match in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 11005 rdr-to $win2k Sorry for the noise

pf.conf question

2010-07-22 Thread Frank Bax
My OpenBSD system has several network cards. - pppoe0 - is connected to DSL line - fxp0 - is connected to switch for local network - ral0 - is wireless I am able to access internet from computers on LAN. From outside my home; I am able to use port 2000 to access a Win2K system. When I try to acc

Re: OpenBSD users.

2010-07-17 Thread Frank Bax
Mateusz Gierblinski wrote: Hi misc@ I'm just wondering. Where are you OpenBSD users from? I'm from Belgium, anyone else? Take care There is an OpenBSD user in every country on this planet.

lpd printing

2010-05-07 Thread Frank Bax
I've never printed from my OpenBSD desktop. I've used lpd on Windows to print to HP printers with "HP JetDirect". I read the recent thread about lpd/postscript. Will I be able to use lpd to print to any "HP JetDirect" printer? I'm looking at getting an HP 1518ni colour laser. Does "HP postscri

sudo - protected directory

2010-04-19 Thread Frank Bax
The first example in 'man sudo' shows how to list files in a protected directory: sudo ls /usr/local/protected I am not sure how I would search the contents of files found in such a directory, for example: $ sudo ls -l /var/spool/mqueue/ total 8 -rw--- 1 ro

Re: Shutdown fails intermittently with OpenBSD running off SD MMC card

2010-03-05 Thread Frank Bax
nixlists wrote: On 3/5/10, J.C. Roberts wrote: look for the `-p` flag. Know all about it. The problem is the kernel won't even get to that point - it hangs on "syncing disks..." stage. Seems you might not be alone... http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg72159.html

Re: Refusal to mention OpenBSD in a MSc Advanced Networking course

2010-02-19 Thread Frank Bax
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:11:21 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Steve Shockley wrote: On 2/13/2010 6:49 PM, Diana Eichert wrote: PS when I went to college BSD didn't exist and I turned out "okay" The overly pedantic part of me wonders if y

Re: perl script-cron fails, at and command line work

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Bennett wrote: I just re-installed fresh from 4.5 to 4.6. I now have a problem with a script that ran from cron for many months without problems. From cron I get: Logfile LWP_SupeRref.log failed to open at /home/user/LWP/LWP_ref.pl line 73. I have tried altering permissions, deleti

Re: Root file system is growing strangely

2009-12-19 Thread Frank Bax
ropers wrote: 2009/12/18 Daniel Zhelev : after log in I sow that the root file system is over 100%. *Over* 100%? How is that even possible? FAQ 14.14

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Bax
STeve Andre' wrote: but am trying to come up with a reasonable way of spotting duplicates, etc. You mean like this... $ cp /etc/firmware/zd1211-license /tmp/XX1 $ cp /var/www/icons/dir.gif /tmp/XX2 $ fdupes /etc/firmware/ /var/www/icons/ /tmp/ /tmp/XX2 /var/www/icons/dir.gif /var/www/icons/fo

Re: Source for LENOVO parts?

2009-11-11 Thread Frank Bax
e 2009 C 08:31 -0400, Frank Bax a C)crit : I have a Lenovo T60p (8744-J2U L3-CM199-07/07). I have been running OpenBSD on it since I purchased it (Summer 2007). The CPU fan is getting noisy and I'd like to replace it. The store where I purchased my laptop cannot order the replacement part.

Source for LENOVO parts?

2009-10-31 Thread Frank Bax
I have a Lenovo T60p (8744-J2U L3-CM199-07/07). I have been running OpenBSD on it since I purchased it (Summer 2007). The CPU fan is getting noisy and I'd like to replace it. The store where I purchased my laptop cannot order the replacement part. Can anyone suggest a supplier for this part? I

image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Bax
I'm looking for basic image editor: crop, resize, lossless jpg rotation. Something minimalistic would be nice, so GIMP is out.

Re: spamd - nixspam list, September 30, 2009

2009-10-01 Thread Frank Bax
Rod Whitworth wrote: nixpix: #!/bin/sh cd /root/data rm -f nixspam ftp http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/nixspam.gz if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then gunzip nixspam.gz cut -d " " -f 1 nixspam >/var/db/nixspam fi Any particular reason why you don't use: zcat nixspam.gz | cut -d " " -f 1

Re: Credit Card and OpenBSD 4.6

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Bax
patrick keshishian wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: I was charge for OpenBSD 4.6 and i have not received any message, as usual, informing the package was sent to me. Is anyone else facing the same scenario ?? You have pre-ordered OpenBSD 4.6 (I assume). Pre-order

Re: cron problem

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Bennett wrote: steve szmidt wrote: Just off hand, are there not too many time parameters? Probably, I just threw in some * to fill in extra ones. I was just trying to show that I was purposefully running at a certain time during testing. Too lazy to count them correctly :) So

Re: cron problem

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Bennett wrote: I had an odd problem with cron. I made three perl scripts: LWP4.pl, LWP5.pl and LWP6.pl During testing, I put the following entry in cron: 33 * * * * * LWP4.pl; LWP5.pl; LWP6.pl; Too many asterisks?

Re: OT, .. Majordomo problem

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Bax
L. V. Lammert wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009, ropers wrote: I don't know what causes your problem, but I saw this: No kidding! Wonder why I sent the email to the list! Why would MD reject an email when it is listed in the list members? Your subject says it all; this is OT on this list; try MD

Re: Even and Odd numbered OpenBSD versions

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Bax
Hugo Villeneuve wrote: I think it's the reverse. Only install the odd numbered ones. I had to run the single processor kernel in 4.4 because it didn't like booting off the second CPU. I should have skipped that release. Ah, extrapolation from a sample of one. Very scientific.

Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1

2009-04-28 Thread Frank Bax
Jussi Peltola wrote: Depends on the db9-rj45 adaptor, some need a rollover cable, some a straight one. Try it. http://www.ossmann.com/5-in-1.html

Re: alternate shell not running

2009-04-25 Thread Frank Bax
Aaron Martinez wrote: Aaron Martinez wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Aaron Martinez wrote: 1) what does the /etc/passwd entry for one of these users look like? lgf:*:1010:1::/home/ght:/usr/local/bbox/bin/login_script 2) when you say "they get a standard shell", what *EXACTLY* do

Re: alternate shell not running

2009-04-25 Thread Frank Bax
Aaron Martinez wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Aaron Martinez wrote: 1) what does the /etc/passwd entry for one of these users look like? lgf:*:1010:1::/home/ght:/usr/local/bbox/bin/login_script 2) when you say "they get a standard shell", what *EXACTLY* do you mean? (If you m

4.5 arrived in Canada

2009-04-17 Thread Frank Bax
This year I was watching more closely for pre-order page to be updated and paid a few extra bucks for express shipping. Same picture - two sizes: 0.5M: http://gallery.bax.on.ca/OpenBSD45s.jpg 5.0M: http://gallery.bax.on.ca/OpenBSD45.jpg Frank

Re: VNC and PF

2009-04-16 Thread Frank Bax
Yuriy A. Dmitrishin wrote: Looks like it's my mistake. This rule doesn't work when I connecting from my LAN, but only from ext. network. Ah, then it's working properly. From ext network; VNC should be run inside a tunnel since VNC sessions are not encrypted. VNC passwords are sent as pla

Re: Assistance OpenBSD

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Cooper wrote: I can do simple stuff like pwd, cd, ls, mnt CD, etc., but I cannot pkg_add from the 4.3 CD or run executable files. What I would like to do is add a browser and get on the web. I have OpenBSD on my spare HP Pavilion N5250 notebook with an Intel pentium CPU but it is not co

Re: spamd issues

2009-01-08 Thread Frank Bax
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:26:37PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote: I notice that one example line was removed from pf.conf: table persist I guess I can delete that line from my file too? Er, you'll still need that unless something's happened that I totally miss

Re: spamd issues

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Bax
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:58:00PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote: Today I was having some issues sending mail through a local ISP to my system (4.4 release). Some investigation showed that spamdb reports the ip address of the ISP's smtp server as both WHITE and GREY?

spamd issues

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Bax
I've been using spamd since 3.5 or 3.6 - It seems to be working great, so mostly I just let it do it's thing and ignore it. Today I was having some issues sending mail through a local ISP to my system (4.4 release). Some investigation showed that spamdb reports the ip address of the ISP's smtp s

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread Frank Bax
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: `ftp -ia ftp://host.domain/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/architecture/*.tgz`; Using system () does not get any different behavior, whether I pass a list or a proper array. In all cases I see a connection to the server, followed by a complaint of an invalid directory, and discon

Re: QEMU crashes

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Bax
Hi Todd: You asked for feedback. Most of the time; qemu produces: {tun0 (bridge0 <-> em0)} But sometimes it produces: {tun0 (bridge0 <-> em0)brconfig: bridge0: No such process brconfig: bridge0: No such process } Network access still works, despite the error message. Frank On 2008-Nov-0

useradd & /etc/security

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Bax
After a few upgrades; I noticed that new users added with useradd(8) (using commands in upgradeXX.htm) are created with 13 asterisks in passwd field. During a new install only one asterisk is placed in this field for system users. I was curious about this difference and feeling a bit adventur

Re: QEMU crashes

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Bax
Todd T. Fries wrote: Just out of curiosity, humor me, run qemu as root with the following added options: -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0 I've observed that at some point user mode networking has started segv'ed on amd64 when running any qemu guest, and am sorry to report I have not yet

QEMU crashes

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Bax
I've been using qemu to run a Win98 guest on i386 host for about a year. On Aug.2, I installed an i386 snapshot that was a few days old. Since then, I've been running a Win98 guest on qemu-0.9.1p3 with no issues. Sometime over the past 12 months I realised I could be running amd64 on my Core

Re: 4.4 (back) in Canada

2008-10-21 Thread Frank Bax
Don Hiatt wrote: Just received 4.4 in Vancouver, BC along with my sweet new T-Shirt. :-) OpenBSD developers rock, thank you gentlemen. My disks and T-shirt arrived on Friday in Ontario!

ksh: tab completion problem

2008-09-19 Thread Frank Bax
When I finally made switch to OpenBSD on my day-to-day system; I transferred all my files from my old system. One of the directory names has a $ in it. I figured out how to easily reproduce the problem I encountered (using /bin/ksh): mkdir '/tmp/test$1' mkdir '/tmp/test$1/te

Re: ntpd can hang on boot

2008-09-06 Thread Frank Bax
Peter Fraser wrote: I stupidly screwed up my pf.conf, as a result "ntpd -s" which is invoked in /etc/rc (as a result of my /etc/rc.conf.local) could not resolve the names of the time servers. What version? http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/11/16/420560

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 pre-orders

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Bax
new_guy wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: Pre-orders for OpenBSD 4.4 (CD, tshirt, poster) are up at http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html Do the first X number of pre-orders get autographed... or something :) The first X pre-orders get a LOT more than just autographs!! Order now! It

Re: httpd slowdown issues

2008-09-03 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Tankersley wrote: Starting on line 2198 I start getting these kinds of output: 23747 php CALL fcntl(0x5,0x3,0) 23747 php RET fcntl -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor 23747 php CALL fcntl(0x6,0x3,0) 23747 php RET fcntl -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor 23747 php

4.3 hoststated renamed to relayd

2008-09-01 Thread Frank Bax
The upgrade43 guide does not mention that /etc/ftpusers shouldmust be changed.

Re: Not updating .libs1-gettext-0.16.1, remember to clean it

2008-08-15 Thread Frank Bax
macintoshzoom wrote: how? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120345554523124&w=2

Re: -kernel-kqemu, WinXP guest on August 3 Snapshot

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Bax
Protocol Six Consulting wrote: Hi, :-) I am trying to run a WinXP guest OS on qemu with the -kernel-kqemu command-line option. Kqemu was installed on OBSD using the August 3 Snapshot package, and loads normally on system boot (see end of dmsg) Running Windoze works fine on qemu *without* th

Re: 4.3 install hangs

2008-07-08 Thread Frank Bax
Nick Guenther wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install 4.3 on a Dell Core2Duo desktop. I tried both i386 and amd64 release disks. Both hang during install (see part of dmesg below). I was going to try serial console for a

4.3 install hangs

2008-07-08 Thread Frank Bax
I'm trying to install 4.3 on a Dell Core2Duo desktop. I tried both i386 and amd64 release disks. Both hang during install (see part of dmesg below). I was going to try serial console for a full dmesg up to point of failure; but there is no com port. I manually typed dmesg from after the us

Xenocara patch

2008-06-27 Thread Frank Bax
Yesterday, I upgraded from 4.2 to 4.3 release and icewm freezes when I hit Alt-tab. I found this reference to a patch: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/9de493f8bbab33a9 Avoiding keyboard shortcuts seems to be a workaround so far. I'm not a source/

Re: install42.iso hangs....any ideas?

2008-04-16 Thread Frank Bax
Unix Fan wrote: Hannah Schroeter wrote: > IIRC not, I have a DVD-RAM drive and it probes as cd(4), not as sd(4). Why is everyone ignoring me? I wasn't asking if the device could be > attached as "sd", I meant.. could DVD-RAM drives be "used" as if > they're "like" an ordinary drive that attach

Re: Not updating .libs-XXXXX, remember to clean it (huh?)

2008-02-19 Thread Frank Bax
Juan Miscaro wrote: 1. I am shown the following: Not updating .libs-curl-7.16.2, remember to clean it Not updating .libs-db-4.2.52p11, remember to clean it Not updating .libs-pcre-7.1, remember to clean it Not updating .libs-png-1.2.18, remember to clean it How do I "clean it"? http://archiv

apache/proxy - monitoring access to reverse proxy

2008-02-18 Thread Frank Bax
I'm wondering if an OpenBSD box with apache can solve this problem... A website requires authentication to access and the are a limited number of accounts setup (within web application, not .htaccess) on that website; so accounts are shared. Of course, this situation causes problems when two

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-01 Thread Frank Bax
Sherwood Botsford wrote: Why not try the recycle centers? In Alberta now, electronics is diverted for salvage purposes. I bet this is true in Ontario too. Not yet. Ontario is just now starting to think about such a program... http://www.huffstrategy.com/MediaManager/release/Dianne-Saxe/21-

Re: panic: bogus long slot station count 0

2008-01-31 Thread Frank Bax
Frank Bax wrote: panic is easily reproducible... - power up the OLPC XO - goto "neighbourhood" - click on icon for my router. - the OpenBSD router panics. http://www.nabble.com/panic:-bogus-long-slot-station-count-0-td15142434.html Is this a bug? Is there anything (workaround?) I

Re: spamd - 250 return text

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Bax
On Aug 4, 2007 Peter Fraser wrote: I think that the problem is a bad mail program at your clients, A user should not see the 250 status, it is not a failure of any sort but I have seen it as a return status sent to a user. Here is an example that I have seen from someone who sent us a message. T

panic: bogus long slot station count 0

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Bax
It's been an interesting two days. About a week ago, my OLPC XO arrived in the mail; I turned it on and tried to find my wireless network. Almost immediately my family complains there's no internet! Panic on the OpenBSD router. Well, I had my work cut out for me because I'd never setup serial c

Re: OT: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Bax
Boris Goldberg wrote: Hello Daniel, I believe it should be possible to set up samba-over-ssh. I mean samba listening localhost only on the server andputty (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) with port forwarding on clients. You can also use sam

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Frank Bax
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a trade-off). There is no graphical browser in base. I don't need or want this browser to do javascript or flash (I have a different

Re: spamd-setup hangup/timeout settings

2008-01-14 Thread Frank Bax
Jason George wrote: My spamd-setup always takes 20-30 minutes on two servers (4.1 and 4.2). This is not normal? When I run it manually; most of the time is spent downloading traplist.gz You are all connecting to beck@'s machine at the University of Alberta (www.openbsd.org) ? I use the sa

Re: spamd-setup hangup/timeout settings

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Bax
Jason George wrote: My spamd-setup always takes 20-30 minutes on two servers (4.1 and 4.2). This is not normal? When I run it manually; most of the time is spent downloading traplist.gz You are all connecting to beck@'s machine at the University of Alberta (www.openbsd.org) ? I use the sa

Re: download problems

2008-01-08 Thread Frank Bax
Doug: Just curious. Does the same problem exist on your OpenBSD boxes? You can also use lynx if you don't have wget installed. time lynx -dump http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz > /dev/null Frank Frank Bax wrote: Doug: I've been noticing that my systems seem to some

Re: spamd-setup hangup/timeout settings

2008-01-08 Thread Frank Bax
Florian Fuessl wrote: Frank Bax wrote: My spamd-setup always takes 20-30 minutes on two servers (4.1 and 4.2). This is not normal? When I run it manually; most of the time is spent downloading traplist.gz This morning, I changed the crontab "time /usr/libexec/spamd-setup -d" 4.

Re: spamd-setup hangup/timeout settings

2008-01-06 Thread Frank Bax
Florian Fuessl wrote: I'm running spamd-setup via regular cronjob every 20 minutes. Sometimes the spamd-setup process seems to hang and does not finish within this period, although all black- and whitelists are local files. Is there a way define timeouts for tasks of spamd-setup? What solution i

Re: Marry Christmas!

2007-12-24 Thread Frank Bax
Christmas and a pagan holiday might both be celebrated on the same day; but this does not make Christmas a pagan holiday, Marco Peereboom wrote: Christmas is a pagan holiday so it really does not matter if one is religious or not. On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:11:46PM +0100, Maxim Bourmistrov w

Intel D946GZIS sound, video, nic?

2007-12-08 Thread Frank Bax
I have the opportunity to install several low-end non-Windows desktops in a non-profit agency. Over the past 5 years; we've tried a handful of Linux distributions; each one a little better than the one before. I've watched OpenBSD progress a lot in desktop arena over this time period and I want

Re: RTL8185 wireless support?

2007-12-01 Thread Frank Bax
Jonathan Gray wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:42:53PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote: TP-LINK 802.11g/b pci cards (model TL-WN353G) are on sale; so I got one. Chipset is marked RTL8185L. I found a reference to RTL8185 in CVS, but I'm not clear on what the Sep5 comments for if_rtw_pci.c are s

Re: Please send email directly to misc@openBSD.org (no cc please)

2007-11-16 Thread Frank Bax
Piet Slaghekke wrote: I like to filter my openBSD emails and the only way I can do it is if everyone send their email with misc@openBSD.org in the " To " field. Please send email To misc@openBSD.org and do not CC it to this address. Why has no-one mentioned filtering on X-Loop tag? It wor

Re: how best to handle DNS on firewalled home network?

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Bax
Jonathan Thornburg wrote: My plan is to have the firewall run its own dhcpd on its inside interface, giving out private client addresses in the 192.168.0.0/16 address range. (This way clients can be kept at the same MS-Windoze "configure everything automagically" DHCP settings they would use else

Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?

2007-10-07 Thread Frank Bax
Frank Bax wrote: As you can see from my posts (wine and qemu); I am open to any solution that will allow me to run this app with performance approaching (preferably faster than) native P3-600. I'll donate C$100 to OpenBSD if it works before year-end - it's not much, but its more t

Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?

2007-10-06 Thread Frank Bax
s on the OpenBSD mailing list. On 05/10/2007, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does know of a BAT2EXE program that produces an EXE which works under wine? First hit on google "bat2exe wine" indicates there is one that works on Linux (written in delphi), but the link is broken.

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-06 Thread Frank Bax
Chris Kuethe wrote: On 10/6/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Presto, a complete ISO install disk. It would have been trivial to add some packages. It seems to me the install process cannot find filesets if they are placed in root directory on cdrom; but that's easily corr

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-06 Thread Frank Bax
Jan Stary wrote: On Oct 03 19:27:59, Brian Candler wrote: The reason nobody makes free OpenBSD ISO images, I presume, is because the user base is comparatively tiny, and it's not worth the effort. Do you mean the effort of running rsync && mkisofs, or the effort of writing a trivial shell scri

Re: wine question - BAT2EXE?

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Bax
't run. Others create EXE files that crash in various ways under wine. Frank Frank Bax wrote: I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program cannot find it's own fi

Re: qemu speed (was: wine question)

2007-10-04 Thread Frank Bax
L. Back to RTFMing ... On 3/10/2007, at 8:27 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program c

Re: OpenBSD sticker considered cool by a layman

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Bax
Eke Nordin wrote: On 10/2/07, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:29:30PM -0500, Todd Alan Smith wrote: On 10/1/07, Anton Karpov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have nothing to hide ;) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 "Cool" li

wine question

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Bax
I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple programs like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this program cannot find it's own files unless the current working directory is set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent

Re: Bug in the wireless wpi driver ?

2007-09-17 Thread Frank Bax
Catalin Stoian wrote: Ah, it was midnight when I wrote this. I truly meant ls instead of cat, sorry. I just wanted to show that that firmware package is installed correctly, ignore that part if you want. And I don't understand what you mean with the radio thing. Neither cat nor ls will show pk

Re: Lenovo 8744-J2U - several questions

2007-08-10 Thread Frank Bax
At 06:36 AM 8/9/07, Eric Elena wrote: Le mercredi 08 aoC;t 2007 C 10:55 -0400, Frank Bax a C)crit : > At 04:49 AM 8/7/07, Eric Elena wrote: > > >Le lundi 06 aoC;t 2007 C 21:21 -0400, Stephan Andre' a C)crit : > > > On Monday 06 August 2007 18:29:12 Matthieu Herr

Re: Intel Core 2 - errata pulled?!?

2007-08-10 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:01 AM 8/8/07, Nick Holland wrote: Asking "Does OpenBSD support my new processor" is usually missing the point. Ask if it supports your new COMPUTER. Better yet, get yourself one of those "credit-card" CDR blanks, drop cd42.iso on it, and carry it with you and find out, or on modern comput

Re: Lenovo 8744-J2U - several questions

2007-08-08 Thread Frank Bax
At 04:30 AM 8/7/07, Pierre Riteau wrote: Le 7 ao{t 07 ` 05:23, Frank Bax a icrit : At 06:26 PM 8/6/07, Matthieu Herrb wrote: On 8/6/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got a new Lenovo 8744-J2U laptop and installed the Aug.1 snapshot: > > 1) When I shutdown X, tex

Re: Lenovo 8744-J2U - several questions

2007-08-08 Thread Frank Bax
At 04:49 AM 8/7/07, Eric Elena wrote: Le lundi 06 aoC;t 2007 C 21:21 -0400, Stephan Andre' a C)crit : > On Monday 06 August 2007 18:29:12 Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > On 8/6/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just got a new Lenovo 8744-J2U laptop and

Re: Lenovo 8744-J2U - several questions

2007-08-06 Thread Frank Bax
At 06:26 PM 8/6/07, Matthieu Herrb wrote: On 8/6/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got a new Lenovo 8744-J2U laptop and installed the Aug.1 snapshot: > > 1) When I shutdown X, text resolution is messed up. Chars are bigger, they > are 40 per line, with wrap

Lenovo 8744-J2U - several questions

2007-08-06 Thread Frank Bax
Just got a new Lenovo 8744-J2U laptop and installed the Aug.1 snapshot: 1) When I shutdown X, text resolution is messed up. Chars are bigger, they are 40 per line, with wrap. All Ctrl-Alt-Fn sessions are affected. If I issue a command like 'date', then hit enter several time, I find that the

Re: Equivalent to linux disk "delete"?

2007-05-06 Thread Frank Bax
At 01:51 PM 5/6/07, Sebastian Rother wrote: I wanted to remove those partitions but OpenBSDs fdisk doesn`t know about a "delete" Command If you edit a partition with 'e' command; you'll see "Partition id ('0' to disable)". Try it.

Re: Upgrade 4.0 -> 4.1 / files gone

2007-05-04 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:09 PM 5/4/07, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:57:14PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: > During audit of upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1, I notice that a couple of files > that were in etc40.tgz have been removed from etc41.tgz > /.profile > /.cshrc huh? $ tar t

Upgrade 4.0 -> 4.1 / files gone

2007-05-04 Thread Frank Bax
During audit of upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1, I notice that a couple of files that were in etc40.tgz have been removed from etc41.tgz /.profile /.cshrc Does this mean we should all delete these files from our systems? If yes, should this be mentioned in upgrade41.html?

Re: file sets

2007-05-04 Thread Frank Bax
At 12:38 PM 5/2/07, bubka20 wrote: no, sorry, I'm meant base40.tgz, etc40tgz, etc. My problem though is with step#6. I'm probably not creating the cd properly ( my cd contains files: base40, bsd, bsd.mp, bsd.rp, comp40, etc40, game40, man40, misc40, xbase40, xetc40, xfont40, xserve40, xshare40

Re: spamd - good job!

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Bax
this is considered "living on the edge" for me. At 12:59 PM 4/20/07, Bob Beck wrote: Thanks. 4.1 has some major changes too, so bear in mind spamd wise it's a big change from 4.0 -Bob * Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-20 08:29]: > I'm f

spamd - good job!

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Bax
I'm finally upgrading from 3.5 to 4.0! I use the whitelist from puremagic and in the past 2.5 years I have also added another 10 ip addresses to spamd whitelist because of problems with mail getting through. This week I did tests on 3 of those ip addresses and we are 3/3 for current spamd acc

Re: gunzip changes lastmod time?

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:09 PM 4/19/07, Charles Longeau wrote: 2007/4/19, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On an older box still running 3.5; gunzip/gzip does not change lastmod > time; but on 4.0 [release] gunzip changes the lastmod time. What's the > reason for this change? This wa

gunzip changes lastmod time?

2007-04-19 Thread Frank Bax
On an older box still running 3.5; gunzip/gzip does not change lastmod time; but on 4.0 [release] gunzip changes the lastmod time. What's the reason for this change? $ dmesg > dmesg.txt $ touch -t 20070101 dmesg.txt $ ls -l dmesg.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 fbax fbax 3797 Jan 1 00:00 dmesg.txt $

Re: SSH/SFTP question

2007-04-14 Thread Frank Bax
At 09:37 AM 4/13/07, stuart van Zee wrote: Sorry if this belongs elsewhere but I was sure someone here would know. I was under the impression that when using SFTP to transfer files they were automatically treated as Binary files. So if the remote file uses CRLF to terminate lines, the download

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-05 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:22 PM 4/4/07, Peter Fraser wrote: I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. First copy away the "important parts" of the root partition onto another pa

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