> You are speaking like a child. If that really is what you think, then
> do go use those other things, and this won't bother you any further.
Theo de Raadt, I agree fully. I therefore shut down the OpenBSD server
I have and remove myself from this list and wave goodbye to your games.
dc
On February 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> d...@genunix.com wrote on Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:54:34AM -0500:
>
> > I am seeing strange and questionable messages while attempting a compile
> > and then test of GNU gettext 0.18.3.2 thus :
>
I am seeing strange and questionable messages while attempting a compile
and then test of GNU gettext 0.18.3.2 thus :
../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: stpcpy() is dangerous GNU crap;
don't use it
../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: strcpy() is almost always
misused, please
On February 9, 2014 at 6:45 PM Eric Brown wrote:
> Philip Guenther writes:
> >
> >> Certainly I will need to create a mount point for a /opt filesystem <...>
> >
> > I'm not sure why you would want a /opt filesystem. In OpenBSD, ports
> > and packages install under /usr/local/
> > I suggest tryi
On February 9, 2014 at 6:36 PM Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, d...@genunix.com wrote:
> > First thing I see is that it was so very easy to install. I was almost
> > expecting to need to curse and recurse but the install was trivial. I
> > kept a log
On February 9, 2014 at 6:29 PM Eric Brown wrote:
> I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition."
http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-OpenBSD-Practical-Paranoid-published/dp/B00E6T8TYA/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391988785&sr=1-3&keywords=Absolute+OpenBSD%2C+2nd+Edition.
looks like an easy
> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\
>
> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-)
ah .. there I NOW see : Other platforms do not need or use fdisk(8).
> Hmm, you never actually came out and said it (no dmesg, ahem), but I'm
> guessing that you're running on sparc64?
Coming from the Solaris world I am clearly operating on a pile of
wrong assumptions. Imagine my surprise where I saw that things like
psrinfo and such are absent. OKay, not really
> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\
>
> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-)
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#fdisk
>
> The rest of the FAQ will help you too.
been there .. it didn't help explain this :
# fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 7508/19/248
> > Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
> > options presented and from the install log :
>
> What platform is it on actually? Do you need to care about MBR and
> fdisk(8) at all?
question one is easy :
# uname -r
5.4
# uname -m
sparc64
question two is honestly
>
> You made a mistake, it got explained to you, you acknowledged it, all
> fine. I would only add this: one of the things that is particularly
> outstanding about OpenBSD is the documentation.
Question .. where do I get all the man pages? I have some of them
but then others are absent :
# man
:: David Vasek said ::
> You do not have any MBR partitions on your drive, you used whole raw drive
> sd0c.
Actually, I didn't. The "install" process did. I didn't see any other
options presented and from the install log :
.
.
.
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' f
warning: really long post with some questions and thinking.
Hello dear OpenBSD types.
I have been using UNIX in various forms and flavours for a long time now
and could even go so far as to say a "very" long time. Therefore it just
seems so very familiar to me and yet, a bit new.
First thing I s
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