setting WiFi txpower with ifconfig

2015-01-02 Thread Alan Corey
I'm trying to do some antenna work so I want a weak signal from the other side of the basement. So I try stuff like ifconfig athn0 txpower 1 and get "ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Invalid argument". Any number I've tried gives the same thing. If I leave out the number it tells me I need one. Wors

Spanish discussion list

2015-01-02 Thread agrquinonez
Hello Is there someone interested having a discussion list in Spanish? I have a OBSD server running current (httpd, smtpd, ftp), and i would like having a discussion list in Spanish, it could have blogs, foro, or any other related things. For now i have it at home, but i might pay for a dedicated

Re: Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
>So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while >now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to >malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the >stack. That said I don't see them being used. > >The promise of them seems

Re: CardBus Support

2015-01-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
>Hi, any idea on how to enable CardBus Support on 5.6 ? i'm getting this >message on boot related to the PCMCIA card that i'm trying to use on my old >toshiba lapto, the card works just fine under pfsense/freebsd > >Dmesg: > >cbb0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "ENE CB-1410 CardBus" rev 0x01: apic 1 int

Variable Length Arrays

2015-01-02 Thread Ted Bullock
Hey Folks, So I've been wondering about variable length arrays from c99 for a while now. They seem to me like a good way to avoid lots of trivial calls to malloc/free at least for smaller arrays that aren't going to blow up the stack. That said I don't see them being used. The promise of them

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Brian Empson
Thanks for all the ideas. It's given me avenues for testing. On 1/2/2015 5:32 PM, Craig Skinner wrote: On 2015-01-02 Fri 14:02 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: I can't speak to ksh being 'better', but it may well be. Aye, not subject to bash's many security problems, such as #ShellShock & #BashB

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4->5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread trondd
Damon Getsman wrote: > So, can anybody tell me, is my situation just so hosed that it's helpless? > I mean, should I stop waiting for potential ways to fix this dependency > hosed box and reinstall and try to find a way to re-inject all of my data > into it, or are the gurus just swamped with new

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf, It's all been sorted. Should have used getent to check my tweaks. On Friday, 2 January 2015, Raf wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:53:32PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: > > > Hi Raf > > Hi Richard, > > > Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my > > networ

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:53:32PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: > Hi Raf Hi Richard, > Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my > network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: Content of 'resolv.conf' might be crucial here - otherwise you may

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-01-02 Fri 14:02 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: > > I can't speak to ksh being 'better', but it may well be. Aye, not subject to bash's many security problems, such as #ShellShock & #BashBug that brought loonix to it's knees a couple of months ago. Who wants to be patching boxes at work a

CardBus Support

2015-01-02 Thread Andres Chavez
Hi, any idea on how to enable CardBus Support on 5.6 ? i'm getting this message on boot related to the PCMCIA card that i'm trying to use on my old toshiba lapto, the card works just fine under pfsense/freebsd Dmesg: cbb0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "ENE CB-1410 CardBus" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 16, Car

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4->5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Damon Getsman : Hello everyone. Regardless, I just wanted to find out... I usually get people willing to give some advice, or at least willing to laugh and tell me the lesson that I needed to know on here. I was really kind of surprised that I haven't heard anything back on this for s

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myserver.domain.com TheServer Like I say the hosts file should do its work without the resolv.conf file (which I tr

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
Hi Raf Would rather not gives these files out as they do reveal the layout of my network. But the simple hosts file I tried was along the lines of: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 myserver.domain.com TheServer Like I say the hosts file should do its work without the resolv.conf file (which I tr

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4->5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:10:58PM EST, Damon Getsman wrote: > Hello everyone. Hi Damon, > I posted that information regarding the 5.4->5.5 upgrade breaking (and > subsequent break when following someone's advice just to take it up to 5.6 > since it was already horked like that) a few days back

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Raf
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:16:47PM EST, Richard Brooks wrote: > As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD > for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries > in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off > to t

Re: /etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:16:47PM +, Richard Brooks wrote: > As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD > for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries > in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off > to

/etc/hosts file not being used - OpenBSD v5.1

2015-01-02 Thread Richard Brooks
As you can probably tell from the version number, I've been using OpenBSD for a while, but have only recently discovered that name resolution entries in the hosts file are not being used and that the o/s waltz's merrily off to the remote DNS server when the info it needs is in the hosts file. reso

Re: Upgrading issues (i386 on PPro class) 5.4->5.5 leaving system horked

2015-01-02 Thread Damon Getsman
Hello everyone. I posted that information regarding the 5.4->5.5 upgrade breaking (and subsequent break when following someone's advice just to take it up to 5.6 since it was already horked like that) a few days back here. I was going to post some google groups and/or openbsd.org links to the pre

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
This was fixed in one of the snapshots and was working so it likely got broken again somehow http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=141770981219927&w=2 - Original Message - | | | On 17/11/2014 04:51, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Was a fix for this applied to current or -STABLE? | > | | Ju

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Interesting, looks fine on cvs web view. | Yet the file on my box does not have the change. | | I will give it another go next week and instead of pulling in changes | start fresh. | | Regards | | Jorge I just had a look and it does seem to be working fine for me

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
Interesting, looks fine on cvs web view. Yet the file on my box does not have the change. I will give it another go next week and instead of pulling in changes start fresh. Regards Jorge On 02/01/2015 20:59, James A. Peltier wrote: This was fixed in one of the snapshots and was working so i

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Carson Chittom wrote: > There is ldapd(8) in base, though I've never used it myself. ldapd from the base is fine peace of software for small deployments. I have to OpenBSD LDAP servers with about 50-60 users each. Client machines besides of course OpenBSD machines consist of mixture Red Hat com

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Barry
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:36:38 + skin...@britvault.co.uk (Craig Skinner) wrote: >On 2015-01-02 Fri 13:06 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: >> #!/bin/bash >> > >OpenBSD has much better ksh(1) > >A simple rdist(1) cronjob might do it. > >e.g: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/rdist-intro_en.html >

Re: typo in calendar.ushistory

2015-01-02 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 11:40:11PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 05:45:11PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote: > > > > On 01/01/15 17:20, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 06:44:50AM -0600, Carson Chittom wrote: > > >> This is minor, but when I received my "Rem

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Try changing the value for the sysctl variable "kern.timecounter.hardware"? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam wrote: > Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The > clock doesn'

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-01-02 Fri 13:06 PM |, Christopher Barry wrote: > #!/bin/bash > OpenBSD has much better ksh(1) A simple rdist(1) cronjob might do it. e.g: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/rdist-intro_en.html

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Barry
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:44:36 +0100 Ingo Schwarze wrote: >Hi Brian, > >Brian Empson wrote on Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:52:40AM -0500: > >> I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across >> a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need >> the password hashes t

OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread John Merriam
Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The clock doesn't move: # date; sleep 55; date Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 Thu Jan 1 02:25:47 EST 2015 I see the same behavior with 5.6-release amd64 and -current amd64. The clock works fine in Windows and Linux on this m

interpreting ACPI bat values

2015-01-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I want to give batmon.app ACPI support on OpenBSD. This is what I get on my Thinkpad T60: $ sysctl | grep acpibat hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt0=10.80 VDC (voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.volt1=12.41 VDC (current voltage) hw.sensors.acpibat0.power0=0.00 W (rate) hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour0=47

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Carson Chittom
Brian Empson writes: > I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a > network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the > password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's built > right into the base install, are there better ways to hand

Re: YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Brian, Brian Empson wrote on Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:52:40AM -0500: > I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across > a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need > the password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's > built right in

Re: MEDION S4222 UMTS stick not recognized

2015-01-02 Thread Koko Wijatmoko
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:26:53 +0100 Ingo Feinerer wrote: > The manual of the stick claims that "Linux 2.6" (or newer) is > supported (if this is of any help). > this need "usb mode switch" under linux, searching on google there no solution yet even compiling from source for openbsd.

YP Alternative

2015-01-02 Thread Brian Empson
I'm looking into a way to sync up group and user information across a network of OpenBSD machines. I like YP, except that I don't need the password hashes transferred across the network. I like that it's built right into the base install, are there better ways to handle synchronizing login deta

MEDION S4222 UMTS stick not recognized

2015-01-02 Thread Ingo Feinerer
Hello, a MEDION S4222 UMTS (https://www.hot.at/images/medion_usb_stick.png) stick port 2 addr 4: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, Product(0x0002), MediaTek Inc(0x0e8d), rev 3.00, iSerialNumber 683694200024400 attaches as CDROM umass0 at uhub7 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "MediaTek Inc

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2015-01-02 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
On 17/11/2014 04:51, James A. Peltier wrote: > Was a fix for this applied to current or -STABLE? > Just ran into this problem again on a testing box using -CURRENT, Seems this has not been fixed :( Any idea who I should talk to get this into before 5.7 hits -STABLE? Regards -- ~ sjorge