Supported USB Wireless (Access Point) for OpenBSD

2025-01-23 Thread Steve Williams
cept all risks! lol. Thanks, Steve W.

Re: nonprofit organization and openbsd name/logo usage

2025-01-22 Thread Steve Litt
spital), a provincial/territorial nonprofit (ex. >> Ontario Hospital Association), a national nonprofit (ex. Canadian >> Institute for Health Information), or something with more of an >> international mandate (ex. Doctors Without Borders)? >> >> I am just very interested in this type of influential organization. >> >> Thank you, >> Katie >> >> >> SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: wg(4) inhibits reboot

2025-01-02 Thread Steve Williams
ene/2021-10-09-openbsd-wireguard-exit.html> Additionally, I do a ifconfig wg0 down, then do an idconfig wg0 destroy to clean up. But that's not using wireguard-tools. Cheers, Steve W On January 1, 2025 9:22:03 p.m. PST, Lloyd wrote: > >Steve Williams wrote: > >> What is y

Re: wg(4) inhibits reboot

2025-01-01 Thread Steve Williams
have a package installed? What directions have you followed? Thanks, Steve W On January 1, 2025 5:03:39 p.m. PST, Lloyd wrote: >I've been doing some testing against Wireguard and was able to get the system >in a state where it was unable to reboot via the shutdown command. >Unfort

Wireguard interface "debug" - where to see?

2025-01-01 Thread Steve Williams
l never comes "up".  The GUI on the TP-Link router doesn't give any ability to troubleshoot so I was trying to poke into the OpenBSD wg interface to get more information. Like yesterday, it's likely a typo/misunderstanding of something. Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Troubleshooting OpenBSD Wireguard server & Windows Wireguard client

2024-12-31 Thread Steve Williams
On 2024-12-31 17:58, Jeremy Mates wrote: On 2024-12-31 17:37:01 -0800, Steve Williams wrote: wgaip 192.168.124.0/24 inet 192.168.126.1/24 126.1 is not really on the 124.0/24 subnet? Hi, If you were in close proximity to me, I'd buy you a beer for that one! It's so funny how th

Troubleshooting OpenBSD Wireguard server & Windows Wireguard client

2024-12-31 Thread Steve Williams
an't figure out where that debug information ends up :( Thanks, Steve W.

Re: Does OpenBSD have the equivalent of Linux Bind Mounts?

2024-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
Kenneth Gober said on Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:36:48 -0500 >On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM Steve Litt >wrote: > >> Does OpenBSD have the equivalent of Linux Bind Mounts? >> > >You can use NFS to do something like this. For example, if you have in >fstab(5): >{du

Re: OpenVPN errors after sysupgrade to 7.6

2024-11-20 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 19/11/2024 15:07, Peter Wens wrote: This is fixed in upstream (3.2.2). Check: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/ commit/7df616ba1ed4add956d0353b68fce9d865f46c82 Thanks. Working now. Steve

OpenVPN errors after sysupgrade to 7.6

2024-11-20 Thread Steve Fairhead
y-rsa. Thanks, Steve

Re: CODE on OpenBSD

2024-11-01 Thread Steve Williams
... https://ipv6.rs/tutorial/FreeBSD_Latest/Collabora_Online_Development_Edition/ Cheers, Steve W.

Re: clever grep..

2024-10-17 Thread Steve Williams
;return 301 " *.conf You want to put single quotes around the search string to eliminate the variable substitution. grep 'return 301 $host$request_uri' *.conf Note the single quote in front of the "return" and a single quote after the "uri". I hope this clarifies. Cheers, Steve W.

opensmtpd: email groups with external addresses

2024-08-14 Thread Steve Fairhead
I get an error. (Not just groups, it seems: er...@ourdomain.com fails on its own.) What is the correct way to support this? Thanks, Steve

upsdrvctl issue (nut/UPS) since sysupgrade to 7.5 (and nut update)

2024-07-26 Thread Steve Fairhead
d = "051D" productid = "0003" product = "Smart-UPS_3000 FW:UPS 06.0 / ID=1027" serial = "xxx" vendor = "American Power Conversion" bus = "000" device = "002" busport = "003" ###NOTMATCHED-YET###bcdDevice = "0001" Modbus? Really? (I tried it anyway; didn't work. No surprise.) I conclude that I've missed permissions on something (new?), as suggested by the error message. But what? Any help gratefully received. Steve

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
ou don't want it, by all means cp -Rp src dst Or, if the copy is going on your 10Mbit network, use that old tar on one end and untar on the other trick. Sorry I can't elaborate, but I use rsync. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
Anon Loli said on Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:12:57 + >On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:34:02PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> Anon Loli said on Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:17:35 + >> But wait. Unless that "other drive" is somehow hotpluggable (like >> USB), you'll need to

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
important. Get the disk image, as a file that can be loop-mounted, on at least one known good drive, and go on from there. Keep that borked DVD in a box somewhere for the next year when you finally power down the machine. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
k. >By the way it might be my imagination, but I think that the primary >USED size was bigger like 24 hours ago (more than 220G), but I might >just be seeing things ? By the way, you'll still have a challenge restoring the files from the encrypted device image of the borked drive. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-25 Thread Steve Litt
which becomes your backup preventing another disaster. 12. Take regular backups so this doesn't happen again. The preceding procedure should take you a few hours, especially given the fact that you have two computers so can be formatting and encrypting with one while backing up the other. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-24 Thread Steve Litt
s, and don't get fancy until you have a copy of your files AND a backup of the copy of those files. Then you can treat the copy like a backup and copy them back. Seriously, priorities. Prioritize getting those files back, and don't let anything complicate that task. Don't skip steps. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5 - apologies for noise

2024-04-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
My last response to Otto seems to have had a lot of noise appended. I replied via gmail, which seems to have added all sorts of things, as my own SPF/DMARC rules seem too strict, and seem to stop the mailing list relaying. Will review. Humbly, Steve

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5

2024-04-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
ct dir: rm -rf/usr/obj/* > > Then try again. Nuking /usr/obj/* did the trick. Thanks! I think I'll tweak my process to use a fresh tree checkout after a sysupgrade (as suggested by Marc Peters - thanks!). Steve On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 22:09, Steve Fairhead wrote: > Hi folks,

errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5

2024-04-22 Thread Steve Fairhead
rn Discard(this->emitRem(*T, BO)); ^ /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/clang/libclangAST/../../../llvm/clang/lib/AST/Interp/ByteCodeExprGen.cpp:1428:16: note: in instantiation of member function 'clang::interp::ByteCodeExprGen::VisitBinaryOperator' requested here templat

errors rebuilding binaries after sysupdate to 7.5

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Fairhead
of member function 'clang::interp::ByteCodeExprGen::VisitBinaryOperator' requested here template class ByteCodeExprGen; ^ What did I do wrong? Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead www: http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupdate to 7.5

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 21/04/2024 18:46, Steve Fairhead wrote: Still no problem. Then I started to rebuild the binaries: cd /usr/src make obj && make build ... but eventually ran into shedloads of errors until it bailed. The first few errors are: Sorry, missed a bit. Before kernel/binaries

Re: Bash instead of ksh

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
hat are supposed to be compatible with BSD: [*] loksh-7.3_1 Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh [-] oksh-7.4_1Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell Other Linux distros offer other ksh equivalencies. In my opinion any of the

Does anyone know whether this hardware runs OpenBSD?

2024-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
Does anyone know whether this hardware runs OpenBSD? https://www.walmart.com/ip/MeLE-Quieter3Q-Fanless-Mini-PC-N5105-Windows-11-8GB-256GB-4K-UHD-Wifi-6-Mini-Desktop-Computer-New/2177929669 Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http

Re: desire for journaled filesystem

2023-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
My main computer is Void Linux. If I had to restore from backup every time the disks became mildly messed up, all my time would be spent backing up and restoring. I remember back in the 90's and early 00's before journalling every system crash was grounds for an ulcer. I didn't know that the main

Re: OpenBSD vs Docker and Linux: Deploying Ruby on Rails in Production

2023-08-29 Thread Steve Litt
k or criticism would be greatly appreciated! How would your evaluation change if one used s6 as their init or at least as their daemon manager? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
I still haven't revert >to >all of the openbsd.org colors) I could argue either side of the "multiple colors are more distracting than helpful" topic. By the way, in the V2 left side link list, topic headings "OpenBSD Resources" and "Supporting OpenBSD" come out of the gray and into the white. This is an absolute no-no, requiring an increase in the width of the div for the left hand link list. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
hing their visual acuity. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
If this is true, I'd recommend putting the size and exact typeface in the hands of the user's browser settings, to accommodate users of all varying visual abilities and preferences. If you follow this advice, please don't change your specifying sans-serif and your already perfect lin

Re: Installing openBSD

2023-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
he EFI partition isn't all that big, so if you later don't need it, you're not wasting much room. As you know, the MBR/EFI legacy/EFI decision for the motherboard is done in the bios. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Upgrade: Unbound constraint let fw_update always fail

2023-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
an empty message to supervision-subscr...@list.skarnet.org. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Upgrade: Unbound constraint let fw_update always fail

2023-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
-i resolv.conf && echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 >> resolv.conf && chattr +i resolv.conf I also don't understand why you start unbound manually instead of from computer initialization. It sounds like if unbound started before fw_update, there would be no problem. SteveT Steve

Re: recommendations for web hosting in Canada?

2023-07-06 Thread Steve Williams
-port/) If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me. Cheers, Steve W. On 06/07/2023 10:31 p.m., Jonathan Thornburg wrote: I'm looking for a web hosting provider based in Canada. Performance isn't critical (the websites will be relatively small, static, and low-tr

smtpd: access.db?

2023-06-12 Thread Steve Fairhead
so I can't see any reason why spamd shouldn't play well with smtpd, since it's more a feature of pf.conf than Sendmail. Please yell if I'm wrong. Thanks, Steve

Re: "ticking" noise when recording audio

2023-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
te, I pasted the wrong aucat command >I ran. It should be > >$ aucat -f snd/1 -o - | aucat -i - >or >$ aucat -f snd/1 -o output.wav I played output.wav with vlc on Void Linux and heard the ticking and nothing but the ticking. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: T

Re: happy birthday theo de raadt

2023-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
Mayuresh Kathe said on Fri, 19 May 2023 08:57:18 GMT >hey theo, >wish you a very happy birthday. >hope you have an interesting year ahead. >and hope everybody out here "only" wish theo instead of >also going off at a tangent and creating a mess. >-mayuresh > Happy

Re: A messed-up fresh install due to a careless user

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
up pf.conf to let through what you need. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: PC Engines APU platform EOL

2023-04-20 Thread Steve Williams (Contractor)
x35 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 not configured "Intel Braswell SIO DMA" rev 0x35 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 not configured Full dmesg below. Cheers, Steve W. -- OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1125: Sat Mar 25 10:36:29 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/a

Re: smtpd.conf examples - quoting question/inaccuracy?

2023-04-18 Thread Steve Williams (Contractor)
Hi, Thanks for validating my thoughts.  I appreciate the time you took to reply. Cheers, Steve Williams On 4/18/2023 2:25 AM, Omar Polo wrote: On 2023/04/17 10:32:58 -0600, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I am working on making some changes to my smtpd.conf file and was looking at the man page

smtpd.conf examples - quoting question/inaccuracy?

2023-04-17 Thread Steve Williams
ith_aliases and mda_without_aliases? match for local action mda_with_aliases match from any for domain example.com action mda_without_aliases match for any action "outbound" ^^^ Similarily, the "outbound" has quotes, but the 2 "mda_with.." lines don't have quotes. Slightly confused, just wanting to understand precisely the config file. Thanks, Steve Williams

Simple PF Router/Firewall/NAT requirements: was Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

2023-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
Internet is about 26Mbit down and 3.5Mbit up. Do you think I'll need to worry about state limits, states or state-mismatches? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: OpenBSD, PHP lifecycle and PHP 8.1 broken compatibility

2023-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
Daniele Bonini said on Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:27:23 +0100 >I was trying different options like an OS, and my focus >went on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I've never been able to get FreeBSD or NetBSD or Dragonfly running. OpenBSD was easy and very stable. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 fe

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
cting hard links in a Maildir. Same apology goes to Steve Litt, whose message I've not received (saw it just now on the marc.info board). Thanks, chaps. Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead email: st...@fivetrees.com www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely) - SOLVED

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 23/01/2023 19:00, Steve Fairhead wrote: On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote: After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely) - SOLVED

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote: After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it was his Maildir (using dovecot) that was

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
.. in case using compression somehow negated the sparse files setting. Again no change - still 188 GB. Mysterious. Thanks, Steve aka Baffled of Bursledon -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service tel: (+44)(

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
Zeljko Jovanovic said on Mon, 23 Jan 2023 01:25:56 +0100 >On 22.1.23. 22:06, Steve Fairhead wrote: >> >> I'm just puzzled, and clearly missing something. Can anyone >> enlighten me as to the large (nearly 4*) discrepancy? >> >> Thanks, >>

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
32753 30977229 8% /home New machine: Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/sd0a 2130681584 1691626016 33252150484% 2679491 30930491 8% /s0 Thanks, Steve -- --

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Fairhead
nsion. Apologies for being too brief. I was using: /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete src dest There are no symlinks etc in the Maildir folder in question. I'm not sure if that's what you meant re warning. Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve

Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-22 Thread Steve Fairhead
04 GB" for both the original "49 GB" Maildir and the 188 GB copy.) I'm just puzzled, and clearly missing something. Can anyone enlighten me as to the large (nearly 4*) discrepancy? Thanks, Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhe

Crystal Kolipe

2023-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
you'll find my reply very constructive. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Disregard - Re: rpi4 7.1->7.2 upgrade - Boot time kernel relinking failing...

2022-12-10 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, Please disregard this. There was a discrepancy with some 7.1 files from the base install that needed to be updated. Cheers, Steve W. On 10/12/2022 3:55 p.m., Steve Williams wrote: Hi, TL;DR After (messy) upgrade, I'm getting the following in the relink.log: (SHA256) /bsd: OK L

rpi4 7.1->7.2 upgrade - Boot time kernel relinking failing...

2022-12-10 Thread Steve Williams
4d4 + GAPDUMMY=gapdummy.o + random_uniform 12288 + RANDOM1=5878 + random_uniform 4096 + RANDOM2=3116 + random_uniform 4096 + RANDOM3=2520 + random_uniform 4096 + RANDOM4=707 + random_uniform 4096 + RANDOM5=185 + cat + > gap.link + << __EOF__ + ld -r gap.link gapdummy.o -o gap.o Abort trap Any thoughts/advice? Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Locking network card configuration

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Litt
Theo de Raadt said on Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:35:22 -0700 >Steve Litt wrote: > >> Vitaliy Makkoveev said on Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:48:21 +0300 >> >> >> On 20 Nov 2022, at 18:06, Odd Martin Baanrud >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hel

Re: Locking network card configuration

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Litt
ance, $lan contains the network card name of the LAN one, and $wan contains the network name of the one going to the Internet. Unfortunately, this would probably mean changing a lot of existing shellscripts, but it's doable. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

embarrassing mail problem

2022-10-05 Thread Steve Fairhead
for smtpd, it's "Network error on destination MXs". I do have SPF etc setup; thought that might be it, but no. I've read that some ISPs have closed port 25. I presume that's relevant, but I simply don't know. As I said,

Re: some simple way to serve videos?

2022-10-05 Thread Steve Williams
y camera shoot jpgs and raw and it will provide the option of which to view. For videos, you can create a thumbnail from the video so the user has a bit of a clue what they might be going to watch. Good luck! Cheers, Steve Williams

Raspberry PI 4b - OpenBSD 7.1 - System won't boot with usb drive attached - Zero part of MBR?

2022-09-04 Thread Steve Williams
ING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! gpio0 at bcmgpio0: 58 pins bwfm0: address e4:5f:01:79:5d:54 umass1 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sunplus Technology Inc. USB to Serial-ATA bridge" rev 2.00/1.03 addr 9 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd2 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: serial.04fc0c25JNB0J800926Z sd2: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1953525168 sectors Problem drive, powered on after boot, them mounted and the boot continues Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Fanless amd64 sytem recommendations

2022-07-11 Thread Steve Williams
this case, I should have tried :( Thanks for the nudge. Cheers, Steve W. On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:51 AM Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2022-07-11, Steve Williams wrote: > > First, I built a Raspberry Pi 4b system with a USB wired NIC and went to > > restore my backup from Googl

Fanless amd64 sytem recommendations

2022-07-10 Thread Steve Williams
IC's on it. Thanks, Steve Williams

USB ethernet adapter?

2022-06-29 Thread Steve Williams
27;t want to have to configure all of that. This is only for a 20 Meg (bi directional) connection, so not stressing things too much. What would be a good USB to ethernet (RJ45) adapter that is supported by OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve W.

pf documentation

2022-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I need some easy beginner's pf documentation as well as some intermediate pf documentation. I plan to make an OpenBSD/pf firewall. I haven't done this in ten years, and imagine pf and the process of turning OpenBSD into a firewall have changed in that time. Thanks, SteveT

sysupgrade from -stable (was: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade)

2022-04-04 Thread Steve Fairhead
6.8 -stable, using "sysupgrade -r", through 6.9 and then 7.0 (rebuilding and rebooting after patches). They seem fine. Any gotchas with this? To put it another way, what is the recommended way of upgrading a production system with p

Re: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

2022-04-03 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 07/11/2021 10:35, Steve Fairhead wrote: That's what I'd expect, and I did indeed run sysupgrade without specific options. Nonetheless I seem to have wound up with -current when I would have expected -stable: # dmesg | grep OpenBSD OpenBSD 6.9-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Aug 2

Re: growfs on an encrypted softraid0

2022-03-24 Thread Steve Williams
7;s been resolved. tar -cf - . | (cd some_folder; tar -xvf -) Cheers, Steve W. On 24/03/2022 5:38 a.m., Leo Unglaub wrote: Hey friends, i have a 500GB drive that is fully encrypted using a softraid with raidlevel C. It works perfectly. But now the drive is getting full and i have to g

Considering a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, but a bit lost...

2022-02-01 Thread Steve Williams
  There's mention of using a small SD card as well as having a USB device for OpenBSD... this doesn't seem to apply to Pi 4 B as there are only USB ports... Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Is it true that `dd` is almost not needed?

2021-12-11 Thread Steve Litt
rmal player. ddrescue is the standard way to recover date from disks with lots of bad sectors. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Raspberry Pi 4B performance compared to APU / wireless networking?

2021-11-30 Thread Steve Williams
On 30/11/2021 12:38 a.m., Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2021-11-30, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I have an APU 2C4 running OpenBSD 7. I see that the Raspberry Pi 4B is supported by OpenBSD now and I was thinking of getting one to play with as my APU is my main server and I don't want to ta

Raspberry Pi 4B performance compared to APU / wireless networking?

2021-11-29 Thread Steve Williams
APU vs. a Raspberry Pi 4B. Does anyone have a "gut" feeling on the relative performance? Does the wireless networking work well on the Raspberry as the APU's wireless is less than optimal :) ? Thanks for any feedback. Cheers, Steve Williams

Re: Default window manager

2021-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
cent window decorations >* Can be controlled with both the pointer and the > keyboard >* Simple, minimal configuration that fits with the > rest of OpenBSD >What do you think? I'd leave well enough alone. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Kind of OT - camera/ software to run a long term timelapse camera

2021-11-16 Thread Steve Williams
g the stills together into a video! It's interesting to see ffmpeg threaded.. it's using 362% of my cpu!  It is making the CPU temperature go up though! Pretty amazing.  Thanks again! Cheers, Steve Williams On 15/11/2021 10:21 a.m., Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I have an OpenBSD se

Kind of OT - camera/ software to run a long term timelapse camera

2021-11-15 Thread Steve Williams
's just a hobby so I don't want to spend a huge amount of money on it. Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

2021-11-07 Thread Steve Fairhead
best bet is to stay with -current on this machine.) Thanks for your responses. Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

2021-11-06 Thread Steve Fairhead
'do-build') *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:74 'build') Where did I goof? Thanks, and apologies for my dumbassness, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Experience using httpd in production on busy machines?

2021-08-25 Thread STeve Andre'
twork will really, really test it. --STeve Andre' Ps: if you do find weirdness, report it! Sent with Aqua Mail for Android https://www.mobisystems.com/aqua-mail

Re: X220 thinkpad battery issue

2021-07-15 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, I have had absolutely TERRIBLE luck with replacement laptop batteries (DELL) that weren't OEM.  I had 2 different ones die shortly after the warranty period.  My Dell batteries are twice the price, but I get many years of use out of them. YMMV... Cheers, Steve W. On 15/07/2021

OpenBSD 6.9 and PHP version

2021-05-17 Thread Steve Williams
oth php and php_fpm, but other than that, how do I figure out if anything is still calling 7.3? I have a simple build, roundcubemail, piwigo, nextcloud and a few others. Thanks, Steve W.

Re: Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
scenario If you employ a dead man's switch like you describe above, you really should back up that machine every single day. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Any love for HPGL?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Fairhead
ourse). Would this be of any use/interest to the open-source community? Or is HPGL now toast? The C code is just sitting here gathering dust (as is my one remaining HP plotter). Steve

Re: 6.8 and Procmail/Formail: anyone still using them?

2021-02-15 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, You are correct! The contents of my .forward!! pcengine$ cat .forward "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f -" And yes, all my filtering is defined in my .procmailrc file. Sorry for any confusion! Cheers, Steve W. On 15/02/2021 11:30 a.m., Austin Hook wrote: Hi Steve, I wonder

Re: httpd, PHP7.4, phpIPAM, MariaDB

2021-02-09 Thread Steve Williams
t the lack of DNS resolution (hosts, resolv.conf, etc). They can be copied into the chroot folder, but then maintenance is an issue (and no, symbolic link won't work). Cheers, Steve W. On 09/02/2021 4:30 p.m., Jesse Barton wrote: Hey OpenBSD Community, I am working on getting php

Re: 6.8 and Procmail/Formail: anyone still using them?

2021-01-27 Thread Steve Williams
ing "From " when .forward (procmail)" My .procmailrc: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f -" Not sure if this is your problem or not.  But I have quite a large .procmailrc file (200 lines) that makes  a historical archive of every incoming email, filtering maillist emails, etc. Thanks, Steve W.

Re: pf: brute-force ssh defence no longer working in OpenBSD 6.8

2021-01-10 Thread Steve Fairhead
an idiot. I *always* have a default deny at the start of pf.conf. Except this time, I didn't, and didn't spot the omission depsite reviewing it, well, a lot. Oops. (I did say it'd been a while...) Thank you, Peter, for setting this old twit right. Steve -- -----

pf: brute-force ssh defence no longer working in OpenBSD 6.8

2021-01-10 Thread Steve Fairhead
ubtle change in pf behaviour which is breaking my filter? Thanks, Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Steve Williams
On 07/01/2021 1:30 p.m., Christian Weisgerber wrote: Steve Williams: I hesitate to send this because perhaps I'm just too impatient, but then again, perhaps not.  This is not critical/time sensitive. I just thought I'd check if there a problem with the current packages folder from t

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Steve Williams
Impatient it is :D Thanks for the update! Cheers, Steve W. On 07/01/2021 10:56 a.m., Patrick Wildt wrote: I committed an update to libunwind which made a major bump necessary. Maybe I should have asked ports to run with the build first, so that base and packages would be aligned. Too late

-current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Steve Williams
27;t install pulseaudio-14.0: can't resolve consolekit2-1.2.2 Couldn't install consolekit2-1.2.2 polkit-0.118 pulseaudio-14.0 spidermonkey78-78.5.0v1 desktop# Am I being too impatient? Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Protectli FW1 with Intel 82583V - Interfaces errors and latency spike issue

2021-01-03 Thread steve
at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (562f434732954c85.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b inteldrm0: 1024x768, 32bpp wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1 pckbd_enable: command error wsdisplay0: screen 0-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) O

WireGuard, Windows mobile laptop and pf.conf?

2020-12-28 Thread Steve Williams
lt gateway (egress) 3.  The packet hits the Internet and is dropped as a non-routable IP address or... Does the packet get routed out my external interface, whereby the NAT rule would apply? match out on egress inet from !(egress:network) to any nat-to (egress:0) I'm just a little bit lost

Re: Wireguard example

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, Thanks for the man page pointer.  I cannot believe I didn't think to look there.  A bit embarrassed now. Cheers, Steve W. On 23/12/2020 1:16 p.m., Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-12-23, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, With OpenBSD 6.8 installed, I'm investigating switching fr

Wireguard example

2020-12-23 Thread Steve Williams
;Allowed IP's" described in glossary in the "DESCRIPTION" section.  With a /32, that's a hostname.  But in a roadwarrior setup, I won't know what the remote IP is..  so I'm a bit confused here. And then finally, what changes need to be made to pf.conf to allow this traffic to flow?  Is that what the "wgport" field is about? Thanks, Steve W.

Re: CIDR vs aliases with ifconfig/hostname.if

2020-12-03 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 03/12/2020 13:20, Steve Fairhead wrote: There's also this, which I wrote to help a student (my daughter) understand netmasks and CIDR notation: http://www.fivetrees.com/netmasks/netmasks.php It's kinda fun to watch the bit patterns move around... I can see from my logs tha

Re: CIDR vs aliases with ifconfig/hostname.if

2020-12-03 Thread Steve Fairhead
on. There's also this, which I wrote to help a student (my daughter) understand netmasks and CIDR notation: http://www.fivetrees.com/netmasks/netmasks.php It's kinda fun to watch the bit patterns move around... Steve -- ------ St

Re: Protectli FW1 with Intel 82583V - Interfaces errors and latency spike issue

2020-08-16 Thread Steve Woodward
Were you able to resolve this issue? > On Jun 10, 2020, at 15:59, obs...@loopw.com wrote: > > I have a small fleet of protectli firewalls, all of them with em nics. Only > the units i’ve upgraded to 6.7 are showing interface errors, where 6.6 is > definitely not. > > >> On Jun 8, 2020, at 5:

Re: How many IPs can I block before taking a performance hit?

2020-08-12 Thread Steve Williams
Bytes: 0  ]     Out/Match:   [ Packets: 0  Bytes: 0  ]     Out/Pass:    [ Packets: 0  Bytes: 0  ]     Out/XPass:   [ Packets: 0  Bytes: 0  ] Cheers, Steve W. On 12/08

Re: Unbound Configuration

2020-07-10 Thread Steve Litt
ng the instructions below that section. SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Disabling OpenBSD Login Prompt

2020-06-10 Thread Steve Williams
On 10/06/2020 10:31 a.m., Aisha Tammy wrote: On 6/10/20 10:46 AM, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, Do you have the proper ioctls to set baud rate, parity, start bits, stop bits so that the serial port is configured correctly? What about flow control?  rts/cts, xon/xoff. Dealing with a serial port

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