Re: Architeture Choose

2010-11-11 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:09:19 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert wrote: > > as an aside. > > anyone know where you can purchase a Portwell CAM-0100 in NA? > > diana > Diana, You might want to give Portwell (in the US) a call: 1-510-403-3399 jcr

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 01:03:42 -0500 "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > > What does this mean? does it mean there was a mistake? > > http://www.listware.net/201010/freebsd-questions/19724-re-like-it-or-not-theo-has-a-point-freebsd-is-shipping-export-restricted-software-in-the-core.html No mistake. Randy s

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:22:03 -0600 Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Just for fun. > > * 4.3. Licensee shall not export, either directly or indirectly, any of this > * software or system incorporating such software without first obtaining any > * required license or other approval from the U. S. Depa

Re: automounter

2010-09-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:41:43 +0200 "Bret S. Lambert" wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:37:50PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Do you have an idea where to look for an auto mounter in openbsd ? > > I installed gnome as a server for a friend and would like that his > > fat32 usb

Re: 4.8 Release and Download and

2010-09-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:46:52 -0700 Bryan Irvine wrote: > > > Curiosity is only human, but to respect the privacy of others, > > sometimes it must be curtailed. > > Agreed...though I'm confused about the point you're making. > The point is, in at least some places/cultures it's impolite to either

Re: 4.8 Release and Download and

2010-09-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:19:16 -0700 Bryan Irvine wrote: > > I also heard it said once (though I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong) > that Theo's salary comes from CD purchases but not donations. So the > only way to keep him employed full-time on OpenBSD is by buying the > disks. > > -B Curiosit

Re: maybe OT 6 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2010-09-09 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:01:43 -0600 (MDT) Diana Eichert wrote: > > I don't think it's off topic but others might. I'm writing this post > to remember Chuck Yerkes, a long time contributor to the m...@openbsd > list. Chuck died 6 years ago this coming weekend while riding his > motorcycle. > http:/

Re: 4.8 Release and Download and

2010-09-09 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:58:40 +0100 Keith wrote: > > Seeing that orders are being taken for the 4.8 release got me > thinking about purchasing a copy, I don't need a copy on CD so just a > download for my architecture would be fine. In the past I've sent a > small donated to the project and was w

Re: cwm keybindings and autogroup issues

2010-08-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:54:44 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: > > > 2. I just adopted XXXterm as my default web-browser. I used to have > > autogroup 3 "opera,Opera" > > > > which I replaced with > > > > autogroup 3 "xxxterm,XXXterm" > > > > however xxxterms do NOT get autogrouped. Note t

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:21:19 -0700 Noah Pugsley wrote: > > I thought the writeups from jcr were great. A little lighter and more > fun than the usual fare. To be honest, if I had to choose between > them and the developer interviews I choose developer interviews. But > they are a welcome suppleme

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:28:57 +0300 "Mihai Popescu B.S." wrote: > > I like the humour on undeadly, but this article was not for me. I saw > a guy who was tried to get as more attention as he can. Mihai, You still don't understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm In writing, I had the choic

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:30:55 +0300 Paul Irofti wrote: > > jcr, please forgive my fellow romanian as us gypsies don't get to > travel much and don't know the mysteries of these flying birds and > their inner workings. It's really not a big deal, and Mihai's criticism (or any criticism) is worth co

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:22:55 +0300 "Mihai Popescu B.S." wrote: > > Hello, > > I have read the undeadly.org article about how to "play" with airport > security. I don't know who is the guy acting like this on an airport, > but my brain triggered something I read in the past, about a well > known g

Re: network access controller like medusa ?

2010-07-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:57:27 +0200 Leonardo Lombardo wrote: > > You're right Michal, I try to make a better answer. > > Medusa is a software that can control switches so that the operator > can manage vlan, routes and network access (and many other things) > from a single control panel. Operator

OpenBSD Speakers Wanted At MeetBSD California 2010

2010-07-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
I was asked by Denise Ebery (denise _AT_ ixsystems.com) and Matt Olander (matt _AT_ ixsystems.com) about having OpenBSD speakers at the upcoming MeetBSD California 2010 conference in November. http://meetbsd.org I went to the '08 conference hosted at Google and it was a lot of fun, save for the f

Re: Question about moving system to different hardware

2010-07-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:51:34 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > > > 2. I note that in the example for backing up and restoring > > that "raw" devices are used. In my situation, I will be going from > > ide to a usb drive, and then from the usb drive to scsi disks. So, > > the ide drive I can't ac

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

2010-07-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:47:18 -0600 fred wrote: > > I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the > dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the > response is different now. I believe there is a cable problem now. > The cable works with a Sun Ultra 10 but n

Re: Perl problems in -current

2010-07-11 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:26:42 +0100 Tom Murphy wrote: > > This error does not occur in 4.7-release. Has there been something up > with the Perl packages in -current lately? Marc Espie (espie@) has been doing tons and tons of work on the ports system. The packages in question are actually parts of

Re: usb memory stick failing

2010-07-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:29:18 +0200 Renzo wrote: > > On Friday 09 July 2010 08:54:15 patrick keshishian wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently attempted an installation from a usb memory stick, where > > installation of xfont47.tgz failed consistently due to "crc > > error"[0]. The stick was prepared fo

Re: Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem

2010-06-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:17:44 -0500 Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Anyone got: > umsm0 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sierra Wireless > Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem" rev 1.10/0.01 addr 2 ucom0 at umsm0 > To work on OpenBSD? > > I get basically no output from the modem using this in /etc

Re: Huawei E1750

2010-06-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
I don't have time to dig up the specs on this specific device, and you didn't provide a link to them. None the less, *some* (but of course not all) "data card" devices actually contain flash storage like a USB stick. The umass0 reported seems to indicate this is the case with the E1750. Unfortunate

Re: Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem

2010-06-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:17:44 -0500 Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Anyone got: > umsm0 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sierra Wireless > Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem" rev 1.10/0.01 addr 2 ucom0 at umsm0 > To work on OpenBSD? > > I get basically no output from the modem using this in /etc

Re: libiberty

2010-06-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:57:06 +0300 Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > no excuse, you say > well... > > # cat /root/build.sh > rm -rf /usr/obj/* > rm -rf /usr/include/g++/* > cd /usr/src && make obj > cd /usr/src/etc && env DESTDIR=/ make distrib-dirs > cd /usr/src && make build > > # sh build Just

Re: libiberty

2010-06-05 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 13:25:26 +0300 Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/lib/libiberty (line 92 of /usr/share/mk/sys.mk). > # uname -a > OpenBSD edigarov.sa.net.ua 4.7 GENERIC#16 amd64 > > This happen while i am trying to build from sources. The system is > the latest binary snapshot as

Re: i7-720QM one more time

2010-06-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Charlie Root wrote: > > Thanks for your looking at my post. > Come to think about the wsmouse, I believe that Xorg -configure set > it to wsmouse0, so I tried wsmouse1 (no joy, niether the trackpad or > the wireless mouse worrked. I don't believe is has eve

Re: No Video/X server issue

2010-05-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Norm Legare wrote: > > OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #130: Wed Mar 17 20:48:50 MDT 2010 >dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > ... > vga1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce 9100" rev 0xa2 > GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx suppor

Re:

2010-05-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:54:53 +0200 patrick kristensen wrote: > 2010/5/24, J.C. Roberts : > > > > I realize you must be frustrated while learning something new, but > > I am frustrated by you not paying attention. Now let's look at what > > I wrote one more

Re:

2010-05-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
I realize you must be frustrated while learning something new, but I am frustrated by you not paying attention. Now let's look at what I wrote one more time: >> set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 >> part#1 part#2 part#3 part#4 The first chunk of

Re:

2010-05-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:07 +0200 patrick kristensen wrote: > I have managed to get a working connection with the following script > > > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf > > default: > set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command > set device /dev/cuaU0 > set speed 460800 > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\

Re:

2010-05-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:08:57 +0200 patrick kristensen wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to answer and your fast replies. > Actually, ppp and TDMA/CDMA are nice break from the other headaches I've been trying to solve. ;) First of all, you either haven't mentioned the name of your service provi

Re: Resilient RAID

2010-05-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:13:33 -0700 Siju George wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Marco Peereboom > wrote > > > > USB sticks primary cause of death is the washing machine and/or > > dryer. Second one probably is sitting out in the sun. > > I have yet to see the USB stick that dies because

Re: Is that Theo showing of his server rack again on the OBSD home page ?

2010-05-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 21 May 2010 12:02:53 +0200 Christer Solskogen wrote: > Just a wild guess, but what about primary (.p) and slave (.s)? There are at least two build machines for each supported arch, one for src and the other for ports. If you want to see a new arch supported, then you donate at least two m

www.openbsd cvsweb off by 1 hour

2010-05-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 17 May 2010 23:14:17 -0600 (MDT) David Coppa > Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:14:17 -0600 (MDT) > From: David Coppa dco...@! cvs.openbsd.org > > CVSROOT: /cvs > Module name: ports > Changes by: dco...@! cvs.openbsd.org2010/05/17 23:14:17 > > Modified files: > x11/mplayer

Re:

2010-05-20 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 20 May 2010 23:17:25 +0200 patrick kristensen wrote: > 2010/5/17 J.C. Roberts : > > On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:11:16 +0200 patrick kristensen > > wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I have 4.6-RELEASE on a lenovo x200s system with Ericsson F3507g > >>

Re: 4.7 off the FTP, Should I wait to install?

2010-05-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 19 May 2010 13:17:50 -0500 "dontek" wrote: > I hit three different mirrors in my area and they all either didn't > have 4.7 yet or I got access denied, so I went to the main... http://spacehopper.org/up2date.html -- The OpenBSD Journal - http://www.undeadly.org

Re: 4.7 off the FTP, Should I wait to install?

2010-05-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:54:56 -0500 "Don Reis" wrote: > The 4.7 directory on ftp.openbsd.org just disappeared after I > downloaded install47.iso. Should I wait to do my fresh install? > Anyone know what's going on? i.e., are changes being made that will > necessitate another download and install?

Re: Some secure way of updating sources?

2010-05-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:18:53 +0800 QIU Quan wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 15:52, Martin SchrC6der > wrote: > > Qiu: AFAIK no. > > Well, I see. Thank you! > > And thanks for all that answered. Have a nice day! :-) First of all you need to realize SSL is not as cool or secure as you seem to

Re: Openbsd 4.6 bash and email notification

2010-05-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 18 May 2010 22:45:27 +0200 Hect wrote: > I can't get to disable email notification with bash. > You know the message that says "You have new mail in /var/mail/user". > I tried, as bash manual says, to add variable MAILPATH to profile but > doesn't do the job. There's no biff in ps command

Re:

2010-05-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:11:16 +0200 patrick kristensen wrote: > Hi > > I have 4.6-RELEASE on a lenovo x200s system with Ericsson F3507g > Mobile Broadband Module installed (mini-pci express wwan adapter). > On FreeBSD the device is detected by the cdce(4) driver which creates > an ue0 ethernet int

Re: pf change in upgrade47.html

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 13 May 2010 09:45:47 +1000 "Rod Whitworth" wrote: > What is wrong with the old rule: > rdr pass on $int_if proto tcp to port ftp -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021 > being converted to: > pass in quick on $int_if proto tcp to port ftp rdr-to 127.0.0.1 port > 8021 > put in a location above any other ru

Re: pf change in upgrade47.html

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:18:14 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > > I don't think that line is complete, is it? > > that one's okay. > > $ echo 'pass in quick proto tcp to port ftp rdr-to 127.0.0.1 port > 8021' | pfctl -nvf - > pass in quick inet proto tcp from any to any port = ftp flags S/SA

Re: X exiting after update (inteldrm error)

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 12 May 2010 17:20:28 -0300 "Alan R. S. Bueno" wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:41 PM, J.C. Roberts > wrote: > > Both INTELDRM_GEM kernel and the corresponding new X intel driver > > were recently committed. Due to mirrors being out of sync, your cvs >

Re: X exiting after update (inteldrm error)

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 12 May 2010 02:28:36 -0300 "Alan R. S. Bueno" wrote: > I'm not sure if misc@ is the right place to send this... > > After update kernel + userland + X (yesterday, in the morning (here in > Brazil)... but with all the latest relevant changes in the trees src/ > and xenocara/ applied), X ex

Re: pf change in upgrade47.html

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 12 May 2010 07:46:59 -0700 "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > Long term, it is better to use hardware-independent rules. The > previously mentioned "one-liner" would simply be: > > match out on egress from ! egress nat-to egress > > Though the above *mo

Re: pf change in upgrade47.html

2010-05-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 12 May 2010 21:28:03 +1000 "Rod Whitworth" wrote: > Have you actually written and tested a ruleset using either of those > documents? > If so please show us. > > Particularly seeing I referenced both of those in my original post as > not being helpful and I've been trying to get somebody

Re: SAS RAID Controller of SunFire X4150 causes trouble

2010-05-09 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 7 May 2010 09:35:06 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-05-06, Schafhauser, Florian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the RAID Controller causes trouble with OpenBSD 4.5 and 4.6. > > First off, for mpi(4) you want one of these patches: > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.

Re: USB Controller Causing Issues

2010-05-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 7 May 2010 13:21:39 -0700 Ben Niccum wrote: > > Also, is there a setting for USB mode in the BIOS? > > > > Sometimes listed as USB Drive emulation, or similar. > > There is a USB Emulation mode. If I turn USB Emulation off, then all > the problems of the USB drives freezing the system g

Re: Java 1.6 & thinkorswim from TDAmeritrade

2010-05-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:42:32 -0700 Marcel Dan wrote: > I'm running i386 4.7 current (as of last week) with jdk 1.6 > installed from cvs/ports. > > I found the error. > > 06.05.10 17:24:22 ERROR util.PerformanceMonitor - Error creating > snapshot: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Thread

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > From: Noah Pugsley > > Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 > > > > Tony Abernethy wrote: > > > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > > >> Marco Peereboom wrote: > > >>> Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs > > >>> instead of

Re: pcmcia serial card sometimes recognized, sometimes not

2010-05-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 5 May 2010 12:01:59 -0500 "Ted Wynnychenko" wrote: > Hello: > > I am trying to understand why this is happening. I have an older > laptop and a new old pcmcia serial interface card ("Quatech Inc, > RS-232 Serial Port PC Card, SSP-100"). > > So, when I first booted the 4.6 stable image

Re: Java 1.6 & thinkorswim from TDAmeritrade

2010-05-05 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 5 May 2010 20:27:33 -0700 Marcel Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I have been unable to get thinkorswim connected to the TDAmeritrade > server on OpenBSD. > > Has anyone used thinkorswim from TDAmeritrade on OpenBSD? > > thanks, > > Marcel You need to provide more information. What *exactly* are

Re: Serial port programming problems

2010-05-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 2 May 2010 12:01:59 -0700 "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > The other problem is understanding what is happening. Unless you > specifically configured the descriptor to return immediately, your > read(2) call will sleep until it gets the requested number of bytes > from th

Re: Serial port programming problems

2010-05-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 2 May 2010 16:45:44 +0100 "Neil O'Brien" wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 20:56:36 +1000, Aaron Mason wrote: > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Neil O'Brien > > wrote: > > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 15:30:28 -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > &g

Re: /usr directory: a system or user place?

2010-05-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 1 May 2010 22:52:54 +0200 Harrell wrote: > Hi list, > > Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question. > > In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as "Contains the majority of user > utilities and applications". > > In > http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/delooze/teaching/IC221/Lect

Re: current on HP EliteBook 8530w

2010-04-30 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:34:31 + Miod Vallat wrote: > > You can set 'kern.nosuidcoredump' in /etc/sysctl.conf to save core > > dumps from in /var/crash. Then try using 'boot dump' in ddb. > > This sysctl value has no relation to the ability to create kernel > crash dumps. > > Miod uggh. I wa

Re: ktrace pppd errno 25 Was: pppd- unable to set non-blocking mode

2010-04-30 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:43:02 -0700 dave wrote: > The first few lines of a ktrace to the pppd process with a umodem > detected card reveals: > 31129 pppd EMUL "native" > 31129 pppd RET nanosleep 0 > 31129 pppd CALL ioctl(0x5,TIOCMBIS,0x7f7eee64) > 31129 pppd RET

Re: current on HP EliteBook 8530w

2010-04-30 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:47:35 +0200 Markus Bergkvist wrote: > > Looks like the same problem I have on my hp 6730b. The diff makes it > boot, but if I plug or unplug the ac I get the panic below and the > only way to leave ddb is hard reboot. >From ddb, does 'boot reboot' not work? You can set

Re: need a umsm that works

2010-04-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:03:39 -0500 Marco Peereboom wrote: > I need a umsm dongle that works in the USA. Can someone tell me > exactly what device and what network provider they use? > > Preferably with some config scripts so that I can get an idea how they > work. > This is just for the archi

Re: OpenBSD and KVM switch.

2010-04-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:05:37 +0930 David Walker wrote: > >> Thanks for the heads up on hotplug. > > > > :) > > It's just a work-around. Finding and fixing the root cause is still > > important. > > I wasn't sure if it was a bug or a known feature - i.e. it was decided > to not make guesses about

Re: OpenBSD and KVM switch.

2010-04-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:31:02 +0930 David Walker wrote: > Hiya JCR. > > A snapshot also re-attaches with the default layout (QWERTY). > It doesn't matter if I use wsconsctl.conf or the kbdtype file. > > uname -rv > 4.7 GENERIC#628 > Bummer. Now we need to figure out why. BTW, is there still t

Re: need a umsm that works

2010-04-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:03:39 -0500 Marco Peereboom wrote: > I need a umsm dongle that works in the USA. Can someone tell me > exactly what device and what network provider they use? > > Preferably with some config scripts so that I can get an idea how they > work. > >Please mail me privately.

Re: OpenBSD and KVM switch.

2010-04-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:44:55 +0930 David Walker wrote: > Apr 27 01:00:25 compaq /bsd: uhub2 detached > Apr 27 01:03:03 compaq /bsd: uhub2 at uhub1 > > @ three minutes is where it re-attaches. > I suspect this is a "feature" and not a hardware issue, however dmesg > follows. Any ideas welcome. >

Re: Texas Tea (Testing)

2010-04-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:12:03 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: > > As for building a lot quicker by not setting > > XENOCARA_RERUN_AUTOCONF, well, then you would not be testing to > > make sure gnu autoshit is still working properly. In short, it's a > > no-win situation. > > I leave it turned off un

Re: Texas Tea (Testing)

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:55:35 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:27:26PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > I am glad to see someone else agreeing that rm-ing xenocara and > > getting it again is a good choice. > > I had to build a few debugging versions and I found the instruc

Re: Texas Tea (Testing)

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:22:31 -0700 Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, J.C. Roberts > wrote: ... > ># cat /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC_GEM > ># GENERIC with INTELDRM_GEM > >include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC" &

Texas Tea (Testing)

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
"This is a story about a man named Jeb, a poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed, and then one day when he was shootin' at some food, when up from the ground came a'bublin crude... Black Gold. Texas Tea." Actually, this is a story about what *should* happen when a developer asks you to redo s

Re: Premature end of archive

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:56:48 +0700 sonjaya wrote: > Length: 1516336 (1.4M), 1139856 (1.1M) remaining > > 24% [> > ] 376,480 38.8K/s in 9.6s > > 2010-04-22 17:53:34 (38.1 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection reset by > peer; Control connection closed. > Retrying. > > >

Re: Printing schemas

2010-04-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:56:14 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:19:23 -0500 > Todd Alan Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > > wrote: > > > I'm looking specifically ay how to print to a USB printer that is > > > hanging off an XP box. > >

Re: Novatel MC760 Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go

2010-04-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:44:04 -0600 Ted Roby wrote: > Novatel (0x1410) makes an MC760 (0x6002) used by > Virgin Mobile in their BroadBand2Go card. First things first. You will probably need to put it into a ms-windows machine with the vendor/carrier provided software to do the initial device conf

Re: 19' rack mini appliance for OpenBSD

2010-04-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:44:01 -0400 Chris Dukes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:32:57PM +0100, FRLinux wrote: > > I use a variety of servers with OpenBSD mostly for DNS. Recently I > > have been luring into systems such as Alix Boards to build a small > > power system with a 19' rack enclosure

Re: TRIM support?

2010-04-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:40:10 +0200 Jurjen Oskam wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:03:30PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > degrade. You might be better off in the long run using multiple > > rotating disks that are half as fast, and half the price, but won't &g

Re: TRIM support?

2010-04-20 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:22:32 -0500 Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:01:58PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:48:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Marco Peereboom > > > wrote: > > > >>> And no, TRIM isn't supported

Re: Source Overview

2010-04-20 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:58:02 +0800 Artur Grabowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert > wrote: > > > I also know he (as every developer) is busy with more important > > things, so "publishing" these small tasks would also give the > > developers more time to focus

Re: errata RSS feeds

2010-04-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:07:28 +0300 Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > Hi, > > The last few weeks http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=errata > is not working. > > Is there any other official RSS feed for security errata? > > Giannis Thanks. I'll look into it. -- The OpenBSD Journal - http://www.un

Re: updating packages with ports binaries

2010-04-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:44:50 +0200 Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:26:41PM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > > Normally, as long as you do not use -F as an option to > > pkg_add, everything you do with it is safe. (caveat: sometimes > > there are major upgrades, like for postgresql

Re: 4k sector disks

2010-04-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:40:17 +1000 David Gwynne wrote: > ola, > > ive recently made a start on better supporting disks in openbsd that > present 512 byte logical sectors, but actually use 4096 byte physical > sectors on the platter. the best examples of these are the western > digital "advanced f

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:35:03 -0600 Ted Roby wrote: > > > > All of the above means you only have two choices: > > > > A.) Contact the rights holder and convince them to change the > > license. > > B.) Maintain a port on your own, posting your updates to > > ports@, and do *NOT* expect (or ask for

Re: licensing

2010-04-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:57:40 -0600 Ted Roby wrote: > Now, did umplawny have the original right to put his restricted > code into a project that was much more loosely licensed? > > If he did not, can I use his improperly licensed code (ie. does he > forfeit his license by superseding restrictions

Re: httpd segmentation fault

2010-03-31 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:10:08 +0300 (EEST) Ozgur Kazancci wrote: > cd /usr > cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -r OPENBSD_4_6 -P ports > > but; > > # make search name=php5-core > Port: php5-core-5.2.10 > > Still 5.2.10.. Might be an outdated cvs server, maybe? As sthen@ mentioned, your ports/INDEX is

Re: aucat: : can't open device

2010-03-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:39:46 + Jacob Meuser wrote: > > With this card: > > FCC ID: IBACT-SB32PNP49 > > Model#: CT3620 > > > > You patch works perfectly. `aucat -l -m play` runs without a fuss > > and both `aucat -i track01.wav` and `cdio cdplay` run very well. > > excellent. > > >

Re: aucat: : can't open device

2010-03-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:12:42 + Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:02:44PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > unfortunately, fixing this is not exactly trivial. I have an idea, > > but I really would need a machine (I have the cards, just nothing > > that can use them) to work it

Re: aucat: : can't open device

2010-03-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:05:49 + Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 06:03:47PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > One of the (supposedly) working ISA devices I have here is an old > > Creative SoundBlaster card, but I can't seem to get it working. > &

aucat: : can't open device

2010-03-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
I'm trying to (eventually) test ISA devices with oga@'s and ariane@'s patches, but for the moment, I'm just getting things working with the default March 24th snapshot. One of the (supposedly) working ISA devices I have here is an old Creative SoundBlaster card, but I can't seem to get it working.

Re: trouble showing a kernel dmesg

2010-03-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:44 -0700 Philip Guenther wrote: > > As for dmesg picking the right kernel file for getting the names of > > the currently running kernel, there is either some magic in demsg > > which picks the right kernel from disk, or a properly running > > kernel does not need to rea

Re: trouble showing a kernel dmesg

2010-03-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:26:01 -0700 patrick keshishian wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Nick Holland > wrote: > > Andreas Gerdd wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I've an Intel E6300 Dual Core 2.8 system. > >> > >> Whenever I try to see such a dmesg output, I get the following: > >> > >> # dme

Re: heads up - softraid metadata change

2010-03-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:31:59 +0100 Mitja MuE>eniD wrote: > Joel Sing (jsing@) has just commited to -current a softraid update > that bumps the softraid metadata version - see the commit mail and > the brief article on Undeadly. The new kernel will not assemble the > existing softraid volumes, so

Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support

2010-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:45:51 -0500 "Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 20:50:18, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > If two things happen after another, it does not imply that the first > > caused the second. > > > -Otto > > Post hoc propter hoc is i

Re: newbie question OpenBSD and Ekiga

2010-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:27:17 +0100 "igor" wrote: > outputs.hp.mute=on > inputs.phone.mute=on > inputs.mic.mute=on > inputs.line.mute=on > inputs.cd.mute=on > inputs.aux.mute=on > > Sound recorder in gnome is working, but I usualy use external mic & > headphones, > but I dont have mic & headphon

Re: recent hardware with older OpenBSD versions

2010-03-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:34:14 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > The great fantasy of many people in the IT world is lots of identical > hardware and software. Sorry, this is completely unrealistic, or at > least completely unhealthy, in the big picture. Until they understand reality and finally achiev

Re: freenas-like solution for aoe?

2010-03-20 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:48:39 +0100 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > Does anybody know a FreeNAS-like solution, that supports AoE? - Ata > over Ethernet? > > Thank you! OpenBSD softraid does have an AoE discipline in the works, but I do not know the status of it. Also, AsiaBSDCon 2010 last week had an O

Re: Need advice re: Wistron CM9 and Net 4501

2010-03-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:25:35 -0400 daniel wrote: > Well, after _way_ too much messing around, I've determined that the > mini-pci slot on _my_ (at least) Net 4501 is pretty much useless. > Both a new Wistron CM9 and an OEM Intersil Prism (pgt) (taken from an > SMC barricade) fail. Don't quote me

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? > To tell the times and sizes? To break scripts? ;) To put it bluntly, index.txt seems pointless, or more likely, there is some super double secret reason for it to still exis

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:16 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126678113118214&w=2 > > Has the format of > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt > changed again? It seems to be 'ls -l' now. > Hi Jan, I think this is the second time I've seen you

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:21 -0400 (EDT) Dave Anderson wrote: > A clarification: I do know that ftp-proxy can be used as an explicit > proxy as well as transparently via PF redirection, and that the > FTP_PROXY environment variable can be set to specify an explict proxy > for many programs/script

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:39:01 -0400 (EDT) Dave Anderson wrote: > >I see two options: > > > >1. pass out > > This can work for passive FTP if one is willing to allow outbound > connections to all non-privileged ports, but is useless for active > FTP. > Yes. > >2. ftp-proxy(8) > > Unless I've m

Re: installing amd64 using i386 to boot then amd64 for install?

2010-03-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:15 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-03-16, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > I have the apparently common problem of CD2 (amd64) from the > > OpenBSD distro not booting on an IBM x336. And of course there's no > > floppy and the box won't boot off a USB device at

Re: installing amd64 using i386 to boot then amd64 for install?

2010-03-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:59:01 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > I have the apparently common problem of CD2 (amd64) from the OpenBSD > distro not booting on an IBM x336. And of course there's no floppy > and the box won't boot off a USB device at all. > "apparently common" ? --Never heard of it. I

Re: Hardening OpenBSD : Just delete!

2010-03-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:54:55 +0100 Robert wrote: > Chris Bennett wrote: > > Matthias Kilian wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:51:05PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > >> > > ( http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/remove_files.htm ) > > > He forgot to remove sh(1), un

Re: Opteron 250 Overheating

2010-03-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:10:07 -0400 Steve Shockley wrote: > On 3/14/2010 4:11 PM, Bruce O'Neel wrote: > > Seriously, 40s should feel hot. 80s should burn. 100s should leave > > a blister. > > True, but even with 100C core temps the heat sink will probably be > nowhere close to that. > > My ap

Re: breeding developers

2010-03-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:52:29 +0100 (CET) Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi. > > I'm usually not very active on misc@ but since pre-order for 4.7 have > started, I think it is the right time to remind us all that CD sales > are not only important but critical to the project. > > First, lack of money

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