Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 8/09/2012 6:14 AM, russell wrote: ... my intention is to hack boot.c(my guess, at this point I am still just looking at source) to check for and use some sort of global kernel macaddress var pxeboot claims to set. ... I played with a similar patch from here many years ago: http://nbender.com

Re: Signatures for distribution sets and packages?

2012-09-05 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 5/09/2012 1:36 PM, Rowdy OpenBSD wrote: Is there any way to verify that distribution sets and packages that I have downloaded have not been tampered with (e.g., by someone with access to the mirror from which I downloaded them)? Compare them to the CD set.

Re: Some probelms configuring dhcpd with iPXE options

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 1/09/2012 8:22 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, I am trying to configure dhcpd daemon in a OpenBSD 5.1 host to use iPXE options for booting vm guests via iscsi. To do this, I have configured dhcpd.conf with these options: option space ipxe; option ipxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate ip

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 14/06/2012 3:44 AM, Dominguez, Roland wrote: I just came across this article and was wondering if it's legit: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenBSD-forked-to-create-Bitrig-161695 4.html Those who do not study history... https://www.bitrig.org/viewgit/?a=viewblob&p=bitrig&h=59fc82db

Re: Is it necessary to recompile just to apply a security patch?

2008-07-29 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snippage] > Quite probably, your server might be terribly out of date. > OpenBSD servers ought to be updated at least once a year. > Please look at the first line of the output of dmesg(8). If the server has been up for a

NextG networking

2007-10-23 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
I've put up some notes about NextG networking on OpenBSD at http://www.ajd.net.au/nextg/openbsd.html including a kernel patch to suit ZTE handsets which will probably work with other Qualcomm-based handsets. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: .forward for procmail

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
r/bin/procmail > -f- || exit 75 #exal" but doesn't work. I use "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail". Are you sure your procmail is in /usr/bin? Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-14 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
boot into the 'dev' system, enter "hd0h:/bsd" at the boot prompt. (I use a boot manager which can stuff keystrokes into the BIOS). If you are brave, you can mount partitions (eg /home) from your 'stable' system into your 'dev' system, but that is probably not a good idea. > > > or should i just go with virtualization? > is it in that state already that i can? I use qemu for quick-and-dirty tests. It works, but is a bit slow. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
re made using software metrics, such as the number of changes > to the code You might want to check out Michael Lyu's "Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering" http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~lyu/book/reliability/ (You can now download all 800+ pages in pdf.) Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: Rotate many Apache logfiles

2006-09-15 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
> Adding every logfile to /etc/newsyslog.conf is one way, but hard to > maintain. Is Apache's own rotatelogs program the way to go? I use newsyslog. With make and m4, nothing is hard to maintain. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-13 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:49:29PM -0400, steve szmidt wrote: > I don't get very emotional about either one and try to keep things simple. > I'm > curious to see how many not equally hard core users prefer vi over vim when > having a choice. These days I mostly use vi, because it is already the

Re: mfs for /var and dhclient

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
r if > dhclient was used, no? And with an mfs ``mount /var'' succeeds twice. There'd be a problem with nfs mounted anything before dhclient is run. The N stands for network... Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: sendmail

2006-07-27 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
substitute for reading and understanding the docs. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
urrent products marginal. I've had this happen with add-on DSP boards before. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: why is there . [dot] in default PATH?

2006-04-04 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
add it to the beginning of PATH, so having it at the end by default is a reasonable compromise. Anyone with enough experience to know why they want it removed also has enough experience to remove it themselves. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: Support the project by buying from store or make donations

2006-03-27 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:40:44PM -0600, Mandrich wrote: > I second this! I'd buy at least six of 'em. Buy 6 blank coffee mugs, 6 CD sets, and put the stickers on the mugs. Before anyone else suggests using cafepress, check the archives. There is not a lot of money in doing mugs. Oh, and don't t

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:34:08PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > Nice to see someone who says something constructive. Would you mind if > > > you can point me to a HOWTO on how to do that. I will be pleased to > > help. I supose that I must compile gnumeric with debugging simbols > > first, as someo

Re: 80x50 console res but .. clean font

2006-02-28 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
> is absolutely huge and I want more on the screen. The ports tree has several light-weight window managers, try them all. If memory is tight, rxvt uses a tad less than xterm. On my laptop I use evilwm with rxvt, and get text windows of 58x167 Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: mergemaster

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:46:51PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: [snip] > > The questions is, what *do* people use for updating /etc? I use a cvs vendor branch. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish

Re: Backup Techniques onto DVD+-RW

2005-12-23 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:51:14AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Better recommendation - rsync /home to an external system (especially if > you're using Maildir). WAY less overhead! You can even backup more often. > An archive machine is less costly than a bundle of DVD-RWs, and you don't > have

Re: acpi

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:24:35AM -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: > It did not core dump on me. Same here.

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > The c't article, the link to which I posted to misc@ yesterday, stated that a > data > recovery company was able to retrieve the user disk password (set by the > authors > of the article) from the disk, aparently without opening (a