Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 and everything is 100%. >> > > You hope so but make it clear if you ever hit problems that you are not > on bare metal as bug reports have been looked at and been found to be > the fault of Virtualbox i

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Maximo Pech [mak...@gmail.com] wrote: >> I said I can't code that. > > If you already knew the answer was "write it", then you asked the wrong > question. > >> I know that gnupg is in the ports tree, but it >> just seems strange to me that i

Re: Low latency High Frequency Trading

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > If money is not a problem -- go buy high-trading on the chip solutions and > have sub-microsecond resolution. > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=high+frequency+trading+FPGA Seconded as a much more viable approach. The existing multicast approach f

Re: OpenSSL handling intermediate certificates

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Justin N. Lindberg wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:18:00 +0200 > Moritz Grimm wrote: > >> You always put trust into the whole chain (that's why you need >> intermediate certs in the first place), starting with your trusted >> root. If that trust turns out to be mis

Re: Shellscript escaping problem

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: RSYNC_CMD="/usr/local/bin/rsync -v -n \ --rsync-path='rsync sudo' \ >>> >>> This doesn't do what you think it does. The single quotes are getting >>> literally passed to rsync, they're not reinterpreted after $RSYNC_CMD >>> i

Re: OpenBSD - UEFI Secure Boot

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Remember SOPA/ACTA? If somebody is planning to have a regulation, > this somebody should take care about tools which guarantee direct, not > circumstantial, evidence of somebody else broke this regulation. > > UEFI implements network stack s

Re: missing /etc/fstab

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Andres Perera wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Theo de Raadt >> wrote: >>>> I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run >>>&g

Re: missing /etc/fstab

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run >> without /etc/fstab >> however, 5.1-RELEASE came with /etc/fstab >> >> it would be nice to move system from one server to another without having >> to bother about /etc

Re: OpenBSD forked

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Dominguez, Roland > wrote: >> I just came across this article and was wondering if it's legit: >> > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenBSD-forked-to-create-Bitrig-161695 >> 4.html > > "They also pl

Re: Solid state disk geometry

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 06/11/12 19:25, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > > Dear Mailing Listeners, > > > > Let me know, please, whether it makes sense to modify disk geometry > > for solid state disks? > > no > > > Which meaning have the default values of cylinders, >

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Dimitry T wrote: > After a long reading I am still confused. On OpenBSD FAQ recommend to use > packages, most users speak the same, but some speak that it is safer to > compile programs from ports and then programs have better performance. Did > I get the better pe

Re: Suggestion

License and Windows piracy issues aside, ReactOS is definitely not ready for production. I actually grabbed the VirtualBox instance, and the installation ISO, and tried them both. Definitely not working well enough yet to run the built-in web browser effectively enough to go grab Putty or CygWin ba

Re: Which high end multichannel audio interfaces work?

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jochen Fabricius wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a really high end multichannel (at least 2 in 8 out, > breakout box) audio interface that works with OpenBSD. Obviously the > M-Audio Delta 1010 does, because it is listed in envy(4). But this > interface needs an

Re: Suggestion

[ Accidentally replied privately. ] On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Renzo Fabriek wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2012 18:26:29 you wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Renzo Fabriek >wrote: > > > > > On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > > > Who in their right mind wo

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Johan Beisser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > > > With multiple drives, especially for bulky softraid setups, it might get > > overwhelming pretty fast. > > > > The idea is interesti

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Lars wrote: > Barry Grumbine wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff > > wrote: > >> Though OpenBSD installer is not the main feature of OpenBSD for me (it > >> is only used to install OS anyway), I wouldn't like it to change in any > >> wa

Re: Trusting the Installation

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nathan Stiles wrote: > Hello, > I've recently installed 5.0 and based upon my experience > I expected a checksum to be posted for the ISO. > Also I've noticed that HTTPS isn't implemented on openbsd.org. > I was also expecting the checksum to be served over HTTPS.

Re: ethernet-to-serial support

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Henning Brauer" > > To: misc@openbsd.org > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:45:52 AM > > Subject: Re: ethernet-to-serial support > > > > * Dewey Hylton [2012-02-23 15:21]: > > > i used the digi

Re: Backup Redundancy Etcetera

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM, David Coppa wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> The one you want is "CIFS", where the BSD system can mount authorized >> shares from the Windows boxes using the Samba software. > > OpenBSD doe

Re: Backup Redundancy Etcetera

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:10 AM, David Walker wrote: > Hey. > > Currently my backup regime is woeful. > I have years worth of work on a Windows machine and some stuff > scattered across OpenBSD machines. Uh-oh. > I'm thinking of building a machine (the file server) to provide some > backup and ce

Re: locate weirdness

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: > > >> > There is no way of knowing if it would have found the problem, so why > continue with this drivel? Contrary to the lengthy diatribes here trying > to distract from the original problem an

Re: mailserv project

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 01/16/12 02:09, Wesley M. wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:40:57 +0100, Tomas Bodzar >> wrote: >>> There's sendmail in base system and there's ongoing work on smtpd by >>> OpenBDS devs (other components are in ports). Anyway you're welcome

Re: DLINK DUB-E100

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Alessandro Baggi > wrote: >> On 01/08/2012 11:38 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Alessandro Baggi >>> B wrote: Hi there, I would buy an Ethernet card usb, a

Re: Hylafax 6.0.5p0

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, man Chan wrote: > Dear All, > > I am now try to setup the hylafax 6.0.5 for my machine running > openbsd-5.0 stable. I go through all the processes faxsetup, faxaddmodem > with no luck. Can anyone show me some pointer of examples that works. > Thanks. > > Cla

Re: traffic shaping in OpenBSD

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:53:46 +0100 > "Bret S. Lambert" wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:47:35AM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:17:56 +0400 >> > ZZ Wave wrote: >> > >> > > What solution should be used for tr

Re: OpenBSD and shebang line to a script not supported?

The underlying question, not asked here, is "why do you want to do this" ? It's a few more lines of code to take the first wrapper script and pass the arguments to another intepriter script, much like this: #!/bin/sh second-perl-script $@ There might be some command line argument handling

Re: do not understand how to upgrade to-CURRENT

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Zantgo wrote: > Please do not offend! I'm not a fool, and if you do not want to help, please > do not comment. > > Zantgo > > El 23-10-2011, a las 16:25, Marc Espie escribiC3: > >> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:33:58AM -0300, Marcos Ariel Laufer wrote: >>> This idiot

Re: Are there any virtualization solutions for OpenBSD? (!important: no package from ports!)

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:17 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20917/are-there-any-virtualization-solutions-for-openbsd-important-no-package-from > > I'm searching for Virtualization solutions: > > OpenBSD: host > CentOS: guest > > What are my solutions? I'm search

Re: frontpage openbsd

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:22:38 -0700 > "Carlos A. Garcia G." wrote: > >> ok ill try to find out how to puch the webmaster so he change his mind, >> let me get the info from the webmaster. >> the only reason he said its "Frontpage have a marvel

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Clint Pachl wrote: > Alec Taylor wrote: >> >> What's the most secure operating system? >> >> /me is thinking OpenBSD >> >> > > SELinux by far. > > I just listened to an interview with one of the devs on the project > (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/156). Wow! With

Re: installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Brett wrote: >> I'm assuming your USB drive has an external power supply, right? > > In the past, I had installed OpenBSD (I think it was 4.7, either i386 or > amd64) to an external usb drive, powered from the usb port. It would appear > to install ok, start the bo

Re: OpenBSD alternative to cpanel/plesk

2011/7/30 Mikael Vsterdahl : > I use webmin and it works ok, need a few tweaks, but works. Not in ports though. > > /Mikael Webmin is what open source interfaces *should* be. Modular, clean, cross-platform, and actually edits the config files rather than some strange intermediate database, which m

Re: Bug Tracking system does not work

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, STeve Andre' wrote: >> On 07/19/11 12:27, Ted Unangst wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Paul Suh wrote: On Jul 18, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: >> ma

Re: Bug Tracking system does not work

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Johan Beisser wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> >> http://openports.se/www/rt >> ? >> written in perl. > > As someone who uses this for ticket tracking, let me be the first to > say it's terrible. It takes significant, thoughtfu

Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011/07/16 23:55, Rajneesh N. Shetty wrote: >> would obsd 4.9 work ok on the attached specifications? >> >> please advise if >> anyone has tried it so far. this one is a "notebook". >> >> they have an athlon >> version as well which is

Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Rajneesh N. Shetty wrote: > would obsd 4.9 work ok on the attached specifications? > > please advise if > anyone has tried it so far. this one is a "notebook". > > they have an athlon > version as well which is a "netbook", but i'am not too sure i want to try that

Re: Laffs with Lennart

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >> It does look like an open source result of some talented people, not >> >> an OpenBSD or BSD specific result. >> > >> > OpenSSH happened as a *direct result* of the types of decisi

Re: Laffs with Lennart

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> It does look like an open source result of some talented people, not >> an OpenBSD or BSD specific result. > > OpenSSH happened as a *direct result* of the types of decisions that > OpenBSD developers make. Hi, Theo. That would be a compell

Re: How does OpenBSD compare to Ubuntu Server?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:16 PM, J Sisson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Juan Miscaro wrote: > >> On 7 July 2011 15:06, jirib wrote: >> >> Are you kidding? Ubuntu? Where installed daemons are running by default, >> > where there is no command to disable shitty upstart daemons? >> >> W

Re: Laffs with Lennart

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia [nka...@gmail.com] wrote: >> >> Don't mistake OpenSSH for OpenBSD. The early history is fascinating. >> >> http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/ssh/ch01_05.htm >> >&g

Re: Laffs with Lennart

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Chris Cappuccio writes: > >> Lennart Poettering has graced the world with his brilliance one more >> time. Why? Lennart doesn't "think BSD is too relevant anymore." >> >> http://linuxfr.org/nodes/86687/comments/1249943 > > It would

Re: How does OpenBSD compare to Ubuntu Server?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Alexander Schrijver wrote: >> For starters, there is 100% consensus among developers that we'll never >> use newfangled overengineered stuff like System V init. >> > > You mean Upstart! > > or wait > > You mean systemd! Or the oddness that is daemontools!!

Re: Recompile OpenBSD without built-in Apache 1.3

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Fred Crowson wrote: > On 29 June 2011 09:12, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> Not to encourage or discourage the OP either way, I don't think you >> should assume that he's only got one system to play with. After all, >> it is perfectly feasible to make install builds on o

Re: How do I exclude a directory using tar in OpenBSD?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, David Vasek wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> GNU tools have become the industry standard, for a stack of reasons. > >> I've had similar issues with the "cp" command, and its lack of "cp >&

Re: vmmap: bad software everywhere

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 06:11:31PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Marc Espie wrote: >> >> > How comes nobody in other OSes noticed ? Well, people probably did, and >> > tweak

Re: vmmap: bad software everywhere

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > Well, the official fix for mono is in, from the mono team. > > Guess what ? Mono uses MAP_32BIT if it's available. > > From Linux's mmap manpage: > MAP_32BIT (since Linux 2.4.20, 2.6) > Put the mapping into the first 2 Gigabyte

Re: vmmap: bad software everywhere

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > How comes nobody in other OSes noticed ? Well, people probably did, and > tweaked their allocators to "work", by using preferably the low address space, > and having addresses that increase slowly, so that a lot of pointers are below > 4GB, and

Re: problem in ntp time synch

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> I am new to your site. Hope i will have answers and help.I am facing a >> problem >> while synchronizing client to nearest server for ntp synchorinization(linux)I >> have configured the IP of nearest server in file /etc/ntp.conf and restart

Re: How do I exclude a directory using tar in OpenBSD?

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-05-31, Marian Hettwer wrote: >> On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:53:58 +0200, LEVAI Daniel >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:42:24 +0300, Michael Sioutis wrote: Hello! I can't find it in the man page, and it seems it

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:12:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > | Then perhaps lean to write. If you're measuring a different > | phenomenon, one that has different units, then it's a distinctly > | different *calcu

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>> > 100% right. The load average calculation has not changed in 25 years. >>> > Anyone who says otherwise hasn't got a single fact on their si

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > 100% right. The load average calculation has not changed in 25 years. >> > Anyone who says otherwise hasn't got a single fact on their side. >> > >> > What has changed, however, is that the kernel has more kernel threads >> > running (for

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> On 2011-06-01 15.53, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: >> > On 2 June 2011 01:41, Benny Lofgren > > > wrote: >> > I agree with what you are saying, and I worded this quite badly, the >> > frame I was trying to setup was

Re: sparc64 v120 needed in the Netherlands

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: > Hi, > > For development on OpenBSD, I need a sun v120 machine in Eindhoven, > the Netherlands. > It turns out, I don't have a 64-bit big-endian machine (and suns are > just awesome). > > Please contact me if you have one. > Thanks, I

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Martin Pelikan wrote: > 2011/5/15 Ted Unangst : >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> Determining which package needs rebuilding is really hard. B It's much >> easier to install a complete matched set. > > I believe some Linuxes do something

Re: impact of unaligned partitions/slices on 4kB sector drives (wd10ears)

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > 1) Don't cross post. > > 2) Install something more recent that 4.6 (e.g. 4.9) and you will > find that partitions and filesystems will be aligned on 4K boundaries. > > 3) If you can, without trying hard, end up with misaligned partitio

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, roberth wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:38:46 -0700 > Tyler Morgan wrote: > >> On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: >> http://www.ec > > (plz all stop pushing that links search engine rank.) > >> I think this is mainly due to the fact that softraid can't be use

Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

I've been using the very helpful notes at http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php, which works, but does document needing to build a new kernel to enable software RAID. (I included GENERIC.MP in my GENERIC.MPRAID configuration: it's a multi-core machine.) But I had a fascinati

Re: Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-04-29, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Stuart Henderson >> wrote: >>> On 2011-04-29, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>>> >>>> So, I'm looking for

Re: Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:34 AM, George Georgalis wrote: > Nico, I don't know what your "risk" is, but if it's a perimeter > box running pf and ssh maybe consider running on cflash or usb > stick? Or one of those bootable cdroms? I log to a ram fs so I > think the only media writes are for ntp.dri

Re: Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-04-29, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> So, I'm looking for recommendations. Modest 1U pizza boxes? > > R210? (as long as you don't need externally accessible disks.) > >> Even brand

Re: Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> I just went halfway through the "build your own custom kernel, >> manually configure partition tables, etc., etc." rituals to set up >

Any suggests for modest, known compatible servers with RAID 1?

I just went halfway through the "build your own custom kernel, manually configure partition tables, etc., etc." rituals to set up software RAID for OpenBSD 4.8, and have concluded that it's not economical the engineering time to do all that manual work for something available in hardware. So, I'm