twork will really, really
test it.
--STeve Andre'
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Even easier, have stty status set to ^T, and run dd .
When you want to know where you are in the process hit ^T. Lots (most?)
of programs will respond to a SIGINFO request.
--STeve Andre'
On Jun 10, 2020, 12:48, at 12:48, Luke Small wrote:
>if you have access to packages, y
likely to be disastrous.
Do this on a test system. dd is as efficient as it is ruthless. You can
irrevocably damage a system with it.
---STeve Andre'
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On Jun 1, 2020, 09:58, at 09:58, Justin Noor wrote:
>Hi Misc,
>
>Has anyone ever filled a 4TB disk with rand
If you look at the titles of some of the other "articles"
You will see a trend of unhappiness.
The author has the right to write such things, just as everyone else has the
right to ignore it.
--STeve Andre'
On May 28, 2020, 00:16, at 00:16, Quantum Robin
wrote:
>Hi,
&
The proper people know already. It's useless to make
further comments. --STeve Andre'
On Apr 13, 2020, 03:14, at 03:14, Ilya Mitrukov wrote:
>Hi,
>flushing the caches doesn't help and it's still unavailable.
>
>Does anybody know where to report the issu
On 2019-11-02 15:07, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:04:34PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote:
Hello,
What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean long
form such as novels and technical
On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote:
Hello,
What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean long
form such as novels and technical books, including plot and character
development, outlining, and formatting for publishing (not all the same
application n
Happy birthday to OpenBSD!
s, you can compile
stuff yourself. If you're going to submit a patch you have to build
to test the fix!
--STeve Andre'
rotten through.
I don't think we have any other speech synthesis open source
software in the ports tree.
There is flite which works but isn't great.
--STeve Andre'
iling list?
--STeve Andre'
that to get comparison
systems up.
Thanks for any clues.
--STeve Andre'
great docs.
In addition, https://undeadly.org/ is good reading, as is
http://daemonforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11
There are others but that should get you started.
--STeve Andre'
Thanks very much to Stewart and Josh. My new little beast is on the net now
and everything seems to work. Now the W541 can go to the hospital as I leave
mine. (-;
STeve Andre'
On Sep 11, 2018, 06:16, at 06:16, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>On 2018-09-11, STeve Andre' wrote:
>
ing access to normal
items.
Thank you all...
STeve Andre'
On 09/04/18 20:04, Heinz Kampmann wrote:
--
*Gesendet:* Dienstag, 04. September 2018 um 23:00 Uhr
*Von:* "STeve Andre'"
*An:* "Kevin Chadwick" , misc@openbsd.org
*Betreff:* Re: Lesser evil
On 09/04/18 09:09, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
Um, maybe I
dual-booting being a risk.
--STeve Andre'
On 09/03/18 14:42, - - wrote:
Hello all,
I am running OpenBSD on my desktop, which is suitable for 99% of my
needs. However I have to run certain proprietary software, which is
available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
I cannot decide which of the three would be a "lesser evil" to run in
res
?
Thanks, I hope,
Chris Bennett
https://www.r-studio.com/
This is software I have used in the past to deal with disk disasters.
It's about $80 the last time I used it but it worked pretty well.
Good luck. If you find some other method, let misc@ know.
--STeve Andre'
ry to use that.
Your IT department might have figured out how to interfere with that
too, but that might be a solution. You'd have to keep that external
disk and its interface with you, but at least you could use OpenBSD.
--STeve Andre'
tiple writes aren't going
to touch those. If you encrypt the disk I question how much value a few
encrypted sectors would be to anyone.
Worry far more over lost usb sticks or portable usb disks. That's a far
bigger problem.
STeve Andre'
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problem too. Try wiggling the cable disk the disk stable and
see if you can produce errors.
Try doing a read with that USB hardware on another disk, too. That will
tell you something. I'll bet that the disk is bad. If it stops
producing errors, don't forgive it! Get a new one.
--S
Happy birthday to OpenBSD--22 years old!
and a
scan of marc.info and faq aren't helping.
Clues? I'm pinched for time. Thanks...
--STeve Andre'
On a 10T disk I created an 8T file with dd=/dev/zero of=bff. I didn't
test it, but saw that I had the correct amount of space left.
--STeve Andre'
active. That might get you started?
--STeve Andre'
ays of a 2G web browsing system, mostly. I have a 32G
thinkpad and make sure limits are ramped up to absurd limits. Is is
slower? Sure, but I'll take that over a faster, diseased system any
time. OpenBSD will improve. Windows will not.
--STeve Andre'
at
comparing load avs on different versions is a bit like comparing apples
to spark plugs.
--STeve Andre'
so thats not it. I'm missing something with regards
the size of the disk? Probably I'm forgetting to include something
relevant but I've been dealing with this last night and am tired.
Clues?
Thanks to all -- STeve Andre'
dmesg
OpenBSD 6.0-current (RAMDISK_CD) #164: Sun Feb 12 14:
nd a large disk, etc.
--STeve Andre
ther
Thanks for the explanation of the memory limit. I'm not needing a
system with more than 512G yet, but how much of a project would it
be to dynamically expand to whatever?
--STeve Andre'
Happy Birthday to OpenBSD.
Hey, it's 21. It can drink in Michigan now!
;ll eventually get rid of but have
kept because of their quality. But they do have the 3G problem. So
look forwards at 65-bit. I don't think you'll look back.
--STeve Andre'
uting software is not perfect. When you find
a problem, wait, and try again. Repeat if needed.
--STeve Andre'
s. All the ah00037 comments
talk of stuff I already verified.
I'm certainly willing to do more work on this--I'd appreciate any ideas
on what to test. I've never seen an error like this before... Right now
I feel uncomfortably dumb.
Thanks for ideas... --STeve Andre'
On 08/21/16 17:29, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2016-08-21, STeve Andre' wrote:
Does anyone have archives of recent amd64 snapshot packages?
I blew my aug-09 set away and I'd like libreoffice back. Anyone?
(And yes, I know it's always a gamble to mismatch packages and t
On 08/21/16 01:01, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote:
STeve Andre' wrote:
Does anyone have archives of recent amd64 snapshot packages?
I blew my aug-09 set away and I'd like libreoffice back. Anyone?
(And yes, I know it's always a gamble to mismatch packages and the OS)
Does anyone have archives of recent amd64 snapshot packages?
I blew my aug-09 set away and I'd like libreoffice back. Anyone?
(And yes, I know it's always a gamble to mismatch packages and the OS)
Thanks, STeve Andre'
...)
--STeve Andre'
On 08/15/16 05:41, STeve Andre' wrote:
This is on an amd64 -current system updated/compiled as of
Aug 8 7am; using the 8/13 packages.
I'm trying to use phpMyAdmin to import a database into maria.
in /etc/php-5.6ini I've set memory_limit to 256m, post_
? I've restarted apache and
even rebooted but I always get the 2M max notice.
Any ideas? I'm pressed for time on this, sigh. Pointers would be
much appreciated.
--STeve Andre'
error -- what is it? It might be useful to
indicate where the error occurred? This is the second of three
disks to be tested. It's connected to a Thermaltake USB 3.0
disk enclosure.
Thanks for any pointers.
--STeve Andre'
help here, but that shouldn't
stop you. Hint: start reading about compilers.
--STeve Andre'
On 06/16/16 11:12, Luke Small wrote:
Eh, I run it on a VM. I could copy one and somehow locate all the -O2's and
replace them with -O3's in the files. I'd probably have to write a
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--- Forwarded message ---
From: STeve Andre'
Date: May 17, 2016 4:16:13 PM
Subject: Mod_rewrite.so use
I am creating a Web server using apache2. For the moment I need to
use it.
To enable mod_rewri
On 02/09/16 07:41, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Hi,
William Mimart wrote on Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:36:59PM +0100:
0
C FRANCE
P Normandie
T Rouen
Z 76000
O mimart.info
Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense to me.
This entry wouldn't be related to OpenBSD at all.
It seems to be something about kitte
On 01/09/16 07:46, Sebastien Marie wrote:
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 03:40:08AM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
I got the following error below after updating my tree about 02:42 am
Jan 9 EST. Amd64 -current.
I don't see anything special the the -current update faq.
Are others seeing this
I got the following error below after updating my tree about 02:42 am
Jan 9 EST. Amd64 -current.
I don't see anything special the the -current update faq.
Are others seeing this?
--STeve Andre'
building shared crypto library (version 37.0)
cc -shared -fpic -o libcrypto.so.37.
You obviously never lived through the sendmail era. The smtpd code is very
good. Bugs happen, and how the creators of a program react to them is
what matters. The qualsys results were promptly dealt with.
I don't think there is much to discuss other than diffs that further the
project.
hard. I did a little hardware poking
on the 286, a long time ago. It's isn't simple. I also hope it was
written under a reasonable license.
Once nouveau stabilizes (I have no idea of its current state), someone
may get the interest to port it. Maybe. But as of right now, it ough
ral years ago. It's great that the ports
tree has
gotten so big that you can't remember it all. ;-)
Something to take a pic and put it in a file would be OK.
--STeve Andre'
when
soft deps came into the tree.
If you can run -current on your laptop, you should consider it. It
really is amazing. Later I will try to get a test jig in place such
that I can measure current draw and compare, but heat == power, so I'm
sure it's a success.
Thank you Philip, et al!
On 06/03/15 22:23, Doug Hogan wrote:
We have two new lists for LibreSSL:
libre...@openbsd.org - public list for technical discussion about
LibreSSL on any operating system.
libressl-secur...@openbsd.org - private list for reporting severe
vulnerabilities in OpenSSL or LibreSSL to the core Libre
find a way to test it.
--STeve Andre'
On 04/15/15 14:28, Shaun Reiger wrote:
Hi Ray, I haven't used a Dell Precision M4800 with OBSD yet, but I found
that under PCBSD it should work. Given OBSD has very good laptop support I
believe everything should be detected. I have included a li
R is a
useful addition to that, I think.
--STeve Andre'
me see each individual line which was useful.
Lastly if you don't want to see them make an alias of cat/more
with output going through tr(1) and you'll never see them again.
That's the beauty of this world--you have little tools to make
stuff happen the way you want.
--STeve Andre'
what made me question
this. Thanks. --STeve Andre'
ELF objects.
okay guenther@, kettenis@, deraadt@
--STeve Andre'
On 12/11/14 05:59, FRIGN wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:27:46 -0500
"STeve Andre'" wrote:
You might want to subscribe to the ports-changes changes list,
which will show you what's been changed. The source-changes
list will show you all the other cvs commits. Look at
ht
On 12/10/14 20:51, Stan Gammons wrote:
When will new packages be built for AMD64? I'm getting library errors
with the latest snapshot and the current packages.
Stan
They come out frequently, but not on a set schedule. Since the
last set came out on the 6th, I would expect the next set in t
ut this it must be me. So then,
how am I shooting myself (this time) ? Clue sticks? Error below.
tnx, STeve Andre'
===> kdrive
cd /usr/xenocara/kdrive && exec make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper cleandir
cd /usr/xenocara/kdrive && exec make -f Makefile.bsd-wrappe
to start it. This
drains whatever capacitive storage it might have. Leave it alone for
an hour then plug it together and try it.
2. Boot anything else, like a live CD and see if the battery problem is
the same.
3. kill apmd and see if that changes anything.
--STeve Andre'
Happy birthday, OpenBSD!
way.
Thanks for clues, STeve Andre'
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So The partition has to be raid, vs 4.2 BSD
Onward to my new disk...
--STeve Andre'
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On October 6, 2014 12:22:25 AM "STeve Andre'" wrote:
So I am missing something, or being dumb.
sd0j is a 128g piece of dis
Is anyone using one with OpenBSD? Email me directly if you are willing
to talk.
Thanks, STeve Andre'
ven how big the dmesg data is, it's always reasonable to post it.
--STeve Andre'
on-board IDE controller. I put a Siig
sata controller in it and still works today. So a varient on )5.
Don't forget about dust and around the fans. I'd take it outside
and use compressed air of some kind to clean it.
Good luck...
--STeve Andre'
od I wanted
both around.
OpenBSD's philosophy of packages bound together, with a specific version
of the OS is entirely reasonable. You don't want to have versions of the
same thing running, or at least you shouldn't. If you do, virtualizing
might be a more sane way to go.
This is all open source, and you have the freedom to change, or mangle
things as you wish..
--STeve Andre'
First guess is do you have /etc/mygate ?
--STeve Andre'
On June 24, 2014 3:47:27 PM EDT, Stefan Olsson wrote:
>Hi,
>My colleague is after trying to install Current onto an old Dell PC
>several
>times now. -She can go through the install without problem, she gets
>connecte
n of Debian. It was faster,
both in terms of disk i/o and the running of a program that did
a lot of computations with little output. It seemed to me to be
less than 6%, using stopwatches but small enough to make me
stop testing.
But I think you agree with the general tone of this?
--STeve Andre'
edate that.
In an era of ever increasing hardware speed, optimizing on anything
other than security and stability is foolish.
--STeve Andre'
On 06/08/14 20:45, Nigel Taylor wrote:
On 06/09/14 01:16, STeve Andre' wrote:
Trying to compile kde4's libs I get the below error. I see it's related
to the recent ssl changes, but I don't see what I need to do to get
around this. The system is 5.5-current, compiled on J
found anything about this.
Thanks, STeve Andre'
/usr/ports/pobj/kdelibs-4.11.5/build-amd64/lib/libkdecore.so.50.1:
warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()
/usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.9.0: warning: rand_r() isn't random;
consider using arc4random()
/usr/
is good, but it has its limitations. It best deals with gradual
errors, not fast catastrophic ones.
--STeve Andre'
On 06/05/14 04:53, Johan Svensson wrote:
On 06/05/14 00:53, STeve Andre' wrote:
On 06/04/14 17:08, Johan Svensson wrote:
I'm trying to migrate from Linux to Openbsd on my laptop (thinkpad
x201).
The first problem that i came across was that the Cpu fanspeed was
running con
800, 1600,
2133 and 2801. 800MHz makes a huge difference. You have to
try different values for setperf to see what happens. sysctl will
also tell you the speed in hw.cpuspeed.
--STeve Andre'
es in LibreSSL, OpenBSD, and how the
OpenBSD Foundation fits into this.
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/
I hope a video or audio transcript can be made available. Doesn't
have to be great, to be valuable. Thanks...
--STeve Andre'
On 05/09/14 00:05, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 17:59, STeve Andre' wrote:
Twice now in three or so weeks, I've gotten a panic on my -current_amd64
W500 laptop. I've updated my tree several times during this time, and have
not seen other problems besides the
On 05/08/14 23:41, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
On 05/08/14 22:43, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
Twice now in three or so weeks, I've gotten a panic on my -current_amd64
W50
On 05/08/14 22:43, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
Twice now in three or so weeks, I've gotten a panic on my -current_amd64
W500 laptop. I've updated my tree several times during this time, and have
not seen other problems besides
at
things
get more weird as I use lots of tabs in chrome.
I don't think it matters but my boot disk is a 960g Crucial SSD.
--STeve Andre'
panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: dangling deps
Stopped at Debugger+0x5: leave
RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND
lly subtle stuff because you
got *part* of a change.
And of course, caution during a hackathon. I'll update my tree
during one, but will stay away from using it, as the tree of 45
minutes ago might not be right by the time your mirror gets
its update.
--STeve Andre'
So far, I'm not finding them. I'm interested in learning more
about "150 IO error" and "442 i/o error 5", but a general list
of them would be good. I know I'm missing something...
Thanks, STeve Andre'
n better)
should be used if possible. Looking at http://openbsd.org/plus54.html shows
quite a few changes.
--STeve Andre'
the top of the list (even with the new wretched keyboards they have).
Add the UEFI horror for non-Windows users and giving exact details
becomes important.
--STeve Andre'
ps: Has anyone run OpenBSD on a System76 laptop?
AARGH! I missed that completely! I did look at following -current, but
my eyes glazed over the part that said a dhcp would hang.
OK, off to finish building the world. Thanks for the clue, all.
--STeve Andre'
On 11/04/13 19:48, Brad Smith wrote:
On 04/11/13 6:22 PM, STeve Andre&#
1.1 (00:1a:70:f8:07:38)
and thats it.
This is a thinkpad W500 running -current oct 18th that works, Nov 2-today
kernels that do not work.
Has anyone else seen this?
--STeve Andre'
OpenBSD 5.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Oct 18 22:38:59 EDT 2013
root@paladin:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/com
. It
would certainly be bad to not be able to come up with the funds for
the future net costs. I think it should be thought of as another cost,
just like new hardware.
--STeve Andre'
the marketplace.
I wonder if this might make a new section
Thoughts?
--STeve Andre'
s. I've also seen a case where a friend showed me a
disk that had one bad sector on it, and tens of thousands the
next day.
You are dancing on a volcano. I hope it doesn't erupt on you.
Make backups. Rsync is a good friend. Really.
--STeve Andre'
a port seems a reasonable
thing to do. The more ports the better. I can't speak to things
like urxvt so I don't know how much of a pain they'd be to incorporate
into OpenBSD but making them available is reasonable from a
user point of view.
--STeve Andre'
they doing so?
-jash
Um I'm writing this on an amd64 Thinkpad W500 which has a
2.8GHz core two duo. So I don't understand what you mean.
--STeve Andre'
If so, I'd like to know if you are running a recent 5.3-current. Mail me
off list so we don't pollute misc@.
Thanks...
--STeve Andre'
On 06/16/13 01:05, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and
the new -current failed shortly after running it.
Things would get *very* slow, with continuous disk activity. It was
so
On 06/16/13 01:05, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and
the new -current failed shortly after running it.
Things would get *very* slow, with continuous disk activity. It was
so
On 06/16/13 00:23, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:19 PM, STeve Andre' <mailto:and...@msu.edu>> wrote:
>
> amd64-current seems rather wounded at the moment. I've been
> running -current since June 5th with no problems. This
amd64-current seems rather wounded at the moment. I've been
running -current since June 5th with no problems. This is a W500
thinkpad.
On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and
the new -current failed shortly after running it.
Things would get *very* slow, with co
put it on another, so you can grab
the dmesg output.
--STeve Andre'
On 05/02/13 02:40, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> 2013/5/2 STeve Andre' mailto:and...@msu.edu>>
>
> Can someone point me to the proper patch for ACPI so I don't reboot
> any more? Thanks.
>
>
> Do you mean disabling acpitz(4) when it does the Wrong Thing
Can someone point me to the proper patch for ACPI so I don't reboot
any more? Thanks.
--STeve Andre'
at least 100k
rounds and and a ten character random password.
Thank you, Ted. Well said and confirmed some thoughts I'd
had. Something like this ought to go into the FAQ, perhaps
Thanks again!
--STeve Andre'
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