entirely sure why that matters, but that 0 offset is going to cause
you issues assuming you are on one of the platforms this matters on
(most, but not all). I am curious how you made this configuration, as I
thought the tools made this difficult to do these days.
Nick.
kernel and can't
figure out where it is. Or much downtime when you decide to try the MP
kernel, rename it and remotely reboot it.
Nick.
r (say) firewall, you need maybe 5G of
disk space, but you will have great difficulty buying new disks smaller
than 300G. Don't allocate all of the 300G, just what you actually need.
Leave the rest unallocated. Decide you need more /usr space? Make a
new partition, copy the existing /usr to the new one, change your
/etc/fstab, reboot, delete your old /usr.
Nick.
}
in /src/lib/libm/src/ld80/s_ceill.c should read
else if((i0|i1)!=0) { se=0x3fff;i0=0x8000;i1=0;}
or simpler still
else if((i0|i1)!=0) { return 1.0L; }
Best regards,
Nick Permyakov
rade57.html and follow these two lines:
rm -r /var/tmp
ln -s /tmp /var/tmp
Nick.
On 09/08/15 20:18, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> I'm trying to get to http://openbsd.cs.toronto.edu/pub/OpenBSD/ and
> failing. I can get to other mirrors (i.e.
> http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ ) just fine.
>
> Is it just me?
Not just you, it's been restarted.
Thanks!
Nick.
as would upgrading.
Upgrades? Do as usual from binary releases.
Nick.
ctory on a distribution mirror.
You can then install a new -stable release on your slow hw as fast as
you can copy it over and unpack the tar files, and your downtime is
limited to the time of a reboot. You can also install these releases on
blank hardware as well.
Nick.
AND useful for
moving files around between Windows or other FFS-challenged systems.
Nick.
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
> wrote:
>
>> Mohammad BadieZadegan said:
>> > How put OpenBSD image on it that don't curropt its file system or booting
&g
ere are still failure
cases -- if the old boot drive can't boot, but still shows up as sd0,
But bootable SR is still probably the way to go.
Oververbose, over documentation. Nuke it.
Nick.
are dancing over the 95% point and are happy about
it, you have entered Special Case Land, rules of thumb don't apply and
you are responsible for your own situation.
Nick.
also does
a good job of creating mail to be delivered somewhere (not it's
problem!) from scripts and such in a Unix-y way.
Nick.
On 02/17/16 09:17, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you add a link to "http://www.openbsd.org"; on the OpenBSD logo
> (smalltitle.gif) located at http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ ?
> It will be better for browsing, to come back.
Good idea. Done.
Nick.
availability and life span once the embedded batteries
die), I'd be surprised if anyone was jumping for joy over the idea of
spending time on it.
Feel free to prove me wrong.
Nick.
On 03/05/16 11:49, Nick wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I used the default partition layout when I set up this system (5.8 -
> CD release) a few weeks ago..
>
> Just realised after a 'du -h' that the root partition is at 105%..
> Now, I know that OpenBSD has a safegu
wrong.
Your webserver should NOT be in /.
Your /usr should not have 129G free.
Your web server should not be in /usr.
You really need to be reloading that system with a less insane
partitioning plan. Then you don't have to worry about moving the
chroot. It can be done. But don't. Just don't. Not for this reason.
You need to upgrade soon anyway. Good time to rebuild properly.
Nick.
ly nice if you can know what it is before booting.
And almost certainly, your system BIOS would not redirect to it, either.
Nick.
you wonder why unix commands are so
short, imagine typing on this...)
* Tektronix 4010 (In case you thought terminals were dull and graphics
free...and I suspect a LOT of people who have been rolling their eyes at
everything I've said up to now will have their eyes bug out a bit when
they figure out how these things work)
Anything more than that (and probably a lot less than that), probably
best to ask me off list. :) (and yes, I've glossed over and simplified
a few things here)
Nick.
but "power" might be a more understood word.
Nick.
imes just doing things normally are
less than that...and with only a couple minutes of downtime where
packets don't get through.
Nick.
Just a couple added memories.
Punched cards were my first experience with "copy/paste" - there was a
"duplicate card" key on the card machine which would create a duplicate of
the card you queued up in the input slot. Of course you could also
cut/paste just by moving the card :-).
Above the card
sed the file
some time ago, if you had rebooted without an upgrade, you would have
seen the same problem).
sysmerge may help.
Nick.
table by the very user that
should trust the least? Might as well be 666 for what you are doing to
your system's "security".
Please stay off the 'net until you understand this stuff. It's not just
YOUR feet you are shooting at.
Nick.
call, so
there may be some things you wish to manually merge in.
Nick.
* http://cvsweb.openbsd.org
* http://man.openbsd.org
Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
Nick.
essages when bioctl found a softraid partition you didn't know
about were cryptic.
Zeroing the head of an encrypted disks after creation is a probably a
Good Idea, because whatever was on the disk before now looks like rather
random data...and random data has an unfortunately habit of looking like
on-disk data structures that might prove irritating to you.
Nick.
e too little,
you will baffle new users.
OpenBSD has over 600 basic commands in the standard install (not
counting X). If you have to document basic Unix usage functionality in
each man page, the signal to noise ratio will drop to useless for users
on their second week of using Unix. So yes, a certain basic Unix
knowledge is expected.
Nick.
world long enough that I'm used to
stupid e-mails from people we call "bosses". *shrug* Treat the
annoying posts the same way...ignore 'em. :)
Nick.
If you want my help, you put the information IN THE message. Otherwise,
I lose interest quickly. I may not be the only one.
Nick.
on...add $10 to its value, and you can get a coffee at Starbucks.
Nick.
s been
squished very effectively, and httpd (now) does a great job of running
at least a few OpenBSD mirrors.
Nick.
en't fools, they are some of
the brightest people you will ever hope to get an e-mail from. They
have no shortage of things to occupy their time. They aren't going to
maintain more than one version of a package for giggles.
Nick.
e EXACT SAME process is in the installation scripts. I'd suggest you
take a hint. But maybe you feel it is time to do some RAIF testing
(Redundant Array of Individual Feet). Two is redundant, they grow back
anyway, I saw it on the Internet.
Nick.
On 07/10/16 22:31, Tinker wrote:
> On 2016-07-11 04:18, Nick Holland wrote:
>> On 07/10/16 21:48, Tinker wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What is a recommended way to ensure that the MP kernel is installed
>>> really, "cp /bsd.mp /bsd; reboot"
The problem -- if there ever was one in GENERIC -- may
well have been fixed in the last year of development. And never
underestimate the amount of damage you can do by customizing things.
Nick.
I just got a 50" Vizio E50u-D2 working at 3840x2160 @60hz with my Macbook
Pro running an AMD Radeon R9 M370X. The TV was $570 at Costco and I needed
a mini display port to display port adaptor, a display port to HDMI
adapter, a Club3D Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapter and a high speed HDM
cable.
data when your computer is
OFF. And only when it is off. When your computer is active and the
file systems available, any attacker that manages to get into your
system through any means can see whatever they have access to. If they
grab your no-passphrase key, they now have your key. If they grab your
passphrased key...they got a jumble of funny characters.
Nick.
On 08/02/16 21:02, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016, at 22:01, Nick Holland wrote:
>> On 08/02/16 01:48, Remi Locherer wrote:
...
>> > I still makes sense to encrypt your ssh keys. Think of a bug in a
>> > browser
>> > that allows a se
in that order, makes
it officially part of the project? No. Examples of this will be found
all over the Internet.
How about lock graphics on websites and the word "secure"?
Internet 101: anyone can put anything in any URL. Or twisting Duke
Ellington, "It don't mean a thing, just 'cause it has a string"
Nick.
his information
>
> - license of audio files
> - license of the lyric texts
>
> Thank you in advance!
Since no license is stated, no license exists. It falls under simple
copyright laws, which means you have no license (no additional rights)
to use it for anything other than simple copyright law permits.
Nick.
w have a dim memory of a problem in httpd
along these lines. You might want to run it up to -current and see if
that takes care of the problem.
Nick.
- does
make the assumption that it is the only OS that will be installed on the
computer (i.e., you got a job to do and this machine is going to do it).
The assumption is completely overrideable, but if you blindly hit enter
and assume the installer will read your mind and do what you want, you
will be surprised. Welcome to the non-Linux world.
Nick.
e
would be appreciated. Regards,
- Nick Gonella
0x0279DE0B.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Fantastic, thank you.
On 9/2/16 7:22 AM, David Coppa wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Nick Gonella wrote:
>> Hello misc@,
>> I'm currently trying to port some code from Linux and within the
>> Makefile, there is a reference to the utility msgfmt(1). After some
On 06/03/14 04:29, Oliver Peter wrote:
> Links in FAQ seem to be dead:
yep, thanks!
Nick.
> Index: faq8.html
> ===
> RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq8.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.252
> diff -u -r1.252 faq8.html
>
e have problems in general? There’s a mention on
here about issues with the a version - is that yours?
http://pcengines.ch/msata16b.htm
Regards - Nick
OpenBSD 5.5-current (GENERIC.MP) #150: Mon May 26 11:50:31 MDT 2014
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
Thank you for maintaining for so many years OpenBSD's official news site.
I understand that you are not paid for the time you have dedicated.
That being said, please fix the fucking archive search. I know i can
use google to search undeadly. However, nobody should have to.
In addition, when the o
ow more than 99.8% off!!
AND free additional CPUs!
What a deal!
Go buy a cd set now!
Nick.
d 1MB -- so I usually use 1MB so a "pkill -INFO dd" will give me an
indication of the progress in easy to read terms, which I find more
useful than a 1% reduction in time.
I'm just reporting an observation, not explaining it. :)
Nick.
On 06/11/14 21:26, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 06/11/14 15:55, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> On 2014-06-11, Peter Fraser wrote:
> ...
>>> Also for dd the block size has always been a puzzle.
>>
>> For accessing a raw device you want it to be a multiple of the
Code signed by someone".
If your use is such that you DO want to certify that YOU created the
files in question, that's great, ok, you have got a great "mini-fork" --
you can easily build your own release with your own keys and manage them
appropriately, but a knob to get around the very point of release file
signing is not really what I want to see.
Nick.
On 06/17/14 02:40, Jiri B wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
>> [diff to easily allow different keys]
>>
>> I think focus has been lost.
>>
>> What's the point of signing releases? To say "This came from the
>>
That seems to be normal. Mine is currently 61.5 degrees and it's
currently not under any load.
Mine runs cooler if it's standing on its edge vertically, it just seems
to help the airflow around the case at the expense of looking a bit odd.
Regards - Nick
On 20/06/2014 10:40, Rog
ults you are seeing.
Note: you need to respect the "one-release-at-a-time" thing here --
installing the 5.3 boot blocks probably won't help you -- upgrade from
5.3 to 5.4 to get the 5.4 boot blocks in place, then again to 5.5.
Nick.
he on-disk version of boot on all 3
> boxes is 5.1 ... i can test this tomorow morning.
>
> thanks for this pointer! where is this documented?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.html
See "Install new boot blocks" -- the first one.
However, read the whole thing.
Nick.
wering, maybe the answer is "doesn't
really matter, just use the defaults".
Nick.
On 07/02/14 09:08, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 02:20 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
>> On 07/01/14 07:00, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Just out for curiosity.
>>> what is the fastest and lightest in cpu terms algorithm in ssh?
>>
ld probably be best for all of you that I find out, right?
:) If I'm building on a machine dedicated to building...I'm not seeing
a lot of benefit to not just doing it all as root.
Nick.
";>Sendmail 8.14.8 mail
> +http://www.sendmail.org/";>Sendmail 8.14.8 mail
> server, with libmilter.
>
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/";>BIND 9.4.2-P2
>
yep, thanks!
Nick.
On 07/04/14 09:18, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Hi Nick, Hi @misc,
> Nick Holland wrote,
>
>> On 07/02/14 10:54, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > just trying to build 5.5 stable branch and seeing that
>>
>> ...[checkout/compile/inst
Firefox becomes non-responsive for a small amount of time when viewing large
(wallpaper sized) jpg images.
In OpenBSD 5.4 firefox would block for several seconds. In OpenBSD 5.5 the
situation improved considerably
but it's still not perfect. The lag persists for a very short but visible
amount
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 at 9:05 PM
> From: "Stuart Henderson"
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: issues with firefox
>
> Any improvement with GENERIC rather than GENERIC.MP?
Actually GENERIC.MP performs better than GENERIC.SP.
I have discovered through experience that the more powerful
y list password. This is good design
in my opinion. If I DID need it, you think I could actually find my
majordomo pw?
If your majordomo pw is sync'd with any PW anywhere else in the world,
YOU chose to set your pw, and there's not much we can do to keep you
from hurting yourself that way.
Nick.
more "exciting" than
they need be), or if you are developing on the same machine as your
repository, just cvsync/rsync the entire repository to /cvs, and access
it without ssh at all.
Nick.
and the computer resets. Nifty enough, I
found normal typing did NOT cause a reset, so one could actually share
the same serial port between the console and the reset, though I never
instrumented it to figure out how I was getting lucky, or how lucky I
was likely to continue to be.
Not Enterprise Grade, but that might be good. :)
Nick.
BSD box ...
You lock it away in a secure data center.
Then you manage it with a remote access card which is basically a Linux
computer, running software that reeks with "good enough, ship it!", with
massive operational bugs and flaws...and you want me to believe it's
secure? har.
Nick.
ly really hurt the performance on your hard disk as
well, so it may not be worth doing; as it is, your system finds what
each can do just fine on its own. But being this is a firewall, reboot
time might mean more than disk througput...
Nick.
do next steps .
>
> # fdisk -e sd0
...
no no no.
You need to read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html
and read what is actually there, not what you think is there.
You can only have one OpenBSD fdisk partition...and the answers to your
questions are in the above link.
Nick.
obably some problems, but I think we haven't
finalized a few things in the new cvsweb infrastructure yet.
Stay tuned.
Nick.
you sync it,
log into the "other" firewall, and push the changes back.
Wonder why a rule is in the firewall? Look back through the change log
and read the comments.
I've done the same thing with DNS zone files and config files, (in my
opinion) better than the BIND "master/slave" model -- set up each node
as a master, and sync the data through scripts like this.
Nick.
estion?", and they annoy me. If you need it, great. But
you now need PUPPET administrators, not Unix administrators, and good
ones are very few and far between. And not working at GE's incident
reponse group. Oops, did I say that out loud?
>> Regards
>> El jul 29, 2014
ave to do this on a different machine.
Not really an OpenBSD issue if OpenBSD code isn't even running, really.
Nick.
OpenBSD 5.5 (RAMDISK_CD) #237: Wed Mar 5 09:43:42 MST 2014
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
On 08/01/14 08:12, Claer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28 2014 at 07:23, Nick Holland wrote:
...
>> I'll leave you to develop the script.
>> My design philosophy:
>> 1) No additional hw, other than the two firewalls.
>> 2) EITHER machine should be able to act as master
o
touch...and it's got more security holes than a fresh Windows 2000
install.
It is much better to be looking at dmesg with a date one year old saying
to you, "you need to upgrade me, you bum!" than a ten year old system
that is one crash away from shutting you down.
Nick.
oots, it's your disk or the power you are
applying.
BTW: stupidly simple cause for reboots: old UPS systems. Battery goes
dead, and your UPS saves you from a harmless power glitch...by turning
it into a multi-second power OUTAGE. I've also seen perfectly
functional UPSs that couldn't switch over fast enough for some
computers, again causing a reboot.
Nick.
hould be corrected.)
>
> Cheers,
> STEFAN
>
That was fixed yesterday evening.
(Got your message before, made the change, forgot to commit it, and it
went in with a bunch of other unrelated changes yesterday eveining)
Why nick@ stays away from src/...
Nick.
your server COULD have...you care
what YOUR server DOES have, and how the OS sees it.
HOWEVER, the starting price of that server is less than the base price
of most /real/ RAID controllers. I think that pretty well ends this
discussion.
Nick.
people are moving
into your system, I know people who'd love to see it, but your note
pretty well convinces me this is NOT the vector used.
Nick.
as long as their corporate attitude
towards security is, "Wah-wah-wah, everyone's picking on me!"
Anything involving PDF files will NOT have my personal blessing.
You also need to look at the license of the FAQ and website material --
most of it is released just under standard copyright, so any
redistribution requires the permission of the copyright holder.
Nick.
difference is, OpenBSD kicks out programs that exceed predefined limits,
that's what you are most likely seeing.
But most likely, login.conf will fix your crash problem, as I use
firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird on my amd64 system (three-core, 4G
RAM), and usually get a week or two uptime between shutdowns (because of
hitting RAM limits).
Nick.
I suspect your machine is
broke. While I've never had a Dell PE2900 in my hands, the PE2950 is
supposedly a very similar machine...and I think it is very very safe to
say that OpenBSD works wonderfully on 2950s, and I'm pretty sure I've
loaded Ubuntu 12.04 on 'em, as well.
Nick.
question seems to be "good backups and failure
plan" and get on with your life.
Nick.
fact that you sat down and generated and provided a diff is great,
but then sending it via a diff-hostile mail system kinda defeats the
purpose. :(
(hey, don't we have a bunch of OpenBSD devs working for Google? Can't
we get this diff mangling "feature" fixed in gmail?)
Nick.
urrent working directory still at /usr, issue
>
>sudo cvs -d$CVSROOT co -P ports/x11
>
> or
>
>cvs -qd anon...@anoncvs.jp.openbsd.org:/cvs get -P ports/x11
>
> just to be really, really, paranoid sure?
no, I'd just do a "cvs -Pd up" within the ports directory. Updating
your tree will restore any missing files.
Nick.
SATA systems vs.
high-end servers at 4+ times the price, for the same application running
the same software in the same company, and from a reliability
standpoint, it was a clear victory -- for the cheap workstations with
consumer-grade disks (it wasn't just the disks, either).
Nick.
se /tmp for something that wasn't
anticipated.
If you have great gobbs of disk space, go ahead, crank it up and use
/tmp for other things, use it for your own temporary storage space,
space for shuttling files between users, etc. By its nature, use of
/tmp can expand as space is available.
Nick.
option of pkg_delete, and maybe a "-q"
When done, check /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin for straglers, clean
those up the best you can, then install packages.
Should be no reason to reinstall 5.5.
Nick.
mpile/GENERIC.MP
...
> cd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI0 5/cdrom
> removable serial.413c00011028_123456
> umass1 at uhub5 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "DELL INC. DRAC5
> VIRTUAL MEDIA" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 4
> umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
> scsibus2 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0
> sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI0 0/direct
Nick.
I'm running OpenBSD 5.5 amd64 release. I am testing a tl-wn821n usb wifi
adapter which uses the rtl8192cu chipset (supported by OpenBSD).
During boot (with or without the usb attached),
i get the following:
urtwn0: failed loadfirmware of file urtwn-rtl8192cfwT (error 2)
I have run fw_update su
x27;d appreciate to have a list ready. This could also be a point to
> start from when collecting hardware for a new machine setup.
Sorry...this just doesn't help in the REAL WORLD.
Most big-name makers don't list chipsets used on their device's box, and
if you go by product name, you WILL be burned regularly as they change
the design of the device, but keep the marketing name the same.
Small name device makers often DO include chip information on the box,
which the man pages do just fine to help you find.
Nick.
When i try to mount (via a card adapter) a specific Kingston 32GB micro sd card
i get:
mount_msdos: /dev/sdXi on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format
(X is the device number)
It is strange because i can mount it in windows and linux. I have other micro sd
cards that mount normally on my Open
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:31 PM
> From: "Josh Grosse"
> First step: issue:
>
> # disklabel sdX
>
> This will output either an actual disklabel, if one exists, or it will
> output a
> psuedo-disklabel containing any recognized partitions from the drive's
> MBR
> partition tabl
ds like a problem with that product...you should
probably be asking them your question. What happens when you use it?
Nick.
I'd see if you can degrade the port to non-AHCI
mode -- it will be slower, but for a firewall? Who cares. Won't notice
with most flash devices anyway. Or use a USB flash drive instead of a SATA.
Nick.
roid platform did
not show it. I have an Android phone, I would not trade it for an
iProduct...but I will never trust it or use it for security critical
purposes.
...
Nick.
t; access by having root pw, no need to share/distribute
root pw, etc. And unlike a number of other Unixes, this works very nicely.
Nick.
happening (you want to avoid this, really)
things can get really really slow.
Nick.
partition, it generally needs
more-than-normal number of inodes, and a nightly erasure of anything
older than say 24 hours. Notify the anoncvs mirror administrator.
Nick.
.d process for some additional
flexibility.
I'll admit I was dubious when it was first done, fearing we might be
heading down the idiotic "everything.d" directories that many Linux
distros are now doing, but it turns out I rather like it.
Nick.
re
> might be more to it especially when you go back to 4.4 when if first
> displayed this issue...
>
> I might consign it to OpenBSD 4.3 :~)
Really, that's about when 16M became Just Too Little, it has been a long
time. And...you know, I'm not going to apologize for that. :)
2.7 worked pretty well on 16M RAM, iirc. By 3.4, I'm pretty sure you
were swapping before you completed a login.
As a labor of love, you could strip a lot of stuff out of the kernel and
see if you could make something that worked, but it really isn't worth it.
Nick.
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