Re: OpenBSD pxe automated install

2013-08-13 Thread Nick Bender
hers in this thread and we could work together. > > > > I'm looking at the diffs originally from Nick Bender (links are earlier > > in the thread), and will try to review and work this in. I and some > > other developers want this for our own projects as well. > > W

Re: Virtualization, OpenBSD as host

2009-01-16 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Allie Daneman wrote: > Marti Martinez wrote: >> >> Obviously none of us know WHAT you're really trying to do, so this >> suggestion may or may not be workable for you, but in your situation >> my preferred solution is to set up a crap machine with XP as the >> nati

Re: Find - Sillyness

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Morris, Roy wrote: > Here is the actual command I am trying to run and it's error > output. > > spider:/var/logtransfer/dc-fw1# find . -name pflog.*.gz -exec zcat {} | > tcpdump -entttv -r - \; > find: -exec: no terminating ";" > tcpdump: fread: Invalid argument >

Re: Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Dave Wilson wrote: > In my grandfather's attic (RIP) I unearthed one of these: > > http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_dataterminal_ti703.htm > > which in a nutshell is a paper terminal which runs at 300 baud. > > I figured it could be fun to set it up as a se

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Eric Furman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012, at 07:10 AM, Илья Шипицин wrote: >> ÓÒÅÄÁ, 10 ÏËÔÑÂÒÑ 2012 Ç. ÐÏÌØÚÏ×ÁÔÅÌØ Nick Holland > ÐÉÓÁÌ: >> >> > how it supposed >> >> to work for non-nfs filesystems ? >> >> >> > >> > "properly"? >> > >> > they'll be not checked

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-04-04 Thread Nick Bender
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

Re: Driving 4k Display for OpenBSD Workstation

2016-07-23 Thread Nick Bender
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.

Re: NAT reliability in light of recent checksum changes

2014-01-27 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Simon Perreault < simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca> wrote: > Le 2014-01-25 14:40, Richard Procter a écrit : > > I'm not saying the calculation is bad. I'm saying it's being >> calculated from the wrong copy of the data and by the wrong >> device. And it's not just me s

[Way OT] Roadtrip...

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Bender
Apologies to most people who won't give a shit but I'm finally moving to New Mexico and am posting updates at http://nbender.com more or less daily as we make our way across the country. Regards, -N

Re: ftp limits bandwidth

2009-06-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > Hi all, > > It looks like the max bandwidth of ftp is somehow 350 Kb/s. > Is this normaland if so can it be increased ? > > Thx > Bye. I don't think FTP is rate limited by default. Wild guess is you need to google tcp window size. What does

Re: Winbind & Samba on OpenBSD

2009-07-06 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > > to clarify.. you are using Samba, or Samba & Winbind? > > ~Jason Not a user, but samba/winbind was discussed on ports last week: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=124653912620380&w=2

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Bender
On Dec 5, 2007 2:23 PM, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/5/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from > > company policies which require digital signature of software downloaded > > through the inte

Re: OpenBSD and ISDN TA

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
> Any suggestions? Get a Netgear ISDN router - used one for a number of years with no problems. They come in either single network connection or with 4 port hub. -N

Re: Pre-Orders for Limited Edition Puffy the Blowfish

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
On Jan 8, 2008 11:40 AM, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/8, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > do you have a website that has pictures, the mail server stripped your > > attachemnts > > > > Sam Fourman Jr. > > > > > I second that, me want see pictures!!! > http://icanhascheezburger

Re: OT Re: OpenBSD and ISDN TA

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
> give me X.25 any day, instead of this new fangled ISDN technology. Don't forget to run uucp over it ;-)

Re: File upload/download to https server

2008-01-30 Thread Nick Bender
> I have an upcoming project where I need to be able to automate the upload and > download of files to/from an HTTPS server (not owned by me). The server says > it requires 128 bit encryption. I would like to be able to do this using > python because it is the language that I know the best and it

Re: There's something about OpenBSD...

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r > does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long > and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be >

errata for US daylight savings time change?

2007-01-12 Thread Nick Bender
Looks like 3.9 and 4.0 are both missing the new DST rules - src/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica was patched on Oct 29. Should this be an errata? -N

Re: RAIDFrame root autoconfig fails in -current

2007-06-11 Thread Nick Bender
On 6/11/07, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > Please contact krw@, he has been searching testers for RAIDframe root > > autoconfig on [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's even a diff posted there, iir

Re: upgrading RAIDFRAME systems

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Bender
On 6/12/07, Josh Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:59:46PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > am I missing something, or did you neglect to help him with his question, > which was about how to upgrade with RAIDframe in use? I had everything except building the kernel, and pl

Re: RAIDFrame root autoconfig fails in -current

2007-06-13 Thread Nick Bender
I have current running under VMWare Server using both single and multiprocessor raidframe enabled kernels (dmsgs below). As far as I can tell everything is working and softraid is not causing any issues with raidframe autoconfiguration. I'll try and test on VMWare ESX tomorrow - that emulates an

Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-09-28 Thread Nick Bender
> Anyone got any similar experiences with hardware RAID cards? Hardware > RAID has always been misery for me. I've never lost data under RAIDframe - 3 years plus using cheap SATA gear and featuring a number of unplanned hard boots and flaky air conditioning. Can't say the same for a certain hardw

mpi messages at boot running current under VMWare Server

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Bender
Just did an August 22nd snapshot install in a VM running under the free VMWare Server product. The host is Windows XP and the guest is intalled on a scsi disk (LSI Logic chosen during create) in the VM. During boot there are a number of mpi messsages which do not seem to have any effect on the ru

Re: OpenBSD at Defcon 16

2008-08-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Johan Beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon? > > Does it have to be one or the other? I went to a talk called "stea

Re: PHP5 install error

2006-12-01 Thread Nick Bender
On 11/30/06, Brendan Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, in the Makefile it has this: # the hardened flavor is used by both core and extensions FLAVORS+= hardened FLAVOR?= It starts to compile hardened after completing core. I loaded the core module then in Apache and it does

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-16 Thread Nick Bender
> Oh, sure, you might want your system to stay running after it wuffs a > drive, but if you are running an IDE system, it almost certainly won't. > If you are running SCSI, it *might*, but don't count on it. Consider > cheap (i.e., software) RAID systems a way to rapidly repair a broken > compute

Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Bender
Here's a snippet of something I've been working on along the same lines - this is /bin/csh syntax, and works on raid0 but should work on regular partitions as well: echo "get raid size..." @ r_tot = `disklabel -p g raid0 | awk '/total bytes/ { print int($3) }'` @ r_root = 1; @ r_tot -= $r_root

Re: Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter Issues

2005-10-18 Thread Nick Bender
On 10/18/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:10:53 -0400 > Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > > > On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:59 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: > > [ Redirecting back to misc@ where this belongs ] > > > > > From: "Ken Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Nick Bender
I have one of the developer transition systems: Machine Name: Apple Development Platform Machine Model:ADP2,1 CPU Type: ADP2,1 Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed:3.6 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA C

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Bender
> > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? > > no, it's a disaster. > Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? -N

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Bender
> Side question: > I tried unsuccessfully using the same procedure to set up two disks (sd0 > and sd1) attached to a QLogic FibreChannel controller (isp driver). I > probably don't have the correct terminology but upon startup the boot code > could not be found (would not get beyond the point wher

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Bender
Quick update on this. My intel iMac came this week and of course will not boot off a 3.8 cd as it uses EFI instead of BIOS. There's currently a $10,000 bounty for getting XP to boot: http://windowsxp.onmac.net There's also a FAQ tracking some of what's been tried, including some having "brick

Re: Will different CPU and RAM matter?

2005-05-06 Thread Nick Bender
On 5/5/05, Ian Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2005, Niall O'Higgins wrote: > > > As of 2005/02/01 ccd(4) man page mentions mirroring. So we now have: > > > > A ccd may be either serially concatenated, interleaved, or mirrored. > > To serially concatenate partitions, specify an in

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Bender
> I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, > but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D > I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, > but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D I developed a very crude version of a fully autom

Re: Detect APC UPS is on battery

2011-10-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, mailing list wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a machine running OBSD 4.4 which as an APC Back-UPS ES 550. > > Anyway to have OpenBSD detect when power is coming from Battery? > (Plan on sending the system sending me an sms if so) > > I found the following: http:

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Janne Johansson [2011-10-20 15:11]: >> What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say "use 64 >> bits for time" and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or >> the over-the-wire formats don't support 64

Re: OpenBSD Volunteer needed today in Los Angeles - Solved!

2010-02-22 Thread Nick Bender
On Monday, February 22, 2010, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > Unless some benefactor is willing to come forward and deal with the > logistical headache of doing the paperwork and keeping it all as > up to date as it needs to be, it's not going to happen, even if > getting an EAL meant ponies, rainbows, a

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > >> Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? >> To tell the times and sizes? > > To break scripts? ;) > > To put it bluntly, index.txt seems pointless, or more like

Re: Some secure way of updating sources?

2010-05-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:14 PM, QIU Quan wrote: > SSL has some authorities which other current PKI systems, e.g. SSH, > PGP, lacks. Usually, the trusted authorities are delivered along with > OS distributions. Although a vendor should take the responsibility to > validate the authorities, this ea

redux automated installation tool: alpha version available for testing

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Bender
Get the distribution at http://hiqu.biz/redux. This has been lightly tested with 4.8 and 4.9 - some things will not to work :-) Comments/bugs/suggestions/pleas for help should be directed to the redux Google Group at: http://groups.google.com/group/obsd-redux -N Here is the Readme file: W

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-15 Thread Nick Bender
On Saturday, December 12, 2009, Andy Hayward wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 23:24, STeve Andre' wrote: >> B I am wondering if there is a port or otherwise available >> code which is good at comparing large numbers of files in >> an arbitrary number of directories? B I always try avoid >> wheel

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Eugene Yunak wrote: > 2009/12/18 Gregory Edigarov : >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:28:25 +0100 >> Igor Sobrado wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gwynne >>> wrote: >>> > On 18/12/2009, at 1:26 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Real men use cat

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Internet Retard wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Eugene Yunak wrote: >> >> Real men use punch cards. Paper tape is acceptable for backups... > > You mean real *Internet* men. In person, these men (for lack of a better word) > are easily de-assified and

Re: online documentation for new smtpd

2009-07-21 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: > > The man pages are great. It's just sometimes I have opportunities to > point out tools to Herr Doktor Uber Direktor types and having a URL is > the only non-paper option. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&apropos=0&sektion=8

Re: complete restore using NFS

2009-08-02 Thread Nick Bender
> How to reach that server when in shell mode? Or is there another way to > do this? NFS isn't available on the install media, and neither is ssh. If the server has ftp or http then you can use ftp like: ftp -o - http://someserver/part.dump | restore ... -N

Re: boot disk ???

2009-08-05 Thread Nick Bender
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJ wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> Once you've cleared that hurdle, It would help a lot with more details >> about the hardware, what image file you are using and where it came >> from (ie is it the i386 one, the amd64 one, off an official mirror >> site, or

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Bender
> If there genuinely is something as easy as "yum update bind", then > great. But if so, it doesn't seem to be documented, and this is the > reason I haven't rolled out more OpenBSD boxen in the real world. I > run OpenBSD on my own machines. But I'm with Cian here. Keeping up > to date really is i

Re: Unattended OpenBSD Installation

2010-11-14 Thread Nick Bender
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, OpenBSD Geek wrote: > Hi, > I read OpenBSD FAQ at > [url]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/fr/faq4.html#site[/url] > I understood well, that install.site/ Upgrade.site and of course > SiteXX.tgz is enabled at the end of the installation. > > My question, i boot on 4.7 RE