Re: man.openbsd.org is down?

2023-09-23 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 10:42, S V wrote: > Any info on man.openbsd.org state? It is down for me and web checkers. It is down for me as well.

Re: man.openbsd.org is down?

2023-09-23 Thread Kevin Williams
Nick thank you for hosting this part of the OpenBSD project. Much appreciated! On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 14:17, Nick Holland wrote: > On 9/23/23 13:42, S V wrote: > > Any info on man.openbsd.org state? It is down for me and web checkers. > > It is back up now. > Seems my monitor's alert to text me

OT: Paid Email Provider Options

2023-10-09 Thread Kevin Williams
I registered a new domain and I am looking for an email provider for it. I am happy with k9w.org hosted at fastmail.com and am not looking to change for that domain at this time. I heard good things about pobox.com, gandi.net, and protonmail. But I want something else. pobox.com is owned by fa

Re: OT: Paid Email Provider Options

2023-10-10 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Kevin, Thank you for the suggestion. I will check out hostinger.com.

Re: OT: Paid Email Provider Options

2023-10-10 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Jan, This one I accidentally replied all. Several people had really good suggestions. I replied individually to the others. On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, at 00:44, Kevin Williams wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Thank you for the suggestion. I will check out hostinger.com. >

Re: xenodm blank screen

2023-10-18 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Ryan, Yes, please paste the output of: $ dmesg | less $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see you already sent part of the Xorg log. Please send the entire output of the commands above. The information those provide will help us better assist you. Usually when you create your own ~/.xsession the

Re: Using wayland on OpenBSD

2023-11-25 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Quentin, 7.4-release has ports and packages for Wayland and various window managers and desktop environments that run on it. Sway and KDE Plasma come to mind, though I've not tried them yet. You can find a searchable web list of ports at https://openports.pl. You don't need to run -current t

Re: Automatic OS updates

2024-02-16 Thread Kevin Williams
The main use case I see for this is to manage a fleet of more than 10 or so machines/VMs/instances. rdist or a package such as Ansible could manage the crontab and possibly search announce@ on marc.info for keywords to hold off on the upgrade. On 2/16/24 08:09, Jan Stary wrote: On 2024-02-15,

Add KDE Plasma to 75.html

2024-03-22 Thread Kevin Williams
This patch adds KDE Plasma to the list of packages on the 7.5 page. Index: 75.html === RCS file: /cvs/www/75.html,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -p -r1.10 75.html --- 75.html 22 Mar 2024 11:08:09 -  1.10 +++ 75.html 

Re: Share your tmux tricks

2022-09-05 Thread Kevin Williams
On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 7:38 AM, Alex Holst wrote: > This is my ~/bin/bootstrap-tmux script. > > Maybe it can inspire you to share some of your tmux config snippets or > tricks? I'd also be interested if you have suggestions for improvements > to my script. > > #!/bin/sh > # > # Bootstraps tmux to

Re: Question regarding Apache 2.0 license

2022-11-07 Thread Kevin Williams
Hi Jeroen, Thank you for considering the license and venturing to improve OpenBSD base, NSD in this case. The preferred license template is modeled after the ISC license, and 2-clause BSD close behind. License policy: ISC or BSD only https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html ISC license template: ht

Re: cdn.openbsd.org not synced

2022-11-14 Thread Kevin Williams
> Pierre-Edouard p...@pywy.fr wrote: > > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 > > > Hi, > > I'm using cdn.openbsd.org as installurl, and last update of packages > > is stuck to 30th Oct. > > > > Switching back to ftp.openbsd.org solves the issue. > > Is ther

Re: Query on installing Solaris 9 into an OBSD LDOM

2022-11-27 Thread Kevin Williams
> Greetings. > > Has anyone tried to install Solaris 9 into an OBSD LDOM running on a TS2000? > > (I found some information on the mailing list pertaining to different > machines and Solaris versions.) > > Sincerely, > N. > We need more information to better assist you. By LDOM, do you mean

Re: dual boot with full disk encryption for OpenBSD

2022-12-05 Thread Kevin Williams
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, at 12:26 PM, Mare Dedeu wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had to fight with a thinkpad l13 gen 3 to install OpenBSD with > full disk encryption alongside with linux for blobs like zoom etc. I hope > somebody else can profit from the effort. It is trivial, I guess, but it > might b

Re: OpenBSD 7.3 released

2023-04-11 Thread Kevin Williams
Thank you to all the developers for such a great release! Sysupgrade went flawlessly on my cloud instances, router, and laptop host. Keep up the great work! On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, at 6:52 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > - Op

BSD meetup event

2023-06-24 Thread Kevin Williams
Not sure if we need to be listed as an official BSD User Group on openbsd.org before posting this. If you're in or visiting Portland Oregon (United States) on Thursday June 29th, come join a handful of us for BSD Pizza Night at 7pm at the location linked here. https://calagator.org/events/12504

New groups

2023-06-24 Thread Kevin Williams
0 C USA P Oregon T Portland F 3rd Thursday, 7pm O BSD Pizza Night (group) U https://bsd.pizza N *BSD

Update groups

2023-06-24 Thread Kevin Williams
> 0 > C USA > P Oregon > T Portland > F 3rd Thursday, 7pm > O BSD Pizza Night (group) > U https://bsd.pizza > N *BSD

KDE Plasma crashes on startup with second wallpaper folder added

2024-08-11 Thread Kevin Williams
When I try to configure the wallpaper by right-clicking on the desktop, Plasma goes to a blank screen with only the mouse visible. When I went through plasma system settings to wallpaper, I found the folder of backgrounds set to: /usr/local/share/wallpapers I tried to add a second folder: /u

Re: KDE Plasma crashes on startup with second wallpaper folder added

2024-08-17 Thread Kevin Williams
/qdbus-qt6 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation # ' On 8/12/24 11:13, Rafael Sadowski wrote: On Sun Aug 11, 2024 at 01:52:22AM GMT, Kevin Williams wrote: When I try to configure the wallpaper by right-clicking on the desktop, Plasma goes to a blank screen with only the mouse visible.

Re: pxe boot 6.7 microcode timeout

2025-02-19 Thread Kevin Williams
What hardware are you using? From your description, I can see it's amd64. But what specifically is it? Why use 6.7 and not the latest release 7.6? What official binary from "linux git" are you referring to? On 2/19/25 4:53 AM, Rupert Gallagher wrote: openbsd 6.7 pxeboot calls /etc/firmware/am

Re: failed install of snapshot

2025-02-26 Thread Kevin Williams
We need details of what type of machine you are trying to install OpenBSD. If you cannot get a dmesg, boot from the install media again and take a video of the boot-up sequence with your phone. When you re-watch the video, pause it as needed and type up everything in the boot messages. It's ty