Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

Thanks for interesting story; very sadly. Just out of curiosity, what hardware was it? On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:23:52PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: ...was rather unspectacular: Hardware failiure. The system's name was base, originally installed with OpenBSD 2.3 on Jun 12, 1998:

Re: dmesg default color

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:36:51AM +0300, Roman Strogin wrote: Hello, while booting dmesg is in white on blue by default. How can it be changed? You may redefine WS_KERNEL_FG (foreground) and WS_KERNEL_BG (background) in your kernel configuration file: option WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_WHITE

Re: OpenBSD poster

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:36:28PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: I have made an OpenBSD promotion poster. http://images.twibright.com/tns/21a8.html CL Yeah, SECURE SNOWBOARDING WITH PUFFY. Only 2 injures in more than 10 years!. Nice poster ;) -- C programmers never die. They're just cast

Re: pkg_delete: removing the resulting port/package file

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:34:28PM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote: When I install by port a package is first built. When deleting the package with pkg_delete the package is removed (no longer installed) but that built package file remains. Is there any way to get rid of it during the deletion?

5.1 sound card recommendation

Hello everyone! Do somebody have success with 5.1 sound ? If so, please recommend PCI Sound Card to work with OpenBSD 4.2(-CURRENT). I have MARC'ed a bit but similar messages were 1 year ago. I'd like to think that something have been changed.. Thank you for your time. -- C programmers never

Re: Free course on I Intellectual Property Rights by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO )

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:55:59PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:23:54 +0530 Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is a course on intellectual property by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). This course is free. After studying this

Re: Problems with uow on sparc64

Yeah, I have exactly the same problem on x86 running 4.1. I can't provide dmesg now (i do not have such hardware at work). On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:28:26PM +0200, Dagobert Kellner wrote: Hello, I am trying to get run usb onewire on my ulstra sparc5 using openbsd 4.1. When I insert the

Re: hw.sensor empty

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please provide dmesg with your mail. I guess you have no sensors in your box or they're not supported yet. On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:34:44AM +0200, giovanni wrote: hello, on my box, 4.1-current, sysctl -a hw.sensor is empty I've seen that

Re: auto-login as a console ordinary user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:37:44AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an educational context (teaching children something different than MS WinXP) After booting I would like to login automatically as a normal user (in other words, to find the

[offtopic] Fiery X2-W Raster Image Processor

Hello, misc@ I work in the print company. Recently, while cleaning out attic I've found interesting machine. Machine labeled Fiery X2-W is a hardware raster image processor with 200MHz NEC VR5000 MIPS CPU. At first look, it has PCI 32, PCI 64, USB, pATA and SCSI buses, serial and parallel

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi, I got to add 2 more hard drives to a server I manage (dmesg below) sd4 showed up no problem, but /dev/sd5 doesn't exist. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo fdisk -i sd5 Password: fdisk: sd5: No such file or directory

Re: some basic problems

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:52:51AM +0800, ronald jiang wrote: obsd 4.0 i386 without X on an ibm thinkpad t30 a. How to map alt to meta? It's already find in ksh, but not in emacs. b. My hard disk really has more then 10 thounds cylinders, but fdisk allows 1024 at most... c. emacs22

[patch] Option to ping(8) to return 0 after receiving first echo-reply

Hi, @misc! Here is a very simply hack to ping. It isn't pretend to something, hope it will be useful for anybody as endless host checking in scripts. % ping -Q example.com echo 'abc' /dev/speaker # etc.. Index: ping.8 === RCS

Re: /etc and partitions

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:37:12 +0100 Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, version: 3.8 architecture: i386 I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. Why can it be not on an extra partition? Have a nice day Michael -- Michael Schmidt MIRRORS:

Re: openbsd's future plans?

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:01:38 -0800 Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/06, Antonios Anastasiadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been wondering what are the openbsd team's long term-plans (if any at all,of course) regarding future smp support. I am aware that openbsd currently

inet failover solution

Hi, All! I have a router with two external ethernet links to two different ISPs. Could someone recommend me a good technique to organize failover with these two channels (similar to trunk(4) but on higher level)? I thought about writing the Perl script to periodically ping destination on master