Re: dynamic dns updates for clients in my home network?

2020-04-25 Thread john slee
I also encountered this requirement and created a tool to handle it. It runs as a non-privileged user and is independent of dhclient and the like. My DNS zones are hosted in AWS, so it uses their API. No other DNS providers are supported. https://github.com/jsleeio/ru1 I'm much more sysadmin than

Re: Recommendations for USB Barcode Scanner and Thermal Receipt Printer

2020-07-27 Thread john slee
+1 for Symbol here. Have used them in factory environments and I can’t recall one ever failing. If buying used, be sure you can get the documentation for it, as these are often configurable (eg. continuous vs. triggered scanning) via scanning special barcodes. John On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 07:20

Re: IPv6 NDP not completing

2019-07-31 Thread john slee
Hi, I'm having very similar problems to this, I think. Syspatch'ed OpenBSD 6.5 on an apu4c4, with my ISP-supplied termination device (cable modem, effectively) directly attached to an ethernet interface. No switch. IPv4 works fine. DHCPv6 NA+PD seems to work OK — I get v6 NA & PD assignments — but

Re: What is you motivational to use OpenBSD

2019-09-04 Thread john slee
User since ~2001 here, albeit intermittently. My first encounter with it was where it was used — mostly to run Postfix, Squid and BIND, if my hazy memory is trustworthy — by a private company who was effectively an ISP for many Australian Federal Government departments. I think the aspect I like m

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread john slee
I really like Markdown for actual writing, because its markup for logical structure is quite low-key and non-distracting, and (unlike *roff or LaTeX) it also reads pretty well in source form. Tables are fairly annoying, particularly if I later have to insert a column in mid table. Use whatever edi

Re: Config-/Dotfiles in CVS

2017-12-29 Thread john slee
I've not gone beyond a few thousand servers with Puppet but I can share a few things. * initially it feels like a *whole lot* of busy-work to get to a minimally-useful level * once there, knowing you can rapidly replace things is good for your stress levels! * in my experience the community Pupp

Re: gcc-4.9.4 package build signal 11 [Segmentation fault] on Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway

2018-02-20 Thread john slee
I also had a similar experience trying to build gcc6 on my Edgerouter Lite (same model as linked on tedu's blog page, which is how I discovered this little machine initially) on a snapshot from ~2 weeks ago. MP kernel, with the ERL's /usr/ports on an NFS volume hosted by an amd64 OpenBSD system. I

Re: Go programs only using one CPU core

2021-03-27 Thread john slee
Hi, > On 2021-03-26, Richard Ulmer wrote: > > The `go` directive starts a new goroutine, which I would expect to be > > put into it's own process here. However, using htop(1) I can see, that > > only one of my two cores gets load. Running the same program on Linux, > > two cores are utilized. Th

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread john slee
Hi, On 26 August 2013 14:11, Denis Maros wrote: > Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin > parallel port on motherboard. > I've tried to access this device simply via this command: > # echo "Test" > /dev/lpt0 > If it's one of the common Hitachi-compatible LCDs (an

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-17 Thread john slee
On 17 September 2013 20:37, Jes wrote: > but if you want you can mount them in /etc/fstab. Simply read the > documentation about permissions and syntax. It's very easy. > For NFS the best way is mount them in /etc/fstab too. > /Why/ is it the best way, though? Unlike automounters, static fsta

Re: ftp/sftp file size limit

2013-09-21 Thread john slee
On 21 September 2013 17:07, wrote: > Is it possible to limit the accepted file size of any uploaded file by > configuring the ftp or the sftp server (OpenBSD 5.3/amd64)? > You can do this on a per-user basis with a login class (man login.conf, then man useradd) but the user experience is not exa

Re: Looking for a way to deal with unwanted HTTP requests using mod_perl

2016-09-30 Thread john slee
On 29 September 2016 at 03:20, Chris Bennett < chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > I am not sure what is appropriate, given netiqette and practicality for > my server. I am sick of thousands of identical requests in my error log, > plus I want to be able to look over my logs easily to fin

Re: Correct shebang for Python 3

2016-10-22 Thread john slee
Meta: this "how do I manage multiple Pythons?" thing has come up a couple of times lately; are people interested in a FAQ section? On 23 October 2016 at 03:54, Eugene Yunak wrote: > I'd set the shebang to `/usr/bin/env python3`, or `/usr/bin/env python` if you > do not care whether 2 or 3 would b

Re: OpenBSD httpd and HTTP/2

2017-04-04 Thread john slee
I think it ends up neutral or slightly positive. If your site developers have got rid of the old HTTP/1.x antipatterns (separate FQDN for static resources, FQDN sharding, etc), turning on HTTP/2 will probably be a net win. Easily enough to cancel out the added cost of mandatory TLS? But just adopt

Re: OpenBSD Cloud Offerings

2012-11-28 Thread John Slee
On 28/11/2012, at 11:31, "C. Bensend" wrote: > Small price to pay, though - ARP is fantastic and I've had nothing > but good experiences with them. +1. Also, a suggestion: if a VPS provider doesn't explicitly offer the OS you want, ask - even if they don't list the OS at all. When I setup my V

Re: greyscanner - sender with no MX or A

2012-12-28 Thread john slee
On 27 December 2012 23:59, Marc Espie wrote: > I would be careful with that guy's work... you may suddenly find yourself > in the bathroom with a backed up toilet gargling shitz out. I wouldn't use language quite that strong, not knowing anything about Bob, but it looks like he didn't read 'per

Re: Strange ksh history behaviour

2013-01-07 Thread john slee
On 8 January 2013 03:56, Jan Stary wrote: > e.g. mutt: > > EDITOR Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset. > VISUAL Specifies the editor to use when composing messages. If in vi mode and have set $VISUAL, it will be used when you press v to edit the commandline in an editor. At least

Re: new computer

2013-01-11 Thread john slee
On 10 January 2013 22:21, Matt Morrow wrote: > You do realize the typical life of a battery is about a year? Poppycock. My FondletopPro battery still gives damn close to the performance it gave new in early 2011. The battery in my Fondleslab 3GS is near 4 years now and hasn't degraded that muc

Re: videos in httpd

2016-06-23 Thread john slee
Hi, Replying off-list because not an OpenBSD issue. On 22 June 2016 at 01:49, jsg wrote: >For those of you running http in support of your business, are any of > you providing > videos for your customers ? > If so what packages and set-up are you using? > Any advice guidance appreciated

Re: videos in httpd

2016-06-23 Thread john slee
apologies, that was *supposed* to be off-list but I failed at mail :-/ John On 23 June 2016 at 21:37, john slee wrote: > Hi, > > Replying off-list because not an OpenBSD issue. > > On 22 June 2016 at 01:49, jsg wrote: > >>For those of you running http in support o

Re: xSSL stuff

2014-06-12 Thread John Slee
On 13/06/2014, at 14:23, Christian Pedaschus wrote: >>> One could have said the same about OpenSSH... or not? >> >> That doesn't even make any sense. > > What i was trying to say: > if OpenBSD does it right, then (maybe) the others will follow... It would be totally ok if OpenSSH programs were al

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-20 Thread john slee
On 20 October 2014 14:13, Worik Stanton wrote: > Yes all traffic of a country can be analysed, fairly close to real time. > With some basic statistics, smart sampling and a dedicated team > crafting cleaver algorithms... That is what those big budgets are for! Can throw in some real-world exper

Re: Learning C Programming

2012-06-21 Thread john slee
On 22 June 2012 03:37, cody chandler wrote: >  Talk about learning C Programming and the K&R book being a good one.  Is > this the book? > > http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/0131103628 I learned C from the first edition of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Programm

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-22 Thread john slee
On 22 June 2012 22:55, Gilles Chehade wrote: > Someone who really wants to understand things will look at the man > pages and try to understand, someone who doesn't give a damn about > getting things done right will produce crap with or without proper > courses ... hear => forget see => remember

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread john slee
TLDR: It's not your place to tell others what they like. On 28 June 2012 07:59, Peter Laufenberg wrote: > It took me _years_ to understand and respect that graphic design > isn't all that subjective, that it's a craft, with harmonic rules similar > to music Maybe it does, but your comment sounds

Re: Smtpd disposable addresses

2012-08-31 Thread John Slee
On 31/08/2012, at 9:30, ml+helloke...@extensibl.com wrote: > I think you can use '+' character instead (bob+canitrust...@bobszz.net, bob+groupedascompanyc...@bobszz.net), can't you? Tried it lately? Every other website incorrectly reinvents "is this a valid email address" logic. It's just a trivia

Re: Unix source code (was Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?)

2011-06-23 Thread john slee
On 24 June 2011 04:57, Brett wrote: >>Sure. Not to mention it came with source code, which you only got from > >> AT&T if you had a source license, and those were*expensive*. I was >> fortunate enough to work for a company that had exactly that source >> license during the 1980:s, and I learned a*

Re: Expected throughput in an OpenBSD virtual server

2011-08-22 Thread john slee
On 22 August 2011 23:45, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: >> As http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html states, there's little you can tweak > to improve your numbers; just get a nice-clocked, good cache-sized CPU and > give it some loving. > > The FAQ you refer to seems to be of no use at all and is totally

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

2011-08-26 Thread john slee
On 27 August 2011 06:09, Rob Payne wrote: > Chris, feel free to get out of the US. We do not need any apologists > here. The free world would not be so without us. Discouraging expression of ideas that don't toe the Party line sounds rather like one of the USA's old enemies... One can certainl

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-01 Thread John Slee
On 01/09/2011, at 9:23 PM, Daniel Gracia wrote: > Lambo, Ferrari, Maserati, Aprilia... As you are an owner, you should know their historic -let's call it- 'temperamental' behaviour ;-) I thought Aprilia used Rotax engines in some (all, maybe?) of their bikes Nein? John

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-06 Thread john slee
Hi, On 7 September 2011 01:34, Daniel Villarreal wrote: > Thanks, that's very interesting. Melkus Sportwagen GmbH is offering an RS > 2000 for only 109.900 EUR. The RS 1000 had a 2-stroke engine. I bet that > gets some attention. > > I was just studying production-line methods of Daimler AG's Me

Re: UEFI BIOS

2011-10-01 Thread john slee
On 2 October 2011 08:03, LeviaComm Networks wrote: > First off, the UEFI boot will *not* prevent other OS's from booting, it will > only pop up a message saying that the boot process was not secure, just like > how you can run unsigned code and it will only pop up a box stating as much. > It woul

Re: man cp: -i versus -f

2011-06-15 Thread john slee
On 16 June 2011 04:32, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Guideline 11: > The order of different options relative to one another should not > matter, unless the options are documented as mutually-exclusive and > such an option is documented to override any incompatible options > preceding it. IMHO later opti

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-21 Thread john slee
On 22 June 2011 11:48, Benny Lofgren wrote: > Linux is, in that regard, an abomination. It's the bastard child of > someone not properly trained in the "unix way", who made stuff up > as he went without regard for history, continuity, elegance or, for > that matter, backwards compatibility. Fair

Re: equivalent of Linux "mount -o bind"

2011-02-02 Thread john slee
On 3 February 2011 03:13, wrote: > Update: I have it on fairly good authority that this behavior is > considered a bug in the Linux kernel, which will be fixed as soon as > someone gets around to it. If you are a kernel maintainer and know > more about this issue, or are willing to fix it, I'd lo