Some questions related to shell scripts

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Anderson
sure it makes sense to stop and learn yet another language *right* *now*. If this *is* the way to go, recommendations as to the "best" language for general sysadmin-type scripting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any advice, Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Some questions related to shell scripts

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:15:11 +0200 (CEST) >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Dave Anderson wrote: > >> It also, at least under OpenBSD, has the serious problem that "$$" >> isn't the PID of the shell runni

Re: Some questions related to shell scripts

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Anderson
at is a copy of the current >environment environment. > >It is wrong to assume using (...) will actually create a new process. *That* was not at all obvious (at least to me), and is important to know. Thanks! Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Shell scripting problem -- help, please!

2005-08-03 Thread Dave Anderson
Something's screwy here, using the 'set -A' command in /bin/sh on 3.7-release. AFAICT the complicated file-match expression should (in this case) produce the same results as the simple one, but it doesn't seem to match at all when used in this script -- but does produce the expected result when cu

Re: Shell scripting problem -- help, please!

2005-08-03 Thread Dave Anderson
set -i idx idx=0 while [ idx -lt ${#files[*]} ] ; do echo "files[$idx] = '${files[$idx]}'" idx=idx+1 done return 0 } set -o posix DoIt "/var/log/pf/103790/*" echo "" DoIt "/var/log/pf/103790/+([a-zA-Z])+([0-9]).@(in|out).@(block|pass).@(de

Re: Shell scripting problem -- help, please!

2005-08-03 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:51:09 +0200 (CEST) >On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Dave Anderson wrote: > >> Something's screwy here, using the 'set -A' command in /bin/sh on >> 3.7-release. AFAICT the complicated f

Re: Shell scripting problem -- help, please!

2005-08-12 Thread Dave Anderson
itches in that page; it may take a little while, but I'll post an intelligible set of notes here on what I've found. Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Dave Anderson
is done properly the new code is free of the old copyright, but I am definitely not an expert on the subject. Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Url checker

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Anderson
but did not find an >appropriate (free) solution. I have been playing with the idea to use >snort, but that seems a lot of work to me. Your boss _is_ aware that what he seems to be asking for is fundamentally impossible, due to caching proxies, dynamic IP addresses, multiuser systems, et

Re: CARP+Pfsync+Bind

2005-10-06 Thread Dave Anderson
s in on $ext_if proto tcp from $ext_net to $DNS port 53 keep state Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: CARP+Pfsync+Bind

2005-10-06 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:15:25 +0100 >On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:49:02 -0400 >"Dave Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's not quite the whole story: 53/tcp is also used when the >> response to

Missing feature in scp/sftp? (Was Re: scponly vs. vsftpd)

2005-10-16 Thread Dave Anderson
ere _is_ one useful-to-me feature of FTP that I can't find in SCP or SFTP: any equivalent to 'ascii mode' (I frequently transfer text files between systems with different end-of-line conventions). Am I just being blind, or is there really no way to do this? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Missing feature in scp/sftp? (Was Re: scponly vs. vsftpd)

2005-10-16 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:34:54 +0100 >On 16 Oct 2005, at 17:13, Dave Anderson wrote: > >>> That being said, FTP is well past the time it was designed for. >>> OpenSSH >>> is very stable and fe

Re: DISKLESS tutorial that need feedback

2005-10-23 Thread Dave Anderson
eedback on the document and nothing else. You _are_ getting feedback on the document: it's harder to read than it could be. Dave -- Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-28 Thread Dave Anderson
to be way too much pain for the translators. Using META is _ugly_, especially for specifying a charset (since the page will be read up through the META element using the charset specified in the real header or assumed by the browser -- and that charset could be incompatible with the actual encoding.) Why not just use the AddDefaultCharset directive to ensure that a charset is specified in the real header for all pages? Or is this known to break some browsers that are still in use? Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, frantisek holop wrote: >hmm, on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:47:00AM -0400, Dave Anderson said that >> Using META is _ugly_, especially for specifying a charset (since the >> page will be read up through the META element using the charset >> specified in the r

Re: mojibake

2012-07-01 Thread Dave Anderson
t value in the real headers (by encoding the appropriate charset info in the file-name extension). This does suffer from combinatorial explosion if you have have both lots of different charsets and lots of different types of files to serve, but usually isn't especially difficult. Done properly, it _always_ works when files are viewed through the server, though (as someone pointed out) it doesn't help if files are viewed directly from a browser. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: mojibake

2012-07-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >Dave Anderson writes: >> >So, in summary, the options are: >> > >> >Use HTML escapes everywhere. IMO, highly impractical. >> > >> >Use any encoding you wish, and set a meta tag when appropriate. Th

Notebook dmesg gathering. Developers, what info do you want?

2012-08-25 Thread Dave Anderson
tional info? If there's no suitable place, I can just keep it around and let anyone who needs it ask me for it. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Notebook dmesg gathering. Developers, what info do you want?

2012-08-25 Thread Dave Anderson
www.nycbug.org/?action=dmesgd&add=1 Yes, I know about that site and intend to post the dmesg info there too (as I did last year). But my question was about what to do with any non-dmesg info I capture (whatever the developers tell me might be useful, perhaps acpidump, usbdevs, pcidump, ...). Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Notebook dmesg gathering. Developers, what info do you want?

2012-09-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Dave Anderson wrote: If there's no interest in this info, I won't burn an afternoon collecting it. If there is interest, answers to my questions would be useful. Dave >A year or so ago, as part of selecting a notebook to buy, I gathered >dmesg info

Re: time goes too fast on sparc64/current

2011-07-18 Thread Dave Anderson
direct fixed t10.SEAGATE_ST314670LSUN146G3KS73HA9 >sd1: 140009MB, 512 bytes/sector, 286739329 sectors >sd2 at scsibus1 targ 3 lun 0: SCSI3 >0/direct fixed t10.SEAGATE_ST314670LSUN146G3KS73JGX >sd2: 140009MB, 512 bytes/sector, 286739329 sectors >mpi0: target 2 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 63 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 >mpi0: target 3 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 63 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 >mpi0: phys disk 0 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 63 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 >mpi0: phys disk 1 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 63 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 >mpi1 at pci4 dev 2 function 1 "Symbios Logic 53c1030" rev 0x07: ivec 0x7e4 >scsibus2 at mpi1: 16 targets, initiator 7 >"i2c" at mainbus0 not configured >vscsi0 at root >scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets >softraid0 at root >scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets >sd3 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed >sd3: 280018MB, 512 bytes/sector, 573477376 sectors >bootpath: /pci@1f,70/scsi@2,0/disk@0,0 >root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b > > > > -- Dave Anderson

'real mem' in dmesg much lower than expected?

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Anderson
much reserved space, or is something wrong? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: 'real mem' in dmesg much lower than expected?

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Dave Anderson wrote: Oops! I forgot to include the full dmesg; here it is. >I've been looking at a bunch of notebook dmesgs (i386, single processor) >recently and have noticed that the value reported for 'real mem' is >almost always much lower t

FYI -- more notebook dmesgs

2011-08-19 Thread Dave Anderson
I've posted to the www.nycbug.org site (and sent to dm...@openbsd.org) a bunch more dmesgs from notebooks found in local stores. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: 'real mem' in dmesg much lower than expected?

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Dave Anderson wrote: >I've been looking at a bunch of notebook dmesgs (i386, single processor) >recently and have noticed that the value reported for 'real mem' is >almost always much lower than the amount of memory actually installed. >A typical

Re: UEFI BIOS

2011-10-02 Thread Dave Anderson
cycle-into-production older computers >(another example: the manufacturers who now prevent you from using disks >they didn't provide in their machines, or prevent you from buying their >proprietary disk carriers without their over-priced, under-performing >disks. Value of machine after warranty expiration: Near zero). > >Nick. > -- Dave Anderson

Re: Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150

2011-10-20 Thread Dave Anderson
s or not. I've no information as to whether or not it actually works (I was test-booting a store demo system), but the 17 August 5.0 snapshot recognized and configured it. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
0 socket 0 pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- Dave Anderson

Re: Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brad Tilley wrote: >On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, "Dave Anderson" >wrote: >> I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed >> 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most >> things (e

Re: Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Anderson
Given the various mentions recently on this list, I should have thought of trying that even though it's not (to me) an obvious connection. I'll give it a try. >Seems a lot of people are experiencing issues with CardBus on some >laptops, have seen various "CardBus disabled" messages in dmesg's lately. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-02 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: >>Maybe you can try using acpi? by disabling apm in UKC or via config(8)? > >Given the various mentions recently on this list, I should have thought >of trying that even though it's not (to me

Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question]

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Anderson
mon reason is that the user has a device which is not supported by -release (and thus, not -stable), or wishes to use a new feature of the -current. In this case, the choice may be either -current or not using the device, and -current may be the lesser evil. However, one should not expect hand-holding from the developers. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Anderson
.7-beta snapshot? Will do. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Advice requested on modem & WiFi for old notebook

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: > >>Dave wrote: >>> Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. > >>4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? > >Will do. If apm is disabled, the 3 Ma

How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Anderson
solve this problem properly, by intercepting outbound and inbound control-connection packets on the egress interface. If I read the documentation correctly, ftp-proxy has not (yet) been updated to work this way; is anyone known to be planning to do this? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Simon Perreault wrote: >On 03/15/2010 11:49 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: >> I'm configuring a notebook which will use PF to protect itself from the >> environments in which I use it, and would like to have FTP 'just work' >> on it -- wheth

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Simon Perreault wrote: > >>On 03/15/2010 11:49 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: >>> I'm configuring a notebook which will use PF to protect itself from the >>> environments in which I use it, and would lik

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: >On 16 Mar 2010, at 17:24, Dave Anderson wrote: > >> I'm configuring a notebook which will use PF to protect itself from the >> environments in which I use it, and would like to have FTP 'just work' >> on it -- wh

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2010-03-16, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:39:01 -0400 (EDT) Dave Anderson >> wrote: >> >>> >I see two options: >>> > >>> >1. pass out >>> >>> This can work

Omission in pf.conf manpage for current at www.openbsd.org?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
In the body of the manpage, the 'divert-packet', 'divert-reply' and 'divert-to' options are mentioned -- but there is no mention of them in the BNF at the end of the manpage (a search on 'divert' finds nothing). Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2010-03-16, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2010-03-16, Dave Anderson wrote: >>> I do notice that 4.7 has a new divert-to-userland ability that looks >>> like it could be used to solve this problem properly >> &

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Anderson
7;match'. After that, it's probably just a 'simple' matter of ensuring that ftp-proxy understands connections originating from the same system it's running on. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: ZFS in OpenBSD

2010-03-22 Thread Dave Anderson
s you feel better about >yourself, you are in a bad place, I can only suggest therapy, it works >for millions of people. Please consider the possibility that many people are tired of seeing quetions that have already been asked and answered posted again by people who apparently can't b

Re: PF: antispoof vs URPF

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Anderson
nterface which is not pointed to by a route to the packet's source address, which is somewhat similar to what antispoof does. Dave -- Dave Anderson

"couldn't map interrupt"

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Anderson
using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd/16384 pcic0 controller 0: has sockets A and B pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled usb0 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- Dave Anderson

Re: "couldn't map interrupt"

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) whose CardBus slots >are (presumably) unusable because their interrupts aren't mapped: > >cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Ricoh 5C476 CardBus" rev 0x80: couldn't

Re: "couldn't map interrupt"

2010-04-04 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: > >>I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) whose CardBus slots >>are (presumably) unusable because their interrupts aren't mapped: >> >>cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 f

Re: "couldn't map interrupt"

2010-05-01 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Dave Anderson on Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:30:15 -0400 (EDT) >On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: > >>On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: >> >>>I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) whose CardBus slots >>&g

Re: OpenBSD 4.9 pre-orders

2011-03-16 Thread Dave Anderson
or their hard and high-quality work. Dave >Only two related messages on undeadly.org > >C'mon don't you like your new CDs and swag? > >Order up! > >The song's pretty good too and it's free to download. -- Dave Anderson

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-18 Thread Dave Anderson
7;ve got some spare cash) I'll see about also making a donation. Not that I have any particular standing, but FWIW, y'all please order a CD set if you haven't already done so. OpenBSD has served me well for quite a few years, and I'd really like to see it continue -- and continue to improve. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-18 Thread Dave Anderson
that the sales component has to be >there too. > >I am only a part of the CD sales money. CD sales money keeps the >electrons flowing through cvs.openbsd.org. Trust me, it is critical. > >> Not that I have any particular standing, but FWIW, y'all please order a >> CD set if you haven't already done so. OpenBSD has served me well for >> quite a few years, and I'd really like to see it continue -- and >> continue to improve. > >Exactly -- let us continue doing this. > -- Dave Anderson

Error on website re funding...

2011-04-22 Thread Dave Anderson
SD website (<http://www.openbsd.org/>) and noticed that the final paragraph says "T-shirts and posters ... do not fund the project." This should be fixed. [As should the copyright notice, which should be extended to include 2011.] FYI, Dave -- Dave Anderson

FYI: OpenBSD 4.9 CDs arriving

2011-04-25 Thread Dave Anderson
My set just showed up (near Boston, Mass.) Dave -- Dave Anderson

dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-04-27 Thread Dave Anderson
lect to dm...@openbsd.org? Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-04-27 Thread Dave Anderson
uld be able to move to a newer snapshot soon. Dave >On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: >> I'm working on buying a notebook which will run OpenBSD, and have been >> grabbing the dmesg from whatever I find in stores to look at hardware >> c

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-04-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 a.velichin...@gmail.com wrote: >On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: >> I'm working on buying a notebook which will run OpenBSD, and have been >> grabbing the dmesg from whatever I find in stores to look at hardware >> com

Help finding file-analysis tool?

2011-05-02 Thread Dave Anderson
ions for effective searches or for suitable programs would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Help finding file-analysis tool?

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Alexander Hall wrote: >On 05/02/11 23:50, Dave Anderson wrote: >> Sorry to bother you all, but I'm failing miserably at searching for a >> tool to help analyze the structure of arbitrary files (prefereably one >> which runs on OpenBSD). >> &g

Re: Help finding file-analysis tool?

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Joachim Gwoke wrote: >Ever visit the people at http://www.woodmann.com? They might offer >some more answers. No, I wasn't aware of them. Thanks for the pointer. Dave >On 5/3/11, Alexander Hall wrote: >> On 05/02/11 23:50, Dave Anderson wrote:

Re: Help finding file-analysis tool?

2011-05-03 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Erik wrote: >Op 3-5-2011 16:51, Dave Anderson schreef: >> On Tue, 3 May 2011, Joachim Gwoke wrote: >> >>> Ever visit the people at http://www.woodmann.com? They might offer >>> some more answers. > >Alternately you might have a look at t

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-19 Thread Dave Anderson
tabase that I can directly upload to, that looks like a good place for them. I've uploaded the 43 I've gotten so far, and will put more up soon (I've still got a couple of stores to hit). You can find them by filtering on submitter 'Dave Anderson'. I had some uploading pr

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-20 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote: >On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > >> FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic during boot >> (in aml_parse or parse_aml, I can't remember which is correct); since > >aml_xparse > >> the

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-21 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2011-05-21, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote: >> >>>On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: >>> >>>> FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic du

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-24 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2011-05-21, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote: >> >>>On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: >>> >>>> FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic du

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-05-24 Thread Dave Anderson
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul M wrote: >On 25/05/2011, at 4:48 AM, Dave Anderson wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >>> On 2011-05-21, Dave Anderson wrote: >>>> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote: >>>> >>>>>

HP notebooks that hang during boot

2011-06-02 Thread Dave Anderson
r whatever information is needed to let someone debug this (remembering that these are store demo systems to which I have only limited access)? Or is this a known problem for which no more data is needed? Dave -- Dave Anderson

Interesting panic during boot

2011-06-03 Thread Dave Anderson
swapper [All of the above was hand-copied from the screen, so there may be typos.] I hope that this is enough information to enable someone to track down the problem. If more is needed, let me know what it is and I'll try to get it. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Interesting panic during boot

2011-06-03 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: >On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: >> While gathering notebook dmesgs I encountered this panic during boot (at >> a Best Buy, on a demo system labelled Toshiba r835-p50x, booting from >> a USB stic

Re: Interesting panic during boot

2011-06-06 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Dave Anderson wrote: >On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > >>On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:09:47PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: >>> While gathering notebook dmesgs I encountered this panic during boot (at >>> a Best Buy, on a demo sys

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-06-19 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from "Dave Anderson" on Thu, 19 May 2011 20:27:31 -0400 >** Reply to message from Sevan / Venture37 on >Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:55:48 +0100 > >>Stick them up on http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd;SQLIMIT=20 as well >>as sending them to dm

Re: HP notebooks that hang during boot

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Anderson
** Reply to message from Dave Anderson on Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:01:26 -0400 (EDT) >In my neverending quest for more notebook dmesgs I've come across >several HP Pavilion systems which hang during boot (using the i386 >snapshot dated 5/24), after a line starting with 'acpimcfg0 a

Re: dmesg for notebooks useful?

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Dave Anderson wrote: >** Reply to message from "Dave Anderson" on >Thu, 19 May 2011 20:27:31 -0400 > >>** Reply to message from Sevan / Venture37 on >>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:55:48 +0100 >> >>>Stick them up on http://www.nycbug.o

Another weird notebook-booting problem.

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Anderson
demo system, how can I gather enough information so that someone can look into this? Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Multiple web servers hosting different sites behind single public IP (all listening on port 80)?

2010-07-01 Thread Dave Anderson
e how to filter/redirect on the hostname or >URL...(I'm sure it's there, but I don't get it!). > >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8&arch=&apropos= >0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current >http://www.unixtechnics.org/openbsd-relayd.html >https://calomel.org/relayd.html > >Can anyone shed any light on this for me? >Please tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree! > >Many thanks, Scott > -- Dave Anderson

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Anderson
s for an opinion. I _have_ been using sendmail (on a light-duty, mostly-home mailserver) for 15 years. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: >Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: >> >>> sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, >>> all of whom you want to have system accounts on the

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:08:25PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:24:44AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >>

4.6 arriving

2009-10-02 Thread Dave Anderson
The CD set showed up in today's mail (near Boston, Mass.) Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Anderson
everse lookup regardless of how you initially specified the system to scan. Given that it can scan multiple hosts this makes sense, since it may not have been given names for all of them. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Anderson
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:00:02PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >> >Can anyone xplain this behavior to me? >> >> Without access to your nameservers it's not possible to be sure, bu

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Anderson
> > >You made that up. Yes it can. If it's configured to do so. Sorry, you're quite right -- there can be multiple PTR records. Evidently my brain wasn't fully engaged. Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:03:27PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:00:02PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >&

Re: Odd name lookup behavior

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Anderson
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:24:44AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:03:27PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, stan wrote: >> >>

'cvs update' asking for password?!

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Anderson
d: keyboard-interactive debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: password r...@anoncvs.comstyle.com's password: -- Dave Anderson

Re: 'cvs update' asking for password?!

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote: >On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:40:39PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: >> No doubt I've screwed something up, but I can't figure out what. > >> # echo $CVSROOT >> anoncvs.comstyle.com:/cvs > ^ >> # cvs -t -d$CVSR

FYI: Error building kernel with CBB_DEBUG option

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Anderson
c:881: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TEST (line 92 of /usr/share/mk/sys.mk). Dave -- Dave Anderson

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Dave Anderson
his is also popular. Also, some ISPs block or divert all outgoing traffic from their customers to port 25. Running my own mailserver from my home has worked for me for 15+ years. Dave -- Dave Anderson

FYI: another 'option CBB_DEBUG' error

2010-12-28 Thread Dave Anderson
initialization for 'vop_reallocblks_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c: In function 'VOP_REALLOCBLKS': ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:669: error: 'vop_reallocblks' undeclared (first use in this function) ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:669: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c: At top level: ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:680: error: variable 'vop_strategy_desc' has initializer but incomplete type ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:681: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:681: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_strategy_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:682: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:682: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_strategy_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:683: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:683: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_strategy_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c: In function 'VOP_STRATEGY': ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:689: error: 'vop_strategy' undeclared (first use in this function) ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:689: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c: At top level: ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:693: error: variable 'vop_bwrite_desc' has initializer but incomplete type ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:694: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:694: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_bwrite_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:695: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:695: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_bwrite_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:696: warning: excess elements in struct initializer ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:696: warning: (near initialization for 'vop_bwrite_desc') ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c: In function 'VOP_BWRITE': ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:702: error: 'vop_bwrite' undeclared (first use in this function) ../../../../kern/vnode_if.c:702: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TEST (line 92 of /usr/share/mk/sys.mk). -- Dave Anderson

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