Re: Home NAS

2019-11-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-15 20:47, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Jan Betlach wrote: [snip] 2. A HP P222 array controller works right out of the box on OpenBSD, maybe FreeBSD as well but the combination of ZFS and RAID controller seems weird to me. FreeBSD has a better support for HWRaid cards than OpenBSD. I

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-03 05:15, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it i

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-02 18:29, Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hi Jordan, Jordan Geoghegan wrote on Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 05:44:23PM -0700: I've thought about learning latex and mandoc and all the fancy tools, but I've just never gotten around to it. Actually, both mandoc(1) and mdoc(7) are off-top

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-02 15:54, Marc Chantreux wrote: hello, You can't go wrong with LibreOffice. I've written thousands of pages over the years with it. It may be too "heavy" for some, but for me, if I'm doing something too complex for vi or mousepad, I just fire up LibreOffice. to me there is no such

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-02 13:18, Chris Bennett wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:16:22PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: On 2019-11-02 15:07, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: You obviously never wrote a book. At least not with the requirements OP asked for. > Actually, I am, right now. I've found that "formatting"

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it in the past with great success. On 2019-11-02 14:35, Jonathan Drews wrote: Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on O

Re: rspamd stop rc script doesn't work in OpenBSD 6.6

2019-10-27 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-10-27 17:29, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: Rspamd stop rc script doesn't work in OpenBSD 6.6. 1. Fresh OpenBSD 6.6 installation 2. pkg_add rspamd 3. rcctl start rspamd Works. 4. rcctl stop rspamd timeouts Looking at rspamd logs, it looks like it doesn not work well with SIGTERM. It waits

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

2019-08-14 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
asking for server specification for a web and database server that won't have high traffic but will have a long run. Thanks again. On 15/08/2019 12:27 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 8/14/19 7:56 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escano wrote: Hi to everyone at misc, I'm recently working on

Re: Recommended web and database server specification

2019-08-14 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 8/14/19 7:56 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escano wrote: Hi to everyone at misc, I'm recently working on an OpenBSD-based PHP7 web application with PostgreSQL-backend for a local government agency and was wondering what would you recommend as the acceptable server specification. This web applica

Re: IPv6 problems

2019-08-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 8/13/19 10:11 AM, Thomas Bohl wrote: Hello, My hostname.vio0 looks like this: dhcp inet6 alias 64 You most likely need to add a route. Add something like this to your hostname file: !route add -inet6 default fe80::1%vio0 Just in case you have the same problem. For whatever reaso

AMDGPU Freesync Supported?

2019-06-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, I noticed that amdgpu is being ported over to OpenBSD, and I was curious if Freesync will be supported by the newly ported code? Any info/insight folks could provide would be much appreciated. Cheers, Jordan

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-25 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 5/25/19 4:00 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, On 5/23/19 8:19 AM, John Gould wrote: Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC? I'm trying to run several G5's and g4 mini's on 6.5 as desktop machines. The basic install works really well but there doesn't seem to be a

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-23 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 5/22/19 11:19 PM, John Gould wrote: Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC? Dillo is a pretty good browser that works on macppc. It doesn't support javascript, but is perfectly adequate for reading non-terrible websites.

Re: Booting octeon in single user mode

2019-05-21 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Thanks Stuart, this also works well and saves having to mess around with uboot. Cheers, Jordan On 5/7/19 3:58 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2019-05-07, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hi folks, I have an old Edgerouter Lite I set up last year that I've forgotten the passwords for. I kno

Re: Booting octeon in single user mode

2019-05-21 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Thanks Visa, that did the trick! Sorry for the late reply, just got a chance to look at the machine, and everythings working great now. Jordan On 5/7/19 9:58 AM, Visa Hankala wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:19:05AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: I have an old Edgerouter Lite I set up

Re: Haskell compilation issues

2019-05-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 5/19/19 1:24 PM, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:18:44AM -0500, Joe Nelson wrote: Matthias Kilian wrote: ps: please note that I'm not subscribed to misc@ with my 'real' mail account, only with a crappy gmail account I'm only reading on my tablet (from which I forwarded yo

Booting octeon in single user mode

2019-05-07 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi folks, I have an old Edgerouter Lite I set up last year that I've forgotten the passwords for. I know you can boot single user mode on amd64 by typing "boot -s" at the bootloader prompt, but that does not seem to exist on octeon. Any help you guys can provide getting my octeon into singl

Re: Xorg blanks until I switch to a TTY and back on 6.5

2019-04-28 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 4/28/19 4:26 PM, Charles wrote: Hello list, Ever since the new inteldrm driver got merged into -current, shortly before the 6.5 release, I'm seeing an odd new behavior on my Thinkpad T430 -- when an external display is connected, Xorg blanks all screens (but the mouse can still be seen) unt

Re: IPv6 on AWS fails after 30 seconds

2019-03-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
: Router Advertisement from fe80::478:22ff:fe9e:1c56 Mar 15 20:34:02 ip-172-31-6-187 dhcpcd[84926]: xnf0: adding route to 2600:1f11:2f7:c100::/64 Mar 15 20:34:02 ip-172-31-6-187 dhcpcd[84926]: xnf0: adding default route via fe80::478:22ff:fe9e:1c56 On 3/14/19 2:17 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hi

IPv6 on AWS fails after 30 seconds

2019-03-14 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi Folks, I was able to get OpenBSD working on AWS thanks to an awesome script by ajacoutot@ : https://github.com/ajacoutot/aws-openbsd Everything seems to be working great, except I've had difficulty getting IPv6 working properly. AWS unfortunately uses DHCPv6 rather than slaac for IPv6 ad

Re: Block/allow outgoing traffic by user or application?

2019-02-24 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Yes, right in the default pf.conf they block the pbuild user: block return out log proto {tcp udp} user _pbuild On 2/23/19 10:43 PM, Frank Beuth wrote: Is it possible to restrict network access on a per-user or per-application (rather than per-port) basis? pf does not seem to have any capabi

em interface fails to enter promiscuous mode when bridging on vlan interfaces

2019-02-20 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, I'm not sure if this has already been reported, or if it is indeed a bug, but the title pretty much sums it up. I wanted to isolate some vmm virtual machines onto a separate vlan so I created a vlan interface on the host machine, and created a bridge on it. I used option 4 from the li

Re: How do I enable isochronous transfer in xhci(4)?

2019-02-16 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2/16/19 2:33 PM, Leonid Bobrov wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 02:19:24PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: There is no isochronous transfer support in xhci yet from what I understand. Yes there is, but it's experimental: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=150486632602314&

Re: How do I enable isochronous transfer in xhci(4)?

2019-02-16 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
There is no isochronous transfer support in xhci yet from what I understand. On 2/16/19 2:14 PM, Leonid Bobrov wrote: Hi! I'd like to test how my webcam will work with xhci(4), I've seen in commit message that video was not tested and audio doesn't properly work.

Re: emmc support on Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Security Gateway PRO-4

2019-02-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2/12/19 3:10 PM, Diana Eichert wrote: I've been running OpenBSD 6.4 on a USG PRO-4 using external SSD drive in USB enclosure. The platform page states "OpenBSD/octeon can be installed on all machines which have local Compact Flash or USB storage". The USG PRO-4 uses emmc storage. Accordin

Re: Modern CPUs AES-NI enabling system wide

2019-02-04 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 02/04/19 00:54, Denis wrote: Softraid created bioctl -r 8192 (for test purposes) works relatively slow ~10~12Mb/s on AES-NI enabled machines. Tested for Intel and AMD CPUs. I am able to read and write over 100MB/s from my softraid volume... I just backed up my home folder to my NAS and w

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

2019-01-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 01/08/19 18:08, tomr wrote: On 1/9/19 12:42 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Yikes. Everything you are (erroneously) trying to do here can be done without leaving your pf.conf. Remember, KISS. Is there a way to add an address to a table from within a rule, or something to that effect? I

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

2019-01-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 01/08/19 16:46, Daniel Jakots wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:07:43 -0800, Misc User wrote: Doing some work on it the other day, I noticed it opens a pretty big command injection hole if pfctl doesn't kill the connection before the connecting source gets a chance to send data. An attacker

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

2019-01-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 01/08/19 16:07, Misc User wrote: On 1/8/2019 3:16 PM, Aaron Mason wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 5:46 AM Misc User wrote: On 1/3/2019 11:20 PM, Radek wrote: A little ncat, sed, pfctl, and a dash of cron are able to do the job just fine.  cron is just there to start the ncat processes at

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

2019-01-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Sorry for the double post, I got the link to the script wrong... woops. The actual link is: www.geoghegan.ca/pfbadhost.html On 01/03/19 15:06, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hello, I wrote a small script called 'pf-badhost' to block shodan and other annoyances via pf firewall.

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

2019-01-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, I wrote a small script called 'pf-badhost' to block shodan and other annoyances via pf firewall. Check out www.geoghegan.ca/pf-badhost.html to see the script. pf-badhost also blocks ssh bruteforcers and other annoyances by loading a list of regularly updated badhost lists from trusted

Re: net/unifi fails to start

2018-12-10 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 12/08/18 13:33, Stuart Henderson wrote: Any chance you could have connected to 8443 over http instead of https? There is a check that warns if you do this (at least in unifi 5.9.x - I don't have an older install handy to check) but I guess it might not work in all cases. The logged error

Re: net/unifi fails to start

2018-12-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
:04 AM GMT+01:00, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Has anyone had any luck running the unifi software on OpenBSD? Huh, I just tried connecting to port 8080, and it automatically redirects me to port 8443 and everything works. If I connect to port 8443 directly, I get some garbled characters on the page

net/unifi fails to start

2018-12-07 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, I just got my hands on some Ubiquity kit, and I wanted to try running the Unifi Controller software on OpenBSD. I installed the port (there's no unifi package due to licence issues). When I start unifi (rcctl start unifi) it seems to start ok, but unfortunately the web interface doesn't

Re: Missing LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

2018-11-17 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 11/17/18 10:53, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 01:35:05AM +0100, Willi Rauffer wrote: Hello, we want to make one logical volume out of several physical volumes, but there is no \ LVM (Logical Volume Manager) in OpenBSD! Will there be a LVM in OpenBSD in the future? Th

VMM sh: time sleep 30 takes 56 seconds

2018-10-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, Not sure if this is a bug or not, so I thought I would ask misc@ first. I was writing a script in my vmm guest that involved killing and restarting a long running process every hour using sleep "3600", and I noticed it ended up sleeping for 2 hours and 56 minutes, rather than an hour.

Re: vmm setup example for AMD FX-8300 system

2018-10-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 10/07/18 13:33, Tracy Bales wrote: I have a fresh install of 6.3-AMD64 running on an AMD FX-8300 8 core system. I have created a 10G disk image. I then started the vm to boot the bsd.rd so I can install OpenBSD 6.3-AMD64 into this disk image. Here are my issues: 1) The screen is really

Re: Remiss on my personal and server security practices, offering server usage to outsiders

2018-09-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 09/19/18 10:45, Chris Bennett wrote: Right now, I am not living at a fixed location anywhere. All of my internet access is not through a hard line, but by necessity through WiFi or tethering. If I have some kind of server emergency and I do not have my laptop with me, I am forced to access s

Re: Equipment for OBSD based firewall

2018-09-10 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 09/10/18 08:22, Sonic wrote: How does the Edgerouter compare in performance to an Atom 2358/2558 based system? Especially interested in firewall performance using site-to-site VPN's. There's trade-offs for everything. The x86 platform is fundamentally flawed and contains innumerable backdo

Re: OpenBSD and letsencrypt in Amazon AWS

2018-09-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 09/09/18 07:05, Monah Baki wrote: Hi All, I have a OpenBSD 6.3 server in Amazon AWS, and I am trying to install from ports letsencrypt. Install was running fine till I got a Fatal message after it was done with the patching process ... Thanks Monah acme-client(1) is in base and is used

Re: Equipment for OBSD based firewall

2018-09-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 09/03/18 16:17, Bogdan Kulbida wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I need to build a pf OBSD firewall for a small office. What minimally feasible equipment would you recommend in order to achieve this goal? Thank you! I've ran multiple office networks on octeon devices. I've found the Edgerouter a

Re: Change Windows10 disk to OpenBSD, but not sure what disklabel and fdisk mean

2018-09-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
If you don't care what's on the Windoze 10 drive, just do a fresh install and allow the OpenBSD installer to use/partition the whole disk. On 09/03/18 10:17, Chris Bennett wrote: Hi, I've gotten tired and paranoid about having Windows 10 on my hard drive in a laptop, but I'm not sure what part

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

2018-08-27 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 08/27/18 09:11, Jon Tabor wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 01:33:27PM +0200, Mohamed Fouad wrote: Hi Carlos, i have a similar requirement and i am considering testing a banana pi router at this moment. I'm currently using a Banana Pro as my home router/firewall. I experienced a bunch of

Re: Addblock + Badhost blocking via unbound(8) and pf anchors

2018-08-25 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
iles we're calling as well. Hope this helps, Jordan Geoghegan First, the scripts: *DNS addblock script:* StevenBlack.sh: cd /var/unbound/etc/banlist && \ ftp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts &&a

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 08/12/18 01:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-08-12, John Long wrote: I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. They don't usually *want* transcoding but are forced to do it by poor codec support on client devices. Exactly. The only reason I use Serviio is for the on the f

The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-11 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi Folks, I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD called 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing and also has an HTML5 media player. I've found it able to handle cataloguing and indexing my 10TB media library great and I've enjoyed the auto

Re: openbsd port of Emby or Plex

2018-08-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 08/08/18 16:14, Marc Espie wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:30:52AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: I know minidlna is in ports, but it doesn't do on the fly media transcoding/remuxing with FFmpeg nor does it have an integrated HTML5 video player like Serviio does. I tried minidlna

Re: Introducing pf-badhost and unbound-adblock

2018-08-06 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 08/06/18 10:24, Scott Bonds wrote: On 08/05, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hi everyone, I thought I would share a couple scripts I wrote to block ads and bad hosts. I have found them to increase web-browsing speed and reduce battery consumption, especially on mobile devices. They also help

Introducing pf-badhost and unbound-adblock

2018-08-05 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi everyone, I thought I would share a couple scripts I wrote to block ads and bad hosts. I have found them to increase web-browsing speed and reduce battery consumption, especially on mobile devices. They also help reduce pop ups and fake sites, especially on mobile/in apps. I have also fou

Re: Can I ask a question about PF Here?

2018-07-16 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 07/16/18 15:57, Antonino Sidoti wrote: Hi, Before I go into to much detail, where is the appropriate place to get help for PF related problems? I am really stuck and need some assistance in understanding PF. I can provide diagrams, configuration files too to make is clearer. Thanks in adv

Re: Coming from FreeBSD, lower networking performance

2018-07-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello Sijmen, On 07/13/18 16:20, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote: Hi all, After migrating a VPS from FreeBSD to OpenBSD I noticed reduced networking performance. Both incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be 2-3 times slower on average. By testing 100MB file transfers I've mostly eliminated the foll

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I have managed to make a decent living for myself as a consultant who works primarily on OpenBSD. When I am hiring/evaluating applicants, having OpenBSD experience on their resume shows me that they don't fuck around and indicates that they are passionate about Unix and have a personal drive to

Re: disable fvwm screensaver?

2018-07-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 07/12/18 18:34, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: man xset I haven't used it to disable the screen saver, so I'm not sure the exact command.  But you need something like: xset s off Hey Edgar,  Thanks for help! 'xset s off && xset -dpms' seemed to do the trick. I popped it into my ~/.profil

disable fvwm screensaver?

2018-07-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, Sorry for the noob question. I am having trouble disabling the screen saver / screen timeout for fvwm. I am using an OpenBSD machine as a video terminal for my CCTV system and need the screen to be on 24/7 so employees can see the camera playback. Unfortunately the screen blanks after

Re: Ratgod leadership?

2018-07-10 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 07/10/18 17:55, Nick Holland wrote: On 07/10/18 12:57, Email wrote: [drivel snipped] Well...anyone who generates THAT much blind hatred has to be checked out, they are obviously either onto (or into) something. So I read up on OpenBSD, LOVED the philosophy of "security matters", downloaded i

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 06/19/18 11:20, li...@wrant.com wrote: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:59:45 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan Have you considered one of the Librem laptops by Purism? I hear they're quite nice, and are running coreboot straight from the factory. The pinnacle of bullshit talk, utter nonsense, no technical

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Have you considered one of the Librem laptops by Purism? I hear they're quite nice, and are running coreboot straight from the factory. On 06/19/18 03:37, Rupert Gallagher wrote: I'm done with my 10 years old 1200EUR MacBookPro. It served me well, every day, but is now falling apart, finally.

Re: Different sound sources interfere with each other

2018-06-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 06/18/18 11:58, Родин Максим wrote: May be the system becomes ... too busy to serve these actions simultaneously? It seemed to me that any task which made decent use of computer resources was able to cause that behavior. It would seem you're right. I just tried maxing out my workstation (i7

Re: Viewport for man.openbsd.org -- readability on phones

2018-05-19 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 05/19/18 00:04, Mihai Popescu wrote: I don't understand what you are trying to say. I took and iPhone with iOS and Safari ( i think!) on it and pointed the browser to the current link of man pages [1]. All i can say is the layout is displayed on full display, not stretched. Text is fine, par

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

2018-05-16 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 05/16/18 01:10, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:45:12AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 05/16/18 00:27, Tuyosi T wrote: hi i can not distinguish between lp and lpr . lpr(1) is a program used to print to an lpd server, wheras lp(4) is a driver that doesn't appe

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

2018-05-16 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 05/16/18 00:27, Tuyosi T wrote: hi i can not distinguish between lp and lpr . lpr(1) is a program used to print to an lpd server, wheras lp(4) is a driver that doesn't appear to have been ported from 4.4BSD yet. https://man.openbsd.org/lpr.1 https://man.openbsd.org/NetBSD-7.1/lp.4

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

2018-05-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 05/15/18 18:19, IL Ka wrote: Hello Jordan, >> you can do some neat things and avoid having to remove the ulpt(4) driver from the kernel What can be the reason to remove it? Some people remove the ulpt driver to allow CUPS to interface easier with their printer. This solution has always irr

Re: print usb printer by [ Google Cloud Print for Chromium ]

2018-05-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 05/15/18 13:04, Tuyosi T wrote: i think it is impossible to print USB only printers . I have successfully printed to several USB based printers in my time with OpenBSD, ranging from USB thermal receipt printers, USB restaurant dot matrix kitchen printers all the way up to your modern day

Re: USB sound card not playing

2018-05-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I would recommend looking here to start: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html You're going to have to configure sndiod to output to your secondary audio(4) device. To quote from the above faq link: "To change the default audio output device, for example to use an external DAC rather than

Re: Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

2018-04-28 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
27 April 2018 11:17:07 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Thanks for the reply, I have rebuilt a softraid mirror before, I was just hoping for some clarification as the faq wording is a little ambiguous as to whether drives can be rebuilt in multi user mode or not. Rebuild is a background kernel operation

Re: Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

2018-04-27 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
you to try it yourself, but not on production system) On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Jordan Geoghegan mailto:jgeoghega...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, Sorry for my ignorance, I was hoping someone could clarify for me the proper procedure for rebuilding a softraid mirror. The

Clarification re: rebuilding softraid mirror

2018-04-26 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
ifferent way: Is it possible to hot swap drives and rebuild arrays on the fly, or will this bork my system? Thanks, Jordan Geoghegan

Re: Beg for Atheros wifi driver

2018-04-15 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 04/15/18 09:37, Manuel Solis wrote: If you consider that is so much trouble, could someone sell me your usb wifi adapter or tell me the comercial name to buy it ??? The Atheros AR9271 chipset is supported by athn(4), so this mini wifi dongle should work : https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-l

Re: Date of yesterday

2018-04-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 04/09/18 13:58, Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD" wrote: Excuse-me, but i dont really understand this! (perhaps, because it's in english). If you don't understand how Daylight Savings time works, or how time works on computers in general, then you should just trust the expert advice offered to you

Re: Serial port pci cards.

2018-04-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I have found that any usb dongle with a PL-2303 chipset just works out of the box. I have had great success with many different brands which use that chipset. It works out of the box with OpenBSD and Linux. On 04/08/18 09:19, Michael Price wrote: I am unwise in the ways of serial port pci car

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 04/09/18 05:46, Karel Gardas wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 08:52:52 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: The pc engines stuff will still have blobs in it. There's no way to have fully open firmware on a modern i-series chip based rig. At the end of the day, we all are still using propri

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 04/08/18 09:00, Theo de Raadt wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: The pc engines stuff will still have blobs in it. There's no way to have fully open firmware on a modern i-series chip based rig. At the end of the day, we all are still using proprietary hardware. Who cares? I wasn'

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
result of one issue cascading across all protocols to heavy a load for one chip/box. B.T.W im currently running a 6.2 DB on a Dell GX620 & things are stable. Regards Patrick On Apr 8, 2018, at 7:42 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 20:28:14 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: On 04/07/18 19:

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-08 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
The pc engines stuff will still have blobs in it. There's no way to have fully open firmware on a modern i-series chip based rig. At the end of the day, we all are still using proprietary hardware. On 04/08/18 05:42, Karel Gardas wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 20:28:14 -0700 Jordan Geog

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-07 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 04/07/18 19:01, jungle boogie wrote: Thus said Jordan Geoghegan on Sat, 7 Apr 2018 17:57:16 -0700 The Edgerouter 6 is going to be coming out shortly, that is what I am holding out for to run my home network on. Just curious, why this and not amd64 bit with something like the pcengine

Re: 4-ports router under $150

2018-04-07 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
The Edgerouter 6 is going to be coming out shortly, that is what I am holding out for to run my home network on. On 04/07/18 14:59, Anatoli wrote: Hi All! I'm looking for a modest 4-5 ports router under $150 that works well with OpenBSD. I don't need WiFi, USB or console port, and the throu

Re: Status of X i386 openbsd 6.2 on x200

2018-04-05 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
What is it that prevents full disk encryption? I have been wanting a libreboot machine for travel, but Full disk encryption is more important that a clean bios when travelling. Thanks for your time, Jordan On 04/04/18 15:23, flipchan wrote: The amd64 fs file for 6.2 is working good i know g

Re: Flatbed scanner that works well with OpenBSD?

2018-02-23 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Yes, the HP scanner I use just opens up a local webpage that I open up in in a browser. All scanning functions are performed on the printers local-only webserver. It seems to work nicely as I have every OS under the sun scanning from it. On 02/23/18 09:34, Ralph Siegler wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan

Bandwidth Queuing on Asymmetrical Connections?

2018-02-17 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi folks, I was wondering how one goes about maintaining separate upload and download queues in pf. I have been playing with various combinations and I can't seem to get both queues to apply simultaneously. For example, I have a 150 down 15 up connection. I want to limit a specific device on t

Re: acme-client No registration exists matching provided key

2018-02-01 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi, I recently dealt with this issue as well and the solution was quite silly. The problem is that acme-client is failing due to the agreement url being out of date; there is a new agreement v1.2. acme-client has been patched in current I believe to fix this issue and automatically update the

Re: MAXDSIZ limits

2018-01-30 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
, Ted Unangst wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Is there any particular reason for the low sparc64 MAXDSIZ? Is there any way for this limit to be increased as I have some large data manipulation that needs to be done and I really would love to be able to increasing the value can be done by changing the h

Re: MAXDSIZ limits

2018-01-30 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
limits? I don't mean to sound like a whiner, I am just legitimately curious as to how other folks aren't having issues with these limitations. On 01/30/18 18:12, Ted Unangst wrote: Jordan Geoghegan wrote: amd64 MAXDSIZ : ((paddr_t)32*1024*1024*1024) i386 MAXDSIZ : (3UL*102

MAXDSIZ limits

2018-01-30 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hello, I am sorry if this is an ignorant question, but I am having difficulty finding info regarding MAXSIZD. A look through /sys/arch/amd64/include/vmparam.h reveals a 32GB maximum per-process limit. A look through some of the other arches I own reveals: amd64 MAXDSIZ : ((paddr_t)32*102

Re: I want to offer a macppc build environment

2018-01-29 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I know they're less than ideal, but I have access to almost 30 PowerMac Systems available for donation to devs or anyone in general who wants them to hack on. They're decent 1Ghz+ (1.4 on some of them I believe) powerpc machines. Feel free to let me know if anyone is interested Jordan On 01/

Re: smtpd fails to start

2018-01-23 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
If you ever find yourself in Western Canada, I'll be happy to keep that promise. On 01/23/18 01:40, Gilles Chehade wrote: I will remember that promise. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:37:37AM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Thank you Gilles! I knew it was going to be something irritat

Re: smtpd fails to start

2018-01-23 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Thank you Gilles! I knew it was going to be something irritatingly obvious. I owe you a beer. Cheers, Jordan Geoghegan # pkg_add opensmtpd-extras quirks-2.367 signed on 2017-10-03T11:21:28Z opensmtpd-extras-2017031321...:gettext-0.19.8.1p1: ok opensmtpd-extras-2017031321...:libffi-3.2.1p2

Re: smtpd fails to start

2018-01-23 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi Gilles, The output of the command you sent: # smtpd -dv smtpd: table_create: backend "passwd" does not exist I'm not sure what this means, as /etc/mail/passwd does indeed exist. Thanks for the fast response! On 01/22/18 23:58, Gilles Chehade wrote: you almost managed to give enough info

smtpd fails to start

2018-01-22 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
d below. I have tried this on both i386 bare metal and on amd64 VM using vmm. Please let me know if a dmesg would be helpful. The logs show nothing as to why its failing. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Jordan Geoghegan *My smtpd.conf is as follows (scrubbed of persona

Re: [6.2] pf nat-to ignoring static-port?

2018-01-22 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I too have had issues with static port not working and causing game consoles to complain about not having an "open nat". I would love to solve this issue as it makes it nearly impossible to "host" for games and chat on the consoles. Jordan On 01/22/18 07:28, Martin Hlavatý wrote: Hello ever

landisk hardware

2018-01-14 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi folks, Does anyone know where I can get my hands on some landisk hardware? I would love to play with some SH4 kit but am having trouble tracking down any supported models. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jordan Geoghegan

Re: Writing "ones" instead of "zeroes" when wiping disk

2018-01-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
If you want to be super paranoid about things, use properly implemented full disk encryption from the get go. Once you are ready to wipe the disk, use what is standard for most Government/Business use: overwrite with random data 7 times. If you want to be super aggressive about things (yet for

Re: Hardware fault on M3000

2018-01-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
If anyone is interested in solving this problem, I have a spare M3000 that I am willing to donate to the war effort. I can provide remote access to it, or if needed, I could ship it. Any takers? Jordan On 01/13/18 10:26, ti...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hello, I have a Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-06 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
RC is tight like a tiger as Goldmember would say, and I would be wholeheartedly shocked to find it was vulnerable to the same degree as x86. On 01/06/18 10:27, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 10:22:25AM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: All my web-facing servers are running SPARC a

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-06 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
costs, and a whole lot extra when it comes to peace of mind - niche architectures ftw! On 01/05/18 23:57, Rupert Gallagher wrote: http://www.mcst.ru/ On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 08:05, Jordan Geoghegan <mailto:jgeoghega...@gmail.com>> wrote: They make their own via the /Moscow Center

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-05 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
pay through the nose for Oracle's power hungry hardware, or make it cheaper and power efficient of their own. On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 18:28, Jordan Geoghegan <mailto:jgeoghega...@gmail.com>> wrote: The Russians heavily use SPARC for aerospace/military applications as well as

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
The Russians heavily use SPARC for aerospace/military applications as well as their in house domestic-use-only Elbrus machines, for what I imagine to be reasons precisely like this. On 01/04/18 00:13, Rupert Gallagher wrote: Everybody is reading about it, including people like me that have fo

Re: gcc-4.9.4 package build signal 11 [Segmentation fault] on Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway

2018-01-02 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I too have have tried contacting them, but with no response. Does anyone have any info on the Shasta or even the Edgerouter6 availability? Jordan On 01/02/18 09:42, Diana Eichert wrote: On Mon, 1 Jan 2018, Visa Hankala wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 07:53:20AM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote:

Re: Addblock + Badhost blocking via unbound(8) and pf anchors

2017-12-31 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi Freddy, I just ran some further benchmarks between your first and second script, compared to mine, and again similar results were found. Your second script was significantly faster than the first, but still didn't match the grep-piped-into-awk config. This shouldn't be the case though. I

Re: Addblock + Badhost blocking via unbound(8) and pf anchors

2017-12-30 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I have tried using all awk for the script before, but I find piping the grep output into awk to be 2-3x faster on the Edgerouter Lite. I just ran some timed tests for your script against mine on the ErLite, and I got similar results, with my script completing in ~6 seconds against the StevenBla

Addblock + Badhost blocking via unbound(8) and pf anchors

2017-12-29 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
.conf file. See below that for the anchor conf files we're calling as well. Hope this helps, Jordan Geoghegan First, the scripts: *DNS addblock script:* StevenBlack.sh: cd /var/unbound/etc/banlist && \ ftp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts &&

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