Re: Interest in POWER platform?

2017-05-25 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On May 25, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: > >> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:05 PM, valerij zaporogeci >> wrote: >> 2017-05-25 3:46 GMT+03:00, Chris Cappuccio : >>> >>> OpenBSD is moving ahead on armv7, arm64, and mips64 (loongson, octeon, sgi) >>> as viable alternatives to i386/amd64.

Re: OpenBSD fuzzy testing

2017-08-23 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hi there. > On Aug 23, 2017, at 3:56 AM, Infoomatic wrote: > > Hi, > As nowadays I read quite a lot of projects being fuzzy tested or > vulnerabilities detected by fuzzy testing, I am quite curious: what is the > status of OpenBSD kernel/base system concerning fuzzy testing? yes fuzzers have

Re: cc: dereference NULL pointer inside switch brackets and no exception

2018-09-03 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Denis Buga wrote: > int main() > { > char * ptr = NULL; > switch( *ptr ) > { > default: > fprintf(stderr, > > "where is exception ? default label exist for" > "exclusive value, not for non-existent ! " > > "it can be security issue, when dereferencing NULL " > "in s

Re: OpenBSD FAQ - Using S/Key - hash algorithm selection

2020-01-11 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On Jan 11, 2020, at 3:24 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: > > While perusing the OpenBSD FAQ I came across the S/Key login system > and noticed that there are three possible hashing algorithms to choose > from: MD5, SHA1, and RIPEMD-160. > > Instinctively I wouldn't want to use any of these. RI

Re: FreeBSD daemon(8)-like command for OpenBSD

2020-01-30 Thread Daniel Dickman
 >> On Jan 30, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Patrick Kristiansen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, at 21:10, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Hi Patrick, >> >> Patrick Kristiansen wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 09:05:11PM +0100: >> >>> The process I need to run is written in Clojure and thus runs on the >>> Java Vir

Re: SNI PCD-5T - MP operation on OpenBSD 6.3-current

2018-03-29 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hi Frank — > I got this nice old "workstation" from the mid 90ies with dual P54C > processors and i430NX chipset and want to operate it in MP mode with > OpenBSD. Unfortunately this doesn't work as expected currently. Are you able to describe "doesn't work as expected" a bit more? Does it hang a

Re: radeondrm failure on amd64 but not on i386?

2018-12-14 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On Dec 14, 2018, at 5:41 PM, Andy Bradford > wrote: > > Thus said Allan Streib on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:09:06 -0500: > >> Stillhavingthis issueon-currentas ofDec10. >> machdep.allowaperture=2 does get me past this, but am seeing >> weird behavior, some

Re: radeondrm failure on amd64 but not on i386?

2018-12-20 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On Dec 19, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Andy Bradford > wrote: > > Thus said Daniel Dickman on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:45:11 -0500: > >> Try previous releases of OpenBSD/amd64 to check if radeondrm ever >> worked for you on amd64. > > That was a fruitful sugges

Re: Linux equivalent of ifstated?

2019-04-18 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Paul Suh wrote: > > Folks, > > Sorry to pollute with with non-OpenBSD but it's sorta related. I need to work > on a Linux system and I need the functionality of ifstated(8), in particular > with respect to arbitrary tests as well as interface state. The ifupd

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > Web browsers scare me: they're huge pieces of code, un-audited, they > have embedded Turing-complete interpreters, they live in a horribly > imsecure environment, [...snip...] > > Are there other practical ways of securing an OpenBSD w

Re: Why doesn't 'l' in ed(1) show a trailing '$'?

2014-11-23 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Ezequiel Garz?n wrote: >> Hello, everyone. I've noticed that in OpenBSD ed(1) doesn't mark the >> end of each line with a '$' when the list command 'l' is invoked. Is >> this a deliberate deviation f

Re: A christmassy related issue with traceroute

2014-12-24 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Mike wrote: > Hi All, > > While performing an install and catching up with some Christmas spirited > news, I heard that someone had put a Christmas song in DNS records for our > enjoyment. > > Alas, I was disappointed to see that the OpenBSD traceroute seems to mun

Re: Clarification on patching 5.5-release...

2015-01-17 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hi Andrew, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Andrew Lester wrote: > Hello misc, > > I've got some simple questions on the patch process which I couldn't find > answers to on > my own. Currently I am running 5.5-RELEASE, and sitting on my 5.6 disc set > waiting to > upgrade. I want to make sure I

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Monday, December 22, 2014, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 00:53, Henrique Lengler wrote: > > On 2014-12-23 00:50, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: > >> Have you tried installing something other than OpenBSD since you ran > >> into this issue? > > > > Since I ran into this issue I can't

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2015-02-07 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > > On Monday, December 22, 2014, Ted Unangst wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 00:53, Henrique Lengler wrote: >> > On 2014-12-23 00:50, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: >> >> Have you tried install

Re: Real time programming in OpenBSD

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Dickman
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Matti Karnaattu wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to dedicate CPU core to process? This thread may or may not be useful to read over: http://marc.info/?t=13588288892&r=1&w=1 > > What I'm looking for is simple way to take advantage of high quality and > se

Re: Real time programming in OpenBSD

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Matti Karnaattu wrote: >>Also if you were to provide more specifics about your goals, others may >>have more input. > > At the moment I'm looking hobby project to maintain/improve my skills > developing open source software and my goal is to develop/improve some > o

Re: Why .cshrc and .profile in / ?

2014-10-19 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:32 PM, worik wrote: > In a fresh(ish) OpenBSD installation I note .cshrc and .profile in /. > > Why? > Not sure there's an answer but it was discussed at least one time before: http://marc.info/?t=11910307971&r=1&w=2

Re: make does try BSDmakefile anymore?

2014-10-28 Thread Daniel Dickman
yep, it's intended: see: https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg54858.html On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Carsten Kunze wrote: > Hello, > > in OpenBSD 5.5 make did try makefiles in order BSDmakefile -> makefile -> > Makefile. > > In Current BSDmakefile is not tried anymore,

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

2014-03-26 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hi Charlie. Bit of a shot in the dark. what sata ports are on the motherboard? can you switch the ports the hard drive is connected to? i have a machine with a similar problem but things work if I connect the hard drive to the sata 2 port instead of the sata 3 port. > On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:59 P

patch for mkhybrid man page

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Dickman
Here's a patch for the mkhybrid man page: http://dickman.org/openbsd/mkhybrid_man_update.patch Changes are as follows: - remove references to outdated cd burning packages and non-working urls - update the url for the creator/type database to a working link - spelling fixes

Re: patch for mkhybrid man page

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Dickman
> > Here's a patch for the mkhybrid man page: > > http://dickman.org/openbsd/mkhybrid_man_update.patch > > > > Changes are as follows: > > - remove references to outdated cd burning packages and non-working urls > > - update the url for the creator/type database to a working link > > - spelling fix

acpi/ehci/pcibios broken on Sony VGN-FZ145E

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Dickman
Just installed a recent OpenBSD snapshot (May25) on my brand new Sony VGN-FZ145E. Main issues seem to be in the following areas which must all be disabled to boot - acpi - ehci - pcibios Happy to test any patches to try to fix these issues... The very bottom of the email shows the error when eac

Re: accessing the MBR in multibooted systems?

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Dickman
On 5/31/07, James Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Section 4.8 of the FAQ discusses how to capture the PBR for multibooting with dd: # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 Two questions. * For stand-alone installations, is the PBR the same thing as the MBR? * More importantly, how

Re: Lastet supported jdk on OpenBSD

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Dickman
See this link: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Programming On 5/16/08, John Nietzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear users, > > i would like to add support for java on my 4.3 openbsd desktop. Has > anybody already done so? May you point a url where i could download > the package(s) from? > > T

OpenBSD/i386 3.9 install doesn't boot

2006-05-22 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hello, I just received my newly purchased copy of OpenBSD/i386 3.9 and tried to install it on my Compaq R3140US laptop. Unfortunately it freezes when booting the install CD (see below for output). I searched on the web for a solution, but the only thing I found was Jeff's extremely similar loo

Re: OpenBSD/i386 3.9 install doesn't boot

2006-05-22 Thread Daniel Dickman
t 0xf0/16: using exception 16 biomask ef7d netmask ef7d ttymask pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 Marco Peereboom wrote: at the boot prompt type -c disable pcibios quit try that. On Mon, May 22, 2006

getting ^L to clear the screen?

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickman
Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 installation? I'd prefer to not have to change to bash if I don't have to...

help switching from linux to openbsd

2006-01-17 Thread Daniel Dickman
Hello, until recently I've been a Linux user but have decided to get my feet wet with OpenBSD. I had a few basic questions that I wasn't able to solve after reading the FAQ and doing some web searches and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. (I'm running a freshly built 3.8-

Re: Help on understanding mbr.S

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Dickman
The 1: is the target for the preceding ljmp instruction. This is a local label. Reference here: http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Symbol-Names.html#Symbol-Names The reason the ljmp is needed in the first place is because In real mode there are multiple ways to refer to the same memory address

Re: ath AR5424 support

2010-01-22 Thread Daniel Dickman
> 1) Most of the code I'm using is from Linux driver which is AFAIK GPL'ed code. >Is this a problem? Why do you think the code is GPL'ed? What driver did you look at? Some of the atheros code in the linux kernel comes from OpenBSD. For example: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torval

Re: Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using OpenBSD

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Dickman
> Could anybody kindly point me to any literature regarding > building a high-performance computing cluster using OpenBSD. I am not > interested in FreeBSD and NetBSD related papers on this topics. I can > find them easily. I am specifically interested in OpenBSD. > Applications I am planning to ru