On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:25 pm, John Kintaro Tate wrote:
> Okay.
>
> I am wondering where all the space nicked off to, since I only
> installed it not long ago. I havn't run out of space on a system for a
> long time, how do I figure out what the biggest files and stuff are
> again?
>
> Thank
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:58 pm, eric wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:53:25 -0600, Theo de Raadt proclaimed...
>
> > It is plain simple bad advice. And totally ridiculous.
>
> And plus, with ipv6, it's imperative that the filters be pushed down to the
> end-host so we can quit relying on stup
We are going to need details of what you did before it stopped working.
(Hint: you can boot into single user mode with boot -s at the boot prompt)
Tim Donahue
On Monday 22 August 2005 09:36 am, Joco Salvatti wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to emulate linux binaries under my OpenBSD system 3.7
On Friday 19 August 2005 12:00 pm, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > As others have pointed out, use a tarball on a vfat filesystem. You might
> > want to doublecheck the capabilities of the various tar utilties, and
> > perhaps use gtar
> > (GNU Tar) on both ends.
>
> I dont have enough cash to buy another d
Does TCF count as a valid reason to call out sick from work?
On Friday 19 August 2005 09:43 am, Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu wrote:
> Percussive Maintenance :-)
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Richard Welty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 19 August 2005 01:46 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PR
On Thursday 18 August 2005 06:57 pm, Edd Barrett wrote:
>
> See this is why I asked here, I know that FFS is close friends with
> UFS, but I wasnt sure. So you reckon I can use native solaris FS and
> mount in OBSD?
>
"close friends" <> compatible. Sun's current UFS was originally based on
Berke
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:02 am, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > See the atactl(8) manpage, in particular the sec* commands.
>
> I was looking that that manpage yesterday. It confirms that it
> is possible to make the disk data inaccessible to a
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 12:59 pm, Will H. Backman wrote:
> > > 2. Disaster Recovery: Dump and Restore, or make a tar file for use
>
> as
>
> > > an install set?
> >
> > make a release for every upgrade (-stable) you do, add your packages
> > to sitexx.tgz. backup your data and config files reg
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 09:48 am, Will H. Backman wrote:
> > I have the following line in my crontab '(/usr/src/ && cvs -q update
>
> -PAd
>
> > -rOPENBSD_3_7)' If there are any updates, cron will email them to you
> > (cron
> > automattically emails any output to the user that owns the cron j
-Original Message-
>From: Hannah Schroeter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:36:42AM -0400, Timothy Donahue wrote:
>>[...]
>
>>As a general rule, if the update is in a library or in the /usr/src/sys
>>folder
>>then I build and ins
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 10:39 am, Will H. Backman wrote:
> I'm looking for comments on the care and feeding of OpenBSD servers.
> Essentially and "best practices" document for maintaining OpenBSD
> production servers. Yes, "best" is a stupid way to describe anything,
> but I'm hoping that there
On Thursday 11 August 2005 01:41 pm, Paul de Weerd wrote:
>
> The fact that you can not run multiple X servers on one videocard, as
> it currently stands.
>
> You really should read up on ttys(5) and the X Windows.
>
That isn't entirely true, on my Linux desktop I have gdm starting 2 virtual
cons
On Friday 05 August 2005 12:09 pm, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-05 18:06]:
> > Replacing the NIC's with em or some other well designed gigabit card
>
> em is not a well designed gigabit card.
>
> > might help if his inte
On Friday 05 August 2005 09:01 am, Peter Huncar wrote:
> Hi
>
[snip comparison of 2 different systems with different hardware and different
services that result in a different load]
Replacing the NIC's with em or some other well designed gigabit card might
help if his interrupt count are high,
There is not likely to be an up-to-date set of *reliable* performance tests
that you can just look at on the web. The best thing you can do is make your
own based on the criteria that you are trying to compare them on, then
install FreeBSD and OpenBSD and see what works better for your specific
On Thursday 28 July 2005 12:37 pm, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 11:24 am, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> > Dave Feustel wrote:
> > >>And
[snip]
> > of this anecdote: A pal once had to deal with a probably-owned OpenBSD
> > box, because his clueless co-admin installed an outdated, vulnerabl
On Thursday 28 July 2005 08:00 am, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Moritz Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This kind of paranoia adds nothing to security (~/.ssh and others that
> > need it are already set to restrictive permissions), and there is no
> > privacy from root no matter what. The rest i
On Friday 22 July 2005 01:23 pm, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote:
> From: Joe . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > are used to dealing with complex or unoptimized piles of crap. Part of
> > encouraging people to switch should at the very least be communicating
> > that there are no hidden options or that
I tested Garmin eTrex under OpenBSD using just plain old `cu`, which fit my
needs just fine since I was trying to capture the output from the NMEA
stream. You have to make sure you get your port settings correctly.
Unfortunately I purchased mine before they released the USB cables, so I don't
On Monday 20 June 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone here made referrence to 'nazis'.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>
In said article please note:
Quirk's exception
Intentional invocation of this so-called "Nazi Clause" is ineffectual.
and
Guy's corolla
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 08:59 am, Terry wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote:
> > Also, it says ethereal is in /usr/ports/net/ethereal, but I can't find
[snip]
> What version are you running? I have a 3.5 box and a 3.6 box, still
> haven't loaded 3.7 yet :(, and th
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:06 am, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote:
> The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with
> the drives as stuffing, don't know if that would change the magnetic
> properties but most likely make the process of collecting/organizing
> the pieces of the same
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:28 am, Matt Phillips wrote:
> If you are truly paranoid use DBAN, which is short for Darin's Boot and
> Nuke. IMO it is the best disk wiping tool out there. It gives you a
> couple different wiping methods to choose from, including the one used
> by the US DoD. You
On Friday 20 May 2005 03:59 am, Stephan Wehner wrote:
> What am I trying to back up?
>
> What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and did an apt-get xfce4
> (I think it was xfcr4). But then startx wouldn't work any longer. I
> thought apt-get would be pretty safe...
> Then I switched to FreeBSD
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:41 am, Rod Dorman wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 12:16:40, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> > Is there anything on OBSD like "nsc" on Linux which generates Bind 9
> > config files?
>
> mg works for me :-)
The use of mg is completely optional, for example I prefer to use vi,
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