Reinstalling kernel with full disk encryption

2022-12-28 Thread Chris
Hello misc, I tried to stop a sysupgrade before it updated anything by pressing the power button, but by the time the computer shut off the install script was already midway through updating the kernel. I know, bad idea on my part. I was left with an unbootable kernel. To repair it I booted int

Re: Reinstalling kernel with full disk encryption

2022-12-29 Thread Chris
pe wrote: >On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:01:26PM +, Chris wrote: >> After that however, the bootloader no longer prompts me for the full disk >> encryption passphrase. Previously it was prompting me for the FDE passphrase >> before it tried to boot the broken kernel. > &g

ssh VisualHostKey

2009-02-03 Thread Chris
I've recently enabled VisualHostKey yes in my .ssh/config file. I would like to hear from people who are using it and how they are finding it useful. Thanks.

checkout src multiple times

2009-02-26 Thread Chris
I have had to interrupt (^c) cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src command about three times. I was wondering whether checking out src three times would overwrite the old files or ignore what's already on the disk and update files that are not there or do anything else? I know I am supposed to run cvs -d

OBSD 4.5 - Lenovo Thinkpad T60 suspend & resume

2009-03-04 Thread Chris
Does anyone know whether ACPI suspend/ resume now works? I do ctrl+alt + F1 (or 2, 3.. ) and try to suspend from there with zzz and I get message: "suspending system" but nothing happens. I get the same message when I type zzz from my wm (awesome). Here's my dmesg. Thanks; OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERI

firefox starts two times

2009-03-22 Thread Chris
When I start firefox (3.0.6) from the xterm shell, I get two firefox starting at the same time. If I close one of them (by doing File - Exit), it closes both of them. I have the same behavior from two different window managers: awesome and scrotwm. Has anyone else seen this behavior before? Thank

shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Chris
I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's not working. I'm running -current with the default ksh and added HISTSIZE=50 and export HISTSIZE to ~/.profile. Does anyone know how to get it? Thanks.

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Chris
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: >> I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's >> not working. I'm running -current with the default ksh and added >> HISTSIZE=50 an

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Chris
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: >>>> I am trying to get the shell history with page-u

pkg_add via proxy

2009-04-04 Thread Chris
My pkg_add gets blocked by the web based authentication system I use at work. Every time I try pkg_add -iv honeyd, I get the following error: Error from ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ Redirected to https://company.com:443//portal/login?__dest=rt.fm Requesting https://company.com:

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-05 Thread Chris
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Chris wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther wrote

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-06 Thread Chris
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > If you are using ksh, and the above keys/key-combos do not work, then > you have screwed around with the default ksh settings, or you are using > a garbage terminal emulator that is screwing with the key-bindings. The problem was with "export

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-06 Thread Chris
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Chris wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, J.C. Roberts >> wrote: >>> If you are using ksh, and the above keys/key-combos do not work, then >>> you have screwed around

Problem with server upgrade, upgrade or hardware failure?

2012-10-22 Thread chris
E)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 312" data: no] Chris Bennett

Re: Problem with server upgrade, upgrade or hardware failure?

2012-10-22 Thread chris
_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: > chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line > 312" data: no] > > Chris Bennett I couldn't find anything on Google except diff's for this. Unhelpful. The server has been running since

Re: Problem with server upgrade, upgrade or hardware failure?

2012-10-22 Thread chris
several times I hadn't built Java addon for firefox35 recently because I always run -current or close to it. I built Java, but I cannot get any (including a slightly older version) firefox35 to work. I cannot achieve anything without IP access with Java. If this is a hardware failure, I will ask for a replacement of whatever it is that is broken. If this is my fault, I can re-install or re-upgrade remotely, but I do not have access to the interface I need until Wed. Chris Bennett

Re: Problem with server upgrade, upgrade or hardware failure?

2012-10-22 Thread chris
> Original Message > Subject: Re: Problem with server upgrade, upgrade or hardware failure? > From: Jan Stary > Date: Mon, October 22, 2012 4:54 pm > To: ch...@bennettconstruction.us > > > On Oct 22 14:10:52, ch...@bennettconstruction.us wrote: > > > > > > > Original

Re: What do you use to manage contact info?

2016-03-04 Thread chris
On 2016-03-04 03:14, Kamil CholewiƄski wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Joe Er wrote: What do you use to manage your contacts? I am currently using the address book in Thunderbird and am wondering if there is something that is better. A file named ~/.people, with one entry per line: Firstname

ACPI suspend/ resume on IBM T60 not working

2009-06-14 Thread Chris
I'm using the latest snapshot on an IBM T60 laptop; suspend / resume don't seem to be working. Typing "apmd" and then "apm -z" from my window manager's xterm tells me "System will enter suspend mode momentarily." and nothing happens. Typing "zzz" tells me "Suspending system..." but nothing really

AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes for printer sharing

2007-10-20 Thread Chris
I want to buy one of these to share a Brother MFC-215C printer. My wireless (wpi) is detected on my T60 laptop and it's on 802.11g. If anyone knows any known issues and would like to share, that would be appreciated. Thanks.

hydra libssh support

2007-10-30 Thread Chris
I installed hydra (4.1/i386) from the package list and tried: hydra -l user -p password localhost ssh2 and I get an error - Error: Compiled without LIBSSH support, module not available! Does anyone know where I can get "LIBSSH" module support or how I can enable this? I installed Hydra from the

[4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-05 Thread Chris
I just upgrade from 4.1-current to 4.2-current on i386. Apache failed to start saying "bad username nobody". There is no mention of user "nobody" in /etc/passwd or httpd.conf file. The user/group apache starts as is www and both of them exist in /etc/group, passwd file. Apache was working fine befo

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-05 Thread Chris
On 11/6/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > there SHOULD be a user "nobody". > There always has been (at least, since 1995). Take a look in cvsweb, > or better yet, check your backups. > Something deleted it. That's not good. You are

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-06 Thread Chris
On 11/6/07, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should also restore /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db, or recretae them > using pwd_mkdb(8). Thanks. Restoring these two files resolved the issue. Apache is now starting fine. However, typing newaliases still gives the mailwrapper.core segment

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-06 Thread Chris
On 11/6/07, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like a copy of your /etc/mailer.conf file. Probably it trips a bug > in mailwrapper. Thanks. I had a look in my /etc/mailer.conf and it read - /usr/local/sbin/postfix-enable, which I changed to the following (exactly as my 4.1 box) - sen

IBM T60 laptop upgrade - wd0 to sd0

2007-11-06 Thread Chris
I am trying to upgrade a T60 laptop that detects the HDD as wd0a. After booting from the 4.2 base CD my HDD is detected as sd0 and the installer does the fsck on sd0a. However, force checking non-root filesystem during the installation fails as it fails to detect and do fsck on wd0a from /etc/fstab

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-06 Thread Chris
On 11/6/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure your newaliases point to the right place? > > Is there is soft link or something may be on your newaliases command. > Witch one are you using, the standard one, or the postfix one? Thanks. I have already removed postfix (pkg_del

trying cwm while running ion

2007-11-16 Thread Chris
My system boots to xdm & I login to ion. Is there any way I could try out cwm while I am running ion? Thanks.

security patches for packages

2007-12-15 Thread Chris
I understand that OBSD releases patches only for the base system. But if I, for example, run Firefox and there's a vulnerability in it, is there any way to patch that without running -current or trying to update Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation? What are some of the ways to patch vulnerabilities

yt: youtube download issue

2007-12-17 Thread Chris
yt is giving me the following error while trying to download - $ yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw&feature=dir $ Getting http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw ... /usr/local/bin/lua: /usr/local/bin/yt:42: assertion failed! stack traceback: [C]: in function 'assert' /usr/l

mysql-administrator - core dump

2007-12-19 Thread Chris
I can connect to the localhost db but it reports "server status: stop" while the server is actually running. I went to Tools -> Preferences and changed the init script to /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe and tried to start the server and mysql-administrator exits saying: error executing /bin/su command,

package update issues 4.1 -> 4.2

2007-12-21 Thread Chris
When I upgrade my packages I go this message - # pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends Not updating .libs-curl-7.16.0, remember to clean it Not updating .libs-subversion-1.3.2, remember to clean it Not updating .libs1-apr-1.0.1p2, remember to clean it Not updating .libs1-apr-util-1.0.1p3, remembe

Re: package update issues 4.1 -> 4.2 - solved

2007-12-21 Thread Chris
On Dec 21, 2007 9:06 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Chris wrote: > > My question is: what are these files and how do I get rid of them? Is > > You can pkg_delete them. Thanks. You are right. It's all explained in this thread: h

diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Chris
I haven't read the FAQ for a while and realize a lot has been changed. Is there any way I could get a diff on the FAQ for the last 1 year and read only the parts that has been changed? Thanks for any help.

gnash: can't load library

2008-01-02 Thread Chris
I upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2 with X and upgraded gnash. Now when I go to certain sites using Firefox I get the following in STDOUT - /usr/local/bin/gnash: can't load library 'libavcodec.so.8.0' /usr/local/bin/gnash: can't load library '/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.5.0' Child process exited with status

[OT] sendmail on dynamic IP

2008-01-02 Thread Chris
I got a test box at home I'm trying to setup sendmail in. I bought a domain and host a website on that box. I get dynamic IP from my ISP which gets updated via DynDNS for the website. I added the MX for my domain with Google and it's been working fine (I can send receive mail). But I want to setup

Re: gnash: can't load library

2008-01-03 Thread Chris
On Jan 2, 2008 11:27 PM, Markus Lude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you upgrade your other packages as well or only gnash? How did you > upgrade gnash? I upgraded all packages by using: pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends command. Now when I run this command I get: Looking for updates: comple

cwm background & invoking mutt

2008-01-19 Thread Chris
After reading the undeadly post on cwm(1) I am trying it out in Xnest(1). I was wondering how I could get a background image like the one shown in undeadly. Also, I can't invoke mutt using C-/ although I have a symlink in .calmwm/. GUI apps like firefox and soffice fire up fine. Any help would be

Re: looking for openbsd friendly server vendor

2008-01-27 Thread Chris
On Jan 28, 2008 8:40 AM, Salim Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try http://eracks.com/ I been looking to host mail (sendmail) but couldn't find anything cheaper. I don't need any rack mount server - just the cheapest deal will do. Most of what I Googled for and found are not within my budget (whi

sendmail setup mail server error

2008-01-28 Thread Chris
I'm trying to setup a mail server. But getting an error: "m4: mydomain.mc at line 11: include(../domain/mydomain.com.m4): No such file or directory" This is what I did so far - cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf cp openbsd-proto.mc mydomain.mc vi mydomain.mc divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)mydomain.mc $Rev

hotplugd(8) mount flash drive

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
I am trying to use hotplugd(8) to mount my USB flash drive (/dev/sd1i) automatically in /mn/flash when I plug it it. I enabled hotplugd in /etc/rc.conf.local and wrote the following script (chmod +x bit set) #!/bin/sh DEVCLASS=$1 DEVNAME=$2 case $DEVCLASS in

Re: hotplugd(8) mount flash drive

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
On Jan 29, 2008 12:24 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to use hotplugd(8) to mount my USB flash drive (/dev/sd1i) > automatically in /mn/flash when I plug it it. I enabled hotplugd in > /etc/rc.conf.local and wrote the following script (chmod +x bit set

Re: hotplugd(8) mount flash drive

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
> # Maybe some debugging will help: > # > exec >> /tmp/logfile 2>&1 > set -x i changed the /etc/hotplugd/attach script with "JetFlash*" and also enabled debugging - any further help would be much appreciated. Thanks. /var/log/messages output - Feb 1 17:30:11 red /bsd: umass0 at uhub0 port 2 con

avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
my logs are filled with useless ssh bruteforce attempts - is there anything i can do to avoid logging random brute force attacks? since i disallow ssh root login and use the allowuser acl - i guess i could just avoid logging all these random attacks in my logs. Any suggestions would be much apprec

Re: hotplugd(8) mount flash drive

2008-02-01 Thread Chris
On Feb 1, 2008 3:19 AM, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > change > JetFlash*) > to > TS8GJFV30*) this worked. thanks!

Re: photo/ image viewing software

2008-02-01 Thread Chris
> I usually use gqview for general photo viewing, simple fast, and effective. this is exactly what i was looking for. thanks.

Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/ to use in minicom to access the switch. I can see there is no /dev/uplcom0 or /dev/ucom0

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
On Feb 2, 2008 10:29 PM, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /dev/ttyU0 > you should use /dev/cuaU0 for "dial-out". Thanks. I tried both /dev/ttyU0 and /dev/cuaU0 in minicom. They both seem to go to the "initializing modem" phase but when I turn on the switch with "/dev/cuaU0" configuration

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
the baud rate? This Cisco 3950 switch is usually connected at 9600 baud rate via serial console. Here's /var/log/aculog - /var/log/aculog - chris (Sun Feb 3 10:05:04 2008) call completed chris (Sun Feb 3 10:09:06 2008) call terminated chris (Sun Feb 3 10:09:08 2008) call completed Thanks.

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
On Feb 3, 2008 10:22 AM, johan beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may hit space or enter. I did but looks like it just hangs in there - jammed. Nothing happens. > Sometimes it just has to wake up. Cisco, > by default, uses 9600 8,N,1 if i remember correctly. Yes. You are right. > Is there

hotplugd: detach script needed?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris
My USB drive and camera get automagically mounted by hotplugd attach script. I was wondering if I need to write a detach script as well. Bob Beck mentioned in his undeadly post that the detach script is not really needed. Could anyone shed some light on this please? Thanks.

running mail server at home

2008-02-07 Thread Chris
I have a P3 box with 120GB HDD that's doing web, ssh and samba at the moment. I am planning setup sendmail, spamd, mimedefang, clamd and spam-assassin on this box along with web, ssh and samba. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with running a mail server at home. I want to know if I sho

sendmail setup documentation

2008-02-07 Thread Chris
Could anyone point me to a good documentation on how to setup a direct sendmail mail server on openbsd 4.2? I know there's the manpages and the README file but those are going over my head. Most of the documents I google for either talk about smarthost or postfix or sendmail client. Thanks for any

upgrade from 4.2-release to -current error

2008-02-11 Thread Chris
I am trying to upgrade from 4.2-release to -current. I am following: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html I did: cd /usr export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src cvs -d$CVSROOT up -Pd cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf config GENERIC config GENERIC gives me the following error:

upgrading to 4.3-beta

2008-02-23 Thread Chris
I have upgraded my 4.2-release to 4.3-beta. But I am a bit confused as I cannot see snmpd.conf, relayd in /etc. However, I can see them in /usr/src/etc/. When I login it says, 4.3-beta and uname -amp shows 4.3 GENERIC #1. I followed: http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20071125 and then, http:/

[OT] Pursuing Management to adopt OpenBSD

2008-03-20 Thread Chris
I been trying (rather unsuccessfully) to convince various clients and employers to adopt OpenBSD. Most people, I find, are resistent to change and would not use anything they are not familiar with. Others would say that if I leave the job, it would be hard to find people who can use (or even heard

cheaplaptopparts.co.uk looking for related sites

2007-02-28 Thread Chris
My name is Chris and I work on behalf of www.cheaplaptopparts.co.uk. I am looking for quality, related websites to swap hyperlinks with and I came across your site, monkey.org and wondered if you would consider swapping hyperlinks with us? Cheaplaptopparts.co.uk sells laptop adaptors and

samba: tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

2007-07-26 Thread Chris
I'm running samba on 4.1-release but every time I try to connect (smbclient -U chris 192.168.25.18\\tmp), I get this error - Domain=[BLUE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME Here's my /etc/samba/smb.conf file [global] bind

[OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-09 Thread Chris
I'm trying to buy (from ebay) a cisco switch, router and pix firewall for learning purposes. All these will be connected to a Linksys ADSL modem which also has wireless capability. The OSs will be OpenBSD4.1, Windows XP and Linux distros. I will probably also try IPv6 (not sure if that has got anyt

Re: MS Exchange to MBOX

2007-08-15 Thread Chris
nversion? > > Thanks > Josh > An alternative to consider, Zimbra. It has an app that will atlease allow you to pull in the mail to it's server and you still keep a certain amount of collaboration. -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639

installing jdk-1.5 on 4.1 (i386) error

2007-08-18 Thread Chris
I downloaded all the packages & put them in /usr/ports/distfiles. I had to change the Sha1 checksum for xalan-j_2_7_0-bin.tar.gz as make(1) was exiting with a signature mismatch error. (File: /usr/ports/devel/jdk/1.5/distinfo) I go to /usr/ports/devel/jdk/1.5 and type "make install" and it exits

permission for /var/mail

2007-08-18 Thread Chris
fetchmail was complaining that procmail cannot create /var/mail/me while fetching mail. The permission on /var/mail/ directory was set to - drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 19 12:16 /var/mail/ I changed it to - drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 19 12:16 /var/mail/ It's working fine now since

Re: installing jdk-1.5 on 4.1 (i386) error

2007-08-20 Thread Chris
On 8/20/07, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Unexepected EOF" ? That means that the download never completed that the > file is truncated (which leads to the SHA1 and Size mismatch) Thanks to all who replied. The SHA1 for jdk1.5 in OpenBSD 4.1 is correct. The issue was with downloa

calling firefox from mutt

2007-08-25 Thread Chris
Not sure if it's OpenBSD related but I'm using urlview v0.9 with mutt v1.5.12 and firefox v2.0.0.3 on OpenBSD 4.1. My window manager is wmii. I just put the following line in my /home/me/.urlview and nothing in .muttrc or anywhere else. When I go to mutt and press CTRL-b, it shows the url list and

upgrading ports from 4.1 to 4.2

2007-09-09 Thread Chris
I will be upgrading my ports tree from 4.1-release to 4.2-release when 4.2 comes out. This is my first ports upgrade. So I was wondering if my action plan looks right: - backup my existing 4.1 /usr/ports directory - untar the 4.2 ports tgz file in /usr/ports - go to /usr/ports/path/to/applicatio

FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-13 Thread Chris
I was wondering whether this - http://openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO - FAQ entry should be changed as OpenBSD now does provide ISO for base install?

sudo & wheel group

2007-09-15 Thread Chris
I been looking for ways to let normal user run privileged commands and after some searching found that adding users to the wheel group is bad and also adding NOPASSWD and ALL = ALL to sudoers for an user is also plain as bad. The only alternative I can think of at the moment is to populate the sudo

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Chris
On 9/16/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly are you trying to enable users to do? The fact that you need to > provide normal users with these kind of privileges indicates a possible flaw > in your overall scheme. You may find that, after careful reconsideration, > there are p

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-17 Thread Chris
On 9/17/07, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem is. This is why people keep asking you to explain the problem > more. Sorry for being vague. Ok, I have these in /etc/sudoers for joeuser. joeuser is also in the wheel group. joeuser server = NOPASSWD: /sbin/mount, /usr/libexec/loca

mounting Sony digital camera in 4.1

2007-09-27 Thread Chris
I'm trying to mount a Sony DSC-P100. /var/log/messages output - Sep 27 14:33:23 host /bsd: ugen1: Sony Sony PTP, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 But there is no /dev/ugen1 rather /dev/ugen0.00 - 1.15 and I cannot seem to mount it with mount /dev/ugen0.00 or /dev/ugen0.01. I read the uge(4) manpage but confu

running password gorilla on 4.1 on i386

2007-10-16 Thread Chris
I'm having trouble running Gorilla on 4.1. I downloaded the source file (http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/download/gorilla-1.4.tar.gz) and ran ./configure. If I type ./gorilla the GUI client says "The password Gorilla requires the [incr TCL] add-on to Tcl. Please install the [incr Tcl] package

Re: hard drive problem

2006-07-31 Thread Chris
> There is a way to test hard drives for possible failures or foresee those errors? Try www.Spinrite.com for drive testing and data recovery. If all is lost, you can wipe the disk with BCWipe (www.jetico.com) then test again with Spinrite. This has recovered several disks for me. SMART is close

Re: OT: BSDi 4.0 - 4.1

2006-08-17 Thread Chris
Diana Eichert wrote: >> thus Jack J. Woehr spake: >> 3. There are few or no ways in Hades to get a CDROM of 4.0/4.1 > > eBay? > > > I have 2 copies ... Any high bids?! -- Best regards, Chris Nothing improves an innovation like lack of controls.

Re: Mail gateway behind MS Exchange

2006-09-06 Thread Chris
your E2K3 server with the help of ssh. It sounds complex (it is for a newb) but once you wrap yer head around what's going on - it really works very well. I did that at my company and its a work of art. Unless you want to pay for add ons like Mail Essentials (I think that is by far the

OpenBSD 4.3 network connectivity issues

2008-08-25 Thread Chris
I use wpi0 to get to the net and never had issues until now. I get IP from the DHCP pack of the ADSL modem. But can't connect to the net. If I ping mit.edu I get: ping: sendto: No route to host ping: wrote mit.edu 64 chars, ret=-1 then I have to do dhclient wpi0 and get issued an IP and ping mit.ed

[OT] IronPort mail servers

2008-09-26 Thread Chris
I know this is not OpenBSD related but I'm just asking for if someone has any first-hand experience with IronPort [1] My company has decided to move away from Solaris 8 mail system (sendmail, clamav, mimedefang, relaydelay and god-knows-what-else) - the reason for the move is that the current

mutt: SMTP authentication requires SASL

2008-10-13 Thread Chris
I've been trying to send mails via Gmail's IMAP using Mutt 1.5.17 on OBSD 4.3. I installed this Mutt from the package list. But sending mails don't work as it says "SMTP authentication requires SASL" The output of mutt -v shows "-USE_SASL". Is there any way to get around this on OBSD 4.3 w/o compil

xidle, xlock with awesome window manager

2008-10-25 Thread Chris
I'm using awesome window manager and trying to configure xlock so my system gets locked after "x" seconds if I don't touch the keyboard or mouse. But nothing seems to be happening after "x" seconds. I tried to put the following in my .Xdefaults XIdle.timeout: 5 XLock.mode: random XLock.mousemotio

OpenBSD 4.4 installation error: write failed; file system full

2008-11-04 Thread Chris
I've download and burned the 4.4 ISO from a local mirror and trying to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 on i386. After the installer does the fsck -fp, I get the following error: uid 0 on /: file system full /: write failed; file system full cp: /tmp/hosts: No space left on device I've also tried the 4.3

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 installation error: write failed; file system full

2008-11-04 Thread Chris
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt he's trying to install stuff to the ramdisk... Thanks all for your help. My current OpenBSD 4.3 installation is sitting on / (/var, /home, /root and everything else is under /) - only one partition. And I have abo

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 installation error: write failed; file system full

2008-11-04 Thread Chris
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kenneth R Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:37:40PM -0800, Chris wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I doubt he's trying to install stuff to

pkg_add error: +CONTENTS does not exist

2008-11-04 Thread Chris
I been updating packages from 4.3 to 4.4 but my box rebooted due to a power outage and now I'm getting the following error while updating packages: Warning: couldn't read packing-list from installed package jasper-1.900.1 File /var/db/pkg/jasper-1.900.1/+CONTENTS does not exist /usr/sbin/pkg_add:

Re: pkg_add error: +CONTENTS does not exist

2008-11-05 Thread Chris
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:05:56PM +0100, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: >> Stuart Henderson wrote: >>> On 2008-11-05, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I been updating pa

IBM T60: ACPI suspend and resume working

2008-11-18 Thread Chris
I'm trying to get ACPI suspend and resume working. Typing "apm -z" from my window manager's xterm just returns me back to the shell. Typing "apmd" and then "apm -z" tells me "System will enter suspend mode momentarily." and then nothing happens. Following is my dmesg. Thanks for any help. OpenBSD

4.4 installation on a large disk

2008-11-21 Thread Chris
I'm trying to install x86 4.4-release on a RAID mirror 465.8g disk. The installation hangs after the last file set is installed (xserv44.tgz): it just sits there and I cannot use my keyboard anymore. The BIOS shows there are two disks of 500G. During the the installation I can see two disks: wd0 a

OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-29 Thread Chris
I'm trying to install OBSD 4.4-release on this desktop which has two hard disks of around 465 GB each. If I install on wd0 with only one partition (/) of 10GB, the installation goes smoothly. But if I try to allocate /tmp (20g), /home (100g), / (50g), /var (50g), /usr (50g), swap (3g), the installa

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-30 Thread Chris
> 2) in an earlier message you indicated that there was some kind of > RAID on this system, I think it is safe to say that it is a BIOS-assisted > software RAID, which COULD be causing you problems if it is still > configured in the BIOS. And even if it isn't causing this problem, > it WILL bite y

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-12-01 Thread Chris
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Richard Toohey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a couple of Dell SC440s with the same sort of set-up, and > no problems here. > > Two 500Gb drives, wd0 and wd1: I have resolved this issue. I tried the installation again and this time selected fdisk before sele

PF ssh bruteforce logging and blocking

2008-04-15 Thread Chris
I have some rules in my pf.conf for ssh brute force where it should block and log the offending IP address in /etc/bruteforce file. I also told syslog to log all ssh logging in /var/log/sshd. I can see some failed login in /var/log/sshd but my /etc/bruteforce file is still empty. Here's my pf.conf

Re: PF ssh bruteforce logging and blocking

2008-04-15 Thread Chris
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Calomel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you see ips in the "bruteforce" table? > pfctl -t bruteforce -T show > If you want to dump those ips from the table to the text file you can > always do "pfctl -t bruteforce -T show >> /etc/bruteforce" Thanks. This resol

Re: irc

2008-04-27 Thread Chris
u would be best served to use freenode. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-

wpi-firmware upgrade on 4.3

2008-05-17 Thread Chris
As a part of upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3 I needed to upgrade wpi-firmware to v2.14.1.5. As this package is not available from the package list. I needed to set PKG_PATH to http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/packages/openbsd/ and then pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends wpi-firmware and then choose th

Re: Lastet supported jdk on OpenBSD

2008-05-17 Thread Chris
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:03:17PM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote: >> i would like to add support for java on my 4.3 openbsd desktop. Has >> anybody already done so? May you point a url where i could download >> the package

[OpenBSD 4.2] dhclient issues

2008-05-18 Thread Chris
I am having issues with one of my OBSD boxes receiving DHCP IP address from my ADSL modem. This problem has just started recently and I am not sure if it's a software or hardware that's causing the issue. My network interface is fxp0 and if I do "ifconfig fxp0", it shows "status: no career". If I d

[OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Chris
I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for development use only or development+personal use? I know -current can break sometimes and am just cu

Realtek 8185 wireless card

2008-05-24 Thread chris
for my dad who will only be using it for about a month and a half anyway, but I am curious if its a problem with this particular card, or with some 8185's in general Chris Bennett

Logitech diNovo Edge Keyboard with OpenBSD 4.3

2008-08-02 Thread Chris
I want to buy this keyboard and like to know if anyone uses it with OpenBSD 4.3 [http://tinyurl.com/5szfz6] [ebay.com]. >From little what I understand, it uses USB technology and the connection from the USB to the keyboard is wireless and uses bluetooth. I wonder if this would actually work with O

pppoe slow on openbsd

2006-10-19 Thread Chris
I write once again for the same old things I was writing at the opwnbsd 3.4. If you search the emails to the list are there. Same old same old. The pppoe dial error (userland) "cant assign requsted address" after 4 major OpenBsd releases didnt go away. Noone cared to address the situation and of

Re: New Article

2006-11-24 Thread Chris
Brian O'Sullivan wrote: > Has anyone seen > http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD ? > Quite informative. > This site is a riot! it makes fun of all the OS's -- Best regards, Chris Never eat at a place called moms, never play cards with a man named doc, and never lie dow

Re: ppp[1508]: tun0: Warning: ff02::%tun0/32: Change route failed: errno: Undefined error: 0

2005-06-11 Thread Chris
You using a german provider right? So dont worry about it till now I have found no way to get around this from openbsd 3.3 I use pppoe. T-online is broken and alice and I others are better but this is an issue for them too. So just sto worring its just the message it do no harm in anything;) On

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