On 2 July 2017 at 14:02, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> >> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I
>> >> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2
>> >> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower tha
On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I
>> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2
>> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower than to an ffs filesystem on
>> an internal sata drive mounted
On 1 July 2017 at 18:55, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 03:43:48PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
>> On 1 July 2017 at 12:06, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The USB disks and ext2 are both quite slow on OpenBSD. Tr
On 1 July 2017 at 12:06, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
wrote:
> The USB disks and ext2 are both quite slow on OpenBSD. Try with FFS but
> you're not going to see better numbers.
>
> On Linux, the kernel uses UAS for your USB disks. We only supports
> bulk-only.
If you are implying that if I had
I have three Toshiba 1TB USB drives that I use for backups and
archives of my various systems. These disks pre-date my predominant
use of OpenBSD, and have ext2 file-systems. One of the disks is the
primary, to which new backups and archives are written. Another is the
secondary. When the primary c
On 28 June 2017 at 03:13, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:31:24AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> > I am running current (though not up-to-date) on the machine described
> > by the dmesg below.
> >
> > If I suspend the system with 'zzz' having s
I am running current (though not up-to-date) on the machine described
by the dmesg below.
If I suspend the system with 'zzz' having started X, when I try to
revive it there is no video. The system is alive otherwise and I can
ssh in and reboot it. Just nothing on the screen.
Otherwise, the system
On 12 June 2017 at 01:14, Davor Balder wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> It may be worth upgrading from USB just in case...
Adding to this (good) suggestion. I would download the install61.fs
image and check it with sha256 against the 6.1 sha256 file to be sure
the bits arrived intact. Possible explana
On 12 June 2017 at 03:02, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2017, Donald Allen wrote:
>> On 11 June 2017 at 19:16, Davor Balder wrote:
>>
>> They are not everyone's cup of tea, but I use a tiling window manager
>> with OpenBSD (I like xmonad, but there are ot
On 11 June 2017 at 19:16, Davor Balder wrote:
>
>
> On 06/12/17 06:06, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
>>
>> I spent yesterday and today installing 6.1 from scratch on a Dell Optiplex
>> gx620. The machine has a pentium 4 @3.0GHz with 4GB non ECC RAM, returning a
>> passmark of 354*. The aim is to replace
On 10 June 2017 at 06:55, Nicolas Schmidt
wrote:
>
>>> On 06/09/17 15:39, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote:
>>> Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?
>>
>> You? No, I doubt it.
> ...
>> But, you are welcome, and invited
> ...
>> Nick.
>
> Nick, I don't think you were being either welcoming or inviting ther
On 30 May 2017 at 11:22, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed a snapshot of amd64 recently and I was using fvwm from
> Openbsd base to install some packages. I even started Firefox to look
> for some documentation.
>
> Later, I was going back to cwm since I use it daily. I have a feeling
I won't clutter the list with the output of the commands you suggested
or the dmesg, because I figured out what happened, based on your
suggestions. Pilot error.
The installed kernel was from mid April, but /bsd has creation
date-time from yesterday.
I used a USB key that I had last prepared corr
.1-RELEASE.
>
> Use /etc/installurl instead.
>
> https://man.openbsd.org/installurl
>
>
> Freundliche Grüße / Regards
> -stefan kapfhammer
> Originalnachricht
> Von: Donald Allen
> Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Mai 2017 20:16
> An: OpenBSD general usage list
> Betreff: Version ske
I am running current on an amd64 system. I updated the system from the
latest (5/4) snapshot this morning, downloaded from the Alberta site.
But I am (still) unable to install the following package:
doas /usr/sbin/pkg_add rust
quirks-2.319 signed on 2017-05-03T14:53:25Z
Can't install rust-1.16.0
On 28 March 2017 at 17:59, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just want to know the opinion of OpenBSD developpers about Rust and Go,
> I already know Ted's opinion.
> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/thoughts-on-replacement-languages
>
> As they are both touted as memory safe, what do you think about them
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote:
> I have tried both release and the snapshot version of the
> install60.fs, same results.
> I used the anycast CDN mirror:
> http://mirrors.evowise.com/pub/OpenBSD/
Transferring from that mirror is unbelievably slow, at least from where I
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote:
> Yes, the same USB key, tried both FreeBSD and OpenBSD images with the
> same exact procedure roughly 4-5 times by now with the same results.
>
Are you using the release image or current? At this point, they are both
called install60.fs, b
When you successfully booted the FreeBSD installer from a USB key, was it
the same key? Did you prepare it the same way (using dd in cygwin)?
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote:
> Thanks for the reply and apologies for the lack of information -- I
> will provide more detail.
>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Cinolt Yuklair wrote:
> The computer I want to install on does not have a CD/DVD drive, but
> has USB 2.0 ports.
>
To get much help here, you need to describe the computer. Normally, you
would do that with the output of dmesg, but since you can even boot the
inst
This guy took Theo's advice to go elsewhere with this even before the
advice was given. He's apparently appointed himself an anti-blob vigilante
and has also landed on Alpine and Void Linux. I had an exchange with him on
the Alpine forum and tried this:
"Then I suggest that you think hard about wh
Well, a little more experimenting with this machine and a couple of Linux
live cds leads me to conclude that the wifi hardware in this machine is
sick. The symptoms I reported are not an OpenBSD problem.
/Don Allen
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Donald Allen
wrote:
> I just installed rele
I just installed release 6.0 on this machine, and I get the same error.
/Don Allen
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Donald Allen
wrote:
> I just installed current from the most recent snapshot on a Thinkpad T410.
> Wireless networking doesn't work. During the install, I had an ether
I just installed current from the most recent snapshot on a Thinkpad T410.
Wireless networking doesn't work. During the install, I had an ethernet
cable plugged in and configured the em0 interface (I use static ip
addresses), so I could download the firmware. The firmware got loaded
during the inst
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Folks, pay attention, please! The OP asked about a laptop.
> Pansonic Thoughbook is not a laptop! It's a real desktop.
>
I think the folks *are* paying attention. For example:
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Toughbook-Notebook-Silver-CF-5
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:43 PM, George Pediaditis <
g.pediaditis1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks for the reply. I will try it next week when i have more time.
> If that doesnt work im thinking if its possible to go from current
> back to stable. If i try current and i have problems. It looks
> pos
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>> (FreeBSD doesn't seem to know about iwm yet). After waiting a bit, I
>> will again try installing -current on a USB drive to see if the
>> package p
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 09:17:38PM +0200, George Pediaditis wrote:
>> hello
>> Im having trouble with wifi. I cant download faster than 523.94kBit/s
>> Im using the iwm0 driver.
>
> Please try -current. This problem should be fixed there.
56 -0400
> From: t...@parlementum.net
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: donations
>
> That works very differently as far as taxes go. Theo would have to start
reporting
> it as income if Canada works like the US, and things are interesting from
there.
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 20
But isn't it still better to send the money directly to you, since the
Foundation doesn't support you financially? If I understand the different pots
of money correctly, this gives you maximum flexibility to use what you need
for your own support and if there is any excess, you can send it to the
F
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:59:07 +0300
> From: con...@gmx.com
> To:
misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: github
>
> On 16:43 Sun 07 Aug, Ingo Schwarze
wrote:
>>> Do you have any plans to move the OpenBSD source code repository
>>> to github?
>>
>> Absolutely not. The OpenBSD repository will remain
sec
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 02:50:33PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
>> I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system
>> will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power button --
>> it just c
I have a Thinkpad x250 running 5.9 stable, up-to-date. This system
will not re-awaken from sleep mode. No response to the power button --
it just continues to sit there slowly blinking and does not respond to
pings. Power cycling is the only way I've found to recover. dmesg
below. I believe this is
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Jiri Navratil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:21:00PM +,
> 3ss7cb+angubqwtnb...@guerrillamail.com wrote:
>>
>> How should I set
>> my mouse as favourite input system instead of the trackpad?
>>
>> I am runnning 5.9
>> with Xfce4.
If your objective
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Paul Suh wrote on Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:20:45AM -0400:
>
>> I've been playing over at Alpine Linux, to get support for a WiFi card
>> that is not supported under OpenBSD. Their installation instructions
>> and general documen
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Aioi Yuuko wrote:
>> Why is MAXINTERP in only 128? I can think of a few:
>>
>> 1. It's been that way a while and nobody's complained
>> 2. If someone's shebangs are longer than that, they're probably doing
>> whatever they're doing horribly, h
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Donald Allen
> wrote:
> > That is simply not true in general. If your application is
> > processor-limited and written in an interpreted language, do you think it
> > would get faster
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > Wait, what is the best guess now, did the recent scheduler patches that
> were posted >here recently, remedy the speed issue altogether?
>
> Try and see for youself. I was doing that at almost each snapshot and
> chromium was the winner all
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Maximilian Pichler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading to 5.9 (and thus Chromium 48 and Firefox 44) browser
> performance seems degraded. Opening three different tabs with e.g.
> newspaper websites results in a noticeable lag (up to several seconds)
> when switching
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote:
> I was OK with the performance in Firefox (though it was pretty slow). What
> was *really* bothering me was the crashing. Does 'noscript' solve that as
> well?
Firefox has been quite stable, with or without the 'noscript' plug-in,
since I inc
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Federico Carrone
wrote:
> After migrating from Linux to OpenBSD on my desktop performance was really
> bad inside Firefox and Chromium in 5.9 specially on big websites like gmail.
> It was not usable, on an 4 core machine and with 16GB of RAM. After
> migrating to
I have also had problems with Firefox performance with OpenBSD (it's
not a speed demon with Linux or FreeBSD, but it is faster on those
systems). And I haven't found Chromium to be a good alternative -- too
many crashes and "Oh, snap"s.
But my experience with Firefox is that the problem is easily
hers by
> 'staff?'
ulimit -a
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Donald Allen
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote:
>> > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince,
>> > Firefox crashes --
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote:
> I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince,
> Firefox crashes -- like pretty regularly. I switched from using Calc to
> Gnumeric and that has helped some, but having my browser crash 10-15 times
> a day is not good for
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Rob Pierce wrote:
> For your consideration.
Looks to me like the original was talking about current, as in
amperes; as evidenced by the subsequent sentence about the need for a
powered USB hub to run devices that don't work when directly attached.
I don't think yo
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Murk Fletcher wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is it just me or should http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhyUse have
> "other free UNIX-like operating system" in plural?
The sentence describes users who ask "Is OpenBSD better than X?",
where X is a specific Unix-like system. Y
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Mariano Baragiola
wrote:
> On 02/22/16 11:21, Daniel Boyd wrote:
>>
>> Quick question for you guys. Â I recentlydecided to see if I could get
>> away
>> with runningOpenBSD on my office workstation. Â I gotthe idea after
>> playing
>> around with xfreerdp's 'rail'
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Tinker wrote:
> Did two tests, one with async and one with softdep, on amd64, 5.9-CURRENT,
> UFS.
>
> (Checked "dd"'s sources and there is no fsync() anywhere in there.
>
> The bufcache setting was 90, 3GB free RAM, pushed 2GB of data using "dd"
> to disk.
>
Base
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:03:46PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > I just used this exchange as an example to a friend who buys everything
> > Apple and then complains when their software is buggy. This is a perfect
>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio
> wrote:
> >
> > > Donald Allen [donaldcal...@gmail.com] wrote:
> > > > On Feb 1
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Donald Allen [donaldcal...@gmail.com] wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > > >
On Feb 12, 2016 05:08, "Stefan Sperling" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:42:21PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I
chose
> > to configure the wireless network interface (iwm). This resulted in the
When attempting to install the 2/8 snapshot on my Thinkpad x-250, I chose
to configure the wireless network interface (iwm). This resulted in the
following:
iwm0: could not read firmware iwm-7265-9 (error 2)
panic: attempt to execute user address 0x0 in supervisor mode
Problem in the iwm driver?
My compliments to Ted Unangst and whoever else was involved in the
creation of doas. sudo configuration is such an incredible hairball
that I'll wager that few attempt to wade through the documentation to
get things set up so that innocuous things are convenient and the rest
is secure. I know I did
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> But if we lose the project leader due to lack of exercise and food,
>> that's not good for the project. You made it very clear in a previous
>> message to this thread that no Foundation money comes to you. So while
>> the Foundation may be d
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the
>>foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive."
>>
>>I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice
>>can send checks or Paypal money directly to Theo, as descri
"All I can do is buy the CD's and give some $ to the
foundation. Any other suggestion is not productive."
I don't think that quite covers it. Those of us who have the choice
can send checks or Paypal money directly to Theo, as described on the
Donations page. I think checks are preferable, becaus
The crash I reported a few days ago is the same:
ehci_device_clear_toggle: queue active
I recently reported a 5.8 Stable kernel panic associated with use of a
USB drive on a particular machine I have (a desktop, Asus motherboad,
AMD processor). That report turned out to be my error, brought about a
mis-config-ed kernel. After restoring the vanilla 5.8 Stable kernel,
the easily reprodu
In the 'Output Style' section, the diff man page says
"XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which
line the change would bring file1 in line with file1."
I think what is meant is
"XXdYYAt line XX delete the line. The value YY tells to which
r your help and sorry for the false alarm.
/Don Allen
On 11/12/15, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:53:06PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>> fdisk and disklabel output below.
>>
>> I should note that the panic is reproducible. I rebooted the problem
>> sy
One more thing: it just occurred to me to try a different USB drive,
to see if the issue was specific to the Toshiba drive. I have a 1TB
Seagate USB drive. I tried plugging it in and unplugging -- same
thing, kernel panic.
n Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
> I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with
> the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not
> provide a device address; the line that mentioned the device said 'not
> configu
I am running 5.8 Stable. I plugged in one of my Toshiba USB disks with
the intention of beginning to backup the system. dmesg | tail did not
provide a device address; the line that mentioned the device said 'not
configured'. Without a device address, I couldn't mount the root
partition. So I remove
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:32 PM, VaZub wrote:
> Sorry, my bad - I assumed that it was only natural for newcomers to
> copy the file and edit it afterwards instead of creating it from
> scratch to override some values. Obviously, this assumption was based
> on my ignorance and therefore wrong. You a
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck wrote:
>Just to bring this issue back to the forefront.
>
> In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to
> cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be
> involved in receiving donations to cover project electri
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Evan Root [cellarr...@gmail.com] wrote:
>> Just so you all know,
>> This thread makes me want to try out Ext on Openbsd reeeaalll bad.
>
> It receives virtually no effort, and its performance sucks. Although,
> linux ext2fs is very fast beca
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, wrote:
> On 1/2/14, Geoff Steckel wrote:
>> In return, of course, that Linux wouldn't mount an OpenBSD FFS.
>
> I used to have /home shared between OpenBSD and Linux a couple of
> years ago when I was migrating. It was FFS for the reason discussed in
> this thread
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Alexei Malinin wrote:
> On 12/23/13 21:14, Donald Allen wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin
>> wrote:
>>> On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote:
>>>> Alexei Malinin wrote:
>>>>
>>>&
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alexei Malinin wrote:
> On 12/23/13 20:32, Remco wrote:
>> Alexei Malinin wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> My notebook hangs while working in X
>>> (at random times, several times per day).
>>>
>>> I could not find any information related
>>> to the above problemin sy
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013, at 05:26 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk wrote:
>> > I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is
>> > it that files will
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tekk wrote:
> I've got an ext3 /home partition which I use under linux, how likely is
> it that files will get clobbered if I use the same /home under a dual
> boot with openbsd?
>
Your subject asks about the stability of the ext2 support in OpenBSD,
but your mess
I can't see the whole history of this conversation because the gmane
site is down for maintenance at the moment. But I don't recall cygwin
being mentioned and it's certainly another good alternative to samba,
as it includes openssh. In theory, you can set up an sshd with cygwin.
I say "in theory" b
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Simmons wrote:
> On Friday, December 13, 2013 01:23:15 pm Ted Unangst wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:33, Jeff Simmons wrote:
>> > "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
>>
>> I realize this is often quoted in jest, but I've taken
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Don Allen wrote:
>> I'm running current (as of the 11/14 snapshot) on a micro-itx box I
>> built around an Intel Atom d510mo motherboard. When I try to wake
>> the system after zzz, my X session comes a
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 11/22/13 11:17 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
>> If it's offensive for you, compile your own spamd man page with
>> the diff you so happily provided, and live the rest of your life
>> happy. Remember to always take this pill again on 1st o
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading many
> posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most OpenBSD users
> are high-end IT professionals.
> I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so adva
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Nick Holland
wrote:
> On 11/17/13 12:53, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote:
>> Le 2013-11-17 20:27, dmitry.sensei a écrit :
>>> What about 1Tb disk? Is CHS mode correct for this disks?
>>
>> I done the test using Virtualization.
>> Not tried with a physical hard drive
I just attempted to build foxtrotgps-1.1.1 from source on an i386 OpenBSD
5.1 stable system. The make fails:
gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
-DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR="\"/usr/local/from_source/share\""
-DPACKAGE_PIXMAPS_DIR="\"/usr/local/from_source/share/pixmaps\""
-DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR="\"/usr/l
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM, David Vasek wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>> "While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears
>> at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is
>> tempted to think that su
"While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears
at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is
tempted to think that such a user-friendly installer would not harm
one so easily..."
I disagree. I think the installer is fine the way it is and it was not
the proble
"Distributing an installation program that can wipe out the user's hard
disk instantly on a single wrong keystroke, without so much as a
confirmation prompt is so shortsighted and irresponsible that I can
barely believe it. "
Doing an installation on a machine that you obviously care about, with
t
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tony Abernethy wrote:
> Donald Allen wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for the compl
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the compliment, but I'm a *lot* older than nine.
>
> Yet you still believe that it's ok for guests to tell the hosts how to
> beha
Donald Allen wrote:
> After getting subjected to some of this nonsense personally, having
> asked a question on openbsd-tech (and was in the midst of a useful
> exchange with Bob Beck until it was interrupted out of the blue by
> someone who apparently enjoys behaving like an unruly
[begin quote]
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Matthias Kilian
wrote:
> What detail in the original reply Theo sent to the OP (and quoted
> it later on this list) was rude?
The lack of an answer. He could have said "Yes. Check your nearest
search engine for details". Which would have conveyed mo
Sounds like you are already on the right track, courtesy Peter
Hansteen, so I'll simply support the direction you are going by
telling you that I back up my systems (with a home-brew scheme that
uses a combination of rsync and tar) to 7200 rpm SATA drives in USB
shoeboxes with ext2 filesystems and
Thanks to everyone who took the time to weigh in on this. Perhaps most
useful to me are the comments of those who have used OpenBSD for heavy
database work (I intend to use Postgresql) and have gotten
satisfactory results.
To Daniel -- I don't think we'll be working for or with each other in
the f
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Tilley wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>> Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable and/or
>> insecure system isn't worth much in most, if any, settings. On the
>> other hand, a r
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, wrote:
> Quoting "Donald Allen" :
>
>> My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach
>> to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If
>> it is, do Theo and the other kernel devel
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>> My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach
>> to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If
>
> ye
My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach
to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If
it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers consider it a priority
to improve this?
(I am NOT complaining. I completely understand that OpenBSD is a labor
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Donald Allen
wrote:
> I'm running 4.6 stable on 5 systems, 3 of them with multiple
> processors (amd64). On one of the multiprocessor systems, I just
> noticed (from the output of 'top') that the stable kernel I'd built
> for it
I'm running 4.6 stable on 5 systems, 3 of them with multiple
processors (amd64). On one of the multiprocessor systems, I just
noticed (from the output of 'top') that the stable kernel I'd built
for it was not a multiprocessor kernel.
The documentation on building a stable kernel on
http://openbs
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Marco Peereboom
wrote:
>> If I read yor report correctly this was fixed past 4.6. Try booting a
>> -current kernel and see if it works.
Clues:
1. Logged in as me and moving /etc/rc.s
erwise sound) to try to get
a clue as to what in my configuration might be causing this.
In the meanwhile, I'd appreciate any other suggestions.
Thanks --
/Don Allen
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 08:58:10AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>> I'm running 4.6 stable on a Lenovo S10 Wor
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Henry Sieff wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
>> I realize that I'm preaching to the choir -- you know all this. But I
>> think it's a mistake for (especially) the OpenBSD community to
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 at 1:46 PM, Aaron Mason
wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez
> wrote:
>> 2009/11/3 Claire beuserie :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Theo de Raadt
>> wrote:
>>>
2) At least three of our developers were aware of this exploitation
When doing a clean install of 4.6 on a machine with a 20 Gb Windows
partition at the beginning of a 60 Gb disk, I needed to create the
OpenBSD (A6) partition. I did so in CHS mode. When it prompted me for
the starting sector of the partition, it offered [1] as the default.
When I hit 'enter', it co
I just noticed that if you go to openbsd.org rather than
www.openbsd.org, you get the old home page, indicating 4.5 as the
current release. www.openbsd.org returns the new home page, with 4.6
as the current release. I don't know if this is intentional (I suspect
not), but thought I'd mention it.
I
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