Re: Ordering CDs in Europe becoming increasingly difficult

2010-07-08 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:56:38AM +, Jona Joachim wrote: > Hi, > I've been buying every CD release over the last couple of years. I > purchased 4.6 from openbsdeurope.com and it was just as comfortable as > with Wim the years before. > However I haven't purchased 4.7 yet because the ordering i

Re: Mac mini G4

2010-07-01 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 06:15:16AM -0700, Fred Snurd wrote: > "fu...@safe-mail.net" wrote: > > > I have one question: Is the any way to put the mini > > in "server" mode (make it boot automatically after Power Loss)? > > While asking about server mode, is it also possible to run a PPC mini > he

Re: low httpd performance. Apache 2.2 as default? never? *sighs

2010-05-08 Thread John Wright
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:22:20AM +0300, Pekka Niiranen wrote: > These all great additions. I just wish Subversion would someday > be compatible with those. Subversion is awful. Try git, it supports http without having to install fancy apache modules.

Re: apache DOS tool

2009-06-22 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:36:58PM +0200, Jonas Thambert wrote: > Aiko Barz wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:32:56PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > >> The solution, like the problem, lies in the network layer. See iptables > >> and similar network stack filters to provide protection against t

Re: httpdump?

2008-11-20 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:18:00PM -0800, Jeff Simmons wrote: > I need, at a minimum, which virtual server at a particular IP address is > being > accessed, and the contents of any GET commands (methods). If there's a way to > get this via tcpdump I haven't found it yet. Just increase the snapl

Re: suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec

2008-09-01 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:17:34AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: > Jeremy Huiskamp wrote: > >> suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec > > > > Did you read suexec(8)? > > I expect you mean this? > > "Because this program is only used internally by httpd(8), > there are no oth

Re: keyboard encoding [not worth reading sorry]

2008-07-28 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:24:10PM +0200, Tony Berth wrote: > I have to say that I'm via ssh/xterm to the box. I don't know if this makes > a difference? hehe. (-:

Funding wording change on www.openbsd.org

2008-04-04 Thread John Wright
Oh. I thought t-shirts helped to fund OpenBSD. :( http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/index.html

Re: Default Posix thread stack size

2007-09-07 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:47:28AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > We just discovered that it appears the default Posix thread > stack size is 64KByte for OpenBSD (4.1). That seems a bit slim. > To compare I recall Solaris8 has got 2MByte as default. > > Can I assume all C library routines in OpenB

Re: searching packages? pkg_grep?

2007-08-10 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:24:45AM -0700, John N. Brahy wrote: > > I use alias pkg_search="echo ls | ftp -a \$PKG_PATH | sed 's/.*\ //g' > | grep -i". > > That's exactly what I was looking for. Note that you should be able to find an index.txt file in the packages directory which I've found to be

Re: dylan language

2006-12-22 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:42:44AM -0800, Joe wrote: > Today I saw a blog post about a wireshark alternative called > networtnightvision that claims to be more secure than wireshark. I'm > very interested in this because wireshark is just too dangerous to run, > IMO. Anyways, the sniffer is writ

Re: % stdout?

2006-11-09 Thread John Wright
On Nov 9, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Cassio B. Caporal wrote: > Hey, > > I have problems to print '%' in stdout... Suppose code below: > > #include > > main() { >char foo[] = "bar=30%\n"; >fprintf(stdout, bar); >

Re: rc.local command for postgres

2006-10-20 Thread John Wright
If you've installed postgres from the package you can find what to add to rc.local in /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql/README.OpenBSD

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

2006-05-29 Thread John Wright
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:52:49PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 > installation? I'd prefer to not have to change to bash if I don't have to... Just for a bit of variety (since you've had lots of replies) I use this: bind -

Re: Can't believe I'm asking this... What's a serial port on an OpenBSD system?

2006-02-13 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:04:23AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > [...] > pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > [...] These in the dmesg. man pccom lists the /dev files as tty00, tty01, cua00, cua01.

Re: boot.conf timeout ignored on amd64?

2006-01-27 Thread John Wright
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > - /etc/boot.conf --- > set timeout 30 > boot /bsd.mpr > - /etc/boot.conf --- The "boot" commands instructs it to boot there and then.

Re: netcat man page: -e emulation

2006-01-06 Thread John Wright
How about #!/bin/ksh nc -l localhost 1234 |& exec 0<&p 1>&p # Rest of the script here. This syntax is pretty new to me so I'm not sure of pros and cons.

Gosh! What a lot of unwrapping!

2005-10-20 Thread John Wright
http://dryfish.org.uk/~john/openbsd38/ Hope I'm not spoiling the sticker art for anyone.

Re: 3.7, wrong dependecies for package pear-DB-1.6.8?

2005-09-27 Thread John Wright
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:23:41PM +0300, Dimitar Kodjabachev wrote: > I am trying to install the package pear-DB-1.6.8 on a 3.7 box (i386). > According to pear.php.net, PEAR DB 1.6.8 requires PHP version 4.2.0 or > newer, but the OpenBSD package has a @depend > www/php5/core,-pear:php5-pear-5.0.*:

Re: SpamAssassin

2005-09-16 Thread John Wright
$ uname -a OpenBSD jasper 3.7 GENERIC.RAID#1 i386 $ pkg_info -L p5-Mail-SpamAssassin | grep sa-learn /usr/local/bin/sa-learn /usr/local/man/man1/sa-learn.1

Re: using restore command from files?

2005-08-29 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:01:08PM -0400, Matt Singerman wrote: > So, we had a server go boom. Fortunately, we run dump nightly, and > the files are copied to a remote server. However, I cannot find any > sort of instructions for restoring directly from files which will > preserver file permissio

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:03:27PM +0200, Tim wrote: > Hello > > 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to > keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system > but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the > com

Re: pf stops URLs without a trailing slash

2005-08-15 Thread John Wright
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:00:26AM +1000, Zoong PHAM wrote: > [...] > I know that a correct URL is the one with trailing slash if the last > part is a directory name. > So apart from teaching users to use correct URLs or investigate to > use Apache rewrite module, is there any thing I can do with p

Re: login_ldap

2005-08-04 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:47:00AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > # base with scope sub Maybe the scope? If I'm reading the code correctly the default is onelevel (or "-s one" on the ldapsearch command line) but the default for ldapsearch is subtree.

Re: login_ldap

2005-08-04 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:43:28AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > Also, does anybody know, how to run /usr/local/libexec/auth/login_-ldap > on a command line, to see if it works at all? I try following: > > blowfish# /usr/local/libexec/auth/login_-ldap afarber > blowfish# echo $? >

Re: no sound on Dell4550 (soundblaster live, emu)

2005-07-28 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:36:29AM +0200, Juan J. Martmnez wrote: > Woh! I think you're another unhappy user of a SB Live! *5.1* (from > DELL). Welcome to the club. Absolutely ages ago I found http://www.opensound.com/ and was able to use one of their drivers under OpenBSD 2.x. They're still goin

Re: keyboard.bell.pitch=0 is invalid on Openbsd 3.7 Current

2005-07-20 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:16:22AM -0600, edgar mortiz wrote: > i tried disabling beep on my laptop via > > sysctl -w keyboard.bell.pitch=0 > > and i got an error saying > > sysctl: top level name keyboard in keyboard.bell.pitch is invalid > > I'm using OpenBSD 3.7-current GENERIC #239 wsc

Re: sleep patterns...

2005-07-04 Thread John Wright
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:00:18AM +0100, unixadmin99 wrote: > Oops! > Accidently emptied half the contents of src.tar.gz into /usr/bin while > undergoing an install under the intoxication of sleep. > What's the most efficient way of rectifying this? src.tar.gz is mostly directories and /usr/bin s

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-16 Thread John Wright
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:19:26PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > BTW: one other reason RAIDframe isn't in GENERIC is you have to > customize your kernel in other ways, not just turning it on. From raid(4): > "It is important that drives be hard-coded at their respective addresses > (i.e., not left

Root on RAID and kernel dumps

2005-06-01 Thread John Wright
If you've configured a root on raid system where will the kernel try to dump to if it panics? I have followed the raidctl root on raid sample setup which means I have a number of raid?a partitions and hence do not have a raid0b to match my raid0a root device. Is it possible to find out the dumpde

Re: Getting Yesterday's Date (Repost due to error)

2005-05-31 Thread John Wright
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:55:22AM +0200, Stoyan Genov wrote: > Does this work for you? > > shell$ TZ=GMT+24 date Wow! /me reads tzset(3) with interest.