Re: Install on compact flash

2015-10-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/15/15 12:43, Josh Grosse wrote: > On 2015-10-15 12:19, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > MyTL;DR - Don't bother. I used to create "live media" read/only > systems, > with MFS filesystems for read/write. > > You'll find maintaining a read-only system much more difficult. exactly. There are a lo

Re: Remove removed utilities?

2015-10-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/19/15 04:24, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > Hello misc@ > > I just noticed from the detailed changelog 5.7->5.8: > http://www.openbsd.org/plus58.html > that e.g tcopy, tip and lmccontrol were removed, but after upgrading from > 5.7 to 5.8 I still have /usr/bin/tip, /usr/bin/tcopy and /sbin/lmcc

Re: Question about core dumps and swap space.

2015-10-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/19/15 17:18, Christoph R. Murauer wrote: > Hello ! ... > If I follow the FAQ, then core dumps should not work. I could resize swap > and /var to have the same (or bigger size) as the physical RAM which is > also no problem. My question - or better the things I don't understand (I > found no i

Re: Question about core dumps and swap space.

2015-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/20/15 07:09, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Nick Holland > wrote: >> [...] >> and thus, I'll suggest you just don't worry about it. IF you manage to >> find a way to panic your machine, drop the memo

Re: does src include sys ?

2015-10-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/23/15 22:15, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: > today i first time follow current . > > # cd /usr > # export CVSROOT=anon...@anoncvs.jp.openbsd.org:/cvs > # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src > cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P sys<--- > 1)quetion > is [cvs -d$CV

Re: Downgrade from 5.8-current to 5.8 release

2015-11-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/01/15 08:38, Adam Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem. I mistakenly installed OpenBSD 5.8-current (I thought it > was 5.8 release). Everything is set up, configured and live, but now > pkg_add fails, because libc version has changed. > > > Can't install p5-Crypt-Ope

Re: Firefox Worked Slowly...

2015-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/02/15 03:47, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: > Hi everybody, > I was installed OpenBSD on many Servers that have more CPU types but on > every of them while I worked with firefox it handle websites very slowly! > My Network bandwiths is not bad. > Is that Firefox needs some special configure on

Re: installboot with amd64 root on softraid crypto, NOT 'a' partition

2015-11-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/07/15 19:56, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: ... > (or > sd1[dfh] if I enter 'boot sr1d:/bsd' at the "boot>" prompt, assuming there's ^ > an OpenBSD installation on those partitions). ... > Questions > - > I guess my basic question is, what's wrong here and

Re: Firewall rules and features

2015-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/09/15 16:45, sven falempin wrote: > For the first time ever i did something with iptable > that i dont know how to do (simply) with > pf. > Something i think it is usefull. > > I have a domain server, nsd, it serves whatever.com, Authoritative server, then. > the server is like flooded wit

Re: pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf fails on boot when DNS-resolved symbolic names are used

2015-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/10/15 10:57, Kent Watsen wrote: > Precondition: /etc/pf.conf contains scr_addr/dst_addr set to FQDNs > > On boot, the consoles shows error about not being able to load pf.conf > because it can't resolve the symbolic names. > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Setup.activate says: > > Â

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/12/15 21:01, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote: > Hi there, > > How is the current status of SSD disks support by OpenBSD? Work great. Always has. > I did some research on Google about but didn't find any definitive > answer. I did find some references about lacking of support for T

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/13/15 18:05, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:13:34 PM -0500 Nick Holland > wrote: > >> And if you deploy a lot of SSDs, [...] Some models are good, >> some are crap, you can't say which is which until after they are out of >> prod

Re: NSD/Unbound clarifications

2015-11-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/25/15 12:37, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-11-25, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Thanks for all clarification about NSD/Unbound usage. I've another question about dns dynamic update for dhcpd. With named, installing isc-dhcp using dynamic update for dns from dhcpd. It is possibile with unbound

Re: can't boot from USB3.0 flash memory

2015-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/26/15 08:25, freeu...@ruggedinbox.com wrote: > I have USB3.0 flash memory.(SANDISK) > "OpenBSD 5.8 amd64/i386 on USB3.0" > > 1.USB3.0 flash memory connect to USB2.0/1.0 > boot: It's fine. > 2.USB3.0 flash memory connect to USB3.0 > boot: can't boot! > > anyone don't need boot from USB3.0?

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 on VMware 5.5

2015-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/01/15 13:32, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-12-01, Reyk Floeter wrote: >>> What is the recommended SCSI Controller? LSI Logic Parallel, LSI Logic SAS >>> or VMware Paravirtual? >> >> LSI Logic SAS- mpi(4) >> VMware Paravirtual - vmwpvs(4) >> >> Use LSI Logic SAS. The VM

University of Toronto Mirror upcoming outages

2015-12-08 Thread Nick Holland
Hi, A heads-up for users of the University of Toronto mirror (openbsd.cs.toronto.edu): The University will be doing some power systems maintenance this week and next, and anticipate two planned outages: * Thursday, December 10 11:00p EST to Friday December 11, 7:00am EST * Wednesday, December 16

Re: letsencrypt && https && openbsd.org = https://www.openbsd.org/

2015-12-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/08/15 20:26, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Giancarlo Razzolini writes: >> One of the main benefits of the TLS wouldn't only be to render >> impossible for anyone to know which pages you're accessing on the site, >> but also the fact that we would get a little more security getting the >> SSH fi

Re: no mail/reports following power failure

2015-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/15 09:21, frcc wrote: > Hi Folks > New here. > Running ver 5.8 on an ibme330 sever. > > Usually get daily reports for disk usage etc > vial mail system on server. > > Following a power interruption I get no more > local mail as user or as Root. ... >

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/15 18:34, Luke Small wrote: > If installer GUIs are bad, maybe features like full-disk encryption could > be accomplished via lynx-like text -based HTML and/or JavaScript that could > write to cookies that the installer could parse into commands? > > -Luke Please, no. In fact, I'm hopin

Re: 5.8: Cannot communicate with iDrac6 once OpenBSD boots (Broadcom BCM5709 via bnx)

2015-12-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/30/15 01:12, Matt Adams wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Dell T710 server with a 4-port Broadcom BCM5709 NIC that hosts > iDrac6 via port 1. The iDrac configuration has this port set up with a > unique MAC and static IP. This port is supposed to be shared with the > operating system and under

Re: file(1) - install.iso is 44.1kHz, stereo

2015-12-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/30/15 06:02, Jan Stary wrote: > $ file install59.iso > install59.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data > 'OpenBSD/amd645.9 Install CD ' (bootable), 44.1 kHz, Stereo > > Is this intended? > > Jan > What do you want it to return? If you record it to a CDR and put it in a plain ol' C

Re: the location of openbsd.pbr

2015-12-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/31/15 00:49, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Brian McCafferty wrote: >> Are you referring to the file you need to create for dual booting with the >> windows ntldr? Check the FAQ: >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/obsd-faq.txt > > Just out of curiousity, I dd'ed that sector and it didn't end in AA55.

important change: anoncvs (and cvsync) service at openbsd.cs.toronto.edu

2016-01-24 Thread Nick Holland
tl;dr version: openbsd.cs.toronto.edu anoncvs and cvsync users need to start using anon...@obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu and cvsync://obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu instead. Full story: === Important notice for those using the mirror at University of Toronto: Thanks to the OpenBSD Foundation and its

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/25/16 13:55, Adam Thompson wrote: > On 16-01-23 08:34 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: >> I will add that one of the reasons we have support for all these >> museum pieces is that people can build their very own museum and run >> something interesting on it. But running on emulators doesn't really >

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/26/16 05:36, Karel Gardas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Nick Holland > wrote: >> Meanwhile, there ARE platforms that are still borderline useful. >> MacPPC, Sparc64 need people to RUN them for real life work, and improve >> them for relevancy, as n

Re: how to break /etc/weekly and your locate.database

2016-02-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/03/16 11:51, Scott Bonds wrote: > I thought I was being clever by doing all of: > > * disabling root's password ok. > * disabling SSH login by root ok. > * setting root's shell to /sbin/nologin no. don't do that. > ... but I figure I should take the hint that su is > assumed to work,

Re: Will Softraid RAID1 read from the fastest mirror/-s / supports user-specified device read priority order, nowadays? Takes broken disk out of use?

2016-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/13/16 11:49, Tinker wrote: > Hi, > > 1) > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2010_softraid/softraid.pdf page > 3 "2.2 RAID 1" says that it reads "on a round-robin basis from all > active chunks", i.e. read operations are spread evenly across disks. > > Since then did anyone implement

Re: Will Softraid RAID1 read from the fastest mirror/-s / supports user-specified device read priority order, nowadays? Takes broken disk out of use?

2016-02-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/15/16 16:02, Karel Gardas wrote: >> ..And therefore you need enterprise disks because they behave "cleanly", as >> when using those only, essentially full softraid QoS is maintained at all >> times. > > Interesting! I've understand Nick excellent email in completely > reversed sense. I unders

Re: Partitioning on MacBook Pro for triple booting

2017-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/09/17 13:42, SFM wrote: ... > The target: > > Triple boot Mac OS X, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD from the same drive > (there are quite a few reasons for this, do not call me a masochist, > at least not in public). no need, you already described your behavior. ;) > > The problem: As I, of co

Re: Partitioning for triple boot on MacBook Pro

2017-11-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/10/17 16:55, r...@sfm-consulting.at wrote: > So I actually double checked and yes, I am marking an A6 partition as > bootable/active. So where could the error be originating from? > > Thanks for any hints and help! well, so much for the easy solution. It sounds like you are trying to do a

reboot loop on -current, one machine of several

2017-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
Help. I was upgrading a few very similar machines to -current today. ONE of the three decided to be unpleasant. The thing has a serial console, and but it is about 370km from me. :-/ Upgrade from Sep 9 current to today's current via bsd.rd, just like the other two. Upon reboot, it does this (fr

Re: reboot loop on -current, one machine of several

2017-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/12/17 14:13, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 01:28:39PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > >> Help. >> >> I was upgrading a few very similar machines to -current today. >> ONE of the three decided to be unpleasant. The thing has a >> serial con

Re: reboot loop on -current, one machine of several

2017-11-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/13/17 14:24, Gregory Edigarov wrote: ... >> scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets >> -sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0: SCSI3 0/direct >> fixed naa.50025388400562d4 >> +sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: SCSI3 0/direct >> fixed naa.50025388400563fe >> sd0: 976762MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2000409264 sector

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/16/17 08:40, Ax0n wrote: > For what it's worth, bricking my main workstation in this way a few times > over the past 20 years yes the only reason I thought about it. It also got > me into a (good) habit of examining the paths and contents of archive files > every single time before I extrac

Re: kernel_relinking failed

2017-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/18/17 15:38, Roderick wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > At about every second shutdown I get at the end the message: > > --- > reorder_kernel: kernel relinking failed; see > /usr/share/compile/GENERIC.MP/relink.org > --- > > The contents of last file is at the end of this Email. > > It is a jus

Re: Hangup at "setting tty flags" after installation of puc(4) addon pci card

2017-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/17 09:37, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > Dear Misc Listeners, > > After the installation of a Logilink PC0017 4x serial puc(4) addon card, > my system initially hung at "setting tty flags" at boot. After a reboot > in single-user mode, from now on the hang-ups are gone away also in > multi-

Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD?

2017-12-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/03/17 20:19, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > I've always subscribed to the idea that too much safety results in too > may idiots, and the same is true for all these "safe" programming > languages. "Oh I don't have to write any form of bounds-checking, > because the language will do it for

Re: how to properly rebuild or delete crypto softraid?

2017-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/16/17 10:23, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017/12/16 04:00, ti...@openmailbox.org wrote: >> > On 2017-12-15, Stuart wrote: >> > You can use dd to write zeroes over the start of the device to overwrite >> > the partition table and disklabel, I'm not surehow far you have to go >> > but would ex

Re: 18-year-old laptop "Compaq Armada 1750" still works fine ...

2017-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/15/17 17:10, Riccardo Mottola wrote: ... > I just upgraded a similar vintage ThinkPad from 6.1 to 6.2 and network > stopped working after the upgrade, both using a Wired and a Wiredless > card: can get an IP address, but not ping even a local address. > I did not make a report yet because g

Re: remastering as a live disk

2017-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/23/17 00:23, Philip Mundhenk wrote: > Are there any tools for cloning an OpenBSD installation as a live > disk, like the ones in the in the Debian (Respin; Remastersys) and > Mandrake (Makecd?) families of Gnu/Linuxes? Or any reasonably > painless way of making a customized OpenBSD live disk

Re: Config-/Dotfiles in CVS

2017-12-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/29/17 12:00, Michael Hekeler wrote: ... > I want to keep track of my changings in configfiles > like "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" or "~/.tmux.conf" and so > > Normally I create "/root/RCS" and "~/RCS". > Then in every directory with configfiles that I want to change I > create a symlink ./RCS -> /

planned outage: openbsd.cs.toronto,edu, obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu, man.openbsd.org cvsweb.openbsd.org

2018-01-03 Thread Nick Holland
Hiya. Due to facilities maintenance, the following resources will be unavailable from somewhere around Jan 3 8:30pm EST until Jan 7 8:30am EST: * openbsd.cs.toronto,edu * obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu * man.openbsd.org * cvsweb.openbsd.org Thanks for your patience! Nick.

Re: Community-driven OpenBSD tutorials wiki?

2018-01-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/04/18 10:38, Marko Cupać wrote: > Feel free to contribute to [!WARNING - BLATANT SELF PROMOTION BELOW!] > > [https://www.mimar.rs/blog/tag:openbsd] > > As a side note, setting up apache and grav [https://getgrav.org/] took > me an hour or so. Writing simple article takes whole day, sometime

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

2018-01-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/11/18 09:45, Andreas Thulin wrote: > Hi! > > Again, an ignorant question (as usual): > > How might I do something similar to > > # dd if=/dev/one of=/dev/sd0 bs=1M > > as a complement to the usual and well-described > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0 bs=1M > > followed by > > # dd if=/d

Re: identifying software and licenses used in base install

2018-01-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/17/18 18:11, Kent Watsen wrote: > > I'm throwing together a quick proof-of-concept thingy to give to a > customer and thought it might be fun to use OpenBSD as the OS for the > VM image.  Unfortunately, the not so fun part of it is that I'm > required to get permission to use/distrib

Re: History documentation

2018-01-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/24/18 08:12, mazocomp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:22:18PM +0100, who one wrote: >> Hey, strange, there is 5.3 in >> https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/doc/history/ >> >> is this still maintained? >> >> Many thanks. >> >> > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 1:21 PM >

Re: OpenBSD IRQ sharing on ISA

2018-02-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/08/18 04:31, Захаров Анатолий wrote: > I install OpenBSD on my Fastwell CPB905 Singleboard compter. IT have > 4-RS-232 port on same IRQ, but on different address on isa bus. Then i > setup only one port using configure command all ports work normally. But > when i setup 2 of them in one boot

Re: noip freezes my 6.0

2018-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/28/18 02:06, Hess THR wrote: > Hello, > > pkg_add ...pub/OpenBSD/6.0/packages/amd64/no-ip-2.1.9p4.tgz ... > How can I help the community, how to debug this problem? (before opening a > low-level bugreport, want to make it a more quality report) Step 1: upgrade to a 6.2-current snapshot.

Re: sudoedit for doas?

2018-03-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/01/18 06:50, Solène Rapenne wrote: > What you said mimics visudo (to edit sudo configuration file), not > sudoedit which is documented in sudo(8) : > > 1.Temporary copies are made of the files to be edited with the owner >set to the invoking user. > 2.The editor specified by the policy i

Re: ffs mount options or tuning to prevent corrupted fs on power-outage

2018-03-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/18 14:48, Thomas Huber wrote: > Hi, > > can someone give me a recomendations for ffs mount options or further > tuning to prevent file-system corruption on power-outage? > > I run a PC-Engines APU2c3 with -stable in a rural place where power-outage > takes place approx. once a month. Mos

Re: How recursive copy to clone OS installation (devices, links, owners, privileges etc.)?

2018-03-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/14/18 21:08, Tinker wrote: > Say you have an OpenBSD installation (with /dev and all) mounted on > /mnt , and you'd like to clone it to /mnt2 , which is a partition > of different size, so dd is not an option. Not necessarily true. If the source is smaller than the destination, you can still

Re: Dell Latitude E6540 OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 freezes when adjusting refresh rate using xrandr

2018-03-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/20/18 11:49, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear OpenBSD users, > > I run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6540 laptop. > > I hook a Dell U2412M monitor to the laptop using VGA port. xrandr > recognizes the maximum resolution of the external monitor, but the > refresh rate is slightly below 60:

Re: Check if fsck will be run on a partition

2018-04-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/02/18 02:28, Mik J wrote: > @Theo: The fsck is not superfast, it takes 20s I end with that message39256 > files, 5904368 used, 10865841 free (15345 frags, 1356312 blocks, 0.1% > fragmentation) you missed his point. If it took 20 seconds to run, you needed to run it. If you didn't need to

Re: Check if fsck will be run on a partition

2018-04-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/03/18 02:54, Mik J wrote: > Thank you Nick, I understand > > I mount my partition like that > /sbin/bioctl -s -c C -l /dev/sd0h softraid0 > /sbin/mount -o rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep /dev/sd1c encrypted > > And it appears this partition always have 0,1% of fragmentation. > However the mount doe

Re: Virtualbox vs latest snapshot

2018-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
Another "failure mode" of VirtualBox people should be aware of: I understand through good sources, Oracle monitors the IP addresses that it's downloaded from, and if they can trace it back to a commercial IP (i.e., not a home address), and if they see you download (or update) the "not for unrestric

Re: Virtualbox vs latest snapshot

2018-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/12/18 09:47, Consus wrote: > On 08:28 Thu 12 Apr, Nick Holland wrote: >> Another "failure mode" of VirtualBox people should be aware of: >> I understand through good sources, Oracle monitors the IP addresses that >> it's downloaded from, and if they

Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-10-29 08:00, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > do you think it would be possible for the installer to show > an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" > for the network port to configure? > > Just a suggestion, of course > Harri Why? What problem are you trying to so

Re: gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: no such file or directory

2020-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-11-19 08:36, Roderick wrote: > > broken gcc is the old gcc, the one of the package is installed as egcc. > > Do only I have a broken gcc? > > R. > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Roderick wrote: > >> >> After upgrading, I still have gcc, but no package gcc. >> >> I get the above error. I get it

Re: Advice on using intrusion detection

2020-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-11-20 17:15, Erik Lauritsen wrote: > Is it recommended to run some kind of intrusion detection on an > OpenBSD router/firewall? > > I suspect that any kind of system like Snort or Suricata will give a > lot of false positives? MY philosophy is it is much easier to keep 'em out than to fin

Re: softraid0 errors after 6.8 upgrade

2020-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-11-22 06:04, Leo Unglaub wrote: > Hi, > i upgraded my desktop to the latest 6.8 release. I uses sysupgrade to do > the upgrade and everything worked fine. But now i noticed in my dmesg > the following error messages: > >> softraid0: sd6: i/o error 5 @ CRYPTO block 475440376 >> softraid0:

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

2020-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-11-25 17:10, Brogan Beard wrote: > In the enterprise context, there are often extensive security compliance > rules, which include but are not limited to anti-virus software > requirements. There are, of course, exceptions to these rules but generally > policies drive the technology in use

Re: Large Filesystem

2020-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-11-27 16:03, Karel Gardas wrote: ,,, > To me this looks like too much pray for luck. With such amount of data, > I would stay with ZFS... I've heard that from a lot of people. And yet, those same people, when pressed, will tell you that a ZFS-equipped system will crash much more often tha

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

2020-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-02 18:19, Ashton Fagg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in the process of provisioning a new NAS for home. It's > replacing an older Synology unit that ticks me off in so many ways. > > I am looking to hear other's experiences with using OpenBSD as a NAS - > specifically in terms of r

Re: www.openbsd.org unreachable for a few days

2020-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-15 15:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I've been told something was just fixed. > > Now is a good time to retry. > > Reply just to me, please. > > ONLY people who observed the problems. a POSSIBLY related data point -- we had problems between UofA and UofToronto from the end of November t

Re: www.openbsd.org unreachable for a few days

2020-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
well, someday I'll learn to send to the right target. :-/ Nick. On 2020-12-16 08:35, Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-12-15 15:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I've been told something was just fixed. >> >> Now is a good time to retry. >> >> Reply just to

Re: very slow scrolling in xterm

2020-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-19 14:00, Claus Assmann wrote: > On one machine the scrolling in an xterm is very slow since the upgrade > to 6.7 and also in 6.8. > Now that I want to use this machine a bit more I'm wondering what > settings can be used to avoid that problem. > dmesg and Xorg log are (hopefully) attach

Re: Dissing Misks

2020-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-22 23:58, Allan Streib wrote: > Duncan Patton a Campbell writes: > >> fdisk seems unwilling to allow more than 2T in the partition: > > Look at the b command for disklabel(8) to set the OpenBSD disk > boundaries. > > Allan > yep. fdisk can't do bigger than 2T because that's as big

Re: Dissing Misks

2020-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-12-23 11:29, James Cook wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:21:08AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 2020-12-22 23:58, Allan Streib wrote: >> > Duncan Patton a Campbell writes: >> > >> >> fdisk seems unwilling to allow more than 2T in the partitio

Re: RAID Question

2021-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/12/21 9:41 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: Howdy all? I'm wondering if more than one RAID1 array is supported in 6.7++ I'm having problems that could be bios limitations, OS, or a bad SATA (Pwr?) cable. Currently I'm going with the latter and rebuilding the RAID (again) but was just

Re: How to unlock a serial port

2021-01-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/14/21 12:38 PM, Andrew Grillet wrote: Hi I am running OpenBSD on a T2000 (Sparc64). I was trying to use the serial port from the primary domain, connected via ssh, and my network lost the connection. My tty00 is now locked: jay# stty -f /dev/tty00 stty: /dev/tty00: Device busy I do not want

Re: How to unlock a serial port

2021-01-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/19/21 4:35 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: [Replying directly as well, as I believe my MTA is still blacklisted by the OpenBSD mail server. Guess we'll find out! -Adam] On 2021-01-17 20:09, Tilo Stritzky wrote: On 14/01/21 17:38 Andrew Grillet wrote: Hi I am running OpenBSD on a T2000 (Sparc64

Re: boot_config(8) man page issue; and possibly openbsd.org/report.html

2021-01-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/24/21 4:02 PM, Andrew Easton wrote: ...> The boot_config(8) man page reads: The Ethernet card is not detected at boot because the kernel configuration does not match the physical hardware configuration, e.g. wrong IRQ in OpenBSD/i386. [...] UKC> find ne [...] 25 ne1 at isa0 port 0x300 s

Re: Managed to mess up the system encrypted disk. I can no longer boot.

2021-01-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/27/21 1:45 PM, Samarul Meu wrote: mie., 27 ian. 2021, 20:24 a scris: Ironically this is the same error I have been getting, and recently posted about in the thread "Bootloader on USB stick fails with "root device not found"" ... I read your thread just now. I will try the -a option.

Re: Installing across two SSDs, encrypted

2021-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/29/21 9:37 PM, Joe Nelson wrote: I'd like to install obsd on a laptop that has one built-in 128GB SSD, and a 1TB SATA SSD added in a separate bay. Was thinking of putting the system files on the small drive, and /home, /var, /tmp, and /usr/local on the big one. I'd like to use full-disk encr

Re: The case of the phantom reboot

2021-03-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 3/28/21 12:13 PM, David Newman wrote: On 3/28/21 4:58 AM, Kristjan Komloši wrote: On 3/27/21 10:27 PM, David Newman wrote: OpenBSD 6.8 GENERIC#5 i386 One of my systems rebooted at 03:01 local time today. I've seen kernel panics and bad hardware but I've never seen OpenBSD "just reboot" by

Re: Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 4/27/21 5:41 AM, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote: Hello misc@ I wonder if anyone could recommend remote wipe software for OpenBSD, should someone want to start using it in an enterprise setting where such features are a requirement? Thanks in advance, Remote wiping an openbsd system...depends on

Re: Backup OBSD router at 6.7, anyway to upgrade it to 6.9???

2021-05-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 5/17/21 9:16 PM, Jay Hart wrote: Jay Hart writes: I lost internet access today for 4 hours due to a network problem. Trying to troubleshoot the problem I ended up placing my backup router in service. Its still at 6.7, it there anyway I can update it to 6.9 without doing a full re-install,

Re: Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

2021-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 6/15/21 8:14 PM, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello everyone, I was looking to get a laptop to run OpenBSD. The one I am looking at in particular is the Thinkpad R51e (2005). I like this particular model because it does not come with any extra hardware that OpenBSD does not support in the first place

Re: Concise passage in OpenBSD documentation about motivation

2023-07-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 7/18/23 13:26, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: Dear colleagues, About 20 years ago I read in some OpenBSD documentation, likely the installation instructions, that we want people to copy our OpenBSD even if to use it even in proprietary products, because the alternative is that incompetent people w

Re: How to customize disk partition in UEFI?

2023-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 7/22/23 15:44, ykla wrote: For OpenBSD installation, I choose custom disk in partition. And I set the first partition is MSDOS and mountpoint is /boot/efi and the second partition is /, the last partition is swap. And I continue install openbsd, but at least it warning me that boot install fai

Re: Installing openBSD

2023-07-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 7/30/23 13:30, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi all, I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has PfSense on it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI partition on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as shown by openBSD fdisk:  0: efiboot0

Re: Installing openBSD

2023-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/3/23 16:48, Karel Lucas wrote: Hi, My openBSD installation was successful! I first removed all partitions except for the EFI partition, which I left. Second I created one openBSD partition(type A6) on the freed space, after which I partitioned that partition with auto layout. Then I contin

Re: nsd listening on localhost is zone transfer possible transfer ?

2023-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/4/23 13:23, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone i have unbound setup on port 53 and nsd listening on localhost port 53530 i have set up another dns server as a secondary am i correct to assume that i can't zone transfer because as the nsd's are listening on localhost the primary can't reach th

Re: Mouse not working via KVM switch

2023-08-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/14/23 13:37, Karel Lucas wrote: HI all, On a recent install of openBSD I can't get the mouse to work through my KVM switch. I work with various computers via a KVM switch on 1 monitor with a keyboard/mouse combination. Only on the PC with openBSD the mouse does not work, the keyboard on the

Re: Stuck in X start and crash loop

2023-08-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/17/23 12:10, l...@ena.re wrote: Hey, I am new to OpenBSD. I run 7.3-stable. My understanding after reading X(7), Xsecurity(7) and xenodm(1) is that one can set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to specify the location of the file, which by default, is located at $HOME/.Xauthority.> In $

Re: volatility or something like that in the future ?

2023-08-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/19/23 06:05, whistlez wrote: ... I honestly don't understand this hatred. ... Dude, for a self-proclaimed sensitive person, you are really very offensive, and begging to have your tender little ass handed (verbally) to you on a platter. You are spending a lot of time telling very skilled

Re: desire for journaled filesystem

2023-09-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/6/23 08:23, John Holland wrote: Janne- Thanks for all that useful information. others- this is a thinkpad, that's not on all the time, so a cron backup is not that good. I actually back up manually, currently using "borg" for that. I mostly just do email and web on it so there's probably n

Re: man.openbsd.org is down?

2023-09-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/23/23 13:42, S V wrote: Any info on man.openbsd.org state? It is down for me and web checkers. It is back up now. Seems my monitor's alert to text me is handled as spam by my cellular service now. Sorry for the downtime! Nick.

httpd stopping

2023-09-23 Thread Nick Holland
Hello, Twice in the last couple weeks, I've had httpd fall over on me. Only clue I've got is this in /var/log/messages: MASTER $ grep httpd daemon Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[69989]: logger exiting, pid 69989 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2 httpd[80972]: parent terminating, pid 80972 Sep 23 05:24:06 node2

Re: I nuked my filesystem

2023-09-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/26/23 21:42, sprits killshot wrote: I did the thing. dd'd a 5gb img to my ssd instead of my usb and I want to die. dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sd1c I am using a CRYPTO RAID partition and luckily I'm smart enough not to nuke that. My ssd is 2TB so I believe it uses FFS2 by default. I'm hopeles

Re: sftp activity logging?

2023-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/31/23 17:29, myml...@gmx.com wrote: Hi All, I am setting an openbsd 7.3 stable system to serve files via ssh's sftp subsystem. Does openssh have a native way to audit what files were downloaded/uploaded with user/timestamp information? If not, are there any recommendations? Thanks in adv

Re: OpenBSD 7.4

2023-10-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/12/23 13:54, Karel Lucas wrote: Is it already known when openBSD 7.4 will be released? I would like to know that, because of a project I am working on. The answer to your question is already out there, but I offer this procedural tip: IF you wish to follow releases, start your project on

Re: Slow relink in 7.4

2023-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/17/23 05:07, David Higgs wrote: I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. Everything went swimmingly until it attempted to relink the kernel, at which point it (seemingly) hung. With previous releases, I would expect the host to become unresponsive for a fe

Re: Upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4 with sysupgrade

2023-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/16/23 20:25, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello, I’m planning to upgrade my router from 7.3 to 7.4 using sysupgrade, but I’ve one concern. Some time ago, I upgraded a RPi4 from 7.2 to 7.3, and X got installed, even though it wasn’t before the upgrade. I thaught sysupgrade only upgraded the

Re: Three more orphan packages

2023-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/16/23 18:12, Daniele B. wrote: Just found out that in my system persist the following stuff: in /etc/passwd: user _nagios I don't really think you want users deleted when you uninstall a package. Things may be invisibly (to the package manager) be connected to that user. in /var: /na

Re: a couple question about my fde setup

2023-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/19/23 18:09, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi all a couple question about my fde first, i have fde setup using a keydisk on my laptop, encryption and decryption works fine when i reboot with the key inserted it doesn't find the key, i have to shut the machine down and restart it then the key is det

man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

2023-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6:00am ET. Sorry for any inconvenience. N

Re: Post (snap) update emails: fsck errors and (in)security output

2023-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/23 06:02, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: ... Reply-To: Hi All, A couple of questions ... I have "ROOTBACKUP=1" in /etc/daily.local to replicate my root partition as described in the FAQ (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#altroot) I noticed after an update to a new snapshot vi

Re: man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org maintenance

2023-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.openbsd.org, openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu will be unavailable for site maintenance starting Thursday, December 21 about 6:00am ET (UTC-5) and hopefully be back up and running by Saturday, December 23, 6

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

2023-12-24 Thread Nick Holland
don't suck. :) These are not official, but they are run by one of the people who run the official sites. They will go away once the official site is back up and running. Nick. On 12/23/23 11:16 AM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/19/23 15:38, Nick Holland wrote: Hello, man.openbsd.org, cvsweb.o

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