Re: Connection refused *.openbsd.org

2015-11-06 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-11-06 12:08, Zé Loff wrote: > Since I upgraded my gateway / filter to an APU1D running 5.8-stable, > I've been getting "connection refused" every time I try to access > www.openbsd.org or ftp.openbsd.org. (For some reason my Thunderbird refused to quote your debug dump output. Probably bec

Re: how to transfer the image of qemu to real machine

2015-11-03 Thread Benny Lofgren
Hello Tuyosi, On 2015-11-04 03:38, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: > i use only one PC which is dual boot and has USB HDD(sd1) . > i write down my procedures . > > 1)on linux machine , i boot openbsd by kvm and follow current . > and so the qcow2 image of OpenBSD-current.img was made . > and then i

Re: Per cpu utilization & KERN_CPTIME2 support in sysctl(8)

2015-10-28 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-10-28 15:32, Michael McConville wrote: > Andrei-Marius Radu wrote: >> >> Is there anyone else who thinks this is needed/a good idea ? > > For what it's worth, I was porting htop recently and I think I remember > it being painful to work without KERN_CPTIME2. I'd have to look back > (and lo

Re: "dd if=/dev/srandom of=/dev/wd0e bs=1024 count=1" WIPES my wd0 disklabel. Is this intended, bug, how come, how workaround ??? Incl reproduction script+console output+dmesg

2015-10-06 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-10-06 19:25, Mikael wrote: > So then I'll just learn that sector 80 and up are "safe" for "user data", > and it's up to all users to take care that any non-UFS/swap/RAID partitions > never go below 80. I don't think you can expect swap partitions to honour those first sectors... generally,

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

2015-10-05 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-10-05 11:58, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:14:09AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, at 03:53 AM, Mikael wrote: >> which FS types are available in the disklabel tool? >> >> The list is in the header file /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h, >> stat

Re: disklabel fs types, where can I find the whole list of supported types?

2015-10-05 Thread Benny Lofgren
And, the disklabel filesystem type is requested as a string (unlike the >>>> fdisk partition type which is an 8-bit unsigned integer typically entered >>>> in hex) and hence you need to know which options are available: > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: APU re(4) how can I debug this further?

2015-09-30 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-30 10:07, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > Now the fault is between fritzbox and gamma, as when the fault occurs I can > ping fritzbox from uranus across the 5 Ghz wifi link. But I cannot ping > gamma. > I have exchanged the cable between fritzbox and gamma two times and I have > switched po

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-29 19:51, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:38:00 AM -0600 Devin Reade > wrote: > >> To the OP, while most of the advice on this thread has been good, I'd >> be careful of that one. *Keep* your drives in a mirrored configuration >> and have *additional* disks fo

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-29 04:00, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: > On 2015-09-28 20:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org >> wrote: >>> I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two >>> WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). >> Any particular r

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my (server/router) purposes? (Total n00b)

2015-09-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
lity. *sigh* So... now that machine is yet again sitting here in a corner of my office, collecting more dust, because I just can't bring myself to go through the effort of configuring it into something that is a comfortable working environment for *me*, when I know I'm just

Re: Adding zombies to a pf table?

2015-09-24 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-24 11:37, Pantelis Roditis wrote: > On 09/24/2015 11:39 AM, Peter Hessler wrote: >> On 2015 Sep 23 (Wed) at 18:14:51 +0100 (+0100), Craig Skinner wrote: >> :Hello, >> : >> :Zombies are often attacking ports which don't have services running, >> :such as telnet (most popular indeed),

Re: requesting help working around boot failures with supermicro atom board

2015-09-12 Thread Benny Lofgren
pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 > pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 > spkr0 at pcppi0 > wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627DHG rev 0x25 > uhidev0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Winbond Electronics Corp > Hermon USB hidmouse Device" rev 1.10/0.01 addr 2 > uhidev0: iclass 3/1 > ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir > wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 > uhidev1 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Winbond Electronics Corp > Hermon USB hidmouse Device" rev 1.10/0.01 addr 2 > uhidev1: iclass 3/1 > ukbd0 at uhidev1: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes > wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 > wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 > vscsi0 at root > scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets > softraid0 at root > scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets > root on sd1a (22cb25880c08c19f.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: anoncvs.html.head

2015-09-12 Thread Benny Lofgren
Hi Rob, On 2015-09-12 01:15, Rob Pierce wrote: > This diff is a resend against the correct file: > - some punctuation, line spacing and minor grammar fixes > - "file sets" has a special meaning, so don't refer to src.tar.gz, > xenocara.tar.gc,ports.tar.gz as "file sets" > - cvs(1) hrefs > - "

Re: issue with pf syntax parser

2015-09-05 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-04 14:30, Joseph A Borg wrote: > I have something like this in pf.conf: > > services = "{ > ssh, > \ >

Re: Current USB Wifi status

2015-08-12 Thread Benny Lofgren
of a dust collecting arrangement, but apart from that I'm as happy as can be. You may not have exactly the same flexibility as when running a hostap enabled wlan interface directly in the OpenBSD machine, but it's certainly good enough for my use cases. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbe

Re: Repartitioning

2015-08-10 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-08-10 17:21, Benny Lofgren wrote: > So, I played a little with VirtualBox on my Mac, and realized that it > can make screen capture videos. :-) I did a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.9 > on a 10 GB virtual partition, using the default auto layout. Okay... so this was kind of fun.

Re: Repartitioning

2015-08-10 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-08-10 17:32, Josh Grosse wrote: > On 2015-08-10 11:21, Benny Lofgren wrote: > >> Sacrifice a chicken at sunset. > > For clarity, I recall best practice is to use a rooster. :) Bummer! Missed that. But I think it's the default choice since OpenBSD 4.7 so it's probably okay. :-) /B

Re: Repartitioning

2015-08-10 Thread Benny Lofgren
e a chicken at sunset. Walk three times counterclockwise around the old oak in moonlight, chanting "I trust the powers of OpenBSD". Use a condom. Have a fire extinguisher handy. Take preacutions. Have fun! Good luck! /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80

Re: Show us your /etc/profile

2015-08-02 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-08-02 08:23, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > On Sat 01/08/2015 14:09, Vijay Sankar wrote: >> alias nof='ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'' >> I have always wondered if there is a better way of doing this. > > In general, I would avoid using a pipe when a native command exists (and > particularly in

Re: Maintaining CAs not in cert.pem

2015-07-30 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-07-30 23:17, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-07-30, Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> 2015-07-30 20:16 GMT+03:00 Stuart Henderson : > cert.pem is pretty much a required file, we can't just move it to examples/. > For people who don't touch it, it's a simple no-touch sysmerge update. > For people wh

Re: cp from 4 different home folders without overwriting files with different content

2015-06-28 Thread Benny Lofgren
n run it from there. If the copy produces read errors, you might want to zero out those blocks on the destination before trying an fsck. * When you are absolutely certain you can't get more off of your drives, DON'T KEEP THEM AROUND. Throw them out! In a year's time, you will have forgot

Re: openssh client alive not default

2015-06-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
hat. (Moral of the story: +1 for using tmux/screen/nohup/batch/at/whatever to keep long-running jobs safe. And when interactive, save your work often. :-) ) Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90

Re: ed -s

2015-05-10 Thread Benny Lofgren
ly on your terminal emulator. You will run into uncharted territory though, as for example character counts will be wrong. 8-bit files in general works fine; I routinely use /bin/ed to edit ISO 8859-1 encoded files with no problems. Whether it can deal meaningfully with control characters in

Re: OpenBSD 5.7 Released

2015-05-02 Thread Benny Lofgren
of ports included in base. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Upgrade dry run - restore backup from physical to virtualbox VM?

2014-10-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
/boot:s installed with the upgrades anyway.) Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Dumb (non-RAID) HBA to use with SAS tape drive

2014-10-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
x27;m open to any idea except "use hard drives, they're cheap". :-) No, I need a tape drive for this. Thanks, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be we

Re: Other mailers failing on spamd's 451?

2013-08-15 Thread Benny Lofgren
T" requirement, and that hint obviously isn't strong enough for some... Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: PHP & mini_sendmail problems

2013-03-15 Thread Benny Lofgren
don't contain any errors I >> can >>>>> find about the problem. >>>> >>>> you need femail from ports. >>> >>> More precisely, the femail-chroot package. >>> >>> And you need /usr/libexec/ld.so inside of t

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-17 Thread Benny Lofgren
and there when I feel like it, and I don't regret it. +1 /B -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted."

Re: ACPI problems on a W500 thinkpad: software or hardware?

2012-05-30 Thread Benny Lofgren
rries to shut itself down. So this discrepancy might be worth to investigate anyway.) Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:

Re: spamd greylisting: false positives

2012-05-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
ter > setting up spamd take some time, go through the logs and look for patterns. > Adjust the pass time as necessary." ... > > I realise I have been advised in the list here not to mess around with > the timings :P > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Areca ARC-1213-4i or ARC-1223-8i using arc(4) for hardware RAID?

2012-04-14 Thread Benny Lofgren
C-1680i (which are now unfortunately no longer sold). > If you have experience with the ARC-1213 or 1223, what did you find? > > Thanks in advance. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46

Re: PHP/HTTP config

2012-03-20 Thread Benny Lofgren
t;> and am having some trouble getting apache to work with php >>> so I'm hoping that an explanation for this will give me some >>> idea how to get it to work, with or without chroot. >>> >>> Dhu >>> >>> -- >>> Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostro voco. >>> >> > > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-09 Thread Benny Lofgren
t;> >> This I think shows better what your choices are: >> >> (W)rite the MBR to use the whole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [write] >> >> Where the two operations Write and Edit have a clear contrasting meaning, >> or: >> >> Write the MBR to use the (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole] >> >> to not having to change an installer script variable name (a lesser change) >> >> >> -- >> >> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Benny Lofgren
s bytes) and it might actually prevent someone else with attention deficit disorder to wreck their disk in the future. And even if it doesn't, it should at least cool you down enough to opt out of embarking on a rant about it... Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8

Re: smartphones and managing openbsd servers

2012-02-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
landscape mode). Unfortunately that particular model keyboard is said not to work with Android, at least without 3rd party drivers. Can't comment on that though, since I don't have access to any Android devices. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 /

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-11 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-02-11 03.00, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:59:36 +0100, Benny Lofgren > wrote: >> On 2012-02-09 00.38, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >>> Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: >> But since one hasn't magically materializ

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-02-09 00.38, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: >> (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's >> work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD >> as well. Had I the time I&#x

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
ssion. (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD as well. Had I the time I'd look into it myself (it's a *lot* of work from what little I've seen of it, but no doubt it would b

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Benny Lofgren
m not sure what a symlink instead of a "real" /var/www directory would do to the upgrade process (might also be perfectly ok, but I've never tried). Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Benny Lofgren
haracters: 734303, Integers: 5440, 8-Bit characters: 3 > > = > > Trying to troubleshoot a Perl module problem, and locate is not > returning any hits except user files ! > Any pointers on what is 'intefering' with the process? -- internetlabbet.se /

Re: using ssh to forward the install console

2011-12-14 Thread Benny Lofgren
much, if anything, Eric sees, but this *might* be an option if the VNC client is run on a terminal with magnification capability. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed,

Re: ccd(4) hangs system on two IDE disks concatenation attempt

2011-12-09 Thread Benny Lofgren
ver ever put more than one stripe in a set on the same drive) and where a very large single volume is required (but then a RAID 5 volume is the way to go). Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11

Re: using ssh to forward the install console

2011-12-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-12-08 18.03, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Benny Lofgren [2011-12-08 15:32]: >> As others have noted, that's unfortunately not possible with the way the >> system boots. Your best bet would probably be to grab a cheap PCI (or what >> kind bus your system has) serial

Re: using ssh to forward the install console

2011-12-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
first in order to get a dmesg from the system and check what network device(s) it has, so that you can set up the correct network interfaces blindly in the virtual environment (assuming it can't emulate that particular network hardware). Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / wor

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
he people that are >> trying to help you. I don't think there's anyone on this list that sits >> idly, waiting for an opportunity to "pick on" or "bully" someone. Get a >> grip, get some thicker skin, and most of all, RTFM first. >> >> I

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
ail you poorly > researched crap with no answers contain. > > If you hate a question, it truly doesn't belong, bug me. > > But if you just can't answer a question, ignore it. > > John Tate. > > Note: Yes, it's not my list. > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: spamd-setup in crontab

2011-11-15 Thread Benny Lofgren
the compromised machine to do any thing > they wouldn't do anyhow. The still need to clean > up their machine. They won't get the messages either... Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/

Re: NFS not working

2011-11-11 Thread Benny Lofgren
;> mount_nfs: can't access /home: Permission denied >>>> # hostname >>>> rothbard.kab.loc >>>> >>>> John Tate >>>> >>>> >>> Check the permissions on the exported directory and make sure you've >>> restarted the NFS server. These are the most common causes for >>> "permission denied" errors with NFS that I encountered. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> www.johntate.org >> > > > > -- > www.johntate.org > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Copy root partition to another machine

2011-11-07 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-11-06 21.42, David Vasek wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> On 2011-11-06 18.00, Bambero wrote: >>> Thanks, but without skip=1 dd will copy partition table and mbr too >>> (first block 521b). >>> So it may damage my partition

Re: Copy root partition to another machine

2011-11-06 Thread Benny Lofgren
onv=noerror >>> >>> 2. On second machine: >>> dd if=root.img of=/dev/rwd0a bs=16b seek=1 >>> >>> May/should I ommit seek, skip, conv, bs parameters ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bambero > -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: raw sockets

2011-10-31 Thread Benny Lofgren
onal purposes. Ah, bummer, the first edition doesn't cover raw sockets, so it won't help you in that regard. But it's still one of those rare technical books that you can easily read cover-to-cover (only to find out in the end that the butler didn't do it - it was the server!).

Re: dedicating a server to spamd

2011-10-25 Thread Benny Lofgren
lly the only solution if someone wants to use spamd on a dedicated box? I wouldn't say it's the *only* solution, but it is the solution I've been running with for several years and it works great in our environment. Regards, /Benny > > - Original Message - > From

Re: dedicating a server to spamd

2011-10-25 Thread Benny Lofgren
nternetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Question about apmd power savings

2011-10-20 Thread Benny Lofgren
uld be true even in high performance mode so would most likely not affect the relative difference in power consumption between the two modes of operation. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / b

Re: Detect APC UPS is on battery

2011-10-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
of each of mine, and they certainly don't (can't) all communicate with the UPS. Not that it isn't neat to be able to talk to your UPS, I'm just saying the most important needs - to spare servers the shock of sudden death - can be accomodated without. :-) /B -- internetlab

Re: Detect APC UPS is on battery

2011-10-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
ext applied, or the power will get back on in which case the script can detect that and simply do a reboot. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Detect APC UPS is on battery

2011-10-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-10-17 17.34, mailing list wrote: > I have a machine running OBSD 4.4 which as an APC Back-UPS ES 550. > Anyway to have OpenBSD detect when power is coming from Battery? > (Plan on sending the system sending me an sms if so) Apart from the suggestions elsewhere in the thread, in the good ol

Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-13 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-10-13 20.31, David Coppa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:57 PM, OpenBSD Europe > wrote: > >> I vote for the next release artwork tributing his work some way :-) > > I like the idea. +1 I mean, i=0; i++; Regards, /Benny

Re: Apache problems

2011-09-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
execution by the user ID would be exceeded. So, there is definitely an issue of exceeding a maximum number of processes, the question is just *which* limit are you bumping your head on, and *why*. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benn

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-09-18 10.36, Fritz Wuehler wrote: > You wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:34:30 +0200 >> Fritz Wuehler wrote: >>> That's a load of rubbish. Doing something wrong because others do it just >>> makes you a meme, it doesn't make you right. You're a great arrogant, >>> know-nothing son of a bit

Re: Laptop hard drive and emergency unload

2011-09-04 Thread Benny Lofgren
me thing through kernel recompilations: >>> >>> >> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-Spin-down-HDD-after-disk-sync-or-befo >> >> re-power-off-td4043068.html >>> >>> However, neither using FreeBSD nor patching the OpenBSD kernel would >&

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
subvariants. The only authoritative dictionary I have readily available right now is my copy of the Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, and it agrees with me. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lo

Re: Apache Killer - Does it affect OpenBSD's patched version of Apache?

2011-08-30 Thread Benny Lofgren
eeping well at night without worrying whether or not I've forgotten to install the latest security patches or anything like that more than well makes up for the fact that it might not have all the latest bells and whistles. :-) Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80

Re: two problems with the recent X @ i386

2011-08-22 Thread Benny Lofgren
Setting up tile and stipple cache: > [4061164.225] 32 128x128 slots > [4061164.225] 32 256x256 slots > [4061164.225] 16 512x512 slots > [4061164.225] (==) NV(0): Backing store disabled > [4061164.225] (==) NV(0): Silken mouse d

Re: ext42fs support?

2011-08-22 Thread Benny Lofgren
NFS... or is the machine you're trying to do this on a dual-boot machine and you want access to the file system in question from both environments? In that case, I suggest you reformat the file system to ufs which would be usable by both systems. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se /

Re: 'real mem' in dmesg much lower than expected?

2011-08-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
exception, and it has to co- exist with the processor's memory in the 32 bit addressable space. Use amd64 instead and you'll likely get all your memory back, and since you seem to be running a recent snapshot you'll have no 4GB barrier to cope with either. /B -- internetlabbet.se /

Re: status of ACPI suspend/resume on Thinkpad T60 w/ T7200 processor?

2011-08-05 Thread Benny Lofgren
y -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: Recompile OpenBSD without built-in Apache 1.3

2011-06-29 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-29 09.37, Paul de Weerd wrote: > The source of Apache 1.3 in the tree is about 8.5M. The full > installation is about 3.7M (on amd64), you've saved 4.8M by not > installing the source of Apache. In fact, the full tree weighs in at > ~872M (excluding xenocara), so you save almost 870 meg

Re: Raid configuration help.

2011-06-28 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-28 22.53, Zeb Packard wrote: >> Overwriting file in /etc could cause all sorts of problems, rc scripts >> corrupted could leave you in single user mode for example. > Thanks a bunch for the tips and encouragement. > I was using the tutorial at http://www.argon18.com/raid_openbsd.html > T

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-22 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-22 13.49, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > OpenBSD specifically and old BSD in general is not true to Unix. From > ksh to billions of options to find and other tools to the entire > networking framework (bolted on with additional syscalls, pseudo devices > etc), nothing of that is Unix (or even -li

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-22 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-22 09.24, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:48:59AM +0200, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> On 2011-06-22 03.03, vadi...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> Please continue to use Linux. >>>> That's ugly, useless and dangerous. >>> >>>

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-21 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-22 03.03, vadi...@gmail.com wrote: >> Please continue to use Linux. >> That's ugly, useless and dangerous. > > Oops, looks like that was a "holy war" type of question. Sorry I did > not want to start that. > >> If you want Linux, use Linux. > > It's not that I want specifically Linux.

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-19 21.50, Eric Furman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:04 +, "Kevin Chadwick" >> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 >> Tyler Morgan wrote: >>> I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD >>> and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the

Re: Programmatically detect removed usb stick?

2011-06-11 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-11 10.08, T wrote: > I'm writing a small program which changes working dir to a > specific directory (using chdir()), and then opens, reads, and > closes files in that directory, depending on user actions. > Sometimes this directory is located on a mounted USB stick. > > I'm looking for

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-06-02 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-02 13.36, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Thinking about this. I'm not saying that this implies *OpenBSD* > changed its calculaton. As Theo pointed out, other kernels have > changed what they report to the "load" tool. So that shifts the > measure on other kernels. Perhaps he took this person

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-01 17.16, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: > On 1 June 2011 11:01, LeviaComm Networks wrote: >> On 01-Jun-11 05:46, Benny Lofgren wrote: >>> >>> On 2011-05-31 14.45, Artur Grabowski wrote: >>>> >>>> The load average is a decaying aver

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-01 15.53, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > On 2 June 2011 01:41, Benny Lofgren <mailto:bl-li...@lofgren.biz>> wrote: > I agree with what you are saying, and I worded this quite badly, the > frame I was trying to setup was "back in the day" when multi-user meant

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-01 15.12, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > Load is generally a measure of a single processor core utilization over an > kernel dependent time range. No it isn't. You have totally misunderstood what the load average is. > Generally as others have pointed out being a very broad (not as in me

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-05-31 14.45, Artur Grabowski wrote: > The load average is a decaying average of the number of processes in > the runnable state or currently running on a cpu or in the process of > being forked or that have spent less than a second in a sleep state > with sleep priority lower than PZERO, wh

Re: vmmap: bad software everywhere

2011-06-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-01 04.58, Damien Miller wrote: >>> The recent trend of forking another process for a tab instead of a >>> monolithic single process for the whole browser is a way of extending >>> the time required to clean up this mess? Or there is no relation >>> between them? >> I cannot look into the

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-20 Thread Benny Lofgren
hey? :-) ). Really, I'd happily pay the same price for one CD set plus n-1 CD-less licenses (and hopefully get the same volume discount as well), and it would be a true win-win for everyone. Regards, /Benny > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:07:20AM +0200, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> On 2011-04

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-20 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-04-19 16.27, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Income: > The direct income from sales (Computer Shop (primarily) + distributors) > -> Keeps the electrons flowing > -> Keeps me from taking that cushy Microsoft job > > Donations: > The OpenBSD Foundation > -> Funds the big

Re: Testing new Thinkpad Edge

2011-04-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-04-08 14.30, Ludo Smissaert wrote: > A very kind shop in the south of the Netherlands allows me currently to > test a new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge at home for a week with OpenBSD before > buying it. If things aren't working I am allowed to give it back. Excellent customer service. You should d

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-03-30 17.48, Jeff Ross wrote: > On 03/30/11 05:21, Tony Berth wrote: >> I can't??? So the limit of 4G physical memory still exists? And why >> was this >> statement made from 4.4 release? > > Worse, an amd64 kernel looking at 8GB of real, physical ram only makes a > wee bit under 3GB avail

Re: OBDS vs. NetBSD security

2011-03-25 Thread Benny Lofgren
ne is new and exciting knowledge, all for free. Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: OBDS vs. NetBSD security

2011-03-25 Thread Benny Lofgren
hits, mostly older ones too. -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / fax:+46 8 551 124 89/not counted." /email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se

Re: restore wants a new tape but none exists!

2011-03-09 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-03-09 16.28, Jeff Ross wrote: > The only way I found out of this loop is to ctrl-c. > > That's the bug I'm asking about, but if what you write above is correct > my belief that dump is an adequate backup is now in question. No where > in the dump man page does it say that and that certain

Re: restore wants a new tape but none exists!

2011-03-09 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-03-09 07.48, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:49:04AM +0100, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> I don't know about the rest of you guys, but to me that sounds exactly >> like a bug... especially since nothing is mentioned of such behaviour in >> the dump man pa

Re: restore wants a new tape but none exists!

2011-03-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-03-09 00.20, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:19PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: >> Is this worthy of a bug report or is there a peback afoot here? > Unlikely to be a bug more likely that you did a dump of a file system > that was changing while the dump was in progress. This br

Re: hibernate function

2011-02-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-02-18 18.17, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:17:25 +0100 > Joachim Schipper wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:27AM -0600, Orestes Leal R. wrote: >>> does it exists? >> Not yet. > Hibernate offers more integrity of user data but it's a lot less > secure, discounting the

Re: OpenBSD on plugcomputers

2011-02-15 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-02-14 04.30, Nick Holland wrote: >> there's much hype around about these plugcomputers which are going to spread >> in the market. > I've heard that. many years ago, actually. > (heh. Wikipedia says "plug computers" are only a couple years old. > That's not my memory. Not worth me lookin

Re: By default, should `lynx ` work?

2011-02-04 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-02-04 21.12, Ezequiel Garzsn wrote: > Hello! By chance I tried this from my fresh OpenBSD VPS, which I > assume has had a default installation. Basically by chance (it didn't > make much sense) I tried lynx *from my VPS*, and it > didn't work, even though it did work from my desktop PC: >

Re: Computer stops responding (freezes up) during uncorrectable data error

2011-01-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-01-27 14.11, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Benny Lofgren wrote: >> It's a matter of uptime. >> >> The indicated behaviour, that the system more or less freezes when >> encountering a simple sector read error is indeed disturbing. Fo

Re: Computer stops responding (freezes up) during uncorrectable data error

2011-01-27 Thread Benny Lofgren
f I can determine beyond reasonable doubt that this isn't a hardware problem, I'll submit a bug report.) Regards, /Benny -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must Benny Lofgren/ mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, / f

Re: DNSSEC validating resolver

2011-01-25 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-01-24 20.29, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Oliver Peter [2011-01-24 15:13]: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:33:53PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: >>> * Oliver Peter [2011-01-24 11:56]: The tcp option in resolv.conf might be reasonable for a single workstation but due to the protocol ov

Re: Limit on Alias

2011-01-21 Thread Benny Lofgren
addresses on a single interface in a test environment > before. > > Like Henning said, the limit is memory. What about performance? Is there any noticable impact with let's say a couple of hundred alias addresses? /B -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "