OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been around since the 5.* days, so I would consider myself fairly seasoned in the ways of OpenBSD. I've obviously done the RTFM dance, done it once, done it twice, been doing it all week long now-- this problem really has me banging my head

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote: Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been around since the 5.* days, so I would consider myself fairly seasoned in the ways of OpenBSD. I've obviously done the RTFM dance, done it once, don

Re: current on HP EliteBook 8530w

type!efff0021 >>> >>> 5c12 Called: \\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.RPPC >>>local0: 0xd2c14d04 cnt:01 stk:60 integer: 2 >>>local1: 0xd2c1d3c4 cnt:01 stk:61 integer: 0 >>>local2: 0xd2c34384 cnt:02 stk:62 objref: 0xd2c20044 index:0 &

Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

ifferent way: Is it possible to hot swap drives and rebuild arrays on the fly, or will this bork my system? Thanks, Jordan Geoghegan

Re: Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

you to try it yourself, but not on production system) On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Jordan Geoghegan mailto:jgeoghega...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, Sorry for my ignorance, I was hoping someone could clarify for me the proper procedure for rebuilding a softraid mirror. The

Re: Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

27 April 2018 11:17:07 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Thanks for the reply, I have rebuilt a softraid mirror before, I was just hoping for some clarification as the faq wording is a little ambiguous as to whether drives can be rebuilt in multi user mode or not. Rebuild is a background kernel operation

Re: USB sound card not playing

I would recommend looking here to start: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html You're going to have to configure sndiod to output to your secondary audio(4) device. To quote from the above faq link: "To change the default audio output device, for example to use an external DAC rather than

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

On 05/15/18 13:04, Tuyosi T wrote: i think it is impossible to print USB only printers . I have successfully printed to several USB based printers in my time with OpenBSD, ranging from USB thermal receipt printers, USB restaurant dot matrix kitchen printers all the way up to your modern day

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

On 05/15/18 18:19, IL Ka wrote: Hello Jordan, >> you can do some neat things and avoid having to remove the ulpt(4) driver from the kernel What can be the reason to remove it? Some people remove the ulpt driver to allow CUPS to interface easier with their printer. This solution has

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

On 05/16/18 00:27, Tuyosi T wrote: hi i can not distinguish between lp and lpr . lpr(1) is a program used to print to an lpd server, wheras lp(4) is a driver that doesn't appear to have been ported from 4.4BSD yet. https://man.openbsd.org/lpr.1 https://man.openbsd.org/NetBSD-7.1/lp.4

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

On 05/16/18 01:10, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:45:12AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 05/16/18 00:27, Tuyosi T wrote: hi i can not distinguish between lp and lpr . lpr(1) is a program used to print to an lpd server, wheras lp(4) is a driver that doesn't appe

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

On 05/19/18 00:04, Mihai Popescu wrote: I don't understand what you are trying to say. I took and iPhone with iOS and Safari ( i think!) on it and pointed the browser to the current link of man pages [1]. All i can say is the layout is displayed on full display, not stretched. Text is fine, par

Re: Different sound sources interfere with each other

t the machine swapping, it's game over-- it becomes nigh impossible to play music. Closing down firefox and letting reaper do its magic (or just reducing ram usage in general) seems to resolve the issue. Just my 2 cents, Cheers, Jordan

Re: New laptop recommendations

Have you considered one of the Librem laptops by Purism? I hear they're quite nice, and are running coreboot straight from the factory. On 06/19/18 03:37, Rupert Gallagher wrote: I'm done with my 10 years old 1200EUR MacBookPro. It served me well, every day, but is now falling apart, finally.

Re: New laptop recommendations

On 06/19/18 11:20, li...@wrant.com wrote: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:59:45 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan Have you considered one of the Librem laptops by Purism? I hear they're quite nice, and are running coreboot straight from the factory. The pinnacle of bullshit talk, utter nonsense, no technical

Re: Ratgod leadership?

al computer knowledge just from reading them. Sorry for the long rambling post. I'd just like to say thank you to the mentally ill crazy person who inspired me to try OpenBSD; if not for his widespread hate spewing drivel against this wonderful OS, I may never have discovered OpenBSD as early as I did. Cheers, Jordan

disable fvwm screensaver?

a short time. I have done the RTFM dance, but I am feeling a little special right now-- I can't find any reference to screen timeout in the fvwm man page. How would one go about disabling the screen timeout on fvwm? Cheers, Jordan

Re: disable fvwm screensaver?

e trick. I popped it into my ~/.profile and am now off to the races! Cheers, Jordan

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

een humble and compassionate, as for the most part, they realize that they know just enough to know that they know nothing. -- Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Jordan On 07/13/18 19:05, Man Hobby wrote: Hi, What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

over ssh using modest hardware. Please reply back with some proper benchmarks as I'm sure many of us would love to take a look. Cheers, Jordan

Re: Can I ask a question about PF Here?

On 07/16/18 15:57, Antonino Sidoti wrote: Hi, Before I go into to much detail, where is the appropriate place to get help for PF related problems? I am really stuck and need some assistance in understanding PF. I can provide diagrams, configuration files too to make is clearer. Thanks in adv

Introducing pf-badhost and unbound-adblock

Hi everyone, I thought I would share a couple scripts I wrote to block ads and bad hosts. I have found them to increase web-browsing speed and reduce battery consumption, especially on mobile devices. They also help reduce pop ups and fake sites, especially on mobile/in apps. I have also fou

Re: Introducing pf-badhost and unbound-adblock

On 08/06/18 10:24, Scott Bonds wrote: On 08/05, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hi everyone, I thought I would share a couple scripts I wrote to block ads and bad hosts. I have found them to increase web-browsing speed and reduce battery consumption, especially on mobile devices. They also help

Re: openbsd port of Emby or Plex

On 08/08/18 16:14, Marc Espie wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:30:52AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: I know minidlna is in ports, but it doesn't do on the fly media transcoding/remuxing with FFmpeg nor does it have an integrated HTML5 video player like Serviio does. I tried minidlna

The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

Hi Folks, I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD called 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing and also has an HTML5 media player. I've found it able to handle cataloguing and indexing my 10TB media library great and I've enjoyed the auto

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

On 08/12/18 01:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-08-12, John Long wrote: I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. They don't usually *want* transcoding but are forced to do it by poor codec support on client devices. Exactly. The only reason I use Serviio is for the on the f

Re: Addblock + Badhost blocking via unbound(8) and pf anchors

looking a way to create a blacklist and you sent this mail just on time. Your web page help me a lot. On the OpenBSD your script do all jobs but on linux based systems I wrote a shell script for update iptables rules. http://analog-radyo.blogspot.com/2018/08/dynamic-block-list-on-linux-iptables.

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

On 08/27/18 09:11, Jon Tabor wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 01:33:27PM +0200, Mohamed Fouad wrote: Hi Carlos, i have a similar requirement and i am considering testing a banana pi router at this moment. I'm currently using a Banana Pro as my home router/firewall. I experienced a bunch of

Re: Change Windows10 disk to OpenBSD, but not sure what disklabel and fdisk mean

If you don't care what's on the Windoze 10 drive, just do a fresh install and allow the OpenBSD installer to use/partition the whole disk. On 09/03/18 10:17, Chris Bennett wrote: Hi, I've gotten tired and paranoid about having Windows 10 on my hard drive in a laptop, but I'm not sure what part

Re: Equipment for OBSD based firewall

With spooky management engine shenanigans and hardware bugs abound, I'm just not interested in putting my faith in x86 again. Too much emotion, too much garbage. Cheers, Jordan

Re: OpenBSD and letsencrypt in Amazon AWS

On 09/09/18 07:05, Monah Baki wrote: Hi All, I have a OpenBSD 6.3 server in Amazon AWS, and I am trying to install from ports letsencrypt. Install was running fine till I got a Fatal message after it was done with the patching process ... Thanks Monah acme-client(1) is in base and is used

Re: Equipment for OBSD based firewall

On 09/10/18 08:22, Sonic wrote: How does the Edgerouter compare in performance to an Atom 2358/2558 based system? Especially interested in firewall performance using site-to-site VPN's. There's trade-offs for everything. The x86 platform is fundamentally flawed and contains innumerable backdo

Re: Remiss on my personal and server security practices, offering server usage to outsiders

On 09/19/18 10:45, Chris Bennett wrote: Right now, I am not living at a fixed location anywhere. All of my internet access is not through a hard line, but by necessity through WiFi or tethering. If I have some kind of server emergency and I do not have my laptop with me, I am forced to access s

Re: vmm setup example for AMD FX-8300 system

On 10/07/18 13:33, Tracy Bales wrote: I have a fresh install of 6.3-AMD64 running on an AMD FX-8300 8 core system. I have created a 10G disk image. I then started the vm to boot the bsd.rd so I can install OpenBSD 6.3-AMD64 into this disk image. Here are my issues: 1) The screen is really

VMM sh: time sleep 30 takes 56 seconds

ave a vmm capable machine available running current, I only own spare macppc and i386 hardware which runs current. Cheers, Jordan dmesg of the host machine: OpenBSD 6.3 (GENERIC.MP) #10: Wed Aug 22 16:42:31 CEST 2018 r...@syspatch-63-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compil

Thinkpad T430

Hello, I have a question about the config, A. and the BIOS setup if any for obsd6.4, please point me in the right direction. Also, is it possible to activate Sim, as I don't trust public Wi-Fi. Thank you very much Leroy Jordan

Setup ThinkPad T430

port. Thank you LeRoy Jordan

Re: Missing LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

On 11/17/18 10:53, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 01:35:05AM +0100, Willi Rauffer wrote: Hello, we want to make one logical volume out of several physical volumes, but there is no \ LVM (Logical Volume Manager) in OpenBSD! Will there be a LVM in OpenBSD in the future? Th

pf-badhost-0.3 released

egan.ca/unbound-adblock.html Regards, Jordan

Re: experience setting up a low memory machine

On 2020-03-11 00:13, Stuart Longland wrote: On 15/2/20 6:43 pm, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: Not really, about 21 years ago I was learning to get XFree86 working, to break free from the console on a desktop with 24MB of RAM. It's all relative… I can recall years ago experimenting with operating s

Re: pf-badhost-0.3 released

On 2020-03-11 12:41, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:53 PM Jordan Geoghegan wrote: pf-badhost and unbound-adblock are both now at version 0.3, released earlier today. Links to the scripts can be found here: www.geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html www.geoghegan.ca/unbound

Re: riscv

On 2020-03-13 09:50, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2020-03-13, "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: Any developer working on a riscv port and willing to share their unofficial work for possible future collaboration? I think I'd have heard by now if somebody was, so I'll go out on a limb and say no,

Re: experience setting up a low memory machine

On 2020-03-11 19:20, Aaron Mason wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 6:47 PM Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-03-11 00:13, Stuart Longland wrote: On 15/2/20 6:43 pm, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: [SNIP] [SNIP] Sometimes it's better to realise when something has past its prime. A year or tw

Re: experience setting up a low memory machine

On 2020-03-13 18:31, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-03-13, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: I wouldn't get too excited about running on low memory machines. The more RAM you can throw at something, the better, as this allows more cache room as well as improving function of ASLR and other m

Re: riscv

On 2020-03-14 23:19, Mike Larkin wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 11:18:11PM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 02:12:19PM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-03-13 09:50, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2020-03-13, "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: Any developer wo

Re: Jitsi on OpenBSD

to hear what tweaks they had to do. Could be that the jitsi server is overloaded. Thanks You may also want to try out talky.io, its treated my me well over the years and has a very similar concept to jitsi. Jordan (ps sorry for sending you this twice, forgot to cc misc on my first attempt)

Re: Hosting a CDN question

On 2020-03-16 03:26, Flipchan wrote: Hey all, My company needs to put up a cdn for fast hosting of javascript, images and css for websites, and then i would need something faster then httpd. Does anyone here run a cdn for static website content? If so what software did u use to set it up

Re: Openbsd mirrors in Kazakhstan?

On 2020-04-10 10:11, Nikita Stepanov wrote: Openbsd mirrors in Kazakhstan? The Russian mirror is hosted by Yandex. Moscow is likely the closest mirror to Kazakhstan, otherwise I would recommend trying one of the CDN options

Back to the Future

Iowa Hey I need to go back in time I got to disable I know I got a boot and soup and single user mode I'm just not sure where to put my dis label at if you don't want to put it out there and public can you please privately email me and give me instructions I really appreciate it but grammar fuk y'

Re: Back to the Future

st saying don't make people want to turn away that may be able to get gold vital help like maintaining packages or either bringing new packages like B complex if necessary Bluetooth cheers George's On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 8:01 PM leroy jordan wrote: > Iowa > > Hey I need to go ba

Re: Back to the Future

We are all a little bunkers and that's okay thanks guys On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 8:26 PM leroy jordan wrote: > nevermind I got the book you guys need to lighten up a little I > understand that a lot of people on here and highly intelligent and > everything some people is in

Re: More than 16 partitions

completely missed the content of merecent responses. Weird, isn't it? Anyway, as this would appear to be quite OT, me'd suggest we continue this (if at all) in private mail... Jan Take care, --zeurkous. Say Hi to Boss Nass for me next time you're in Otoh Gunga. Jordan

Re: SpeedTest-cli results accuracy ?

locations (I usually spin up a few vultr VPS in various locations to confirm my speeds for example). Also, I'm sure you already know this, but you also should never run the benchmarking program on your router, as that will obviously skew the results. Cheers, Jordan On 2020-05-05 17:47,

Re: 10Gbps X520 network adapter only passing 3.5Gbps

On 2020-05-04 06:42, Kalle Kadakas wrote: Greetings OpenBSD community, I am running into severe bandwidth limitations whilst passing traffic through an OpenBSD firewall. The NIC in use is an Intel 10Gb 2-port X520 adapter from which I would hope to pass through at least 7Gbps+, yet the be

Re: 10Gbps X520 network adapter only passing 3.5Gbps

On 2020-05-06 04:04, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-05-06, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-05-04 06:42, Kalle Kadakas wrote: Greetings OpenBSD community, I am running into severe bandwidth limitations whilst passing traffic through an OpenBSD firewall. The NIC in use is an Intel 10Gb

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

On 2020-06-01 06:58, Justin Noor wrote: Hi Misc, Has anyone ever filled a 4TB disk with random data and/or zeros with OpenBSD? How long did it take? What did you use (dd, openssl)? Can you share the command that you used? Thank you so much I've used OpenBSD to overwrite up to 8TB disks.

Potential awk bug?

atest.txt 2>/dev/null | md5     40c28b8ebfd2796e1ae15d9f6401c0c1 Example of the differences: --- mawk.txt    Sat Jun  6 18:43:30 2020 +++ awk.txt Sat Jun  6 18:43:38 2020 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@  9.64.0.0/10  9.128.0.0/9  11.0.0.0/8 -12.0.0.0/8 +12.0.0.0/30  13.0.0.0/11  13.32.0.0/12  13.48.0.0/14 @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@  23.90.64.0/20  23.90.80.0/21  23.90.88.0/22 -23.90.92.0/22 +23.90.92.0/30  23.90.96.0/19  23.91.0.0/19  23.91.32.0/19 @@ -545,8 +545,8 @@  23.133.224.0/24  23.133.240.0/24  23.134.0.0/24 -23.134.16.0/24 -23.134.17.0/24 +23.134.16.0/30 +23.134.17.0/30 Any insight or advice would be much appreciated. Regards, Jordan [1] https://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/delegated-arin-extended-latest

Re: Potential awk bug?

Hi Philip, Thanks for the quick response. I certainly wasn't expecting to find an ancient bug like this. Should I be reporting this bug upstream, or are you planning on upstreaming a diff? Regards, Jordan On 2020-06-06 20:16, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:08 PM Zé

Re: OpenBSD alternatives to Pi-Hole

se be spent mapping each domain to a black hole address. I run unbound-adblock on many Edgerouter Lites and havent had any issues. Regards, Jordan Geoghegan

Re: Potential awk bug?

On 2020-06-08 11:29, Todd C. Miller wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:02:03 -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I certainly wasn't expecting to find an ancient bug like this. Should I be reporting this bug upstream, or are you planning on upstreaming a diff?

Re: Potential awk bug?

On 2020-06-13 05:14, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2020-06-12, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-06-08 11:29, Todd C. Miller wrote: On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:02:03 -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I certainly wasn't expecting to find an ancient bug like this. S

Re: Any idea/suggestion for old Cisco router to be use running OpenBSD current for WG?

86 routing solutions, then the Edgerouter is one of the best bets. Regards, Jordan On 2020-06-23 09:01, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, This might be a bit weird question, but I saw the wireguard being put in the kernel in the last few days and I am very existed abut it oppose to use the package

Potential grep bug?

user 0m50.08s system # See the counter overflow/reset:     jot 4294967350 | grep -c "^[[:digit:]]"     54 All testing was done on a Ryzen desktop machine running 6.7 stable. The grep counting bug can be reproduced with this command:    jot 4294967296 | nice grep -c "^[[:digit:]]" Regards, Jordan

Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, Unless I've got it all wrong, will only display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to display the man page fo

Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

On 2020-06-26 18:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, Unless I've got it all wrong, <https://man.openbsd.org/> will only display ma

Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

On 2020-06-26 20:03, Theo de Raadt wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-06-26 18:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, Unless I've g

pf-badhost + unbound adblock v4 released

Hey folks, just thought I'd share with you that I've released the latest versions of pf-badhost and unbound-adblock. pf-badhost webpage: https://www.geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html unbound-adblock webage: https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html Key pf-badhost changes: * pf-badhost goes porta

Re: Unbound Configuration

On 2020-07-10 14:29, ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com wrote: --- I asked: What I would like to do now is make the *simplest possible* unbound.conf file and get it working. Thinking that an absolutely empty unbound.conf file would be the simplest, I tried it. It doesn't work. Can anybody help m

Re: sysupgrade failure due to boot.conf

On 2020-07-10 15:37, Alfred Morgan wrote: Please, I have had this problem for several versions now and it still isn't working right. I have this on all three of my servers: echo boot > /etc/boot.conf I have this boot.conf because openbsd fails to boot (on all three servers) because it hangs o

PF-BadHost Patch

Hi everybody, I don't want to spam the list here, but I figured this was important enough to warrant an announcement considering several hundred people downloaded the script last week. tl;dr: Bugs found, patch your stuff A couple bugs have been reported by users, one in RipGrep and another i

Re: Potential grep bug?

Hi Demi, On 2020-07-10 22:42, Demi M. Obenour wrote: On 2020-06-23 22:29, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hello, I was working on a couple POSIX regular expressions to search for and validate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with optional CIDR blocks, and encountered some strange behaviour from the base

Re: video capture / streaming

port some USB cameras using the V4L2 protocol, but you may need to play around with formats and resolutions to get the optimal experience/performance. I've done this extensively, as I'm currently working on a CCTV project that will run natively on OpenBSD. Regards, Jordan

Re: CPU usage of httpd+slowcgi

numerous low power cores. Regards, Jordan

Re: Way to find most active IPs for rate limiting with pf

grep "^all tcp" | grep -Fc "192.0.2.4" Regards, Jordan

Re: Adding more syspatch platform.

me on Not that it matters, but I have well over 100 users of OpenBSD on octeon for the different client sites I manage. I'd love to see syspatches for octeon, but I have no business telling you guys what to do. Regards, Jordan

Re: Adding more syspatch platform.

On 2020-08-11 20:35, Theo de Raadt wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 2020-08-11 15:50, Theo de Raadt wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: No, it is a question of which additional platform, you avoided that didn't you octeon is the only one I can think of.

Re: How many IPs can I block before taking a performance hit?

On 2020-08-12 05:11, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, This is one that is difficult to test in a test environment. I've got OpenBSD 6.5 on a relatively new pair of servers each with 8G RAM. With some scripting I'm looking at feeding block IPs to the firewalls to block bad-guys in near real time

Re: Adding more syspatch platform.

spatch related as I'm not a dev, but I'd at least like it to be known that there are people who care about the octeon port and who are willing make an effort for it. Regards, Jordan

Re: Adding more syspatch platform.

On 2020-08-13 02:39, Sebastian Benoit wrote: Jordan Geoghegan(jor...@geoghegan.ca) on 2020.08.12 10:32:21 -0700: On 2020-08-12 02:08, Stuart Henderson wrote: The only proxy we have for "what is really used" is dmesg submissions. Since 6.7 release: amd64 62 i3865 arm64 3

Re: Installation Media Self Integrity Check

On 2020-08-12 21:30, Dan Peretz wrote: Hello, the FAQ states this: "The installXX.iso and installXX.fs images do not contain an SHA256.sig file, so the installer will complain that it can't check the signature of the included sets [...] This is because it would make no sense for the installer

Re: Very slow clock in Debian vmm guest

If you check the mailing list archives, you will see that this issue has been discussed extensively. Dave Voutila has written a linux vmm kernel driver to work around some of the issues: https://github.com/voutilad/virtio_vmmci Regards, Jordan On 2020-08-28 20:48, Aaron Miller wrote: I

Re: home printer

p by enabling lpd and adding a single line in my /etc/printcap file: lp|remote line printer:\ :lp=:rm=192.0.2.5:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: So far this setup has been totally bulletproof and has yet to fail me after over 5000 scanned pages and a couple thousand print jobs. Regards, Jordan

Re: IPv6 problems

On 8/13/19 10:11 AM, Thomas Bohl wrote: Hello, My hostname.vio0 looks like this: dhcp inet6 alias 64 You most likely need to add a route. Add something like this to your hostname file: !route add -inet6 default fe80::1%vio0 Just in case you have the same problem. For whatever reaso

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

its per day. It didn't have a lot of complex DB activity going on, so the benchmarks were more testing httpd and Djangos throughput, but I digress. If you cluster your servers, you should be able to hit far more. Jordan

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

On 8/14/19 9:40 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escano wrote: Hi Jordan, Thanks for replying. I apologize I forgot to mention that I was asking for the web and database spec because this will be an on-premise deployment, cloud platforms are out of the equation. I hope this will clarify my concern

Re: rspamd stop rc script doesn't work in OpenBSD 6.6

On 2019-10-27 17:29, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: Rspamd stop rc script doesn't work in OpenBSD 6.6. 1. Fresh OpenBSD 6.6 installation 2. pkg_add rspamd 3. rcctl start rspamd Works. 4. rcctl stop rspamd timeouts Looking at rspamd logs, it looks like it doesn not work well with SIGTERM. It waits

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it in the past with great success. On 2019-11-02 14:35, Jonathan Drews wrote: Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on O

Re: Tools for writers

On 2019-11-02 13:18, Chris Bennett wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:16:22PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: On 2019-11-02 15:07, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: You obviously never wrote a book. At least not with the requirements OP asked for. > Actually, I am, right now. I've found that "formatting"

Re: Tools for writers

On 2019-11-02 15:54, Marc Chantreux wrote: hello, You can't go wrong with LibreOffice. I've written thousands of pages over the years with it. It may be too "heavy" for some, but for me, if I'm doing something too complex for vi or mousepad, I just fire up LibreOffice. to me there is no such

Re: Tools for writers

On 2019-11-02 18:29, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi Jordan, Jordan Geoghegan wrote on Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 05:44:23PM -0700: I've thought about learning latex and mandoc and all the fancy tools, but I've just never gotten around to it. Actually, both mandoc(1) and mdoc(7) are off-top

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

On 2019-11-03 05:15, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it i

Re: Home NAS

At work where I have to store petabytes of data I use only ZFS. At home that is another story. For the record BTRFS is a vaporware and I would never store the pictures of my kids to that crap. Cheers, Predrag Cheers, Jordan

Re: Running Windows inside vmm/vmd VM.

now that was some very unscientific testing, but hey, you asked for anecdotes. Cheers, Jordan

Re: sysupgrade to 6.6 failed at comp66.tgz

On 2019-11-23 13:45, Rachel Roch wrote: - maybe sysupgrade needs to be patched to avoid this issue? Probably not. sysupgrade has assumptions baked in to it which have evidently been rendered invalid either by another tool or by the person using them. That tool is where the patch most likely

Re: sysupgrade to 6.6 failed at comp66.tgz

On 2019-11-23 14:20, Rachel Roch wrote: This topic has been beat to death. deraadt@ and other have made it clear that if you do not install all the sets, you are running an unsupported configuration. It has been stated that if people keep bitching, they're just going to merge the release s

Re: Can't select files to upload in a browsers

On 2019-12-06 02:56, dmitry.sensei wrote: Firefox and Chromium browser, in the file selection window for upload, does not show the contents of directories other than the Downloads directory OpenBSD 6.6-current OpenBSD 6.6 GENERIC.MP#509 amd64 openbox-3.6.1p7 small, fast & usable window

Re: unbound network optimizations

u may have a better time than you are now by using the VirtIO drivers. The intel nic emulation can sometimes have issues. Better to use an interface designed for virtualized environments. Cheers, Jordan

Re: OpenBSD pf - redirect all DNS queries to local DNS server

s to a particular address causes unbound to eat up a ton of memory, wheras returning NXDomain uses almost no memory. Cheers, Jordan

Re: Traffic prioritization inside VPN

On 2020-01-02 11:13, Radek wrote: what about working directly on rsync side, specifying the maximum transfer rate? (--bwlimit option) Setting the hard transfer rate/limit on the rsync side is not what I need. I want my boxes to be able to use whole available bandwidth anytime. I mean if oth

Re: Odd /tmp behavior

On 2020-01-07 09:16, Raymond, David wrote: On an AMD-64 workstation /tmp fills up to 105% according to df, apparently as a result of UNIX pipes in a shell script passing a whole lot of moderately big files. Examination of /tmp with du and ls -gal on /tmp shows no big files and trying to delete

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