Re: Difficulties with the sh manual page

2017-05-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On May 25, 2017 9:47:08 AM GMT+02:00, Theo Buehler wrote: >On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Choose a display name >wrote: >> >> > I don't quite understand the description of the PPID in the sh >manual. >> > >> > >PPID T

Re: siteXX.tgz with /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys results in empty file

2017-05-30 Thread Alexander Hall
On May 30, 2017 3:37:05 AM GMT+02:00, Theo Buehler wrote: >From: Theo Buehler >Cc: >Bcc: >Subject: Fwd: siteXX.tgz with /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys results >in empty > file >Reply-To: >In-Reply-To: > > >On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 07:16:06PM -0400, trondd wrote: >> On Mon, May 29, 2017 5:47

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-11 Thread Alexander Hall
>With a name like SOUL_OF_ROOT_CANAL I wonder what he is trying to FWIW, that's not the name he's been using. So far he hasn't proven to be anything but an ass though. Cheers, Alexander

Re: Gestão de Contratos - Elaboração e Administração

2017-06-21 Thread Alexander Hall
I call it spam, which occasionally slips through. Not much point in blocking and I doubt the sender is a subscriber. Business as usual, nothing to see here. /Alexander On June 21, 2017 7:09:57 PM GMT+02:00, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >Please delete this spammer. This is publicity in my mother tongue.

Re: Openbsd6.1 as firewall can access the internet but the LAN behind it cannot

2017-06-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On June 21, 2017 6:01:10 PM GMT+02:00, Josh Grosse wrote: >On 2017-06-21 11:36, lu jian wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have an i386 machine with two network interfaces, one of which >> connect to the uplink ISP via pppoe, the other connects to the WAN >> port of a wireless router to which all LAN machine

Re: vmctl: connect: /var/run/vmd.sock: No such file or directory

2017-07-23 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 22, 2017 8:42:48 PM GMT+02:00, G wrote: >thanks! it worked! It could be of public interest exactly *what* worked. Hardware change? BIOS settings? /Alexander >On 07/22/17 20:54, Josh Grosse wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 08:38:56PM +0300, G wrote: >>> I get the following messages

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-30 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 31, 2017 1:06:06 AM GMT+02:00, jungle boogie wrote: >Hello, > > >I have some cwm questions for you folks. > >cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. >I thought I made the change correctly. > >$ cat .xsession > > > >/usr/X11R6/bin/cwm Shell waits here for cwm to

Re: starting cwm and terminal font

2017-07-31 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 31, 2017 8:37:07 AM GMT+02:00, jungle boogie wrote: >Thus said Jungle Boogie on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:06:06 -0700 >> Hello, >> >> >> I have some cwm questions for you folks. >> >> cwm is launching, but it's not setting my background to gray. >> I thought I made the change correctly. >>

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2017-08-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 2, 2017 10:03:13 AM GMT+02:00, Mike Burns wrote: >On 2017-08-02 13.21.44 +0930, Radoslav Mirza wrote: >> Are there any resources that point to where I can begin to help with >> the project? > >- Use OpenBSD to get your work done. When something breaks, fix it and > send in a patch. W

Re: Random boot seed cron job for unclean shutdowns?

2017-08-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 4, 2017 9:03:17 PM GMT+02:00, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >I've noticed disk checks on a colleagues system many times and will ask >why on Monday and advise that whilst OpenBSD is rock solid it should >still be shutdown gracefully. > >I am sure this has already been considered but I shall

Re: Clarification on ksh(1) nohup mechanism

2017-08-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 27, 2017 6:28:12 PM GMT+02:00, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: >Folks, > >On Sat 12/08/2017 18:36, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: >>Dear misc@ readers, >> >>I'm lost with the subject... From the man page I see that, differently > >>from standard ksh, OpenBSD implementation by default d

Re: httpd.conf - access denied error whilst trying to auto index a location

2017-09-14 Thread Alexander Hall
On September 15, 2017 4:06:37 AM GMT+02:00, "tec...@protonmail.com" wrote: >Hello, > >I'm using 6.1 + all updates (system and packages) > >I am trying to list a particular directory exactly as shown within the >https://www.jp.openbsd.org/papers/httpd-slides-asiabsdcon2015.pdf >presentation: > >

Re: boot> does not "time out" after failed PXE boot

2017-10-03 Thread Alexander Hall
Unless I'm mistaken, Claus refers to things that happen prior to the boot prompt appearing the first time. Once the boot prompt does up, I'd expect at least one attempt. Claus, do you by any chance have anything fancy in /etc/boot.conf? /Alexander On October 2, 2017 8:30:29 PM GMT+02:00, The

Re: Resize partitions?

2017-10-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On October 4, 2017 6:58:52 PM GMT+02:00, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > /.../ And I >don't know OpenBSD enough to know how "dangerous" it is to use >"pkg_delete -a". I used similar functions with linux-distributions and >they wanted to remove a tool like git because nothing depended on it. It w

Re: repeated set of messages about usb mouse

2018-05-01 Thread Alexander Hall
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:07:00PM +, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello misc, > > I am (on 6.3, amd64) repeatedly getting these messages every now and then: Not knowning about the exact details, I know we had issues (in RHEL6) at work with some mice continually detaching and attaching. I believe i

Re: SoftRAID disk size

2018-05-01 Thread Alexander Hall
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 02:36:49PM +0200, Håkon Robbestad Gylterud wrote: > Hi, > > I have two 5TB disks, which I want to set up as mirrored using RAID 1 > through softraid(4). But after attaching the disk using bioctl(8), the > disk appears with 2TB, not 5TB. I can imagine you have some old soft

Re: Viewport for man.openbsd.org -- readability on phones

2018-05-18 Thread Alexander Hall
On May 18, 2018 4:09:58 AM GMT+02:00, Ken M wrote: >In all honesty I wasn't thinking of the suggestion as a cautious one >because of >bloat. I think bootstrap minified and compressed is like 20k. I mean >how big is >the entire man page collection? Well, bloat isn't only measured in bits and byt

Re: Keeping clear out of history

2018-07-31 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 31, 2018 9:09:05 AM GMT+02:00, Solene Rapenne wrote: >Ken M wrote: >> OK, so confession 1, I am a long time bash user >> confession 2 all of my ksh experience is on solaris >> >> However in a when in Rome moment I am realizing how much I like ksh >in openbsd, >> but one minor thing. I

Re: sshfs permission problem

2018-08-03 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 3, 2018 3:44:07 PM GMT+02:00, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >On 3 August 2018 at 15:30, Maurice McCarthy >wrote: >> On 03/08/2018, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >>> doas sshfs syk...@pc109.fzu.cz: /home/ruda/mnt/fzu -o uid=1000 -o >gid=1000 >> >> Leave out the 'doas' ? > >Afaik, no, you can't. >Any

Re: SuperMicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F

2018-08-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 25, 2018 1:59:55 PM GMT+02:00, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > wrote: > >> This vendor addresses hardware & firmware faults like the other >enterprise vendors, they DON'T past year two. BIOS and BMC firmwares >are not updated after this even with the long term lifetime products, >you are o

Re: Base httpd and addons like OpenSMTPD extras in ports?

2018-08-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 28, 2018 5:17:11 AM GMT+02:00, Chris Bennett wrote: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:08:46AM +, jungle Boogie wrote: >> Chris, >> >> What are httpd add-ons? > >Umm, base http did not have rewrites before, now it does. >That could have been does as an addon instead. I'm really not su

Re: network connectivity problem (ifconfig, arp, ...)

2018-09-03 Thread Alexander Hall
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:58:49PM +0200, Vincent wrote: > Hello stefan, > > Hum... it could be similar situations. > > I've found an article combining the "join" and the trunk: > https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2018-08-30-openbsd-trunk.html For me, it's as simple as this: ==> /etc/hostname.em0

Re: Add $daemon_nice to rc.subr

2018-09-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Thomas de Grivel wrote: > why ? well all interactive process get a quarter range nice priority > advance compared to all daemon tasks, at least for a laptop > environment it really makes sense. sndiod and ntpd are unaffected by > this change. > > you're ri

Re: serial for softraid devices

2018-09-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:04:15PM +, Jiri B. wrote: > Hi, > > I have couple of softraid devices available in a box and when I do upgrade > I always have to check and not to make mistake which softraid device > I want to use as root disk. FWIW, the upgrade won't proceed until you pick a disk

Re: Resize keydisk (softraid) partition...

2018-09-07 Thread Alexander Hall
On September 7, 2018 12:16:03 PM GMT+02:00, "Zbyszek Żółkiewski" wrote: >Hi, > >So i did something stupid: during creation of keydisk >(https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid), i was in hurry and I >allocated whole 14GB partition a for keydisk… >Now i would like to shrink it somehow,

Re: Clarification about mfs/tmpfs on /tmp

2018-10-09 Thread Alexander Hall
On October 9, 2018 6:17:05 PM GMT+02:00, r...@tutanota.com wrote: >I recall having to do this as well (in fact, as mentioned earlier >in this thread): > >> doas chmod 777 /tmp > >If I understood Stuart Henderson correctly, then > >> This one is easy, simply set the appropriate permissions >> on

Re: strange dmesg

2015-10-15 Thread Alexander Hall
On October 15, 2015 8:32:43 AM GMT+02:00, Stefan Wollny wrote: >Am 10/15/15 um 03:23 schrieb Stuart Henderson: >>> kvm_mkdb(31159): syscall 16 >> .. >>> > kvm_mkdb(31287): syscall 16 >>> > bzip2(6396): syscall 5 >>> > smtpctl(24717): syscall 5 >>> > smtpctl(4120): syscall 5 >> I think these parti

Re: Spotify client for OpenBSD

2015-11-16 Thread Alexander Hall
There is, or was, a project called "despotify". On November 16, 2015 3:20:55 PM GMT+01:00, Chris Mailer wrote: >Is there any Spotify client for OpenBSD? I tried Spotify support in >clementine, which doesnt seem to work since the spotify blob seems to >rely on Linux libs. I even tried to get it

Re: Empty MFS on root

2015-12-08 Thread Alexander Hall
On December 8, 2015 4:21:16 PM GMT+01:00, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +, Tati Chevron wrote: > >> Currently, it's possible, (as root), to do something like: >> >> # mount_mfs -s 1g swap / >> >> which succeeds, and mounts the empty filesystem as the root >filesyst

Re: Empty MFS on root

2015-12-09 Thread Alexander Hall
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 09:02:25AM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote: > 2015-12-08 21:18 GMT+01:00 Alexander Hall : > > > On December 8, 2015 4:21:16 PM GMT+01:00, Otto Moerbeek > > wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +, Tati Chevron wrote: > > >

Re: NOT POSSIBLE: Fully encrypted system with keydisk

2015-12-11 Thread Alexander Hall
On December 11, 2015 1:27:52 AM GMT+01:00, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2015-12-10, Stefan Wollny wrote: >> YES: I did 'bioctl -C force -c C -l /dev/sd0d -k /dev/sd1d softraid0' >> YES: I did again 'sh ./MAKEDEV all' to catch the newly created sd2 > >In the above step, you have run yourself out

Re: i386 packages - snapshot 23/12/2015

2015-12-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On December 24, 2015 4:45:06 PM GMT+01:00, "soko.tica" wrote: >Hello, > >I've succesfully installed today the latest i386 snapshot on a usb >flash >disk (on amd64 box), but the packages (e.g. links+, xfe ) report >unresolved >dependencies and bad major. This is strange, since it is supposed that

Re: i386 packages - snapshot 23/12/2015

2015-12-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:19:22PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-12-25, Alexander Hall wrote: > > On December 24, 2015 4:45:06 PM GMT+01:00, "soko.tica" > > wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I've succesfully installed today the lates

Re: i386 packages - snapshot 23/12/2015

2015-12-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 01:08:47PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/12/26 13:45, Alexander Hall wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 12:19:22PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On 2015-12-25, Alexander Hall wrote: > > > > On December 24, 2015 4:

Re: Softraid Keydisk reboot loop

2015-12-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:41:34PM +0100, Thomas Bohl wrote: > Hello, > > I updated from 5.8-stabel to current today. (First just an update, than > because of the problem a fresh installation.) On 5.8-stabel I had a > working softraid boot setup with a USB-Stick as keydisk. > > Now, if the keydis

Re: if I were to make a pkg-add diff

2015-12-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 02:52:16PM -0600, Luke Small wrote: > You could do that if you want to have noobs connect to one of the mirrors > into perpituty that brings down the server like a ddos every release! Are you aware of the magic that ftplist.cgi does? Stuart is. /Alexander > > I think the

Re: drops to ddb when disconnecting from serial line

2015-12-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 09:32:45PM +, Tati Chevron wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 07:04:10PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >On 2015-12-27, Ted Unangst wrote: > >>LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > >>>So I guess it didn't panic, but just dropped to ddb from console, > >>>because ddb.console was set to

Re: sudo and globbing

2016-01-08 Thread Alexander Hall
On January 8, 2016 11:52:32 AM GMT+01:00, Jiri B wrote: >On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Alexey Kurinnij wrote: >> And what about difference? Explain please. >> >> > > I discovered an article about sudo and globbing[1] and >> > > there's difference how it does work on Linux and OpenBSD.

Re: Upgrade from snapshot to release.

2016-02-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On February 10, 2016 7:10:17 PM GMT+01:00, Raf Czlonka wrote: > You can not run -current (or a snapshot), then decide you are > living too dangerously, and step back to -stable. As stated, you can step *forward* to -stable, though. I want to emphasize that. /Alexander

Re: LibertyBSD, recently forked from OpenBSD, has been deblobbed as much as its creator could see?

2016-02-19 Thread Alexander Hall
On February 19, 2016 3:42:08 PM GMT+01:00, Jorge Luis wrote: >Is true that in LibertyBSD, you can get all of the benefits of OpenBSD, >while being sure that there are no non-free blobs lurking in the depths >of >your system? No. The firmware is either already on the hardware itself already or g

Re: FAQ14: Growing disk partitions: fdisk

2017-11-03 Thread Alexander Hall
On November 3, 2017 8:41:20 AM GMT+01:00, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 08:07:37AM +0100, Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD" >wrote: > >> >> Le 11/03/17 à 07:27, Otto Moerbeek a écrit : >> (...) >> > >> > My guess is that if you use duids in fstab then you should call it >by >> > that

Re: AuthorizedKeyCommand ldap

2017-12-11 Thread Alexander Hall
On 12/11/17 23:49, Dan Becker wrote: I am reading a blog proposing to use the AuthorizedKeyCommand to hook into another authentication mechanism by calling a shell script https://blog.heckel.xyz/2015/05/04/openssh-authorizedkeyscommand-with-fingerprint/ Do I have a valid concern in thinking th

Re: Hotplug USB teethering using an Android phone

2018-01-15 Thread Alexander Hall
On January 15, 2018 9:10:12 AM GMT+01:00, "Jean-Michel Pouré" wrote: > >Dear all, > >First, I would like to thank you all for the hard work over OpenBSD >over the years. > >My question is about USB teethering using an Android phone. I would >like to mount urdnis0 and dhcp interface as soon as

Re: Re-compute bsd checksum

2018-01-16 Thread Alexander Hall
On January 16, 2018 9:35:56 PM GMT+01:00, Sterling Archer wrote: >On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Thuban wrote: >> I disabled `ulpt` in the kernel using `config` to use an USB-printer. >> >> Now, at reboot, I see "kernel relinking failed" message. >> How to recreate the new checksum? I can't

Re: root autologin?

2018-02-06 Thread Alexander Hall
On February 6, 2018 7:57:36 PM GMT+01:00, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: >I have not X and I want to resolve my problem with command prompt only. >Isn't possible? There's plenty of ways to achieve that. But unless you manage to explain why you think that would be a good thing, few people will h

Re: booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument

2018-03-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On March 9, 2018 12:55:31 AM GMT+01:00, Stefan Wollny wrote: >Am 09.03.2018 um 00:09 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> Am 08.03.2018 um 23:25 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >>> Am 08.03.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >>> Am 08.03.2018 um 17:44 schrieb Stefan Wollny: > Gesendet von meinem BlackBe

Re: Fwd: Re: booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument

2018-03-11 Thread Alexander Hall
Stefan Wollny wrote: Am 11.03.2018 um 01:13 schrieb Alexander Hall: On March 9, 2018 12:55:31 AM GMT+01:00, Stefan Wollny wrote: Am 09.03.2018 um 00:09 schrieb Stefan Wollny: Am 08.03.2018 um 23:25 schrieb Stefan Wollny: Am 08.03.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Stefan Wollny: Am 08.03.2018 um 17

Re: Potential ksh bug?

2020-11-17 Thread Alexander Hall
On November 17, 2020 5:04:19 AM GMT+01:00, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: >Hello, > >I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if it's just a pdksh thing, but I >stumbled upon some interesting behaviour when I was tinkering around >with quoting and using a poor mans array: > >test=$(cat <<'__EOT' ># I'll c

Re: Reinstall to upgrade

2020-11-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On November 25, 2020 11:09:02 PM GMT+01:00, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2020-11-25, Manuel Giraud wrote: >> I have one (somewhat) related question left: is possible to capture >the >> output of pkg_delete -an in a file? I tried the following (without >> luck): >>$ pkg_delete -an >

Re: Reinstall to upgrade

2020-11-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On November 26, 2020 10:23:33 AM GMT+01:00, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2020/11/25 23:56, Alexander Hall wrote: >> >> >> On November 25, 2020 11:09:02 PM GMT+01:00, Stuart Henderson > wrote: >> >On 2020-11-25, Manuel Giraud wrote: >> >> I

Re: Git Daemon rc Script Not Stopping

2021-01-05 Thread Alexander Hall
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 03:19:29PM -0500, ben wrote: > >The original version of this script installed by the port contains > >rc_reload=NO and also uses a very different pexp. > > I checked out the original rc script, and it works. Why didn't my pexp var > work > for the script? The term should m

Re: Git Daemon rc Script Not Stopping

2021-01-06 Thread Alexander Hall
It was merely a hunch. Thinking of it, I believe there is some magic to cope with that. Never mind my likely red herring. /Alexander On January 6, 2021 3:49:46 PM GMT+01:00, ben wrote: >>Without looking too far, check what pgrep gives. My first suspicion is >>the initial space in your 'daemon

Re: WireGuard, keepalive time doubled?

2021-04-15 Thread Alexander Hall
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 01:14:47PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > Hello! > > I was experimenting with wireguard keepalive and noticed that > keepalive packets seems to be sent on double the time that I have > set which I find a bit unintuitive. > ... > > Is this to be expected or am I missing s

Re: time keeping fallback mechanics during reboot on octeon

2024-01-14 Thread Alexander Hall
I don't have mine (EdgeRouter lite) running anymore, but IIRC, I had a cron job poking the root fs to"resolve" this. Sth like "mkdir /bump && rmdir /bump && sync". /Alexander On January 12, 2024 2:35:47 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Gut wrote: >Hi, > >Could somebody point me to documentation or tel

Re: doas and args matching

2022-07-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 26, 2022 1:48:24 PM GMT+02:00, Alexis wrote: > >Chris Narkiewicz writes: > >> Is it possible to match command arguments against an expression in >> doas.conf? >> >> I'd like to allow user to run wsconsctl display.brightness=<0-100> and >> the only solution i found so far is to explici

Re: Blocking ARP packet for specific MAC

2022-07-27 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 27, 2022 9:23:36 AM GMT+02:00, Cristian Danila wrote: >[UPDATE] >The only possible solution that I have found for now is that >I have to create an vether interface, add it to the bridge and use >the filtered vether interface as main. So I would deduce(but >maybe I am wrong) that a sing

Re: doas and args matching

2022-07-28 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 28, 2022 5:09:54 AM GMT+02:00, Alexis wrote: > >Alexander Hall writes: > >> Better yet, the wrapper could be allowed with no argument restrictions >> and just do >> >> wsconsctl "display.brightness=$1" >> >> or even (may

Re: doas and args matching

2022-07-29 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 28, 2022 9:06:51 PM GMT+02:00, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: >On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 03:08:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: >> Just leaving out the "args ..." from the config should accomplish that. > >It would allow the user to set any wscons parameters, whi

Re: Switching from tcsh to ksh and Aliases exportation

2022-07-30 Thread Alexander Hall
On July 30, 2022 9:18:34 AM GMT+02:00, Federico Giannici wrote: >For historical reasons I always used the tcsh shell for my personal uses. Now >I'd like to switch to the system sh (actually ksh), but I have a problem. > >Usually, on the servers I manage, I switch to root with "su -m", so I ca

Re: Xterm copy-paste not happening on OpenBSD 7.1 i386.

2022-08-04 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 4, 2022 5:42:13 PM GMT+02:00, Brian Durant wrote: > > >On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, Lucas wrote: > >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > I have installed OpenBSD 7.1 i386 on my Lenovo T60 and am experiencing a >> > couple of issues. The first is related to the following addition that I >> > made to

Re: Xterm copy-paste not happening on OpenBSD 7.1 i386.

2022-08-05 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 5, 2022 8:32:25 AM GMT+02:00, Brian Durant wrote: > > >On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, Alexander Hall wrote: > >> >> >> On August 4, 2022 5:42:13 PM GMT+02:00, Brian Durant >> wrote: >> > >> > >> >On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, Lucas

Re: obsd install initial boot process slowed down

2023-01-06 Thread Alexander Hall
Hi Sylvain, [Cc: tech@ removed. Do not cross post.] While Nick and Stuart has assisted you with the question per se, I'd like to point out a totally non-technical issue that at least caused me a little confusion from the beginning: On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 07:13:23AM +0100, Sylvain Saboua wrote:

Re: OpenBSD on Thinkpad X13s ARM-based laptop

2023-06-02 Thread Alexander Hall
Search the archives for "support of thinkpad arm". This was asked just this Tuesday. /Alexander On June 1, 2023 10:46:33 PM GMT+02:00, "Tito Mari Francis Escaño" wrote: >Hi everyone, >Has anyone tried to install and run OpenBSD on ARM-based Thinkpad X13s? >What are the challenges on making Ope

Re: newfs /usr/local

2023-06-19 Thread Alexander Hall
On June 19, 2023 8:57:34 PM GMT+02:00, "Pau A.S." wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to newfs /usr/local > >I have copied the contents to a different partition as root. > >My guess is that I would have to bring up the system in single user mode. > >My problem is that when I do that, /usr/local doe

Re: who is using obsd

2013-05-13 Thread Alexander Hall
Flame bait. Not even funny. Salim Shaw wrote: >OpenBSD is a server/router/network service OS, it's not designed for >desktops. OpenBSD is the pre-eminent platform for Firewalling, IPsec, >IPv6. >Trying to shove OpenBSD onto the desktop is the ultimate case of square > >peg/round hole. > > > >On

Re: From the military propaganda department

2013-05-28 Thread Alexander Hall
This ain't a blog nor your personal diary. What's the point and purpose of these rants, really? Saying OpenBSD rules? Sucks? What? /Alexander On 05/28/13 07:14, Justin Lindberg wrote: Richard Thornton: Not sorry, not a dude, I do not drink alcohol, and I do not associate with people like you.

Re: softdep flag lost when updating mountpoint

2013-05-28 Thread Alexander Hall
On 05/28/13 19:54, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 19:37, Patrik Lundin wrote: However, once I update it to read-only again the softdep flag is removed: # mount -ur /usr/src /dev/sd0i on /usr/src type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only) The softdep flag is cleared when you change

Re: Failure to upgrade 5.2 to 5.3 with softraid

2013-06-02 Thread Alexander Hall
You did exactly what you were supposed to do, but installboot was missing the underlying device nodes for the softraid device. I just committed a diff for this. Thanks for pointing it out. /Alexander On 05/15/13 09:56, tichodr...@free.fr wrote: Hello everyone. I failed to upgrade my server f

Re: Error Report

2013-06-11 Thread Alexander Hall
staticsafe wrote: >On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 06:46:05PM +0300, Umut Berk Alkan wrote: >> I don't know where to send this problem, can someone redirect this to >correct >> mailing list please? >> >> Attachment: WP_20130611_003.jpg >> >> Windows Phone'umdan g?nderildi >> >> [demime 1.01d removed a

Re: www.openbsd.org down?

2013-06-25 Thread Alexander Hall
Can someone please test from Burundi, Johannesburg and Minsk? Because that would probably also be really really really interesting. Luis Coronado wrote: >Down from Costa Rica as well. > >-luis > > >On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Jon Metzman >wrote: > >> I can't access the website but it is r

Re: www.openbsd.org down?

2013-06-25 Thread Alexander Hall
Ok, so maybe my level of irony wasn't obvious. I was not serious. I cannot imagine having reports from all over saying "doesn't work from here either" would help, and I got annoyed by all the noise. Anyway, it now seems up (from Sweden!) ;-), so lets just all drop this, mmkay? /Alexander > Can s

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/05/13 09:04, eric oyen wrote: Sighted assistance. It simply means that I am blind (as in I wear prosthetic eyes and can't see a thing). I can use most of my equipment here with either some screen reader access or braille. Unfortunately, that can't be said for installation and first time con

Re: days of the month

2013-07-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/13/13 00:06, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: "Max Power" writes: You must have done something wrong: I have not done anything. Hey, you must have done *something*. Else you wouldn't be reporting about it. You just don't want to tell us *exactly* what you've done. The system is the

Re: IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s

2013-07-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/12/13 23:50, Nathan Goings wrote: I have a disk -- IIRC, Seagate Barracuda 160gb 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0GB/s dmesg: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152626MB, 312579695 sectors wd0 (pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 However, when I run `dd if

Re: IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s

2013-07-13 Thread Alexander Hall
I surrender and yet again realize i have boring hardware. :-P Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2013-07-13, Nick Holland wrote: >> A few years ago, after someone said basically the same thing >(actually, >> I think it was more emphatic -- as in, "it is impossible to see gains >> beyond ..."), I played

Re: "respawn"-like behaviour ?

2013-07-17 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/17/13 03:45, Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! I used to run crashy daemons under "respawn" inittab capability on Linux. Is there similar thing on OpenBSD ? No, OpenBSD does not have anything similar to crashy daemons. ;-) But if we had (like in ports or so), I'd just set up a cron job. /Alex

Re: "respawn"-like behaviour ?

2013-07-17 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/17/13 11:16, Alexander Hall wrote: On 07/17/13 03:45, Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! I used to run crashy daemons under "respawn" inittab capability on Linux. Is there similar thing on OpenBSD ? No, OpenBSD does not have anything similar to crashy daemons. ;-) But if we had (lik

Re: 5.4 fw_update firmware path

2013-07-19 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/19/13 18:01, Mihai Popescu wrote: Hello, The path for firmware files used by fw_update needs to be updated for 5.4, otherwise a manual install is necesary. Thank you. Are you suggesting there are more non-free firmwares that we don't automagically fetch? Please elaborate.

Re: 5.4 fw_update firmware path

2013-07-19 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/19/13 19:22, Mihai Popescu wrote: Please elaborate. I'm sorry for the quick suggestion. Here are the details... I was installing from snapshots and the fw_update was run at first boot. I was using bge0 for network connection in a hope that the firmware for iwi0 will be installed. I got a

Re: dhcp address in /etc/hosts

2013-07-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/21/13 09:02, Jan Stary wrote: On Jul 20 18:34:50, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: On Jul 20 22:14:52, h...@stare.cz wrote: I believe I have bitched about this before, but I have come to it again with new install. If I use [dhcp] to configure an interface during an install, the ephemeral D

Re: dhcp address in /etc/hosts

2013-07-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/21/13 09:24, Alexander Hall wrote: Since we by default allow dhclient to rewrite (and thus a dhcp server to dictate) our hostname, I'm wondering if a 'lookup hostname file bind' in resolv.conf could be useful... But I expect being flamed for it. :-) Thinking of it, what a

Re: 4k-sector NTFS can't be mounted

2013-07-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/21/13 23:14, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:46:08PM +0200, David Vasek wrote: Hello, I guess this one is something expected. Nope, not expected. A 4k-sector NTFS filesystem can't be mounted as of 5.3/i386. At least one

Re: Install drivers

2013-08-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/12/13 18:49, Peter Hessler wrote: > this isn't a lesser operating system. all such drivers are included out > of the box. > > the only thing that may be missing, is the various firmware files. > Check out how fw_update(8) works to fetch those. This diff lets you pinpoint specific drivers,

Re: Install drivers

2013-08-13 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/13/13 08:52, David Coppa wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Alexander Hall > wrote: >> On 08/12/13 18:49, Peter Hessler wrote: >>> this isn't a lesser operating system. all such drivers are >>> included out of the box. >>> >>&g

Re: Patch for a little install.sub bug

2013-08-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/25/13 01:39, Loïc BLOT wrote: In fact i'm not tired, it's logical :) Here is my patched question: ask_which "speed" "should $_d use" \ "9600 19200 38400 57600 115200" $CSPEED $pxe_console_speed Show: [auto] instead if [9600] (auto is value of pxe_console_speed). If i do a echo "spee

Re: Patch for a little install.sub bug

2013-08-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/25/13 10:18, Alexander Hall wrote: On 08/25/13 01:39, Loïc BLOT wrote: A better patch could be: ask_which "speed" "should $_d use" \ "9600 19200 38400 57600 115200" ${CSPEED:-""} That would be "9600 19200 38400 57600 115200"

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-25 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/25/13 13:56, Denis Maros wrote: Hello @misc, I could not resist more againist the strength of OpenBSD and PF so switched to this great OS from Linux at my network servers. Also i have to admit that OpenSmtpd is my next target. For the first, thanks to all who contributed these technologies

Re: Compiling BOINC/Seti@Home for OpenBSD 5.3 Sparc64

2013-08-29 Thread Alexander Hall
On 08/29/13 22:11, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Richard Thornton wrote: My Sun Blade 100, has a fresh install of 5.3, and its very good, much better than 5.1; XFCE is very stable and R is much better than prior ports. you guys did a great job! Now this computer sits running actively, with not

Re: submit.cf & sendmail.cf configuration

2013-08-29 Thread Alexander Hall
rich...@thornton.net wrote: >I have a simple OpenBSD 5.3 Sparc 64 box, which runs very well, given >it >is 12+ years old. I would like to set it up so I could send email from >it, and receive email, since I do have a personal domain name,which I >could point to my house IP, if desired. The documen

Re: Some general security questions

2013-09-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Petrus wrote: >I got the subject of the message I just sent wrong. >My apologies; it was intended to be some general >questions. I simply hit reply to thread, as a means >of automatically providing the address in the send >field. Please don't. You implicitely add various reference headers fuckin

Re: yubikey offline login

2013-09-09 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/09/13 16:48, alex wrote: Hi! Is anybody know about possibility local (offline) login to OpenBSD? I found this article http://www.h-ein.de/projekte/yubikey-login-auth-module-openbsd.html (i know about yubikey for ssh auth : http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130616112437 Thanks,

Re: yubikey offline login

2013-09-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/09/13 21:58, Alexander Hall wrote: On 09/09/13 16:48, alex wrote: Hi! Is anybody know about possibility local (offline) login to OpenBSD? I found this article http://www.h-ein.de/projekte/yubikey-login-auth-module-openbsd.html (i know about yubikey for ssh auth : http://undeadly.org/cgi

Re: yubikey offline login

2013-09-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/10/13 10:25, Alexander Hall wrote: On 09/09/13 21:58, Alexander Hall wrote: On 09/09/13 16:48, alex wrote: Hi! Is anybody know about possibility local (offline) login to OpenBSD? I found this article http://www.h-ein.de/projekte/yubikey-login-auth-module-openbsd.html (i know about

Re: sudo configuration !ttytickets?

2013-09-14 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/12/13 02:59, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, I've noticed that the sudo on OpenBSD seems to have !ttytickets set by default. In other words, I authenticate sudo once on, say, ttyp4, and all of my login sessions on all my other ttyp* have authenticated to sudo. This, well, kind of surprised me

Re: How does one use adduser in OpenBSD (stuck in"Enter username[]" loop)?

2013-09-14 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and then `adduser jwalton sudo`. What did you expect from that command? And why? Now I'm stuck a loop of: Enter username[]: When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I try

Re: How does one use adduser in OpenBSD (stuck in"Enter username[]" loop)?

2013-09-15 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/15/13 01:01, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and then `adduser jwalton sudo`. What did you expect from that command? And why?

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/16/13 17:36, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:58PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Raimo Niskanen wrote: A resembling application is the Git version control system that is based on the assumption that all content blobs can be uniquely decribed by their 128-bit SHA1

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Alexander Hall
> Alexander Hall wrote: > >> Leaving the internals of rsync aside (of which I assume much but *know* >> little), if I consider two 4TB blobs to be equal just because they have >> the same SHA1 hash, I can easily see myself ending up in one of these >> conditions (b

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-18 Thread Alexander Hall
Marc already anwered all your questions. Let me quote it. Fuck off /Alexander On 09/18/13 23:59, hru...@gmail.com wrote: What was the probability? Rodrigo. Eric Furman wrote: Troll, the question has been answered. You are an entertaining troll, though. It is highly amusing seeing someo

Re: [OT] quotes speedup sed

2013-10-01 Thread Alexander Hall
Without the quotes you get it all on a single line. A 45k line can be tough on a regex. /Alexander j...@wxcvbn.org wrote: >Denis Fondras writes: > >> Hello all, > >Hi, > >> This afternoon I stumbled upon a weirdness I can't explain. I hope >some >> misc-guru can give a clue. >> >> I was parsing

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