Re: How to trim SSD?

2024-08-14 Thread Oliver Peter
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 07:36:01PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 11:50:53PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > > This is out of the list reply, I hope it's ok. Oops, that mail ended up by accident on this list. Sorry for the noise. -- Oliver Peter o

Re: How to trim SSD?

2024-08-14 Thread Oliver Peter
Hi Kirill! Thanks for your mail. On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 11:50:53PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > This is out of the list reply, I hope it's ok. > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:44:52 +0200, > Oliver Peter wrote: > > > > [1] Little write-up: https://hackmd.

Re: How to trim SSD?

2024-08-14 Thread Oliver Peter
ufficient free space for > wear leveling. Sounds reasonable to me and I'll give it a try. Thanks. -- Oliver Peter oli...@gfuzz.de 0x456D688F

How to trim SSD?

2024-08-11 Thread Oliver Peter
Lifetime_Remain 0x0030 078 078 001Old_age Offline - 22 Cheers Oliver [1] Little write-up: https://hackmd.gfuzz.de/s/Qsk14kc3i (OpenBSD & Hetzner) -- Oliver Peter oli...@gfuzz.de 0x456D688F

Intel X710 VF lost network connection after nvm update

2024-07-11 Thread Oliver Schweger
Hello, I wanted to report an issue with OpenBSD”s iavf driver that started to occur after updating the firmware of my Intel X710 NIC from version 9.40 to 9.50 using intel’s nvmupdate utility. After the update all OpenBSD guests have lost network connectivity on iavf interfaces. I tried the

OpenBSD 6.9

2021-05-01 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi @Developers: Many thanks for this new release. @all others and me: Before upgrading your boxes, this is a good moment to donate some bucks to this project again. Have a smooth upgrade. -oliver

Re: Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
ery > unhappy accidents later! Like Employee_Financial_Data.xlsx? -- Oliver Leaver-Smith TZ=Europe/London

Re: Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
the drive would be recoverable in that state unless something remote was to lock it down or wipe the disk -- Oliver Leaver-Smith TZ=Europe/London

Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
Hello misc@ I wonder if anyone could recommend remote wipe software for OpenBSD, should someone want to start using it in an enterprise setting where such features are a requirement? Thanks in advance, ols -- Oliver Leaver-Smith TZ=Europe/London

Re: gpt/uefi

2020-09-18 Thread Wayne Oliver
> On 18 Sep 2020, at 16:16, flint pyrite wrote: > > Install Win10 and shrink the volume with their tools. Then get a live > GNU/Linux OS like gparted live and partition the remainder of your > drive. Note: Win10 will create the EFI partition for you. For the > OpenBSD partition do not format i

Merci 6.7

2020-05-20 Thread Oliver Marugg
project and devs work, will others follow? -Oliver

Re: OpenBSD VPS hoster with unlimited/limited nonfiltered traffic

2020-04-10 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
I run a few OpenBSD servers on vultr. They block outbound 25 by default like most providers, but as long as you say you aren’t going to spam, they open it for you no problem. 1000GB bandwidth on smaller VPS, 6000 on larger ones -ols -- Oliver Leaver-Smith +44(0)114 360 1337 TZ=Europe/London

Re: Hosting a CDN question

2020-03-17 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 2020/03/16 12:26, Flipchan wrote: Hey all, My company needs to put up a cdn for fast hosting of javascript, images and css for websites, and then i would need something faster then httpd. Does anyone here run a cdn for static website content? If so what software did u use to set it up ?

Re: alacritty build

2020-03-11 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 2020/03/11 21:26, Luke A. Call wrote: On 03-11 16:51, Wayn0 wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 06:21, Wayne Oliver wrote: On 2020/03/10 21:09, Justin Muir wrote: Just wishing to give alacritty a go so I git'd the source and did a cargo build. I get this error after a while: LLVM ERROR

Re: alacritty build

2020-03-10 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 2020/03/10 21:09, Justin Muir wrote: Just wishing to give alacritty a go so I git'd the source and did a cargo build. I get this error after a while: LLVM ERROR: out of memory error: Could not compile `alacritty` I tried increasing the dataset-cur and -max to 4000M in login.conf, didn't see

Re: Server 5 SSD/best practice

2020-03-02 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi Stuart, hi Nick Many thanks for your answers adn itnersting point you’ve mentioned about the raid levels, it really helped me thinking about the ssd config of that existent server. Greets Oliver On 21 Feb 2020, at 17:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-02-21, Nick Holland wrote: On

Server 5 SSD/best practice

2020-02-20 Thread Oliver Marugg
(eg. sofraid(4), bio(4),bioctl(4) OS 2x on 2x ssd raid1, data 3xssd raid5 or 1x single ssd for OS and 4x ssd raid5/10 or better ideas)? many thanks -oliver

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-06 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
mentioned in the thread. -ols -- Oliver Leaver-Smith +44(0)114 360 1337 TZ=Europe/London

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi Ingo Many thanks for your inputs concerning older, but interesting tools g/t-roff and refer(1). I didnt know them before. -oliver On 3 Nov 2019, at 16:41, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hello, Xianwen Chen wrote on Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 04:16:43PM +0100: I am interested in giving _groff_ and

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
ry was more around supporting the writing process > (outlining, character development) and the formatting (like you say, an after > thought most often) > > ~ols > -- > Oliver Leaver-Smith > +44(0)114-360-1337 > TZ=Europe/London

Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
support, but not really anything that stands out which supports OpenBSD (aside from the obvious LaTeX et al.) Mich appreciated ~ols -- Oliver Leaver-Smith +44(0)114-360-1337 TZ=Europe/London

Ergonomic USB wired mouse

2019-08-19 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi I am preparing switching my desktop from another OS to OpenBSD. Is anyone using an Evoluent USB Wired Mouse (C/4 or 4 small) with OpenBSD? Or any other great ideas about an ergonomic mouse working with OpenBSD? Many thanks. -oliver

Boot stops after probing vga0 failed

2019-06-28 Thread Oliver Marugg
Something hangs then, but I can not discover. What are best practices, that I could boot and grab more info/send a dmesg? Many thanks oliver

Re: IPsec bandwidth perf on APU4C4

2019-06-13 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 13 Jun 2019, at 22:46, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2019/06/13 20:08, mabi wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 10:26 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: If you're on an old BIOS revision for the APU (more than a couple of months old), try updating, they have enable

Re: HTTP SITE DOES NOT REDIRECT

2019-03-06 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
> On 6 Mar 2019, at 06:48, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > > is this error justifiable considering the above configuration? If you curl the http site yourself do you get a 302 to https? If yes, then it’s their problem.

Re: Thank you

2018-11-27 Thread Wayne Oliver
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:54 PM, butresin wrote: On 1109 0832, Wayne Oliver wrote: Hi All, Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, OpenBSD runs better than any other OS on my laptop. One thing that really stands out is suspend and resume, I have *never* had a Linux or Windows

Thank you

2018-11-08 Thread Wayne Oliver
Hi All, Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, OpenBSD runs better than any other OS on my laptop. One thing that really stands out is suspend and resume, I have *never* had a Linux or Windows laptop do it properly. Obviously everything else works great, I just wanted to point this out

Re: u-boot loader edgerouter

2018-10-15 Thread Oliver Marugg
upgrading uboot to newer version. On 10 Oct 2018, at 6:27, Holger Glaess wrote: hi did you upgrade the bootloader as well ? take a look at https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-EdgeRouter-software-release-v1-10-6/ba-p/2466640 holger Am 08.10.2018 um 13:40 schrieb Oliver

Re: u-boot loader edgerouter

2018-10-08 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi Did the test on my ERLs also: I upgraded to ubnts rel 1.10.7 and installed new firmware image via CLI. USB Stick Rebooted for installing OpenBSD snapshot in uboot: --- reset usb reset fatload usb 0 $loadaddr bsd.rd bootoctlinux rootdev=sd0 numcores=2 -- Installing octeon current snapshot of

Re: Which really small, portable and lightweight system/device is usable running OpenBSD?

2018-09-22 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
This post on misc has further details on GPD Pocket support: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=153582446230820&w=2 leaversmith.com/privacy

Re: Which really small, portable and lightweight system/device is usable running OpenBSD?

2018-09-22 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
I still have not found a reason to upgrade from my Thinkpad X61s, which has the added benefit of having a 4:3 aspect ratio screen too I get about 5hrs battery life under normal use, which for me is work in the terminal and light browsing It really depends on how small and lightweight you want,

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:39:03PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The preceding might bring up Python 2.7, which wouldn't work. If > there's a similar environment variable that either brings up the > Python3 executable, or nothing at all, that would be better. Ah yes, apologies for my oversight there

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
Nice helpful script, thanks. Didn't run off the bat for me as it expects python3 in /usr/bin/ `#!/usr/bin/env python` is more portable ols leaversmith.com/privacy

Ultra-portable laptops

2018-09-01 Thread Oliver Leaver-Smith
, but as a secondary—or 9th—device they’re fine. Many thanks, Oliver leaversmith.com/privacy

Re: Hibernation reboot loop

2018-08-06 Thread Oliver Jan Krylow
Probably an oversight. You could probably make a fairly simple diff to do what you wanted though. Looks like apmd.c:147 has code to extract out the ac state. You could duplicate that below, in the for (;;) loop body in main - get ac state before determining if 'autoaction' should actually call s

Hibernation reboot loop

2018-07-28 Thread Oliver Jan Krylow
Hello List! I have apmd configured with flags "-A -Z10 -t60" on a Thinkpad x230. When the machine hits <10% battery it hibernates (as it should). I then attach the AC and boot up again. The bsd.booted kernel boots up, but once the OS is up a moment, it reboots. This happens 2-3 times. Sometime

Re: linux under vm on openbsd tutorial

2018-07-16 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi Did you enable VT/Extendend Mem64 Technology and Excute Disable Bit support in BIOS? -oliver

Re: OT: Yandex - was Re: Why is ftp option removed from installer?

2018-05-11 Thread Wayne Oliver
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-05-10, Patrick Dohman wrote: Incidentally why are there no African mirrors aka Kenya etc? Nobody has offered one; a significant amount of traffic would be used just keeping it up to date with snapshots, so it would only make se

Re: PS1 in 6.3

2018-04-03 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 03/04/2018 17:11, Marko Cupać wrote: > Hi, > > before I get to the question, I'd like to thank all the people who made > 6.3 happen. Keep up the good work! :) > > I noticed that on 6.3 prompt shows hostname($|#) by default. Up until > now I was setting it by exporting PS1 in .profile: > > PS1

Re: Installing a snapshot to a USB key using bsd.rd

2018-03-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 17 Mar 2018, at 4:59, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote: Hi This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do, please be gentle. :-) Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or point me at some instructions that work? I tried the following: 1. Download

Re: Trying to use OpenBSD as webserver, inside home network (ADSL internet connection)

2018-01-19 Thread Oliver Marugg
hi check: which device does nat for you. On that device configure portforwarding from external to internal, eg external ip:port to your internal host:port. test it from outside. ip forwarding on your OpenBSD laptop isnt necessary here, your laptop doesnt act as a router in your homesetup.

Re: Community-driven OpenBSD tutorials wiki?

2018-01-04 Thread Oliver Marugg
Hi In general an community driven openbsd wiki would be a good idea, for users like me (not developers). I would participate as far I am able to. But do not forget the OpenBSD FAQ and man pages are really well documented (thanks devs). -oliver On 4 Jan 2018, at 15:17, Andreas Thulin wrote

Re: sysctl(8) didnt add parameter to sysctl.conf(5)

2017-12-27 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 27 Dec 2017, at 21:30, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> By entering as su/doas sysctl kern.bufcachepercent=80 shows me the >> change from default=20 to 80 as expected, but after a reboot the value >> is set again/still to 20 (%). > > sysctl changes the running state. It does not change that file > for

sysctl(8) didnt add parameter to sysctl.conf(5)

2017-12-27 Thread Oliver Marugg
after typing the commands. If I add the tweak manually to sysctl.conf(5) -> it works. Any ideas or hints for me, what to check/verify? dmesg below, thank you devs for OpenBSD. -oliver OpenBSD 6.2 (GENERIC.MP) #134: Tue Oct 3 21:22:29 MDT 2017 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/ar

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 15 Dec 2017, at 10:24, Alex Waite wrote: I am considering buying a not so expensive home server. [snip] This might be a bit above "not so expensive" (~1,200), but I've been running this at home for just under a year and have been very pleased: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midto

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 15 Dec 2017, at 9:11, Noth wrote: On 14/12/17 20:40, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote: The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under warranty) could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 14 Dec 2017, at 20:40, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote: The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under warranty) could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD?). The Gen8 works fine once you

Re: Re : Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 14 Dec 2017, at 20:24, gro...@grompf.net wrote: Bonjour, For my own personal purpose, i'm using coolermaster 110, 120, 130 cases with some asrock low cost and low power mini-itx boards.All other parts are common ones. It's not the «best & most power full setup» but it's silent and my sma

Suggestions home server

2017-12-14 Thread Oliver Marugg
efficient;-). But APU2 and NUC is not what I want. The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under warranty) could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD?). Are there any other suggestions/ideas from your side? Many thanks. -oliver

pf and max bandwidth in nested queues (bug?)

2017-11-01 Thread Oliver Humpage
enBSD team. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what’s happening? Thanks, Oliver.

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-15 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 13 Oct 2017, at 0:11, Mike Larkin wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Michał Koc wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:23:36PM +0200, Michał Koc wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:59:52PM +0200, Oliver Marugg wrote: On 7 Oct 2017, at 22:01, Mike Larkin wrote: On Sat, Oct 07

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-11 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 8 Oct 2017, at 23:59, Oliver Marugg wrote: Thanks Mike, will do so. The proxmox guys have also the idea that it could be a bug in kvm hypervisor (which is the hypervisor part for proxmox) and will affect OpenBSD since 4.9, they wrote me in their public forum. As far as I understood they

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-08 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 7 Oct 2017, at 22:01, Mike Larkin wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 02:19:58PM +0200, Oliver Marugg wrote: Just to add a 4th situation of hangs: Login via proxmox (pve)/kvm serial console (via noVNC), login successful: Vm guest in pve hangs, cpu usage at above 102%. Only way is to hard stop

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-07 Thread Oliver Marugg
Just to add a 4th situation of hangs: Login via proxmox (pve)/kvm serial console (via noVNC), login successful: Vm guest in pve hangs, cpu usage at above 102%. Only way is to hard stop the Vm guest. -oliver

Re: Openbsd 6.1 and Current Console Freezes and lockup Proxmox PVE5.0

2017-10-07 Thread Oliver Marugg
after hours. Happened a few times during an active ssh session (cvs up or compiling stable-kernel) or even it hanged somewhen during a day/for days I noticed later -> no log entries or dmesg gives a hint to any direction then. -oliver

Re: 6.1 amd64 errata 30_xrstor patch fails

2017-10-03 Thread Oliver Marugg
sorry for my previous markdown formatted mail: I entered the commands correctly: ... # KK=`sysctl -n kern.osversion | cut -d# -f1` # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`machine`/compile/$KK # make obj # make config make: don't know how to make config Stop in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ...

6.1 amd64 errata 30_xrstor patch fails

2017-10-03 Thread Oliver Marugg
Just wanted to update one of my servers (6.1-stable) with erata 30 xrstor # signify -Vep /etc/signify/openbsd-61-base.pub -x 030_xrstor.patch.sig \ -m - | (cd /usr/src && patch -p0) Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: --

6.1 -release syspatched or -stable

2017-09-10 Thread Oliver Marugg
any to decide which way will be more suitable for my new installations. Many thanks. Oliver

Re: octeon: ksyms: Symbol table not valid

2017-03-18 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 18 Mar 2017, at 17:09, Visa Hankala wrote: >> Does my Edgerouter Lite have two cores? ;-) > > It does because the firmware lets you use coremask=0x3. If there was > only one core, the system should refuse to boot the kernel with > that parameter. > > Note that U-Boot loads the kernel from a sep

Re: octeon: ksyms: Symbol table not valid

2017-03-18 Thread Oliver Marugg
On 18 Mar 2017, at 11:43, Visa Hankala wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:16:59PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote: Understood about ksyms. 3. I set coremask=0x3 to boot mp, in dmseg only 1 cpu is shown, but its Are you sure you tried the correct kernel? Octeon ubnt_e100# bootoctlinux rootdev

octeon: ksyms: Symbol table not valid

2017-03-17 Thread Oliver Marugg
core shown. Switched back to bsd, that works. -oliver -- dmesg OpenBSD 6.1-beta (GENERIC) #0: Tue Mar 14 21:24:42 UTC 2017 visa@octeon:/usr/src/sys/arch/octeon/compile/GENERIC real mem = 536870912 (512MB) avail mem = 524238848 (499MB) warning: no entropy supplied by boot loader mainbus0

Re: Running OpenBSD on Hypervisor

2017-03-08 Thread Oliver Marugg
I use Proxmox for VMs, it is KVM based with possibility for LXC. OpenBSD, BSDs in general works as proxmox vms. I use it mainly for education purposes. On 8 Mar 2017, at 16:07, Markus Rosjat wrote: Hi there, just like to get opinions or examples of OpenBSd as guest on a hypervisor. I had it

Re: Fresh install ftp SSL handshake failed

2016-11-28 Thread Oliver Marugg
Superb, many thanks. On 28 Nov 2016, at 22:02, Janne Johansson wrote: > Fix the clock so its not 7th of March? > > > 2016-11-28 21:55 GMT+01:00 Oliver Marugg : > >> Hi >> >> I did a complete new install of OpenBSD 6.0-current today. >> >> After fi

Fresh install ftp SSL handshake failed

2016-11-28 Thread Oliver Marugg
same error. Any ideas, what I could do? Thanks oliver --- FTP: # ftp https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/ports.tar.gz Trying 129.128.5.191... Requesting https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ports.tar.gz ftp: SSL read error: handshake failed: error:14090086:SSL

Re: asking for help compiling dns stats collector (dsc)

2016-02-25 Thread Oliver Peter
something obvious here. Needless > >>to say i cant compile and read source but still i try to be attentive to > >>your answer! :) > >> > >> > > > >You're going to need some things like > > > >(cflags/cxxflags) > >-nostdinc -I/usr/loc

Re: Boot problem custom Kernel 5.7

2015-07-14 Thread Oliver
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Joel Rees wrote: > 2015/07/10 22:12 "Oliver" : > > > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > > > entry point at 0x1000160 [7205c766, 3404, 24448b12, 1080a304] > > >

Re: Boot problem custom Kernel 5.7

2015-07-10 Thread Oliver
st want to say that this problem is fixed in OpenBSD 5.8-beta. The problem is not the bootloader. Can someone point me to the right direction to backport the changes to 5.7? Thanks, Oliver

Re: Boot problem custom Kernel 5.7

2015-06-09 Thread Oliver
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > entry point at 0x1000160 [7205c766, 3404, 24448b12, 1080a304] > > == At this point the system reboots. No further messages. > > Your kernel is probably too large. A limitation in the bootblocks. Do you mean the kernel with the ramdisk or without

Boot problem custom Kernel 5.7

2015-06-09 Thread Oliver
be someone has already a clue what the problem is. Thanks, Oliver

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Oliver Peter
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:59:55AM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > Btw, now that the topic has come up. Is there a way to view the > diffs quickly on a source- or port-change? Not official and not instantly updated: http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-ports/log/ -- Oliver PETER

Re: 5.6 arrived

2014-10-28 Thread Oliver Peter
gt; there are just minor differences? If the difference between release and snapshot is too confusing for you, you should probably just stay with release. If you need releases on time you should order a CD set next time. Any please don't try to install a current 5.6 snapshot and use

FAQ / geektools RFC / diff

2014-06-03 Thread Oliver Peter
ndle -http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc1918.txt";>RFC 1918 +http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918";>RFC 1918 addresses that just shouldn't be floating around the Internet, and when they are, are usually trying to cause trouble: -- Oliver PETER oli...@gfuzz.de 0x456D688F

Re: OpenBSD on MacBook

2014-02-13 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 13 Feb 2014, at 3:54, Michael Vetter wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't tried out OpenBSD yet, but used Linux for some years. > > Recently I got a Macbook, thought first about installing Linux on it, > but because of different reasons I am considering OpenBSD now. > > Does anybody have any experien

Re: Patch to remove "adult" content from spamd(8) man page

2013-11-21 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 21 Nov 2013, at 21:04, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:02:06PM +0100, za...@gmx.com wrote: >> Different people have different concepts of morality. I believe it >> would be better to remove anything that is controversial, for >> whatever reason -- even if in *my* concept of

Re: www.openbsd.org down?

2013-06-25 Thread Wayne Oliver
Don't quite know where to post in this thread…. All good in Johannesburg :-p -Wayn0 On 25 Jun 2013, at 5:10 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: > Can someone please test from Burundi, Johannesburg and Minsk? Because that > would probably also be really really really interesting. > > Luis Coronado wrot

Re: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.

2013-02-19 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 19 Feb 2013, at 1:40 PM, Rafal Bisingier wrote: > Hi, > > Or you could fix your application, to not do stupid things (like > generating millions of files in a single directory) in the first > place... ;-) +1 > > > On 2013-02-19 at 12:10 CET > Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> Or you could just

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012/11/13 7:14 AM, Mike. wrote: > If your goal is to please as many people as possible, then > compromise is the way to go. > > If your goal is to produce outstanding software then, well, you're > gonna have to piss off a few people. Could not a

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-22 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012/06/22 3:14 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > Oh, yeah, and the hipsters types swear by ruby, which is just > tweaked perl. Love that line! Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP5HKfAAoJENzqTnPMiNZl/6MH/014Ia96FQbvZOsfcRadck0P 3wCOnHTB

Re: Unbound in base

2012-02-14 Thread Oliver Peter
the BSD license (i.e. Postfix has IBM license). Unbound (and also nsd) is a good and lightweight alternative to sendmail using the BSD license. License stuff is more important than it sounds. IMO the separate development of a resolver (unbound) and an authoritive nameserver (nsd) is bette

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-01 Thread Wayne Oliver
emperamental' behaviour ;-) > > VirtualBox can make some testings comfy, sure; that not solves any real problem in a real world, but you mileage may vary, of course. Just my opinion from my hairy world :-D > > El 01/09/2011 13:07, Wayne Oliver escribis: >> On 01 Sep 2011, at 12:37 P

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-01 Thread Wayne Oliver
On 01 Sep 2011, at 12:37 PM, Daniel Gracia wrote: > You guys aren't serious, are you? > > Lambos are shiny and fast crap that gets on fire easily -almost the same for any italian car/bike out on the market; maybe not Fiat-. And that's just the opposite OpenBSD seeks. > > VirtualBox solving a probl

Re: pkg_add and pkg_delete parse error after upgrade to 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread Oliver Rompcik
. The Upgrade Guide has been followed accurately, including purge of old files. Seems DynaLoader.pm loaded a wrong library version which was still present. The fastest solution was a backup of config and a new install, as this was a production failover mailcluster. Sincerely, Oliver Rompcik

pkg_add and pkg_delete parse error after upgrade to 4.9

2011-05-19 Thread Oliver Rompcik
Hi guys, i got a problem with pkg_add and pkg_delete after release upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9. This is the first problem afer a release upgrade since years (the machine started with 3.8 in 2005). pkg_info: bash-4.1.7p0GNU Bourne Again Shell bzip2-1.0.5 block-sorting file compressor,

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-21 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Apr 2011, at 11:55 PM, Paul M wrote: > On 21/04/2011, at 12:07 PM, Benny Lofgren wrote: > >> I'm sure this has been brought up before, but is there a way to buy >> "licenses" without actually getting the CD:s? > > > There is a fundamental under

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-19 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Apr 2011, at 11:15 AM, Guillaume Duali wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:32:50 +0200, David Coppa > wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >> >>> So - yes we like donations, but we also like CD sales.. now is the >>> time to

Re: OpenBSD-Wiki.org

2011-04-19 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Apr 2011, at 5:22 PM, Kenny wrote: > Due to an circumstances beyond my control, I'm not longer able to host > / maintain /work with OpenBSD-Wiki.org. I was in the process of > updating it when some personal issues came up. > I'm interested in p

Re: Wildest Africa Tour

2011-04-04 Thread Wayne Oliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bloody South Africans! On 04 Apr 2011, at 4:45 PM, Anton Parol wrote: > OpenBSD vs a Lion? > > __ > Anton Parol > Customer Services * Orc Software > > -Original Message- > From: owner-m...@openb

Re: Minimally painful mail client for "rich" (spit!) messages

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver Peter
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > During recent months I've joined some mailing lists with fairly good > signal to noise ratio on a specific topic, the only snag being that a > distressingly large number of otherwise sane messages have been > written using mail

Re: Cannot boot into bsd.rd 4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:56:28PM +0200, Tomas wrote: > Hey there all on the misc, > > I am having problems booting into bsd.rd on my machine. Currently the > machine holds OpenBSD 4.4 Generic and is working fine. But now I've decided > to upgrade it (I will be doing a clean install) to version 4

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-24 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:52:59AM -0500, Josh Smith wrote: > On Monday, January 24, 2011, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Oliver Peter [2011-01-24 11:56]: > >> The tcp option in resolv.conf might be reasonable for a single workstation > >> but due to the protocol overhead

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-24 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:33:53PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Oliver Peter [2011-01-24 11:56]: > > The tcp option in resolv.conf might be reasonable for a single workstation > > but due to the protocol overhead not appropriate for larger networks / many > > clie

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-24 Thread Oliver Peter
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:06:09PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:28:51 -0500 > Josh Smith wrote: > > > > I've got to say I'm suprised the dns server in the base system of the > > worlds most secure OS is not able to validate dnssec responses > > > > Actually there is muc

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-17 Thread Oliver Peter
On 1/15/11 12:28 PM, Josh Smith wrote: > I've got to say I'm suprised the dns server in the base system of the > worlds most secure OS is not able to validate dnssec responses pkg_add unbound and you're done. If you think you are that smart to use DNSSEC, then you should also be that smart to run

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-14 Thread Oliver Peter
On 1/14/11 10:06 AM, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2011/1/14 Chris Cappuccio : >> > nsd is already part of the tree and unbound will join it at some point to >> > replace bind. they are well documented, fairly easy to use, and unbound is >> > available through ports. use it. > But a DNSSSEC validiating

Re: insecure scheduler in OpenBSD 4.7

2010-10-12 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:57:20 +0200 Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > It is not secure. One user script or program may load CPU and > > database or another servers lost speed in disk operations. > > This is hole for DOS attacks in OpenBSD design. > > Yeah, this is an attack root can do by renicing a

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:22:03 -0600 Theo de Raadt wrote: > Just for fun. "Stop wasting your time reading people's licenses.", http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/theo.c.diff?r1=1.77;r2=1.78 Eh? :)

Re: My trouble with BIND.

2010-09-25 Thread Oliver Peter
On Sep 25, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Oliver Peter wrote: > You should have a look at dig(1). > i.e. > dig @127.0.0.1 example.com A Ah, and there's also: net/ldns/drill drill is a tool ala dig from BIND. It was designed with DNSSEC in mind and should be a useful

Re: My trouble with BIND.

2010-09-25 Thread Oliver Peter
Hey David, On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:42 AM, David Walker wrote: > First off a small oddity (it could be pebkac). > It appears my named.conf is okay and so are my master files. > If I do a ... > nslookup example.com 127.0.0.1 > ... I get a result returned that looks as per normal wth the IP > address

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-11-20 Thread Oliver Peter
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:05:04 -0800 Bryan wrote: > So glad we don't have these kinds of issues... > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047 And finally... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.html Good fun though. --

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-14 Thread Oliver Peter
|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50 No idea about the performance regarding small files and and the sender looks dodgy[1] to me but the price seems to be "alright". [1] "NO TAXES OR IMPORT DUTIES IF YOU BUY FROM US AS THEY ARE MARKED AS GIFTS" -- Oliver PETER email: oli...@peter.d

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