Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 09 21:11:56, themazed...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/2013 08:42 PM, System Administrator wrote: OpenBSD is all about KISS (simplicity) -- have you tried running the bi- annual release update procedure? have you read (carefully) the FAQ section on upgrading? Many users report it takes less

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread James Griffin
-- Jan Stary h...@stare.cz [2013-02-10 09:08:14 +0100]: On Feb 09 21:11:56, themazed...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/2013 08:42 PM, System Administrator wrote: OpenBSD is all about KISS (simplicity) -- have you tried running the bi- annual release update procedure? have you read (carefully)

Re: reboot after panic: pool_do_put

2013-02-10 Thread Paul Irofti
Can you reproduce this consitently? It would make it easier to debug for me.

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata

2013-02-10 Thread Joel Sing
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Joel Sing on Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:44:11 +1100: umount via DUID does not work currently - this will be fixed shortly after the next release freeze has ended. Will that also include shutdown of softraid via DUID? e.g., bioctl -d DUID

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/10/2013 12:02 AM, bofh wrote: Why not make it a ports/package then? On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Crookedmazethemazed...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote:

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/10/2013 02:40 AM, James Griffin wrote: -- Jan Staryh...@stare.cz [2013-02-10 09:08:14 +0100]: On Feb 09 21:11:56, themazed...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/2013 08:42 PM, System Administrator wrote: OpenBSD is all about KISS (simplicity) -- have you tried running the

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-10 Thread Kent Fritz
Just a data point...one of the boxes I've tried (can't remember which of Foxconn nt535, nt-i1250, nt-i2847) had a similar/same problem. About 30%-50% of the time when I switched to it, no kernel messages on the screen, no keyboard. I found that plugging in a USB flash drive caused both the flash

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread MERIGHI Marcus
Hello Crookedmaze, you are too verbose for me to reply inline; thus: - snapshots stability: I use the latest snapshot for a very short time on my notebook, then on my production machines (same arch of course). Doing this for years and bitten me only twice. Follow current.html, though!

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/10/13 08:33, Crookedmaze wrote: ... Thanks for replying guys, I have looked into using snapshots but it looks like the snapshots are based off of current and I had a look at the FAQ and in section 5.1 of the FAQ it says. Between formal releases of OpenBSD, /snapshots/ are made

split-logfile

2013-02-10 Thread Mike.
I've been watching as OpenBSD seems to be moving towards the nginx webserver, and I've made the switch from apache to nginx for all the web servers I run. One thing that was missing from the nginx installs was the perl script that is used in apache-land to split a single server access file into

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata -- WHEW

2013-02-10 Thread Alexander Hall
On 02/10/13 08:13, Scott McEachern wrote: I could have sworn the man page for fsck(8) said something about rule #1 being don't panic, but I couldn't find it in there. Must be somewhere else. So I didn't panic, watched a bit of TV and thought about it... I'm pretty sure you're thinking about

Re: KVM switch - keyboard

2013-02-10 Thread Bastien Durel
Quoting Kent Fritz fritz.k...@gmail.com: Just a data point...one of the boxes I've tried (can't remember which of Foxconn nt535, nt-i1250, nt-i2847) had a similar/same problem. About 30%-50% of the time when I switched to it, no kernel messages on the screen, no keyboard. I found that plugging

Re: apue : for openbsd : which edition?

2013-02-10 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:00:50AM -0500, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: hello, may i know which would be the most suitable edition of 'apue' (1st or 2nd) to learn more about programming services under openbsd? thanks. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/197135 Cheers. -- Juan Francisco

Re: softraid RAID1 + CRYPTO error writing metadata -- WHEW

2013-02-10 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/10/13 14:17, Alexander Hall wrote: On 02/10/13 08:13, Scott McEachern wrote: I could have sworn the man page for fsck(8) said something about rule #1 being don't panic, but I couldn't find it in there. Must be somewhere else. So I didn't panic, watched a bit of TV and thought about

Re: reboot after panic: pool_do_put

2013-02-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:04:37PM +0200, Paul Irofti said that Can you reproduce this consitently? i wouldn't say consistently but oftenish. it just happened again right after i started up opera again. but sometimes opera would keep working long long time before panicing. no other opera

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Maximo Pech
Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Why not make it a live system that boots from cd/dvd/USB/sd with everything already configured and ready to run? El sábado, 9 de febrero de 2013, Crookedmaze escribió: On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input can be done by accepting the default. Why not make it a live

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
But really, it's an extraordinary event for snapshots to be broken, and it is important that people test them. I have been running snapshots for years. I don't recall anything broken in base that I even noticed. There were some problems with ports, but they were fixed about as rapidly as