Re: Please put vi in base

2022-03-12 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Well, I think you should accept that this community features its own dogmas, like no zfs/hammerfs/ext4/xfs, bsd.rd smallest possible, no bluetooth, a prehistoric wm in base, and so on. Either you understand it or quit, because they won't change their minds :( I also asked for vi years ago and wasn

Problem with integrated mouse on Acer Aspire One AOA110 and 6.8

2020-11-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, just installed a fresh 6.8 on an old but good Acer Aspire One netbook. If I activate wsmoused=-2 in rc.conf.local the trackpad works correctly in CLI but stops working in X. If I kill wsmoused and rcctl restart xenodm the trackpad works correctly in X. wsmoused -i reports "wsmouse support

Re: Problem with pkg_add -uv after 6.7 upgrade on i386

2020-05-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
020 at 01:01:07PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > > > I just upgraded a PIII box freshly installed with 6.6 last month. > > Everything went right with sysupgrade (big kudos do devs). > > > > Problems started when upgrading installed pac

Problem with pkg_add -uv after 6.7 upgrade on i386

2020-05-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello Folks, I just upgraded a PIII box freshly installed with 6.6 last month. Everything went right with sysupgrade (big kudos do devs). Problems started when upgrading installed packages, here follows the output of pkg_add -uv. What can this be? Thanks Pasha --

Re: ATI Mobility 1 support on Dell Latitude L400

2020-04-19 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
ng programs remotely with ssh -X|Y u...@obsd.box, or is there something more to do? Thanks again and have a nice day! Pasha On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 4:54 AM Allan Streib wrote: > Paolo Aglialoro writes: > > > considering that 6.6 nuked X for my T23 as mentioned in previous recent &

ATI Mobility 1 support on Dell Latitude L400

2020-04-17 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, considering that 6.6 nuked X for my T23 as mentioned in previous recent post, I decided to refresh my old Dell L400, which was lagging behind at 6.2, with a fresh 6.6 install. Unfortunately X crashes. The first error in the log file was about setting machdep.allowaperture=1 and rebooting (

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-16 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
kl 23:29 skrev Paolo Aglialoro : > >> Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? >> Considering that supported hw (at least graphics) is going more and more >> to >> overlap with amd64, at the very end i386 would remain only for some >> routerboa

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I read from the 6.5 to 6.6 upgrade guide that the following files: > > > > > > */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la <http://s3_drv.la> >

S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I read from the 6.5 to 6.6 upgrade guide that the following files: */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.la /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.so/usr/

Re: Home NAS

2019-11-16 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
A fundamental element missing from the 1st mail is on which hardware should run your software-defined NAS and for which use. I exclude you are talking about several nodes, on which you can run Ceph or GlusterFS filesystems. Is it a single full size multi-disk server planned for intensive activity

Re: Postscript printer recommendations

2019-07-17 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
+1 :))) For instance, with epson C5790 (but also 5690, etc all xx90 printers) the PPD file is available: http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=IT&CN2=&DSCMI=69279&DSCCHK=7ab2791f6b67457707398fa7a534e6acdf4bce44 and CUPS does the job! On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:32 PM St

Re: Advice on Security Cameras

2019-01-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi, zoneminder is, as Stuart said, overcomplicated, plus unmantained and unable to catch the more modern streams from IP cams. The best free alternative is SHINOBI https://shinobi.video which is based on java and ported on linux, mac and wi(n)dows, I do not know it it would be feasible an OpenBSD

Re: Printer Epson WF-4630 with CUPS

2018-11-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
I have already run into this loop with other WorkForce Epson printers, for some reason that PPD works on linux but not on obsd; the only comfortable way out is buying a Postscript one, those ones ending in "90" like WF-xx90 models. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:45 PM wrote: > Hello, > > I am testing

Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-06-30 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtu

Re: Hellos from.. one nation under Üni

2018-01-03 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Could be... a stoned bot ahahah On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Joseph A Borg wrote: > I hesitate to drop in on this entertaining thread, but are you lot sure > you’re not talking to a bot? Smells like one to me. > > > On 03 Jan 2018, at 11:54, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > &

Re: Hellos from.. one nation under Üni

2018-01-03 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Listen to Üni: better change your pusher! On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Epost wrote: > Not surprisingly, the naysayers of the thread are with the adamic lineage > of prophets: > > From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxUqTlmMkU > > -- Üni - A Zén-realized concept of God.-- > > - I did "zén

Re: What would you like to see in upcoming PF tutorials?

2017-12-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
I would be glad to see a tutorial about creating a remote VPN bridge, so that under a remote obsd router all traffic gets routed to some other geolocated network in which another ibsd router receives it and that geolocated network is used as a gateway. e.g.: all traffic under and obsd machine insi

Re: Dell R210 II crashing on boot

2017-07-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi, up to a couple of years ago I managed such a machine, without idrac. As far as I remember, the first BIOSes/nic firmares had serious issues with bnx. My advice is to first update the machine to latest blobs before further testing. Just download dell iso and run it. Il 06 lug 2017 4:56 PM, "

Re: Rsnapshot configuration

2017-06-13 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
+1 Have a full snapshot of your system, otherwise restore will be a nightmare. Do it with another tool, rsnapshot is mostly useful for data. Il 13 giu 2017 11:05 AM, "Mark Carroll" ha scritto: > On 13 Jun 2017, G. wrote: > > > Hello! > > Im trying to take daily and weekly backups of my system r

Re: Incorrect file destination when logging with syslogd

2017-05-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
he below was exactly how you created the files, then please restart > syslogd, to ensure it is picked up. > > > On 2017 May 05 (Fri) at 16:30:33 +0200 (+0200), Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > :Sorry Peter, what do '2' or '5' stand for? > :And what does creating a fi

Re: Incorrect file destination when logging with syslogd

2017-05-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Sorry Peter, what do '2' or '5' stand for? And what does creating a file with '5' mean? This was my procedure: # cat "" > c2851.log # chown root:wheel c2851.log # chmod 644 c2851.log On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2017

Re: Incorrect file destination when logging with syslogd

2017-05-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
As written, mtime was due by me recreating the file trying to make things work, not by syslog. As of today, in fact, mtime is still unchanged, while output to /var/log/messages still flowing from router. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Allan Streib wrote: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1 Ma

Re: Incorrect file destination when logging with syslogd

2017-05-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
as On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017-05-04, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have an internal LAN syslogd server (recently upgraded to 6.1) since a > > couple of years. It was successfully logging an old 2611XM cisco route

Incorrect file destination when logging with syslogd

2017-05-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, I have an internal LAN syslogd server (recently upgraded to 6.1) since a couple of years. It was successfully logging an old 2611XM cisco router, now logs a dell switch and the new 2851 cisco router which swapped the old one. PROBLEM: while the dell switch correctly logs in the designated

Re: xenodm and .kshrc

2017-04-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Wouldn't the inclusion of this config (e.g. in skel) account for sane defaults? On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:45:05AM +0800, Adam Steen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I used to start X using startx and when opening terminal my .kshrc > > would get run,

Re: Is there something to replace zaurus?

2017-04-01 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Some years ago got an acer One with N270, broken 8GB ide ssd (those 1st gen rubbish) which "run" linux on 512mb. Substituted it with a 1.8" 30gb hd (and filled up its 2 SD slots), expanded to 1.5gb ram, reworked chassis to host an external sna connector for big antenna. This machine, which still

Re: Speed tests on 11n / 11g and on different channels with the latest 6.1 snapshot from yesterday. Patterns can be observed.

2017-03-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
In order to measure the performance of a wireless 802.11 connection, speedtest.net makes no sense. U'd better use iperf on your lan. Il 05/mar/2017 07:45 PM, ha scritto: > Forgot to mention that the speed tests were performed using > https://speedtest.net from a mobile client connected to the A

wsmoused conflicts with xorg on 6.0 Supermicro PDSMI+ fresh install

2016-12-21 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, on this Supermicro PDSMI+ board (latest bios) it looks like that activating wsmoused (both plain and with -2 flag) disables pointer control under Xorg i.e. mouse works correctly in CLI but not in X. Running "wsmoused -f -d" reports no output, both when moving/clicking in CLI and X. Any cl

OpenDKIM on stable 6.0

2016-11-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I noticed some days ago the new package for opendkim emerged into -current repo. Is there any way to run it on 6.0 stable? What files/libraries/dependencies would I have to manually add? Thanks

Re: ksh, PS1 and PWD

2016-08-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
If you like it coloured, and also would appreciate to know which terminal you're in, here's my way: TTY=$(tty) TTY=${TTY##*/} export PS1="\[\e[32;1m\][\[\e[31;1m\]\u\[\e[32;1m\]@\h:\[\e[36;1m\]$TTY\[\e[32;1m\]:\[\e[34;1m\]\w\[\e[32;1m\]] " I usually put this in /etc/profile so that I have it syst

Re: where is the image of openbsd arm ?

2016-06-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Just had a look to kontron. This ARM model operates from -40°C to +85°C, simply unbelievable. http://www.kontron.com/industries/automation/motherboards/pitx/ktam3874-pitx. html

Re: Long life on SSD in a firewall environment

2016-06-19 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
U told about a firewall, that one is no way a write intensive task, so in this use case it would go well any SSD. If u really think about a write intensive use case, I would go for Samsung 850EVO devices: the 500gb model of the previous 840pro has been tested to write more than 1.9pb before dying

Static webpages with OpenBSD - success stories

2016-05-17 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, yesterday I've been at an interesting presentation of pelican (it was a git+pelican+fabric gramework), in order to create static websites and I very much appreciated the topic. I had also recently had a look at jekill (which looks kinda promising), but discovered that there is a whole "worl

Re: Subpixel / RGB antialiasing

2016-04-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
I know nothing about Canadian law, but here in EU software patents, after multiple fierce battles in European parliament, have never been recognised. This said, afaik, SW patents are just a US hassle. Does it make sense considering them problematic if the OS is "made in Canada"? Il 15/apr/2016 02

Re: can't run multiple instances of httpd, flags not visible in processes

2016-01-28 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
When this goes implemented, how will one start/stop/reload/check the single instance or all instances through /etc/rc.d/ ?

owncloud and php5-libsmbclient / occ

2015-12-29 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi, the upgrade from 5.7 to 5.8 implies owncloud upgrade from 8.0.2 to 8.1. With this upgrade, the php library php5-libsmbclient is needed: https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.1/admin_manual/release_notes.html Unfortunately a similar library is not present either in 5.8 packages or in -current ones.

Re: tmux scrollback from OSX terminal on macbooks

2015-12-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Il 25/dic/2015 06:57 PM, "Theo Buehler" ha scritto: > > Keyboard Shortcut: Page Up > Action: Send Hex Code > 1b 5b 35 7e > > (the hex code is: escape + page up.) Dear Theo, it works perfectly How did you calculate the hex code? I need to calculate it also for PgDn! Thanks and again me

Re: tmux scrollback from OSX terminal on macbooks

2015-12-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
erent behaviour On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri < andreas.kah...@icm.uu.se> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:25:07AM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > Hi, > > > > working remotely on openbsd from OSX terminal has always had the > >

tmux scrollback from OSX terminal on macbooks

2015-12-23 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi, working remotely on openbsd from OSX terminal has always had the inconvenience that on macbooks there is no proper PgUp or PgDn key and that they must be substituted by Fn+Up or Fn+Dn combinations, which, when coupled with Shift key, usually do not work. Recently I found that using iTerm2 I c

Re: Current status of Enlightenment on OpenBSD

2015-11-09 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
at 9:47 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hi all, > > I was asking myself, after uslessly querying the internet for something > recent (2015/2014), if there is somebody in the list using E17 on their > OpenBSD boxen. In particular I have these questions: > > - does your mouse

Current status of Enlightenment on OpenBSD

2015-11-09 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, I was asking myself, after uslessly querying the internet for something recent (2015/2014), if there is somebody in the list using E17 on their OpenBSD boxen. In particular I have these questions: - does your mouse pointer move? after startx mine from trackpad does not, neither with an ex

Re: Install on compact flash

2015-10-19 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Does this mean that write access on files in /dev is limited just to permissions change and, therefore, just some bytes of change in the filesystem? This seems pretty much acceptable for me in terms of CF wear-off, if it does not happen with a high frequence. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Stu

Re: Install on compact flash

2015-10-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi folks, first of all thanks for all your interesting answers! I didn't expect this topic to be so popular and I am quite satisfied to have received a broader perspective than I had in mind. My fault was not specifying exactly what jobs the machine would perform, that could have narrowed down th

Install on compact flash

2015-10-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I would like to create an embedded amd64 installation, with system running on a 8GB 233x CF card attached to an Intel ITX mb. In order to minimise nand wear off, I would like to put on ramdisk (the machine would have 2GB ram, so I believe enough also for that, but I still can upgrade it to

Re: report:intranet PXE network install (by nginx...)

2015-05-07 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
If it's correct and not against man pages it can be helpful for beginners to have a ready recipe, just like FAQs. Il 07/mag/2015 10:43, "Jiri B" ha scritto: > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 05:24:14PM +0900, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: > > hi all . > > i install 5.7 using intranet (internet is unnesesary) >

Re: davical on openbsd

2015-04-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thank you all for these first answers. I also had checked out about radicale and baikal, while completely forgotten about sogo. Concerning this latter one I downloaded the .ova of ZEG just to give it a try and I found its management through webmin cumbersome (e.g. the interface for users' manageme

davical on openbsd

2015-04-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, is there someone who already had experiences with davical in production on openbsd? Especially interfacing with ical and internals'/externals' invitations? I would like to share configs and ideas. Thanks

bsd.rd dhcp client support for xl0 on Dell Latitude L400

2015-04-07 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I have this old but useful Dell L400 running 5.4. Today I was going to try -current and, to my utter surprise, while running bsd.rd install, the xl0 interface couldn't receive any DHCPOFFER from the dhcp server (while on the server the DHCPDISCOVER arrives, same as openbsd console). I doub

Re: Software for time management & calendar

2015-03-22 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Try radicale, it's in packages. Il 23/mar/2015 00:42 "L. V. Lammert" ha scritto: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Jason Crawford wrote: > > > I use redmine for project management and that includes a calendar and > time > > tracking system. > > > Seconded. > > Lee

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Dear Theo, I respect you as a person and I respect your work. This said, I can also tell you that, after a few years reading misc@, there is still one thing that I do not understand about your "colourful" answers to several mails. Not all the people who run obsd can, for various personal reasons

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-05 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Il 05/mar/2015 14:34 "Giancarlo Razzolini" ha scritto: > > But it's so fun man! If people looked under the hood more often, we wouldn't had the bug nightmare that was these past years. Heartbleed, ghost, shellshock, etc. I perfectly agree with you, both on fun and curiosity. Nevertheless, not al

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
This sounds like: "As with a knife one could cut throats, let's start eating only with the fork. Oh, btw, but also the fork could poke, so let's use just the spoon." Using netcat or ftp to browse the web/intranet/localhost in the 3rd millennium is like eating a steak with a spoon. It's the same

Re: PRG airport in misc

2015-01-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
There are plans to use obsd for IATA servers... Il 04/gen/2015 19:39 "Joshua Smith" ha scritto: > Just curious how this airport database came to be and why is it included > in the base system. > > It struck me as kind of unusual but perhaps there is something of > historical significance I am mis

Re: x over ssh [SOLVED]

2014-12-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Does this also work when u do it from OpenBSD to a headless (just no video card) OpenBSD server? Can I run X stuff on that remote box too? Il 14/dic/2014 05:46 "Edgar Pettijohn" ha scritto: > > On Dec 13, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 07:12:07PM -0600, Edg

Re: KDE4 crashes in 5.6

2014-12-03 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
It looks that the problem lays in systray when items get added to it: http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5203.msg42603#msg42603

Re: KDE4 crashes in 5.6

2014-12-03 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
It looks like a KDE bug. Exactly the same happens on recent Debian sid, odds are it could be something tied to system tray, i.e. when items in system tray get added/changed. If you wipe .kde/ away the desktop restarts, but it is clearly unacceptable. This bug is still under investigation, dunno

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-11-29 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Shouldn't in 2014 the aim having all working in utf-8?

Re: Why are there no PKG_PATH defaults?

2014-09-24 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
This setup would be great and make life easier for the average user without making the story complicated (i.e. a system with downloads working out of the box without hassles) Also ports.tar.gz fetch would be one further hassle less. Il 24/set/2014 23:36 "Romain FABBRI - Alien Consulting" < romain

Re: Dragonflybsd's pf concurrent instead of single-threaded

2014-07-08 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
> Lucky, I've been asked to leave this mailing list so you don't have > to bother. Good luck. This is quite sad: polite confrontation is always good means of progress, whatever the topics.

Re: Layer 7 filtering example using pf and relayd : block torrent use and some urls

2013-11-25 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi, really nice tutorial :) What about blocking some sites like dropbox, gdrive, etc. which are the main channels through which files are nowadays leaking out of companies? For instance, in the case of dropbox a single url would not be enough, just look here: https://ipdb.at/org/Dropbox Same to

Re: Patch to remove "adult" content from spamd(8) man page

2013-11-22 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Il 22/nov/2013 19:07 "J. Lewis Muir" ha scritto: > > 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

Re: FAQ 7.3

2013-11-21 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
is more than the benefit. Il 21/nov/2013 13:43 "Stefan Sperling" ha scritto: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:05:34PM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > since installing 5.4 release on my amd64 laptop I am enjoying really nice > > (sun like!) fon

FAQ 7.3

2013-11-21 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, since installing 5.4 release on my amd64 laptop I am enjoying really nice (sun like!) fonts due to the implemented framebuffer for CLI. Unfortunately scrollback with shift+pgup does not work anymore and faq 7.3 does not mention this at all. What should i do to have scrollback again? Btw

Re: sli(4) and emulex LPe11000 dual FC card

2013-11-13 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Chris Cappuccio [13 11:41]: > > Paolo Aglialoro [paol...@gmail.com] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > just tried today on a sparc64 T1000 running 5.4 release the card, but, > > > unfortunately, sli(4) cannot configure it as dmesg says: > > > &g

sli(4) and emulex LPe11000 dual FC card

2013-11-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, just tried today on a sparc64 T1000 running 5.4 release the card, but, unfortunately, sli(4) cannot configure it as dmesg says: pci0 at vpci0 "Emulex LPe11000" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured "Emulex LPe11000" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured The card i

Re: ntfs with big files

2013-10-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Just a thought: now that fuse support is enabled what about ntfs-3g? Il 17/ott/2013 23:36 "David Vasek" ha scritto: > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Joel Sing wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Manuel Giraud wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a ntfs partition with rather large (about 3GB) files on it. When

Re: OpenBSD site SSL

2013-10-12 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:42 AM, John Darrah wrote: > Hi. Would it be possible to get SSL on the OpenBSD website(s)? > It would be just a couple lines to change in nginx.conf/httpd.conf. > SSL certificates are free from Startcom and cheap from other vendors. > It would be really nice to have, eve

Re: open bsd router

2013-10-03 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
It's not arm but... within 100W there are several sparc64 machines with much more power and possibilities. For instance a sun fire 120 1U blade will manage up to 100Mbit/s link without trouble :))) only problem could be noise if ur project is at home Il 03/ott/2013 23:38 "alexey.kurin...@gmail.com

Re: OpenZFS announcement

2013-09-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Considering that OpenBSD is implementing fuse, cannot then ZFS be included just like package/port (using fuse infrastructure as in linux) to circumvent licence issues? Il giorno 18/set/2013 16:09, "Kenneth Westerback" ha scritto: > http://open-zfs.org/wiki/About_OpenZFS > > Under 'Other' at the b

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

2013-09-17 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Try E17: lightning fast, meek on requirements, user friendly. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, James Griffin wrote: > I need to install a Dektop Environment for my partner. > > I thought about KDE or xfce, i've tried neither on OpenBSD before. Which > of the 3 main main DE's (gnome, KDE, XFCE)

Re: libfuse - is it real ?

2013-08-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
So this means time for ntfs-3g, zfs and more (maybe also xfs and jfs?) should be quite near : Il giorno 06/ago/2013 15:47, "Gleydson Soares" ha scritto: > mike-...@yandex.ru writes: > > > Hi! > > > > Now (in 5.4 and current) libfuse included in source tree, > > but does not included in li

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
If the battery doesn't want(/show) to charge, sometimes a sleazy trick can do the job: detach it while pc is running on AC and reattach it, sometimes you need to do that more than once. Sometimes after this you gotta keep'em charging some hours and then try again (it all depends on batteries, this

Re: Get total size of all files in directory using unit Bytes?

2013-03-04 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Great one! How to put that nice expression into an alias without console complaining when executed? # ls -l | awk '{ SUM += $5 } END { print SUM }' 569047 # alias tot="ls -l | awk '{ SUM += $5 } END { print SUM }'" # tot awk: syntax error at source line 1 context is { SUM += >>> } <<<

Re: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.

2013-02-22 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
The source was available, but it relies on Sun/Oracle patents. > The CDDL license it was provided under allows use of those patents, > but only subject to certain conditions, and there are indemnification > clauses that some projects cannot agree to. > Does this mean that freebsd, netbsd, maczfs,

Re: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.

2013-02-19 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Or you could just use ZFS, XFS, whateverFS in a separate unix/linux box and go NFS on it, simulating a true external storage appliance :) On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, MJ wrote: > Which app are you running that is generating millions of tiny files in a > single directory? Regardless, in th

Re: anyone using a SunFire V215?

2013-01-14 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
I got its 2U bro, V240: it runs like hell :)))

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
ing that nowadays vi is a widespread standard too (can't think of a modern unix distro without it), shouldn't be asking for the impossible :) (basically not opening a race for "I want this tool too", but reasoning about an update of survival tools) On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ni

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
" ha scritto: > On 01/11/13 16:38, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> sparc64 machine, a neglected typo in fstab while changing a disk >> mountpoint >> and boom! - no boot :( >> >> >> > I didn't post this to the list because it would just be noise for mos

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
So guys, I perfectly understand (and respect) how much many of you use and value ed. As much as others have a repulsion for it, but this is not my point: I mean, with respect for all viewpoints, I'm far from starting a religion war on "which is ur fave editor", but just trying to share a view on a

vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello misc, there were recently some comments about customizing bsd.rd contents and making one of own's choice/taste. This reminded me about an unpleasant situation in which I found myself kinda 2 years ago: sparc64 machine, a neglected typo in fstab while changing a disk mountpoint and boom! - n

Re: Nginx log rotation

2012-12-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
B flag to avoid newsyslog manipulating contents of log files, like it happens for pflog 644 was just for being comfortable (it comes from a 1 user system), it may of course be changed to be stricter On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Michał Markowski wrote: > 2012/12/27 Paolo Aglial

Re: Nginx log rotation

2012-12-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
l -s USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`" > #/var/www/logs/error.log 644 7 *24ZB "kill -s USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`" On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:02:56PM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > H

Nginx log rotation

2012-12-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi misc! Considering that with 5.2 nginx is going to be (already is?) the official http server (I'm using it with joy, I like its minimalistic approach), is there some officially recommended way to rotate the logs in /var/www/logs/ which are getting bigger and bigger? Btw, as apache is still pres

Re: blackhole option unsupported in named.conf

2012-12-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
OK, now got the soultion. I moved the statement blackhole within in the options {} and now is accepted. I was trying to use it in zones, which is not recognized. Sorry for the noise. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Well, > > thanks for answer, but I stil

Re: blackhole option unsupported in named.conf

2012-12-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
#x27; I'm getting rather crazy might there be any difference about sparc64 arch? Could you please post your named.conf for reference? On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > This is 5.2 on sparc64. >

blackhole option unsupported in named.conf

2012-12-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, This is 5.2 on sparc64. Both in BIND9 admin guide and in man named.conf the option "blackhole" is present. Nevertheless, this is the story: # named-checkconf -t /var/named/ /etc/named.conf:111: unknown option 'blackhole' Now, the idea is to create an acl of possible fake IPs of spoofers a

Re: scripts for keeping things in sync after upgrades?

2012-12-06 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
This is what I use to re-ports, re-src comfortably Both good for 1st and following times I named it "re-portssrc" --- #!/bin/sh plain=$(echo '\033[0m') redfg=$(echo '\033[1;31m') greenfg=$(echo '\033[1;32m') y

Re: Reading a damaged disk

2012-09-24 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Possible causes and solutions: 1. magnetically damaged surface ---> spinrite then mount ro and use dd_rescue 2. damaged electronics ---> mount ro and try dd_rescue; if it fails find a board of same hd with SAME FW and try to swap 3. damaged mechanics ---> send it to white room 4. damaged (debris s

Re: ssh tunneling with -D option

2012-07-19 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thank you Aaron On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Aaron Mason wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Paolo Aglialoro > wrote: > > > Issuing the following: > > # dsocks.sh lynx google.com > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > Fixed that for you. Pipe stdout

Re: ssh tunneling with -D option

2012-07-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
OK, thank you all very much for your precious support, I got da job done :) Also thanks to Nicolai for the DNS hint and to Alex about nc read. It's nice to share with a wise community!

Re: ssh tunneling with -D option

2012-07-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
@ Abel thanks, now also firefox works, I just needed to specify *just* socks server *without* http one. very happy :)) @ Johan ok, http proxy should forward just http stuff, while socks should forward any kinda stuff, right? So any should include also http btw, right now I replicated

Re: ssh tunneling with -D option

2012-07-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
@Abel I've had a look at dsocks page, the "instructions" are kinda criptic but just did something this way: # ssh -D 1080 user@sshdhost # dsocks.sh lynx google.com it looks like working (yeaah!!! great piece of advice, mate!!!) but also produces lotsa garbage on the screen bottom like: "lyn

ssh tunneling with -D option

2012-07-18 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I'm trying to use a remote obsd box as a socks proxy through ssh. Both local and remote are 5.1-release. After reading man pages, I specified in local ssh_config: Tunnel yes and, also, in remote sshd_config: AllowTcpForwarding yes PermitTunnel yes So, I basically establish a session like

Re: Unresponsive -current + rtorrent

2012-07-13 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
This means that 5.1-release will still be affected by the bug so that rtorrent won't run correctly, right? Or is there any backport? Thanks On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:31 PM, David Coppa wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni > wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:21:06AM +

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Dear All, > > I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need > some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve > our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, > we

ACPI thermal madness on HP TC4400

2012-04-08 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hi all, I just freshly installed -current on this beautiful tablet laptop. Here is dmesg: OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC.MP) #267: Fri Apr 6 16:17:16 MDT 2012 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 3211591680

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
So this means that on sparc64 life would be way easier ;) Thanks! On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > > running on -current and, similar to the example, having the following > > disklabel

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Just a question: running on -current and, similar to the example, having the following disklabel: /boot on both sd0a and sd1a / on sd2a which is the raid result of sd0d and sd1d would the snapshot upgrade process be consistent through the standard installer or should one always go to shell, make

Re: Acer aspire one - synaptics regression

2011-10-26 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
efore the change, but I'm going to give it a few > snaps before I "complain." > > The "synclient-thingy" seems interesting, given the cinfig > possibilities (eg, I can scroll both vertically and horizantally by > enabling a couple if variables). > > > I a

Re: Acer aspire one - synaptics regression

2011-10-24 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Paolo Aglialoro > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I own an acer aspire one AOA110. It's running -current. Yesterday I > updated > > it to Oct19 snapshot, the previous one

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