Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

2013-11-30 Thread STeve Andre'
quite a few changes. --STeve Andre'

Re: UEFI

2013-11-06 Thread STeve Andre'
(even with the new wretched keyboards they have). Add the UEFI horror for non-Windows users and giving exact details becomes important. --STeve Andre' ps: Has anyone run OpenBSD on a System76 laptop?

Problem with dhcp requests on --current of Nov 2-4

2013-11-04 Thread STeve Andre'
:70:f8:07:38) and thats it. This is a thinkpad W500 running -current oct 18th that works, Nov 2-today kernels that do not work. Has anyone else seen this? --STeve Andre' OpenBSD 5.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Fri Oct 18 22:38:59 EDT 2013 root@paladin:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

Re: Problem with dhcp requests on --current of Nov 2-4

2013-11-04 Thread STeve Andre'
AARGH! I missed that completely! I did look at following -current, but my eyes glazed over the part that said a dhcp would hang. OK, off to finish building the world. Thanks for the clue, all. --STeve Andre' On 11/04/13 19:48, Brad Smith wrote: On 04/11/13 6:22 PM, STeve Andre' wrote

Re: A suggestion for snapshots

2013-09-07 Thread STeve Andre'
chunks for future costs. It would certainly be bad to not be able to come up with the funds for the future net costs. I think it should be thought of as another cost, just like new hardware. --STeve Andre'

Selecting new motherboards in the era of uefi

2013-08-30 Thread STeve Andre'
. I wonder if this might make a new section Thoughts? --STeve Andre'

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread Steve Fairhead
to bit-bang them (i.e. control them individually) yourself, rather than using a parallel-port protocol. HTH, Steve

Re: How to mark a block as invalid ?

2013-08-18 Thread STeve Andre'
a friend showed me a disk that had one bad sector on it, and tens of thousands the next day. You are dancing on a volcano. I hope it doesn't erupt on you. Make backups. Rsync is a good friend. Really. --STeve Andre'

Re: Default software in the base

2013-07-30 Thread STeve Andre'
thing to do. The more ports the better. I can't speak to things like urxvt so I don't know how much of a pain they'd be to incorporate into OpenBSD but making them available is reasonable from a user point of view. --STeve Andre'

Any other ThinkPad W500 users out there?

2013-06-30 Thread STeve Andre'
If so, I'd like to know if you are running a recent 5.3-current. Mail me off list so we don't pollute misc@. Thanks... --STeve Andre'

Re: OpenBSD Doesn't Support 64-Bit Intel

2013-06-30 Thread STeve Andre'
so? -jash Um I'm writing this on an amd64 Thinkpad W500 which has a 2.8GHz core two duo. So I don't understand what you mean. --STeve Andre'

Re: Severe problem with amd64 -current as of June 13

2013-06-16 Thread STeve Andre'
On 06/16/13 01:05, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and the new -current failed shortly after running it. Things would get *very* slow, with continuous disk activity

Re: Severe problem with amd64 -current as of June 13

2013-06-16 Thread STeve Andre'
On 06/16/13 01:05, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and the new -current failed shortly after running it. Things would get *very* slow, with continuous disk activity

Severe problem with amd64 -current as of June 13

2013-06-15 Thread STeve Andre'
amd64-current seems rather wounded at the moment. I've been running -current since June 5th with no problems. This is a W500 thinkpad. On June 13 I updated my tree from anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, and the new -current failed shortly after running it. Things would get *very* slow, with

Re: Severe problem with amd64 -current as of June 13

2013-06-15 Thread STeve Andre'
On 06/16/13 00:23, Amit Kulkarni wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:19 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu mailto:and...@msu.edu wrote: amd64-current seems rather wounded at the moment. I've been running -current since June 5th with no problems. This is a W500 thinkpad

Re: how can I get a dmesg (without a floppy or serial console port)?

2013-05-27 Thread STeve Andre'
and put it on another, so you can grab the dmesg output. --STeve Andre'

pkg_add (mcrypt) issues openbsd 5.0

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Pribyl
-0.18.1p0 libiconv-1.13p2 I for the moment loth to upgrade to 5.1,5.2,5.3 until I have a better handle on how our apps work. Thanks Sr. Systems Administrator Steve Pribyl spri...@viaforensics.com [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]

Re: pkg_add (mcrypt) issues openbsd 5.0

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Pribyl
I did a pkg_add -r on the library in question, that resolved the issue. Thanks for the follow up. Sr. Systems Administrator Steve Pribyl spri...@viaforensics.com -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Henderson Sent: Wednesday

ML 310 G8

2013-05-07 Thread Steve
Hi, Is anyone running 5.3 on one of these. Just hoping to get an an idea of support before we purchase. Thanks

Re: ACPI hack for temperature control

2013-05-02 Thread STeve Andre'
On 05/02/13 02:40, Vadim Zhukov wrote: 2013/5/2 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu mailto:and...@msu.edu Can someone point me to the proper patch for ACPI so I don't reboot any more? Thanks. Do you mean disabling acpitz(4) when it does the Wrong Thing, or ThinkPad-specific patch I

ACPI hack for temperature control

2013-05-01 Thread STeve Andre'
Can someone point me to the proper patch for ACPI so I don't reboot any more? Thanks. --STeve Andre'

Re: How many rounds to use for a pbkdf2 encrypted disk?

2013-04-23 Thread STeve Andre'
and and a ten character random password. Thank you, Ted. Well said and confirmed some thoughts I'd had. Something like this ought to go into the FAQ, perhaps Thanks again! --STeve Andre'

Re: Ethernet card not working

2013-04-10 Thread STeve Andre'
an updated entry is sys/devs/pcidevs. You should always post the entire dmesg when talking about your system. --STeve Andre'

Re: Variation on PHP in chroot problem: SQLite3::loadExtension()

2013-03-30 Thread Steve Williams
Or perhaps copy in /var/run/ld.so.hints? Cheers, Steve

Re: [Question] Building whitelists so that spamd greylisting can work without users perceiving delivery delays...

2013-03-28 Thread Steve Williams
On 3/28/2013 10:52 AM, Sarah Caswell wrote: Hi all, I had a question about greylisting (with spamd) in production. I've successfully run spamd on firewalls (as a frontend to either barracuda or SpamAssassin) and have really liked the reduction in SPAM volume. Unfortunately my employer's wife

Base Packages

2013-03-19 Thread Steve Pribyl
Is there a way to determine which base packages are installed during the initial install. Thanks Steve Pribyl

Can't cleanly umount a usb stick

2013-03-18 Thread STeve Andre'
, to the umount. Last time this happened I did a umount -f as I needed the data. This time I went hunting and an fstat | grep doc revealed that firefox had /dos? *I* didn't do anything. Any ideas as to whats going on, or things to check? I am puzzled. Thanks, STeve Andre'

Re: Can't cleanly umount a usb stick

2013-03-18 Thread STeve Andre'
On 03/18/13 05:44, Vadim Zhukov wrote: 2013/3/18 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu: I've just run into something I can't explain. Likely it's not a bug, but puzzling none the less. I normally run KDE, and then thunderbird, firefox and chrome as well as a bunch of other stuff. Fine, mostly

Re: Pre-orders for 5.3

2013-03-17 Thread STeve Andre'
On 03/17/13 19:13, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Pre-orders for 5.3 are activated! I think they are activated in the UK too (or will be very soon). Wonder if the first few pieces of art can lead to some guesses of the theme. A Roy Lee movie pastiche?

built-in http and BEAST attack(PCI compliance)

2013-03-15 Thread Steve Pribyl
for an exemption. Thanks Steve

momentary keyboard glitch

2013-01-14 Thread STeve Andre'
... --STeve Andre' (dmesg) OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Jan 8 19:06:54 EST 2013 r...@paladin.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8515162112 (8120MB) avail mem = 8265981952 (7883MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (80 entries) bios0

Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP

2013-01-07 Thread Steve Williams
and reading between the lines to arrive at this solution. Cheers, Steve On 1/6/2013 1:06 PM, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away

Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP

2013-01-06 Thread Steve Williams
(http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve

Re: Any T410/T420 with suspend/resume fully working in 5.1 or current?

2012-10-14 Thread STeve Andre'
, though I did not write that down. This is certainly a frustrating time for wanting to get a new thinkpad. This W500 is still doing well after 3.8 years but a LED lit screen would be great. --STeve Andre' (dmesg from the t430s test) OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Oct 2 21:03:20 EDT

AMD64 on a W500 Thinkpad seems sluggish

2012-10-01 Thread STeve Andre'
at the archives I haven't yet found anything relevant. Any ideas on things to try? Below is /var/run/dmesg.boot, the output of a pcidump and usbdevs. Thanks all.. --STeve Andre' - /var/run/dmesg.boot OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sun Sep 30 16:56:49 EDT 2012 r...@paladin.my.domain:/usr/src/sys

Reading a damaged disk

2012-09-24 Thread STeve Andre'
stable enough to look at a few files would be appreciated. I have a backup but wouldn't mind the latest data. tnx, STeve Andre' Sep 24 15:22:18 paladin /bsd: umass0 at uhub0 Sep 24 15:22:18 paladin /bsd: port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 Sep

Re: How to PROVE your system is up to date?

2012-09-18 Thread STeve Andre'
it while being videoed. Yes, paranoid. (I'm in the US) --STeve Andre'

Re: 5.2 pre-orders are up

2012-09-04 Thread Steve Shockley
On 9/4/2012 10:23 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: We've activated 5.2 pre-orders. I tried to go to the order page, but wound up at a 27B-6 form instead.

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-10 Thread STeve Andre'
. Want even more protection? Get a UPS which can be monitored so you can have clean shutdowns. Worried about your disks? Use softraid to mirror the disks, and make backups. Those two extra concepts will give you about as good a set of protections as exist today. --STeve Andre'

Re: Calomel.org

2012-07-26 Thread STeve Andre'
marc.info to look for specific stuff. You'll find lots of stuff, conversations on things. --STeve Andre'

Clues as to how to record audio

2012-07-26 Thread STeve Andre'
be appreciated. Thanks... STeve Andre'

X windows unstable. X -configure not working.

2012-07-18 Thread Steve
Hi, I am having ongoing problems with X. I have highlighted some past problems with intel drivers on HP. Unable to get a stable platform even after using the vesa driver I have started testing on the Alix machines and am getting similar problems. Is X broken ? I have many of these machines in

Re: inteldrm0 gpu hung

2012-07-05 Thread Steve
. From: Alexei Malinin alexei.mali...@mail.ru To: Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au Cc: misc@openbsd.org misc@openbsd.org Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:44 PM Subject: Re: inteldrm0 gpu hung Steve wrote: OK Thanks, Have you found any workaround ? No, I hope

Re: inteldrm0 gpu hung

2012-07-04 Thread Steve
OK Thanks, Have you found any workaround ? I read in a somewhat unrelated thread someone suggesting to disable drm in the kernel but once I do that X fails to load. Thanks again. From: Alexei Malinin alexei.mali...@mail.ru To: Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au

inteldrm0 gpu hung

2012-07-03 Thread Steve
Hi, I seem to be getting this on multiple models of HP machines from 5.0 release through to current. Is there a known issue with this ? Is there a way to disable it from the kernel. I can shoot through a dmesg but as mentioned it is on quite a few different machines. Any thoughts appreciated.

Fw: inteldrm0 gpu hung

2012-07-03 Thread Steve
Sorry to push this again. Is anyone running X on HP d510 D530 dx2200 dc7600 machines successfully ? Was there any tricks ? Can I grab a working xorg.conf Thanks. - Forwarded Message - From: Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au To: misc@openbsd.org misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, 3 July

Re: gimp 2.8 on OpeBSD -current

2012-07-03 Thread STeve Andre'
to date: userland, kernel, all packages I'm running -current with my own packages and things are fine, so do make sure your world is in sync. --STeve Andre'

Re: load now over 1.00 all the time (i386, MP)

2012-06-30 Thread STeve Andre'
Hmmm. On my W500 thinkpad: 8:43PM up 20:41, 0 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.21, 0.25 This is with KDE, mpg, 5 ssh's, firefox, chrome and about 9 xterms, as I write this. This is a i386-current compiled yesterday. --STeve Andre' On 06/30/12 20:38, frantisek holop wrote: hi

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-28 Thread Timmy L Steve
On 06/28/2012 01:26 AM, Marc Espie wrote: If you guys are serious about anything, go look at ports-readmes. It does extract information from the ports tree, and creates readmes for all ports. Currently, it's a static port. It could very well be a dynamic application. You can experiment with

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-26 Thread STeve Andre'
as it is. --STeve Andre'

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-26 Thread STeve Andre'
If the site is OK as it is, why add more fluff? Style sheets certainly aren't blotund like Jooma is, but why go there for the site? Guess I'm a minimalist. --STeve Andre' On 06/26/12 21:52, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Why is not possible to apply a new css style to the current site

Re: 5.1 and snapshots freeze changing between X and console

2012-06-20 Thread Steve
. [   577.837] [   577.840] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. # From: Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com To: Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au Cc: misc@openbsd.org misc@openbsd.org Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 5.1 and snapshots

Re: 5.1 and snapshots freeze changing between X and console

2012-06-19 Thread Steve
for additional information. [    94.419] [    94.425] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. # From: Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au To: misc@openbsd.org misc@openbsd.org Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2012 2:35 PM Subject: 5.1 and snapshots freeze

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-19 Thread STeve Andre'
is 'yes'. Look at /usr/src/usr.bin/yes This shows how stuff is built. Look around the src tree. Hint: userland stuff is easier to understand so look there first, before the kernel. --STeve Andre'

Re: Hello

2012-06-17 Thread STeve Andre'
On 06/17/12 03:53, Favour Andrew wrote: Hello Dear! I wish you a good day; I looked through your profile at web page and decided to write you a message to inform you that I am interested in knowing more about you. I'm sure that you are very intelligent and nice looking person. It would be great

5.1 and snapshots freeze changing between X and console

2012-06-08 Thread Steve
Hi, I havent seen anyone highlighting the same issue recently. Intel 8245G om a couple of different HP boxes. 5.1 release and a snapshot from a few weeks back kept flagging GPU hung error messages. Snapshot from June 1 doesnt show any errors but the machine freezes solid. I have a 4.5 install

Re: (Kinda O.T.) Digital Millennium Copyright Act used to censor hardware specifications

2012-06-03 Thread Steve Shockley
On 5/31/2012 12:25 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Shame on you. Don't you know that linking to links that link to links that have DCMA'd is a crime? Enjoy the bars. We Americans have to enjoy the bars, there's not much left to do besides drink.

ACPI problems on a W500 thinkpad: software or hardware?

2012-05-29 Thread STeve Andre'
what event 6022 is. Thanks, STeve Andre'

Re: OT: SSH not secure?

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Shockley
On 5/9/2012 12:32 PM, Weldon Goree wrote: only our AutoSSH and AutoSFTP can detect truss/tusc/strace and dtrace attack, and detect Trojan Horse attack. See, now we know why people keep asking for dtrace in OpenBSD, it's to get our passwords. I knew it was a trap!

IP Address Pptpd (Poptop) and pppd (userland)

2012-05-03 Thread Steve Williams
:( Any assistance appreciated! Thanks, Steve Williams

Re: [ANN] portable cwm 5.1

2012-05-02 Thread Timmy L Steve
As a user of Unix-Like systems and cwm - I thank you. Will test soon. tls On 05/02/12 05:37, Christian Neukirchen wrote: Hello, today I'm proud to release the first public version of portable cwm 5.1. Portable cwm is a minor modification of the cwm version in OpenBSD CVS with a portable

Source archives

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Shockley
FYI, I noticed that src.tar.gz, etc. doesn't seem to be in ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/ or any of the mirrors. Obviously I can download via CVS or wait for the CD, but I was wondering if it's an oversight, or if it was moved somewhere else? Thanks.

Re: Source archives

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Shockley
On 5/1/2012 10:00 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: It's on ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1 now Might have just been the last thing loaded. Yep, thanks.

Re: OpenBSD on EC2/Amazon

2012-04-25 Thread Timmy L Steve
+1 Would be nice to drop my linux ami. tls Hi all, I have a question: ?Is anyone working to make possible run OpenBSD on Amazon EC2? now, It is possible to run NetBSD and FreeBSD, but I can not find much information about the progress of OpenBSD on this topic. Thanks in advanced. --

Re: Where's my bandwidth going?

2012-04-25 Thread Timmy L Steve
drop to a debain net and grab lsof On 04/25/12 03:14, Mihai Popescu wrote: I was using trafshow from packages, it was quick to install and very simple.

Re: after downgrade OpenBSD dmesg display wrong information

2012-04-25 Thread Timmy L Steve
IRC EXPOSED@!@! READ THE NEWS NOW! drizztbsd is no synonym - it is Theo himself! On 04/18/12 21:37, Theo de Raadt wrote: Some machines keep previous dmessages in mem. Scroll down to see the most recent dmesg, or check /var/run/dmesg.boot A cold boot wipes the dmesg buffer. -Otto

Re: Hang on -current

2012-04-20 Thread STeve Andre'
On 04/20/12 07:24, David Coppa wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 PM, STeve Andre'and...@msu.edu wrote: I had a system hang I've never seen before: Apr 19 15:24:18 s6 /bsd: uvm_km_kmem_grow: grown to 0xffc0 This is only a diagnostic informative message, btw... I've updated things

Hang on -current

2012-04-19 Thread STeve Andre'
5.1-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Wed Apr 18 21:39:10 EDT 2012 (i386) I didn't have a keyboard plugged in and because the kernel was spitting out that one message it couldn't detect the keyboard(?). Any ideas on further investigating this would be good--if this happens again. --STeve Andre'

Re: VLAN on LACP trunk on em

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Thanks everyone, I'll do a fresh install with 5.0 (or 5.1 if I wait too long) and report back.

VLAN on LACP trunk on em

2012-04-18 Thread Steve Shockley
I'm having some trouble getting multiple VLANs to work between a PowerConnect 5224 switch, an LACP trunk, and two em ports. I'm able to get the LACP trunk working and get one VLAN working, but I can't get any other VLANs working. Traffic for the one VLAN that works seems to arrive both

Re: Kernel roughing in tool

2012-04-13 Thread STeve Andre'
bsd and bsd.mp kernels have never failed me. If you're *adding* something into the kernel, I think that would be a different story and you could get people to help you. --STeve Andre'

Re: Kernel roughing in tool

2012-04-12 Thread STeve Andre'
: efficiencies today are not what they were in 1995 and it just doesn't make sense to do that. You get points for doing this, but this particular item isn't a good thing to do. --STeve Andre' ps: you won't get any help from people here with a shredded kernel, either.

rc.d and mysql startup (upgrade from 4.6 current to April 2 snapshot)

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Williams
of mysql. What is the accepted way to start mysql these days? Thanks, Steve Williams OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC.MP) #230: Mon Apr 2 12:44:39 MDT 2012 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP RTC BIOS diagnostic error 11memory_size cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU

Re: rc.d and mysql startup (upgrade from 4.6 current to April 2 snapshot)

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Williams
On 4/7/2012 1:40 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:01:07PM -0600, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I recently updated my system from an ancient 4.6something to the April 2 snapshot. Let me say, between sysmerge and pkg_add -ui, it's an amazingly painless process! This is i386

Re: PF and prio keyword

2012-03-25 Thread Timmy L Steve
On 03/25/12 10:37, Theron ZORBAS wrote: Hi, I'm just an OpenBSD newbie derived from Linux. I'm trying to understand both OpenBSD and PF. In fact it's very clear and strong structure; happy with that. My question is about using prio keyword. Can anyone help me with this little pf.conf below. Is

Re: Controllers and wireless

2012-03-17 Thread STeve Andre'
4 pci man 4 intro --STeve Andre'

Re: Pre-orders for 5.1, and the new song!

2012-03-14 Thread Timmy Steve
Congratulations, Can't wait till 7. tls On 03/13/2012 07:46 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: It is that time again. I have just activated pre-orders for CDs, tshirts, and posters for the 5.1 release -- due May 1. http://openbsd.org/orders.html At the same time, I am making available the song

Re: Strange connection problems with athn interface

2012-01-15 Thread STeve Andre'
kernel restore things? This is the CE-version of the module, reduced to 100 dBm, BTW. I think (hope :) you're confusing your units here. Um, yeah--100dBm is 10 mega watts. The laptop (and user) might catch fire exposed to that kind of RF. --STeve Andre'

Re: No schizophrenia

2012-01-10 Thread STeve Andre'
On 01/10/12 22:44, John Tate wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:11 PM, STeve Andre'and...@msu.edu wrote: On 01/10/12 18:19, John Tate wrote: Just an idiot, Jan Stary, who turned the sentence 7 years of FreeBSD/OpenBSD experience into OpenBSD Guru. I wish I had more time and less faith in minds

Re: I want buy labtop ,work OpenBSD, wireless network must work

2011-12-30 Thread STeve Andre'
come down. --STeve Andre'

Re: I want buy labtop ,work OpenBSD, wireless network must work

2011-12-30 Thread STeve Andre'
On 12/30/11 21:23, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:42:43 -0500 STeve Andre' wrote: It's not the newest model, but the W500 is a wonderful laptop. I am using it now. 2.8G core two Should that be w500 with dual core. Core two duos have botched microcode with security risks

ftpd change?

2011-12-25 Thread STeve Andre'
. ;-) Thanks! --STeve Andre'

ftpd change?

2011-12-25 Thread STeve Andre'
. I don't see anything in the ftpd man page about this. Was this a change, or did I miss something? I've currently got 110 people feeding from a 128M machine and would like to put this larger machine into service right now. ;-) Thanks! --STeve Andre'

Re: ftpd change?

2011-12-25 Thread STeve Andre'
On 12/25/11 22:25, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/25/11 20:12, STeve Andre' wrote: [apologies if you see this twice--having mail loss problems] I have an old FTP machine (3.6!) that a horde of people are suckling from at the moment. I'm making a new one remotely, but found that an 'mget

Re: upgrade OpenBSD

2011-12-19 Thread STeve Andre'
and do a fresh install. Using a different disk means that you can mount the previous one and copy files as needed from it. --STeve Andre'

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread STeve Andre'
on their problems before asking, and to state clearly what the problem is. --STeve Andre'

Re: Kernel without INET6 error on pipex.c

2011-11-24 Thread STeve Andre'
that it wasn't worth it. --STeve Andre'

Re: cd boot panic on 5.0 but not 4.9 or earlier

2011-11-21 Thread STeve Andre'
is NOT to be trusted is in the middle of a Hackathon, where you can watch commits flying in. Watch, but wait till its over before you decide to use it for anything critical. ;-) --STeve Andre'

Re: Laptop hard drive and emergency unload

2011-11-15 Thread Steve
on this issue. My laptop is now perfectly happy, running the newest release of OpenBSD. Steve On 11-09-05 02:25 PM, Steve wrote: For the fun of it, I just installed 4.9 (AMD64) on an SD card, booted from the card and mounted one of my Ext3 partitions on the hard disk. I copied a file from the disk

Re: How to suggest a package?

2011-11-14 Thread STeve Andre'
. There is no formal mechanism to ask for a port. --STeve Andre'

Re: systat colors?

2011-11-11 Thread STeve Andre'
On 11/11/11 18:58, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-11-10, STeve Andre'and...@msu.edu wrote: On 11/10/11 16:41, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011, Joe wrote: Has anyone already modified systat to support colored text? No, nor will they. colorized utilities are not particularly welcome

Re: systat colors?

2011-11-11 Thread STeve Andre'
library: [libcurses.so.12.1] ... On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM, STeve Andre'and...@msu.edu wrote: On 11/11/11 18:58, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-11-10, STeve Andre'and...@msu.eduwrote: On 11/10/11 16:41, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011, Joe wrote: Has anyone already modified

Re: systat colors?

2011-11-10 Thread STeve Andre'
could live in ports, quite happily. See colorls. --STeve Andre'

Re: units.lib currency exchange rates

2011-10-22 Thread STeve Andre'
these updates? Accuracy? And why are you attempting to hide behind the identity of someone else? You are a coward. --STeve Andre'

Re: Question about apmd power savings

2011-10-19 Thread STeve Andre'
On 10/18/11 23:58, Amit Kulkarni wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, STeve Andre'and...@msu.edu wrote: If going from 1.3GHz to 800MHz saves .5 watts, the power supply isn't the most efficient, I'd say. You ought to see several watts, though less than 10, at a wild guess. Of course, your

Happy birthday OpenBSD

2011-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'
16 years!

Re: Question about apmd power savings

2011-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'
supply. --STeve Andre' On 10/18/11 14:53, Joe S wrote: This isn't a problem and I'm not complaining, I'm just a bit curious as apmd didn't save me as much power as I hoped for. I noticed that apmd couldn't throttle my cpu in 4.9-RELEASE (amd64). However, since March 2011, -CURRENT recognizes

Re: OpenBSD fw freezing with ps/trace.

2011-10-17 Thread STeve Andre'
. Sorry for the truncated lines. I think you have buggy hardware, somewhere. Can you make up another firewall and test with that? The other thing might be to test memory, with something like memtest. --STeve Andre'

cd and run app from rc.local

2011-10-06 Thread Steve
Hi, Can someone please point me in the right direction. I am trying to start a ruby rails app from rc.local by calling a script. The script simply changes directory and executes the app The script works outside of rc.local I understand this is probably unix 101 but I cant find it. Thanks

Re: Latest ThinkPad model fully compatible with OpenBSD out of the box?

2011-09-22 Thread STeve Andre'
wonderfully, though are all slow and watt hoggs. Can't say much about the R and G series though I've seen both run OpenBSD. --STeve Andre' (thinkpad snob since 1992)

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