Re: Cannot start conversation using talk

2020-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
e entry look like? Should the hostname point > > to 0.0.0.0? > > It should point to 127.0.0.1 Could it also point to the net address of the computer, like 192.168.100.2? I ask because I might let others talk via my talk server. SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thri

Re: Cannot start conversation using talk

2020-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
type = dgram wait= yes user= root server = /usr/bin/talkd log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } SteveT Steve L

Re: Thinking of changing DNS Service provider, looking for recommendations

2020-01-09 Thread Steve Williams
been rock solid.  And... it's free for the first few domains. https://www.zoneedit.com/free-dns/ Cheers, Steve W.

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Litt
lower than Linux, perhaps in most situations disk caching makes the difference negligible. If you really want to see an OS with slow disks that dramatically slow down the whole system, get yourself a copy of OpenSolaris and load it on a PC. Very nice, very stable, but everything takes 4 times as long.

Re: dhcpd and unbound on a small LAN

2020-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 09:51:55 -0500 Sonic wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:35 AM Steve Litt > wrote: > > I need something like that for my situation. Two questions: > > > > 1) Does the preceding setup prevent anyone with a different mac > > address from getting 192.

Re: dhcpd and unbound on a small LAN

2020-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
the street from getting a lease: If I don't know the person and machine ahead of time, I don't want them getting a lease. *** I presume one way is to set aside just enough IP addresses to cover known mac addresses. I was wondering if there's a way that involves less arithmetic.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
companied by code and that don’t solve > obvious problems don’t seem to be received very well. Apologies if > that wasn’t within bounds. What if the OP had instead of the suggestion submitted two or three Lua scripts to replace two or three Perl scripts? Would you still have the same opinio

Re: Adaptive main page for openbsd website.

2019-12-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:22:16 -0500 Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 04:44:11PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:25:00 +0300 > > v...@vtsoft.dev wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > The main page of o

Re: Adaptive main page for openbsd website.

2019-12-22 Thread Steve Litt
t big screen sizes, but at a certain point collapse it and replace with something else: Perhaps your current bottom array of boxes with a link to them on top. What's going to be a bigger challenge is doing this to pages containing or . I've never been able to get those to fold, and ev

Re: Softdep and noatime

2019-12-01 Thread Steve Litt
say about this, but I mount everything as > noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume this may > make lifetime a bit longer and decided it is better to be on safe(r) > side. > I mount everything noatime because I don't care at all about access time, I care about mod

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
including your VM goes to hell you can still restore. I just bought a 5TB USB drive for $99 at Costco. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
u have free space at the end of > the disk, after what you'd want to grow /home into, you can make a > new partition there, copy the files, and leave the former /usr > partition empty. But it's quite delicate work and is often easier to > reinstall. In OpenBSD is there such a thing as a bind mount like they have in Linux? SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
onverter requires you to create an empty doc with the correct headings, etc, the correct document preamble, and the final \bye. Doing the same thing for XHTML is trivial. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
different, I'd have to search out all the people, instead of changing one line of CSS or one line of LaTeX. Based on my hour or so research, I don't understand how mdoc(7) would be a good authoring format for anything but the simplest book length document. If I'm wrong, I might

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
e a presentation instead of a man page? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:07:13 + Yon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:27:38AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm not sure, but I think if you write with a certain subset of > > TeX, it would be fairly easy to write a program to convert it to > > XHTML5, from which yo

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
Texlive is great if you're certain your output will be now and forever only in PDF format. If you can even conceive of it being ePub or some other lineflow reading format, Texlive and all the TeX/LaTeX tools dead-end you. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager'

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 15:16:22 -0400 STeve Andre' wrote: > On 2019-11-02 15:07, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:04:34PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: > >>&g

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
7;m not sure, but I think if you write with a certain subset of TeX, it would be fairly easy to write a program to convert it to XHTML5, from which you can pretty easily create ePubs. Plain TeX as made by Knuth is indeed simple for all simple things, and doable for more complicated things. SteveT S

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 20:07:39 +0100 Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:04:34PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > > > > > > On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > What tools do people find u

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread STeve Andre'
On 2019-11-02 15:07, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:04:34PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: Hello, What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean long form such as novels and technical

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-02 Thread STeve Andre'
On 2019-11-02 11:00, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: Hello, What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean long form such as novels and technical books, including plot and character development, outlining, and formatting for publishing (not all the same application n

Nobody said it yet...

2019-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'
Happy birthday to OpenBSD!

Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD

2019-07-16 Thread Steve Rogers
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 at 11:52 PM > From: "Claudio Jeker" > To: "BSD user" > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Moving from Bird to OpenBGPD > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:33:45PM -0700, BSD user wrote: > > > > > > On 7/14/19 11:24 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 a

Re: When will OpenBSD become a friendly place for bug reporters?

2019-07-08 Thread STeve Andre'
s, you can compile stuff yourself. If you're going to submit a patch you have to build to test the fix! --STeve Andre'

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
no substitute for dmenu. Dmenu is at the core foundation of my workflow, so its loss would hurt me. I've seen more than one person in this thread go beyond supporting Wayland, and actively campaign for the removal of X, going so far as to gloat about its supposedly impending removal. What t

Re: mandoc for report writing?

2019-06-20 Thread Steve Litt
7;ve heard (and this could be BS) that once you get to Markdown format, you can use Pandoc to convert that Markdown to pretty much any format you want. I don't know how true that is, or what kind of compromises you'd need to make with your control over output formatting. The OP is doing

Re: Puffy — format SVG (actually!)

2019-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
;t give you permission to use a likeness of me. :-) SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-14 Thread STeve Andre'
rotten through. I don't think we have any other speech synthesis open source software in the ports tree. There is  flite  which works but isn't great. --STeve Andre'

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 May 2019 23:32:18 +0200 ropers wrote: > On 08/05/2019, Steve Litt wrote: > > ...you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts > > are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen > > well enough to increase the font siz

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 May 2019 23:32:18 +0200 ropers wrote: > On 08/05/2019, Steve Litt wrote: > > ...you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts > > are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen > > well enough to increase the font siz

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 May 2019 22:43:00 -0400 Charles wrote: > I'd like to chime in here, on a slightly different subject. > > I think the OP (Clark) raises a point, but I suggest he's coming it > from the wrong angle. I think there's something here to discuss that I > have not seen mentioned in this thread

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
If you do that, you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen well enough to increase the font size. It's easy for a well-sighted person to reduce fonts, but for the poorly sighted person who can't read the screen in the

How I use dmenu

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I use dmenu on Void Linux but from what I understand, it works the same on OpenBSD. Suckless Tools' dmenu is what I use to launch graphical applications. Here's how I run dmenu for this purpose: dmenu_run -i -l 32 -fn "7x14" -nf yellow -nb black -sf black -sb white The -i means case i

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 May 2019 00:23:09 +0200 ropers wrote: > Tangentially related: Does anyone here routinely use the default fvwm? > > Now for a really noobish question: Those that do, do you also launch > graphical apps by typing something like this in xterm: > > $ firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > or do

dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500 Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same > everywhere. Just the man I want to talk to. Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 May 2019 14:45:34 -0300 Clark Block wrote: > Was developed the Isotop: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/8of042/isotop_french_desktoporiented_openbsd_distro/ > > https://3hg.fr/Isos/isotop/ > > The Isotop is really a user-friendly and easy-to-use > variant of OpenBSD or is f

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:01:34 -0300 Clark Block wrote: > In 2019 still there is not a great desktop experience for NetBSD. > However, the new "OS108" is seeking to improve this with a NetBSD > operating system paired with the MATE desktop environment. > So, OS108, a derivative of NetBSD, has just b

Re: Upgrade procedure (6.4 -> 6.5)

2019-05-03 Thread Steve Williams
my server, so it should work fine. If there are filenames with spaces in them, I think that command won't work as expected. Cheers, Steve Williams

Re: Code of Conduct location

2019-04-28 Thread STeve Andre'
iling list? --STeve Andre'

Can't boot up on -current of thursday

2019-03-08 Thread STeve Andre'
that to get comparison systems up. Thanks for any clues. --STeve Andre'

44CON CFP looking for BSD Security submissions

2019-02-27 Thread Steve Lord
Will go down well. But we’d also like to see submissions at the intro level to help people get started with OpenBSD, or intro tutorial workshops on use cases. If anyone has any questions, please either reply on or off-list. Cheers, Steve [1] - https://44con.com/2019/02/26/44con-2019-cfp-now-open/

Re: apu2 em0/dhclient problems

2019-01-27 Thread Steve Williams
you could post the packet trace here for imput. tcpdump -i em0 Cheers, Steve W.

Re: OpenBSD 6.4 smtpd local mail delivery missing "From " when .forward (procmail)

2019-01-27 Thread Steve Williams
On 27/01/2019 2:21 a.m., Gilles Chehade wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 08:53:06PM -0700, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I upgraded from OpenBSD 6.3 to OpenBSD 6.4 today.?? I upgraded all packages, switched to php7, etc. I've been running OpenBSD since 2.7 so this is a very known process.

Re: OpenBSD 6.4 smtpd local mail delivery missing "From " when .forward (procmail)

2019-01-26 Thread Steve Williams
On 26/01/2019 11:03 p.m., ed...@deathstar.my.domain wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 08:53:06PM -0700, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I upgraded from OpenBSD 6.3 to OpenBSD 6.4 today.  I upgraded all packages, switched to php7, etc. I've been running OpenBSD since 2.7 so this is a very known pr

OpenBSD 6.4 smtpd local mail delivery missing "From " when .forward (procmail)

2019-01-26 Thread Steve Williams
thout being processed by "mail.local" ... or that's my interpretation. In the /var/mail/steve file, I can see the following lines prior to the upgrade: From steve+caf_=steve=williams-steve@williamsitconsulting.com Sat Jan 26 09:52:48 2019 ^^ After the upgrade, I'm no

Re: Daily digest, Issue 4662 (14 messages)

2018-12-22 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 22/12/2018 13:20, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-12-20, Steve Fairhead wrote: On 20/12/2018 13:20,tors...@cnc-london.net wrote: Try to add below to your pf.conf table persist pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port 1194 \ (max-src-conn 10, max-src-conn

Re: blocking openvpn port scanners

2018-12-20 Thread Steve Fairhead
's nothing to do with service, just connections. D'oh! I now have a cunning plan, a plan so cunning etc etc. Thanks to all who responded, on- and off-list. Steve

blocking openvpn port scanners

2018-12-19 Thread Steve Fairhead
envpn port? Don't want to block real users if they screw up once or twice... although they are few enough that I can be super-aggressive in denying access, and sort it out by phone... Maybe I shouldn't even worry about it, but I'd really like to hit back. (See above re "mwahaha".) Steve

Re: Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

2018-11-10 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, Awesome!  Thanks for the pointer to cron!  I never knew the @reboot existed :) Cheers, Steve W. On 10/11/2018 3:22 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2018-11-10, Steve Williams wrote: I have a script that I would like run after all the network is configured, daemons started, etc. I

Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

2018-11-10 Thread Steve Williams
are a few services that must be started at the very end). Normally, rc.local contains commands and daemons that are not part of the stock installation. Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: TypeO

2018-10-19 Thread STeve Andre'
great docs. In addition, https://undeadly.org/ is good reading, as is http://daemonforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11 There are others but that should get you started. --STeve Andre'

Re: Going nuts

2018-09-11 Thread STeve Andre'
Thanks very much to Stewart and Josh.  My new little beast is on the net now and everything seems to work.  Now the W541 can go to the hospital as I leave mine. (-; STeve Andre' On Sep 11, 2018, 06:16, at 06:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2018-09-11, STeve Andre' wrote: >

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:10:39 +0200 Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:32:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > | > $ python3 cidr_calc.py.txt > | > 2a02:8011:7003:1:fab1:56ff:feac:3276/64 > | > > | > IP address (2a02:8011:7003:1:fab1:

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
w the name of their Python3 executable. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:28:09 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-09-11, Steve Litt wrote: > > I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) > > network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any > > terminal or termina

Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any terminal or terminal emulator on any Linux or presumably BSD machine. http://troubleshooters.com/linux/cidr_calc.htm SteveT Steve Litt September

Going nuts

2018-09-11 Thread STeve Andre'
ing access to normal items. Thank you all... STeve Andre'

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread STeve Andre'
On 09/04/18 20:04, Heinz Kampmann wrote: -- *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 04. September 2018 um 23:00 Uhr *Von:* "STeve Andre'" *An:* "Kevin Chadwick" , misc@openbsd.org *Betreff:* Re: Lesser evil On 09/04/18 09:09, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Um, maybe I

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread STeve Andre'
dual-booting being a risk. --STeve Andre'

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-03 Thread STeve Andre'
30 with 8G ram, 500G disk, 2.6GHz I5, 1366x768 display, 2 USB 3 ports, for $167.  The battery is even decent.  This is at Newegg.   Used macs look like $400. For that money I would advocate that a separate machine is best, AND you have an emergency OpenBSD backup system. --STeve

Re: Installed current on top of FAT32 flash, Recover old filesystem??

2018-07-16 Thread STeve Andre'
? Thanks, I hope, Chris Bennett https://www.r-studio.com/ This is software I have used in the past to deal with disk disasters. It's about $80 the last time I used it but it worked pretty well. Good luck. If you find some other method, let misc@ know. --STeve Andre'

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Steve Litt
penBSD? One reason is so that if the corporate powers succeed in making GNU/Linux into systemd/linux, I have a place to go for a simple, DIY OS I can bend to my workflow instead of bending my workflow to Poettering's vision. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://

Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

2018-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:06:40 -0700 xi wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2018, at 16:19, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:53:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:56:04 +0200 > >> Tomasz Rola wrote: > >> > &

Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

2018-06-24 Thread Steve Litt
rkill in this century. As far as finding command line tools that do it, if that's becoming hard to do, why not just write a 10 line program? -- SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-15 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 15/06/2018 00:12, Fred wrote: I like mythic beasts[1] - they have data centres in Cambridge and London - they are technically literate and both my OpenBSD VM are with them. Cheers Fred [1]https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ Aha. Looks interesting. Thanks. Steve

virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Steve Fairhead
e hardware someone else's problem - and maybe into the bargain pay less per month. I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can anyone here provide a cluebat as to prospects or alternatives? I don't want to move away from OpenBSD - it's my security blanket... and I love it *so* much... Steve

Re: NFS server down, again, and again, and again...

2018-04-19 Thread Steve Williams
formation that is appearing on the screen to a file, you should be able to run "mountd -d" and capture all information to a file, as well as resuming the session to see what is going on interactively. Cheers, Steve W.

Re: Flow Tools

2018-03-14 Thread Steve Pointer
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, at 9:06 AM, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Sorry, if I hijack the thread, but what do you guys use for netflow > analysis? > Only know nfsen in ports, but sometimes I need more versatile tool. > R works for me. https://www.r-project.org/ -- Steve P

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread STeve Andre'
ry to use that. Your IT department might have figured out how to interfere with that too, but that might be a solution. You'd have to keep that external disk and its interface with you, but at least you could use OpenBSD. --STeve Andre'

Re: considering a move to OpenBSD

2018-02-08 Thread Steve Litt
ystemd init system/OS controller/Desktop aid. It's such a mess that nobody's ever been able to draw its block diagram, complete with boxes and arrows. My main OS right now is Void Linux, but when I used OpenBSD I was impressed with how everything worked exactly the same, every sing

Re: vmm support for QEMU possible (planned)?

2018-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
> > > Does somebody have any results with it? > > > > Thank you for answer in advance. > > > > Denis > > > > Someone was working on that but the work got stalled. > > -ml > What can I do with QEMU + vmm that I can't do with vmm alo

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

2018-01-11 Thread STeve Andre'
tiple writes aren't going to touch those. If you encrypt the disk I question how much value a few encrypted sectors would be to anyone. Worry far more over lost usb sticks or portable usb disks. That's a far bigger problem. STeve Andre' Sent with AquaMail for Android http://ww

Re: OpenBSD and virtual machines

2018-01-09 Thread Steve Litt
turned out to be a font thing I fixed by using equivalent fonts. But the point is, there's always THAT piece of software that can't run on a given OS, but you need it. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: OpenBSD and virtual machines

2018-01-08 Thread Steve Litt
I used Void Linux I ran LyX on a Ubuntu VM to compile my books. If this new VM system comprised of vmd and vmm and vmctl does what qemu does AND implements the machine's hardware to do normal hardware processing to attain reasonable speeds, then I have an excellent alternative. So, does thi

Re: fsck: CANNOT READ: BLK 4235468160

2018-01-06 Thread STeve Andre'
problem too. Try wiggling the cable disk the disk stable and see if you can produce errors. Try doing a read with that USB hardware on another disk, too. That will tell you something. I'll bet that the disk is bad. If it stops producing errors, don't forgive it! Get a new one. --S

Re: PCEngines APU2 Wifi router issues

2017-12-23 Thread Steve Williams
drivers don't give very fast performance for it.  Lots about it in the email list archives. Mine shows up (OpenBSD 6.1) as: athn0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9281" rev 0x01: apic 5 int 16 athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address 04:f0:21:1b:b3:68 Cheers, Steve Williams

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

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
lf, $int_if:network } There are many other places needing explanations. If you could include a few diagrams to make the point, that would help immensely. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Williams
On 11/12/2017 12:27 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Otto Moerbeek <mailto:o...@drijf.net>> wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Steve Williams wrote: > cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication be

Re: FAQ's duplicating file systems, both methods fail to reproduce correctly

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication because it will re-create device nodes. Cheers, Steve Williams On 10/12/2017 11:03 AM, webmas...@bennettconstruction.us wrote: Forgive problems with this email. I saw how my emails showed up on marc.info Scary. Th

Re: TRIM on SSD

2017-12-06 Thread Steve Litt
ust plain unhappiness attracting. If everybody piped him to /dev/null, nobody would be confronted with his 1 line, 1000 word verbiage in quoted text, his useless profanity, or his disrespect of a great Free Software project. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Guess what today is

2017-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'
Happy birthday to OpenBSD--22 years old!

Re: PHP error running ownclouds occ

2017-10-16 Thread Steve Williams
ng NextCloud and it takes a bit of a dance to get "occ" to work because of the chroot environment. It might be a red herring that occ isn't working. I am on OpenBSD 6.1 so can't help with your upgrade issue, but thought I'd mention the chroot issue with occ. Cheers, Steve W.

Re: "athn0: could not load firmware" for AR9271

2017-10-15 Thread Steve Williams
ailing lists, so it's not a show stopper for me. Cheers, Steve W. On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:59:11AM -0400, Tim Stewart wrote: Maximilian Pichler writes: The dmesg is the same as previously (this is on the APU), except for: athn0 at pci5 de

Porter's Handbook obsolete info

2017-10-11 Thread Steve Shockley
FYI, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html refers to the security/nessus port, which was retired some time ago. The section does show a useful example though, but I'm not sure what would make a good replacement example.

Re: Dynamic DNS Client for EasyDNS

2017-08-03 Thread Steve Williams
ing interface IP changes automatically flawlessly. There was a very brief period where there were some server issues, but I've been using their free (grand fathered) package all these years and have had better service than other companies where I pay for services. Cheers, Steve W. On 02/08/2017 6:

Re: Does pf's Sources table ever get cleared?

2017-08-02 Thread Steve Williams
did confirm that the "pfctl -F Sources" does not empty my "Sources" table on my stock OpenBSE 6.1. Interesting... Thanks for clarifying. I learned something :) Cheers, Steve On 02/08/2017 2:59 PM, Markus Wernig wrote: On 02.08.2017 16:07, Steve Williams wrote: pfctl -t Sou

Re: Does pf's Sources table ever get cleared?

2017-08-02 Thread Steve Williams
p/bad.$$ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then cp /tmp/bad.$$ /var/spamd/bad-hosts/bad-hosts.txt rm -f /tmp/bad.$$ exit 0 fi rm -f /tmp/bad.$$ exit 1 Cheers, Steve On 01/08/2017 9:34 AM, Markus Wernig wrote: Hi all I have a pair of OBSD 6.1 firewalls, on which some rules require source tracking, i.e.

Re: Split zone DNS?

2017-07-28 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'll be looking at unbound and seeing if I need nsd or not. Have a great weekend! Cheers, Steve On 28/07/2017 7:58 AM, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to 6.1 and am trying to (finally, after many OpenBSD versions over 10 years) fine

Split zone DNS?

2017-07-28 Thread Steve Williams
to update records? I've read the NSD(8), nsd.conf(5) man pages and that seems to be the way to go, but I thought I'd check the wisdom here to see if there is a better approach. Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: Doubts about the successors of OpenBSD leadership and development

2017-07-10 Thread Steve Shockley
On 7/10/2017 5:53 PM, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:04 PM, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: Theo de Raadt no responds to me private message since I told him that I do not understand English. If you told him that in english, I can imagine why. Perhaps his English is mode 0266.

Re: Limit internet connection by time of day and number of hours

2017-07-08 Thread Steve Shockley
On 7/5/2017 6:19 PM, Stefan Wollny wrote: Please: I am just curious and interested to learn about my (realistic) options. I had a problem where a member of the household would spend too much time watching Netflix. Rather than blocking the traffic, I just degraded it. Your case is a little d

Re: Dell R210 II crashing on boot

2017-07-08 Thread Steve Shockley
On 7/5/2017 4:04 PM, Pierre Emeriaud wrote: Here are the last messages logged on the ip kvm before the java client closes: http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1499280007.jpg (6.1) http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1499280059.jpg (current) On mine, the next couple of lines are:

Trying to burn a 4.5G dvd

2017-07-04 Thread STeve Andre'
and a scan of marc.info and faq aren't helping. Clues? I'm pinched for time. Thanks... --STeve Andre'

Re: PF packets being blocked...why?

2017-06-26 Thread Steve Williams
Hi, Yes, I have (what appears to be) 100% functionality of the forwarding/nat/etc. That wouldn't work if forwarding wasn't enabled. # cat /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 And I have rebooted multiple times. Thanks, Steve W. On 26/06/2017 12:30 PM, Timo Myyrä wrote:

Re: PF packets being blocked...why?

2017-06-26 Thread Steve Williams
sequent packets (these seem to have the "P"ush flag set) should match the state and not get blocked. Hum... perhaps the states are expiring too fast? How do I find out if the state existed at the time that the packet was blocked? Thanks, Steve W. On 26/06/2017 12:09 PM, Ville V

PF packets being blocked...why?

2017-06-26 Thread Steve Williams
rule 4/(match) block in on vether0: 192.168.123.2.39279 > 31.13.77.6.443: R 31:31(0) ack 1 win 1545 (DF) # pfctl -R 4 -sr block drop log all It is not all https traffice that is being blocked as I can hit my banking site, etc. Does anyone have an idea why are these packets being blocked? Thanks, Steve Williams

smtpd "relay as" not working as expected

2017-06-07 Thread Steve
Hello, If I include : accept from local for any relay as "@domain.com" in smtpd.comnf on 6.1 release the reply to address is rewritten as u...@domain.com but the from address is left as u...@host.domain.com. Do I have this syntax incorrect ? Thanks.

Re: Limits on OBSD amd64

2017-05-26 Thread STeve Andre'
On a 10T disk I created an 8T file with dd=/dev/zero of=bff. I didn't test it, but saw that I had the correct amount of space left. --STeve Andre'

Re: With Multiple PPPoE interfaces on one will work

2017-05-18 Thread Steve
e anything it is necessary to provide a defintion of "not working" and some evidence, like ifconfig, netstat -rn, ping, etc. then somebody will be able to help you. the more information you will provide, the quicker response with a solution you will get. On 10.05.17 07:53, Steve wrote

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