OpenBSD as VirtualBox Host

2013-04-17 Thread Adam Patterson
I mostly do web development and two of my primary tools are VirtualBox and Vagrant for quickly spinning up test machines and doing development on the OS's my clients use on their servers (mostly Debian). Nearly everything I can find is about using OpenBSD as a guest, not a host. There are some 201

Re: Problems on brand new Lenevo Thinkpad T420 with OpenBSD 4.9...

2011-05-12 Thread Adam Patterson
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:11 PM, G. Muller wrote: > Hi all, > ... > Then, I attempted to install OpenBSD in another MBR Extended partition. "Preferably use one of the four primary MBR partitions for booting OpenBSD (i.e., extended partitions may not work)." http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#

Re: Why Perl for pkg_* tools ?

2008-05-22 Thread Adam Patterson
Paul de Weerd wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +, hyjial wrote: | Hi list ! | Reading through OpenBSD's codebase, I have noticed that the code | living | under src/usr.sbin/pkg_add is written in Perl. Perl is distributed | under the Artistic license, though. The latter is not as perm

donation: mini pci wireless card

2008-05-13 Thread Adam Patterson
I have a Gigabyte GN-WI01GS (mini pci wireless card) that is supported by ral(4). I purchased this as a replacement for my shitty iwi(4) card that came in my Thinkpad X41T. Unfortunately the tpwireless doesnt work with the X41 series. I've already ordered a pcmcia card instead and figured I co

Error in fdisk(8) documentation

2008-05-11 Thread Adam Patterson
In the fdisk(8) manpage you will see the following table. #: idC H S -C H S [ start: size ] - 0: 040 1 1 - 170 0 63 [ 63: 2570462 ] DOS FAT-16 1: 000 0 0 -0 0 0

Re: Thinkpad X41 and tpwireless

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Patterson
Thomas Menari wrote: I have a X41 Tablet, and it has standard Atheros wireless: 04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Tom. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] You have any issues with that card or does it w

Re: tpwireless

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Patterson
Damien Miller wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2008, Adam Patterson wrote: Anyone know of any documentation on tpwireless? Specifically how to "re-set" the bit that it unsets. There isnt a man page and there aren't and switches to cause 'usage' to show up. There are no

tpwireless

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Patterson
Anyone know of any documentation on tpwireless? Specifically how to "re-set" the bit that it unsets. There isnt a man page and there aren't and switches to cause 'usage' to show up. I'm not completely sure that this is the problem but my X41 does not see the original iwi card that was in there

Re: Thinkpad T42 + OpenBSD 4.3 Freeze

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Patterson
Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez wrote: Sorry, but the 1gb is RAM not a mestick. 1 GB Kingston RAM + 512 MB (default) = 1.5 Gb ram the system freeze, with 512 mb ram (default) the system works fine. regards then its probably just a bad stick of memory :/

Re: Thinkpad T42 + OpenBSD 4.3 Freeze

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Patterson
Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez wrote: Hi, everyone, i have a problem with my IBM Thinkpad T42 2373 and OpenBSD 4.3 (stable and current), with 512mb of ram (default) works fine, when i add 1gb (kingston) the system works fine a few minutes, and then freeze without error o message. Here is my dmesg:

Thinkpad X41 and tpwireless

2008-05-06 Thread Adam Patterson
I had purchased a new supported mini-pci car for my x41 Tablet only to find out that tpwireless doesn't support the x41 series as well as some others. Is there any alternative way that people know of for unlocking this in the x41 series? Maybe a supported list should be put in a man page for

Re: How do I use digest authentication to allow/deny directory access

2008-05-06 Thread Adam Patterson
Ed Flecko wrote: It seems like, from what I see on the web, that I should be using: AuthDigestFile instead of AuthUserFile however when I do that, save the httpd.conf and restart Apache, I get the following error message: Syntax error on line 61 of /var/www/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command '

Re: How do I use digest authentication to allow/deny directory access

2008-05-06 Thread Adam Patterson
Ed Flecko wrote: <...snip...> AuthType Digest AuthName "Pssst...what's the password?" AuthUserFile /var/www/conf/digest Require user guest Ed If you are still chrooted you need to make sure thats the right directory. If you disabled the chroot then its obviously another issue.

Re: How do I set up personal web sites for users?

2008-05-06 Thread Adam Patterson
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I have a few questions about how to set up users on my OBSD 4.3 box. I've created a user (Stephanie) on the box, and I've added her to the /etc/ftpchroot file so she can upload stuff to her directory; now I just want her to be able to reach whatever she uploads (which