Why is BRE still around? (Re: Porting shell scripts from Tiny Tools)

2023-11-17 Thread Marc Chantreux
r good reason for BRE to be still alive? (perfomance, simplicity, or anything else). Regards. Marc

Re: Why is BRE still around? (Re: Porting shell scripts from Tiny Tools)

2023-11-17 Thread Marc Chantreux
, causing > a great deal of confusion. It would be nice to compare all those langages. I just googled and found this: https://gist.github.com/CMCDragonkai/6c933f4a7d713ef712145c5eb94a1816 Regards and thanks again for enlightening me today. Marc

Re: Why is BRE still around? (Re: Porting shell scripts from Tiny Tools)

2023-11-19 Thread Marc Chantreux
else >&2 echo "$awk don't" fi <<-% baaab baab % for awk in gawk mawk "busybox awk"; do does done which leads me to gawkdoes mawkdon't busybox awk does Sorry about the fake news :/ Regards, Marc

Re: cumbersome mtree

2023-11-28 Thread Marc Espie
We used to use mtree for packages at well. At some point, it was simpler to just give up and roll our own format for the same thing. There are many many limitations to mtree

Re: mountd

2024-01-09 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 07:27:47AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > resreved means that the port number is below 1024. The RPC system, > (which is used to implement NFS) iuses portmapper to determine which > service runs on which port. What problem are you trying to solve? I'm not a fan of that termi

Re: ubnt edgerouter 8

2024-04-30 Thread Marc Peters
eg. https://noctua.at/en/nf-a4x10-flx hth, Marc

Re: ubnt edgerouter 8

2024-04-30 Thread Marc Peters
Am Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 12:03:10PM UTC, schrieb Stuart Henderson: > Do be aware that they often have less airflow than the original fans. > > Sometimes that is not a problem, but sometimes you might want to think > twice (especially in, say, the power supply in poe switches, which might > end up g

Re: A minimal browser in base

2022-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
We used to have lynx in the base system. It was removed because of security concerns and no-one willing to audit/replace it. This is a fairly common pattern in OpenBSD. Considering the complexity of the web, I don't see this ending any differently with any other text browser.

inaccuracy in the faq regarding ntpd

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Beste
t; message will appear in /var/log/daemon' it should say: 'a "clock is now synced" message will appear in /var/log/daemon' I have observed this on OpenBSD 7.1 amd64. Thank you very much for your time and effort. Best regards, Marc

Re: xine's ffmpegaudio doesn't downmix, sio_getpar() reports 6 channels instead of 2

2022-10-03 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 09:26:31AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 04:31:58PM +, adr wrote: > > Hi, > > > > first of all, I've never contributed to the xine project, and > > I don't have any experience with sndio, so bear with me... > > > > Frustrated with the bad so

ifconfig vs lladdr

2022-11-25 Thread Marc Espie
Maybe I'm stupid, but the way we proceeded with disks was with making euids integral part of mount(8). Why not do the same with lladdr and ifconfig (and lower parts) (possibly with an option, though 60a44ce81465 is rather recognizable as a MAC) ?

Re: error when pkg_add'ing

2023-06-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 06:44:11PM +0200, Pau A.S. wrote: > thanks so much, Marcus; pkg_check helped to identify a LOT of corrupted > files, which I deleted; after that I ran pkg_add -vu and it looks that one > file survived: Having A LOTS of problems in pkg_check usually means something in your p

Re: error when pkg_add'ing

2023-07-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 08:56:41PM +0100, li...@xza.fr wrote: > > Having A LOTS of problems in pkg_check usually means something in your > > process is REALLY BAD. > > > > As the guy who wrote (most of) pkg_add/pkg_check, I don't need pkg_check > > all that often. > > > Just wanted to say: thank

Re: odd choices for pkg_add (-i)

2013-05-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:08:30PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > I usually add a bunch of packages in a row, and when it wants me to > interact, I don't understand why the packages act differently: > > pkg_add subversion mtr arping rsync > Ambiguous: choose dependency for subversion-1.7.8: > a

Re: How to Run WindowMaker and GWorkspace on OBSD 5.3

2013-05-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > I read the man page on startx, I tried to follow the example of > /etc/X11/init/xinitrc where it ran "fcwm || xterm" to run xterm after the > default WM started, by creating an /.xinitrc with "wmaker || > GWorkspace" but it

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:39:17PM -0400, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: > Hi Richard > > Actually I am not looking for a Windows clone, just a > software-correct GUI. I don't need much too. I need text input > widgets and a way to display graphs. The graphs could be > grammatically created images that a

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:19:56AM +, z...@sdf.org wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM -0400, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: > > I tried to load Fluxbox and was disappointed with it. It had several > > menubuttons for application that were not yet installed. > > There is more than just Fluxbo

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 06:05:43PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On 25 May 2013 16:53, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:19:56AM +, z...@sdf.org wrote: > >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM -0400, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: > >> > I tried to load Flu

Re: bug in ksh tab complete

2013-06-03 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:33:25AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas > wrote: > > Ted Unangst writes: > >> If ksh is going to treat : as magic, then it needs to escape it when > >> autocompleting. (step 2 above) > > > > I do agree, but... wh

Re: Compiler error building 5.3

2013-06-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 07:01:27PM +1000, John Tate wrote: > I am having trouble building 5.3, I ran cvs a second time just be to be > sure everything was right. > ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s > ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s: Assembler messages: > ../../../../arch/i386/i386/locore.s:17

Re: Compiler error building 5.3

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:43:24PM +1000, John Tate wrote: > >I didn't think I had to, 5.3 is stable not current or am I wrong about >that? Confusing. >I ended up just upgrading using the sets and everything is fine now. Lol, but you were trying to build from src, without having done

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
Just install ports-readmes-dancer There.

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:00:12AM -0600, Luis Coronado wrote: > Or http://openports.se/ I wouldn't recommend it. It still tries to parse the ports tree by hand, instead of using any number of correct solutions like sqlports or dump-vars, so they get details wrong. You will end up with missing p

Re: Why is there no pkg_find(1)?

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 07:42:27PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:00:12AM -0600, Luis Coronado wrote: > > Or http://openports.se/ > > I wouldn't recommend it. > > It still tries to parse the ports tree by hand, instead of using any number &

Re: Still looking for 1U servers in western canada.

2013-06-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 03:21:36PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > I'm still looking for 1U servers in western canada. we have an > opportunity to build a better build infrastructure for ports but need > the gear to do it with. > > I would be keenly interested in > > 1) Workable semi-modern amd64 capabl

Re: libfaac in ffmpeg on OpenBSD

2013-06-12 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > > Since there was a legal thing the issue is closed. However you're just > nagging. I enhanced the OpenBSD port and thought I'd share, your > response will make me keep these things secret in the future. Come on, 5 mn spent wit

Re: X or cwm got slower

2013-06-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:24:06PM +0100, Callum Davies wrote: > On 25/06/2013 08:58, Philip Guenther wrote > >I'm no X hacker, but I think the 'nv' driver was affected by Xorg > >removing the XAA acceleration framework from the core server. It was > >an evolutionary dead-end, apparently, so don't

Re: MariaDB and OpenBSD

2013-06-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:36:10AM -0700, Bogdan Andu wrote: > ok, that did the trick > > but how can I specify in one place this variable > env LD_PRELOAD=libpthread.so? > > is this related to mariadb-client? > > i think > i'll switch back to mysql until mariadb is fully supported by OpenBSD. >

Re: apropos

2013-06-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:32:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote: > "During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database > backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in > OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the > makewhatis(8) ut

Re: syslog.conf tabs vs spaces

2013-07-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 01:21:28PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Laughably, I got bitten again: > > The selector field is separated from the action field > by one or more tab characters. > > A tab is a tab, not a few spaces. Again, I copied > a syslog.conf line from another xterm after an u

Re: Still unable to compile binaries :(

2013-07-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:50:08PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > > These are defined in y.tab.h, which is created by yacc -d > > This might have been fixed in -current by the import of the newer > version of heimdal, but I don't have time to check right now. > > I suggest you stop using parall

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:56:50PM -0400, Thomas Jennings wrote: > Dear OpenBSD developers and users: > > Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would > share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a > good date to do so since my reasons address national s

Re: Issue: pkg_add gettext-0.18.2p1

2013-07-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 01:14:01AM +1000, MK2 wrote: > # pkg_add http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/ > amd64/gettext-0.18.2p1.tgz > > Fatal error: Ustar [http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/ > amd64/gettext-0.18.2p1.tgz][share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ > gettext-tools.mo]:

Re: goaccess 0.5

2013-07-09 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:01:11AM +0300, Tony Berth wrote: > is anyone using goaccess 0.5 with 5.2 or 5.3? > > When running './configure' I get: > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir

Re: 5.4-beta#20 xterm(1)/luit(1) in cwm, CM-Return random defunc

2013-07-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:06:44AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Jul 10 01:30:23, guent...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Philip Guenther > >> wrote: > >> > Looks like a race in luit's startup, due to how it handl

Re: "respawn"-like behaviour ?

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Peters
On 07/17/13 04:44, Илья Шипицин wrote: > well, vnc repeater (which I'd like to run that way) crashes about once a week. > I'm already debugging it (-ggdb + core dump settings). > > I need some way to respawn it until I'll find out the reason it crashes. > You can try monit. It's in ports.

Re: Java on OpenBSD 5.3

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 09:12:57PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > Pretty sure it takes more than 1.7G to build Java. > > But then how can java people pretend it has any usefulness, besides > filing disks? ^^ Rightful cobol successor, then See yesterday's dilbert... http://dilbert.com/strip

Re: updating -current fail

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: > /usr/bin/Mail -> /usr/bin/mail > /usr/bin/mailx -> /usr/bin/mail > ===> usr.bin/make > install -c -S -s -o root -g bin -m 555 make /usr/bin/make > install -c -o root -g bin -m 444 /usr/src/usr.bin/make/make.1 > /usr/share/man/man1/ma

Re: Java on OpenBSD 5.3

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:06:16PM -0600, Jack Woehr wrote: > openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > >On 19. juli 2013 at 3:17 PM, "Matthew Dempsky" wrote: > >>plenty of disk space left in /usr/local (my ports are in /usr/local/ports). > >> > >> > >>/dev/wd0h 3.7G1.8G1.7G52%/usr/loca

Re: Compilers in OpenBSD

2013-08-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:19:11PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > A few of our developers have, over the years, become unafraid of gcc, > and able to investigate issues, backport fixes, and fix or work around > bugs: I'll only mention niklas@, espie@, etoh@ and otto@, and hope the > few others will fo

Re: libfuse - is it real ?

2013-08-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:04:51PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > So this means time for ntfs-3g, zfs and more (maybe also xfs and jfs?) > should be quite near : > Il giorno 06/ago/2013 15:47, "Gleydson Soares" ha > scritto: Some of us are actually curious to see eventual perf measuremen

Re: EuroBSDCon 2013

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:07:58PM +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: > I would be great if someone could record the OpenBSD videos for > EuroBSDCon 2013 and post > them on youtube. > > I'm particularly interested in the Y2038: Going long long on time_t > to cope with 2,147,483,647+1 talk. > > N

Re: Freetype and Fontconfig on OpenBSD

2013-08-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:17:38PM +0100, eat...@hush.com wrote: > Hi there, as you can presume I new to OpenBSD (but not a newbie at > all) and I like well rendered fonts [...] > http://openports.se searching for the packages freetype and > fontconfig, but, I could not find the > fontconfig but f

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On 2013-08-26 00:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: >If the built-in wireless card doesn't work, your options are to replace >it with a supported card or get a supported USB-based one. If you shop >around for used minipci cards or USB wifi sticks with names matching >the ones listed in driver man pages, yo

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:14:44PM +0300, Lars Engblom wrote: > For example in this moment, as I write this, Firefox can not be > installed in a new system installed from snapshots, as the packages > are compiled against an older snapshot (amd64) Known issue. > If there are just space on the ftp s

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:19:02PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:59:29PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > There are also bottlenecks in fanning out from the actual build machines. > > Ports bulk builders are aware of the issues. These take time to so

Re: Modern C++ Compiler for OpenBSD

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:40:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'd like to use some C++ language features that are relatively new. > They include intializer lists, rvalue references and regex (and > perhaps a lambda on occasion). > > Does anyone have a C++ compiler recommendation for OpenBSD?

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:58:12AM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Re-evaluation and auditing is very much a part of the general OpenBSD > development process (see eg http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and > http://www.openbsd.org/security.html, with links therein) already, > but I wouldn't b

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:49:46AM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2013/9/11 Marc Espie : > > Second, low hanging fruit. > > > > There's so much crappy software and hardware out there that you have to be > > REALLY paranoid to think the NSA would target us. I mea

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > A completely other thing is to conclude that two *arbitrary* pieces of > data are the same only because they have the same hash. Arbitrary > means here that the one was not a copy of the other. And this is what > rsync seems to do

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > A completely other thing is to conclude that two *arbitrary* pieces of > > > data are the

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there an alternative for downloading the repository without the > conjecture? Use ftp. That way, you will get rid of those pesky 128 bits checksum, and only rely on your TCP/IP to be reliable. I'm pretty sure the built-in che

Re: How does one use adduser in OpenBSD (stuck in"Enter username[]" loop)?

2013-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:28:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Brian McCafferty wrote: > > On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> > > > > Just in case you didn't notice, when you first install you should have mail. > > $mail > > It will describe reading "

Re: pkg_add hung?

2013-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:42:51AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > > So am I safe to ^C this process and try again? I don't want to corrupt > > the package database since I'll probably not be able to fix it. The package database is *very* resilient. First, the pkgtools operate in such a way as to

Re: fvwm in base [was: "X -configure" segmentation fault]

2013-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 08:12:53PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Hi, > > On 15 September 2013 11:48, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > James Griffin writes: > > > >> * Thomas Adam [2013-09-12 10:17:56 +0100]: > >> > >>> On 12 September 2013 06:10, Carson Chittom wrote: > >>> > Zoran Kolic wri

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:39:58PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > Was really enjoying Gnome 3 but it got a bit sluggish on the > hardware I was using at the time, so headed for something more > light-weight. As a lot of you probably know, there's been a big jump in gfx in current, both for Intel a

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:58PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > > A resembling application is the Git version control system that is > > > based on the assumption that all content blobs can b

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:18:28PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-09-16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > You can use hotplugd(8) to simulate an auto-mounter for known USB disks. > > hotplug-diskmount (in packages) saves a bit of time writing a script for this. > Or there's amd(8) of course..

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:49:37PM +0200, Jes wrote: > On 16/09/13 15:25, James Griffin wrote: > >* Jes [2013-09-16 14:43:48 +0200]: > > > >>Hi all: > >> > >>I use during so long time KDE3. Nowdays I prefer xfce4. Gnome3 is a bit > >>ugly for me. I prefer WMs that integrate the file browser and ot

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 05:52:27PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. > > > > "weakness" in a cryptographic setting doesn't mean *anything* if > > you're using it as a pure checksum

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:16:50PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > >From a checksum I expect two things: (1) the pre-images of elements > > > in the range have all similar sizes, > > Why ? This makes no sense, and is in contradiction

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:23:07AM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > In the case of rsync the hash is applied to strings of a fixed lenth. > In this case the input is finite and we can argue with cardinality. > Just imagine the set finite strings mapped to a single element in the > range. If all the

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
a known hash value there may be weaknesses > > in cryptographic hash functions, but this is not what rsync nor Git > > does, as Marc Espie pointed out in this thread. > > You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what > is the probability that A=B? 2^-160?

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 03:28:11PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what > > > is the probability that A=B? 2^-160? > > > > No, that's never the problem.

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:16:47PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Intentionally I left the problem generic. Is the probability near to 1? YES it is near to 1. Your way to phrase mathematical problems is BOGUS. You can't do probability without formulating a set of complete hypothesis. Your way

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:25:55PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * hru...@gmail.com [2013-09-16 21:33]: > > > It confirms that it supposes: A=B if hash(A)=hash(B). > > > > which is fine even with a relatively poor hash like md5 when the size > > is also checked. >

Re: general ports question

2013-09-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:16:20PM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > So if one has a 5.3 release system running, but finds a desired package in > say 5.1, will pkg_add work on this, assuming I adjust the PKG_PATH to point > to a 5.1 package folder? Or will doing this cause other instabilities? The

Re: Verified OS concerns

2013-09-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:14:37PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a general purpose OS with the > basic reliability of my car, Actually, it looks more and more like the reverse is coming true.

Re: Way too many crashes with recent snapshots (non-HTML-version)

2013-09-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:44:20PM +0200, Stefan Wollny wrote: > Send a second time as this webmail-programm changed to HTML again... > this mail should be better to read. > > Hi there, >   > I have this ancient IBM/lenovo T60 with me while working off-site. This > machine used to be a reli

Re: Way too many crashes with recent snapshots (non-HTML-version)

2013-09-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:26:31AM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote: > laptop has yet to freeze since radeondrm officially in-tree, it was a bit > shakey during the initial radeondrm tests, but those weren't even public > in the first place. > > my Thinkpad T60 does not have an option to switch between r

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill > the same purpose but make use of the infrastructure to do a better job. > http://ports.su/ is based on this. ports-readme-dancer packages it all as a sim

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:31:21PM +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:34:15 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > >> There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill >

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection flavors > of pkg's and -u is for update). Must be run with privileges, i.e. sudo or > root user. You don't need -i in most cases these days, pkg_tools default to

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > * Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > > To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection > > > flavors

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:11:17PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > On 09/23/13 22:54, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > >>* Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > >> > >>>On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:10:34PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-09-23 12:54, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > > * Marc Espie [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 23,

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:36:22PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > Just installed the Oct 3rd snapshot on my desktop. During the boot > process it loses console output and just shows a blank screen. The > screen doesn't go into power saving - just no output. At first I though > the machine froze,

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:38:56AM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > On 10/10/13 05:34, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:36:22PM -0400, Bryan Chapman wrote: > >>Just installed the Oct 3rd snapshot on my desktop. During the boot > >>process it loses console ou

Re: No console output on 5.4-Current

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:27:28PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bryan Chapman > wrote: > > > Thanks -- installing the firmware package resolved the issue. I just > > assumed that the firmware updater would grab it if needed. > > Indeed, fw_update needs to be fi

Re: OpenBSD site SSL

2013-10-12 Thread Marc Espie
On 2013/10/11 22:42, John Darrah wrote: > Hi. Would it be possible to get SSL on the OpenBSD website(s)? > It would be just a couple lines to change in nginx.conf/httpd.conf. > SSL certificates are free from Startcom and cheap from other vendors. > It would be really nice to have, even if it's not

Re: porter's handbook - pkg-readmes

2013-10-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:28:44AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-10-18, Gabriel Guzman wrote: > > +Does my package need a readme? > > +A package may require special instructions to run on OpenBSD, or > > +additional files may need to be downloaded before the port will work > > +proper

Re: How to find a file's list of package

2013-10-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:49:27PM +0200, Alex Naumov wrote: > Hello, > > does anybody know how to find a list of files for some package? > For example, I would like to know which files contains > "athn-firmware-1.1p0" package. More generally, install pkglocatedb, then you'll be able to look for

Re: OpenBSD maintenance compared to FreeBSD

2013-10-30 Thread Marc Espie
The only way to know is to try.

Problems receiving IP with dhclient

2013-11-04 Thread Marc Peters
anges to dhclient or should i talk to my ISP? Cheers, Marc dmesg: OpenBSD 5.4 (GENERIC.MP) #41: Tue Jul 30 15:30:02 MDT 2013 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8151306240 (7773MB) avail mem = 7926591488 (7559MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0

Re: Problems receiving IP with dhclient

2013-11-05 Thread Marc Peters
dump -i -s 2000 -w > > if you want to just capture the packets. Will try both, when it doesn't come up again. It is running fine atm Marc > > Ken

Re: Similar tool as poudriere for OpenBSD

2013-11-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > "C. L. Martinez" writes: > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Vigdis wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:37:17 +, > >> "C. L. Martinez" wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> Exists some tool in OpenBSD similar to

Re: VPN suggestions

2013-11-12 Thread Marc Epstein
I hope to solve those soon. Regards, *Marc Epstein* Senior IT Manager Mobile: (415) 994-4625 Email: marc.epst...@tightropeinteractive.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis < bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr> wrote: > On 12/11/13 19:29, Daniel Polak wrote: > >

Re: VPN suggestions

2013-11-12 Thread Marc Epstein
Ugh...please disregard my signature...it was auto added onstupid me *Marc* On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Marc Epstein < marc.epst...@tightropeinteractive.com> wrote: > Hi > > Just wanted to chime in on my experience with PKI...like you guys said, > initially I fou

Re: 4.4 apachectl configtest segfaul

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Balmer
here to start because i'm totally noob on debugging. If your configuration file does not contain any secrets, can you please mail it to me so that I can take a look at it? Thanks, Marc > > Thanks in advance! > -- > Gabri Mate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Marc Balme

Re: 4.4 apachectl configtest segfaul

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Balmer
; > > > Did you upgrade your packages? > > > > Yes. Apache runs smoothyl. Just the configtest segfaults. well, without more information it is impossible to help you... dmesg, the configfile, the usual stuff > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."

Re: manpage for gpioctl(8) missing?

2008-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer
amp;format=html But it is not up-to date. NB: not all arches have GPIO. > > it is present in 4.4-current on i386 and 4.3 on i386 > > Regards, > -Lars > Lars NoodC)n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://

Re: securelevel(7) and gpioctl(8)

2008-12-09 Thread Marc Balmer
* Lars D. Noodin wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Marc Balmer wrote: >> NB: not all arches have GPIO. > > Thanks. Ok. I see now. The online pages return a result only for items > present in all architectures. > > The need for Securelevel 0 was mentioned. Does that mean the

Re: OT, .. but eCommerce?

2008-12-13 Thread Marc Espie
There are oodles of plugins for drupal for ecommerce sites. I have mostly not ported these because I don't have the usage for it, but it's generally very easy to do (put it under sites/all/modules, check that it works, package). I remember a framework called Hdndel based off catalyst (maybe withou

Re: OT, .. but eCommerce?

2008-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
* Marc Espie wrote: > There are oodles of plugins for drupal for ecommerce sites. > I have mostly not ported these because I don't have the usage for it, but > it's generally very easy to do (put it under sites/all/modules, check > that it works, package). > > I rememb

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:30:32PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, spamtester spamtester wrote: > > > It does not matter what faith one places in the pki or webs of trust > > (gpg/pgp style). Most linux distributions have had their packages > > signed for years (for example at r

Re: XBox360 streaming?

2008-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Has anyone suceeded in streaming video to their xbox from an OpenBSD server? > > > > I have a port of pupnp, which i used with ushare. Sure, the xbox could > > see the share, but

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2008/12/15 Marc Espie : > > Heck, we're further along the curve than most others. If you look closely at > > > OpenSUSE has signed packages and signed repos for years. So have many > other Linux dist

Re: Soekris equivalent

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Balmer
Much confusion, disillution, all around > me." > -- Ian McDonald / Peter > Sinfield > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:21:30PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2008/12/17 Marc Espie : > > We think it's worse to sign packages than not to sign them if you don't have > > a fairly strict process that ensures you have a correct chain of trust. > > Agree

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:19:09PM +1100, spamtester spamtester wrote: > I know that i have the freedom to do this. However, my original question > might have been a bit to bitchy. The issue here is that, openbsd devs donate > their good time making packages. Which is great. However, if they could

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