Re: openBSD newbie: how to display INSTALL. during install

2009-02-11 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
On 2/10/09, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > Josh Grosse escribis: > O.o... another computer with screen near?? > Yep! right in front of me ;-) > belive me, print out some pages would affect the subsistence of > trees, the paper factories use controlated environments with fast grown > trees species to don

Re: openBSD newbie: how to display INSTALL. during install

2009-02-10 Thread Jesus Sanchez
Josh Grosse escribis: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:52:08 +0200, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote Is there a way to have the installation notes handy apart from a "dead tree" printout? One can have the notes present in machine-readable form. Handy? No. The ramdisk kernel operates in single-user

Re: openBSD newbie: how to display INSTALL. during install

2009-02-10 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:52:08 +0200, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote > Is there a way to have the installation notes handy apart from a > "dead tree" printout? One can have the notes present in machine-readable form. Handy? No. The ramdisk kernel operates in single-user mode, so there is no alternate

openBSD newbie: how to display INSTALL. during install

2009-02-10 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
Hi, I am new to *BSD and I am trying to instal openBSD 4.4 on an amd64 platform. I tried to find out how to have INSTALL.amd64 displayed somewhere during installation (like opening a second console and using less) but it seems that only one console is available during install. Is there a way to h

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Nick Holland
misiu wrote: Hello all, I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I thought give it a nother try. Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and later Openvpn. It

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:02:04PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:21:54PM +0200, misiu wrote: > > > Tony Abernethy schrieb: > > > > > > >The problem with a changed root is that everything you will ever > > > >need to access

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Or you could run mod_perl Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:21:54PM +0200, misiu wrote: > > Tony Abernethy schrieb: > > > > >The problem with a changed root is that everything you will ever > > >need to access needs to be inside this changed root. > > >All the

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:21:54PM +0200, misiu wrote: > Tony Abernethy schrieb: > > >The problem with a changed root is that everything you will ever > >need to access needs to be inside this changed root. > >All the libriaries, etc etc --- that's right, another copy. > > > >One advantage of Ope

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Christian Pedaschus
misiu wrote: Tony Abernethy schrieb: The problem with a changed root is that everything you will ever need to access needs to be inside this changed root. All the libriaries, etc etc --- that's right, another copy. One advantage of OpenBSD is that they actually understand security. (Most tha

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread misiu
Tony Abernethy schrieb: The problem with a changed root is that everything you will ever need to access needs to be inside this changed root. All the libriaries, etc etc --- that's right, another copy. One advantage of OpenBSD is that they actually understand security. (Most that tries to pass

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Tony Abernethy
misiu wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know > what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I > thought give it a nother try. > Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. > Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and lat

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
misiu wrote: Hello all, I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I thought give it a nother try. Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and later Openvpn. It

OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread misiu
Hello all, I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I thought give it a nother try. Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and later Openvpn. It did not work

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Nick Bender wrote: > Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing > McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? I just won't say that the number of people working on it is inversely proportional to the number of people

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Nick Bender wrote: >> > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? >> no, it's a disaster. >Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing >McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? Different project focuses it seems.

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Bender
> > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? > > no, it's a disaster. > Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? -N

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:43:15PM -0500, Andrew Atrens wrote: >> man mount >> look for noatime >Got it, thanks :) >Interesting I hadn't considered it before, huh, I wonder why it isn't the >default, >historical reasons I suppose. I guess, because you lose functionality over it. Yes,

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/17/06, Andrew Atrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [a little paranoid, are we?] > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? no, it's a disaster.

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Hall wrote: > Andrew Atrens wrote: > >> ... >> And finally one last question that applies to both FFS and LFS - file >> access/creation/modification metadata updates. Specifically I'm thinking >> of atime's. Is there any way to switch off at

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Alexander Hall
Andrew Atrens wrote: ... And finally one last question that applies to both FFS and LFS - file access/creation/modification metadata updates. Specifically I'm thinking of atime's. Is there any way to switch off atime updates ? They don't add much value for me, and I'm worried they might unduly ag

openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I'm working on a embedded project and have been cycling through some tradeoffs wrt using cf cards as disks. I know these devices support wear-leveling, but I'm not sure how this could work w

Re: MTU Problem / OpenBSD Newbie

2005-06-09 Thread Stephen Marley
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:46:18AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ifconfig gre0 mtu 1376 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ifconfig gre0 mtu 1400 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ifconfig gre0 mtu 1450 > ifconfi

MTU Problem / OpenBSD Newbie

2005-06-08 Thread pug
Hello, it's my first time OpenBSD problem: I setup a network configuration with IPsec and a GRE tunnel. There is an IPsec connection between a local loopback interface (lo1) and a remote loopback interface (dummy0 on a Linux box). The gre interface uses these loopbacks as tunnel src/dest. Followin