www.openbsd.org down?

2013-06-25 Thread Alan Cheng
I can't access www.openbsd.org right now. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.openbsd.org shows it's down.

Libressl and python2.7

2014-12-21 Thread Alan Cheng
Hi, How can I use libressl with a python2.7 programm on current? The python program use "import OpenSSL", and I tried replace "OpenSSL" with "Libtls" and "Libressl", but none can be found. Searched Misc, Tech and FAQ, didn't find anything helpful. Thanks. Alan Cheng

Re: Libressl and python2.7

2014-12-21 Thread Alan Cheng
gt;Python 2.7.8 (default, Dec 12 2014, 14:59:33) >[GCC 4.2.1 20070719 ] on openbsd5 >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import ssl > >>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION > >On 12/21/2014 11:1

Re: virtualization

2013-01-05 Thread Alan Cheng
I've been using virtualbox to run OpenBSD for over 2 years and I'm happy with it. The only issue I had is when I have more than 3 snapshots for a guest OS (OpenBSD or others) and its hard disk is 20+G, VM export seems not work. I tried VMWare Workstation and it works great too for OpenBSD, but si

Re: OpenBSD as NAS

2013-03-28 Thread Alan Cheng
I did this on a similar hardware (Atom d525 + 4G + 100M LAN + 1 SATA2 drive) a few weeks ago with OpenBSD AMD64 snapshot, but now I switched to Ubuntu due to file copy performance issue. I can get around 10MB/s on OpenBSD, but around 20MB/s with Ubuntu on the same hardware. One major difference he

Re: order site down?

2013-04-12 Thread Alan Cheng
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Stefan Olsson wrote: > Hello, > > https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order times out for me, is the order > site > down? > > Kind Regards > > I got "500 internal error" too.

CD0B-F192-76F3 : REMINDER from misc

2015-07-21 Thread Alan Cheng
accept CD0B-F192-76F3

Re: Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?

2011-12-13 Thread Alan Cheng
Lemoteo< manufacturer of FuLoong and Yeloong, does have an store on www.taobao.com (http://loogson.taobao.com/), it's the official place to buy FuLoong/YeeLoong here in China. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Rob Schmersel wrote: > On 12/14/2011 03:44 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >> The prices at

Re: Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?

2011-12-16 Thread Alan Cheng
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Miod Vallat wrote: > > If anyone, fluent in chinese, could tell me if I can indeed order a 3A > system from this site and have it shipped to western Europe, and > wouldn't mind assisting me to place an order, this would be greatly > appreciated. > > TIA, > Miod (O

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2011-12-27 Thread Alan Cheng
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Dave U. Random < anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote: > Are the Longson/Godson MIPS boxes available over the counter yet? If so > where is the best place to order one? Thanks. > > checkout http://www.tekmote.nl/

file name too long error - apache

2011-12-27 Thread Alan Cheng
7 while googling, it did help on understanding the possible root cause, but did not help in resolving it. thanks, Alan Cheng

Re: file name too long error - apache

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Cheng
> On 2011-12-28, Alan Cheng wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm trying to install an PHP web app that generates very long URLs on my > > OpenBSD 5.0 i386 snapshot. But I just keep getting "file name too long" > > errors in apache error log like below.

Re: file name too long error - apache

2012-01-01 Thread Alan Cheng
MAX */ ./include/stdio.h:193:#define L_tmpnam2048 /* XXX must be == PATH_MAX */ thanks for the help, on and off the list. Regards, Alan On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Alan Cheng wrote: > I tried php without suhosin patch and it was the same. Thanks Stuart > > > On We

Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

2012-02-06 Thread Alan Cheng
Hello list, I'm playing around with fdisk on a vmware virtual machine with 5.0 i386. Despite what's in FAQ14.4, I found I can still create disklabel partitions without a fdisk partition (no fdisk -i $disk) on a blank disk. I'm confused. So my question is: 1. Is fdisk partition a must for a NON-S

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

2012-02-07 Thread Alan Cheng
n Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Janne Johansson wrote: > 2012/2/7 Alan Cheng : > > Hello list, > > > > I'm playing around with fdisk on a vmware virtual machine with 5.0 i386. > > Despite what's in FAQ14.4, I found I can still create disklabel > partitions &g

Re: Is fdisk partition a must for a non-system disk on i386

2012-02-07 Thread Alan Cheng
> I always tell people who ask me on this that they *have to* create a fdisk > partition before creating a disklabel partition. Now I think I have a > better understanding on this. thanks all for the responses.

Re: SSH Mastery -- New book by Michal Lucas!

2012-02-17 Thread Alan Cheng
As much as I want a printed copy, I just ordered an electronic copy on smashwords.com -- the int'l shipping cost, which is usually higher than the book itself, can be put to better use, like a donation to the project. thanks ml. Alan On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Michael W. Lucas < mwlu...@bl

Re: Pre-orders for 5.1, and the new song!

2012-03-13 Thread Alan Cheng
Great! By the way, the picture on http://openbsd.org/51.html is still linked to http://openbsd.org/images/MAD.jpg. Someone might want to fix it. -Alan http://www.kdump.cn/store On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > It is that time again. I have just activated pre-orders for

xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Cheng
Hello List, So I'm using a Loongson YeeLoong netbook. I installed XFCE4 without any issues, But it will freeze after around 15 minutes, even if I do nothing on it. Starting "terminal" will cause it to freeze immediately. I can still SSH into this netbook after freeze and everything else seems to

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Cheng
fvwm works fine. So is jwm. Thanks, Alan On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Anders Trobdck wrote: > What happens if you run a different window manager like fvwm? > > Den Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:41:56 +0800 > skrev Alan Cheng : > > > Hello List, > > > > So I'

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Cheng
good to know there is a model on which xfce4 works. Mine is 8101. Bryan Irvine g<eo< >On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Alan Cheng wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> So I'm using a Loongson YeeLoong netbook. I installed XFCE4 without any >> issues, But it wil

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Cheng
I agree it's an issue with xfce4, the window manager, instead of the entire system. will check num lock key. I checked ps before but didn't find anything unusual. will give it another try. Miod Vallat g<eo< >> So I'm using a Loongson YeeLoong netbook. I installed XFCE4 without any >> issues

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-20 Thread Alan Cheng
18998): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado g<eo< >On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:41:56PM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> So I'm using a Loongson YeeLoong

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-03-22 Thread Alan Cheng
thanks. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > You have a mismatched set of packages, some depending on old X libraries > and some on new X libraries, causing a conflict. > > /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/out-of-date should show you which need > updates. > >

Re: Thank you OpenBSD

2012-04-05 Thread Alan Cheng
simple & clean, is one of the reasons I like OB ~ On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Eric S Pulley wrote: > I'd just like to take a moment to thank everyone involved in releases of > OpenBSD for having a nice clear and concise release schedule and version > system. It's fantastic. > > I use FreeB

Re: xfce4 freeze on Loongson netbook

2012-04-05 Thread Alan Cheng
With help from many on and off-list, I finally worked around the freeze issue, by doing the following: 1. went back to 5.0 release 2. in .xinitrc, use "dbus-lunch startxfce4" instead of just "startxfce4. Just in case anyone is still interested in this. Thanks again. - Alan

Re: Accounting and external logging?

2012-07-04 Thread Alan Cheng
I once used sudosh2 to record all user sessions by setting it as a login shell. It was on Solaris 10 and forgot whether it can send logs to a remote server. http://www.shortcutsolutions.net/sudosh2-shell-auditing-software/55-introduction-sudosh2.html On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Johan Ryberg

Re: Lemote Fuloong

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Cheng
the way, someone posted a line on 3A benchmark, in case anyone is interested: http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ICT%20Loongson-3A%20V0.5%20FPU%20V0.1 -Alan Cheng

kill a stale user session?

2012-08-05 Thread Alan Cheng
Hello all, I'd like to kill an stale user session, but could not find a way to do that. Seems like there is no process attached to that ttyp4 any more. It's an OpenBSD 5.1 on i386, by the way. Any advice appreciated. some output, more will be provided if necessary. #w 7:44PM up 12 days, 23:19

Re: kill a stale user session?

2012-08-05 Thread Alan Cheng
aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp3 > > > ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp4 > > do you get the sshd process id you can kill? > > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:56:00AM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'd like to kill an stale user session, but c

Re: kill a stale user session?

2012-08-05 Thread Alan Cheng
that has not been removed because your ssh session died uncleanly. > > Reboot your server cleanly and the "ghost" utmp entry will disappear. > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:00:15PM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote: > > Got nothing from "ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp4". No SSHD p

Re: Is there a kernel walkthough for newbies?

2011-07-27 Thread Alan Cheng
On 07/19/2011 10:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-07-19, Billy Wong wrote: Hi everybody, Just wondering if there are some documentations telling a newbie his whereabouts in the kernel? It doesnt need to be an extensive line-by-line or file-by-file treatment but something at a higher leve

Re: pre-orders for 5.0

2011-09-07 Thread Alan Cheng
Cool. thank you! On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I have activated pre-orders for the 5.0 release -- it is scheduled for > official release on Nov 1 on the FTP sites. As usual, we try to get > CDs in people's hands slightly a few days before that. > >http://www.openbs

Re: Why aren't you running -current?

2011-09-07 Thread Alan Cheng
same here. it's kinda a time consuming to follow it ... On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Jussi Peltola wrote: > I'm lazy.

Help on understanding mbr.S

2011-09-22 Thread Alan Cheng
Hello, Not sure if this is the right place to request help for this, but I'm reading mbr.S file (i386 arch), but could not figure out what the function is for the line that reads "1:". The code below that line is setting up statck, but why do we need this line? and there are more than one line tha

Re: Help on understanding mbr.S

2011-09-25 Thread Alan Cheng
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > What are you trying to do though? Working with x86 in real mode and dealing > with ancient PC conventions is probably not the easiest place to start. I'm trying to learn how kernel (or OS) works. I went through a couple of books on OS de

Re: Help on understanding mbr.S

2011-09-25 Thread Alan Cheng
Thanks Bryan. Your explanation makes things a lot clearer to me. As mentioned in my reply to Daniel, I not cannot figure out why "$1f" will be "". On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Brynet wrote: > One of the first things an MBR does is do a long jump from where the BIOS > loaded it. > > The

Re: OpenBSD 5.0 released Nov 1, 2011

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Cheng
Thanks! and Yeah! On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Nov 1, 2011. > > We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.0. > This is our 30th release on CD-ROM (and 31th via FTP). We remai