Re: crash of OpenBSD 6.3 -stable (amd64 MP kernel) - unswapping kills connections

2018-04-27 Thread Stuart Longland
, unswapping a process should not influence network > connectivity that much. If physical memory is full, and virtual memory is full, where do you suppose the kernel should buffer incoming network traffic? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it&#

Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-29 Thread Stuart Longland
s (similar problems, but worse), before moving to OpenBSD which has been comparatively stable. Initially I had the server plugged in via a cross-over cable to the switch (sometimes they are hard to tell apart), which made matters slightly worse causing the card to negotiate half-duplex. Swap

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 29/04/18 18:08, Solene Rapenne wrote: > > Stuart Longland writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've got an Advantech UNO-1150G industrial PC running OpenBSD 6.1 acting >> as an ADSL router, public NTP server and DNS server. dmesg info: >> >>> Ope

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-29 Thread Stuart Longland
On 29/04/18 18:58, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-04-29, Stuart Longland wrote: >> The rack has 5 servers, a ARM-based PC and the switch, all of which run >> from a pair of 12V 105Ah AGM batteries, charged from mains power and >> solar. Switch is a Linksys LGS326-AU. No

Re: Problem with OpenBSD as nfs client

2018-04-30 Thread Stuart Longland
7;t, you might be able to get assistance from the Fedora side. I myself can't really help here as I basically stopped using Red Hat-derived distributions shortly before Fedora Core 1 was released. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-30 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/05/18 03:00, Solene Rapenne wrote: > > Stuart Longland writes: > >> On 29/04/18 18:08, Solene Rapenne wrote: >>> >>> Stuart Longland writes: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I've got an Advantech UNO-1150G industr

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-04-30 Thread Stuart Longland
e are known issues with this combination of hardware/software? (e.g. maybe it's known that some 100-BaseT Ethernet chip does not play nice with 1000-BaseT switches?) 2. whether there are additional debugging flags, commands or tools that might help debug whether a given Ethernet frame was re

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-05-01 Thread Stuart Longland
ot sure how they'd go. The other option I was considering was a NUC or similar, but most are single Ethernet, and by the time I've kitted one out with a 12V-19V adapter, the APU2 is about the same price. I note they've got a supplier in Victoria, so definitely worth considering. -

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-05-01 Thread Stuart Longland
l 2>&1 ; then > /sbin/ifconfig rl0 > /usr/bin/netstat -nI rl0 > /sbin/ifconfig rl0 down > /sbin/ifconfig rl0 up > fi as smtpd is working just fine. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-05-01 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/05/18 19:42, Stuart Longland wrote: > Yeah, that sounds like a plan, let's see what Charlie Root can tell me Bingo… that didn't take long. > + /sbin/ifconfig rl0 > rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:d0:c9:e0:f4:75 > index 1 priority 0 llprio

Re: mail sign/encrypt

2018-05-04 Thread Stuart Longland
n using the OpenPGP standard. The discussion of .p12 certificates makes me suspicious the author is after S/MIME, which Thunderbird can do without any extensions. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1

2018-05-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/05/18 21:30, Stuart Longland wrote: > No corresponding log messages from the switch. > > In any case, I've asked PC Engines about the voltage range of the APU2, > having priced one for under the AU$600 mark. Right, so a further update… I observed the errors came in bur

Re: mail sign/encrypt

2018-05-09 Thread Stuart Longland
-sign -a -r rsyk...@disroot.org < message.txt \ | cat headers.txt - \ | sendmail -t would probably do the trick. (Untested) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Viewport for man.openbsd.org -- readability on phones

2018-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
a problematic line from the CSS sounds like a more robust solution than adding unnecessary complexity to the page. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. 1. https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/889-Abandoned-Domain-Takeover-as-a-Web-Security-Risk.html

Re: Troubleshooting rl instability on OpenBSD 6.1 [Machine replaced with APU2]

2018-05-19 Thread Stuart Longland
On 06/05/18 16:02, Stuart Longland wrote: > About 45 minutes later, I got a burst of errors from my cron job. > Pinging the border router yielded no reply, but I could still ping the > TS-7670. I think that confirms hardware. > > Disappointingly, I've not heard from PC Engine

Recommended watchdog device for OpenBSD running as a KVM guest

2018-06-01 Thread Stuart Longland
s0 mux 0 > pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 > spkr0 at pcppi0 > usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 > addr 1 > vscsi0 at root > scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets > softraid0 at root > scsibus4 at

Re: OpenBSD snapshot at EFI: no micro :(

2018-06-03 Thread Stuart Longland
;microprocessor". Which of those stopped working? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

NTP client traffic from WAN causing LAN DoS?

2018-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
for pf.conf). My thinking, since the problem has disappeared, is that the sheer number of clients was overwhelming the router, and as a result, it didn't have enough buffer space to handle the number of separate hosts requesting the time from it. It's highly likely this is some naïve mistake o

Re: NTP client traffic from WAN causing LAN DoS?

2018-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/06/18 20:25, Stuart Longland wrote: > A silly question, is it possible that a ~5Mbps constant stream of NTP > client traffic to an OpenBSD router over an ADSLv2 link, cause said > OpenBSD router to successfully communicate with its internal network? s/successfully communic

Re: NTP client traffic from WAN causing LAN DoS?

2018-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
d. It would basically serve as a message saying "back off" to the clients. Sadly (like in the case of Netgear vs University of Wisconsin–Madison, and D-Link vs Poul-Henning Kamp), this won't work for all clients. We truly are at the mercy of what a client decides to do with that D

Re: NTP client traffic from WAN causing LAN DoS?

2018-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
On 05/06/18 06:46, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-06-04, Stuart Longland wrote: >> My thinking, since the problem has disappeared, is that the sheer number >> of clients was overwhelming the router, and as a result, it didn't have >> enough buffer space to handle th

Re: NTP client traffic from WAN causing LAN DoS?

2018-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland
I will have a look at that when I get a chance but it does sound promising. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Reboot loop

2018-06-06 Thread Stuart Longland
while another watches the output? Check your motherboard, some do provide "COM1" via a header which can be used exactly for this purpose. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Reboot loop

2018-06-07 Thread Stuart Longland
e appropriate protocol (there's at least a dozen competing standards for USB serial) based on the VID/PID. Not trivial to do in the early boot phase. I don't know of many operating systems that can do this. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD logo on my private hompage. It is allowed?

2018-06-07 Thread Stuart Longland
oject endorses your product or implies that your product is a product of the OpenBSD project. Nowhere does it say "don't use OpenBSD". That's my understanding though, I cannot, and will not, speak for the OpenBSD development team. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD logo on my private hompage. It is allowed?

2018-06-07 Thread Stuart Longland
On 08/06/18 13:44, Base Pr1me wrote: > Hahahahahaha, I dare you! I'm now visualising Puffy in a hard hat busy with a spade. Maybe that could be the default index.html for OpenHTTPD? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD logo on my private hompage. It is allowed?

2018-06-08 Thread Stuart Longland
Likewise, I have no idea what I'd do if I had to fork out for software licenses every time I needed to dispose of a bonzai… ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: chromium and firefox - myths and facts?

2018-06-11 Thread Stuart Longland
x is held up as the open-source darling and Chrome/Safari is seen as the proprietary devil. Go figure. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Stuart Longland
s are actually meant as "sandboxes" rather than permanent instances. About their only redeeming feature for me is they've got a few data centres around the world including Sydney (where my VPS is located) and they're not expensive. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: How to search for "hostap" in man pages.

2018-06-16 Thread Stuart Longland
r$ uname -a > OpenBSD sjl-router.redhatters.home 6.3 GENERIC#3 amd64-- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD in qemu freezes randomly

2018-06-19 Thread Stuart Longland
wonder if it's worth breaking into the QEMU monitor and seeing where the CPU registers are pointed and to inspect the RAM on the VM to figure out where in the kernel OpenBSD is spinning? (Although trying to figure out where in the kernel a particular hex dump of machine code came from will b

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-26 Thread Stuart Longland
it at all, and I tend to reserve it for servers and routers which is an area which OpenBSD excels at. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-27 Thread Stuart Longland
x+dovecot, and OpenSMTPD actually looks quite solid though I've not tried it myself as a primary MX. Otherwise, there is wisdom in just outsourcing this to whatever free-mail provider and just enjoy life. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it&#

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-27 Thread Stuart Longland
x27;re a person that sometimes needs to check your email from random networks with esoteric firewall rules, it can be quite useful. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: USB Ethernet adapter

2018-09-27 Thread Stuart Longland
ost doing the 802.1Q stuff). -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: experience setting up a low memory machine

2020-03-11 Thread Stuart Longland
but not sure that would really make much difference: kernel re-linking is going to be painful on that machine. Sometimes it's better to realise when something has past its prime. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: npppd pptp hangs

2020-03-23 Thread Stuart Longland
PPE (the security layer of PPTP) is laughably weak in today's security context. Whilst MSCHAPv2 can be replaced with EAP-TLS, there's no fix for MPPE. IPSec (which is built into OpenBSD) or OpenVPN (in ports) would be vastly superior options. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I ha

Ports: how to install dependencies from binaries?

2020-04-07 Thread Stuart Longland
tract the dependencies by other means and manually install them? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Ports: how to install dependencies from binaries?

2020-04-07 Thread Stuart Longland
uld speed things up a bit. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: strncasecmp

2020-04-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/4/20 2:30 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd texture name in error message https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd%20texture%20name%20in%20error%20message Seems some people don't understand URIs… -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't

Re: strncasecmp

2020-04-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/4/20 11:39 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > "Stuart Longland" wrote: >> On 11/4/20 2:30 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: >>> https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd texture name in error message > > No, what I wrote is: > >> 'https://doomwiki.org/wiki/

Re: socket I/O on openbsd

2020-04-21 Thread Stuart Longland
t_wr); > if (!r) r = pmprecv(&ap, s, &l); > if (!r) r = apx_shutdown(s, shut_rd); > Dumb question this way… > vk4msl-gap$ man apx_connect > man: No entry for apx_connect in the manual. > vk4msl-gap$ man apx_shutdown > man: No entry for apx_shutdown in the manual. what'

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-11 Thread Stuart Longland
OS with contributions that are sourced globally. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. Help fund COVID-19 research: https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/blog/2020/04/20/who-covid19/

Re: OpenBSD Qemu

2020-05-24 Thread Stuart Longland
rementioned serial port? That might give us a `dmesg` dump to work with at least. If it really is interaction with the video console that causes it, maybe pressing some keys on said console will trigger it with the log messages going to the virtual serial port? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhat

Re: strlcpy version speed tests?

2020-06-30 Thread Stuart Longland
On 1/7/20 11:18 am, Luke Small wrote: > I made a couple different versions if anybody is interested! You don't need our permission… -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: strlcpy version speed tests?

2020-07-04 Thread Stuart Longland
to. So if you don't mind, I'll be instructing my email client to ignore this thread from here on in. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: how to mount phone?

2020-07-15 Thread Stuart Longland
NFS or CIFS (or better yet, rsync/ssh, scp or sftp), but it's what we have to work with. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. Help fund COVID-19 research: https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/blog/2020/04/20/who-covid19/

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
as we've tended to > call it on the USENET and mailing lists since, well, the late 1980s. I literally laughed out loud at that. So they've had threading for only 13 years now? Geez… so it's not just Microsloth's UIs that are "flat". -- Stuart Longland (aka Redha

Plaintext vs HTML in email [was Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source]

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
n you consider the amount that has been "bolted on" to HTML over the past 28 years, then you consider that many people use a fully-fledged web browser to access their email (via a web-based client), the security implications of that are scary. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
n-text email, what are the odds their > OpenBSD patch is going to be accepted... It's not like tools don't exist for doing exactly that built into the version control system… *cough* `git send-email` *cough*. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: USB to 3.5mm jack audio adapter

2020-09-09 Thread Stuart Longland
to 2×3-pole 3.5mm adaptor cable for conventional sound cards. You can also buy the connectors and make such an adaptor yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron and want to avoid Russian Roulette with adaptors of questionable quality/utility or a long wait. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redha

Re: dmesg for 6.8-release on Pine A64+ 1GB (Arm64)

2020-10-19 Thread Stuart Longland
dia quietly bit-rotting away to uselessness. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-20 Thread Stuart Longland
omehow (PCIe, PCI, ISA, … etc). -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-21 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/10/20 10:53 pm, pipus wrote: > but Theo your butt is magical :( Perhaps you can worship it off list then. ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-21 Thread Stuart Longland
rds. Closest you get on a 'Pi is maybe some of the SPI Ethernet ICs that you might be able to hook to the GPIO header, but then you'd have to hack the OpenBSD kernel to support it, and it won't support gigabit speeds. A standard x86 machine and a multi-port network card is looking p

Re: UEFI Issue

2019-07-19 Thread Stuart Longland
der is UEFI-compatible, but if not, you'll strike the very same issues. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: UEFI Issue

2019-07-19 Thread Stuart Longland
On 19/7/19 8:19 pm, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 08:13:09PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> On 19/7/19 6:21 pm, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >>> Or save yourself the trouble and go for legacy mode. >>> >>> -Otto >>> >>

Re: SCM

2019-07-22 Thread Stuart Longland
bably don't bring much to justify the distraction of switching. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: SCM

2019-07-22 Thread Stuart Longland
en I see the security track record of OpenBSD, it's hard to argue there's no point in their KISS approach. Especially when you consider the house of horrors that Linux is slowly morphing into. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-09-08 Thread Stuart Longland
heoretically possible to get good quality output. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: BACK TO BASICS

2019-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
hen all the other companies... It goes back further than that… Babbage engines, Turing machines, Collossus, ENIAC, the Von Neumann computer… … they weren't exactly "compatible". -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Do OpenBSD developers approve Isotop?

2019-10-13 Thread Stuart Longland
On 14/10/19 11:31 am, Clark Block wrote: Do OpenBSD developers approve Isotop? If not, why OpenBSD developers don't approve Isotop? Is there an English translation for those of us who don't speak French? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ..

Re: Companies using openbsd

2019-10-28 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/10/19 8:35 am, Aaron Mason wrote: > Our RT server has 512mb RAM and it's all it has ever needed. How do you implement a 512 millibit bank of RAM given that even a RS flip flop implemented with discrete components will give you one bit of memory? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

Re: Will future programmers probably warn people not to use high-level programming languages just as most programmers today warn people not to use assembler?

2019-10-30 Thread Stuart Longland
In the future, computers will program programmers. "Man must be master" is the phrase that comes to mind. Electronic computers exist to do the low-level dull data drudgery under the guidance of their human operators, not the other way around. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4M

FVWM2 and alternatives [was Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?]

2019-10-30 Thread Stuart Longland
anguage, do we use that approach, or maybe embed another, if so what? Perl5 perhaps (since that's in base)? - Presumably this would be BSD licensed? Or maybe MIT? - Do we care what it "looks" like? (I have FVWM2 to more-or-less look like MWM.) - What UI library is preferred here? Not a fa

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Stuart Longland
e (i.e. the group running the online class is willing to switch to whatever you can get working?), or do you specifically need Skype? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Stuart Longland
sers available for OpenBSD are capable of this too, that might be your best bet, otherwise you're more-or-less snookered: you'll have to run Skype either in a VM, alternate OS on the same computer (dual-boot), or install it on a separate computer. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4M

Re: OpenBSD and solid state disks

2019-11-03 Thread Stuart Longland
ed this and replaced the faulty drive without further issues. Like any storage technology, SSDs are not infallible. Back up the data you wish to keep regularly, and test your back-ups. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-04 Thread Stuart Longland
7;matrix' is a fairly generic name so hard to say. Searching "matrix instant messenger" took me to their site, and a short amount of browsing took me to https://matrix.org/clients None of those showed up in the OpenPorts listings, but you might be able to compile at least one of th

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-06 Thread Stuart Longland
t; the following is in a base install: > > aucat ... | ssh user@host 'aucat ...' > video ... | ssh user@host 'video ...' Latency and video-audio synchronisation might be a bit of a crap-shoot with such a set-up. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Openssh over a mobile network

2019-12-01 Thread Stuart Longland
or RFC-4193 ULA IPv6 address.) - Is your OpenSSH server behind a router? Is that configured correctly? - Is your ISP (for the phone or your home computer) perhaps blocking ports? Try editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the port to something high, maybe 22222? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhat

Re: OpenBSD Errata: December 11th, 2019 (ldso)

2019-12-14 Thread Stuart Longland
ken in the design of the software… I think a concept that the Linux community is sadly losing sight of. Simple code is much easier to patch, review and maintain. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD Errata: December 11th, 2019 (ldso)

2019-12-14 Thread Stuart Longland
On 15/12/19 9:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:43:02AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: >> On 14/12/19 7:49 pm, Frank Beuth wrote: >>> OpenBSD doesn't have unit tests (or if they are, they're not in the main >>> source tree).

Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-21 Thread Stuart Longland
(although some sort of visualisation is helpful in my experience, I can also use a spreadsheet to work out the numbers), but I really don't think "reinstall" should be the default answer to all this as that is really a measure of last resort. Is there such a tool for manipulating partitions in this manner? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Raspberry Pi question

2019-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
that of the Pi 3 and an OS kernel won't be smart enough to figure that out without being told. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Raspberry Pi question

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
On 24/12/19 6:17 am, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > В неделя, 22 декември 2019 г., 20:15:20 ч. Гринуич+2, Stuart Longland > написа:  > On 23/12/19 4:03 am, Strahil Nikolov wrote: >>> did anyone try to install openBSD on Raspberry Pi 4B ? >>> I know it's not supported ,

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
> man: No entry for sysclean in the manual. > sjl-router# which sysclean > which: sysclean: Command not found. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
If this fails, I might see if I can dig up some docs on how this disklabel and ffs stuff works and see if I can teach `gparted` about it. Something tells me it's not the complicated mess that LVM2 is, and it handles that just fine. Many thanks all. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-25 Thread Stuart Longland
cleanly (ironically, the very one that prompted this discussion). So far, both have now run `syspatch`, and I've got kernel re-linking working on both now. We shall see. Both VMs should probably be re-built from scratch as a matter of sanity, but I can do that at leisure now, what I have, wor

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-25 Thread Stuart Longland
On 25/12/19 10:30 pm, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 7:41 PM, Stuart Longland > wrote: > >> Both VMs should probably be re-built from scratch as a matter of sanity, >> but I can do that at leisure now, what I have, works. > > > What hypervisor

Re: Advices on AD implementation with OpenBSD

2019-12-26 Thread Stuart Longland
enough I/O wise to be a functional file/print server?) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
oken" about Perl that we're trying to fix with a replacement (whether it be Lua, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, TCL, alb, BASIC … or something else)? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
job you're after done quickly. Python has pypi. Perl has had CPAN for ages. Perl 6 will be a major change though, more disruptive than the Python2→3 mess was. So we may be in for some "fun" in the near future. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 1/1/20 3:13 am, danieljb...@icloud.com wrote: > I'm curious to know if there are any languages other than C and perl in > use in OpenBSD base. /bin/sh? *ducks* -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
mic libraries? > Did vax have an MMU? That'd make dynamic libraries tricky I'd imagine. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
#x27;re pretty limited in what they can do IIRC compared to the main thread. Depending on what you're doing, this can matter a lot, or very little. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
ode, you will get ugly code, doesn't matter what the language is. If you set out to write a thing of beauty, it can be that thing of beauty. It's more a factor of the programmer involved and their skill, rather than any fault of the language in most cases. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redha

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
d, it's helpful sometimes to look at how others do it, as sometimes you can learn something that ultimately makes your life easier. There's a valid point about whether this is the appropriate forum for this. Question is, if not here, then where? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4M

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
we can) Yeah, you won't get any disagreement from me on that front. I prefer make (usually I use the GNU dialect, but that's just borne out of what I normally have to support), and maybe CMake for more complex stuff. scons, waf, and others… seem to cause more problems than they solve.

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
y expressive language, and can be used to write very clean and maintainable code. I think the "there's no right way" mantra helps: it allows you the latitude to choose the style that makes the most sense for the problem being solved. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-03 Thread Stuart Longland
most of the people don't read > it, we should have the ability to save bandwidth by setting up a temp > list or adding a + alias. i add this in my todolist. No rush… + suffix sounds a cleaner solution than hash tags. (looking at you groups.io!) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

File systems [was Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
perspective, licensing is a different matter) suitable for use as OpenBSD's root fs? What would be needed? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ussions about changing the license (to GPL for Linux kernel use) and those came to a dead end. I don't see the copyright holders being receptive to ISC either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ing out: contact me off list, there is little to be gained by discussing it here. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: SSIZE_MAX

2020-01-16 Thread Stuart Longland
th fseek… in particular the case where whence=SEEK_CUR. It allows you to go backwards relative to the current file position. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-09 Thread Stuart Longland
es, but maybe might capture enough? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...] Probably not gonna happen anyway

2020-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
partitions) As this thread already struck a few raw nerves last time, I would suggest if there's any interest, we can collectively discuss it off-list. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. ¹. Mainly what I m

Re: suggestions for USB printer (maybe even with scanner)?

2020-02-18 Thread Stuart Longland
s a print server, having something I can point OpenBSD's lpd or cups at over a network is helpful too. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: What TERM fixes Emacs?

2020-02-27 Thread Stuart Longland
testing such a set-up, so the current arrangement of "sure, omit X but dependencies on it are your problem" is workable. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: What TERM fixes Emacs?

2020-02-27 Thread Stuart Longland
perhaps in the medium term it might be worth reviewing this default setting. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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