Re: questions about RAID5C, RAID6, RAID6C, can Openbsd be a good storage-server OS?

2024-02-04 Thread David Rinehart
This is a good read:  https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/backup_strategies On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 19:02 +, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: > hello > > I will make a storage server, and RAID just has to be on it, right? > > is RAID6 in work or maybe plans, I would like to know > w

Re: pkg_add - error while reading header / read short file / gzheader truncated

2023-12-09 Thread David Rinehart
On Sat, 2023-12-09 at 11:55 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I suggest trying a mirror instead then, and see if there's any > difference. Pick one from www.openbsd.org/ftp.html. Good suggestion. Recent installer changes to simplify the sets "disk" option are awesome. At the same time, this likel

Re: pkg_add - error while reading header / read short file / gzheader truncated

2023-12-08 Thread David Rinehart
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 08:37 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023-12-07, David Rinehart wrote: > > > > I see the same with multiple installs - Started with 7.4.  No > > modification to default installurl. > > The contents of the 'default' installurl dep

Re: pkg_add - error while reading header / read short file / gzheader truncated

2023-12-07 Thread David Rinehart
I see the same with multiple installs - Started with 7.4. No modification to default installurl. It is amazing - For 5 years, I never considered that pkg_add(1) could fail (and it didn't)! Updating my install scripts to try until the last package add, with -l option, is confirmed. A little co

Re: OpenBSD 7.4, iOS 15.8 - sudden defunct of WiFi

2023-11-16 Thread David Rinehart
Maybe... Is the clock set to the correct time on the iPhone? > o I tried disabling the RPZ: >   no luck. > > o I tried loading /etc/examples/pf.conf: >   no luck. > > o I tried re-naming the WiFi and changing the wpakey: >   no luck. > > o I tried enabling and disabling encryption on my WiFi

Re: "OpenBSD Doc" App idea

2023-09-08 Thread David Rinehart
After an issue with mangl, from ports, I discovered and configure man.cgi on localhost httpd after install - works great (online or offline)! Thanks, David Rinehart On 9/8/23 13:54, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 8:02 AM Luke Call wrote: >> On 2023-09-07 22:4

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-10 Thread David Rinehart
Great project and introduction - I think you are on the right path! A suggestion: Do like everyone here does with other code changes - Work in smaller steps. Simplify and minimize (a little more). Do not change any colors or images on an initial pass of the changes. Try only changing just the f

DIY - APU2 - eSATA

2023-03-05 Thread David Rinehart
holes - 2 for the screws, 2 for slot and used a Dremel to cut the slot between. With 3.5 in. SATA II enclosure, seeing about 30% increased throughput as compared to the same disk connected to USB. Nice, relatively easy, way to set up an APU2 external drive... - David Rinehart

xsnow bitmap include in base?

2023-02-11 Thread David Rinehart
Hello All, After 7.2  install, I see this include file:     /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/xsnow Just curious - With xsnow removed, is this file used for anything? Best regards, -- David Rinehart

httpd(8) - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) header

2022-06-26 Thread David Rinehart
ing the CORS header as a feature of httpd(8)? Thanks, -- David Rinehart

Re: Howto do "a detailed cleanup with the aid of the sysclean package"?

2022-05-05 Thread David Rinehart
To Nobody in particular: Confucius is attributed with stating: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name" I suggest that "sysclean" is not the name of the code inside this utility. The sysupgrade utility actually upgrades my system and fw_update updates my firmware.  sys

Re: Font Path prompt in pkg_add

2022-04-28 Thread David Rinehart
Changelog (just the facts - Awesome!):     https://www.openbsd.org/plus71.html A search for "font" on the page shows 3 entries... On 4/28/22 12:37, Christopher Turkel wrote: > I'm on OpenBSD AMD64 7.1, fresh install > I noticed when adding fonts via pkg_add it no longer prints out "You may >

Re: OpenBSD Home Server + Workstation on same machine?

2022-03-23 Thread David Rinehart
On 3/21/22 20:22, Eric Thomas wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to learn about secure networking (PKI, x509 certs, DNS, IPS, etc.) > and generally > harden my home network using OpenBSD. Can I use OpenBSD services AND have > it act as a desktop workstation on the same machine? > > Ref: > https://superus

Re: Please put vi in base

2022-03-12 Thread David Rinehart
On 3/12/22 08:39, i...@tutanota.com wrote: > I know I am not going to get any points for this, but I had to fix a broken > OpenBSD box today that could not boot and I didn't have any network for a > couple of hours, which made me stuck with ed from the boot media. > > So I did "man ed", which of

dmesg: Compulab Fitlet2 + FC-M2LAN FACET card

2022-01-15 Thread David Rinehart
FC-M2LAN adds two 1G LAN ports, for a total of four network ports. Observation: Base ports are em1 & em2, add-on ports are em0 & em3. --- OpenBSD 7.0 (GENERIC.MP) #3: Wed Dec 15 13:14:26 MST 2021     r...@syspatch-70-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 838784

I did not realize I was an OpenBSD user!

2021-12-26 Thread David Rinehart
A long read, but may be interesting... I Wanted to get into a nix OS at home, after being away for many years. Researched a short list of nix OSs. To be honest, OpenBSD was at the bottom of the list due to text install and what seemed like a limited list of ports. Tried the others. If I got an