ident message in /var/log/daemon

I get the following messages in /var/log/daemon Mar 17 07:41:29 b03ls15le inetd[29887]: ident/tcp: bind: Address already in use Mar 17 07:51:29 b03ls15le inetd[29887]: ident/tcp6: bind: Address already in use it is a -current a week or two old, i386 Should I care about this? What does it mea

Re: recent hardware with older OpenBSD versions

Nick Holland wrote: With Windows, Solaris or Linux, you hunt down drivers when new hardware comes out. OpenBSD makes you do some work, too -- upgrade to a new release. My experience has been that upgrading is easier than hunting down the new drivers. I think that this fact is a pretty good

Re: Problem after upgrade 4.5 to 4.6: ERR M

Uwe Dippel wrote: Having done upgrades from 4.0 onwards, on a OpenBSD-only server (amd64), this time something must have gone wrong: Despite of the (remote, I have no physical access, via serial console) 'successful' upgrade (no error messages), when I was asked to reboot, I did, as always. A

Help with Huawei E160 modem

OK, we are trying to set up Internet service with a company in Guatemala that uses a Huawei E160 USB modem connected to a switch. They are having some difficulties since it is OpenBSD (-current from about 2 months ago). There is a laptop with a much older -current and a desktop with OpenBSD on

Re: aucat: : can't open device

Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:24:58AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: sun_setpar: 0: trying pars = 48000/16/6 sun_setpar: couldn't set linear encoding aucat: : can't open device blargh. sb(4) can't handle 48kHz rates, and this old driver is stupid. "we don't match exactl

Re: the characters "5~" apears on xterm after switching to X

Jesus Sanchez wrote: Hi, using 4.6 as a fresh install. This is not really important but one machine prints that (5~) on the actual xterm or aterm o whatever active window after switching from any 'non-mouse' terminal to X with the Ctrl-Alt-F5 key combination. The machine works fine and I've neve

Re: DDOS on Apache / PF countermeasures

mowsen wrote: Hej volks! I'm experiencing some DDOS attacks against my wordpress blog wich runs on a PIII/600 MHz/256 MB Ram/100 MBit machine lately. The attacker commands approx. 500 different IPs to my blog that all request the same post. I tuned apache to only accept 20 concurrent clients

Re: An idea for a very simple port knocking with pf

Marcus M|lb|sch wrote: Hello all, it occured to me that with a combination of some pass rules and adding the address via overload to a sort of "whitelist" tables you can implement a simple portknocking; using nothing but pf. The rules would look like this: pass in on $ext_if inet proto t

Re: OT: marco@ misc@ behavior Re: whiteboard over the net

Frans Haarman wrote: Here's my top posting! load averages: 0.32, 0.16, 0.1015:39:59 26 processes: 25 idle, 1 on processor CPU states: 1.9% user, 0.0% nice, 0.3% system, 6.2% interrupt, 91.5% idle Memory: Real: 128M/338M act/tot Free: 662M Swap: 0K/2052M used/tot PID USERNAME PRI

Re: feature request: fallback boot image

Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, it would be great to be able to specify a fallback kernel in case booting a new kernel fails - esp. if one needs to work on a remote site w/o hands-on support. TIA! Kind regards, --Toni++ If you are talking about a new install over an old one and get an ERR M, th

Re: feature request: fallback boot image

Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Fri, 02.04.2010 at 06:50:00 -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: If you are talking about an upgrade then cp bsd bsd.backup before install should do it. Then use boot> boot /bsd.backup after a failed upgrade. I thought about the case where the new kernel wo

Re: Read-only disk tester?

STeve Andre' wrote: Is there a port which does non-destructive reads of a disk? I've been looking in the ports tree and openports.se but don't see any. I have two 320G disks that I need to verify are good before Monday and was thinking that a random read test would be better than just walk

Re: scrotwm with xrandr dual head

LEVAI Daniel wrote: Hi! I'm using scrotwm on a laptop with a monitor connected. Scrotwm detects the dual head setup, but acts funny regarding the screens. First of all when scrotwm starts, it starts on 1:1 and 2:2 screens on the two displays respectively. Maybe this is intentional, but I think t

Re: crontab "last day of the month"

Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:18:22PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: | > Come on man .. 'can of worms' ?! It's not even a real challenge. | | you left off the year... So you think it's my problem ? I showed two possible options, both very workable (and easily extensible to add

Re: Installing modules from CPAN

stuff was tied into it that was beyond my ability to work with. Admittedly, this isn't the case very often. But, I like the idea of creating my own package instead of just using CPAN. I hadn't thought of that. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan a

Re: Installing modules from CPAN

Lars Nooden wrote: On 4/7/10 2:42 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: More serious question about ports. What about needing a newer version of a perl module than is in packages? The first step would be to move to -current, because -stable must keep the versions it is published with, and check the ports

Re: Attaching to a USB keyboard

Jens Teglhus Mxller wrote: Hi I have bought a USB RFID reader which attaches as a USB keyboard (part two in my home access project). It works as expected and prints out the ID of a RFID brick on the current terminal. Is it possible for a process to consume all outp

Re: OpenBSD culture?

Zachary Uram wrote: As a long time Linux user I will soon try out OpenBSD, I have been reading the list emails and contacted 1 OpenBSD top person who was very rude. There is some of the "RTFM" or "get lost" attitude in Linux, but if a questioner seems sincere there is usually a certain level of f

Re: Thunderbird 3 still wont send even after new profile

On 04/15/10 12:00, ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: I am going to continue this on ports, my mistake earlier I created a new profile, but I still can't get thunderbird 3 to accept my self-signed certificate for sendmail TLS. It asks for me to confirm that the certificate should be used as a

Re: multi-card X: hardware neeeded

On 04/18/10 14:40, Mark Kettenis wrote: Hi Folks, I'm working on makeing multi-card X work again on OpenBSD. I'm making progress, but in order to finish this project, I could really use some hardware. What I need is a PCI graphics card (genuine PCI, not AGP or PCIe) that is well supported by X

Re: Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

On 04/19/10 07:13, Brad Tilley wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07 +0100, "Peter Kay (Syllopsium)" wrote: OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris does for the moment, although code to fix that has been committed. I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD mul

Re: Source Overview

On 04/19/10 13:02, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: I know this has been discussed before, yet I call for your attention. This post seems like a genuine attempt on getting pointers on starting hacking in OpenBsd. I remember doing the same a while ago. How about having a very simple per-developer(

Re: Source Overview

On 04/20/10 06:38, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:21:43AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:58:02 +0800 Artur Grabowski wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: I also know he (as every developer) is busy with more important thi

Re: Source Overview

On 04/22/10 06:44, Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:40:42PM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: In the end all that matters is that someone gets up from his comfy couch, hacks something up and sends a diff around and the only way that is going to happen is because of egoistical reasons.

Re: Texas Tea (Testing)

I am glad to see someone else agreeing that rm-ing xenocara and getting it again is a good choice. I had to build a few debugging versions and I found the instructions for getting it clean to use again extremely confusing. I was concerned I would get it wrong and mess everything new up. Testing

Re: Texas Tea (Testing)

On 04/25/10 20:37, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:55:35 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:27:26PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: I am glad to see someone else agreeing that rm-ing xenocara and getting it again is a good choice. I had to build a few debugging

Re: confused about updating -current

A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and could "run" with that particular -current as long as they liked by adding packages as needed by building with that ports snapshot, rather than using a later port

Re: /usr directory: a system or user place?

On 05/01/10 15:52, Harrell wrote: Hi list, Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question. In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as "Contains the majority of user utilities and applications". In http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/delooze/teaching/IC221/Lectures/LN02/class02.html they say t

Re: partitions

On 05/02/10 05:23, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Cantabile writes: I'm new to openbsd. Sorry if the question is obvious to you but I couldn't find the answer in the docs. So here it is: what is the reason why the install suggests so many different partitions? Why not simply / and /home for examp

Re: partitions

On 05/02/10 20:26, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: Hey, at least throw in that /dev/sd0g on /usr/X11R6 type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0h on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0j on /usr/obj type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0i on /usr

Re: partitions

On 05/02/10 21:20, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: Well, /usr/ports is updated, but never needs to be erased unless really messed up by user error That's true of /usr/src too though, right? Here is a guess: Perhaps this is true for xen

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

On 05/05/10 22:08, Daniel Ouellet wrote: A long way from my first sinclair Z80 with thermal printer and all. Talk about expensive toys! (;> My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, yep with thermal printer, that massive memory upgrade module on the back and its cool tape recorder storage syst

Re: lpd printing

On 05/07/10 16:59, Frank Bax wrote: I've never printed from my OpenBSD desktop. I've used lpd on Windows to print to HP printers with "HP JetDirect". I read the recent thread about lpd/postscript. Will I be able to use lpd to print to any "HP JetDirect" printer? I'm looking at getting an HP 15

Re: openbsd web hosting

On 05/10/10 12:19, Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello, I need some infos about web hosting companies that offer openbsd based web hosting, please. The other requests are apache, php, postgresql and maybe mysql, decent monthly fee ( 5 - 10 euro /month). I got some google hits, but I trust some sugge

Building X is failing

I get the following after a fresh checkout make bootstrap # make bootstrap "Makefile", line 14: Malformed conditional (${COMPILER_VERSION:L:Mgcc[34]*}) "Makefile", line 14: Missing dependency operator Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Not sure what to do about this. -- A human being

Re: Building X is failing

On 05/19/10 10:11, Chris Bennett wrote: I get the following after a fresh checkout make bootstrap # make bootstrap "Makefile", line 14: Malformed conditional (${COMPILER_VERSION:L:Mgcc[34]*}) "Makefile", line 14: Missing dependency operator Fatal errors encountered -- canno

Re: Your web development opinions

n to every customer that I do not trust external CA's and that I am only using https for encryption of passwords and paid content. No one has complained. Some have told me that I am risking a man-in-the-middle attack. Perhaps. But I see little reason to trust the CA man-at-the-end! Chris Bennett

Re: OT: Risks of CAs (Re: Your web development opinions)

to my users. If they care, they are now educated, if not, what can you do? Chris Bennett

Re: OT: Risks of CAs (Re: Your web development opinions)

> http://www.startssl.com/ > Why pay if you can have one for free trusted by every major browser? > Sure, the "class 2" ones are pay-for, but the free one works as well as > a self-signed one (except for the "CA sells out like paypal" idea, which > I admit is possible, though, in the US, the govern

Re: Removing secondary groups with usermod -G

a big deal. I mostly use the script myself to change many html/css files to reflect a site or server wide change. Very fast and easy. And very simple to automate. Chris Bennett

Re: Remotely installing OpenBSD on dedicated server

I use http://corenetworks.net/ They offer OpenBSD as an option, including installation. They also offer IP KVM so that you can do the install yourself if you want to. Only requires a browser with Java (firefox35) Chris Bennett

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

works just fine. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

Same here, except that only certain pages trigger crash. Plain pages seem to run just fine. Is repeatable. I was assuming that it was a few packages I hadn't yet upgraded due to poor internet right now. Glad to see it isn't just here. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

I have now tested konqueror and it is NOT crashing on the sites that caused xxxterm and ff4 to crash. BUt I only did a quick test. My Dad used konqueror ok yesterday without problems. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

scsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on wd0a (1effc3e46946b8f4.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b uath0 at uhub2 port 4 "Atheros Communications Inc WG111T" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 5 uath0 detached uath0 at uhub2 port 4 "Atheros Communications Inc WG111T" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 5 uath0: MAC/BBP AR5523, RF AR2112, address 00:14:6c:e6:0d:5b Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

available. #1 0x0ebb758c in _thread_kern_sig_undefer () at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/uthread/uthread_kern.c:1008 curthread = Variable "curthread" is not available. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

mismatch, relink your program I will try the newer version in ports. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

I built latest version of dconf. Still get same xxxterm.core and firefoxen problem. Chris Bennett

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:13:29PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Too much conspiracy for the kernel! > People keep telling me that these browsers are working fine, but I just don't see it! :)

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:32:33PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > Too much conspiracy for the kernel! > > > > > > > People keep telling me that these browsers are working fine, but I just > > don't see it! > > :) > > Aha! this is where I get to say: "works for me!" > > OpenBSD 4.9-curren

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

do built vs downloaded packages interact? Sounds like I can run into trouble. I have noted that when I transfer a package cache to another computer that things do NOT seem to work out perfectly and what works on one, partially fails on another. Chris Bennett

Re: Seems OpenBSD isn't absolutely alone in it's quest, atleast on embedded systems.

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:36:03AM -0400, Eric Furman wrote: > The answer is too write all OS code in Machine language for each > Architecture! YEA! We're waiting for your code! > I'm super duper excited! :-0 Perhaps he should go work on this project: BareMetal OS BareMetal is a 64-bi

Re: Xorg freeze the system completely on amd64, recent snapshot (radeon)

Me too, i386. X works great but black screen on exiting X OR changing to another console with Ctrl Alt F2 Will post some more details when I get a copy of dmesg. Chris Bennett

Re: Xorg freeze the system completely on amd64, recent snapshot (radeon)

abling DRI and see if that fixes it. Chris Bennett

Re: OpenBSD as a laptop OS

Jean-Francois wrote: Hello All, I am thinking about changing my OS to OpenBSD on my laptop, which is standard x86. It would be used as internet browser, mail client, multimedia, pciture & video , etc ... My question is simple, is OpenBSD convenient enough for a daily usage ? What are the exp

Re: pfctl: Cannot allocate memory and spamd-setup -bd

ed up hours before the "world" back then. No regrets having brought that old thing with me! :) Chris Bennett

Re: pfctl: Cannot allocate memory and spamd-setup -bd

really shouldn't be carrying it around in the streets. I still have that antique, right here, working alongside a "real" computer. But anyway, thanks for answering the question clearly Chris Bennett

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

Adam M. Dutko wrote: when ford sold the pinto with the 'exploding' gas tank, it just paid money out to settle claims after many people were burned to death. although i don't believe there is a precedent for it, possibly until now, many software companies have been doing the same thing: selling cr

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

Marco Peereboom wrote: Microsoft spends $10B on R&D. That is nearly the ENTIRE budget of NASA. They are the classic example of organizations that are completely out of control and rely entirely on some process that is "good enough". Anyone who has written code that directly interacts with the

Re: Anyone still using a SCSI scanner (i.e., ss(4))?

to give model number. Chris Bennett

Re: PTY allocation error

On 07/12/10 14:10, bofh wrote: And what is your opinion of people who run sshd on non-standard poorts? I recently had to smack one of my guys for that momentary brilliance. OK, this is the second time I've seen someone say this. What is the difference? Is there some magical property with port

Re: PTY allocation error

On 07/12/10 15:01, J Sisson wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac< lscarne...@veltrac.com.br> wrote: I ONLY run the sshd that are allowed to connect from the Internet in non-standard ports. Anyone that matters to know knows on witch port the sshd is running. Well

Re: Has anyone any idea what this is...

On 07/12/10 20:44, Neal Hogan wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:47 PM, GSO wrote: I've a base install, with only firefox on top, and with broadband ADSL with a vpn provider also,. The cursor starts jumping around text boxes in firefox, within a box, but also between boxes, typically from a pass

Re: PTY allocation error

On 07/12/10 21:13, bofh wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote: Well, them and anyone who knows how to half-assed run nmap or any other numerous service fingerprinting utilities. Even with sshd moved, when I finally decided to block port 22, my bandwidth u

Re: Secret key in the packet filter.

On 07/13/10 10:50, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Bryan wrote: really? the devs have a "backdoor" in PF? you're an idiot... Of course we do. Don't try to find it. We have implemented a Langford hack. If you read the source, the backdoor will jump over and inscribe itself directly into your

How did problem with Vim, X cause user to be logged off?

I just wrote a script to check if from a terminal or not, ugly hack, but works. But how can a problem with X result in logging a user off? I have seen many X crashes from different program problems, but they never logged me off before. Sure, X quit, but I was still able to restart X. What is

Re: How did problem with Vim, X cause user to be logged off?

On 07/15/10 09:34, Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:18:47AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: I just wrote a script to check if from a terminal or not, ugly hack, but works. But how can a problem with X result in logging a user off? I have seen many X crashes from different program

Re: How did problem with Vim, X cause user to be logged off?

On 07/15/10 10:07, Marco Peereboom wrote: So, X takes over after console and only returns to console unless really screwed up? So not being logged off is a "less bad" crash? This could be a stray ctrl-d on your stdin. Thanks, that sounds reasonable with what was described as possible proble

Re: force image size converting possible with convert command ?

On 07/17/10 08:08, Aaron Lewis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to convert a image , which will make a change on its size. %> convert -resize 1024x768 my-1280x800.png my-1024x768.png Like 1280x800 to 1024x768 , i will end up with a si

Re: Segmentation Faults shortly after install, somehow random

andreas wrote: Hello All, I am new to this list and OpenBSD. I installed OpenBSD 4.7 i386 from CD and FTP. So which one is it? ftp or CD? First I overseen Sorftraid, so I used CCD to mirror my hard disks. What are your bios settings for the disks? After short use of the fresh install

Re: Segmentation Faults shortly after install, somehow random

andreas wrote: Am 20.07.2010 14:03, schrieb Chris Bennett: andreas wrote: Hello All, I am new to this list and OpenBSD. I installed OpenBSD 4.7 i386 from CD and FTP. So which one is it? ftp or CD? I used CD for boot and prepare, install from Swiss ftp mirror. First I overseen Sorftraid

Re: OpenBSD users.

Right now I wander back and forth between Austin, TX and Guatemala City, Guatemala

Re: CGI : Shell Script

On 07/24/10 09:21, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: On Sat 24/07/10 19:41, "Gilles Chehade" gil...@poolp.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 03:53:36PM +0200, Gilles Chehade wrote: You dont want to do that... Mayuresh Kathe the.in> a C)critB : Has anyone experimented with using a set of shell scripts

Re: mount ffs as msdos, system hangs

frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i have just managed to "mount" an ffs partition as msdos. the the system promptly dies. $ sudo fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 120/255/63 [1935360 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C

Re: mount ffs as msdos, system hangs

frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i have just managed to "mount" an ffs partition as msdos. the the system promptly dies. $ sudo fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 120/255/63 [1935360 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C

Re: OpenBSD Training

On 07/28/10 04:44, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: Hi, I have th following aim : Master OpenBSD, pass BSDP(OpenBSD)exam when this one will be available. I have good knowledege on TCP/IP;PF use Is there a good training center in French or English language? (I will be ready to buy a plane ticket.) W

Re: OpenBSD Training

On 07/28/10 07:49, Robert wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:50:19 -0600 Chris Bennett wrote: My advice is to setup a server with some websites (doesn't matter if the are "real" or bogus) and learn to deal with the problems that pop-up. Be sure to get an ISP with remote IP-KVM so

[OT] New fund raising item, dream inspired

I just woke up from a dream where I saw the new fund raising item. Apparently it was an embedded firewall, and a can opener. It had a list of PF settings on a knob. The only PF setting I could remember was 'turnaround', which seems oddly appropriate for a can opener Chris

Re: Suggest, Recomendations and advices

I can basically leave my server alone now, except for dealing with Apache access log now and then. Updating has now become very easy! Chris Bennett

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

st S-video to RCA adapters are not wired to maintain color signal. These can be bought, however and are cheap. Not sure this is relevant to your case, but could really help someone else having problems. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butch

Re: Gnash

h a live video I can nix it if I don't like it after a few seconds. Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take order

Re: shutdown and reboot sometimes ignored?

saying it multiple times, and literally after minutes, and on otherwise idle boxen. Ideas about what I can do to pinpoint the problem, are most welcome! If you are running PostgreSQL, and aren't running as root, you will need to use sudo shutdown -r now or /etc/rc.shutdown will hang Chr

Re: Gnash

Predrag Punosevac wrote: Does anybody use it happily? I used in the past to read RIA novosti news web-site. It became useless about 6-7 months ago when they upgraded to newer version of Flash. Gnash is in my experience Flash 7 compatible at best. On the another hand I am really impressed

Re: Connect to wireless Access Point according to MAC address

t the bssid manually, normally this is done automatically Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, coopera

Re: x11 install

/X11R6 not found. How should be installed an insufficient thing? Which version of OpenBSD are you using? Did you install the X packages? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance

Re: x11 install

sophy life wrote: Thank you for the answer. 4.5 use of the version of OpenBSD. X packages is not installed from the beginning. You will need to install the X packages See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#AddFileSet Just don't choose to add anything other than the x* stuff and all wi

Re: Dual boot stable and current

owever, I would be curious if when doing a one disk situation, would it be ok to use the same swap and tmp and home for both versions? Chris Bennett -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance ac

SATA CDRW/DVDRW

Do OpenBSD 4.6 and/or current support SATA for CD/DVD? I checked and chipset is supported I also turned of RAID mode, didn't stop crashes (which could be something else anyway) Thanks -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a bui

Replacing wrong and discontinued packages

-0.17p1-a4 when I want psutils-0.17p1-letter. Both of these involve many packages. Do I have to delete the whole bunch and re-add or will something like: pkg_add -r -F update -F updatedepends psutils-0.17p1-letter work then finish with normal pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends Chris Bennett

sound problems with -current

ort=0x1 record.avail_ports=0x7 record.seek=0 record.samples=0 record.eof=0 record.pause=0 record.error=0 record.waiting=0 record.open=1 record.active=0 record.buffer_size=65536 record.block_size=8192 record.errors=0 I have: pgrep -x aucat || aucat -l in .profile Thanks Chris Bennett -- A huma

Re: sound problems with -current

Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: After upgrading to the latest -current as of Dec 9, I no longer have any control of sound output except within mplayer or cdio cdplay, etc. This makes it impossible to listen to a list of mp3s (or

Re: sound problems with -current

Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: After upgrading to the latest -current as of Dec 9, I no longer have any control of sound output except within mplayer or cdio cdplay, etc. have you EVER had volume control with Audigy cards? I think

Re: ComixWall terminated

SD in *any* way. Again, what do you people not get?? I've been following this thread with great interest, both sides had a point, but language was ugly. This makes it all very clear. I thought Theo was right, but this puts the problem right and clear. I agree 100% with this. Chris Ben

Re: diff on running an application from xterm or graphical menu ?

Remco wrote: Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello all, I've run in some problem with gnome-mplayer. Basicaly, there is a difference in functioning if I run this application from xterm or graphical menu ( i use fbpanel menu). From xterm it works fine, it plays the movie. From graphical menu, it d

Re: vi in /bin

Brad Tilley wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: "Brad" == Brad Tilley writes: Brad> I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more Brad> comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping someone Brad> use

Re: vi in /bin

Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:47:18PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping someone use ed remotely, who has never used ed, when I myself don't use it

Re: vi in /bin

ropers wrote: Matthew Szudzik wrote: I would like to learn to use sed, however, I did not find that the man page was sufficient as a tutorial. I was not able to find any sed tutorials that were consistent with OpenBSD's variation. 2009/12/18 Chris Bennett : Does anyone know of an

Re: Web Browsers

Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, nixlists wrote: Hi. People on this list are security-conscious. I wonder what browsers they use? What browsers do you consider more secure than others? Granted, they're all full of all kinds of holes, but what do you do to tighten their security?

Re: devede-3.15.0 problem

nealHogan wrote: Hello, The following is the output I get from starting devede and choosing any one of the disc type options on the initial screen. I just updated to the latest amd64 snaps and pkgs (17 Dec). montagueneal# devede DeVeDe 3.15.0 Using package-installed files /home/neal/ Entro

Re: devede-3.15.0 problem

Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Chris Bennett wrote: I have yet to get devede to work on i386. It works for me, and it always did. How can I figure out what the problem is? I don't mind command line use. It looks to me that perhaps devede just uses a collecti

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